Bad for Business -- Pastor Keion Henderson
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00:00:00 And the enemies that we see today we shall see no more
00:00:08 I mean every Moses online and every Moses in this building to shout
00:00:14 We are coming out
00:00:17 Somebody shout a change is gonna come
00:00:20 And how do I know it
00:00:24 Because the Bible says in Acts chapter 16 verse 25 and at midnight
00:00:30 Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God
00:00:37 And the prisoners heard them
00:00:40 And suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken
00:00:47 And immediately all the doors were opened
00:00:53 Everyone's bands were loosed
00:00:56 What if I told you that after we finished worshipping him today
00:01:02 The bands that are holding you
00:01:07 Are gonna have to turn
00:01:12 Somebody shout I promise you I'm getting free today
00:01:18 Today
00:01:20 Let me tell you why all of hell has been fighting you
00:01:26 Is because your worship is bad for business
00:01:33 Your worship is bad for business and anytime you mess up somebody's economy they will fight you
00:01:45 With everything they have but God told me to tell you that your worship is about to shake the very
00:01:53 Foundation of the thing that has your entire family held captive
00:01:58 If you believe it before you sit down high-five three people and tell them I promise you you got freedom on the way
00:02:04 You may be seated in the presence of the Lord
00:02:13 You've heard this story before
00:02:15 Paul and Silas in prison
00:02:19 What you may not know is that this story happens
00:02:26 During what's called Paul's second missionary journey
00:02:32 What what Paul's second missionary journey is
00:02:37 During what's called Paul's second missionary journey
00:02:41 What what's the missionary journey a missionary journey is when a person goes to a foreign place
00:02:48 To simply share the gospel
00:02:51 It's a missionary trip a missionary journey and Lord. He sponsored it himself because Paul was a business owner
00:02:58 He was a tent maker. He made money on the side. So he wasn't just a minister
00:03:03 He was a businessman and so he was able to make enough money
00:03:07 Making tents so that he could go make disciples. So you see this is why
00:03:12 You want to pray in this year of wealth and wisdom?
00:03:15 It's because if your money doesn't help you to reach your purpose. What's the point?
00:03:21 If if you're gonna become wealthy and become selfish what's the point
00:03:29 The purpose of wealth is to give you freedom to do what God has called you to do
00:03:34 Somebody shot I'm not clocking in this this year. I'm not clocking in
00:03:39 Paul traveled on a foreign trip to share the gospel
00:03:46 Now this is crazy because if you knew Paul in his former life you wouldn't think he was worthy to preach
00:03:57 Paul's old job other than tent making was the persecution of Christians
00:04:03 He literally imprisoned and murdered people for believing in God and now here he is in
00:04:12 Prison for the same thing. He put people in prison for
00:04:17 Now, let me just say this off top that God is not petty like that
00:04:23 But ain't nobody gonna do nothing to you that God don't make sure it happens to them
00:04:27 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want. He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:32 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:34 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:36 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:38 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:40 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:42 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:44 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:46 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:48 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:50 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:52 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:54 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:56 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:04:58 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:05:00 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:05:02 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:05:04 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:05:06 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:05:08 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:05:10 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:05:12 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:05:14 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:05:16 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:05:18 He's not gonna make sure that you're not getting what you want
00:05:20 There is somebody right now that you think is so far gone
00:05:22 There is somebody right now that you think is so far gone
00:05:24 And you'll say, "Ain't nothing gonna help him."
00:05:26 You might not be able to help him, but God can.
00:05:28 You might not be able to help him, but God can.
00:05:30 Can I speak to that parent who has a son or a daughter
00:05:32 Can I speak to that parent who has a son or a daughter
00:05:34 that's so wayward that you're looking at them and you're saying,
00:05:36 "I don't even know what's wrong with you. This is not how I raised you.
00:05:38 I don't know why you're going in that direction."
00:05:40 Can I just speak to you right now
00:05:42 that when God decides to get involved
00:05:44 on their road to Damascus,
00:05:46 He will blind them
00:05:48 and they will come up saying,
00:05:50 "I once was blind,
00:05:52 but now I see."
00:05:54 but now I see."
00:05:56 After years of persecuting Christians,
00:05:58 God says,
00:06:00 "I have need of you,
00:06:02 and I want you to undo
00:06:04 what you did."
00:06:06 "I want you now to undo
00:06:08 what you did."
00:06:10 See, you've got to understand that sometimes God gives
00:06:12 certain people experiences in the area
00:06:14 so that when He sends them back,
00:06:16 they go with knowledge.
00:06:18 Are y'all listening to me?
00:06:20 See, if you've never been in prison,
00:06:22 you don't really know how to do prison ministry.
00:06:24 You can speak at it,
00:06:26 but you can't speak to it.
00:06:28 Come on, y'all.
00:06:30 If you ain't ever been broke, you can talk about faith,
00:06:32 but if you ever been broke
00:06:34 and God still found a way
00:06:36 to keep the rent paid and to keep the car
00:06:38 in your possession and to put food on the table,
00:06:40 when you really been through it,
00:06:42 you can talk to it.
00:06:44 Somebody say, "I've been there before."
00:06:46 When your heart has been broken
00:06:48 and you came to church and praised God
00:06:50 through a divorce and you praised God
00:06:52 through pain and you praised God
00:06:54 through suicide and you
00:06:56 praised God through all kinds of
00:06:58 stuff, when you get in a church
00:07:00 and your worship is actually rooted in something
00:07:02 you've been through, you've got to understand
00:07:04 that a worship that's rooted in something
00:07:06 I've been through is different than a worship
00:07:08 with me talking at something
00:07:10 when I've been through it.
00:07:12 I know what it takes to get out of it.
00:07:14 I need you to identify yourself.
00:07:20 Anybody been through anything in here?
00:07:22 Do me a favor. Tap your name with something.
00:07:27 I'm cute, but I've been through something.
00:07:29 And don't look at me like that.
00:07:31 You know I can tell by you looking at me
00:07:32 what you think about me.
00:07:33 I'm cute, but I've been through something.
00:07:35 You look at me raising these kids,
00:07:37 talking about you make it so easy.
00:07:38 Oh, it might look easy, but baby,
00:07:39 it was hard as hell.
00:07:40 I have been through a lot.
00:07:42 You don't understand what I have been through.
00:07:44 I felt like giving up.
00:07:45 I felt like throwing in the towel.
00:07:46 I threw my hands up, and I did quit,
00:07:49 but the Lord wouldn't let me.
00:07:51 And every once in a while when you're going
00:08:00 through this, you will meet people
00:08:03 who will be glad to meet you at first,
00:08:09 but they will regret what they found out
00:08:11 the real you is all about.
00:08:13 When Paul showed up into the city,
00:08:17 they say, "Here he comes.
00:08:18 "He's the guy who came to murder.
00:08:20 "He's about to help us."
00:08:21 They don't recognize that he's coming back,
00:08:23 but he ain't coming the same.
00:08:25 And I hope that God changes your life so much
00:08:29 that when you come back, people come expecting you
00:08:31 to be who you were.
00:08:32 But when you show up in a different form,
00:08:36 they get frustrated.
00:08:37 Let me show you.
00:08:38 Some of them already told you
00:08:39 they don't like who you changed into.
00:08:40 They don't text you no more.
00:08:41 They don't call you no more.
00:08:43 They don't invite you no more.
00:08:44 That's their way of saying,
00:08:45 "We don't like you no more,"
00:08:46 and I want you to look at them and say,
00:08:47 "Guess what?
00:08:48 "I don't like you either.
00:08:49 "I don't like who I was when I was around you.
00:08:54 "I don't like what I became in your presence.
00:08:56 "I don't like the conversations we used to have.
00:08:59 "Thank you for rejecting me because you proved
00:09:02 "to me that I actually did change."
00:09:07 I don't know who this is for,
00:09:09 but I want you to elbow somebody
00:09:10 who ain't going to get offended
00:09:11 and tell them God said he's going to break every chain.
00:09:13 He's going to break every chain.
00:09:14 He's going to break every chain.
00:09:16 So they--he gets there,
00:09:24 and because he doesn't come in the same frame--
00:09:27 Watch this.
00:09:29 The last time he was around killing folks,
00:09:32 they said nothing.
00:09:34 He came back spreading the gospel.
00:09:35 They arrested him.
00:09:37 Have you ever got in trouble
00:09:39 when you wasn't doing nothing wrong?
00:09:41 And you said, "Now, if you was going to get me,
00:09:45 "you should have got me when I was worth being got,
00:09:48 "but now I'm over here getting it,
00:09:50 "and now you want to get me."
00:09:52 Put Paul in prison.
00:09:56 Paul is in jail.
00:09:58 He doesn't have any idea what for,
00:10:01 and when he gets there, he meets the magician.
00:10:05 Who the Bible says is a false prophet,
00:10:08 and when Paul gets there,
00:10:11 there's a man that wants to have a meeting with Paul.
00:10:13 He's over the government.
00:10:15 He wants to have a meeting with Paul,
00:10:16 but the magician, who has power
00:10:18 because he is in the business
00:10:20 of bringing economy into the city,
00:10:22 he says, "Don't meet with Paul,
00:10:25 "otherwise I'm going to take my business elsewhere."
00:10:27 So the magician stops Paul from having a meeting
00:10:31 with somebody who wants to meet with Paul
00:10:33 for the purposes of sharing the gospel.
00:10:35 The magician gets in the way of Paul's journey.
00:10:40 Paul looks at the man.
00:10:42 So this is how you know Paul wasn't scared.
00:10:44 Paul looked at the man and said,
00:10:46 "So you're going to get in between me and my destiny?"
00:10:48 Paul looked at him.
00:10:51 Read your Bible.
00:10:52 God didn't say it.
00:10:53 Paul looked at the man and said,
00:10:55 "Because you are getting in the way
00:10:58 "of what God has for me to do,"
00:11:00 he says, "I command you to be blind."
00:11:03 Did you not know that you have enough authority
00:11:08 to take your enemy's sight?
00:11:10 Paul says, from this point forward, watch this,
00:11:17 "You will be blind for a season."
00:11:20 I don't know who this is for.
00:11:22 This is the time for you to start your work
00:11:26 because everything that has been attacking you
00:11:28 is about to be blinded for a season.
00:11:31 Hear what I'm telling you.
00:11:35 Now, it's not going to be forever.
00:11:37 They're going to get their mojo back.
00:11:39 They're going to get their second wind,
00:11:40 and the devil's going to come back.
00:11:42 But right now, God says,
00:11:44 "I'm about to blind your enemies for a season
00:11:47 "so you can get this work done
00:11:49 "without looking over your shoulders."
00:11:50 Who am I speaking to in here?
00:11:56 Paul is on his missionary journey.
00:11:58 He's sharing the gospel.
00:12:00 He's bad for business because the magician
00:12:03 is angry with him.
00:12:04 So what Paul does, and go back and read it,
00:12:07 he comes back on the second missionary journey
00:12:10 to see the churches that he set up,
00:12:13 to see if they were progressing,
00:12:15 to see if Super Monday was working.
00:12:17 He came back to see whether they should continue
00:12:23 with LHU, Lighthouse University,
00:12:26 or should they stop it.
00:12:27 He came back to check on NYT.
00:12:29 He came to see if Hersey was doing good.
00:12:31 He came to see if the Mountain Men's Ministry
00:12:32 was doing good.
00:12:33 And when he came back,
00:12:34 all of the ministries were doing
00:12:36 exactly what he wanted them to do.
00:12:39 But now, when it seems like everything is going well,
00:12:44 here comes the devil again.
00:12:46 See, you get mad when it's one thing after another,
00:12:52 but one thing after another means that
00:12:54 you are being used by God.
00:12:56 And the enemy is throwing all of his resources
00:12:59 to get you to quit.
00:13:00 Because let me tell you something,
00:13:02 if you don't stop, you're going to change the world.
00:13:04 If you don't stop, your son is actually going to make it.
00:13:09 If you don't stop, your daughter's actually going to succeed.
00:13:12 If you don't stop, your marriage is actually going to make it.
00:13:15 If you don't stop, that business is actually going to open.
00:13:18 If you don't stop, God is actually going to give you
00:13:21 a million-dollar idea.
00:13:23 If you don't stop, it's going to open for you.
00:13:25 They that wait on the Lord.
00:13:28 Can you do me a favor?
00:13:31 Can you encourage your neighbor?
00:13:32 Tell them, "Please don't stop."
00:13:35 Don't stop till you get enough.
00:13:39 Don't stop. Don't stop. I mean, don't stop.
00:13:42 I'm talking about when you didn't have any customers all week.
00:13:45 Don't stop.
00:13:46 I'm talking about when your phone didn't ring.
00:13:48 Don't stop.
00:13:49 I'm talking about when you didn't get any likes on Instagram.
00:13:51 Don't stop.
00:13:52 I'm talking about when nobody hits you up on Facebook.
00:13:55 Don't stop.
00:13:56 Why? Because if you stay consistent,
00:13:58 God is going to open up the windows of heaven
00:14:00 and pour out a blessing on you
00:14:02 that you don't have room enough to receive.
00:14:05 Keep filling out applications.
00:14:10 Keep showing up and let them tell you you're overqualified.
00:14:13 Keep showing up until they call you chairman.
00:14:16 Somebody going to get it.
00:14:18 Keep showing up until they call you the greatest they ever lived.
00:14:21 Keep showing up.
00:14:23 There is something to be said
00:14:29 about going back to make sure that it's working.
00:14:33 And when he gets back on the second missionary journey,
00:14:36 he's with a guy named Barnabas.
00:14:39 And this is getting ready to get some of y'all.
00:14:41 Barnabas said, "As we go on our next journey,
00:14:45 I want to bring a man named John Mark with us."
00:14:48 Paul said, "No, because I don't trust John Mark."
00:14:52 He said, "I don't trust John Mark, so I tell you what.
00:14:58 Since you do, Barnabas, you and John Mark go that way,
00:15:01 I'm getting ready to call in another dude named Silas,
00:15:04 who I do trust.
00:15:06 Can I just help some of y'all?"
00:15:08 You got to understand that there are some people
00:15:11 who God assigned to your first journey
00:15:13 that are not--
00:15:15 that are not assigned to your second journey.
00:15:23 The people who came here with you
00:15:25 doesn't necessarily mean God wants them to go there with you.
00:15:29 And sometimes you got to recognize
00:15:32 who you cannot bring with you.
00:15:35 Oh, God.
00:15:39 This is going to be a tough one,
00:15:40 because some of y'all want to bring everybody,
00:15:42 because you Peter Pan, and you Robin Hood,
00:15:45 and you the nice person,
00:15:46 and you got to bring everybody with you.
00:15:48 But God says there are some people who can't go here,
00:15:52 they don't have an invitation,
00:15:53 and don't you mess around and get locked out
00:15:55 because you share your key with somebody
00:15:57 who hasn't been invited.
00:15:59 You got to know who can go with you.
00:16:03 You don't get to go because we got the same last name.
00:16:11 Uh-uh.
00:16:13 Come on now.
00:16:14 You don't get to go
00:16:15 because we've been friends since high school.
00:16:17 You don't get to grow.
00:16:19 And this is--people will hold you
00:16:21 to the loyalty of yesterday.
00:16:24 I don't have to pay you today
00:16:26 for what you did yesterday.
00:16:27 I paid you yesterday for what you did yesterday.
00:16:31 If you want favor today, show up again.
00:16:37 Don't you let nobody hold you to forever
00:16:40 for what they did five years ago.
00:16:42 You got to know when it's John Mark's opportunity
00:16:45 and when it's Silas' chance.
00:16:48 My question for you is
00:16:52 who have you opened the door for
00:16:54 that God closed it on?
00:16:57 And who are you trying to drag
00:17:00 that's showing you they don't want to go?
00:17:04 You're going to be so tired when you arrive
00:17:07 that you won't have energy for your destiny
00:17:10 because you have drunk some dead weight
00:17:12 into the future.
00:17:14 And watch this.
00:17:15 Anybody you got to beg to go,
00:17:17 you're going to have to beg to stay.
00:17:19 You better make sure
00:17:21 you are traveling with somebody
00:17:23 who wants to go.
00:17:25 Who am I talking to in here?
00:17:31 I said, who am I talking to?
00:17:34 The person that you trusted last time,
00:17:42 you can't trust this time.
00:17:44 The person you called the last time
00:17:50 you went through a crisis,
00:17:51 you better not tell them your business this season.
00:17:58 That was Barnabas' season.
00:18:01 Could you imagine
00:18:05 if Paul would have ended up
00:18:07 in prison with Barnabas?
00:18:10 He would have never got out
00:18:12 because Barnabas would have been
00:18:13 complaining and not praising.
00:18:16 Do me a favor and make sure
00:18:18 the person next to you is doing
00:18:19 exactly what you've been doing all week,
00:18:21 all Sunday, all day.
00:18:23 Because if you've been praising God all day
00:18:25 and they've been sitting there like,
00:18:28 "You ain't getting out."
00:18:30 Look to your left.
00:18:34 Look, look.
00:18:35 Is your name John
00:18:37 or is your name Silas?
00:18:38 Because I know where I'm headed.
00:18:40 I just need to make sure
00:18:41 you're headed there with me.
00:18:42 And please don't play with me.
00:18:44 I will show you the dough.
00:18:46 I will ask you to move off of my rope.
00:18:48 I will excuse you out of my life
00:18:50 because I have fought too hard
00:18:52 to get here, to get stuck.
00:18:56 If you're in the balcony
00:18:58 and you hear me, make some noise.
00:19:00 You know how exhausting it is
00:19:10 to be almost out
00:19:12 dealing with somebody
00:19:13 who's satisfied with being in.
00:19:15 Just when you're about to get your mind
00:19:20 free from the negativity,
00:19:21 here they come with some
00:19:22 most stupid stuff.
00:19:24 (audience cheering)
00:19:26 Reminding you about what...
00:19:28 Listen, you need the kind of people
00:19:33 in your life who know what to bring you.
00:19:36 You need the kind of people
00:19:37 in your life who understand
00:19:39 that this ain't the season
00:19:40 to be barging you down
00:19:41 with some gossip.
00:19:42 I need you to encourage me
00:19:44 so I can encourage myself.
00:19:47 (audience cheering)
00:19:53 (audience chattering)
00:19:56 So, God, the Bible says,
00:20:00 and I don't know what it is
00:20:02 about this couple right here,
00:20:03 but I keep saying, y'all,
00:20:04 the Lord has put you on my heart
00:20:05 two weeks in a row.
00:20:06 I speak right now in the name of Jesus
00:20:08 that whatever you start,
00:20:09 God's about to bring it to pass.
00:20:11 (audience cheering)
00:20:13 I don't know what you got your hand to,
00:20:15 but don't you take your hand off of it
00:20:17 because God says this is your
00:20:18 second time around,
00:20:19 and he's about to deliver you
00:20:20 in this season in the name of Jesus.
00:20:22 (audience cheering)
00:20:25 The couple that worships together,
00:20:31 y'all been praying together,
00:20:33 y'all been fasting together,
00:20:35 y'all been holding hands
00:20:36 in the midnight hour.
00:20:37 I speak against every devil
00:20:39 and every curse.
00:20:40 I come up against every witch
00:20:42 and every warlock.
00:20:43 I come up against every spirit
00:20:45 of rejection,
00:20:46 and I speak that this is your season.
00:20:48 (audience cheering)
00:20:52 You've been on my mind for two weeks,
00:20:55 and I don't even know y'all name.
00:20:57 The Bible says that Paul and Barnabas
00:21:02 go their separate ways.
00:21:04 This is the season you're going to find out
00:21:07 whether you were John, Mark, or Silas.
00:21:11 (audience cheering)
00:21:14 And you better stop ignoring them signs
00:21:16 (audience cheering)
00:21:19 'cause where you're going,
00:21:21 you're going to need somebody
00:21:22 with the same energy you got.
00:21:24 (audience cheering)
00:21:27 You can't be around people
00:21:30 who are around people you can't trust.
00:21:33 (audience cheering)
00:21:36 You're not hearing me.
00:21:40 This ain't the time for you to be connected
00:21:44 and yoked to double-minded people
00:21:47 because I can't share my vision with you
00:21:50 when you're going to go share with somebody
00:21:53 who's going to try to head me off at the pads.
00:21:55 I need to know not only can I trust you,
00:21:58 but can I trust who you serve?
00:22:00 (audience cheering)
00:22:03 I don't know who this is for.
00:22:10 I'm about to prophesy to you,
00:22:12 and it's going to hurt,
00:22:13 but your circle is shrinking.
00:22:16 (audience cheering)
00:22:19 And you are about to lose people
00:22:24 who were walking with you when you arrived.
00:22:28 And here's what they're going to say.
00:22:30 If it wasn't for me,
00:22:32 then you wouldn't be here.
00:22:34 To this, you say to them,
00:22:36 if you made me, make another one.
00:22:39 (audience cheering)
00:22:42 See how that go?
00:22:45 Because they don't recognize
00:22:47 they're being connected to you.
00:22:50 Don't you make me, ah, pipe.
00:22:53 You right, you right.
00:22:55 You right, it almost came out.
00:23:00 You right.
00:23:01 John Mark, you can't go
00:23:09 'cause the Lord didn't show me you in my future.
00:23:14 (audience cheering)
00:23:17 Stop apologizing to people
00:23:19 who want to go with you,
00:23:21 but are not assigned to you.
00:23:23 You owe nobody an apology
00:23:25 that you did not extend a courtesy
00:23:27 that God did not tell you to extend.
00:23:30 You owe it to yourself to be obedient
00:23:35 to who God put in your life.
00:23:37 And the Bible says that God spoke to Paul
00:23:40 in a night vision and in a dream
00:23:42 and said, "Go to Macedonia."
00:23:45 See, you will disassociate yourself
00:23:48 from people who should not go
00:23:50 simply by where you go.
00:23:52 If you keep going where he told you to go,
00:23:58 you will find out that they don't have
00:24:01 a ticket in that class.
00:24:03 He said, "Go to Macedonia."
00:24:08 And when he got there,
00:24:10 a woman said, "I've been expecting you."
00:24:15 Watch what she says.
00:24:19 "Come to my house."
00:24:21 Now, anybody who's ever been
00:24:23 on a missionary trip recognizes
00:24:25 that there ain't no Airbnbs.
00:24:27 Ain't no Uber.
00:24:34 No Lyft.
00:24:37 So most times when you go
00:24:39 on a missionary journey,
00:24:41 you have to stay with somebody.
00:24:43 And they probably don't have
00:24:47 the accommodations you have.
00:24:49 Everybody say, "You want to be helpful?"
00:24:53 I remember one time I went to Africa
00:24:55 and I went to a church
00:24:57 where they literally cut the head
00:24:59 off of a goat in front of the church
00:25:02 to feed the people who had walked miles
00:25:06 to come hear us preach.
00:25:08 And you have never smelled a stench
00:25:11 like three-day-old blood.
00:25:13 You have no idea
00:25:18 what death smells like.
00:25:22 The minister stepped in the blood
00:25:27 and then trapped it in the car.
00:25:30 And when we got in the car the next day,
00:25:33 the smell was so horrific
00:25:37 that I vowed I was never going back to Africa again.
00:25:40 But I'm called there.
00:25:45 I'm called there.
00:25:48 And it pulled me back.
00:25:50 And anybody who knows me
00:25:51 know how men's smells do.
00:25:53 I can't take it.
00:25:56 I have a diffuser in my HVAC system
00:25:59 right now at my house.
00:26:01 I want it all over.
00:26:02 You walk in my house,
00:26:03 you think you're at a hotel,
00:26:04 smell like the Western.
00:26:06 Y'all act like y'all don't know
00:26:07 about that Western smell.
00:26:09 He said, "I'm here."
00:26:15 Lady said, "Come to the house."
00:26:17 Watch this.
00:26:18 "Because when you are where
00:26:20 you are supposed to be,
00:26:22 you don't have to force your way in.
00:26:27 You're invited in.
00:26:32 And I speak into your life now
00:26:35 that you're getting ready
00:26:37 to stop forcing yourself
00:26:40 into positions that God doesn't have for you.
00:26:44 You are about to be so aligned
00:26:46 with what God has for you
00:26:48 that there are going to be
00:26:49 so many invitations
00:26:50 you won't even know which ones to take.
00:26:53 I promise you,
00:26:55 if some of you all will settle down right now,
00:26:57 you are starting to recognize
00:26:59 that people are looking for you.
00:27:03 I speak to your skill set.
00:27:06 I speak to your business set.
00:27:09 I speak to your personality.
00:27:11 That everything you are
00:27:13 and everything you have to offer
00:27:15 is going to now be on an invitation list
00:27:18 where people are going to start asking you to come."
00:27:21 Watch this.
00:27:22 "So they can pay you for your presence."
00:27:25 Who am I talking to?
00:27:29 Anybody here got an idea
00:27:30 that you need God to breathe on?
00:27:32 Anybody got a business idea that you need?
00:27:35 God says, "I'm about to put your name on the list
00:27:38 and you will be invited."
00:27:41 That's why you got to stop forcing yourself
00:27:44 because every time you force yourself
00:27:46 in a room you should not be in,
00:27:48 you are unavailable to be in the ones you should be
00:27:51 because you're somewhere faking like you ought to be
00:27:54 where you need to be somewhere
00:27:55 where you're authentically wanted.
00:28:01 I don't want you sitting at the table with five people
00:28:03 you acting like you like no more.
00:28:06 You don't need to be sitting at a table with five people
00:28:09 because you only like one.
00:28:12 God's about to put your name on the list
00:28:18 and you're not going to have to force yourself
00:28:20 into any other rooms.
00:28:22 They're just going to be like,
00:28:23 "You know what? I'm looking for somebody
00:28:25 who does X, Y, Z."
00:28:27 You're going to be like, "That's what I do."
00:28:29 You're going to be like, "That's crazy."
00:28:31 No, it ain't crazy. It's God.
00:28:33 And just remember I told you
00:28:35 that's what he's about to do.
00:28:37 This is not serendipity.
00:28:41 It won't be a shock.
00:28:42 I'm just telling you it's about to happen.
00:28:45 You're just going to get paid more
00:28:47 because God said so
00:28:49 for the same job.
00:28:57 He says, "I want you to come to Macedonia."
00:29:02 Now, can you imagine what Paul said?
00:29:04 Paul said, "Macedonia?
00:29:06 Why I'm moving to Houston?
00:29:10 I mean Macedonia."
00:29:12 There you go. There you go.
00:29:16 You see, I love when people get what I'm saying.
00:29:18 Why did I come to Houston?
00:29:20 Why would I leave South Florida and come--
00:29:22 I ain't got no family there.
00:29:24 Ain't no job waiting on me there.
00:29:26 I don't know those crazy highways.
00:29:29 What's a feeder?
00:29:31 I didn't move--
00:29:34 Where I grew up,
00:29:36 you can get anywhere in five minutes.
00:29:38 You mean I signed up for 45 minutes worth of traffic
00:29:41 to go to my neighbor's house?
00:29:43 Who can you turn anywhere?
00:29:50 And what's the difference between West Park
00:29:52 and the Beltway?
00:29:54 And what's a Beltway?
00:29:55 And then what's 99, a bigger belt?
00:29:57 Oh, yeah.
00:30:04 The inner loop, the outer loop,
00:30:06 the bigger loop, the other loop.
00:30:08 610, I-10, 290, Highway 6, 249, 288, too much?
00:30:16 [laughter]
00:30:18 Who told me to move to a city
00:30:26 where my window gonna get broke every day
00:30:29 'cause of a rock?
00:30:31 And who said that it's okay
00:30:42 to be 130 for 95 days straight?
00:30:46 And rain, even when it ain't on the radar.
00:30:52 God did.
00:31:02 And God said,
00:31:08 "Yes, I sent you to a city
00:31:11 "where you have no family,
00:31:13 "where you have no friends,
00:31:15 "where you have no job,
00:31:16 "where you feel lonely,
00:31:18 "where they got an accent you can't understand,
00:31:20 "where their hair different,
00:31:22 "everything's changed,
00:31:24 "and you are exactly where you're supposed to be
00:31:27 "because you will only be successful
00:31:30 "where you are invited,
00:31:32 "not where you're comfortable."
00:31:34 Preach, D.R., preach.
00:31:36 Preach.
00:31:37 Preach.
00:31:38 Preach.
00:31:40 You were comfortable in Seattle,
00:31:43 you were comfortable in New Orleans,
00:31:45 you were comfortable in California,
00:31:47 but you were called to Texas.
00:31:50 And some of y'all online watching me right now,
00:31:55 you sitting in Atlanta,
00:31:57 you sitting in Miami,
00:31:58 you sitting in L.A.,
00:31:59 and you are unhappy,
00:32:00 talking about, "That's my pastor."
00:32:02 You better listen to that dream,
00:32:04 and you better buy that one-way ticket,
00:32:06 and you better go in the direction
00:32:08 that God is calling you
00:32:09 because let me tell you,
00:32:10 when you get here,
00:32:11 you're going to find a room full of people
00:32:13 who did exactly what you're scared to do.
00:32:16 If you ain't from here,
00:32:20 but God sent you here,
00:32:21 make some noise.
00:32:23 Watch this.
00:32:30 Watch this.
00:32:31 Let me tell you,
00:32:32 I know what I'm talking about.
00:32:34 I preached in Indianapolis, Indiana,
00:32:37 and when I was there last,
00:32:40 there was a lady with a little bitty girl
00:32:42 at the altar,
00:32:43 and I saw this little girl,
00:32:45 and I started prophesying to the mama.
00:32:47 I said, "That baby is special."
00:32:49 I said, "That little baby is special.
00:32:51 "That little girl is going to do something."
00:32:53 And when I say do something,
00:32:54 I ain't talking about being a dentist.
00:32:56 I'm talking about owning all of the dentistry
00:32:58 places that she will open in the city.
00:33:00 I'm talking about whatever she wants to do,
00:33:02 she's going to be amazing.
00:33:04 I prophesied to her.
00:33:07 She starts to look for a house
00:33:10 to move to Houston
00:33:12 because she believes
00:33:14 that the word that I spoke over her daughter,
00:33:17 her daughter needs to sit under it.
00:33:20 That ain't the southern part.
00:33:22 She starts looking for a realtor
00:33:25 and stumbled up on a girl named Kiana Singleton.
00:33:29 For those of you who don't know,
00:33:32 that's my sister.
00:33:33 So I prophesied to the baby.
00:33:36 Now she's about to buy a house
00:33:38 that she's about to close on in 30 days,
00:33:40 which my sister's going to get 3%
00:33:42 because one word from your mouth
00:33:44 is about to bless your whole house.
00:33:46 I don't know who I'm talking to,
00:33:48 but I speak right now in the name of Jesus.
00:33:52 That one thing you're going to say.
00:34:01 Y'all don't understand
00:34:03 that in these last days,
00:34:05 people are moving from cities
00:34:07 to sit under a word
00:34:09 that can be bread and light to their path.
00:34:14 Don't you play when God has you under an anointing
00:34:18 because if you take it for granted,
00:34:20 God will move you
00:34:22 and transplant somebody in your space.
00:34:25 And once you get out,
00:34:26 you can't get back in.
00:34:29 (applause)
00:34:31 I'm wise enough to know
00:34:38 that I am in a portal
00:34:40 that every day is doing this.
00:34:43 There's going to come a day
00:34:47 I'm going to stand on the stage
00:34:48 and ain't nobody going to hit nothing I have to say.
00:34:50 There's going to be a day
00:34:51 y'all don't even see it coming,
00:34:53 but you got to understand
00:34:54 that one day somebody's going to look
00:34:55 at the Lighthouse Church and say,
00:34:56 "Oh, that church used to be…
00:34:58 Oh, it was hot back in the day."
00:35:01 But somebody else is coming along right now
00:35:03 and you got to understand
00:35:04 that you have to master decline.
00:35:07 If you keep thinking you're going to be
00:35:11 where you are the rest of your life,
00:35:12 you better speak to somebody
00:35:13 who will tell you they wake up with pains
00:35:15 they didn't have last year.
00:35:16 You got to master decline
00:35:19 because you will not be who you are today.
00:35:22 Tomorrow.
00:35:25 The portal's closing.
00:35:28 That's why you have to take advantage
00:35:30 while it's still open.
00:35:33 She's moving to Texas.
00:35:38 Now, here's the crazy thing.
00:35:41 For all of you crazy people
00:35:43 who moved to Houston with nothing,
00:35:45 welcome to the party
00:35:47 because that's how I got here.
00:35:49 I moved here
00:35:52 two weeks after Hurricane Ike had hit.
00:35:56 And when I got here,
00:35:58 everything was flooded.
00:35:59 Everybody's furniture was on the street.
00:36:02 And I said, "God,
00:36:04 you mean to tell me you sent me to a place
00:36:08 where the mosquitoes are big enough
00:36:10 to fly me out of here?"
00:36:12 Y'all know how the mosquitoes grow
00:36:15 during the hurricane season.
00:36:16 I could have grabbed one of them just…
00:36:19 And God said, "Yep.
00:36:21 I moved you to a city
00:36:23 where there is no power.
00:36:25 And I moved you to a city
00:36:29 where y'all got to set up fold-up chairs outside
00:36:31 and have church in the sun.
00:36:33 And I moved you to a city
00:36:36 where the sun is so disrespectful
00:36:39 that it will burn you without your permission.
00:36:46 And by the way,
00:36:48 I have the worst allergies known to man.
00:36:51 And God sent me here
00:36:54 where allergies were created.
00:36:56 This is where the allergies reside."
00:36:58 The allergies reside?
00:37:01 And in spite of it all,
00:37:07 getting here
00:37:09 and then thinking it was the promised land
00:37:13 only to be fired
00:37:15 for coming
00:37:17 and embarrassed and humiliated
00:37:20 in front of thousands of people,
00:37:23 I stand here today to tell you,
00:37:26 if I had a chance to go back
00:37:28 and do it all over again,
00:37:31 I would have left a week earlier.
00:37:33 But God does not tell you
00:37:35 what you're going to.
00:37:37 He just tells you where to go
00:37:40 to see if you will trust Him.
00:37:42 And that weight of faith
00:37:44 that weight upon the Lord
00:37:46 shall renew their strength.
00:37:49 They will mount up with wings like eagles.
00:37:51 They will walk and be weary and run and not faint.
00:37:54 If you keep yourself together,
00:37:58 one day you'll be glad you came too.
00:38:01 You were never going to get married
00:38:07 in that town you was living in.
00:38:09 You knew everybody anyway.
00:38:14 Your child was never going to succeed in a town
00:38:18 where every teacher knew about their history.
00:38:21 Sometimes God has to move you away from your past
00:38:25 so He can show you your future,
00:38:27 give you another opportunity for people to give you a chance
00:38:31 and not judge you based on who you were
00:38:33 because I am no longer Saul the murderer,
00:38:35 I am Paul the prophet.
00:38:37 So sometimes God has to move your way
00:38:42 from your history,
00:38:44 move you into your future where you are a mystery
00:38:48 and see if you have the character to build yourself up
00:38:52 so that you can make a move and change the world.
00:38:56 I know you didn't want to leave South Florida,
00:39:00 but had you stayed you'd be dead, sir.
00:39:03 They would have killed you out of pure jealousy and envy.
00:39:10 Sometimes He has to move you where nobody knows you
00:39:12 so you can stay alive long enough to find out why you were born.
00:39:16 So yes, you lonely and you don't know where to go
00:39:25 and you got to use your navigation every time you get in the car.
00:39:28 I feel like I'm talking to somebody in here.
00:39:38 You have been to the movies more times by yourself
00:39:40 in the last two years than you've ever been in your entire life.
00:39:44 But watch what's about to take off and pop off.
00:39:49 You're going to say like David, it was good that I was afflicted.
00:39:53 I did not want to move to Macedonia.
00:39:55 I did not want to move to Texas.
00:39:57 I didn't. What is a Cypress?
00:39:59 What is a woodlands?
00:40:00 What is a sugar land?
00:40:02 What is a pear land?
00:40:03 What is a humble?
00:40:04 Is it humble, humble?
00:40:05 I don't know, but I'm here.
00:40:08 I just want to send a word of encouragement
00:40:24 for anybody who dropped everything to get here.
00:40:26 Who am I talking to?
00:40:31 You dropped everything and you just bought a one-way ticket,
00:40:36 put everything in the car and just shipped it.
00:40:39 Babies don't got friends in the school system,
00:40:42 don't know nobody on the block.
00:40:43 You're just here.
00:40:44 Stand up if I'm talking to you.
00:40:49 Look at this.
00:40:53 Look at this.
00:40:56 You are standing next to somebody who knows exactly how you feel.
00:41:06 And Macedonia is where it jumped off.
00:41:11 It's always the place you were sent, not the place you went.
00:41:16 God's promises are in the places he sends you,
00:41:23 not the places you want to go.
00:41:25 And yes, there are other cities that you would have a good time in,
00:41:29 but you too old to be trying to have fun.
00:41:34 Don't play with me. I'm not playing with y'all.
00:41:36 I'm not playing. I'm serious.
00:41:39 You too old to be talking about day parties.
00:41:41 You too old to be talking about cocktails.
00:41:44 You too old to be talking about martinis.
00:41:46 You got some money to make.
00:41:48 You need a retirement plan.
00:41:50 You got a family to build.
00:41:51 This ain't about fun.
00:41:53 This is about the future.
00:41:55 And if you want to have some fun, start your own restaurant.
00:42:03 And make them pay you for the atmosphere.
00:42:05 You will sit here.
00:42:14 And you've been crying ever since you've been here.
00:42:17 So I ain't even in my sermon right now.
00:42:21 This is what you call ministering because I feel y'all,
00:42:23 y'all pulling on my spirit and I'm trying to get back up there.
00:42:26 And you know, the haters going to say, he ain't preaching Jesus.
00:42:28 Watch the whole sermon and stop talking.
00:42:30 I'm talking to the people who have been pulled to a place.
00:42:36 They had no roots. You didn't know nothing about this place.
00:42:39 You thought it was tumbleweed still when you got here.
00:42:43 Got here and found out.
00:42:48 That this is the fastest growing economy in the nation.
00:42:52 And you didn't realize that this state, even though it offers everything you don't want.
00:43:00 In the flesh offers everything that God wants you to have in the spirit.
00:43:05 And you're about to set up roots in this place.
00:43:09 And watch what I'm telling you. South Florida eyes have not seen.
00:43:13 Ears have not heard. You haven't even imagined the good things that God had.
00:43:18 Come here, man. Come here. Come here. Come here.
00:43:20 Come here.
00:43:26 Come here. I'll stop this whole sermon to minister to you.
00:43:29 You're not here by accident. God sent you here by design.
00:43:33 I prophesied the name of Jesus that God would bless you and increase your territory.
00:43:38 That you are going to be one who goes back and tells them, come see a man who can change anybody.
00:43:45 I speak wealth in your hands. I speak strength in your speech.
00:43:49 Speak glory over your life.
00:43:53 In the name of Jesus, you are not lost. You are home in the mighty name of Jesus.
00:44:02 You exactly where you should be. Glory to the name of the Lord.
00:44:07 Out of my seat. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
00:44:22 Listen to me. I'm sorry.
00:44:24 Macedonia by definition means the high place.
00:44:34 You don't recognize that as low as you feel you are at your high place.
00:44:41 Sometimes the feelings don't match the place.
00:44:51 You felt better where you were, but the truth is you were operating down here.
00:44:55 Now you're not doing as good, but watch God start to make that.
00:45:02 Sometimes the feelings don't match the place, but I'm telling you, you are where you're supposed to be.
00:45:12 Because you wouldn't be here if you wasn't supposed to be here.
00:45:20 It means the high place.
00:45:25 Just touch the name and say, we're in our high place.
00:45:31 But the high place will act a fool on you.
00:45:47 Because he messed up one economy with the magician.
00:45:52 Now he gets there. Here comes a little fortune telling girl.
00:45:57 Who is owned by men who make money off of her false prophecies.
00:46:03 He's bad for business again.
00:46:07 And the girl keeps following around and says, here come these men of God preaching the way of salvation.
00:46:16 Here come these holy rollers praising God on their answer machine service.
00:46:23 Here come these people talking about his train, feel the temple on a voicemail.
00:46:29 Here come these people naming a business, bless cupcakes.
00:46:43 Here they come preaching the way of salvation.
00:46:47 And the Bible says Paul got so annoyed with her that he rebuked her.
00:46:54 Look at me.
00:46:57 Sometimes you know you in the right place because the right place comes crowded with annoying people.
00:47:11 I preach black man in the month of February.
00:47:14 You think everywhere God has for you to go, you just going to find nice people who you get along with.
00:47:21 But God says, I'm calling you to annoying people.
00:47:26 To see if you can keep your cool and stay on your job and stay in your purpose, even around people who get on your nerves.
00:47:38 Who am I talking to in here today?
00:47:43 You are so powerful that you will be annoyed because when people see you doing well, they will either announce it or imitate it.
00:48:04 And here you are annoyed. She got a hair like me.
00:48:08 So you won't be the only one with blonde streaks and highlights.
00:48:16 You're going to be the only one that got braids in this season.
00:48:20 And you're going to walk around mad because somebody copying you.
00:48:24 Be blessed and happy that you doing enough that somebody wants to be seen being you and don't stop being you to keep them from copying.
00:48:34 Because the problem with copying me is you're always behind me.
00:48:38 So all I got to do is keep being me and that keeps you in your place.
00:48:42 You hear me? You hear me?
00:48:47 You keep being yourself. They stay behind you because as I'm being me, you have to be becoming me.
00:48:53 And as long as I'm doing me, I don't have to try.
00:48:57 It takes a lot of time to recreate it. It takes no effort to be it.
00:49:05 You're going to be annoyed.
00:49:11 And you can't ask God to get all of the annoying people out of your life.
00:49:16 [Audience talking]
00:49:23 How many of y'all work with some just annoying?
00:49:26 You hate to see them coming, don't you?
00:49:30 Oh my God. Don't speak to me. Hey girl.
00:49:34 Ugly self. Get on my nerve.
00:49:39 Misty, I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm just on one today.
00:49:45 [Audience talking]
00:49:47 You're going to get annoyed.
00:49:49 She just kept, here he comes, the way of the Lord.
00:49:57 Here he comes, the way of the Lord. Paul said, if you don't bag up off me.
00:50:01 This going to be one.
00:50:05 But watch what he does.
00:50:08 Paul understands that the woman isn't the issue.
00:50:14 The Bible says he speaks to the spirit in the woman.
00:50:16 Now here's what the church has to learn.
00:50:20 Because anytime somebody says the enemy, you put a person in your head.
00:50:23 The Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood.
00:50:27 But against principalities and spirits in high places.
00:50:30 Your problem ain't the girl at the job.
00:50:33 The problem is the spirit that's operating in her.
00:50:36 And if you keep talking to her, she won't change.
00:50:38 But Paul said to the spirit, come out of her.
00:50:42 I'm going to tell you something. If you ever get enough anointing to go on your job and start speaking to spirits.
00:50:46 If you ever, listen, if you ever get the kind of authority where you can speak to the spirit.
00:50:57 In order to speak to the spirit, you got to speak in the spirit.
00:51:03 The Bible says I was in the spirit on the Lord's day.
00:51:09 You have to be in the spirit. That's the only way you can handle annoying people is in the spirit.
00:51:13 Annoying circumstances have to be handled in the spirit.
00:51:19 When your spouse annoys you, you have to handle that in the spirit.
00:51:23 When your boss annoys you, you have to handle that in the spirit.
00:51:27 Because if you pop off, you're going to lose your job.
00:51:29 And let me tell you what's worse than an annoying person.
00:51:32 Bills you can't pay. Now that's bad.
00:51:35 Bible says, I promise you.
00:51:42 And I'm not, I'm not using a euphemism. His exact words were, she's annoying me.
00:51:47 The Bible says she annoyed Paul so much. That's verse 17 of chapter 25.
00:51:53 The Bible says that she did this so many days. Paul got annoyed.
00:51:57 The Lord told me to tell you how places come with annoying people.
00:52:03 You're not going to be a supervisor and not get annoyed.
00:52:05 You're not going to be over nothing and not be annoyed.
00:52:10 You're going to get betrayed by somebody you gave a shot to.
00:52:13 It is what it is.
00:52:16 What you going to do?
00:52:21 You going to quit because somebody annoyed you?
00:52:24 You going to lose your temper because somebody annoyed you?
00:52:31 You going to throw it all away because somebody annoyed you?
00:52:35 Or are you going to separate yourself from the annoyance by speaking to the spirit?
00:52:42 I'm going to give you a scripture that you need to never forget.
00:52:46 Luke chapter 10 verse 19.
00:52:48 Every time you are confronted with a demonic force.
00:52:54 The Bible says in Luke chapter 10 verse 19.
00:53:00 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions to overcome all powers of the enemy.
00:53:07 Nothing will harm you.
00:53:09 Somebody else say I receive it.
00:53:15 You have been given the power to step on every biting spirit.
00:53:21 Every stinging spirit.
00:53:24 You have the authority to trample on them.
00:53:28 The Bible says nothing shall harm you.
00:53:31 Walk in that authority.
00:53:39 Even when it's hurting it ain't harmful.
00:53:43 Luke chapter 10 verse 19.
00:53:54 Let me tell you something.
00:53:55 That kind of boldness is bad for business.
00:53:59 Because devils want you to shut up.
00:54:01 But he's trying to get life and death.
00:54:04 And if some of y'all had the courage to say I missed it.
00:54:06 What is it? Instead of being prideful and thinking you just going to get away with it.
00:54:10 I have just given you life and death is in the power of your.
00:54:15 Who am I helping? Who needs me?
00:54:19 I can shut up.
00:54:21 I can shut up and let y'all go home.
00:54:24 But I'm not finished with my job, but I can't give the benediction and we can be done.
00:54:27 Because every you got to understand y'all everybody don't want this.
00:54:31 There are some people like the fortune teller in here saying shut up.
00:54:35 Because you know demons go to church.
00:54:38 They just don't like to stay for long.
00:54:42 I'm going to tell y'all something.
00:54:45 Some of y'all being such a hurry to get out of here.
00:54:47 You don't know that you miss church when you leave because sometimes we stay in here.
00:54:50 And then church starts.
00:54:54 We'll be in here to one o'clock still worshiping.
00:54:56 You'll be at Papados gossiping and we in here getting more filling our spirit.
00:55:03 Let me get y'all out of here.
00:55:16 The Bible says that they arrested Paul Ramon.
00:55:21 They did him so bad.
00:55:23 They ripped his clothes off of him and beat him with rods and put him in prison and the Bible doesn't say they put him in prison.
00:55:30 The Bible says they put him in the inner prison.
00:55:32 I had to do all of that because I am so sick of people praising God that at midnight Paul and Silas praise God.
00:55:42 And they put him in prison and don't know all that he had been through.
00:55:44 And all the decisions that he had to make how we handled being in a high place.
00:55:51 What was his spirit like?
00:55:53 How did he handle annoying people?
00:55:55 That's why the worship worked.
00:55:57 You can't just be mean all day and then show up here and shout and get the glory.
00:56:03 You got to treat bad people good.
00:56:05 You got to look over your enemies.
00:56:07 You got to you got to be in the right place at the right time.
00:56:10 You got to have you got to have Silas with you and not John Mark.
00:56:13 All of that is the reason that why he got in prison at midnight.
00:56:17 It worked because he had done so many things on the way to midnight.
00:56:21 My question for you is how do you act in the dark?
00:56:27 How do you act when people are mean to you?
00:56:36 How do you act when people are mean to you?
00:56:37 How do you act when you know she trying to destroy you?
00:56:44 And you know she trying to gaslight.
00:56:52 And you know, you know, he's a liar.
00:57:02 And you know that you could destroy him with one sentence.
00:57:06 Come on. Talk to me.
00:57:10 But for the sake of your character.
00:57:17 And look at me. Thank you. Holy Spirit.
00:57:23 I know he did you wrong.
00:57:25 But for the sake of your children.
00:57:28 Now, I think I can minister in here.
00:57:35 Because a lot of people choose themselves over their children.
00:57:41 You choose to feel better by exposing.
00:57:45 Then cover for the sake of the child.
00:57:49 Because just because you lost a husband don't mean they got to lose a father.
00:57:57 Listen to me.
00:57:58 I was raised by a woman.
00:58:01 Who never said a negative thing to me about my father.
00:58:05 And I never saw the benefits of child support.
00:58:10 I never saw anything that looked like fatherhood.
00:58:13 But she never bad mouth him to me.
00:58:16 Because she knew that he had one thing that I needed.
00:58:19 And that was the rightly divide the word of truth.
00:58:22 And she left him pure in my eyes.
00:58:25 And I to this day don't know how she felt about him.
00:58:27 Because a mature woman and a mature man can keep their mouth shut for the sake of their child's future.
00:58:34 And that's why I bless her.
00:58:41 And that's why I praise her.
00:58:43 Because she never degraded him to make herself look better in my eyes.
00:58:47 Not once.
00:58:49 And she had a right to.
00:58:55 And she never did it once.
00:58:58 Y'all go ahead and preach then. I'll shut up.
00:59:09 I'm going to say all I got to say.
00:59:12 Now at midnight.
00:59:21 Paul and Silas.
00:59:24 Begin to praise God.
00:59:27 Watch this.
00:59:30 They went from a high place.
00:59:33 To a high place.
00:59:36 The Bible says.
00:59:42 That when they started to praise.
00:59:45 The prison started to shake.
00:59:55 Can you see Paul and Silas?
00:59:58 Looking at their praise shake up the stuff.
01:00:03 And they're trying to hold on because.
01:00:09 They're shouting so loud.
01:00:12 That everything is becoming unstable.
01:00:15 I'm watching some of you.
01:00:22 And you so cool right now.
01:00:26 And you so calm and collected.
01:00:29 And yet you asking God to break it.
01:00:32 I'm going to say it again. And at midnight.
01:00:36 At midnight.
01:00:37 Paul and Silas began to praise God.
01:00:53 And the Bible says the foundation began to shake.
01:00:57 I don't know who I'm preaching to.
01:01:01 But I dare you shout.
01:01:04 Until it shakes.
01:01:06 I said shout.
01:01:21 Until.
01:01:32 Shout.
01:01:34 Shout.
01:01:38 Touch your neighbor say over the next 30 seconds.
01:01:47 I'm about to give God the praise.
01:01:50 Touch your neighbor say over the next 30 seconds.
01:01:53 I'm about to shout.
01:01:55 Until hell gets nervous.
01:01:58 Open up your mouth.
01:02:00 And give God the praise.
01:02:02 And give God the praise.
01:02:07 Give your neighbor a high five.
01:02:10 And shout neighbor.
01:02:12 I've been in this mess too long.
01:02:15 I've been depressed too long.
01:02:17 I've been frustrated long enough.
01:02:20 This is my season.
01:02:22 To get out of prison.
01:02:25 Let the redeem.
01:02:29 Of the law.
01:02:30 Shout.
01:02:35 Shout.
01:02:37 I can't hear nobody.
01:02:46 Shout until your children get free.
01:02:49 Shout until your money gets free.
01:02:52 Shout until your mind gets free.
01:02:55 Shout until health.
01:02:58 I speak health in your body.
01:02:59 Shout until what you've been praying for.
01:03:02 Is in your head.
01:03:04 Give your neighbor a high five.
01:03:07 And shout neighbor.
01:03:09 I've cried long enough.
01:03:11 I've complained long enough.
01:03:14 I've doubted long enough.
01:03:16 This time.
01:03:18 I'm going to praise the Lord.
01:03:21 Let God arise.
01:03:26 And as enemies be scattered.
01:03:28 Can I get somebody.
01:03:30 To open up your mouth.
01:03:32 Give your neighbor.
01:03:35 A high five.
01:03:37 I feel God in this room.
01:03:39 Give your neighbor.
01:03:41 A high five.
01:03:43 And shout neighbor.
01:03:45 You should have seen me.
01:03:47 About six months ago.
01:03:49 I thought about blowing my brains out.
01:03:52 I thought about throwing in the towel.
01:03:55 But I messed around.
01:03:56 And shouted.
01:03:58 And somebody shouted.
01:04:01 Makes me feel better.
01:04:03 The more.
01:04:05 The more I shout.
01:04:07 The better I feel.
01:04:09 You got the wrong neighbor.
01:04:11 Look at somebody else.
01:04:13 Shout neighbor.
01:04:15 You don't know her.
01:04:17 Like I know her.
01:04:19 What the Lord.
01:04:24 Has done for me.
01:04:25 I felt like.
01:04:27 It was all over.
01:04:29 But they that wait.
01:04:31 On the Lord.
01:04:33 Shall renew.
01:04:35 Their strength.
01:04:37 They will not over wait.
01:04:39 Like an eagle.
01:04:41 Walking I'd be weary.
01:04:43 Running I faint.
01:04:46 Grab a neighbor.
01:04:48 Shout neighbor.
01:04:50 I'm going.
01:04:53 To another level.
01:04:54 In my praise.
01:04:56 Shout yeah.
01:04:58 You have the right neighbor.
01:05:00 Real them and rock them.
01:05:02 Rock them and real them.
01:05:12 Real them and rock them.
01:05:14 And say neighbor.
01:05:16 I am.
01:05:18 A living.
01:05:21 A living.
01:05:22 Testimony.
01:05:24 Do you hear me?
01:05:26 I am.
01:05:32 A living.
01:05:34 Testimony.
01:05:36 Find the right neighbor.
01:05:38 Shout neighbor.
01:05:40 Over the next 30 seconds.
01:05:42 I need some room.
01:05:45 Because I'm about.
01:05:47 To break loose.
01:05:50 I should have been dead.
01:05:51 But God.
01:05:54 But God.
01:05:56 But God.
01:05:58 But God.
01:06:00 But God.
01:06:09 But God.
01:06:11 He saved me.
01:06:13 Made me whole.
01:06:15 Shout yeah.
01:06:18 Shout yeah.
01:06:19 You about to make hell nervous.
01:06:34 Your worship.
01:06:36 Is bad for business.
01:06:38 Destroy.
01:06:41 Every yoke.
01:06:43 Destroy.
01:06:45 Every spirit.
01:06:47 Destroy.
01:06:48 Every spirit.
01:06:50 Shout yeah.
01:07:01 Shout yeah.
01:07:15 Can I tell you one more thing?
01:07:17 The Bible says.
01:07:19 That when they began to shout.
01:07:22 The prison bars.
01:07:24 But don't miss what happened next.
01:07:33 The bars had Paul and Silas locked in.
01:07:37 And the prison guard.
01:07:40 They were outside.
01:07:42 Of the prison.
01:07:45 The bars fell in such a way.
01:07:46 That they locked up the men.
01:07:49 That put them in prison.
01:07:52 So now the guards.
01:07:55 Are in prison themselves.
01:07:57 Let me tell you how to handle your haters.
01:08:00 Worship.
01:08:03 Let me tell you how to handle your.
01:08:05 Worship.
01:08:07 Open your mouth.
01:08:09 And for the next 30 seconds.
01:08:11 For the next 30 seconds.
01:08:12 Give.
01:08:14 God.
01:08:16 Give him the praise.
01:08:22 I know he's alright.
01:08:29 I know he's alright.
01:08:41 I know he's alright.
01:08:42 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:08:56 No, no, no, no.
01:09:01 No, no, no, no.
01:09:02 No, no, no, no.
01:09:04 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:05 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:06 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:07 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:08 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:09 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:10 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:11 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:12 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:13 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:14 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:15 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:16 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:17 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:18 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:19 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:20 I'm not gonna let no rock cry out for me.
01:09:43 And the prison guard saw that the bars had disengaged and he was now in prison.
01:09:56 The Bible says he got scared because the penalty for losing a prisoner was death.
01:10:04 So he was getting ready to run and commit suicide because Paul and Silas got free and
01:10:14 Paul said to an annoying person, "Do thyself no harm."
01:10:21 I don't hold you accountable for what happened to me because this was always a part of God's
01:10:26 plan and if you didn't do it to me, somebody else was going to.
01:10:30 Watch this, I'm telling you, you don't know what your shouter's gonna do.
01:10:34 They look at him shouting in prison, he says, "Do thyself no harm."
01:10:37 Watch the next thing the prison guard says, he says, "You're not gonna try to kill me?
01:10:45 You're not gonna escape?"
01:10:46 He said, "That's the kind of spirit you have after all I've done to you?"
01:10:54 Watch what the man says next.
01:10:55 "What must I do to be saved?"
01:11:08 Your reaction to trouble is evangelism.
01:11:18 You gonna mess around and make somebody come to God the way you've been acting in your
01:11:20 stuff.
01:11:21 You hear me, Jay?
01:11:28 Much hell you've been taking at the job, but the way your character remains.
01:11:34 Jay Jay, you don't even know somebody's gonna come to you and say, "Man, who is that God
01:11:44 you...
01:11:45 How you keep your family together in the midst...
01:11:50 What do you have that I don't have?"
01:11:53 Come see a man.
01:11:56 Take anybody and change them into somebody.
01:12:00 It's your reasonable portion and strength and service.
01:12:09 You are bad for business.
01:12:14 That's why the devil keeps fighting you so bad.
01:12:19 You ain't good for business, man.
01:12:24 You got to know, you got to know to have courage in chaos.
01:12:31 You got to know to keep coming to church while he trying to destroy you.
01:12:41 You're bad for business, and that's why all the hell is fighting against you.
01:12:46 If you keep your worship in your wars, God will shake it loose.
01:12:59 You won't be in for long.
01:13:00 You won't be in for long.
01:13:01 You're coming out.
01:13:02 You have to act like you know it.
01:13:15 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:17 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:18 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:19 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:20 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:21 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:22 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:23 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:24 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:25 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:26 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:27 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:28 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:29 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:30 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:31 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:32 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:33 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:34 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:35 You got to act like you know it.
01:13:37 Even when none of y'all were.
01:13:38 I did.
01:13:39 I believed that God was going to call us to do this even when it wasn't any proof.
01:13:40 And I remember asking people to make, just like I asked you to make a sacrifice on first
01:13:41 fruit today, I remember asking people, when it was less of us, I was asking them to sacrifice
01:13:42 to get this and we ain't have all of y'all.
01:13:43 So if God could give us this with a few, he would have given us all of y'all.
01:13:44 So I'm going to ask you to make a sacrifice.
01:13:45 I'm going to ask you to make a sacrifice.
01:13:46 I'm going to ask you to make a sacrifice.
01:13:47 I'm going to ask you to make a sacrifice.
01:13:48 I'm going to ask you to make a sacrifice.
01:13:49 I'm going to ask you to make a sacrifice.
01:13:50 I'm going to ask you to make a sacrifice.
01:13:51 I'm going to ask you to make a sacrifice.
01:14:19 We're getting ready for another dimension.
01:14:24 This is not a dimension for just the good people, all the shouting people.
01:14:30 We can all get in if we go together.
01:14:35 God don't have to make you suffer to make me win, sir.
01:14:37 He got enough for you and I.
01:14:43 Do you believe it?
01:14:44 I said, do you believe it?
01:14:45 I said, do you believe it?
01:14:51 Belief has a sound.
01:14:53 Can I tell you, I don't get in many situations where I lose my belief.
01:15:01 When I tell you I believe something, I believe I absolutely, I'm not.
01:15:09 I absolutely believe.
01:15:17 The biggest problem with the disciples is Jesus says to them, how long do I have to
01:15:23 deal with you, you unbelieving generation?
01:15:28 I didn't ask you to be perfect.
01:15:29 I just asked you to believe me.
01:15:31 I believe you with everything in my life.
01:15:40 You know, sometimes it don't happen when I want it to happen.
01:15:45 I don't stop believing.
01:15:49 Sometimes God says no where I expected and desired a yes.
01:15:55 And then I believe his no is better than my yes.
01:15:58 And I still believe.
01:16:05 You won't be in prison for long.
01:16:08 It's about to change.
01:16:14 You just have to believe him.
01:16:20 I pray in the name of Jesus that God will help your unbelief.
01:16:30 Prison with God is better than freedom without him.
01:16:39 Unemployment is better with God than benefits and insurance without him.
01:16:48 Loneliness with God is better than company without him.
01:16:58 And to every one of you all who drug yourself to Houston, Texas, and you came kicking and
01:17:07 screaming, God showed you in that dream.
01:17:13 And just because it wasn't the way you expected when you showed up doesn't mean you misheard
01:17:16 him.
01:17:22 It took me seven years for it to make sense.
01:17:29 Seven years.
01:17:30 You got to understand, y'all.
01:17:33 We were in schools and we were setting up chairs and microphones.
01:17:41 We didn't have nothing.
01:17:43 And we just kept coming.
01:17:45 And they said we weren't going to last, and we kept lasting.
01:17:48 And they said we were going to fail, and we kept coming back.
01:17:50 And then all of a sudden, God smiled and we looked up and he showed himself to be faithful.
01:17:57 And all along that way, it looked like it was a lie.
01:18:01 And ain't nothing worse than telling somebody God told you to do something that don't look
01:18:04 like it.
01:18:09 But he did it.
01:18:11 And you know why I'm so encouraged today, sir?
01:18:13 The reason why I'm encouraged today is because I just found out recently that we just got
01:18:19 started.
01:18:29 God is so big that my ceiling was his floor.
01:18:37 When I look at the stuff that God has shown me now and the people he has given me access
01:18:43 to now, I thought I was winning when I was still losing.
01:18:48 Here's the thing about me.
01:18:53 If I find a way, I'm going to show you too.
01:18:57 I'm going to tell you exactly what I did so that you can do what I did.
01:19:05 If you're in this place today and anything that I said today resonates with your spirit,
01:19:12 I'm talking to you upstairs, I'm talking to you online.
01:19:15 If I'm talking to you, you can feel me in your soul and in your spirit.
01:19:22 If I'm not, I don't want to force myself on you.
01:19:28 But if you believe that God has sent you to help us to expand this vision, to move walls
01:19:43 and to move things around, and you believe that God has assigned you to this place in
01:19:51 whatever way he speaks to you to do it, because you're not me, I'm not you.
01:19:56 We don't have to do the same thing.
01:20:00 Whatever he showed you to do, and you believe that God sent you here to be a part of what
01:20:08 we're doing.
01:20:10 You see these signs here?
01:20:13 They have them.
01:20:17 It says become a member, but that's just the word we use.
01:20:21 It just means join the fight with us.
01:20:25 As they're coming, I want you to praise God for every one of them.
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