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00:00:00 ♪ Go to the Lighthouse, Lighthouse ♪
00:00:02 ♪ You're welcome here ♪
00:00:03 ♪ Let me introduce you to my father ♪
00:00:05 ♪ Go to the Lighthouse, Lighthouse ♪
00:00:07 ♪ The man is back there ♪
00:00:08 ♪ I believe that we owe God a praise ♪
00:00:13 ♪ Give Him glory in this place, O Lord ♪
00:00:17 ♪ My heart is filled with praise ♪
00:00:22 ♪ We give God our Father all the glory, honor, and praise ♪
00:00:27 ♪ To Jesus Christ, our Redeemer ♪
00:00:30 ♪ To the Holy Spirit, our Comforter in God ♪
00:00:32 I just wanna ask you a simple question.
00:00:34 Anybody glad to be saved?
00:00:36 (congregation cheering)
00:00:39 'Cause I've seen this matriculation of the church
00:00:45 into shouting about things.
00:00:48 That if you don't have Jesus,
00:00:51 it is a vapor.
00:00:55 Anybody glad that your life, your soul
00:00:59 is in what the old scripture would call the arc of safety?
00:01:02 That when I die, I know exactly where I'm going,
00:01:09 and that is to be in the arms of Jesus.
00:01:12 Anybody just wanna praise God for that?
00:01:14 (congregation cheering)
00:01:18 Hallelujah.
00:01:24 We're in this discussion about passion this month.
00:01:27 If I were you, I can't tell you what to do,
00:01:33 but I would just dedicate the next 12 months of my life
00:01:38 to getting the rest of my life on track.
00:01:41 I'm serious.
00:01:43 How many of y'all keep hearing me say this
00:01:45 over and over and over again?
00:01:46 I know what the Lord showed me.
00:01:50 I know what He showed me.
00:01:51 I got a prophecy this morning that almost blew my mind.
00:01:55 From somebody who I have a relationship with their parents,
00:02:00 but I don't have a relationship with them close.
00:02:05 And here's the craziest thing.
00:02:06 The father and the person who gave me the prophecy
00:02:10 texted me at the same time.
00:02:11 They don't even live in the same city.
00:02:14 The Lord started to download in my spirit
00:02:19 about what He's gonna release through me
00:02:22 to release to you over the next 13 months,
00:02:26 including this month.
00:02:28 And if I were you,
00:02:29 if I were you, I would not play for the next year.
00:02:36 I'm talking about putting,
00:02:40 like going in the grind mode for a year
00:02:43 so that the rest of your life can just ascend.
00:02:50 And listen, this is what he told me.
00:02:51 At the end of the year that we're gonna work,
00:02:54 He's gonna give you sweatless victories.
00:02:57 (congregation applauding)
00:03:00 You can mark my words.
00:03:04 You're gonna win with less effort in the future
00:03:09 than when you were grinding hard and sweating,
00:03:12 because now you're gonna be pointed in the right direction.
00:03:15 And when you get that thing in line,
00:03:19 you're gonna find out you didn't have to swing
00:03:21 as hard as you swung.
00:03:22 You just have to get in the right alignment.
00:03:25 Somebody say alignment.
00:03:27 - Alignment.
00:03:28 - If you are willing to ride.
00:03:30 I know it's a long commitment.
00:03:32 I know it seems long,
00:03:34 but is one year worth of focus,
00:03:37 worth you being financially free, psychologically free,
00:03:42 emotionally free through your 30s, your 40s,
00:03:45 your 50s, your 60s?
00:03:47 I'm gonna teach you in a year.
00:03:49 (congregation applauding)
00:03:52 How to keep the devil off your back the rest of your life.
00:03:55 Who's gonna go with me?
00:03:58 I'm serious.
00:03:59 Tell your neighbor you can't get tired this year.
00:04:04 You can't get frustrated this year.
00:04:06 Listen, you can't even catch a cold this year.
00:04:08 You drink your vitamin C, you can't even miss a Sunday.
00:04:12 Who got time for COVID?
00:04:15 You can't catch it.
00:04:17 (congregation laughing)
00:04:20 'Cause every time we meet, God's,
00:04:23 I haven't preached a sermon
00:04:24 since the Lord gave me this revelation.
00:04:26 I've just been talking messages.
00:04:28 I don't have a sermon today.
00:04:30 He's been downloading messages in my spirit
00:04:33 and it just won't stop.
00:04:35 It just won't stop.
00:04:37 I have been under an unction with the Holy Spirit
00:04:41 that I've never experienced in my life.
00:04:43 (congregation applauding)
00:04:46 And the flow will not end.
00:04:50 The oil is getting ready to come down Aaron's beard
00:04:53 and onto the garments and you are the garment.
00:04:57 Somebody shout, I'm the garment and I want the oil.
00:05:00 No, you didn't say, I'm the garment and I want the oil.
00:05:03 I'm talking to you online
00:05:03 'cause they ain't talking to me in this house.
00:05:06 I gotta wait till I get north for them to talk to me.
00:05:08 I said, I am the garment.
00:05:10 Somebody say, I'm the garment and I want the oil.
00:05:15 Now, South, y'all better learn how to handle me.
00:05:18 I ain't just talking to be talking.
00:05:21 When I release something, you better grab it
00:05:23 because the opportunity of a lifetime
00:05:25 only is good for the lifetime of the opportunity.
00:05:28 You don't have forever.
00:05:29 These doors are gonna close.
00:05:31 (congregation applauding)
00:05:34 Touch your neighbor, say,
00:05:36 you better get in where you fit in.
00:05:38 - Get in where you fit in.
00:05:40 - I'm gonna read two passages of scripture.
00:05:45 And if I got a woman in this house
00:05:46 that believe that God is calling you for more,
00:05:48 this is probably your word.
00:05:49 Fellas, I got your back.
00:05:53 Don't trip 'cause I got you.
00:05:54 I ain't gonna leave you out.
00:05:55 When I said that, the fellows was like,
00:05:57 put on my Givenchy to come out here and listen.
00:06:01 I got one for you, but there is a woman in here.
00:06:06 It's like you are nervous about what you see.
00:06:14 You nervous about it.
00:06:17 'Cause number one,
00:06:17 you've never seen anybody do what you thinking.
00:06:20 And number two, all of your life,
00:06:21 you thought you had to have help to do it.
00:06:23 What woman am I talking to online?
00:06:28 Y'all got somewhere to go?
00:06:33 'Cause if you got somewhere to go,
00:06:34 we can do the benediction now.
00:06:36 We good?
00:06:37 All right.
00:06:38 I ain't playing with you.
00:06:40 Okay, when you get to work tomorrow,
00:06:42 you're gonna still be emotional.
00:06:44 (soft music)
00:06:46 Judges chapter four, verse five.
00:06:49 Some of y'all need to send this link to your sister
00:07:00 when you get out of church.
00:07:02 And Deborah, a prophetess,
00:07:08 let me skip to verse five
00:07:11 'cause I only wanna talk about this.
00:07:14 She basically was called to do a job.
00:07:17 And the Bible says she did it under a palm tree.
00:07:21 She didn't wait till anybody invited her in.
00:07:25 She didn't wait until they made a position for her.
00:07:29 God told her what to do
00:07:31 and she couldn't find a place to do it,
00:07:33 so she did it where she was.
00:07:35 Are you listening to me?
00:07:39 As it goes for everybody in here,
00:07:40 you better stop waiting on everything to be perfect
00:07:43 before you start.
00:07:44 If you gotta start it in your garage, you start it.
00:07:48 Get you a desk and a green screen.
00:07:51 And when you answer the phone,
00:07:54 make people think you got an office.
00:07:55 I want you to get you a nice clip of a good office
00:07:59 and get you a green screen behind you.
00:08:00 I want you to act like you're a multinational company
00:08:04 in your garage.
00:08:05 It's only for 3% of y'all, I got it.
00:08:11 I need the other 97 of y'all to get out of the way.
00:08:13 Who am I 3%, who am I talking to?
00:08:15 I don't need nothing in the way.
00:08:18 Touch your neighbor and say, don't be in my way today.
00:08:20 Don't be in my way.
00:08:21 I ain't got time for you today.
00:08:22 Get out of my way.
00:08:24 All right, let's go to Judges 5, 6, and 7, and 12.
00:08:29 In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath,
00:08:34 in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied.
00:08:40 Somebody say the highways were unoccupied.
00:08:42 See, this is a good thing because let me tell you,
00:08:44 right now, the lane that I'm talking to you about
00:08:47 is unoccupied, but after I finish preaching,
00:08:49 a whole lot of people are going to try to get in that street.
00:08:51 So you better get started because right now,
00:08:53 the lane is open.
00:08:54 Ain't nobody even thinking about doing
00:08:57 what you're thinking about doing right now.
00:08:59 That's why you got to start right now
00:09:00 because the lane is unoccupied.
00:09:02 The street is unoccupied.
00:09:05 And the travelers walked through the byways.
00:09:07 The inhabitants of the villages ceased.
00:09:09 They ceased in Israel until I, Deborah,
00:09:13 finally found out who I was and I got up.
00:09:15 See, they ain't been paying attention to you,
00:09:20 but the moment you find out who you are,
00:09:23 your phone getting ready to start ringing,
00:09:25 your DM about to start blowing up,
00:09:27 but you ain't going to have time, Deborah.
00:09:29 You ain't got time.
00:09:30 If they didn't know you.
00:09:31 Are you listening to me?
00:09:38 Stephanie, do you hear me?
00:09:40 She says I rose a mother in Israel.
00:09:46 Go to verse 12.
00:09:49 I feel the Holy Spirit.
00:09:50 And just in case, Deborah, you don't hear what I'm saying.
00:09:55 Wake up.
00:09:56 Wake up.
00:09:59 Deborah.
00:10:00 Matter of fact, I'm going to say wake up
00:10:03 and you shout your name.
00:10:04 Wake up.
00:10:08 Wake up.
00:10:09 And utter a song.
00:10:14 And Beric.
00:10:17 And they let that captivity captive.
00:10:22 Basically, they got so free
00:10:27 that everybody that was with them got out too.
00:10:31 Tell everybody on your row, when I get out,
00:10:35 all y'all coming with me.
00:10:38 (audience laughing)
00:10:41 I got so much oil on my life
00:10:44 that when I get out,
00:10:46 that's why you better be glad God got you
00:10:50 on the right row today.
00:10:51 Do a pew check.
00:10:53 Make sure you got the right people next to you.
00:10:55 Unless we got to do some musical chairs.
00:10:57 To you in overflow, to you at home,
00:10:59 make sure you got the right people in the room.
00:11:01 Now, what I'm getting ready to preach,
00:11:04 the title is not going to make sense.
00:11:08 Unless you pay attention and be with me through the end.
00:11:12 God told me to talk about tested by trees.
00:11:17 Tested by trees.
00:11:21 You may be seated in the presence of the Lord.
00:11:25 I'm telling you right now, I feel glory on my life.
00:11:37 Anybody been paying attention to Olympic sports,
00:11:42 specifically track and field lately?
00:11:44 By the way, shout out to Coco yesterday for
00:11:49 winning the US Open and another shout out
00:11:55 to Colorado football for just shocking the world.
00:11:58 Have you been paying attention to guys
00:12:01 doing something through sports?
00:12:04 When you ever seen a US champion break down
00:12:09 and you hear to God be the glory?
00:12:11 Something's happening.
00:12:14 Because God doesn't always preach in pulpit.
00:12:16 Sometimes he preaches on tennis courts and football fields.
00:12:20 There's another place that he's been preaching on the track.
00:12:25 There's this girl, have you heard of a Sha'Carri Richardson?
00:12:29 For those of y'all who don't know,
00:12:34 'cause some of y'all don't care none about sports.
00:12:37 Sha'Carri Richardson right now is the fastest woman.
00:12:40 And she is a black woman in the world.
00:12:46 I knew you would clap because that's where she is.
00:12:53 But let me tell you where she was.
00:12:55 'Cause most people love to praise God for the destination.
00:13:03 But they have no patience for the journey.
00:13:05 Sha'Carri's mother all but abandoned her.
00:13:12 Gave her up.
00:13:14 She was raised by her grandmother.
00:13:18 She didn't even know that her biological mother had died
00:13:26 until after a race, a reporter takes a microphone
00:13:30 and puts it in her face and asks her,
00:13:32 what is her response to her mother's death?
00:13:35 She finds out that her mother dies from a reporter.
00:13:41 Can you imagine the abandonment issues
00:13:44 that must live within the heart of a young woman
00:13:49 who didn't even have anybody in her family
00:13:52 who thought enough to tell her?
00:13:54 Or call her and say, your mother has died.
00:13:58 Now, it doesn't matter.
00:14:00 Now, I'm speaking from experience
00:14:02 because even though you may have a parent
00:14:05 who wasn't in your life, because they gave you life,
00:14:08 they can't cease to have life and it not affect your life.
00:14:12 My biological father didn't raise me,
00:14:15 but the moment he died, the wind came out of my cell
00:14:20 because there was no way to be connected to the tree.
00:14:23 And your leaves don't shake when the winds blow.
00:14:28 She finds out that her mother dies from a complete stranger
00:14:33 devoid of any capacity of compassion.
00:14:36 How you feel about your mama dying?
00:14:39 And that's how she found out.
00:14:42 So what does she do?
00:14:45 She goes and smokes some weed
00:14:48 to escape the pain of what was going on.
00:14:54 Now, don't judge it
00:14:56 'cause some of y'all don't even really need a reason
00:14:58 to smoke yours.
00:14:59 I mean, come here, look at your boy,
00:15:04 holler at your boy.
00:15:06 She did it 'cause her mama died.
00:15:07 You did it 'cause it's tomorrow.
00:15:09 (audience laughing)
00:15:12 And just 'cause you got it with a prescription.
00:15:25 Listen, she struggled and turned to trees,
00:15:29 smoked weed, and they banned her from practicing
00:15:42 and racing in Olympic competition for an entire month.
00:15:46 Now, we just shouted about the fact
00:15:48 that she was the fastest woman in the world,
00:15:49 but what we don't know or what we are not talking about
00:15:52 is that when she got tested positive for smoking weed
00:15:55 and banned from competition,
00:15:57 probably from somebody who uses weed medicinally,
00:16:00 which is why I'll go on record to say
00:16:04 that something needs to happen
00:16:05 in our criminal justice system
00:16:07 when we can have men in prison for 20 and 30 years
00:16:09 for marijuana and the judge smokes it too.
00:16:12 I don't mind being quoted saying that.
00:16:19 This girl is prohibited from running for a month.
00:16:24 And when she comes back,
00:16:26 Sha'Carri comes back in her first race
00:16:28 after the month's suspension,
00:16:29 she comes in dead last.
00:16:32 Oh, and we're clapping for her right now,
00:16:36 but y'all let me tell y'all
00:16:37 how y'all was acting on the internet.
00:16:39 (audience laughing)
00:16:40 I can't stand two-faceded people.
00:16:42 She is an embarrassment to the race.
00:16:44 And we were talking about her.
00:16:47 Now all of a sudden, everybody's applauding.
00:16:51 She was canceled by black people,
00:16:54 disrespected by everybody else.
00:16:56 And when they put that microphone in her face
00:17:00 after she lost that race,
00:17:01 that girl said some of the most powerful words
00:17:04 that I've ever heard.
00:17:05 She said, and I quote in her post-race interview,
00:17:08 "I wanted to be able to come and perform
00:17:12 "having a month off.
00:17:13 "I'm not upset at myself.
00:17:15 "This is one race.
00:17:17 "I'm not done, and you know what I'm capable of."
00:17:20 (audience applauding)
00:17:23 And if I don't preach nothing else,
00:17:24 can I get about 300 people in this room
00:17:27 and 5,000 of you online to look at somebody
00:17:31 and say these words?
00:17:32 I'm not done yet.
00:17:34 You know what I'm capable of.
00:17:37 Or you better look at somebody and say, I'm not done yet.
00:17:40 And you don't even know what I really can do.
00:17:43 You ain't seen me at my best yet.
00:17:45 You ain't seen me play my best game.
00:17:48 You haven't seen me at my strongest moment.
00:17:50 I've been through a little bit of a depression here lately.
00:17:53 I've been through a little bit of a,
00:17:55 I've been going through some stuff.
00:17:56 I ain't been as strong as I used to be.
00:17:58 I don't even believe in myself,
00:17:59 but I feel something happening on the inside of me,
00:18:02 and if I ever find that groove again,
00:18:04 slap that girl and say, still about to get her groove back.
00:18:07 If I ever find my slot again,
00:18:09 if I ever find that thing again,
00:18:12 I'm not done, and I can do better.
00:18:14 Just slap somebody and say, I'm not done.
00:18:16 You better tell them because they think you done.
00:18:19 They think that because they saw you cry,
00:18:20 they can come in and take over.
00:18:22 They think that because they saw you fail,
00:18:24 that you are finished, but it was one race.
00:18:27 It was one moment.
00:18:28 It was one mistake, and I prophesy a comeback.
00:18:31 I said I prophesy a comeback.
00:18:35 I must be talking to the wrong room.
00:18:37 I said I prophesy a comeback.
00:18:40 Your boss going to have to apologize
00:18:43 for what they said to you.
00:18:44 Your ex is going to have to apologize
00:18:46 for how they treated you.
00:18:48 You are getting ready to win again.
00:18:53 (audience cheering)
00:18:56 So put these words in your phone,
00:18:59 or write it on your mirror in lipstick
00:19:02 so that you can give yourself affirmations,
00:19:04 or put it on a sticky note and put it on your steering wheel
00:19:08 so that every time you look at it,
00:19:10 you can say I'm not done yet,
00:19:12 and you know what I'm capable of.
00:19:16 How many of y'all got that kind of swag in you?
00:19:18 I'm not done yet, and I know what I'm capable of.
00:19:23 If you don't know who I am, I'm about to show you.
00:19:27 If you don't know who I am, just watch.
00:19:31 Over the next 12 months,
00:19:33 I'm going to give you something to watch.
00:19:35 Over the next 12 months,
00:19:37 I'm going to give you something to hate on.
00:19:40 Over the next 12 months,
00:19:41 I'm going to give you something to troll
00:19:43 because I'm about to turn this thing around.
00:19:46 I'm just looking for my clique today.
00:19:48 I can't, I'm not even preaching to the whole church.
00:19:51 I'm just looking for my ride or dies
00:19:54 who understand that all things are working together
00:19:58 for your good.
00:19:59 I dare you be silent,
00:20:01 and I'm in the building with good news.
00:20:03 I dare you look at me like what God is about to do
00:20:06 is going to be casual.
00:20:07 What God is about to do in your life
00:20:09 is going to deserve a greater praise than that,
00:20:11 and I'm not going to give it to you
00:20:13 so then you can praise him.
00:20:14 I want to see if you can praise him in advance
00:20:17 for something that I guarantee
00:20:18 that God's going to do in your life.
00:20:20 So she, Pastor Raymond, she turned to trees.
00:20:31 And don't you judge her because everybody got a tree.
00:20:39 Every one of you got something you hide under
00:20:41 when it gets tough.
00:20:42 Everything, every one of us in here and watching online,
00:20:46 you got something you hug
00:20:47 when you don't feel like you have help.
00:20:49 Everybody's got a tree.
00:20:52 Ask your neighbor, say, "What's your tree?"
00:20:53 I bet you they don't tell you.
00:20:54 Ask, "What's your tree?"
00:20:55 What they gonna do?
00:20:56 "Get out of my business.
00:20:57 "What my tree ain't got nothing to do with you.
00:20:59 "I don't need to know about your tree,
00:21:01 "and don't you ask me about my tree."
00:21:03 But everybody got a tree.
00:21:04 Everybody got somewhere they go when they feel insecure.
00:21:07 Everybody got somewhere they go psychologically
00:21:10 when they need to feel validated.
00:21:13 Everybody's got a tree.
00:21:14 And don't let anybody make you feel like you less than them.
00:21:18 Because you got something they don't have.
00:21:24 Everybody got something that somebody else don't have.
00:21:27 You saved, but you still got sin of problems.
00:21:33 Come on, you got the Holy Ghost,
00:21:37 but it ain't always got you.
00:21:39 Anybody gonna be honest in here today?
00:21:43 Just tell your neighbor, "You catch me on the wrong day,
00:21:45 "you won't even know I ever been to church in my whole life.
00:21:48 "Catch me when I'm hungry and frustrated,
00:21:51 "you gonna see a side of me."
00:21:53 Can I help anybody today?
00:22:03 The story of Deborah in Judges chapter four
00:22:07 and Judges chapter five
00:22:08 begins and ends like many of the dramas in all of our lives.
00:22:14 And that is, in this life you will have trouble.
00:22:18 In this life you will have trials and tribulations.
00:22:23 You're gonna have ups, and you're gonna have downs.
00:22:28 You're gonna have real friends,
00:22:31 and you're gonna find out that some of them
00:22:32 were fake friends.
00:22:33 It is what it is.
00:22:38 There are some days you're gonna get up out of the bed
00:22:39 and you're gonna feel like you can conquer the world,
00:22:41 and there are gonna be some days you get out of the bed
00:22:42 and you're gonna wanna lay back in it
00:22:43 because you feel like the world is conquering you.
00:22:46 And it is what it is.
00:22:48 There are days you're gonna get up
00:22:49 and you're gonna feel like,
00:22:50 "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength."
00:22:52 And there are gonna be days that you wake up
00:22:54 and feel like you're being crucified.
00:22:56 There are ups and there is downs.
00:22:59 But those of us who wait on the Lord,
00:23:01 we renew our strength.
00:23:02 And all of our trials eventually turn into triumphs.
00:23:07 I know what I'm talking about.
00:23:09 And in the book of Judges, what we're looking at,
00:23:12 and I need you to pay attention to me today.
00:23:14 In the book of Judges, what we're actually looking at
00:23:17 is the cycle of what happens when men involve themselves
00:23:21 in divine proclivity.
00:23:23 What I mean by that is, is that God creates us.
00:23:27 He gives us a path for renewed resistance.
00:23:30 We sin.
00:23:31 God gives us an opportunity to repent.
00:23:34 We refuse to repent and then we have judgment.
00:23:37 And after the judgment, then we decide God isn't good.
00:23:40 And here comes the cycle.
00:23:41 Satan tempts you, you take the temptation.
00:23:45 God says, "Don't do it."
00:23:47 You do it anyway.
00:23:48 God says, "Repent."
00:23:49 You don't repent.
00:23:50 God judges.
00:23:52 You pray, nothing happens.
00:23:54 God ain't good.
00:23:54 God says, "No."
00:23:56 (congregation murmurs)
00:23:58 Seven times, Israel, in 300 years, you rebelled against me.
00:24:03 This one, you're gonna have to figure out on your own.
00:24:06 Because I kept giving you an opportunity to cry out to me,
00:24:11 but you decided that you wanted to stay
00:24:14 where you had lamb stew and where you had water
00:24:17 and you had men falling from heaven
00:24:19 or whatever particular predicament you were in.
00:24:22 You decided that me pushing you forward was too abrasive
00:24:26 and you would rather settle for the comfort of your history.
00:24:29 And now you're in a situation where you gotta figure out
00:24:32 whether your choices can hold you like I can.
00:24:36 (congregation murmurs)
00:24:39 And so Israel, I'm gonna let you stay in this one
00:24:43 for a while because I delivered you
00:24:45 from 400 years of slavery and you still doubt me?
00:24:51 I bring you through 40 years of wilderness experience
00:24:56 and yet you still doubt me?
00:24:57 I don't know what else I have to do.
00:24:59 I brought water out of a rock.
00:25:02 I had quail to fall from the sky to feed you.
00:25:05 I had a pillar of fire by night
00:25:07 and a pillar of a cloud by day.
00:25:09 I parted Red Seas.
00:25:11 I parted the Jordan River.
00:25:13 I dealt with your enemies and you still doubt me?
00:25:16 Oh, help me, Holy Spirit.
00:25:19 He says, I even told you in Psalms,
00:25:22 I'm near to the brokenhearted
00:25:23 and I love those who are crushed in spirit
00:25:26 and yet you wouldn't bring your broken heart to me
00:25:28 and you wouldn't bring me your crushed spirit
00:25:31 and so you tried other things
00:25:33 and now you want me to immediately respond
00:25:38 and make you a priority after you made me an opportunity.
00:25:43 He says, I'm gonna do it because I love you
00:25:48 but not without you dealing with this oppression.
00:25:52 I wanna know, is there anybody in here
00:25:55 that knows that what you're going through,
00:25:57 had you done something different
00:25:59 when the Lord was whispering to you?
00:26:01 Come on, talk to your boy, come here.
00:26:03 The Lord whispered to you, he told you,
00:26:07 he said, go left.
00:26:08 He was like, no, God, I'm gonna go.
00:26:10 I know you want me to go to Tarshish
00:26:11 but I'm gonna go over here and see what Nineveh is like
00:26:14 and then when the whale swallows you, Lord!
00:26:16 (congregation laughing)
00:26:20 When you gonna get me out of here?
00:26:22 God says, I'll get you out, Jonah,
00:26:25 but you're gonna have to pray and you're gonna have to praise
00:26:28 and the Bible says for four days and four nights,
00:26:30 he prayed and he praised
00:26:32 and eventually the fish spit him out on dry ground.
00:26:34 God says, I delivered you from Egypt.
00:26:36 I did all of this and here is the word of the Lord
00:26:40 and yet somehow God finds a way to love Israel enough
00:26:46 to restore them.
00:26:47 I only, who clapped?
00:26:51 Identify yourself.
00:26:53 No, no, seriously, who clapped?
00:26:55 I heard a clap.
00:26:56 Come here, come here.
00:26:58 Yes.
00:26:59 (congregation applauding)
00:27:04 (upbeat music)
00:27:14 Now watch how many people start clapping now.
00:27:16 He said, God says, I will restore you.
00:27:21 See what you don't, I knew you did not know
00:27:25 what the word restored mean
00:27:27 because if you had known what restored mean
00:27:29 when I said it, you would have broke the roof on this place.
00:27:32 I'm getting ready to give you the definition of restored
00:27:34 and see if you have the same response.
00:27:36 Etymology of the word restored literally means
00:27:39 that God says, I am about to free you
00:27:41 from the effects of your bad decision.
00:27:44 (congregation applauding)
00:27:46 You missed it, you missed it.
00:27:47 He says, I am about to do something.
00:27:51 Watch this, I'm about to consider what you did.
00:27:54 I'm gonna show you the consequences
00:27:56 but because I love you so much,
00:27:58 I'm gonna free you from what you earned.
00:28:01 Just touch three people and say, God will restore you.
00:28:06 God is about to restore you
00:28:08 from the repercussions of a bad decision.
00:28:10 Some of you all had already decided in your life
00:28:13 that your life wasn't gonna be good
00:28:14 because of something you did.
00:28:16 God says, I'm about to step in the middle of your mess
00:28:19 and I'm about to wipe away your repercussions
00:28:22 and watch this, I'm gonna justify you
00:28:24 and I'm gonna allow you to walk into the next dimension
00:28:27 of your life just as if you didn't do it.
00:28:29 (congregation applauding)
00:28:31 I gotta get back to Rankin Road, I can't handle it.
00:28:33 I'm looking for somebody who will give God the type of glory
00:28:37 that is necessary when you did it
00:28:40 and God still throws it into the sea of forgiveness.
00:28:43 I need you to give three people a high five
00:28:45 and say, God's gonna restore you.
00:28:47 God's gonna restore you.
00:28:48 You won't even have a bad mark on your credit report.
00:28:51 There won't be a bad mark on your resume.
00:28:54 By the time you get to the next dimension
00:28:56 and to the next place that God wants to use you,
00:28:59 they won't even know where you came from, what you did
00:29:03 because God is gonna erase.
00:29:05 (upbeat music)
00:29:09 I don't need the repercussions of a bad decision.
00:29:10 Anybody need God to restore 'em?
00:29:13 Somebody shout, restore me, Lord, restore me.
00:29:15 Restore me, restore me, restore me.
00:29:16 I'm about to put my name in the hat for a big opportunity
00:29:19 but I don't need my past catching up with me.
00:29:21 Restore me, restore me, God.
00:29:23 I'm about to put my resume in for a situation
00:29:25 but I don't need them to find out
00:29:27 how I acted a fool on my last job.
00:29:28 Restore me, restore me, God.
00:29:30 I'm about to have another child
00:29:32 and I don't need any repercussions
00:29:34 because of what kind of child I was.
00:29:35 Restore me, restore me, restore me, God.
00:29:38 I'm about to get in another relationship
00:29:39 and I don't need this relationship
00:29:41 reflecting the last relationship.
00:29:43 Restore me, restore me.
00:29:45 Anybody need God to restore them?
00:29:47 (audience cheering)
00:29:50 God says, they locked you out
00:29:54 but I'm about to reinstate you.
00:29:56 (audience cheering)
00:29:57 Woo, that's good to me, that's good to me.
00:30:00 God says, I'm about to reinstate you.
00:30:02 I'm about to put you back in front of the line.
00:30:05 I'm gonna put your name back on lists
00:30:07 after you've been canceled.
00:30:08 I'm gonna get you in rooms before great men
00:30:11 and let me tell you, the people who canceled you
00:30:13 are gonna try to figure out how you got in front of them
00:30:15 and they never left the room.
00:30:16 I speak a leapfrog experience over your life.
00:30:20 You about to jump over people who've been stepping on you.
00:30:23 I need somebody in this room
00:30:24 to give another neighbor a high five
00:30:26 and say, baby, your future is bright.
00:30:28 You're gonna need sunglasses where you going.
00:30:30 You're gonna need some hater blockers where you going
00:30:33 because where God is about to take you, no man.
00:30:36 (upbeat music)
00:30:39 Somebody say, he's gonna restore me.
00:30:43 I'm just standing right there, he's gonna restore me.
00:30:45 He's gonna restore you to the point
00:30:47 where you stop beating yourself up.
00:30:48 (audience cheering)
00:30:51 'Cause see, there's a lot of things
00:30:53 you're beating yourself up about
00:30:55 that you think other people know.
00:30:57 That's not them, that's your conscience.
00:30:59 God says, I'm about to clear your conscience
00:31:03 so that you can love you again.
00:31:05 Help me, Holy Ghost.
00:31:07 I'm about to clear your conscience
00:31:08 so you stop beating yourself up over that bad decision
00:31:11 and that bad mistake, and I'm gonna allow you
00:31:13 to walk into your future reinstated and restored.
00:31:17 Thus is the word of the Lord.
00:31:22 So lift up your head.
00:31:25 O ye gates and be ye lifted up,
00:31:28 ye everlasting doors and the king.
00:31:29 Stop walking around with your head down
00:31:31 because you made a mistake somewhere in your past.
00:31:33 God says, I ain't thinking about that.
00:31:36 I give gifts without repentance.
00:31:38 I knew you were freaky when I called you.
00:31:41 I knew you were nasty when I anointed you.
00:31:44 I knew you had an attitude when I decided to use you,
00:31:46 and I'm gonna use all of that.
00:31:48 Look at some people say, ooh, I'm talking to you though.
00:31:56 See, this is why we can't get it
00:32:04 because we think somehow we gonna skate past
00:32:07 the entrance without the one who knows all.
00:32:12 Like he's gonna prevent you entrance into the next level
00:32:16 because you did something that he found out about
00:32:18 when he called you.
00:32:19 Did you not know God knew who David was when he called him?
00:32:22 God knew who Abraham was when he called him.
00:32:27 God knew who Isaac was when he called him,
00:32:30 and God knew who Jacob and Esau were.
00:32:34 And yet he called them anyway
00:32:37 because God is gonna restore you.
00:32:42 And your future will not be locked
00:32:48 because you had bad incidents in your past.
00:32:51 And some people are not clapping
00:33:00 because they think they bad ain't as bad as your bad.
00:33:04 But all of our best is filthy rags before God.
00:33:07 Somebody shout, I'm restored.
00:33:11 Say it again, I'm restored.
00:33:14 Say it again, I'm restored.
00:33:16 You are free to live again.
00:33:18 You are free to succeed.
00:33:21 You are free to date.
00:33:22 I'm talking to somebody.
00:33:24 Go ahead and date again.
00:33:25 It's time for you to get out there.
00:33:26 Listen, God has restored you.
00:33:32 You don't owe anybody sadness
00:33:34 so that you feel good about your discrepancies.
00:33:36 You're not doing God a favor
00:33:39 walking around with your head down
00:33:40 and you still sorry about something you did 20 years ago.
00:33:42 God ain't thinking about it, why are you?
00:33:44 Somebody shout, restore me.
00:33:49 Watch this, watch this.
00:33:50 God says, I'm about to reinstate you.
00:33:52 Now this is where the rubber meets the road.
00:33:54 He said, I'm gonna reinstate you,
00:33:55 but you gotta have the right attitude.
00:33:57 He says, Israel, I wanna go with you,
00:34:01 but y'all get on my nerve.
00:34:03 No, you don't believe me, go read Exodus 33, verse three.
00:34:07 He says, listen, I wanna lead you into the promised land
00:34:10 where it's flowing with milk and honey.
00:34:11 He says, but I can't go with you
00:34:14 because if I go with you, I'm gonna consume you
00:34:16 because you are a stiff necked people.
00:34:18 Let's see how loud you are in the next five minutes.
00:34:23 He says, you are stick necked people.
00:34:24 I tell you what to do and you do what you wanna do.
00:34:27 I let the word be revealed to you
00:34:29 and you are in your seat hearing the word right now,
00:34:31 bouncing it off your own opinion.
00:34:34 I'm telling you right now what thus said the Lord,
00:34:36 but you bouncing it off your own thought process
00:34:38 and you trying to figure out if I'm telling the truth
00:34:40 and you think that I'm not telling the truth
00:34:42 because it runs into your opinion.
00:34:43 But let me tell you, the only person in here
00:34:46 that is speaking what God is saying
00:34:48 and what thus said the Lord is me.
00:34:49 Everybody else is thinking within their own spirit.
00:34:52 And he says, you are stiff necked people.
00:34:54 And the Lord released me to tell you something.
00:34:56 He says, tell the people of the lighthouse
00:34:58 and those in lighthouse nation watching online.
00:35:00 He says, don't ever allow your neck
00:35:02 to get in the way of your next.
00:35:04 You hard head, stiff neck, opinionated person.
00:35:12 You uncircumcised Philistine.
00:35:14 Come here, talk to me.
00:35:15 He says, I'm trying to give you the word of life,
00:35:18 but you keep telling me what your grandmama said.
00:35:20 I'm trying to give you life and you keep telling me
00:35:27 what your experience has taught you.
00:35:29 Slap your neighbor and say, wake up.
00:35:30 You ain't sleepy now.
00:35:32 Wake up.
00:35:33 Don't text now, ain't nobody calling you now.
00:35:38 I need all the stiff neck people to identify yourself.
00:35:44 Stubborn as a mule.
00:35:46 You know what the Lord said,
00:35:48 but you still pulling in your own direction.
00:35:50 Wondering why you won't get God's blessing
00:35:53 because his blessing is not in the direction
00:35:55 of your opinion.
00:35:57 (congregation murmurs)
00:35:59 So God says, I'm gonna leave you alone
00:36:00 'cause if I go with you, I'm gonna consume you
00:36:02 'cause you make me sick.
00:36:03 Come here, Revelation.
00:36:06 He says, church, to lay out a seal,
00:36:08 I have spewed you out of my mouth
00:36:10 because you are neither hot nor cold.
00:36:13 In other words, God says, I don't care if you're hot or cold,
00:36:15 I just need you to make a decision.
00:36:17 He said, you are lukewarm, so you make my stomach upset.
00:36:22 I need you to be hot or cold.
00:36:25 Be either one of them.
00:36:26 Now, I can handle you whatever temperature you are,
00:36:28 but I can't take the fact that you haven't made up
00:36:31 in your mind which temperature you're gonna be
00:36:33 'cause I can't handle you in neutral.
00:36:35 Somebody say stiff neck.
00:36:41 - Stiff neck.
00:36:43 - Watch this.
00:36:44 You need scripture for me to prove it?
00:36:46 Proverbs 29 in one says,
00:36:50 whoever remains stiff necked after my rebuke
00:36:53 will suddenly be destroyed.
00:36:56 Woo!
00:36:56 Preach, Kion, preach in this house.
00:37:01 Preach, black man, preach, tall man, preach, bald man,
00:37:04 call me whatever you want, but I'm preaching.
00:37:06 Let me tell you something.
00:37:07 Whenever you are in the presence of a rebuke
00:37:09 and you hold on to your horses,
00:37:11 you will suddenly be destroyed.
00:37:12 Thus is the word of the Lord.
00:37:17 Watch this, and I want you to see it
00:37:21 in the King James Version of the Bible.
00:37:23 Watch what it says.
00:37:24 Suddenly be destroyed, two words that come after it,
00:37:28 without remedy.
00:37:30 When you get a word like this
00:37:36 and it don't rebuke you to soften your stance,
00:37:40 you shall suddenly be destroyed and can't nobody fix it.
00:37:44 So you better get off your high horse.
00:37:49 You got about 20 more minutes to get with me on this sermon.
00:37:51 Some of y'all still sitting there.
00:37:53 (audience laughing)
00:37:55 You won't clap, you won't say amen, you won't shout
00:37:58 because you don't like the way it's coming out,
00:38:00 but I'm rebuking you so that I can push you
00:38:07 into your destiny because God doesn't have time
00:38:11 in the future for somebody who's gonna be questioning him.
00:38:14 You gonna have to learn to walk by faith and not by sight.
00:38:17 If God says start it, start it.
00:38:19 If he says stop it, stop it.
00:38:21 If he's saying do it, endure it
00:38:23 'cause he's about to reinstate and restore you.
00:38:26 Who am I preaching to in here today?
00:38:29 So what we see happening in the text
00:38:36 is a result of God telling Israel what to do
00:38:39 and Israel telling God what to do.
00:38:40 Do you know who you think you is?
00:38:43 We're out here telling God, God, I know what you said,
00:38:48 but I was just thinking,
00:38:50 why is you thinking when God is talking?
00:38:53 (congregation laughing)
00:38:55 Look at me, who you is?
00:38:57 Who do you think you are to tell God
00:39:03 what you think about the matter?
00:39:06 God says, this is what they told him, he said,
00:39:09 Moses, you done brought us out here to die.
00:39:13 At least where we were, we had something to eat and water.
00:39:16 You done brought us out here to die.
00:39:18 No, I brought you out here because this is where God
00:39:21 told me to bring you and what you don't know
00:39:25 is that the water you were receiving had strings attached.
00:39:29 The glory is attached to the water you haven't had yet.
00:39:34 So you can either drink Pharaoh's water
00:39:40 and have strings attached or you can wait on me
00:39:42 to disperse the water and have glory attached.
00:39:46 And by the way, I'm the living water
00:39:48 and those who drink of me will never thirst again.
00:39:51 The reason why you thirsty is because
00:39:52 you've been drinking somebody else's water.
00:39:55 God says, but if you drink of me, you will never thirst again.
00:39:58 Is there anybody in here that'll shout,
00:40:00 I'm tired of being thirsty.
00:40:01 I've been drinking all of this water and I'm still thirsty.
00:40:04 I'm looking for a love that when it loves me, I feel love.
00:40:08 (congregation cheering)
00:40:11 They sinned against God because they wouldn't trust him.
00:40:19 And the Bible says that he let a king come in.
00:40:22 He let a king come in.
00:40:24 And here they are now, listen,
00:40:28 under another 20 years of oppression.
00:40:31 Ain't you tired of being tired?
00:40:32 Come on y'all, holler at your boy.
00:40:35 Like anybody like, dang!
00:40:36 Jesus, I mean, how many storms I gotta go through?
00:40:46 I mean, how many times do I have to feel my heart palpitating?
00:40:51 How many times do I have to look at my hair in the sink?
00:40:54 How many times do I have to go through another heartbreak?
00:40:57 How many times do I have to date the wrong person?
00:40:59 How many lessons do I need?
00:41:01 Anybody tired?
00:41:07 Come on now.
00:41:10 I know we wanna act like we all got it together,
00:41:12 but anybody sick and tired of being tired
00:41:14 and tired of being sick and tired,
00:41:15 tired of being, I'm just tired of being tired.
00:41:18 I don't even know what I'm tired of,
00:41:19 but I'm just tired of being tired.
00:41:20 Anybody so tired you just went in a room
00:41:27 and just screamed and banged your pillow up
00:41:30 against the wall, just for, no, we're just tired.
00:41:32 God says, okay, you tired?
00:41:40 Now let's start the test.
00:41:45 Because it is only when you come to the end of yourself
00:41:48 that you get to the beginning of God.
00:41:50 God says, the reason why you haven't seen me yet
00:41:57 is I keep seeing you.
00:41:58 And when you back out of the process, I'll step in.
00:42:04 Somebody say, trust him.
00:42:08 Notice the Bible says that King Rabban from Canaan
00:42:16 came, Cody, King Rabban from Canaan came to them.
00:42:21 Okay, where did he come from?
00:42:26 Canaan, y'all listening?
00:42:29 I just said it.
00:42:31 Where did he come from?
00:42:32 Where are they headed?
00:42:34 So he coming from where they're on their way to.
00:42:45 'Cause see, a lot of people think
00:42:46 if they get out of the past, they clear.
00:42:48 See, most people think that if I just get away
00:42:53 from where I am, it'll be good,
00:42:55 but their next trouble didn't come from behind them.
00:42:58 Their next issue is coming from where they are headed.
00:43:06 You know why?
00:43:09 Because when God has something ready for you
00:43:13 and you are not ready for it,
00:43:15 I'm gonna talk to y'all at home 'cause they don't get it.
00:43:17 When God has something ready for you
00:43:19 and you are not ready for it, watch this,
00:43:22 at first, your future is an enemy.
00:43:25 See, when you still stiff-necked and rebellious,
00:43:36 your future isn't an escape from your past,
00:43:38 it's your next enemy.
00:43:42 That was so cold.
00:43:43 Oh, I just said something good.
00:43:47 When you are not ready for what God has for you,
00:43:51 escaping your past is worse than going into your future.
00:43:55 You getting ready to walk into something
00:44:00 that was designed to be a blessing,
00:44:02 but it's gonna be a burden because your neck is still stiff.
00:44:05 And that's when you say stuff like,
00:44:11 if it ain't one thing, that ain't God, that's you.
00:44:16 Your future is an enemy when you are inflexible.
00:44:30 Who am I talking to?
00:44:40 I told you next 12 months, we about to shut the devil up.
00:44:42 We gonna bust him upside his head, I can't stand him.
00:44:45 When you become flexible, and here's what the Bible says,
00:44:52 and you can hear sound doctrine,
00:44:56 there has to, when you hit the Holy Spirit in your heart,
00:44:58 sound doctrine hit different.
00:45:00 When you don't operate under the Holy Spirit,
00:45:04 rebuke feels bad.
00:45:06 When you operate in the Holy Spirit,
00:45:08 rebuke leads to reprovement and refinement.
00:45:13 And you hear rebuke differently
00:45:15 when you operate in the Holy Ghost.
00:45:17 Some of y'all right now here like,
00:45:20 oh, you get on my nerve.
00:45:21 And some people like, that word, that word,
00:45:24 give me more word, give me more word, I wanna be free.
00:45:26 Talk to me however you gotta talk to me,
00:45:28 just get me to my destiny.
00:45:34 I am not called to people who need sugar in they Kool-Aid.
00:45:38 I'm called to people who can take it
00:45:41 right out of the package.
00:45:43 I'm called to people who say,
00:45:45 listen, I just want the blessing,
00:45:46 and I trust the word that is coming out of your mouth.
00:45:49 Give it to me the way God gave it to you.
00:45:51 That's who I'm called to.
00:45:52 God says,
00:45:59 I love you, but I let them oppress you.
00:46:04 (congregation cheering)
00:46:06 Listen, I love you, but I let it happen.
00:46:09 In fact, when the devil asked me for permission, Joe,
00:46:14 I gave it to him.
00:46:17 I let him test you to see what you would do
00:46:21 if you lost your children and your cattle and your money
00:46:24 and your wife told you to curse me and die.
00:46:27 I let it happen just to see if you would trust me.
00:46:33 (congregation cheering)
00:46:35 Joe says, Lord, I don't understand what you're doing to me
00:46:39 at all, but though you slay me,
00:46:44 yet, I wonder is there 50 people that got a yet
00:46:52 while I trust you praise.
00:46:54 I'm gonna give you 30 seconds
00:46:56 to show them though you slay me, I'm still gonna worship.
00:47:02 Though you slay me, I'm still gonna give.
00:47:05 Though you slay me, I'm still gonna love.
00:47:08 Though you slay me, yet will I trust you.
00:47:13 Watch this, go back and read the Bible.
00:47:19 Their oppression didn't stop
00:47:23 until the Bible says they cried out.
00:47:26 Don't make me, don't, don't.
00:47:28 Every time I say cried out, I feel something.
00:47:31 The Bible says that they cried out to the Lord.
00:47:34 What does the word cry out mean?
00:47:36 Those of y'all who are cry out conference goers.
00:47:39 Cry out literally means whenever you cry out to God,
00:47:45 it is literally an admission
00:47:47 that I have come to the end of me.
00:47:50 Oh, Jesus.
00:47:53 It's like saying, it's like saying, God,
00:47:57 I ain't got nothing left.
00:48:02 In fact, I'm gonna give you these problems
00:48:06 because I know that you are a problem solver.
00:48:10 Anybody come to the end of yourself today to say,
00:48:12 Lord, I don't know what to do,
00:48:16 but I am depending on you to see me through.
00:48:20 I'm placing it in your hands, God.
00:48:26 I don't know what to do with these kids, they yours.
00:48:30 Come on, somebody just need to,
00:48:31 somebody just need to just imagine
00:48:33 you got all your children right now.
00:48:34 Lord, they not yours, no way.
00:48:38 That's your problem, you think they yours.
00:48:42 No, no, you are not a parent by ownership,
00:48:44 you are a parent by stewardship.
00:48:46 And whatever ailments, sicknesses, disabilities,
00:48:49 whatever your child has is because God put in you
00:48:52 the patience and the skillset to work
00:48:55 to bring that person up to his glory.
00:48:57 That's why they are yours by stewardship, not by ownership.
00:49:00 You don't own a child.
00:49:01 Ask Hannah about Eli.
00:49:07 They not yours.
00:49:10 They not yours, that's why you ain't gotta fight
00:49:13 the principal, that's God's child.
00:49:15 You can fight for him, but you ain't gotta fight with him.
00:49:18 Let God stand still.
00:49:26 I'm just looking for people who don't have a backup plan.
00:49:29 Like it's either God or nothing.
00:49:31 I can't preach to people who got a plan B and a plan C.
00:49:35 It's either God or nothing, just step in there,
00:49:37 it's either God or nothing.
00:49:38 Just tell your neighbor, it's either God or nothing.
00:49:41 I don't have a backup plan, I ain't got a contingency plan,
00:49:44 I don't have an option C,
00:49:46 it's either gonna be God or nothing at all.
00:49:54 I'm looking for people who know when the bush is burning,
00:49:56 it's still God.
00:49:57 When you gotta wait 90 years to have a son,
00:50:04 and then you gotta march him up a mountain
00:50:07 and almost stick a knife in his chest, it's still God.
00:50:12 Come on, talk to me, somebody.
00:50:13 And when you gotta work for Rachel for 14 years
00:50:17 at a Promise for seven days, it's still God.
00:50:21 You gotta know that when it's rough, when it's hot,
00:50:24 when it's tough, it's still God.
00:50:28 I got fired.
00:50:29 I got a divorce.
00:50:35 They saw spots on the CAT scan.
00:50:39 My home is in turmoil.
00:50:42 My finances are going backwards,
00:50:45 I got more outgo than I got income.
00:50:48 I'm insecure.
00:50:51 Rejected.
00:50:53 Experienced death.
00:50:54 I feel like I'm about to lose it all.
00:51:04 I'm a week away from my business going out of business.
00:51:12 I'm married, but I can't stand them.
00:51:16 I birthed them, but I don't like them.
00:51:21 - Still God.
00:51:22 - My father hurt me bad.
00:51:30 My mama can't heal me.
00:51:33 It's still God.
00:51:38 Stop thinking it's only God
00:51:42 when it's working in your favor.
00:51:49 It was a tragedy, but it was still God.
00:51:51 You lost it all, but it was still God.
00:51:56 God, I just wanted to know if you would bring him
00:51:59 to empty water pots so he could turn your water into wine.
00:52:03 Still God.
00:52:07 I gotta get to the woman before I let y'all go.
00:52:11 I didn't mean to say all of that, I'm sorry.
00:52:13 Am I good, Caleb?
00:52:15 I'm good?
00:52:18 'Cause I made y'all a promise about this lady.
00:52:20 Y'all got a couple of minutes?
00:52:21 So prior to this situation,
00:52:27 God started using judges to rule Israel.
00:52:32 I'm gonna give you a little theological lesson.
00:52:34 If you go back and read the Bible,
00:52:35 the Bible lets us know that there were 13 judges
00:52:38 in the days of Israel.
00:52:39 You can also correspond that to the fact
00:52:43 that 13 times it stopped raining in Israel
00:52:47 and they had a famine.
00:52:48 You know why?
00:52:49 Because every time God used a judge
00:52:51 to get them to the next level,
00:52:52 they rebuked or they rebelled against that judge
00:52:55 and then God caused the famine.
00:52:57 Because when God sends you an answer
00:52:59 and you don't adhere to it, he dries it up.
00:53:01 Every dry season of your life
00:53:07 can be connected to disobedience.
00:53:09 Yes, ma'am.
00:53:17 (congregation laughing)
00:53:19 'Cause you'll go through things,
00:53:20 but when it, see a famine is an extended period of drought.
00:53:25 Anytime you have a season in your life that's extended,
00:53:28 it's because you were disobedient.
00:53:35 Anytime you bleed for 12 years,
00:53:37 it's because you went to the wrong doctor for 12 years.
00:53:39 It's the one day you got to the right doctor,
00:53:42 you stopped bleeding.
00:53:43 Anytime you lay on the bed for 38 years,
00:53:46 it's because you were waiting on the water
00:53:48 when you could have just picked up your bed and walked.
00:53:52 Every extended period and drought in your life
00:53:57 is connected to a disobedience
00:53:58 that God can't get you to climb over.
00:54:00 Help me, Holy Ghost.
00:54:04 And this is what happened in the text, 20 years.
00:54:10 But before Deborah was a judge,
00:54:12 there were three people that preceded her,
00:54:14 three judges before her.
00:54:16 One was Othniel, one was Shamgar, and the other was Ehud.
00:54:21 Now the Bible says that Othniel delivered Israel
00:54:24 from eight years of bondage.
00:54:25 Everybody say eight years.
00:54:27 - Eight years.
00:54:28 - They come out of that.
00:54:29 Now the next judge, Ehud,
00:54:31 he delivers them from another 18 years of bondage.
00:54:36 Now listen, these ain't even including the 400 years
00:54:39 and all the other stuff they had to go through.
00:54:41 So he delivers them.
00:54:42 Now Ehud, let's talk about him.
00:54:45 The Bible says that Ehud was a left-handed man.
00:54:49 And when I saw that, I couldn't skip past it
00:54:53 because I went to read it.
00:54:54 His right hand literally atrophied and didn't work.
00:54:59 So have you ever seen someone
00:55:00 who had been stricken by a stroke
00:55:01 and a part of their body withers?
00:55:04 So Ehud's right hand didn't work,
00:55:07 but God called him to be a judge.
00:55:09 So God calls him to be a judge,
00:55:12 and he finds a way to serve the king
00:55:16 that has his people under oppression.
00:55:19 So now the king trusts him to get close enough.
00:55:28 He don't know that he's about to be taken out
00:55:31 by the person that he's trusting.
00:55:34 And so when he goes in to kill the king,
00:55:38 what's wrong with his right hand?
00:55:41 It's withered.
00:55:43 So the Bible says that he hides a knife on his right side.
00:55:47 So when he comes in to kill the king,
00:55:54 he walks in and they frisk him,
00:55:59 but they only frisk him
00:56:01 on his strong side.
00:56:09 And because they took his weakness for granted,
00:56:11 he reached into his weakness.
00:56:15 And the Bible says, "Stab the man until the knife
00:56:22 "came through his stomach and out of his back."
00:56:24 What if I told you that God's about to bring strength
00:56:27 out of your weakness?
00:56:28 God says, "I'm about to allow you to walk
00:56:32 "into every dimension and take out every enemy
00:56:36 "that took your weakness for granted."
00:56:38 I don't know who that is for,
00:56:39 but I need 13 people to begin to shout
00:56:42 that there's a strength coming out of your weakness.
00:56:46 I got enough strength on my weak side to kill my devil.
00:56:49 I got enough strength on my weak side to slay my demons.
00:56:53 If I'm talking to somebody in here,
00:56:54 lift up your voice and give them a praise.
00:56:56 I gotta get to the woman.
00:57:02 I gotta get to the woman.
00:57:04 Shamgar is the third judge.
00:57:07 Go back and read the Bible.
00:57:08 He killed 600 people by himself with a stick.
00:57:13 Bible says in the ox gold.
00:57:18 He killed 600 men.
00:57:19 How many people in here think that you could kill
00:57:24 everybody in this room with just a stick?
00:57:27 Try it.
00:57:28 You might get two or three of us,
00:57:32 but number four, five, and six
00:57:34 is gonna stump the life out of you.
00:57:36 You gotta be anointed to kill 600 men with a stick,
00:57:41 and he did it.
00:57:42 And here comes the fourth judge.
00:57:44 She ain't no man, though.
00:57:47 She a woman.
00:57:50 So she gonna have to learn how to lead differently
00:57:54 'cause she ain't about to stab nobody.
00:57:57 She ain't about to stick nobody with a stick,
00:57:59 so this is what the Bible says.
00:58:03 She becomes the next judge of Israel,
00:58:06 and she's the only judge in the history of Israel
00:58:09 to be called both a judge and a prophet.
00:58:11 So I'm gonna tell you something, women.
00:58:14 Y'all better wake up because the men asleep.
00:58:17 Oh yeah, the men asleep.
00:58:19 Go back and read the history of the scripture.
00:58:21 When Eve was brought into the world, Adam was asleep.
00:58:24 When the Holy Spirit delivered the news
00:58:31 that the baby inside of Mary
00:58:34 was the Holy Ghost's baby, Joseph was asleep.
00:58:36 And when Jesus got up out of the tomb,
00:58:40 all of the disciples were somewhere asleep,
00:58:41 but there was a woman named Mary Magdalene.
00:58:44 I need all the woke women in this room
00:58:47 to begin to shout, "It's my season and my turn.
00:58:51 "I'm next in line, and I ain't waiting
00:58:53 "on no man to validate me.
00:58:55 "I'm gonna own the company if I gotta do it single.
00:58:57 "I need the women watching me online
00:58:59 "and every woman in this house to shout,
00:59:02 "I'm next in line.
00:59:03 "I can't hear no woman in here.
00:59:05 "I said, I'm next in line."
00:59:07 Watch this.
00:59:09 But what she does is she recognizes
00:59:13 that she can't get the job done like her predecessors.
00:59:17 So the Bible says that she calls herself
00:59:20 the mother of Israel.
00:59:22 She says, "Because I can't be a warrior,
00:59:26 "but I can do something the fellas can't do."
00:59:29 (audience cheers)
00:59:30 I can give birth.
00:59:32 I don't know who this word is for,
00:59:35 but I wanna talk to every woman in this room
00:59:39 and online that know you got something inside of you.
00:59:42 I dare you, in the spirit, slap every woman
00:59:47 you can reach and say, "I'm pregnant, I'm pregnant,
00:59:49 "I'm pregnant."
00:59:50 Some of y'all scared to say it 'cause of the natural,
00:59:51 but I want you to climb over that,
00:59:53 and I want you to shout it in the spirit.
00:59:55 Say, "I'm pregnant, I'm pregnant."
00:59:56 Now, the reason why I need you to slap another woman,
01:00:00 'cause the Bible says that there was an instance
01:00:02 when Mary and Elizabeth came in the room,
01:00:05 and the Bible says that Mary was pregnant with Jesus,
01:00:09 and Elizabeth was pregnant with John the Baptist,
01:00:12 and when Mary walked in the room,
01:00:13 the Bible says that John leaped in Elizabeth's womb.
01:00:17 The reason why I need you to be next to the right sister
01:00:19 is because when you get right to the next sister,
01:00:21 she gonna make the baby and you leap.
01:00:24 I need you to find a woman in here
01:00:26 that look like they ain't jealous of you.
01:00:28 I need you to find a woman in here
01:00:29 who ain't look you up and down all service,
01:00:32 and shout, "Baby, I'm about to make the thing,"
01:00:34 and you leap.
01:00:35 Oh, you ain't found the right woman.
01:00:38 Find a woman who got a smile on her face.
01:00:41 Find a woman who looks anointed,
01:00:43 and say, "Baby, when I move, you move.
01:00:45 "When I go up, you go up.
01:00:48 "When I get the business, you get in the business.
01:00:50 "When I get rich, you getting rich."
01:00:52 (dramatic music)
01:00:55 I need every woman to shout, "I'm a judge, too.
01:01:03 "I can do it, too.
01:01:05 "I'm anointed, too.
01:01:07 "I can build it also.
01:01:09 "I don't have to be a man to work for God.
01:01:11 "I can do it in my own skin."
01:01:14 (audience cheering)
01:01:19 Now, women, I gotta tell you one more thing.
01:01:22 Where does she start her business?
01:01:27 Tested?
01:01:29 Come on back.
01:01:31 Tested by trees.
01:01:34 She started her business under a tree.
01:01:37 Why did she start her business under a tree?
01:01:40 Because in the days of Deborah,
01:01:42 women were not allowed in the temple.
01:01:46 So she said, "If you won't let me do it inside,
01:01:49 "I'll start my business outside."
01:01:54 I need to find 500 women that'll start under a tree.
01:01:58 I need somebody in here to shout, "I'll do it where I am."
01:02:02 Now, watch this.
01:02:04 Either you can start under a tree like Deborah,
01:02:11 or you can bite the tree like Eve.
01:02:14 (audience cheering)
01:02:17 Don't bite the apple, Eve.
01:02:21 Women, your next season of life
01:02:26 is gonna be determined by how you handle your trees.
01:02:31 Some of y'all can't see the forest for the trees.
01:02:40 I'm about to preach.
01:02:41 I ain't even really preached yet.
01:02:43 No, I can't even get all out what I got
01:02:45 'cause I done said I'm finished three times already,
01:02:48 and I know some of y'all gonna say something to me
01:02:49 about it online, particularly you.
01:02:51 Watch this.
01:02:54 Zacchaeus saw a tree, he climbed it.
01:02:58 Jesus saw a tree, he died on it.
01:03:03 Eve saw a tree and she bit from it.
01:03:06 Deborah saw a tree and she started a business under it.
01:03:08 My question is, what are you gonna do
01:03:10 the next time you see a tree?
01:03:12 A tree is a metaphor for an obstacle
01:03:15 designed to keep you from getting
01:03:17 where God called you to be,
01:03:18 and the greatest thing about a tree
01:03:20 is that if you are creative,
01:03:21 you can turn it into anything you want.
01:03:23 You can turn it into a table.
01:03:27 You can turn it into a chair.
01:03:29 You can turn it into a house.
01:03:30 I dare a woman to hit a slap,
01:03:32 another woman said, "I'm about to turn
01:03:33 "this tree into something.
01:03:34 "I'm about to turn this obstacle into something.
01:03:36 "I'm about to turn this anxiety into something.
01:03:39 "I'm about to turn this insecurity into something.
01:03:42 "I'm about to turn this rejection into something."
01:03:44 (upbeat music)
01:03:47 You're gonna be tested.
01:03:55 My question is, is are you willing to climb it?
01:04:01 Are you willing to die on it?
01:04:06 (audience cheering)
01:04:09 You better learn to transform that thing
01:04:13 into something you can use.
01:04:14 You have too many experiences to be complaining.
01:04:20 Women, I know they still trying to lock you out,
01:04:28 but let me tell you, the door is wide open.
01:04:30 (audience applauding)
01:04:33 Wide open.
01:04:34 (audience applauding)
01:04:38 Women are gonna do things in this next season
01:04:40 that if men don't wake up,
01:04:43 we ain't gonna be able to catch up.
01:04:46 'Cause if y'all ever start working together,
01:04:50 now I gotta say what I really came to say.
01:04:55 If you go back and read in the book of Luke,
01:04:59 when Jesus met the blind man and God spat on his eyes,
01:05:04 he asked the blind man, "What do you see?"
01:05:07 He says, "I see trees," listen, "walking as men."
01:05:14 (audience cheering)
01:05:17 Go back and read it.
01:05:24 It's in the book of Luke, chapter six,
01:05:26 I believe around verse 38, somewhere around there,
01:05:28 maybe 34, I don't know, but he says, "What do you see?"
01:05:33 I see trees,
01:05:42 walking as men.
01:05:45 Because for some of you, your tree test is people.
01:05:53 (audience chattering)
01:05:56 And most of you will never be able to be a judge
01:06:02 'cause you can't get over your people problem.
01:06:05 Preach, man.
01:06:08 Everything bother you, everybody trip you up.
01:06:17 They say something about you online
01:06:19 and you hate 'em the rest of your life.
01:06:22 They didn't applaud when you walked in the room
01:06:24 or commented on your outfit, so they must be hatin'
01:06:26 and you ain't gonna get into your destiny
01:06:28 because you can't get along with people.
01:06:31 Women, have you ever learned to get along with each other?
01:06:38 You ask most women who they friends are,
01:06:41 they'll tell you right away, "I can't get along with women
01:06:44 "'cause they too messy."
01:06:44 My question is, if you one of 'em,
01:06:47 (audience cheering)
01:06:50 you better learn how to get along with each other.
01:06:58 Otherwise, you gonna miss your opportunity to be the judge.
01:07:03 (audience applauding)
01:07:06 This is one area, women, where you can learn from some men
01:07:14 because men have the ability to operate around fakeness.
01:07:19 You think everybody who voted for the president liked 'em?
01:07:24 I can't be around nobody I don't like, you better learn.
01:07:30 Men, listen, we can fight right now and go play basketball.
01:07:42 If you get into it with a woman right now,
01:07:44 she could be your mama, she might not be in the obituary,
01:07:52 you ain't gonna die to 2090.
01:07:54 I can't do her, uh-uh, I can't do her, she fake, period.
01:08:02 (audience laughing)
01:08:08 (audience cheering)
01:08:11 'Cause when God elevates you, when your trajectory goes up,
01:08:25 the first thing you will see is people.
01:08:27 You're not gonna change the world in a room by yourself.
01:08:35 (audience cheering)
01:08:38 The Bible says, "Give and it shall be given unto you.
01:08:44 "Good measure, press down, shaken together, running over.
01:08:46 "Shall men give unto your bosom?"
01:08:49 God says, "I'm not even gonna bless you,
01:08:51 "I'm gonna use men to do it,
01:08:52 "so if you can't get along with men,
01:08:54 "I'm gonna cut off your blessing."
01:08:56 Most people give their offering
01:08:59 and they waiting on it to rain from heaven.
01:09:01 No, God says, "You give me the tithe,
01:09:03 "I'm gonna send it through men."
01:09:06 (audience cheering)
01:09:08 It don't serve you to be a tither
01:09:10 and can't get along with people
01:09:11 'cause he's gonna send a blessing through men.
01:09:14 I call you to get over your people problem.
01:09:21 Thank you.
01:09:25 (whooshing)
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