1 00:00:07,990 --> 00:00:13,630 Thank you, Jesus, Praise the Lord, feel his presence in here 2 00:00:13,630 --> 00:00:16,230 tonight. Hallelujah. 3 00:00:17,430 --> 00:00:20,790 Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. 4 00:00:20,790 --> 00:00:22,590 Could we lift our hands just a moment. 5 00:00:22,590 --> 00:00:25,870 Let's just come on, let's, let's cry out to him a little bit. 6 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:53,200 Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. 7 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:03,720 Thank you, Jesus, man. Man, give honor to my pastor, my 8 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,760 son. I'm privileged to set under my 9 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:13,440 son, man, so glad for him, proud of him. 10 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,080 God's using them. That's a great thing. 11 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:22,600 So happy to have my beautiful wife with me tonight, man. 12 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:27,280 There's been half of me missing for a while, so hopefully 13 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:32,280 tonight it'll all come together. Man, appreciate her. 14 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:39,480 It's been hard to kind of see her go through all of this and 15 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:47,080 and she's been part of my life for over well 60 some years. 16 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,000 So I'm appreciate her being here tonight. 17 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:56,200 She come by faith. She's still she's pray for 18 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,080 strength. That's what she needs strength. 19 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,040 Amen. I'm going to be turning to 1st 20 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:08,000 Corinthians chapter 3 and I'm going to read this first in the 21 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:14,160 NCV, First NCV, and then I'll go to the King James. 22 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,480 Hallelujah. God been dealing with me a while 23 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:23,560 back in August, maybe even before that was before that I 24 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:28,440 think kind of been putting pieces together and felt like 25 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,760 God just led me this way tonight. 26 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,680 Amen. First Corinthians chapter 3 and 27 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:41,000 verse one through three brothers and sisters in the past, I could 28 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,240 not talk to you as I talked to spiritual people. 29 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,800 I had to talk to you as I would to people without the Spirit 30 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,880 babes in Christ. The teaching I gave you was like 31 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:03,560 milk, not solid food, because you were not able to take solid 32 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:07,640 food. And even now you are not ready. 33 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,800 You're still not spiritual because there is jealousy and 34 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,360 quarreling among you. And this shows that you are not 35 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,040 spiritual. You're acting like the people of 36 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,720 the world. Now let me read that in the King 37 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:26,360 James Version. And I, brethren, could not speak 38 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,960 into you as into spiritual, but as into carnal, even as unto 39 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:35,800 babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and 40 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:41,640 not with meat, for hitherto you were not able to bear it neither 41 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,480 yet now are you able, for you are yet carnal. 42 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:51,160 For whereas there is among you envying and strife and 43 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:56,560 divisions. Are you not carnal and walk as 44 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,760 men. Heavenly Father, I thank you for 45 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,960 the word. Ask your Lord that you would 46 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:07,680 move in the sanctuary this evening is I feel your presence 47 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,320 in this place. I pray, Lord, that your glory 48 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:16,240 would come down and surround us tonight that your presence, God 49 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,600 would seek every heart out and every soul. 50 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:22,840 Oh God, I need your anointing. I need your help. 51 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:25,280 Lord, speak through me. God. 52 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:28,160 I'm just a container. The message is yours. 53 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,800 Move. I pray, Holy Ghost, right now in 54 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,560 that wonderful name of Jesus, Amen and Amen. 55 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:56,030 You can be seated. I want to speak tonight on this 56 00:04:56,030 --> 00:05:06,280 subject, the wilted plant. The wilted plant, it's been back 57 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:08,560 a while. It was kind of the latter part 58 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:17,520 of August, I believe the picture that I saved said and and we've 59 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:20,120 got a plant. God had two plants actually 60 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:27,080 hangs on our porch in the front and I would water those every 61 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:28,160 day. If you didn't. 62 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:29,920 I don't know if you can see that or not. 63 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:34,600 I walked out my door and it was like the 28th of August. 64 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,240 It was hot outside. And you don't forget to water 65 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,120 this plant every day. If you don't, it looks like 66 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,000 that. So I'd pour water into it every 67 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,440 day. And you know, this time I 68 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,920 thought, oh, oh, I might have waited too long. 69 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,800 And I watered it and it came back. 70 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:02,320 I don't know you. I don't know where he's got the 71 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:03,440 other. And up there, if you can, 72 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,400 there's a little bit difference there that has taken back a 73 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,200 little more distance. But I want to tell you what just 74 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,720 a little bit of drink can do for you. 75 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:25,000 Hey, man, the wilted plant. I I began to take a look and 76 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:30,360 remembering that I was once thirsty and got a drink. 77 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,560 Amen. And ever since then I found out 78 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:38,600 that I need water that I won't thirst. 79 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,840 It's amazing what a drink will do when you're thirsty. 80 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,400 There's days that go by that I don't need much water and then 81 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,200 there's other days that I'm really thirsty and I need a 82 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,080 drink. If you're a diabetic, you 83 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,600 understand real well because there's a days that you 84 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,640 especially if you've got high sugar, you're doing this number 85 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,040 you're drinking. Amen. 86 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,800 So what I want to do first, I have no idea with what I'm going 87 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,960 to do with all these notes, but I've got a lot of notes and and 88 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,600 scripture, but I feel like the Lord has led me this way for a 89 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:17,280 purpose to speak to somebody tonight in this house. 90 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:24,760 I want to define wilted, if you please, Webster's New Collegiate 91 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:29,760 Dictionary in 1953. I tend to OK, I'm yeah, I know 92 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:39,040 I'm old or older, and I tend to go back to the old dictionaries. 93 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,600 I like the older ones. I'm sorry, I've looked at the 94 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,040 new ones, but I feel like that sometimes they have changed the 95 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,280 meaning of words that should not be changed. 96 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,280 So if, if you want to take a look, I've got, I think I've got 97 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:56,840 one dictionary that's in 1938. I've got them in 1940s, nineteen 98 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,360 53. And I tend to go back to those 99 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:00,960 olders. I like to move up through them 100 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:05,360 and see how they've changed it. And I'm going to tell you, I 101 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,280 believe that we have changed things in the church. 102 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,080 Sometimes I think we've let some things in and maybe we shouldn't 103 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,680 have been. Thank God that these youth and 104 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,280 people been to the NYC and I was, you didn't know it, but I 105 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:25,800 was there with you. Really thank God for Sister Don 106 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,560 McGee that bought me this little thing. 107 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,679 It's a magnifier several years ago and that thing has been used 108 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:36,600 before 7:00 every night, Sister McGee. 109 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,240 And I'd make sure we had everything, you know, we'd ate 110 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,240 and everything. And we'd, I'd set this thing up 111 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:46,080 on the coffee table in our living room and, and I'd open 112 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,480 that magnifier up and set that cell phone behind there and it 113 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,440 blows it up to about 13 inches. And so I sat there and watching 114 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,960 and had church with y'all, and that same spirit that you felt 115 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,040 there was real because it was making it all the way up here, 116 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,800 and I still felt it. It is wonderful that God knows 117 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:08,840 nothing about distance. You can pray here and somebody 118 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,480 in California can be healed because of your prayer. 119 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,800 That's the God I serve. He's real and he's wonderful and 120 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:21,200 he's such a great God. Hallelujah, Webster says. 121 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,240 I looked through four or five and then and I grabbed a hold of 122 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,960 this 1953 and I thought it pretty well just said the same 123 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,360 thing the rest of them did. So I used it. 124 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:39,240 It meets to lose freshness and to become flaccid as a plan on a 125 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:46,160 dry day or when cut to grow weak or everybody said faint, faint, 126 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,640 I don't know. But I feel guy like God is so 127 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:54,760 moving and I feel like that that we're beginning to see God do 128 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:56,960 some things in our church and I love that. 129 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:01,440 But I feel like we've been through a stage of being faint. 130 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,760 Oh my feel that Hallelujah. And then this dictionary goes 131 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,160 on. I like what it does because what 132 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,880 it does is it goes on and then it begins to talk about 133 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:19,640 individuals in this place, and it says that to grow weak or 134 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:27,840 faint as individual, all right, wilt for shame and grief, or to 135 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:35,440 lose courage or spirit. Then it takes another route, It 136 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:44,800 says, to wilt before an accuser's gaze, to be lower in 137 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:52,320 spirit, force or vigor. A state of depression that 138 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:57,280 pretty well spells out Amen, wilted Hallelujah. 139 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,080 Our impatient plant is what that is. 140 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,480 Had to be watered every day or it would droop and become faint. 141 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,480 And I feel like tonight that God even spoke, he spoiled. 142 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:14,280 In fact, he spoke to me that very day, Sister McGee, I I went 143 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:16,840 out and took a picture. So what in the world you doing? 144 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:20,120 I said something's on my mind and I come back in and I went to 145 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,840 sit down at my desk and I began to write because I felt like God 146 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,440 spoke to me. And at different times since 147 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,640 then, there's been little things and pieces added and God's 148 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,360 added, believe it or not, to this old fragile mind. 149 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:37,520 It's vintage mind, if you please, a man. 150 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:44,240 And I feel like that as Christians, we need a drink. 151 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,920 And I hope I can get a Amen every day. 152 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,480 I don't know about you, but I worry if I don't feel the Lord 153 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,880 every day, Brother Reese, if I don't feel his presence every 154 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,960 day, then I'm going to be in my prayer room praying because I 155 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,040 want to feel him. I want to know he's still there 156 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,120 with me. Hallelujah. 157 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,400 Hallelujah. Somebody shout Amen, Laurie. 158 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,560 I would be worried if I didn't feel him every day. 159 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:15,680 I didn't know he was there. Yes. 160 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:20,840 I feel like right now we have some people in here that are 161 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:25,320 like my will did plant that there's not much of life left in 162 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,960 them. Come on now, help me out. 163 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:33,600 They are spiritually drained. Their limp, if you please. 164 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,800 Can't hardly lift their hands anymore. 165 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:43,280 Don't feel like worshipping. Can't hardly motivate. 166 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,360 Come on now. Hallelujah. 167 00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:51,480 No stamina, no energy. Is anybody there? 168 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:53,480 No stress? Why? 169 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,120 Under stress? And you need a drink. 170 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:58,480 Does any of these things fit you? 171 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,560 How many's been there Sometime in the last year? 172 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:07,480 Whoa. But I'm thankful that I see some 173 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,360 change in the church that God has began to give drink. 174 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,320 Hallelujah. All you got to do is walk in to 175 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,680 this church and you can feel that it is evident. 176 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,120 Hallelujah. I'm glad to see hands Gore up 177 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:29,160 because I want to take oh glory, I got to get this lid off of 178 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,240 here. I want to tell you something. 179 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,320 You might thought I was just doing this for me, but I've done 180 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,400 it for purpose because you know what I'm going to tell somebody 181 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:47,720 tonight. If you can't lift your hands, 182 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:54,200 you can never get a drink. I have to lift that up to get a 183 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,360 drink. And I'm going to tell you, if 184 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,360 you ever to get expect to get a drink, you're going to have to 185 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,320 raise your hands because you can't drink and have your hands 186 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:09,720 down. Nobody's going to bottle feed 187 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,800 you. Honey, if you want this thing, 188 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:13,800 you're going to have to get your hands up. 189 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,520 Come on. If you want a drink, put your 190 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:21,080 hands up. Hallelujah. 191 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,800 Hallelujah. It is said that a human can only 192 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,800 do without water. About 3 days and 85° 193 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,400 temperatures. How long has it been since you 194 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:39,720 had a good drink? Oh, glory Hallelujah. 195 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:45,760 Glory Hallelujah. You know, I Yeah, I've done 196 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,200 this. I I can't even tell you when 197 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,200 this. It's been a long, long time ago. 198 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:50,800 It's been set in my house forever. 199 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:59,000 You know what we do? This is where we're at church. 200 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,480 If we're not careful, we go to get the little picture. 201 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:07,640 Come on, man, if I can just get to church and just get me a 202 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,960 little ring, come on. If I could just get a little of 203 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:15,160 something, I think I'd feel better. 204 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,200 And it's all right. But if you don't make it back to 205 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:20,840 the next service, you're going to have to run out of water. 206 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,520 Come on. I don't know about you, but I 207 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,120 won't be anointed. Come on. 208 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:29,680 I want to feel the presence of God. 209 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,200 I want to know that He's mine. I want to know He's my savior. 210 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:37,000 I want to know He's still in my heart. 211 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,720 I don't know about you, but I need a drink every day. 212 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:49,120 Oh Jesus. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 213 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,880 Hallelujah. I'm telling you, some of you are 214 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:54,600 going through some things right now. 215 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,960 The longer you are in the heat of your problem, the more you 216 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:05,080 need to drink. I'm afraid right now that 217 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:09,080 there's some dehydrated to the place that right now you need an 218 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:17,640 infusion, not just a drink. See, See, I, I thought about 219 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:24,040 this and I thought, you know, sometimes we don't need the 220 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,760 little one. We need an infusion. 221 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:33,760 We need a drink. Yeah, you do it, brother. 222 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:39,040 Alex, I got a faucet up there I used several years ago. 223 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,160 There should be a picture someplace. 224 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:47,960 I preached about this one day because it's something that my 225 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:52,800 Mama drilled in me and in me. My dad, he done the same thing 226 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,480 when they was praying and when they was testifying. 227 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,440 When Mama was testifying. Not many times go by that Mama 228 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:04,119 did say, hey, I want to get under the spout where the glory 229 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:09,400 pours out. And in the first church she did 230 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,880 because she drilled a hole in the floor right where she sit 231 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,599 with her high heels of stomping the devil. 232 00:17:16,319 --> 00:17:19,480 You know, we need some people in here that said I'm going to get 233 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:25,040 a drink no matter what happens. Mama was going to worship 234 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,960 whether anybody else worship or not. 235 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,880 And she began to stomp that same foot until she drilled a hole in 236 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:39,080 that floor. Oh, let somebody get excited and 237 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:43,360 stomp the O devil. Let somebody get excited and 238 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:48,480 worship. I don't know about you, but I 239 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,200 went under the spout where the glory pours out. 240 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,720 I wanted to bring the garden hose, but I decided to leave it 241 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:04,040 at home. I have been guilty of having a 242 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:07,240 blast of water and just kind of throwing it in water and y'all 243 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:11,920 sprinkling you a little. I've done that before, but I 244 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,200 knew tonight a sprinkle wasn't going to be enough. 245 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:19,560 Come on, come on. I got thinking if I could just 246 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,640 figure it out and just bring my hose and hook it up to the 247 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:28,000 spigot, run it inside. It's a spigot. 248 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:33,480 Back in my day. I'm old school, you know, and, 249 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,440 and if I could just turn it on when you needed a drink. 250 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:42,120 Come on, if I could just turn it on and spray that thing up the 251 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,240 air and if we could just each one just take our turn. 252 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:50,240 Come on. If you want a drink, you got to 253 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,200 get your hands up. You can't get a drink without 254 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,680 getting your hands up. And then somebody's holding the 255 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:00,240 hose for you. It's, it's, it's a sad thing, 256 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,760 but you know, we're living in a day now when we sat beside 257 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:05,680 people in church and we don't know what they're going for. 258 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,320 And I began to think maybe we need to pass a little can out a 259 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:19,680 little bit. And, you know, there may be 260 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,840 setting somebody close to you needs a little drink. 261 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:25,320 Give it a look. Give her a drink. 262 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:33,600 Come on. And I wonder what it'd be like 263 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:44,200 if somebody that's already full, somebody said beside you, huh, 264 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,800 sore behind you, shouting Hallelujah and about to have a 265 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:53,040 conniption if we just give them a drink of this a little bit 266 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:57,800 more because my cup runneth over. 267 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,080 Come on. That's how other people get 268 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:02,480 touched. It's hurts. 269 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:08,200 It's when your cup runs over. Oh, when they're under the spout 270 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:12,400 where the glory pours out. When they're setting beside 271 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:20,480 somebody that's on fire for God, when they need somebody to give 272 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,520 them a drink, give them a little drink. 273 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:32,600 Oh, Jesus, they see, they see this small one just for somebody 274 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,600 just needs a just a small drink, just for a little bit, you know, 275 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,600 just have you, you know, you've seen the waiters that come by. 276 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:56,480 God, we'll just stop it. All good news for you. 277 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:57,320 You done. Got it. 278 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,400 But we'll just let it run over tonight. 279 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,720 Hey, I get by with that. I'm Bishop, but I'm going to 280 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,320 take something. This little gal received a whole 281 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:12,200 ghost. NYC. 282 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,280 You know what, We'd have a lot more people that get the Holy 283 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:49,950 Ghost right in church on their pews if somebody would just 284 00:21:49,950 --> 00:21:52,070 start running over somebody's cup. 285 00:21:57,590 --> 00:22:05,160 We need to top off some cups. We need to pour a little water 286 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:10,680 where it's already fresh. Yeah, you want that? 287 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:17,480 Don't you see? I'm a little old fashioned. 288 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,880 I can't help it. I was born that way and had a 289 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:25,560 relapse. Telling you what, First Church I 290 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:31,200 remembered didn't know him, but they came to our church on the 291 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,840 night that I was kind of wrapped up in some of this stuff, you 292 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:39,360 know, and I was preaching about the joy bucket overflowing. 293 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:45,880 First Church, Some of you'll remember that we church wasn't 294 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,240 full then, but we had a good crowd that night. 295 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:54,200 Man, this young evangelist and I didn't know him from nowhere and 296 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,840 his young wife come in to worship with us. 297 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:04,600 I began to preach about the joy bucket Hallelujah that some of 298 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,200 us needed to drink from that joy bucket. 299 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,120 We need to be close to the well and draw water and just pour it 300 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:13,560 on her head at the end of the service. 301 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,600 The Lord tell told me said take your joy bucket. 302 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,840 Put the rope on it. Just put it up here and let 303 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,240 people come up and and kneel down there before that bucket 304 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:27,680 and let them start. Was anything in it, Bishop? 305 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,240 No, there was no water in it. But yes, there was water in it. 306 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:36,560 It was a Holy Ghost. It wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't, 307 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,440 it wasn't Pastor McGee at that time. 308 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,000 It wasn't, it wasn't me. It wasn't because of me, but it 309 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,280 was because God give a word and he said you obey me. 310 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:50,080 So I did it and, and our people began to line up and they began 311 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:54,240 to take that fucking and, and directly the Holy Ghost started 312 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,200 moving in that place. And I could see this evangelist 313 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,400 wife that was she was sitting back there and they were like, 314 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,480 something wrong with this. This guy ain't all put together 315 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,280 right? And I'm not, but that's all 316 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,360 right. God's chose peculiar people. 317 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:19,400 So I'm one of them. I fit in so directly, Sister 318 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,240 McGee, I guarantee she remembers it. 319 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,200 That little old, that little old lady, that little old evangelist 320 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,880 wife, she finally was getting into it back here and everybody 321 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,800 getting blessed by this empty bucket pouring on their head. 322 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,960 So she began to make her way up, making sure, no, you know, I 323 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:40,360 don't want to be crazy. But she got up there, honey, She 324 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,240 knelt down. And about the time she knelt 325 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,520 down and got a hold of that bucket, she started having a 326 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:51,480 Holy Ghost fit. Kneeling down, she began to pour 327 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,800 that bucket down and she set it back down and she'd do it again. 328 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,360 Honey, you couldn't get a loose from the bucket. 329 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,600 You know why? That bucket was full of the Holy 330 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,160 Ghost. It had nothing to do with me. 331 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,320 But when God says do something, I'm telling you he'll put 332 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:13,840 something in the bucket. If he can fill bottles with 333 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:18,720 water and they turn into wine, why can't he put Holy Ghost in a 334 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:23,000 bucket and let it overflow where everybody can get a drink? 335 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,760 Hallelujah. Hell, Glory, 24 minutes ain't 336 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,360 gone. No worries yet, Glory. 337 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,160 I'm What I'm working on is people to dehydrate. 338 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,920 I want to give them an infusion. I want to see you come in here. 339 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,240 Nobody has to say would you lift your hand? 340 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:53,600 I want to see you come in the door and say come on. 341 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,720 I want to see him come out of the prayer room again. 342 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,280 Pastor McGee, hands already raised, already worship and God, 343 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,440 they done got a drink. They got a a drink in the back 344 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,040 and now they're going to give somebody an infusion. 345 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,280 They're going to run somebody's cuff over. 346 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,080 Thank you Jesus, I went under the spout where the glory pours 347 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:29,760 at as I began to study about this and God began to deal with 348 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:34,800 me. A little while after that, Lord 349 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:42,400 woke me up in the middle of the night and he said, I know you've 350 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,640 read this, but you need to go back to church and get Max 351 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,640 Lucado's book that says come thirsty. 352 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:57,560 So I read that book through again and there come a stir in 353 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:04,600 me church. What the problem is we don't 354 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:18,440 come to church thirsty enough. In this in this book he writes 355 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:24,800 about the scripture I read in the new century version and he 356 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,800 has this to say. He says, are they saved? 357 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,920 Well, yes, they were saved because he addresses them as 358 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:37,760 brothers and sisters, right, OK. He, he must consider them to be 359 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:46,760 God's children, a man heaven bound, saved. 360 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:53,880 But spiritual, but spiritual, somebody say but spiritual. 361 00:27:55,320 --> 00:28:00,720 I like that glory, but spiritual, Are they really 362 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:05,440 spiritual? And he uses something that's 363 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:12,880 just, I loved it so much. He used something and he says 364 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:22,800 they're plugged in. Hang on to this, he said they're 365 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,320 plugged in. Let me tell you something, 366 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,720 there's some people that comes through these doors that plugs 367 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:33,800 their self in. But I like what he said next. 368 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:38,960 He said they may be plugged in, but they're not flipped on. 369 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:53,960 I mean, you can look the part, you can, you can dress the part 370 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,560 and you can go through the motions. 371 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,960 But if you're not turned on, there's nothing happening. 372 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,880 There's no feeling. Come on, come on. 373 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,840 I'm sorry. But when I really get with it, 374 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,600 everybody knows I'm plugged in and I'm flipped on because I'm, 375 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:18,240 I'm in, in the motion. Honey, come on, I'm moving. 376 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,560 I'm not sitting still. Honey, when electricity hits 377 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,840 you, you going to be doing stuff. 378 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,800 Come on. When the power of the Holy Ghost 379 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:32,280 gets on you, you going to move because Acts 1 today, when you 380 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:36,200 receive the Holy Ghost, ye you shall, everybody said, you 381 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:40,560 shall, you shall. Come on, shout it to the devil. 382 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:50,200 You shall receive power. Thank God for the Holy Ghost. 383 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,720 You need to flip it on tonight. You may be plugged in, but you 384 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,840 need to turn it on. It needs some. 385 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:05,040 It needs some excitement, it needs some moving power. 386 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,760 It needs to shock you a little bit. 387 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,760 Somebody needs to know that you got a hold of something that you 388 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:24,080 can't turn loose up. Lord, Hallelujah, I know you all 389 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,720 don't want me to leave this church tonight, ain't you? 390 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,640 So you come by for church and flip it on. 391 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:35,360 Thank you, Jesus, Hallelujah. So you know what? 392 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:41,160 Sometimes all it would need is for somebody to flip the switch. 393 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,600 Pastor even talked about it some, I think a week or so ago 394 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,800 maybe it was. I know he talked, he talked 395 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,440 about it, and we used to see it in the first two churches. 396 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,480 There was no problem. Every time you'd be vacuuming, 397 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,760 you vacuum that floor and you go. 398 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:12,840 I'll be paying Brother Freddie, Sister Sheila. 399 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,240 We send them many a lady dance their hair down. 400 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,320 And it was, it was like, you know what? 401 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,600 They were so infused. They didn't care. 402 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,480 And they kept on carrying on. They kept on shouting the glory 403 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,040 down. You know why they had the switch 404 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,840 on. We need to come in church and 405 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,960 flip the switch. Honey, we need to show the devil 406 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,600 the door so you get out. I'm fixing to have electricity 407 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,800 in this place. I'm fixing to have a Holy Ghost 408 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:59,400 igniting in here. Oh Jesus, I used I used to love 409 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:00,720 sweep the floor and hear a plane. 410 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,600 Then go a little bit and plane said, boy, somebody really lost 411 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:09,440 some here. They might have lost the Bobby 412 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:18,120 pins, but they got a drink. Thank you, Mariah. 413 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,320 I just kind of noticed what she's done with that. 414 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,480 You know, that's what most people do with their watering. 415 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,720 Can they shut it, set it down between them, Never get a drink 416 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,960 of it, You know, just never give it. 417 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,800 Nobody else. Lord, no, don't get. 418 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,040 Hey, I brought that water for me. 419 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,680 You need to share it. Come on, you. 420 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,720 If you've got an overflowing of the Holy Ghost, why don't you 421 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:51,840 share it with somebody? Brother Dakota needs a Holy 422 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,840 Ghost. Told me a while ago. 423 00:32:53,840 --> 00:33:00,440 He wanted it. You know, I can just get this 424 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,000 thing to work like that bucket and just pour it out on him. 425 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:13,400 Like that anointing, the rundown, the Aaron's beard, come 426 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,120 on. If I could, if I could just get, 427 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,240 if I could just get some anointing in here that would run 428 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,240 down on somebody's lips. And they flipped the switch. 429 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,640 They could receive the Holy Ghost just that quick because it 430 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,800 was by the laying on of hands that they received it. 431 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,240 They called for Peter and they go up and lay hands on them and 432 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:38,360 they'd receive it. Come on church, you know why? 433 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:42,840 Because they were already filled up and all they need to do when 434 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,600 they just go and go pray for somebody in the name of Jesus 435 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:50,760 and they start speaking in heaven. 436 00:33:50,760 --> 00:34:01,720 Oh yes, Hallelujah. See, I've always said pastor 437 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,200 knows it. I've, I've, I've always said 438 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,720 this. The only thing that we can take 439 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,480 with us from this life is people. 440 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,679 There's no armored cars in the funeral possession. 441 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,320 Nobody's got their, their bank bag with them. 442 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,080 You know what I like? I like it. 443 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:29,679 You know, the Lord really looks upon the Saints, you know, as 444 00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:34,080 they die. Precious. 445 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,000 Yeah. Precious are the Saints who died 446 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,800 in the Lord. Precious. 447 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:45,159 Precious. I like it because they may not 448 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:50,400 have a watering can, but I've noticed something about going 449 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,880 and visiting somebody that's passed from this life that's 450 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,040 been filled with the Holy Ghost all their life. 451 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,240 Seems like even though maybe they don't fix it that way, I 452 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:06,200 don't think they can. But you know, Mama's face and 453 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,960 all that had been through all that pain of cancer, laying 454 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:14,320 there, dying with it for months. Think about 1995. 455 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:19,040 My mother made her last trip to Santa Claus camp, and I will 456 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,240 never forget it. Mama was running around the 457 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:27,200 outside of that camp because it was open air outside, just had a 458 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,560 roof over it. She was running around that 459 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,920 thing wasn't very long after that. 460 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,520 She couldn't hardly get up in our sister McGee in our van when 461 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:37,960 I'd go to pick her up for church. 462 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,680 And I knew right then there's something wrong with Mama 463 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,880 because Mama's about to crazy as I am when it comes to worship. 464 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:50,640 She going to worship no matter. Hallelujah, Mama going to do it. 465 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,480 And Mama couldn't hardly get up in the van. 466 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,720 But I'm going to tell you something I won't ever forget. 467 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:01,960 And I know when they they put Mama in that casket, she laid up 468 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,240 here in shorts Funeral Home. That one thing I remember Sister 469 00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:08,080 McGee, when I walked by there, I don't know, maybe it's just me. 470 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,160 Maybe nobody else saw. But I saw a smile on Mama's 471 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,320 face. You know why? 472 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,560 Because she smiled ever since she got filled with the Holy 473 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,240 Ghost when I was about 3 years old, when I was about to die. 474 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,160 And Mama said, I give him to you, Lord, if you will heal him, 475 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,200 I'll serve you for the rest of my life. 476 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,640 And my Mama, she took on God as her savior. 477 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,640 Hallelujah. And since that day, I never seen 478 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,880 a smile leave Mama's face. I don't care what kind of shape 479 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,160 she was in. I don't care what kind of day 480 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,480 she was in. Mama was smiling. 481 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,520 Come on. She always had a word of 482 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,920 encouragement for somebody she could talk to. 483 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:49,240 A fence post. I can do that, too, Glory. 484 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,440 Hallelujah. I'm not ashamed of it either. 485 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,880 That's all right, Glory. I'm glad. 486 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,240 I'm glad that I don't meet strangers. 487 00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:01,160 Come on, Hallelujah, Church. We need to get where we don't. 488 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,040 We don't see strangers. We ought to see them. 489 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:08,080 Hey, this is somebody. If I could just flip the switch 490 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,640 that God could do something great right now, as I'm talking 491 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,400 Horry and Mama was that kind of person. 492 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,120 So I don't know. I don't know. 493 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,200 Some of you were there. I don't know where you seen that 494 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,360 smile on Mama's face, but I did. And I don't think you could wipe 495 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,600 it off. They could have probably tried 496 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,040 to soul that thing up a certain way and it wouldn't work. 497 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:31,840 It'd probably go right back because that's where it was 498 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,400 stuck. Come on, church. 499 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:36,760 Hallelujah. I better get going. 500 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,560 Hallelujah. Thank you. 501 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:43,200 Jesus, we need the church to come thirsty. 502 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,280 Hallelujah. I'm going to tell you there's 503 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,280 one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to leave anybody 504 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,560 behind. Don't leave. 505 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,080 Don't leave your partner in a fire. 506 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,440 Don't leave him. Stay beside him. 507 00:37:58,440 --> 00:37:59,920 Make sure he's going to be all right. 508 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,360 Glory. There's been many one that's got 509 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,680 killed like that. But leaving somebody behind, 510 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:08,880 wouldn't you sure that he's going to make it or not? 511 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,440 I'm going to tell you we need to start doing that in the church. 512 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:15,800 We ought to act like there's a fire and and, and we don't need 513 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,040 to let nobody get lost in that fire. 514 00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:20,640 Nobody to get lost in that heat. Come on. 515 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,880 Nobody to get so thirsty that that they die of thirst. 516 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,600 Come on. We ought to give them a drink. 517 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,960 Oh, Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. 518 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,000 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 519 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,080 Hallelujah. I don't want to leave anybody 520 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,240 behind, but I'm going to tell you. 521 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,640 I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell somebody 522 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,200 something right now. I've been waking up through the 523 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:45,080 night right now. And I feel in my spirit to pray 524 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,280 for some of you because I'm afraid of your spirituality. 525 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,000 I'm not sure. I'm not sure, Sister Sheila, 526 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,760 that it's enough. Come on. 527 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,720 I'm not. I'm not sure that you've got 528 00:38:56,720 --> 00:38:58,000 enough to go. Come on. 529 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,440 Hey, if that spirit dwells in you, that dwell in Christ, 530 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,960 raised him from the dead, it'll quicken your mortal body. 531 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,760 Hey, if you want to leave this place, you got to have the Holy 532 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,400 Ghost to leave. Come on. 533 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,840 That's the spirit that resurrects you. 534 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,320 Come on. If it's able to resurrect you, 535 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,280 don't you think it's able to move on? 536 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,600 Somebody next door to you. Come on. 537 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,600 Somebody that, that that's sitting there all drugged down 538 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,960 and discouraged and troubled, you need to give them a drink. 539 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,120 Flip the switch on, honey. Come on. 540 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,360 Let the Holy Ghost use you. Let it speak through you. 541 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:45,120 Jesus. Hallelujah. 542 00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:51,800 We need to come to church with thirst and go home hydrated. 543 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,080 I said hydrated. We need to go home hydrated. 544 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,360 Hallelujah. Oh glory. 545 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:05,440 See Max says this. He says, you know, you know, 546 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:10,520 people come to church and you may have you, you may, you may 547 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:14,440 have God in your heart, but you may not have given your whole 548 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,440 heart to God. You can have him in your heart 549 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,600 and not give him your all. Come on, I don't know about you, 550 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,880 but I've got everything just all right. 551 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,840 And I feel like I'm perfect. I still got some work to do. 552 00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:34,400 He's still working on me. Makes me what I ought to be. 553 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:35,800 Yeah. Come on. 554 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,760 I think maybe we need to sing that song. 555 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,040 Just to remind us sometime we ain't got it all together yet. 556 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,560 Come on, I don't know about you, but there's times I need a drink 557 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,920 and there's times that I almost feel like I need somebody to. 558 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:04,760 My wife done that back in 2022. I needed to drink of something. 559 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,200 I went to sleep and didn't wake up. 560 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:19,760 I I couldn't tell you what. There's nothing, period, she 561 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,840 said. My legs was kicking, all of 562 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,600 that. I didn't. 563 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,320 I can't tell you I would. I didn't know nothing. 564 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:33,800 And she began to pour that little bottle of glucose in me 565 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:41,880 is God think she got it down. I carry them because I'm a 566 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:46,880 number one diabetic. And if I get low, if I get too 567 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,560 low and it's not one to come up, I drink one of these, It'll come 568 00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:54,080 up. My wife poured the first one 569 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,920 down, got another and was pouring the next one down. 570 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,720 And when I woke up, I seen this beautiful face looking down on 571 00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:09,980 me. And when my wife it was. 572 00:42:13,020 --> 00:42:15,340 Who was that brother? Kevin Cruz. 573 00:42:16,580 --> 00:42:20,960 Tyler Cruz. Yeah, Kevin, we wish. 574 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:33,760 Brother Tyler was looking down on me and he smiled real big and 575 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,600 he looked at me as normal as he could ever look. 576 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,920 And he said, Bishop, I'm giving you some mashed potatoes. 577 00:42:45,290 --> 00:42:47,410 So I go ahead and give them mine. 578 00:42:47,490 --> 00:42:52,050 I'll take them. You know what? 579 00:42:53,320 --> 00:43:01,520 Thank God for people in the medical field that still got the 580 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:06,920 Holy Ghost, that still got the power of God resting in them. 581 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:16,520 And I believe that that night, that one brother, Tyler Cruz 582 00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,840 hooked me up. There was something in there 583 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:27,760 just besides this. He flipped the switch and he 584 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:33,960 said, hey, this is my Bishop. I, I'm saying in my own words, 585 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,160 he probably wouldn't sit that way. 586 00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,360 I, he, he's, I'm. I'm just not ready to let loose 587 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:44,000 of him yet. Come on, Church, come on. 588 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,640 I don't know about you, but I, I've got some people in here. 589 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,360 I feel that way. Come on, I've got some that 590 00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:54,520 slipped out the doors, Brother Mason, that that I'm not ready 591 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:58,880 to turn loose yet and I'm still praying every day, even the mid, 592 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:02,080 even in the 3:00 in the morning when God wakes me up. 593 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,400 Brother Freddie, I'm still praying for those. 594 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:09,480 You know why they started here. This is where they repented, 595 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:13,000 received the Holy Ghost, we're baptized in Jesus name and I'm 596 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,880 still praying for them. There's many of them that's 597 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,920 still in this area. They just need a drink. 598 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,280 Are we going to give them a drink or let them die? 599 00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,360 How many hours of prayer is it going to take? 600 00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:30,880 I don't know. Sometimes it takes 23 years, but 601 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,320 thank God, my daughter said here. 602 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:38,480 She's living proof that God answers prayer even after 23 603 00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:45,120 years of prayer. I've got up a minute, died, and 604 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,360 went to my office in the Parsonage and began to pray for 605 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,720 my daughter. I've even called her at that 606 00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:55,640 time because I felt like something was going on. 607 00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,520 I need to call her. Come on, Church, we need that 608 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,800 feeling back. Come on. 609 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,640 You call it discernment. You'd call it whatever you want, 610 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,280 but I'm telling you, we need that feeling. 611 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:13,400 My mom and daddy, I can remember getting us up to 3:00 in the 612 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,280 morning and coming in and are speaking in tongues. 613 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,840 Daddy says son get dressed. We got to go pray for somebody. 614 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,600 I feel God, I feel, I feel in the Lord. 615 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,800 Somebody needs us. He knew right where he was 616 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,040 going. We go and we pray the rest of 617 00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:29,560 the night and I go to school the next day. 618 00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:34,560 But guess what, Daddy didn't leave till they was all right 619 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,760 until God answered prayer. He stayed there and prayed. 620 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:51,080 How long are we willing to pray? Glory, thank you Jesus. 621 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:55,840 Truth is eyes up. 3:00 this morning I was in my office 622 00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,160 praying. I was praying for this service 623 00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,760 tonight. I'm tired of going in feeling 624 00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,440 dead and dry. I wanted a refreshing drink. 625 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,520 Come on, I want a cool drink of water. 626 00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,680 I don't know about you, but I want something refreshing 627 00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:14,280 that'll wake me up and set me on my feet and start me on my way 628 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:20,720 again. I want to be where the power is. 629 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:30,600 I want to find Jesus's seat. Man, hurry up. 630 00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:36,200 Bishop long winded Co Lewis said this. 631 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:46,560 He said Christ says give me all. He said I don't want so much of 632 00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:52,200 your time and so much of your money and so much of your work. 633 00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:59,560 I want you. He said I have not come to 634 00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:04,120 torment your natural self, but to kill it. 635 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:10,120 My flesh needs to be killed and let the Spirit run deep. 636 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:19,360 Lord, he said, no half measures are any good. 637 00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:23,360 I don't want to cut off a branch here and a branch there. 638 00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,360 I want to have the tree cut down. 639 00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:34,720 Hand over the whole natural self, all of the desires which 640 00:47:34,720 --> 00:47:38,720 you think wicked, the whole outfit, He says. 641 00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:42,880 I'll give you a new self instead. 642 00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:55,520 In fact, I'll give you myself. My own will shall become your 643 00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:00,920 yours. Myself shall become yours. 644 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:03,240 Glory. That's what we need. 645 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,240 We need that. We need that. 646 00:48:07,240 --> 00:48:13,920 Hallelujah, oh glory Hallelujah. I want to turn to Saint John 14 647 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,000 chapter. I'm trying y'all Hallelujah, 648 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:25,160 Saint John the 14th chapter. I want to read just A7 14th and 649 00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:28,240 I want to read 17 to 18. I'm going to jump down to 20. 650 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:34,000 Even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because 651 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:38,440 it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, but you know him, 652 00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:43,840 for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you See, we got to 653 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:47,560 have the Holy Ghost in us before we can flip it on. 654 00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,720 Have you ever heard somebody? Have you ever heard a minister 655 00:48:53,720 --> 00:49:06,380 get up and say come on y'all, let's pray, flip it on, Come on. 656 00:49:06,540 --> 00:49:10,100 If I'm supposed to obey my pastor and he tells me to raise 657 00:49:10,100 --> 00:49:20,760 and start. Come on, because in obeying him, 658 00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,360 I'm obeying God. Come on. 659 00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:26,920 If your pastor tells you to give somebody a drink, you better 660 00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,160 give it. Come on. 661 00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:33,520 Hallelujah. Well, glory, Hallelujah, Jesus. 662 00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,880 Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. 663 00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:42,080 I will not leave you comfortless. 664 00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:50,280 Jesus is speaking here. I will come to you now. 665 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,680 Verse 20. At that day he shall know that I 666 00:49:55,680 --> 00:50:00,760 am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 667 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:06,120 It works that way. It's the Holy Ghost. 668 00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,880 If you've got the Holy Ghost, you've got Christ in you, the 669 00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:12,560 hope of glory. Come on, I said, you've got the 670 00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:17,600 hope of glory if you've got the Holy Ghost dwelling in you, but 671 00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:19,160 without it, you don't have a hope. 672 00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:27,920 Glory, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, glory. 673 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:36,640 Luke 13 verse #7 Then said he and to the dresser of his 674 00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:40,840 vineyard, behold, these three years I've come seeking fruit on 675 00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,400 this fig tree and find none. Cut it down. 676 00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:49,360 Why come earth at the ground? He said this. 677 00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:53,240 You're just wasting time. You're wasting the ground. 678 00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:56,240 It's idle because there's nothing good on it. 679 00:50:56,240 --> 00:50:59,600 Come on, church, every time we come through these doors, there 680 00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,000 ought to be something good come out of this service. 681 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,040 Come on, we if we don't receive nothing, it's our fault. 682 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,160 It's not God. God does not change. 683 00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,880 He's still here every time we walk through the doors. 684 00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:15,440 Hallelujah. I don't want to be idle. 685 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,240 What Jesus is saying, He said you're wasting ground. 686 00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,120 You, you, there ain't no sense of covering the ground with this 687 00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:24,080 thing. Just cut it down. 688 00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:27,600 Get rid of it. Now I'm, I'm fixing to get down 689 00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,520 to business here and I may not finish this part. 690 00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:33,440 I don't know. I want to get down to the nuts 691 00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,200 and the bolts that cause you to will. 692 00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:44,080 Maybe it's a trial, maybe it's a test, but I want you to know in 693 00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:47,280 all these things, we've got a scripture and we've got a verse 694 00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:53,200 First Peter one and seven says that the trial of your faith 695 00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:57,160 being much more precious. Come on, it's a trial, but it's 696 00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:04,120 precious, more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be 697 00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:09,080 tried with fire, might be found unto pray. 698 00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:17,480 They said pray, pray and honor and glory at the appearing of 699 00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,600 Jesus Christ. So our prayer and our worship is 700 00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:24,080 worth something. It's more precious than gold. 701 00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:27,160 When God sees you lifting your hands, he said, man, they didn't 702 00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:32,520 want to drink, so he pours you out a drink. 703 00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:38,960 Oh God, or it may be sickness. Luke 418 The Spirit of the Lord 704 00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,280 is upon me. Jake here talk about Jesus 705 00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:44,760 because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. 706 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:49,080 He has sent me, He's talking, He has sent me to heal the broken 707 00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,600 hearted to preach deliverers to the captives and the receiving 708 00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:59,440 of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. 709 00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:04,560 Come on, church Lord, we need to get our water cans out. 710 00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,040 Come on, we need to get the water cans out. 711 00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:15,120 We need to score down the aisle. And when we empty this thing, we 712 00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:20,160 need to get the other. We need to walk down the aisles 713 00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:23,120 again. We need to pour a bunch of Holy 714 00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:27,440 Ghost on him. Some refreshing on Kennedy. 715 00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,240 She's been sick. These these kids have been sick. 716 00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:32,520 So they they need a refreshing drink. 717 00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,880 And I don't care how many how many years you've been in. 718 00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,760 You need a drink. You need a drink. 719 00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,680 You need a drink. I said you need a drink. 720 00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,800 Need a drink. Healing. 721 00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:54,840 Deliverance. Yeah. 722 00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:57,040 Come on. We need a drink. 723 00:53:57,760 --> 00:53:59,480 Yeah. Need a drink. 724 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:15,490 Need a healing right here, a girl, a girl y'all felt funny. 725 00:54:15,490 --> 00:54:18,410 If the God just healed her just like that, then the bad that I 726 00:54:18,490 --> 00:54:21,690 turned upside down. But you know what he's able to 727 00:54:21,690 --> 00:54:27,370 do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think it 728 00:54:27,370 --> 00:54:35,000 don't say that we can think. It says all we think Maya wants 729 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:42,560 a drink. Ray needs a drink with the kind 730 00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:46,000 of people Brother Mason, you know, works with all week and 731 00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:51,280 has to control. He needs a drink, needs a drink 732 00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:52,880 because she got to listen to it when he gets home. 733 00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:58,840 These two, these two need to drink. 734 00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:04,040 Come on, they wonder and spout where the glory pours at pastor 735 00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,280 and sister Don needs a drink. Come on, come on. 736 00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:11,200 We need a flood around here. Come on, we need a flood of the 737 00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:15,560 Holy Ghost. Come on, we need a move of God 738 00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:18,920 that will move us to the place that we can't go home. 739 00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,640 Come on. So strong that we got to stay 740 00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,800 and pray half the night. You better get ready because 741 00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:31,400 hey, hey, it's it's told 2009 twice that's going to happen. 742 00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,880 Be people that be people have to pray of the night time. 743 00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:36,680 There won't be time that you know we're going to have people 744 00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:38,920 have people 24 hours a day praying. 745 00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,080 Come on. Hallelujah. 746 00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:44,640 We need a drink. We need to pour it out on Mount 747 00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:48,000 Carmel. Mount Carmel needs a drink. 748 00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:52,760 We need to flood it till it gets rid of all the boost joints and 749 00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:54,720 all the gambling joints. You hear me? 750 00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:59,080 All of it. Come on, come on, they need a 751 00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:03,040 good drink of salvation, a good drink of the Holy Ghost. 752 00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:08,440 Oh God, Hallelujah. Or maybe it's the loss of the 753 00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:15,120 job. Philippians 419 But my God shall 754 00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,000 supply all your need according to his riches and glory by 755 00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:22,160 Christ Jesus. In other words, your needs will 756 00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:24,880 quit being met when heaven runs out of riches, and that'll be 757 00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:29,160 never. You can't run it dry. 758 00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:34,720 Oh Jesus. Or it could be because you can't 759 00:56:34,720 --> 00:56:40,640 forgive yourself. You think you've gone way too 760 00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:47,600 far, and you just can't think that God, you, you. 761 00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:52,960 It's just hard to accept that God is so forgiving that He'll 762 00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:59,280 forgive you no matter, don't matter what you've done. 763 00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:04,400 Matthew 1231 For I say unto you, all matter of sin and blasphemy 764 00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:07,680 shall be forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy against Holy Ghost 765 00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:10,240 shall not be forgiven. So he'll, if you ain't 766 00:57:10,240 --> 00:57:15,560 blaspheming the Holy Ghost, honey, He'll forgive you nothing 767 00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:18,080 else. Now I'm going to, I don't know, 768 00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:19,800 I make the end here. I may not, I don't know. 769 00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:26,600 Just I'm just feeling I had to go back and I've been reading 770 00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,680 Sister McGee had got me a little book talking about answered 771 00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:36,560 prayer in the church symbol Jimson Bella wrote it and I've I 772 00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:38,520 can't tell you how many times I've read it through. 773 00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:43,360 I've had it for years now, but I just felt like the other night 774 00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:50,320 was, I don't know about 3/30, 4:00 in the morning that I went 775 00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:55,280 to my office and I picked up that book and I want to relate a 776 00:57:55,280 --> 00:58:00,200 story to you to tell you how big God is and what he wants to do 777 00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:04,120 for this church. It's a story of Ricardo. 778 00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:09,200 He was from the salt mines of the lower West side of 779 00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:15,040 Manhattan. Ricardo was one of many male 780 00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,440 prostitutes that flourished in this area. 781 00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:19,480 That's that's where they done their business. 782 00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:24,160 Many of them were boys who had been raped by adult male 783 00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:28,000 relatives. And the outreach team at 784 00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:31,840 Brooklyn Tabernacle began to bring blankets during the late 785 00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:36,120 hour in the daylight hours on Saturday when men weren't 786 00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:41,480 distracted by their work. If you want, you know, and 787 00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:47,080 although these men made good money, they spent it all on 788 00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:50,560 drugs, which left them going through trash cans on weekend to 789 00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:52,760 get food. Come on. 790 00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,120 I'm talking about squandering everything you've got. 791 00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:04,000 The people of the church found it and I, I'm on. 792 00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:05,840 Come on, I'm you'll stay with me. 793 00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:14,360 The people at church found it hard to pray for compassion for 794 00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,400 these people. They, they, they didn't know how 795 00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:20,520 to do it. So on Tuesday night, Brooklyn 796 00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:25,600 Tabernacle had prayer meetings and every Tuesday night they 797 00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:28,520 began to focus their prayer this way. 798 00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:34,760 They began to pray for love, compassion and protection for 799 00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:40,560 these people. One night a young man that was 800 00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:44,440 on that staff that was doing over this stuff and taking all 801 00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,640 these blankets and stuff down. It was about 1/2 hour on the 802 00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:53,160 field of the Holy Ghost, half hour before church that he come 803 00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:58,280 by Jim brother Jim Simbela's office and he knocked on his 804 00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:03,480 pastor's door. He said SAS Pastor Simbela. 805 01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:11,120 We've got 27. Those male prostitutes sitting 806 01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:31,630 on the front 2 benches, Pastor said. 807 01:00:31,630 --> 01:00:35,430 They didn't smell good, they didn't look good. 808 01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:44,520 But when the altar call came, some responded and gave their 809 01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:48,880 heart to the Lord. They said it's at the end of 810 01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:52,040 service. These men were blown away 811 01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:56,640 because people were greeting them and smiling and handshakes 812 01:00:56,640 --> 01:01:00,040 that stunned them to the bone. They hadn't been ever loved or 813 01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:04,960 cared for like that. Pastor was walking up the aisle 814 01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:10,200 and he said he bumped into this. Well, yeah. 815 01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:14,080 He said the one of the most attractive women that ever laid 816 01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:20,680 eyes on had on a black dress, well kept blonde hair down to 817 01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:26,480 about shoulder length, nicely done nails, black stockings and 818 01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:29,680 high heels. He said she was a knockout of a 819 01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:35,360 woman and he said I bumped her. So I said sorry, ma'am. 820 01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:39,480 And he said the voice that came back to me was not a woman's. 821 01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:47,520 Said that's all right, man. Oh Lord, it wasn't a woman at 822 01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:55,350 all. Come to find out later, this was 823 01:01:55,350 --> 01:02:00,390 Ricardo on the street. She was known as Sarah. 824 01:02:04,990 --> 01:02:10,200 What I'm trying to get across to you, he said she'd been in this 825 01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:17,400 business for 10 years. I'm trying to tell you this that 826 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:22,640 God don't care where you have been or what you have done 827 01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:32,720 because his power goes way beyond anything you can imagine. 828 01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:39,200 He can still turn your life around and make you brand new. 829 01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:49,760 So Ricardo didn't give his heart to the Lord, didn't He said he 830 01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:54,360 stayed around and he kept coming for about a month and said he 831 01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:56,400 just sat there. He just kind of sat there 832 01:02:56,400 --> 01:03:00,160 through service and said he told, he told pastor later, he 833 01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:03,280 said the one the the lat that night. 834 01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:06,160 But then I went the altar. He said I I'd been watching all 835 01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:10,560 this and I said maybe I can be saved. 836 01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:17,960 Maybe God can do something. Ricardo found the Lord after a 837 01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:22,240 month. About a year or so later, he 838 01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:27,000 moved to Texas. He'd been witnessing in the 839 01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:31,640 slums and every place else in New York, many of souls saved 840 01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:36,680 because of Ricardo. He got in Texas and about 841 01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:40,760 Christmas time one day Pastor got a call. 842 01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:44,640 It was Ricardo on the other end, said he couldn't hardly talk. 843 01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:50,320 He said, Pastor, I'm dying. I've, I've fought this AIDS for 844 01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:52,960 many years and I'm, I'm, I'm dying. 845 01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:57,720 And he said as pastor, it's my job to encourage and strengthen 846 01:03:57,720 --> 01:03:59,520 people. Said I wanted to get him ready. 847 01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:02,400 So here I go with mine and said the Lord stopped me. 848 01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:07,200 And he said you don't need to be breeding him. 849 01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:09,400 What he needs to do these last days. 850 01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:14,120 You need to fight for his life because I'm not done with him. 851 01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:27,160 I feel the Holy Ghost. He's moving in this place, he 852 01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:32,000 said. Two weeks later, Ricardo flew 853 01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:36,360 back to New York. Come walking into the service 854 01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:43,720 already, said Ricardo. God sent you here for a purpose, 855 01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:47,240 he said. I've got, I've got, I'm glad to 856 01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:51,520 see you where you're at and you've witnessed, he said, I 857 01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:56,120 know pastor, but I need to do more with what I've got. 858 01:04:56,120 --> 01:05:02,080 I need to put this on tape. I need to record you telling 859 01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:09,160 your story, Ricardo, he said. So we recorded him and he said 860 01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:12,800 after that, he said, Pastor, I'm ready to die now. 861 01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:17,000 After, after everybody's heard my story and after, after I've 862 01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:21,760 already told people what God is capable of, He done it for me. 863 01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:32,560 I know what he can do, said a few weeks later he died and I'm 864 01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:35,040 going to tell you. Does that sound like a God that 865 01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:37,120 can't do anything? He can do it all. 866 01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:41,920 There's nothing he can't do. And I'm telling somebody here 867 01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:45,920 right now, all you need is a drink. 868 01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:52,280 Minister. Musicians can come. 869 01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:56,360 He has forgotten. He hadn't forgotten you. 870 01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:00,520 The prayer that you prayed many years ago. 871 01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:03,880 He still remembers what he's doing. 872 01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,040 He's just waiting on you to pray again. 873 01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:10,960 And he'll answer again and again and again. 874 01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:14,720 He's got your name engraved in the palm of his hand. 875 01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:19,200 He's not forgotten you. Come on, all you need is a 876 01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:23,080 drink. All you need is a refreshing and 877 01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:25,440 a renewing. It's a sign. 878 01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:27,760 See when you no longer lift your hands because you can't get a 879 01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:29,080 drink without lifting your hands. 880 01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:31,880 Can't do it? Try it. 881 01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:34,280 Try getting drink without lifting. 882 01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:42,600 Try it every time that bottle comes to your mouth. 883 01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:47,920 Do you ever, do you ever notice when you're getting a drink, 884 01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:52,000 you're looking up? Bible says look unto the hills, 885 01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:56,320 which cometh your help. Come on, all you need is a 886 01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:58,400 drink. I'm telling somebody you haven't 887 01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:01,920 gone that far, that God don't still love you and go and won't 888 01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:04,360 save you. He's still God. 889 01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:19,840 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. See, God takes one look and he's 890 01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:24,800 he's saying if you can't lift your hands, you're on your way 891 01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:28,560 to die before long if you don't get your hands up and get a 892 01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:33,960 drink. See it takes 91 ounces of fluid 893 01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:39,840 for a woman each day. Takes 125 oz for a man each day 894 01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:48,040 I'm going to read one more scripture and I'm finished in 895 01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:57,960 Matthew 1619, Matthew 1619. I want I want you to I want you 896 01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:02,480 Jesus is called I want you to act like and he is he's speaking 897 01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:07,360 to you tonight I will give unto thee the keys. 898 01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:13,040 Everybody said keys. This is how much He loves you. 899 01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:17,560 Thou will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of heaven. 900 01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:25,760 You've got all of heaven at your, fingertips at your and 901 01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:31,560 whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, 902 01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:35,920 and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in 903 01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:41,040 heaven. God has given you that kind of 904 01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:44,640 power, and yet we go away thirsty. 905 01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:58,560 A stand. I don't know, there may be 906 01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:05,279 somebody listening online tonight that you feel like 907 01:09:05,279 --> 01:09:09,240 you're one of those. Maybe that's gone too far. 908 01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:18,600 If we don't watch it, things of this world can vie our 909 01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:24,479 innertation our our attention so much that we forget God. 910 01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:32,760 My kids grew up in a home where TV wasn't our main thing. 911 01:09:34,399 --> 01:09:38,600 In fact, about what they done is Saturday mornings was cartoon 912 01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:43,000 time, you know, be it Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner and all those you 913 01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:50,880 know, just you sit and laugh at. But when the night comes, we go 914 01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:55,880 to church. But when there wasn't church, we 915 01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:59,720 had Bible studies in our home on Tuesday night for people that 916 01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:04,120 needed a little drink. Need to be further than the 917 01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:09,680 gospel. And on other nights, notice this 918 01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,280 is in the night. You know, you ever noticed that 919 01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:15,560 the night time is when the devil deals with you the most? 920 01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:19,280 The nights is what's the hardest. 921 01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:26,240 Well, in the night I'd get out the old guitar. 922 01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:33,200 If you want to know why my kids all sing, it's not because papaw 923 01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:36,320 or not, because Daddy and Mommy taught him. 924 01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:42,960 It was something we'd done. You know, kids when they're 925 01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:45,080 small, they like to hear themselves. 926 01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:48,640 So I'd have a recorder and I'd record them too, so they could 927 01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:52,920 hear themselves, you know, and they'd find their place in the 928 01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:57,040 harmony and we'd sing songs all night long till time go to bed. 929 01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:03,080 That's what we'd done. We sang praises unto God. 930 01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:09,080 Come on now, I, I want you to know that you can do that at 931 01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:14,720 home. You can do that at home. 932 01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:17,840 And I, and I'm going to taste something and whether you 933 01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:24,800 believe it or not, there can be a fresh outpouring in your House 934 01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:31,560 of the Holy Ghost. If you need a drink, it don't 935 01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:33,280 mean you have to go to church to get a drink. 936 01:11:33,440 --> 01:11:35,600 You can get a drink at home because the Holy Ghost is 937 01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:39,720 everywhere and if it lives inside of you, then there is 938 01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:46,080 rivers of living water that lives inside you. 939 01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:50,640 So if you're one of them wilted plants, don't sit here tonight 940 01:11:53,480 --> 01:11:57,400 and go away from here thirsty. I want you to be hydrated when 941 01:11:57,400 --> 01:12:03,160 you leave here. We need to let everything we say 942 01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:08,400 be good and helpful so that your words will be an encouragement 943 01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:12,240 to those who hear them. Get rid of all the bitterness 944 01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:16,440 and the rage and the anger and the harsh words and the slang, 945 01:12:16,440 --> 01:12:21,160 slander, as well as all types of malicious behavior. 946 01:12:21,680 --> 01:12:23,080 We need to get rid of that stuff. 947 01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:26,240 And we need to get a fresh drink of water. 948 01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:34,680 This altar is open tonight. I want you to flip your switch. 949 01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:40,480 Let's do it tonight, Sing Brother, Sister Mason. 950 01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:44,000 Thank you Jesus.