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00:00:00 Welcome the daddy and his daughter!
00:00:03 (audience cheering)
00:00:06 I wanna welcome all of you that are here
00:00:13 for the first time.
00:00:14 We've had a woman, how much are you worth?
00:00:17 With thousands and thousands and thousands
00:00:19 of women met us in downtown Cleveland.
00:00:22 Many of you don't know that that morphed
00:00:25 out of daddy and his daughters.
00:00:28 Real quick back story, we're only three, four years old.
00:00:32 I stand up on a Sunday and say, in the middle of winter,
00:00:35 I want every woman in our church to meet me next Saturday.
00:00:40 No radio publicity, no marketing, no nothing.
00:00:44 And just like this, they came in the snow
00:00:48 and it turned into something so big,
00:00:50 it morphed into woman, how much are you worth?
00:00:53 And we had to move it downtown.
00:00:56 My daughter beloved gets credit here.
00:00:58 She said to me, "Pastor, when we gonna have daddy
00:01:01 "and his daughters again?"
00:01:03 And it dawned on me, I could go for the masses,
00:01:06 we'll do that another time.
00:01:08 I just wanna spend some time with the daughters
00:01:10 of this church and those connected to them,
00:01:14 whoever you brought or whoever you snuck in.
00:01:17 So can we give it up for the women of the world?
00:01:21 (audience cheering)
00:01:25 Now, once you hang around a couple decades,
00:01:28 you always got sons that go too far
00:01:31 and start calling you the GOAT,
00:01:33 which means greatest of all time.
00:01:35 God knows, no false humility, I'm not that.
00:01:38 I'm not that, let me be clear.
00:01:39 There are pastors who preach better, do better,
00:01:42 made better decisions, got bigger buildings,
00:01:44 hired better, I could get better,
00:01:47 I'll keep fighting to get better.
00:01:49 But I don't care what nobody say, Lady Vernon is the GOAT.
00:01:52 (audience cheering)
00:01:55 Now, I wanna say this.
00:02:01 From the bottom of my soul, let the Lord be my witness.
00:02:07 If I wasn't married to her,
00:02:08 I still love her to be my first lady.
00:02:10 I've been around a long time.
00:02:13 And I think she is the greatest first lady of all time.
00:02:17 I've been in church all my life.
00:02:19 I know some that were very spiritual,
00:02:21 but maybe didn't have some of the swag
00:02:23 you need to keep your husband looking at you.
00:02:26 I know some that were too sexy and not spiritual enough.
00:02:29 I know some that were kind of whatever, but kind of diva.
00:02:33 Kind of, he'd get through preaching,
00:02:35 she going out the door right behind him.
00:02:37 But I've never met somebody that has spiritual,
00:02:40 sexy, smart, cool, mother.
00:02:45 Come on, somebody, I ain't seen it.
00:02:49 Would y'all give it up for the GOAT?
00:02:51 (audience cheering)
00:02:54 I wanna thank God for all the female elders of our ministry
00:03:00 and all the leadership.
00:03:02 Would you thank God for all of them who serve so well?
00:03:06 Listen, I know we got a long day.
00:03:10 Look at a sister and say, didn't you know it was raining?
00:03:12 Didn't you know it was raining?
00:03:16 They told me women were standing outside
00:03:18 at 3.30 in the morning.
00:03:19 What is wrong with you?
00:03:21 Do you need God to do something for you or something?
00:03:24 I know we have an extremely beautiful long day today.
00:03:31 And also, of course, we have tomorrow.
00:03:35 I'm excited, so let me do this.
00:03:38 Grab your Bibles and watch this.
00:03:40 Keep standing, don't sit down until I tell you.
00:03:43 Don't sit down until I tell you.
00:03:45 Remember this, even when I give my subject,
00:03:48 even when I give my subject,
00:03:50 don't sit down until I tell you.
00:03:52 Those that are watching all across the world,
00:03:54 stand up in your house.
00:03:55 She's standing up with no clothes on,
00:03:58 like, Lord Jesus, huh?
00:03:59 Am I on Zoom?
00:04:01 Like, don't be nervous, I can't see you, baby.
00:04:04 I can't see you at all.
00:04:05 You can see me.
00:04:07 I cannot see you, so stand up just as you are.
00:04:10 I wanna thank God for all of you.
00:04:15 All right, do this for me.
00:04:16 Get 2 Kings, the fourth chapter,
00:04:19 and those of you who study a lot and read your Bible,
00:04:22 I want you to read this in your spare time,
00:04:24 and keep it open.
00:04:25 Also, simultaneously, get your notes page open
00:04:29 on your phone.
00:04:30 Get your notes page open.
00:04:31 Make sure your phone is on vibrate and quiet,
00:04:34 and I want you to take a lot of notes.
00:04:36 I've been thinking about this sermon
00:04:38 for nearly three, four months,
00:04:39 so it's important to me that you get the substance of it,
00:04:42 not just the excitement of it.
00:04:44 So I need every woman, every door to hear me now.
00:04:46 I need you to get this.
00:04:47 I want you to read 2 Kings 4,
00:04:50 read verses eight all the way to the end.
00:04:54 From the eighth verse all the way to the end
00:04:56 is your assignment,
00:04:57 because I don't know how much justice I'll do it.
00:04:59 All right, y'all ready for this?
00:05:01 All right, let's throw it up.
00:05:02 2 Kings 4, verse eight.
00:05:04 One day Elijah went to Shunem,
00:05:07 and a well-to-do woman was there.
00:05:12 I'm gonna stop right there.
00:05:13 One day he went to Shunem,
00:05:15 and a well-to-do woman was there.
00:05:18 One day Elijah went to Shunem,
00:05:22 and a well-to-do woman was there.
00:05:25 I don't care how long it take,
00:05:27 I need you to point at about nine women and ask them,
00:05:30 what kind of woman are you?
00:05:31 Go ahead, ask.
00:05:32 What kind of woman?
00:05:36 I said nine women, that's four and a half.
00:05:41 I need you to ask five more women,
00:05:45 what kind of woman are you?
00:05:48 Remain standing.
00:05:49 Somebody pray for me.
00:05:51 I got all kind of women in here.
00:05:54 Y'all pray for me.
00:05:55 How can I talk to such an amalgamation
00:05:58 of a female congregation?
00:06:00 I've never been in the proximity of this much femininity.
00:06:02 Somebody pray for me.
00:06:03 How am I gonna say something to all of you?
00:06:05 I got all kind of women in the same room.
00:06:09 I got women here that have been hurt,
00:06:11 sad, and feel disappointed.
00:06:14 Girl, lift up your head.
00:06:17 God told me to tell you,
00:06:18 you're still beautiful, sexy, safe, and anointed.
00:06:20 I got married women here who left your husband,
00:06:28 and even maybe some children, in the bed.
00:06:32 You ran out the house so fast,
00:06:33 you almost left your bonnet on your head.
00:06:36 (audience laughing)
00:06:39 I got single women here who love God,
00:06:44 but you're a human.
00:06:45 You still desire physical attraction.
00:06:49 What I love about you is your love for Jesus
00:06:53 is just bigger than your anthropological attractions.
00:06:56 I got older, seasoned women here,
00:07:02 maybe even some widows who are committed
00:07:05 to simply ministry.
00:07:07 People want you to stay by yourself.
00:07:09 They don't know there might be snow on the roof,
00:07:11 but there's still fire in the chimney.
00:07:13 (audience laughing)
00:07:16 I got a bunch of crazy women here
00:07:24 who showed up at four or five o'clock in the morning
00:07:28 like a deer pants for water.
00:07:31 God's got a word for you.
00:07:33 Hug three sisters, say welcome to daddy and his daughters.
00:07:36 (audience cheering)
00:07:39 You may be seated in the house of the Lord.
00:07:45 All right, so those of you who have been with us
00:07:50 the last few weeks, you've been hearing me talk
00:07:52 about this double thing.
00:07:55 As a matter of fact, tomorrow,
00:07:56 I'm continuing the double series.
00:07:58 Tomorrow, I'm preaching Ruth and Rahab,
00:08:01 a lady and a tramp.
00:08:03 (audience cheering)
00:08:06 A lady and a tramp because every tramp
00:08:08 got some lady in her and most ladies got some.
00:08:11 (audience laughing)
00:08:14 Shameless plug, don't miss this weekend,
00:08:20 Ruth and Rahab, a lady and a tramp.
00:08:24 We've been doing this double thing
00:08:27 and a few weeks ago, we did this thing
00:08:29 with the two widows and one of the widows,
00:08:31 believe it or not, is right here in the same chapter
00:08:34 that we're investigating, explicating,
00:08:36 and interrogating this morning.
00:08:39 It is the woman, of course, we talked about,
00:08:41 whose husband had died and the creditors
00:08:43 had come to take her children.
00:08:45 Remember that?
00:08:46 She says to the prophet, they're coming
00:08:48 to take my children because based on your bad credit,
00:08:52 they'd come take your children and make them servants
00:08:55 until you paid off your debt.
00:08:58 Look at a woman one more time and say,
00:09:00 I shouldn't have no children left, praise God, amen.
00:09:02 The way I started, I wouldn't have one child left
00:09:06 based on my past credit report,
00:09:09 but the Lord has helped you fix it, amen.
00:09:12 And so in verses one through seven,
00:09:14 you see this story of this widow who, of course,
00:09:18 goes and gets these jars and these jars fill up with oil,
00:09:22 which, of course, help her economically
00:09:24 and financially to sustain herself.
00:09:27 What most people don't know is one verse later,
00:09:31 we're introduced to another woman.
00:09:33 She's almost the antithesis of the widow
00:09:37 that we see in verses one through seven.
00:09:39 As a matter of fact, I've fallen in love with her spiritually
00:09:42 over the last three or four months.
00:09:44 Lady Vernon spoke about her on a Sunday morning.
00:09:48 Her and I kept looking at this text together.
00:09:50 I said, you do it from a female perspective
00:09:52 and I'll hit it kinda from my perspective
00:09:55 at daddy and his daughters.
00:09:57 This text is for both of us.
00:09:59 I'm starting to believe, y'all ready for this?
00:10:01 Big statement, she might be the baddest woman in the Bible.
00:10:05 Did I say that?
00:10:07 I think she might be the baddest woman in the Bible.
00:10:09 I know that's subjective discourse,
00:10:11 but by the time I'm finished, you'll say, you know what?
00:10:13 I never thought about this woman.
00:10:15 What woman?
00:10:16 The Shumanite woman.
00:10:18 Let's describe her.
00:10:19 Verse eight is on the screens
00:10:20 because it'll tell you a whole lot about it.
00:10:21 The Bible says there was a woman,
00:10:24 and let's put it everywhere, middle screen everywhere,
00:10:26 on Elijah traveling through Shunam where a rich woman lives.
00:10:29 She had invited him to eat with her,
00:10:31 so whenever he was in the area, he stopped in.
00:10:33 Let's talk about her again, wait a minute.
00:10:34 So whenever he stopped in the area,
00:10:36 what kind of woman is she?
00:10:37 She is a rich woman.
00:10:39 Where from?
00:10:40 Shumanite woman.
00:10:41 She's a rich woman.
00:10:42 One version says she's a leading lady.
00:10:46 The opening text says she's a well-to-do woman.
00:10:50 Why is that significant?
00:10:52 You don't see many places in the Bible
00:10:54 where the scripture describes female wealth.
00:10:58 Yeah, Abraham was rich.
00:11:00 The Bible says he was very rich.
00:11:01 Isaac was rich.
00:11:02 Jacob was rich.
00:11:03 Job is another filthy, rich person.
00:11:06 They have wives, but the Bible never attributes
00:11:11 the wealth to their wife.
00:11:13 It attributes the wealth to them.
00:11:15 Here is one of the few cases where here's a woman,
00:11:18 I'll show you in a minute,
00:11:20 who has everything in terms of relation,
00:11:23 but yet the Bible talks about her wealth.
00:11:25 The Bible says she is wealthy.
00:11:27 The first thing I want you to drop down in your notes
00:11:29 is she had money.
00:11:30 She had money.
00:11:32 She had money.
00:11:33 She was well-to-do.
00:11:35 She was wealthy.
00:11:36 Yeah, the Bible calls her a leading lady.
00:11:38 She had money and she was major.
00:11:41 How major is she?
00:11:42 She's so major that whenever Elisha came through town,
00:11:46 he stopped by her crib and eat something.
00:11:49 She has a kind of major name and narrative.
00:11:53 The woman's a bad sister.
00:11:55 I guess I gotta preach to all kind of women.
00:11:56 Let me start with the women who got some money.
00:11:59 Yeah, stop apologizing for your education.
00:12:03 Stop apologizing for putting a few dollars up.
00:12:06 Stop apologizing for making good decisions.
00:12:08 I'm sorry, I noticed early in the message.
00:12:10 Believe in the sister and say,
00:12:11 "I want Jesus and some money."
00:12:12 Go ahead, praise God.
00:12:13 That's the wrong woman.
00:12:15 She got a broke mentality.
00:12:16 Find you another one.
00:12:17 Say, "I want Jesus and some money."
00:12:20 I've been thinking lately about 80%
00:12:23 of what I wanna do in this world requires some money.
00:12:26 About 80% of the things I deal with, money can fix.
00:12:31 Yeah, there's 20% of things that money can't fix,
00:12:34 but it can fix a whole lot.
00:12:36 Somebody said money can't buy everything.
00:12:38 Lean on somebody and say, "It can buy most of it."
00:12:39 Praise God, amen.
00:12:41 Yeah, the things it can't buy, Jesus will help me with,
00:12:44 but I'd like to have some money too.
00:12:47 Let me tell you something to all of you
00:12:49 that are pursuing degrees and entrepreneurial thought.
00:12:52 You are not crazy because there's something in you.
00:12:55 I set out to make sure I'm balanced
00:12:57 and speak this stuff so I can sleep tonight.
00:12:59 I'm the only man in this room, hear me right now.
00:13:02 I know there are brothers and sisters
00:13:04 all across the place working,
00:13:05 but in terms of you paying attention,
00:13:06 look at me, the only male figure in this room.
00:13:09 So what you get from me is a man who loves you
00:13:13 that can give you a man's perspective.
00:13:16 Yeah, that's important.
00:13:17 Yeah, a father figure, a trustworthy man
00:13:20 who wants nothing from you but to love you.
00:13:22 So when I talk, I want you to listen
00:13:24 'cause you are looking at a straight up man in front of you.
00:13:27 You're looking at a straight up heterosexual brother
00:13:31 who loves his wife.
00:13:33 She make me whip, she make me nae nae.
00:13:36 Ooh, victory, victory, ooh, victory, victory.
00:13:38 Pray for me, pray for me.
00:13:45 I need to tell you something
00:13:46 that resources are important to have.
00:13:49 Do know this, single ladies,
00:13:51 is not the most important thing
00:13:53 to a man who's looking for you.
00:13:55 A real man comes to the table thinking,
00:14:00 I will try my best to provide for her.
00:14:03 And even if she has something, I'm not trying to live off her
00:14:07 so you can be fine with Jesus working in Walmart,
00:14:12 he'll come take you out of there
00:14:14 and say, please be my wife and pay all your bills.
00:14:17 Can I get a what what?
00:14:18 Yeah, so one of the things I tell women
00:14:23 who are pursuing finance and pursuing wealth,
00:14:27 do know that a straight up brother,
00:14:30 that's not the first thing he's looking for.
00:14:32 A real man is looking for a kind of integrity
00:14:35 and sexuality and support
00:14:38 and a woman that will believe in his dreams.
00:14:41 That does not mean you denounce who you are
00:14:43 or stop being or not pursue.
00:14:45 Just know those of you who are single,
00:14:47 that's not the first thing on a man's radar.
00:14:50 However, this woman deserves props.
00:14:53 She has some resources.
00:14:55 The next verse says, she said to her husband,
00:14:58 not only, watch this, does she have money, she has a man.
00:15:03 She told her husband, I know he's a holy man of God
00:15:06 and he regularly travels past our house.
00:15:10 Wait a minute, he regularly travels past our house.
00:15:12 Not only, watch this, does she have money, she has a man.
00:15:16 The Bible says, she told her husband.
00:15:18 That's deep because normally the Bible describes
00:15:20 the husband first and talks about his wealth.
00:15:23 We never find out who this man is, what he does,
00:15:26 his occupation, his vocation.
00:15:28 The Bible talks about her.
00:15:30 She becomes the leading character in the narrative,
00:15:34 which is so rare.
00:15:36 I've been studying this little Bible of mine
00:15:37 since I was 15 years old and so I know it pretty good.
00:15:41 It is so rare for the woman to be the leading character
00:15:45 in the narrative.
00:15:46 The Bible says she had a husband.
00:15:47 She said to her husband, this man is a holy man.
00:15:51 Can I tell you what else she has, which is amazing?
00:15:53 She has a kind of spiritual perception
00:15:56 because she says, I can tell this brother is a holy man.
00:15:59 I can tell this brother is a holy man.
00:16:01 Lord, whatever you do for me,
00:16:03 please keep my spiritual discernment intact.
00:16:07 (audience cheers)
00:16:08 I wish I had some women that would say,
00:16:11 God, whatever you do, keep me connected to you,
00:16:15 watch this, so that I can sense when something's wrong
00:16:18 with my babies, when I can feel my husband in a place,
00:16:22 when I can discern when I shouldn't trust people,
00:16:25 when I can know when to walk away,
00:16:26 when to hold him, when to fold him,
00:16:28 know when to walk away and know when to run.
00:16:30 Can I get some real women that would thank God
00:16:32 that he still gave you your spidey, spiritual senses?
00:16:37 There's a kind of discernment.
00:16:39 She says, this is a holy man of God.
00:16:42 Watch this, the next verse says,
00:16:44 I think, you got to be boss and say this,
00:16:47 we should add a room to the crib.
00:16:49 Yeah, let's add a room to the crib.
00:16:52 Let's put another bedroom in the house.
00:16:54 Matter of fact, in the bedroom,
00:16:55 let's put a bed and a lamp and a chair,
00:16:58 so he can study, chill, whenever he's in town,
00:17:01 let the man of God stay here.
00:17:03 Wait a minute, not only does she have money,
00:17:05 not only does she have a man, you'll love this thoroughly,
00:17:08 she has a ministry mindset.
00:17:10 The woman says, I think what we need to do
00:17:15 is let this brother, when he comes through, stay here.
00:17:18 Y'all missed the first two things
00:17:19 that you be shouting already,
00:17:20 because she says, we need to add a room to the house.
00:17:24 Now, first of all, you boss, just to say,
00:17:27 she ain't say, let's get an extra blanket.
00:17:29 She ain't say, let's go get an air mattress from Walmart.
00:17:35 Put it over in the dining room.
00:17:37 No, she said, let's just go on and build.
00:17:40 I wish I had five women that will receive wealth
00:17:43 and riches over your life,
00:17:45 so that whatever God puts in your heart, you can pay for it.
00:17:49 I wish I had a thousand tithers that would shout
00:17:53 that resources are coming to you,
00:17:56 so you can do whatever the Lord puts in your heart to do.
00:18:00 Hit five women, say, I received that, go ahead.
00:18:03 (audience cheering)
00:18:05 Some of y'all didn't shout right there.
00:18:07 I think I'm gonna pause and parenthetically
00:18:09 and pastorally digress and tell you,
00:18:11 I feel money coming across this room.
00:18:13 I feel wealth and riches coming across.
00:18:16 Some of y'all still sitting.
00:18:17 I guess you're too saved to get blessed.
00:18:20 All of you that are tithing, I spoke double over this house
00:18:24 and I speak double over your house.
00:18:26 I speak promotions and bonuses
00:18:29 and wealth and riches in your house.
00:18:33 Hit a sister and say, I received all that.
00:18:35 (audience cheering)
00:18:38 Sit down, the Bible says, the woman said.
00:18:42 I say we add, I say we add a room to the crib.
00:18:48 She had a ministry mindset.
00:18:50 I'm sorry, there are all kinds of women here.
00:18:52 Somebody had to bring their cousin who don't go to church.
00:18:54 Somebody had to bring at least one coworker.
00:18:56 So I'm not trapping everybody in the same context.
00:18:59 No, there are all kinds of women.
00:19:01 There's an amalgamation of this congregation.
00:19:03 There's a whole lot of diversity.
00:19:05 It's not homogeneous, it's not monolithic.
00:19:08 There are all kinds of women here,
00:19:10 but let me just stop and celebrate ministry-minded women.
00:19:14 Yeah, you missed it.
00:19:17 You missed the first two things I said.
00:19:20 I said she had money and I said she had a man.
00:19:23 That's what most women are looking for,
00:19:25 enough resources and somebody maybe
00:19:27 to spend the rest of their life with.
00:19:29 Right a minute, enough resources and someone
00:19:31 to spend the rest of their life with.
00:19:34 She got both.
00:19:35 So she didn't say, try not to shout,
00:19:39 let's let him live here so I can get some.
00:19:42 No, no, no, there is no glaring obvious need in her life.
00:19:49 I've read the text.
00:19:50 There's no glaring obvious need.
00:19:52 Watch this, remember this, take a mental note
00:19:54 that she's aware of or that she's thinking about
00:19:57 at the moment.
00:19:58 This is important.
00:19:59 There's nothing, there's no arterial motive here.
00:20:02 This is not, let's let him live here
00:20:05 so maybe he'll give me some money.
00:20:07 Let's go to church, if I go to church,
00:20:09 maybe I'll find the right, no, this is,
00:20:13 let's let the man of God live here, watch this,
00:20:16 'cause I just want the presence in this house.
00:20:19 I'm sorry, I'm losing 35 women.
00:20:21 Can I get at least 100 women that have lived
00:20:25 a little while and now more than anything,
00:20:27 you want his presence.
00:20:29 You wanna feel God's Shekinah glory
00:20:32 resting over your one room apartment,
00:20:34 your big mansion, wherever you live.
00:20:36 God, let me feel your presence
00:20:38 more than I want anything else.
00:20:40 The Bible says the woman has not only money
00:20:44 and not only a man, but she has a ministry mindset.
00:20:49 Post pandemic, too many sisters lost your ministry mindset.
00:20:56 Yeah, you got caught up in the mix
00:20:58 and making money and working from home
00:21:01 and the enemy's telling you that ministry
00:21:03 is not as important anymore,
00:21:05 but I come to come against the interloper and the enemy
00:21:09 and tell you that ministry keeps you situated.
00:21:13 It keeps you, watch this, where you need to be in God.
00:21:17 It keeps you connected to other ministry-minded women.
00:21:21 There's something significant.
00:21:23 Okay, I gotta hurry, but I want you to catch this.
00:21:25 So she has money and number two,
00:21:28 the text tells us clearly that she has a man.
00:21:31 She's married.
00:21:32 She has a ministry mindset.
00:21:34 She says, "Hey baby, can we build a room just for the prophet
00:21:39 that whenever he's in town, he can stay here."
00:21:44 Elisha's assistant is with him.
00:21:48 Elisha hears about this woman's intentions
00:21:52 to be a blessing to him and says to his servant,
00:21:57 "Is there anything we can do for that woman?"
00:22:00 I wished I had five people that would shout.
00:22:04 Okay, you didn't shout
00:22:05 'cause you don't know what I'm about to say.
00:22:07 God got you on his mind.
00:22:09 Let me try this again.
00:22:12 Is there, is there, is there, is there anything we can do?
00:22:19 Is there anything we can do for this woman?
00:22:23 Boss, she's childless.
00:22:30 She doesn't have a child.
00:22:34 I'm thinking maybe you can speak that over her life.
00:22:38 Okay, wait a minute.
00:22:40 Maybe, maybe, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:22:42 Maybe I'm slow.
00:22:44 Is there anything we can do for this woman?
00:22:48 Take a mental note.
00:22:49 She's childless.
00:22:51 This is important.
00:22:52 She doesn't have a child.
00:22:54 I'm gonna explain that in a minute.
00:22:55 Pay attention.
00:22:56 She's childless in that patriarchal society
00:23:01 for your husband to die and you not have a child.
00:23:05 Here's pressure, a male child to bear his last name.
00:23:10 Society views you as a failure as a woman.
00:23:14 That's how far back this goes, all right,
00:23:16 in terms of patriarchy, patrilineal,
00:23:18 that patriarchal thinking.
00:23:20 It's like whatever, okay.
00:23:21 So she, so Elijah asked her, get ready everybody,
00:23:26 is there anything we can do for you?
00:23:32 Her response is, I'm satisfied.
00:23:35 It's on the screen.
00:23:36 I want you to catch this.
00:23:37 I'm secure and I'm satisfied.
00:23:40 Now, some of you watched the show Insecure.
00:23:44 No, this is just the antithesis.
00:23:46 She says, I'm secure.
00:23:47 The whole show was boss and many of you loved it
00:23:49 with his nasty acting self on the show
00:23:52 and you watch it every week.
00:23:53 Praise God, that's okay.
00:23:54 Praise God, amen.
00:23:55 How you know it was nasty, pal?
00:23:56 I seen it one time.
00:23:57 Praise God, but I want y'all.
00:23:58 (audience laughing)
00:24:02 This woman says, I'm secure and I'm satisfied.
00:24:05 Now y'all missed it 'cause I needed 50 women
00:24:07 to lose your mind right there.
00:24:09 Watch this.
00:24:09 The woman is not frontin'.
00:24:11 She's not just talking.
00:24:12 She says, I'm secure, watch this, and I'm satisfied.
00:24:16 Wait a minute, she got a man passing.
00:24:17 That's why she's satisfied.
00:24:18 No, that's not the reason why she's satisfied.
00:24:20 She has also a ministry mindset.
00:24:22 I'm satisfied, watch this, I'm secure.
00:24:24 (audience mumbling)
00:24:25 Watch this, and I'm satisfied.
00:24:27 You don't know what I would pay for every woman
00:24:30 in this place, every daughter connected to me
00:24:33 to be able to say emphatically, I'm secure
00:24:36 and I'm satisfied, watch this.
00:24:39 That doesn't mean I have no goals.
00:24:42 That doesn't mean I don't want to achieve anything else.
00:24:46 That doesn't mean that I don't want anything else,
00:24:49 but it means if the Lord don't do nothing else,
00:24:53 you know what, I gotta go grime out here.
00:24:55 Would you just lean on a sister and say,
00:24:56 I'm satisfied with Jesus in my heart?
00:24:59 Oh, that's the wrong sister.
00:25:01 I need some satisfied women.
00:25:03 I'm tired of thirsty chicks.
00:25:05 I'm tired of women that you never happy,
00:25:08 that no man can do it,
00:25:10 and you always depressed about nothing,
00:25:12 and you never at peace.
00:25:14 The devil is a liar.
00:25:15 I need some women that will hit another sister
00:25:18 and say I'm not perfect, but I'm satisfied.
00:25:20 Go ahead.
00:25:21 (audience laughing)
00:25:23 That's the wrong sister.
00:25:24 I wish I had some satisfied women in here
00:25:27 that God has been so good to you,
00:25:30 and you are secure.
00:25:32 I'm sorry, a sister who's not quite skinny no more
00:25:35 say I'm big, but I'm still secure.
00:25:37 Go ahead.
00:25:38 (audience cheering)
00:25:39 I'm trying to lose it, but I'm still secure.
00:25:42 I'm trying to lose it.
00:25:44 I wanna be healthy, but I'm still secure.
00:25:46 I'm fine and big at the same time.
00:25:49 I wish I had somebody that would say
00:25:51 I'm secure and I'm satisfied.
00:25:53 Watch this.
00:25:54 Satisfied women can shout
00:25:56 when don't nobody ask you for your number.
00:25:58 Satisfied women can shout
00:26:00 when your husband acting crazy.
00:26:02 Satisfied women can shout
00:26:04 when kids don't quite act right.
00:26:07 Can I get 50 women to high five six women
00:26:10 and say I'm satisfied?
00:26:11 (audience cheering)
00:26:14 No, that's the wrong sister.
00:26:18 I'm satisfied.
00:26:21 I'm secure.
00:26:23 Y'all ready for this?
00:26:24 Yeah, I'm not just speaking money over you.
00:26:28 I'm speaking security over you.
00:26:30 I'm speaking self-esteem over you.
00:26:34 I'm speaking a sense of self over you.
00:26:38 To every beautiful girl in here
00:26:40 whose daddy did not tell you you were beautiful,
00:26:42 I speak security and self-esteem over you.
00:26:47 To everybody that's been wounded by the wrong man,
00:26:50 I speak security and satisfaction
00:26:54 and self-esteem over you.
00:26:56 You have an individual uniqueness,
00:26:59 an individual uniqueness unlike any other woman.
00:27:04 Now, I'm gonna show you the next verse,
00:27:06 same verse, another version.
00:27:09 This is gonna blow your way.
00:27:09 She says,
00:27:11 my family takes good care of me.
00:27:16 Now, you missed it.
00:27:19 She didn't say my husband.
00:27:21 I told you, I have fallen in love with this chapter.
00:27:26 I have fallen in love with this chapter.
00:27:28 Exegeting, exegeting, unearthing,
00:27:32 interpreting this text has been one of the joys of my life
00:27:35 the last three or four months
00:27:37 because it gave me a new honor for women,
00:27:39 a whole new perception of what a woman can be
00:27:41 in our ministry.
00:27:42 And as soon as I seen it, I told Lady Verna,
00:27:45 you do one part, I'm doing the other
00:27:47 because it is that good.
00:27:48 The Bible says, I'm good.
00:27:50 My family take good care of me.
00:27:54 She didn't say my husband.
00:27:56 She didn't say my husband.
00:27:57 She said my family.
00:27:58 Did I tell you she had money?
00:28:01 Did I tell you she had a man?
00:28:04 Yeah, did I tell you she had a ministry mindset?
00:28:07 Can I tell you something else about her?
00:28:08 She's mentally stable.
00:28:10 (audience cheering)
00:28:13 Now do me a favor.
00:28:18 Look around slow and play it off.
00:28:22 Watch this, no, no, don't panic.
00:28:26 Don't panic because no, seriously,
00:28:28 do you trust Pastor, look at me.
00:28:30 Look around slow because I don't want you to start a panic.
00:28:36 There are five women around you that's crazy as hell.
00:28:41 (audience cheering)
00:28:44 Don't look at 'em.
00:28:51 Why you looking at her?
00:28:54 Hell is in the Bible.
00:28:59 Some people going there.
00:29:02 (audience cheering)
00:29:05 You still looking at her.
00:29:16 That's the one I didn't want you to look at.
00:29:18 We all know she the one.
00:29:19 You gonna look right at her.
00:29:20 You probably shouted off her money.
00:29:26 You may have shouted because she had a man,
00:29:29 even her ministry mindset.
00:29:32 But I've never seen this in the Bible until this year.
00:29:35 One version says, I'm satisfied in my family,
00:29:40 which bespeaks the idea I don't have no daddy issues.
00:29:44 My mama didn't call me names because my daddy was missing.
00:29:52 I haven't been with a bunch of men
00:29:56 that was good in the bed but no good for my head.
00:30:00 I'm imperfect, you'll love this,
00:30:03 but I'm secure, I'm satisfied, I'm stable.
00:30:08 And one version says, I wanna stay right here
00:30:10 where my family lives.
00:30:13 Yeah, because there's a kind of family unity and village
00:30:17 that I'm comfortable in.
00:30:19 I'm not crazy.
00:30:23 I'm joking to give it a little levity,
00:30:26 but seriously folks, or should I say, but mentally,
00:30:31 and to those of you, hear me, that have dealt,
00:30:36 the Lord told me to park here.
00:30:41 He really did.
00:30:42 Because you don't know the beauty of mental stability.
00:30:45 (congregation applauding)
00:30:48 You don't know because you're not my pastor, I'm yours.
00:30:53 And you're not the leading lady,
00:30:56 Lady Vernon is your leading lady.
00:30:58 So we have a chance to talk to you and hug you.
00:31:01 And you don't know how many good women here
00:31:05 are mentally unstable.
00:31:06 Yeah, you don't know how many saved women
00:31:10 who really do love God,
00:31:12 but life has made them mentally unstable.
00:31:17 Yeah, she is mentally stable.
00:31:20 I cannot overemphasize the criticality of mental health.
00:31:25 Conflate it with your spirituality.
00:31:27 Some of you need Jesus and therapy.
00:31:30 Some of you need the Holy Ghost, the Bible,
00:31:34 and everything Peter Scissorho wrote
00:31:37 on emotionally healthy spirituality,
00:31:39 the emotionally healthy woman.
00:31:42 Well, pastor, talk to them single girls,
00:31:45 already got my husband.
00:31:47 No, you're the one need to read it first.
00:31:49 (congregation applauding)
00:31:51 Because at least the single girls
00:31:53 aren't driving anybody else crazy.
00:31:55 (congregation applauding)
00:31:59 At least they crazy by they self.
00:32:01 You think it's easy to be married to you
00:32:06 'cause you go to church,
00:32:08 'cause you cook, 'cause you had his children,
00:32:14 because you don't cheat on him.
00:32:17 But if you wanna give him a gift, then get healthy.
00:32:21 (congregation applauding)
00:32:24 If you wanna give him a gift.
00:32:26 So only man you're looking at,
00:32:30 really only man in the room,
00:32:32 a father figure that you trust.
00:32:35 Look at me.
00:32:36 Hopefully I have enough, thank you, Bishop Joey,
00:32:38 change in my pocket.
00:32:40 Hopefully I've hung around long enough
00:32:44 that my words are weighty.
00:32:47 Yeah, that when I speak, my daughters listen,
00:32:50 you're looking at a man who's been married
00:32:53 to one woman 25 years and still chasing around the house,
00:32:56 who's raised five children, blended some out of my loins,
00:33:00 some I took into my heart, love them all.
00:33:03 You're looking at a man who's hung around
00:33:06 and led thousands upon thousands of women.
00:33:09 Lady Foster from California, beautiful church,
00:33:13 the Rock Church, flew in late last night on a plane
00:33:15 just to be with us.
00:33:16 So leading ladies that fly in
00:33:19 just to be with their spiritual father,
00:33:21 if I have any weight, then listen to me.
00:33:24 I was asking myself as a married heterosexual brother
00:33:28 who loves his wife, what's more important to me honestly,
00:33:33 sexuality or mental stability?
00:33:36 (congregation applauding)
00:33:39 If I just had to pick, now I'm a man,
00:33:41 women are thinking right quick, of course,
00:33:43 mental stability for a woman, financial security,
00:33:45 we made different.
00:33:47 Yeah, brothers is made different than most women.
00:33:50 For men, physical attraction, sexuality,
00:33:53 I was chasing her last night, get through making love,
00:33:56 I chased her like we just got home and hadn't made love yet.
00:34:00 We just, I'm sorry, can I just say it out loud?
00:34:02 We just nasty, all men are just,
00:34:04 can I just say that so you can go home
00:34:07 and forgive your husband?
00:34:08 We just nasty, I wish I could use another word.
00:34:11 Yeah, we just dogs.
00:34:14 Okay, you don't go to the Word Church
00:34:16 'cause you didn't shout, there's two kinds of dogs.
00:34:19 There's mutts, but then there's trained dogs,
00:34:23 y'all missed that, pray for me.
00:34:26 Pastor, what's the difference between a mutt
00:34:28 and a trained dog?
00:34:29 A trained dog wants the same thing a mutt want,
00:34:32 but the difference is he do what the master says.
00:34:35 Stay, boy, y'all missed that, that's for your husband.
00:34:38 Amen, stay, boy, stay.
00:34:42 As much as I thank God for sexuality
00:34:45 and my attraction for her,
00:34:48 I'm really leaning toward mental stability.
00:34:52 Yeah, I was thinking and I told her this
00:34:55 and I'm not trying to lift her up on a pedestal.
00:34:56 She's made some mistakes that she's told you about.
00:34:59 I did not marry a perfect woman with no past
00:35:02 and no issues behind her.
00:35:04 No, that's just not our story.
00:35:06 To those of you who have the opportunity to do that,
00:35:09 God bless you young girls, YF teenagers.
00:35:12 I want you to do better than most women
00:35:14 in this room have done, but with all of that,
00:35:16 I said to her the other day,
00:35:18 I've been married to you for like a quarter century.
00:35:23 I've never seen you mental.
00:35:24 I said, did your parents do anything that threw you?
00:35:30 Not perfect, but kudos to Papa Williams,
00:35:33 who's in heaven and Mama Williams, who's back there.
00:35:36 Her story is just not tragic.
00:35:39 There's nothing that keeps her walking the floor at night
00:35:43 regarding how she grew up.
00:35:45 Whatever she's dealt with before me,
00:35:46 some type of way she's processed it.
00:35:49 And I've never had to listen.
00:35:50 She tells me everything, good, bad and indifferent.
00:35:53 We've been married a long time.
00:35:54 And it hit me.
00:35:55 I said, you don't really have anything mental going on.
00:35:58 You're one of the most stable people I've been around
00:36:01 and I'm married to you.
00:36:03 I said, I got more going on from my past than you do.
00:36:07 I'm always tripping on something God has given her.
00:36:10 Y'all ready for this?
00:36:11 I speak it over your life.
00:36:12 You thought you wanted man and a money
00:36:14 and just ministry mindset.
00:36:16 I speak over you, mental stability.
00:36:18 Ooh, y'all didn't say nothing.
00:36:21 I'm gonna say this to somebody, shout.
00:36:23 I speak over you, mental stability.
00:36:26 I'm gonna try one more time.
00:36:28 I speak over you, a stable mind
00:36:31 and be renewed by the spirit of your mind.
00:36:34 That's just not spiritually.
00:36:35 That's also mentally and emotionally.
00:36:38 I don't care what you've been through,
00:36:39 your daddy's devil, your mama's mess,
00:36:41 your man's stuff that you shouldn't have been with.
00:36:44 God in the next year is about to change your mindset
00:36:49 and your mentality and you're gonna be easy to live with.
00:36:53 (audience cheering)
00:36:56 I'm sorry, all the single women
00:36:58 should have ran around this church.
00:37:00 God's about to get your mind ready
00:37:02 for a man you haven't met yet.
00:37:04 (audience cheering)
00:37:07 So that you don't bring all that mess to your mattress.
00:37:12 All that stuff you endured as a woman,
00:37:19 all that brokenheartedness,
00:37:22 all that lack of affection from a man
00:37:25 who didn't wanna sleep with you,
00:37:27 which should have been your daddy.
00:37:29 I said this and this is a Vernonism
00:37:33 to all of the black women in this room.
00:37:35 Here's a quote that the Lord gave me
00:37:37 and I think it's something.
00:37:38 Sadly in many cases, the most traumatic and terrible pain
00:37:42 that black women have faced in their lives
00:37:45 has come from the black man that gave them life,
00:37:48 the one they gave life to
00:37:50 or the one they wanted to do life with.
00:37:52 Oh my goodness.
00:37:56 That might be the best thing I've ever said.
00:37:58 I'm gonna put it up.
00:37:59 Let's start it again, Crystal, from the beginning.
00:38:01 Sadly in many cases, the most traumatic and terrible pain
00:38:05 that black women have faced in their lives
00:38:08 came from the black man that gave them life,
00:38:12 the one they gave life to
00:38:14 or the one they wanted to do life with.
00:38:16 It was either the father, the son or the man.
00:38:19 The father, the son.
00:38:21 Sometimes it's the daughter, I know that.
00:38:23 But in many cases, the son that broke your heart,
00:38:26 the man that did not speak into your life
00:38:28 or the man you thought you knew life with.
00:38:30 Watch this, the one that gave you life,
00:38:32 the one you gave life to
00:38:33 or the one you wanted to do life with.
00:38:35 And the enemy, watch this, is not just after your soul,
00:38:39 I'm running out of time, he's after your mind.
00:38:41 Yeah, he's trying to drive you crazy
00:38:45 or keep you crazy or keep you mental.
00:38:47 For the last time, I don't wanna belabor this,
00:38:49 I speak mental health over the daughters of this ministry,
00:38:54 which is gonna come by Christian therapy,
00:38:57 reading spiritual books, Peter Scazzaro, write it down,
00:39:01 everything Peter Scazzaro on emotional health.
00:39:04 Post pandemic, you can do online Christian counseling
00:39:07 for a little bit of nothing, all right?
00:39:10 With some counselor, we'll talk with you,
00:39:11 Christian counselor over your computer,
00:39:14 15 minutes a week would change your life.
00:39:18 Embrace the idea of Jesus and therapy.
00:39:21 I gotta go, she has money, she has a man,
00:39:24 she has a ministry mindset and she's mentally stable.
00:39:28 Wait a minute, she's mentally stable.
00:39:30 Baby, because you look out for me,
00:39:37 by this time next year, you're gonna have a baby.
00:39:40 Wait a minute, by this time next year,
00:39:44 you're gonna have a baby, wait a minute.
00:39:46 By this time next year, the next verse,
00:39:48 trip me out everybody, because the next verse she says,
00:39:51 oh my master holy man, don't play games with me.
00:39:55 Don't tease me with such fantasies, wait a minute,
00:40:01 don't play games with me, don't tease me.
00:40:05 Wait a minute, did I tell y'all that she had money?
00:40:09 Did I tell y'all that she had a man?
00:40:11 Did I tell you guys she had a ministry mindset?
00:40:13 Did I tell you she was mentally stable?
00:40:15 Can I tell you something else about her?
00:40:16 She ain't had time for no mess.
00:40:18 (audience cheering)
00:40:20 Oh, wait a minute, she says,
00:40:23 she says, I'm doing too good.
00:40:26 Stuff is right in my life.
00:40:31 I got peace.
00:40:34 I got security.
00:40:37 I come from a healthy context.
00:40:40 I'm trying to build you a house on top of my house,
00:40:44 I'm fine, don't play no games with me.
00:40:48 Wait a minute, I told you to take a mental note.
00:40:51 I told you to take a mental note.
00:40:52 What do you need?
00:40:54 I don't need a thing.
00:40:56 What do you want?
00:40:57 I'm stable, I'm secure, I come from a good family.
00:40:59 So how come you didn't admit
00:41:02 that the one thing you do want is a son?
00:41:07 Were you afraid to hope?
00:41:11 (audience cheering)
00:41:17 Because expectation breeds disappointment.
00:41:20 You can't hurt me if I don't expect nothing from you.
00:41:26 So that's why I've guarded my heart,
00:41:29 'cause I ain't letting you in.
00:41:32 There's some things, it's just over for me, Pastor.
00:41:37 I'm not 20, preach to YF, I'm 45.
00:41:41 My train left.
00:41:43 I've been married a couple times.
00:41:46 I got a number that I don't want other sisters to know
00:41:50 in terms of men I've been with.
00:41:51 My number is not even cute.
00:41:52 My number is almost shameful.
00:41:54 There's some stuff I just forfeit it
00:41:57 and I'd rather block it out.
00:42:00 Pastor, was she lying earlier
00:42:03 when she said I don't want nothing?
00:42:05 Uh-uh.
00:42:06 She had already convinced herself not to want that.
00:42:10 (audience cheering)
00:42:12 She wasn't frontin'.
00:42:14 She had already come to a place of peace
00:42:19 with the idea that some stuff I'm just not gonna get.
00:42:22 That's for the other women.
00:42:24 That's for the other women here.
00:42:25 That's for the other women here this morning, not me.
00:42:27 There are some things I'm just not going to get.
00:42:31 And now you gonna open up in me
00:42:34 the one thing that I grieved.
00:42:38 You know how long I went to therapy to get past this?
00:42:43 Because history tells us her husband was an older man,
00:42:47 probably close to death,
00:42:48 because older men would marry young ladies.
00:42:51 And so I have money, I have a good family,
00:42:54 I have a ministry mindset, okay?
00:42:56 I'm at peace, okay?
00:42:58 I have a man.
00:42:59 The one thing I've already sort of reconciled
00:43:02 is that I'm not having no children.
00:43:06 I gotta go, my time is gone.
00:43:07 I'm not having no children.
00:43:09 I'm good with that.
00:43:10 Don't play no games with me.
00:43:13 Can I tell you what made some of you mad?
00:43:16 I'm sorry, I'll be back 20 year olds.
00:43:18 I'll be back 25.
00:43:19 Let me talk to 45, 50.
00:43:20 What made some of you mad
00:43:22 was there was some stuff you was through with
00:43:25 and he gonna come messing with you.
00:43:27 I feel like talking.
00:43:29 Now I got a house, my kids grown,
00:43:36 I go to church, don't come playing with me.
00:43:39 I wish I had some real women.
00:43:41 I wish I had some single women that's not 25.
00:43:45 Come here 45, come here 50, come here 55.
00:43:48 I'm all right.
00:43:49 I'm gonna retire next year.
00:43:50 I'm good.
00:43:54 Sometime I do some stuff by myself
00:43:57 and ask God to forgive me, but I'm telling you.
00:43:59 Y'all can't handle it.
00:44:02 I'm sorry, look at this and say,
00:44:03 you can't handle the truth.
00:44:04 You can't handle it.
00:44:06 (audience laughing)
00:44:09 Don't lie to me.
00:44:16 Don't play with me.
00:44:17 Don't tease me with such fantasies.
00:44:19 Okay, I'm cutting some off.
00:44:20 We got a long day.
00:44:21 God bless y'all.
00:44:22 I'll see you later.
00:44:22 We gotta go to breakfast.
00:44:24 Please catch this.
00:44:25 The Bible says she had that baby.
00:44:26 The Bible says sure enough, she had that baby.
00:44:28 Let me forward everybody.
00:44:29 She had that baby.
00:44:30 She had that baby.
00:44:31 Sure enough, by this time next year,
00:44:33 you missed your shout.
00:44:34 By this time next year, watch this.
00:44:36 You'll be nursing a baby.
00:44:37 Wait a minute.
00:44:38 You missed it again.
00:44:39 Wait a minute.
00:44:40 By this time next year, watch this.
00:44:42 You saw the theology, but you missed the math.
00:44:45 You heard the theology, but you missed the math.
00:44:49 By this time next year,
00:44:51 by this time next year, you're gonna get pregnant.
00:44:54 By this time next year,
00:45:00 you'll be nursing what you birthed,
00:45:03 which means if it takes nine months to have a baby,
00:45:07 she needs a month to get pregnant.
00:45:09 That means it's really not a year, it's two months.
00:45:12 Can I speak over your life that by this time September,
00:45:15 I wished I had.
00:45:17 You didn't shout.
00:45:21 By this time next year,
00:45:22 you already gonna have what you birthed in your arms.
00:45:25 Being a steward over it,
00:45:27 you don't have to wait till next year.
00:45:28 I'm sorry.
00:45:29 Head side women say, "Don't wait till the battle's over."
00:45:32 You shout, "Nah."
00:45:33 I'm sorry.
00:45:41 Slap side women say, "I think you're pregnant."
00:45:43 Go ahead.
00:45:44 Pregnant with possibility.
00:45:46 Pregnant with ministry.
00:45:47 Pregnant with mental health.
00:45:50 Pregnant with a husband.
00:45:51 Pregnant with a future.
00:45:52 Can I get five women that know it won't happen next year,
00:45:56 it's gonna happen this year.
00:45:58 By next year, you'll be nursing and rocking
00:46:00 what you already birthed.
00:46:02 By this time next year, you shall have what I said.
00:46:05 We gotta go to breakfast.
00:46:11 I'm outta here.
00:46:13 I love you.
00:46:14 I love you.
00:46:15 This might be the baddest woman in the Bible, but love,
00:46:19 this might be the baddest woman in the Bible.
00:46:22 Your Bible says she had that baby.
00:46:24 You promise me you're gonna read 2 Kings.
00:46:27 Your Bible says she had that baby.
00:46:31 And that baby's outside with his daddy,
00:46:33 doing some work in the yard.
00:46:38 And he said, "My head hurt.
00:46:40 "My head, my head, my head hurt."
00:46:47 Y'all ready for this?
00:46:48 I know women gotta go get your hair done.
00:46:51 You told your hairdresser 9.30.
00:46:53 I know, I know.
00:46:55 You said, "Can you change your book?
00:46:58 "Please, just put me on your book for 9.30.
00:47:00 "I'm trying to let you go."
00:47:02 Somebody, cut everybody's mic off, except mine.
00:47:04 Somebody's talking in their mic, guys.
00:47:05 This is important.
00:47:06 This is important.
00:47:07 This gonna bless you.
00:47:09 Y'all gonna love this.
00:47:10 My head hurt.
00:47:13 The father said,
00:47:14 go get his mother.
00:47:18 I don't have time.
00:47:21 I don't have time.
00:47:23 Y'all pray for me.
00:47:24 I don't know about this man.
00:47:27 Is he confident or too passive?
00:47:31 Does she have so much money 'cause he wouldn't make none?
00:47:36 And she's come to peace with no child
00:47:42 and a husband that won't produce?
00:47:44 And said, "He's not perfect, but he's mine.
00:47:49 "I picked him, so I'ma stay, 'cause I'm a godly woman.
00:47:52 "He's not everything I want him to be.
00:47:54 "He's decent with my son.
00:47:56 "I wish he was more aggressive.
00:47:57 "I wish he'd go get more.
00:47:58 "I wish he kinda acted like..."
00:48:00 And then the enemy starts giving you comparisons
00:48:02 to men you think you want,
00:48:04 when that one might be messed up than the one you got.
00:48:07 You better love the one you with.
00:48:09 Go get his mama.
00:48:16 The boy falls out and dies.
00:48:20 I'm Vernonizing.
00:48:21 My time is gone.
00:48:22 Breakfast is cooking.
00:48:23 We got a long day.
00:48:24 Falls out and dies.
00:48:26 She picks the boy up, you'll love this,
00:48:28 takes him up to the prophet's room.
00:48:30 You know the house that she built?
00:48:33 You know the extra room she built?
00:48:35 About 30 minutes ago, the room that she built?
00:48:37 She ain't take him to his room.
00:48:38 She ain't take him to her room.
00:48:41 She took him up to the prophet's room
00:48:44 and says, "I want him to be where the anointing is."
00:48:47 Laid him on the bed.
00:48:51 Laid him on the bed.
00:48:53 Went to her husband and says, "I gotta go.
00:48:56 "I'll be back.
00:48:57 "I gotta go find the prophet."
00:48:59 Her husband's response,
00:49:00 "If you don't read 2 Kings 4,
00:49:02 "I'm gonna hit you in your head.
00:49:03 "This is so important."
00:49:05 Her husband says, "Where you going?"
00:49:07 "I gotta go see the prophet."
00:49:08 "Well, it's not harvest time.
00:49:09 "It's not celebration time.
00:49:11 "There's no festival going on.
00:49:12 "Why you gotta go catch him?"
00:49:14 One word should have made you fall out your seat.
00:49:16 She said, "Just trust me."
00:49:18 You ready?
00:49:21 We're not even sure if the husband know
00:49:24 that the son is dead.
00:49:27 She's taken him up to the room,
00:49:29 shut the door, got him in there,
00:49:31 tells the husband, "I'll be right back
00:49:33 "'cause some truth you can't handle."
00:49:36 I wish I could tell you more,
00:49:42 but you're not broad enough to handle stuff
00:49:45 that's really important and deep.
00:49:46 I hope you're not the kind of woman
00:49:48 that your husband can't share his heart with.
00:49:51 Can I tell you how bad this woman is?
00:49:54 She tells her husband, "I'm going to find another man
00:49:57 "to help with your son.
00:49:59 "He has no idea that the son is dead."
00:50:03 Read the text.
00:50:04 And then she says, "Trust me.
00:50:06 "Trust me."
00:50:09 Lady Vernon, please tell me I gotta stop.
00:50:11 "Trust me.
00:50:13 "Trust me.
00:50:13 "Do you know?
00:50:14 "Do you know our men are nasty?
00:50:18 "My husband is a mess.
00:50:20 "My husband made mistakes.
00:50:21 "I get it, I'm sorry.
00:50:23 "I wanna hug you, kiss you, love you, work with you.
00:50:24 "This is just Christian therapy and all of that.
00:50:27 "But whatever you do, I don't care what he do,
00:50:31 "don't you ever stop being a trustworthy woman."
00:50:33 (audience applauding)
00:50:36 Do you know what it would do to my soul?
00:50:42 Do you know what it would do to my soul
00:50:44 if I couldn't trust her?
00:50:49 I'd be standing up here the next Sunday preaching
00:50:51 because that's what God called me to do,
00:50:52 but I'd be preaching with a broken heart.
00:50:54 I'd be standing up here doing what I gotta do
00:50:57 'cause he's my savior, not her.
00:51:00 And I'd do my job, I'd give you my word,
00:51:01 I'd do my job, but inside I'd be dying.
00:51:04 I'd need all of God to help me if I couldn't trust her.
00:51:09 I speak over every woman's life here.
00:51:11 Don't you watch Instagram too much?
00:51:13 Yeah, don't you watch social media too much?
00:51:16 Don't you watch?
00:51:17 No, no, this woman is trustworthy.
00:51:19 I'm telling you already, I'm going,
00:51:20 I'm cutting something off.
00:51:21 The Bible says she told her servant,
00:51:22 "Go ahead and jump on a horse,
00:51:23 "I'm coming fast as I can."
00:51:24 Look at this woman.
00:51:26 (audience applauding)
00:51:29 Did I tell you she had money?
00:51:37 Did I tell you she had a man?
00:51:39 Did I tell you she had a ministry mindset?
00:51:41 Did I tell you she had mental stability?
00:51:43 Can I tell you something else about her?
00:51:45 She's on a mission.
00:51:47 I'm sorry, I need 50 women, let's get out of here.
00:51:50 I don't see you on a mission.
00:51:52 Why you still standing?
00:51:52 I need some women.
00:51:53 I'm sorry, look at her sister and say,
00:51:55 "You don't know where I'm headed."
00:51:56 Go ahead, go ahead.
00:51:58 You don't know what I need.
00:51:59 Go ahead, talk about me, laugh at me.
00:52:02 This so good, this so good.
00:52:04 This so good, this so good.
00:52:05 She finally gets there, she finally gets there,
00:52:08 she finally gets there, and Elisha's assistant
00:52:11 saw her coming from afar and did his job as an agitator,
00:52:15 jumped down and said, "Okay, what you need
00:52:16 "from the man of God?
00:52:17 "How can I help you?"
00:52:18 She said, "Nothing, you just missed that."
00:52:23 Let me try this one more time.
00:52:25 The assistant ran out there and said,
00:52:27 "How can I help you, miss?
00:52:28 "I know you built the prophet a house.
00:52:30 "I just wanna check before I give you audience him.
00:52:32 "What do you need?"
00:52:33 She said, "Nothing, y'all just missed this."
00:52:36 Let me try one more time.
00:52:37 One version says, "What do you need, miss?
00:52:41 "Can I help you?"
00:52:42 She said, "Everything's fine, y'all missed y'all shout."
00:52:46 Wait a minute, this the best thing I'm gonna say today,
00:52:50 so I need you to fix your bonnet on your head,
00:52:52 adjust your tracks so you can take off running.
00:52:55 What do you need from the prophet?
00:52:59 She said, "Everything's fine,
00:53:01 "because what I need, you ain't got."
00:53:03 (audience cheering)
00:53:06 So why would I tell you my business
00:53:08 when you can't help me fix it?
00:53:11 I need somebody that got some power,
00:53:14 not my social media counselor.
00:53:16 I wish.
00:53:17 Why tell Facebook?
00:53:21 Facebook can't help you.
00:53:22 Why tell Instagram?
00:53:24 Instagram can't help you.
00:53:26 Why tell your gossiping cousin?
00:53:28 She can't help you.
00:53:29 Why tell your messy mama?
00:53:31 She can't help you.
00:53:33 I'm sorry, hit five women,
00:53:34 say, "Everything's fine, go ahead."
00:53:36 (audience cheering)
00:53:40 Say, "You will find out on a need to know basis,
00:53:43 "and you don't need to know my business.
00:53:45 "As far as I'm concerned, me and my husband fine,
00:53:48 "my children fine.
00:53:49 "I'm not letting you in my business,
00:53:53 "because I'm mentally stable.
00:53:57 "I'm not desperate for company.
00:54:00 "I'm not cracked out for affirmation,
00:54:03 "so that I'm telling anybody who will listen,
00:54:05 "and some of you talking too much.
00:54:08 "And by the time you and your husband make up,
00:54:11 "you done put your business all in the family,
00:54:13 "and now they judging your marriage,
00:54:15 "when you should have just said, 'Everything's fine.'"
00:54:18 (audience cheering)
00:54:22 You ask me anything about me and your first lady,
00:54:27 everything's fine.
00:54:28 How Lady Verna doing?
00:54:30 Everything's fine.
00:54:31 How your children doing?
00:54:32 Everything's fine.
00:54:34 You're not Jesus, my best friend, or Bishop Joey.
00:54:36 Everything's fine.
00:54:38 (audience cheering)
00:54:42 (audience applauding)
00:54:45 Can I, excuse, everything's fine.
00:54:54 (audience laughing)
00:54:57 Can I help, everything's fine.
00:54:59 (audience laughing)
00:55:02 You know your girl, right?
00:55:09 The next verse, some of you gonna shout.
00:55:11 She says, "Oh, holy man."
00:55:15 One version says, "Oh, holy man, didn't I tell you,
00:55:19 "don't tease me, don't give me no fantasies."
00:55:24 I'm trying to be respectful.
00:55:27 One version, she calls him, "Oh, holy man."
00:55:30 I'm trying to be respectful.
00:55:32 I've been riding a long way, cussing you out in my mind.
00:55:37 But I know who you are, and I have too much reverence
00:55:40 to just say anything to you.
00:55:41 Yeah, you're my pastor, I don't just say anything to you.
00:55:48 Even when I'm upset, there's a certain way I approach you.
00:55:51 Lady Verna, you're my leading lady,
00:55:54 even though you're young enough to be my daughter,
00:55:56 but you're not my friend, you're my leading lady.
00:55:59 So even when I take issue with something in ministry
00:56:01 or something I wish you and pastor
00:56:02 would have done differently,
00:56:03 even though I'm upset, I still show honor.
00:56:07 Did I tell you that she had money?
00:56:13 Did I tell you she had a man?
00:56:17 Did I tell you she had a ministry mindset?
00:56:19 Did I tell you she was mentally stable?
00:56:21 Did I tell you she was on a mission?
00:56:23 I guess I need to preach to everybody,
00:56:24 what kind of woman are you?
00:56:25 Can I tell you something else about her?
00:56:26 She was mad.
00:56:30 As I leave, forget just the women with money
00:56:34 and just the women with a man
00:56:36 and just the women who are mentally stable
00:56:38 and just the women who are on a mission,
00:56:39 can I take 30 seconds and minister to mad women?
00:56:42 Yeah, you don't think with thousands of people watching,
00:56:50 you don't think there's 15 mad women?
00:56:51 And mad does not mean that I'm jealous or jaded.
00:56:57 Mad does not mean that I'm miserable or melancholy.
00:57:01 It just means right now I'm mad.
00:57:03 Yeah, I know I'm not supposed to be,
00:57:06 but I can't help how I feel.
00:57:08 I just control what I do.
00:57:10 I'm preaching.
00:57:13 I don't control how I feel,
00:57:18 but I do control what I do.
00:57:21 I can unpack that, but my time is gone.
00:57:23 Right now I'm mad.
00:57:24 I'm not about to try to, no, no,
00:57:27 I wanna hear all things work together.
00:57:29 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you keep all that.
00:57:32 You keep all that.
00:57:33 God has a perfect will.
00:57:34 My baby dead and my baby dead, watch this,
00:57:38 and I ain't even asking for no son.
00:57:40 I told you I was fine.
00:57:42 I told you three times I was fine.
00:57:46 I ain't had no tragedy stuff.
00:57:49 Like I was fine.
00:57:51 My mother loved me.
00:57:53 My father tried to raise me.
00:57:55 My husband don't bother me.
00:57:56 I got money, I got prestige.
00:57:58 You know, I've done my, I was good.
00:57:59 I was good.
00:58:03 And I told you when you first came,
00:58:06 I said, "Don't tease me.
00:58:08 "Don't play with me."
00:58:10 You know, you brought this up.
00:58:11 It's one thing if I had requested,
00:58:13 I ain't ask you for nothing.
00:58:15 I just tried to bless you.
00:58:17 I wasn't even being selfish.
00:58:20 I was being selfless.
00:58:21 I built that house and that room.
00:58:23 I put a bed in there, a lamp, a chair,
00:58:25 so you can come by, take a nap,
00:58:27 just out of honor for you.
00:58:29 And then you asked me what I wanted.
00:58:30 I told you I was good.
00:58:31 And then you gonna let my baby be born.
00:58:35 I fell in love with him.
00:58:37 He has to be at least five, six, seven, eight years old
00:58:40 'cause he's working in the field.
00:58:43 So he's not a toddler.
00:58:44 I've now fallen in love with my baby and all that.
00:58:47 I waited all my life and just,
00:58:49 you gonna let my baby die.
00:58:53 Elisha, I wish I could preach this better.
00:58:56 Elisha is not Jesus.
00:59:00 Stop looking at the miracles Christologically
00:59:07 as you do the ones in the Old Testament.
00:59:10 Jesus is God.
00:59:11 He walk up on somebody and say, "Be healed."
00:59:13 Elisha is a man, the scripture said,
00:59:18 with like-minded passions.
00:59:21 He puts his pants on one leg at a time.
00:59:24 Your pastor and leading lady are just people
00:59:27 trying to make it like you.
00:59:29 Stop expecting perfection.
00:59:32 Elisha says, I dropped the word off.
00:59:35 Elisha said, "Come on, let's go to your house.
00:59:37 "Let's go to your house.
00:59:38 "I'm out of time."
00:59:39 They get to the house, I'm cutting some off.
00:59:40 Elisha said, "He's up in my quarters."
00:59:42 Yeah, up there.
00:59:43 Elisha goes in there.
00:59:45 I'm going, y'all, oh my goodness, we gotta go.
00:59:46 The Bible says, he shut the door.
00:59:50 (audience cheering)
00:59:52 Lady Vernon told y'all this when she preached.
00:59:54 He shut the door.
00:59:55 Wait a minute.
00:59:56 Yeah, because what's about to happen?
00:59:58 Everybody can't come in.
00:59:59 Watch this.
01:00:00 Your doubt, my assistant, your husband, you,
01:00:05 I gotta go to work.
01:00:06 Y'all ready for this?
01:00:07 Let's just go to church.
01:00:08 Let's go to church.
01:00:09 I'll see y'all tomorrow.
01:00:10 I'm gonna preach Ruth and Rahab,
01:00:11 a lady and a tramp tomorrow.
01:00:12 Ruth and Rahab, a lady and a tramp.
01:00:14 I feel it now.
01:00:15 Let, let, let, let, let, just let me go to work.
01:00:17 Let me go to work because, watch this,
01:00:19 I'm as confused as you.
01:00:21 Because God told me to tell you,
01:00:23 you was gonna have a baby.
01:00:25 God never told me your baby was gonna die.
01:00:27 So while your faith is tripping mine's ears too,
01:00:31 but I only know one thing to do, go to God.
01:00:33 The same God that gave him to you,
01:00:37 can give him back to you.
01:00:38 The Bible says, he went in the house,
01:00:42 went up in the room.
01:00:43 The boys laid down on the bed.
01:00:45 This is the part you know.
01:00:46 Put his hands on his hands.
01:00:49 Put his mouth on his mouth.
01:00:51 Let me try this one more time.
01:00:54 Put his hands on his hands.
01:00:56 Put his mouth on his mouth.
01:00:58 This real.
01:00:59 The Bible says, the boy started to get warm,
01:01:02 but he wasn't back yet.
01:01:03 Okay, here's what I came to do.
01:01:08 I need a thousand women to get ready to lose your mind.
01:01:10 He put his hands on his hands.
01:01:14 He put his mouth on his mouth.
01:01:16 Laid on top of him, prostrate.
01:01:18 He got warm, but he wasn't back.
01:01:20 Your Bible says, Elisha says,
01:01:22 "Oh, I'm gonna have to go to work."
01:01:24 Your Bible says, he got up and start pacing the room.
01:01:26 And start walking.
01:01:29 I thought women would lose their mind right here.
01:01:32 Because can I talk to some walking women?
01:01:34 That first you asked God to deliver your child.
01:01:38 You asked God to fix your husband.
01:01:41 You asked God to heal your body, but did not happen.
01:01:45 But look at us, let's say,
01:01:45 "Lately I've been walking the floor."
01:01:47 Go ahead, I've been walking and believing.
01:01:50 I wish I had somebody.
01:01:51 You see, Elisha reminds me of a woman right here,
01:01:55 because there's real sane Pentecostal women
01:01:57 who know how to get up and pace back and forth.
01:02:00 Do I have anybody who remembers your mama walking
01:02:02 saying, "Thank you, Jesus, thank you."
01:02:04 It's already done.
01:02:04 Some of y'all still sitting there,
01:02:06 but I need about 50 women that will step out in the aisle
01:02:09 and walk with us just to say,
01:02:10 "We're gonna have to walk for this one."
01:02:12 Say, "What we believe in God ain't gonna come easy.
01:02:15 We're gonna have to intercede right now."
01:02:17 I wish I had some walking women that would say,
01:02:20 "Wait a minute, I need something from God.
01:02:22 I tried to be nice, but now I gotta answer into warfare.
01:02:26 Now I gotta fight to get this."
01:02:28 Because the weapons of our warfare are not colonel,
01:02:33 but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.
01:02:38 Would you look at a sister and say,
01:02:42 "You may have to walk for this one."
01:02:45 Would you look at a woman and say,
01:02:47 "Woman, we may have to pace the floor,
01:02:51 but I gotta feeling that if we walk long enough,
01:02:56 something is gonna turn around."
01:03:01 Can I get a witness here?
01:03:03 Would you find three women and say, "This means war.
01:03:08 This means war."
01:03:13 We can't pray softly.
01:03:15 We gotta pray out loud and walk the floor.
01:03:19 The Bible says, "He laid on him again, but nothing happened."
01:03:24 So he got back up and start walking the floor again
01:03:29 and say, "Jesus, I'm calling on you.
01:03:34 Can I get a hundred women that will open your mouth
01:03:38 and start warring over your daughter?
01:03:42 Start warring over your son.
01:03:45 I gotta feeling that something's getting ready
01:03:52 to turn around, but it's not gonna turn
01:03:55 until you start walking."
01:03:58 You got the intercede in the name of the Father,
01:04:02 in the name of the Son, in the name of the Holy Ghost.
01:04:07 The Bible says, "He laid on him one more time,
01:04:12 but this time the boy starts sneezing.
01:04:18 He sneezed one time, but he wasn't quite back.
01:04:23 He sneezed two times, but he wasn't quite back.
01:04:28 He sneezed three and four times, but he wasn't quite back.
01:04:32 He sneezed five times, but he wasn't back.
01:04:37 He sneezed six times, but he wasn't back."
01:04:41 But your Bible says, "The seventh time,
01:04:44 the seventh time, the seventh time,
01:04:49 would you push a woman and say, 'Get ready?
01:04:55 He's completing something.
01:04:56 Get ready.
01:04:59 You almost finished.
01:05:01 He sneezed a seventh time,
01:05:04 and that child came back to life.
01:05:08 Would you do me a favor?
01:05:10 Would you high-five three women
01:05:12 and say, 'It's coming back.
01:05:14 Everything that the devil stole.
01:05:17 I got a feeling that God's getting ready to turn around.
01:05:23 Would you do me a favor?
01:05:27 Turn around one time.
01:05:29 Turn around three times.
01:05:31 Turn around five times.
01:05:33 Turn around one more time.
01:05:35 Would you look at a sister and say,
01:05:37 "Why you keep turning?
01:05:40 Why you keep turning?
01:05:42 Why do you keep turning?"
01:05:44 Look back at her and say,
01:05:46 "Because every time I turn around,
01:05:50 he keep on blessing me.
01:05:54 I want to know, is there anybody here
01:05:59 that would jump up and down and say,
01:06:02 "I'm blessed.
01:06:04 I'm whole.
01:06:05 I got money.
01:06:07 I'm mentally stable.
01:06:09 I'm on a mission.
01:06:11 I'm not mad no more
01:06:13 because Jesus is the best thing
01:06:16 that ever happened to me.
01:06:20 I want to know,
01:06:23 can I get 30 women to hug another sister
01:06:27 and say, 'What kind of woman are you?
01:06:31 What kind of woman are you?
01:06:36 Are you saved, sanctified,
01:06:40 filled with the Holy Ghost?'
01:06:44 If you're really a saved woman,
01:06:48 then grab a sister.
01:06:49 Grab two women.
01:06:51 Grab two women by both of their hands
01:06:55 and form you a circle.
01:06:57 Now shake them and rock.
01:07:00 Rock them and shake them.
01:07:02 Shake them and rock.
01:07:05 Rock them and shake them.
01:07:07 I said shake them and rock them.
01:07:08 Shake them and rock.
01:07:10 Rock them and shake them.
01:07:12 Say, "Girl, I got to shake you
01:07:16 till you get your joy back.
01:07:19 I got to shake you
01:07:20 till you get your mind back.
01:07:22 I got to shake you
01:07:24 till you get your money back.
01:07:26 I got to shake you
01:07:28 till you get mentally stable.
01:07:30 I got to shake you
01:07:32 till you find your mission.
01:07:33 I got to shake you
01:07:35 till you stop being mad.
01:07:37 Keep on shaking.
01:07:39 Say, 'I'm going to shake you
01:07:41 until you get the Holy Ghost.'
01:07:44 I want to know.
01:07:47 Yes,
01:07:58 hug a woman as tight as you can.
01:08:01 Say, 'What kind of woman
01:08:03 do you want to be?'
01:08:05 What kind of woman
01:08:07 do you want to be?'
01:08:10 My, my, my, my, my.
01:08:26 Oh yeah.
01:08:29 Oh no, he's alright.
01:08:32 Is there any woman here
01:08:36 that knows he's alright?
01:08:40 Oh yeah.
01:08:42 Oh yeah.
01:08:44 Oh, oh yeah.
01:08:47 [applause]
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01:09:01 [applause]
01:09:05 [applause]
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01:09:12 [applause]
01:09:15 Oh yeah.
01:09:19 Oh.
01:09:21 [applause]
01:09:24 (upbeat music)
01:09:53 - Oh, somebody ought to praise him in this place.
01:09:55 - Thank you.
01:09:57 - Somebody ought to praise him in this place.
01:09:59 - Yes, yes, yes.
01:10:00 - Oh, in the name of Jesus.
01:10:03 (congregation cheering)
01:10:04 Oh, Jesus.
01:10:05 Oh, I need to hug five mad women right quick.
01:10:14 Five mad women.
01:10:16 Five mad women run to me.
01:10:17 God's fixing it right now.
01:10:20 Five disappointed women, run, run, run, run, run, run.
01:10:23 Unrest the crowd, bum run, fight your way through.
01:10:25 Mad women.
01:10:26 Oh, I bless you.
01:10:27 Oh, she cut off our body.
01:10:29 In the name of Jesus,
01:10:32 I break the spirit of anger and disappointment off you.
01:10:35 Run to me, five mad women, hug me.
01:10:38 Just hug me, hug me, hug me.
01:10:39 Oh, in the name of Jesus.
01:10:41 In the name of Jesus.
01:10:44 In the name of Jesus.
01:10:46 He's breaking the spirit of anger
01:10:49 and disappointment and depression.
01:10:51 The joy of the Lord is your strength.
01:10:54 And I prophesy over your mind now
01:10:57 that he is the Prince of Peace.
01:10:59 And that anger and disappointment,
01:11:02 you can't change the past.
01:11:05 All you have is now.
01:11:06 And you are a wonderful woman of God,
01:11:10 and you will finish strong.
01:11:12 And resources, woo, I feel God over there.
01:11:15 And resources will be available for you.
01:11:18 And God shall touch and deliver your family.
01:11:20 In Jesus' name.
01:11:22 Hallelujah.
01:11:23 I receive that over you.
01:11:25 That your latter shall be greater than your former.
01:11:28 That you shall finish strong,
01:11:30 and God is adding years to your life.
01:11:32 In Jesus' name.
01:11:35 (speaking in foreign language)
01:11:42 We gotta go to breakfast.
01:11:47 The Bible says
01:11:49 that Elisha,
01:11:50 this is why I don't have time,
01:11:52 for intercessors, intercessors.
01:11:54 This is gonna become our new favorite story
01:11:59 in the Bible, because Elisha is human.
01:12:03 He is as unsure as that woman is.
01:12:06 He don't know what God is up to.
01:12:08 What I love about this text, Ebony,
01:12:10 and I just couldn't do it justice,
01:12:12 is this wasn't no easy miracle.
01:12:14 This wasn't no abracadabra.
01:12:18 This was, if you want it, you're gonna have to fight for it.
01:12:21 Lay it on the boy, paste the floor.
01:12:24 By the way, text don't tell us how long this went on.
01:12:27 This could have went on an hour, two hours.
01:12:30 The Bible does not say how long he paced.
01:12:32 Some of you been pacing for five years, don't stop.
01:12:35 Some of you been pacing.
01:12:37 The Bible says he had to walk.
01:12:38 And some of you, the reason why it didn't happen,
01:12:40 'cause you didn't pace.
01:12:42 Yeah, you didn't war.
01:12:45 You didn't lay the word on top of it.
01:12:48 You didn't fight for this miracle.
01:12:50 Some of you quit and gave up,
01:12:51 knowing you haven't interceded.
01:12:54 You haven't stopped sleeping with that guy yet.
01:12:55 Don't pray.
01:12:56 You gotta stop sleeping with him.
01:12:57 God says, there's some stuff you gotta do,
01:13:00 'cause what God's getting ready to do,
01:13:01 somebody receive this by faith.
01:13:03 (audience applauding)
01:13:06 What kind of woman are you?
01:13:13 Those watching me all across the world,
01:13:17 what kind of woman are you?
01:13:19 What kind of woman are you?
01:13:22 You gotta answer that question.
01:13:23 You have enough money for your future?
01:13:28 Stay with me guys upstairs.
01:13:29 Are you stable?
01:13:33 You have resources?
01:13:36 Do you have a mission?
01:13:38 Have you gotten over your madness?
01:13:41 What kind of woman are you?
01:13:46 Father, in the name of Jesus,
01:13:48 shake it up.
01:13:51 Wait a minute.
01:13:52 Stop, stop.
01:13:54 Look at me.
01:13:55 Y'all thought I was finished?
01:14:01 Did I tell y'all she said I'm gonna build you a house?
01:14:16 Did she say I'm gonna build you a room?
01:14:18 Did she say I don't need nothing?
01:14:22 I wonder why the Holy Spirit impressed upon her to,
01:14:28 come here, to build,
01:14:32 to build that room when she didn't need nothing.
01:14:37 So God knows I am from my beginning, huh?
01:14:44 (congregation applauding)
01:14:48 She didn't think she needed nothing.
01:14:51 Did I tell you, did I tell you she had money?
01:14:56 Did I tell you she had a man?
01:14:58 Did I tell you she had a ministry mindset?
01:15:02 Did I tell you she was mentally stable?
01:15:04 Did I tell you she was on a mission?
01:15:06 Did I tell you she got mad?
01:15:08 Can I tell you the last thing?
01:15:10 And just go ahead and take off running.
01:15:12 The reason why she built that house, she didn't know it.
01:15:14 She was positioning herself for a miracle.
01:15:17 I wish I had somebody that knows
01:15:28 that everything you've been doing for God,
01:15:30 you have no idea that one day you're gonna need a miracle.
01:15:34 And God said, because you've been faithful,
01:15:37 because you serve,
01:15:38 because you was committed to your husband,
01:15:40 when it's time for your miracle,
01:15:42 I'm gonna show up and lay on top of you.
01:15:45 (congregation applauding)
01:15:48 (upbeat music)
01:15:51 ♪ There's a man you'll meet ♪
01:15:54 ♪ Right here at your feet ♪
01:15:59 - Somebody shout, somebody shout.
01:16:03 ♪ There's a man you'll meet ♪
01:16:05 - Somebody shout, somebody shout.
01:16:08 ♪ There's a man you'll meet ♪
01:16:13 ♪ Right here at your feet ♪
01:16:18 - Watch this.
01:16:21 Those watching online,
01:16:23 we're gonna do two things simultaneously.
01:16:26 Who believes me to be your prophet?
01:16:27 Raise your hand.
01:16:28 22 years, you know my imperfections.
01:16:32 At this point, I almost don't try to hide them.
01:16:34 I'm as honest as I can be.
01:16:36 But who believes Lady Verna and I, you're connected.
01:16:42 And so I want you to do something.
01:16:44 I've been doing it all month.
01:16:47 Every woman in this room, I want you to hear me.
01:16:48 Get your phone in your hand.
01:16:50 I'm gonna pray for you, I'm gonna do all this.
01:16:52 If you need to get to your phone or an envelope,
01:16:54 then, now stay right there, keep worshiping,
01:16:56 keep worshiping right there, keep worshiping,
01:16:57 keep right there.
01:16:58 I'm gonna put something on the screen.
01:17:00 I want you to do something for me.
01:17:02 Of course, we didn't charge anything for this
01:17:04 and breakfast for that price, we pretty much gave it away.
01:17:07 We didn't turn it away, hundreds of people
01:17:09 who can't even get into breakfast 'cause it's sold out.
01:17:12 And we could have doubled that price and got all of it.
01:17:15 But I just wanted it to be enough to buy the food
01:17:17 and for you not to have to go chasing restaurants as early.
01:17:20 So we finna go over there now.
01:17:22 Those next door, just be patient.
01:17:24 Put it on the screen right quick, I want you to see this.
01:17:29 I want you to do this something.
01:17:30 My wife and I, the Lord led us to start a ministry,
01:17:33 plain and simple, to help people.
01:17:35 I am participating in Ward 5's parade gathering.
01:17:42 All that, we're taking rides, we're taking,
01:17:46 I think 1,000 book bags, 500 or 1,000 book bags.
01:17:49 Council person Richard Starr, that's the area
01:17:52 I was raised in.
01:17:54 And so we're gonna partner with them.
01:17:56 And I need, before you do anything, look at me,
01:17:58 I want you, this is not the church, look at me.
01:18:00 Do not pay your tithe now.
01:18:01 I'll be hurt in my soul, I would.
01:18:03 Your tithe is for the church and do that to me.
01:18:06 If all you got is your tithe, then hold it.
01:18:07 I mean that, hold that for tomorrow.
01:18:09 But if you believe my wife and I, to be good ground,
01:18:13 I need about 500 women.
01:18:16 There might be five women here who are entrepreneurs.
01:18:18 Watch this, you're the woman with some money.
01:18:21 I dare five women, two women, that can give $1,000
01:18:24 and it won't change your life,
01:18:26 if you just raise your hand around this building.
01:18:29 Out of your business, out of your company, where you at?
01:18:32 I see one, anybody else that can do that?
01:18:35 I see another one, somebody else raise your hand.
01:18:37 If it wouldn't change your life, I see another one.
01:18:39 Would you do that now on the screen?
01:18:41 Go right ahead and do that, to that number
01:18:42 or write a check, I see anybody else?
01:18:45 I believe there's some women here with money.
01:18:47 You got a lot of other problems, but money just now.
01:18:49 I'm getting ready to pray for you, don't move.
01:18:51 But I want you to get your seat,
01:18:52 because I'm believing God to position you for a miracle.
01:18:55 And some of you don't need money,
01:18:56 you need God to touch one child.
01:18:58 You need God to heal your body, to fix your mind.
01:19:01 Do I have five women that can give $500?
01:19:05 Raise your hand.
01:19:06 $500, I see you, I see you lady.
01:19:09 Thank you, thank you lady Foster, anybody else?
01:19:11 I see you, thank you, God bless you, anybody else?
01:19:14 How many women could give $100 today by faith?
01:19:18 Would you raise your hand?
01:19:19 Would you do that to RE Running Ministries right there?
01:19:22 Go ahead, text it to that number or grab an envelope.
01:19:25 There's an envelope in your seat
01:19:26 that those who need to use credit cards,
01:19:28 those watching online, if this word blessed you today,
01:19:31 come on now, you don't see me do this a lot,
01:19:33 but when I do it, I do it because I know
01:19:35 what the Lord is telling me to do for people.
01:19:37 And I know what this ministry is for.
01:19:38 I've never written myself one check at all to benefit me.
01:19:43 This ministry is to help people.
01:19:45 And we'll talk about also the Vernon Foundation,
01:19:47 which we just started,
01:19:48 which you're gonna shout about in a minute.
01:19:50 The Lord is doing some big things.
01:19:52 Our name is starting to carry a lot of weight.
01:19:55 Thank God for that.
01:19:56 We even, hospitals wanna partner with us.
01:19:58 So they made me start a foundation
01:20:00 so they could just partner with my family, amen.
01:20:03 And I'll talk about that in a minute.
01:20:06 If you can give between 20 and $100,
01:20:09 raise your hand, would you?
01:20:11 Would you do that?
01:20:11 I think every woman here, after this kind of service,
01:20:14 me pouring my soul out, all that we're gonna do today,
01:20:17 remember, don't give your tithes,
01:20:18 don't give the word church's offering.
01:20:20 That's tomorrow now, don't hurt my feelings
01:20:22 because if the offering's not right,
01:20:23 I'm just gonna give this back to the church.
01:20:25 There's a certain number I need the church to get.
01:20:27 But if you wanna help me, help the community,
01:20:29 help my wife, and if you're writing a check,
01:20:30 don't write it to the word church,
01:20:31 write it to R.E. Vernon Ministries.
01:20:33 There's an envelope in your seat if you wanna fill it out.
01:20:35 Same thing you do on Sunday,
01:20:37 except this goes directly to R.E. Vernon Ministries,
01:20:39 and we're partnering with the church today,
01:20:41 so it's also a church event.
01:20:43 Whatever I get, a bunch of it goes back to the word church.
01:20:46 The rest goes to the community to help people.
01:20:47 I need you to pray.
01:20:50 Who believes in your pastor?
01:20:51 Raise your hand, you believe in,
01:20:52 Lady Vernon, come on up with me right quick.
01:20:53 Come on, come on.
01:20:54 At least give $10.
01:20:55 I think it'd be a shame to get this kind of thing
01:20:58 and don't give nothing.
01:20:59 Watch this.
01:20:59 Unless you don't have nothing,
01:21:01 then you're my special guest today.
01:21:03 But I think most women in here who are grown
01:21:05 and got some type of income, come on, baby.
01:21:07 Come on right quick.
01:21:08 Hold your offering up in your hand.
01:21:11 Those who are using an envelope,
01:21:12 you can bring it right to the altar.
01:21:15 As I'm praying, start walking to the altar with it.
01:21:17 If you have an envelope, just drop it on the step.
01:21:19 Just drop it on the step.
01:21:21 If you're using an envelope, just drop it on the stage,
01:21:23 drop it on the step.
01:21:24 I'm gonna pray, stay right there.
01:21:25 If you're using your phone, even writing a check,
01:21:27 just put it on the altar.
01:21:29 Team will get it.
01:21:30 R.E. Vernon Ministries, R.E. Vernon Ministries,
01:21:32 please don't write it to the word church
01:21:34 so we don't have to fix it.
01:21:35 R.E. Vernon Ministries, those that are watching online,
01:21:37 they got it up there.
01:21:39 Can I get somebody to type in the comments,
01:21:41 I'm giving right now to R.E. Vernon Ministries?
01:21:44 Even my address is there, those who wanna mail,
01:21:45 that's our PO box.
01:21:47 Those who wanna mail something, you're watching online,
01:21:49 write the PO box down now.
01:21:51 Those that are giving,
01:21:53 would you put in the comments I just gave,
01:21:55 I'm one of your $1,000 givers, I'm an online member,
01:21:58 I'm watching, the rain kept me awake,
01:22:00 I live in another city, you're a Lady Vernon,
01:22:02 I love and honor you.
01:22:04 If you're watching from anywhere,
01:22:07 I want you to say I'm giving right now,
01:22:10 I'm giving right now, I'm giving right now.
01:22:12 Come on, let's pray.
01:22:13 Father, in the name of Jesus,
01:22:15 thank you for this world today,
01:22:17 thank you for those that are sowing seed
01:22:19 into our ministry, into our church,
01:22:21 those who love what we're doing.
01:22:23 Lord, I pray that every woman here would discover
01:22:25 what kind of woman she is,
01:22:27 that she'd be better and healthier.
01:22:30 Thank you for this world today,
01:22:32 thank you for the thousands that are watching this later on,
01:22:35 Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday,
01:22:37 next year, whenever they're watching,
01:22:38 that they know they have value.
01:22:40 And I thank you, God, for those who wouldn't just watch this
01:22:42 but were so into it and say, I'm positioning myself,
01:22:45 my child could get sick,
01:22:47 my husband could act a fool,
01:22:50 I may need something, so I'm giving money,
01:22:52 I'm giving ministry, I'm giving obedience to God
01:22:55 while I don't need nothing,
01:22:57 because I don't know when I might need something.
01:22:59 Would you help thousands of women
01:23:01 to position themselves for a miracle by sowing today,
01:23:04 not just shouting, but sowing to the best of their ability.
01:23:08 And then, God, those who came to the altar,
01:23:09 whatever that need is, I speak life over them,
01:23:13 I pray good things over their life.
01:23:16 In Jesus' name, amen.