2021 Southwest Believers’ Convention: The Meaning, Vitality and Possibilities of Faith, Pt. 2 (9 am)

if you were not here yesterday this is the first service you've been at the believers convention stand up if this is your first one look at here what a my god man thank you what a blessing praise the lord you may be seated thanks for coming and being a part of this great outreach this is 41 years i've been here 31 years and uh the lord has been so good and gracious and it's such an honor and a pleasure to minister with this team of people i never forget starting that out many many years ago i did a motorcycle rally yeah i i never had preached a motorcycle rally this and before it was uh uh the eagle mountain motorcycle rally this was a jimmy hester's up i can't what's the name of it full gospel yeah a motorcycle rally he said i want you and kenneth and jerry savelle he said i want you to preach friday night brother copeland's going to free saturday night and jerry's available three sunday morning i said oh okay so and and i walked in and had a little camper right there and he says hello i'm kenneth copeland i said i'm jesse the planet he said i heard about you i said i've heard about you more that's exactly what i said now me and jerry we had preached in some of the same churches so we already had a relationship it was a blessing so anyway he said you know jesse i'm you believe i'm a man of god i said yeah sure what do you want to do he says you know me and jerry do this all the time he said why don't we all tag team preach tonight i said okay he said why don't i start jerry you get in the middle and just you close the gate and we did and we did that friday night we did that saturday night and we did that sunday morning and then i'll never forget he was we were praying and jimmy was praying he squeezed my hand like that you know cope was a very strong man i mean you know i mean you you know when he goes to grab my hand i tighten up because he got a strong grip he's got a strong grip you know he said and he's doing this and i'm thinking there's something wrong with his hand because i'm trying to get your attention for listen i said what he said would you preach one of my conventions sure you know never thinking ever that i would preach more than one which is okay that's fine with me you know that's not the issue and uh but it turned out to be a team and i'll give you i just felt like what to say is i'll show you how honorable brother copeland is and just the glory and all these this this is their meeting they can do whatever they want to do this is this he calls me and jerry into his room i'll never forget that and at that time if you if you want if i can prove this that sermon that i preached 31 years ago in boldness produces the tongue talking church of the bible if you look in that section when the thing you'll see creflo dollar sitting away in the back and he says he called us and he said i want to ask you all a question and i thought well you can ask what do you want to ask what he said what do you think about adding creflo dollars to this team that was an honorable thing to ask us he said if you don't think so we won't i said no i said my god i said you're developing the five-fold ministry here and then creflo came in and then keith and bill winston and all the different people was a blessing of the lord but that's an honorable thing because most people that run something actually that they're going to just point and say do that so i'm going to point and say open your bible or your ipad or your telephone i want to go back to luke 17 and i want to finish this message if i cannot if i don't i'll finish in the next day session on increasing our faith the meaning the vitality and the possibilities of increased faith more faith more blessing more faith more health more faith more life the more faith more everything you see what i'm saying in luke chapter 5 excuse me uh luke chapter 17 and and i'm gonna read verse one again jesus is talking it is impossible but the offenses will come but warn to him through whom they come now i got to give you a definition what's the difference between being offended and being hurt very simple when you get hurt when somebody hurts you you look for someone to heal you see what i'm saying like a child hurt mama mama kissed it make you feel better mama kisses see now when you get offended you look for somebody to hurt the church mafia kicks in i'm gonna make an offer you don't refuse and it may be funny but there's a there is a reality there then he said in verse two it uh it were better for him that a millstone was hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea then that he should offend one of these little ones which means a baby christian or anybody i i really walk i i you cannot offend me i say you couldn't hurt my feelings but i never developed to the point of offense because i don't want to become what i don't like you see and i realize there is a major penalty to pay if you offend them think about that verse 3 take heed to yourselves if thy brother trespass against thee rebuke him and i said that yes then most people love to do that and if he repent forgive him and most people don't want to do that and if you trespass against these seven times in a day and seven times and seven times a day turn again to thee saying i repent thou shalt forgive him now the apostles couldn't handle it he said lord increase our faith oh how can we do these things because you see faith deals with one thing in your life and that's growth it is designed to make you grow if a baby's not growing something's wrong you go to a doctor you go say what's something something not write it if a christian is not growing something's wrong and you need to understand it you need to go to a church a bible believing church like a lot of people say but a church that causes you to grow in other words every sunday you leave that church you ought to be bigger than you were when you got there yes now the only way that's going to come is by hearing not by judging you ought to write that down you don't judge a pastor that's not your job that's not your business say it please you see what i'm saying because god calls people who he wants even if you don't like them don't shout me down when i'm preaching say i'm trying to increase your faith you see and and and it's so true you you're not a judge you see you can't do that judge not that's what god said that's pretty strong or you'll be judged now yesterday i said that the first principle of the christian life is faith it's built in the very structure of your soul because see your spirit has 100 faith well you don't need any more in your spirit your spirit will do whatever god says where the problem is that the development is in the mind the will and the emotion of the soul of man that's why he said be not conformed to this world but you're transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may know not god he already knows what he gonna do see you have to understand that structure i told you that a lot of people want opinions all the time and it somebody's always trying to give me an opinion and i'm pretty sure you get the same thing i said increased faith produces convictions rather than opinions i'm going over what i said i'll leave the stories i'll just get to the point here in other words when you're convicted you don't feel bad at all conviction opens your mind to the truth or the solo man saying you go whoa i'm i'm not gonna do that anymore whoa i didn't realize i was doing that where condemnation just drags you down beats you bust your stomping which is the sin of the church they've condemned more people and they'll condemn me if you don't go you see but why do you want to hear something they shouldn't be saying [Music] that's true well let me go over here didn't get that right there now this point i really love because i was talking a lot about this and you know there's different departments in my mind you know i have a business side of my mind i have a spiritual side of my mind i have a physical side of my i i i do a lot of things at one time i was answering eight phones at one time and i never got it mixed up i had to learn to compartmentalize in my mind when i was working for shell oil company and another company that was shipping out casing and tubing out to the onshore offshore and coastal rigs of the shell oil company and things of that nature and many other things so i had to learn to do that and i told you yesterday and i love this opinion your opinions are just furniture that decorate the apartments of your mind you know it's just furniture it's it and you know furniture gets old needs to be changed unless you buy really expensive furniture the 1700s and the 1800s ah still in style because when you go to uh to that great castle then france was it what's the name of the castle the hall of mirrors of versailles everybody like to live in verse 5. and yet all that stuff and there's 1700 1800 1500 and whoever built it were masters because it still exists i told you a grain of conviction is worth more than a whole load of religious opinion you know i've had so many people say bro just you ought to do this and i just smile i mean i'm not rude i said well thank you for your wonderful opinion i'm not doing that well why aren't you doing that because the lord didn't tell me but the lord speaking to you now i said no you are i know god's voice and he don't sound like you now i don't mean not to be rude listen you just got to get straight with people sometimes because they'll pull you off a path because satan are you somebody who you esteem highly in the faith yes yes and pull you off go read the thing about that old prophet that old boy wound up dying you think about that that's a very serious thing i told you increased faith is an active operative principle because faith without works is dead in other words you've got faith then you ought to have works that people can physically see if you believe in prosperity you should not be broke that's right i'm not broke i'm not even cracked much less broke you see now i'm not bragging about that i'm just telling you what it is if you're believing in something it ought to produce yes i told you increased faith springs out of action fake weather works is dead committing your whole soul to god's allegiance see what i've been doing all my life since i got born again is transforming this mind this soul of who i am see my body's just gonna do whatever the soul tells it to do then i told you this it is a combination of personal activity and dependence upon god himself that was you have to depend upon god what is he saying god is constantly talking are you constantly hearing and here's a bad excuse well i heard that before what the heck is not working because you didn't hear it you just heard it it came out of a religious opinion see well i know that's right i know that sound right but oh that that's that's the biggest butt you'll ever see in your life god is not in the conjunctions like we are then i told you increased faith brings to life truths which seem dead and ineffectual they say well that can't work yet but faith will rebirth that thing but pull it out i tell you truths become vital reality in your life and in your environment i did all that doing all those stories see because when you go back to your room or you go next week you'll go wait a minute that's what he was saying see if i can get you to remember the story i'll get you to remember the point i learned that from jesus he just said some deep stuff and then looked at him like like a loss as a goose and a fog and he went this ain't working oh there once was a rich man oh yeah oh yeah oh people like stories so you can get the point over that will change your life then i said this faith is independent of experience and in a way creates its objective it sees darkness and believes without evidence now faith is the subs of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen so if you believe in god for something and you cannot see it you have it because the evidence of is not seen we were talking the other day about hurricane katrina they said did you see that win i said no i didn't neither did you he said oh yes i did i said no you didn't that's right i said the wind is invisible what you saw was the effects of the wind that's right so what i'm saying he went oh yeah i never thought about that see you breathing right now something you can't see now if you don't believe that quit breathing and see how long you last you see well if i'll see it i'll be like whoa you you're gonna last very long about four minutes you see what i'm saying so we understand i said no you see the effects so i people i want them to see the effects of it because i can't expect them to see something that's invisible especially the heathen world because the natural man receiving not the things of god because they're foolishness until adam and tell me this is that there's something special about you it seems like everything you touch prosper i said my god he went who you want something funny i went to the dentist with kathy she had to get something done on one of her teeth something might not forget what it was so i said uh yeah she was putting a cappus i don't know whatever anyway make long story i sat down this man comes in with his wife watch the story now watch that he said and his wife i think she's gonna have the same thing kathy has some some some oral surgery to do something i don't know whatever anyway he gets up like that and no he's looking at me he goes have you been to ace hardware i said excuse me he said what do you used to do i said what did you say he said what did you used to do see he saw the white hair you think i'm retired i said i'm still doing it he went oh my god then you have all you got a lot of time to go to ace hardware have you been ace lately hey says the place with the help of hardware man he's singing boy he just this man loved it's hardware he said i said well i i i don't go to ace you don't go to ace hardware he said my god how can you exist he's serious i'm just looking at it i believe he was older than me he had to be he said what do you do i said i travel all over the world he goes do you know how many ace hardwares you can be at he said you don't go to ace i said no but i have people that work for me that go well thank god this boy if he goes to heaven it's going to be in the ace hardware store his wife gets up because she says honey leave the man alone shut up maybe he don't like ace and neither do i [Music] that was the last conversation we had with the man now here's my point i'm starting new ready increased faith creates a cosmos out of chaos yeah write that down see the world's chaotic increased faith creates a cosmos a universe something beautiful to look at in the midst of chaos with everything going wrong your increased faith will create a cosmo for somebody to see and wonder and amaze at what you believe [Music] you see so it gets rid of chaos because it's a cosmo you show them something pretty you know and it's so wonderful yet most of the time are waiting most people are waiting for faith to do something when it's already done something you see waiting it's already by stripes you were here you were here well i ain't gonna say i'm sick i'm here when i am sick now that's the big argument in the word of faith people people that are worthy people say i ain't saying i'm here when i am sick i'm not dealing with you i am sick i'm dealing with your word heal if i can get you to look at your word heal like you're looking at your am sick i get rid of you i am sick with you were healed you know what they say well i ain't saying i'm here when i am sick see that's chaos i'm trying to create the boy cosmos way don't hurt well get rid of the pain see increased faith creates a cosmos out of darkness see it's not a doctrine or a system of historical fact write that down increased faith is not a doc a doctrine or a system of historical fact it is faith in a person the reason why i'm saved is not because of christianity jesus did not create christianity man did that that's why it's messed up that's why you got so many people believing christians all different kinds of ways jesus came that you might know the father and in the process you got born again you see what i'm saying so you could recognize the father do you know the side of the father's voice do you know the sound of the son's voice do you know the sound of the holy spirit's voice see you got to know that they three yet they won they're totally different yet they're very similar yes they all look alike but yet totally different and yet totally similar let me say it again it's not a doctrine this increased faith or a system of historical fact it is faith in a person so i don't talk about christianity at all i talk about christ christ in me the hope of glory i talk about this jesus who i know not believe i know in whom i have believed i got beyond belief years ago i'm tired trying to convince people i'm believing i'm believing i'm believing i'm believing to just sound like a christian auctioneer i want to get to the point where i know in whom i have believed see when i get around people of faith i know them immediately not by by what they say and how they act and react when something is said without faith in it yeah that's how you spot that a mile away so it's not a doctrine or a system of historical fact it is faith in a person i never forget one time people say you are truly a christian i said why did you say that but you seem like you know jesus personally i said i do you do yes would you like to know more about him sit yourself down and i didn't talk about religion at all i talked about personal commitment personal relationship with this person called christ boy that gets people's attention there's something about that see you need to go back to worshiping the person instead of the religion would you write that down please you see what i'm saying because he's real he's alive and he's doing very well write this down increased faith makes you think of life entirely through the eyes of trust increase faith watch this makes you think of life entirely through the eyes of trust do you trust god do you trust your wife because that's what makes a good marriage do you trust your husband do you trust your children your grandchildren let me give you a prime example jerry is here this morning me and jerry are like i said we should have been brothers i was not a grandfather jerry was the first gran you know i didn't know nothing about grandfathering i didn't zero i remember when mark james was born well it was just a wonderful thing this is a brother uh jerry's and sister carolyn's first grandson mark james and i never i i went over you know a little bit and this boy was just smart as a whip would remember things he noticed that his grandfather dressed well so he wanted to dress well i mean he i'm telling you at four years old he could pick out a suit that you better listen to him because you're gonna look good if you wore it or a shirt he'd put the tie with you just do it right and he would remember one time we went he loved kathy's dress as a gold dress she had kind of a girl and she came back maybe i don't know eight months later he said i love your gold dress so i would get in the truck with jerry and mark james was sticking maybe i could stick his arm on your shoulder and jerry would look at me and go like see god put me in a position to learn how to be a grandfather watching jerry savelle and i'm gonna say it publicly he's the greatest grandfather ever seen in my life i am give him a handclap he is a grand i estimate it and that's a fact jerry i am not just saying that i'm telling you man i seen it with all his children i mean his grandchild would beat him up and pinch him and he'd just laugh i don't wipe them out i'd have killed him got a whole new lot myself but not jerry just take it boy oh oh just just take it i learned i had to learn i had to learn what it means to be grand ah yeah and boy when he told him something they accepted everything he said why they had faith in his action they knew what he would do before he did it do you know what god's going to do before he does it and the only way you're going to know that is through personal relationship commitment to him talking to him daily having conversation so let me say this again increased faith creates a cosmos out of chaos it's not a doctrine or a system of historical fact it is faith in a person so increased faith makes you think of life entirely through the eyes of trust now me and kathy have been married 51 years and that we we have a trust amongst each other know what uh the other day the lord has truly blessed us in our aviation department who i mean i have been fighting everything from the mob to whatever out there and anyway to make a long story short payoffs all kinds of i'm not doing that no no no i knew that life before is that so but anyway we got it all they said it would never happen we got it all jay you're you got to see our offices it's beautiful and kathy made it look like a plantation it's a little like an acadia house you know what a cadiamo house is we'll come and see it you'll understand what i'm talking about see and it's beautiful in that chat and she and i'm going and i'm going to say something she says jesse back off just let me do this i said you've been talking to carolyn savelle that's what you've been doing my god because they believe in all that decorating stuff you know and but if she went in there and i'm traveling see i come back and i'd come back not flying at 12 1 o'clock in the morning i said turn on the lights i want to see what she's doing and i said good lord look what she did here and bought furniture and things that i mean i mean just made it look more than just a quote aviation office she put nice antiques in there she did all kinds of different stuff you know she said you need an office here i said look i got an office at the office and my study at my house and i love my study like that's what i study see my office is where i office that's ceo that's why i do business see what i'm saying she says you need one here so i said god i said you're missing it man i don't need this all of a sudden i get a phone call and i don't carry a phone i carry kathy she said you need to talk this is a very important phone i had to go in the room and close the door because it was personal information and after offense you walked out you said do you need an office here i said i trust you do what you want to do boy she went in there and it's looking good and she's still got a few other things and sometimes i try to mention something can i have a clock no okay no clock no clock no clock just gotta go with the flow see she was creating a cosmos out of chaos it cost me about a hundred thousand dollars to do it because now the airport owns that building but they would let me go to pieces so i said start from the top which is the roof to the bottom and get this thing i want this thing looking new and i want it smelling new and boy i mean kathy and kathy will tell people she said she'll hire a contractor she said and they'll say well man we'll be we'll start next week how about tomorrow morning at 7 30. and they don't know how to tell she just looks at him and then she said i'll be here at 7 15. make sure you're here at 7 30. and to just look and then i see that right eyebrow start to go up i said sir don't let it hit the hairline because don't let it hit the hairline because it gets about half up now you see we use words in louisiana you all consider cussing we don't consider cussing we use the word hell because we've been through hell with hurricane katrina so we use it even at two years old okay so i said when you see kathy's eye go halfway sugar oh no no no no no no no no no we're not doing that and you just keep pushing and when that hair when that eyebrow hit that she go oh hell no that ain't that's exactly what you say that's exactly what you said have i told you the truth i made you my enemy you know what i'm talking about jerry look at you he said i want to stay alive as a grandfather i ain't saying and she's right y'all may think that that's that's us that's culture which means you don't misunderstand that you cannot misunderstand that or you will go to hell look at her she said i'm going to kill you today i'm going to kill you [Laughter] like she's trying to hold that eyebrow down look at it it's trying to go up it's trying to go up you notice i'm over here but she knows if she's in trouble i'm there we've had that friend i told her i'll take care of you i promise you i'll take care of you now i don't have nothing i said but i'll tell you one thing if you work with me i'll give you the moon and i have i don't mean that pridefully whatever she wants spiritually physically financially call work we trust each other so she knows when i'm on the road that ain't nothing going to happen my dad and i ain't the ugliest man in the world i get hit on every once in a while can you believe it i just i just think it's so funny i know they ain't looking at my looks i'm 72 years old look i lose that's all luke but they think i got money they write but it's kathy's money and it's held in deposit in the eyebrow you do not touch that listen to this point increased faith does not ebb and flow why do you need fresh oil who told you you need an oil change boy i got quiet there didn't you see that's religious opinion did you hear jesus say i'll tell you one thing god you got to change my all right increa see that's faith ebbing ebbing and floor this thing is a river that will not stop increased faith does not ebb and flow it is firm and is always here always spiritually physically financially people say well you know my god i'll never forget doing the kobe thing people ministers would come and say what we're going to do what we're going to do we're shutting the churches down i said we're going to do the same thing when he wasn't here we're going to occupy till he comes we're just going to and i had the greatest financial year ever in 2020 in the history of my ministry now you no no you don't understand i'm talking big money and 2021 looks like it's gonna top that's already topped it why because i expect it i expect it yes i don't expect hindrances to stop even though it comes i don't pay no i don't pay no attention the devil tries to get my hand tell me something go talk to the hand he'll do this call waiting anyway you know i just shut him down i just shut him down i don't have time to talk to a person that's spiritually dead because i don't want my faith to ebb and flow i've had many opportunities to fail well i don't mean to sound arrogant have you ever saw me discouraged depressed sick broke see people think he just cocky no i'm confident in assurance of the faith that i heard hearing from god almighty now who don't want it yesterday you know we americans we wanted yesterday we created fast food yes we did we get mad and wendy spent more than 30 seconds on a hamburger you know it was a problem here so who don't want it yesterday but i've learned something i'm an eternal being and if i can believe which i can't i can believe for the 120 years what is genesis 6 3 well how come you have a struggle with that because the church world through opinion says you've got 70 years and by reason and strength 80 which is in the scripture but that's when they were in punishment when they were in rebellion but genesis 6 3 is still just as live today now how you going to look when you're 120 i don't know i'm never i've never been 120. now i i do everything with this body i possibly can do sometimes kathy says i overwork it and that's probably true and and my body will tell me we ain't going nowhere today baby sit your ugly self down boy i was snoring i don't i didn't know i snored i snored so loud the other day i thought somebody was in my house i got up walked around i woke up where is that food got my gun looking for a snore and kathy told me the only time you snored jesse when you're real tired i was real tired so i asked the lord about it i said god i'm tired i thought he'd give me a wafer like he gave elijah and i could outrun a horse that's what i wanted he said i got a word for you yes sleep sleep i said lord i could have thought of that you say why didn't you why didn't you that's true see see you waiting for god to do everything when it's your job to do everything it's his job to sanction it see so incr increase faith does not ebb and flow it is firm and it is always here now everybody if you're an american you believe in accumulation english is called the prosperity language the other day we were doing some work there were some men there that did not speak english real nice people that bobby's crew i said bobby tell these men i want them to learn english now i know they love their country and i love i know they love spanish como estan i don't know what i said but i had one year spanish in school i used to have them like hey pancho hey school good morning i said tell them to learn this because they're talented and they'll go a lot further with this tool and they like that i wasn't talking down to them i wanted to get them up come on get get you going because they notice the things that i have i said you like that more beyond man i said you can have one too i had a pastor on on our plane the other night i said come up here he sat down in there he says good lord he said this thing is beautiful i said why don't you have one he did the same thing you did [Laughter] see how i get to point over got to read people i said why are you quiet i said because your soul is not transformed enough to have this and the next thing is thinking is what is people going to say keep flying and you won't hear a word they say just keep going i've said this my motivation for accumulation is revelation which has no limitation we'll talk about that for a minute my motivation for accumulation is revelation that's why i can stack up stuff which has no limitation i don't want limits at all in my life so what i do i exercise i remember brother copeland he probably get mad at me saying i'd go to his house i'd run down his runway he said look what that crazy cage isn't doing out there said what are you doing i said exercise you eat every day got a duty stand got to keep this pump working right what the bible said take care of your body now is it fun no not at 98 degrees 100 humidity sweating like a mule who wants to do that i mean your mind's so popular the minute you say diet your mind says eat am correct well we're going to cut back the day you're going to eat more than you ever did in your whole life that shows you how much power your mind has the soul of who you are a carolyn savelle loves my home and i like it when caleb comes up because she notices things i like that she'll walk around and say but just mind if i i said no check everything out here and she said boy so we found a store that she likes we'll give him a plug it's called a renaissance she said where'd y'all get this and the prices are phenomenal you know i serve a jewish god i like a good deal yeah i'm a negotiator i'm going i don't care if i was a trillionaire i'm a negotiator i'm going to negotiate something now watch this now and i i knew she had that anointing of decoration so we brought in and she goes oh my god oh and she said that's how she walked oh my god oh my and then we lost carolyn savelle for about 20 minutes she came back that that that that she said we're going to build this new church going like that and after they left you know what the owner said we love your friends we love your friends jerry sees he collects wonderful guns he knows a lot about all the different wars from civil war back all that kind of thing and he likes to confine there was a and these people i don't know where to get all this stuff but from people that uh you know i don't know they just buy it and they put it on consignment and all that there's all kind of guns so and kathy told jerry go over there there's some guns you might so jerry looking born i see jerry it's like i'm walking with i said i i said which one you gonna get jerry he said i want them all i i mean they were about four or five or something like that maybe a little white girl because they were unique sick something i think yeah after jerry left the owner said we love your friends and the other day we walked in and they said did jerry and carolyn come in why they got faith in you they know your faith does not air but flow it just goes yeah see accumulation say is to get the revelation of that and when you understand that then you won't have any problems right this time it is a waste of spiritual energy to say what you see or have it's a waste everything in the natural world will change with your faith why are you saying something that you can change with your faith every it's a waste of spiritual energy to say what you see or have everything in the natural world will change with your faith see i never asked god for need and i never will i don't ask god to heal me what i don't if something tries to attack my body paul i mean i'm human just like anybody else you know i don't say oh god here no i said bye your strides i am i all i is i'm already i don't deny what i'm feeling i'm looking at that answer i never asked god for need when he said he would supply how many need how many need how many need why are you asking god for need why don't you tell him what you want because churches limited you in that area they say you greedy you're not greedy you see god trusts you more [Music] than the religious world see it's all about trust say trusting trust in the lord and do good yeah lean not to your own understanding get out of that soulless realm receive a dictate from your spirit through a transformed mind to a crucified body watch what god will do see faith knows no crisis or problems why because it's only designed to bring answers well this is good stuff this is called increased faith faith knows no crisis or problems it is designed to only bring answers it's an answer mechanism it's an answer medicine yes yes that's good it's not a problem medicine you know uh what's that this word many years ago they were really mad at all of us because they say we were hyper faith man i like to get hyper on that because the more faith i have the more i please god you see what i'm saying it's designed to create and to bring answers that's why it says now now if you go look at your bible in hebrews 11 1 that first now is the biggest word in that whole little verse right there in the print and everything now faith is it's a substance hopeful the evidence of things not seen because see to understand it you got to have revelation let me say that again what do you mean how do you understand faith by revelation my motivation for accumulation is revelation which has no limitation so when i realized that my faith that i heard from the god of unlimited source but then mine should be unlimited go do the work that i do and greatly shall you do because i go to my father i got to go somewhere now you handle this i'm going to tell you a weakness of mine affection it's true i have fought that all my life because i was told don't cry so i wasn't allowed to cry five six years old boy i mean if i take my mind in my eye my daddy said suck it up boy expect my grandpa boy we don't cry here you're a man i'm five years old my bones hanging out my leg put that bone back in your leg boy i don't care if you're hurt don't cry your sister can cry she's a girl so you learn to suppress and you don't use the word love that's weakness that's why your husband has a problem telling you he loves you you look at me in the eyes and go i love it he'll go me too how many ladies have heard to me too don't lie hold your hand up hold your hand up i know you heard that me too you got paul right there yeah me too i struggle with that see i think i jumped on my case the other day do you ever tell god you love him i said he knows put that eyebrow down and she don't understand that never will because she comes from a very affectionate family lord jesus i walked into her house for the first time there's a grandma she goes oh you oh cathy's boyfriend let me kiss you and i thought no no they're more wet lips so brother hank she kissed me and her lips slid all the way to my ear i did not like that you like that yeah i i understand what you're talking about i know it doesn't love what you did i said what's wrong with your family we love each other but it needs to be stopped now that's dumb isn't it that's dumb i would not hold kathy's hand in public that's weakness that's that's stupid that's just as ignorant as it could be but i learned that all my life he wasn't allowed to show that you're a man son be a man handle this thing and that's why stress can get built up on that stuff see and before you know it you can have problems in your body because your body's not designed that it's like a pressure cooker but something's gonna explode you see that happening usually in fits of anger so faith knows no crisis or problems it is designed to only bring answers let me give an example i heard kenneth copeland say something in a van driving to a meeting actually what he said was uh he's quoted the script in the book of romans oh no man anything but to love him now this is in the very beginning of my ministry this is 1978. oh no man anything but to love him i said well how are you going to buy a house unless you mortgage it how are you going to buy a car unless you finance it now you got to understand i didn't have to worry about that when i was a senator because i i made money but you see what happened is i thought because i never read bible hardly at all mama would teach me bible lessons excuse me bible stories kathy never read the bible at all till after she got saved we were told not to read the bible we were catholic people you know only the priests can interpret scripture so you don't do that you don't talk to god who do you think you are you talk to the priests [Music] he's the mediator the priest not jesus the priest and i thought about that and the reason why i was saying that because i gave all my money away boy did the church love my money they didn't like me but they love my money well if i'm bad why is my money good i think that's a valid question so i gave it all the way i said catholic we're going to have to be christians now because we have to be poor and crafty goes okay she never fought that she was just so glad we got out that crazy business yeah so i mortgaged the house i bought a home a little small one very small the bathroom was so small you could sit on the toilet and put your hands in the laboratory at the same time i am not exaggerating it was 910 square foot about the size of a double car garage watch this i said well because i thought you got to be poor jesus was poor but i hadn't read that bible yet see i began i began to read and find out that i was all lies so anyway when i heard brother cope i went i found that scripture in rome and i thought oh no man anything but to love him well i don't believe that like i believe john 3 16 you know for god so loved the world he gave his only begotten son well same person writing same person saying so i'm going to do that so i began to look around so i went out to my car and i put my hand on the trunk of that car it was a kind of one that was a murk you ever heard of a mercury monarch of ford uh granada grenada this is in the 70s okay i said i command you in jesus name to be debt-free i didn't have any more money nobody knew who i was i mean when i went to a meeting they stayed away by the thousands most of the churches i started out with you couldn't put 100 people in them see and and within three months that car was paid off i still don't know how i did it and the lord said you didn't i did now there was a wonderful man that lived across the street from me we called him mr easton i really liked him so i turned around and look at that house i walked out there see i was about ready jerry to have an abraham moment i didn't know that then a king james moment because thou has done this watch this so i put my hand on the hou on the side of the house it was it was it had just been painted yellow yellow side it was really a really cute home kathy made it look nice and i said in the name of jesus i decree and i declare that you are debt-free according to the book of romans to owe no man anything but to love him and mr easton across the street was watching me we were in a little subdivision there he went hey jesse and i look i guess he was about from i guess from me to where the southwest sign is the big the big thing i said hey miss diesel he said what you're doing i said i'm praying to be debt-free he went whoa if it works come over here i said okay [Applause] nine months later i walked across that street i said mr ethan it works yeah he said you did it i did it i said no i didn't do it but the lord did it who he said i'm catholic i said so am i see i'm still a catholic did you know i didn't get thrown out did you you know i wasn't excommunicated that shocked you right there the catholics like me it's some of them protestants that i have trouble with because they protest in everything i'm believing i'm asked to preach at the archdiocese in catholic churches the only requirement they asked me to do please don't touch the altar it's holy and i've slapped the altar get all excited and the priest go oh and i look at him i freak him out hell mary full of grace he go oh yeah give me a little grace you gave mary grace give me some grace well how do you know it's going to work write this down the answers to your problems come out of the promises of god the answers to your problems come out of the promises of god god gave me a statement i love he said my promises are far more powerful than the sins of people there's over seven thousand you've only used about 23. there's over 7000 i'm in that bible brother that's all for you see the promises the answers to your problems come out of the promises of god and when the lord told me that he said my promises are far more popular than the sins of people see jesse that's how you got saved because my mother would not let me go to hell i told i like hot places i want to go to hell leave me alone my i thought mama done lost have a loving mind see i was still kathy she got saved she still let me be catholic she didn't push religion on me but then she found out that she had the promise of a family down to a thousand generation oh god and to a cajun woman that means a lot if you're cajun and italian that means a lot because the italians love their kids their family a lot for me so she just caught she gave me the the one two she said it's your tough luck you were born to me you're getting saved whether you like it or not you're a little heathen from hell i want you to do that i said woman you done lost your evil mama i'm telling you this religious stuff is killing you i ain't religious i know jesus mommy you ain't never met jesus well i know i have met the devil because i met you and she was right i was a little gangster oh man i could get you anything from a tuba lipstick to an air conditioner how did it happen fell off the truck found it in the road you do what you got to do you can't just oh lord yeah and a lot of other stuff that i can't talk about because the statue of limitations has not run out that's all i'm going to say about that see god forgive me but if they find out that they ain't forgiving me see so when you understand this what i call the vital part the meaning the vitality and the possibilities of increased faith and i'm increasing faith right now because i'm hearing myself preach i'm not talking here the lord is faith come by hearing and hearing by the word of god look at some of y'all and somebody like this yeah you see and that's why the disciples said increase increase our faith so you have to learn to love people you don't like i know no racism at all there is not a drop of it in me never has been because my mother wouldn't allow it now i my grandparents were racist my uncles i'm telling you one day it just was buddy but i lived in the deep south but mama didn't know what the word racism was or prejudice she she didn't use those words she said i know meanness when i see it and she said let me tell you something she tell all of us me and my oldest brother who's now in heaven my younger brother and my sister's in heaven make a long story short she said you're going to say yes sir you're going to say no sir you're going to say yes ma'am to any man i want anybody and adam do you understand me we may not have any money but my kids are going to be polite and we work and i still have a problem and some people think i'm nuts there might be a 18 year old girl waiting on me she said is there anything else you want i said no ma'am that they'll open up the mall door for a lady she says my god ain't that this happened in a while i said well ma'am you deserve somebody to open up a door for you well thank you i said you're welcome she was 20 22. i mean i could be a grandfather see what i'm saying why because see mama put that in us and you respect people's religion so i know some buddhists i know some muslims muslims i even know a few christians and i preach in all these different churches my granddaughter goes to an episcopal school and i would go to the chapel sometime me and kathy would go to the chapel because they would take some of this this when she was real little and they would walk down the um the the main aisle of the church at the chapel and they have on a little white thing and we got pictures of it and boy meredith was so excited and i would watch this vicar everybody got different names vicar and i he would talk to the kids and i said he is enjoying what he's doing i received revelation from him i was watching everything he said and i said meredith do you like father i can't remember his name she said oh yes everybody does grandfather i said so i walked up to him i said uh that was a great teaching you had do you think so i said yes he said what do you do i said i'm a minister of the gospel he said me too i said yes we're brothers he said yes he said are you episcopal i said yes he said you are i said do episcopalians believe in jesus yes i'm not escapated do catholics believe in jesus yes i'm a catholic do pentecostals believe in jesus yes i'm a pentecost do you speak in tongues you want to hear something you have to be ready see what i'm saying that's what i'm talking about i let my light shine i went into one time there not long ago it was a bunch of black people and i could tell they were looking at me and i just went in this restaurant it just stopped and they all went i said i'm black well if they can say i'm a man and i'm a [Applause] woman well you don't look back well you don't look like no woman neither but if you want to know who you are check your equipment it'll tell you who you are but i don't feel it it don't make no difference what you feel like i don't know color people get mad at me about that i'm gonna just say that what do you think about black lives matter look how quiet it got i don't know what's on that screen that i'm looking when i'm in the roughest water i won't go under and i won't drown now what does that mean somebody trying to tell me something what do you think about black lives matter i said are you talking about black people are you talking about the organization right right [Applause] vast difference i know this is strong listen to me vast difference i said i love black because they know such thing that the human race there's no such thing as white people none of that junk we're god's creation now black lives matter got a lot of thugs in there they got a lot of people i saw a black man they burned in a black man's business down he's got tears and he's like and he said hey look at me i'm black why you burning my business down it's everything i've ever lived for i said i'm on that man's side yeah that's right that's right so i just will not i will not i won't i just love people i had a black guy he was a little prayer well what do you do brother joseph you got to the throne and you found out that god was black i'd say what's up hey nothing wrong with i don't care what if he's white what's going down means the same thing what if he's hispanic felicia navidad just whatever i don't care [Applause] see i don't know tony he's the color of this guy i know tony is tony jerry introduced me to tony i like tony i mean he's a blessing to god man but i don't i don't care i i don't why because faith erased color and i let me tell everybody don't allow segregation to come back in here because if you do if you do you are desecrating martin luther king's martin luther king's death that man died so that we could be together for god's sake it's the truth can't you hear your story when i was about 16 i worked for a man named mr pate at paint building supply in other words you know he built houses and stuff but he had a big lumber company anyway to make a long story short i i was the last man on the totem pole because i'm the young you know that they just hired me and i'll change the name of this particular guy work he was a black guy i'll just call him harry okay watch this so me and her he's black i guess i'm white i'm a cajun i don't really know what i am because we marry anybody we could get our hands on you it just didn't make no difference to us so hold that story i'll tell you one real quick if three black girls came in i was a soda jerk i was 13 years old every uh uh what they call it a drug store had a soda fountain and three girls that's when they you know the black people had to sit in a different place at wolves work remember all that craziness i'm old enough non-children made and these three girls came and they said i'm fine look at her fine looking girl i forgot my wife was over there i was 13 kathy all right and they walked up and then they say you got to serve us i said sit your beautiful self down honey i will serve you and i begin to walk with my lean what you want baby back to mr pete yes mr pate it's hot in louisiana especially in august it's our hottest month whoo man so we we taking lumber out of the bins and putting it on a truck and we'd bring it to the site and drop it off i mean we sweating like missouri mules now i don't know if a missouri mule swept more than an arkansas mule but they always had missouri mutes so harry we didn't have gatorade nobody cared about how hot it was you just worked till you finished but mr pate had a a a water cooler a ice cooler with a dipper anybody know remember what a dipper was a dipper you know so harry goes over and we sweat and boy i mean drops and he takes a dipper gets in a ice wall like it now it was a pretty deep dip about this big you know and i remembered it had a little hook that you hooked it on here like this and he drank about half an inch by ripple i said harry give him give me the rest of that hell okay jess yeah why not drag it off i said give me another one he said you want some more he said yeah so he drank it now we drink it from the same dipper the same side we didn't turn the dipper around stupid stuff you know what i'm saying well there was two white guys saw us do that he went can you believe that man this kid called me a kid drinking from that dipper and they used the n-word [Music] and i said what'd y'all say nothing i said no what'd you say and i said y'all want something to drink what i was hoping to say no just die thirst you he made me mad harry said oh justin don't get mad he said i go through this all the time i said what is wrong harry he said i know okay we loaded up the truck brought the stuff to the people house and we unloaded it and we stacked it neatly because people like this stuff neatly instead of just throwing it off of the truck you know you know we tried mr pape wanted that to happen we did it we got back you know i mean so i walked in and i said mr peter i got any more orders we've got three more orders jesse he said you and harris thought he said i said he said i'll walk out there with you i'll just bring the uh thing so he walks out there now we don't know what he's going to do listen to this carl this will blow you with me i just missed the pain he the boss okay he said boy as hot as he uses our word he said uh look at that nice cooler where that he call it an ice core i said it's right over there mr paint he wasn't he puts that dipper in there pulls it up he goes drinks he said this is really good let me get another one he said harry taste how sweet that water is harry just look that's the boss here he goes i just said taste the water so he drank i hired next about three or four sips and he said oh jesse taste that water how sweet it is you're not good it's wonderful to have ice water when you're hot he said let me finish it off myself he gave us the invoices we feel that we came back and those two boys were no longer working there [Applause] i was glad he did more when harry find out and and i protect that's not his name but uh but when harry found out that mr pate did that tears come down his eyes he said mr payne ain't nobody ever stood up for me i said i stood up for your hair he said i know jesse i said i stood up and he said yeah he said you black and you don't even know you black you don't listen i said well no harry i i i usually my friend you're my friend and a friend's take it closer than a brother let me hurry up here am i taking nothing okay with me i don't i won't take jerry's time i'm watching that clock now praise god 6 44 6 43 anyway and when you understand that if you increase your faith and you will do it in these services here there will be great rewards waiting for you when you get home you will believe the unbelievable you will receive the impossible simply because it's doable now i'm preaching on this during my day session my night service going to be different but i want to deal with the how you increase this faith with your engines you do have some engines that'll work for you in fact let me just uh give you just a little hint what i'll do on thursday because i'm gonna pre something different on wednesday if i can get to it real quick yeah what engines are you talking about sound words let me leave you with this go to second timothy chapter one second timothy it's right past first timothy we have to say that but you'd be surprised how many people don't know what if they don't have a table of contents in their bible they're in trouble man hallelujah jesus oh my god my hands are kind of wet i'm trying second timothy there it is chapter 1 verse 13. hold fast the form of sound words see words have great faith in them which thou has heard of me always got to have an example in faith and love which is in christ jesus i'm going to pick up on that when we start on the thursday and i'll give you i'll give you understand sound words produce an uplift and are the foundation of the welfare of the church see that's increasing your faith see here's another point the pattern of sound words neutralizes false theories and produces a protest against era see increased faith will make you use and sound words and it will produce a a protest against era now if you notice that my points are very intellectual i write very good i just i talk like a cajun but when i write i write the sentence structure see what i'm saying i try to do those things the best i can let me say it again the pattern of sound words neutralizes false theories and produces a protest against error sound words produces an uplift you know the foundation of the welfare of the church so if you want your church to grow or whatever your ministry you must increase faith daily and you do that with sound words when you speak you're speaking as if god is speaking when a prophet prophesies thus saith the lord so who's talking [Music] see what i'm saying you don't realize just how close god is to you in this quote natural world he's right there he woke me up this morning three thirty three i said uh we went to bed about 11 to something he said i just need to talk to you tell me something good and you know what i thought of that old song tell me something good the um for like a better way to say it he laughed he said i appreciate the way you believe him i said god i would do anything you asked me to do he said that's a big word or anything and i wrote a book years ago your everything is is anything i got a new book to call i never learned to doubt i know nothing of doubt it took a year to get it out because there was nobody at the plants to print it during the cove they finally got out i believe we have it here i never learned that i know nothing about doubt none zero showing something unbelievable i go well did the lord say that yeah well that's good enough for me and then when everybody comes up with excuses i said that's opinions see i have a conviction about what i believe and i'll take the persecution of the world to walk in the love and the faith of god i don't care what the word says and i'll tell you why not because i'm i am uh rude is because i'm not of the world i'm in the world but i'm not of it i'm a new species i'm an alien i'm so journeying like they say in the king james you know yeah the bible is complete but heaven's not there's still houses being built even as i speak why you think jesus was a carpenter nothing's by accident nothing i've stood in the very portals of the glory of god almighty i've stood at the fell down at the throne of god i've seen the lamb's book of life i seen it it's big it's about six by five thick it's beautiful i've seen the tree of life i saw that river i've seen pretty good so i don't believe it i don't care i don't mean not to be rude i've been there and i very still never talk about those things but i was it a month ago kathy a month and a half ago i decided to do a a a heaven thing almost a half a million people on youtube watched it we have a lot of people that that what you call it followers or whatever they call that i don't know all the terminology of that stuff people are interested in that let me tell you why i did it i very somehow talk about i don't build my ministry on experiences that i've had i build my ministry on the word of god see but in 1988 real quickly in 1988 when the lord took me there if it was for one reason he said go tell my people i'm coming yes and i thought you got the wrong man you need billy graham he's touching the world at that time i'm not doing what i did today today right now at 10 24. yeah abc cbs nbc fox pbs all the these christian network i'm preaching to 2.9 billion people 14 different languages 24 million 285 000 people following us uh since january 2020 to the end of july on the social media [Music] and finally two scriptures i now understand intellectually that i struggle with how can you save a nation in a day paul a nation and how can all eyes see him that is now true you can tell the whole planet within seven minutes that's over 7.5 billion people what's going on through the internet we can now change a nation in a day because we have the technology to do so and mr elon musk just put 150 satellites up there okay you ready jesus are coming out these all they got to do is turn them all i see it's amazing amazing get the goosebumps on that man oh man i'm telling you i would be surprised if jesus didn't come in my lifetime now if you don't come get me i'll go get him either way i'm still i'm not afraid to die that's so silly to me jesse if you've been down in three airplane crashes yeah so i bought my own plane before you that persecuted me but if you think i'm going down in the last minute or two i'm going to spend my life screaming no i can't do a thing about him sitting in that chair i'll say well i got a minute to live here i'm gonna say oh it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood beautiful day in the neighborhood would you be mine would you be my i just go enjoy my minute instead of screaming like a crazy fool over here y'all think i'm crazy i am i have the mind of christ you

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