9.19.21 | "The Sifter Is No Match For The Master" | Sis. Tabitha Holt

[Music] [Music] of is if it's not pleasing to you take it out of me have [Music] take it out of me [Music] take it out of me so only you can satisfy my heart only you can satisfy my soul only you can satisfy my heart oh [Music] only oh can again with just one drink of the living water i'll never thirst again only you can jesus oh [Music] jesus [Music] is if i take what the world has offered i have to come again again [Music] [Music] so i will from [Music] is say one more time [Music] is [Music] you're the only one who can satisfy only you can satisfy is uh oh you are the great i am you are you are the great i am [Music] good evening church come on let us all stand for our feet in the house of the lord tonight i don't know about you but i'm coming expecting something from god in this place come on how many to believe that the lord is in his place right now he can answer every need right now all you got to do is lift your hands give him the praise call upon his name in this place come on he's worthy to be praised let's praise the name of jesus in this place hallelujah thank you jesus [Music] all over the world wake up and be alive [Music] we can't just stand here we can't accept this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] that's why music is [Music] [Applause] [Music] say that this is [Music] we cannot lose [Music] and fight for your victory tonight come on need something to yourself go rise up and give god some praise praise him in advance for your victory hallelujah [Music] i don't know if y'all want to know this or not but the end of the book says that we are the winner he already run the victory for us all you gotta do is [Music] is [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah [Music] [Music] stop stop stop stop [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] if the devil is defeated and you got the money your feet you want to stand up in the house tonight lift up your voice shout out to god for your victory tonight hallelujah he'll help us [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello [Music] [Music] uh [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's [Music] is oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] two [Music] is in control [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] hallelujah somebody i said god is in control we don't have to worry about anything we don't have to worry about what the enemy has to say what the world has to say i said god it's in control amen there was a there was a man who was born blind and the the pharisees and the sadducees they went to ask jesus a simple question they asked them who sinned that this man is blind you know something they try to do they try to trip up god they try to say you know what god you're not just because did did he sin before he was born is that why he's blind or god did he did his parents sin and therefore you're an unjust god because look he has to suffer because of what his parents have done but something powerful jesus said he said this man is blind not because anybody sinned but that god may be glorified i'm telling somebody i don't care what situation you're going through i don't care what circumstance you're in god is in control come on somebody come let's let's sing that again someone needs to understand that right now in their spirit someone needs to understand that right now that god is in control [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] you're going through some things right now maybe your child is messing with you saying you have to get vaccinated or you're gone come on somebody maybe you're going through stress right now and and life is coming against you but i'm telling somebody sister kavitha god is in control sometimes we think we think the enemy is coming against us but god is just trying to see are we are we filled with the holy ghost are we people that trusted him do we understand that god is in control come one more time [Music] god is in control [Applause] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] i don't care what i'm going through i'm lifting up jesus you're in control god brother wang is in the hospital but god is in control to master money let's lift that up right now jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus when i pray for brother wang but we understand as we pray for him that god is then controlled amen we'll pray for brother pack we understand that things may be going on we we are finite in our understanding but we serve an infinite god amen he's in control he knows the end from the beginning come on somebody you may have some knees in your in your in your life right now you may you may feel like everything is coming against you you may feel like you keep messing up but just as the message said today yes you're just us but he isn't afraid that you're just us he god is not concerned that he may fail that she may mess up he's in control of your life he he built you he raised you he will continue to mold you amen come also lift your hands from right now let's lift our voice from right now let's go before god right now jesus you know every need god you know every need but sometimes lord you you make our prayers to go forth so we may understand that you are god that you are moving that when we ask of you god and you give to us lord you teach us and understand that our prayers work god oh somebody don't grow weary and well doing don't grow weary and well doing and you shall reap if you faint not worship us as we say [Music] [Music] you're the only ones [Music] [Music] [Music] tonight [Music] [Music] want somebody [Music] [Music] [Music] is we see you face to face [Applause] find a place [Music] [Music] i [Music] oh [Music] [Music] toys [Music] [Music] that's your prayer in this place [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] there's nothing like your presence [Music] that's how you feel somebody lift up your hands in this place come on somebody open up your mouth and give god glory in this house we just lift our hands to god right now jesus we don't want to rush this moment with you god i'm thankful for every chance i get to be in your presence i came across a strange video it was about a little turtle in the ocean and he had barnacles all over him and he was too heavy to swim he was too heavy to keep going and i don't know how it happened some random guy on a boat found him picked him up and started scraping barnacles off of him and it was a rough process and they were even saying that this kind of could hurt the turtle but it's better for the turtle and i think about us coming into pre-service prayer and how many of us understand that pre-service prayer shouldn't be the first time you pray for service you know if you come in cold you're spending a lot of time scraping off the flesh like god i don't feel like worshiping right now how much time do we spend scraping off our flesh if we're who here likes to eat only three times a week show of hands just brother damien only three times a week spiritually we're doing that if we're coming to the house of god not having prayed not having read but just coming to to absorb and i just want to encourage someone you know this experience it goes deeper if you scrape off the barnacles before you get here and yes there's there's a time of healing there's a time where there's things that only god can do in an altar call amen but how many of us want to just make a commitment to do our part you know god i want to go deeper i'm sick of fighting the flesh waiting all the way till the middle of service to finally feel god can we just lift our hands right now god i'm so thankful that i have 24 7 access not just when these doors are open i have access in my car in my house i i can access you anywhere jesus i just want you to work on my heart before i ever get to the altar before i ever get to the house of god i want to have the barnacles the flesh scraped off that i can actually hear from you that i can hear a word from you that i can be changed by your word god i want your word to penetrate my heart not just my flesh help me jesus help us jesus we're so thankful to be in your presence god can we just clap our hands unto him i'm so thankful to be in the house of god no place i'd rather be amen we can all make our way to our feet i want to quickly get to what god is going to do tonight in this house parents time off we'll be going to ihop saturday september 25th it'll be from 10 a.m to 1 p.m they're gonna be eating for a long time please reach out to sister glenda for more details who's thankful for parents time off that's awesome early morning prayer is six a.m monday through friday youth bible study someone say youth bible study it'll be this wednesday from 6 30 to 7 30 it'll be located in the meeting center if you have any questions please reach out to myself or my husband family prayer is this thursday night at 7 pm outreach will be this saturday at 1 pm street ministry is every friday and saturday night at 7 30. sisters connect someone say sisters connect sisters connect invites all ladies all ladies especially new ladies to a night of fun and bowling i think bowling is the only thing that i'm horrible at but i still enjoy ladies please meet here at the church on october 1st 6 30 p.m they will be leaving at 6 45 pm bring some cash for bowling and food we invite you to come and fellowship with your sisters even if you don't like bowling see it'll still be fun for more information please see sister illumise alexandre search for truth will be this saturday at 11 a.m and heat and kidzone will be meeting at the church this friday at 7 p.m for youth service if you're between the ages of 1 and 101 101 you are invited if you're older than 101 you may still come but i would really like to talk to you that's pretty exciting it's pretty interesting um i know personally i know the preacher and uh i know that they are also very excited to see all of you come and come support the youth amen amen how many of you are excited to be part of the rockin rock church i am there's an old song that says i love the thrill that i feel when i get together with god's wonderful people i love coming together with god's people seeing your smiling faces even in this rain amen all nation sunday october 24th that's five weeks from today our planning and prep session will be this saturday september 20 what's the day fifth thank you my clutch is not slip and bishop i promise 6 p.m in the meeting center we're going to solidify what tents exactly we're going to have as far as the cultural tents with food decor start to build a setup crew and a tear down crew all of that good good stuff so if you all can join us this saturday 6 p.m in the meeting center thank you very much the lord church all right i'm behead i'm here at behalf for iron man for our men's breakfast october 2nd uh 8 o'clock in the morning right here at our on our campus in the pavilion area now uh it's very rare that i eat breakfast you know i i think breakfast is one of my favorite favorite meals if i could i'd eat it all the time but uh so this is kind of like a special it's kind of special because i didn't you know i don't i don't eat breakfast at all so i mean who i mean we're gonna have bacon we're gonna have aids we're gonna have hashbrowns i mean you got to try to make it out there october 2nd 8 a.m try to bring friend try to bring a friend with you bring a neighbor bring bring grandpa uncle whoever all right so october 2nd 8 am in the pavilion area just try to make it all right why don't we clap our hands who's thankful to see what god's doing in this house amen to all of our guests and visitors we're so thankful that you've come and had church with us you know there's a little saying in this house that you're only a guest for the first five minutes after that you're part of the family that being said let's all step out of our seats and greet each other in jesus name [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] good evening rock church good evening rock church who's excited to be at the house of the lord this evening my body tells me i'm tired and my mind tells me that i should be in bed right now but my spirit tells me i am happy and excited to be in the house of the lord [Music] when we come into this house sometimes we gotta push past our flesh because my flesh tells me everything i wanna do but i gotta know that i don't listen to my flesh amen as i was doing my weekly studies this week i came across a passage of scripture in mark and it began to talk about how these men had a friend who was sick and their their friend was bedridden because he was so sick and they were trying to get to jesus and they were trying to get to jesus but there was so many so many people and the the crowd was so massive they couldn't get to jesus so they said we ain't gonna let that stop us from getting to jesus and they grabbed their friend and they went on the roof and they put a hole in the roof and lowered their friend down through the hole in the roof now we act like people come in here every sunday and put holes in the roof and lower people down into this place this is an insane thing but let me tell you they said i will do whatever i need to to get my blessings from jesus how many times do we walk into this house and we put our offering in and we say god i'm expecting a blessing god i'm expecting a blessing god i'm expecting a blessing but let me tell you doing something over and over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity sometimes you got to do something a little crazy you may have been sown and you're saying god i'm waiting for this miracle i'm waiting for this miracle but you haven't done anything different to get that miracle so somebody tonight you ought to try god you ought to tear the roof off and see if god don't bless you see if god don't pour out his blessing upon you don't get frustrated with jesus when you ain't doing your part i'm sorry you didn't come to a church that preaches what you want to hear but i'm telling you if you do this god will pour out his blessing in your life amen as the ushers make their way down we prepare for this god we want you to move in this house tonight god move in this place jesus would you help us to give god and let us not hold back lord let us not give begrudgingly god but let us give unto you god because we know that when you get a god you will take it you will press it down you will shake it together for your kingdom and for your glory in your mighty name we pray worship while you give oh somebody put those hands together [Music] [Music] i got joy in my soul god is in control i got shaded on my trail but i'm singing all is well [Music] me [Music] i got joy in my soul cause god is in control god's hated on my trail but i'm singing all this well he's attacking every day but i'm watching while i pray no matter the attack i won't turn back somebody ought to put your hands together [Music] but the blood still stays the same whatever's [Music] no matter the attack i won't turn back [Music] hey what's this [Music] [Music] [Music] come on say this means [Music] [Music] you can't [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] give me my joy give me my pizza [Applause] [Music] somebody give god [Music] listen there is one thing that i've learned bishop that the devil hates there's many things but there's one thing i've learned that the devil absolutely hates and that's me telling my testimony that's me declaring where i used to be and how he had a grip on my soul how the lord brought me out and how he washed me in his blood the best thing you can do sometimes when the devil's on your trail and the devil's got you underneath his thumb as you just begin to declare your testimony once i was lost but now i'm found once i was blind but now i see you does anybody have a testimony does anybody have a testimony about how god brought you out about how god is bringing you through [Music] sister ramirez if you don't mind would you mind giving us a 30-second testimony come on somebody let's hear his testimony there was once upon a time that they called me drug addict there was once upon a time that i answered to junkie but i want to tell you and declare to you today that the devil has no power over me i remember when i came to a presence of god i went to no rehab i went to the 12-step program i remember the holy ghost building my life and chainsaw cash falling on my [Music] tell you the back of god is [Music] [Music] thank you jesus what can god do for you he did it for me [Music] if god did it for sister ramirez god can do it for you he can do it for your family yeah yes [Music] hold on i got one more person who has their testimony brother heaven pastor can you come and tell us what god did for you the enemy used to lie to me and tell me that i'll be nothing the enemy would lie to me and when i dropped out of college i thought that i had nothing going on in my life i thought that i was good as dead the enemy told me that i will never be good and i should never have kids these are my beat church like my father so what he lied to me and i believed it i said you know what bishop i don't want kids you know what bishop i'm not going to get married but i'm telling somebody when i came into the house of the lord when i got filled with the holy ghost god turned me around he turned my thoughts around and now i have a beautiful wife and two beautiful kids come out somebody i'm telling you right now the enemy can't take it because i want it oh back [Music] somebody on a declaring in this house i'm getting everything back [Music] i'm getting everything back just yes somebody said i want it all right everything that is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i want it all i wanted [Music] [Music] i got one more testimony sister ashley can you come and testify what god has done for you hallelujah 2007 i was broken i was confused i was lost bound in chains of depression i thought the only way i was suicide i climbed on that balcony i jumped two stories but today i stand in front of you testifying the glory of god that same year i was baptized in the name of jesus filled with the holy ghost and here i am worshiping him in spirit and in truth with the government for evil god turned it around for my good for my good [Music] god can still turn it around for you god can still turn it around [Music] [Applause] [Music] i want it [Music] [Applause] [Music] i want it all [Music] you want to tell the devil i'm [Music] somebody declaring [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] hey [Music] is there anybody in the building tonight that remembers how you used to give everything when you lived in the world is there anybody that remembers dancing in the nightclubs all night long i can't get no holy ghost help up in the building right now anybody beside me remember wasn't worried about the time as a matter of fact you'd still be getting ready just now to get out to the club anybody beside me ever remember looking at the clock singing oh it don't matter what time it is i'll just deal with it in the morning when i get up and then get up and take ibuprofen 18 cups of coffee and drag yourself into work and dealing with the heartache and the pain and the confusion of life listen i got news for the devil if you thought i was going to live for god and come in the house of the lord and just sit on a pew and do nothing for jesus you got another thing coming up if i live like that for the devil then baby i'm going to give twice as much to the god that i serve for god i live and for god i'm going to die somebody in this building ought to give god a great praise in this house [Music] somebody shout yes [Music] come on somebody make some noise in this place somebody make some noise in this house my god you ought to make the enemy pay for every sleepless night you had somebody ought to make the devil pay for every weary night that you experienced somebody ought to [Music] turn around tell your neighbor for god i live and forgot i'll die whoa anybody grateful for what we feel in this house tonight welcome to sunday night live at the rock church amen amen amen what a powerful presence of the lord is in this place tonight i'm so excited about what we feel in this house right now would you just remain on your feet tonight as we prepare for the word of the lord in this sanctuary did you come expecting something great from god tonight come on did you come expecting something great from god tonight tell your neighbor next sunday tell your other neighbor next sunday next sunday is revival sunday with pastor and first lady young all the way from elk grove california my god grab everybody you can let's fill the house on sunday there is no telling what god's gonna do in this place before we leave amen but before we get to next sunday i'm so excited tonight to have one of our very own here to deliver the word of the lord in this house she is a hell raiser i said she is a hell raiser she went hard for the devil but now she's given the devil a headache in the kingdom of god [Music] she's a soul winner she's anointed by god and i'm excited to hear what the lord has given up for this house tonight would you put your hands together and give god a great big praise as sister tabitha holt comes and deliver the word of the lord to us tonight praise the lord everybody praise the lord everybody hey god good i said ain't god good i said ain't god good sometimes proper english don't work when you speak about something so good i said ain't god good i was there bishop i was in the strip clubs thought i was trying to do whatever i could do to make a dollar living a life of lasciviousness um not knowing who i was waking up next to intoxicated out of my mind but you know what i went down in jesus name [Music] i went down in jesus name i got baptized in jesus name i came out of the water speaking in tongues at the spirit gaming deodorant i am a new creation i am a new creature thank god for being here thank you bishop first lady for trusting me i love you i love my family we gonna do this tonight because i'm telling you i'm gonna slay a dumb playing a giant tonight and the subject that i'm gonna be speaking about is a very tough subject but point to your neighbor and say it's for me it's for me it's for me amen we're gonna go to the chapter of luke and let's keep this going this is sunday night live let's keep this going now i've got a lot of scriptures to read okay so ladies you can kick off those hills if you want i'll go fast now the feast of the unleavened bread drew nigh which is called the passover and the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him jesus for they feared the people then entered satan into judas last name surname iscariot being of the number of the twelve and he judas went his way and communed with the chief priests and captains how he might betray him jesus unto them and they the priests and the captains were glad and covenanted and give to give him money and judas he judas promised and sought opportunity to betray jesus unto them in the absence of the multitude satan likes to get you alone he likes to get you alone he wanted to get him away from the multitude i got it judas satan into judas and judah said i got the perfect plan we're going to get him alone then came the day of unleavened bread when the passover must be killed and he sent peter and john saying go prepare us the passover that we may eat and they the twelve had said unto him wherewith thou that we prepare and he jesus said unto them behold when you enter into the city there shall a man meet you bearing a pitcher of water follow him into the house where he entereth and you shall say unto the good man of the house the master saith unto thee say it with me the master saith unto thee okay that was that wasn't with me let's do it say it with me the master saith unto thee where is the guest chamber where shall i eat the passover with my disciples and he shall show you a large upper room somebody say up a room furnished there to make ready and they went and found as he had said unto them and they made ready the passover and when the hours come he sat down and the twelve apostles with him and he said unto them with desire i have desire to eat this passover before with i suffer and for i say unto you i will not anymore eat thereof until it be fulfilled of the kingdom of god and he took the cup and gave thanks and said take this and divide it among yourselves for i say unto you i will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of god shall come and he took the bread and gave thanks and break it and gave it unto them saying this is my body which is given unto you do this in remembrance of me likewise also the cup after supper saying the cup is a new testament of blood which is shed for you but behold the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me and guess where on this table and truly the son of man goeth as it is determined but woe unto them whom he is betrayed and they the twelve began to inquire amongst themselves of which it was that should do this thing and there was also a strife among them of what should be accounted the greatest isn't that something and he said unto them the kings of the gentiles exercise lordship over them and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors but you shall not be so but he that is greatest among you let him be as the younger and he that is chief as he that does serve i'm a servant i'm up here as a servant i preach bible studies because i'm a servant i check on the sick because i'm a servant i'm here at the church doing what i need to do because i'm a servant amen 28 yay the 12 are the are they which have counted with me in my temptations and i appointed it down to you a kingdom as my father had appointed unto me that they may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of israel and the lord said simon simon behold satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as we but i have prayed for thee it's something when i pray for my sisters it's something when i pray for my brother but when jesus prays for me anything is possible satan better watch out when jesus prays for me but i have prayed for thee simon that thy faith failed not and when thou art converted somebody say convert it when thou art converted strengthen thy brethren and if you would give me just a very few moments of your time tonight i'm going to preach to you i'm going to chop off satan's head the scepter is no match for the master the scepter is no match for the master why don't you lift your hands right there why don't you lift your hands right there why don't you shout for victory right there why don't you shout with a voice of triumph right there why don't you shout what about the praise right there hallelujah hallelujah if you promise to preach with me you may sit hand picked by jesus and perfect men some unlearn they didn't come from some special pedigree or priesthood man whom the world would consider to be insignificant were the twelve disciples sitting here in this church are disciples hand-picked by god what considered the world may consider as insignificant but you got the power of the holy ghost the spirit of the living god living down on the inside of you you're more than a conqueror amen simon and simon peter and andrew brothers jesus found them walking by the sea of galilee he saw them casting their fishing nets into the sea he said hey stop what you're doing and follow me and the bible says straightway which can also be interpreted as immediately they cast their nets and they followed right after jesus anybody know what that is like to forsake the world for to forsake everything that you've ever known to pick up to leave everything aside and follow jesus are there any followers in this house i said are there any followers in this house james the son of zebedee a little further in the travel jesus encounters two brothers james the son of jeopardy and and john and with them was their dad and jesus said to the two brothers follow me and immediately or straightway they left the ship and their father and they followed after jesus i come from california hundreds and hundreds probably thousands of miles definitely thousands of miles from florida but god called me here i forsaked my kindred what was well known to me to follow after jesus see when you accept the follow me there's challenges that you're gonna have to face in your life the follow me you cannot be selfish you cannot hold on to the things that god is trying to part you from abraham knew that if i had to follow jesus i have to forsake everything i ever know are you following him tonight i said are you following him tonight philip bartholomew thomas matthew james the son of alphaeus simon called the zealot judas the son of james and judas the traitor so here we are at this passover passover feast gathered in the upper room of the guest chamber of the good man's house to partake of the passover with jesus they were all seated and there's some interesting topics that had taken place bishop we know in luke 22 22-3 the bible tells us that then satan entered into judas iscariot and it made a point to tell us that he was one of the twelve look at your neighbor said he was one of the twelve if we travel to verse 20 it says that they just broke bread and drank from jesus's cup and jesus told them this cup is of the new testament in my blood which is shed for you and oh by the way let me just point this out here satan is sitting at our table satan is right here in the midst imagine that and then the disciples funny very interesting men begin to inquire among themselves who should do this thing who should betray you who is this betrayer that sits in our midst is it me is he and you know what i thought how easily it can be to sit among satan and not be able to identify who he is he's sitting at the seat and eating with them and they have no idea who he is the bible says if you walk in the spirit you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh let me tell you right now if you were confused about why you are not growing in god or why you can't reach a certain height in god you gotta look around in your crowd and see if satan is sitting right in the seat eating with you working with you talking to you sleeping with you so interesting too as they're trying to look and figure out who it is matthew 26 25 it says then jesus was judas was betrayed which betrayed him answered master is it i who who's going to betray you master is it me you're going to tell everybody it was me do you even know it was me and jesus said unto them thou has said thou has said the sifter has no power cannot stand against the master job had it in an exact instance that happened to him satan begged god begged god to let him put his hand on him beg god to sift him and guess what god allowed it let me tell you right now if you're being attacked by the enemy if you're being sifted by the enemy don't give him any credit this is the hand of god in your life god is allowing you to be proved but in our westernized culture we want the route of least resistance we want the route of least resistance god bless me today god don't let anybody make me mad today god give me money god give me a new home god give me give me give me so for my satisfaction and my pleasures but nobody wants to endure the sifting i can't get no help in this house tonight but that's okay i'll preach i'll preach to the preachers over here i know they know what i'm talking about it's impossible to live life without the process of sifting jesus warned matthew in matthew 10 22 you shall be hated for my name's sake but he that endure to the end shall be saved it's about endurance it's about and the race is not given to the swift nor the battle to the strong a hate that endureth to the end satan sitting in their midst and then all they could argue with about with jesus was who's gonna preach the best who's gonna preach the best who preaches the best pastor can i can i travel and preach can i can i preach every can i preach on a sunday morning i gotta show them what i got who's gonna be the better in the kingdom this kingdom can i can can i sit next to you jesus can i have a crown next to you jesus this is all that they could argue about as they sit right there in the presence of satan himself they were looking at their own selfish desires my god my god sifting one translation reads satan has demanded simon satan has demanded permission to not just sift you but all of the disciples a view like grain sifting the jews of ancient israel were well acquainted with sifting it was the last step in producing unusable i'm sorry usable wheat that could be ground into flour step one was planting the wheat wheat step two was harvesting the crop step three the harvested wheat stocks were taken were freshly harvested where we could be piled such sites were always located on hilltops at the threshing floor the wheat stocks were beaten or trampled in order to loosen the chaff from the pure wheat if smaller operations work workers simply beat the wheat with a tool for larger operations cows donkeys and oxen were employed to walk in circles over the stocks some farmers even owned a sled type device that had pieces of metal or stone set into the bottom of it the device was pulled by animals across the wheat stocks over and over again to speed up the work the threshing was followed by step four which was the winnowing the farmer used a winnowing fork akin to our pitchfork a winnowing shovel to gather the stock remains off the ground and throw them up in the air so the wind could blow away the chaff the usable grain fell back to the earth and was collected now the wheat was ready to be sifted for further purifying it and removing the remaining chaff as well as the dust dirt pebbles the wheat had picked up on the ground the sifting was done by use of a sieve a sieve was round and somewhat large filtering device usually two or three feet in diameter its sides were made of wood its bottom was made of woven woven reeds woven grass and a woven wood after placing a small amount of wheat into the sieve the worker violently shook the sieve to create the sifting dynamic consequently the good part of the week collected itself at the bottom center of the sieve the sifter satan demanded of jesus let me act your disciples i want to destroy all of them i feel so strongly to preach this the other night i was sleeping but rewind i was praying and studying and fasting said god what would you have for me to deliver to your people and i went one way and i had one thing and it was great i felt like it was the will of god but then all of a sudden i became agitated i became disturbed and i tried to fill after that and it was a complete shutdown and then god gave me this as i lay on my bed i cried and i prayed and i said god have your way because i don't take this lightly and i woke up very very early in the morning for the second time you ever have a bad dream and then you go to sleep and and you wake up and it happens again and it wouldn't leave me alone and i had to wake up all i could do was cry and pray bishop and i saw faces of some of us at trc faces and kronos time had passed and the faces were aged but i can tell you who you were and not only that i was in the dream and i came up to those people because somehow i let circumstances in my life unanswered prayers and frustrations draw me back off of the threshing floor and i and in the process of time i realized that i made a huge mistake because when the spirit leaveth a place it searched scrolls down and searches in dry places and then it returns back to the place that it left and it doesn't just come back it brings seven more with it so the end of this the state of the end of a man is worse than the beginning and that's how i was and some of you in that dream and i was cognizant in my of subconscious of the thing that i have done and i went to these people and i said where's the rock church where's the church this is not where i knew it would be pastor bishop was the church was the church these people looked at me and they were like we don't know we're not living we're not looking for the church what do you mean where's the church i could not find the rock church and i it was me it was me it was me looking at my existential self able to take tally of my life what happened to me who am i i just woke up where's the church lift your hands right now simon satan desires to have you to sift you like wheat people are feeling isolated satan is lying to you telling you that you don't belong here fighting you in your mind using your shortcomings your frustrations your weaknesses to beat you down and to wear you out to exhaust you to tire you to make it seems as if whatever it is that you're doing for the kingdom is not melting up if you pray loud he tells you to be quiet people will hear you if you be quiet he tells you to pray loud isn't that what your bishop told you to do isn't that what your god told you to do if you run around the church don't do that people are looking at you if you sit in your pew what your arms cross oh you're sitting down on your god it's a mental game that is playing with some of us simon satan desires to sift you as wheat but jesus said i pray for thee simon that thy faith fail thee not and when thou art converted wheat sifting it's hard to understand the concepts of sifting if you don't study so there's a book called manner and customs of bible lands you should get it and some of this is palm trees because we're in florida first lady so how to improvise back then we don't understand the work ethic back then we don't because we take for granted the ease of life that we have today but back then they had to actually work for their green they actually had they go to the grocery store and say hmm what do i want today they didn't go to aldi's and get bred for 85 cents and go in their car and drive home they had to sift it so it was customary of them and what didn't fall off they would throw it up don't worry sister later i got this they would throw it up and if that wasn't enough they would beat it and if that wasn't enough they would take it and toss it up take it and toss it up don't leave me with you i need the bread i gotta feed my family i need this i can't make it unless i do this i can't i got it i need it i need it i need it and that's what satan is doing to some of us right now but don't you worry because the master is now mad satan is no match for the master that's what the devil's doing to us and you know your response that's what it should be right now that's what it says paul said i glory in my infirmities before i am weak you have made me strong though i am weak you have made me strong so you have to understand what the scripture says it says that god allowed this to happen satan begged god and god allowed this to happen but just think if it doesn't happen in your life then what peter do you love me peter do you love me before you were sifted before you were converted you denied me and before then you promised me that you would never leave me and when everybody said they would go you said god i won't go i'm right here i'm your a1 you're a one from day one i'm gonna go through it all with you you can count on me got you jesus and then when the fire when the heat was turned up the bible said they saw him walking afar off who that jesus i don't know him i don't know who they talking about let me get over here jesus peter do you love me peter do you love me because on this rock i'm gonna build my church and the gates of hell cannot prevail will not prevail but peter simon i need to know if you love me because when the heat is on i don't need you to run away scared i don't need you to turn your back i gotta accept you as wheat peter they're gonna take you everywhere sister ashley they're gonna take you everywhere once you were able to go and come as you please but peter they're gonna take you by force you're gonna stay here all right peter you're over here you belong to us now you over here peter but peter that's not it cause you're gonna be crucified just like jesus it's gonna happen peter it's for his glory peter i know you're denied me for peter but right now do you love me do you love me peter do you got what it takes will you run away or will you be sifted so my power can flow through you peter said thou knowest thou knowest all right peter it's time it's time peter you got to die for the gospel your master told you this all right and what did peter say i pray nobody ever does that to me he said i counted not worthy to be crucified as my master you know what crucify me upside down he said crucify me upside down come on come up here come on come on come on come on yeah you yes you come on up here come on up here come on come on you gotta get excited about the sifting you got to place yourself on the thrushing floor paul said that there was a messenger from satan sent to buffet me lest i be what kendrick lift it up see he reads lest i be lifted up it's in our humanity to be lifted up there's not a single person in here that can deny that there's not a single person in here that doesn't fight with pride not a single person that doesn't fight with pride that doesn't feel lifted up and if you're a lady in here you know it get your hair done get your hair did get a new dress girl a new swag this is our altar right here god i don't want to delay the process in my life any longer you've been calling me to the threshing floor you've been calling me here and i've been running and hiding who is jesus jesus who you didn't know you did that walking afar off when he's calling you to the threshing floor how can you be everything that you god has called you to be how can you walk in dominion and power every time you stop your toe you backslide can anybody can anybody say i'm sensitive i am easily offended it's okay you don't have to raise your hand i got some issues that are keeping me from reaching my greatest potential yes guess where you work that out the more they beat them the more they beat them the stronger they grew kendra can you help me out we're gonna we're gonna keep that same level that trevor started as we were worshiping sunday night live i felt the lord say let's be happy about this let's be glad about this we're still in the crossover we're still in the crossover god is still putting before us an open door we're still in the crossover but let me tell you sister princess sister leah sister duhaney women's life ministry ladies bible study every friday we're allowing the lord to sift us and i understand why some of you don't come back because it can be very uncomfortable it can make you very uncomfortable but i want to be everything that god's calling me to be and i don't have any more time to waste in the name of jesus sifting threshing floor on the threshing floor i'm done and i'm out of breath praise god why don't you lift your hands right where you are [Music] blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful but his delight is in the law of the lord and in that law doth he what doth he what day and night it's gonna take day and night and he shall be like a tree planted by rivers of water his leave shall not wither whatsoever should he do it shall prosper but guess what the ungodly are not so but they are like the chaff which the wind driveth the way therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous for the lord knoweth i said the lord knoweth the way of the righteous and the way of the ungodly like the chaff shall perish you gotta reconcile in your heart right now god you know what's going on in my secret places when i'm alone by myself god you know the thoughts and the intents of the heart god i want to make it to heaven as soon as i can dive here on this stretching floor god mold me god make me god created me god used me god help me mortify the deeds of my flesh lift it up right now come on music the threshing floor the sifter has no match the sifter is no match for the master do it in my life lord do it in my life lord do it right now in my life lord busted me sipped me created me a clean heart bring you within me a right spirit god thy way oh god move by your spirit in the name of jesus come on right now lift those hands where you're standing come on right now while you're standing up shake me god make me god mold me god come on i know the wind is blowing i know the storm is shaking me but god i trust you in the process god i know you're making me better i know you're making me stronger i know you're making me wiser come on somebody right now lift your voice right now in the midst of the shaking right now in the midst of the tossing right now in the midst come on i'm going to come out of this better huh i'm going to come out of this stronger i'm going to come out of this come on as a matter of fact i'm going to give god the praise right in the middle of the threshing floor my threshing floor is gonna become my dancing florida my threshing floor is gonna be my date somebody right now or to just start giving god the praise somebody right now the devil tried to blow me away but i'm still here tonight the devil tried to knock me off course but i'm still here tonight come on come on dear sister come on dear brother god's perfecting his strength and your weakness god's perfecting his anointing in your life god's perfect come on right now somebody ought to give him praise somebody ought to give him prayer my god my god there's things breaking loose all around me huh but god's keeping my foot on the rock there's things breaking loose all around me huh but i got my feet planted i got my hands around the altar i'm believing god that the best is yet to come come on somebody rejoice right now somebody rejoice right now somebody rejoice right now come on you ought to pray in the holy ghost you want to go ahead and pray in the holy ghost right now [Music] [Music] [Music] come on somebody right in the middle of your threshing floor hey [Music] how many of you remember the story of joseph his brothers looked and said let's throw him in the pit and we're gonna see what will become of the dreamer let's see what happens to him when all of the shaking starts up let's see what happens to him when all hell breaks loose but at the end of the story huh joseph said you meant it for evil but god meant it for good somebody needs to look the devil in the eye and let the devil know what you meant for evil god is turning it around for my good what you did to try and destroy me god just made me stronger what you did to try and drown me up god just used it to elevate me what you did to try to take me out god just pulled me in somebody [Music] i dare somebody right now that's in the middle of a system to jump up on this platform and dance in the threshold come on [Music] yes [Music] [Music] hey [Music] i'm going to praise him in the storm huh i'm gonna give god the place go [Music] hey yes come on somebody the best is yet to come the best is yet to come rejoice not against [Music] [Music] when the duck settles up i'm gonna be standing up when the storm is over i'm gonna be standing go go [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] i got victory i got victory victory [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] victory [Music] [Applause] i got victory [Music] [Music] this is how you make it through the province [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hey [Music] [Music] my [Music] so [Music] come on somebody right now make it up in your mind i'm going all the way i'm making it all the way i'm making it all the way i'm making it all the way i'm making it all the way [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] somebody declare it to me [Music] victory [Music] [Music] somebody give god a great praise in this house tonight come on somebody give god a great praise in this house tonight come on i'm looking at my situation different [Music] perspective oh clap your hands one more time and give god a great praise together all over this house the bible says that except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die it abideth alone the potential of your life can never be actualized until god puts that seed in the ground and buries it there's something about the darkness of being buried that causes that seed to understand it's time to grow there's something about the lack of sunshine and and the change of the environment uh oh how many of you understand that being buried and being planted look the same if you don't have the right perspective can i tell somebody god's not trying to kill you god just trying to plant you [Music] god's trying to extrapolate the potential of life out of you and that seed has contained the dna the pattern the genetic makeup for greatness but in order for god to get it out of you it first has to die joseph you see sheaves of wheat bowing but before the sheets of weave bow at you you're going to have to go down in the dungeon you're going to have to go down into a pit there's going to be after process where you think everything else i'm going to strip you of everything else in your life i'm gonna put you uh on the floor the threshing floor until i strip you down to nothing and all you can do is say i gotta trust him now if god brings me out it ain't nothing but god it's not my own might it's not my own power and when you come forth peter i got to make sure that when you come up out of the ground that you know how to walk in humility that you know how to handle people that are struggling in their life because you've had your own struggles i've got to make sure that when i when i hand you power and influence that you don't destroy people with it because you've been on the threshing floor and you know what it's like to need the grace and the mercy of god just to wake up in the morning you know what it's like to get up in front of god and say i messed up and i failed god and i need another chance and the next time you run into somebody that needs your grace and mercy somebody right now the word of the lord came to you tonight thank you sister holt for preaching the word of the lord but i wish somebody would raise your hands right now and say all right god help me to learn the lesson tonight god help me to walk with grace through the threshing floor god help me to move through this season of life with my hand in your hand come on all over this house before we leave tonight uh come on before we leave tonight uh the threshing floor the threshing floor come on the sifter is no match for the master what you think is the devil trying to kill you is god trying to strengthen you it's god bringing the best out of you it's god lifting you out of all of the things that are holding you down it's god raising you come on somebody right now come on raise your hands right now i trust you god i'm gonna trust you huh i'm gonna wait on you jesus i'm going to wait on you jesus i'm going to wait come on lift your hands i'm going to wait on you come on lift your hands lift your hands i'm not turning back now i refuse to give up i'm not turning back i refuse to walk away i'm not turning back i refuse to throw in the tower i'm not turning back come on somebody lift your hand to clear it tonight somebody [Music] [Music] come on lift those hands [Music] grab a hold of it tonight i'm gonna wait on youtube grab a hold of it tonight [Music] come on come on [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] make that declaration tonight [Music] [Applause] [Music] come [Music] [Music] yes [Music] of us [Music] [Music] i won't [Music] i'm never gonna [Music] somebody lift your voice [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] turn it back [Music] [Applause] [Music] one more time [Music] somebody lift your hands right now come on [Music] oh [Music] wait on the lord come on before we leave this house lift your voice [Music] [Music] come on one more time get that in your spirit wait on the lord come on [Music] fade on [Music] somebody right now lift your voice all over this house and give god a praise come on give god a praise come on give god a praise give god a praise hallelujah hallelujah we're going to leave these altars open tonight if you want to keep praying thank you sister hold for following the holy ghost tonight and preaching that powerful word from god how many of you thank god for his word tonight hallelujah somebody ought to leave this house with a fresh perspective tonight understanding that your pressure has purpose that your struggle is only making you stronger somebody ought to have a fresh pep in your step tonight and say all right god let's go all the way amen somebody god bless you we're going to be back here again tuesday night you don't want to miss what god's going to be doing in this house if you're praying you're welcome to keep praying god bless you in jesus name wait on the lord

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