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[Music] get ready for the counter four three two [Music] word impact gathering here at Bethany Baptist Church where Bishop David G Evans is our senior pastor it is Wednesday it is hump day it is in the middle of the week it is our time to come back and get our refueling from Sunday up until now because God is still doing great and mighty things and you know what a lot of times we need that reminder that God is still in the wonder-working business that whatever it is that we're standing in needed that God is still able to do it even if he hasn't done it yet that's one thing I've learned about the Lord is he's always working in the background and then when we least expect it whatever it is that we've been asking for him to do all of a sudden it manifests itself so we're praying with you and for you and together with you as we lift up the name of Jesus on tonight looking forward to the Word of God that is going to come forward one thing I love about the Word of God is that it's able to meet us wherever we are no matter what our situation is and how I what I really love most about the word is how every situation that you and I experience may be different but the same word that comes for you get your portion I get my portion and whatever it is that we're standing in need of God makes sure that we get just that so right now what I want you to do is I want you to think on Jesus forget about it here's forget about your troubles and let's begin to magnify him say a quick prayer and to yourself Lord taught me to step out of myself once a night help me just a concentrate on your word and what you have to save me let me worship you God and as I worship you I know that you all attend unto the knees that I have so god bless you want tonight make sure you sure share this on your social media accounts get it on the eye shed and let our I pass to know you're there and God bless you and let's enjoy this evenings worship experience [Music] thank you look hallelujah hallelujah in Jesus name we pray amen amen and amen and hallelu [Music] other [Music] hallelujah wonderful Savior we'll be honor you Father we honor you father we give you glory come on lift your hands come on give them glory we magnify your name tonight Lord you're worthy we're so grateful thank you for being here God thank you for being in the presence Oh God have your way tonight Oh God Mumbai your spirit Oh God we thank you we thank you God we thank you we can't to give your all right we honor your father we can you call me we love your cheese we fight tonight we're fighting coz we win tonight we're victorious tonight no matter what it looks like we win tonight [Music] [Music] tonight even in a sickness thank you Jesus we shake up we salute you alpha and this is why we fight because we win hallelujah thank you lord come on put your hands together [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] ah [Music] with a grateful heart [Music] give thanks because he's given Jesus Christ his son give thanks with a grateful heart give thanks to holy give aids because he's given Jesus Christ his son and [Music] let the week [Music] let the poor because of what [Music] let the weak say at the port [Music] and we because has done for help [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] see that in unison together [Music] [Music] Oh I would say [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] we shall [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] when a believe is that tonight [Music] [Music] [Music] Yaser [Music] please [Music] come on bless the Lord [Music] somebody shall we win come on say it like a minute we win we shall never be defeated hallelujah bless his name hallelujah [Music] grab somebody's hand mulch it he is the greatest power cause of that we shall never be defeated Bible calls him our fortress our strong tower where righteous folk know where to run and there they find safety shield a favor armor of protection wall of preservation hedge all around us he is our God he is the preserve for the promise keeper that one will never let you go we are engraved in the palm of his hand Jesus says nobody can pluck you out of the father's hand Satan is frustrated tonight he's had a conversation with God about you said you put a hedge of protection around him I can't get to him hallelujah thank you lord for being everything you said you would be thank you lord keeping us and preserving us thank you Lord for dangers seen and unseen father we bless your name right now I thank you for I serve a God who has never lost about serve a God who in whose presence is every possibility I thank you because those things thought impossible are no longer impossible all things are possible all you're looking for is faith come tonight to give you thanks having praised you appropriately all day long so now I take out the time to give you glory I take out the time to thank you and appreciate you I take out the time to lift my head above my problems place them in the glory I faked you now my thinking shifted to heaven my thinking shifted to the power of God I gives you praise right now [Music] we give you thanks we give you glory now Holy Spirit we need your assistance once again won't you please open our minds and open our hearts help us to hear see and receive understand everything you're about to say deliver us from ourselves tonight the enemy has already been defeated it's me it's me Oh Lord place your hand on each of us Bree the fresh breath into each of us rest your power and your fire on each of us today [Music] I want to thank you in advance because everything you say you'll do we believe you do [Music] bless my mind one more time help me to see your word the way you see it bless every home here every house here every residence here I speak to every wayward cell in these bodies I speak to every organ that's not functioning purple in the name of Jesus every cell that's not like you made it in the beginning we rebuked that negative condition now every organ that's not functioning the way it should we speak life and restoration to those organs right now every function that is not operating according to your created will I speak to it right now in the name of Jesus send your power where your word is taught and I thank in advance in Jesus name and everybody said amen take your seats if you can't help me bless the Lord for my friend mr. David Maldonado's here today bless the Lord let's bless God for the others that are coming in now Exodus chapter 4 as we continue in the dare the deliverance part of our dare series Exodus 4 [Music] Exodus for let me know when you have it [Music] as we're waiting for others to get settled just want to remind you of something the way God works often times when we're presented with difficulty we become discouraged because we're not sure how God's going to respond find ourselves even though we may have been walking with God for a while now we find ourselves in the dilemma of wondering how God's going to move when a particular problem presents itself it really becomes an intense moment of inner conversation when what we're dealing with looks like it has a degree of permanence attached to it it doesn't look like it's going to be a season looks like it's going to be a condition [Music] can I talk to you a minute sometimes we become discouraged because we miss identify a season as a condition something that comes to pass something that has a shelf life and we let that the apparent see of the immediacy of the problem we let it kind of get into our spirit in and we start to pray differently you little discouraged and we it's a little hesitation and I praise y'all didn't hear what I said I praise him but it takes me just a second to do it I got to get past my thoughts get past how I'm feeling just to get my hands moving amen and then then I have to let my hands tell my mouth what to do normally I let my mouth tell my hands but I throw your hands up in your mouth joins in amen so sometimes problems can present themselves and we begin to wonder is God going to respond amazing thing about a problem is that not only is is it an invitation for your faith the problem is the sign of what God's going to do the problem is the signal the problem declares what God will do you didn't catch it while I'm waiting for a revelation of what God's going to do the problem tells me what he's going to do I wish I wish I wish I could get help I'm searching for other answers and just like God the answers in the problem so y'all not hearing me God God sometimes reveals himself or what he's going to do when you clearly identify what's wrong and when you identify what's wrong you know what God has to do to correct it so that's how you can praise him in the midst of a problem because the problem is my side of what God's going to do y'all not here when I'm saying that I'm not making it I'm not making sense okay so so the elements of order are always in the disorder the elements of order are always in the disorder I don't know about you but sometimes when when several things hit at the same time that's two people when a multiplicity of difficulties arrived in your life at the same time when you don't know what to tackle first watch how this works and you start wondering if the solution is going to come outside the difficulty when the order is in the mess the the the stuff you need to fix it are in the problem so God makes a world but the first thing he has to do is look at the problem he has said the worlds without form and his void so it tells him immediately what he has to do I got to fill this thing but not before not before I put it in order it's like this so anybody that's ever been around children they can recommend about 15-20 minutes one person will walk in look at it and don't know where to start another person walks in and starts grabbing the mess and putting it in place one person believes they have to do something else when the answers right there in the disorder you'll need to hear me the confusion contains the ends and the problem tells you what God's going to do it was a famine he has to do that to take care if there's sickness he has to do this to take care of if you're in need of something you has to do this to take care it's always in the problem so you don't have to wonder what he's going to do the problem shows you what he's gonna do I wish I had two people that understood what I'm saying so what you're complaining about is actually your answer it's something are you hearing me so don't look away from the problem look at it it'll tell you what God's gonna do and I'll show you what you need to do you've been given Dominion you've been given Authority stuff has to do what you want it to do because God has declared all things work together for you eight all things the thing and everything in the thing has to work together for you Exodus chapter 4 and Moses answered and said but behold they will not believe me nor hearken unto my voice for they will say the Lord has not appeared unto me unto thee and Lord said unto him what is that in your hand he said it's a ride no attitude their Lord you know what it is you're looking at me he asked the question he said because he doesn't know the full capability of the assignment that he has and he said cast it on the ground he cast it on the ground it became a serpent and Moses fled from before it look call him back Moses hold up I need you to grab it put forth your hand grab the snake which was the rod by the tail and he put forth his hand and caught it and it became a rod again that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers under God of Abraham the god of jacob Isaac and the God of Jacob hath appeared on to you that I verse 10 Moses said unto the Lord Lord I'm not eloquent neither heretofore nor sense that thou has spoken unto thy servant but I am a slow of speech and slow time the Lord said unto Him who made your mouth who makes the dumb in the death of the seeing or the blind have not either Lord now therefore go and I will be with your mouth and teach you what to say turn to your neighbor tell them oh yes you can oh yeah oh yes now declare that word over your honor oh yes I can you better say it till you feel it oh because something in you right now is struggling with that declaration somehow sound oh yes I can [Music] one of the amazing things about this particular conversation between God and Moses that has always intrigued me is how God saw Moses was completely different to how Moses saw himself and and as I began to study the life of Moses I started to see that God's greatest struggle concerning Moses was not Pharaoh that that God defeated Pharaoh a lot easier than Moses that he defeated Moses opinion of himself it was Moses problem with himself or will you say his evaluation of himself that kept hindering him in his conversation with God as God was trying to declare to him exactly what he was capable of what he had created him to do when Moses had been talking to himself about himself so long that even God was having a hard time getting through now I don't know I don't know if you ever had that kind of conversation with God because he tends to show you some things and he does this and it's kind of bewildering for me and has maybe it's bewildering for a few of you but there's been a few times in my life that God has spoken to me and I thought that he did not know what he was talking about a few times that he's declared something in my future and I didn't see how I fit in to what he was saying I did not feel as though that he had chosen correctly Amen if I can be honest with you that I I felt as though what I knew about me and what he was saying about me was not matching up can I talk to you a minute I began to wonder if God had not chosen incorrectly or could he had not have chosen someone else and I he tells you what he wants to do with you and you start listening listing your inabilities but one thing that is apparent to me that God knew what Moses couldn't do and chose him because he says what you can't do I'll make up for you but what blew my mind was he said I can't talk I'm not I'm not eloquent as if he needed to compare himself watch the word he compared himself with others who spoke it's a real real real risky thing to start comparing your ability to other people's abilities who are not going to be used by God like you're going to be used by God sometimes our inability is nothing more than a minor thorn in our flesh so that we don't get so lifted up every now and then maybe Moses would need to remember you know I'm doing all this great work for God but I really don't speak very well I wish I had y'all didn't hear what I said I I'm doing this mighty work for the Lord but I'm not this and I'm not that an income from the right family I didn't get the good grades I didn't graduate at the top of the class I was in the middle and truth be told they gave me a break I was on a curve I should have been at the bottom but sometimes will disqualify ourselves but I realized that there would be nothing for faith to do nothing for the oil of God to do if you thought you were all that when God chose you to do something different if you felt like you were qualified well I choose you if you already qualified why I empower you if you already got it together well so he specializes in overcoming your own objections concerning yourself the other thing that gets me about Moses as Moses was more concerned about how people would receive it than he was about the one that was sending it because I think I think it was kind of insulting for him to tell god I know you sending me but they won't believe it's kind of telling God he doesn't know what he's doing like some people think God did not know what he was doing when he saved you that some of you that have been called to ministry and leadership in the church folk don't believe it still I've been pastoring this church for thirty years I still get people to come as guess that just want to see if their eyes are not tricking them I wanted to see for myself because people that know you will agree with the fact that you may not be qualified according to them but I'm so thankful that the one who qualifies you can compensate for you that the one the one that's sending you knows how to take you the one that the anointing of the Holy Ghost compensates for everything you can't do so you can do everything God sending you to do I want you to no longer feel inadequate on your job prepare yourself to be great prepare yourself to breakthrough prepare yourself you're not hearing me you need to prepare yourself for a shift not a little one but a great one problem is your opinion that's that's the killer so Moses having a conversation with God and Moses answers God with his opinion of himself when the sending tells you how God sees you I didn't get this the sending tells you how God sees you so then we have to come to the logical conclusion that if God is sending you it means he has chosen you and will watch this qualify you during the journey that the journey will be your tutor to teach you who you will become during the journey are you hear me that that the journey the assignment brings you takes you to places puts you in situations that you never thought you'd be qualified to experience but God God calls you because he says look I'm going to be with your mouth I love that peace because he's he's letting him know where you feel most inadequate is where I'm going to empower you where you where you feel like you can't do it I'm going to give you the strength the power the know-how to do it touch your neighbor tell him yes you can mr. Kent I know you didn't come from the right neighborhood I know one of both of your parents was crazy I know you came from a broken home I know some of you came from - I know you didn't apply yourself in school but what the devil wants you to do is keep looking at what you can't do so you'll ignore what God is attempting to do in your life right now see the devil's already defeated it's we that keep defeating ourselves God told Moses I'm going to use you and Moses comes up with I can't speak Moses come with who don't believe me so you gotta watch the emphasis who will believe they put me out when I was three months old I got the identity crisis I don't know who I am sometime Hebrew sometime with gypsy I look like an Egyptian all the time but I'm really a Hebrew underneath I got an identity problem try to go to my people they reject me thought I was helping them they called me a criminal I went on the run protecting the people that's who I am why would God use me so when God has the assignment aside now assignment conversation he simply says he simply answers him with his inadequacies who will believe me who would think that you talked to me hmm somebody say opinion the funny thing about an opinion is this all of you go into places where where they fix you up a hit either barbershops or beauty salons they all go to the salon or the barber shop and I'm always amazed at how many opinions are in the shop and most of the time these opinions are very passionate amen but the problem I have is when you ask the one qualifying question that shows you whether you're listening to opinion or experience is when you ask the person we'll have you ever done what you're talking about have you ever coached a team have you ever met Beyonce have you ever [Applause] [Music] and and then you find out they've never done what they have such a passion and opinion about so I want to know how do you become so passionate about something you have no experience and like giving people the impression that you're an expert at what you're expressing it shows you how strong an opinion can be I was watching the news today and it kind of intrigued me these women were being interviewed and one of them made a statement and the lady said well how do you know she said I don't know so their lady I said well why are you so strong about it if you don't know what you're talking about because ignorance is intense you compensate for a lack of knowledge with passion when you're giving an opinion about something you know nothing about so I dare you to change the atmosphere of the place you go to get beautified in that's the person is really saying it like they do thority and you're asking well how long have you been doing this when did you meet her since you and Beyonce on first name so an opinion is either belief or conclusion a belief or conclusion opinion is why supposes now a belief and I think in Moses case and a conclusion a belief is is some kind of mental act just some kind of condition or habits of placing trust in a thing so we watched Moses actually trust in his inability so much so that he he is given God the impression God can't use him I'm going to take you somewhere stay with me so when I have when I have this this disbelief when I have this does this this this confidence in what I can't do God has trouble using me I'm gonna have a mental acceptance of what I'm calling my truth because what we read was Moses truth Moses is speaking his truth what blows my mind is God has another truth concerning Moses so Moses has a truth based on his belief and God has the truth based on how he created him so it's come to this conclusion he's made a judgment he's made a decision he's reached a decision after he has deliberated so Moses opinion here is not some spur-of-the-moment thing Moses has come to the conclusion that he can't took your way around today what you don't think you're eligible for is the conclusion you have come to after you've gone through the mental gymnastics of disqualifying yourself from something that God says I can do all things but your conclusion is God is lying so you made a judgment you reach the conclusion after you deliberate it never met somebody no matter how encouraging you are they're more comfortable in the negative yep yep I don't you can do your best encouragement spend an hour talking to them you finish talking to them and you feel like the atmosphere has been lifted and the first thing out their mouth is but some of you only saying that because you're guilty I know you're trying to encourage me but let me get back to what I'm comfortable with because what you're suggesting is a joy and a happiness then I don't think I'm eligible for my background tells me what you're saying is too good for me so I needed I appreciate God sending you to me but I know what the Bible says but I know what God did for you because one of the hardest things to do one of the hardest things for God to do is unconvince a child of God so so we have these opinions about ourselves that are Antichrist got these opinions ourselves that are anti the word and the will of God because an opinion can only be originated after you've come to a conclusion now the problem with an opinion is that you hold it with confidence but not necessarily with knowledge so I'm confident but I don't know what I'm talking about how can you be confident and you don't know so I've got this opinion but it's not substantiated by positive knowledge but let us say positive knowledge or proof so what we've got to do is is take a field test the same field test that Jesus gave the Apostles you've got a shift from your opinion to yourself about yourself to faith in what God says most of us are still stuck in opinion because we haven't had a full revelation of Jesus Christ some of us are Savior's in a manger because that's where we're comfortable with him because in the crib he can't tell you what to do in the crib he can't follow you so some of us love the image of him in a manger we love the delinquent child that wanders away from the parents when they go in town we like that one because that Jesus appears to be a little mischievous we're comfortable with the mischievous Jesus we're comfortable with the carpenter that makes him more like us goes to work every day got a couple calluses on his hand but that one up on the cross starts to become a little uncomfortable this dying thing this bleeding thing this three-day thing this resurrection thing cuz now is you died for me you have a right to have an expectation from the baby doesn't give me any pressure teenager doesn't give me any pressure but that cross thing that coming about the grave thing that all power thing puts pressure on me what's this big go to mark chapter 8 let me show you something got to go from opinion to faith mark chapter 8 from pinion to faith from opinion to faith you've seen it before but we're going to look at it another in another context mark 827 watch the words mark Matthews the one people usually quote but I need you to see this so you see in the context of shifting from opinion to faith and watch it so when I when I am locked in an opinion about Jesus I am unclear on my identity in him when I get locked into faith in him I certainly land squarely in my identity in him while I'm not sure who he is I'm not sure who he is in me but once I start believing who he is understand his identity my identity becomes much clearer am i still making sense to you watch how this works now mm-hmm so chapter 8 of Mark are you there yet and I was trying to get some of your apps a little time to catch up because I know in and that's a little slow in here some time praise to me hmm that was shade praise the Lord verse 27 and Jesus went out and his disciples into the towns of Caesarea Philippi and by the way he asked his disciples saying under there now I need you to see how the Lord does this thing I'm just see they don't they they think they have in a conversation and they really are so but if he doesn't set up a classroom he just they just kind of walk in and he just hey y'all whoo what they say an industry about me they don't know us a divine test because it's a test of Revelation test of faith test of understanding he's just kind of covered in the conversation they walk it out Street hey man you know that was a real good provider meeting we had last night it was a wonderful thing and they're right in the middle all that what they say about me in the street now watch how this works now watch other sorts it's who do men say that I am and they answered John the Baptist some say Elias others one of the prophets now there's a couple of things in here that kind of intrigue me I just want you to see so first he says to them whom do men say that I am and that so he's asking them who have you been talking to and the sub question is how have those conversations influenced your opinion of me cuz I'm gonna know who you've been talking to by your answer now now my I told me if you're taking a test and you don't agree with the question or something you answer the question then you give your opinion so I would have felt better if they had answered and said but we know you are but there was no answer after that he had to come back and ask another question look at your Bible so he says who who what's your opinion of Who I am so they give him a couple guys and then he turns and says unto them but whom say ye that I am only one guy answers the other people are undecided they're already disciples but they still have an element of indecision I know you but are you sure about you yet because I hear so many other opinions about you now my fresh problem is this why were they so ready to hear this stuff oh you got friends for 20 years somebody known you 10 minutes knowing them five minutes walk up start talking negatively about you my first question is why they feel comfortable that's my first why did they feel comfortable coming to you about me and why now are you looking at me like you believe them kinda and why do I have to prove myself to you after 20 years but somebody you know five minutes it means you really didn't really really you wasn't really riding with me in the first place uh-huh so he says you know I got this you Christ what's what he says he says he didn't say you Jesus he said you're the Christ you don't know anyone said I know you in your elevation I know you in your and your Christological role I know you as The Anointed One did not these opinions so it's jacked up as Peter would and his contradictory as his personality seemed to me he knew who Jesus was and I never had Peter talk about what he can't do Moses talks about what he can't do Peter was wild knife can what a walk in decide yeah that's it nice can water walking storm ignoring 5,000 people saved in one day that Peter and he never says Lord you can't use me Jesus loves his spirit so well that after Peter after he resurrects and goes to has a meeting with the disciples he said y'all come together and make sure you bring people the Bible says and Peter so God is trying to have a shifting conversation with Moses for deliverance to occur there must be a revelation a confrontation of self something God has been ringing in my spirit for the last couple weeks is this the Word of God is so uniquely constructed that hearing it produces faith but if it produces faith it produces controversy because what I believe has to be overcome by what I'm believing so I'm getting saved in the first tape that runs is what I'm not God gets ready to use me and I'm thinking what I can't do God wants to save me and I'm thinking why should he because faith when its birth produces some controversy in the interview I don't know about you but I didn't think God had enough blood to save me see y'all phony I knew I was a sinner I [Music] was happy being one got five real people in here v if v real people would data remember how bad you were and then start to give God glory for delivering you from all that badness [Applause] it ought to make something start happening inside of you cuz in spite of your objections he chose you anyway somebody give God some glory in him in spite of all the things we did he still saved us still anointed us hallelujah what's this thing now some gods having this conversation with Moses any he's trying to get through to him because in order for God to use you sufficiently there has to be a confrontation of self you've got to be willing to confront yourself now quite honestly that is not a strong characteristic for most people because conferencing confronting yourself means admission and admission means responsibility and accountability and most people don't want to go there am I still making sense we we think God hasn't seen it because he hasn't said anything but it gives you his spirit for confrontation confrontation of ourselves nothing worse than a child of God that feels inadequate everybody feels less there but then our other problem is expressing ourselves appropriately once we get the gold God doesn't give you his spirit for puffing he gives us his spirit for confidence but the holy ghost can do is bring our egos under control you don't lose your ego just comes under control so God tells Moses look there's a couple of things missing you need to come in my presence next time you come they take his shoes off because there's some intimacy that we're missing I need you to reduce yourself to a servant in my presence because once you start worshiping me as a servant Moses cuz slaves didn't wear shoes once you position yourself as my slave as my servant I can deliver you from you for us to be delivered we've got to we've got to be come captive to what God says about us alright I'm gonna get to the good part now we've got to become captive to his word captive to the faith that it gives us there has to be this and here's the thing there's an independence in the body of Christ which is weakening the body of Christ everybody wants to do their own thing but the real power is in corporate worship corporate prayers corporate prayer corporate faith that's where the real power is but in this culture today people think it's just gonna be me and God you crazy let me tell you what I think is it's a problem so so so you've been through some things Jesus has not been through he's only been touched by some feelings that you've had but he said he's been touched by the feeling of your infirmity didn't say been touched by the feeling of the actuality of the infirmity just the emotion that's attached so what God does is is there people on this earth who have already gone through storms that you're in right now and you need somebody on earth to confirm that God's going to do in them what he did in me so Jesus has to use somebody else's testimony to give you confidence that what you're going through is not being my point is you can't do this by yourself so God must overcome my doubt of myself in order to fully deliver me today but God is going to overcome your doubt now how do I know how will I know Jack that God's gonna overcome it he gives Moses a ride as physical evidence of his presence gives him a ride as physical evidence of his presence he asks Moses what's that in your hand Moses gives in my back answer arrived like while we having this conversation all right he's okay it's not just what you think it is all you see is the world you can't see what I put in it I need you to reconnect it with the ground where it came from first when you reconnect it something happen to it I'm going to show you the part of your assignment that you're afraid of because you don't think you can do what I'm telling you to do so he throws around on the ground and turns into a snake and that's all Egypt stuff right there then God tells him take the thing by the tail anybody with any sense knows you're gonna pick up a snake you don't grab it by the tail you did it by the head so it can't bite you so the Bible doesn't say he backed up the Bible says he runs from his own ride he's a go back face your fear grab it by the tail because I need to overcome everything you think you know about it pick it up so it still looks like you're in danger and watch what I do so he grabs it by the tail and it returns to its shape because God is trying to show him his capacity y'all missed it he said all right that didn't work for you put your hand in your robe now bring it out he couldn't run from his hand watch the lesson because the last thing you want to be as close to a leper but now he's got leprosy so he can't run from himself so he was afraid of his assignment now he's got some fear of his own sound everybody talking to him so he put his hand in here brings a nice got leprosy God but he can't could this fear is going everywhere he goes he says put it back in there for you die of fear pull it out again and in all that Moses comes back with another objection so you overcome my fear you're overcome my insecurities about my assignment but lord I can't talk I'm not eloquent well first of all who told you you needed to be eloquent he said I'm going to be in your mouth so when you open it on your own business you'll stutter when you open it on mine you watch this so so so we've got this we've got this dilemma that that the problem is is that God has done something extraordinarily gracious for you your sign that it'll work is sitting next to you y'all missed the whole thing you need a sign you sitting next to it you you wanna you want you wonder whether God can do it you're sitting next to a sign that he can you're not hearing you y'all not grabbing hold of this can he overcome yes do you need a sign yes it's sitting in front he is he still using people sitting right next to you turn every time you my sign you my son now I know he has power now I know he can deliver now he knows I know he can overcome my fear now I know he can put me on us I know now because his place my sign right next [Music] a bishop that was cute but I don't believe that's true I didn't either till the Bible said the signs God gave Moses speak to him that the sign has a voice God not gonna send you a sign that won't confirm what he can do and what he's going to do in your life so your science speaks now if you sit next to somebody who had been smoking you all night move because that's not your sign you sitting up next to a ride with no power [Applause] let's have the squirts see the problem is Moses did not know what he was capable of so doc Moses didn't know what he was capable of and Egyptians saw it just as a ride to the enemy the ride becomes everything they need to know about God the ride is an undeniable sign of God's presence so God gives Moses signs he would understand Moses the Bible says signs point to God but Egypt is easier for God to overcome than it is for God to overcome Moses opinion of themselves major resistance in this story doesn't come from Pharaoh the major resistance in the story comes from Moses Moses actually says send someone else better but God keeps remembering what do you say go to Genesis 15 let me show you something that is where it's going to catch up with you tomorrow so God is talking to Moses and while he's talking to Moses he remembers his covenant of faith so he remembers a conversation he had with Abraham while he's talking to Moses because God likes to remember what he says Genesis 15 are you there go down to verse 13 and he said unto Abram know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and shall serve them and they shall afflict them for hundred years and also that nation that people whom they shall serve will I judge and afterward they shall come out with great substance hmm do you see that and you shall go your way go go you shalt go thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace and thou shalt be buried in a good old age do you see that vs. now so Pharaoh was a part of the resistance on the ground but Pharaoh was required for deliverance but there was no deliverer until Moses was overcome with it himself Pharaoh said I'm not letting go that's the devil's most intimidating statement I will not let you go tell Emma is a setup now watch how this goes go to Genesis 15 then we're going to stop could we gotta stop Genesis 15 we got to stop watch how this works now I need you to understand that the reason you're sitting here tonight is because God had plans for you long before you were born and I need you to celebrate the fact that the reason we're sitting here tonight because his plans protected us even when we didn't know him yet yeah yeah his will was in place for us before we were ever in his will and since he had promised himself he was going to save you and use you that's why we're sitting here right now so we're sitting here because of a promise he made to himself concerning you I need you to get this in your spirit so this is the story of Joseph watch it connect so Joseph's brothers you know they threw him in a hole and then they they thought if they stripped the coat off him that they stripped the Destiny off him but God's never that superficial they threw him in a hole he got sold they took his coat made a mistake with it they should have just buried the coat but they went and found an animal that was innocent slay the animal put the blood on Joseph's coat on his coat of Destiny and made a mistake of taking it so the father could see it when the father saw the coat he went into mourning but mourning for a child of God means I'm go see you again so his tears were prophetic for that moment y'all not hear what I'm saying so Joseph grows up separate from them and God sends a famine and they end up having to go to Pharaoh but Joseph has now been elevated at least four times in the story he's had to overcome lies he had to overcome persecution he says overcome imprisonment he's had to overcome being forgotten but then somebody else's problem gives him an opportunity y'all missing me all together somebody else's problem gave him an opportunity so he gets promoted and it's not an accident because the time that he spent matriculating through Egypt view Egypt University he's learned how to manage a great household learn how to manage the Kings prison learns how to use his gifts learns is anointing is so heavy he can bring peace to an entire prison because he walks through the jail asking the prisoners why are you so sad today trying to give us a revelation of Jesus that anywhere you are if you're with him you need to keep your attitude in anticipation because the Lord's coming to deliver you from that situation watch this now verse 14 and Joseph returning to Egypt and he and his brethren all went up with him to bury his father after he had buried his father and when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead they said Joseph will peradventure hate us in other words we're in trouble now and will certainly require us all the evil which we did unto Him so they thought Joseph waited until you know like you did a Michael Corleone let's wait till dad's died and then then we're gonna take care of business what's what what happened they sent a messenger to Joseph saying thy father did command before he died saying so shall ye say unto Joseph forgive I pray thee now look at this thing now so his father told sent a message to him ahead of time forgive I pray thee now the trespass of your brethren and their sin so the father put in a request to the son mm-hmm for they did under the evil now we pray thee forgive the trespass of thy servants of the God of thy father and Joseph wept when they spake unto him and his brethren also went and fell down before his face and they said Behold we be that service now ain't that something Joseph said unto them fear not don't be afraid because you know when you have power you're in a position to be gracious listen to me the same folk that tried to kill you I'm gonna end up needing you and and when and when they come you'll know God is in you because you're gonna react differently gonna be you're gonna be gracious to them when you you could be me but you're too blessed to be angry anymore you just because what this story shows me God can bless you in such a way that it will overcompensate for whatever was done for you so that when the people that did it come to your face you like it's cool it's correct it's cool it's cool Estes and Joe send them don't don't be afraid for I'm in the place of God I'm I'm where God wants me to be that helps us understand the process of God imagine being thrown out a part of his house thrown into jail being forgotten and then reflecting and saying I'm right where God wants me to be that's why through the text that always says and the Lord with it so it does so when you're in a tough situation it doesn't mean God has left you you need to remind yourself God is with me as bad as it is taste of God is with me touch the neighbor tell them God is with you you need to get that in your spirit because some of you're going through a tough season and it feels like God has left you alone somebody shot my God is with me watch verse 20 but asks for you watch what he says now you gonna say something to him now but as for you you thought evil against me but God meant all that for good all that was responsible for bringing the past as it is this day so I can save much people deliver much people alive including young now I could kill you but I'm gonna nourish you and I'm gonna take care your children and why since he comforted them and spoke kindly to them so you had some evil plans but God meant it for good how am I supposed to see that you let all this happen so you could bring this to pass told you so many times before the journey does not explain the destination but once you get where God is sending you it's going to explain everything you had to go through the destination explains the journey the necessity for the trip is explained when you arrive said I and God wanted to deliver me so I could deliver much people alive in other words I can't do this by myself if we lift our hands together I believe nobody will stay bound tonight if we can get some corporate action going I believe God wants to move tonight and we can get some combined faith moving in this place I believe no one will be left behind I need you to get on board with this thing because I don't want you going into the next year all bound up with a lack of confidence believing you can't do what God says you can I don't want you thinking that God chose the wrong person I want you to understand God chose you because God wants to use you I want you to know the devil tried and the devil fail and if he's trying right now he'll fail again I need you stop praising God let you know for yourself I can do this thing God has chosen I'm ready for what God wants to do somebody give God come on rebuked their opinion of yourself rebuked at low self-esteem repute that problem you have hallelujah that's gonna do what you need him to do [Laughter] grab your neighbors hand you'd have to be father I pray right now [Music] release your power on the hand I'm holding as I squeeze my faith into that hand I'm believing every promise for them destroy every internal yoke the yoke of low self-esteem the yoke of I'm not good enough the yoke of I'm not prepared for it destroy that yoke that would cause me to argue with your will I decree and declare in the name of Jesus you can do it you will do it in the name of Jesus it was meant for evil but God meant it for good but broken home that termination that divorce God's bringing you out right now [Applause] [Music] hallelujah hallelujah break the yoke of pain destroy the yoke of disappointment [Music] [Applause] [Music] celebrate your neighbors breakthrough celebrate [Music] I've heard some financial yokes being broken I heard someone notional emotional yokes being destroyed hallelujah lose joy in this place [Music] [Music] grab that hand again P that to me in the name of Jesus I declare you restored renewed revived in the name of Jesus sweet Holy Spirit rest on my neighbor like fire in the Upper Room moving their gifts right now in the name of Jesus caused them to speak differently than ever before hallelujah shirts amen somebody here needs to come back to the Lord needs to come to the Lord for the very first time somebody needs to get saved tonight you need to give your life to the Lord tonight I invite you to come meet me right here need to come back to the Lord I need you to come meet me right here need connect with God's house reconnect I need you to come you have to understand Kingdom position when we're out of position nothing's right in position God can move place people in power those are the three themes of the of the Bible place right place with the right people power of God influence can pour out in your life if you need to come to the Lord for the very first time need to come back to the Lord doesn't matter how many times you need to connect or reconnect with God's house this is your opportunity to come take my hand right now we'd love to have you you can do it yes you can you can do it yes you can yes you can I'm not sure I can a little yes you can I'm gonna show I can live saved yes you can I'm not sure I can change yes you can yes you can why don't you come I don't want you to miss your opportunity I take your seats for just a moment we've got some great things coming up or catch the fire Thanksgiving Drive is in full swing a man come on let's glad I would that every adult would commit to feeding a family of four every adult would commit to feeding a family of four that would only cost you $35 did you well I say family of four $35 I want every adult to please commit to at least one family praise the Lord I don't know about you but I can think of all the Thanksgivings where we throw away enough food to feed a football team amen because you know how we feed got to have three meats and you know for starches you know how we do just can't have greens got to have string beans and cats candy yams dough a little taste salad on that bad boy just you know just sometimes see so much food make you not want to eat crazy look so this this this year I want every adult that can that will I don't know why we couldn't $35 one family so if you want to feed more than one which I hope most of you will and you we feed a family of four amen all right and we need volunteers and items for our homeless packages now don't do that don't do the the unsaved thing I think well I'm helping so I don't have to give anything don't do that don't don't do that y'all so you're going to help and give to praise the Lord all right so we also going to put together these homeless care packages and what we need for the homeless winners coming in the unders I understand that snow is going to be extra ordinary this year yeah I'm praying God doesn't do what he's been doing the last couple years it always rains on it always snows on Saturday night you know I just I think he ought to control the weather a little bit better than that prisoner I really do well I gotta go 9 feet on Saturday night I don't get it what about Sunday nights so we'd like to go to work on Monday praise little so so what we what we need you all are if if you think of the normal things that you need for life in wintertime those are the things we need for the homeless people so you took my hats scarves gloves toothpaste toothbrush blankets you know socks don't bomb don't don't bomb designer socks get get some socks keep the feet warm amen you know and and pull up the leg and stuff you know you know that's you know I'm saying something keeping warm amen they need hand sanitizer blankets which makes sense they're saying tube socks tissues are the ladies that are homeless need those feminine hygiene things so you know we need the ladies to to you know take care that and amen no I'm saying you want to go by the Volunteer Coordinator table after service to make your donation but also get a list of the items that we need for the homeless you can also get it online at go to Bethany comm the ninth of this month which is Saturday I believe 10:30 a.m. rescued by Jesus evangelism and prison ministry will be offering an evangelism class the the Special Forces evangelists forever Mary Hodge will be showing you how to be an effective soul winner this is ideal for those who are volunteering to be on evangelism team for the cast of fire Thanksgiving and Christmas initiatives and anyone who desires to learn how to welcome to witness better everybody's welcome the 10th of this month is our Veterans Day celebration let's give God some praise [Applause] we're going to celebrate Veterans Day at both services the 8 and the 11 as a church be sure to wear your favorite military branch colors on that day as we honor our veterans all I know is Green for Army what else do they wear khaki for Air Force what else blue for who Navy so y'all don't know either but we want to wear colors that are complementary appropriate for those uniforms Amen they represent a branch veterans will have reserved seating and you will also enjoy a delicious breakfast on the house here Church and we'll receive some life-changing information from a special guest speaker if you wish to participate in this special time have breakfast with me on that day veterans and our guest speaker you have to sign up at the veterans table today all right so all the veterans that are going to be in attendance will have breakfast that morning we'll have it together amen Tuesday the twelve diamonds women's ministry don't miss our empowerment session intended the sound of Thanksgiving that night we'll learn how to cultivate the heart of Thanksgiving that produces a sound towards a faithful and compassionate God bring another sister to the fellowship of course they always serve light refreshments attention all dance and flag ministry participants your presence is requested at a ministry meeting with myself on Saturday November 16th at 11:30 a.m. in harvest hall parents are asked to attend the meeting also we have some good stuff to tell you Sunday the 24th after 11:00 a.m. service we're having a friends giving dinner fellowship well that's pretty cool so now you can eat buffet after less service called friends giving tickets only 15 dollars a person they go on sale Sunday the tenth plan now to to attend friends giving dinner celebration amen all right our daycare centers opening up on the 2nd of January amen ages two and a half to six sponsored by generations Inc and pathways services right here at the church will officially open our doors on the second bethenny members receive a 10% discount on weekly tuition tuition there's referral bonuses for people that actually sign up and send their kids and also me free registration and one full week of free tuition if the person is enrolled by December 3rd lord have mercy contact Tiffany Smith eight five six seven eight two five six seven four nine seven eight two six seven four nine for additional information amen that's so you can have a tour and registration all that good stuff attention all men the help is needed on the 8th that Saturday help pick up items for our new day care and preschool please stop by the volunteer table brothers we need your help we've got two home goings miss Sharon Baylock the art of sister Robin Hester the cousin of deacon William Hart that's going to be held on Saturday November 9th at greater Mount Carmel Church of God in Christ 250 Chestnut Avenue West Berlin New Jersey viewing is at 9:00 services at 11:00 and we have mr. Tyree Williams he's the son of sister Nicole Nicky Tate that sir is going to be held on Saturday November 9th at tabernacle of faith Church of God in Christ 115 North fifth Street Camden New Jersey those of you may not know Nikki by name but you certainly have heard her voice she's young ladies that cries out speak Lord yeah her oldest boy passed away so we need to support her the viewing at 9:00 service at eleven at tabernacle of faith in Camden on Saturday the 9th also company called oral life Pharma is having an open house for employment the ninth from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 2400 us 130 Dayton New Jersey full-time and temporary positions available dispensing manufacturing packaging quality control / lab Quality Assurance facilities and engineering and well warehouse tell your friends copies of this item are on the job board in harvest hall so if you need a job go banner by harvest hall pick up the job board and then take the next steps amen all right let's stand on our feet yes let's get ready to give God a seed offering right now one of the greatest dilemmas that we have is doubt we we say we believe God's Word but oftentimes when it comes time to act we have been plagued by doubt before one of the things you want to remember is this a seed is nothing but a visible act of your faith laying something visible on the altar something physical to produce something spiritual so I want you to get that best seed you can get in your hand right now so that we can come and give to the Lord like we always do you want to get involved in this part of worship part of the spirit and truth of worship is our seed offering when we load our seed with our faith the fruit of our faith and the Word of God is produced by what we give so I want you to get ready to give and once you get ready to bless your neighbors offering as we get ready to come to the altar now if they don't have anything in their hand don't put your hands on don't loose a blessing is going nowhere amen we're gonna bless this seat right now raise your seat to the Lord father I thank you right now for we understand now with the devil already being defeated our greatest adversary is what we think of ourselves help us to learn from the lesson of Moses that if God is trying to use us allow him to tell us what he's enabled us to do rather than thinking ourselves out help us to believe ourselves in now God we thank in advance because you said seedtime and harvest shall not cease you said if we give it shall be given unto us we understand we're moving by faith right now and you're a responder to faith bless each offering bless each life cause that seed to produce the fruit that is needed in the name of Jesus we pray everybody say Amen bring your seeds to the altar [Music] praise the Lord I'm so glad you took the time to join us tonight at our midweek gathering so honored you took the time to tune in I want you to listen very closely to what God is trying to say there are some things you must overcome within us to completely use us and deliver us Moses you understand was so special to God and Moses himself vocalize the internal confusion that Paul speaks of in the book of Romans Paul said there's a war going on inside of you there's some confusion my old man and my new man in a confrontation Moses was having a problem with the newness of his assignment and the identity that went along with it and the old Moses that he loosed so well I want you to understand the devil's already defeated in your life then what has to be defeated now is your opinion of yourself because God knew all of that when he decided you were gonna be a vessel of his rule so I want to thank you right now for receiving this word and the intention of this word the spirits job was get you to understand that the enemy is not your biggest adversary the adversary of the purpose is most often our opinion of ourselves once you stay strong and stay safe why don't you so with us right now give along with us be corporate in your faith corporate in your giving corporate in your worship now each Sunday morning we back on track for those of you that joined us in Baltimore on Sunday god bless you so happy that you came to see us but an incredible time with Bishop Bart Pierce and sister Cora Lee and the Rock Church family down in Baltimore Maryland now I want you to stay strong and stay safe and I want to remember faith acts like a thing is so even when it's not so that it might be so god bless you and I'll see you real soon [Music]

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