Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.
You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.
We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the
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Man, I went to Zambia, Africa to preach and in the middle the,
the, the schedule changes about 40 times a day when you're
overseas. And they said we've got a church
that wants you to come preach this afternoon.
And, and I looked at my watch and it was the afternoon
already. And they took me out into what
was called the copper belt region where copper's mined all
over that area of Zambia. And the copper mine owner was a
believer and had turned his entire workforce out if they
would go to church. And so I get there and they're
in the church and it is so full. It is so full.
There's no room. It's standing room only.
There's people outside standing to listen.
And, and so I get there and it's just, it's this little bitty.
It's a Hut, basically. And I was so far back into
Zambia that I was the only white man that most of the kids had
ever seen in person. Now, they had seen them in
pictures and they had seen them, you know, on television, but
they had never actually met. 1 And so I had about 200 kids
touching my arm to see if my skin was real.
And I let them all get up there and get real close and as they
were all touching my skin and they kind of got comfortable
with it, I said. And you talk about scatter.
I waited till they were comfortable and and so they took
me in the church building where I was going to be preaching and
the the the host or the shower. He looked at me and he said
there's your there's your chill brother, take it.
And I looked at him and I said, you going to have to find
another chair. Because this was me plus 200 lbs
at that point. And who whistled.
Wow, I used to love coming here. I'm just kidding.
And he pointed at it and I said I said brother, shower that.
That chair won't hold me up and he looked at me and he said sure
it will. And I said sure it won't.
And when I started down I never stopped.
Honey, that chair wasn't even a speed bump on my way to the
floor. When I hit that thing, I started
a toothpick factory. It was people look like
porcupines walking around from splinters just stuck in them
from that chair. It, it didn't bust, it went and
and I hit the ground and everybody hollered because in
their custom, it's very, very you, just you just don't
embarrass your guest. And they had embarrassed me
because their seat was not strong enough to hold me in
their eyes, which I told them. I am going somewhere and so
after that happened Brother Shawa.
Helped me up, which was a task him and six other pastors.
But when they got me up, I was laughing.
If you fall, I laugh. If I fall, I laugh.
When I fell and busted my head open this week, I laughed.
After I woke up, I laughed. Brother Shiawah looked.
At me and he had big old tears and he said we invited you and
we did not make room for you. And I said, what do you mean?
He said we did not take into account and I didn't take this
offensive, your weightiness. We wanted you to come, but we
did not prepare a place for you. And so when I called this
morning, I asked pastor to prepare a place for me so that I
could see everybody but wouldn't be standing on this knee that
screams at me every now and then.
And he prepared a position for me to be able to step into.
Now, what I'm going to share with you this morning is about
what God has prepared for you, and He's wanting you to make
time for him to. Show it to you.
OK, so it's twofold #1 you need to make room for God, not the 10
minute commute. Right.
Not that cup and a half of coffee, That's God's time.
No, that's your time, and you can spend it with God.
But in actuality, that's your time.
So you don't kill anybody else the rest of the day, right?
But God wants to let you know there's stuff for you that He
has not revealed yet. Now listen, I AM 54 years old.
I got saved when I was seven years old.
I've been serving the Lord that whole time.
I've been through a. Bunch of stuff.
I've faced a bunch of stuff, I've gone through a bunch of
stuff. But this is one thing I have
learned for sure. God has a plan that's always
bigger than what I think that He can't Get Me Out of.
And His plan is amazing, but I have to let Him work His plan.
But doing so doesn't mean that I get to sit on the sidelines.
It means I have to show up. It means I have to participate
in order to see God's fullness come to pass in my life.
Amen. So I want you to go to Jeremiah
33 and I will tell you this is one of my most favorite passages
of Scripture in the whole Bible. It really is.
It may not be to you yet, but I hope it is Before you leave here
this morning, I'm going to read 3 verses and then capitalize on
the third verse. But I want to talk to you about
this. How many of you in this last
year, and I know we're still in January or February today, how
many of you in this last year have found yourself desperate
for God to do something not, not just one of those Lord, if you
get a chance, it's one of those. Lord, yesterday would have been
great. Today may be too late.
And God, you're never late. But how many of you know this?
He's never early either. Show me one time.
God's been early. He's always on time.
So let's go from this place of being desperation to revelation
because the only thing that will cause you to grow in the Lord is
getting a greater revelation of who He is.
OK, so let's go from desperation to revelation.
If you've been serving the Lord your whole life or you just
started, this message is for you.
You ready? OK, set with me from desperation
to revelation. Now look at somebody next to you
and say I want it today. All right.
Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah a second time
while he was shut up in the court of the prison saying just
leave it right there. Oh, this is good.
How many of you had my Mama when you were growing up?
OK, no hands, just me. OK, that's good.
The reason I ask that is how many of you had a Mama like
this? If I have to tell you one more
time now, how many of you heard that and did not heed it?
One time somebody said, how many of you know that it is better to
obey and listen to the one time and do what you're told?
Because the other side of I told you already is judgement.
My mother was Old Testament judgement in my New Testament.
Walk with the Lord. She could not find time out in
the book of Proverbs, but she knew we're both.
Versus word that had something about a stick in it.
I didn't do much time out, but I did a lot of time trying to wake
back up. I'm just kidding.
She never abused me. I just flinched a little bit.
But the Lord tells Jeremiah a second time, So what is he
referring to? Back in Jeremiah 3131, the Lord
said, hey, I'm going to establish a new covenant.
It's going to be awesome. People are going to love me,
they're going to worship me. They're going to serve me.
They're going to go into bondage, but they're going to
come out 70 years later. I mean, there's three chapters
of him just saying God's going to do this, and I'm going to do
this, and it's going to be awesome, and your people are
going to be blessed. But Jeremiah forgets about the
promise because he's in the prison.
How do you know that second line?
He was still shut up in the prison.
How many of you? Have had the Lord tell you
something, but a little bit later you wondered if it was the
Lord or if it was that person that was being super spiritual
or if the enemy was just trying to deceive you.
I've been there. All three, all right.
And how many of you know that when the Lord comes back a
second time to tell you something, he means it?
So what is he doing? He's seeing Jeremiah, who's
locked up in the in the courtyard of the prison, which
means he is chained, but he's not inside the building.
He is literally chained to a post outside to where everybody
in town that passes gets to see him standing there.
This is your prophet. This is the guy that that God
sent you to speak to you. And look at him.
He's chained up because all the things he said haven't come to
pass. Well, Jeremiah also told him it
was going to be 70 years, but because it didn't happen in 7
minutes, right? Because it didn't happen by the
7:00 PM service. That night, come on.
Then they decided that he was a false prophet.
But how many know God's ways are higher than our ways?
He knows exactly what he's doing.
Does anybody have any faith in the fact that God knows what
he's doing? All right, so, so listen, this
is the second time God's told him.
So I'm coming by to be the voice of the Lord, to speak to some of
y'all. I done told you once.
Now I've got my belt with me, and if I need to use it, I'll
use it. But I promise you, He can get on
your nerves way better than my belt can.
He knows how to deal with you in the night.
He knows how to deal with you when you're at work.
He knows how to let you have no peace at all until you follow
Him. Boy, that's good preaching right
there. I'd say Amen louder if it was
me. Verse 2.
Thus saith the Lord, the Maker thereof.
Wow, the maker thereof, the one who made it, the Lord who formed
it to establish it. The Lord is His name.
OK, so the Lord made it. The word made here means that He
made a form. OK, so if you can get in your
mind, lay in a slab and you got to go in and build the form
boards, and you've got to make sure that it's all correct and
that it's measured properly and that it's square and it's flush.
OK, so the Lord says before you were born, Jeremiah, going back
to Jeremiah 1, before you were even born, I had already poured
A framework for this. So don't think that I'm just
throwing you into something. I'm taking you to something I
created you for. So when you have the form built,
then you can fill it. But you got to be careful that
you don't have a form of godliness.
And the way that you deny the power thereof is because when
you have a form that is not godly, it can't hold up.
And so you have no foundation. I'm preaching really good, OK?
He's the one that made it. Secondly, he's the one that
formed it. That means he's the one that
poured you into this. Your whole life.
God has been pouring you into your destiny your whole life.
He's been standing there feeling that thing that he started in
you so that the foundation can be strong enough to where you
can go up because you cannot go up if the depth is not
compatible with the height. So he made it.
It was his plan. He.
What are you going to do to help him out?
How many of y'all got up this morning and said, Lord, I'm here
if you need me to help you out. How many you know that if you
tried to help the Lord out, you would mess things up because
you've already tried before and you messed things up.
Been there, done that. When you think it's a Lord, This
has got to be God. How could this not?
Be God and it ain't. You know what you do.
You repent and you say Lord. You got to help me make better
decisions than this and you move on.
You don't stay there. The Lord comes to me and says,
I'm telling you a second time. I'm the one that built this
whole thing. I'm the one that formed it.
I'm pouring you into it. I'm the one that has established
it before the foundation of the world.
All you got to do is walk into this season and let me do it.
I'm preaching to somebody. So when you walk into that
season and you allow him to do what he's doing, guess what?
Things start happening. Things start.
Lining up in your life, when you line up with Him, what's that
thing about? Seek first Kingdom of God, his
righteousness and then all these other things come into
alignment. OK so he says that I made it, I
formed it, I established it. I'm going to give you a word
picture then I'm going to move on because I know I was a little
bit late starting and y'all don't want me to stay here till
2:00 preaching. I got 2 come ONS.
Anybody else want to join in? All.
Right. So I want you to think about it
like this. Those of you that are horse
people, I want you to think about it as a round pin.
Round pin, OK? Those of you that are not horse
people feature in your mind a round pen.
Did I make that clear enough? OK, here we go.
That round pen is used to desensitize the horse.
OK, sometimes horses use it to desensitize us.
Oh, some of y'all are real Cowboys.
Never been thrown off. I hear you all right, but that
round pen is a perfect picture of the will of God.
What preacher? What?
How many of you? Ever heard about the hedge of
protection? OK.
How many of you? Have ever heard the word that
Paul uses quite a bit about how that we're preordained or we're
predestined? How?
Many of you ever hear that and go.
Man, what does that mean? That sounds really deep
spiritual. OK, here you go.
I'm going to tell you what it means to the word predestined
means circled. It means to put a circle around
it. OK.
Let me give you the. Picture so you'll understand.
Back in the old days when we got newspapers and we didn't have
Google, if you were looking for a rental house and you moved
into commerce and you wanted to find a place to rent you, you
would turn over the newspaper where it had houses for rent
that used to actually be in the newspaper.
And underneath that, let's say you're looking for a three
bedroom 2 bath. Well, there's one that says it's
a bath and 1/2 it has two bedrooms and one room.
That could be a bathroom, bedroom or an office.
Well, that that comes pretty close to two baths and three
bedrooms. So what are you going to do to
that one? Circle it.
Why? Because it's close to what
you're wanting, but you go to the next one and it's a
two-bedroom, 1 bath and needs a new roof X.
You go to the next one, it's a four bedroom, 2 bath, but you're
not real sure where it's at. So what are we going to do?
Circle it? So what we've done is we've
predetermined that that is the goal.
When God predestined you, He. Places you in a round pen and
says that's where I want to train you.
Because the whole point of the round pen is to.
Get the horses. Attention off of them and only
you. The whole point of the round pen
is to get them to come to the middle instead of staying on the
outside with fight or flight. You want them to come to the
middle because they trust you. So when I was training horses
and and don't you know, I'm, I'm, I'm no Crump by any stretch
of the imagination. But I do love horses and I do
love working with them. And so years ago when I was
working with some Colts and breaking them, well, I was doing
the groundwork. Somebody else was breaking them
because I didn't want to break the Colts.
But anyway, literally. But I was doing the groundwork
and, and I would have one of my kids over here with a rod and
reel and on the end of it I had a bunch of Coke cans, aluminum
Coke cans tied off on it. And over here I had a big old
garbage bag tied off and a tarp. And, and over here I had some
some pieces of pipe on the side of the fence all the way around
that round pin. And so I I would get the kids to
come out and make noise all the way around that thing, because
every time that they made a noise, it pushed the horse to me
and let them know that I was the.
Calm point in the middle was where the safety was.
You with me? So when they would start to lope
around and show that fight or flight mode and and start doing
what they normally do, and before they ever started licking
and chewing or anything like that, I would watch those horses
and they would be looking around like, what do I do?
And they would remember the calm spot was back in the center.
You see, the reason God wants you in the center of His will is
so that He can give you that piece and let you know that
you're right where you're called to be.
And the reason the noise is going on in your life is to push
you back to Him. Now, that noise can't hurt you.
It can't come through that fence.
It's not going to be able to come past the perimeter that has
been set up. I wish somebody would hear what
I'm preaching because there is a hedge of protection around you.
And when you get to the center of His wheel, suddenly you
submit to Him and He can then use you for your potential.
You are no longer a feed bill. Because I'm convinced that's
what some people are. Boy, it's quiet in here this
morning. God wants you to do something
with what you've got. Your life was made.
Your circle was made, and He's poured you into it so that you
would become the form of those things that brought you up so
that He can then take you and put you where He wants you to
use you for His glory. I I can't get any clearer than
that. And then Jeremiah hears the Lord
say this. Call unto me.
Yeah.
Hold on just a second. Let's see if I can do this.
You got your phone number, You don't why I'm calling you.
You know Scott's got his phone. Scott sits still.
I mean, you don't have to sit skilled, I don't guess.
But anyway, how do you spell Scott?
I'm just kidding. Well, I'm not calling Scott
either. When you call somebody on the
phone, do do you just start screaming and holler when they
answer? Let me let me change that.
I do not want to have pastor to do marital counseling this week.
Let's let's change the scenario when Dallas is losing and you
answer the phone. If that's the case, you hadn't
had a phone call in eight years. I'm sorry, it was easy.
This word call unto me doesn't mean hey, hit me up.
It's not one of those things where you text guy and say call
me ASAP. It's not this call me is not
hey, you want to go grab a cup of coffee or hey, do you want to
go eat Mexican? Food.
It's not. I might be hungry right now.
It's not that. This.
Call is the. Call that a beggar makes when
they have no other choice. This is a call that says I have
no other option. This is not a call of let's go
to church. This is not a call of oh, I love
that song. I'm going to, I'm going to clap
on this one. This is a call where you don't
care who's around you because you know without him, you're
going to die. This is a call that you don't
care how ugly your makeup gets. Ladies, and hopefully not men,
but we don't care how ugly your makeup gets either.
Got to be fair. But honestly, it's not about
your hair. It's not about your composer.
It's not about how you're perceived.
It's not other's point of view. This is a thing that says I know
that I am desperate, and yet in one verse the Lord tells
Jeremiah how to go from desperation to extreme
revelation. So the first thing you do is got
to call on Him. You know, you ever watch these
movies and they call for the priest or the preacher to come
in. Our great Lord and Father,
merciful Creator, y'all, I need somebody knows how to pray.
I need somebody that knows how to just walk in and when they
say Jesus, that the devil goes, oh Lord, here they are, right?
I'm talking about somebody that when they walk in, it is
continuing the conversation they've been having all day, all
week, all month because they're praying without ceasing.
I want somebody that can call on him and say, Lord, if you don't
do something, this is on you. You established it.
You've got to do this. Calling me, I will answer.
Oh my goodness, what a revelation.
Some people pray like they don't believe God has ever or will
ever answer. But when you pray, you need to
know that he will answer you. It says I will answer thee, but
here's. The crazy part about this?
The word answer here doesn't mean as it would if Scott asked
me a question and I gave him an answer.
That's not what it means. It doesn't mean that I ask you a
question and you respond to me with an answer.
It means that the answer manifests in your life.
What have you ever. Just been at the bottom, You
know, like the bottom. Like you couldn't tell what kind
of snake it was that was crawling over you because you
couldn't see the top side of the snake, right?
I mean, belly bottom. But all of a sudden, driving
along, walking through the house, maybe just getting up
from reading and praying, you start singing a song.
And before long you get to singing that song a little more
and a little more and a little more.
And before long your attitudes change and your mindset has
changed because what came out of your spirit man started to
replace what your natural man was battling.
That's good preaching right there.
That's why it's important about what you're listening to, what
you're watching. It may be the number one series
on television, but if there's 4F bombs in the 1st 5 minutes, you.
Probably don't need to be watching it, and if there's five
in the first hour and a half, you probably don't need to be
watching it. But just me, you've got to get
yourself into place. Where when he answers, the
answer can come through you. If he can't get an answer into
you, then he can't get it through you.
And what He's doing constantly by giving you preaching and word
and truth and training and teaching and songs and worship
is by filling you so that when there is a void that comes up
and fills it. OK, So you've got to have that
void field. And that void is where the Lord
can do some amazing, amazing things.
He is the one who will answer you, but it's going to come
through you. How many have you ever gone to
sit down with somebody, friend, pastor, just just somebody that
you needed to talk some things out with and clear your head?
Anybody. And how many have you ever been
talking? And while you were talking, the
answer came to you as clear as day.
Now, you can say that you're just that smart, but I want to
go ahead and say we're probably not.
I'm going to say that when we start talking about it and we
start weighing out where our faith and where our fear is,
that we realize our faith has always done better than fear.
And so we realize to face it with faith instead of fear.
And by facing it with faith, we are victorious.
Amen. OK, so call unto me and I will
answer you. But the answers coming through
you, it's coming through you. You're the one that's going to
sing your answer. You're the one that's going to
prophecy your answer. You're the one that's going to
get the clarity to be able to declare what God has.
That's a good thing. You ought to look at your
neighbor, say he's preaching right at you.
I will answer you and show you great and mighty things.
Oh, I love this. Everybody say great.
Great. When you read this, we read it
in a Western mindset in the Western Hemisphere.
We read this as being great, things being great as we
describe it. Great.
For instance, that restaurant was great.
That coffee place really knows how to make.
A hot latte. That's great.
Can y'all with me? This number has nothing to do
with that type of greatness. This word has nothing to do with
that type of greatness. It's a generational term.
It's a numerical term. OK.
How many of you? That are sitting here today how
many of you had parents I know exactly how many are listening
now there's only 8 of. You let me say it again.
How many of you had parents? Yeah, that would be everybody in
the building, right? Well, if you had parents, then
your parents had parents, and they were called.
OK. And then they had parents and
they were called, and the ones before them were called and the
ones before them were called. OK, You see how that works?
This number does not mean huge or huge.
It doesn't mean ginormous. It doesn't mean this is awesome.
It means numerical order. God is saying, I'm going to show
you some generational blessings that you've not even tapped into
yet. Think on that for a second.
I'm going to show you some things that your great, great,
great, great, great grandparents prayed for, and it can just now
be released. Well, brother, how do you know
you can go back? Because the blessing goes back
to the 4th and 5th generation according to Scripture.
Now, this is what you need to understand.
If you're not serving God, then you're passing the curse and the
curse goes to the 4th or 5th generation.
And when it gets to the fifth generation, the curse is
established. But if you walk in the blessing,
the blessing's established. Now I'm saying this for a reason
because the Lord wants to show you some great things, but they
are generational things. When the Lord started showing me
this passage. I was like, that's crazy great.
Means generational. And it wasn't very long at all
after this that I got a phone call.
I was at my mom's. She was sick and going through
some treatment. I was staying with her and the
phone rang and I answered it and this lady said I'm looking for
Helen McKinney. I said that's my mom.
She said may I speak with her? I said, well, not right now,
she's ill but I'm her son, how can I help you?
And the lady says, well, I think we're kin but I need to to to
make some connections. I said OK.
She said I'm from Mississippi. She said I, I believe that we're
Ken and your mother's name was given to me to try to figure
some of this out. She said, do you know anything
about your mother's side of the family?
I said yes, I do. And so she said, do you know who
George and Ethel are? I said, Yep, Ethel is my great
grandmother, George is my great grandfather.
I know exactly who you're talking about.
And she said, OK, well, he had a brother.
She started naming these names. This is way before you get in
with 23 and million ancestry and all that.
And, and and she's showing me all this stuff and, and on the
phone, she's telling me about it.
And and she said, well, she said, do you ever heard that
your grandmother was kinder Robert E Lee?
I said, yes, ma'am, I have heard that.
She's told me that. We've talked about it on several
occasions that she is his second great niece and and she said
yes, which makes you the the 4th great nephew of Robert E Lee.
And I said correct And she said do you know about the family
beyond that I said no. She started talking to me.
Well when she started talking to me, I started finding out all
kinds of things that I did not know about my family.
For instance, Robert E Lee's daddy, light horse Harry Lee
because he was such a good horseman.
That's where it comes from. Light Horse Harry Lee.
Was the leader the general of the Continental Army under
George Washington when he became president?
So my 5th great grandfather was the leader of the Continental.
Army. His two brothers were not given
the military but were given to legalities and were very
brilliant people. And I have two fifth great
uncles that signed the Constitution and the Declaration
of Independence and didn't know any of that until that phone
call. Now, what does that mean?
That means that there's a generational blessing that has
been passed down through that side of the family.
Then she said this. Do you know that your family is
the one that started Sunday school in the United States?
I said, excuse me. She said in the colonies, it was
the Lees that started a Sunday school class to start in the
colonies with the churches. And they were either
Presbyterian or Puritan, she said, But they started churches
all over the place. And I'm sitting there going,
wow, never knew this, nor did my grandmother, who had already
passed. She never knew it, she said, And
did you know you're Jewish? I said what she said, Yeah.
So Long story short, really abbreviating it, they sent a
blood test to my grandmother's oldest living first cousin.
He was the youngest of all of the cousins.
And I called him and you talk about around her now, you don't
ever see him without overall zone.
I'm talking about at a funeral. He's got overall zone, you know
what I mean? He breaks his own horses, raises
his own hogs in the woods. He just.
A man's man. He should be on Mountain Man.
And I told my cousin in Mississippi.
I said I don't think he's going to do it.
I really don't. She said we'll ask him.
So I called him up and I said Robert.
And he said, what do you want? I said they think we're Jewish.
He said do what? I said they think we're Jewish.
He said, what are you talking about?
I started telling him. He said tell him to send a test
to my doctor's office. He took the test and it showed
J1 Jewish genetics and it traced his family, which is my family,
all the way back to the Arabic peninsula.
To ER, where Abraham came from. Now you say, well, preacher,
what? What is that all about?
Do you realize what a generational blessing it is to
know that your history has come out of that?
Now I'm just going to say, on the other side, there's my
daddy. And when we tried to find his
great, great grandfather, we did.
But his fourth wife had already found him in 1856.
She had poured hydrochloric acid in his whiskey bottle.
The death certificate said he was alive, but his neck was
gone. He was still breathing, but he
couldn't say anything because the acid had eaten his throat
out. In 1856, folks, that is Civil
War. Can you imagine being on your
fourth wife in 1856? Can you imagine being wanted in
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana for cattle rustling
and horse thieving? And evidently he was good at it
because his sister's kids were named Frank and Jesse.
Daddy said. We're not researching this
family history anymore because sometimes you don't need to
know. But the blessing of being a
believer is that even if you're the first generation to believe
in your family, the next generation after you gets to
walk in your blessing. And that next generation gets to
walk and watch your blessing. And the next generation gets to
see 3 generations. You hear what I'm saying.
And the next one fifth generation until they realize
this is the way walk ye there in God is wanting to show you some
things that you didn't even know were yours.
I mean, I found out this last year that because of that little
J1 gene that my cousin had that that shows that that my mother
and my grandmother were were Jewish descent, that I could go
to Israel, take a test, a blood test and I could claim my rights
and walk into Israel and they would have to give me housing.
If something don't happen at the midterms, I may be going there
to get housing. I want you to understand there
are blessings that you didn't even know were yours, but as you
walk with the Lord. From the time I'm 7 to the time
I'm 40, nobody ever told me any of that.
But since that time, I've been able to walk in it, I've been
able to talk in it, I've been able to visit there.
I walked into Israel and, and, and Long story short, the Lord
told me to grow my beard fully out.
I didn't know why. So two weeks before I left or
three weeks, I let my beard grow out.
And when I got there, the guy walks up to me at the Wailing
Wall and he says you're, you're a rabbi.
No. Well, the word rabbi in Hebrew
means teacher. And I am a teacher because I
teach and preach to people every week.
And I said, yes, I'm a rabbi. And they took me into a place
that only rabbis can go. And I got to see scrolls and I
got to see all kinds of things that have been sitting there for
thousands of years. Because of the blessing of the
Lord that I didn't even know was available.
But when you start realizing all that God has done for you, it
makes a difference. He told him, He said, look, if
you want to go into revelation and leave this desperation
thing, the first thing I want you to do is know that I made
this, I formed it and I established it.
So I've got all of this. Somebody say Amen to that.
The next thing I want you to do is call unto me like you're
desperate, not like you need something on for your prayer
list. Amen.
I will answer you. Where does that prayer that
answer come from? Comes from inside of us, right?
It's going to manifest in you. I will answer you and show the
great and mighty things mighty. Oh, this is good.
Look at your neighbor and say mighty.
Now when we think of mighty, we think of this.
We think of somebody who's mighty.
That's not what the. Word is here.
The the word here in the original Hebrew is talking about
things that have been tied down and you couldn't have them.
It means things that have been chained and you couldn't have
them, but now you're at the maturity level where you can
handle it. Amen, little boy.
There in the blue shirt. What's your name?
Isaiah, can you help me preach real quick, please?
Pastor will give you $100. He's looking at you for more.
Isaiah, can you help me real quick?
Come on. Help me real quick.
I just need you to do one thing. Isaiah.
I'm up here, Isaiah, you see my keys?
Can you go get my car and pull it up here for me, please?
How old are you? Well, you're not mature enough
to do that. You go girl, you go girl.
And she could probably do it. I got a six year old
granddaughter. I guarantee if I hand her the
key she could get it up here. I don't know who what else is
color cars are going to look like, but she would get it up
there all right. But if I just throw her the keys
to the tractor or just throw her the keys or something, she's
going to think she knows how to do it because she's seen me do
it. But how many, you know, thinking
you know how to do it and do it, It's two different things.
So the reason that Isaiah looked at me like I was crazy when I
said. Will you go get my car is
because he knows that that is not in his ability, but the
weird thing is as believers, we don't understand where we are in
our maturity. We think we're more mature than
we are most of the time. That's good preaching.
But what we've got to do, somebody help me here.
What we've got to do is realize that he lets us have things when
we can maturity wise take care of it.
You don't give a nine year old keys to a 24 model vehicle out
there. You just don't.
Unless you like it marked up right?
You just don't. Y'all all know Zach my son?
Marissa's four years older than him and she got her license as
she was on our insurance and, and, and he said, Dad, I'm 16,
when can I get my license? I said, you're not ready, you're
not mature enough. But I'm 16 and I don't care.
You're not mature enough. And I made him wait till he was
18. And the reason I made him wait
till he was 18 is because his daughter, I mean his sister,
turned 22 and got her own insurance.
And the day she called me and said I got my own insurance, I
said, well, I guess we ought to talk about you getting your
license then. He's he's 32 now, and just in
June he and I were driving down the road.
And he said, Dad, you know, I feel like I lost a couple of
years driving because you didn't let me get my license when I was
16. I said, Yep, dad, why didn't you
let me get my license when I was 16?
I said because I couldn't afford insurance on you and your
sister. He said, are you kidding me?
I said that's exactly why you didn't get it until you were 18,
because she got her own insurance.
And the next day I told you you could.
And then I went and signed him up for somebody else to teach
him how to drive because I wasn't about to.
Ain't no way. That boy can't.
Drive a nail, much less a vehicle.
The Lord wants to show you some stuff.
He wants to show you great things.
He wants to show you mighty things.
He wants to show you stuff that you didn't know you could even
have. But it's the desperation of him
being in the prison yard, wondering if he's going to die,
wondering if his ministry's over, wondering if any of the
words he's declared are ever going to come to pass.
And the Lord says, let me tell you again.
Let me get your attention again and tell you this is what I'm
going to do, but this is your part in making it happen.
Somebody say my part. I want to finish with this.
I know I told you about great things and mighty things, but
let's look at the word show. I will answer.
You. And.
Show. You I love old Westerns.
I love them most of them. I don't like the spaghetti
westerns. It gets me off when their voice
isn't right with the track. I'm just being honest.
But I love old westerns. I, I, I love them.
I, I love. I almost said Gerald Ford, but
he wasn't an actor. Henry Ford, Clint Eastwood, you
know, I, I, I love the ones with Jimmy Stewart that have got not
just a, a great movie, but a great moral to it.
I, I love those. And how many of you remember
watching Westerns when they would get out there and the
saloon will be blaring and and it'd be dark in the street and
there'd be a showdown? Well y'all are lying because
there never was a showdown that dark.
Some of y'all are saying it always.
When was the showdown High Noon? As a matter of fact, they made a
movie called High Noon. You ever ask yourself why?
I'll tell you why. No shadows.
There's no shadows. You can't be fooled by the other
gunslinger if they're moving faster than you are.
You can see it in real time. There's no shadow on the ground.
This word show means to, in broad open daylight, reveal an
enemy. So the enemy that has disguised
itself as something else but still came to your house.
The enemy that has tried to kill you by throwing your head
against a brick wall after throwing your rib into a pipe on
Monday. That's me again.
The enemy that has tried to destroy your character.
The enemy that has tried to destroy your reputation.
The enemy that has tried to destroy your integrity.
And all you've been able to do is just sit there and say, Lord
help me make it through this. But guess what?
Guess what? He's going to show you in front
of your enemy. He's fixing to have show and
tell with you. I want you to get this in your
mind. When he says I am going to show
you great and mighty things, it means that he is going to pull
you out of your situation and show you the things that have
been hidden. Show you the things that have
been covered with secrecy, things that have been tied down,
things that you weren't mature enough to handle yet.
Things that he's been getting you ready for this whole time.
And then he gets you there and you're like, God, what do I do?
And he says, watch. What I do?
But the reason he does it at high noon, the reason he does it
when there are no shadows, is so that the enemy has to see that
you had the favor of God on your life, the favor of God.
On your Life is amazing. I'll close with this.
When I was a chaplain for DPS and Texas Rangers I had a badge.
Beautiful badge. It's custom made and it's the
Texas Star for the Texas Rangers and and it says Texas Rangers
and DPS Chaplin and I carried it in a wallet that was made for
carrying my badge. It was very convenient on
Interstate trips to get to my car to fill it with gas if I
needed to. And we were at an accident scene
and there was a double curve going this way, a double curve
going this way. The wreck's right in the middle.
Horrible spot to have it because nobody can see it.
And so when we got there on the scene, the trooper let me out at
the very first part of the wreck and he said, if you'll control
traffic, I'll go check on them and see what else we need.
I said I got you. So I'm shutting down traffic and
there's an idiot, of course, that's going to try to come
around the outside because their life is more important than
everybody else's. And as he's trying to come
around, I just stepped up and held my hand up.
Now I got on black slacks, dress shoes, a dress shirt.
I, I look chaplainy, you know, chaplainish.
I'm not real sure however that goes.
And, and I put my hand up and I said stop.
And, and he just kept coming. He acted like I wasn't doing a
thing because he couldn't see what was up around the hill.
He, he didn't know what was going on right over there and I
was telling him to stop and he wouldn't stop and some other
cars kind of edged over to kind of cut him off to where he would
stop. And he just went out in the
grass and and he was telling them, you know, hello and stuff,
greetings from California. And, and so as we got up there
too, I just reached in my back pocket and I opened up that
wallet with that badge and I said.
Stop, son. He locked up them wheels and he
threw it in the park. He rolled out his window and
said I'm sorry, officer, I said you don't move.
Do you understand me? Yes Sir.
Put my wallet back in. He didn't know.
That all I could do was say, Have you ever accepted Jesus
Christ as your Lord and Son? Are you ready for eternity?
Because what he saw represented something bigger than me.
What he saw is if I violate that one, there's going to be a whole
lot more I'm going to have to deal with.
God has given you authority, but you've got to exercise.
I'm, I'm saying this for somebody in particular that
needs this, this morning, this separate from what I've already
shared. God has given you authority, but
you've got to stand up and take it.
Nobody in that line of cars knew that.
The only thing that I was allowed to do was death
notifications and counselling with preachers, with, with cops,
but they realize who I was with. And sometimes you've got to use
that authority and put the enemy in his place.
So you can get the revelation that God has for you.
Sometimes you just got to tell him, I'm done with you.
I'm ready to see what God wants. Is there anybody else that can
agree with me on that? What God is wanting to do right
now is take you into a. Revelatory time and I'm speaking
this to to to the church. OK, Cross Power Church, the
families that are here, the leaders that are here, God is
wanting to take you into revelation mode.
He's wanting to take you into a place where verses that you've
read 1000 times suddenly means something totally different.
Take you into a time where instead of Pastor Lance praying
and saying God, I don't know what I'm going to say this
Sunday, you got to help me because all preachers go through
that. But for him to wake?
Up on Monday morning with it already in his heart what he's
supposed to share this next Sunday and all week long God to
just keep pouring revelation and revelation and revelation and
revelation. And God is moving us from,
please hear me, the church, the true church, the true Kingdom
bride, the true body of Christ is moving.
Please hear me from a place of deprivation where we feel like
we've been deprived in some ways of the moving in the Spirit of
God to desperation, and the desperation causes us to cry out
to God. But when we cry out to God,
immediately revelation starts coming, and that revelation is
him revealing more of Himself to.
Us. That's what he wants to do
today. So if you've been desperate, I
understand. If you've been just like God,
what am I going to do? I get it.
I have been there. I can't even go into everything
that hell has fought me with in the last two years.
I can't even get into it. But I can tell you this, with it
all, God has shown himself faithful.
With everything I've gone through, He has been completely
faithful. And there are things that I had
to press through and things that I had to go through because my
maturity level had to be at a level where I could get where he
was taking. Me.
Y'all remember when you as a kid?
I'm done. Do you remember when you as a
kid and really the only thing you wanted to do was get to go
to Six Flags during the summer? Anybody remember that?
That was a big deal. I I drove by there the other day
and there was not one inkling in my body to pull in and take a
ride. Matter of fact, I think I got on
the far inside lane of I-30 and just didn't even look because
nothing works like original parts and it didn't even
intrigue me because I've grown. Up.
Let me just say this. Some of you are struggling with
growing up. It's not that you don't want to,
it's not that you want to stay immature.
It's that growth causes there to be growth pains and it cramps
and it stretches you and the things that you've been
comfortable in, you can't be comfortable in anymore.
So you have to make some changes.
And when I, I contacted Pastor Lance and I said, look, I've,
I've got a Sunday open this Sunday.
I knew I was supposed to be here.
I really did. I just knew it.
And yesterday the Lord started dating with me from that
Jeremiah 33. And he said that's where I want
you. Somebody in here needs to know
that what you've gone through is on purpose, and when you do
purpose, which is your vehicle every day, when you do what
you're created for every day, you'll end up at your destiny.
You. Cannot miss your destiny if
you're walking in your purpose. You can't.
But I just feel like there's some folks that have struggled
with it. And I want to tell you, God's
trying to reveal some stuff, get desperate before him, cry out to
him. Not like, O Heavenly Father, but
like, dear God, if you don't do something, I need you right now.
Amen. I believe God's going to help
you today. Will you stand with me please?
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