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Now enjoy this message in the last days we need to stay strong
and it's obviously I need to preach this because of what just
took place, in the words that were being said, in fact, this
morning, when I woke up the Lord said you can just read a little
bit for yourself and then I want you to go pray in the Holy Ghost
I'll give You what? You're going to preach later.
So, I read the word, the sun came out enough so that I could
get outside dropped off. Some some tea to my wife and
then I took off down the road and praying in the Holy Ghost.
Amen. Went out.
Looked at the ocean. I like looking at the ocean or
reminds me how big God is and how small problems are.
But it also reminds me of the waves and moves of the Holy
Ghost. He'll just kind of move in.
It's kind of like a surfer, you
know, you're like okay I see that.
But the big waves for back And I'm not going to go in on this
one because it don't have the same move.
That that one for back, I'm going to wait on it and I'm
gonna go through these because that's not the one I need to get
on. Are you hearing me?
And then they'll ride that one way then?
And then they go back out and look for the next one.
They're all looking for the wave.
The one that one right there we'll just keep looking for that
one. We understand.
We could find those in Services where God will get us.
Us to that one that one way. But the move of the spirit, he
may have a few week come in and we will get touched and we'll
get ministered to and we'll get strengthened.
But then that one wave of come in and it'll be the wave of our
lifetime for that service. It'll cause us to want to show
up again the next time because there's another way.
If any Surfer ever comes in says, my not hit it's probably
the best ride of my life. Do they quit and retire?
No they're thinking there's got to be another It's kind of like
a golfer, they hit the ball, right?
Comes off their Club, it's perfect, it just goes down
straight. You're like man if I could do
like that every time but it kind of gets you you want to do it
again like a baseball player when he gets up to bat and it
just connects just right, are you hearing me or when they turn
that double play So Perfect? Amen, they win that game in the
ninth inning with two outs and they rally You know, people say,
well, it's about winning, it's not about winning because we win
and then we don't quit. It's about conquering and
conquering, you can do more over and over and over and over
again. Are you hearing me?
So the Lord definitely wants a strong in these last days
because the enemies out there to do something.
I'm going to teach you today by the Holy Ghost, how you can
never? Get tired.
Never, are you hear me? Glory to God.
Do you believe that you can live a life and never get tired?
Well, if you don't I'm going to show you today because you're
like, man, I'm tired, I'm going to tell you why, and what you
need to do to fix it? Let's turn over to Isaiah
chapter 40, how many in your Bible reading plan?
You just read this last week. Few days ago.
Actually, Isaiah chapter 40. Starting in verse 28.
We'll go to 31 and says, do you not know, have you not heard the
Everlasting? God, the Lord.
The creator of the ends of the Earth does not say does not,
does not become weary or tired. He doesn't get weary or tired.
Write his understanding is in screw double.
Look what he does. Then he gives strength to the
weary and to him, who lacks might he increases power.
Now if you are weary guess what, he'll give you strength.
If you do get to the point that you're lacking, he will increase
your power. But let's go on.
He says though you scroll weary and tired, they do.
It can happen. And vigorous young men.
Stumble. Black badly.
So do people get weary. Do people get tired?
Can people? Stumble means they fall.
Can that happen? Yes.
Can God strengthen you? If you are weary?
Yes. Can God give you increased when
you're feeling weak? Yes, but verse 31 yet.
Those Who wait for the Lord will gain new strength.
They will Mount up with wings like eagles.
Now notice what will happen, then they will run and and and
not get tired. They will walk and not become
weary. So that tells me that we can
gain new strength to a point that we never get tired and we
never grow weary, which means, then when someone says man, I'm
just burnt out. Then I know they don't wait on
the Lord. Are you hearing me?
If your fainting, if you're tired, if you're feeling weary,
you're not waiting on the Lord. I said, you're not waiting on
the Lord because those who wait on the Lord, they'll get a new
strength and that strength then can sustain them, because
they're doing what's necessary in essence.
Cause I wait on the Lord. I have a constant supply of
strength. I said I have a constant supply
of strength that now, I'm not going to get tired.
I'm not going to grow weary. I'm not going to faint.
I can get whatever I need to do until he returns either he
returns or I go one of the other.
Amen, it was testified of Moses that he was strong.
He had not grown dim in any case and point before he left.
Amen. Abraham was strong all the way
through to the end. Don't you understand?
We can be strong all the way through till the end, they
meant. So we don't want to be those who
get burned out because this Kingdom that God has given us is
an everlasting Kingdom that has the capacity to cause us to
endure. Amen.
You know people when they hear how we run, they're like, how do
you do it? Well, I wait on the Lord.
I said, I'll wait on the Lord. I said, I wait on the Lord and
let me give you a few scriptures.
I'll come back in to find Wade. It says this in Psalms 27 14, it
says wait for the Lord. Be strong and Let Your Heart.
Take courage. Yes.
Wait for the Lord. Psalm 37 34 says wait for the
Lord, and keep his way and keep his way and what But keep his
way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land.
When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
Amen. I said, the wickets cut off,
you're going to inherit it. Why cause you wait on the Lord
and keep his way Lamentations 3:25.
And 26 says, the Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the
person who here it is. Seeks him.
It is good that he waits side up.
For the Salvation of the Lord. Now that word salvation is not
only be born again. When we hear salvation too
often, we only think of a born-again experience that, that
salvation alone, that's not true.
Salvation means to be saved. And salvation is not limited to
the. Or being saved is not limited to
the New Birth experience. Meaning being saved from the
domain of darkness and being transferred into the kingdom of
his beloved Son. See, you were lost in your
trespass of sin and God saved you by your confession of faith
that Jesus Christ, died on the cross and Rose from the grave.
He saves you. He delivers you from that
Dominion of darkness and brings you into the kingdom of his
beloved Son. But you know, What when your
body is sick? He will save you.
He will save your body from dying to cancer dying.
To leukemia dying to covid, and all kind of stuff.
He can say that salvation, he'll save your mind.
From Don distinct and thinking wrong.
Thoughts strongholds in your mind that keep the faith of God
from functioning as it should heal save.
He'll save marriages, he'll bring Salvation to marriages,
he'll bring Salvation to your job.
So, salvation is not a one-time experience.
So when the writer says here, if you wait silently for the
Salvation of the Lord and that's his whatever you're going
through that, you need to be saved from.
If you're wait on the Lord, you're going to see it.
Amen. Psalms 25 verse 5, says that
this way lint Lead Me In Your Truth and teach me for you are
the god of my salvation for you. I wait all the day now, this
word Wade has this definition associated with it patience.
Patience now, quit with the traditional lie, that's in the
church. You know what?
I don't want to pray for patience because I pray for
patient, that just means the Devil comes and attacks me.
Well, that's ludicrous. Because the devil is attacking
you period. And he don't care whether your
patient or not, that's not the purpose, he attacked you,
because he comes to kill, steal and destroy.
That's what he does. So whether you want to be
patient or not is irrelevant Number two.
Okay. You already have patience
because one of the fruits of the spirit is patience.
So basically when you're like I don't want to pray for patience
you're saying Holy Ghost, don't give me your fruit.
So again it's a tradition of man who didn't know who they were in
Christ. They've just asked Jesus to come
into their heart and save them so that when they die, they go
to heaven and they learn nothing else about what they have in.
Christ. And as a result of that, when
they want to be patient about something, but the devil is
already attacking them and it seems to be heightened at the
time. They want to be patient.
Then they don't want to pray for it anymore.
And the devil's like thank you for not asking for that fruit.
Because when you don't ask for the fruit of patience, you'll
get the alternative of patience impatience which means you won't
enact long-suffering. Now, you're not going to enact
kindness anymore. You're not going to have
goodness. This is why you run off at the
mouth and say, things quickly, because the minute the devil
keeps you, from asking for that fruit tea and yield.
So it will manifest in you. Well then all of a sudden you
bring out the wrath of man, which doesn't bring out the
righteousness of God. You just speak your mind.
All right. Well, you don't have to shout me
down but that's fine. Amen.
Religious tradition has people. Not pray for patience.
I'm like, thank you, Lord. I have patience.
And I yield to it, and I don't care.
And I actually has an apostle, I have supernatural patience.
I have a supernatural patience Beyond, just regular patients
because it allows me to be able to do the work that God has
called me to do. And I inder and Outlast Because
I'm going to do what God's call. I'm gonna plant where God tells
me to plant. I'm a bill where God tells me to
build and there's not a government on the earth, there's
not a devil in hell, there's not a person that's going to thwart
that I'll wear them out. First I'll just persist
Hallelujah, but if we see here, there's been some keys to this
thing patients as well. It's not just waiting around
like, you know, you're just sitting there waiting for
someone to show up. It doesn't just stop there.
And but most people do they just want to come and just sit around
as if they want to see. It's kind of like you go to a
parade or some some movie stars coming and, you know, so people
are show up just to see if they can get a glimpse of them.
Because they've been waiting. I've been waiting.
I've been waiting for someone. Oh, and they came and I saw
them. Well, how did it impact you?
How did change your life other than, you know, you can see I
did this once with a movie star. Her name was Demi Moore.
Okay, so Demi Moore back in the day.
Did this movie about? Gij.
All right, g.i., Jane. Anybody see that movie g.i.
Jane, I didn't. But okay.
Good. Anyway, g.i.
Jane was actually filmed portions of.
It was filmed. In can't at Camp Blanding in
Florida, and I was in the National Guard while they were
filming that. So, they had this scene where
she was at the Medics inner. So I knew some people and the
next thing you know, they got me over there while they were doing
this thing and I came in the back door, all right?
And so, we were kind of waiting around to see Demi Moore she had
her head, shaved, right? So, a couple things were
shocking to me. First house, She was.
She has to be 411. I don't even think she's five
foot, seriously. I mean, I'm a short guy and I
know short, I had a grandma that was 411 for 10 maybe and I'm
like, that's my grandma. Are you hearing me very petite.
Very small, very short, okay? So I don't know how they make
them so tall because I hear, I hear Tom Cruise is pretty short
as well. Anyway, with that being said, I
caught a glimpse of her. I can tell you that she did not
change my life. Not at all.
Right then, change my life, but I waited on her and if that's
how we're waiting on God, you may get a glimpse but it's not
about you getting a glimpse of him.
God doesn't want you to just see him, nor does he want you to
just be in his presence. SO waiting on the Lord, just to
be in his presence, doesn't do anything.
I said it doesn't do anything, you know, people say, man, if we
could just get in God's presence, it would change
everything, no, it won't change anything unless you're in faith
because Jesus was in the presence of a large crowd.
One day going to a religious man's house to heal his
daughter. And they were Just an all around
him in his presence yet. Nobody has changed.
But one woman showed up, I said, one woman showed up said if I
just touch him I'll be healed. And while everybody else was in
his presence, get nothing. He stops when the woman got in
his presence because she pulled something from me.
So coming to church and getting in his presence, getting in the
atmosphere, we just had won't change you unless you come jump
in by faith to touch something. I'm going to come get my Mine.
Now I don't know what that is, but you got to by faith do
something. And when you step out, then
power can be released into your life.
Are you hearing me? Amen.
So being in God's presence doesn't mean anything.
Unless you're going to do something about it, And so many
people are waiting on the Lord, right?
Wait for his presence to show up and even if his presence comes
in, so thick that it puts you on the ground, that me need to
change you. I remember when Jesus came out
of the garden. He was full of the Holy Ghost.
He was so anointed to go be beaten so bad.
They couldn't tell he was a man and to sustain that physical
body after it had been scourged and that the crown of thorns
will put on it. And he was punched by a whole
Roman cohort and his beard was being pulled out and then he had
to carry his own cross for a bit before he was physically
exhausting had to get someone else.
Else. The anointing on him was so
strong that when they came to him and asked who Jesus was.
He said, I am, the Bible tells us that the ones that were right
up front were knocked to the ground.
Now, you think that change you? That if someone says, I am puts
you on the ground that you get blown down by his power, just at
the sound of two words, didn't change them a bit, they got back
up and arrested him. Yeah, so it doesn't matter.
Even if God comes in here and His glory and with his train
filling the temple and its Glory.
So heavy in his presence. So heavy that drives you to the
You can still get up, walk out and send still.
Still lift carnal, still live ungodly, still have the same
Hang-Ups. Still have the same problems.
So, waiting alone is not what the Bible is talking about here.
Although it takes a part of the actual weight.
It also talks about collecting when one definition says the
bonds, what, you know, a three stranded court is not easily
broken and means to bind together in essence, there's
another verse that I'm reminded of in this Context, do not
forsake. The assembling of yourself, this
same word is used when God created the Earth.
And he told the water to collect this way in essence, it's the
same word here, for wait. It means that body of water is
going to be together here. You'll wait, you'll collect
their. Will you understand?
When you begin to come to church and collect together?
To wait patiently, something can take place, but it also gives
this idea then and that is a waiter or waitress.
Are you hearing me? Because by all right, a waiter
is someone who's waiting on someone.
Once they get in their presence, there waiting is for a purpose.
It is to do and to give whatever the person is asking for.
So when you leave today, if you go to a restaurant, you have a
waiter or waitress and all they're doing.
There is way is waiting on you. They come and say what would you
like to drink? It's your will not my What do
you want to drink? And you'll say well I want some
water, I'll have some unsweet tea or I'll have whatever and
then they go off. Now if I asked for water and
they give me dr. Pepper, that's the problem.
But they'll come and bring me water and then they'll talk
about the specials that may be on the menu there.
Just letting me know the options that I have but at the end of
the day it's your will not my will be done.
Now, that doesn't mean I don't ask sometimes well what's the
best seller, what's this? What's that right?
Maybe it's something they said, this is you know what, I'll do
that. But at the end of the day, it's
still my will concerning it. Are you hearing me?
So with that being said, then I order whatever that is say I'm
ordering a steak and they'll ask me how do I want it cooked?
And I tell them how I want to cook.
So then the expectation is not only will I get a steak, but
I'll get it the way it's supposed to be cooking it,
right? Leo.
Get it the way. It's supposed to be cooked
because there's nothing worse for a cook to have a state come
back because we didn't do it, right?
Leo didn't have this problem. He's done over many steaks, so
he's professional at this. But you understand what I'm
saying? And so then they come back and
they serve and then once they've given your drink and your meal,
they keep checking on you. It's not like what you got, what
you asked for now. Why do I need to show up?
Know if you start getting low in, they serve you the same
thing. Unless you say, you know what, I
think I'll take this now, right? So all the while, what are they
doing? They're waiting to hear from
you. So they can go and be a doer of
what you say. So that, that word will come
back to you. The Lord said my word, which
Goes Forth from my mouth will not return unto me void, but it
shall accomplish that which it was sent to do.
So, in essence, when we say we're waiting on the Lord, we
come together. Now, you can be by yourself in
the house is not just a collection, but it will happen
in this kind of collection, as well.
And more often than you think, in fact, strength comes because
the word wait has a collection by itself.
You will not get the strength that you need it.
If you stay out by yourself and try to tap god without anybody,
God will constantly be encouraging.
You, you need to get to church and if anyone tells you, the
Lord never told me to go to church.
I'd call him a liar to their face.
Because Jesus is the head of not them personally.
He's the head of the church and so there's something about
collecting. So, in essence, then how are we
really waiting on the Lord, we come to serve in essence.
We call waiter or waitress a server.
Amen. We come to serve, I said we come
to serve and there's many ways to serve God.
Not just only in his service but also in serving his church and
serving one another. So how do I know how to stay
strong? Number one, I'm going to be in
service number two. I'm going to get actively
involved in the area. He assigns me because now he's
called me to do something. Um, and I'll serve it with great
joy. I mean, how many of you enjoy a
waitress or waiter? That when they say, what do you
want? And then throws your drinks down
there, you know, kind of like, you know, you bother me.
Okay? What do you want?
Okay. Thanks.
Oh sorry. How do you want that cooked?
Okay, and then they bring you the wrong stuff.
You're like I didn't order this really Now, that looks like a
lot of people spiritual lives, the Lord goes to tell them.
Do something. They bring something back to the
table. Well, I'm not going to serve any
children, but I will do this. I didn't order.
I didn't order from you. Being a singer on the platform.
I ordered children's ministry. Yeah, but I'm going to bring you
a song today. I didn't order song.
Y'all want to hear this? And you want to know why people
are growing weary because they want to bring to God to his
table. What they want him to have about
them instead of serving him, what he's asking them to do.
Because I run better than an Energizer Bunny, because I'm
only about my father's business. And I don't get weary or tired,
I'm driven in strength because it's constantly renewed.
Do not think my busyness is wearing me out.
It's making me stronger. I said it's making me stronger.
When I went to Winter Bible this week, instead of Not only was I
getting refreshed, but I got to give out in the process.
Had nine classes that I taught third year Pastor.
So, I'm pouring out, I had one pass from Ohio.
I had other pastors from other churches, sit in the class,
they've already been their graduates and I had one at the
end, when my wife and I were doing Q&A and says, y'all need
to honor them because what you're getting right now is
rare. He says I don't see this kind of
flow between husbands and wives. This is rare.
Are you hearing me? Well, the reason why we flow is
because we're always about doing what God says to do.
We're serving him. I've got a pastor, want me to
come to Congo this year. So I'm just asking, I'm waiting
on, I'm waiting on the Lord. I know that's something else in
the calendar, but God just tell me because it's not too much.
I said, it's not too much. It's not too much now.
Can I push it off? Yeah, I planned a trip in 2024.
All ready to go to Italy, Greece, Albania and Cyprus.
Because the Lord has need of it. I said, the Lord has need of it
and this guy's been wanting us to come back to Greece and
Albania to do some teaching. Well, we have a church, we have
responsibilities, and we do that and he's like, I thought you
were coming this year. I said, you never got back with
me. What I said, I never heard from
you so it didn't get into schedule.
Well you need to I said I got the Lord's.
Not going to have me come this year.
I said March, it comes up my spirit, March, 20, 24, I can
come So, we went to breakfast. And planned it out.
And his assistant who was in Greece got on the phone you
know, I saw her face time she said pastor, wow, you sure have
an anointing to be able to get a Greek to eat breakfast at 7 a.m.
because Greeks eat late at night.
She said, that's okay, we'll pay you back when you get to Greece
and will make you eat late at night?
Are you hearing me? so the point is that I'm driven
in strength, Because I'm just waiting on God.
What do you need me to do? Where do you need me to go?
What do you need me to say? How do you need us to do this?
What needs to take place here? Are you hearing me?
This is how you can have guaranteed strength.
Now, again, serving in the church has to be directly
connected to the voice. If not, you'll get weary and
serving look at Luke chapter 10, verse 38 to 42, it says that
this way. Now as they were traveling
along, he entered a village and a woman named Martha welcomed
him into her home. And she had a sister called Mary
who was seated at the Lord's feet listening to his word.
Right to his word. But Martha was distracted with
all her preparations and she came up to him and said, Lord,
do you not care? That my sister has left me to do
all the what serving along, then tell her to help me but the Lord
answered and said to her Martha Martha, you are worried and
bothered about so many things. But only one thing is necessary
for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken
away from her. This is why when we assign
people to serve in the ministry, if we noticed, they only show up
when they're serving and not in service, that's the problem.
Because I know they're Martha's. They're not want to hear God,
they're just wanting to do with a duty.
Well, the church needs me to get working a children's.
I'm scheduled, I'll show up tonight.
What, where were you on Sunday? How come you're only showing up
when you're scheduled? And this is why your life is
full of worry and you're still bothered about things and
anxious about stuff and now you're burning out and now all
of a sudden you want to be taken off the schedule because all my
gosh, it's just so much. Well, it's because you're not
sitting at his feet. There are plenty of churches
that are go out and serve and serve and serve.
But the problem is they're not listening to the voice.
So you cannot wait on the Lord without hearing what he says.
And then go and serve. Are you hearing me?
So I don't schedule people to serve him in his church, only
only because we're born, but it's so that you can get
strength, but it has to work with being at his feet and
hearing his voice as well. So, at the end of the day, there
are only a few people, we assign every service in serving, but
they also are listening, and they're Usher's because they're
in here. So they are serving, but then
they get to listen. Same thing, parking lot.
We could literally schedule them every service, but then, they
come in and here they are. Greeters, they're out for a bit
and then it come in. They can here and serve at the
same time and get strong. So if you're serving all the
time and getting weak, that tells me you quit listening.
You're not listening and service anymore.
You're not trying to hear the word of the Lord, the word of
the king, the King's kids are so powerful.
That they never wear out. They never wear out.
Amen. I just don't bother lat.
Now Pastor, you know? You need to slow down and he
take care of yourself. I have taken care of myself.
I eat, right? I work out.
I renew my mind. I say before the Lord, I pray in
the spirit. I do what he says I'm running.
The problem is I'm wearing you out by my service.
Have you ever got around a waitress man?
They were like hitting everybody, they're running,
you're like, wow man, they're doing it.
But you know what, they're just thriving.
And then they are given to have such a great attitude and you're
like, man, I'm just going to tip you good, just call I do, but
I'm going to really chip you because man, you're awesome
right now. I mean the more they know about
the menu, the more they know about the way it tastes, the
more they come. And make sure I only got half of
my t drank and they brought me another one.
Oh my gosh. They're so attentive to me right
now. How will I not bless them?
And then you just want to ask for them.
The next time you're there. Don't you want God to?
And I know it's not true but don't you want to feel like
you're God's favorite? Oh, I just want Pastor or to
wait on me today. He is so good when he waits on
me. He's so attentive to me.
So attended to what I want, so attentive to want to run. and
bring to me that which I asked for, He's always kind of
hovering he's always got his ear to me.
His eye. To me, he's conscientious of the
spiritual about Pastor, Marcy. Today.
Here we are. We didn't have to go like, but
she was attentive to him and he said, why don't you just go
ahead and tell him to laugh? Tell him to get a little Joy.
Tell them about their strength today.
She don't know what I'm preaching because I didn't even
know what I was preaching. And I told her before we left, I
said, I don't have anything. I said, but I'll get it.
You know? The Lord told me to pray in the
spirit more today. Amen.
That's what he told me. So I did what he said because I
just live by faith. I get something because he'll
give me something or we won't get Nothin anymore.
Just do what he does because whatever happens will be his
will and I'm good with that. That's all that matters.
But then on the way, I got two things, wait and Martha.
And I'm like somebody was putting it on my phone.
My wife's. Like what are you doing?
I said, I just got something. I had to write it down just to
Waiting Martha. Amen.
But I knew what that meant. Hallelujah.
I said Hallelujah and I just follow the lord so when I'm
serving I'm serving not just do it my way or to be impressed.
So someone be impressed with me. I'm doing it because I here I
sit at his feet and then I go, I said it is feet and then I go, I
said it is feet and then I go and I never Forget weary I never
get tired. My wife asked me today.
How you doing? You tired?
You because we ran this week 6:00, I'm up five acts.
Well 6:00 6:00. I was up before the class the
last three days. I actually had meetings
breakfast's before class and we won't get home till like 11:30
12:00 o'clock Central Time. Every night.
People pulling and pulling and want to talk to you and want to
hear from you and want to invest in wanted to meet with you next
thing and you're just pouring in, you're receiving pouring in
ma'am, the mix Spirit, got moving, we Jump Right In
Clemente, I'm probably gonna pour this out on something
tomorrow. Hey man, there's a couple people
couldn't do anything with that. I normally try to do some things
with couldn't do it. Just so full but yet I was full
today. I was strong in the Lord.
He gave me great sleep last night had great communion with
him today. Amen.
And I'm ready to hit it and run. Amen.
Look what it says here in. Galatians 6:9, says, let us not
lose heart in doing good, for, in due time, we will reap.
If we do not grow weary, many people do not get to the next
phase of blessing of outpour of overflow because they get tired
and they don't realize that they're not waiting on the Lord.
I said they're not waiting on the lord.
They're not serving him, they're not ministering to him.
They're not asking. What do you want from me?
Well I just want to sit and listen to you.
What are you saying right now? And I and, you know, understand
there's more than one way to hear God.
The greatest way to hear God, obviously, is through his word,
right? We know this.
But again, his word, a lot of times are Amplified in these
settings. We learn a lot because of the
fivefold ministry to equip the Saints.
And Things go off in our spirit like yes.
Okay, I'll make that correction. Yes Lord.
And you're waiting because you're sitting at his feet
hearing him to say do this. Do that touch here touch at
whatever. Let me in here.
And as you begin to allow him to order, those things up in your
life, and then you asked on them, then he transforms you and
changes you and your mind gets renewed and then he ask things
of you to do. Hallelujah, because we're
waiting on the Lord, if you don't grow weary.
Then, you're going to reap. And many are not reaping, all
that God had. I know for me, I'm walking into
Fields right now that I didn't plant.
Nor did I water, but it's because the others got weary.
And I get their Harvest. I'm telling you business people,
same thing, if you don't get weary, now, I'm not saying be a
workaholic I'm saying be a here, a holic, Oh wait on the Lord,
kind of haluk. Where you're waiting and hearing
and listening to what he says. Next thing, you know what,
others can't doing business, you will do at a pastor text me
today, that's over in West Augustine, came by the church
said, I'm just so blessed. I'm just reminded of how you're
such an innovator, thank God for you and him had a chance to tell
my wife about it yet. Why?
Because they're seeing things again, when I begin to lay out
the vision when I was at Flagler College and and the athletic
department, because we're starting to sponsor it, and it's
kind of open up a whole nother door there and they began to
hear all that we're doing. You know, some of them just get
tired by listening. Amen.
But there's no, there's no weariness when you're staying
connected to God, it's new strength every day.
I've sent us new strength every day.
It's new strength every day. So don't lose heart.
Know what God's called you to do as you wait on him as you serve
him, you're just going to be strong because the king is
always looking to give you a reward.
Hebrews 12:1 says this, therefore since we have so
great, a cloud of witnesses surrounding us.
Let us also lay aside. Every encumbrance and sin that
so easily, entangles, us, and let us run with endurance.
The race that is set before us, which means I'm in stride.
I'm in stride. If you're going to run a
marathon at, I don't care who you are.
Even if you're a champion, they still run out of pace.
They have developed a pace. Now, some of their Paces are
like sub five minute. I mean, they are flying, but
they've condition themselves. I mean, I'm not conditioned at
that pace but I can't have a pace.
Are you hearing me and you work yourself because your body's
going to take, it's going to take a toll on your body as
you're putting things out as you're moving along, and you got
to build up and build up to it. Again, my daughter wants to run
a marathon and we did the gate riverrun which my
daughter-in-law and I have done it.
Now my daughter and I have done it and when we did that she
didn't do a whole lot of training didn't have a big
opportunity to the most. She's ever ran was 4 miles.
Well, we clicked off 10K. It's a 15K and she never stopped
at six point two five. Miles.
But when we were in that seventh mile, she was really feeling
that physically. And as she hated it, you could
see it in her face. And you can see it where their
attitude, but at the end of the day, her body was talking to her
so much. She had to do a little walking
and it bothered her. Now, it didn't bother me.
I mean, I've done the whole thing before running, and again,
I was there with her. And so, we walk some ran, some
walk, some Ransom finish out the other 5K, but it did.
Something in her. She said I'm going to run a
marathon so she got a nap and she started running and next
thing, you know, she's running five miles.
She's running six miles, she's running seven miles, she's
running 10 miles, she's ran a half-marathon.
Now on her own the whole thing without stopping why cause she
can what her body wouldn't do it one point she developed the
endurance to handle it. She said Dad I've done a half
marathon twice now I'm ready to do a marathon said girl we are
not doing a marathon until we officially do.
The half-marathon in a race. So, she like that, if you ran
know, are you going to run? I will find the race and I'll
begin to train. Now, I've done a half marathon
on my own as well, you know, just down my own Road, got got
crazy and that was after the 15K.
I did two days later. Now, I felt it in service that
night and that ways and I was like, I don't know that was
intelligent, but at the end of the day, I click that off.
Can I do? 6.2.
Sure if I condition, I know I'm not going to run out there
tomorrow. It's not going to happen because
it doesn't matter even if lung capacity cardiovascularly I
could do it because crossfit's got my, you know, cardiovascular
like through the roof man. It's like a whole nother level,
but the endurance side of my physical body lb.
And I'm going to have to prepare And the Bible tells us that if
we don't, if we lay aside the things that can hinder meaning
in our training, we get rid of sin that can definitely hinder
our course or just things that hinder us from accomplishing
God's things. You know, one thing that is not
a sin but can hinder you is staying in the bed too long.
Just you know what? I'm going to get up and pray.
I'm going to get up and read. And that means I'm going to have
to do that. You know what else is?
It's not a sin, but it can be an encumbrance is if you don't
actually function in there and the sacrifice of praise.
I don't feel like praising but I'm a sacrifice means you're
doing something you didn't want to do.
So you don't feel like praising him feel like lifting, your
hands feel like shouting feel like singing but that's
irrelevant. So, come give him a sacrifice of
praise. Just go ahead and raise your
hands anyway. Go ahead and give him a shout.
Anyway, go ahead and sing anyway cuz if you yield then the Holy
Ghost can get in and then all of a sudden want you didn't feel
like doing you now feel like doing because now you got the
power on you to do it, she's like some probably didn't feel
like coming down. But once you just kind of act on
it, well why am I sitting here? I'll go on down to and at the
end of the day you know you may get down here and not even
actually feel something different.
God's not obligated to give you something different but he will
take note of your willingness. And there are things that you'll
do in this moment that will open up doors for other moments.
Because it's really not about what I get is about.
I obeyed. So when we wait on the Lord,
what you're doing is you're waiting for a word to obey.
That's what it means to wait on the Lord.
This is why you'll be renewed with straight.
Because when you're acting on the word, God tells you you
can't help but be strong. I said, you can't help but be
strong. And so we got to run with
endurance the race set before us.
There's enough God's called you to that last, your lifetime.
Well, that being said we'll go to this last passage of
scripture has eight verses and I want to close with this, because
I want us to be tenacious because God wants us to be
strong in the Lord. You really have to understand.
Now, I am not as substitute for your physical exercise.
You need to do that on your own. Although I do believe the
service can help your cardio. Master System.
If you come down to dance a little bit, it will get your
heart rate up. There's no doubt about that.
And if the Lord moves on you to run, you definitely are going to
get your heart rate up on that. And yes, those have physical
attributes to it because God needs you to be healthy people.
I'm telling you right now. If you think that you're going
to be in to do all that God wants you to do and your body's
not healthy. You're not because this the only
vehicle carrying your your spirit man around.
So, in order for us to keep that machine running, as its supposed
to, we have to do our part and that is exercise and diet.
Now, God will do Supernatural things.
Don't get me wrong, but he will multiply your effect when you
know, how you should eat and that you're doing something to
some form of exercise, okay? Some form of exercise.
Eyes, with that being said, you get an exercise in your spirit
every time you come to service. God is here to help exercise you
so that you can endure through things so that you can wait on
him to hear. You're seeking him out, which is
that when you're seeking the Lord seek first, the kingdom of
God, and his righteousness, and all things will be added to you.
When you're waiting on the Lord to hear him, give a command to
say what he wants, because you just want to serve him.
You just want to be doing what he's asked you to do.
And not only personally, but also his church because again,
the church is Jesus personally, he's the head of the church.
So when Serve the body or serving Jesus, okay?
And so, in in that kind of environment, then you just keep
getting stronger and stronger and stronger and you will
Outlast everything because in the last days and we're in them
folks, it'll be perilous times, it's going to be all kinds of
lawlessness. It's going to you're going to
hear way more reports of what the Devils doing and his group
then what God's doing the devil's.
Done. A very good job of keeping his
message in front of us more. And God's not moved by that
because he's inside you the whole time, okay?
And if you'll listen to him and hear his voice and know his word
and what's do you because you're a child of the king then you
won't let the words resistance or words FaZe you.
So with that being said, Luke 18:1 says now he was telling
them a parable to show that at all times.
They ought to pray and not Not to lose heart and not to lose
heart saying in a certain city. There was a judge who did not
fear God and did not respect man and there was a widow thank God
for the woman. Wasn't a widower is apparently
man. Cave too easy.
Did you say a widower? So menu need to learn from the
woman. It said there was a widow in
that City. And she came and she kept coming
to him saying. Now, the reason why I know he's
using a woman is because women are treated in this
historically, like, men, they had no voice So God saying, even
when it seems like you have no voice, you have a voice.
Even if Society regards you as nothing, you have a voice
because of me. So he says there was a woman a
widow in that City and she kept coming to him saying, give me
legal protection from my opponent for a while he was
unwilling. But afterward he said to
himself, even though I do not fear God nor respect man yet
because this Widow Widow, what bothers me?
I will give her legal protection.
Some of you husbands are calling your wives a nag when the
reality is, you probably should just yield because she's only
asking to do something, you should be doing already.
Say, hallelujah. Anyway.
I had a minister friend of mine. Sent me this little joke, you
probably seen it because the social media joke and it says
this, it says, a man will do what he said he'll do.
So you don't have to come back and tell him three months later.
Are you hearing me? No, a lot of times, they just
keep being persistent to hold you at your word.
You said you were going to, you said you were going to, you said
you're bothering me well why don't you at least get enough
wisdom like the unrighteous judge?
Are you hear me? He said she bothers me, right?
Otherwise by continually come and she will what wear me out
and the Lord said, hear what the unjust unrighteous judge said
now will not God. Bring about Justice for his
elect who cry to him day and night and will he delay long
over them? I tell you that he will bring
about Justice for them quickly. However, when the son of man
comes, will he find faith on the Earth?
Jesus even knows I'm coming back.
And because I know the condition of the world, how bad it's going
to be a, my going to find my children demanding their legal
right as children of God from the world from me from me
because the devil has stolen from us and he's holding things
that are rightfully ours, possessions that belong to the
Kings kids and we have to go to our righteous King.
We have to go to God said I lured.
You said in your Your word, you said in your word, you said in
your word, you said in your word.
Now you said. And I asked right now in the
name of Jesus, And he said, don't think that I won't hear
the Cry of my children day or night and I will quickly get it
to them. But the question is, will I find
Faith? Why?
Because many Believers are going to lose heart.
They gonna go once twice and when they don't see it and their
timing, they'll abandon and then blame God.
Go after the world, will offer them the same?
Well, I'll give it to you but you just need to leave the
church. I'll give you that promotion.
I'll give you that. I'll give you that Healthcare.
If you come and take this job, you'll have health insurance and
it cover anything ever go through your like, wow, it's a
good deal. Now he won't be able to go to
church on Sunday but we're going to work.
You like this that the other. Well, you know what?
But I got a good job and I got health care and I got great
benefits for when I retire. Because most Christians live
that life. And he'll come back to those and
say, where's your faith? But you've been working your job
with your health insurance and your benefits without me.
I haven't seen you at my table in a very long time.
I've not seen you, wait on me once.
It's been a long time now, you talk to me when you got in
trouble, but then once I showed you, yeah, I love you.
Where you been the minute? I fixed that for you.
You left again. Will I find faith in the earth?
Well, I find those who say, I'll endure to the end.
I'm not turning back. I'm going to hold on, I'm going
to be relentless. I'm gonna drive, I'm going to
thrive. I'm going to keep waiting on
God. I'm gonna wait on the Lord.
I'm going to serve at his table.
I'm gonna do what he asked me to do.
I'm going to be strong in the Lord and the power of His.
My I'm going to get the joy of the Lord cause I'ma tell you
right now today, the Lord says, hey, come on over to my table.
I'll give you some Joy today, just come get down the river,
and those who jumped in, you know, you got something, you may
not know all you got, but you got something. and some of you
for the very first time, came down and you got something, and
are getting overflow, because you said my Lord, you know, I
went down, you can remind him now, you know, I went down and
service because he'll say, you know, how you acted in service
yesterday, when you go to work on Monday in a trial heads, he
said just go ahead and dance that way now, Go ahead of the
same dance because you dance before me when you collected.
Now dance privately right here and I'll pour out a blessing.
You won't have a room enough to receive.
Amen. Hallelujah.
Because when you act on it, I said, when you act on it Anthony
washing, it said the Lord's healing knees right now.
And I wasn't the only one. There was another actually, it's
Pastor Jack out of New York. He said, I was having an issue
with Annie and all of a sudden he just started hitting like
that and realize it's gone. And then Anthony wants to the
Lord is healing knees right now and he goes really, the Lord is
so intensive of me. He knew I needed that.
Well, Pastor Jack didn't know, I needed that.
But I got mine because God cares for me because he wants this
almost 53 year old God to be strong in the Lord, and the
power of His might. And for this Temple of the Lord
to be at a run at Max Capacity. So that when people 20 years
younger or watching me fly, after a six foot four guy and
they see me not losing ground in like my gosh man.
What is that guy? God, that I need when I get
their age. Well, let's say yielded person.
To the Lord. Because I was dancing real good
in my seat. No problem.
In fact enough it cleared out, I was dancing.
I go down. I mean, it's like I don't have
to go down every time, but then Pastor Lynette was like, doing
this and doing this. I thought you were talking
somebody behind me for sure, but then Blake was like, you better
get down there. Like, you know, his grandma's
tell me to go. Well, in case I was confused, I
went I'm glad I did now, he can heal knees it in the bathroom
where you can hear it over the speaker and you get it if that's
what he wants to do. But for me it definitely
happened when I got in the flow but what Blake didn't know is
that he was getting called out too?
And thank God, he acted on it. You know what's so awesome about
that, the rest of our relationship together, I'll be
to look at Blake and I'll say Blake.
You remember when My wife had a picture and showed me on the
airplane. Ami on the floor, can't meeting
last year right by Craig Hagen with the power of God came on us
and we hit the ground. And laughing me.
The joy, the Lord hit us. I mean, we're like we look like
a couple of drunk, guys. We were not drunk as you
suppose. We were drunk on the spirit.
Amen. And it's a marker.
Remember that time. Because God is good because he
lets us experience these types of things so that we can have
endurance to the end and stay strong in the Lord.
Amen. If you're going to be baptized I
give you permission to get up and go get set.
Okay. All this is good because God I'm
gonna go ahead and tell you what time it is.
It's only 1217. Nice early.
I said it's early. And we going to do water
baptism. All right, now what we haven't
done is we've not taken up are offering we've not done any
announcements. I'm going to have to do this at
the end. I'm not going to interrupt the
Holy Ghost in what he's doing. But we also want to give to the
king because I can tell you right now, all that you've
received, if you don't want to put yourself in a position to
give who, I mean, I'm going to give to the king.
All right? So I'm I actually have Pastor
Marcy come up and take up the offering after I baptized Okay,
she's going to do that for us and then tell whatever
announcement she she was going to give prior to the Holy Ghost
as well. Let's do this first.
You know, we have an order, a service that we plan, we talked
about it unless the Lord does something, different is how it's
going to go and everything. We were going to sing today.
We didn't sing at all, but that's okay.
Why? Cause we're flexible.
Are we are prepared people seeking the heart of God but we
also have the capacity to hear him.
Say let's do this. Just like Abraham when he's
about to pull out that's when he pulled that knife.
He's about to drive it down into Isaac.
And the Lord says, hey, we doing something different.
So we were all prepared with the message.
The things we were going to do today.
And the Lord said, hey, I'm going to do something a little
different. We're like, okay, Lord, we're
following you, amen, a lot of times that's just helping us
continue to be sensitive and because he did, he release
things in the business people today because he did.
People already got filled with the Holy Ghost with evidence of
speaking it down because he did. People got healed today.
Who got healed today, who had something going on and you got
here. Okay, there you go.
There's one have been anybody else said, man, I had some
things going on and I got something today.
Yeah, I seized back there back there.
Back there right there, right there, right there, right there.
Amen, right there. Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord, he's the Healer.
Now you sit there and say well how do I know they got healed?
They just testified. Why would you want to call him a
liar? Five got filled with the Holy
Ghost before we Preach Today. Hallelujah, amen.
Now we're going to baptize some people.
Listen! It's worth enduring.
It's worth staying strong. I said it's worth it.
Because man, God's coming back for a church that's full of
power. And so we are.
I'm not asking to do anything more than the Lord wants us to
do. And it will actually make you
stronger. They make you stronger.
Amen. Come on.
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