Be Opened - Bishop Jackie McCullough

you forgot this voice for god this anointed vessel of god no other than the reverend jackie mccullough put your hands together give god the praise for her [Music] if you have your bibles tonight i'd like you to turn your bibles to saint mark chapter 7. thank you bishop saint mark chapter seven i need my glasses it's not age it's just the light you know that's bad amen i just need my glasses amen say mark the seventh chapter and i'm going to start reading at verse 32 the 32nd verse saint mark the seventh chapter and i'm going to end at verse 37. he'll begin at the reading of god's holy word and they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment thank you very much and they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech and they beseech him to put his hand upon him and he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into his ears and he spit and touch his tongue and looking up to heaven he sighed and said unto him that is be opened and straight where his ears were open and the string of his tongue were loose and he spake plainly and he charged them that they should tell no man but the more he charged them so much the more a great deal they published it and were beyond measure astonished saying he have done all things well he maketh both the death to hear and the dumb to speak and the subject is really taken from verse 34 be opened be opened now we're in the gospels we're in the gospels we're in the gospel according to saint mark but the four gospels really are designed to tell you about jesus's earthly ministry now christ is mentioned throughout the 66 books but jesus is talked about in the four gospels this is the incarnate god this is emmanuel god with us this is god in the flesh this is jesus two natures one being this is this is jesus who was in the flesh yet without sin so the four gospels tell you about his life his accomplishments his purpose the miracles the events surrounding his his his earthly ministry then of course his perpetuous death uh burial resurrection and ascension so if you want to know anything about jesus on earth the historical christ the christ that even the muslims have to reckon with you go to the gospels now mark is the shortest of the four gospels and perhaps he wrote his gospel a little later because he was not among the twelve remember jesus in his second year of earthly ministry chose twelve men such as peter john james bartholomew nathaniel and he trained these guys and they became the apostles the founding fathers of the church mark however stuck with peter and we know peter became a great prolific preacher a preacher who could defend the the credibility and the identity of jesus peter who was in the inner circle who was with him on the mount of transfiguration who was with him in the garden of gethsemane peter who denied him and yet got a promotion when jesus came back and said meet me in galilee so peter had a very intimate relationship with jesus and he could speak about what jesus taught as john said we handled him and we touched him so this is not second hand we were there so mark probably got most of his information from peter thus he wrote the gospel according to saint mark now each of these guys matthew mark luke and john wrote to different audiences so they had different themes they had a special message they wanted to get to their audience just like when you when a pastor or preacher goes to a church he preaches his message differently according to the audience i mean you ought to have no sense to do but you can't preach the same message the same way for different audiences some or else you'll lose them you got the size of the audience and know that some place you can't squall someplace you can't say hallelujah and someplace you better scroll it's not going to listen to you but anyway you've got to know your audience mark's audience was mainly gentiles what we mean by gentiles non-jews people who probably did not have any familiarity with the covenant they were not familiar with with a relationship with jehovah they were alien they were estranged from from judaism and they probably worshiped but they worshipped pagan gods so they were considered as people who were not sophisticated religiously so mark had to give information to these people who are not familiar you see talking to the jews like on the day of pentecost peter didn't really have to preach that much because he was not preaching to to raunchy sinners these people already had a relationship with god they already had abraham as their father they already had the mosaic covenant so they had some knowledge they had some background so when peter got up to preach it clicked immediately it made sense to them but to a gentile he had to mark how to approach them from a different vantage point so he wrote his gospel portraying jesus as a suffering servant as a as as a god who had a human heart who was able to touch pain and touch suffering and and bring healing to humanity and who was willing to say like isaiah to do like isaiah said then he was wounded for our transgression and he was bruised for our iniquities and the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes were healed that's why during good friday and passion week most of our texts and sermons come from the book of mark because he gives a description about jesus time of passion and time of suffering so he was talking to the gentiles he wouldn't spend a lot of time about who begot who that's matthew he's talking to jews and he wanted to prove that legitimately jesus came from a lineage coming out of the the lineage of david coming out of the tribe of judah so he is the legitimate messiah he had a case to defend mark wanted to show jesus came and he was on a mission on a mission on a mission and he came to seek him to say that which was lawson there's nothing that's wrong with you that jesus can't fix it no matter how far down you are he'll pick you up so mark takes you immediately into jesus's public ministry skips over his birth skips over his genealogy and here he is jesus not a lazy jesus ladies and gentlemen there's nothing lazy about jesus i don't know why we have such lazy folk in the church but jesus was not lazy and he was not slow for so you hear mark using such such adverbs as straightway and immediately and instantly that means he's on the case he's on the case he's on the case a lot to do in a short time to do it and in case you think you have a whole lot of time you better get in a hurry i must work the work of him that sent me my god next thing you know you turn around you're on crutches in wheelchair on that bed can't do nothing so you better do it while you have energy you better do it while you have your right mind you better do it while you have the activities of your limbs jesus was moving expeditiously accomplishing his father's will here we have in this particular text his galilean ministry and jesus thoroughly saturated the area called galilee and the people who responded to him most were the common people and that's one of the reasons why the jews resented jesus because he touched people such as you and i he didn't come to sit up with long phylacteries and pray long prayers and sleep in the synagogue and pontificate and make impressions you know like folk like to do dress up and make impressions he came to roll up his sleeve amen we were very very privileged your pastor was one of the pastors and who supported us with our with our um missionary venture to jamaica october 27 through november first we were able to take over 300 people into montego bay and we were able to take almost 30 medical people they were all safely with the holy ghost dentists doctors nurses nurse technicians and we were able to screen successfully over 3000 people we took over 250 thousand dollars worth of medication and we were we've set up a clinic right in the middle of montego bay a clinic second to none a pharmacy better than right aid amen and we were able to minister to those people and people as far as from alaska to alabama from uk all the way across amsterdam holland and and people came from everywhere and they came and they roll up their sleeves we didn't have any prima donnas or any princes any cutie pies we have people who were ready to work amen people got up six o'clock in the morning people who sat in pews just like yourself and just got entertained and tickled fans if their fancies were tickled and and just watched other people perform were able to get in it get in it and touch people's lives 700 people got saved up 175 people got the holy ghost i mean we had a time in jamaica amen we're going back july 18th we're going to triple our staff we're going to triple our medical team and the people down there are waiting for us this is our hometown see so we know the needs of our people and we know what our people need and it was a blessing people came back changed there's nothing more magnificent than knowing that you contributed to the change in somebody's life if you if some of us died today nobody would remember us because we gave up nothing we gave up nothing nothing we haven't given anybody another just me myself and my holy ghost and how unfortunate how you take your wonderful self to the grave and nobody remembers you but if you ever get up and touch somebody else tell somebody touch somebody else that's somebody if you ever decide to do ministry tell somebody do ministry do ministry amen and i love choirs and i love usher boards and i love nurses and all of that but there's more to it than choirs and usher boards and nurses amen amen if i could just help somebody as i travel along well we're going to leave that alone now jesus now is doing ministry he's he's touching the common people i came to seek him to save that which was lost and he became so powerful and effective he became so popular and people hate you when you're effective as long as you're not doing anything they leave you alone so if people are persecuting you feel good about it because you must be doing something right if they're talking about you and giving you hell you must be doing the father's business amen amen so he became he became popular but the hostility grew where did the hostility come from not from the roman government not from the gentiles but from the traditional jewish community he was a threat but you see that's what jesus intended to be he came to be a threat he didn't come to be passive that that that passive jesus that you see painted on michelangelo's painting with his head turned to the side i don't know what that is but that's not the jesus of the bible amen the jesus of the bible is aggressive moving passionately to accomplish the will of the father so all you indifferent passive folk that just sit in the seat and wave your hand and say hallelujah we know you're not in it you're not in it but we're looking for an army an army an army tell somebody i'm in it i'm in it i'm in it i'm in it and because he was accomplishing his father's business he became the target of people's hostility and they wanted to get rid of him prematurely prematurely because they could not kill him until he had accomplished his will the father's will so i'm here to tell you that even though people hate you and set you up they cannot get rid of you they cannot stomp you out until you accomplish the father's will amen i know they wish you were dead but tell them too bad honey too bad eat your heart out i'm still here i'm still here herod also became very concerned because of his popularity so the political government or the political the people in politics became concerned and the people in the religious arena became concerned so jesus now had to move away from galilee and go into another area so four times in the bible you see jesus moving away from galilee and he's moving away because he cannot be killed or destroyed before his time so jesus now is celebrating in this text the passover it's about the time of the passover and it's mandated to be celebrated in jerusalem but because he did not want to be killed stoned or accosted he celebrated the passover in galilee and you would think they would leave him alone they came 180 miles from jerusalem to galilee just to mess with jesus you know folk they're obsessed with you don't know how many people stay up at night worrying about you you sleep just sleep and they can't hardly stay off the phone for talking about you huh they're preoccupied you must be somebody dangerous tell somebody update jesus now because he wanted some peace and quiet remember he wanted to instill some things in his disciples it required teaching so he took his disciples to run away from the heat now even jesus moves away from stressful situations you cannot stay in constant confrontational situations and do the will of god every now and then you got to leave them folk alone let me vote heaven-handed every now and then you gotta take a trip take a trip amen because they will take your energy they will cause you to miss your focus tell somebody i got to be focused i got to be focused i got to be focused now jesus went here is galilee here is galilee now you can you can check your map this ain't no great revelation it's in the back of your bible here is galilee and way up north is tyra and sidon now tara and sidon is not jewish territory tara and sidon is strictly gentile territory jews don't go up there for vacation you're saying they don't go up there to rest they don't go up there to do business because they consider the gentiles as dogs and they consider that as paganistic hedonistic area area where people live in in a lewd low-life way so they don't go up there but that's the area and that always you know seems to puzzle me that that's the area that jesus would leave his own his place of familiarity the nation that he came to and go to a strange nation that's why he said in john and i came to my own and my own receive me not but as many as receive me i give them power to become the sons of god so so jesus is going to an area that it is so anti-judaism anti-traditionalism it's just anti everything that they believe i'm sure it earthly spirits but that's where jesus went to spend time with his disciples so he could have time to teach them so he could come away from the confrontational picky attacking uh coming after him twisting his words trying to set him up my god you know how the folk working you know how they work it you know how they work you know how some of you are working some of you up anyway he went and as he went up there even though this was a gentile area the news of jesus the reputation of jesus i went before him because you see jesus had now been established as a miracle worker as a healer he's his reputation now is that he's an ordinary man there's something unusual about him that whatever he does he does it so well he brings life to the lifeless he he commands the blind to see and the lame to walk oh come on that's the jesus that you serve i don't know what jesus you're serving but this jesus is an awesome jesus he's he's a jesus that can do absolutely anything and that there's nothing impossible for him whatever is wrong with you in here tonight he can take care of it he can take care of it i believe that's why you put your clothes on and came in here tonight because you know that jesus can take care of it the bible tells us that when he got there he had some encounters such as a syrophoenician woman you know that whole story and this woman he just approached jesus and called on him jesus thou son of david recognized him and and worshiped him and as a result she got her miracle and the bible said now that they brought they brought and this fascinates me because you know when i grew up when i grew up in a church in harlem i just went by there the other day and and it's a footstomping hand clapping tongue talking church and i'm saying i went there to put the other day as a reunion and the piano is still there with all the keys but anyway that's my church that's my church don't you all talk about my church anyway but but i grew up in in that atmosphere and when we got saved the mothers of the church who were really the power brokers of the church they they would tell us that the way we know your saved little girl is when you go and bring somebody not we know that's outdated that's not high tech for you coming church and you get dunk and dip and speak and you come back by yourself you drive your wonderful cars by yourself you don't bring we were we were taught to be obsessed with soul winning we were taught that that that god was pleased when you brought somebody to him we were taught that the mark of your growth in the lord is when you go and get somebody ye have not chosen me but i have chosen you come on you weren't looking for god he went and found you that you may go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit may remain that whatsoever you ask of the father he may give it to you but today we have such a selfish gospel and we have such a theology of individualism that you come to church looking for your own little private sermon and i must cater to your own little hurt and i must isolate your own little abuse all of us been abused on every last one of us the devil kicked all of us around ain't no private sermon in here the gospel of jesus christ is for the rich and the gospel of jesus christ it's for the poor and the gospel of jesus christ is for the young and the gospel of jesus christ is for the old and he came so that men and women can have deliverance and it's your responsibility to bring somebody you think this place is filled tonight we should have people hanging from the ceiling we should have people standing on the outside you should have brought 10 people with you you should have had five rows sectioned off on sunday morning your whole family your drunken uncle you're mad on your crazy grandmother everybody up in here that's right verse 32 and they bring unto him my god the value of life human life we're so concerned about our position we're concerned about our job we forget people jesus was a people's person he came to invest in people you know churches should look good we should have carpets and pews and the edifice should be clean everything should be nice but there's nothing more important than the eyes of god than people he didn't come for sticks he didn't come for stones we needed but he came for people and they bring unto him my god they brought this man who could not come on his own he needed somebody to invest in him somebody to take an interest in him that's why you're depressed you're too selfish that's why you need another prophecy because you're stuck on yourself but that's why you need somebody to lay hands on you because it's all about you the devil is a liar there's somebody else in the world besides you tell your neighbor somebody else somebody else they brought unto him one that was death now we all know what that means this man was not was not just it was not spiritually deaf you know in in in revelation it says he didn't have an ear let him hear he's talking about the ability to hear spiritually no we're talking about this man having a physical handicap he could not physically hear now i can hear and many of you in here we have may have a death ministry in here but i can't even imagine my ears were stopped up the other day coming from trinidad and i was a miserable soul miserable because i want to hear everything don't don't try to talk in my presence and not let me hear because i get paranoid so the gift of hearing it's a gift it may be broke but you can hear maybe you have hell in your house but thank god you can so many of us can't even imagine what it is for people to be talking and you can't hear them this man lived in a world of silence ladies and gentlemen people could be saying things against him and plotting against him and he wouldn't have the ability to hear them and hearing is attached to your spirituality because without hearing you can't have faith faith commit by hearing hearing by the word of god so this man was physically impaired and spiritually blocked and then he had another problem he had an impediment in his speech now now if he was dumb i mean that would be bad but at least you wouldn't expect anything of him in terms of verbal communication but to have the apparatus and it's not working correctly can be more frustrating than not having the ability in the first place oh lord we have so many examples that we can draw from we ain't going there tonight but to have the apparatus ladies and gentlemen it ain't working can be frustrating this man had the ability to say something but it never came out right this man could use his tongue and his teeth and the words could be formed but they were never clear enough so communication was in trouble and you know when you don't have proper communication you're limited you're limited we're talking about restriction we're talking about limitations we are talking about impediments and i believe that god sent me tonight to confront the spirit of limitation and the spirit of impediment and the spirit of restriction you have all the opportunity all the possibility all the potential but you can't move and you can't grow and you can't get where you got to go the devil is a liar god is able to set us free come on and put your hands together and let me hear your praises he had an impediment a blockage a restriction in his speech now this when you have these kinds of handicap it affects you psychologically anyone who is handicapped has associated illnesses that means that when you're deaf you have to depend on somebody to try to interpret it for you so you become dependent or you become co-dependent and if you can't talk you're constantly being asked what did you say that alone frustrates you so his level of frustration now is high he's constantly being challenged he's constantly being asked he's constantly being reminded that he's not speaking well and people can be nasty when they know your handicap keep people can be cruel when they know that you're doing something and you're not doing it well people find those things funny you know some of you have a very sick sense of humor you only find people's handicaps funny your humor is so deprived that you're so impoverished yourself that you can only laugh when somebody fall and laugh when somebody's fat and laugh some when somebody got a problem you can't laugh no other time and if you look in the mirror you should laugh all day long impediment he's carrying around a handicap in his speech now communication is a powerful thing the ability to conceive ideas to to to have thoughts and and to be creative and to have intelligence to decipher concepts and to catalog and categorize ideas and not being able to express them my god is almost suicidal to be brilliant and be conceived as dumb to have ideas and never have a chance to put them in motion that is suicide ah and the devil has sent out spirits and the assignment of the enemy has come to tie some of us up that we are walking around as brilliant people as people of possibility and yet we are stuck but tonight tell your neighbor tonight tonight tonight tonight i believe that god has you on his agenda or somebody help me up here come on and put your hands together and let me hear you say glory come on in praise [Music] i'm deaf i can't hear my tongue is tied up i can use it but i'm not making sense trying to get a thought across and it can't come out right trying to get ahead and it seems like i'm hitting and missing every time trying to move forward and i'm making 10 paces backwards thinking that i'm in one place and wake up and find out i'm still on a dead-end street oh come on here it's a spirit it's a spirit come on and tell your neighbor it's a spirit it's a spirit and that's why the holy ghost came in he came in here tonight to confront that spirit in your mind in your body in your emotions oh i need somebody to help me come on and put your hands together i need a praise in this house now we might say that jesus if you believe if you believe that jesus functions after the fact if you believe that jesus react instead of act if you don't understand the sovereignty of god and that all things have been for ordained you see him saying if your theology is a little bit different from mine then you know we're going to have problems right here because i don't believe that this was an afterthought i don't believe that jesus just went up there to teach his disciples and then all of a sudden they brought the man and he felt sorry for him i believe before the sun was hung and the moon shun that this man was on jesus his agenda you understand i believe before he said let there be he saw this man through through the time he he saw the devil mess him up and he wrote him down you'll mess him up but i'm gonna lift him up you tied him up but i'm gonna set him free oh come on here there is no second thought god has you on his agenda before your mama met your daddy he intended to deliver you tell somebody i believe it i believe it i believe it i believe so you are not here by chance tonight you are not here because this is just a pentecostal shindig you're not here because we're coming together just to have church you're here because god and his divine intentions because he loves you with an everlasting look doesn't want you to go through 1998 limited and restricted ah he brought you in here so he could set you free at whom the son set free i wish i had a church to help me he is free oh come on church you got to praise him right here come on and put your hands together and let me hear you let me hear you let me hear your praise death and tongue tie can't hear and can't communicate this ladies and gentlemen is double jeopardy huh this is somebody who is living in darkness this is somebody who is shut up and somebody took the key and don't want to open it but the bible said that jesus took him aside and of course he's incognito he doesn't want a lot of hoopla so he took him aside and the bible said he's so sensitive you know jesus is so sensitive to people and i wish ministers would be sensitive to people i wish you prayer alter workers would be sensitive to people i wish you would understand when you're praying for people you're not praying for a robot you're praying for somebody who yeah i'm saying the man might have been dumb and dead but he didn't say he was stupid so so jesus used his hands to demonstrate you can't hear me but you can see me and i want you to see what i'm getting ready to do for you i'm getting ready to stick my finger in your ear i'm getting ready to put my finger on this impediment this demon that's sitting on your eardrum this spirit that's tying up your tympanic membrane i'm getting ready to handle him tonight tell somebody he's gonna handle him he's gonna handle him whatever that spirit is he's got the power oh come on and praise him a little bit he's got the power to handle him i don't care how long it's been going on i don't care if it's the residue or something for 20 years or 30 years i don't care how long the devil tells you you're gonna have to live with it you're gonna have to die with it it's just a handicap that cheap grace that we preach that cheap theology that we preach that people have to live with it and make adjustment i don't believe it i believe that even though i have made adjustments and i have to compensate there comes a time whether it's in the morning whether it's in the church the spirit of the lord sets the day when he comes to set me free give me the agility give me the deliverance and let the devil know you have no authority he is the king of kings he is the lord of the lord he is a lion of the tribe of judah he is the battle ax he is the holy one of israel he is the el shaddai can i get a praise in here come on and put your hands together and praise it i'm getting ready to do it i'm getting ready to do it i'm getting ready to pop your ears open i'm getting ready to give you access i'm getting ready to give you understanding i'm getting ready to give you clarity and let you come on in so you can hear so you can understand so you can comprehend come on and put your hands together and give god praise he put his fingers in both ears to let him know i'm getting ready to do something and some of you sitting in here tonight can sense the spirit of the lord it's not it's not just churchy stuff now this this ain't no trying to impress nobody in here because you got too much stuff tying you up you you got too much things keeping you back so you ain't in here trying to impress nobody this ain't no jerk to be jerking this is the spirit of the lord tuning you in setting you up revving you up to tell you i'm getting ready to break the back of the enemy i'm getting ready to destroy the yoke i'm getting ready to take you to another level ah come on and put your hands together i need a praise in the house oh come on church is this a pentecostal church i want to hear the church praising come on and open your mouth and praise him i'm coming for your hearing i don't want you to get any more misinformation i don't want you to be misdirected anymore i don't want you to get any cloudy messages i want you to hear me loud and i want you to hear me clear i want you to understand that i have information to give you i want you to know there's a plan i want to reveal to you it is not my will for you to wander around in circle and be here there and everywhere ah for the steps of a good man my god ordered by the lord oh i feel something up here church come on and praise him a little bit tell somebody i'm ready to hear i'm ready to hear i'm ready to hear ah i've got new inspiration i've got things that i want to unlock in your spirit i've got information in the bible that you are skipped over because your hearing was blocked but when i pop it open eyes have not seen and years of not heard and neither is it written in the hearts of man what god has prepared for those that love him put it in his ears spat and of course you know preachers play with this i'm scared to play with stuff like this i don't know what the spitting means except that he's going to probably demonstrate and i'm gonna do something with your tongue you can play with if you want to touch his tongue and he looked up to heaven because he's in gentile country so he's making a whole demonstration and he's he's he's putting on a whole display okay and he's saying ephatha which is borrowed from the aramaic which means be open now it doesn't mean just be open uh just to have you know entrance or or to unlock it means be opened completely and don't close again it means be opened and stay open it means devil get off this and don't return this is not unusual for jesus that's that's the kind of language he uses when he confronts the elements when he confronts sickness the bible said there was a great storm there he told him let's go to the other side and an unusual storm came up and the bible said he had the nerve to go to the bottom of the ship and take a nap and the bible said that the disciples became petrified the the song goes on to say carest thou not if we perish how can thou lie asleep for each moment this seems to be threatening a grave in the angry deep how can you sleep when we see death is coming in the waves and jesus got up uh unassumingly without any hoopla and he stood up and he looked at the waves and he said peace be still and it literally means be muzzled you mad dog i muzzle you growl but you can't bite my god and i believe that god is saying to somebody who has been tormented somebody who has been abused i got the muscle on him i got the muzzle on him ah he can't do nothing else things that he used to do he can't do anymore be muscled ah and don't try it again be ye open i want to open your mind i want to open your mind you know it's a tragedy that you can believe something for years and lives a certain way for years and walk in a certain attitude for years and think that you're right and the enemy can have you so deceive and have your mind so blocked it's like having a mental block towards a subject that many of your children they're not stupid they're not dumb it's just a mental block and they can't seem to get algebra and they can't seem to get chemistry yet they're going to be doctors and nurses later on in life something came and unblock their mind well it's the same thing with your walk it's the same thing with your life experience some of us are stuck stuck right there stop right there tradition has hasn't struck the way we were raised culture has a structure our experience how this hazard has us blocked so that we can't even see and even if it's right before us we miss it every time opportunity is there and we're looking in the wrong direction tied up in mess and can't see the blessing oh that's why god loves you enough tonight and tell you your blocked days are over ah your stagnated days are over it's time for progression it's time to move to the next level oh come on i'm getting ready to open up in here i'm getting ready to open up i'm getting ready to unstuck this thing and when i unstop it you'll never be blocked again can i get somebody to help me i need somebody who believes it somebody who wants it somebody who is getting ready to receive it come on and put your hands together i want to hear it i want to hear it i want to hear it come on and praise it [Music] his ears became open ladies and gentlemen but not only his ears but the marvelous thing to me because i believe in talking you know you know i get in trouble for talking you know i'm blatantly blunt i'm saying got it from my daddy blatantly blunt you i'm saying i say just what i mean and mean just what i say you know and i say quick and sharp holy ghost got to sweeten it up a little bit just you know and i like to say what i feel to my own chagrin of course because sometimes i get jammed up but but anyway i think communication is a blessing it's a blessing it's a blessing it's a blessing to be able and it's a miracle it's amazing it's a mystery how you can have something all the way up in here and you can filter it down and bring it out your mind and it makes sense my god how all those little neurons and ideas are running up and down your brain and hooking up together and i have the ability to take words the language itself is it's amazing how we can even speak the language and communicate ideas and we can get along listen communication is powerful it brings about unity that's why that's why the tower of babylon was bible was so tough the bible said they had one language they understood each other they even understood each other without words and god said if i don't mess it up they'll tear up heaven oh come on here the gift of communication and the devil has some of us tied up we're talking to the wrong people we're hooked up in the wrong situation we're giving away ideas to the wrong people ah the devil has us twisted up and tied up ah we're doing things in the wrong way but the bible said the impediment impediment means something hindering something blocking something placed specifically in the way to keep you from talking speech impediment means he had the tongue but the little string under the tongue held it so close he was shorter than normal so he could not raise his tongue and form certain words like the l words and the t words and the d words he could roll his words like he wanted to so one letter sounded like the other and another letter sounded like the other what an embarrassment so impediment means embarrassment impediment means humiliation and i believe somebody in here you're tired of being embarrassed you're tired of being humiliated you're tired of being put to shame you want freedom you want to be able to walk with your head up high you want to stick your tongue out at the devil and tell the devil keep your heart out look where the lord has brought me oh come on church i feel deliverance in here come on and put your hands together oh you got to praise him when you hear it grab it and praise him when you hear it grab it and praise him when you hear it open your mouth and give him glory can i hear you say glory i want to be free of impediments [Applause] [Music] i desire to be relieved of restrictions it's time for the limits to be taken off and oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god it's time for my doors to be unlocked my god it's time for my mountains to be climbed ah it's time for my valleys to be exalted somebody help me here put your hands together and let me hear you say glory ah tell somebody it's getting ready to happen it's getting ready to happen i feel the holy ghost getting ready to touch my tongue i feel the holy ghost getting ready to touch my ear i feel god getting ready to expand me i feel god getting ready to lose the limits oh devil you have me boxed in but you didn't bargain for this day you didn't think of visitation was gonna come by on this day you didn't think i was gonna be in the right place at the right time for this miracle and i'm announcing to the spirit of restriction i'm announcing to the spirit of impediment god is getting ready to break the barriers god is getting ready to lift the limitations you shall be opened you shall be stretched you shall be set free barriers are broken down horizons are lifted god said when i created you i intended for you to go higher i intended for you to go to the top ah if i called you you can do it if i failed you you can make it if i set you free you can fly can i get some help in here can i get a praise in the house can i get somebody to help me praise him oh we come against every spirit of restriction we come against every spirit of limitation satan the lord god rebuke you and the hands of god behind you you lying wonder it's not impossible you lie and wonder it's not too late you lie and wonder i'm not deformed forever you lying wonder i'm not dysfunctional forever i was a mess last year but i got possibility tonight i made a fool of myself ten years ago but tonight god is gonna set the record straight the god that i serve the king of kings and the lord of the lords and the line of the tribe of judah and the holy one of israel and the awesome god and the baddest god he can set me free and i'm ready i'm ready i'm ready come on church you got to grab it you've got to reach up for it out of your belly come on take a deep breath raise your hand open your mouth raise him with all your heart give him glory come on and give him glory come on and praise him he's worthy he's worthy not only is he worthy but he's able i said he's able spirit of impediment he's able spirit of restriction he's able spirit of limitation he's able stumbling blocks he's able oh hinderances he's able come on you got to press your way you got to press your way come on and grab the word come on and see yourself moving come on and see yourself move it come on and see agility come on and see freedom come on and see yourself stretching come on and raise your voice uh you got to praise him you got to sustain the praise you got to open your mouth and praise it you can't stand and look crazy you got to shut everybody out you got to open your mouth lift your voice like a trumpet let the devil hear you believe this let the devil hear you receive this come on way down in the city of your soul wave down in the city of your spirit you got to reach up open your mouth and let god know i'm the one in here tonight i stuck my ears open my tongue loose my feet take me higher cut through my block come on in god cut through my emotions cut through my negativism cut through my past cut through my history cut through my downfall let me rise to the next level i'm not going to stay here and die i believe there's another place for me [Music] holy ghost is moving in every seat every heart every heart you've got the opportunity to receive a mighty miracle rosh come on jesus i don't hear you i don't hear you i don't hear you i've got to hear you you've got to reach up raise your voice don't you dare swallow it down he wants you to be quiet make a joyful noise open your mouth let the devil know the word is true let the devil know that it is so hallelujah [Applause] glory to god glory to god now it's very difficult when you've been impeded when you've been impeded for so long it's very difficult for you to see yourself unimpeded when you've been locked up for years it's very difficult prisoners who have been incarcerated for years they're afraid of freedom that's why some of them go out and get in trouble and get right back in there because it's so difficult for them to see themselves moving unhindered moving steadily with a steady momentum without being stuck without years being stolen from them and then god comes by early in the year before you get jammed up in may before the devil pulls a trick on you in september he wants to set you up so that when the devil comes you can step over him i said not this year not this year not this year you tried that dumb trick last year you've been doing it for 10 years but this year i got delivered i got delivered i develop agility i can climb over anything my god i want you to turn around and put your arms around somebody and begin to look them in the eye don't you let them go hold on to their hands and look them in the eye and tell them tonight tonight tonight god brought us in here to lose us from restrictions god brought us together to set us free from limitations you got so much going for you but you are your own hindrance people in your way history in your way emotions in your way failures in your way but tonight god wants to close the door and open another one now you have a choice you can live with impediment or you can walk over it tonight the spirit of the lord is in the house the spirit of the lord is in the house the spirit of the lord is in the house to give you freedom to give you freedom now come on and rejoice in him [Applause] come on and rejoice come on and rejoice in here come on and rejoice in [Applause] come on and rejoice in here come on and rejoice in him rejoice in the lord let the devil see you rejoice if you don't rejoice that means you don't believe it i believe it so i'm gonna rejoice in it i believe it so i'm gonna act like it's done i believe it so i'm going to let the devil know that impediments have been removed financial problems emotional problems family problems divorce problems children problems i got my freedom i've got my freedom tell somebody i got my freedom my god holy ghost [Applause] [Music] hallelujah now this is what the lord wants you to do he wants you to run and tap somebody and tell them i got my freedom confess it confess it come on i got it i got it i feel the lifting of the law i feel the losing of the lord so how can it be it can happen right here that's how god works this is not magic this is miracle this is not magic this is the word of god this is not superstition this is the power of the holy ghost he speaks it and it's done he speaks it and it's done all you got to do is receive it tell somebody i got it i got it i got it i'm getting ready to walk in it i'm getting ready to lie down in it i'm getting ready to get up in it oh i need a praise in church i need a praise in church glory to god glory to god glory to god [Music] whenever whenever the lord sent a word to israel the bible would say and there is a rejoicing or there's a great shout in the camp the rejoicing really says the word of god is right i accept it and i'm gonna walk out of here and live it so when you go out of here tonight you're going to turn your car to the left and say i'm open you want to turn your car to the right and say i'm open you're going to put your foot on the brakes and say i'm open oh my god hallelujah [Applause] ain't nothing blocking me nothing's stopping me now i want you to get your neighbor by the hand and at the count of three you're gonna celebrate what are you celebrating now if you're still stuck and you don't want this word then you can't celebrate but if you're in your heart you anticipate can you imagine what it is to be tied up for years to be stuck for years to be guilty for years to be embarrassed for years ah but now you can praise him go ahead and praise him tell somebody help me [Applause] oh you can celebrate celebrate [Applause] now listen i don't want you standing looking around this is cause for celebration you can't leave here without celebrating and if you don't know what to do just just jump up and down but tell somebody help me help me help me help me help me help me help me help me celebrate go ahead and praise it [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] now what are we celebrating we are celebrating that we're open what are we open to to the holy spirit there's nothing blocking inspiration there's nothing blocking anointing there's nothing blocking opportunity there's nothing blocking progress there's nothing blocking our entrance into new places there's nothing blocking elevation there's nothing blocking edification my god you ought to see yourself moving in here come on and run somebody and tell somebody i'm open i'm open i'm open come on get out your seat and tell somebody i'm open i'm open i'm ready my god come on and praise him church you got to praise him you've got to praise him i'm not stuck i'm open [Applause] [Applause] [Music] just one more thing and i'm finished i know i'm crazy but i wanted to get all in the atmosphere i want the spirit to go home with you so that when god presents you with opportunities and he puts you in certain circumstances the spirit of fear the spirit of guilt the spirit of your past will not hinder you that there'll be a spirit of freedom to embrace it even if you've never done it before you won't be afraid of it either this is new to you won't back up and act like you can't handle it my god tell somebody i can handle i can handle it oh my god ain't never done it before but [Applause] hey glory hallelujah oh my god [Music] [Applause] there's a praise in the house i'm not afraid i'm not afraid i'm not afraid i'm not afraid i don't have to play any dumb games i'm not afraid i'm not afraid i don't have to lie i'm not afraid i'm not afraid i don't have to draw back i'm not afraid i'm not afraid i don't have to buy and play hide and go seek i can embrace the opportunity with confidence because i'm open now at the count of three i want you to jump up and say i'm open i'm open i'm open one two three come on [Applause] now while we're praising the lord while we're praising the lord there's somebody in here who needs jesus and he wants to pull you out of darkness [Music] the limitations of sin and he wants to bring you into the freedom of salvation the freedom to live a life where you're not afraid where you're not an enemy to god and while we're praising the lord while we're praising the lord if you've never met jesus you need to run down here right now and say i'm open i'm open i'm ready for it i'm ready for it wherever you are come you need to keep praising god you can't stop praising him if the church would praise him the sinners would come if you're here tonight come if you don't know jesus come if you want freedom to live come if you want god to come in and lift the the guilt and the shame from your life come wherever you are just walk out of your seat don't look around church this is not spectating this is worship the more you worship the more the people will come amen and you don't give up your worship that easy there's too much happening in here wherever you are walk out of your seat come on down come on down if you're in the balcony come if you're in the overflow come if you're standing in the lobby come but don't miss this opportunity to be open to be free here comes somebody praise him saints here comes somebody there are people in here who don't want to stay the same tell somebody i don't want to stay the same i don't want to stay the state amen there's some people in here who want to be delivered want to be delivered want to be delivered somebody else somebody else somebody else you're tied up don't know how to get out you're stuck in something and want to be free this is your chance amen he came all the way out of heaven just for you you don't have to stay that way you don't have to live that way just come out of your seat come without money come without price it's free that's it come on baby come all the way down somebody ought to praise him for somebody else [Music] i believe there's somebody else in the house there's somebody else in the house if you praise him they'll come it's the praises that that causes people to get faith amen here comes somebody else somebody ought to praise him that could be your sister come on that could be your friend i believe there's somebody else somebody else if you're a backslider come on home come on home it's time to be free tonight here comes somebody else come on church come on you can't get tired in here there's too much to be done if you believe that god can do it you ought to give him a shout of praise glory to god deliverance of souls deliverance of mine deliverance of spirits some people are tied up in witchcraft tied up in spirits come on god can deliver you tonight wherever you are just come come come on somebody else coming somebody else coming we don't know why they're coming but we're so glad they're coming we're so glad they're coming aren't you glad they're coming well act like you're glad that they're coming amen to god glory to god we're going to worship the lord while you're being ministered to we're going to put our hands together and praise him we're going to praise him we're going to shout hallelujah we're going to rejoice in the lord god is still speaking to his feet when you praise him he does the drawing when you lift him up he does the drawing when you lift him up he pulls them out amen glory to god glory to god somebody can get delivered right in the seat somebody can get the holy ghost in your seat just praise him a little bit just open up your spirit and let god come upon you in a fresh way glory to god glory to god and we praise you and we worship you and we adore you and we bless your name come on and bless it glory to god [Music] praise your jesus tell your neighbor miracles are being performed at the altar miracles are being performed tell your neighbors souls are being delivered at the altar souls are being delivered at the altar come on this is not spectator you got to get in it tell your neighbor get in this get in this get in this god intends to deliver his people and it's not the will of god for people to stay bound and tied up oh come on church he died to set us free can i see somebody wave their hands well i declare there's a praise in here you just got to give it to him come on and bless the lord with your lips come on and bless the lord with your mouth hallelujah come on and worship the lord don't you dare stop worshiping him come on and take time out to glorify him and magnify him since shackles are falling demons are being chased from this altar hearts are being set free from this altar oh come on glory father lord glory by the lord hallelujah praise god praise god praise god here comes somebody else tell somebody he's not finished he's not finished glory to god glory to god glory to god somebody ought to just jump up and down and break him a little bit that's it somebody ought to jump up and just shout hallelujah hallelujah glory to god glory to god don't be afraid to praise him that's it honey go ahead and give the glory go ahead and get the glory glory to god and we praise you and we praise him and we thank you that drugs the spirit of drugs being lifted from people's spirit the spirit of cocaine in the name of the lord jesus we curse the appetite of cocaine you shall not go back anymore hallelujah god just took the taste out of somebody's mouth come on and praise praising saints thank god no temple shivers [Applause] hallelujah [Applause] bodies are being healed right now we thank you that the spirit of affliction being lifted from people's bones and kidneys and livers and high blood pressure we thank you that gallstones are being dried up kidney stones are being disintegrated in the name of the lord jesus we think it had heart attacks being neutralized right now thank you thank you come on tell somebody there's a new heart transplant in here hey oh i dare to praise him holy ghost is busy in here glory to god glory to god glory to god [Applause] [Music] we worship the lord we worship the lord we worship the lord tubes that are blocked god can unblock them right now right now right now right now in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus now put those hands together and praise him the devil hates when you clap come on come on this is a weapon when you clap it's a weapon come on [Applause] [Music] now while they're being ministered at the altar we're gonna celebrate by giving and i don't want you to lose your i don't want you to lose your your worship and we're gonna do this in five [Music] minutes you

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Published: Wed Jan 20 2021