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00:00:00 Welcome to the Lighthouse, Lighthouse (You're welcome here) Let me introduce you to my father (Welcome to the Lighthouse, Lighthouse) (We're getting started) I believe that we owe God a praise (Welcome to the Lighthouse)
00:00:11 I mean I feel like you love him just not more than anything I feel I know you love him
00:00:20 because you still standing you still got your hands I don't know if you love him more than anything
00:00:24 something in me holdeth the rain something in me vanishes the pain and listen when the Holy Spirit is really your comforter and your God you really can truly say no weapon formed against me will be able to prosper
00:00:54 it's kind of like my wife and I was watching the football game yesterday it's kind of like Deion Sanders knew that his enemy was bigger than him but because he had the Lord on his side the outcome was already solidified
00:01:12 can I tell you don't matter who was in the championship last year when it's your season and it's your time I want everybody in here who knows that it is your season and it is your time
00:01:26 even when they doubt you you got to show the devil right now I don't care what you think about me what is it about me that makes you think that I care how you feel about me
00:01:37 if you believe that God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him I'm going to give you 13 seconds to shatter this atmosphere and allow the devil to know that you should have killed us when you had the chance
00:01:49 now that I'm in the house of the Lord I'm going to give him glory slap three people and say I'm glad to be in the service one more time
00:01:58 he didn't have to let me live he didn't have to let me live but I'm glad to be in the service
00:02:11 I said I'm glad to be in the service I said I'm glad to be in the service I said I'm glad to be in the service I said I'm really really glad slap your neighbor and say I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad
00:02:32 I don't want to sit next to nobody who ain't glad good God almighty y'all gonna have to forgive us on line some about to listen listen y'all gonna play with me I
00:02:49 I got a
00:03:11 I'm giving you 30 seconds and I want you to put 10,000 demons to flight I don't care if you got a clap I don't care if you stomp I don't care if you dance I'm gonna give you 30 seconds to make hell nervous
00:03:31 one two three go
00:03:59 one two three go
00:04:13 shout yeah
00:04:23 I said I feel some moving in here I feel the angel troubling the water I feel a miracle in the room I said I feel a miracle in the room
00:04:52 so
00:04:58 I'm gonna give you advance notice that I don't have a sermon today I got a word there is a difference there is a difference there is a difference if I had a sermon I give you three points
00:05:22 you take those practical tips you write it down and you I don't have a certain I got a the Lord gave me this word and it bothered me all week
00:05:35 I got ready to pick my clothes out I asked my wife I say how you dress and she said I'm dressing up I said I'm dressing up to his I mean business
00:05:47 and when I walked in the room in the office in the back chief of ministry Bishop C.I. Roberts he stood in his door next to Pastor Hammond by the way happy anniversary to Pastor Hammond and his wife Marcia 29 years today 29 years
00:06:03 his first word he said to me when I walked in the room he said oh you mean business I came to do business with God today and when you do business with God you got to dress the part I came to do business I'm leaving with an investment today I'm leaving with an impartation I'm leaving with an expectation
00:06:20 who's with me I ain't playing with the devil no more I ain't got time I'm getting old I ain't got time to play with him I'm about to get everything I got with my name on it and I'm getting it now I ain't waiting till the soon and late and the by and by I'm gonna get it while I can enjoy it
00:06:38 I mean business today and I'm about to shake this atmosphere so if you feel impatient and you need this sermon to be over in 30 minutes I'm telling you right now it ain't gonna be it's at least gonna be 50 that's on the short end I ain't gonna keep you too much longer than that but it's gonna be about that because I got something I got to say
00:07:04 and I need an arm touch your name and say mount up who's with me I'm going higher who is with me
00:07:17 I'm gonna give you two scriptures that I want you to read when you get home I don't have time to unload it right now this is another way we can partner when I read three and four verses of a chapter I want you to go home and read the whole chapter
00:07:31 I'm only reading a few because I don't want to spend 40 minutes reading a text I'm trying to give you the most important part but if I read verse 20 through 26 I want you to go read one through the end it's not a it's it's I can't give it all to you right now so you're gonna have to study to show yourself approved that you might be able to write to divide the word of truth
00:07:55 somebody say do business all right I'm not even gonna read first Samuel y'all can bring it up if you want to first Samuel 17 this is about the battle between David and Goliath okay and I think around verse 20 is it is it verse 20 that y'all have verse 20 and David got up early in the morning and left the sheep with the keeper and and he took and went as Jesse commanded him can I just fast forward do y'all trust me can I just tell you what happened
00:08:24 what happened was his his three older brothers were already out there fighting and his dad said it's this is how you know you've been disrespected his daddy didn't take advantage of who he was he reduced him to another task he said go take your brother some bread how you gonna I ain't no chef I'm a warrior but his daddy didn't know him see people can be close to you and not know you
00:08:53 just just cuz they close and they can everybody who's skin to you and can to you they they could be close but they don't know your full potential to tell everybody about you don't know you don't know what I really really can do I don't even know what I really can do yet
00:09:09 so this whole time they've been out there fighting Goliath and ain't nobody stepped up to do nothing and now he steps up to do something now they got something to say that's another thing about people ain't nobody done nothing the whole time in the moment you come up with solutions now they want to talk about the solution
00:09:28 now you got an opinion about something you didn't have an action plan for shut up and watch me win touch on a say shut up watch me win
00:09:41 go to second Samuel chapter 17 cuz in the first text his brothers didn't believe in him in the second text now he's about to have another fight and now he's about to fight with his son it's always family man this is how the devil disarms you cuz if you don't get your family unit tight he's gonna sneak right in
00:10:09 he's gonna sneak right in and he's gonna use your family to bring and to vex certain touch on him say get your family together so Israel and Absalom who's his third son they camped out in the land of Goliath next verse and it came to pass when David was come and I wanna I'm gonna skip you all these names all all you all you gotta know about these names and I'm gonna say I'm about my care and all these people but all you gotta know is that these people gave
00:10:38 David supplies when he needed them most and the supplies came from people he would have never expected them to come from are you listening to me nobody on that list should have brought him any wheat or any flour or any corn or any bees but God will use your enemy to feed you
00:11:05 go to the next verse I don't even know what I'm preaching yet and butter and honey and sheep and cheese for David and for the people that were with him so not only if you with me you gonna eat too see some of y'all not eating because you ain't with the people who eat
00:11:29 the problem with our society is we always trying to I can just do bad I can just make it by myself you can you can do it alone you ain't gonna eat alone like you could eat with a group touch on them say eat with me eat with me and didn't come when it was full it came when they were hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness this is what I want to talk about the subject
00:11:58 you may not even shout about it the message is gonna help you the rest of your life some of y'all are trying to figure out how you gonna walk into your destiny and then your season and get where God wants you to get and the one thing that's going to get you there is the one thing that we're always trying to evade David is known today because of what he defeated I want to talk today about picked by a fight I want you to understand that it is what
00:12:27 you defeat it is what you defeat that will bring you into your next level God is going to introduce you to the next level about what you are willing to fight everybody say introduced by a fight said again introduced by a fight said one more time introduced by a fight spirit of the living God fall fresh upon us today speak as only you can shake us like a rock
00:12:56 shake us like a rag whatever is high bring down whatever is down bring up but we shall never be the same in Jesus name we pray somebody say man touch somebody on your way down say the fight picked me I didn't pick the fight
00:13:19 how many of y'all heard about the story of David and Goliath raise your hand so I can know if you need me I can do it in 30 seconds anybody need me to give some background information on David and Goliath so what happens is is there is a group of people called the Israelites they are in a perpetual battle with a group of people called the Philistines and by the way I love
00:13:48 the honesty because some people will leave church not knowing the story pretending they already know it so these two groups of people are fighting and most people know about the story of David and Goliath but they don't know that the story of David and Goliath has history that prompts this moment this is not a one-off this is somewhere some theologians say about four or five times you see in Scripture where the Philistines
00:14:17 and the Israelites keep fighting because see when you have an enemy that don't like you and you don't like them it ain't gonna be over until one of y'all die either you gonna kill the cancer or the cancer is gonna kill you either you're gonna kill the depression or the depression is gonna kill you either you gonna deal with the anxiety or the anxiety is going to deal with you it ain't gonna be over until one of y'all
00:14:46 have been destroyed are you with me today the armies of Israel was under the leadership of a man named Saul at the moment you gotta listen to me today please don't don't have a moment lapse it was under a man by the name of Saul now the Philistines on the other hand had a big army some say up to 40,000 soldiers not only did they have 40,000 soldiers they had 60,000 soldiers
00:15:15 they had 6,000 horsemen and then they had another unit kind of like their FBI or their CIA services with another 3,000 special unit soldiers that were able to do operatives that no one knew about so they had this huge huge army not only did they have 40,000 as if that wasn't enough then they present a dude that's nine feet that has impenetrable armor on
00:15:43 so now they have a big army and they got a big dude in the army and it's amazing if you go back and I want you to read the text when you get home as I have suggested that you do I want you to read the text for yourself that when you get home and you will read it you will find out that the Israelites in our text never said anything about the size of the army they only made a comment about the size of the giant
00:16:09 here they are with 40,000 people they really should be worried about and their whole army is ignoring the 40,000 focusing on the one that's bigger than everybody else because the truth is they are not intimidated by the size of the army they are actually intimidated by the size of the individual
00:16:31 oh you better hear me today we hear no complaints about 40,000 you know go back and read the text you know 40,000 soldiers 6,000 horsemen 3,000 in the unit you hear none of that all you hear is about one man one giant man with six fingers on each hand and six toes 24 total he was so big he needed extra fingers and toes
00:17:00 huge 9 foot giant stalking them the Bible says for 40 days morning and evening not only stalking them but stalking their God not only talking about their God talking about their capabilities and they took it for 40 days and 40 nights and they cowered and they hid and they didn't say anything they had no expression because they were already defeated
00:17:29 by the size of it they couldn't see themselves winning because they were intimidated by the size of it and I want to know am I talking to anybody online and anybody in this room who is listening to me who would be willing to admit that sometimes you have been stagnant in your life simply because of the size of the thing you were facing
00:17:53 talk to me when you look at how big the task was and how small you thought you were you decided to do nothing because you couldn't see yourself overcoming the enormity of the thing that you were facing anybody in the room and online again identify yourself been stagnant depressed frustrated all because of the size of it
00:18:20 when you look at the business God gave you and you decided to go started and you saw how much paperwork it took to get it done you bagged off because of the size of it when you saw what it took to get it done and you looked at your resources you thought oh my God you get discouraged in the middle of it all because of the size of it somebody else did it and you're more talented than they are and you got more connections and more wisdom but you didn't do it and the difference between you and them is not your level of intelligence
00:18:49 is that they were not intimidated by the size of it anybody ever been intimidated by the size of it you saw the house that God had for you with your name on it but you were intimidated by the size of it you know what he's called you to do and you know what office he has called you to sit in but you were intimidated by the size of it you could do one thing that could change your marriage and you could have a great marriage but there is something that you got to get over in order to accomplish it
00:19:18 you got to get over in order to allow love to come in instead of dealing with your trauma and your past you stay mean and upset because you're afraid of the size of it y'all ain't gonna talk to me I can already tell this ain't this ain't for you but but sometimes you got to understand that it ain't the size of the dog in the fight it's the size of the fight in the dog
00:19:44 Moses almost missed his opportunity to emancipate Israel because when God gave him the marching orders
00:19:50 The first thing he started talking about is his stuttering and his talking in abilities
00:19:55 why because he was insecure about the size of
00:19:59 It Lord helped me in this place today Gideon Gideon. I want you to be a mighty man of valor God
00:20:06 I would but but but I'm the weakest in my clan in other words
00:20:10 God told him to do something but he didn't do it because he was intimidated
00:20:14 Hmm
00:20:18 By the size of it
00:20:20 Jeremiah, I want you to go out there and I want you to prophesy
00:20:22 Jeremiah somewhere weeping because there are so many prophets and so many false teachers. He's crying because of
00:20:29 The size of it how many times have you cried about the size of the Giants in the land?
00:20:36 How many times have you cried about how big the thing you have to face is how many times?
00:20:40 Have you quit because you thought it would be over in two months and here you are two years still fighting it because you
00:20:46 underestimated the
00:20:49 God helped me in this search
00:20:52 But I just came to preach to about 200 people in here and another 10,000 online God sent me to tell you don't be scared
00:21:01 By the size of it just touch through people say the size don't matter the size don't matter don't back down
00:21:06 Because of the size don't back down because of the enormity don't back down
00:21:11 Because it's gonna cost more than you have in the bank don't back down because your money don't match your vision
00:21:17 Don't back down. They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles
00:21:22 They will walk and be weary and walk and not faint
00:21:25 I don't know who I'm prophesying today - but God says I'm about to give big victories to small people. Oh
00:21:31 Who am I speaking to I gotta find my church. I gotta find my church. I gotta find who I'm talking to
00:21:38 I don't want to talk to everybody. I just want to talk to my click today
00:21:41 I want to talk to my crew who who's in the room today that know that God calls you to do something big
00:21:46 But you ain't got the money for it. You don't have the connections for it
00:21:49 You don't even know how to get a loan of that size. You don't even know who to call first
00:21:53 You don't even know where to go. You don't even know if they offer that service
00:21:56 But you know that God put something down in you that you're supposed to do something enormous and you thought that enormous things only happen to
00:22:02 Enormous people but God says I'm about to give big things to small people
00:22:05 God says I'm a bless that small check
00:22:11 I'm about to do more with somebody making $5 an hour than somebody who made $10,000 yesterday
00:22:19 Don't you be worried about your minimum wage check. Don't worry if you work at a fast-food restaurant
00:22:24 Are you a janitor at the school? Are you a mechanic at a local place?
00:22:29 I'm telling you right now that God's gonna put you in position to shock every mechanic
00:22:33 That's ever fixed on a car to put you in a position to own even though you're working at it
00:22:38 God is gonna put you in a position to do big things
00:22:41 Somebody say I don't care what the size of it is
00:22:45 I'm not gonna be intimidated by the size of it. I'm not gonna back down because it's bigger to me
00:22:50 Some of us have backed down to in activity because we were intimidated by the size of it
00:22:56 Sitting in the house with the curtains down tears coming down your eyes because you know, you gotta do something
00:23:02 But you can't figure out how to do it
00:23:04 God says all you got to do is trust me
00:23:06 I got the plan
00:23:07 But you are too intimidated by the size and matter of fact God told me to tell you this and this is so free
00:23:12 He just gave it to me
00:23:13 It's a rhema word of knowledge that he gave it to me right now
00:23:16 If you afraid of big enemies, you can't love God cuz he's bigger than the enemy
00:23:20 So if you don't if you afraid of big stuff, you can't love God
00:23:23 Conversely the Philistines they have the same issue
00:23:35 The Israelites are concerned about the size of Goliath
00:23:42 The Philistines are disrespectful about the size of David I
00:23:47 Got the same issue
00:23:50 One person is intimidated by how big it is another one is disrespectful because of how small it is
00:23:57 Well, I tell you I ain't got no sermon I got a message here you got this giant over here
00:24:04 Who's controlling the whole matter cuz he's big and you got this small boy over here who looks to be losing the fight?
00:24:12 Because he's small they got both got the same problem
00:24:15 You got one over confident about being big and another one under confident about being small
00:24:21 David comes out there and big old Goliath starts laughing at him. Ah, I
00:24:27 Know you ain't come out here
00:24:29 To challenge me
00:24:33 Matter of fact the Bible says not only did he laugh at the size of David
00:24:37 He laughed at the size of the stick that David had
00:24:40 So what you gonna do?
00:24:42 With with that little stick not only did he laugh at David size. Not only did he laugh at David stick
00:24:49 He also laughed at David's Savior because he was like yo, God can't help you in this circumstance
00:24:55 But he didn't know
00:24:59 That the bigger they are
00:25:05 Ain't going nowhere
00:25:07 He didn't know that our God is greater
00:25:10 He didn't know that our God confines the wise with foolish things
00:25:16 He didn't know that our God has made it sure that no weapon formed against any of his children
00:25:23 Shall be able to prosper. He had no idea that God was about to use this small insignificant boy to disrupt something
00:25:30 I need all of the people in here. Thank you Bishop Jakes who came into this season with disruptive thinking
00:25:36 I need all of the people who understand that God sent you into this season to disrupt stuff
00:25:41 I don't want to talk to comfortable people. I don't want to talk to people who are okay with status quo
00:25:46 I'm looking for disruptor slap your neighbor. So I'm a disruptor. I'm a disruptor
00:25:51 I'm gonna disrupt the industry and my whole business is in an office building right now
00:25:55 I'm a disrupt the whole industry and my business doesn't even have an LLC yet
00:26:00 I'm a disrupt the whole business and I'm not even incorporated yet. Who am I talking to?
00:26:05 I'm operating under a DBA and I'm still here to disrupt something slap your neighbors. I'm about to disrupt something
00:26:12 I'm about to make millionaires scared. I'm about to make billionaires open the door and let me in I'm here to disrupt something
00:26:18 I'm about to disrupt religion with my small church. I'm about to disrupt the industry. Somebody's chat. I'm about to disrupt it
00:26:25 I need all of the disruptors to make some noise in the room
00:26:28 Tell your neighbor you can do it at your current size
00:26:35 Tell him you can do it at your current size. You don't have to be a mega church to take the city
00:26:40 You don't have to be a fortune 500 company for them to pay attention to you today
00:26:45 I speak the NASDAQ in this room today. I speak that somebody's gonna ring the bell in New York
00:26:51 I don't know who I'm talking to
00:26:53 I
00:26:55 Repeat after me. I'm not afraid of the size of it
00:27:00 Your biggest mistake let me tell you your biggest mistake devil is taking my size for granted
00:27:10 Oh God I can stay right there see that's that that's what you feel like you're losing right now
00:27:17 But somebody has taken your size for granted
00:27:21 They look at you all she can't do nothing. He can't do nothing. I can do whatever I want to do to him
00:27:26 They can't beat me tell your neighbor. Don't you underestimate the size?
00:27:30 Cuz I'm not coming in the power of myself. Oh
00:27:34 Help me Holy Ghost I'm coming in the name of
00:27:39 The Lord who am I talking to in this place? I'm still looking for my church
00:27:44 I'm not coming with my bank account. My daddy owns the cattle on a thousand hills
00:27:50 I'm not coming with my bank account
00:27:52 I'm coming cuz the sylvan the gold belongs to the person who's back at me
00:27:57 I dare you look a neighbor in the face and say neighbor
00:27:59 The reason why I'm confident
00:28:02 It's cuz heaven is back in my vision
00:28:05 I'm not intimidated cuz heaven is back in me
00:28:15 Who are the people who know that heaven is backing you that he's opening doors that no man can?
00:28:20 Shut and shutting doors that no man can open somebody shout heaven is back in me
00:28:26 I'm gonna get the loan because heaven is backing me when I get to the doctor's office
00:28:30 They think they gonna give me bad news, but I'm gonna walk out of the hill because heaven
00:28:34 It's back in me. My mama's gonna live a long time because heaven is back in me
00:28:39 My father is gonna be in good health because heaven is back in me
00:28:42 My marriage is gonna survive because heaven is back in me
00:28:45 My children are gonna do exploits because heaven is back in me
00:28:49 I need all of the people who understand that heaven is backing you to make some noise in this room today
00:28:53 Somebody shot heaven is back in me. I can win even if I don't fight because heaven is back in me
00:28:59 I don't care how big the giant is I'm gonna win cuz heaven
00:29:02 Somebody said I can win with what I got
00:29:12 Looking for winners in this room
00:29:14 Can I give you a word you already big enough to win
00:29:20 You're already big enough to win you're already big enough to succeed
00:29:28 You're already smart enough
00:29:31 To get the opportunity done
00:29:34 But the problem is is you've let people who think you small convince you that you are
00:29:40 Most of you don't know who you are because you let the people who don't believe in you define you for yourself
00:29:46 And so here you are created to do great things but because somebody benefited off of you staying small
00:29:54 They got you to buy into the hype and now you think you are the size of their opinion
00:30:02 But I came to tell somebody that I'm not gonna be a big shot
00:30:08 But I came to tell somebody in here today. It's time for you to pack your bags because anybody
00:30:13 Who doesn't understand that you big enough? You got to get away from I don't know who that's for. Oh
00:30:19 I don't know who that's for touch your neighbor say if they don't know who I am
00:30:24 They bout to find out in the next season
00:30:27 My stick might be small and I may have nothing but fire smooth stones, but I swear I'm gonna be head to giant
00:30:35 I swear I'm gonna win. Who am I talking to?
00:30:38 You cannot stay in
00:30:46 environments where people don't know the true value of you if
00:30:51 You stay in environments where people don't recognize the value of you
00:30:55 you will shrink your gift to the size of what they can stand and
00:31:03 That's what causes anxiety and depression and stress
00:31:07 Because you have had to shrink
00:31:09 Into a form where people can tolerate you. I
00:31:13 Refuse to be small because you think small
00:31:19 I'm not shrinking my vision because you can't catch up. You either better roll with me. Are you gonna get rolled over? I
00:31:26 Said you better roll with me. Are you gonna get who am I to feel virtue in this place?
00:31:31 I dare you tell it matter of fact tell everybody on your road. You better praise with me
00:31:36 I'm a shout until I irritate you. I didn't come in church to sit next to some ashy
00:31:41 Trichristian I came to take violence
00:31:44 Don't stay on the job where they don't pay you enough I
00:31:59 Want you to take they look check so you can build your big business
00:32:02 And I want you to learn everything about who you work for so you can go back and buy the company
00:32:07 That's why you don't go to a job and you dog and even if they don't pay you enough learn everything you can because one day
00:32:17 God's gonna call you to be an answer to the problem you have
00:32:26 Somebody shot I'm not afraid of the size of it
00:32:28 They said
00:32:33 This is the question
00:32:35 that everybody's gonna ask once you find yourself at the precipice of your destiny and
00:32:42 You better be ready for it because if you're not strong enough to handle this question, you're gonna back down and get upset
00:32:49 Rob when he showed up the first thing his brother said was
00:32:54 What you doing here?
00:32:56 So that's enough to send some of y'all back home
00:33:02 You gonna go home cuz they didn't because they didn't clap when you walk through the door
00:33:09 I'm about to preach it here today you you gonna go home because they weren't excited when you can't oh
00:33:15 This must not be my environment because they wouldn't excited when I showed up
00:33:23 And most of you never defeat your Giants because you are insecure about how you will receive when you showed up
00:33:28 What you doing here
00:33:35 You ain't no warrior
00:33:43 You don't know how to fight you check my resume
00:33:52 Just cuz you don't know what I defeated don't mean I didn't defeat it ask the bear what I can do
00:33:57 Ask the lion what I can do and in a few days you got to ask this giant what I can do
00:34:03 See this is this is what what the enemy doesn't understand see most people meet you where you are
00:34:14 But they don't know what you had to go through
00:34:20 To get where you are. I just need you to look at your name say baby
00:34:23 Please don't get it twisted like if I go off I go off
00:34:26 I'm just I'm just in the season right now where I realize how much I got to lose
00:34:31 I'm in a season right now where I'm looking to the future
00:34:33 But if you push my button on the right day in the right way, I will cut your head off
00:34:38 Who am I talking to in here today?
00:34:47 Don't let this move taste fool you if I got to come out this suit it's gonna be trouble
00:34:53 I promise you that
00:34:57 You said what you doing here you don't do this how you know what I do
00:35:02 Just cuz you ain't seen me do it don't mean I don't do it
00:35:05 Snap your neighbor say I do this
00:35:15 That's not my preacher stance
00:35:17 His father don't sit down cuz I'm about to blow your mind stay right where you at
00:35:29 No, don't stand up now sit your butt down you understand enough
00:35:31 His father
00:35:43 Sent him out that diamond not to fight but to bring his brothers some food
00:35:51 He didn't send him out there to help he sent him out there to feed him
00:36:13 God says don't miss your destiny because you don't like your first job
00:36:16 God says I sent you this way because this is the only form they could accept you in I
00:36:28 Sent you as a waiter, I know you a warrior, but if I would have sent you as a warrior
00:36:39 They would have killed you before you could prove it. So I got a disguise your introduction. I
00:36:45 Got a disguise your introduction
00:36:50 So that their guards can be down when you walk in the door, but don't get it twisted
00:36:55 I'm about to use you. I need you to find three people and begin to encourage them
00:37:02 Don't you lose your job because you don't like the phone?
00:37:06 I
00:37:08 Can't send you in
00:37:17 The way I intend to use you because insecure people can't handle you at a full clip
00:37:23 So I gotta send you in low and meek and weak
00:37:26 But by the time I finish with you the whole thing don't belong to you
00:37:31 How dare you slap five people and say I came to get it all I came to sit through it all
00:37:37 I came
00:37:39 Say I came in small
00:37:51 But I'm leaving with the whole kingdom. I came in with a small church, but I came for the city
00:37:58 I came in with a few dollars, but I'm leaving with the bank. I came
00:38:04 What you don't know
00:38:14 Is that what you feel is?
00:38:17 trauma
00:38:19 It's actually God grooming you
00:38:22 because eventually
00:38:24 You're gonna be the answer to the problem. And by the way, you cannot answer a problem that you didn't have
00:38:30 So I gave you the problem so you could become the solution
00:38:40 That ain't trauma that's grooming
00:38:53 You
00:38:55 Got a mad at you he grooming you
00:39:03 And he knows something. You don't know. He can't send you in with full power. They wouldn't accept you
00:39:10 Everybody like a charity case
00:39:14 So God says I'm gonna send you in
00:39:16 Where they have the answer to your problem
00:39:20 But if I send you in Joseph as a solution to the problem, you will find yourself in a pit before you can get started
00:39:28 Stop being upset with God because he introduced you differently than you think you should
00:39:38 You can't walk into the situation already being the king
00:39:49 So
00:39:51 I'm sending you in another form because that's the only form they can accept you in at first
00:39:59 Could you imagine if they insecure about you how you are now
00:40:07 Come on now y'all hit me in the balcony
00:40:13 I'm talking to y'all too if if if they already can't handle you and you know
00:40:18 You ain't all that you're supposed to be yet. What would happen if God introduced you to them after you found yourself?
00:40:25 So sometimes he sends you as a waiter
00:40:31 Knowing that eventually you'll be a warrior and are you too proud to do a good job at waiting?
00:40:41 Because
00:40:43 Some of y'all will miss it ain't no waiter. I ain't doing that. Okay. Well then I'm gonna give the kingdom to somebody else
00:40:50 This is the way I'm sending you in
00:40:52 God says
00:41:06 You see why I told you I couldn't do this in 30 minutes
00:41:09 God says listen to me. Look at me. If you don't hit nothing else hit me God says
00:41:13 Before I put you on center stage, I'm gonna develop you in the backyard
00:41:18 Anybody will tell you
00:41:26 That I didn't come to Houston the pastor of no grand design I
00:41:31 Came here as a pastor whose church sat a hundred and twenty five people
00:41:38 I
00:41:40 Went to a church as an assistant pastor, I left a
00:41:46 full-time pastor
00:41:49 To be an assistant pastor and everybody in my hometown thought I was nuts
00:41:54 Why would you leave something that's yours for something that ain't
00:41:59 but see
00:42:01 Here's the thing. I would I would I would I problem with us and I with us?
00:42:05 I'm
00:42:07 Just cleaning off my wrist
00:42:09 We'd rather be 100% in control of nothing
00:42:16 Then the part taking something bigger than us
00:42:23 so our whole
00:42:26 Generation is suffering because we'd rather run something that's failing than be a part of something that's living. I
00:42:34 Got my own business, but you got four clients and two of them dead
00:42:37 I can't work for nobody. No, what you really mean is you can't work with nobody
00:42:54 Help me Holy Spirit
00:43:03 If I had said no I
00:43:05 Ain't partnering with no pastor I
00:43:09 Ain't giving up what I got
00:43:12 But I heard God speaking to me. I'm sending you as a waiter
00:43:18 And if you're patient enough
00:43:23 Be thou faithful over a few things I
00:43:27 Will make you ruler
00:43:33 Over much
00:43:35 Who am I speaking to
00:43:39 Sometimes you got to go backwards to go forward
00:43:42 And don't you let your arrogance and your pride in your ego
00:43:49 Make you miss your assignment because you are insecure about how he sent you in
00:43:53 They that wait on the Lord help me
00:44:00 They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength they will mount up with wings like eagles
00:44:05 Touch three people and say wait on them. Wait on them. Wait on
00:44:08 I'm sorry
00:44:13 I'm sorry
00:44:19 I'm still on the sides of it
00:44:21 This might be a part two I might have to finish this next time
00:44:28 Don't be intimidated by the size of it
00:44:32 You are bigger
00:44:36 Than the thing you're facing even if you can't see it if you just go ahead and dig down on the inside and find it
00:44:43 That's what the Lord shared with me he said tell the people son
00:44:55 That I will put an irritation in them
00:45:01 God says I will put an irritation in you and it is designed to produce pearls not paralyzation
00:45:20 So the next time you feel irritated you could either be paralyzed or you can produce
00:45:26 When that little grain of sand gets in the oyster
00:45:33 it starts to wrap a
00:45:37 material around it and eventually you open it up and a priceless pearl comes out because the next time an
00:45:43 Irritation gets in your life. You could either stop and say I ain't doing nothing else
00:45:49 Or you can produce glory
00:45:51 By a show of hands how many of you have allowed the sand to paralyze you
00:46:03 That little bitty speck gets in your plan
00:46:09 And you stop
00:46:12 God says you got another option
00:46:15 produce
00:46:19 You're a producer
00:46:21 The next time you get it irritated push something out
00:46:28 Do something
00:46:35 You are too amazing to be steel
00:46:47 By the way
00:46:49 The enemy fighting you is proof that he knows more about you than you know about yourself
00:46:55 I've never seen a dog barking at a parked car
00:47:03 Look at a dog. They always chasing a car that's moving. I wish I could interview the dog baby and say up. Mr. Dog
00:47:16 When you catch the car what you gonna do with it
00:47:18 Devil if you do catch me
00:47:23 What you gonna do with me
00:47:27 Cuz see in this fight and in this process in this race, I realized that the race is not given to the
00:47:34 Swift nor the strong
00:47:37 but the one who endures to the end and the more I ran the more I
00:47:40 Believed and the more I ran the stronger I got so devil when you catch me what you gonna do
00:47:46 God says I'm about to send you
00:47:56 This is for somebody in here
00:48:01 God says I've been preparing you
00:48:03 Size cuz I'm about to send you how many of you believe that God's about to send you
00:48:09 Listen
00:48:11 Before you clap too hard
00:48:19 Joseph I'm gonna send you but you might have to stop by the pit first
00:48:23 And then after that you're gonna find yourself in
00:48:28 Potiphar's house accused of rape and
00:48:33 From there you're gonna be in prison
00:48:35 And I don't want you to be discouraged because I had to send you in another form
00:48:40 But I couldn't send you directly to the palace first
00:48:43 There were some things you had to learn in the pit and in Potiphar's house
00:48:48 There are some things you had to learn see God will put an irritation in you see Moses couldn't handle
00:48:54 People being misused why because as a stutterer he was always overlooked and marginalized
00:49:00 So God put that irritation in him and then when he looks out of the window and he sees an Egyptian being beaten
00:49:06 He comes down and kills a man and buries him in the backside of the desert
00:49:09 Why because God used that irritation to make him an emancipator God will put an irritation in you he that can be paralyzed
00:49:17 Or you can do something with it somebody shot I'm gonna produce say it again I'm gonna produce
00:49:30 Isaiah said I heard a voice of the Lord saying whom shall I send and
00:49:35 Who will go for us? And I said here am I?
00:49:42 Send me
00:49:46 How many of you know that God's about to send you I?
00:49:49 Need every person who has a negative bank account balance and credit cards
00:49:55 Overdrawn and student loans that are too big and family dynamics that you can't seem to get over and you think all of that is a
00:50:01 Disqualifier you've been divorced. You got a freaky disposition. You'll try anything and you think that God can't use you
00:50:07 Yes, I'm talking to everybody in this house because some of y'all to act like you conservative, but you will try anything
00:50:11 You got a porn website that you forgot to delete on your phone right now
00:50:15 I'm talking to somebody in here right now with all of your proclivities and your issues a half open bottle of Hennessy at the crib a
00:50:22 Couple of have smoked joints that you gonna finish when you get done with church and God says I'm still gonna use you
00:50:27 Somebody's shot send me
00:50:30 I'm so tired of you church people. I don't know what to do if you had everything together. We wouldn't be in here every week crying
00:50:41 God I'm insecure, but I I'll go if you send me
00:50:49 I
00:50:51 Marked on the application that I'm a social drinker, but I drink a little more often than socially, but I'll still go if you
00:50:57 Send me come on talk to me social drinker. Yes that you can't be a social drinker and you drink at home
00:51:04 I'm just telling you cuz ain't nobody there that's called alcoholism not socialism
00:51:08 It's telling I just like to keep it real
00:51:11 There's a difference
00:51:14 I
00:51:16 Somebody say I ain't perfect, but heaven is backing me. I
00:51:24 Just want to know who I'm talking to
00:51:31 Remember I told you I didn't have a sermon I
00:51:36 Told you I had a word
00:51:39 I'm not perfect, but heaven is backing me
00:51:43 I'm not a great leader, but heaven is backing me
00:51:45 I'm not a good parent, but heaven is backing me. I'm not a good spouse, but heaven is backing me
00:51:51 I wasn't raised in the business world, but heaven is backing me. I don't know what I'm doing, but heaven is backing
00:51:57 That's why David said you coming up against me with a sword I
00:52:09 Come up against you in the name of the Lord
00:52:13 They can't fire you because you there because God sent you they can't get rid of you, you know, why cuz God
00:52:23 Sent you
00:52:27 Watch this. Can I help you still?
00:52:32 What was Goliath trying to fight him with
00:52:38 Sword spear javelin
00:52:40 David said I don't have sword experience
00:52:45 That's not what I use and you got to be careful when the enemy tries to get you to use
00:52:52 What they use
00:52:58 See you don't you don't know how to cuss like some of these feet. Don't you stay out of that?
00:53:04 Because there's some people they can put five words together and have you thinking about taking your life. You don't know how you fight. I
00:53:10 Remember one time me and my wife was trying to get something done and it was something that was fighting us and and I started
00:53:19 Praying and my wife was a fighter and I looked at her. She'll tell you I said, baby. This is how I fight my battles
00:53:25 So cuz I can't let the enemy bring me down to using their weapons. I have no experience
00:53:32 With their weapons, but if I fight you with what I got. Oh
00:53:35 God help me Jesus. I can't fight you with vitriol
00:53:41 I can't fight you with grudges cuz I can't stay mad long enough
00:53:45 I can't fight you and hate you because I can't hate nobody but if you let me get down on my knees
00:53:50 You might not wake up touch your neighbor say this is how I fight my battles
00:53:56 I'm not gonna be cussing you out on the internet
00:53:58 But if I call my daddy you might catch cancer. This is how I fight my back
00:54:03 Davis says I refuse to fight this fight on the level of my enemies stop
00:54:23 Coming off the wall to prove a point
00:54:27 If you argue with a fool people from a distance can't tell who is who
00:54:41 Stop
00:54:50 Coming down
00:54:52 to Goliath's level
00:54:54 Goliath if you so big why we fighting in the valley?
00:54:57 If you so big why we fighting so low
00:55:02 He couldn't win because the battle was bigger than the size of the man in it
00:55:10 David
00:55:13 Who was small in size and was sent to the battle said I've got a solution
00:55:19 I'm gonna go get five stones
00:55:22 I
00:55:24 Never knew why David got five stones
00:55:31 Some theologian said well it was because he had no faith in God so he had to get five stones
00:55:41 Then the Lord gave me a revelation
00:55:43 If you go read the Bible
00:55:47 The Bible says that Goliath had four other relatives
00:55:52 Goliath had four other giant cousins
00:56:17 So
00:56:18 David when he went to the brook in the Valley of Eli and grabbed five stones
00:56:24 one was for Goliath and
00:56:27 The other was for the other four just in case they popped off I
00:56:32 Need everybody in here who bout that life
00:56:35 Say I got a rock for you and your mama if she won't son
00:56:39 I got a rock for you and your cousin if they want to get it
00:56:42 I need somebody in here who said I'm gonna destroy it all I ain't leaving nothing alive to come back and haunt me in the
00:56:49 Future do I have anybody in here who got a stone for every devil?
00:56:53 Your problem is is when you come to subdue you can't stop with the thing that's yelling at you
00:57:08 You gotta kill what's backing it
00:57:10 He
00:57:12 Had a pocket full of stones
00:57:19 Literally and they were smooth stones because he understood aerodynamics before there was ever a scientist
00:57:31 Ahead of his time a stone for Goliath and everybody who will want blood revenge against him
00:57:40 Because when you subdue something you can't just break it you gotta destroy it
00:57:46 So he said Goliath you and your cousins y'all can all get it touch three people say all y'all can get it everybody
00:57:56 Are y'all get it
00:58:10 And Goliath had already lost
00:58:12 Because he was angry you always know who's losing the fight by who's upset
00:58:17 Goliath was angry. Can I give you something to write down? This ain't in the Bible. This is just Henderson ology
00:58:27 Anger is a weak what is a weak person's imitation of strength?
00:58:35 I
00:58:37 Will
00:58:40 Anger is the weak person's imitation of strength
00:58:44 Whenever you see somebody angry about something that is not even worthy of being that angry about they're pretending to be strong
00:58:49 You know why it's quiet because at least 300 people just found out they weak
00:59:04 All right, I ain't angry I'm just ready it's a difference
00:59:11 The Bible says be angry and sin not don't let the Sun go down on your anger your wrath
00:59:22 Synonymous terms same thing. So in other words
00:59:26 Anger, it's not a good fighting strategy
00:59:31 in fact
00:59:33 Psychologically psychologically and physiology will teach you that half of your brain shuts down when you get angry
00:59:39 This is why when you and your spouse arguing you get mad
00:59:42 You can't remember what you should have said to him until after the fight is over. Come on
00:59:45 Y'all holler at me you have like dang. I should have I
00:59:48 Wasn't mad I could have thought about being angry
00:59:53 If you stay from being mad you make sense when you talk
01:00:01 Have you ever been mad arguing and somebody says something to you and and your answer was wrong
01:00:06 But you was too angry to change it
01:00:08 That's what I'm saying the scrap the sky is purple you always
01:00:17 Anger is a weak person's imitation of strength
01:00:30 God
01:00:32 Says I got eight minutes. I told you it's gonna be 50
01:00:35 God says here it is. I just want you to hear me
01:00:42 Y'all listening ain't deep but profound you ready? This is what the Lord told me to tell you I see you
01:00:50 Anybody ever felt invisible
01:00:56 Anybody ever felt incapable
01:01:01 God says I
01:01:03 See you
01:01:05 I'm looking right at you when others are looking past you I
01:01:10 See you
01:01:14 God, I ain't perfect. I knew that when I saw you
01:01:17 God, I stutter. I knew that when I picked you I
01:01:21 see you I
01:01:24 See you, but I've intentionally hidden you
01:01:28 So that my competition wouldn't see you first
01:01:32 When he gets down there his brother starts talking about why you even show up for this fight
01:01:46 He says I know your heart David you are conceited and arrogant and evil this is Iliad talking to David
01:01:55 If you go to Acts 13 22, the Bible says
01:01:57 That David was a man after God's own heart
01:02:02 so I'm trying to figure out how God saw himself and
01:02:07 Eliab saw evil
01:02:11 This is why you got to be careful who you let define you
01:02:14 Now man
01:02:19 Then why you why you come down here you're conceited
01:02:24 Don't be discouraged
01:02:26 When they see something else
01:02:31 Don't be discouraged when they see something else if you know what you did was from the right place
01:02:41 Then you just got to take whatever they got to say about it
01:02:46 You see the devil will back you into a corner because
01:02:53 You are eventually if you ever get to where you want to be
01:02:56 You're gonna have to make a decision that displeases somebody and they will never take responsibility
01:03:01 For the displeasing behavior, they will always pretend as if their actions were stellar
01:03:07 But when you know what you know and what you've done for what God calls you to do
01:03:12 You're gonna have to be okay with what they call you after you make your decision
01:03:22 I've been called a lot
01:03:24 But everybody who called me something I ain't deserves whatever they called me
01:03:29 Because there are some people in your life
01:03:33 That require you to be something that makes them uncomfortable
01:03:37 If your son is lazy and
01:03:44 You make him do something and he says I hate you. You don't love me. That's that's anger talking
01:03:52 I'm trying to make a man out of you because this world gonna make one out of you and I'm trying to send you out
01:03:57 In the world as prepared for it as I can you may hate the process
01:04:01 But ain't nothing wrong with the way I'm pushing you
01:04:04 Talk to me somebody in this place today
01:04:08 I'm done
01:04:13 Almost
01:04:19 All right, let me give you this last point
01:04:21 You remember when I read 2nd Samuel
01:04:25 And
01:04:28 David was in this battle with his brother Absalom the son Absalom
01:04:32 The Bible says that they were about to fight in a place called Gilead
01:04:39 Please stay with me
01:04:42 His first fight was overcoming what his daddy thought of him
01:04:48 His second fight is now overcoming how his brothers view him
01:04:53 And now he's got another fight against his own flesh and blood
01:04:59 His son don't know his place
01:05:06 But daddy's the king even if you think you better than him
01:05:17 And even though you might be smarter and you might understand technology and you may understand leadership better
01:05:22 Heaven's backing me
01:05:25 So even though son, I don't understand what you understand you don't understand something that I know
01:05:33 Never go after something that ain't yours
01:05:36 Are you listening to me
01:05:42 and the Bible says
01:05:44 That David's army was called the servants of David
01:05:47 Absalom's army was called Israel, which means that his army was bigger and more popular. Look at how they called it
01:05:55 This is Israel David's army the servants of David
01:05:59 The Bible says that David had thousands of men
01:06:03 But the Bible says that Absalom lost
01:06:06 20,000 men and still had an army left
01:06:11 That's how big his army was 20,000 died and he still had an army left
01:06:16 Well, let me tell you something
01:06:19 Evil is good at recruitment
01:06:22 Now whenever you see somebody who's bigger than you don't think they got there because they smarter than you
01:06:30 Evil has a great recruitment strategy
01:06:35 Remember in Acts when Paul and Silas were praying but the soothsayer and the witch woman her line was longer
01:06:42 Than the line of Paul and Silas
01:06:46 Because evil people have crowds, too
01:06:48 David is like this is my kingdom if you want to fight we got a fight
01:06:57 I don't want to hurt my boy, but if you want I'm if you want some
01:07:04 Are y'all listening to me
01:07:06 And this is how God is
01:07:08 the Bible says that the battle started in the place called Gilead and
01:07:13 It just so happens
01:07:17 That a majority of David's army
01:07:21 was raised and
01:07:24 born and
01:07:26 brought up in Gilead
01:07:28 And
01:07:32 the Bible says
01:07:34 that Gilead
01:07:35 Was a place with a lot of hills and valleys and a lot of forests. So it was like being in the mountains
01:07:43 with forest
01:07:45 Everywhere you can't climb you can't see
01:07:48 If you're new to the environment
01:07:51 But when you come from the gutter
01:07:56 You understand something about the gutter
01:08:01 That folk who trying to act like they from the gutter
01:08:04 Don't know about the gutter who I'm talking to it here today
01:08:08 It's one thing to watch fighting on YouTube is another thing to been in song
01:08:15 Come on talk to me somebody and the word Gilead in the Hebrew Lord help me Jesus
01:08:24 Gal means hill ed in the Hebrew means testimony
01:08:32 Which means that Gilead actually means the hill of testimony
01:08:37 So what God was saying to David?
01:08:40 By allowing the fight to take place in Gilead
01:08:44 It's no matter how big the army is I promise you that after it's over you gonna have a testimony. I
01:08:51 Don't know who I'm talking to and this sermon has come to its conclusion
01:08:57 But the word of the Lord is is he's gonna give you a listen
01:09:01 He's gonna give you a testimony at the site of your next battle
01:09:05 I'm talking to somebody in here today
01:09:08 Look at your neighbor said God is getting ready to turn
01:09:11 your heels
01:09:14 into healing
01:09:16 I'm gonna give you a testimony
01:09:18 From the place you were predicted to be defeated
01:09:22 I'm gonna give you a testimony in the same area where the enemy had counted you out. Who am I talking to? I'm done
01:09:29 The place where you're gonna fight your next battle. God says if you trust me, I
01:09:37 Guarantee you that you will have a testimony
01:09:42 From the place where you currently are bleeding. I
01:09:50 Want everybody in this room I want you to think about
01:09:52 Either where your battle was taking place or where you know, your next battle is coming from
01:09:58 Think about it right now. I
01:10:01 Want you to get it right real down in your soul
01:10:04 Are you listening you got it in your soul, can you feel that?
01:10:10 now I
01:10:12 Want you to imagine?
01:10:14 That the victory is yours
01:10:16 in that same place
01:10:20 I want you to imagine that the enemies you see today
01:10:24 You shall see no more. I can't hear nobody
01:10:28 Know the redeemed of the Lord ought to say so I want you to act testimony. You need to praise God right now
01:10:35 Like you've already won the victory
01:10:39 Now don't try to make me shout it. No, no, no, no. No, you got to do it right now
01:10:45 I want the redeemed of the Lord not to clap so
01:10:48 Not to rock so the redeemed of the Lord gotta say so open up your mouth and give
01:10:54 God the victory
01:10:57 Watch this y'all remember those three men I talked about earlier
01:11:07 When David and his men were hungry and thirsty
01:11:10 God sent three
01:11:13 men
01:11:16 To support and give supplies
01:11:18 To David in his battle get ready for people to feed you while you fight
01:11:26 God says I'm about to send people to support you and one of the men
01:11:34 One of the men was the caretaker from a fiddle chef
01:11:41 Which was one of the one of David's relatives remember when when when his nurse dropped him and his legs broke
01:11:46 One of the men who brought him supplies
01:11:49 Was the caretaker from a fiddle chef and when he found out that David was kind to my fellowships family
01:11:56 The reason why the man brought him the supplies is because he remembered what David did in the past
01:12:02 God says I'm about to make somebody nice to you
01:12:06 Because of a kindness that you already forgot about listen to me
01:12:12 Some of y'all did something for somebody so long ago, and you forgot about it
01:12:15 God says I'm about to get you paid back right now for that in this season right when you needed it the most
01:12:20 I'm about to send you double for your trouble give everybody you can reach a high five and say God's about to send you support and
01:12:26 supplies
01:12:28 I'm looking for somebody tell somebody else six support and
01:12:32 Supplies you got the wrong neighbor look at somebody else to say support and
01:12:37 supplies
01:12:39 God's about to feed you. He's about to give you double for your trouble if you believe it open up your mouth I
01:12:46 Can't hear nobody in the lighthouse. I can't hear nobody online. I said open up your mouth
01:12:53 Because God said the fight picks you
01:12:57 But I'm about to introduce you to your destiny if you believe it's your season if you believe it's your time
01:13:04 If you believe you are face to face with destiny. I need you to open up your mouth
01:13:09 And begin to give God the glory
01:13:14 Give your neighbor high five
01:13:18 shout neighbor
01:13:20 When church started I was a little discouraged
01:13:23 When church started I was afraid of my giant, but now I got a different testimony
01:13:30 What a wonderful change
01:13:33 Has been wrong. I said I wasn't gonna do this in my life
01:13:37 since Jesus
01:13:40 Came into my heart
01:13:42 Give you a neighbor high five and shout neighbor
01:13:46 Here's the end of the story
01:13:49 the Bible says
01:13:51 that after David
01:13:53 Hit Goliath in the head
01:13:56 He took a sword and cut his head off
01:14:00 Good God almighty
01:14:03 I'm about to set somebody free
01:14:05 He didn't start with a sword
01:14:07 But he ended with one
01:14:10 Took a sword
01:14:13 Cut his head off
01:14:15 picked it up and
01:14:18 Showed all the people
01:14:20 This is what happens
01:14:23 When you mess with me
01:14:25 Here is the word of the Lord
01:14:27 God told me to tell you
01:14:30 after this next battle
01:14:33 You about to get ahead
01:14:35 Anybody felt behind
01:14:38 God says you're about to get ahead
01:14:40 Give your neighbor high five and shout neighbor
01:14:45 This is the year
01:14:48 That I get ahead if you believe it
01:14:51 If you believe it shout yeah
01:15:02 Shout yeah
01:15:04 Shout yeah
01:15:06 God says I'm about to get you ahead
01:15:22 The last shall be first and the first shall be last you're about to get ahead this year
01:15:28 You will never be behind again
01:15:30 I
01:15:32 Wish you believe that you be acting crazy here. I
01:15:35 Said you will never be behind
01:15:40 Again you're about to be ahead of everybody in your family. They got the degree
01:15:46 God's about to put you in front of everybody who didn't have children out of wedlock
01:15:50 He's about to put you ahead of everybody in your family that thought you the last
01:15:54 God's about to give you
01:15:59 Snap somebody say I'm about to get ahead. I'm about to get ahead. I'm about to get ahead
01:16:02 Yes, I was divorced, but I'm about to get ahead. Yes. I found bankruptcy, but I'm about to get ahead
01:16:06 Yes, I lost it, but I'm about to get ahead
01:16:09 Watch this
01:16:18 Did you tell him?
01:16:19 That you're about to get ahead because I want you to know that some of the people you talk to they really don't like you
01:16:27 Are they acting like it?
01:16:29 But they gonna get home and talk about what you was wearing and how you was looking to all they look funky friends when they get
01:16:34 home
01:16:35 But tell them again look at him cuz you don't know you tell him about to get ahead
01:16:38 And here's the bad news for you
01:16:41 You gonna have to support me
01:16:43 Shaddy
01:16:54 Have to support you
01:16:56 God's gonna use that neighbor
01:16:58 God's gonna use that enemy God's gonna use that hater. God's gonna use that liar. God's gonna use that person
01:17:06 To bring you supplies and support
01:17:11 That's why you don't need to be the enemy because God makes our enemies
01:17:19 Better be my friend tell you better be my friend
01:17:28 In this next season of your life
01:17:39 You will not be introduced because of how good you look I
01:17:48 Know I know I know I know
01:17:51 Everybody think they got a look good. I'm just telling you right now. It's gonna be inconsequential in the next season
01:17:57 Cuz where you're going
01:18:00 The question won't be
01:18:03 What's your facial regimen?
01:18:06 What moisturizer do you use
01:18:10 Who did your hair?
01:18:13 How much money you got this is this is what they're wanna wanna know
01:18:18 What have you defeated
01:18:20 What can you tell me about yourself that used to be an issue that you've defeated
01:18:31 What character defect have you overcome
01:18:45 What insecurity have you put in this place
01:18:51 You will be introduced to the next level
01:18:59 About what you fight
01:19:04 And the only people
01:19:14 Who can fight long enough to win are those who have passion
01:19:19 If you don't have a passion for something you won't fight long enough for it
01:19:25 For 14 years I've walked through those doors or whatever doors we had
01:19:35 In spite of whatever my circumstance was because
01:19:42 I
01:19:44 Had to fight something
01:19:47 And every Sunday here - I
01:19:53 Have fought back
01:19:57 For 14 years and
01:20:01 Maybe there's an Ellie I've been the house saying what you're doing here because you missed the first 14 years. You didn't see
01:20:09 When I was in the field fighting sheep
01:20:12 Bears and lions and
01:20:16 You didn't see
01:20:20 The first church that I rented
01:20:25 Was in the daycare center that didn't even clean up after itself
01:20:31 And you didn't see me
01:20:38 Packing up dirty diapers Saturday night to make sure that the Saints had a good experience on Sunday morning
01:20:43 And you didn't see me when we got enough
01:20:49 Money $5,000 to get out of there and go and rent a 112 year old building
01:20:55 from a church called wings of deliverance
01:20:58 Where the roof would leak every day and the pipes were bursted in
01:21:04 The basement and we had church with eight feet of water in the basement one Sunday
01:21:09 It was so much water in the basement
01:21:12 God's on his truth that the water start coming out of the basement and into the first floor
01:21:17 And you didn't see me putting water hoses in the basement pumping the water out trying to get ready for the next Sunday
01:21:30 And you didn't see me when we raised and saved $40,000 go buy our own church
01:21:34 And the mortgage was nine hundred and thirty six dollars a month. We had ten parking spots
01:21:40 Really nine because one of them was mine
01:21:44 And that sign that you saw for old school Sunday, we didn't pull that out of the thin blue sky
01:21:53 That's a replica of the sign that was in front of the church and we had to save up nine months to buy it
01:21:57 You
01:21:59 Were not there women's miss Saloni may he'll had to make food for me because I couldn't afford
01:22:06 To get my own food. So she fed me
01:22:10 And my first desk was a television tray
01:22:17 With no heat in the building in the winter time
01:22:24 When I would preach I could see the condensation coming from my mouth
01:22:28 In the summertime we had to window unit air-conditioned units, but they didn't work half the time
01:22:35 I can't believe that we were in a position where we couldn't even buy a new air-conditioning
01:22:39 But I had to go in as a waiter
01:22:48 And
01:22:50 Can I tell you something this didn't make me that did
01:23:02 That's why when Kobe came around
01:23:09 You never looked online and didn't have a sermon for me. I was in this room preaching by myself because I was used to preaching
01:23:15 to myself
01:23:17 That's why I shake hands with people I don't I don't isolate myself
01:23:26 I hug you if you want to hug me if you don't want to speak to me
01:23:28 I ain't got to speak to you. Whatever you want to do. I can do it
01:23:30 Because I come from that. I
01:23:33 Can't figure out how a person
01:23:37 Can be elevated to a place where they forget where they came from. I can't understand it. It can happen
01:23:41 Please pardon me. It can happen
01:23:45 But you got to fight like hell to make sure it don't
01:23:47 Everybody got a giant to fight
01:23:55 Everybody got something that you got us to do and cut the head off of
01:24:02 Don't you walk in this church thinking you better than somebody else because you didn't got your little life together and you don't put some
01:24:11 Saran wrap on your past and and and Velcroed it to the back of the car. It's still in there
01:24:15 Talk to me somebody
01:24:20 You're no better than nobody else listen, but no one is better than you
01:24:31 Keep your head up
01:24:38 Don't
01:24:40 Be defined by people who don't know what God is doing in your life and for God's sake don't let the Giants
01:24:47 Definition of you make you think that you are what they said you are
01:24:50 Be strong in the Lord and
01:24:56 in the power of his might and
01:24:59 Weeping may endure for a night, but I promise you if you don't give up
01:25:03 Joy will come in the morning
01:25:08 If you believe it, can you just release the sound of glory in this room?
01:25:13 Come on let's sing it
01:25:18 Come on lift your hands and let's give God about 45 seconds of worship
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