Welcome to the official podcast of Rock Hill Baptist Church 2
where we are focused on glorifying God, spreading the
gospel, and making disciples of Jesus Christ right here in the
heart of Greenville, SC. Each week we bring you a life
changing word from our Senior Pastor, Pastor Matthew D Long
Junior, or one of our anointed guest speakers.
We pray this message strengthens your faith, deepens your
understanding, and empowers you to elevate in every area of your
life. Let's join the service already
in progress. John chapter 2 verse #4 I really
want to deal with verses one through 11, but forsake of your
leg strength and our time together.
I'd rather have your vocal support and find me at verse #4
and it says Jesus said unto her, woman, what have I to do with
thee? My hour is not yet come the word
of God for the people of God. Thanks be unto God, and you can
take your seed, and now she take your seed.
I want to preach from this though.
Are you ready? You ready?
I'm going to preach from the thought, I ain't come here for
this. I ain't come here for this.
Monday brothers and sisters, timing is everything.
I mean, it really is. It really is.
You can have the right dream at the wrong time and you can even
watch it implode. And Monday, brothers and
sisters, you can have the perfect strategy and still miss
your moment because life doesn't operate on your schedule.
To be honest, it doesn't even wait until you're healed and it
it doesn't pause when you're feeling overwhelmed.
It doesn't check your bandwidth before it breaks your routine.
And, and honestly, if I can be transparent with you, some of us
can really attest that you can find yourself laughing in the
sun and the next you find yourself questioning everything
in the shadows. We've all been there, stuck in
between what was planned and what is present, where
expectation collides with reality, where joy starts
leaking and pressures Deacon metals start rising.
And here Deacon houses what really makes it worse?
You can be surrounded, Sister Jackie, by celebration about
silently battling chaos. Thank you.
That part you can find yourself dressed for a moment that your
soul can't afford, and you can be in the right place, but not
ready for what hits. And the truth of the matter is,
there are statistics to prove that African Americans are 20%
more likely mother to face serious psychological distress,
but really only one in four will go get the help.
So if that's to be true, in this very room, one in every four
persons find themselves only going to get some help.
Someone may be smiling in public but sinking in private, maybe
clapping in the crowd but cracking behind the curtain.
And they may find themselves hosting the party while praying
the pressure doesn't expose the pain.
You see, timing isn't just about Sister Chris clocks.
It's about capacity. It's about what shows up when
you thought you had more time. Mother Gordine or or Mother
Thelma, but you thought you had more energy.
A Braylon. I mean, you felt like you had
more strength or a Bree even when you felt like you have more
stability. It's about what life demands
when you feel least prepared to give.
And I don't know who this is for, but there may be someone
too, who's find themselves standing in the moment where the
timing feels off and the weight simply feels unfair.
But what if, what if, What if, just maybe, this moment isn't
punishment, it's positioning. But if the interruption is an
invitation, Deacon Davis. But if the pressure is really
the platform and before we can go to the text, I got to tell
you something real quick, Brother Brandon.
Sometimes God doesn't give you a sign.
He gives you a shift. And if you're not careful,
you'll miss what he's doing because you're focused on what
you weren't expecting And somebody, Dear brothers and
sisters, can you help lean into this text with me?
Because that's where we find ourselves in between the black
and white pages of the book before you or from which the
electronic device you may be reading from.
It's here it's 333 observations, pointed observations.
I want to give you from the text you got your Bible still right,
John chapter 2 started verse #1 the Bible says, and on the third
day there was a marriage and Cana of Galilee and the mother
of Jesus was there. Verse 2 says, and both Jesus was
called and his disciples to the marriage.
Verse 3 And when they wanted wine, the mother Jesus said it
to him. They have no wine.
My dear brothers and sisters, the very first pointed
observation of this text is the perceived problem.
Thank you sister Shay. I know sometimes all you got is
a for that. It's the perceived problem.
The text does not open with a wonder.
It opens with a worry. It doesn't begin with a
breakthrough. It begins another spurgeon with
a breakdown. And it doesn't really start with
a celebration. It starts with crisis.
The wine runs out, The text here says, and that's what the people
see. That's what the servants are
panic about. That's what Mary brings to
Jesus. They have the wine.
That church is the perceived problem.
It's visible, it's measurable. It's real, right?
There's nothing fake but pretentious about this, a phony
about it. But the reality is, it's not the
root. It's not the root because
shortages don't need invitations.
They just make appearances and they always seem to arrive at
the worst possible time. This, this is a wedding.
It's it's a covenant moment, a joy filled memory in the making.
And yet the joy is drying up, the laughter is about to be
replaced with whispers, and the reputation of the host family is
at risk. No, because this is 1st century
Galilee. Wine wasn't just a beverage.
It just was a Stella Rosa. Hallelujah.
It was a symbol. It stood for praise the Lord.
Some of y'all tightened up. I know I I got you.
Don't, don't get too tight on me.
Saint Louis. Hallelujah.
Did this wine stay? It stood for joy, the
hospitality provision, for honor and for covenants.
Help me out. Say, covenant, Covenant.
So the wine running out wasn't just a logistical air.
It was a symbolic collapse. It was an unspoken omission,
such as we weren't ready for this, or we can't sustain what
we started. And maybe that's not just their
testimony. Maybe that's for some of us in
the room. Have you ever found yourself
smiling into something you actually weren't prepared to
carry? I think we better sit down at
the kitchen table and talk real quick.
Have you ever found yourself running out of energy?
Have you ever found yourself running out of confidence,
running out of resources, running out of vision, running
out of stimula, running out of peace?
Have you ever found yourself there well leaning?
Because I'm going to tell you sometimes God will allow a
public shortage to expose a private structure of
self-reliance. He lets it break down so you can
finally build on the right foundation.
I can't hear you talking. Talk back to me, Church.
Because if we keep dancing around, we'll find ourselves in
this place of non confrontation when God's trying to pull us out
of dysfunction. So.
So he'll let it run all the way out, not to ruin us, but to
rebuild us from the inside out. Because the real problem wasn't
the wine. That was just the symptom.
Come here. OK, so what's the real issue,
Pastor? I hear you.
The real issue is Braylon, they invited Jesus.
Thank you for taking notes, baby.
They didn't involve him. They they they had him there.
They just didn't involve Jesus. They put him on the guest list,
but not on the glory list. They they, they, they, they,
they brought him into the room, but but they didn't give him
authority in the room. Let me give you a quick
homiletical highlight of the perceived problem was the empty
jar. But the actual problem, Deacon
Davis, was the empty strategy. They built a moment of
celebration on humans. You got your Bible right.
They built a moment on human supply, but not divine presence.
And whenever you start without Jesus at the center, no, no, no,
no, I mean for real Jesus at the center, you will eventually run
out. Because if Jesus is only your
backup, shortage will always be your future.
And my dear brothers and sisters, I just need to park
here real quick because for some reason we have fallen in love
with poverty. And then I don't get it.
I don't know. We we have such this scarcity
mindset that that we hate talking about money.
We cringe up. But you know what?
We all need a little piece. OK, I'm gonna come.
I'm gonna come. Let me go get a piece of piece
of pound cake and come back to the table.
Here. Here. 2 pieces.
OK, I got you. I'll get one for you.
Here. Here's the revelation.
The miracle didn't start with motion, it actually started with
the mindset. I know, I know you know the
story, but come on, let me let me teach you a little bit more
about this text because Mary here are discerning the problem
says something that shifts the entire story.
You got your Bible open right? John chapter 2 verse #3 says
they have no wine. I have no mind.
They are without. Check this out.
She gives no suggestion, no solutions, no scheming.
She just acknowledges. Come here, scoot to the edge of
your seat. I put some time on the clock.
She acknowledges what is and makes room for who he is.
She doesn't. She doesn't.
She doesn't bring a plan, She brings.
Posture. She doesn't offer a proposal,
she offers presents. And I know, I know, we like to
talk about grown and not grown and AIDS and all that, but the
truth of the matter is that's not grown faith.
That's a God centered perspective.
That's that's what happens when you stop putting God in the
margins of your moment and you start placing him at the center
of your crisis. And I wonder for somebody in the
room, you shifted your body, but have you really shifted your
brain? You you've you've, you've
pastored, but are you really positioned and your perspective?
You come to church, but are you still operating out of anxiety?
You raise your hands when told, but not because you love the
Lord, but but have you really renewed your mind?
OK, you may not bow in church, you bow the house so nobody see
you, but are you still thinking high of yourself?
Because if God isn't at the center of your mindset, then
he's still on the edge of your miracle.
I think I better say it again, is the mic on?
I don't know. I better test it.
I said, because if God isn't at the center of your mindset, then
he's still on the edge of your miracle.
Mindset is the miracles meeting ground.
Help me out. Turn it to your neighbor and say
neighbor mindset is the miracles meeting ground.
Mindset is, is the miracles meeting ground.
It's, it's not your emotions, It's not your feelings.
It's not your Social Security check.
It's not your patterns, routines or habits.
It's your mind. You you know your Bible, right,
You know a little bit, but if if you if you was in me and you
might have had a little experience in BTU y'all remember
BTU Baptist training? Oh, OK, you might know a little
sound. You might remember that they
taught this scripture. I'm just going to give you a
piece of it. But it was Romans chapter 12,
verse 2, and you know that one. But be ye transformed by the
renewing of your of your mind. Check this out.
The greatest miracle God ever performs isn't around you, it's
actually in you. Look, look, look, look, look,
look, look at the text with me. The wine didn't run out to
destroy the party and ran out to deliver the people.
I don't like your voice. You got to talk a little bit
more to me because if the wine never ran out, Sister Shirler,
they would have kept drinking something that couldn't sustain
their destiny. Mind your brothers and sisters.
And in this culture, this moment, I come as your prophetic
male man from heaven by the way of Louis, Delaware, Columbia,
SC, Omaha, NE, Honolulu, HI, and now Greenville, SC to tell you
that God's trying to pull us from this poverty mindset.
God's trying to bring you into a elevated place.
So God disrupted the supply. Check this out to correct the
source. I know we in the valley and for
some reason it really does go down in the valley, but I need
you to understand that God did not bring us here for us to be
enslaved to somebody else being over us.
And I know you know this story, but but, but, but this text is
really trying to teach us that God is trying to show that he is
the source, not our 40 and 50 years on somebody's job.
You know that that God is our source, not not not a federal
grant or a contract, but the Lord, he is our source.
I better keep on moving. And some of us, some of us have
a fixed mindset. I just come for you today
because some of us are fixed on how it used to be.
OK. Thank you, Mother Gordian.
She's the one of us in the room. I appreciate your Amen.
Right now, some of us, some of us are fixed on who left.
Some of us are fixed on how you thought it was going to happen
by now. Some of us are fixed on formulas
that no longer fit your faith. But I want to let you know that
God is saying He's not going to work in our fantasy, but He's
trying to actually break us into our destiny.
You want new wine, You want new joy, You want new revelation,
Then first you got to acknowledge what's empty.
You can't hide it, you can't dress it up, you can't fake it.
But you've got to say we don't have what we thought we did.
And that's where the miracle begins.
Not in the jar, not in the water, not in the taste test,
but in the mind of the room. My, my, my, I'm.
The first miracle Jesus ever performed didn't start with a
physical act. It started with a mental shift.
And I'm going to let you know, don't let you know that God is
saying to us today that he's going to wait until we stop
performing fool and start confessing empty.
He's going to wait until our pride is low enough for his
glory to rise high enough. He's he's going to wait until
our plan collapses so his presence can carry us through.
He's going to wait until our systems fail so His spirit can
finally take over. So yeah, the wine ran out, but I
don't want you to get distracted by the glass because I believe
God is really trying to change our gaze.
He's not trying to empty us. He's not even trying to punish
us, Deacon Meadows. He's trying to empty us, to
entrust us, Sister Etta, because what he's about to pour next
can't be mixed with what you were fool of before.
Help me out. Turn to your neighbors and
neighbor we got to empty out. Turn to your other neighbor
because I think they might need to hear this too.
Tell them, neighbor, we got to empty out.
And that's where we find ourselves in the second
observation of this text. And John chapter 2 verse #5 it
says, his mother said unto the servants, Glory, Hallelujah, but
I praise you. She says, Whatsoever he said
unto you, Do it. And they were set there, 6 water
pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews,
containing two or three firkins of peace.
And Jesus said it to them, Fill the water pots with with water,
and they fill them up to to the brim.
The second point, the second point of observation is the
practical preparation. I hope that's good and simple
for your notes as you take it. I hope you take notes that the
second point is the practical preparation after the crisis is
confessed, after the lack is acknowledged.
Jesus doesn't wave his hand. Jesus does not shout a word.
Come on you, you know the story, right?
Jesus does not even call for wine.
Jesus gives an instruction. Now Sister Mary, check this out.
It's in red, it's not black, it's in red and it's even in
verse #7 it says Jesus said unto them in red, fill the water pots
with water. That's not magic, not in, that's
not even impressive that that's not even exciting.
But. But but but but.
But look closer. That's obedience, because
sometimes the greatest demonstration of God's power
comes dressed in the plainclothes of practicality.
Where you at? Did you leave the room?
I know we're at your house. We're at your table.
Come on back in the room, I said.
Sometimes the greatest demonstration of God's power
comes dressed in the plainclothes of practicality.
It wasn't flashy, it was faithful.
It wasn't mystical. It was mundane it but but when
Jesus speaks, even the mundane becomes miraculous because the
miracle didn't begin with movement.
It began with the mindset. They didn't need new jaws.
They needed a new pore. They needed a new posture for an
old vessel. They needed a new challenge for
an ancient system. They needed a new assignment.
Deacon Glen for a familiar object.
And the text says it says that there.
Uh huh, were 6 water pots of stone used for ceremonial
cleansing. Now check this out.
These weren't wine jars. These weren't kegs.
Praise the Lord the glory to God that they they were celebration
vessels. Why y'all looking like that?
That they were hand and feet washing stations.
They were ordinary, functional and predictable.
But look, Jesus gives them a prophetic repurposement.
Check this out. Because God will take what was
designed for old time religion and repurpose it for revelation,
what was meant for cleansing. He'll use it for celebrating.
And that's the kind of God we serve.
He doesn't discard old overlooked vessels.
Come here, He feels them. God, you miss your shout, I
said. He doesn't cancel them, but he
crowns them with new glory. Can you lean in real quick?
Because I want to give you a secret.
Come here, come here. I want to let you know that God
doesn't always give you new tools.
Sometimes he just gives you new eyes.
It's, it's not, it's not, it's not about the vessel changing.
It's about the vessel being used for a higher vision.
Come here. Let's walk this thing just a
little bit slowly. This is these jaws.
These jaws. They had been there all alone,
but nobody was checking for the jaws that they they were
background furniture. They were there at the party.
They were part of the scenery. They were seen but dismissed,
present but purposeless. But when Jesus steps in, he
doesn't replace Nick and Davis. What they had, He reveals what
they never saw in it. Let me give you something real
quick for your notes, because you might need to remember this,
that God is about to take what's familiar and flip it.
He's about to take what's functional and fill it.
He's about to take what's ordinary and overflowing and,
and, and here's where it shifts. Mary, the mother of Jesus,
sensing divine time, he turns and says to all the servants
there, whatever he says to you, do it.
She says do it. No, no explanation, no
negotiation, no delay, no hindrance, no meeting, no, no
mystery. Meet up.
She just tells them be obedient and do it.
You see, you see the shortages, but oftentimes gets our
attention. Deacon Glenn but the strategy
that's God's instruction for when we are in it.
Mary doesn't call a meeting notice in the text, Sister Chris
She does not even panic with the planners.
She doesn't even consult the governor of the feast.
She doesn't brainstorm. All she has is belief.
God, I feel you in the room and I think we better go back and
get us a little tea to come up with this pound cake.
No, get you some water for your sugar.
Get some water instead. She just believes.
She believes. Check this out.
Because obedience is the bridge between crisis and creativity.
I think I lost them. I said.
Obedience is the bridge between crisis and creativity because
obedience is the womb where God's Word becomes alive.
You can hear Pastor Nathaniel Greene from Dallas, TX right now
who said once that opposition is the mother of creativity.
But if I can add on to his quote, I would say that
opposition is also the mother of obedience.
Cause some of you been opposing your mom and your daddy at one
point. But it was that in between
space, for some reason, all of a sudden you found some obedience.
It's oftentimes the tension, the tension of opposition where we
find the next instruction from God.
And here's the thing, Sometimes the instruction seems too small
for the size of the problem we're up against.
Thank you, Deacon House. I thought I lost everybody in
the room. I don't know, they, they got
caught up and I was turning the corner.
I said sometimes the instruction seems too small for the size of
the problem. But that's how God moves.
He's he's he's often times testing not our ability, but
he's testing our availability because you don't need to be
impressive. You just need to be obedient
because obedience doesn't make sense.
It just makes miracles. God, that's good that that's
real good right there. I ain't got time to stop there.
But but but here's the tension. Obedience only works when your
mind is ready to grow. God help me preach a word.
You can't follow divine instructions with a fixed
poverty mindset. No, no, you can't receive
supernatural strategy when you're locked into old systems
of thoughts. Some of us, some of us are
asking God for another level, another moment, another, another
season of greatness. But, but we keep showing up.
But last season's mentality and and you say I didn't come for
this, but God says you're right. You, you, you didn't come for
this, but I brought you here to deal with this because there
have been a foundational issue sitting for far too long.
You, you, you thought you was coming for a party, but but the
text shows that this is really a pivot of mindset.
One might even thought that it was about the wine, but the text
really cheap teaches us that it was really about willingness.
Because fixed mindsets fear stretching.
Hallelujah. I better say it one more time
cuz cuz I think you got laryngitis in your voice.
I said fixed mindsets fear stretching, but growth mindsets
follow strategy. And can I submit to you today,
my dear brothers and sisters, that we may have a following
problem, that while we profess that we come to the party, the
truth of the matter is we come to the party for ourselves, but
not to follow anybody. Hell, are you the God?
And so that's where we find, oh, that was tough, ain't it?
I know the Lord got me with that one too.
Then he just came back through and just got all of us, huh?
But I just want to let you know, my dear brothers and sisters,
that if your mind is too rigid, your obedience will always be
delayed. I must say it again.
The I said if your mind is too rigid, your obedience will
always be delayed. And delayed obedience does not
get miracles or blessings, but it always leads to shortage and
begging. Ain't that?
Ain't that something? So God's not just stretching our
hands, He's stretching our head. He's not just saying fill the
jar, He's saying fix the way you see the jar.
Come here, I'm gonna read the text one more time that you know
it. Romans 12:00 and 2:00.
But be transform pie, the renewing of your mind, because
miracles flow where mindsets shift.
And God is not just changing what's in our jar, but he's
changing what's in our judgment. Because if he doesn't renew our
mind, we'll pour out the next blessing trying to make it fit
the last season. So what does Jesus says?
He says fill the water pots with water.
That's all he says he gives no context.
He he gives no why he gives no how other than he just says feel
the water pots with water. He gives no revelation.
He just gives instructions. Just feel it.
I need your help. Help me out because I feel like
your neighbor might need a little prophetic touch.
Just tap them real closely and say feel it, feel it, feel it,
feel it, feel it. That's all you got to do, Just
feel it. Just feel it and just look at
the But the Bible says that the servants did not crush them.
The servants didn't have no gathering.
They didn't have no secret text for it.
All they did was they obeyed. That's all they did.
The Bible says, it says, uh huh. And they filled them.
That's that's that's what that's what your Bible says.
It says and they filled them. But check this out verse #7 it
says and they filled them up to the brim.
God, y'all ready? I feel like preaching just a tad
bit John. I'm about to get there.
They did not feel it. They did not feel it halfway to
the brim that that's full faith that that's all in trust Mother
Gordon. That's I don't know how, but I
believe God can kind of faith and I just want to let you know,
I don't know, let you know that you can't expect brim level
blessings from bottom shelf obedience because if you want
the overflow, you've got to give God everything.
They did not leave any room for themselves, no.
They did not leave any room for error, no.
They did not leave any room for margins, no.
They feel these. Water pots until there was
nothing left but for to touch the water box.
And I want to let you know my name.
Brothers and sisters, the jars here we see are now filled with
water. The mindsets of this text are
now shifted. Deacon Davis.
But look here now the atmosphere is pregnant, but obedience and
yet the miracle still has not manifested.
Sister Chris, I'll check this here, check this here, check
this here that there's one last one last point I'm going to give
you. We're going to get out of here
together. It's in John chapter 2 we find
starting at verse #7 Jesus says to them, fill the water pots
with water and they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said it
to them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast,
and they bear it. Verse #9 says, When the ruler of
the feast had tested and tasted the water that was made wine,
and knew not which it was, but the servants which drew the
water knew the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
Verse 10 And said unto him, Every man at the beginning to
set forth good wine, good liquor.
And when men have well, drunk, that's the text, then that which
is bad, worse ain't no good. That's when they're pulling out.
But look, look, is that a, is that a, is that a colon?
It's a colon. It's a colon.
There's more to see this he says.
But you, my good man, my good self, you have kept the good one
until now. Monday, brothers and sisters, my
Third Point for you is the public presentation.
Let's walk this together. Let's walk it.
Jesus gives no spectacle of fanfare.
I'm trying to find it. Just a simple instruction.
He tells them, fill the water pots with water.
But they didn't just obey, they filled them to the brim.
And that's the kind of faith that doesn't leave margins and
we leave a margin for anything else other than God.
And then that's where we find ourselves, my Big Brothers and
sisters, with this mystery. It's the mystery of the test
because not doing the pouring, neither during the testing or
the tasting. I'm Deacon Glenn.
But some man between the job and the delivery, I'm sorry.
I still feel glory. The water was made wine.
That's where tension lies in a space called the in between, not
where the word was spoken, but where the wine has been now set,
but in the space, Norman's song, the unseen space where God moves
in mystery. And I'm going to let you know
today that. The middle is.
Where your faith has has to function without confirmation.
I said that the middle is where your hands have to.
Carry water. He even when your heart expects
why? That's why.
The servant, Sister Shirley should have been shouting
because they found they felt the tension in the room.
These servants, they found themselves just obeying.
They didn't see the outcome. Come here, Deacon Metal, check
this out. But they kept on drawing.
They couldn't verify the change, but they kept on moving because
that's how real faith works. It doesn't wait for evidence
come here now. It just carries expectation.
I can hear the New Testament right saying faith is the
substance. Of things things hold for.
Have the evidence of things not seen God.
God didn't change. He didn't change the pots
because sometimes you won't see it change.
But all God will tell you, he says stay on the battlefield.
Sometimes you won't see things happen as fast as you hope,
Sister Sharon, but all God's got for you today is.
Carry it like I. Told you so.
God didn't change the process, I said.
God didn't change these old pots.
No God. Changed the.
Outcome. Because God doesn't just move in
movement. Man, God, God, God.
He manifests. Through mindsets and God moves.
In the middle moments, I've got to get out of here now, but I
want to encourage. You today, this ain't the.
First time God moved in the middle of it.
God. Moved in the middle.
Hard and deep. And Genesis, yeah, I said.
God move. Moved in the middle of a Red Sea
in excellence. Can't even moved in the middle
of the Jordan River when the priest were told to.
Stand there in. The middle of it all in the book
of Joshua. You even know about those three
Hebrew boys in the book of. Daniel.
Was in the middle of a fight. And I'm going to.
Let you know. If you read your Bible and Luke
chapter 20. Three, you'll find Jesus even in
the middle, middle himself. On the right.
Hand and on the left hand. He found himself between 2:00.
Male factors hanging on the old tree I want to let you know that
the. Middle.
Just messy. But the middle hey, hey glory,
it's holy. Grail.
Because we never come shows up in the middle.
I've got to break loose on the app beside I got to.
Get out of here now. But help me out, hold your.
Neighbors. Hold your neighbors hand.
They may not be able to stay in. But hold your neighbors hand and
tell your neighbor I got to write for you.
It might be in the middle of it, but God's going to break out.
Harmi, every side read my mind ourselves in the middle.
Come here, I decree in the middle of it.
But I want you to know that from the middle, Jesus, do it on the
tree blood. God, I love you.
Blood and water coming from the middle in the middle of it.
And it wasn't just I signed a pain.
It just wasn't water and blood, but it was a sign.
I'm a symbol, a promise and prophecy, and that's what I get.
That's on the Saints today that did it.
Just turn water, get some wine to impress, impress the ground.
But God did it to preview. Another covenant.
Lord, I love your word. I'm going to let you know that
this wasn't just right, but it was a St.
Oh, what was the cup? I got to let you know that the
symbol that the all time managing childhood for being
filled been a new wine of revelation.
And what's fighting? What started?
I'm sorry he's on behaving. Today, as a shortage became a
stage I want to save you and what look like what if actually
was just mine, waiting on the word I gotta go and I gotta go
for real, but I want to let you. Know you might have been.
Waiting for the wine, but I got the word to tell you to stand.
Having therefore stand in the middle, stand in the middle of
it. You don't see it right now.
But stand come. Talk to me, Dee ain't.
Nobody pushing in the middle of it because you're standing in
the middle of a miracle and I want you to know if you find
yourself working. And you find yourself tired.
Just know Wayne, it's on the way.
Let's go to the five John. Now, now, now.
I got to. Let you know for real, there's
one last thing. Here nothing.
That shows us that the same God who turned one up water into.
Wine is the same God. Is that?
Not the turn your weakness. Into a witness.
I said the same. God that turned 1.
Up into wine. It's the same God that's going
to turn. Your obedience into overflow
accept the same God that's. Low.
That's on water into wine. It's about to take your middle
moment and ship everything. Everything, everything,
everything. I need you to catch this
prophetic word, I said. He's going to shift.
Everything. Everything around you.
So. He asked.
This may not be what you came for, but he asked.
I got a word from heaven that didn't come for this.
But. God, I said.
God, I'm almost. Out of time, I said God brought
you here. He brought you here for this to
remind you. That you might be in the middle
of it, but the middle of. It is still holy ground and
don't look at yourself and don't look at your stress and don't
look at your situation with limitations.
I don't know how you can sit like a bubble.
Of law, but I gotta let. You know that.
The miracle, Paul. Was always in motion and the
wine was always in reach. But God.
Needed your obedience I'm gone for real now, but I.
Want to let you know. That now you're finding yourself
in a season where God's going to.
Begin you anew. God going to do some new words.
God go. Open some new doors.
I said you. Don't like this word?
Do you, huh? I said, God, it's going to give
you some new blessings, going to give you some new strength.
It's going to give you some new figure, give you some new ideas,
God. I'm sorry, preaching the fella.
On me I said, God don't give you new, new innovations.
So be not weary. You will do it.
You shall, you shall reap. If you fail, say not I got to go
for real now, but help me close my message.
Grab yourself, hold yourself, sell yourself, sell.
I'm holding on to the word of the Lord.
I won't give up, I won't give it, but I'm a home till the end,
'cause God I changed again. Is holding, holding, holding,
holding me in the middle of it. I don't like it but he's holding
me. I don't want it but he's keeping
me. I don't want this but he's
blessing me. But he's holding me.
But he's keeping me. But he's sustaining me But he's
watching over me in the middle of it.
Can you help me? Thank you, the Lord.
And in the middle of it, I don't care about me.
Praise. Thank you, Lord.
Bless you, Lord. I love you, Lord.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, no, Lord, praise here, Hallelujah,
holy glory to you. Hallelujah, the devil is
defeated, God is exhausted, and Jesus, I said Jesus, Jesus the
Buddha, Jesus, not Muhammad, Jesus not your witchcraft, Jesus
not your black magic, Jesus not your right magic.
I said Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord.
I said Jesus is Lord. I said Jesus is Lord, this is
Lord. Can you help me praise him I
feel? Miracles coming in the room.
Can you help me praise Him? I know you're focusing on me,
but the Lord's trying to work in your house.
Can you help me praise Him? I know you're trying to follow
me, but you want to close your eyes and you want to praise him
because he's still Lord. Lord over my life, Lord.
Lord over my fears, Lord over my failures, Lord over my trees,
Lord over my destiny. He's the Lord.
I got to stop.
He's the Lord.
He's still Lord under brothers
and sisters. Listen, he's Lord, but he wants
you to acknowledge you. Let's Lord He wants you to
acknowledge John. I think you know this one.
It's old hymn used to sing in the church.
I said come to Jesus. He will save you.
Just now and just.
Now and just now, he will save you.
Just now it's real simple. You don't have to come down to
the altar. The Bible says if you confess
your mouth and believe in your heart, it says you shall be
saved. I want you to go and repeat this
prayer after me today. And again, salvation is between
you and God. That's not between me trying to
keep a count number. No, that's between you and God.
The Bible says man looks on the outside, but God looks at the
heart. It's a lot of people we think
are saying they say for real because only God sees the
inside. God does the work on the inside.
Don't let nobody judge you, put you in condemnation because you
don't look like them, sound like them, smell like them, act like
them. No, God saves and doesn't work
in all of us individually and it's different.
I want you to pray this prayer to me, say, Lord Jesus, come
into my heart, save me. I want to be saved.
Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross of me.
Lord Jesus, thank you for rising out of the grave for me.
Lord Jesus, thank you for soon coming again for me.
In Jesus name, Amen. Amen.
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