Bishop Jackie McCullough - "Thankful Heart, Peaceful Mind" - Philippians 4:6-7

praise the Lord but yeah thank you and but I want to ask you to turn your Bibles to the book of Philippians chapter 4 and I'll be reading verses 6 and 7 but we have visitors in the house if you're visiting for the first or second time please stand amen where you are from oh the whole family is so good to have you thank you so much for coming by you're from here or you're you you're from here and you all are from Maryland Oh down the road amen so good to have the appraisal Lord amen yes ma'am amen were you from White Plains us down the road to a man and our dear sister that was here Sunday your family now so amen go tell you Philippians and if you don't have your Bibles we'll have it on the screen Philippians for just two verses the ushers can give you a Bible if you'd like to have a Bible verses six and seven amen and I would love if you would read it along with me I'm reading from the King James Version of Philippians chapter 4 beginning at verse 6 and ending at verse 7 here begins the reading of God's Holy Word be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God and the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus so far the reading and hearing of God's Word amen amen the title of this sermon tonight is thankful heart peaceful mind thankful heart peaceful mind there's a little anonymous story that I'd like to share with you it's called perfect peace there was once a king who offered a prize to the artists who would paint the best picture of peace many artists tried the King looked at all the pictures but there were only two he really liked and he to choose between them one picture was of a calm lake the lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering mountains were all around it overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds all who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace the other picture had mountains too but these were rugged and bare above was an angry sky from which rain fell in which lightning played down the side of the mountain troubles a foaming waterfall this should not look peaceful at all but when the king looked he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock in the bush a mother bird had built her nest there in the mids of the rush of angry water sat the mother bird on her nest perfect peace which picture do you think won the prize the king chose the second picture do you know why because explain the king peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise or hard work peace means to be in the mids of all things and still be calm in your art that is the real meaning of peace the addendum is John 16:33 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows but take heart because I have overcome the world we thank this anonymous or unknown author for this wonderful picture of peace and many of us believe that when things are quiet it means peace when everybody is saying the same thing it means peace and we can't imagine being in the midst of turmoil and still have peace but Philippians talks about it the book of Philippians is really a letter a letter that Paul wrote is one of the prison epistles and he wrote it when he was in prison in Rome along with Philemon and Colossians and Ephesians but Philippians had a special special twist to this letter it's it's a letter that he wrote to a church that was very kind a church that was very thoughtful a church that thought about him and he encouraged them encouraged them to continue to walk with the Lord he it invested in them and he wanted them to continue to be faithful and he also thanked them for supporting him and he's saying when you don't give me I'm not mad at you because I know that my substance or my sustenance comes from the Lord he also talked to them about working together in unity so it's a nice sweet little letter not harsh exhortation like Corinthians not challenging like Galatians but a nice letter to encourage people who seemingly had taken the gospel seriously so in spite of it all he's talking to them because at that time they were in the midst of persecution so he's going to talk to them about anxiety major medical medical diagnosis of our time anxiety anxiety meaning we're gonna find out what it means in a minute it's you know being overly obsessively continually concerned and bent out of shape doesn't mean you don't care but you go beyond care you're almost out of control being concerned about something that you can't change so the first point very quickly cure for anxiety I know that we have different medications for anxiety and I'm not saying that you know anyone should stop taking their medication that's what I'm not saying that what I am saying that the scripture speaks about anxiety what I am saying is that the Lord has an answer for anxiety that's what I am saying and it's not coming from my tradition or my culture is coming from Philippians and here it is in verse 6 it says be careful for nothing and the word careful it literally means do not be distressed or bent out of shape for anxiety cannot change the state or condition of anything from bad to good even if you're anxious it doesn't mean that anything has changed your anxiety my anxiety doesn't change anything it doesn't mean you don't exercise care it doesn't mean that you throw the bill under the bed and don't pay the gas bill and the light bill and then you sit in darkness for the next three weeks that's not we're talking about that's carelessness amen so it doesn't mean that you you don't do your responsibility or you're not worried about or concerned let me say concerned about certain things that you should be concerned about the Bible said that you should be a good provider for your family you should care about your family first Timothy five and eight but if any provide not for his own especially for those of his own house he had denied the faith and is worse than an infidel so the Lord the book encourages to work to take responsibility to worry about the bills to be concerned about the bills to be good stewards and to balance but that kind of anxiety that makes you almost hysterical uncontrollably worried and and and and confuse and jumpy and shaky and irritable and short patient and panicky that's the word I'm looking for that's the anxiety God is talking about it and he talks about it in Luke 12 and also in Matthew 6 it says don't take that much thought about what you eat or what you should drink because your life is more than meat and your body's more than raiment you'd be surprised to know how many people are very very upset that they may not have a turkey and a minute have dinner the way they want you oh they may not be eating dinner with whom they want to but the life is more than all of that and the clothes is more than it's more than what you wear some people are concerned constantly obsessively about what they wear they can't wear the same dress every Sunday you know they get to have on a new dress every Sunday and sometimes it isn't new it's just a new jacket or it's an old jacket with a new dress or it's a jacket from an old dress and a jacket from an old suit and put it together and it's new so we're really concerned and and he began to draw the illustration look at the birds you know the birds wake me up in the morning because the dog barks at the birds cuz you know he's a little anxious himself so he looks out the window and he barks at the birds you know saying sir I'm forced to look out the window and those birds are alive and well jumping from limb to limb how did they eat and you know and it no work and they don't cook [Music] and then when you look at the grass and when you look at the lilies and see that they don't dress themselves and then he said Solomon in all his glory it's not a raid let me sell my was a bad boy we would some bad drags as you would call it he was dressed well but even though Solomon was dressed well he had to work it out for himself and the lilies don't have to work it out and they look better than he does so what should we concentrate on then if we shouldn't be preoccupied with you know you know how the budget is you you just get a certain point and your hundred dollars short or a thousand dollars short and say you can't say you don't have the money but you're short oh you don't know what that is I'm in the wrong church I'm in the Church of millionaires you don't know what it is to be short short alright so when the Lord gives this word in spite of the short short in spite of the fact that you know that things are coming upon you and you can't figure out how you're going to meet the responsibilities how you want to get out of this here he says the the thing that would keep you from losing it is to put him first seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be you see if you don't put him first you'll hustle you don't put him first you'll go out and borrow a whole lot of money and then you got you together pay back back to pay that back to pay that back and nobody gets paid back so I'm in the wrong Church y'all don't know what it does yeah you know you know what it is you gotta pay back to pay back and you have to wrap wrap from PETA and there is no Peter Peter has been robbed Peter been robbed beaten that Duty's don't come here no more ain't got no more money for you but seek ye first the kingdom of God and all his righteousness Matthew says first but seek him put his cause first make him the chief of your life what is a chief end of man to glorify God and to enjoy him forever and he said all these things will be added we absolutely don't believe that I'm telling you we don't believe it that's why we're anxious and that's why we have planned a planned me that's why we're running here we're running there and we're working it out and we can't wait whatever but he said he'll add listen to me I hold this word before him all the time I don't have to also he'll add you understand he'll not subtract he'll add and he said take no thought for tomorrow that means I got tomorrow to come on tell you maybe he's got tomorrow too don't go into this Thanksgiving with anxiety don't spoil everybody's dinner don't be sitting at the table looking sad and pooping come on don't go in there making everybody upset and miserable because you feel like you're in a tight place how then should I handle my anxiety especially during the holiday it tells you right there the antidote to anxiety by prayer and supplication ladies and gentlemen thank God for pet mean thank you thank you very bad because you know you keep telling us how to pray and some of us didn't get it but I got it I got it so bad I got it I got it I don't know what I was doing before but I truly have it now prayer and supplication and it's not just prayer it's earnest prayer it's not this little you know funny time 1/2 mass prayer where you just rush and say something it's prayer is gutsy prayer it's a prayer from the belly like when Hannah was at the altar and she's being persecuted by pnina and she couldn't have a child and in that culture you don't have children you were considered cursed she had become a mockery she had become a sign of of barrenness abandonment and rejection she was she was heartbroken because she wanted to have a son so her future could be secured and the Bible said she went to the altar and she was so brokenhearted she couldn't even get the words out and the priest thought she was drunk but it was one of those gutsy prayers and we have lost gutsy prayers you know hear people praying gutsy prayers anymore you don't hear moaning and groaning I grew up in a church where they knew how to moan and groan because sometimes you can't find the words you understand we become so academic we become so sterile we become so dry and empty that's why we are anxious that's why we can preach a good sermon and still bite all our nails off cuz we don't pray like we used to and it's not just that that intellectual rehearsing or or that canned prayer where we just pray what we've heard of pray what we know people want to hear you got to pray from your belly you've got to pray and let everybody know I need help here you gotta pray on it let the Angels know I'm calling my Papa you gotta pray let the demons know you're not in charge I got a name that is above every name and that this name every knee shall bow and every tongue should confess we've gotten too cute with these prayers she prayed until she got an answer get up Anna next year this time you shall have a son God alone can help us when our backs are against the wall he whatever he promised he will deliver this kind of earnest prayer and the earnest prayer is continued with supplication and supplication means that you just stress it you stress it you emphasize it I'm praying when I'm coming back again I pray this morning at 6 o'clock but at noon day I feel an urgency to press it I feel an urgency to present this let me give one of my testimonies you know when I first started doing ministry you know daughters of whisperers ministry I had a very bad at counting excuse me and I talked about you very bad accountants and he didn't know how what category to put me in in terms of being an self-employed minister okay that's a different different category so as a result I was in trouble I was in so much trouble with the IRS cuz the way he filed my taxes they were gonna hang me high you understand and so one day at noon day for all you all would have you don't like noonday prayer is a sweet time of the day to break I went into the church and sister Collins was was with me because you know we didn't have too many people like today that came to church through noon this one little Hannah lady sitting up there prayed so she was in there crane and I went and I brought all of the bills all of the papers in a brown shopping bag and I knelt at the altar and just groaned and moaned I said God you know how I hate this I hate to be out of compliance with the government I hate that this thing is like a noose around my neck I can't preach like this and any day now I'm looking behind my back thinking somebody gonna grab me no no you got to help me it was an urn listen to me it was an earnest prayer you can't expect success in ministry if you ain't right with the government you can't be sloppy in this area and and and and do all kinds of underhanded things and expect the blessings of the Lord no no the Bible says that I was young and hot NAM old and I've never seen what we get that to everybody ain't for everybody no the straight-up person I mean it wasn't that straight up with money and I cried unto the Lord and and and and somebody came and said bishop wanted to see you and I had an attitude because of interrupting my prayer they were crossing my spirit and I didn't want to go I didn't want to go so I took my shopping bag and went over to the office and you know Bishop said we have a man from Atlanta who is a special accountant and a lawyer and I felt led I felt lit knew nothing about my shopping bag he knew absolutely nothing about my shopping bag he didn't know what was in the bag he didn't know what was in my heart he didn't know I was in trouble I had never said anything to him and the man he says I believe this man can help you I believe this man can help you and I sat down with that man and he said evangelist McCulloch I can work this out all you gotta do is one two three four five six and the tears start cuz a supplication the bleeding and the begging and the collar but this poor man and the Lord heard him and what delivered him out of Oh sounds into innate trust in him at all times he people pour out your heart before him God is a refuge for us tell your neighbor God is our refuge you'll have to sit home and make everybody upset and worry and panic and go into yourself and withdraw and don't praise and don't read your Bible and don't function God is what a refuge a present hell in the time of trouble I'm almost finished now supplication wit now here's where we get you know a little sloppy we we some of us so mind praying and crying cuz we're gonna whine in spirit anyhow we whine and cry but we don't know how to switch it to thank you you can't end this prayer unwinding you gotta turn around but I thank you I don't know how come out of this but I thank you I don't know how you're gonna make away but I thank you that's not talked and talked and talked and cried and cried and pour out my heart I should never leave without saying thank you you punctuated with thank you it's not what Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane if it be possible let this cup pass from me but nevertheless see you got to hand that in there put that in there you got to hook that up in there nevertheless not my will but thy will be done that's a formal thank you you see when you're in agreement you're saying thank you it's to be thankful it's an act of worship Colossians 2 and 6 as he appear for a received Christ Jesus our Lord so walking him in him rooted and built up in him and established in the faith as he have been taught abounding therein with what thanks giving Colossians 3:15 let the Peace of Christ rule in your hearts since as members of one body you were called to peace and be thankful the famous scripture 1st Thessalonians 5 and 18 in every they give thanks but this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you see that's what we miss but some of us don't even pray but many of us like to pray mournful they call it alergies lamenting prayers long whining prayers and then we get up whining and we go through the day whining we don't stay down there till the thank you come the old folks used to say stay there until you come through you know what they mean by coming through until you get a thank you we get up too quickly you understand you got to go through the agony of it the agony but there's an ecstasy when you get to the point where you say God I thank you even though the grapes are not on the line and even though the pomegranates are not on the tree and even though they're no oxen in the stalls I will yet praise you that mercy when you get to that point in prayer it's over even though I don't see any way out instead of us singing doing crazy stuff I'm gonna thank you ain't got no money to do no Black Friday shopping but I do want to thank you because first of all I don't have Black Friday's I have glorious Friday so glorious when I'm broken glorious when I have money glorious when I can buy and glorious when I can buy I don't see anyway the bank account is - but I just want to thank you lord have mercy we have lost our ability to say Romans 8 you know Thanksgiving is an aspect of praise that gives thanks to God for what he does and who he is it's really Springs from a grateful heart you know why you don't say thank you cuz you're not grateful you think the Lord is abusing you when you're really abusing yourself if you really think about it you got in that mess cuz you were messy Jesus been told you not to do that yeah you kept pinching off the ties and thought nobody saw you and now you're in the mess and now you're depressed you understand so so so thank you what kind of shifting thank you and say thank you for your mercy cuz you should have shut me down thank you for your mercy cuz you should have exposed me thank you for your mercy cuz I know I've been gambling yes so yeah rush kvass I know I've been fooling up with your money in strange ways I've been using it to look at strange things but if you help me if you deliver me I'll say thank you even if I don't get what I want even if I have to suffer the consequences I just want to say thank you for we know that all things work together for good to them that love the Lord to those who are called according to his purpose so I thank you because you took me out of danger seen and unseen thank you cuz that came by my door and you're back death up thank you because when I thought I was gonna lose my mind you call my mind back thank you because when my back was against the wall you made a way of escape my soul escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler the snare is broken tell the Fowler it's over tell the poacher it's over lord have mercy tell the scavenger is over come on - accordion dingdong dorsum somebody help me right here now John the stalker it's over somebody being stalked in here tell them it's over the snare is broken tell your neighbor I got out I got out I got out just by the skin of my teeth I got chef Otte out of you better pack him in here for getting out just eat come on that's what you're thanking for you got out just in time you know what it needs to get out just in time yeah listen I know what it is to get out just in time I can preach this with my life I could be here all night I know you would hate me but I could be your own eye just thanking him for getting out just in time yes I'm Sam yeah I was in the car yes and my life was being threatened I saw the grave I think about everybody you understand him there was a the spirit of murder in the car a determination to annihilate my life because the devil wanted to shut me up before I even started and I said God if you get me out of this I'll run for my life and when I got in agreement with God the spirit lifted and the person jumped out the car I put my foot on that gas and went over the 3rd Avenue Bridge and switched over to the FDR and drove like a madwoman my car flew didn't drive and I cried and just say thank you thank you for my life thank you for another chance thank you for forgiving my folly thank you for forgiving my foolishness thank you for forgiving my rebellion thank you for a second chance it could have been worse but God you made a way of escape oh I'm talking to somebody in here put your hands together for a way of escape [Applause] just wanna say thank you just wanna say thank you so when you say thank you you also said let your requests be known unto God I'm almost finished here it means give information be specific you know you make your your your your your list for those of you who went shopping you know in the em in this mad Thanksgiving situation in the store you mean you wait the last men to go shopping and sometimes in emergency go in there without a list here and see if they don't run you over go in there looking around now let me see what I should get why do I need now little old ladies with the card will run you over you better have a list lying to I've got to hit you nine three I'm going lines four and I'm going home yeah that means you're specific and intentional you got to be specific and intentional you can't be praying these way out wondering you know what I'm saying in the script print prayers you got to be specific Lord I'm asking you to Lord I need you to according to your will you have to be specific talking you're going to talk about the mind talk about the mind you want to talk about the soul talk about the soul you want to talk about enemies talk about enemies you want to talk about sickness you can be specific it's not what Jesus said what do you want me to do for you come on blind bartimaeus you think he didn't know that the man was black he knew before the man got blind what do you want come on open your mouth and tell him what you want that's what the old folks used to say when you might know sit at this altar and go to rocking and making strange noise tell him what you want he gave you intelligence open your mouth speak what if one but I'm watching means that I might receive my sight then I might come out of this situation lord have mercy that shame won't hit my door that slander won't mess up my name you got to be specific God turn the hearts of the liars and shut them out of the slanderous specific Lord hold bad judgment hold back judgment I know my family messing up but hold back judgment I know they're messing up and doing some strange things but hold back judgment lord have mercy I know they're in rebellion and they talked some things against you oh but ignore their rebellion and grab them right early Jesus I'm interceding for somebody's family right now grab them right early before they go too far I want them saved before the year is out somebody help me praise Him right now be specific so you won't be bent out of shape open your mind and talk so that God can answer prayer Baba said his ears are open to the righteous the intentional speak clearly supplicate if you can't remember it write it out now you're not talking to him on equal standing this petition is not you talking to equal it's a lesser talking to a greater sum saying it's a child talking to a parent it's a subject talking to a king you understand it's a lesser talking to a great it's a beggar talking to a passerby come on come on come on beating John give us a little scene right here there's a little scene going on we're going up to prayer but there's a man bagging there's a man begging he's asking for one thing but he really needs something else lord have mercy so even though you beg for one thing it doesn't mean that that's the thing you need he was begging for money he was used to getting it it was a hustle it was a hustle you get those going in the priest the priest the priest going in and or the Levites going in or the priests coming out people going out a great good position right there by the door of the temple oh come on and here comes to men to men to men and it's a silver and gold I don't have because that's not what you need right now David maybe you're not gonna get what you think you need you want this but I'm gonna give you what you need you your petition is long but I'm gonna skip all that one and go to number four come on you don't want number four you want you want number 24 you want number one but I know how to the petition listen I know what you need right at this moment but such as I have give IV you see you want to be a bigger but I want to make you whole you want to stand here and hustle but I want to take you to another level of living rise up somebody begging for some pillow that's not what it may be that's not what you need that's what you need I want to make your home make you whole if I give you that to be crippled for the rest of your life even answer if I give you that you'll always be begging you always be begging you always be baking but I came to pull you out of a beggars mentality I came to make you grow up in me I came to deliver you from that codependent relationship oh come on here yeah it's time to walk Jesus have mercy it's time to live so he knows what we need make your petition cuz he knows how to shift the list they may be knows how to shift the list and then there's a reward right there in the text there's a reward for going to the Lord in this manner it's called a different kind of peace different kind of peace now many of us are very skillful we have to fill all kinds of ways manufacturing our peace it's called fake peace you know the word fake has been used quite loosely lately and many of us are more attracted to fake peace than real peace because fake peace is is that we're in control of it now we feel like because we're in control of something that's peace but we still miserable as a matter of fact we're almost out of our minds mm-hmm the more we try to control is the more things get worse but we call it peace you know why cuz we run in the ship but the ship is wrecking I know you are they ain't gonna say nothing right here it's a it's a shipwreck you don't see the shipwreck it's a Titanic going down but there's a different kind of peace ladies after I pray and give thanks and make my petition and cast it on the Lord he says cast your cares on me because I care it means to throw it on him that's what the Greek word means throw it on him there is a reward for that it's like taking medication supposed to do certain things supposed to calm you down supposed to clear your head well this is how you clear your head after you do all of that here comes a clearing of the head and the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your heart and mine now this piece doesn't mean quiet doesn't mean nobody talking doesn't mean the sun is shining as I read the story it means harmony it means I'm in agreement with God and this harmony gives me a different kind of peace even though I live in chaos my life is chaotic right now but because I'm in harmony with God I don't even know his chaos you know you can you can be so poor you don't even know you're poor we grew up in Jamaica and we were poor we didn't know we were poor we didn't know that we were you know below the poverty level because we ate every day you see and mother had this dressed up clean clean clean clean clean every day every day we went to church we may not have had the best but we did we didn't even think that we were that poor you understand so you can be in the meds of stuff and don't even know you're supposed to be hysterical you can be going through stuff and didn't even know you were supposed to react that way and you know he's must be cousin no didn't know the person was insulting you because a piece of God had covered you so that you're reacting differently harmony with God it's a sense of contentment it's a rest that's inexplicable the God of peace it means wholeness harmony and wholeness it means completeness and confidence lord have mercy you can't buy that you can't yoga that can you and so my yoga I'm not saying keep your game but you're gonna get no peace it's not you can't chant this again I'm this no no no no no you can't laugh into this you can't get no laughing the candle and laugh in the back you can't do this you can't get no massage with it did you reflexology and touch every nerve in your body and calm you not and then letting all work honey that ain't gonna work you can't get that kind of peace through lavender reflexology or yoga ah traveling to a tranquil place away from all of the toxic people in the world getting away from all the people that irritate you and going someplace and having deep contemplation and being one with nature you ain't gonna get this kind of peace that way it's a piece that only God can give you and I said wake up Christian I'm talking to everybody if you ain't saying I understand I understand but I'm telling you how Christians get me a piece I'm gonna tell you how real Christians get their piece this is how people in in hell but Christians inhale get peace and I'm telling you that homes are busted up but they have peace and living with all kinds of mess for years but they come out PC come to church shouting and praising now you wouldn't know what they've been through and they ain't cussing and fighting and acting out of control cuz here's a piece that I use you up you know like how people take drugs to tighten their emotions up and smoke to tighten themselves up and drink to tighten I need something to take me up this is how Christians get tight you want to get tighten up I know some of y'all waiting for the martyr come to take that liquor down your throat but take this first take this first take this first Miller Lite can't get you this baby oh my money I'm so rubble oh come on there come on when you feel your mind going on peace brings it back when you get hopeless and feel like you can't make it and suddenly you wake up with new commitment and new energy what happened I got peace only God can give that would keep me in perfect peace whose bad he's staying on you I'm almost finished I'm coming on in John 14:27 said peace I leave with you now Jesus talking Jesus talking now she's getting ready to go back and leaving his disciples but he's not leaving them without peace he said peace I leave with you tell never you got it you got it you got it if a Christian has it every Christian is pleased I leave with you tell your neighbor I don't know why you're so cracking your head when you got peace peace i leave with peace I leave it I know why you're always looking to beat somebody up when you got peace peace I leave with you peace peace I leave with you my peace what I give unto you not as the world giveth give I unto you let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid that's why some of us are not peaceful we are afraid and we're troubling not as the world not as the world let me just give you a few things a commentary gave me and I'm in agreement you know the world the world ask you to pursue pleasure and fame and that will take away your anxiety but it doesn't work because the more money you work making someone when you get anxious over cuz now you were about who's stealing it and who want it and and and and how you gonna spend it and how you won't invest it so that's another level of worry you're sad when you were broke you would just happen to have the milk and the cookies but now you got a whole lot of money you gotta worry about what am I gonna do with it I'm gonna handle this you understand not as men gift to you cuz men will flatter you and profess friendship and don't have an instance and don't have any sincerity now I'm talking to you all who are flattered easily and believe that that's peace he really likes me he really wants me he really cares about me it's called flattery and flatteries a dressed-up lies [Music] she really likes me you don't know that you don't know that you don't know you him know who she is both mad for 30 years getting the divorce someone I'm finding myself you don't know this is my BFF you don't know what that means then ain't no piece you'll be able cause you more anxiety than anything else philosophies false religions that profess to give you peace but they don't take away sin and if there's sin there's misery tell your neighbor if there's sin there's me what'd you say there's no peace in sinning come on Christians I'm talking to those of you who are out there you're not medicated then think sin is a good time you having a good time and you'll know you lying but you know you're so Medicaid you don't know the difference but Christians know what it is to have misery and they know what it is to be delivered from misery so so so so so sin if they if all these philosophies and and opinions and takes on subjects and and in academia and in intelligentsia and all these things that we're fascinated with and these people that bring a certain flavor of intelligence but never bring the conscience you know peace after you know hitting your wine glass and pontificating sharing ideas and feeling good about your conversation you're still going home and almost suicidal ain't no peace and sin take your neighbor ain't no pieces come on Christians you go out and get a little piece and you're almost crazy but this piece ain't understandings Pasek means it's superior it's a period piece it's piece that we can't even explain it's excellent piece it's higher peace understanding means that the mind can't fathom it you can't understand why you're standing at the grave or you're not jumping in it why you just lost everything in a fire and you're not losing your mind why you can go through it doesn't mean you don't cry you don't get upset doesn't mean you don't have your moments but you're not so bent out of shape that you don't want to live this peace understanding that even when you mess up and you you do some horrible things and God brings you out you can still have the guilt is gone and the shame is gone where can you go and get rid of shame some of these things are shameful Saints don't disappear and act like you haven't done shameful things things that you never thought you would be this low never thought you would stoop so low never thought you would drop your pants and show your backside shameful and the God of peace grabbed up took away the shame any other place hey Clark you come in at night I'm so glad for peace passes my understanding I'm supposed to be so ashamed that I shouldn't come in this church and pray I'm supposed to be so ashamed that I shouldn't even preach the gospel anymore I'm supposed to be so ashamed that shouldn't engage in ministry anymore oh but this peace that passeth all understanding grab me just in time and should we back into the grace the knowledge of the grace of God and let me know that God knows and I'm wretched and loaded down and he knows how wretched I am I had to find out how wretched I am lord have mercy I didn't always know my wretchedness oh my god allowed me to see my wretchedness and then put me out just in time come on that's peace ladies and gentlemen that pass is all I'm not supposed to be here and that supposed to be praising it and they're supposed to have a joy and they're supposed to wave my head I'm not supposed to lift my head up right somebody help me another so come on praise him praise Him please pass my goodness [Music] you sit there and try to figure it out ain't gonna finger it I'm just gonna enjoy it you sit there and try to put it all together it I can't put it together but I'm gonna receive it I got this piece I don't know why I don't know know how and I really don't understand why he should give me such a peace of mind knowing that I've caused such a ruckus knowing that I behaved so badly Shiki assumed but yet he keeps on loving me keeps on nothing and it tells me to run on he tells me to runner and then he gives me an assignment look at this look at this look at this you got the nerve to give me an assignment when I should go to me and hide it's fast my understanding come on and thank him but [Music] I'd say folk don't understand this people who are not Christian so understand it it's not based on our goodness it's based on how wonderful he is and then he said this piece is unassign meant tell your neighbor is me no not this piece cannot be an assignment if you give it away if I leave something with you and give something to you and you give it away I mean gone that's your problem you're forgiven you're healed I covered you so so what why you got your dukes up why are you so sensitive right you're still easily offended and I'm fixed it tell your name is fix the conversation you know conversation are you trying to defend yourself no I'm not very I'm just thanking God for peace what do you think I'm there or not this peace is an assignment the only reason why it's not functioning is when I give it away how do you give it away when somebody comes to tap your piece somebody comes to create a situation where you doubt what God has done wait way of you begin to lose faith in what God has done remember like they preached on Sunday morning kerosene Peter had faith but when he looked at the storm he started to sink that's the only time you don't have peace when you allow somebody to try to rob you of what you got my peace my peace tell you maybe you got Peas why are you trying to start something what why you trying to start some kind of confusion when you have peace it's a cheap protective custody tell your neighbor I'm under protective custody my mind is being protected my heart is being protected because I went to the Lord and praised him and worship him and talked to him and now he gave me a piece and now he's keeping me and the word is guard guard my heart my feelings my emotions my inner self he guards my mind my thought life my intellect my will here's another thing my disposition he keeps me from agitation you're too easily agitated when you have peace don't give up your peace to agitation well you know I just I just can't stand when certain people talk to me in some way what you're talking to somebody who couldn't have been taught proper manners you know they they don't know how to talk they don't know how to be honorable they don't be respectful and you will lose your peace over ignorance when I'm honest I just smile just smile this appraisal oh and keep going you don't give up your peace over over something that is so trivial some of this stuff is trivial it's it's it doesn't make sense petty that's what I'm looking for so you can understand that word petty the problem is you don't realize that you have peace you don't realize what God has left with you it's like the man that was on the ship coming over in the Saint Mary you know and and and and he's down in the bottom of the ship I'm finished doing the bottom of the ship and you know he he's eating crackers and cheese all the way from Europe to America and and so the the cabin boy said what are you doing down in the bottom of this just eating crackers and cheese and you know whatever and Mail he said well I can't afford to go on deck getting afford to go whatever he said it's free you can sit at the captain's y'all been a cruise I know I know you been in the cruise because you gained weight you're wearing a cruise you eat all day on my line all day you know the early morning your breakfast continental breakfast then the sit-down breakfast and for those who slept late the other breakfast and then right after that you got the snack and lunch and then then after that you got to sit down what you're in the bottom of the ship living beneath your privilege when you could come up on deck and Christians live beneath their privileges because you have peace you don't have to answer that you don't have to talk back you have to always have an answer when you have peace sometimes you don't even feel like talking so what is your taking the subject hmm if my mother was one of those kinds of people you know as she didn't do a lot of talking sometimes she just runs that's when it's most dangerous you know you know what her attitude is I know what this is I'm not even giving it any conversation and then she'll punctuate it with just a little bit you know and she would say - sit down what got a wipe out you know what that means keep talking God none wipe it out long time ago that's when you have peace you have to respond to that crazy hysterical conversation that crack comments you have to go and defend it cuz you have peace peace means our resolve that's all it is and knowing whom I believe I'm persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed against that day and know where the Lord brought me from his paws was asked on drew but I am where I am now by the grace of God you see when you're settled right there when you're settled right there tell your neighbor when you're settled right there I'm not perfect when I'm settled up settling lord have mercy he said after you've suffered a while here what establish yes he'll give you a strong foundation come on that's what that piece does its settle you down come on you don't have to fly off the handle you don't have to respond there just hold on to your peace holding on somebody wants it they wanted they wanted they wake up in the morning and then assignment to mess with your peace they go to bed planning it they wake up planning it i'ma see if I can get a reaction i'ma see if I can get a reaction out of you i'ma see if I could push your button so you actually prove to you ain't all that you ain't all that but you see they didn't know you got up early too you see you get it early you get up early and lost a whole your piece and I thank schibetta you when you get up early you get a jump start you get a jump start come on the Lord says stand still I'll show you my salvation when you're gonna jump start like that you're ready you're ready you're ready the problem with the season ain't got no jump start you gotta get up in the morning and grab it before he grabs you before before that spirit that spirit that's an assignment to render you helpless to make a fool out of you to pick your brain and drop you and make you look like you don't know what you're talkin about to make you question your faith to make you question your calling to make you wonder if God ever spoke to you you got to get up early in the morning there was a guard around your mind when you wake up you oughta wake up well guarded you wanna wake up with your mind will protect it he said the God of peace shall garrison your mind that's 5,000 soldiers lord have mercy an infantry in the Roman government 5,000 military personnel means that they will guard my god and that's how much God you got God have mercy equivalent to 5000 military men standing with your sword drawn around your bed ain't nothing but a twin bed and the mattress is a little Rosa but you've got some guards lord have mercy you ain't livin in no special room you ain't got no special nothing but you do have guards what are they guarding they got in the bed honey they're not in your mind you ought to thank God coz why you were sleeping huh the devil had a plan for your mind but because you went to Ghana because you call him Papa huh because you trust him in the morning huh are you trust him at night huh he said come on baby I got your mind I got your mind I got your mind I got some soldiers are angels standing with your sword role and telling the devil torture in your please good touch I'm coming after you ah that one belongs to me that one I've chosen before the foundation of the world you want to put her in the madhouse huh when I kept remind you and I will keep her mine this year come on up put your hands together thankful heart thought somebody help me you should be crazy right now the plan was to run you crazy the plan was to run you crazy I'm talking to somebody there's a movie called Gaslight I know y'all know watch back away you watch the Housewives of LA but it's a good movie and in this movie this man picked out this woman because he wanted something in her house he married get married to her but in order to get her inheritance he had to declare her insane so he did all kinds of things until she questioned her sanity he was skillful and they're people who have been influenced by the power of hell to be that skill no I wish I couldn't leave it alone but I just want to press it one more time he might not know anything somebody help me praise it cuz I'm coming after something yeah that mo not in there will be so Malika Hana needy and unknowable taking up certain media and so they make this sharp they've been influenced by darkness and darkness come with a sharpness skillful that you can't detect it with human intelligence and they know exactly what to do to make you doubt your purpose your identity and your relationship with God even the Word of God has become question [Music] but they didn't know you had a garrison even if you got stupid and allowed them to do certain things there's a garrison around because the Lord take care that takes care of its own even when they're dumb and attract and foolish and vulnerable and simple they forgot that the Lord has a garrison that he keeps around your mind and that garrison says you can come but no further there's a line of demarcation that prevents penetration oh come on ladies and gentlemen the Lord is letting somebody know you will not be penetrated because I left you something that the world didn't give you and the world can tell you to me when this Thanksgiving is you have peace and the only time you don't realize it is when you begin to act out of character anxious about something that's already taken care of forgot to say thank you even though you don't understand it trusting the Lord that either when it doesn't look like it's going to be you still know the character of God will deliver putting God first so he could work it out making a request known unto God and watching him give you what you need and not what you want and there's a peace that comes over you how many times the enemy has told somebody in here jump off the bridge a minute Saints a minute and you go by the brain she comments and Garrison kicked in for some of you the enemy has said just leave and disappear and the Holy Ghost hide your feet thank God for the gift of peace that passeth all understanding if you're not grateful for anything else thank God for peace in the midst of chaos political uncertainty economic confusion racial upheaval but there's a peace that passes all understanding you have to be saved to understand this if you don't have Jesus this makes no sense and even those of us who have Jesus because we have trained it off our peaceful moments for flattery we need to get it back so you never get it back yeah wherever you left it pick it up because the Word of God said he gave it to you he didn't take it from you he's not an Indian giver so it must be that you laid it aside for something that didn't work stand on your feet tonight [Music] singing real singing like you're getting so bad thank you and I just be grateful this morning [Music] make it personal and intimate thank you lord [Applause] [Music] from the depths of my heart I wanna play [Music] because you've been so you been so [Music] come on he's been rude whether you want to accept it or not [Music] reflecting you so [Music] you gave me nice you care the [Music] I've been hold it hold it hold it I wanna be nice [Applause] [Music] you gave me peace who gave it to me you get [Music] I don't have to make models so I don't have to be [Music] just [Music] you [Music] he gave me [Music] come on Rachel [Music] he gave me another chance that gave me hope [Music] life [Music] videos [Music] you gave me help when I should be sick Oh you gave me help come on tell them you gave me help you're helping me right now [Music] thank you I wonder I want you to go home tomorrow and bring this message of thankfulness and peacefulness to your community to your home I want you to watch your spirit of agitation and depression I want you to be careful that you don't give up your piece for trivial nonsensical inconsequential chatter emotions and responses come up high evidence somebody waiting to tap you somebody waiting to tap you set it up now set it up set it up tell you never set it up set it up didn't I somebody waiting to say something they were ready to say something but thank God for the peace that passes all understanding so get out of your seat and hug some people tell them you've got peace all you have to do is be thankful just be thick [Music] a current somebody come on streamers go to the table tomorrow and be thankful big piece right bees [Music] you don't have to say that you don't have to respond like that you don't have to go there you got peace tell you never know go there don't go there you don't have to say it like that change your mouth you have a peaceful now use your peaceful time come on imprison one more time no in a guy thank you thank you are you thankful a man we're going to shake the preachers hand we're going to shake the preachers in but ask you to come at this time and thank God for the word thank her for allowing the Lord to use her become beginning in the rear of the building [Music] Lord I just wanna thank you thank you thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] I wanna thank you good to me [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you I wanna thank you [Music] Oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] just wanna thank you I wanna thank you I just wanna thank you [Applause] [Music] I just thank you thank you [Music] thank you just wanna thank you I wanna thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] there's a spirit of thankfulness in the house [Music] [Music] your hands thank you Jesus thank you lord hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Jesus hallelujah father we thank you for this Thanksgiving service for this Thanksgiving message we sent your God put your servant we thank you for your people Godley take your most of all for thankful hearts and peaceful minds we thank you Lord that we're leaving this relationship peaceful minds not the peace that we conquer a floor not the peace that the world gives but we thank you for peace that passes understanding the peace that comes from your throne the peace that you give us God the peace that don't make sense we thank you lord I will leave this place with peace we sink your card for the preacher of the hour bless your servant O God I pray that you would strengthen her resolve that you'll cover under your blood that she'll keep and sustain her God and as she lifts her hands to give you thanks I pray God that you bless her beyond measure in the name of the Lord Jesus she has been thankful not just today or tomorrow but she has been thankful she asked me when her life dear Lord bless and keep her tonight in the name of Jesus cover of God keeper from the hand of the enemy and as we leave this place tonight Oh God preparing for tomorrow let this piece go with us let this be struggle with us that it precede us Oh God into tomorrow that nothing double wrap us up this peace we pray garbage of cause us to gladden surround our hearts but the peace of God in the mighty name of Jesus a novel to him but is either to keep us from falling and present us faultless before his throne with exceeding joy to be more totally invisible the only wise God be all glory all Magister Binion and power now henceforth until Jesus come others say say Amen [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Bishop Jackie McCullough

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Published: Thu Nov 28 2019