Daniel 5 - "Stop, Look, and Listen"

I'm getting ready at this time. I'm going to what

I'm going to do now if I call your name

that y'all need to pray them they used to tell

me as.

A young child.

Biggie. Also already you know I have a word, So

I want you to get get, get, get, get. Kind

of it's Pastor gonna say anything that night is Pastor

gonna prophesy. I'm subject to prophesy any time. I'm subject

to grab a mic and go to preaching. But if

I put the mic in your hands, we're gonna see

whether or not you got the Holy Ghost tonight, because

you got Jesus just like I have Jesus. I tell

for you can smack me across the head at three

thirty in the morning, and I'll preach because when it's

in you, God will use you to the glory out

of God. Same thing with singing. If I throw the

mic in your hands, just be ready to sing, just

sing with the Holy Ghost. If you don't have the

Holy Ghost, I'm gonna lay hands on you. We're gonna

lay you out on the floor. We're gonna call on

somebody else and then come back to you. In Jesus name,

let's reach see if our first preacher for tonight. Each

preacher has been there's a couple of preachers who are

designated tonight. Because I don't want anybody to think it's

all about chaos. I told the church this early in

the year. I come to the place of recognizing if

it's not about God, it doesn't mean anything else. And

more than chaos is annoying it. And I thank God

because I realize that. But let's receive Bishop McNeil. He's

coming with ten minutes to bless us on tonight in

Jesus' name.

After him, the choir will come.

I want to live, so God, can you use me.

Any time?

Any I won't, so God can youse.

Time anywhere. I want to brave you, so God can

use me time wonder So God, can you use me

any time? Lord? Anyway? First giving honor to God, to our.

Pastor, to the First Lady, and to all of the

saints of God.

We thank God for what the Lord is doing over

here at the Covenant Church. I don't want to waste

your time nor my minutes, but I want to move.

On swiftly because I feel the Holy goes up in

this place tonight. I thank God for what God has

given me on assignment tonight. And I don't want to

wear your patience as I'm sitting down. I'm going swiftly,

but I want to share this word with you tonight.

To Lottie Doty and everybody, pay attention. God is saying

something to the well tonight. You will find me in

the Book of Daniel about the fifth chapter, and it

reads like this, beginning at the first verse Belshaza the

king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords,

and they drank wine.

Before the thousand they was partying.

Belshallsa while tasting the wine, he got drunk. He got

a little high, and he started to fill himself, basically,

and he commanded that they bring the gold old and

the silver vessels which his father Nevakannezar had taken out

of the temple of Jerusalem, that the king and his princess,

his wives, and his concubines might drink therein. Then they

brought the golden vessels, and they were taken out of

the temple of the House of God, which was at Jerusalem,

and the king and his princess, and his wives and

his concubines drank in them.

They drank wine and praised the.

Gods of gold and of silver, and of breasts, of iron,

of wood, and of stone. In that same hour there

appeared the hand of a man on the wall over.

By the candlestick, and it began to write. And as

it began to write on the plaster.

The king saw the part which was wrote, I want.

You to know, ma'am, and to you, sir, I'm not

gonna wear your patience.

But God is trying to get our attention.

In the midst of us having this celebration to close out.

This two thousand and twenty.

Fourth year, it is time for us to wake up

and smell the coffee. If I would share a few

things with you, it would be this, Lady Shalls, stop,

look and listen. God is trying to tell you something.

A lot of us have gotten carried away with ourselves.

We used to we used to pray, We used to

do a whole lot of things. When we first.

Got saved, sanctified, that's almost a ghost word.

Now we don't hear that word anymore.

When we were sanctified, we set aside everything, everything that

didn't look like God, everything.

That didn't smell like God.

We got rid of it, including our records, our tapes

in them, our pants.

And everything else.

We got rid of it. But I don't know what's

happening to us.

I know what's happening to us.

We're not stopping, we're not looking, and we're not listening

to the voice of God. I believe that this is

the hour that God is calling us back to ourselves.

I want you, my brothers, and my sisters to pay

close attention that we don't have long before the Lord

will return and get us up out of here. He

has yet demanded that we still have a standard, and

the standard is car holiness.

I don't care what house you in. I don't care

where you live. I don't care.

Who your mama is, don't care who your grandma and

your grandpapa is. Holiness, it's still right. He is yet

looking for a man. He's looking for a woman. He's

looking for a boy, and he's looking for.

A girl that all stand up, square their.

Shoulders and crawl holy up to the Lord. You shall

be holy, for I am holy.

You must be holy.

Because the Bible says without holiness, no man shall see

the Lord.

You gotta be holy. In your talk. You've gotta be

holy in your walk. You gotta be what has called

you to be.

You can't sway to the right, and you can't sway

to the left. You've got to and firm in the liberty.

Where christis made you free. Holiness it still right.

Stop trying to fix others until you get yourself fixed.

You can't tune up my car until you fix your silliness.

You can't see like I see until you get you

some glasses.

It's time for us to get it right.

But before you get it right with others, you gotta

get it right with yourself. I'm telling you, before we

start coming to the House of God, you better go

home and get your.

House in order. God has found.

Us lucky and warning, not looking, not sounding like God.

Lap those hands. I don't care if they like me

or not.

God don't bless no mess.

You a reckon. You know your wck. Get yourself together.

You can't hang around here when you've been with lotty

Dot and everybody all we long.

Don't put your hands on me, don't touch nobody.

Come on to this hall, to her and get yourself together.

God has annoytag.

And appointed us for such a time as this to

help others get free, but you can't help nobody else

get free till you get free.

Look at what the king did. He called for the

anointed vessels.

You can't be in the club and try to sing

us up in and you jamming, don't.

I still got it.

Don't play with me.

But I remember where I come from, Come from that

little town up yonder two seven three two old reads.

Well we got a peach.

We used to have a Kmar. Now they got a Walmart.

But one thing I started looking around. We still have

people that cried Holy. We got slain in Walmart on

our six. We had prayer in the in the family dollar,

in the General dollar, wherever the saints went.

We had some judge. But now the people don't know

if we churched or not. We looked like we sound

like we act like it's time. That's come on back. Stop,

look and listen. God is trying to tell you something.

I believe God wants us to be a glorious church.

It's not just about us, but it's about us.

Get yourself together. Let's don't talk. We talk too much.

Let's pray.

Ooh you gossip, you gossip too. I saw this and

I saw it too, Hello, some stuff. We've got to

get ourselves together so that no matter what comes, no

matter what goes.

We please God.

In my final closing, I want to say this as

I go to my seat.

What are you gonna do when the party's over.