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Now, enjoy this message. If you have your Bibles, turn
over to Psalms 40 and verse 7. How many you do in your Bible
reading plan right now? How many red today?
Then you read this verse because this in today's Bible reading
plan and you know, I was at the house, I had a few things, come
up. And so I went to a place that I
get a lot of things from God and that was, I decided to cut my
yard and pray. I seriously get a lot of stuff
cutting grass, I probably should buy more land, be honest with
you. So I know when I'm preaching on
Friday at camp meeting, now, I know a series you're going to be
getting here pretty soon. You know, I got and that's a
pretty powerful series, just let you know, right out the gate.
And then, you know, then I got a heading for tonight.
I was like, praise the Lord, man, I got three messages.
Amen, he did not talk to me about Friday's service yet, but
that's okay. I'll get all this off my plate
and we'll be at a focus in on that.
But in Psalms chapter 40 verse 7, it said this, when I read
this, he gave me a launching because I like, okay, Lord, I'm
a preach this. Now, how do you want me to build
it? And then when I was reading this
Lord says you're going to start right here.
It says, then he said, behold I come in the scroll of the book
it is what of of me? Is written to me.
Now we know that Jesus himself communicated when he was alive
to the apostles and then to some disciples when he was walking on
the road with them after he was raised from the dead where he
was showing them how the scriptures were of him.
So it is true that we could say. This verse is talking about
Jesus, that is a true statement but Jesus is not the only one
who has a book Jesus is not the only one who has booked.
In fact, if we turn over to Psalms 139, we've read this
before in Psalms 139 starting in verse 13, it says that this way
it says for you For my inward Parts.
You woke me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to you for.
I Am. What fearfully and wonderfully
made? Wonderful are your Works O?
My soul knows it. Well, my frame was hidden from
you when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the
depths of the earth, your eyes have seen my unformed substance
and in your book were were all written the days that were
ordained for me in your book, right?
When, as yet there were One of them.
So before you eat before you came out of your mother's womb,
God has a book of all your days. This is how intentional God is
about you that he already has a master copy of his plan for your
life. Are you hearing me?
Okay. And then he goes on and says
this in verse 17, can we use these stop there?
Let's look at verse 17 consent. You want to know what's in the
book. Concerning you?
If you could read your own book, what were some of the things be
saying? He said, how precious are your
thoughts to me? Oh, God.
How vast is the sum of them? If I should count them, they
would outnumber the sand. When I Wake, I'm still with you.
You know, when you talk to some Believers, you would think that
God went well with them. Now that doesn't mean God can't
be displeased. That doesn't mean that God can't
be angry but God's ultimate words to you or what he wants
you to be. And that's his thoughts toward
you. He may see you in a current
condition but his thoughts about you or the book, he wrote before
you ever showed up and in heaven, what he is trying to do.
When he communicates with you is to try to get you to see
yourself as he originally wrote you Now, that doesn't mean the
day going to go by. And when you look at the sum of
your choices, that God could be displeased about that.
But at the end of the day, what's his thoughts?
It would sound, let's say something like this.
You know, if your child falls down, you know, you hurt.
You know what happened? Get up ghetto.
You're gonna be all right. I mean, what do you do?
You encourage you talk? Why are you talking back to me
right now? Now you can't do that.
Now, you're better than that. And these short talking the
words that are right now that may not be your experience in
the natural because a lot of times fathers mothers,
Grandma's, Grandpa's Aunts, Uncles, siblings, you know.
All they do is talk - and then we try to Tribute that kind of
talk to our father but the Bible tells us put that back up that
his thoughts towards us are so awesome.
They're precious. There's a vast.
Some of them we can't even count if you want to.
I know how much God sees you as awesome.
Great, full of power of full of greatness.
I mean, I can't even give you all the different words that he
would use. Just go to the beach tomorrow
and start looking at them start, seeing yourself that way because
God has a book that he's written about your life and what he
wants is you to match your life with it.
In essence, he's trying to say at this stage, I want you here.
This is where I want you. And again, I don't care.
If you're 5585, if you get with God, God can accelerate.
So that the book he started 85 years ago, could be finished.
Cause God's not slack, right? I mean, Moses god knew Moses.
Mama knew, God had a touch on Moses.
The Bible says that she said he was special.
That's a terrible word to translate their special because
we're late was, she knew that he had a commission from God, a
Divine Destiny. This is why she would not, you
know, she hit him what she and then resting still by actually
sending him to the Palace. Where the order was to kill kids
just like him and she was banking on the pharaoh's
daughter to have compassion. And she did, she believed God
had such a touch of on This Boy's Life that even the law
against him. God's favor could show up and he
would be protected that she pushed him towards the Palace of
her enemy. Wow, how amazing is that?
It's so here he is. He grows up in the palace, he
knows he's not an Egyptian. He begins to understand that.
There's a call in his life to liberate his people, but he
tries to do it in his power and it cost him the land.
Meaning he can't stay there, he's ran out.
He runs for his life so at 40. When he tried to insert the
plan, the book that was written of him.
Before he came out of his mother's womb, he was failing.
But the minute he is on doing the the shepherding that he's
been doing for the last 40 years.
Now, he's 80. Get ready to retire.
All right. You know, I've worked 40 years
in the same job. I'm my first one was with the
state and then, you know, I fail, I made a mistake and they
were going to fire me. So I left, right?
I didn't do something right in this.
When I say State, you know, he worked in the king's Palace he
was with Pharaoh. All right, you know, that was at
least a 20-year job At least 20 year most of it, you know, when
you work for the government 20 years you can retire.
So he took a secondary job as a Shepherd for 40 years for the
next 40 years. He's doing that he's definitely
at retirement age, all right, but he sees a burning bush And
then the Lord said, let me talk to you about the book.
I could just say it that way, let me talk to you about the
book. I wrote about you, I hear the
cries of the edge of the Israelites, and I'm going to
deliver them. He's like, man, thank God.
About Tom. I tried that once 40 years ago,
didn't go well I'm glad you're doing it.
I failed miserably he said now you go do it.
Wait a minute, been there? 40, been there done.
That got the t-shirt. It's a wanted one.
It's a wanted one and I'm not your man.
Right? No, you the man because that's
the book. This is what I wrote.
Come on. Are you hearing me Moses?
I just need you to get in the book and we'll start at 80.
Hallelujah. I said, Hallelujah.
Well, this come this makes me think about these statements.
We've said in the past, some people are new here.
So this would be a new thought process.
But it comes from dr. Myles Munroe.
He said this, the greatest tragedy in life is life without
purpose. The greatest challenge in life
is knowing what to do. The greatest mistake in life is
being busy, but not effective and the greatest failure in life
is being successful in the wrong assignment.
Are you hearing me and there's tragedy everywhere?
Because many people are not living according to the book,
God wrote. They're living life without
purpose. They've not discovered why God
planted them in the earth. And God is trying to talk to
them about, get over here in my book, because in my book, it's
life reward, it's amazing protection.
All kinds of things are associated with that.
So in both Psalms 40 and Psalms 139, we're not just talking
about Jesus because God knows people and nose.
Is the plan for their lives before and I would, I would
submit all of us. So let's turn over to Jeremiah
Jeremiah chapter. 1 will start in verse 4.
We're going to read for a little while and it says this.
Now, the word of the Lord came to me saying before I formed you
in the womb. I So, Jeremiah is known before
he's even in the suit. Concepcion is the vehicle by
which who's already known by God can get in the Earth.
Are you hear me? So he says before you were in
the womb, I knew you. And before you were what born, I
consecrated you and I have what appointed you a prophet to the
nation's. So before Jeremiah comes out of
the womb, God has a book of his ministry.
And all that he wants him to do now.
He said, well, if he has a book, he's going to do it.
Not necessarily because at the end of the day, you are still
free will. And you're actually writing your
own book. This is why it's so important
for us to be led by the spirit and to hear the Holy Spirit on
what we are to do. Because God already has a book
that has all the answers. He knows every conflict.
You're going to get into. He knows every situation that's
going to arrive and he has an answer in a way of Escape.
Yet you could write your own ending.
Have you ever seen like trailers where it says alternate ending?
They had an alternate ending. You're like, wow man.
That would have been totally different if they would have
done it that way, right? And here's the thing, God will
let you choose because if God was making you do the book he
wrote about you, then you would have no choice which means then
by all rights. No one can go to the Lake of
Fire. Because it's not actually free
will. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
Don't you think he had a book for Adam?
It would have looked a lot different but Adam ate fruit, 81
fruit that he wasn't supposed to eat and he was separated from
God, are you hearing me? So, here we can write, and when
we stand before the Lord, the Bible tells the Revelation that
he'll bring out the books. He'll bring the books out and
he'll bring all the books and then a book called the Lamb's
Book of Life. Now think about this in the end
when he judges the dead does God not know where they're coming
from? Yet when the dead come, he pulls
out the Lamb's Book of Life and he searches to see if it's in
it. Now, I had a thought when I saw
this. I thought, I wonder if The books
that judge people. To be cast into the Lake of Fire
is the same book that rewards people.
I'm thinking now, I'm not giving you like thus saith the Lord,
but I'm thinking and what causes the things written in this book
to either be punishment proof that your sin exists or reward
is associated to your life. Could it be if your name is in
the Lamb's Book of Life? If your name is in the Lamb's
Book of Life than what's written in the book about you?
Because don't, you know, he's writing a book about everything
you're doing right now. See, we love religious Jesus.
We don't want to believe or we don't know that the Bible is
about a king, his kingdom in his role Offspring and that the
king, who is the king of domain. That's why it's Kingdom and that
his children are of his species, and he rewards based upon his
word that even us, who are children of God through a
confession of faith, that Jesus Christ came died and Rose from
the grave that he records. Everything nothing we've done in
the earth after our existence with Christ, and he'll open up
those books to reward us according to those deeds.
What activates those deeds to be rewards?
Where's your name is your name in the Lamb's Book of Life?
Does that name? Then calls all of that.
Those accounts to be looked at differently.
It's a good question because here's the thing.
God he is God and he keeps books.
He's a bookkeeper. Are you hearing me?
So here he is. He says Jeremiah this was my
plan for you. So Jeremiah is number one. and
all of us are number one assignment in the planet, Is to
discover what God knows about us.
This is why when I we began to learn this more and more.
My wife, and I changed the way we talk to our children, no
longer. Did I ever tell my child?
You can do whatever you want to do.
I quit that I said, son, daughter, Sons daughter.
The greatest thing you can do is discover God's plan for your
life because you'll find yourself.
You will actually discover you everything else you do won't
matter. Anything else that you do won't
matter fact, the Bible says there are great names that are
known in the earth that are going to be cast into the Lake
of Fire. And on Earth, their exploits,
the remembered. Through history yet.
In God's eyes. It's a blip.
It's a vapor. It's nothing.
Never to be remembered ever. Once he cast them into the Lake
of Fire is done, only memory will have his that's, that's the
prisoners. Those are the rebellious ones.
Right. Don't even remember their name,
but you'll have a name. I said you'll have a name.
Hallelujah. God loved me so much that he's
got a book written for me and he wants me to discover myself.
This is amazing. So he tells Jeremiah he said,
listen, I pointed you to be a prophet to the nation's, but
look what Jeremiah says in verse 6.
He said then I said alas, Lord, God behold.
I do not know how to speak because I I am a youth.
Now, before I go on and read the, the remainder of this
chapter of a good pastor friend of mine, was talking to me.
Oh, just about Ministry in general.
And I have used this phrase multiple times now, so much.
So that when I was outside praying saying, Lord, what do
you want me to go tonight that it came back up in me?
And I realized this is bigger than just that statement to me.
And I've said it enough. In fact, I've recognized that's
Holy Ghost moment, you Sometimes we'll just say stuff in our
everyday life or in a situation and we don't realize how much
the Holy Ghost is attached to that phrase. so, a good friend
of mine Pastor Josh Pennington was telling me about a situation
where his wife, he was asking his wife to do something in the
church and when he was asking her to do something, she
basically was being like Moses and being like Jeremiah,
Basically, developing an excuse of why they can't.
What did Moses do? He said, yeah, so I get there.
Who am I supposed to say sent me, right?
I mean first, he pulls that card.
He said, tell him I am sent you all right?
What if they don't believe that? What do you got in your hand?
Right? Does the whole little staff and
and hand deal at that point, he's like okay, I don't speak
well right. Same thing, this guy here is not
saying that he can't speak. Well, he just saying, I'm a
youth in essence, Jeremiah says why are you using?
I don't have any experience. So Pastor Josh painted, his wife
said to him, I said honey, I don't I don't think I'm capable.
And he said this, Holy Ghost term and I want you to get this
tonight. He said to her Honey, it may be
beyond your experience but it's not Beyond Your Capacity.
I want that to sink in tonight it may be beyond your experience
but it's not Beyond Your Capacity.
Now by definition experience means knowledge skill or
practice from direct participation in events or
activities. In essence you can say I've done
that, you know, I'm experienced there.
I've done it, you know, I'm well trained.
I know how to do it. You know, I could talk to Right
now. How many you know how to build a
wall according to code? Anybody raise your hand.
There's a couple there more. All right now not everybody
can't which means you don't have the experience, but there's
plenty in the room who have the experience because not only have
they studied it on a in a book or on a piece of paper, but
they've actually done it themselves and had it inspected
by the one. Who knows how it's supposed to
be done, okay? Are you hearing me?
All right, so there are things that we are experiencing a lot
of times, you know, we are always looking for experience
and thinking that we're better if we have experience.
Yeah, the word capacity means this the power to produce
perform or deploy. So the Lord told me this, he
said, the world gives you opportunities based on
experience, but the Lord are the kingdom gives you opportunities
based on capacity. I'm gonna say that again, the
world gives you opportunities based on experience but the Lord
or the kingdom gives you opportunities based on capacity.
Because when God begins to talk to you, he's not talking to you
based upon your experience. He's talking to you based upon
your capacity. But we want to talk to God about
our inexperience. Well or now I can't do that.
I want you to get up and get on the worship team and saying, I
can't do that. I'm not experienced like them.
Well, here's the job. You know?
I want you to apply for, I can't do that.
I don't have that experience. Are you hearing me?
I mean we will disqualify ourselves because we have it.
We don't have a knowledge or skill or practice of direct
participation in something. We'll begin to disqualify
ourselves yet the Lord's. Like you've got the capacity,
it's not Beyond Your Capacity. So here's Jeremiah saying look,
I'm just a youth at the end of the day.
I don't know how to see. I'm not eloquent, I'm not.
I'm a young got. You're calling me a prophet to
the nation's. I'm just a kid.
I don't have this kind of experience.
And the Lord says to him verse 7, look what he says.
But the Lord said to me, do not say I'm a youth boy.
Some of you need a quick, calling yourself what you think
you are. And that's the difference
between God, being able to utilize you or not is because
you keep talking about yourself in your experience and God wants
you to talk about yourself in your capacity.
And the reason why the church itself is not further along
because we have too many believers who are stuck in it
and evaluating their lives on their experience and not asking
God. Well what's my capacity?
What's my capacity? Because man, when you start
wondering what your capacity is, Well then you let Faith take
hold. I said you left Faith.
Take hold you all of a sudden say, God is, say, I want you to
do this and you're like, yes, sir.
And, you know, I have no experience here but at your word
I must have the capacity. Are you one of ask me?
You wouldn't have commanded me. You wouldn't have called me to
it. You wouldn't have said, I'm
supposed to do it. Because the minute you are
looking at your experience based upon something God calls, you
you're really evaluating yourself with a scene realm.
You're looking at someone else and now that means you're
automatically in your placing deeper within you that which
already exists called insecurity.
And you're inferior. Two others.
When you walk in a room you should not feel like you're
under anybody. Now, I'm not talking conceited,
I'm not talking cocky, I'm talking self-aware purpose, I
don't care if I walk in a room and they have 10 phds behind
them. I don't care if their brain
surgeons, I don't care if they've been to the moon and
back 15 time. I don't care if they've held
political office for the majority of their life, I don't
care if they've got five Nobel, Peace prizes.
I don't care if they, you know, No, discover the next medical
something that changed our they invented something that's
changed though. I don't care because God's
capacity and me to do whatever he's asked me to do.
Makes me equal. Maybe even more superior, but
I'm not trying to be better. I'm just wanting to find me.
I just want to find me, I want to be the best me that I can be
because God destined me at the end of the day.
I'm not trying to be like you, I don't want to be like you, your
you, I want you to find you. So you can beat you because if
you'll be you and I'll be me will be awesome.
Cause we'll all be following the will of our father finding
ourselves. We won't be in competition.
There will be no, such thing as compact will be like cheering
each other. Look at what God look what God's
doing in your life. Wow, you did what and you like
you know to know girl that you don't know nothing about that,
but God just did that. I mean, don't you want to live
the but God life, that life, where people, like, my gosh,
man. I don't even know how they own
that stage right now, but God did that, right?
Because capacity, showed up, you had the Consciousness.
The consciousness of an awareness that God has called
you to something bigger than yourself.
And at the end of the day experience was not, what's in
that on the table? What's on the table is my
capacity. Incapacity can expand.
Are you hearing me wink-wink capacity, calls paying follows?
Now, when I say that I'm not talking about Trial tribulation,
although that can be a source of pain, some of the pain is you
just having to stretch yourself? But what I'm learning more and
more about capacity, it's actually making the grace of God
active. You're basically starting to
walk into Kingdom ability. Hallelujah.
But let's go on see what he says.
It says it. But the Lord said to me do not
say your I am a youth because everywhere I send you you shall
go and all that. I command you, you shall speak.
Do not be afraid of them for. I am with you to deliver you
declares the Lord, then the Lord stretched out his hand, and
touched my mouth. And the Lord said, behold I have
put my words in your mouth. Whoa, glory to God.
He says, see I have appointed you this day over the next.
Nations and over the Kingdom's to pluck up to break down to
destroy to overthrow to build and to plant.
What in the world of Jeremiah done, he's done nothing.
But God's already said, this is who you are.
You are a name, you dominate Nations and kingdoms, right now,
son? You, when you pluck up, it
happened, when you break down. It's done when you talk about
what's going to be. Destroyed is glass.
Jeremiah and his ministry has nobody.
Converted nobody comes to the Lord but he pulls Nations down.
He raises them up and a word of God.
My gosh a young Statesman shows up on the scene as a diplomat
for the Lord no experience I guess so tired of hearing those
so they have no experience. Well man I hope they have
capacity. Because they have capacity, in
fact in the last days. It's going to be more important
for you to be tapped in your capacity.
Now, capacity ultimately, will give you experience.
That you formally did not have but it was capacity that opened
the door for experience. Experience does not open the
door for capacity. In fact, more people in the
world can't handle the capacity that they have based on their
experience. They may be the most experienced
in the room but they crumble under pressure, no come no
capacity. Why?
Because they're trying to do something without the Lord
Period. Amen.
Say I have capacity. Come on, say, I have capacity.
I mean, God is raising us up in these last days.
We're not going through all this teaching of decree, and declare,
all this stuff about walking and love understanding the love of
God, so that we can sit around here.
A few cute sermons, and then go back home.
Now, we're here to build our capacity so that when the Lord
says, I need you to go do this, I need you to go buy that.
I need you to go run this. I need this to be come here and
you're going to say I call it, I'll do it.
I declare it a take place. Quit your job.
Start this one. You're like fun.
I got to capacity. I've never done that kind of
business before. So I've never owned them all
before, Hallelujah. But I have capacity.
It's amazing. How many believers?
Who how's the Holy Ghost won't release their capacity?
I want to get ahead of myself. He goes on, is in the word of
the Lord came to me saying, what do you see Jeremiah, And I said,
I see a rod of an almond tree. Then the Lord said to me, you
have seen well for, I'm watching over my word to what to perform
it. Now, what's the Lord doing right
now? He's beginning to show him his
capacity, that's given him experience.
He's training him. How to hear and see the things
of God rightly, when you start tapping into capacity, God.
Himself gets into training. He begins to show you.
What do you see here? What do you see in here?
You see what I'm saying? You're correct.
And that's what this means. Now, I love this first
statement, because if you get this, then you'll jump out in
capacity because the first thing he says, what do you see?
I see a rod of an almond tree than the Lord said you have seen
well for, I am, what watching over my word to perform it.
While I could, we've learned love, always does his word,
always, he He keeps it. He always keeps it.
Then he goes on some more training said than the word Lord
came to me a second time saying, what do you see?
And I said, I see a Boiling Pot facing away from the north then
the Lord said to me out of the north now he begins to interpret
it. He said out of the North the
evil will break forth on all the inhabitants of the land.
For behold, I'm calling all the families of the kingdoms of the
north declares. The Lord and they will come and
they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the
Gates of Jerusalem and against all its walls around.
About and against all the cities of Judah, I will pronounce my
judgment on them concerning. All their wickedness, whereby
they have forsaken, me and have offered sacrifices to other gods
and worship. The Works of their own hands.
Then he goes on and says, now, gird up your loins and arise and
speak. Talk to them all, which I
command you do not be dismayed before them, or I will, or I
will dismay you before them. And that's it.
Don't you? Question your capacity?
He says, Now Behold I made you today, I made you, what?
I've made you. What?
Today I've made you today that day was when he was a youth Not
after he gained the experience. Now, that became the experience
In God's eyes, this is you now and he's not even spoken to of
nation. One hand even had a conversation
yet hand, even decreed nothing yet.
Haven't even said, thus, saith the Lord yet.
Hannah had the backlash of the people yet he said.
Today, I've made you today as a fortified City and a pillar of
fire and as walls of bronze against the whole and to the
kings of Judah to its priests to its prince's prince's to the
people of the land, they will fight against you.
But they what will not overcome you for I am with you to deliver
you declares the Lord. Now he lets on the they go fight
against you but they're never going to overcome you.
It's just not going to happen. Open, why?
Because you have capacity, you're a fortified City.
What's the Bible say about us? And this age, no weapon formed
against the church. What kind of capacity do you
have as a saint? What kind of capacity do you
have as a saint? What are you not doing for God?
Because you're too inexperienced?
Now don't get any experience. Confused with faithfulness.
Don't do that, don't get that confused with there.
Still some things, even in the New Covenant that the Lord says
this is don't put a novice in leadership position.
So don't get confused. When I'm saying inexperienced
what I'm talking about is you don't know, you don't have to
know how to do it. You just have to have the
ability to believe, God will do his word and that stretch shows
your capacity. Which means then you don't have
to be a leader. When you first get born a little
again because all you want to do is just follow the word of the
Lord anyway, and he won't violate his word to put you in a
pressure place that you're not able to Bear yet, but he will
train you, he will raise you and I'm not going to tell you.
It takes as long as other people.
I'm not saying that I'm not saying there's this very
specific time, that you're going to have to deal with, but I me
tell you, you will have to deal with time when you're not
dealing. Will say that again.
You will have to deal with time when you're not dealing with
yourself. God is not going to override the
things that he's telling you to do about you, so that it puts
you in the best position to handle the capacity that he
wants to give you even though you're not experienced.
God comes to Gideon Gideon's. A farmer.
Y'all remember this historical account of one of the people of
our nation? And he's down there frightened
because the midianite nation always took all their stuff
during Harvest Time and so he's trying to get him a little bit
before they come and the angel of the Lord shows up and says,
what starts talking capacity. Toxic empathic capacity.
You're a mighty man of Valor. Getting is like, you're in the
wrong place, right? He started speaking as
experience. No, you're in the wrong place.
No, I am the in the least, Fam. I'm in the least family of the
least tribe. You showed up at the wrong
place, sorry. So you can go No, he didn't
change his mind. I said, he didn't change his
mind and without being experienced Gideon went from a
farmer to a judge. He went from a farmer to a
judge. Now there were tests along the
way. Don't get me wrong but what was
he doing? He was showing him his capacity
that ultimately he became the judge of Israel.
This judge started out as a frightened man in a cellar.
But he discovered his capacity. How about the shepherd who
became a king? Right.
I mean we're working flocks. One day.
The next thing we're taking down Giants.
We're working for the king. We're being pursued by the king
but at the end of the day, we are the king.
We had more experience with sheep, then we have with people.
But he had capacity. The only experience David had in
hand-to-hand combat were not with humans.
In fact, King Saul lets him know of his inexperience.
Sir. This man has been a warrior
since his youth. And you're just a kid.
So what's he say? Well, I have this experience
since you're talking experience, I've killed a lion in the bear.
And it's John to be no different but he didn't tell them.
None of the people the troops when they were up on the ridge.
Listen to him taunt all he started doing was talking
capacity. I mean he's not wearing armor
he's never gone to one army training exercise he's not has
nothing all he has is a slingshot that he's experienced
with outside of that. He's had no hand to hand combat
with another human being, and he's going to say, who is this
uncircumcised Philistine? That would defy the armies of
God. Capacities talking see when you
start tapping into capacity, you'll say stuff in places that
everyone in the room knows you're not experienced, but God.
But God, but God we have got to quit being saved.
We're talking Children of the king, who has the Holy Ghost on
the inside of us, a cowering down to things that are going on
in the world because we don't think we're experienced enough.
When we're reading the word daily, when we're spending time
in the word, we need to be saying ourselves.
Thank you. Lord, give me Revelation of my
capacity because when you start to discover your purpose, that
book that was written about you before you ever got in your
mother's womb, then all of a sudden, you'll start saying,
okay, I can believe even though I can't see it, understand it or
whatever. Just give me your word, I'll do
it because I must have the capacity.
See. This is what Paul Paul did in
Philippians chapter 3, verse 12 through 14.
He says it this way. He says not that I have already
obtained it or have become already become perfect, but I
press on so that I may want lay hold of that which I was laid
hold of by Christ brother. And I do not regard myself as
having laid hold of it yet. But one thing I do forgetting,
what lies behind and Reaching Forward to what lies ahead?
I press on toward the goal of the Prize of the upward call of
God in Christ Jesus. He doesn't have the experience
to be an apostle, but he sure has a capacity.
And he realized I'm pressing, this is why he said in First
Corinthians 15 9 through 11. He says this, he says for I am
the least of the of the Apostles.
I'm not fit to be called an apostle when you look at my
experience because I persecuted the church I'm the least
qualified. That should have this title but
what she say. Next verse but bother, but bada,
but by the grace of God, I am. What I am.
Now, you may not have picked me, you might not have picked me
when you saw me, in fact, the first, when I first got into
Pentecost, when left the Baptist Church and went over to where
people were speaking in tongues, it got full of the Holy Ghost.
All right. And I got baptized in the
spirit, the Assembly of God Church.
The the Hut, the my pastor and his wife, her grandmother, super
encourager. He's encouraged me.
Always spoke nice to me, always was really encouraging only to
find out later. She had told her granddaughter
and her mother. I don't know to, he amount to
anything. So for her, she was just looking
at probably how skinny I was why Ari?
You know, by lack of knowledge of charismatic.
I mean, when I priest a priest like a Baptist, but I was full
of the Holy Ghost. Because that's what I had been
trained. That was my experience through
all the years of my upbringing. I was learning this whole new
truth about the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit and
thing. But I want confident to speak it
out, but I had capacity now she never told me when I found out
about it. I kind of laughed.
I thought, I wonder what she think about me now.
Because I didn't do it but by the grace of God, I am what I
am. And then when you get ahold of
that, that's so liberating. I mean you're no lunch and me
just tell you when it comes to the fivefold ministry it's
amazing. How ugly insecurity is on the
fivefold minister. You know why?
Because they don't have like Paul, but by the grace of God, I
am what I am. I mean, when you by the grace of
God know that you are what you are, then you'll never
intimidated by anyone that preaches before you or after
you. Whether they got more books than
you or not, whether they more popular caused by the grace of
God. I am what I am and I am what I
am because he said that I am what I am and you, I don't need
your approval. I don't need you or accolades.
I don't need you to tell me whether I'm good, bad or ugly.
I don't need any of that because I am what I am by the grace of
God. And I'm going to tap the grace.
I'm not trying to tap you. You don't make me better by
saying you're awesome the grace. Gives me the capacity now.
Sure. Does it feel good to encourage
people and tell them, they're awesome and tell them who they
are. Sure.
I have no problem with that. But I am, if you're what you're
saying about me, doesn't line up with what God said about me, I'm
not listening to you anyway. He said, but by the grace of
God, I am what I am and his grace towards me.
Did not prove what? Which means there are many of
saints and fivefold ministers that the grace is in vain, on
their life because Grace is not activated.
If you don't understand capacity, You'll never activate
Grace if you're looking for experience.
It's never going to happen. Hey, we're going to go on a
mission trip, want to go. Well, you know, we've never been
before and you know, we just don't have that much in the
account. So what we don't experience
we've had not experienced enough money to be able to do when
someone's like, yeah, I believe the Lord is telling me to go,
well, how much is it? Well, let's see if thousand
dollars, I don't have that, but that's all right.
God saying to go, if you have been on a mission trip know, you
got a passport know. I don't even have the
experience. I had to figure out one but I
can find out why because the grace to start happening because
the minute you set yourself towards I am going to do what
I'm going to do, because God is telling me to do it.
Then Grace gets activated and capacity starts to show up.
But if you're always waiting for everything to line up, wait for
it, all to come together. They're doing nothing.
There's pastors that are taking territory because they're
waiting for the money to come in there, waiting for the people to
come in. Instead of by the grace of God
getting out and just start expanding their capacity.
Well we can't do what you do because it's because you don't
like tapping into the grace, He said, I am what I am by the
grace of God in his grace towards me did not prove vain
but I what labored even more than all of them yet.
Not I But the grace of God within me, whether then it was
I, or they so we preach. And so you believe, meaning
whether you heard from the original, the 12, when I say
original 12, not talk about the one that betrayed but, you know,
the original 11 with the new added one, and then me whichever
ones you're hearing all we are doing is preaching but at the
end of the day, whether you grew by the words that came out of my
mouth or their mild is only because of the grace of God.
And when the grace of God, I worked it more than them.
Mall. And I'll be honest with you,
when I look at the class of 2000 that came out of Rhema, I feel
like I'm working at more than them all.
Now, there are some in this room that are 2000 and they're right
there with me cuz they're in this house.
But I feel like I'm worth and what am I working?
I'm working the grace. How do I work the Grace by
faith, Grace can't happen until Faith manifest, it's by grace,
through faith, that you're even to become a Believer.
Which means they have the ability to give an unmerited
favor, that you who deserve Eternal damnation or punishment,
or the prison system of the Kingdom, because of your
rebellion, in your sin, God in his mercy and his blood, forgave
you, and you reached out by faith, I said, I'll believe in
that payment. I believe Jesus died on the
cross, he rose from the grave. He poured out his blood for all
my wrongdoing. I call him, Lord of my life, I
receive him as my Lord and then the grace of God activates and
evicts that Spirit, man, that was in me dead.
Kicks it out of this skin suit, puts a brand new spirit on the
inside, that's in the likeness of Jesus Christ in Christ, that
spirit. And then the Holy Ghost moves in
and said, Anna, let me teach you your capacity.
How are we on this property capacity?
How are we having a private school capacity, how we having a
preschool capacity? How we having a university
capacity, how we helping the governor's initiative, a family
counts capacity. How are we helping?
You know, West August e capacity how we helping, you know, the
homeless capacity. Jaime, how are we going to the
capital capacity? I mean, how are we to work
capacity? Capacity capacity?
It's not experience. All Pastor.
Oh, I love to come and work of treasure a preschool but I'll
have any experience. Good.
But do you have capacity, does he have capacity and passion,
man, we can put you to work. Right.
That's the deal. Well, you know, I've never done
this. Who cares?
It's God. Talking step out.
Let's do something. It may be beyond your
experience, but it's not Beyond Your Capacity.
Come on. Are you hearing me?
Paul went on to say it this way, in Philippians 4:12 and 13.
He said, then he said, I know how to get along with humble
means and also know how to live in prosperity in any and every
circumstance. As I have learned the secret of
being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and
suffering need. Here it is.
Verse 13. I can do all things.
Through him, who strengthens me? Meaning I have capacity, which
means why did he go hungry? Because he left the place of
prosperity on a word and went out somewhere else.
Why is Anchor Faith Church have an anchor features Valdosta.
Why does it have a neck of a church Managua?
Why are we planting one in Leon Nicaragua?
Why we plant one and Port apply to Doug.
Dominican Republic. Why are we doing one in New
Delhi while we looking at Chicago Illinois?
Why we looking at Sheldon? Cut Connecticut.
Why? Because a capacity its capacity
Sure, I could have came to st. Augustine found five acres.
Build a building the acute sermons.
Have enough people to support me the rest of my life.
And look like the majority of all the other Church in the u.s.
100 or less. But I dared to step out on
capacity and not experience. Why am I over the whole state of
Florida for Rhema and the Caribbean?
Capacity. Pastor called me.
He said now Pastor Earle you don't have to come Tuesday, you
know I'll see you in Valdosta. Because yesterday, I went down
to Apopka cuz they had a living faith conference there.
I said pastor, you are not coming to my state and I'm not
going to see you. So, I changed my schedule.
I made room. Because I have capacity.
And it's not because I wasn't busy.
But my business is not ineffective.
It's purposeful. In fact, I've learned that every
new thing that begins to show up from a word of God.
It stretches me. And in the moment of stretching,
it is extremely challenging. And I realized in that challenge
moment, I am determining my capacity.
Because I'll never forget before we ever bought them all.
We were right here in this space, you know, down the
hallway, didn't didn't have the 10,000 yet.
Well, maybe we did have the other 10,000 square feet.
So when the 33,000 we had, I know what we were doing every
month to take care of that. I mean, it was easy.
I said, man, if we buy this, we fixing to go into some other
figures. I mean figures that I didn't
even know we're out there because you discover a new
stuff. I did not know that when the
insurance showed up, And started looking at our facility and saw
these massive power stations that we had Breakers.
That they were of a company when the ball was built in 1980 that
no longer exists and has been rated by the insurance industry,
as not a safe breaker. They've been prone to fail.
Guess what I was heading? Felled for 40 years?
Run just fine. And I sure can believe God, they
can run. But the insurance says, I'm not
going to ensure you unless you change them.
All seventeen thousand dollars later, Now, here's the thing.
That is something I'm dealing with.
So I go to the Lord Lord, what are you going to do?
So then the Lord goes to somebody else.
And says, hey, there's a need at your church.
I want you to take care of it. Now that individual I'm telling
you right now, probably said, okay, well 17 thousand dollars.
All right, y'all can breathe. But someone decided they had
capacity. And wrote the check.
Are you hearing me now? I'm not going to tell you.
That was easy. I'm not going to tell you that.
They would just sitting around in the bank.
I'm going to tell you, they got a word from God, so as we're
stretching, I'm stretchy there stretching, we're all sure.
Well, we're trying to find our capacity.
Now, we get to JCPenney. 17,000, that's nothing.
This is like 25, 30, maybe 40 thousand dollars that it works
but I can't keep it. Capacity, every time of eunuch.
Another tenant comes, guess what?
Another AC. Another one, I let me just say,
hallelujah, I mean we talking about a window unit people.
I mean, you enjoy this air condition you're in right now
because the one above you is about 15,000 dollars meant.
Well actually more not probably 20 just 20,000 that one alone.
I talked about the one over here.
Just say Amen. Anyway.
Right capacity. I mean, Reverend Randy, how many
electric bills do we have? At least a dozen.
Electric bills. Yeah, go ahead and say, Amen.
It's called capacity. But here's the thing, I didn't
know nothing about it. But the grace I said, but the
grace and we're doing what we do today because I'm tapping my
grace, you tap your great, come on.
I mean, what it would look like, if all of us just tap, our Grace
Because I didn't pull out of my pocket 17,000.
But somebody did that was connected here.
Because the vision compelled the grace on their lives to be
pulled out so that they could expand so that they could
Prosper so that they could enlarge their tents so that they
could have a bigger influence. Oh my gosh, man, can we get
this? And so Paul's like I can do all
things through Christ, who strengthens me because I'm not
just gonna say, wow, we're doing good and you know if I'd go over
there man that's just going to be another Faith fight.
That's just enough. You know what?
Capac just stretch me. I'm going off.
On the next one. Can I do everything?
No, because I'm not called to do everything, but I sure will get
on the path and ask We are County.
Commissioner has set a meeting with a property owner to meet
with me because they don't know what to do with their property
and the county. Commissioner says you need to
talk to Pastor Earle because he has vision.
Now, do I have time to sit around and talk to somebody
about their own property in land?
I could say no, but I could say, well, maybe I have capacity.
Now the end of the day I'm going to step on a road and if the
Lord says, just stay off that road that I say follow.
Because if I'm not if he tells me not to get on the road, then
that's no capacity there and I'm not trying to do something.
I'm not called to do. Are you hearing me capacity?
Because Paul recognized look when it's all said and done, I
can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
I can have capacity, I may not have the experience, but I can
do and I'm Gonna Leave You this verse here first.
John, 4:4, You said, you are from God.
Are you from God? Come on to you from God.
Come on, look at somebody's. I'm from God, man.
You need to be excited about that.
I'm from God, go ahead, look, June, a, I'm from God, go ahead
and tell your neighbor. I'm the child of a king say I'm
royalty. And Kings take Dominion Kings,
take territory, Kings, expand Kings want more capacity Kings,
don't want any King, who is just fortifying themselves and
hoping. No one comes in enacting very
kinglee because our father owns the planet.
And let me tell you God said, I'll give you another one here.
You get five, you get two. You get one that's based upon
your capacity. Now, your experience.
So the five takes off. Now, I'm not going to say he
didn't have some experience. But we know the two doesn't have
the experience the fob did. And if I was probably getting
something more in his capacity, in fact, I would say five to 11.
Had some of the had the same idea as the one, the one didn't
have any experience, that's why I buried it, but he had
capacity. And the one who had to could
have said, this is too much. This is too much, man.
I I can't handle that but he's like, well, we going to work it.
I'm going to stretch myself. I could do one.
I'm going to get the tea gave me too.
Now he's giving me to. Okay, what, okay, let me go work
the to the five could have said, man, I had three, but he's
giving me five now while five. Okay, let's see what I can do.
If I I mean, we assume that the father to our, like, we got this
in the woman's, like, we're got it.
I just got one, I'm no. Good.
I mean, again, somebody give you charge over one to manage one
store, then they say, oh, we're going to have you give you five.
That's called capacity. Pastor Mike, didn't you bit when
you dissed manager for Enterprise, right?
And then you did one store, right?
Did a store. Well, he had a district guy that
was over multiple stores and I bet him a pass.
After Marcus for that matter, y'all probably recruited to go
up more than the store you had. Sure why they wanted them to
have capacity. The only reason why they didn't
do it because they were called to Ministry.
And they're like, that's not my road, my roads in the church,
and that road opened up, and they're here today, and we're
stretching capacity. How many songs can we pull out a
pastor Marcus? We have not even begun to tap
all the capacity. I mean, in our whole creative
team for that matter, we've not even hardly tap.
The capacity how many men can Pastor Mike inspired to be Godly
men. We're not even tapping all the
capacity. But we got to tap it and we got
to tap him book writing because I'm tired of hearing Ed Cole.
I want to hear my cruising Right.
Because there's a whale down there that were drilling into
when we pulling up the capacity of this stuff.
Maybe I don't have any experience, whatever, just go
ahead and step out anyway. All right, you are from God
little children and have overcome them.
That's capacity. Why because greater is he, who
is in, then he who's, in the the world.
Old is waiting on your experience.
But God says, won't you step out on your capacity?
Let's no longer be quibbled by experience.
Let's tap capacity, let's begin to say but by the grace of God,
I am what I am. But by the grace of God, I am
what I am and everyday I tap that capacity.
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