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Now, enjoy this message. Again, happy Mother's Day, the
Lord is good. Now if you're a woman we're
going to be speaking to you too even if you're single because
the message today isn't just for moms, although it's it applies
is for women in general. I said, you know I got something
to say to women. Because the Lord has something
to say to women. Hallelujah, and sometimes I
think women need to hear from a man of God.
Because they're hearing from a bunch of ungodly men.
And we as men need to make sure our words and the way we speak
to women treat, women, stay in line with the word.
There are things that don't exist today.
Because you know, manhood has been diminished tremendously.
But we need to stay with manhood when it comes to how we honor
women. So with that being said, turn
over to Genesis chapter 1, because if you want to know
about a woman, you got to go back to the beginning, right?
You can't know women. Today, you have to know women
according to God's design. Amen.
And in Genesis chapter 1 starting in verse 26 will go to
verse 28. Then God said let us make man in
our image. In our lot in a according to our
likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea over, the
birds of the sky, over the cattle, and over all the Earth,
over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, God
created, man in his own image. In the image of God, he created
him male and female he created them.
God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful multiply
fill the Earth and subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea
over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that
moves on the earth. So the first thing we need to
learn as we read Genesis 1:26, as he said, let us make Make
man, man is the spirit of humanity.
So when I say Humanity, that is both male and female.
When I say mankind, although it's not a politically correct
word now. But when we say mankind, we're
not talking male were talking male and female.
When we say Humanity were saying, male and female.
When God says, let us make, man, he's saying the spirit of
humanity. Why do we know that the spirit
of man, is it assigned? The gender is the spirit of,
man, although the spirit has a gender assigned to it.
How do we know this? Because it's placed in a skin
suit. And so God said, let us make man
in our image, according to our likeness, let them rule them
Humanity rule, he made Man In His Image, both male and And he
never gets the spirit of man wrong in the suit there in God.
Never does that. Why?
Because you were known before you were born.
Before you in your mother's womb.
There is no such thing from the realm of the spirit.
We're all of a sudden, you know, we'll just treat it like it's a
joke, right? That's a Peter or Gabriel runs
to God and say, we blew it. What happened?
Had a mistake. What do you mean a mistake?
Well, We're going to put so-and-so into this womb but we
actually put them in a different womb.
That's never happened in the history of all creation.
But yet today because the devil is afraid of you, knowing who
you are. As Pastor Mark said here and in
Fort Walton Beach. He said, if you don't identify
your identity, if you are in an identity crisis, the crisis will
become your identity. And the reality is I understand
on one side mercies their, I'm not mad because I realized they
just are trying to figure out who they are but if you don't go
to the word of God to find it then the devil will accommodate
confusion. Are you hearing me in no other
form of creation? Is there this kind of crisis?
None. So God, he placed Humanity in
His image to rule in a mail suit and a female suit.
And both were to have dominion. Go ahead.
Ladies say, I have dominion say, I have dominion now, dominions a
serious thing because the Dominion means rulership It
means to rule. It means to govern, it means to
manage because God in his word, never created subspecies.
When it came to humanity, he created Sons and Daughters of
the king. He created children that had the
same ability to rule, and this is before sin, though, female
did not take a supported orat submitted role to Adam until
after the fall. So, in God's eyes, before sin
came when he looked at Adam and Eve, he saw equals All right,
I'll go over here, ladies. I need you to help me.
He saw equals. He saw equality.
And because they were without sin, there was never
competition. Adam never would have told his
wife. I'm not doing it because her
words only would have been the words of the king.
There, never would have been, I'm not doing what you say,
we're gonna do it my way because your way is God's way, my way is
God's way. We're only doing it God's way
and it would not have mattered to Adam, if God spoke to his
wife, to say what God Said and said, oh, that's right.
That's what God says, will do that, honey?
There was no conversation before sin where he said I'm the head
of the house. I'll figure it out.
Just say Amen. Anyway, because we are stuck in
a different age, a different condition that God now has
placed a model. But let me tell you, it's not
staying this way, it's not stay in this way and if we actually
notice through scripture, God is the greatest Liberator of
females than anyone else ever on the planet, he's done more for
Females than even the so-called women's Liberation movement.
Are you hearing me? And the reality is religion.
Has placed women in a vulnerable position because when when man
fell When sin entered the world, men began to treat women as
property. And even now the greatest
struggles that women have in the planet is because of religion.
In fact, there's a whole religion dedicated.
For the men that if they die, for their God, they will be with
God and as a reward, get 21 virgins yet, they treat the
women here like dogs, they don't value them, they have no value
for them. They openly physically and
verbally abuse them. And yet, they have this dream to
have 21 virgin ones when they died.
Do you really think their attitude towards them would be
different somewhere else? But we know this religion,
they're not getting them anyway. You know what?
They're going to get the Lake of Fire.
They'll become a eunuch, the rest of their lives.
They'll never ever be with a woman.
Again, Holly and won't be concerned about them.
They'll be too concerned about their torment.
Religion has reduced. Why is there such human
trafficking happen? Why?
Because sin has caused women to not be valued as God valued
them. I mean, if we just read the
Bible, God always honored women. Always one of the first examples
of God, honoring a woman is by the name of Sarah, Sarah, that
was Abraham's wife and she made a mistake because she could have
children her and her husband weren't having children.
I speculate that she was trying to determine who was at fault
here. Was it me or Abraham?
Who can he not? Help me have a child.
So, when he handed her his maidservant, it made life, even
more difficult for her. Because now she knows I'm the
issue because Hagar got pregnant, but it was never God's
will for Abraham to go that route.
But later on, when that child became a challenge to her to the
promised child, she went to Abraham and says we're going to
have to send them off. And God said, Abraham, listen to
your wife. I think men need to learn to
listen to their wives. Go ahead and say, Amen!
Come on, let I'm going to help you.
I'ma help you guys today. I'm gonna say that statement
again and you should say Amen louder than everybody.
Okay, let's do men. Should listen to their wives.
Thank you. Yeah, why don't you three?
Oh yeah. Mighty Man there, bro.
Mighty Man. There didn't even have anybody
jump on that Pastor. Mike we got some training to do,
come on because if you thought like Jesus, you would value
women better than this. Are you hearing me?
This is why I needed to preach today.
There was another woman called a prophetess in the Bible.
Her name was Debra. And the Army came to Deborah and
says, can we take the enemy? They did not go to her husband.
Then you go to him and she says the Lord's with you take them,
they said, well, because again, this is how man's struggle with
understanding the value of a woman.
Okay, well, we're not going to go into battle unless you go in
essence, maybe you're wrong. So you're going to go with us
because if it goes bad, you going to be there with us.
And so, she's bold, because she knew the voice of God.
She wasn't intimidated by that, man.
She said that's fine. I'll go with you because I know
what the Lord said. Butler know this a man won't get
credit for the battle today, but a woman's gonna get it.
So there was a woman in a tent that wasn't ever scheduled to be
a part of this process. But because a man fail to
understand the value that came out at a prophetess.
God said, I won't give the victory to a man.
I'm going to give it to a woman and when the king, showed up at
the woman's 10 and says hi me, I'm tired.
You know, and she's like, oh man, here's the guy that
everyone's asked her. Come on in, She lays him down.
Gives him some milk. Covers him up makes him
comfortable and in drives a state strap through his Temple.
Hallelujah women and helped me and kill their enemies.
Are you hearing me husbands, if you get your wives involved with
some of your problem, they'll start eliminating your enemies
for me. You won't have problems at work
like you haven't because your wife, will pray that enemy?
Oh, now your life will be in a stand in the Gap that you're not
standing in, all right? And they're like, hey, is
anybody here? The guy you're looking for is in
my Chambers? Why don't you come on in and see
if see if this is it? So they come in like we're going
to take him, he's dead. He's already dead.
Amen. God, in the beginning.
Said, women are extremely valuable.
And this is what's crazy to me that men can't see.
This is because she came out us Why would you abuse yourself?
Why would you devalue a part of you?
Something that you carried on the inside and when God paraded
every type of Creation in front of Adam?
And he said there wasn't a suitable helper.
In essence, he saying, listen, You'll Never Find your comfort
in any other source and there's nothing else you can pursue.
That's going to be a help to you.
I want you to look at all my career.
I want you to name them. A dog shouldn't be man's best
friend. My wife is my best friend.
She's my best friend. She's my lover.
She's my passion, she comes alongside me and not underneath
me. She holds me up strengthens me.
She gives me Godly wisdom, and counsel cheek allows me to touch
and agree with no one further than my own bedroom and I cause
things to move in the Earth because we're two people
touching agree. I don't have to go call a bunch
of men and say, hey, we going to war today, I can say, honey,
let's pray will bond this right now.
I might let some guys in on the process, but we going to whip
this ourselves. Are you hearing me?
Because God, understood the value that he placed in a woman,
because man, when he made out of me for him, out of the Dust of
the earth, breathed into his nostrils, the Breath of Life,
brought him everything that the world could offer and says, none
of this is good for you. It won't help you accomplish
your purpose. What you have is already inside.
Yo, I'ma pull it out. And man, Adam was smart enough
when he saw her. He said, Whoa, man.
Sure, you've heard that one. This is bone of my bone Flesh,
of My Flesh, right? We'll call her woman because a
man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave cleave cleave
to his wife and they'll become one flesh.
It's amazing. How most men are marrying women
to parade them. Not to come to cleave to them.
Well, let me find me a sweet honey, so I can parade her in
front of everybody. This is my wife with all her
Botox Blowed up lips. New hood ornaments.
Just say, Amen. Anyway.
Right? Like we got a trophy over here.
When you're supposed to cleave to her realize the value of what
you have have in your possession, not understanding
the ball, some women can be horrible.
I get that because the sin, I understand that, but I'm talking
to the church. Today, I want to talk to women
of God. Today, I want to talk to Men of
God today because there's no one in this room right now that has
an excuse to live substandard unless you're not born again.
And we can fix that today. If you are a man of God today,
hopefully your value of your wife's gonna go somewhere else
before you leave. If you are single male, then you
need to understand the value of what you need to go pursue.
If you are single woman, you need to understand the value of
our and don't let some guy cheeping you, by trying to buy
your sex, don't become a prostitute by going to him with
the movies. Let him get you flowers and then
giving you three stupid words that he doesn't me.
It's amazing. And the only reason why women
would exchange sex to for affection or attention is
because she doesn't know her value.
Hallelujah. God valued women.
God knew that women were so important after the fall that he
says, I can only bring my see through her anyway and I'm sure
not going to use this new man to help.
Not going to use him because he's corrupt.
But I can get Purity perfection in the earth, through the woman
still. Are you hearing me?
Do you understand Jesus, when he walked on the planet?
First communicate and John for the first time he said, I'm the
Messiah was to a woman at a, well, didn't reveal it to a man
first now there were men saying it.
Andrew ran to his brother Peter and said we have found the
Messiah. John the Baptist was talking
about this is the Lamb that. So you know, this is the one
that I've been talking about but Jesus is own acknowledgement of
his. Be in the Messiah was to a woman
at a, well, who's had five husbands.
And the one she's waiting now, isn't the one that isn't even
her husband. And yet, he saw past all of that
and says, I didn't create you this way, there's more value
with you. And I'm not going to speak to
you in your current condition. I want you to know, before I
tell any, man, any mail, I'm the Messiah.
And you know, what happened after he was risen from the
dead, Peter comes running to the Garden.
Looks in nothing, the disciple nothing, they can't see.
But someone had already told him, he was alive because there
was a woman who had seven unclean spirits that Jesus
rebuked out of her and she Faithfully served him.
And when she went, when the guys were sleeping, On the third day,
went to prepare his body. The stone was rolled away.
And Jesus introduced himself resurrected first.
To a woman. What value that the god of
Heaven and Earth says, I reveal, my will to the woman after the
fall first. Now, he revealed It To The Man
first in the garden, but because, man brought sin in God
brings Revelation first, to the woman into occasions, are you
hear me? The value of women to impart
spiritual truths Ladies, this is why you need to become what
we're going to talk about tonight because your children's
depend on it, your children depend on.
Are you hearing me? How much did Jesus value women?
That followed him look in. Luke chapter 8, verses 1 through
3. I'm going to read the way my
weymouth's translation. It says shortly after he visited
Town visit a town after town. Village after village Village,
proclaiming his message and telling the good news of the
kingdom of God, the 12 were with him and certain women say women
who had, who had delivered from, he had delivered from evil
spirits, and various diseases. Mary, obviously out of the 70
demons had come and Joanna, and Susanna and many other women all
of whom contributed to the support of Jesus.
Jesus, and his apostles. So Luke, who is the most
descriptive writer of the gospels is saying, a good amount
of Jesus's Financial underwriting came through women,
and women are not going to invest in something that's not
giving them value. Are you hearing me these women
were supporting what Jesus and the apostles were doing and
notice God didn't say, oh you're a woman.
You can't hang out with us. You can't travel with us.
I can't have you follow us. You know, these guys are
married. You can't be following with us.
Are y'all want to hear this? I mean, I understand fleeing the
appearance of evil, but me, I had me thinking, boy, Jesus is
out with a bunch of women hanging out in tents.
I'm sure a lot of things were said about Jesus, that wasn't
true. We know this.
But even women said, I'll leave the Comforts of home.
I'll leave what, you know is stable in my life and I'll go
and travel with this guy, I'll set up a tent with it where,
what town, the he goes to, I'm gonna go up Village, he's at I'm
gonna be What need he has. I'm gonna meet that need.
And for far too long, the women have dominated the church
because the men stay. So stuck in their sinful
Behavior after conversion and never renew their mind to the
value of their spouse. Many men sit in church today
because of a Praying Wife a Praying Mother, if it wasn't for
that Legacy. In fact, Paul's greatest
disciple named Timothy. He said to him, he said, Timothy
listen, you can do this because I see the gifting you the one
that was given to you first, buy your Grandmama and then by your
mama never mentioned his father wants.
His father was a Greek anyway. Never left him a spiritual
Legacy, but his grandma and his mom did.
Are you hearing me when fathers are at home?
And Mom says, hey, let's go to church.
You should say yes. Well, you know, I work long all
week honey. You know, I'm going to stay home
today. No, you get up because, you
know, most of you not getting up, when the child is throwing
up, when you need to change the diaper, I mean, we use work as
an excuse to be lazy. Don't say that again, we use
work as an excuse to be lazy. Because now, in our society,
even the women are working mean, they can't, they can't just
concentrate on a home only. The environment they're having
to be active, then they come home, clean the house cook or
purchase it there still or washing?
But again, when we colabor together, when you know, your
buyer side your side, then if she says, Hey listen.
Can you fold that for a you should say?
Yeah. Honey, no problem.
I'm here to help. Fold the clothes.
We can do it together. I'll do dishes, I'll clean the
toilet. You just point me.
You are man. The house way better.
And I am and just point me in the direction, and I'll do it
because we're a team. Hey, can you get me another cold
one while I watch the game. Listen, I give you permission as
you pass her next time. One of these brothers up in
here, say that get too cold one. Walk over to the couch, pour it
on their head. And then say, wake up Jesus name
Apparently you've lost your mind.
Amen. I there's nothing wrong with
serving, don't get me wrong. But you know, there's a culture
of men out there and they left the world much, but women have
value. And I'm going to talk about your
value today. Matthew chapter 13 verses 45 to
46 again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant seeking fine
pearls. See, I can preach this way
because I do dishes. As I fold clothes, my wife just
phenomenal at washing and drying.
It is not her passion. Twofold.
Can I just say she hates it? She hates it but you know she
hates it not so much though that she's going to put it up but she
will. Let me know how long they've
been in the basket but everything's been in the basket
for three days. I got it.
I just let him get wrinkled real good before.
I fold them. No, I'm just saying.
We have to work together. We work together.
There's nothing at the house. That is only hers.
We are together. Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is
like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one,
pearl of Great Value. He went and sold all that he had
and bought it. It's amazing.
How man will sell out for a possession.
He'll sell his life out for his job, as work for money for
promotion for title. Think it's the greatest thing.
Walk around strut around even look, what I look at my title
who I am. Look what I've accomplished.
Look at all my Awards. Look how I've been promoted.
Look how everybody talks about me at work.
Look what I've accomplished. Look at my degrees.
Look how much money we have on the in the bank.
Honey. See I'm taking care of you.
Because we see material possession or wealth as the most
valuable. Proverbs 2015 says, there is
gold in an abundance of jewels. And it's like, men pursue it.
With a passion and don't know what they possess in their own
home they said but the lips of knowledge are a more precious
thing. So, the Bible lets us know,
right out the gate. I get it.
The Kingdom of Heaven is like what we see men do.
They are chasing after worldly treasures, and when they find
one, they are willing to sell everything.
And go after that treasure, you know how many husbands have gone
home and snatched their wife and children out of a good church
just to take a job promotion somewhere else.
Not even taking into consideration that we're going
to a place. That's a good church.
How's this going to affect my family?
Just at more money means we have to be better like money provides
joy and peace and eliminates all problems.
And God says, look there's an abundance.
There's gold in abundance of jewels in the world.
There's all kinds of treasures. But man, if you can get ahold of
knowledge there's something even more.
Precious, the lips of knowledge. There is something even more
precious. Proverbs 8:11, says, this is
what's precious for wisdom. Is better than jewels and all
desirable things cannot cannot cannot.
What cannot compare with her can't even compare.
Doesn't matter what you got in the bank.
If you don't have wisdom, you're broke, you're bankrupt, you
don't understand value. Again, we can chase and here,
let me say something. Ladies, If you chase what men
chase, you don't know your value.
Well, I'm going to be the one in the corporation.
I'm going to be the one that successful.
I'm going to one that's going to make.
The more I'm the one who's gonna make the most money.
Now I'm gonna get in babe, more than a man gets mad paid.
Like your Pursuit, is to make sure you have more money than a
man. Because you'll be validated all
the sudden right? Because all of a sudden now I'm
validated I make as much as a guy does.
But there's value more than that.
Most women are trading their children for promotion and
position. It's because they don't
understand their value. But wisdom is better than jewels
and all desirable. Things cannot comprehend with
her. Look at this.
In Proverbs 3:13-15, he said, how blessed is the man who finds
what not a job? Now you need a job, don't get me
wrong but you need wisdom and the man who gains understanding
for her. And notice, I love this because
wisdom is always associated with a female.
With a female. This is the holy spirit.
Moving upon men and they associate wisdom, which tells me
them when God pulled Eve out from Adam.
Part of this DNA. That went to her.
Must have wisdom associated with it.
How blessed is the man who finds wisdom man?
Who gains understanding for her profit, is better than the
profit of silver and her gain better than fine gold.
She is more precious than jewels and nothing you desire Compares
with her. Nothing you desire Compares with
her. You said, oh, what's this?
Have to do with a wife? Let's read the next verse.
Proverbs, 18 or 19. Verse 14 says that this way
house and wealth are an inheritance from fathers.
But a Prudent Wife Is from the Lord.
There's something about a woman in the home that when they are
given their position of value. They become more precious than
all riches and nothing we could ever pursue men can compare.
Nothing that we ever could pursue could compare.
We should be more conscious of wanting to see the gift of God
released in our wives than any other thing we ever accomplished
on the planet. We should be willing to
sacrifice anything. For her to be able to grow when
the things of God, because when you get a woman of God in the
house, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
I said there's nothing. You can't accomplish in essence.
What these scriptures are telling us is that you want to
pursue gold. You want to pursue silver, you
want to pursue Jewels, you want to go after pearls.
You want to do natural wealth, you want to pursue that you
could do it but your life will be in ruin.
But if you'll pursue wisdom, if you'll go ahead and learn how to
get Wisdom then all the things you are pursuing, will actually
follow you. It's like what Jesus said, you
cannot serve both God and well, you'll love one and hate the
other in essence. If we'll just serve God and
Money Follows, if we'll go pursue wisdom than finance will
follow. If we will cultivate a wife, To
release her god-given ability. Then not only will wisdom begin
to manifest in our homes, which is we can't even compare to
that, but wealth will follow as well.
Your greatest asset. Is your spouse?
Your greatest asset. It's not your college.
Education, is not your mere brute strength.
It's not the sweat of your brow. Is that sweet smelling aroma?
Oh my mom. Some of y'all need to fall in
love with your wive's again. Praise the Lord.
I'm talking about what the love of God.
All right, we going try 1st 1914?
You all right? I can't think of any guy that if
somebody came up, gave a financial seminar on how they
can get ahead in the world financially and get promoted and
all this stuff happened and you know, notoriety and influence
and all these particular things that would be like oh great and
I'm telling you what it is is called a woman.
Now, why do I say woman? Because I'm smart as a pastor,
my heart is all God's. I love him with all my heart, my
wife didn't have all my heart, only God doesn't because God has
my whole heart, she's never and never in Jeopardy.
She's never in jeopardy. Okay.
So that allows me to love her as Christ loves the church and
she's it, she's only it. There is no other it.
I've gone to some Churches and they've come to Mom said, oh,
you're the first lady. I remember going to a particular
church and they introduced her someone.
The pastor's wife are said, oh you're the first lady said no
I'm the only lady You know, say this is the only lady I must say
it against the only Lady. It's the only lady.
But she's not the only woman. There's another woman that's not
with us today. A young one, 23:24 how old's an
Ela 25 aniela has wisdom in the realm of government and I am
standing before, Senators commissioners.
Because of her gift. I've never been in front of the
type of people. I'm in front of right now
without the wisdom, that's coming from a woman.
I was wise enough to know that there's an anointing on This
Girl's Life. And if I'll release her gift in
this body, she will allow me to do my gift in a sector of
society that I couldn't get in without her.
She's open doors for me that I could have never opened.
Because she is a jewel in God's eyes, concerning that sector of
society. Pastor Angie, she's anointed to
lay hands on people to get the baptism of the Holy Spirit and
if somebody struggling, I'm like, fine Pastor Angie.
That woman has an anointing to be able to lay hands and a
receive immediately. I've seen men lay hands on and
they just seen I'll say go get Pastor Angie, she'll come down
there, lay hands boom. They'll start speaking in other
tongues. It's because I see the gift of
God on her. Listen, if I'm talking to you
about something in your life, lady is, because I see the gift
of God in you, and you need to let us release this thing.
Because again, the church needs your gift, but me and you need
to understand, you need to release those gifts in your
home. The house, I'm in today's cuz
this woman knows how to call them.
In my children are like they are today because this woman knew
how to navigate Now they're free will and they can go there on
choice but I know the foundation and Mama's.
Let me tell you something. When you put the word of God in
your kids you hold on to that even if they're acting foolish
and ungodly you hold onto that. Because that word does way more
than what the world is doing. And at the end of the day, when
you stand before a holy God, he's going to reward you for not
backing down from truth. Children that are in here right
now. You need a really sincerely.
Thank your mama. Especially if they're in here.
You need to run to him. Give him a hug.
Say, wow, I need to Value you way more than I'm bowing you.
Proverbs 18:22, says he who finds a wife.
Finds a good thing and obtains favor from God.
Proverbs 12 for says this, an excellent wife is the crown of
her husband. Let me just stop there.
Do you hear that? And excellent wife is the crown
of her husband. Well, my wife and I got
together. We were a mess.
I never talk about us because we are not the example.
I don't, I don't talk about how we got together.
Not talking about it. I would never want someone to
say, well that work for them because it may not work for you.
It only work for us because we decided God's getting all of us.
And the baggage we had coming in, we were, we were destined
for divorce. Destin, but because we actually
gave our hearts to the Lord and we allowed him to change us.
Because of that Pastor Marci, you've heard her testify I grew
up in a church but honestly I grew up in a religious church.
I grew up in a church that you could be born again and I did
have God in Me but it was religious and I sure didn't live
for him. Pastor Marcy got born again at a
young age because of vacation bible school, but never went to
church again. So she says, I was raised
Heathen and as a result of that, you know, she saw a lot of
different things going on and made a lot of choices based upon
what she thought was right, but there's a way that seems right.
And in the end lies, that's just thing everything we doing just
falls apart and then all of a sudden we show up and meet each
other on a blind date. Too.
Chaotic people. but when we came together, there came this
thought If this is going to happen, we're really going to
have to follow God. And they were easy years.
They were not. But we overcame.
Gentleman, never devalue. A wife who will yield to the
word and let it renew their mind to be Godly.
You value that more than anything, because Sun, you don't
know what it's like to have a woman that becomes rebellious to
the things of God. There's nothing worse than a
contentious woman. They're worse than a man.
You know why? Because women are the greatest
manipulators when their ungodly and you know how they manipulate
by Sleeping with you. They give you pleasure while
they whip you and keep you in bondage.
Men are so strong but their conquered so easily.
Save him, I can do it. Men are so you know we're dead
that's our last that's Pride gone to stupidity, right?
I mean it's like we are so strong yet a woman.
Think about all the great leaders that fail.
Something that's probably not much more than 115 pounds.
Takes them down every time. And they first start doing it
by. Welcomed by a little faster, so
the perfume flows over. They know how to carry a spirit
of lust when their ungodly now. So when you got a woman that's
like men, let's go. You like honey you going?
We going to church. We are going to church because
if I want to have the greatest I need to release you because God
knows exactly what's Best in you.
And you gotta stand your ground that you make a demand on it.
And there's something about women that when you demand their
godliness, they rise to the occasion.
My wife could break generational curses because I made demands on
her to be a woman of God and called her.
That even when she wasn't talking it, when she wasn't
feeling it, now I'm growing to believe you.
Me I'm having to deal with me but at the end of the day,
there's no reason for me to lash out to you and tell you who you
are because I'm struggling, I might as well call you what I
want you to be because that's what God wants you to. to be and
my mama, How the Holy Ghost? Would just minister to her life.
I knew my limitations I can't mine out all the value in her.
There were times that we would be in situations where I'm like
Lord only you can change this. And I trust you because I've
seen her yield. She knows her worth continue to
show her her value. Are you hearing me women are
greater than the greatest material possessions we could
ever have? You have to look in the room
right now and say the greatest value that there is in the
planet is this woman beside me. And again at the end of the day,
I'm not short changing us as men and our role.
I'm just telling you that the value of women is priceless, he
said, an excellent wife is the crown of her husband.
How would you not want to be crowned?
Because all men want to be all men want to be the ruler.
You want a rule, let your wife, become your crown.
Let her godliness show up let her ability.
Come you know what? She'll come alongside you
because she's your help meet, she's not your stepping stone.
She's the one that's going to do things that you're incapable of
doing. She'll have ways to do stuff
that honestly you're going to look ignorant.
But it's okay because what her capacity is only complimenting,
the assignment the first place, God told, man, to be fruitful
and to multiply man, cannot do it without the woman.
So she has a capacity that we don't have and we need the
shared capacity and I'm not just talking physical, I'm talking
emotional and I'm talking spiritual, I'm talking in wisdom
and intellect because they possess it.
My wife is a phenomenal organizer.
She's amazing at that. She can do those things.
She's awesome at design. There are some things that are
just natural with her. And you put that against me, I
look like I'm an imbecile. But I'm okay with that because I
don't have to do what she does and it doesn't bother me to say,
what do you want to do you decide?
Because we're only going to be better together.
If you make this decision, I'm not intimidated by your gifts
and ability because I got my gifts, inability.
I got what you can't do but together we're Unstoppable.
I said we're Unstoppable. You got to quit thinking in your
mind. You're with the wrong person.
Well, You got to feed is that you need to live Godly.
The other live Godly start doing it to God way and release the
talents in the household. But I must admit it starts with
a man. That he looks at the woman and
says, you have such great value. I must see you with the eyes of
the father. I must see you with the eyes of
the father. You may talk away, you may act
away but I'm going to be dad the father in front of you because
when I lived add the father in front of you, is the greatest
opportunity to pull your greatness out.
Early in our marriage, which, you know, we're 32 years in
September. Yeah, we process different
process, different. And I made certain demands of
the father, like you don't go to bed angry.
Didn't do it. What did that look like?
I turn the lights on. And even though it may not be
completely resolved with her or she may appease me to go to
sleep. I still was the example of that
scripture, we should not be angry with one another.
You got the love of God in you. I got the love of God and me at
the end of the day, we can resolve this.
We are of no excuse. There's no excuse for us to have
this kind of conflict. There's no excuse for us to hold
our own will. There's no excuse For us to say
it's my way and not his way. And one of the greatest lessons
I ever learned is to die on the altar of opinion.
Quit being stubborn on my way to do it because my yielding to her
and just go, let's do it your way then my way is not wrong,
your way is not wrong, but I don't have to die on it, just be
in my way but I found that every time I gave up my right to be,
right. But I am powered her to release
her value, and she got confident in being able to make choices
and to see it embraced and to see that I valued her and I
didn't treat her as she had been treated most of her life.
There are many women in this room that have been treated in a
way that God never intended. Not valued, but I want you to
know God sees you as something more precious than silver and
gold. In Proverbs.
Well, let's finish that verse and excellent wife is a crown
for her husband, but she who shames him is like rottenness to
his bone. Ladies, I have to go to the
other side when you don't value, who God is in, you, you are the
worst to be around. You are the worst to be around.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? I just say yield and submit to
God so that your true identity can come out.
You don't need a man to complete you, you are already complete in
Christ. The husband, your with today is
so that you have a shared passion to accomplish God's Will
and that's what you're doing. So I mean you got to have a
vision and you have to take the lead and move in that Vision.
When we moved here it was kind of shocking.
Be honestly, my wife has followed me all over the place
and believe you me, she would have not in her own mind, done
it that way. Yeah.
That wasn't her way of thinking she wasn't going to marry a
pastor anyway at the end of the day.
But through all the movement, when we finally were in Oklahoma
Youth passion been there for three years in the Lord speaks
to me about moving. I mean, we're doing the best
we've ever done and it was probably one of the biggest
struggles for her to say really. We got to do this one again.
And, you know, she could say one more time because we've moved so
much. How does she know we going to
last here, we've been here a long time baby. anyway, my point
is, is that I said, listen, if I don't do the will of God, if I'm
not in it, we're not going to make it.
I said, this is what we were destined for all this time.
And one more time she says not my will but your will be done
and because of that soil and I'm going to brag on my wife.
In July, when we go to camp meeting.
This woman of God is the first woman to ever do.
A speaking at the night services at can't meeting in 50 years.
No, other woman has ever done that.
Not even Pastor Lynette, Hagin. Our pastor Denise Hagen Burns.
That when they decided to have a female Minister on a night in
camp meeting and I'm talking Heavy Hitters that have
ministered at camp meeting. Kenneth Copeland's been at camp
meetings, John Osteen. I mean Lester Sumrall I mean
there are world renowned Ministries.
That have Minister would Kenneth E Hagin and Kenneth W Hagin.
And when they said this time to do a woman Pastor called your
pastor. Come on somebody.
Pastor Hagin said, I can think of a woman that has value.
I can think of a woman that is precious.
I can think of a woman that is proven that she used to God and
loves God. And some of y'all been here,
y'all know her story. You know, the sexual abuse that
she went through and how that destroys value.
But God I said, but God. Let me read you my wife and
others in here. Proverbs 31, come on.
Ladies, get this. I'm a readout of the passion is
good. Man is good.
Who could ever find a wife like this one?
Come on, ladies. You need to own this.
If you're single Jasmine, you fixing to get married.
Here's the job description. You hear what I'm saying?
All right, just so we know this is the job description.
This is the job description. All right, who CC?
This is the job description. Okay, I got a few of y'all.
I'm fixing. We fix them, are.
He's all right. Who could ever find a wife like
this? She's a woman of strength.
And mighty Valor. We think of those terms, only
with men. It's not true.
She's full of what wealth and wisdom, the price paid for her
was greater than many. You hear this?
You hear what I'm saying? We already know.
Wisdom has more value than gold and precious jewels.
And here Proverbs is saying, you want to know something else.
That's kind of equal to wisdom. Is called a woman.
The price favor her was was greater than many jewels.
Her husband has entrusted his heart to her and she brings him
the rich Spoils of victory. All throughout her life, she
brings him, what is good, and not evil.
Whoo, raising was good and not evil.
She not here to sabotage him. She's not there to try to shine
above him. She's not there to try to rule
over him. She's there just to bring him
good. Husbands, if your wives bringing
you good, you need to get off your horse.
And go ahead and massage her feet.
Are you hearing me? Because your greatest asset is
your wife. That's a woman of God, She
searches out, continually to possess that which is pure and
righteous. Oh my gosh, this is so good
verse 14. Sure.
She Delights in the work of her hand, she gives out Revelation
truth to feed others. She is like a trading ship
bringing Divine Supply from the merchant, man.
When I get his, I said, honey, here's where where I'm at.
I need you to pray about it. Because I might need you to
bring in a Divine ship of Revelation.
Truth about this situation. Just in case God wants to speak
to me through you, I'm ready? Not that I can't hear the Holy
Ghost because of me. She brings me divine revelation,
truth concerning a situation. The Holy Ghost In Me says yeah I
told her that Why does he do that?
Because the Holy Ghost says listen you're not the only one
who can hear me and I want you to know how much I value her.
That's why I don't talk to you about that.
I talk to her so that you'll always maintain your value of
her like I value her. Even in the night season, she
arises and sets food on the table for the hungry ones in her
house and four others. I mean, it's amazing the
physical and emotional stamina. Of a woman, any husband that's
ever carried a child on their hip has back problems.
I mean, I can Flex my bicep and it is lot larger than my wife,
but when we start caring kids and grandkids, I don't care.
My kids now because they're so big.
But when they were little I mean, I'd hold them help my
life. You know, you hold.
Okay. I got them and we're going, you
know? I'm the man, I'm the strong guy
and we walking through the store, your life.
Wow, I'm going to muscle failure, already my back of my
and I so you switch, you know, you're like going through man
and you start sweating, you're like, wow, what is going on?
But my wife, she walks through the whole store one side.
I mean like ours, how does that bicep?
Not give out. Why has she not dropped?
The child on the floor? I'm like, am I right man?
I don't know. I'm not, I'm done with this.
You're getting on my shoulders. That's why me carry your kids on
their shoulders go. We can't handle it.
In Harm's Way, ain't got no him to hold on.
Get on this seat right here, you'll be all right.
Their emotional stability and situations.
You're like if I only had your genetic by had that y'all would
be like think man. If I could just put my wife
inside me her spirit like get y'all better watch out.
I'd be a bad mama jama. Oh man.
I'm telling you, it's amazing, their tenacity, their ability to
endure even in the night season, she arises when you're tired,
you still get up with enough Clarity to accomplish.
She sets food on the table for Hungry ones at our house and for
other, she sets her heart upon a nation and it takes and takes it
as her own carrying it with her. Well, there's nothing more
powerful gentleman than when you are in any situation and say,
honey, can you pray for me about this that she'll set that in her
heart and carry it? You know why?
This is so powerful because women have the ability to
conceive they know how to carry There an incubator in order to
give birth. We as men, we engage the
process, and then we're done. And the problem is that there
are things in life that require more than a quick answer.
It needs to incubate, it needs to be given birth, and the woman
can carry that. And if you're not getting a real
answer about some, it's better for you to say honey, I wait
till you give birth to that. Then for you to go ahead and
just keep making decisions about this, what we're gonna do with a
company. Now, this is what we're going to
do here, and this is what we're going to do here, you know, just
hold on. Let me let me pray about this
for a little bit. Because in the natural don't say
three. You've been holding a child for
3 months. Let's go get it out.
How long are you Eloise? Now, 3-month stand up.
Let's have a baby. There she is, right?
And we're not impatient, because she can't give birth right now
because it's not ready. And a lot of times we get
impatient, but yet our wives are so precious that they can cause
things to come out of, they give birth to seasons of Our Lives.
They give birth to next phases. I got something right now that I
want to do and my wife's telling me it's not Tom.
I don't really agree with her. But I still hadn't done it yet.
Cuz I'm cautious. I mean I have enough reason to
say I don't care. It's going to be, all right.
We can do it, but I don't have enough of God, say what didn't
do it? And because of that, when she
said, I don't think the season I have to go. but it's growing in
her, I can tell you that it's growing in ER And she going to
give birth to it one day. It won't take 9 months,
probably, if it takes not much, I'll take it, but it's been a
month in there. All right.
No. I'm telling you, we need to
understand that value. They have.
Let's go on, she, she wraps herself in strength.
Oh, is that where we're at? Go back, so I can get back into
it, she sets her heart upon a nation takes, it takes it as her
own carries it. Within her, she Delights in the
works. Go on next one.
Now, she laborers, there to plant.
At the living bonds, she wraps herself in strength, might and
Power in all her works. My wife's a gardener, she loves
it and it's amazing. I'm not a weed guy.
Kill the weeds with rid, whatever Roundup round them up,
that's about the labor I want on a weed.
But my wife will get down. She'll pull them and she has the
capacity to do a whole bed on her knees.
And love the process. There's value when someone can
endure dealing with weeds. And enjoy the process knowing.
I understand. We're not done, but I'm getting
it done. Because we as men we want to
spray it go watch the game come back a few days later and see it
but they're dead in there, they don't disappear.
You still got to dig them out or do something.
We too often want quick fixes. Now, the advantage us is were
spontaneous, we can, or when a situation arises, we can handle
storms. A lot of times, we are well
equipped. But man, when there's processes
that take place, I'm thankful that the value of my wife is to
be a say, look, I'm gonna go in here and just I'm going to get
all this out. And it doesn't matter if it
takes this long, I'll pick it all out.
Because when it's done, they're gone.
It goes on and says this. She tasting experience, a better
substance. And her shining light will not
be extinguished. No matter how dark the night
talking about someone. Who knows how to hold onto.
Hope if you're a woman and you've lost.
Hope you're in really great spot.
The devil is an extremely good job of deceiving, you that you
could stay in that kind of Darkness because women have the
capacity to maintain the Light Of Hope.
Even when it seemed like it's nothing, not going anywhere.
Man's actually given up a woman can say there's hope there's
hope. She stretches out her hand to
help the needy, and She lays hold of the wheels of
government. What's that mean?
She has the ability to influence power.
This is why I'm not surprised of how we've gotten into the
corridors of power. In fact, if you were here with
Bishop garraway, he actually prophesied that.
My name would Echo into the halls of power.
I would go to the governor's mansion.
Is just going through a girl. Are you hearing me?
I don't have problem with that. She is known by her extravagant
generosity to the poor for. She always reaches out, her
hands to those in need. She's Not Afraid of tribulation
for all her household is covered in the Dual garments of
righteousness and Grace. Wow, she's always wanting to be
right with God. I'm talking women of God.
Now, those who understand their value, like, man, I just want to
be right with God and I do not want the grace of God, my life
to be in vain. Her clothing is beautifully knit
together. A purple gown of Exquisite
linen. Why?
Cause she's royalty. She is the queen.
I said she is the queen. Her husband is famous and
admired by all sitting, as of venerable judge of his people.
Notice, he can take his seat cause she's taken her.
See This is why husband's you want, you want your marriage to
be where it needs to be. If you're going to ever reach
the capacity, you have the only way you can reach a capacity
that God has for you, if you have a wife, that is rebellious
and stiff neck is if she cuts you loose, And then you're free
from that, and you run on with God.
Outside of that. If you do not work to make it
say, well is good enough. Good enough doesn't get you in
the seat. in fact, I would even go this far we know single women
are single mothers have an anointing that single fathers do
not because the Lord says to the woman, I'll be a father to the
fatherless. This is why your kids can still
grow up an honor God, even though you were you rebelled and
weren't an example. Her husband is famous mired by
all even her works of righteousness.
She does for the benefit of her enemies.
Bold power and glorious Majesty or wrapped around her as she
laughed with joy over the latter days.
Her teachings are filled with wisdom and kindness as loving
instructions. Pour from her lips instead of
us, trying to talk to our wives all the time.
We should say, honey, why you got to say?
Instead of cutting her off. Mid-sentence, what do you got to
say? I want to hear from you.
She watches over her ways of her household and meets every need.
They have her sons and daughters arise and one Accord to exalt.
Her virtues. One translation says, they raise
up and call her blessed. And her husband, arises to speak
of her in glowing terms. If all you're doing is bragging
about how well your wife sleeps, would you you got problems?
The only thing good, you can say about your wife as how good it
felt the night before then you don't know the value of your
wife. Hallelujah.
Amen. There are many ballot and Noble
ones. But you have ascended above them
all. Wow, that's a title given to a
woman charm can be misleading and beauty is vain and so
quickly Fades. But this virtuous woman lives in
Wonder and fear of the Lord, she will be praised throughout
eternity. So go ahead and give her the
credit that is due for. She has become a radiant woman
and all her loving works of righteousness.
Deserve to be a mired at the gateways of every city.
Wow. Women, I encourage you.
You should read this daily. So that you can get within you,
your value. As much as I speak to my wife,
tell her, I love her, tell her she's a woman of God, my words
do not have the same weight as her heavenly father and as much
as I tried to Echo exactly what he's saying and then try to
model his way through a husband to her.
It will never cause her to rise to the level.
She is until she hears it from her father herself.
And I so I encourage you women because when you do that whether
I get in the flesh on something or whether I forget something
and absent-minded or didn't happen to evaluate that
situation with more tenderness. She can easily say but I have a
father. Who knows my value?
And then she's easy to forgive me when I come and say, honey,
forgive me. I wasn't sensitive enough.
I wasn't, I didn't demonstrate that value, right?
Forgive me. Because you are highly valuable
to me. because of who you are in Christ and who our father has
made you, amen. And because of that, you'll be
called blessed. That's where success comes.
Is by being a woman of virtue. A woman of character.
And your husband doesn't make you that your God does.
Gentlemen, we have a tough supportive role.
I know, the Bible calls us, the head of the house.
But we are actually supporting God's vision of the woman.
And that's a supporting role and that's a tough one.
But you must rise to the occasion and understand.
That she is the most valuable thing that you have in your life
and you need to treat it as the greatest treasure. and any time
you start seeing yourself Barry, that treasure with your words
and your actions, You need to repent.
Humble yourself. And go dig her back up, and let
her know that she's the best thing that's ever happened in
your life outside of Jesus. Single girls, if you don't find
a guy that values, you right out the gate, he ain't worth having
you might as well, wait. There are 8 billion people on
the planet and you're not too young or too old.
When I mean, well, you know, I'm this old, I ain't God, will you
pursue God? You need a spouse.
They'll bring you someone to do it.
Most people that are married today, May decisions because
they were emotional, and they were led by their flesh.
But you're in it now and there's no excuse for you, that are born
of given just live, God, no problem, because we are an
example of two horrible people. Who were not pursuing, God and
living, according to our flesh. But we came together the holy
spirit says this ain't going to work unless you do it my way and
we at least had enough smarts about us to say we'll do it your
way. My wife's told me before, you
know, if I went on before you, you'll probably remember, I
said, ain't no way it's not gonna happen.
So I can't believe I said angle happen.
I said what you don't understand is I know you.
I know the fight of faith. I know every trial you came
through. I know every adversity you
whipped and one. And you don't get that in a
tight skin suit. You get that through years of
fighting the good fight of faith.
And I would never trade that woman for anything and I sure
don't have time in the planet to go.
Let someone else get to that caliper.
You look at your wife and you notice, she's fought a good
fight and she's come through something.
She's beat adversity. She yielded to God.
She didn't give in to the flesh. Didn't quit.
You cherish that. Cherish that.
Because sex don't cover that sex.
Don't help that Sex sex ain't never defeated an enemy.
By itself. No, the spirit inside.
Her is the most amazing thing on the planet.
And she still looked at dog gone.
Good better simmer down, right? She said, pray, baby.
Pray, let's pray. Father, we love you and we honor
you. We thank you Lord.
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