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00:00:33 - Make sure no one in this building is untouched.
00:00:36 It's good to have somebody to pray for you,
00:00:40 to intercede on your behalf.
00:00:44 Someone who's actually praying for themselves
00:00:47 when they pray for you,
00:00:48 someone who might be touching you tonight
00:00:51 who has nothing to gain by your being blessed.
00:00:56 It's easy to pray for someone
00:00:59 who blesses you after you pray for them.
00:01:04 But it would be wonderful to pray with someone tonight
00:01:07 and you have nothing to gain by their being blessed.
00:01:13 Sometimes we pray for people
00:01:15 we're actually praying for ourselves.
00:01:17 Praying for our mothers and our fathers,
00:01:20 praying for our church members,
00:01:23 just praying for someone who we need something from.
00:01:27 But I think it would be wonderful
00:01:30 just to ask God to bless the person you're holding
00:01:34 without any selfish reason, without any motivation,
00:01:39 other than you're wanting to see someone else
00:01:44 anointed by God.
00:01:45 Squeeze those hands.
00:01:48 Dear Father in Jesus' name,
00:01:50 we thank you tonight for all the things you have given.
00:01:55 We praise you for your presence.
00:01:59 We glorify you for your being God.
00:02:02 Be God tonight for us.
00:02:06 Be God in our circumstances.
00:02:10 Be God in our situations.
00:02:12 Be God in our emotions.
00:02:16 Be God in our psychological battles that we fight.
00:02:20 Just be our God tonight.
00:02:22 Our Father,
00:02:24 hallowed be thy name.
00:02:29 I want you to bless the hands I hold tonight.
00:02:31 I want you to touch my brother and my sister.
00:02:34 I want you to move in their families,
00:02:40 move on their jobs, move in their finances,
00:02:43 move in their spirits, move in their church.
00:02:48 Bless their ministries right now.
00:02:50 Oh God, I want you to give them the victory
00:02:53 that comes from knowing who you are.
00:02:57 So I press victory in these hands.
00:03:00 I press anointing in these hands.
00:03:03 I press power in these hands.
00:03:05 God, I press financial blessings in these hands.
00:03:11 Have your way right now.
00:03:13 Break every yoke in the name of Jesus.
00:03:16 And I declare victory tonight in Jesus' name.
00:03:21 Now, loose those hands and give God a praise.
00:03:25 Give me some monitor sound now.
00:03:26 (audience cheering)
00:03:28 Just a little more monitors if you can.
00:03:29 Give God a praise.
00:03:31 He's worthy of all of our praises.
00:03:34 I will bless the Lord at all times.
00:03:36 (audience cheering)
00:03:37 Oh, bless him, bless him, bless him.
00:03:40 (audience cheering)
00:03:41 Bless his name, bless his name.
00:03:43 You may be seated in the presence of the Lord.
00:03:47 Surely we honor the Lord tonight
00:03:49 and we're very grateful to him
00:03:51 just to allow us to be here
00:03:53 and to bring us into this very, very special place,
00:03:56 this wonderful place that God has ordained
00:04:00 for this assembly.
00:04:02 And we thank God just for allowing us to be here tonight,
00:04:04 for bringing us over the airways.
00:04:07 It wasn't that the pilot was so skillful
00:04:10 or the plane was in such good condition.
00:04:12 It's just God's traveling mercies that got us here.
00:04:16 And we thank God for that.
00:04:18 Amen, amen, amen.
00:04:20 (audience applauding)
00:04:22 If you came from across the street
00:04:25 and you got here safely,
00:04:26 you have reason to praise and give God glory tonight.
00:04:29 (audience cheering)
00:04:30 Amen, and it's just the gift of God.
00:04:34 And it's not anything to take for granted.
00:04:36 It's something to thank the Lord for.
00:04:38 We honor God tonight for this great retinue of ministry
00:04:41 to these great pastors
00:04:42 and to all of the clergy, ladies and gentlemen,
00:04:45 and of course, to the Honorable Bishop Gilbert Patterson,
00:04:49 to his wife and his great family, amen.
00:04:52 (audience applauding)
00:04:53 Give God a praise for the man of God.
00:04:55 (audience applauding)
00:04:58 We thank God for the leadership
00:05:01 that God has ordained for you.
00:05:04 Yeah, great leaders are endangered species.
00:05:07 It's hard to find a good leader.
00:05:10 That's part of the problem with the world today
00:05:14 is we have no leaders.
00:05:16 And when God has ordained a leader for you,
00:05:19 it is one of the most blessed things
00:05:22 that he has ever given.
00:05:24 When he gives you a leader who has vision
00:05:27 and who has the capacity to put together those things
00:05:30 that make those visions come to pass,
00:05:32 that's a gift from God, amen.
00:05:35 Anytime God can give you another human being,
00:05:37 (audience applauding)
00:05:39 that's a gift.
00:05:40 Now, don't get stiff over in this building now.
00:05:42 You all used to shout over next door.
00:05:44 Amen, you used to have a good time over next door.
00:05:48 Don't let the size of the building get you nervous.
00:05:51 Amen, you can just, you got more room to shout now.
00:05:55 (audience applauding)
00:05:58 But leadership, leadership, leadership.
00:06:00 God's the only one I know who can take human beings
00:06:05 and give them to other human beings.
00:06:08 Now, no human being deserves another.
00:06:10 (laughing)
00:06:17 No human being deserves another.
00:06:20 Whenever God gives you somebody,
00:06:23 puts someone in your life that causes you
00:06:25 to be closer to him,
00:06:27 you should thank God for that person every day.
00:06:30 (audience applauding)
00:06:31 Amen, you should give God praise for that person every day.
00:06:34 And you shouldn't be taciturn about it.
00:06:38 You shouldn't be reticent.
00:06:39 I mean, it should be something that you express freely
00:06:42 and openly and thank God.
00:06:44 It's wonderful to thank God for the gifts he gives
00:06:47 and God gives human beings to us to make our lives better.
00:06:52 People have cursed us.
00:06:54 Oh yes, you didn't know when you were going out that night
00:06:57 that you were going to be on some substance for 20 years.
00:07:01 You didn't know that you were just going to have a good time
00:07:04 and your friends introduced you to something
00:07:06 that left you messed up for at least 10 years of your life.
00:07:11 Somebody cursed you just by being in their presence
00:07:17 sometimes you're hanging out with fellows
00:07:19 who have some devious thing in mind
00:07:24 you didn't know, they didn't tell you.
00:07:27 And next thing you end up five years of your life
00:07:30 in somebody's prison because you were hanging out
00:07:34 with a group of fellows who didn't tell you
00:07:36 they were going to rob the liquor store.
00:07:38 They cursed you.
00:07:40 How many times have you reached for people in relationships
00:07:44 or how many times have people come after you
00:07:46 just come after you with all the bullions in the world
00:07:50 so intense and you couldn't imagine
00:07:53 that they could come after you so intensely
00:07:55 and then walk away from you immediately
00:07:58 after they got you.
00:08:00 And left you emotionally twisted for at least two years.
00:08:08 People can curse you.
00:08:11 Sometimes you're born in a family
00:08:14 and no one ever thought that maybe they should have raised you
00:08:18 and the rest of your life you live
00:08:22 trying to overcome the abuse of your early life.
00:08:25 People curse you.
00:08:28 Amen.
00:08:31 And it takes God to send someone into your life
00:08:35 to reverse the curse, to break the yoke.
00:08:43 And if God has ordained such a person for you,
00:08:45 you ought to be thankful to God every day.
00:08:47 (audience applauding)
00:08:51 Amen.
00:08:51 It's not anything to be cool about.
00:08:54 It's something to be excited about.
00:08:57 Let God look at your neighbor and say,
00:08:58 I'm a gift to somebody.
00:09:00 They don't know it yet, but I'm a gift to somebody.
00:09:05 Amen, I'm a gift to somebody.
00:09:06 Everything I've been through, every tear I've cried,
00:09:11 every yoke that I've had to shake off my back,
00:09:14 everything I've had to overcome
00:09:16 is to qualify me just to be a blessing
00:09:20 to somebody else, amen.
00:09:24 And so we honor the Lord tonight
00:09:27 for the Honorable Bishop Gilbert Patterson
00:09:29 because God has raised him up not only to be a blessing
00:09:32 to you and a gift to you here in Memphis,
00:09:34 but a gift to all of us all over the country.
00:09:37 And we thank God for God having put together
00:09:41 such a vessel and then giving him to us
00:09:43 in such a marvelous way, amen.
00:09:45 So if you would just help me just give God a praise
00:09:48 for this great leader.
00:09:49 (audience applauding)
00:09:52 (audience cheering)
00:09:55 - And amen, we're grateful to God for him.
00:10:15 I brought some tapes with me.
00:10:16 Ministry that's meaningful is moving
00:10:20 from the philosophical to the psychological
00:10:24 because that's where the body of Christ has to go.
00:10:26 If you're going to be transformed
00:10:27 by the renewing of your mind,
00:10:30 then ministry cannot be philosophical.
00:10:33 It has to have a psychological impetus.
00:10:35 It has to have a psychological aspect
00:10:38 because the only way to be renewed is through your mind.
00:10:43 And anything that deals with the mind
00:10:46 has to have a psychological twist.
00:10:48 Oh, you can argue philosophically all kinds of things.
00:10:52 And that's why we're so divided,
00:10:53 been divided for a thousand years since Azusa.
00:10:57 But anytime you go psychologically,
00:10:58 then we all grow because it takes the psychological
00:11:01 to change our minds.
00:11:03 And when you change your mind, you change your life.
00:11:07 So I brought some tapes and most of my ministry
00:11:11 is going to be psychologically oriented.
00:11:14 Brought the power of the mind and various other things.
00:11:17 And if you go to the tape table,
00:11:19 the Lord will bless you there, I'm sure.
00:11:20 All kinds of things that'll make you feel better
00:11:23 about yourself, make you feel better about walking with God,
00:11:26 make you feel good about you, amen.
00:11:29 Sometimes people are single and they're alone, they think.
00:11:34 Amen, but sometimes you need to be alone
00:11:36 so you can find out that you're a lovely person.
00:11:38 (audience laughing)
00:11:39 Amen, sometimes you need to be alone
00:11:41 and find out that God deals with you
00:11:44 and all of that good stuff
00:11:45 and that God prepares you for somebody
00:11:47 and nobody's qualified for anybody
00:11:50 until they're qualified for themselves.
00:11:52 Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen.
00:11:55 God's working on you sometimes.
00:11:57 And so the word of God helps us to understand those things.
00:12:02 Now tonight in the book of Ephesians,
00:12:04 I hope you brought your Bibles with you.
00:12:06 In the book of Ephesians tonight, chapter one.
00:12:10 And I would like to consider,
00:12:13 I would actually like to begin reading at verse six,
00:12:18 but to be contextual, Ephesians,
00:12:23 particularly the first chapter,
00:12:24 has such long, such long sentences.
00:12:29 So I want to go to six,
00:12:33 but let's begin reading at three, at verse three,
00:12:37 so that we might be within the parameters of the sentence.
00:12:43 So we'd have to read from verse three
00:12:46 and read all the way to verse 12.
00:12:48 Now that's something that English has changed.
00:12:51 Old English, they had long sentences
00:12:54 and now we have real short sentences.
00:12:57 That's what the writers do today.
00:12:59 But notice now Ephesians chapter one, verse three,
00:13:02 blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
00:13:06 who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings
00:13:10 in heavenly places in Christ,
00:13:14 according as he hath chosen us in him
00:13:17 before the foundation of the world,
00:13:19 that we should be holy and without blame
00:13:22 before him in love,
00:13:24 having predestinated us unto the adoption of children
00:13:27 by Jesus Christ to himself,
00:13:30 according to the good pleasure of his will,
00:13:33 to the praise of the glory of his grace,
00:13:36 wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
00:13:40 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
00:13:43 the forgiveness of sins,
00:13:44 according to the riches of his grace,
00:13:47 wherein he hath abounded toward us
00:13:49 in all wisdom and prudence,
00:13:51 having made known unto us the mystery of his will,
00:13:54 according to his good pleasure,
00:13:56 which he hath purposed in himself,
00:13:59 that in the dispensation of the fullness of times,
00:14:02 he might gather together in one all things in Christ,
00:14:06 both which are in heaven and which are in earth,
00:14:10 even in him,
00:14:11 in whom also we have obtained an inheritance,
00:14:14 being predestinated according to the purpose of him
00:14:19 who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will,
00:14:23 that we should be to the praise of his glory,
00:14:26 who first trusted in Christ.
00:14:31 Can you say amen?
00:14:32 - Amen.
00:14:33 - I want you to notice now verse 11,
00:14:37 and he's speaking about all things being in Christ,
00:14:42 both which are in heaven and which are in earth,
00:14:46 even in him.
00:14:48 And he points out in whom, which is in Christ,
00:14:51 we have obtained an inheritance.
00:14:56 Touch somebody beside you and tell them,
00:14:58 I'm ready for my inheritance.
00:15:00 - I'm ready for my inheritance.
00:15:03 - I'm ready.
00:15:05 Are you ready?
00:15:06 - I'm ready.
00:15:07 - The book of Ephesians.
00:15:12 It's interesting, I don't always know
00:15:16 how the theologians come to their conclusions,
00:15:21 but the theologians declare that Ephesians
00:15:24 is the most profound book in all the Bible.
00:15:33 Sometimes our theologians aren't our evangelists,
00:15:37 which means that from an academic point of view,
00:15:43 they approach the Bible.
00:15:44 But oftentimes, academics without the spirit
00:15:49 doesn't give you the impact.
00:15:55 But I would give some credence to what they're saying,
00:16:02 simply because when you consider the book of Ephesians,
00:16:07 you understand that it begins outside of time.
00:16:10 And the book now is providing us with some insights
00:16:18 as to the mind of God prior to our getting here.
00:16:24 And he concludes some things.
00:16:27 He says that I didn't actually become blessed
00:16:33 when I came to church.
00:16:35 He points out that I didn't actually become
00:16:40 strong when I came to church.
00:16:44 I didn't actually become gifted when I came to church.
00:16:48 He points out that I was gifted in Christ Jesus
00:16:54 before God catabolic before he threw the world
00:16:59 into its existence.
00:17:00 (audience laughing)
00:17:02 And so consequently, because of how profound the book is,
00:17:06 you will find, and I'm going to the mountain tonight.
00:17:09 You find that Paul has to pray.
00:17:15 He has to pray for us.
00:17:19 That the eyes of our enlightenment be open,
00:17:24 our understanding be enlightened,
00:17:26 that God opens us up to the depth.
00:17:30 Because when it comes to what God has done for us,
00:17:37 we need God to speak to our hearts,
00:17:42 to open us up to the gigantic blessing
00:17:45 that he has bestowed on us,
00:17:48 because our minds can't grasp it without the help of God.
00:17:54 And so I would point out that the things God is doing
00:17:58 and their significance to us and their influence
00:18:02 has to be on our thinking.
00:18:05 Because now if he is doing it
00:18:10 and we will not appropriate it to our thinking,
00:18:13 then we will never know who we are in Christ Jesus.
00:18:19 Significant then that our struggles are over,
00:18:24 not when our circumstances change,
00:18:26 but our struggles are over once we understand
00:18:30 who we are in Christ Jesus.
00:18:35 (audience applauding)
00:18:36 You see, it's significant there
00:18:38 because much of our battle as the children of God
00:18:43 between what is spiritual
00:18:46 and what is connected to the spirit of God by faith,
00:18:50 and what is sensual,
00:18:52 or what is connected to the world by our senses.
00:18:57 See, every child of God is caught between
00:19:01 what is spiritual and what is sensual.
00:19:04 And it doesn't matter how long you've been saved
00:19:08 or just how wonderfully saved you are.
00:19:11 Your battle is always between your sight and your faith.
00:19:18 My sight connects me to my world,
00:19:23 to my situation and to my circumstance.
00:19:28 My faith connects me to God.
00:19:32 But now God is not seen at any time.
00:19:37 So oftentimes I am caught between
00:19:41 what I believe and what I see.
00:19:46 And my sensuality pulls me into expecting
00:19:51 to see God in my circumstance.
00:19:54 But what God says is,
00:19:56 "I don't have to show up in your circumstance
00:19:59 "for you to believe that I'm here."
00:20:02 Because the control of my mind
00:20:08 is by faith in the things of God
00:20:11 to defeat the attitude of Satan
00:20:14 who is trying to control me by my senses.
00:20:19 You see, here is the difference
00:20:20 between someone who is spiritual
00:20:23 and someone who is sensual.
00:20:26 The spiritual person lives by faith
00:20:28 connected to the spirit of God
00:20:31 in spite of their circumstance.
00:20:34 Whereas the sensual person lives by sight and circumstance
00:20:39 and cannot understand the things of God
00:20:42 because they are not visible or intellectual
00:20:46 or discerned by situation.
00:20:49 See, when I walk by faith,
00:20:52 I walk by revelation and not by situation.
00:20:56 (audience cheering)
00:20:56 I hope you're with me tonight.
00:20:58 (audience cheering)
00:21:00 (sighing)
00:21:01 I guess I gotta work tonight.
00:21:03 And so what God is doing here in his word
00:21:07 is he's bringing us to understand
00:21:10 what has been done for us.
00:21:13 And what has been done for us outlines who we are.
00:21:18 Because what God has done determines who we are in Christ.
00:21:23 He determines our position,
00:21:26 he determines our possession,
00:21:29 and he determines our responsibility.
00:21:32 I cannot have a possession in Christ
00:21:36 without being in the right position.
00:21:39 And if I have a possession,
00:21:41 then I have a responsibility.
00:21:44 Because there can be no position without possession,
00:21:48 and there can be no possession without responsibility.
00:21:52 Are you with me now?
00:21:54 I'm not responsible to be positioned.
00:21:58 I'm responsible after I am positioned.
00:22:02 You see, God puts me in a place first,
00:22:04 and then he declares because I am in that place,
00:22:09 he expects certain attitudes from me.
00:22:13 So then my faith has to ignore my situation
00:22:18 to determine the viability of my position.
00:22:23 I know who I am in spite of what I'm going through.
00:22:28 (audience cheering)
00:22:28 Help me sound mad?
00:22:30 A little more mildness if you can.
00:22:32 It's significant here because he speaks to my mind
00:22:36 and he doesn't change circumstance.
00:22:39 See, most of us, we are seeking a God to change situation.
00:22:44 But I found out that if God changes me,
00:22:48 I can change my situation.
00:22:52 Oh, I feel God in this place tonight.
00:22:54 You gotta help me sound mad.
00:22:55 Don't leave me out here.
00:22:57 It's important then to understand
00:22:59 when he deals with the word chosen,
00:23:01 that chosen is what we call in theology
00:23:05 an anthropomorphic term.
00:23:06 And don't be frightened by that.
00:23:09 It simply is a term that brings into human cognizance
00:23:14 an action that God didn't actually take.
00:23:18 It's something that gives us an understanding
00:23:20 in our language to describe something about God
00:23:25 that we can understand,
00:23:28 but it really doesn't work like that.
00:23:31 Now, it's like this.
00:23:34 If I go to buy a suit, if I go to buy a suit,
00:23:38 I go to choose a suit.
00:23:40 And it means that when I go, I have an idea of what I want,
00:23:45 but I don't know exactly what I want.
00:23:48 I have an idea.
00:23:49 And that's why when I go, I go and I search
00:23:52 and I look and I see and I go from shop to shop.
00:23:55 I know, have you been shopping with someone
00:23:57 who you know they're going to pick the first thing
00:24:00 they picked up, but then you got to go with them
00:24:03 to five or six other places before they come back
00:24:06 to the first place, you know,
00:24:08 trying to make up their mind.
00:24:11 Now, notice then, I don't know what I'm going to choose,
00:24:15 but I go out to choose.
00:24:18 And so when I hear that I'm chosen in him,
00:24:21 before the foundation of the world,
00:24:23 right away, my human cognizance sees God
00:24:27 going through the supermarket of souls,
00:24:29 deciding who he's going to take.
00:24:33 But now you told me in Sunday school
00:24:35 that God is omniscient,
00:24:39 which means that he has all knowledge,
00:24:42 quote unquote, at all times.
00:24:45 Now that means that God has all information at all times.
00:24:51 And I'm quoting, unquoting times,
00:24:53 because eternity is not time.
00:24:56 And you're telling me then,
00:24:57 that God always had all information from his beginning
00:25:02 and he has no beginning,
00:25:05 which means from his concept and he has no concept,
00:25:08 he has all information,
00:25:11 which means there is never a time,
00:25:14 quote unquote, time in the existence of God,
00:25:18 that God didn't know everything.
00:25:21 All right, so then when God knew himself
00:25:24 and he always knew himself,
00:25:26 he always knew who he would choose.
00:25:30 So when did he choose then?
00:25:32 Y'all with me or am I by myself?
00:25:35 Come on, should I go over that again?
00:25:37 When did he choose if he always knew?
00:25:41 There is no time in the existence of God
00:25:44 that he doesn't have all information.
00:25:46 So which means when he knew he was God
00:25:49 and he always knew he was God,
00:25:52 he always knew you would be here saved tonight.
00:25:57 That means you are in the mind of God
00:26:01 as old as God is and God is ageless.
00:26:06 So why are you worried about how your life
00:26:09 is going to come out when God already knew?
00:26:13 (audience cheering)
00:26:15 I feel God in this house tonight.
00:26:17 You've got to understand then that it's anthropomorphic
00:26:22 because it gives description to an action
00:26:26 in human language that doesn't take place in glory
00:26:31 because he always knew you.
00:26:35 He knows those who are his own
00:26:38 and there's no question about that.
00:26:40 He does not get new information.
00:26:43 That's why the gifts and callings of God
00:26:45 are without repentance.
00:26:48 Oh yes, church folk will tell you
00:26:50 if you don't use it, you'll lose it.
00:26:53 Well, that's church folk talking.
00:26:56 But God does not give gifts and take them back.
00:27:00 And the reason is before he gave the gift,
00:27:04 he had all the information about what you would do
00:27:07 with the gift and if he wasn't gonna give it,
00:27:10 he wouldn't have given it in the first place.
00:27:14 Oh, I feel God here.
00:27:15 That's why you don't judge your salvation by your gifts.
00:27:20 You judge your salvation by your relationship
00:27:25 with God or your fruit because you can have a gift
00:27:29 and go to hell.
00:27:30 (audience cheering)
00:27:33 Anyhow, when you understand this then,
00:27:39 we consider relationships of chosen,
00:27:42 predestinated and in the text also the word accepted.
00:27:47 We are chosen in him.
00:27:49 We are predestinated us unto by Jesus Christ
00:27:54 and have made us accepted in the beloved.
00:27:58 Now, this is God's action.
00:28:01 This is what God is doing.
00:28:03 This is not what you're doing.
00:28:05 This is what God has decided to do.
00:28:08 And there's another portion of text
00:28:10 that says for his good pleasure.
00:28:13 I propose to you that nothing is as sure as my salvation.
00:28:19 Nothing is as sure as my God saving me.
00:28:24 Why?
00:28:27 Because salvation is as sure as Jesus's blood.
00:28:31 It is as certain as God's love.
00:28:35 It is as powerful as God's omnipotence.
00:28:38 It is as great as God's immutability.
00:28:42 There is no devil in hell that can stop God
00:28:47 from bringing to salvation those that he chose
00:28:51 before the foundation of the world.
00:28:54 God, I don't know.
00:28:57 I know church people have a tendency of reducing God
00:29:01 and holding him hostage to how they feel or their attitude.
00:29:06 God is not held hostage by your attitude.
00:29:11 He never has to back up because of any human being
00:29:16 deciding to take him or leave him.
00:29:19 If God wants you, there is nothing you can do about it
00:29:24 but come to God.
00:29:27 I wish somebody to help me in this place.
00:29:30 Amen.
00:29:31 Don't get carried away with the power of your ability
00:29:34 to decide to or not to when it comes to God.
00:29:39 Can I just digress a minute?
00:29:41 God can chasten you so intensely
00:29:45 that you'll forget that he loves you.
00:29:48 Oh yes, God can whip you to the edge of your mind.
00:29:53 And for anybody who has really been chastened by God,
00:29:58 I know you don't want to admit it but I have,
00:30:01 God has to sustain your mind while he is chastening you
00:30:06 or you would lose your mind under his hand.
00:30:12 Oh God, and then he'll chasten you.
00:30:14 He'll chasten you until he has to send somebody
00:30:18 to remind you that he still loves you
00:30:22 in the middle of what you're going through.
00:30:25 Oh, he knows how to get your attention.
00:30:27 And so you understand then that his grace then becomes
00:30:33 the substratum by which he chooses.
00:30:37 And here is the freedom that God has to have.
00:30:40 He has to have the freedom to not allow his justice
00:30:45 to stop him from dealing with me.
00:30:49 So what he does is he brings grace
00:30:51 and grace brings Jesus to the cross.
00:30:55 Now notice that God does not deal with you any longer
00:30:59 directly by grace.
00:31:02 He deals with you directly by justice now
00:31:06 because Jesus took care of your sins on Calvary.
00:31:11 Now understand this, have you ever figured out
00:31:14 why the Bible says he's just and faithful to forgive
00:31:19 when you confess your sins?
00:31:22 The reason he's just and faithful
00:31:25 is Jesus Christ has already died for your sins.
00:31:30 And it is not fair for two people to die
00:31:36 for one set of sins.
00:31:38 Are you with me?
00:31:40 My sins have been taken care of by Jesus.
00:31:43 So when I acknowledge my sin,
00:31:46 the blood of Jesus quashes me of my sin.
00:31:51 So God cannot exact my life for my sin
00:31:56 when Jesus already died for my sin.
00:32:00 So grace uses Calvary to set God free
00:32:05 to deal with me.
00:32:07 And once God is free to deal with me,
00:32:11 there is no devil in hell
00:32:13 that can stop me from my inheritance.
00:32:17 Oh, I feel God in here.
00:32:19 Let's go to the next level.
00:32:21 Now through grace then I've got the virtue of his power.
00:32:26 And predestinated now is another interesting thing
00:32:29 because now he deals with me not only as a technon,
00:32:33 but he deals with me as a huios, an adult son.
00:32:38 So now the exceeding riches of his grace
00:32:41 accepts me in his presence.
00:32:44 And he loved me now as the son is loved.
00:32:49 So he loves me with the same intensity
00:32:53 that he loves Jesus Christ
00:32:55 and makes me a joint heir.
00:32:58 Can I take it to the next level?
00:33:00 So the love now becomes an integral process,
00:33:04 a part of the process without question.
00:33:07 That's verse five, if you will.
00:33:10 So now it's in love that we associate being chosen.
00:33:15 He loves me and he chooses me.
00:33:19 It's his freedom to choose me.
00:33:22 You don't have to like me.
00:33:25 You don't have to deal with me.
00:33:27 But God does not deal with you to deal with me.
00:33:32 He chooses me because that's what he wants to do.
00:33:37 Do you remember the text where he says,
00:33:39 it's your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
00:33:44 That's what he wants to do.
00:33:48 He wants to bless me that I might give glory
00:33:52 to the power of his grace.
00:33:55 Oh God, I feel this thing in here tonight.
00:33:58 You see, many of us are of the opinion
00:34:02 that if we project to people
00:34:05 that we have always been real good,
00:34:08 that makes us important.
00:34:11 Because church people have an attitude
00:34:14 about people who tell the truth
00:34:16 about where they're coming from.
00:34:19 Do you know the church is the last place
00:34:22 that you can get up and tell folk what you used to be?
00:34:26 (audience laughing)
00:34:27 I mean, folk will look at you funny
00:34:30 if you ever tell them where you're coming from.
00:34:36 I mean, they'll stop their children from talking to you.
00:34:40 I mean, they'll just, oh no, you can't deal with them.
00:34:43 And the fact of the matter is,
00:34:45 it looks like if God has actually forgiven you
00:34:50 and if God has changed you,
00:34:53 then you ought to believe he has changed me.
00:34:57 I mean, if you really believe God
00:35:00 has turned your life around,
00:35:02 then you really believe that he turned
00:35:05 the person's life around who's sitting right by you.
00:35:08 Most people want to give the impression
00:35:12 that they have been good all their lives
00:35:15 and they deserve to be saved.
00:35:19 Oh God, I wish I could preach this thing tonight.
00:35:22 Do you think for one minute,
00:35:25 with all the stuff that I've been through in my life,
00:35:28 that you can bring that little boy up here to talk to me?
00:35:32 There's absolutely nothing that innocence can say to me.
00:35:37 I need somebody to talk to me
00:35:40 that's been to hell and back.
00:35:43 That's who I need.
00:35:44 (audience cheering)
00:35:45 And what I have discovered is where you have been
00:35:49 before God brought you in does not disqualify you
00:35:54 from talking in the house of God.
00:35:58 In fact, if you haven't been through anything,
00:36:02 you are not qualified to deal with me.
00:36:07 (audience cheering)
00:36:08 Oh, I feel caught in this place.
00:36:11 Oh yeah, I know you want to give the impression
00:36:14 you didn't get in that bed.
00:36:15 I know you want to give the impression
00:36:17 you have never thought of going
00:36:19 with somebody who was married.
00:36:21 I know you want to give the impression
00:36:23 that you have always had one love, one husband.
00:36:27 You've never stolen anything in your life.
00:36:31 And so when you walked in the church,
00:36:32 God owed to save you.
00:36:35 Wrong.
00:36:36 God saved you because that's what He wanted to do.
00:36:43 Oh God, I feel it in here.
00:36:45 I'm going to have a little church here tonight.
00:36:49 I'll pull on somebody and say,
00:36:50 "He's talking to you tonight.
00:36:52 "There ain't no stiffness in this house tonight."
00:36:55 (audience laughing)
00:36:57 Can I put it to you another way?
00:36:58 'Cause I want to reach you where you are.
00:37:01 Sit down for a minute.
00:37:02 We got to talk here tonight.
00:37:04 We just got to talk.
00:37:06 It's important to understand this.
00:37:11 When you grasp where God has put you,
00:37:14 you see it in different light.
00:37:16 And this is why He's giving me Ephesians 1.
00:37:19 Most people in here,
00:37:21 when they move into relationship with anybody,
00:37:24 they think that it's something about them
00:37:28 that makes people gravitate towards them.
00:37:31 That's why you dress the way you do.
00:37:33 That's why you enhance yourself
00:37:35 and embellish your physical pulpitude
00:37:38 because you expect by the way you look
00:37:41 or by what you have that people gravitate towards you.
00:37:46 I'm sure you've lived long enough to understand this,
00:37:50 that no matter what you give a man or give a woman,
00:37:54 that's not enough to keep them.
00:37:56 (audience laughing)
00:37:56 Uh-huh.
00:37:57 Oh, I think maybe somebody's mature enough
00:38:01 to understand this.
00:38:03 You sometimes can't figure out
00:38:06 how he could leave you
00:38:08 for that little no woman down the street
00:38:12 who has absolutely nothing to offer.
00:38:16 Have you ever wondered that?
00:38:17 Now, you gave him a car,
00:38:20 you gave him a house,
00:38:22 you gave him rent,
00:38:23 you gave him pocket money,
00:38:25 and he just left.
00:38:28 Now, when the relationship was falling apart,
00:38:31 because you believe that it was something you did
00:38:34 to attract him,
00:38:36 you believe that it's something you're not doing
00:38:40 to lose him.
00:38:42 You see, this is the tendency
00:38:43 because if I believe you've come
00:38:45 because I am so macho
00:38:48 and I am so rich
00:38:49 and I am so debonair,
00:38:52 then it must be because I'm losing something
00:38:55 why you're trying to leave.
00:38:58 So as the relationship begins to fall apart,
00:39:01 I begin to intensify my drive to keep you.
00:39:06 And I just cannot understand
00:39:10 how it is with all I'm doing,
00:39:13 I'm still on the losing side.
00:39:16 But my dear person,
00:39:17 what you've got to understand is
00:39:20 people make a decision
00:39:23 to stay or to leave.
00:39:26 The facts are very clear.
00:39:27 Just look at who he's with today.
00:39:30 He's with somebody with five babies
00:39:32 and you don't have one.
00:39:35 He's with somebody that never gave him a dime
00:39:38 and you gave him everything.
00:39:41 So the bottom line is,
00:39:42 it's not about you.
00:39:45 So you might as well pick yourself up,
00:39:47 clean yourself off,
00:39:48 stop recriminating,
00:39:49 and go on with your life.
00:39:52 Because people make decisions
00:39:55 to stay or to leave.
00:39:58 The reason I know
00:40:00 that my salvation is sure
00:40:03 is because I had nothing
00:40:05 to offer my God.
00:40:07 When He decided to call me,
00:40:10 it wasn't because I was so great,
00:40:13 it was because He is so good.
00:40:16 So I don't have to worry
00:40:19 about shutting my mouth
00:40:20 about where He brought me from.
00:40:23 Because you don't have to accept me,
00:40:26 He's already accepted me
00:40:28 and you don't have an inheritance
00:40:32 to give me.
00:40:33 I feel like having church in here.
00:40:36 Oh God, touch your neighbor and say,
00:40:38 "I'm ready for mine.
00:40:40 Everything that God promised me,
00:40:42 I'm ready for it now.
00:40:45 And I don't care who likes it
00:40:47 or who don't like it.
00:40:49 I am ready for what's mine."
00:40:53 I feel a little churchy in here tonight.
00:40:56 Give somebody a high five and say,
00:40:57 "I'm gonna get it too.
00:41:00 I'm gonna get it, I'm gonna get it
00:41:01 sure as I'm here."
00:41:04 You gotta grasp this thing
00:41:05 and understand it.
00:41:08 You can't make God.
00:41:10 Nobody makes God.
00:41:13 God is God all by Himself.
00:41:16 It's what He decides to do.
00:41:19 So all His actions then are in love.
00:41:23 His gifts for us
00:41:24 and His processes in us
00:41:27 are loved base.
00:41:29 And so we have to put love then
00:41:32 with predestination.
00:41:34 And that word coming from Prohorazo
00:41:37 simply means a boundary or a limit.
00:41:41 Touch somebody and say,
00:41:42 "There's a limit to everything you go through.
00:41:45 God's got a limit."
00:41:47 And what He does here is
00:41:49 He marks out a boundary
00:41:51 or He marks out limits of any place
00:41:55 or anything.
00:41:56 When it's used now of people,
00:41:59 it means to put a limit upon a person
00:42:01 to determine His destiny.
00:42:05 And so that means that in my life,
00:42:08 God sets boundaries
00:42:11 that I cannot surpass or go over.
00:42:15 He sets boundaries that the devil
00:42:17 can only come so far and no further.
00:42:21 When I consider the things
00:42:23 that I have been through,
00:42:25 I should be rocking in a rocking chair
00:42:28 right about now,
00:42:29 crazy as I don't know what.
00:42:32 But God sets limits.
00:42:35 Oh, I feel it in here
00:42:37 because He's got the power
00:42:40 to sell the devil
00:42:42 so far and no further.
00:42:46 I want you to teach Him a lesson.
00:42:48 So I'll allow you enough freedom
00:42:51 to take Him almost to the limit of His mind.
00:42:55 Then I'll hold His mind
00:42:58 in the power of my hand
00:43:00 because I'm not trying to make Him crazy.
00:43:03 I'm trying to get Him right.
00:43:06 I feel like preaching in here tonight.
00:43:08 Oh, some of you going through some stuff right now.
00:43:12 You ought to let the devil know
00:43:14 I know what's going on.
00:43:16 God is just pushing me
00:43:18 to the limit of my situation
00:43:21 so I can understand
00:43:24 He's getting ready to put me
00:43:26 in a whole new season.
00:43:29 I feel it in here.
00:43:31 There's a limit to what God
00:43:32 will allow the devil to do.
00:43:35 That's why you don't worry about people.
00:43:39 And that's why the Spirit of God
00:43:40 gives you meekness
00:43:42 because meekness says,
00:43:44 I know that God understands what's happening
00:43:48 and when He gets ready,
00:43:51 He'll change what's going on around me.
00:43:55 Oh God, I feel it in here.
00:43:57 I'm trying to behave.
00:43:59 But I found out that when God
00:44:01 is not working on my circumstance,
00:44:04 He's working on me.
00:44:06 And when He works on me,
00:44:08 He does not have to change my circumstance.
00:44:12 He gives me the power to move
00:44:14 in the middle of it
00:44:15 because I realize He's got boundaries.
00:44:19 You can only push me but so far.
00:44:22 You can only talk about me but for so long.
00:44:26 You can only mistreat me
00:44:29 but for a season.
00:44:31 And then God says, "Enough."
00:44:34 And when God says, "Enough,"
00:44:37 things are getting ready to turn
00:44:40 in your life.
00:44:42 I feel it. Hold that up and I'll blow a fuse.
00:44:45 You've got to understand this.
00:44:47 And so now when He says, "Pro,"
00:44:49 He fits it to the verb that we had before.
00:44:53 So what He does now is He sets limits before.
00:44:57 So then that's why He can declare
00:45:00 that He marks out a boundary or a limit or a thing
00:45:04 or a person previous to them ever coming into this world.
00:45:09 Because whatever God does, He does in eternity.
00:45:14 Now He gives us His word
00:45:16 for Him to tell us what God has already done.
00:45:21 So that while I'm going through difficult situations,
00:45:25 I already know in my spirit by faith
00:45:29 that my situation is not my lasting condition
00:45:34 because my spirit is already connected to God's spirit.
00:45:39 And I'm not walking by situation.
00:45:43 I'm going by revelation
00:45:46 so I can tell the devil in my situation,
00:45:49 I already know how I'm coming out.
00:45:52 So I don't have to wait till the battle's over.
00:45:55 I can praise Him.
00:45:57 (audience cheering)
00:46:00 I can praise Him right now.
00:46:02 I feel God in this place.
00:46:04 Touch somebody, say, "I'm ready for mine."
00:46:06 Touch somebody else, say, "It's been a long time coming,
00:46:11 but I got a feeling.
00:46:13 I inherited it."
00:46:14 (audience cheering)
00:46:17 It's about to break loose.
00:46:21 You've got to understand the matter to be considered here.
00:46:24 Do I have a little more time?
00:46:26 Let's just sit down a minute.
00:46:29 You've got to understand and be considered and emphasize.
00:46:33 It isn't always who are the objects of this predestination,
00:46:38 but what are they predestined to?
00:46:43 Because it's significant to know this,
00:46:45 that in the middle of what I'm going through,
00:46:48 I have to have a word from the Lord
00:46:52 because I only have a future because of God's word.
00:46:57 That's all my future.
00:46:59 My whole future is God's word.
00:47:02 When I get up this morning,
00:47:04 I want to know what my situation is.
00:47:08 All I want to know is, is there a word from the Lord?
00:47:13 Because when I walk by faith, I don't walk by what I see.
00:47:18 I walk by what he says.
00:47:22 So he brings me Ephesians to tell me that.
00:47:27 The situation you're in is not your end
00:47:30 because if you're still crying, God's not through yet.
00:47:35 If you're still hurting, God's not through yet.
00:47:39 If you're still depressed, God's not through yet.
00:47:44 If you're still broke, God's not through yet.
00:47:48 If you're still down, God's not through yet
00:47:53 because when God gets through, you have your inheritance.
00:47:58 (audience cheering)
00:48:02 Oh, I feel it in here.
00:48:04 Oh God, you got to help me tonight, Lord.
00:48:08 Shake somebody's hand like you gonna shake it off.
00:48:12 And tell him you're about to be blessed.
00:48:15 Hang on in there.
00:48:17 (audience cheering)
00:48:19 Oh, glory to God.
00:48:20 Oh, you gotta understand it.
00:48:24 He appointed it beforehand.
00:48:27 And that's why God, the power of God is evident.
00:48:31 Can I get just a little philosophical here?
00:48:34 And then swing it into the psychological.
00:48:37 You see, you never see God.
00:48:39 You never see him.
00:48:41 This is the interesting thing about walking with God
00:48:45 is that when you deal from a spirit to spirit by faith,
00:48:49 he does things in your spirit that your mind can't grasp.
00:48:54 That's why he can give you peace
00:48:57 which passeth all understanding.
00:49:00 That's not situational peace.
00:49:03 That's spiritual peace.
00:49:05 Because your situation is of such
00:49:08 that there's no way for you to have peace
00:49:11 except you're hooked to the spirit of God.
00:49:15 So now what God has to do in order to show you
00:49:19 that he is the one working is he has to tell you
00:49:24 what's going to happen before it comes to pass.
00:49:29 So the writer says, he speaks things that are not
00:49:33 as though they are.
00:49:36 Because that's the only way to connect you to him.
00:49:40 Because you never see him.
00:49:43 You don't see him fixing the credit to work out the car.
00:49:48 You don't see him touching your body to heal it.
00:49:53 You don't see him arranging this tall, dark,
00:49:57 and handsome man or putting together
00:50:00 this voluptuous feminine pulchritude.
00:50:03 You don't see him, but he gives you a vision.
00:50:08 Oh, I wonder are you with me?
00:50:10 And vision is by spirit.
00:50:14 And then he marks out your boundaries.
00:50:18 So when you would go too far, he steps you back in.
00:50:22 And when you would go off,
00:50:24 he puts a boundary to stop you.
00:50:27 And so when the devil would destroy you,
00:50:30 he puts a boundary to stop the devil.
00:50:33 So then he declares,
00:50:35 a good man's steps are ordered by the Lord.
00:50:40 Give somebody a high five.
00:50:42 Say, I can't miss my blessing.
00:50:45 Because God is ordering my steps.
00:50:49 I feel warm.
00:50:50 I feel unshining.
00:50:54 Oh, glory.
00:50:55 I gotta let you a little more.
00:50:58 Before we have a little church in here,
00:51:00 shake somebody's hand.
00:51:02 Say, what the hell I've been going through?
00:51:04 My inheritance is nearby.
00:51:09 The devil knows it's coming.
00:51:13 He's mad as he can be.
00:51:14 Well, I'm around.
00:51:23 I feel the Holy Ghost.
00:51:25 The spirit of the Lord is in here.
00:51:29 And that's why we've got to understand the steps.
00:51:33 Because he's already done it.
00:51:36 Everything that God is going to give you,
00:51:39 he has already given it to you.
00:51:42 It's already yours before the foundation of the world.
00:51:46 So why don't I have it?
00:51:49 Because it's not my season yet.
00:51:52 Are y'all with me?
00:51:54 He decides the gift and he decides when to give it.
00:51:59 And he puts you together first.
00:52:01 So that's why the text says he marks out beforehand.
00:52:06 He sets limits.
00:52:08 He redestinates and he holds it together.
00:52:11 And so now he brings us in when he gets ready.
00:52:16 Because no man comes except the Father draw.
00:52:21 He's got to draw you in.
00:52:23 He draws you out of cocaine.
00:52:26 Draws you out of the wrong bed.
00:52:29 Draws you out of a mental institute.
00:52:33 Draws you out of yourself.
00:52:36 And sets a time when you have to come to him.
00:52:40 Can I talk about God for a minute?
00:52:42 He arranges your life in a way
00:52:45 that the things that would have kept you from him,
00:52:48 they'll break your heart every time.
00:52:51 If some of you in here had gotten out of life
00:52:55 what you chose to get,
00:52:57 you would not be in the church tonight.
00:53:00 But God messed up your plans in order to draw you in.
00:53:05 Set you where he wanted you to be.
00:53:12 Caused some stuff to break.
00:53:15 And it broke supernaturally.
00:53:17 Because the way the thing was set up,
00:53:20 it should have never gone wrong.
00:53:23 But just when you thought you had it fixed,
00:53:26 God said, "This is not my plan."
00:53:29 And then he turns around and tells you
00:53:32 after he messes up your plan
00:53:34 that all things work together.
00:53:36 I feel God in here.
00:53:40 I can mess it up and not break it.
00:53:44 I can break it and it still work for you.
00:53:47 I can turn it and it still keep you straight.
00:53:50 That's mine.
00:53:51 And I've got to get what's mine.
00:53:55 Can I go just a little more?
00:53:57 Then I'm going to close.
00:53:58 Give me just a few more minutes.
00:54:00 You've got to understand the object then
00:54:04 is that he brings us as joint ears with Christ.
00:54:07 And Paul does not use the Greek thought.
00:54:11 He uses the Roman practice.
00:54:13 And when a Roman gives his son something,
00:54:17 he gets the liabilities as well as the assets.
00:54:21 And that's where you are tonight.
00:54:23 You've got the liabilities and you've got the assets.
00:54:28 But while you're struggling through
00:54:31 the liability of being in this life,
00:54:34 you've got the asset of being a child of God.
00:54:38 And nothing the devil throws at you
00:54:42 is not controlled by God.
00:54:44 And that's why you keep your head up.
00:54:49 You keep your praise up
00:54:51 because you know down in your spirit
00:54:54 that even though you can't explain it intellectually,
00:54:58 everything you're going through
00:55:00 is just bringing you one step closer
00:55:03 to what God promised you 10 years ago.
00:55:07 I got the pritchard in here.
00:55:09 Don't lose your faith.
00:55:11 Don't feel neglected.
00:55:14 But in the middle of your storm,
00:55:16 you praise him for what he's already done
00:55:20 because it leads you to what he is going to do.
00:55:23 And never as a child of God
00:55:26 tell somebody I don't have it.
00:55:29 And close that sentence.
00:55:32 You always say, "I don't have it yet."
00:55:35 Can I preach like I feel it?
00:55:38 But you never say.
00:55:40 When somebody asks, "Did you get the house?"
00:55:43 You never say, "I don't have it."
00:55:46 Don't stop there.
00:55:48 Always remember,
00:55:50 I've got an inheritance
00:55:52 and God already knows what I need.
00:55:55 He already has it in storage
00:55:59 while he's working on building me up.
00:56:02 So when you ask me, "Do I have it?"
00:56:04 My answer is, "I don't have it yet."
00:56:07 You have a new job.
00:56:10 I don't have it yet.
00:56:12 "Well, Bishop, are you married?"
00:56:14 I'm not married yet.
00:56:17 But somebody says, "Always a yet to it."
00:56:20 Because it's on the way.
00:56:23 It's on the way.
00:56:26 'Cause I've got an inheritance
00:56:29 special delivered from glory.
00:56:32 And I rose to tell the devil,
00:56:35 "It ain't nothing you can do about it."
00:56:37 Because God has ordained it.
00:56:40 And it's mine.
00:56:42 Shake your neighbors' hands and say, "My joy is mine."
00:56:47 Victory is mine.
00:56:50 Power is mine.
00:56:55 Everything God promised is mine.
00:56:59 And I don't have to wait
00:57:01 'til I see it in the natural.
00:57:04 I've already got it
00:57:06 in the spirit.
00:57:08 My faith says,
00:57:10 "Just a few more days
00:57:12 and everything God promised
00:57:15 is going to be released."
00:57:18 Touch your neighbor and say, "I'm ready
00:57:21 for my inheritance."
00:57:23 Every dream I've dreamt,
00:57:25 every vision God gave me
00:57:28 has kept me
00:57:30 in the midst of the storm.
00:57:32 Y'all pray for me tonight,
00:57:34 but I feel like reaching.
00:57:36 If I didn't have a dream,
00:57:39 if I didn't have a vision,
00:57:41 I would have been dead
00:57:43 a long time ago.
00:57:46 But I'm not walking
00:57:48 by my situation.
00:57:50 I'm walking
00:57:52 by my vision.
00:57:54 I don't praise Him
00:57:56 on my situation.
00:57:58 I praise Him
00:58:00 on my revelation.
00:58:02 I don't praise Him
00:58:04 on what I'm going through.
00:58:06 I praise Him
00:58:08 on how I'm coming out.
00:58:10 So I don't have to wait
00:58:13 'til I get it.
00:58:14 I...
00:58:17 I can praise Him
00:58:19 right...
00:58:21 right now.
00:58:23 I feel the Holy Ghost
00:58:25 touch your neighbor.
00:58:27 Say, "What shall we
00:58:29 then say to these things?
00:58:31 If God be for us,
00:58:34 who...
00:58:36 who...
00:58:37 who...
00:58:39 who...
00:58:40 who...
00:58:42 who...
00:58:44 If God be for us,
00:58:47 who can be against us?"
00:58:49 I feel the Holy Ghost.
00:58:52 I'm more than conqueror.
00:58:54 Touch your neighbor. Say, "It's done.
00:58:57 It's done.
00:58:59 It's already yours.
00:59:01 The house
00:59:02 is already yours.
00:59:04 The God
00:59:06 is already yours.
00:59:08 Power
00:59:10 is already yours.
00:59:12 Victory
00:59:14 is already yours.
00:59:18 It's mine.
00:59:20 Mine.
00:59:22 Mine.
00:59:24 It's already mine.
00:59:26 Don't excuse me tonight,
00:59:28 but I feel like preaching.
00:59:30 I feel like lifting Him up.
00:59:33 Touch three people real quick.
00:59:35 Say, "Are you ready for it?
00:59:37 Are you ready for it?
00:59:39 Are you ready?
00:59:41 Everything you've been through
00:59:43 is making you ready.
00:59:45 Every tear you cry
00:59:47 is making you ready.
00:59:49 Every time they lie
00:59:52 is making you ready.
00:59:54 Every time they hurt you
00:59:56 is making you ready.
00:59:58 I'm ready.
01:00:00 I'm ready
01:00:02 to lay hands.
01:00:04 I'm ready
01:00:05 to tell the devil,
01:00:07 "Get out of my house."
01:00:09 I'm ready.
01:00:11 I'm ready.
01:00:14 I'm ready.
01:00:16 Ready.
01:00:19 I'm ready.
01:00:20 Are you ready?
01:00:22 God bless you tonight.
01:00:24 God bless you tonight.
01:00:26 God bless you.
01:00:28 If you're ready,
01:00:30 get something in your hand.
01:00:32 Run out of your seat
01:00:34 and sow a seed tonight.
01:00:36 Tell the devil you're a liar.
01:00:39 I'm ready.
01:00:41 I'm ready.
01:00:42 I'm ready for victory
01:00:45 in my home.
01:00:47 I'm ready for power
01:00:49 in my life.
01:00:51 I'm ready.
01:00:53 God promised it.
01:00:55 God said He'd do it.
01:00:57 Ready.
01:01:00 Ready.
01:01:02 Ready.
01:01:04 I'm ready.
01:01:06 I feel the power of God.
01:01:08 Touch somebody, say, "I'm chosen."
01:01:11 I'm predestinated.
01:01:13 That's why the devil don't like me.
01:01:15 That's why the devil's after me.
01:01:18 'Cause God's got His hand on me.
01:01:20 That's why the devil want to destroy you.
01:01:24 'Cause God's got His hand
01:01:26 all over you.
01:01:28 Ready.
01:01:30 [music]
01:01:32 Somebody ought to praise Him.
01:01:34 Somebody ought to praise Him.
01:01:36 Somebody ought to praise Him.
01:01:38 Somebody ought to lift Him up.
01:01:40 Somebody ought to rejoice.
01:01:42 Ready.
01:01:44 For my inheritance.
01:01:46 I'm ready.
01:01:48 For the next level.
01:01:50 Tell your neighbor, "I'm ready."
01:01:52 For the next level in my life.
01:01:54 I'm shaking off some stuff.
01:01:56 Moving to another height.
01:01:58 Moving to another place.
01:02:00 Moving to another house.
01:02:02 God showed me in my vision.
01:02:04 And I know it's mine.
01:02:06 It's mine.
01:02:08 Oh, bless His name.
01:02:10 Somebody ought to praise Him.
01:02:12 Somebody ought to lift Him up.
01:02:14 Somebody ought to praise Him.
01:02:16 Somebody ought to lift Him up.
01:02:18 Somebody ought to lift Him up.
01:02:20 Somebody ought to lift Him up.
01:02:22 [music]
01:02:24 I'm ready.
01:02:26 I'm ready.
01:02:28 Are you ready?
01:02:30 I'm ready.
01:02:32 Oh, bless His name.
01:02:34 Hallelujah.
01:02:36 Hallelujah.
01:02:38 Hallelujah.
01:02:40 Hallelujah.
01:02:42 [applause]
01:02:44 Chosen in Him.
01:02:46 [applause]
01:02:48 Predestinated in Him.
01:02:50 Predestinated in Him.
01:02:52 [applause]
01:02:54 Accepted in Him.
01:02:56 And it's God's good pleasure
01:02:58 to give you the kingdom.
01:03:00 Rush down here.
01:03:02 We're going to pray in a minute.
01:03:04 You have been blessed.
01:03:06 And it seems like Satan
01:03:08 has read your dossier.
01:03:10 It's like he's got a file
01:03:12 on all of us.
01:03:14 [applause]
01:03:16 And he's got a file
01:03:18 on you.
01:03:20 And when he feels like
01:03:22 you are
01:03:24 God's chosen,
01:03:26 he comes after you
01:03:28 with everything that he's got.
01:03:30 Yes, he does.
01:03:32 [applause]
01:03:34 One of the signs
01:03:36 that Jesus
01:03:38 was near
01:03:40 was when the onlookers
01:03:42 tried to stop
01:03:44 blind Bartimus
01:03:46 from
01:03:48 hollering Jesus.
01:03:50 He didn't see
01:03:52 Jesus, he just sensed His presence.
01:03:54 But when
01:03:56 they tried to stop Him, He knew
01:03:58 that Jesus was
01:04:00 nearby.
01:04:02 I'm getting ready to pray because God's changing
01:04:04 your season.
01:04:06 It's in His
01:04:08 hand.
01:04:10 A good man's steps are ordered by the Lord.
01:04:12 He sets the boundaries.
01:04:14 And it's
01:04:16 your time now.
01:04:18 Glory, glory.
01:04:20 I want you just
01:04:22 to raise your hands to God
01:04:24 all over this
01:04:26 place.
01:04:28 [praying in tongues]
01:04:30 [praying in tongues]
01:04:32 [praying in tongues]
01:04:34 [praying in tongues]
01:04:36 You remember that vision?
01:04:38 That vision
01:04:40 was not born
01:04:42 out of your circumstance.
01:04:44 Because there was nothing in your circumstance
01:04:48 that could have seen what you saw.
01:04:52 That vision came out of your spirit.
01:04:56 It was God.
01:05:00 It's been a rough road.
01:05:04 You've come through a lot.
01:05:06 But the vision never went away.
01:05:10 [crowd cheering]
01:05:12 It stayed right there.
01:05:16 You've been disappointed, you've been discouraged.
01:05:20 But that vision never went away.
01:05:24 It never died.
01:05:28 The fire wouldn't go out.
01:05:30 And the reason it's not
01:05:34 going out
01:05:36 is because God
01:05:38 is getting ready to bring it to pass.
01:05:40 So your joy
01:05:46 will be complete.
01:05:48 In the name of
01:05:50 Jesus,
01:05:52 I receive your word
01:05:54 tonight.
01:05:56 I receive your word over the disappointments.
01:05:58 I receive your word over the situations.
01:06:02 I receive your word in spite of
01:06:06 the conspiracy
01:06:08 and the attack of the enemy.
01:06:10 And I put your word in my heart tonight
01:06:14 that I will not
01:06:16 sin against you with my mouth.
01:06:18 But oh God,
01:06:20 I will praise you because
01:06:22 my vision says
01:06:24 it's coming to pass.
01:06:26 And so now Lord, as you move through this building,
01:06:30 we are planting a seed that declares
01:06:34 that this will grow
01:06:36 and it will come to pass.
01:06:38 And I claim it right now
01:06:40 for every person in this room
01:06:42 that that vision, that dream,
01:06:44 that goal will come to pass.
01:06:46 So right now Lord,
01:06:50 we're going into the rest of this week
01:06:52 expecting a miracle.
01:06:54 Tomorrow we're looking for it.
01:06:56 In the name of Jesus
01:07:00 and we're praising you for it right now.
01:07:02 Right now!
01:07:04 Right now!
01:07:06 It's done!
01:07:08 Somebody holler amen!
01:07:10 So let it be amen!
01:07:12 Amen!
01:07:16 [Music]
01:07:18 [Music]
01:07:20 [Music]
01:07:24 [Music]
01:07:30 (thunder)
01:07:32 [BLANK_AUDIO]