Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith, Message podcast
from st. Augustine Florida.
Now enjoyed this message. It's good to be in the house of
the Lord. Amen.
For some of you, it's going to be a surprise.
We have a guest speaker tonight. Amen.
And so, Oh, um, Pastor Craig text me while I was actually in
Mexico. I think I just flown into
Mexico, and he texts me and he said, hey, I'm going to be in
Florida for a few days. Give me a call.
I want to talk to you. So I said, okay, just landed in.
Mexico, give me a couple hours and I'll call you.
He said, no, it's not. You don't have to call me back
now, you know, you can wait. And so when we were there, he
was telling me about this particular Expo that they were
coming down to Orlando to see. He said, man, you really ought
to go. You own them all Now, so my wife
and I purchased some tickets to go down there and guys I have
found a carousel. Do you understand if we buy
Carousel, we will be Hometown Heroes.
So, y'all going to get in faith with me over a carousel.
Hallelujah. I don't tell you how big it is.
Do you know, they make double decker.
Carousels. Right.
There is only one triple-decker on the planet in Argentina.
I it's only a measly million dollars.
We've raised that before though. I'm not anticipating getting a
Triple Decker, but it was impressive with an elevator.
Wow, anyway, you know, we just kind of have it in our heart
that we should bring the carousel back.
The Saint Augustine. Hey Beth.
So we're looking we're seeing some prices.
If they build us, one brand-new today to take about a year so
it's going to take some time, obviously that's fine, but we'll
keep you updated, you know, we just want 45,000 dollars for
carpet right now. That's a little more important
for us, right? So we're going to so towards
that, but anyway, we went down, there was a great time and it
was awesome. So he was like, you know, I'm
coming to Florida and he says, you know, I know pastor Pastors
wanted me to come. I said, well call them first,
you know, I said, but you know, nobody has room.
You can come preach for us. So he's laying hands on people,
it Call to Arms. All right, is in the healing
line, laying hands on people, ministering to them and we get
back to the Green Room. He said, the lord gave me a
message for anchor. Faith Church while I was laying
hands on people. I said, well, I guess you're
coming. Anchor Faith.
So let's give a warm water for Pastor Craig.
As he comes in Minnesota. Amen.
Amen, you may be seated. Now, it's glad to be here in
Florida. It's cold at home by the way.
Actually, we came to Orlando on Monday, Landing here about 4:00
and it started to snow flurries at home.
It was like it was like 33 degrees so it didn't stick or
anything. But it's been cold and rainy and
I must be cold and rainy again. I'm glad I'm actually in Florida
all the way through Sunday. So I mean, so anyway, so let's
pray. They will talk about the Mets
fights best. It's Heavenly Father.
We just thank you, we praise you.
We magnify your name. We thank you, Father, for each
and every person that's In this room, we thank you.
First of all, that you have a plan and a purpose for their
life and we thank you that they will fulfill that plan that
purpose. We thank you Father tonight as
we go to study your word that you're where we're not return
void. But father God, that word will
penetrate the hearts and the lives of each and every one of
us and help us to be a doer of the word and not just a hearer
only, but we thank you that most of all will take forth the word
that we hear the spring Force life on the inside of us.
And we'll go out to the highways and the byways and we'll share a
love of Jesus Christ to a lost and dying and hurting World.
Father God, we thank you for a Revival to this nation.
We thank you for Revival to this city.
We thank you, Father, for Revival to this generation.
We thank you, Father, for signs wonders, Miracles, and healing
taking place in our myths. And we thank you that we come
not in their own strength. We come not their own power, we
come not their own ability, we come and your strength and your
power. And your bill is that you be
lifted up and we thank you, Father, for the holy spirit that
is big on the inside of it, that leads us and guides us and shows
us away. And gives us a chance to speak.
With all boldness, uncompromising Gospel of Christ.
But most of all father we thank you for the anointing of God
this present tonight and we thank you.
If anyone is here tonight, just going through any kind of
situation whether we physical Financial spiritual emotional or
whatever. It might be, we thank you that
that anointing will minister to them, that anointing will set
them free that anointing will heal them.
And we just thank you for everything you have done and
everything. You are doing both here and
around the world and we give you the praise, your arm, the glory
in Jesus Christ's name we pray. Amen.
And amen. God is a good God, Amen.
Amen. Amen.
So excited to be here on her own.
I talk quite quite frequently or text quite frequently and it's I
mean, I'm excited about what's going on, acre, Faith Church.
In fact, I've already been trying to spend money all week,
like, I got you guys massage chairs today.
True true. True story.
There's my mom bought a massage
chair and so I'm I'm laying his massage chair and I'm looking at
this. This thing pop up and it says No
upfront fees and said you can make as much as fifty five
thousand dollars a year and I'm like, so after I got through I'm
I saw the coin operated ones and I said, okay my friend just
bought a mall and he wants a massage chairs in the mall.
What are we gonna do? He goes oh it's no cost to you
and then that they just share in the profits or whatever.
So every time you guys get a massage and the massage chair,
then anchor face Church makes half the money that so so you
only get you know you're so um and we got four massage chairs
coming and they say a massage chair can earn up to 55,000
dollars a year. I mean obviously it has to be
used quite frequently. What is a dollar a dollar for
three minutes or five dollars? I think it's 15 or 12 12 minutes
something like that. And so think about that if you
go to the massage chair and you pay five dollars for 12 or 15
minutes, anchor Faith Church gets to 50 back.
So so you know you can Get a massage and give and whatever.
So, now, if you really want a really good massage that, you
know, you can buy a super-duper chair and I'm sure they'll give
us the they'll give him a finder's fee for finding the
people or whatever it is. But it's like nine thousand
dollars for the super do for side but it's awesome.
I will say it's awesome and in any way.
But but no, actually while we're in school before he got there I
already have all kinds of ideas how you could do.
But um, so we're Bible says, don't know where, but we were.
Men's Conference. And I'm go over here in this
corner over here and all of a sudden, you know, Lord begins to
talk to me. It was, you know about it.
Actually, why I'm doing what I'm doing, the healing line.
And so what he said, was this time for you guys to go to
another level said, you know what, what happens a lot of
times when a church, you know, has a project and they get, you
know, you know, in this case, I mean for five years, you guys
been been believing for a mall. Well, you got them all but you
know what the malls not done yet.
As you said the malls, not done yet.
Now it's time to get that mall done because see a church to be
about the community but also malls about the community, it's
about the community coming together, you know, to have a
place for the community. It's a great thing for each.
He said this was a, you know, Outreach.
I mean, you know, the mall is going to be outraged, but you
know what? It ain't gonna do nothing until
we fix them all. You know, because a lot of times
our mentality, what happens is. Oh man, we got them all, praise
God, five years, we got them all but you just got them all the
malls. Not to the place where God wants
it to be, to move forward to, to where God wants us to go to, to
win people, to change the city. I mean, you know, we're just
talking, we went to visit them all and talking about whether
the the one person I guess CrossFit.
Now, they're coming to church because they came to the mall.
I mean, you know how many of my people I just, you know, No.
Well okay, we have them most of you probably maybe don't if you
ever get a chance to come to Tulsa during Christmas light
season or from from alright Pastor all didn't put it to this
as phone on silent how to make sure my side.
Yeah. Of all people, you know, too.
You gotta understand we have been, are you?
Or are you gonna FaceTime? He's over here FaceTime in the
middle of a message. Can we at least let everybody
talk to him? I mean you know you know I did
that one time with my mom, I was teaching class and I know my mom
knew it was to teach class and so then you know I'm like you
know, you know so she's calling and I told my class I said, I'm
sorry I don't want to it has to be Each, you know.
So I'm going to answer, so I answered right in class, you
know, and, you know, I'm talking to, you know, Monica and I had
our speakerphone, by the way to. And so the whole class could
hear and then she found that I was just oh I forgot your.
I mean it was it wasn't that important.
She just forgot to take the class although she I had talked
to her like ten minutes before took went to class, so it's
like, yeah, it's interesting people get busy, they don't know
what's going on. So now, I've lost my whole train
of thinking to her ear. So God gave us some also What
are we gonna do with it? And see that?
That's the thing about it. One time you he says that we
reach our faith project and then we're like OK, you know, because
we're patting yourself on the back and then, the economy goes
bet. You see, we're not living in
Gaza. Mean we're living in God's
economy, not man's economy, you know?
And, and I know we had the election Lexington for Duane
great. I was will let you know, thank
you for for thank you, Florida company, but, you know, overall
things didn't turn out. Now, Oklahoma, we were all red
but, you know, but But things didn't really turn out like
whatever and then you know, the most forget about what came on.
The most frustrating thing for me is whenever they interview
our president, he says, well are you going to change anything?
Absolutely not, we're not changing anything.
What, you know, I don't know about you but when you pray for
this country but you know what, it's not in the government, we
trust, it's in God, we trust and if you want to that was, you
know, actually God showed me because like I think I got one.
Um, I know, I know I got plenty of them.
Because I went to the ATM machine actually have cash.
Twenty dollar bill has a picture of the White House, but on top
of the White House, it says, in God, we trust and I want you to
understand because a lot of people, you know, they say well
of course I guess he's trying to come back but but, you know say
well President Trump was back in blah blah.
We don't put Faith in our present with my faith in our God
no it's good to have a Godly present him.
But the other side about it is, you know, the president, no
matter how God they can't be the only president for eight years,
technically your professor for 10 years.
If you know, Civic. But anyway, that's a whole
nother story, not going to get into it because sometimes the
president dies, vice president takes over.
If it's if it's less than two years that I can go for, you can
actually be present for 10 years.
So now you might have learned something that you didn't know
before. I listened in eighth grade
civics but maybe you didn't. But anyway, so hold on a thing
but our faith should be in God, you know, but a lot of times
what happens is whenever God does something for us, whether
its individual, whether it's a church because you realize the
church is not, this is not the pastors church.
This is your church. Well, this church also owns a
mall. So this is your mall.
It's your mom. I mean, it's so you need to get
them all Vision. Now, you need to but, you know,
but I don't want you have mulvey's.
I want you have Outreach visit because it's about our reach.
And so I was telling my mom about about this sermon in my
mom goes, well, your dad has a sermon called them going to the
next level. Now look, he has all kinds of, I
got this last night, okay? Last night, I haven't really had
a whole Time to go through this stuff for a couple hours when
we're driving here, but I'm going to use some of his notes
and then some of the things that I have on the inside and we're
putting this thing, he used a new new live in the new ni the
NIV version so. But anyway, he says, you know,
his thing I want to talk to you today about going to the next
level. I believe it's time for anchor.
Faith Church to go to a new level and operation resources
and numbers. See it's not just about numbers
but never thing you know what the thing Thing about it is, you
know, churches, I know churches that want to have more people.
I don't care whether you have more people, you know, I want
you to have more people that are not going to church.
You know in Tulsa it's really popular to have transplanted
churches. They were going to one church.
Now they're going to your church.
There's still the kingdom of God hasn't grown.
This one congregation has less people in your congregation has
more people. That's all that Matt's all they
happen, but that's not sending more people to Heaven.
Because you know, we need to meet, you know, it should be
about Outreach. It should be about Community.
I mean, this mall should be about the community.
Like I said, the great thing about it and I heard the story
about the carousel, Carousel, I mean to bring back, you know,
that that stuff, you know, to the city, who would be awesome.
Now, to pay for the carousel, like, you guys used to have is
awesome as well. I just want to let you know,
it's in a cheap. I mean, he'll you can get a
small kitchen Carousel for a lot less money and put it on these
care of those carousels. Our main ones.
Remain, France, right? Or something like that.
I mean, I mean, we're not talking about the make him a
Target down the street or something.
We're talking about. I mean, they're like handmade,
you know, overseas. In fact, that is one of the
interesting things. We call this a roller coaster
conventions when my mom called a long time ago.
So, Basically all these coasters that they're building a theme
parks, they have mock-ups here at that convention.
So we saw coming soon attractions and all kinds of
stuff and actually I rode some some stuff today.
Really cool stuff actually a me but it's not high stuff because
it's all inside the building but but it was better than thinking
them Carousel. Just goes around, you know,
this, I was now, anyone remember that the skid things that they
have the well they just have Red Baron.
There are Things like the Red Baron type airplanes.
Well, they have a new one. Now, it's Red Baron.
You have a controller and you can flip the thing upside.
They do 360s and stuff. And it's really cool, you know?
And we can get you can get one of those for the parking lot
too. I mean I I even there's a
monster truck that only two hundred eighty five thousand
dollars you have them on. You can have a Gravedigger
Monster Truck that goes through. Virtual reality things, all
kinds of stuff and get plenty of parklife.
I even told Earl we can build your roller coaster in the
parking lot, you know? I actually had a joke because
you know we have we have a big Ray Moran 380 Acres of whatever
I said we should build a roller coaster, they're called it the
demon drop or something like that or anyway.
You know. Anyway, you know, Isaiah 55 89.
I'm going to read from the NIV cousin dad's notes here.
It says, where my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are
your ways, my ways declares the Lord as the heavens are higher
than the earth. So are my ways higher than your
ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts, you know what,
God has more for us, you know, then then we have today, he
wants us to do more, he has higher thoughts, he has Your
ways. And so what we have to do is we
have to not think about our ways and our thoughts, because he,
our thoughts, and our ways are confined to money.
Confined to. Well, I don't know how you could
do that. I don't know how you could do
this or, you know, money time Ali.
I mean, that's that. That's I mean, look how long it
took us to get them all. I mean now we got to fix this
thing up and I have all these kind of things and whatever you
know. But God wants each and every one
of us to experience is best better than what we have.
You know what God wants to use you, to make a difference in
people's life? And you know what he told me
was, it's about Outreach, it's about Community, you need to
think about community and oh, it's about the community about
changing this community. And, you know, I don't know.
I just been really stirred up about, you know, there's people
that are dying and going to hell.
Right here in this city right here in this city.
I mean, you are people that used to be in church and that now and
I tell you what I mean, you know, course I know didn't
really affect you hold, but this whole covid thing, got people
out of the mentality, it going to church and some of the pump
people aren't even. I mean.
Now we do have people, I know because I was actually talking
to a guy and he actually quoted my sermon to me.
So I know he watched But we have a lot of people that say they
attend your video church but they don't watch their there,
you know, somewhere else, you know, they're at the beach, not
in Tulsa they can't go to the beach so you know but then go
the lake. Anyway, but you know, here we
see that God's thoughts are different than man's thoughts
because they are thoughts of another level.
And so we need to have higher thoughts.
If you want to have higher thoughts, we have to think at a
higher level, you know, it's possible for you to know what
God is thinking. He has written his thoughts in
the word of God. So we can know his thoughts.
You know. God wants you as an individual.
This is Anchor. Faith Church and Mall 21:21, you
know, corporately to Think his thoughts because they represent
what God, where God wants to take us?
Not where we are. You know, I mean, right now, I
mean, I, I told are all this. I travel a lot.
I've gone to a lot of what we call ghetto malls, ghetto,
malls, or malls. That there's one or two stores.
They're dying actually. I mean there's a ghetto Mall,
Oklahoma City, and there is a restaurant that I like to go
there and that's the only reason why I would ever go them all,
because that one restaurant, Is in the mall, but there's nothing
else in the mall. I walk through the mall, just to
see if anything, I wouldn't want to walk through that mall, you
know, there's nothing there and I told him, I said, you said,
you know what most malls don't ever resurrect.
I mean, you know, that's, I'm not saying it's impossible, but
it's not normal. Especially in the Amazon
mentality shopping thing, or the era of the big block stores or
whatever, or in this going to Walmart by everything you need a
Walmart or I'm about to start at Walmart by the way, anyway.
Not not, I didn't buy my shoes at Walmart and my shoes are way
more expensive than my shirt. One tell you that.
Um, you know, but um, you know, I was at Walmart the other day
and I look to the shirt and I liked it and it's a Ben Hogan
golf shirt or whatever and I liked it.
I don't care that I bought it at Walmart because you wouldn't
know about it. Walmart until the fact I bought
it nor do I, that's his school. I don't know how many.
But oh man, I love your shirt. Love Walmart, Walmart Walmart
Lily you buy your shirts at Walmart.
I said absolutely, I'm a tightwad.
Hum. I don't want my shoes at Walmart
but I bought my shirts at Walmart so um, you know got it
goes forwards on some things sometimes.
All right. But um, you know, we either grab
a hold of God's reality, you know, every level has its own
thoughts and ideals and ideas. I mean, every level God's has
sauce. According to his word, while man
has thoughts, dictated by the limitations of physical and
Earthly environment, just like the world doesn't understand.
The things of God because they are two different levels, two
different worlds, and there's two different things.
But even like, you know, For whatever reason poor people do
not understand how to handle. Well successfully do you realize
a lot of people who grew up poor, in fact, you realize a lot
of people who actually win a lottery ends up, broke a few
years later because they don't know how to handle the money
because nobody hurts to Walmart. No, no, no.
I mean, you know, it also to quietly sick, people often don't
don't understand the realm of Health.
They've been sick for so long. They don't understand about
being healthy. Our mentality is well I'm always
sick. I'm always and you know what?
Here is the thing. You know, when it comes to
sickness, a lot of times we have a we have have a half mentality,
do you realize, you know, covid pass, I'm not going to talk
about company, morale. So, we'll talk about the
regional flu, remember the original flew back back in 2019
and before the original flu, you know, many times people will,
you know? Well, well, maybe you don't seem
a person, whatever. And what you talked to on the
phone, I wonder, whatever. What will they do?
If they're sick? When they say, I have the flu
They have the flu. Well when you have something
that sounds like a semi, it's like you're carrying around a
suitcase. I got the flu guys, here we go.
Or I have covid. I have this.
I have cancer and I have a sore throat.
I have a cold and I mean if you don't want to have something to
let go of the suitcase, in fact, if you ever heard my grandfather
and what most of you didn't talk to him on a personal level, he
would never say that he had anything, but course he actually
said, last headache, he had was August 1933, too late.
Start having headaches. Now then then he would say, I
passed that many marvelous opportunities to have a
headache. So once I was so, what is a
marvelous opportunity to have a headache?
Is my head hurt? I'm like, well, wait a minute,
you had a headache. No, I didn't have symptoms of a
headache. He never would take a hold of
anything symptoms sometimes would come of of coals or
whatever, flu and he would take care of the symptoms and but he
would never claim because I don't have that.
I don't have that. No.
Maybe the doctor says I have that but I'm not going to.
They're just it's just passing by.
I'm not going to keep that. See, but a lot of this, you
know, I don't want to say this but a lot of us have this
mentality. You know, we have something a
lot, we like to sympathy. We like your sympathy.
You know it. We like to, you know, ever how
I'm so sorry. Oh, I know, you know, you know,
then you got some idiot on face, one mile in probably the well,
you should get rid of that. I mean, you'll see them.
But, you know, a lot of times, we for whatever reason, it seems
the people, but that's not God's thoughts.
God doesn't want you to have a headache.
God doesn't want to be sick. I know. when you be poor, you
know and and God doesn't want to run down mall that has that no
one showing up in either I mean, he didn't take you this far to
let you down. But you here's the thing, it's
not just for the Pastoral staff to get the mentalities is for
the church, gets mentality for the community to get the
mentality for people. Like man, this is pretty cool.
We're going to have a carousel here.
Yeah, yeah we're going to have this here.
We're going to have that here. I'm working on a family
entertainment center. You know, that's what I want to
have here because because I want people to show up, you know, and
have your birthday party. And I'm not some of your
birthday party, but some your kids birthday parties, whatever.
We actually have a skating rink and and Yeah, I do but sweetly,
I don't do Byron doesn't. But I'm his boss and, you know,
we do birthday parties or parties all the time when we,
you know, six hundred dollars a pop.
I mean we do parties here party is there and we have a skating
rink. We have some Inflatables we have
all but you can. There's all kinds of things you
can have and that's what we're here.
Buying more stuff. Yeah, you know, that's, you
know, there's, there's many things you can do, but you have
to have your, we have to have a different mentality.
It's not now. You know your mentality for a
long time we're going to buy them all.
We're going to buy them all. We're going to buy, but what are
you going to do with them all? What are you going to do with
it? But because, see the, you know,
now if you needed them all for the whole church, that's one
thing but you don't need them off of the whole church.
This other thing is this mall is going to be about to community
about think but but everyone needs to get the same kind of
vision and you know just by looking at a piece of paper
showing up plans, that doesn't make doesn't get you.
The vision, the vision has to be on the inside.
It can't just be, you know, here looking you you mean you did it
to see people saying you need to see these tears filled up?
Well, you know moving to the new location, all these kind of
thing. Because see, you should get
excited about something because faith is having something before
you get this item before you see it.
But before it's in existence, because, you know, it's coming,
see, faith is Coming Attractions, you, you, you see
it on the inside before you see it in the natural, but all the
same times you realize, in order for you guys to build that up
that God has to bless you personally financially as well
as it see, that's the thing, you know, it all works and drugs
because you realize So first of all, we got to get out of the
mentality, we got to get out of the of the inflation depression,
you know, whatever mentality. I mean I got a Facebook always
so tough, it's so hard. It's so you know I mean you know
I can't believe this, you know, you know it's it's not hard.
My God. So meet all my needs because
there is a golden glory on you realize that means if my knees
go up. Then his provision also goes up.
And that's my my thought. And actually, let me get here,
what my dad's nose before I say was going to say because because
it kind of goes at Port parallel.
So you know what, my my dad was talking about and his message is
when you move to another level he kind of you know you're
thinking about the Israelites. You know they came they were
slaves in Egypt, everyone member story over numbers and then they
got came out of Egypt and they went to the wilderness.
Well, they were in the wilderness for 40 years.
Before they got to the promised land.
That's a lot of time to be messing around in the middle of
nowhere. Well that's like a mall that's
not finished right here. We don't want to mess around for
40 years with an unfinished small.
We want to move to the promised land.
We don't take 40 years to do it. All right?
And so, so in the first thing to go to another level, as find out
what ideas and principles worked out on the level, the new level.
So so we had to have a new vision, it's not just get them
all Vision, it's move forward. What does God want to do with
this. All right.
So, you know, you have to begin to change your thinking and
Joshua 11, it says this. I have the NIV here.
It says, after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord.
The Lord said to Joshua, son of nun.
Moses Aid, Moses, my servant is dead.
Now then you and all these people get ready to cross the
Jordan River into the land. I'm about to, to give them to
the Light and I will give you ever place where you set your
foot as I promised Moses, your territory will extend from from
the desert to Lebanon and from the Great River, the great
Euphrates, all the hittite country to the Great Sea on the
west. No one will be able to stand up
against you all the days of your life.
As I was with Moses, so be with you, I will never leave you nor
forsake you now, you understand that that the Lord had Osmosis
40 years earlier that they were going to take this land, but
because of their mentality, they didn't take the lamb.
So, finally, after 40 years, God tells Joshua to get ready to
take the Israelites into the promised land.
And God had to get to Israelites hearts and Minds change to his
way of thinking, in order to get to get them, to his s, the
promised land, because it took more time to get Egypt out of
the Israelites thinking that it did to get the Israelites out of
Egypt. See, they?
They see what happened is they made a move from one place to
another, but their thinking was in fact, if you read the story
or think it was well, maybe we had a better in Egypt.
Here we are. We're in the middle of the
Wilderness now. Now I want you to picture, you
know, the Israelites. Oh, you think you have a
recession, or whatever these guys were in the middle of the
desert for 40 years and they're like man we don't have anything
to eat and they're griping and complaining.
And so God invents doordash. Now, we call it that, but you do
realize they had Manna From Heaven delivered to them every
morning, not only that actually, but if you read that, you know,
they also had quails there. They had meat to eat that so
they just didn't have read they had meat every day.
Except for the Sabbath than that you put together twice or
whatever. But if you didn't eat it all you
spoiled. So it's like you know you always
had enough. Do you realize that God provided
for them in the middle of the desert?
If God could soak some, somebody told me the other day they're
talking about well food, shortages, and all this, and all
these things are happening. And, you know, and there, you
know, II have a friend has already spent 40,000 dollars
forty thousand dollars on supplies to, you know, extra
food next door, saying to my wife.
Just what do you think we should do that?
So nobody's going to his house if we need extra food, I mean
why what I mean? Now I will say Jamie just to
just to, you know, just you know, just, you know,
clarification, he probably already still has some Y2K food
that he bought back in Y2K this guy's a little well-off and so
he had plenty of money and actually when I made that
statement about going to his house, he goes, yeah, that's why
about forty thousand dollars of because I know the people Be
prepared. Like I'm Knockin.
So lazy thinking about being a giver in the middle of, you
know, say sauce. I will say that God has blessed
him and he wants to continue being a giver.
But my point was I don't need to store up anything because my God
shall supply all my needs. It doesn't matter what's going
on and if he has to he he can bring down more man.
He has plenty of us. Still up Heaven If he if that's
what he has to do. He'll do it for me because he
loves me that much. So if there's food shortages,
all these kind of things, you know what, you know.
I mean, you know, in Matthew, 24 goes and all the things, you
know, famines and floods. And it actually uses the word,
pestilences butts actually means pandemics.
By the way it talks about, these are the signs of the time and
they're going to happen. But also he did say he's going
to meet all our needs according to personal Glory by Christ
Jesus. So I mean well I know there's a
story that my dad tells about when he went, he went to Kenya
for the first time. And there was a guy who was
interpreter because a lot of people speak Swahili over there
and he came back two or three years later.
And The Interpreter guy goes, you notice anything about
different about my house. That was it was a mud hut, all
right? And you can click that link my
dad, they're noticing, my dad's not sometimes, sometimes his
details he goes, I have a tin roof so before he had hit a
thatched roof, now he has the tin roof and also have a
motorcycle You know, when most people walk having a bicycle is
one thing and motorcycles lemonade.
That's like driving a Mercedes and they're.
All right, so here's a, here's a story because they have been
having droughts in our land. And I began to pray over my
crotch because he was a farmer or crops and I'm the only one
who had caught me. It would rain on my field in the
rest of the nobody else. We get rain and God blessed me
so much that I had. Now have a motorcycle and a tin
roof and and And I have more crops and I was able to buy more
land and it's just more and more blessings and, you know, but
nobody else had the rain. But God met his need, his knee,
because it can't. Why?
Because he asked because he had to mentality.
You know what? It doesn't matter.
Everybody else is having a drought.
I don't have to Drought have a drought.
I can have a shout because because my God loves me so much,
he's gonna meet my need and he's going to meet your knee.
But you know what? Our mentality sometimes.
The chef that is time to move to a different level, you know.
You got to think differently when you move to a different
level you think differently. Now, you realize that the God
had to change Israelites mentality From Slavery to
conquering before they're able to enter the promised land.
Because if they had that same, you know, slave mentality is no
way. They're going to conquer all
these other other kingdoms. Now, here is the thing is the
devil knows, he can win the battle.
In your mind. The real Battle Is possessing
what? God has that what God has
promised will never take place if he can win the battle in your
mind. If your mind says you can't do
it, you're not going to do it. I mean, you know a lot of times
your the battle right here is mine.
But remember if you know the story there were There Were Ten
spies that. Went to the land.
They could have entered the land earlier.
It see. Tens buys when it comes back.
So yeah, let's go do it. But those ten spies didn't come
back into. Let's go do it.
You know, any of this by says, no, we can't do it with you, we
look like grasshoppers in there. So I did.
There's Giants in that land, we can't overcome the judge.
I mean, here you are. God just brought you out of
Israel is feeding you daily doing all these miracles for you
and like, man, there's no way. I mean and he said, this is a
land I promised you. But then he's then they're like,
oh, we can't take it. How can you not do something
when you have if God be for you? Who cares?
Who's against you? I know I love the story was on
my podcast, by the way, their brother.
Oh, it's just, you know, whenever he was talking about,
you know, offering to buy them all, you know, you know, he goes
well, we never sold them all before.
They've been copying, every result.
They've never sold them all before.
There's always a first time. You know?
I mean, you know, I mean, but I'm telling you, I mean, they're
so small for in his, you know, on paper.
It's really hard to resurrect a dying mall, and it doesn't
matter what's on paper. Because you know what, this is
not an ordinary Mall. You know, it's so ten, spies
came back from the promised land overwhelmed of not by the
inhabitants of the land, but by their own thoughts, because he
was it really a. Because they said we look like
grasshoppers in their side, they don't know what, they're, what
they didn't talk to anybody. It was their own mentality.
See, they didn't have the right mentality because I didn't have
the right mentality. They had to suffer for 40 years.
I mean I mean, that's a long time.
I mean there's you know, 40 years is a long time, you know,
all right but their own thoughts, defeated them, their
greatest battles are in, life are fought in our own body, in
our own mind, and different things, except for see, Joshua
and Caleb. They're the ones that came back
out. Let's go take the land.
That's why why? When Moses dies.
God told Joshua. Go do it.
Now, don't do what you said you set out to do in all those years
ago. All right, you know, here's the
thing. It says the first generation of
Israelites, 20 years and in old and older did not make the
transition in their thinking, from a slave mentality to a
conqueror mentality. And they did not go to the
promised land. I mean, you know, I'd be mad if
I was 20 years old. How do I tell I'm 60 before?
I could actually go into what God promised me to do now.
I think I would have probably started a rebellion since I'm
going to land without you guys, if we're, if I was, you know, I
guess. You know, I guess Bronner's you
know give honor where honor is due.
I I mean because if I saw somebody Caleb, how do you start
a Revolt? We're going in this land, who's
with me, you know, you know, but I guess they didn't they waited
for 40 years? You think, you think you had to
wait for a long time? Do you realize if you waited if
you wait six months or a year or whatever, it's get your healing
that would be not drop in the bucket compared to 40 years that
had the way to get to the promised land.
You know, but but the deal is, they could have done it earlier,
but it was their mentality. It sir.
They have to have next level of thinking, if you want.
Next Level blessings. You don't have Next Level
thinking. You have to have, you have to
think higher my, you know, he did not says, you know, his
thoughts are higher than our thoughts, his ways are higher
than our ways are alright. But um, then you have to be you,
you have to have courage to go do it and Joshua 16 through.
Not to 19 says this new naívi here.
It says be strong and courageous because you will lead these
people to inherit the land. I swore to our forefathers to
give them 47, be strong and very courageous, be careful to obey
all the laws of my servant Moses gave you and and do not turn
from it to the right or to the left that you may be successful
and whatever. Wherever you go do, not let this
book of the law depart from your mouth, meditate on it day and
night, so that you may be careful to do everything right.
In it and then you will be prosperous and successful have I
not commanded you be strong and courageous do not be terrified.
Do not be discouraged for the Lord.
Your God will be with you wherever you go notice that God
told Joshua three times in three different verses to be strong
and courageous. You know, several times he we're
gonna have to be strong and courageous when it looks like
that there's no way we're going to be able to do it but we need
to be strong and courageous. It's you know, it's going to
happen. Now, we have to have a cause or
purpose for going to the next level.
Many of my no Gerald books is Ranma grad.
He says, this courage comes when the cause is greater than the
circumstances, you know, courage comes when the cost is greater.
So so we have a Kazakh. The cars was to go out and win
this community for Christ. All right.
And you know what you know really you can't even put a
dollar figure on what that means because you realize and you
know, someone's life and Eternity there, there isn't that
I don't care millions of dollars if it takes money to H Y3
deckard's clerk. If if a three-decker so it's
gonna bring someone to Christ That that Seth million dollars
of worth it. I mean because something we want
in life sir, precious. You know, I mean you know, it
doesn't matter what it takes, he Co our mentality, a lot of times
is monies, you know, you know what, you know, we can't get
money off our minds sometimes and I'm not talking about.
There are some people this all about, you know, raising money
or whatever my deal is my grandfather.
His mentality. Never he said not one time.
Did he ever ask God to bless him not one time.
But he said, I asked God every day to make me a blessing to
somebody. I that's went.
I have this blessing went out. I want to be a blessing to
people. I want to change people's lives.
Well, it's we have a lost and dying in hurting world, people
are hurting right now. Now there are a lot of people
that are hurting financially and a lot of people, a lot of us
because her mentality or whatever.
But you know, what? If I didn't know Jesus, if I
didn't know that my God will supply, all my needs, what if I
didn't know, those kind of things, what if I didn't know?
You know, 50 million scriptures that may be able to, quote mean,
I mean, it mean I can quote scripture of every time I call
scripts, I don't even know why not.
I needed until I went to a situation and put them on.
I'm calling the script from like well I don't even know where I
found that one you know. But you know we've heard so many
scriptures you know. But what if we don't know see
that's the thing is if we don't know what's written, we can't
come out to devil. You realize when Jesus was
tempted every time he says it is written, it is written.
And it is written. My grandfather says the number
one reason why people don't get their needs met, they don't know
the word. You can't claim something.
You don't know. You can't clean the war.
If you don't know the word maybe that's why you might get a One
Year Bible and start reading the word.
I mean, you know, I'm early start reading the New Testament
or something. You'll I like being the Old
Testament to but some people are get but you know what?
You know it's interesting because if you know the Old
Testament like like it, the Old Testament and the law of Moses
makes the story about the one with the issue of blood, a whole
lot better. Because according if you read
the Old Testament, if you have a blood disease, you're supposed
to quarantine yourself. From the crowd, so you can't be
going through the crowd. In fact, if someone gives me
repose to cry, unclean unclean. If you read, if you read the
law. If you know, as a kid.
I mean well my mom made sure we read the Bible.
Every mean, every year we read the Bible through every year.
You know, I can't we didn't start Wisin first.
We just I like first or second grade or something like that.
I don't know. Seven eight ten times higher
meat. Well got so it's so We read the
Bible as a family out loud at the dinner table sometimes, like
Song of Solomon. Those are kind of weird, kind of
things, you know. You know, sometimes I put my mom
didn't want to answer questions. I actually I was smart enough
that not to ask those questions. I remember one time my sister
asked some question on this, I'm just snickering laughing or
whatever. Like well what are you got?
What did God mean by that? You know, think that's a whole
nother mentality, okay. Oh, you know but sometimes we
have to remind yourself of how much God wants to blessing the
blessings of God, you know, over and be killed.
Psalms 103 to says this King, James says bless the Lord O my
soul and forget not all his benefits.
You got has benefits for us. You know what, we have benefits
from being a Christian just like you know, you might have
benefits from your place of employment.
You might have benefits. American Express used to push
all their benefits from having American Express card.
You can have all think fact, if you have a platinum, American
Express card and I don't know how it worked and Colby.
But, but um, and And you get sick like like one time a guy
told me the reason I apply to American Express card because if
I travel preaching Africa, not sick in Africa, this American
Express card they'll pay to fly me out cord.
I don't know, I never checked the benefits but according to
him. I'm so so maybe it's not the
back then it was this back in the 90s.
He told me, he goes one of their benefits.
They'll airlift you to some Hospital in or whatever.
On my God, I didn't know that was a benefit according to him.
it's okay if it wasn't he, at least thought it was so so, you
know, because you know, that's why he had American Express
card, there's other things those other benefits, you know, I
don't know what they all now, but but you realize, if you
broke things or whatever, you bought an American Express card,
you can return up to like I do 900 dollars a year, you can
actually get even without the receipt, you can actually who I
know one guy who did it his um, his kid put oatmeal in the VCR
or Nothing like that. And they've they gave him a new
VCR because he bought an American Express card.
There's all kinds of. I think they took those benefits
away, but you know why God has way better benefits than
American Express does. You know, you know, God's
benefits are better than two weeks vacation or three weeks
vacation or whatever you might have.
All right, you know, once again, Jeremiah 29:11 says this King
James version. It says, for my for, I know the
thoughts that I think toward you says, the Lord thoughts of peace
and not of evil. To give you an expected in.
Now, God has thoughts for you. And he wants you to think, but
you have to, you have to think of yourself, all right?
No. This guy says he wants to the he
wanted to give the Israelites and expected him.
What does he mean by that? God wanted the outcome of the
Israelites to be, according to the promises he had made to them
in his Covenant with them. And God expects the promises of
his word to be your outcome in your life.
God has already marked mapped out, a success plan for you in
his word. And so what We need to do is
like Paul says, refusing to look back.
We press for toward the mark. Well that's Philippians 3:13 you
have right here, brother. And I count on myself to have
apprehended. But this one thing I do
forgetting, those things are true are behind and reaching
forth unto those things which are before, you know, sometimes
whenever you know, II always have faith project, but
sometimes we gotta forget about, you know, sometimes like, oh
praise God. The good guys did well.
Okay, that's not a way with now, we're moving to the next level.
You know you know one Chuck's five years, get them all.
We know that. We know what William who cares?
That's done. Let's not take five more years
to refurbish them. All you know we don't need The
Five-Year Plan just because it took five years, get them all
done me we have another five years to get them all ready for
God to use them all. It took for his purpose.
I mean you know but you're saying well that cost money,
okay? Well, we're in a recession and
and you know, we have, you know, I mean, you know, inflation,
okay? So cost more money.
What does it matter? So my guy can't Supply more
because it costs more money. Well, it's gonna cost 20% more
30%, more, 50% more. I just want that a person place
in the were supposed to have, according to the, according to
our President, we have a percent inflation, but I paid double for
my like fuel. I paid double for everything
else. I don't know where 844 I want
the 8 percent inflation. You know, actually, I don't care
the other day went Gaga. Yes, and laughed about it while
I thought it because I could afford it, but it was expensive.
But you know what? I could afford it.
Yeah, but it was expensive, but I could afford it.
I've had a great year. Why the how to grow your?
Cuz I expect you to have a great year.
I'm gonna have a good, I haven't got a word yet for next year,
but it's going to be it's going to be better and we may be the
worst me deflation. I mean, well he must have an
inflation. I'm going to have deflation huh.
I don't see, I don't care. I'm not on man's money system
and anything I do, you know, I believe God I trust in God.
No, I my money tells me to trust in God.
My money doesn't tell me to trust in the government.
Don't tell me trusting. The president doesn't tell me to
trust anything. You should vote though, but um,
it tells me to trust in God. All right, and so, you know,
looking forward, use you, the insipid, anticipation and
momentum you need to go to the next level.
You know, the more you think I mean, Since I'm you know I got
to the show before he got to the show and I'll Dale all day long
time, Tuesday. I thought more about his mall
that I did my own stuff because you know what, it's I think it's
cool. He's the first person.
I know that everybody more say he, I should say you, you know,
anchor Faith Church. I mean, I don't know anyone's
ever bottom, all, you know, on those people that killed one but
We were trying to build a mall for five years or actually, long
as I could covid hit. I don't know, back in 1980s.
It was until I'm back home. Sometimes, I think I mean 0 and
the 2000s that we were going to get an outlet mall and also,
well, they started building the outlet mall, then they stopped.
And now, it's all the places where they started, building it
all rusted, out, and everything, and then covid headbutt.
But there's a new sign 2024, we're getting there in Arlen
mall after, you know, I think it's six seven years now and you
know, Me, I have kind of faith is going to be built, but I
don't know. I mean, you know, in fact, a lot
of people like looks like look at the sign of laughs.
They're like I mean we're not getting that lamb all.
I mean, you know, we had an outlet mall in Stroud, Oklahoma.
Stroud is actually the city between Tulsa and Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma City halfway between start Oklahoma, and then
the movie Twister came out in the mall.
Got blown away. No me.
It was about the same time but it wasn't.
It wasn't, you know, because the movie Twister.
But anyway, A tornado tore them, all up, and they just blew them
all down. They never rebuilt it the until
Oklahoma City, later on, did build an outlet mall there.
I went there the other day actually got some stuff so but
you know, it'd be nice if we had it on.
You guys have an outlet mall, don't you?
Write down the street somewhere here.
You know, we don't have an outlet mall.
The other one went instead you had to write and one of them
went out. Yeah.
So nothing new is not but, you know, the funny part about it,
there in whole lot of But have faith Alamos even gonna come in
2024 because inflation because I said you know, you know covid-19
excused now facing going to be an excuse and this going to be
an excuse and you know I guess after 2024 going to present
hopefully than they can quit making excuses.
I don't know. You know, you know whatever.
But but you know what? We're not going to wait and make
excuses about your Mall. You will is what happens to most
2121 is up, tanker Faith Church. It's real enough to the
community. All the T, I tell you what, if
things start going, the community will get behind it and
it'll, you know, and and, you know, they'll be excited about
it. But you know what, you know, you
need to go to another level on your own personal life, to you
need to get out of that, you know, that mentality, you know
that that You know, I don't have enough money.
I don't do this. I don't will quit.
If that's the thing when you say I don't have enough money so
your money is tied to you. Does God has enough money?
You don't have any, you know, you might have money, but you
have the access, you know, here's the thing, you know, my
parents are always been very generous and everything that
they have, you know, belong to me.
Kind of like The Prodigal Son, the older brother brother when
he got mad at, you know, Daddy's like, I mean everything I got is
longs to you. In fact, do you realize what we
don't realize that if you my book, don't be stupid.
I'll talk about that. What do you realize?
No, The Prodigal Son. Never know, story about The
Prodigal Son, you know, there were two brothers all older
brother younger brother. Younger brother asked for his
inheritance, right? And he took off.
So you realize everything that the dad had left Was Elder
Brothers. I mean it was being passed down
to the older brothers and so but the point is as the elder
brother. I never thought.
Well what wait, I can have a party.
I can I can I kill the fatted calf and all that.
Yeah, of course, it's your stuff, you know.
But he thought he thought his dad had to die before he could
use it, you know. But you know, you know, my dad
went well. He had a I guess we still have
this for sale or whatever. We don't use it that much.
We have a big house boat. Basically, it was a mobile home
on the lake, all right. It's like you know, there's some
pretty much, that's what it what it was and is and we hardly ever
move it out anything. It was pretty much it was our,
it was our house. I mean, it was our lake house on
the water, you know? And I don't know.
And we are still a couple other boats as well that, you know, we
would take out more with maybe it's a big boat out, but it was
that was a pain in the rear to drive and take out and all kinds
of Often, there's one easy. So I don't know, I watch that
show below deck. Sometimes in the person, that
means they're pulling that boat. And I'm like, man, it ain't that
easy, I pulled those both in and it hits, it was not, we with 100
foot boat but it's basically a lot of pontoon boat is like flat
bottom, whenever, you know. So it's not a yacht, we don't
have a yacht, we had a mobile home picture, a mobile home on
the water, pretty much what it looks like.
I mean it's nice but you know I thought you're saying I'm a Ford
here. You guys have got so so mean it
ain't anything to do with you some of these big guys or
whatever but it was 100 feet. Alright, so it was big mobile
home on double-wide on water, pretty much it.
That's that's better to explain double-wide on water.
That's if you if you just got a mobile home park and put that
one on the water that's about what are butt.
Looks like, you know. But I mean, you know, I told
people all I got a boat. You got a boat.
Yeah, I got a couple boats actually.
Well, I don't have, I don't have a single boat, you know, I
didn't, I didn't have a double-wide on the water, but
you know, I had access to use that boat, anytime I want to.
Yeah, now I have a condo. I don't own the condo, but it's
my condo. It's like David called my condo,
my parents bought it, and so, they had their condo and then
they bought me a condo because in the condo Place, Another
said, oh, so here's that they came to me as I go.
This is funny. This is they go wrong.
We're not going to ask your sister because she'll tell us
know. Um, but there's they have a
condo three-bedroom condos a two-bedroom, condo came three
floors up and we have a big family or whatever.
So that, you know, there's not enough room in our condo for
everybody. So if we buy this other condo,
do you promise not to sell it after we die?
I'm like yeah I'm not selling you know I'm almost sell it you
know so you know so it's Craig's condo even though my sister can
use it if she wants to but she's doesn't she bought a motor home
you know so they can go pull up some lip somewhere or whatever.
I think they want to sell it because it's too much problems
anyway. So I have a condo but I don't
really have a condo with Mike on the even call my condo, I didn't
pay for the condo, they'll but it's my condo.
You know? Why is it?
Mike Hanukkah is my parents bought it for me.
Anything that you mean so you know what your God is able?
You know so quit. Say I don't have enough money
because God does I can't afford it.
Meant you see. I actually, you know, You know,
I don't know how many genders we have in America.
I know how many generals we have, but I don't know how many
General some people think we have, you know?
But you know, then the people started having their own
pronoun. Anyone ever seen that, they, in
fact, are some people that when you go to college, they ask you
what, your, what Your pronoun is.
So, I created my own pronoun. Now, I decided that I should
create my own pronoun. So I want to be called we, we We
all right cuz it's got an eye or Jesus.
And I say it's not about me. It's about, I want to have the,
we mentality. It's, you know, it's Jesus.
And I not, not me and Jesus. Jesus, and I, I'm putting him
first, you know, we have the we mentality, you know, you know, I
might can supply all my needs, but my guy can supply all my
needs. You know, you got to put God in
there so, so I decided I'm not me anymore.
I'm Yeah. Because when you start having
that we mentality, you can't think it's too hard because
nothing's too hard for God thinks they'll fit because no, I
don't know. Anyone ever read the Bible,
anyone ever read the Bible got good grades 95% of people here.
Read the Bible. You know, it says the greater
one lives on the inside of me, right?
So that makes the where we, it's me, and they're greater one, the
spirit of loving God. You know, that Bible Bible verse
the fear looking at the same spirit that raised up Christ
from the dead, dwells in you and wherever them and it will
Quicken your mortal. People read that because they
want to wake up. It says it will it will, you
know? I mean, it's a dead raising
spirit. I mean side, you raise the dead,
that's what's on the inside of Jesus said, the things that I
did and greater things, shall you do?
Because I go to the Father, the greater one lives on the inside
of you. That means everywhere you walk,
he walks with you because he's on the inside of you.
So used to develop that we mentality because he's with you,
whether you want to be or not. If you're a born again,
Christian, he lives with you. Remember the Andy song and you
know any song and he walks with me and he talks with me and he
went, yeah. Yeah.
All right there d song so and he walks with me and he's so so he
lives on the inside of me. So it's a we mentality.
So so I'm never going to say, I can't afford it.
I'm never going to say is too hard.
I'm never going to say what what, you know, you know, we
can't do that because when I same way that, that me, that
puts him in there that thing. What I can say is my verse for
this year and I'm going to read it again because I like to read
it. One of my favorite verses is
facing, 320, Ephesians 3:20 and most of you have password.
Quote will actually quoted it earlier Ephesians 3:20 New King
James Version. Says this.
Now to him, who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above
all we ask or think according to the power that works in In us.
All right, New Living Translation says this, now all
glory to God who is able to his mighty power at work, within us
to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think, all
right. And then I like the passion
translation says that this TPT on the free version of the
Bible. It says this never doubt, God's
Mighty power to work in. You and accomplish all this, he
will achieve infinitely more. Then your greatest request your
most unbelievable dream and exceed your wildest imagination.
He will outdo them all for his miraculous power constantly
energizes you. So I like this translation right
here. It said I'm going to read it
again. He will achieve infinitely more
than your greatest request. Your most unbelievable dream and
you exceed your wildest imagination.
I don't know about you but I can imagine a lot of things.
Yeah. and see right now, we're imagining that mall, ministering
to this community and people being saved people coming to
this church, you know, people being healed, people being
transformed because of them all because of them all You know
what? Because you understand dead
malls. Don't, don't, don't use it.
They get torn down become a parking lot.
I just want to let you know that.
I mean, they don't revive. I mean, oh, but says he will
outdo them all his miraculous power costly energizes you,
right? Here's the thing.
God told me, he says he wants to do more than we can ask her
thing, but if we don't ask for anything, if we don't think
anything say it's about our, we have to have Next Level
mentality in. Order for him to give us more.
He don't want to just give us what we asked.
Her think he wants to give us more than we ask or think he
want he wants to you. So we he wants to outdo our own
thinking. I'll do our own thought life.
I mean, God wants us to move to the next level.
You gotta start thinking Next Level thoughts.
You gotta see things before they happen, both in your personal
world and you know, and then the here in this church and this You
know great you got them all, that's awesome but if you don't
do anything with it if it says they're like it is for 40 years
then who cares? You know, get a few stores,
whatever but nobody comes as you know, I mean it should be a
shining point to the community. But our mentality has, you know
what God is going to bless me. But not gonna bless my business
so I can put money into this church, so we can put money to
this mall. So we can help this community.
You know, and forget about all the bad stuff going on about,
you know, I don't care if we go through a depression or risk
that he doesn't matter. Those things don't matter.
We have the, we mentality, the greater one on the inside.
He's going to meet all my needs. I said, I last laugh the other
day, when I fill up with gas and it was close to hundred dollars,
uh, minimum and okay. I don't live in, California,
could be more. Look on the bright side.
Now, what is pretty wild? I noticed that, you know, one of
our own. I fill up a quick trip because I
like for trip to best some. They haven't made it to Florida
there in Georgia but anyway there it actually now in
Alabama. There are a lot of other states
are North Carolina had made it for dinner.
You guys got Bucky's that we don't have Bucky's and got
Obama. I like Bucky's winds Bucky's
today. Buck has been a quick trip there
anyway, but I fill out that quick trip.
And if it now, what they do, I notice, they'll charge me 75
bucks and then then they'll give me a rebate in sole charge me
70? Because they put a hundred
dollar hold and then they take it.
And so it sometimes I'll even give you two more.
I mean, some of the things because so I'm like $75 we
charge $10 a quick trip but that's okay because it looked
in. There's $50 came back.
So they immediately charged 75 and then gave us me $50 back,
which, you know, or whatever. Well, that's my wife, my wife
for whatever reason, won't fill the tank up, I don't care.
I just filled the tank completely on my wife's, like,
it's not, it's not about the money, it's about.
You don't want to spend the time to hold up the new think,
especially when it's cold outside.
And so in Oklahoma, we see Oklahoma, we don't, we you know,
we have Revelation mentality, I mean, whether it's hot or cold,
is not never lukewarm, it's either hot or cold.
And so, you know, we don't, we don't have, you know, we don't
have fall or much spring. I mean, it, it just, you know,
just heats up. Like it was interesting.
We had fake fall the other day and so, and the students were
all, you know, you know, like, oh man, it's fall.
I said, no, this is fake fall. They what do you?
Fake fall said this on Monday, I said, look at, look at, look at
your map. I said, you know, on on, it was
40 degrees 15, you know, it's nice.
Well, might be cold for Florida, but anyway, but them, you know,
a lot of people out those, it was nice.
I mean, you know, winner for you guys, I get it.
Um, this is a bath. Anyway, the point he was like 40
or 50 degrees and people are griping or whatever.
I said, look at the weather by Thursday was going to be 69 By
Friday, it was going to be 70. It was going to be the 80s by
Saturday fake follow. We have three days of fall, you
know what? Are now fall.
Now, real Falls trying to come along but real Falls really like
winter. I mean, you know, but this is
winter one, sometimes we'll have snow and then it and you can
take off in December. And then, I mean, I'm here one
time wearing shorts on Christmas Day.
I mean, you know, because you don't never know when mean, our
weather is crazy, you know, our weather works on our government
anyway. So Whether Oklahoma is he it's
either hot or cold, you know? It's just it's just crazy.
And the reason is that's why we have that's why I had tornadoes
my dad. My dad said if he wasn't a
minister he be a meteorologist. No he's he loves studying, he
studied meteorology study cloud formation and my dad talks about
any he's talks about, you know, you have the you know, the
obvious you from love the golf course right here because we're
here in Florida. You know, the gulf coasters is
warm water in the Gulf Coast and sometimes the that warm that
warm air from the Gulf pushes up.
And then sometimes Oklahoma, you know, Texas, a swarm pretty, you
know, a lot of Texas. Weather is a lot like, Florida.
Whether in fact, I have some palm trees out in taxes and
stuff like that. And So if you're looking to, if
you Geographic look on the map, that's what you know.
But Oklahoma, sometimes we get cold front from the North and
then some what happens is, warm weather comes up.
Cold weather comes down, and it makes an Oklahoma.
And that, that's why we have the tornado Center in Norman
Oklahoma. Oklahoma City has more tornadoes
than any other city in the United States of America.
And so, they had the weather center right there.
Bye-bye, do you. And then we have tornadoes
because it's Whispers who's coming up by the way.
So you Want to want to check that out.
Pretty pretty soon I always tell Ramos do this first year that I
was teach message. I said before you come to Ramos
you always watch the movie Twister so that way you got good
prepared. You know some things that are in
there maybe your true some things are not the semi trucks
been in the trip that happens. The guy holding on to his belt
around the pole and not blowing off that doesn't happen.
All right him. So but we are, you have seen
semi truck spinning around and thing but you just can't hold on
to your belts in the thing. And yeah.
So anyway, it's time to go to the next level.
It's not. But you know what?
The next time, I'll starts in your brain Next.
Level starts when your mentality.
It doesn't start, you know, a lot of people, you know, there's
a lot of people at well once I see it.
See, they want to see it. Oh well, that's like Thomas
Thomas told Jesus told the other side as well.
Once I see the nail prints in his hands and I'll believe.
So when Jesus came, he appeared before Thomas, he's like, okay
look he's like no, I'm not see that you you need to faith.
Faith is unquestioning belief with without any proof or
evidence according to Webster's new world dictionary, without
any proof or evidence. It's an unquestioning belief you
believe because God said, so you believe because God.
So, awesome. And Next Level.
Faith. Produces Next Level.
Reality. It's time to move to the next
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