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Lord's actually spoke to me, he said there is a deficiency of
leadership in the earth and there's a deficiency of Your
ship in the church because the church has taken worldly
principles and brought them in and our training, their leaders.
And he says, you know, he says I need you to start doing some
leadership from the platform, he said you've been doing it with
those that are in layers of leadership in the body and you
give instruction which is a Biblical principle.
Jesus had how many disciples more than 12 guys right here.
He had to 70. Right?
So there were more, but we know the 12 disciples, right?
But of The Twelve, there were three that he spent a little
more time with then the rest. So, again, you know, the like,
well, you know, pastor does spend a lot of time with his
pastoral staff. Jesus spent a lot of time with
James, John, and Peter Right. So there are, you know, certain
layers, and Leadership. You have to invest certain
things and I mean he will literally tell the other nine
y'all stay here. I'm gonna take these three guys.
Right. Okay, you know that wasn't
favoritism. Nor was it.
God was respecting them more, he's not a respecter of person,
it had to do with their assignment, okay?
At the end of the day and then he spent more time with these
twelve. And one of them was a traitor,
but he spent more time of The Twelve than he did the 70.
That are mentioned, which means he gave them in some investment,
then just in general that, he would want them to come into the
kingdom of God. He would just speak to them in
parables. And they would make statement,
you know, he who has ears, let him hear, right?
So he's saying things that later on, when the spirit of God
starts to go through and begin to remind them of things, Jesus
says, and it will click. He said, the Kingdom of Heaven
is like I get it now and they would make Jesus Lord, right?
So again, it's not favoritism. Again, it's just layers of
leader, but the Lord said, you need to speak to the Saints
across the board about leadership.
You know why I believe that is? I believe it's because God wants
the wealth of the wicked. Be laid up for the righteous and
I'm telling you we are in some of the easiest seasons for this
to happen. Now, what do I mean by that?
I mean, customer service has plummeted.
I mean, some things that I'm trying to accomplish right now,
you know, just through the church and through my own
personal house. I mean, I'm like, man, if a
Believer could just get back to what customer service look like
a little bit, even better than Pre-K covid stuff.
I mean, some things, I'm like, I'm in a third world country.
It takes forever to get this. Stuff.
I mean, my wife was on the phone today because we're trying to we
are getting our gas stove, and it has to be plumbed, didn't
know that, right? But that's the term you have to
call a plumber to hook up your gas stove, okay?
And so, you know, I'm going to, they're going to do that, get it
connected, but they won't actually connect it to the tank,
the gas company. That owns the propane tank has
to do that. Well, they told her day, you
know. Well, you know, we'll get you
the schedule and I cannot tell you. when that is, Can't even
tell me. My wife is like can you give me
a ballpark can you please give me a ballpark?
You know, because not worse than getting it connected where it's
sticking through the wall and now I have a gas stove that I
can't even use. Which means I have to keep my
electric one in the garage I guess.
So we can warm stuff up. Hallelujah.
That's not convenient, right? So I'm like maybe we can ask the
guy, can he just put it together and technically you know, the
gas company. That owns the tank supposed to
do it, right? So we'll see if that's a real
technicality, I don't know. Anyway, I love you.
So, I'm just saying, if we apply these principles, then we'll
blow the world away. I said well blow them away and
they'll just keep coming to you because you'll become reliable
proficient. A person of integrity and
character person who does their word, right, who swears to their
own hurt? I mean they'll just come after
you. Hallelujah.
So that's just a nugget for you. Okay?
Last week we talked about chain of command and it kind of brings
me into the subject that I want to minister on tonight.
Maybe we'll go a little bit further, but I want to remind
you of a couple things about chain of command and the, and
that is this that there's a chain of command in the godhead.
Okay. We talked about that.
And in John, chapter 12, verse 14.
I'm just so that we can see this because it's going to help us in
what we're talking about tonight.
He says, is Jesus now, says for I Do not speak on my own
initiative, but the father. So there's father God, we know
that God is one but he's three. And one is God, the Father God,
the son and God, the Holy Spirit, right?
And so Jesus, speaking says, I do not speak on my own
initiative, but the father himself who sent me So who does
Jesus take orders from the Father?
Which tells us that when Adam ate the fruit fell from Dominion
sin entered the world, Jesus didn't jump up and say I'll go
save the day. Jesus turned to the father and
say what are you going to do? Cuz I'm not doing anything.
Unless you're doing something. Well then the father, you know,
comes down into the garden in the cool of the day and says,
Adam, where are you? Which is, I can't find you not,
where are you? But where are you, what position
are you in now? Right?
And ultimately, you know, Adam sells out on God.
So, it's your fault. You gave me this woman.
She ate the fruit first and then I ate it.
No, you were in rebellion and treason.
So we'll go on to your wife here and I'll come back to you.
So he says Eve was you do? She said, man, that the serpent
deceived And I ate the fruit. He said, okay.
Alicia told the truth. I'll come back to you and he
goes to the serpent. He says, now that you've done
this, I got a plan. I'm gonna bring my see through
the woman because she didn't lie, but you did deceive her and
threw her. He's going to crush your head.
I'm going to get the Dominion that Adam lost through another
seed, okay? And then he goes back to even
says, these are going to be your challenges.
Now that you, you know, didn't obey my my command and then he
goes to Adam and said because you didn't obey my I command
this is the challenge that you're going to have and then
love put them both out the garden.
Put them out of the garden. Love did that love says you're
out? Right.
Okay, so then Jesus now could say, well, I heard what the
father says, he says he's going to come through a woman without
the help of a man. So, you know, Adam and Eve may
eventually have had a daughter. The Bible doesn't record it, but
there are women recorded and by All rights when those women were
recorded, whichever this is the first one.
I don't know. Is the first woman, maybe that's
a little trivia. Now, recorded by Rice, they
would have been a virgin at some point.
Which means God could up, the father could have said some
right? There's the Virgin we're going
to show up in this this one, Holy Spirit going there, go over
there come upon her and impregnate her with the word
that will become flesh and we'll call him.
Jesus, didn't do it. Didn't do it through a few
dispensations floods. The planet.
Wipes out a race of people and starts over with Noah and his
family and they're still problems.
But yet the father is not rushed.
And Jesus is not like stressing. Jesus was not worried about
Humanity because he knows my father has this thing.
So let's go back to that scripture, then Jesus them who
was with the father in the beginning.
Because we know in the beginning, God created the
heavens and the Earth. And we see in verse 3 that God
said, because Jesus is the word in the beginning was the word
and the Word was with God. And the Word was God, that's
John 1:1. And in verse 14, says the word
became flesh. So that's Jesus Christ.
So then when the God, the Father spoke that's Jesus, he's the
word, right? And it said the spirit was
hovering over the surface of the Earth, he was waiting for the
word to give a command. And so that he could perform it.
So that's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit In the
Beginning, okay? He said, for, I do not speak on
my own initiative, but the father himself who sent me has
given me a command as what to say, and what to speak.
So again, Jesus is not giving us a piece of his mind.
Nor is Jesus speaking. Emotionally disconnected from
the father. Jesus does not speak about all
of his problems. Jesus doesn't say, you don't
know how bad this is. Right.
Jesus attempted on all accounts, like we were yet.
Never sinned. Why?
Cause I'm only gonna say and do what the father says, which
means there is a chain of command.
Now, when you say it, just like, we're saying it right now, it
can seem like, wow this is militant.
Well it's not militant because you don't understand the nature
of God. God is life.
He is the source of life. So anything he says is for the
purpose because he is life, right?
So again, anything contrary becomes death and God can't be
around death, nor will he be around saying or Rebellion or
things and he'll crush it completely.
So you want to follow his word because that's the pathway to
eternal life period. So This is saying I want to hear
from the father and only say what he says because that's the
only thing that's going to get going to get the victory.
It's the only thing that conquers and overcomes.
So God is love. And so he knows what's best
because he's very well calculated.
In his words and his thinking, he just doesn't say stuff off
the top of his head and then go out, I didn't mean that.
God, the father doesn't do that, right?
And if we would have never lost our dominion and there will come
a time that God will set everything back in order in his
original intent. Which means we're not going to
just be running off at the mouth anymore.
We're going to be very adamant to say, man.
Holy spirit, tell us what Dad saying.
Right. Let's talk to Father, let's talk
to the father. So Jesus is excited to only say
and speak what he hears which means he was always submitted.
Right. Then we saw over here in John
16:13 it says this concerning the Holy Spirit and Jesus again
saying, but when he that is the spirit of truth.
That's the Holy Spirit comes, he will guide you into all truth.
He will not speak of his own initiative which means the Holy
Ghost. Could say what he thinks. he
himself like Jesus has a will That's why Jesus said in the
garden, father, if there's any way for this cup to pass, let it
pass, but not my will, but yours be done.
At the end of the day, I'm not going to try to do it my way
because my way is rebellion, your way is Life.
Okay? So the Holy Spirit, same thing.
He's not going to speak on his own initiative.
This is why when people come and say, well, the Lord told me
this, and if it doesn't line up with the written word, then I
know that wasn't the Holy Spirit.
And again, they can say, no, it really was, it was gone.
I mean, I know he talked to me. No, he didn't because he the
Holy Spirit, never says anything contrary.
To what the written word and context is talking about.
It has to stay within the character and nature.
Are you hearing me? Okay, so for he will not speak
on his own initiative but whatever he hears he will speak
and he will disclose to you. What is to come which means then
Jesus himself says now another verse says that he'll remind you
of things that I've said the holy spirit is here to reveal
the word. So he's not here to reveal
himself. I said he's not here to reveal
himself. In fact, the gifts of the Spirit
are in operation for the revealing of the word.
So that the word can be revealed in a person I've just because
someone gets a word of knowledge about something going on,
someone's personal life is so that God is letting them know.
I know what's going on. I just spoke to you by the
spirit through someone about what's going on that only?
I would know and you would know, but then they typically are
giving a word that then can help you change your situation or
something to stand on. I mean to know what's going on
in Kirk's life, just to read his Male, I mean, psychics can do
that because familiar spirits know what's going on, but when
the real gift of the word of knowledge is in play it, so that
the word are the spirit can reveal.
Jesus is answer to your situation, or to confirm, maybe
something going on that, all these Bears already told you on
the inside. But for whatever reason, you
need a little bit more. Now, when I say for whatever
reason, It may not be a lack of you not trusting God.
It could be that God wants to submit that thing I know because
I was I didn't know what it meant to be led by the spirit
nor was I even baptized in the Holy Ghost so I didn't have a
context. So when God called me to the
ministry, it was pretty Supernatural.
But it's stuck because I had not developed my spirit to know and
be able to hear the Holy Spirit well enough.
So that the inward witness are the Small boys was enough for me
to know I'm doing this. But when my windshield
disappears while I'm driving down the interstate in Atlanta.
And I see myself preaching before, see a people, it's
stuck. The vision stuck eyes light and
at times in my life, when I was thinking, this is too hard.
I just could do it this way. The vision kept showing up and I
was just come. I can't.
I'm not going to run from. I've got to go.
Back to that. I mean I'll my life's nothing.
If I do not try to obtain this because it became that aware.
But now I can hear God hear so well that I'm like this is it I
don't need, you know, a movie playing in front of me.
Now, I don't have to have a vision if he wants to give 15
but he doesn't have to because the voice is enough.
I said the voice is enough. So what if the Holy Ghost talks
to me than he's telling me something about Jesus and Jesus,
if that's a word from Jesus, then based upon scripture, it
came straight from the father and was so great about that is
the father actually has the final say to all things.
So Were the father has said about my life.
Nothing can stop it. But me And for you whatever God
has said about your life. Nothing can stop it.
But you boys, that's power there.
That's like thank you Jesus. Thank you.
Jesus. That I can accomplish all that
you've asked me to do and no one and nothing can stop it.
Not a human being though. They can try to try to hinder
it, nor the devil and all of his, you know, cohort doesn't
matter because they're under our feet.
Anyway, I mean, they're actually easier to deal with than humans.
It's true. I mean, it's easier to deal with
the devil and his I mean I want to, you know, face to face so to
speak level because they don't talk back.
Okay, but humans who listen to the devil, you know, start to
reason and keep pressing stuff and they're like, you know, I
can review the influence that's around you but you may still
keep coming. But then that's a problem
because then you find yourself fighting against God's plan for
someone's life and you don't ever want to do that ever.
Whoo, its dangers. Okay, so then because there's a
chain of command, right? In the godhead, we said this
Jesus, then who's always for all eternity because God's always
been Has always been in the seat of under the command of God.
Which means that he never aspires to be the lead.
So, we said this last week, then, where does the aspiration
to be the lead of something come from?
And it comes from the Devil. The devil is the one who wanted
to exalt his throne above the most high.
Jesus never wants his throne above the father ever.
So we should never aspire to have our throne above something
or aspired to be over people for that matter. .
We should aspire to want to lead through serving.
Because that's how you become great in the kingdom.
Are you hearing me? Because again, Jesus, addressed
greatness not leadership. Is it a few want to be great?
You don't do it like the Gentiles who lorded over, who
want to be the lead and want to make everybody serve them.
What they do. If you want it, then you going
to find yourself serving everybody, which means you just
have a heart that is saying about me.
What can I do to help you? Now, that doesn't mean, you
can't help because you got to give and take at the end of the
day, there's going to be a give and take God's going to have
someone serve you because it helps their leadership and
you've got to accept it but it's hard for you to accept it
because you just want to serve them.
That becomes the challenge. Can I carry your Bible know?
I care. Moll model, thank you.
Right. But I get it, okay, so God wants
you to start, okay? Here is, you can have it, I get
why it's happening, but let it be known.
But when you really understand the principle of kings and
people start serving you, then you'll find yourself even going
over and above their serving you to serve them.
All right, so then because there is this chain of command and
there's this position of submission that then leads to
Greater Authority than we must talk about a thing called honor.
In Romans chapter 13 verse 7. It says this render to all what
is due them. Tax to whom tax is due custom to
whom custom is due Fear To whom fear as do.
And I'm gonna focus on honor to whom honor.
And by implication, although it's not there but it's there in
the first to render to all what is what do them?
So some are due taxes. So why are you complaining so
much? Okay.
Now there's nothing wrong with finding legal ways to keep money
that affords. You buy your citizenship but to
complain about it. All right, custom to whom custom
Fear To whom fear honor to whom Honor by implication is do is
do. So there are Someone there are
whom's that deserve honor and we're obviously going to deal
with the one who deserves the highest tonight, right?
So in our kingdom Institute school that we have here, one of
our classes is the life of honor and in that we teach this honor
is the key to submission which is required to walk in
authority. Remember, last week we saw that
the Jury and says I'm a man. Also, like you mean identify
with you Jesus. And the first thing that he
identified with Jesus, and that he was under Authority, not that
he was in it. But he was under and because he
was under, then he recognized apposite The Authority.
He was actually in most of the time, we just want to know who's
in charge. instead of who's under, Because again, most
people want to be in charge and make people do what you tell
them to do. Instead of, let me find somebody
I can get up underneath. I need to find somebody I can
serve because I'm find somebody I can serve, then it helps
release my ability to lead. Because Jesus had Authority
cause he was submitted. Are you hear me?
So, why you've heard me say that I was I came underneath Ramos
organization because it allows me to submit Okay, but I can
ordained ministers through anchor Faith Church.
In fact, Pastor Roman and his wife, Pastor Carla are ordained
through anchor Faith, Ministerial Association, so
through that I could ordained myself.
Who is the president of the organization right now?
Again, it sounds good. When we say, well, you're
submitted to Jesus. Well, we're all submitted to
Jesus, right? But there is a level of
submitting to one another And if I'm going to be great, as he
said, I got to be the servant of all not just a servant of God,
okay? Which means then I need to find
myself serving somebody and their Vision, not just the
vision God's given me, which is why I became underneath Rhema.
Then because Pastor gave me more responsibility.
That means I'm more submitted Right.
I'm more submitted. Which means then there's things
that I do now and I don't, you know, I do because of my
submitted status and if Pastor ever calls me, a, my staff know
this, if he ever calls me and says, Pastor Earle, I need you
to be here. Then I'm making adjustments.
You said about because we getting this kind of like,
nobody can tell me what to do. You need to find somebody that
you'll yield to and say whatever they tell me to do I'll say
haha. Because it only causes whatever
influence you have in the realm of oversight to be increased.
And then you kick in the law of sowing and reaping, right?
And I don't do it so that I can be a better leader or by on a
selfish side. I do it because I'm submitted to
God's word and I want to serve somewhere.
So that in turn, you know, whatever he's asked me to do can
be the Most efficient. All right.
So then honor is the key to submission, which is required to
walk an authority on or simply means something.
So valuable that is held as precious prized cherished,
treasured valuable and very dear, almost say that again,
honor then is something so valuable that it is held as
precious prized cherished. Girard valuable and very dear
back in the day, you know, they didn't stamp, you know, your
currency so currency and even today, you know, we do have
certain metals that, you know, the value, there's a value
associated with bias weight like gold, gold is so much per ounce.
What is it today? 1800 1800 an ounce.
So that means if I happen to have 16 ounces and you have 5
ounces, which one has more value?
The weightier one. Right?
The one that has more weight so honor has the the context of
weighty or Great Value, right? So when we're saying we're
honoring someone we are showing them that they have great value
to our lives, right? Great Value to our lives.
And again, when you think of the Bible, when he says, the Kingdom
of Heaven, is like a man. Who found a treasure in a field?
Right. What did he do?
He went sold everything. He had to buy the field, which
came with the dirt. That he had to excavate.
To get the rest of the treasure, right?
So we see them because he it had such value to it.
It was worth him, selling out for it selling all he had to
acquire it. It was greater value than all
that he already possessed. Is what I'm saying, is there any
one in your life? That you hold at such honor that
you would sell out for. Well, I hope so his name should
be Jesus. And we need to check that
because a lot of times, maybe we don't sell out.
Me how much value do we actually put on Jesus?
Now, I'm not going to talk about that tonight.
I'm Gonna Keep it super positive, right?
This is super positive service, amen.
So if honor is given to someone or something, or if honors give
it to something or someone it they will be seen as valuable or
Irreplaceable. Irreplaceable.
Right. How about you Bulls are In the
natural light. Can't live without it.
Right? We sucked it out of the room
right now man. But do we honor it?
I mean, most of the time we don't even think about it.
We just breathe it. We have no Thanksgiving towards
it. Okay, Revelations chapter 5
obviously we want to honor the Lord, do we?
Not look what it says in Revelation chapter 5 verse 12
and 13. It says in saying with a loud
voice Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and
riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.
So, he is to receive what honor and every Anything, which is in
heaven and on the earth and under the Earth and on the sea
and all things in them. I heard saying to him who sits
on the throne and to the lamb be blessing and honor and what
Glory How and Dominion forever and ever, how valuable is Jesus
to you right now? I mean walk, what kind of Honor
are we showing to the king? We're kind of honor.
Is that where are we at in our honor with the king with the
king, with the king, with the king, the savior of Our Lives?
The one who was slain come on second Peter 1:17 look what it
says here. Second Peter, chapter 1 verse
17, says it this way for when he received honor, this is talking
about Jesus and Glory from God the father.
So Jesus received honor from the father such an utterance as this
was made to him by the Majestic Glory.
This is my beloved Son in whom I am what well-pleased wow.
Right. Jesus himself said in John
chapter 5 verse 23 says so that all all will honor the son even
as they honor the father, he who does not honor.
The son does not honor the father who sent him and we'll
break that verse down later on, okay?
So Jesus honors the father and in turn, the father honors him.
And he's honored because he sold out to the will of his father.
Jesus had the same context. Dad has a plan for my life.
I've read it in the pages of the book.
Moses talked about me, Abraham knew about me, they are all the
scripture point to me and what I was to do for Humanity.
And so I laid down my life, I bought the field, I see Hold out
to everything. I allow I left Heavens realm
emptied. Myself of the glory of Heavens
realm, got clothes into a skin suit, became the son of man and
lived on the earth without sinning and then operated under
the power of the Holy Ghost to fulfill the assignment.
But father has had me do and I was very conscientious of always
do. Doing what I was commanded to do
because I was going to honor my father because he is the source
of Life, the source of life and because of that that he sold out
to that even death on the cross. Right, even death on the cross.
Now, when I say that many disciples have been martyred,
even Peter was crucified on a cross.
He said, just turn me upside down.
So, the cross itself isn't the grand statement because the day
Jesus was crucified two. Others were too.
But what did they do for Humanity?
Nothing. So, when G, when we say that
Jesus died on the cross, right, that he should deserve honor.
Well, what we really mean is that Jesus died to himself and
any desire to not fulfill the father's will for his life even
to the being separated from the father for the first time.
Because the man who knew no sin, what became ours.
And as he said, father, I'll take on the sin of all of
humanity. Wow.
And the father has to turn away from the Sun. and in faith, he's
like, but on the third day, The holy spirit's Going To Raise Me
Up. Whoo he's on Raise Me Up.
You know who else was raised up on the third day?
One of the thieves I said, one of the thieves because remember
that he says, would you remember me when you enter into your
kingdom? And Jesus said today, you'll be
with me in Paradise, we going to Abraham's bosom, then on the
third day, we gonna bust Paradise, whiteout wide open.
It won't exist anymore because when you leave your body now
your present with the Lord and he's not in Paradise.
He is seated at the right hand of the Father in Heaven.
Amen? Right.
So he deserves honor. That's why he was given the name
of Every day. That's why he has the seat of
Honor. Jesus.
How valuable is he to you? Look what it says in 1st Timothy
Chapter 1 verse 17, it says now to the Eternal King Immortal
invisible. The only God be honor and Glory
forever and ever. Amen, wow.
How valuable is Jesus to us? Is he Irreplaceable?
Me, how valuable is he? I mean how much do we actually
honor him? What kind of value do we place
on him? Daily?
If he was the lamb, that was slain for our transgression and
we know this and we've accepted him as our substitute.
How much honor do we have? Once our daily thought.
Of him. What's our response to him?
How often is he in our thoughts? And how often do we demonstrate
our honor to him? Hallelujah.
Well, there is one extremely clear way that we are to honor
him. This is just one we're only did
with this one tonight. Okay.
Because I'm going to open it up for people to do it tonight.
All right, Psalms chapter 50 verse 23, says it this way, he
who offers a sacrifice of Thanksgiving, Honors me.
And to him who orders his way. Aright I shall show the
salvation of the Lord. Now that means to live a
righteous life again, seek first, his kingdom and his
righteousness. His way of doing things allow
his way to govern. What we think say, and do how we
respond to every situation just like our King.
I don't speak anything on my own initiative, but I only say what?
I heard the Holy Spirit. Tell me that only came from
Jesus, who is seated at the right hand of the Father in
Heaven, who was Listing to his father, to give me that
instruction in the first place. And I'm going to say that I'm
going to do that. I'm going to respond that way.
Amen, that's how I'm going to respond.
So I'm going to act. That's what I'm going to say in
these situations. I'm not going to do what I want
to do. I'm not going to be quick to
judge things. I'm going to be quick to speak,
right? You were supposed to be slow to
speak. Quick to hear slow to speak,
slow to wrath and we can all work on that, right?
Maybe we can all work on that because we getting situation
where things are going and you're like, you said, I'm
fixing to say right, you know, if I could bite my tongue as
quick as I could say a word, probably better.
Right back at ya don't say nothing.
Hold that tongue. Wait a minute.
Would Jesus say that, right? I mean, I have been in
situations where I've said something, Right, felt validated
by it only to have the still Small Voice.
Say should have said it. Now, you going to go get it
corrected. Because now you can't be silent.
So now you just like, well, I ain't gonna say nothing.
It's too late, you've said something.
This is a problem called will say something and then we
realize we shouldn't have said anything.
Now we don't want to say nothing, but our silence is
making it worse because the Holy Ghost is saying, you need to say
something like you were wrong and they need to ask, you need
to ask them for your forgiveness.
The quicker, you get that done, the better.
Now, they may not receive it, but that's not, that's not your
problem. You need to just do it because
if you to listen, Better the first time then, we wouldn't
have this other step, but the Lord's forgiving, man, the Lord
to do stuff. He's great, right?
Amen. Again we've all have the
thoughts, you know how many times I got to forgive this
like, Peter, should we do the seven times the Lord's life?
Seventy Times Seven man. At the end the day, you know,
you gonna have to forgive that's gonna have to do it when I do it
again. Amen, I just want life was a
shirt. I want, I don't want to fence
the one, all the other stuff that comes with it.
But he loves a sacrifice of Thanksgiving, honors me.
Now it's easy to give a Thanksgiving when everything's
going great. It's another thing to give,
thanks when it seem like everything is going wrong.
But when you honor God and understand the value of him, how
he has delivered you out of all your trouble?
I mean, has he delivered? Anybody has anybody been
delivered out of trouble, right? So when we get it another
situation, whether it's self-inflicted cuz we did it or
where in a trial because the enemy is trying to tempt us and
get us off course. And there's pressures trying to
get us to have a different kind of response.
We can know and God's gonna do this, he'll deliver me.
He'll hear me when I call to him.
Right? And so I'm just going to say
Lord You're so valuable to me. I just going to honor you And we
can honor him with our words. So I'm gonna open up for some
testimony tonight. Amen.
I'm Not Gonna Let You Preach as long as I do, but I'm going to
give some opportunity tonight. All right, so raise your hand
that way I can look around and see which one the Lord wants me
to do, right? I'm just talking get, it's not
open mic night. Right, we're not doing karaoke.
Amen. But, I mean, I want you to think
and I want you to give God praise Thanksgiving.
Right. Thanksgiving.
I see that hand. Anybody else?
It's gonna be pretty easy. If only one person raises her
hand. Okay, I see another one, another
one. All right.
Okay, good. I'm seeing some more.
All right, I'm gonna start over here with you.
Come on up. Yep.
Come on. Come on.
We're here to give. Thanks to God and he honors him.
What kind of value has he done in your life that you're like,
man I just I give thanks to God because of whatever this
testimony is fixing to give. We're going to be like God, is
that valuable to me? It's Irreplaceable what he's
done for me in this situation or whatever the case may be.
Alright, state, your name to everybody.
Okay. This is Brandon's not pass to
Brandon, but, you know, it could be his brother.
You just don't have as much gray hair as Pastor Brandon does.
I think that's a Brennan has more gray hair than all of us.
That's youth ministry today. You need a lot of wisdom.
All right. Go ahead before, you know,
before I had a Jesus in my life, I was an alcoholic and it was a
struggle every day to pretty much live and you know, be sober
if I even tried and you know, thank God has delivered me from
that and it was crazy. It was it's easy now.
It's it. I don't even have, I don't even
have to try. It's not, it's not even a thing,
you know. It's, it's effortless.
And I do, I think God for that every day because, you know, my,
my family, I'm sure, you know, I'm sure they appreciate it.
You know. And, you know, I really
appreciate it. You know me, you know, my, you
know, my mental health was way better.
It's better now. Yeah, for sure it was.
You know, I was, you know, you do not type person, you want to
be around? I got you.
Thanks, Brian. Appreciate it.
Hallelujah, amen. I mean to be an alcoholic, you
know, and David Mackey, stand up.
I'm not going to testify but David Mackey, how many years you
been sober. How many years you been sober
now 15 years, okay? 15 years he came to church, he
was an alcoholic, all those years prior than these 15.
So 15 years ago he was an alcoholic but whole Tom was he
started when he was really young and he just looked at me
actually kind of tap me in the gut.
He said he said pastor I'm an alcoholic.
I want you to pray for me, you know, kind of what like I want
you to pray for me, you know, like you do it, you know.
And he hit me in the stomach. And he walked out.
I even give me a chance to pray for him with him.
Our that is. So I did and but he had a desire
already, I just got an agreement.
I had a prayer of agreements. What I did Father in the name of
Jesus, take it from him in Jesus name.
And he put it down. Hallelujah.
See when people are really valuing their lordship.
What would God those things fall off?
15 years now, he's had marvelous opportunities to go back and
found the hidden stuff that he had from his wife for years that
he forgot where they were at. But the devil said, I'll remind
you now. Where they're at?
But he just dumped them out. Are you hearing me why?
Because he got the value of what Jesus delivered him from.
And light Brandon said, is he see why?
Because when he puts that drink up against Jesus, right?
You left Branden and David talked to some of the Casual
Christians that are sipping right now, they'll let that let
them know how silly that is. And again mental health while
close, when you're not sober any voice gets in.
I said any voice gets in. You allow cuz you're not staying
sober minded. Okay, Janet, come on up.
Who else? I saw a few.
Okay, I got a couple more good y'all getting bold now.
See, Brandon had to break. You loose.
Your tongue is what happened? Yeah, that's what you say
happened. Somebody knew everybody's been
here for a while and I know what you're thinking thinking, well,
they don't want to hear mine again.
God, may want them to hear. That's why have you raised your
hand? Because the Lord may say tell
David to come up again, the Lord didn't do that.
I met David stand up and told it but it was necessary for us to
share his as well. Amen.
And yes you are. I know that go ahead, Janet a
testimony is wonderful because if you hear a testimony, you can
grab a hold of that power and you can receive and I always
told the Lord if you give me an opportunity to testify, I will
because I'm so thankful in 1979 and I know it was 1979 because
my son was three. I lived on Thomas Street in
Orange, Gardens in Kissimmee and my son would dig holes in the
backyard. And I Here, the shovel.
So I knew what he was doing. So I was free and I was do the
dishes and listen to a guy on the radio who preached to had of
money voice and I was like, oh good.
Joshua's digging. I can go and I can listen to the
guy with the funny voice. And I prayed and I said, God,
this guy knows stuff. I want you to send somebody that
knows the same stuff to Kissimmee and the Lord sent.
The Reverend Gary W Jones who was a Rhema grad in 1982
Kissimmee but there's more because God is a god of
abundance. And if you ask him anything
believing in faith, he will answer.
And so Reverend Gary Jones, new two and a half years before I
did what my ex-husband was going to do.
And that I was going to go to Rhema.
And I went to Reggie Scarborough's Church on Martin
Luther King Day in 1997 and I, along with the whole bunch of
people there were called, to go to Rhema.
And brother Hagin said, when we're done praying, and I didn't
put this together until several years ago.
Go, I didn't realize the guy with the funny voice was
brother, Hagin brother. Hagin came and he said, when
we're done, praying you come up to forward, all of you.
So I got done praying and I went up and I laughed and brother
Hagin laughed and brother, Hagin laughed and I laughed.
And the Lord said, go to Rhema and that was 1979.
While I went to Pastor Gary at lunch, I went to a And quit
place and he 15 minutes away from Reggie Scarborough's church
and church members were there. And I said, I'm going to Rhema
and they said go tell Pastor Gary.
He's in the other room and I didn't even know he was there.
So I went and I said, Pastor Gary, I'm going to Rhema and he
said, I know God told me two and a half years ago when he told me
everything that your ex-husband was going to do and you're going
and then two weeks later, Jim Hockaday was preaching for
brother Reagan brother Hagin, and the Lord said to me go
sooner because I plan to get divorced and then go.
So, the Lord was telling me to go sooner in the only time to go
sooner. Was 1970.
Are 1997. So I went in the fall of 1997 to
Rhema trusting God, I left teaching for a year thinking
praise I get to go in the ministry.
I don't have to teach anymore. Haha, joke on me.
I ended up coming back to teach because that's what God wanted.
But I actually not only had the Lord to send somebody who knew
that guy. But the Lord sent me to the guy
and the time I was at Rhema, it was such a blessing.
It was so tremendous and Rhema grads.
At least, 300 500 or more have influenced my life and God
answered my prayer. Far more abundantly than I could
have ever imagined. It's awesome.
And I'm so thankful to be here, or I'm a grad in a Rhema.
Grat we're at Rhema the same time I was and you were too, and
so is chancellor Brian, and his wife, and God is so good.
And I'm so glad to be here. I'm so, Thankful because God
told me in a dream after I went to Kinder Louisiana, that
brother and sister Hagen were there and I had a dream and
brother and sister Hagen were a crew are not brother and sister
Hagen Pastor Mrs. Hagen Ware across the table in that dream
and to the left, there was a table in heaven and to the right
there was a table in heaven and the Lord said Rhema, is your
family to me and I'm so thankful.
Yeah, amen. Hallelujah See, when you want to
pursue God, right? Because he's that valuable to
know him, he'll connect you into the places and the people that
you'll flourish the greatest from I mean, I was called to
Ministry and 93 94. When I knew I was called, when I
had that Vision, I knew I was called to Ministry.
But I went to a Bible school out in Columbia, South Carolina and
you know, just was it the school.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it per se, it just
was not the school for us, and it took a few years later before
all of a sudden, you know, I found out about Rhema and when I
went out there, I never heard a message, never heard the funny
voice from Brother Hagin. I had no context, I knew nothing
about them, I went on the voice of God.
He said this time next year, you'll be at Rhema and I went,
because I valued his assignment and I wanted to honor him which
means you leave. What you're doing, you leave
your job, your security, all that, the world could have
offered in that context, and then you go.
And then man set in five minutes of the first class, I'm like, I
don't even know the Bible. This is amazing, right?
And so God is so good. All right, where Steve at there
he is. Come on Steve, I was like
looking at the empty seat didn't come up.
No. Well, God is so good.
Good. He is good.
You know, some prayer requests, just take some time because
other people's will are involved in it.
But there's power in prayer. And two of the biggest prayer
request I had was for two of our children and I've got to see
both of them come to the Lord now.
Yeah, I like it. Yeah, I mean, I won't go into
details but you know, one of our daughter who comes here now.
So A member of the church and serve it into the church was an
alcoholic. Yeah and God has delivered her.
She's been free from alcohol for over a year and a half.
Now I love and God read her Bible and you know, and a
blessing. And then we have a son who was
away from God. Full of a lot of anger and hurt
and and so forth and you just got to keep praying for him and
probably a month ago. Now he gave his heart to the
Lord. He told me, he said, I wish we
had church more than two times a week, come on.
I could have gained and and he just loves coming here, he's
been a blessing to be around. He's getting his life together.
Getting his life straight. That's my son back there.
Gave gave wave at everybody. Yeah, the only reason he's
standing up is he's got a little pain here with Sciatic Nerve or
something. So he's better to stand up and
sit down and but but he's come to the Lord, his whole attitude
as Hearts changed, he loves church, he listens to you,
ladies that work. He's witnessing to those guys
that he works with. You go and letting his light
shine for them. So, I mean that's big when your
two kids are now serving. God.
Amen. Is he valuable, right?
Is he buyable Rihanna, come on up.
I have Brianna close this out. I understand, there's more but
Yeah, but we got another week. Go ahead is valuable so Todd and
I sold our house a year ago a little over a year ago and that
was a whole process. And so we've been we bought a
camper. Well we're actually been my
dad's came for for like five. It was yes.
And it was a great and small with four people and three dogs,
and a cat. So then we bought a bigger
camper to live in until we find a house.
And so we are looking and it was a process and Mama Mel was very
patient and awesome through the whole thing.
So, we were just, I was kind of getting a little frustrated and
frustration is not Faith. So I had to get my heart, right?
And I was in the shower because that's just where God talks to
me the most, and I was like, Lord, I just, you know, I really
want a house. I don't want to live in a camper
forever, you know. And there was one house open and
Elkton, and it was a new build and I was more excited about it
than Todd was, and it wasn't on as much land as we were wanting,
but it was new and no one ever lived in it.
And idea of that sounded really nice.
So we were going to potentially put an offer but it was like at
the price that you need to put in an offer, you know, you can't
like hesitate and but then the neighbors next to where our
camper is. Actually putting their house up
for sale and the Lord's like you should put an offer on that one.
And you know, I was kind of bummed to hear that because it's
an older house and it's really gross, but it was on more land
and ideally it was what more what we were wanting.
We just have to put a lot more work into it, which I didn't
want to do, but obviously, the Lord knows what's best.
So I would Got out of the shower and I prayed and then I woke up
in the middle of the night and I was praying some more.
And the next day I told Todd, you know I was like I really
think we should just put in an offer on this house.
Wants to go really low because it was peace crap and we knew it
was and so the first offer we put in there it was really
nasty. Guys, the first offer we put in
they didn't take it. They were like well we want you
to come up then our lender that we had at the time was like, no
way. We're not giving you more Or
like I said, I told Todd. I was like, I know that the Lord
told us to put an offer on this house.
So we just got to find someone else to lend us the money.
So we found this other lady who was like, oh yeah, no problem.
We can come up to that price. And so we ended up going up to
the prize and it was like, kind of a long even longer process
after that because they kept like wanting to do other things.
And then like the, you know, like the cabinets were weird and
the The inspector was like, you need to fix this on, like the
whole house is falling apart. Why does it the one cabinet
Corner matter? But anyway, we ended up getting
the house and it's a gut gutted. Currently, it was really yucky,
like we thought it was going to be, but it's are yucky house and
we love it. We are still in the camper but
hopefully we won't be in it forever.
So there is light at the end of the tunnel and We are so
thankful for our little soon to be clean house.
Hey, man, is he valuable at the end of the day you just want to
do the will of God for your life, you know?
Now all these testimonies sound a little different, right?
You know, I mean, you know, we talked about honoring God, a lot
of times we would think only that, you know, we're going to
give him. Thanks for again when we were in
this major issue and he delivered us but we should not
honor. God just when we're, we got in
trouble when he's getting us out.
Out. We should honor him because he's
so valuable to us in every Affair of our life we should be
Consulting him. So that's what's important about
the testimonies here, right? Is that at the end of the day,
we want to be able to say God, you're so valuable to me now
he's not just valuable because of the things he's brought me
through. You know, hit the first and
foremost thing that keeps us where we're like man I just want
to honor the Lord is that I was a sinner man.
I was destined for the Lake of Fire.
I was in Rebellion against his kingdom.
Hated everything about it. Wanted to do it my way and he
still made away from me. Love made away from me and kept
drawing me. To change right now.
I didn't have to change first but he was like you're going to
have to change and I'll do it for you.
Right. Just like Brandon, obviously,
God started drawing on him. He said, now, listen, I love
you, but you're not change, but I'll change.
I'll change you. I'll do it for you if you'll
trust in me. Now what is Brandon have to do?
Same thing, the David had to do to be sober for 15 years.
He has to literally never pick it up, never Pop a Top never
however you drink today, right? However, it is right.
You don't do. You have to do that part.
But God because of your desire initially he'll put a Grace on
your life that you don't need to have the desire.
It's not even a part of your thought, process, your whole
physical body. I remember one service we had
not too long ago where it was called out by Pastor Marcy.
That if you had some kind of addiction of some sort that God
would deliver you. And I remember I have actually
prayed over people who had caused some of the one of the
hardest addictions to overcome a cigarette, you know, nicotine
stuff to kick. I mean it's just like in your
fiber of your being, you know, in your bloodstream.
It's all throughout your body. So why they say people get so
addicted to cracks because it's oil base and it is stay in your
lungs. So that it, you could be without
it and then all of a sudden the oil in your lungs are start
moving and you'll start absorb it and you'll get where you want
it again because it's still there.
And I've prayed over some people with nicotine and the Lord has,
you know, instructed me. You command it to come out of
their pores, their skin, their sales there, you know, just
start naming parts of the body and while I was doing it, you
know, because I didn't know this, my dad smoked growing up
so I Didn't realize that nicotine had a smell to it,
right? And, and then after my dad,
passed away, a few months later, all of a sudden, I started
smelling stuff and I'm like, what is that smell?
Well that cigarette smoke on people.
I didn't know that because, you know, I've just lived with it.
It's just, you know, part of being, you know, growing up and
around someone who smoked all the top.
So I'm like, wow, that's what my clothes smell like all the time
anyway. But I so I'm familiar of the
smell. What it Start coming off their
bodies. And sometimes it would get so
strong. I'm almost was gagging in the
altar. I'm like, trying to hold back my
breakfast, because it is so pungent, but it's being released
and the Lord, and Essence was purging them so that their body
wouldn't crave, it, no more, which gave them time to get
their mental mind. In a place that they could
always overcome. Because when your body's
fighting against you too, and you don't have the mental
capacity to resist it. Well, then you go back and then
you hate yourself for it, right? Well, you got to renew your
mind, I remember, Kenneth Keith Moore Usher's, would you come?
I'm gonna do an alter call here in a second.
So our altar workers. Would you come worship team?
He said, he was talking to a particular guy.
One day who came up to him in a Ministry line and said that I'm
smoker and I just really want to get delivered from it.
And he said, okay, He said, well, he said, this is what I
want you to do. He said, I just want you to say
from here on. I am delivered from nicotine.
From smoking. I am delivered.
He said, okay, he said you can you do that?
Yes. And I listen when you leave, I
want you to say I'm delivered from smoking.
Cigarettes. I'm delivered from nicotine.
He's okay. So now, when you wake up in the
morning, I watch the first thing out of your mouth.
I want you to say, I am delivered.
I'm delivered from smoking, cigarettes, and nicotine.
He said, now, when you get your Or pack of cigarettes and put
them in your hand. I want you to say, he said when
I'm holding in my hand. Yeah, he said.
Now, when you pull your cigarette out tomorrow, I want
you to say something. When I'm pulling it, I see ya.
He said, when you light your next cigarette, he said, when I
Lacey, I want you to say, I am delivered from smoking.
He said, when you pull your first drag, I want you to say,
he goes when I'm smoking it. I want you to say, I'm delivered
from cigarettes because he knew he didn't have faith to be
delivered. But he was trying to get his
mind to keep speaking a confession of Faith.
Till it came alive, in his spirit and he said about two
weeks later, the guy went to pull one out again, and he kept
saying it, just like you said, I'm delivered.
It registered. He goes, I am delivered and he
threw it down and never smoked another one.
Now, in faith calling those things that be not as though
they were Hallelujah. But then when God gets involved
and pulls it out of your body, Well that's that's pretty
Supernatural. The Bible says in him, we live
and breathe and have our being, we need to honor God.
And I'm going to say it this way.
We're really not honoring him. Like we think we are.
Because giving thanks to him is honoring him, but it's not the
only way. If we're not doing the other
ways then you're given a. Thanks may actually not be given
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