Boardroom Chat: The Joy Of The Lord Is Your Strength! | Jesse & Cathy Duplantis

hello i'm jesse the planters and i'm reminding you to like the video subscribe to our channel and hit the bell for notifications hello ladies and gentlemen i'm jesse duplantis and i'm kathy duplantis got another boardroom chat here praise god exciting to connect with everybody all over the world let you know what god's doing in our life and pray for you and let you know that we're standing with you no matter what you're going through today yeah and i think we've been going through a lot of stuff but we go through it that's right we don't we have to i remember the lord spoke to me while all the things are going on you know we're just recovering from hurricane iron i'm sure you've heard about it if you haven't just pray for us because the lord spoke to me and said you have to take a step before you can walk so no matter what attacks come you keep moving you keep walking by faith because the word tells us that we walk by faith and not by sight yeah i've been up since two uh two o'clock this morning fighting the devil i said i slept right through it she slept right through it i said peace i was fighting the devil i would have helped you but i told i told her that if i fight as good in the first round i fight just as hard in the last round and we win praise the lord i want to talk about something that i'm known for all over the world in fact probably 25 years ago i guess john hagee named me the apostle of joy and i never figured that out i said you know and uh anyway he said you have such joy in the midst of trouble i want to talk about the joy of the lord and that because it is our strength it is now where do we get that action you know a lot of people think the jaw of the lord is in the new testament is our strength that statement but it's not it's in the book of nehemiah and i'd like it if you've got a bible i want you to turn within nehemiah chapter 8 and i want to read a very familiar scripture something wonderful was happening ezra was the top scribing priest and he took the law of moses out and of course that was a very holy thing and he was going to read the law because it had been neglected right completely and nehemiah was there but to make a long story short when he began to read it it really ministered to people look what it says in nehemiah chapter 8 verse 1. let me show how much everybody wanted to hear the word of god do you want to hear the word of god as strong as these people it's nehemiah chapter 8 verse 1 and all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street now that's in one minute one accord that was before the watergate and they spake unto ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of moses which the lord had commanded to israel now would you read that in a different translation just that verse in the amplified let me see what the uh passion passion says that's the old testament passion oh that's right the old testament will not be there you're right okay amplified says um anyway it moved me around i'm so sorry go ahead okay no i just want you to read it we'll wait because i like how he says one man one mind won a card you ever seen people do harmony together and they sound like one voice remember this rock rock group called the carpenters and when they would hit that harmony it was like one voice but yet it was three parts it was just amazing how they could blend so well you know if you're a position you know what i'm talking about so you can't find it i do i have found it but i was looking for a different translation while you were talking nehemiah is a little better than the amplified might give us a little more insight it says by the time the seventh month arrived the people of israel were settled in their towns then all the people gathered as one person in the town square in front of the watergate and asked the scholar ezra to bring the book of the revelation of moses that god had commanded for israel now say of course and now they have one mind and one accord when you're in one mind and one accord you're in unity that's one person you're not in uniformity see the people say the body of christ is in unity no it's not it's in uniformity unity means one mind want to call it uniformity is this well you know i don't know if i agree with everything he says but all she says but you know i'll just go right yeah but unity is one mind one accord now watch this they got so excited hearing the word as it was spoke to them verse nine and nehemiah which is the teresha and ezra the priest the scribe and the levites that taught the people said unto the people this day is holy unto the lord your god mourn not nor weep for all the people wept when they heard the words of the law i love verse 10. now after they finally cried i loved it then he said unto them go your way eat the fat glory to god i like that drink the sweet praise god that's good and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared for this day is holy unto our lord neither be ye sorry for the joy of the lord is your strength now read that in the message well you know i found the nlt verses the new living translation also it talks about in verse one how they the people assim all the people assembled with a unified purpose amen that's that's a great way to describe it as well but then verse nine goes on to say then nehemiah the governor that's the thing james he was the governor ezra the priest and scribe and the levites who were interpreting for the people said to them do not mourn or weep on such a day as this for today is a sacred day before the lord your god for the people had all been weeping as they listened to the words of the law and nehemiah continued and uh go and celebrate with the feast of rich foods and sweet drinks share gifts rich foods fattening food we know about that in software i ain't talking about healthy stuff i'm talking about well you just go home cooked foods not dried up yeah preservatives yeah and all that mres meals ready to eat it says sweet drinks and share gifts of food with people who have nothing prepared this is a sacred day before our lord don't be dejected and sad for the joy of the lord is your strength now that's what i'm talking about in other words you ought to be having a party people ask us all the time how come you yeah y'all just seem like everything's fine well all is well that doesn't mean we don't have damage don't mean what happened we're not going through so all is well see what makes us say that is that the joy of the lord so we'll sit down and that's you know let me show how wonderful god is to jesse duplantis uh you know i mean everything has been shut down i mean we haven't was slowly getting back power uh you know electricity and uh i like this little this this restaurant called pf chang's it's a little chinese restaurant and i happen to say it i think it was sunday i said i bet the people at p.f chang's missed me well a wonderful friend of mine went to pf change i didn't even know it was open you know because everything was shut down it found out it was open and asked the wait or i think was a waitress or a waiter at one of them they said do you know jesse to play oh yeah we know him he comes in here he really loves it do you know what he orders and they said it in unison he orders the same thing every time and kathy goes why do you do that because i like it it all does the same thing she said would you i want to order that and she said he or she i don't know if it was a waitress or waiter to make a long story they got exactly what i wanted and she said i'm bringing it to him and i want to give you a jessie tip that's how she said it a jesse good friend of mine jesse tip and i tip them real well because i mean they work hard you know so and i enjoy that so much that a friend would take time to think about that yeah and uh and bring it so it brought the joy of the lord into my life you see so no matter what what you're going through if you go through it you're gonna come out on the better on you may not think so but you'll come out better on the end result and not mean necessarily see if the devil had any sense he wouldn't fight that most people if he wouldn't fight the people most people go to hell by themselves cathy they would just get so complacent complacent but he pushes people toward god that they begin to pray and say lord help me right and that's what we're seeing right here we're seeing a lot of unity a lot of staff members pulling together i know one staff member heard last night how they're uh moving out of their house and going to live which has now has power and had some damage but it's livable and uh she's going to be living with her parents and letting a whole family of i think five people with a dog live in her house so that they can all be together because that was their desire and that just warmed our hearts so much it's such a blessing pulling together and sharing what they do have and saying it with a wonderful heart say it with the joy of the lord yes see you gotta understand something about joy it's not just joy and happiness are two totally different things joy is a fruit of the spirit and happiness is an emotional feeling now there's something about happiness you can be happy one second and sad the next right but the joy of the lord don't change when you're going through hard times or good times right it's just there see what i'm saying so maybe you've gone through some hard times and and you've been more focused on the happiness part of it and that's why you're up and down people up and down constantly but when you stand in the jaw of the lord and like nehemiah said and this is how you make it come on go eat something fattening say you know well you got nothing to celebrate yes i do and share it with someone yeah buy somebody a meal or something and say you know what i'm going to do something i'm going man i don't care how bad it is i may enjoy myself and the joy of the lord which is a spiritual force or fruit of the spirit will begin to actually work on your happiness which is an emotional feeling i thought it was significant too in this passage of scripture in chapter one of nehemiah how nehemiah who was the governor and ezra who was the scribe and all the levites all said the same thing they were and that's what it said in verse one we read they were unified purpose and i want to read that next verse in verse 11 and the nlt it says and the levites too quieted the people telling them hush don't weep for this is a sacred day so the people went away to eat and drink at fest at a festive meal to share gifts of food and to celebrate with great joy because they had heard god's words and understood them that brought great hope to them and that brought great joy and that joy is what carried them down to the next level you know that's so beautiful god's word has given us everything we need but when we and when we tap into it and believe it it changes the situation well you know a lot of people may not realize me and kathy stayed doing that hurricane because the spirit of god told me to do that but i mean people say were you afraid and i'm not meanness to man up not one thing but i walked out in that wind and i was stuck in a corner cat said wait can't you talk to do it inside through the glass i said no i'm gonna meet that devil face to face and i walked out there and it was so black and i saw trees flying bricks flying and when you saw shingles flying in the attic all kinds of stuff to make a long story short i said and it was bla like this i said a fight you want a fight you're going to get because i said lord i said i'm not i don't want to do something st stupid and i kind of sense like he said i'm your shield and your buckler in other words you want a fight you want satan the fight you're going to get so i mean i don't like any of this stuff no but i don't care i do it with a good heart because of the joy of the lord what a booklet is i looked it up one time it just means alligator skin it's like the really tough part these things that happen in life it will it'll strengthen us it'll toughen us so that we can fight the battle and be victorious and and lead others to victory as well i want to ask you a question when i was a sinner and i you know i was very bad and you had got born again so you believe in god for me now cathy didn't know a lot about the word of god because she never read the bible until after she got saved you know we were raised catholic you don't read the bible yeah you know you only a priest interpreter my mother yeah my mother and father would teach especially mom would teach us bible stories which would drive me crazy but let me ask you a question what kept you what sustained you during that time when i was just a heathen from hell who would do anything i wanted to do i didn't care who it hurt or who it helped if i wanted to do it i don't care if it was illegal i don't care if it was legal it didn't make no difference if i went to jail or if i didn't go to jail i mean if i made up my mind to do something and i'm trying to tell you just how i was and a lot of people said that's impossible no no well i'm a new creature in christ i'm totally different it didn't make no difference how did you did you feel that the joy of the lord sustained you during that time that you was believing or did you even know anything about the joy i believe god gave me a supernatural joy and a grace to go through what i was going through but i really believe it was because that genuine relationship that i had with god was so precious even though i never knew of him or thought about him of course i heard the teach some of the teachings because i grew up in the catholic church i went to all the catechisms all the things like that that's why you were talking now go ahead i'm thirsty people i've been running off but i i just i remember that that what simple prayer that i prayed really gave me a a transformation i became a new creature so i began to think differently instead of giving up i went to the word of god and prayed and asked god and even though what i was reading i really didn't understand god was doing a supernatural work in my life i remember reading a scripture i think it was in first peter 3 i'm not positive it's first or second peter but it says that the husbands are one w-o-n by the conversation of their wives and i understood that to me the way the wives uh lived not just the way you talked and so the way i was living was believing god for my answer which for you to get saved but it was more about me having my relationship with god that was something that i wanted i wanted you i put the eye on you i wanted you to get born again because what i had was so very precious but my relationship with god is what sustained me not what even if you would have had one that that would have helped me sure that's not what sustained me what's going to sustain me what's going to sustain you is your personal relationship with god just cry i remember i would cry from my heart not knowing how to pray i wasn't taught those kinds of things but i would just pray for my heart and he would impart a supernatural strength and gave me wisdom on how to pray and how to walk in the lord raise the lord and i really tested her face the lord i'm telling you i was the trial and tribulations uh you know and things of that nature i learned how to pray and remember i would go find a church every sunday and i'd be hearing words that would build me up yeah and they if they had a prayer line or laying on their hands which i believe in that i would go up to the front and i'd say i want to pray for my husband my heathen husband i'd tell them people all over the country were praying for him and he didn't even know i had no idea and i think he needs to get born again so i would be what we call standing proxy i would pro i would enlist people to believe and agree with me because i refused to give up amen and and i mean i really tested her faith and i actually thought i was stronger than her you know i called it philosophy i said oh that's a philosophy but let me tell you something when you buck up against joy and you buck up against faith you're going to lose see because that's great and more powerful than anything else so that's why they said have a party yes you know people get mad at me because i'm happy you know the in the midst they say well why don't you just cry well sometimes you want to cry sometimes it's overwhelming you want to it is but you know you you the joy of the lord is your strength you know with the overwhelming parts that have come upon me when i try to explain it to someone i'm thinking about what others have gone through what people have gone through that because we have had damage but not as bad as so many gods go out to all of those who had suffered complete laws you know and we're believing for god for them to get restoration and be restored and and uh because life is more than things well it really it's about relationships and your family is if your family's safe you that that's the best thing that's the whole key but to see uh jesse duplantis ministries and coming to church or really one entity and yet it's it's like a family everybody gets together and uh you know do what we got to do to help everybody we can when we can and how we can yeah and it just people and we do it with joy we do have people stan and you know jesse likes to go out and eat a lot but i've been cooking a lot i mean this morning we had food in the freezer we i saw some space in the freezer for the first time space in the freezer for my gumbo that i got to make after this oh lord jesus hallelujah because i need a lot of space because i make a large pot and i i think i saved like maybe 12 quarts yeah and we need to do it in the year what we ate that day but anyway actually it tastes better after you freeze it does it taste a lot better but all those flavors just come together it is look at the people behind the camera the other day and i said oh i pulled out several things that were just in the freezer that i had bought that i needed to freeze anyway because i didn't use it up and so i pulled things out i said oh i have to cook this i baked it put it in the in the oven this morning and had it out on the table with plates ready for the ladies that are staying in the house with me that yeah we got people living in a house now now watch this why are we talking about food because nehemiah and ezra was talking about food after they read the word of god and he said have a party because the joy of the lord is your strength i brought out the sweet last night when we were on the table we had some old it's it was still good peanut brittle oh man what's the name of that candy seeds candy is the best candy i've ever eaten my life i mean it is i got to say it i mean it's just i'm not a big candy person never have been a word i call a big sweet person but who i forgot who it was that introduced me to sees jerry savelle no i think it was jim willoughby you told me jim willoughby that's right he gave me a can of something and he said you're going to love this i said you know jim i said i don't eat a lot of cake you're going to eat this he said just bite it and when i when i bit into this it was an uh toffee crunch with sweatpants and i got a coffee with crushed uh almonds around all right when i bended that he said ecstasy came on my face you know and i thought we can't keep it in the house we eat too much yeah you eat too much it's such a blessing we have to share it that's why we talk about food because you ought to celebrate the joy of the lord in your life now kathy i want you to go to the book of galatians chapter 5 that's in the new testament and i want to talk a little bit about dealing with the joy of the lord uh that's galatians ephesians philippians colossians so you know where it's at and uh uh chapter five and i want to talk about the fruit of the spirit and i want people to understand something it's galatians chapter five verse well let me read galatians chapter five verse one first then i want to read verse 22. it says stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage now verse 22 but the fruit of the spirit the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance against such there is no law that's what i want to do get there now let me tell you what god is and what god does what is god's primary job i'm talking about god the father god the son and god the holy ghost a lot of people say it's saving people no no that's not the primary job that's the byproduct of his primary job right his primary job is to call those things which be not as though they were he called into existence what was it and became the creator the creator i'm a god almighty okay he call that's what he does now what he is if you want to put god what is he's love joy peace a long suffering he's the fruit of the spirit why because of that last statement against such there is no law there is no law against god he just is so what he does is call those things that be not as though they were like i will call that man saved in the name of jesus i will call that woman healed the cancer in the name of jesus not then we have to do what he does like abraham did who called it those things that be not now what he is if you want to put him is what he is is love joy peace long suffering meekness temperance he's the fruit of the spirit why because the fruit of the spirit has no law against it there's no law against the joy of the lord that's why the joy of the lord is your strength did you like that i like that you enjoyed that say amen amen so when you understand what i'm saying here this is what just gives me the peace of god that passes all understanding because i know everything god says is always right how do i know that because against him there is no law that's right because he's the fruit of the spirit he's everything that's why i stand therefore in my liberty and i'm not entangled with the yoke of bondage i refuse to get into religious bondage i refuse to get into physical bondage that's why paul could say this i'm bound with this chain but the word of god is not bound in the midst of that quote bound yeah he might have had a change but he was not bound but his word was going forth he was standing there therefore in the liberty where with christ had given him and that's why he could write a almost phenomenal encouraging letter to his protege timothy and they're about ready to kill him he's in he go they're going to kill him and most people would say boy god would you pray for me not paul he said boy timothy let me tell you and he just started preaching to him and he had helped a lot of people one of those letters he said and right there at the end of his life he says only luke is with me now luke is the one who wrote the course the gospel book as well as the book of acts and he traveled with paul at some point when he went on his second missionary journey and he witnessed firsthand all these things and he stayed by his side it's so beautiful when you see in the word of god where people stick together and help each other during the hard times and in the good but doing during the hurricane i don't think you know we got to get had to get this ministry up and i'm still getting it up to make a long story short uh people said well but yes you sweat i mean i was out there with everybody i'm not bragging about that why why not yeah but i mean you the ceo you can have other people do that yeah but you know what it doesn't make no dif how come just because i'm the ceo of this thing that i'm better than somebody else i don't think so because that would make me a that would make god a respectable person and the lord said i'm proud of you i mean i'll just i'll jump in the ditch with you it doesn't make any difference to me because we're going to get you out of the ditch is what i'm saying and if i slide in the ditch get money well i will take a shower praise god like this morning i mean i was fighting the devil like crazy over leaks trying to stop everything from being damaged and because we're trying to put a new roof and different things on different parts same thing with the church between the rain that's coming but kathy was like she was just laying down the seas buddy i'm saying no no i want you ready i was there during the summer i was sweating like a missouri mule up in that act fighting that devil and that devil said you know you're gonna lose i said no i'm not no no no i got stinky i mean i would so watch it i i snuck back in i closed my bathroom door and i took a shower cleaned up like that and i laid back and obviously just got himself is it time to get up or something like that and that good morning and i said man i've been fighting for two hours or better but i wanted that he didn't wake me up and to help so i sent her to the office and i went and take another shower and showing different people so i found the problem for the plumbing yeah i found the problem i found the problem and so i told the guy that's doing i said this this and he showed me something that i i did not know so i was learning at the same time so i told kathy send someone to the house so i can come and do this boardroom chat pick me up and all that kind of stuff and here we are so i had about maybe um well in fact robbie who's picked me up i was walking across the parking lot to come to the uh to the studio here and i was up my bible and he i said i'm about ready to minister on the jaw of the lord and it took about 40 seconds across the parking lot and i said i got it right i knew what the lord said job of the lord let's go yeah and then you know it would be real easy to just sit back and take care of everything that we need to tend to but we're called to come to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature we're called to reach people and change lives one soul at a time god the mission and the commission that god gave us years ago has not changed so we still are fixing things like nehemiah was restoring that wall if you read the book of nehemiah but he was also doing the work of the lord and people the scribe ezra was still encouraging the people so we're here today to encourage you to not give oh yes and to realize that god is the answer to no matter what you're going through and it's just such a blessing of the lord i said something today when i preached at the church you know the post problem of katrin of katrina ida or maybe the fire all that stuff that's in california and earthquake that's the tough part you've got to deal with insurance i just told and and i had a person shed a tear when i said this i said i am financed i am footing all this money right now now we hope that the insurance will pay us but if not i looked at our people then i said you will have a good church i will make sure it's happening and i mean i don't care what it took and didn't make any difference i said just give me the bills and here we go all right and i appreciate the partners that are sending in hurricane relief because i'm using that toward that too 100 of it but you know i mean i mean then we're going to fight the insurance company i guess i hope not but that's fine it don't make no do i made up my mind if they don't send a dime i'll pay for it god will take care of it he said he well i said but he said you don't have to pay for it you just have to believe for the same principle and i want to thank the partners who have sent in great donations for this hurricane words of encouragement oh god it's just such a blessing but we're out here sweating like a missouri mule doing what we got to do whatever it takes to get the job done well we have a testimony here that you pointed out to me you wanted me to read it yeah earlier because this illustrates the fact that we're here fulfilling our our what god wants us to do we may continue to get the word out the enemy would want to stop our voice but we have a voice that needs to go out still into the highways of the byways and encourage you to read this it's reasonable andre okay the reason i'm drinking so much i have been running for four oh my six hours i mean i just i just sweat all the way down to the had salt rings on me man just doing whatever so that's why i'm drinking something says he's losing weight too i'm losing weight man mom look my my chin is even getting lower i thought well if we could just suck that up a little bit we might be all right read this little testimony andre he looks at the sin on youtube it says i listen to jesse all day at work it keeps me in good spirits i'm able to bring joy to all that i encounter throughout my work day thank you kathy and jesse i'm gonna tell you that's why i do what i do partners that help this ministry you will not find me with a slack hand uh-uh you know and in fact i had a spiritual son called me a while ago he said you know he calls me dad dad you're 72 years old you are the strongest 72 you you got 72 old man you got more energy but you know it's the joy of the lord right so i just enjoy myself and then when i realize that that's what god is so if he's joy and i'm an imitator of him according to uh if he's in chapter five verse one be therefore imitated as a god it did challenge right right then i got to be joy right i got to be him that's true you see now i want you to read if you don't mind if you had in a different translation i don't know and uh i want you to read uh galatians chapter five verse one then go read verse 22 and 23. amplified verse amplified be fine one verse one uh says galatians five in this freedom christ has made us free and completely liberated us oh glory to god that's something to be joyous stand fast then and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery which you have once put off oh no wood verse now now verse 22 isn't that a powerful verse that's the jaw of the lord talking red verse 22 and 23 but the fruit of the holy spirit the work which his presence within accomplishes is love joy and then after joy says gladness in parentheses then it says peace patience and then it describes patience as an even temper forbearance and then kindness goodness benevolence faithfulness gentleness meekness humility self-control self-reliant concontinence whatever i think i'm pronouncing that wrong against such there is no law it that can bring a charge okay again so i got to go back to that again so what god does his primary job is to call those things with be not as though they were that's why you find in romans 4 17 where abraham called it those things would be not in other words like god did right and then it says against such there is no law he's the joy so if he has joy i have to have he is no matter if everything's going good no matter if everything's going bad that doesn't change the joy of the lord you see so what confuses the devil greatly is when everything is going wrong and you're sitting there like this going you know let's celebrate something here and you don't have a thing to celebrate that's what that schumer night woman was doing yeah they said how are you doing all is well all is well that's what you know she got a dead son she's coming to that prophet and my god but he said something go ask him only child it is well and then when she came i mean in my lord she you see she wasn't denying that her son was dead she was looking for the only one that could help her with an answer well she was saying what she want right instead of what she had that's true now that that takes joy the lord see that okay that's what god did he said what he wanted he called those things it'd be not as though they were and he got what he is is the joy he got it you see now you know there are a lot of christian people that probably for lack of a better way to say it irritate god you know i know i have i think i'm irritating god sometimes jesse what's the matter with you what's the matter with you but i tell you one thing uh he has love for me and faith for me and temperance tells me to walk in that manner so i refuse to be entangled with a yoke of bondage right i refuse and i say this strongly they people i don't know why they hate me and i can honestly say this i haven't heard a soul in my eye after not before i was saying yes oh i'd hurt you in a second but after i got born again i mean i don't hurt people you know and i've had people just fight me uh they don't think i'm doing enough well i don't know if anybody else is paying all this and and and you know giving the money and doing everything they can and i got partners who has joined with me i'm never by myself because our partners do that's so wonderful and want to say i'm not doing this not doing that and and uh you know and i thought god and the lord says i know exactly how you feel and i thought well that really kind of helped me he said he said because it happens to me billions of times right a day but that doesn't change my love for people that's right it doesn't change my joy for people doesn't change the faith that i have in people my meekness my temperance you know why because against me there is no law so i got to thinking well if against him there is no law and if i'm an imitator of god as dear children then against me there's no law as long as i act the way god tells me right to live and act the holy spirit within it doesn't say he has joy in the scriptures we read he says he is joy yeah he is the personification of the joy and that joy is what you need to be strong you know in 1776 uh we declared independence from great britain and had to fight a war and all that kind of stuff won the war shouldn't have won the war because we were just a little weak bunch of colonies against the most powerful nation of that time to make a long story short this is just amazing our second president of the united states was john adams so when he said it come time to celebrate july 4th he says celebrate it with firecrackers and and uh what they call that thing fireworks and in other words a party yes because you're living in a watch this a nation of freedom it's the same way here stand there for why is that that galatian stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith christ has made you free in other words no act like it's if everything's right even though everything's going wrong because you're going to change your direction see the devil goes like wait a minute did we do this right or didn't and what he'll do he'll back off because he thinks this ain't working and all of a sudden your tsunami of blessing spiritually physically and financing comes to you yeah and think about what was going on in the day when nehemiah wrote those things the whole nation was in exile the city was destroyed and the lord they were ready it was time to start restoring what what the enemy had destroyed in their life and so he had a word of encouragement to build them up that's what he said the joy of the lord is your strength and the people were rejoicing in the liberty and he wanted them to not just they wanted to she wanted them to share that with each other because it would be multiplied and increased but the fact was that you know they needed to do that because they had heard the word of god they had not heard it the word was was precious but it was not open and they had here ezra the scribe had started reading it and the people went because they realized what they had been missing all those years but then new hope came instead of giving up and being sad realize we have hope because we have the word of god that's what's going to change everything well you know just happened the other day because i can't leave i'm shut down because there's no you know i got i i mean uh i have to do what i have to do we feel like the lord doesn't want us so he wants us to stay here and oversee the restoration of the church plus the you know like i said this moment you know they didn't have power and things of that nature i talked to bill winston i was supposed to be and that preached this preacher's campaign earlier and i said i'm not going to cancel bill i just can't come and he understood he said i said i'm fighting a crisis here boy i mean some tragedy that you know people just they don't know they're crying in the streets and somebody killed someone over a gallon of gasoline the other day because they thought they cut in line or something something kind of silly i mean this is this is not easy what was going on in new orleans but me and i said bill but i tell i'm not gonna call it cancer i'm just gonna reschedule and he said you rescheduled jesse he said you come anytime really blessed me he understood you know and i've had this so a couple of three or four minutes i've had to do that to take care of this situation and uh but i i didn't want to i mean i wanted just get in the plane and take off and let everybody else handle his mess you know i said no no that's not my job that god didn't call me it's like god said well you're on your own jack i'll see you later but you're still preaching you've been preaching every sunday in this church and it's being broadcast through the throughout the world as well as encouraging those believers those congress congregations and some visitors that are coming in for spiritual help sure uh people said to me kathy you're sure you want to have church on that first sunday after it was seven days after the storm hit and i just felt like we needed to do that and because we were not damaged so i said well you know when we were the church was damaged not too yes i'm sorry what i meant was it wasn't so damaged that we couldn't meet we had we had a roof we didn't realize that part of it was trying to come off yeah we you know we had to put structural engineer people to kind of look at this situation we looked at and they said it was structurally sound enough to bring people in and because of the generator that was here that we the lord instructed us to put in place and add after that last storm 16 years ago katrina we the wisdom of the lord was to build get that and it was a big expense executive it takes a lot of energy to run this ministry on campus i mean the 5k lights i mean it makes the the meter goes like it's running a race you know what i'm saying and i bought it the generator was half a million dollars i said what can run every department we want to be self-sufficient yeah they said this amount but that's what happened so we did we invested it stop the voice so we keep the broadcast going we keep all of these things and it ran i think nine or ten days and right now we only generated it's been running since august the 29th i mean and this is in september and it's just a cooking still and i thought oh lord power has been restored around us but here's the issue we're not still on generated power taping this but they're doing different sections and things of that nature now and i give honor to those people out there working 16 hours a day to do all that stuff all the people are coming from all over the country one of our friends had church in the front step uh white dove fellowship on the west bank the lord i think their grandson is leading the worship with a goddess amen he's just out there on the steps in the sunshine and that's that first sunday when we were going to start i remember thinking you know winn-dixie which is the local grocery store in our community was open handing out physical food and i said well people had we had a delivery of a box truck that came with with food and supplies that we had just put in the day before so i said we need to have that available for our congregation to be able to pick up and take away and also i mean we need to have spiritual food for people so i said we need to take a step before we can walk that's right and we want to lead show people this is how you recover you take a step and you walk and you keep on walking so that first sunday the people they did came i think we only had like 90 people in the sanctuary that were there and all of those we were able to they came to the went into the neighborhoods our family room had all the boxes that uh emptied out the truck yeah keith this is a big truck and a truck early on and we were just there like i think two days after the the national guard was a like on the next block so they were there and our our congregation filtered their trucks and their trunks of the cars and just loaded up with them with food and they brought it into the neighborhoods and some of the they brought it to linemen even they brought it to people they didn't even know sure we got reports of people being so encouraged and blessed by these and now they're leaving i think tomorrow but we're still here there's no guard yeah well we we we don't leave we don't move we we do it until it's complete but you say you don't do it because you're trying to be nice you do that in the joy of the lord and the love of your heart you see to give god honor and glory because he's the one supplied all that but you know what the loaf of bread doesn't walk off by itself and or whatever well even today right now our pastoral team is in our annex because we've moved those groceries plus we've got an other two other shipments that came in and we're dispersing it to our neighborhood several churches have come by and collected supplies and we're going to be there until it's all gone and i think right now a lot of grocery stores are open like i think we're going to be there after it's gone well well i mean i'm talking about the food itself but we'll still be here but i don't know we'll just take that a step back we're kind of like we kind of like eternal beings yeah it's hard to get rid of us you know we ain't going away can i read another testament real quick yes go ahead okay this one is from rachel and facebook this blessed me i read it right before with taping and it says you two and your team are so wonderful even in your own troubles i got an email back today after asking for prayer for my son with you telling me you're praying and believing with me so we have a prayer team still in our office doing what they do every day before the storm yet because we know they have people with serious needs and we want to be there for sure and it really helps us to be able to give out and help others even though we're going through some things so this is what we do but we're going through them amen and it goes she goes on to say rachel says god is moving and mountains are being cast into the sea two weeks after being shot in the neck he walked today praise god in that wonderful shot in the neck could have been killed right there and he walked today yeah praise god in his unfailing love soon i know we're i'm going to give you an even bigger praise report thank you for the email your encouragement and your prayers praying for all the people you know what he says reading because you're having a hard time i'm okay praying for all the people who were affected by ida god is working and people are seeing his goodness and love through those who step out with the hands and feet of jesus god bless you brother jesse and sister kathy and all those around you by the way brother jesse i love your book and i'm reading it right now i never learned a doubt thanks for you know what i'm feeling we're continuing to believe you with you for your son to be whole and healthy and and fully restored in jesus name well i tell it i feel you know people say boy but judge you holding this up to tell you the truth y'all are holding me up and holding us up i feel like i got people under my arms go ahead just do your thing you know my partners people not only who send financial help and thank god they do but they pray every day they pray we need it all we need every bit of it prayer not just for us but for our children they're here working you know because they love the lord and they love helping people i've had to tell people i'm not a piece of iron a piece of steel i'm just as human as anybody else but i stick with this word when everything's going wrong and with everything's going right that's right you see because you never really know what you have to do when this crazy thing works kathy said you're cutting yourself away i mean i'm cutting myself i got bruises busted on my legs i said i don't care it don't make no difference it'll heal and we're just going about our business you know that's god's word see so i wanted to talk to you today about the joy of the lord which is our strength so right now you may not feel strong let me help you the bible said let the weak say not i say you say if you feel it weak let the weak say i'm strong you know fighting them leaks uh i said god i mean i need help he said i'm here but i wasn't thinking about you either and boy he showed me where to go and you know i'm not mechanical you know that i can get him better if i build a doghouse the dog ain't gonna live in it but about 20 minutes he's gonna get wet but i found everything and i brought the contractor and i said this this he goes how'd you know that i said i didn't i was just i mean but i said god i need some help here i said so i can get a bucket and stuff so something won't be destroyed and uh and and satan and say i can hear satan go he found out well it was the lord guiding me and directing me you know i've said it here before in a lot of boardroom chats everything i do every decision i make is according to saint john 16 13. he says and you can you quote that well when the spirit of truth has come here oh god you will guide you in all truth i take that little word all and i take it to the complete part of it it's only just several what three all three letters or something like that but it encompasses the whole universe right god can give us the answers we need no matter what we're going through i was just thinking of something that happened renee uh miller our worship leader of our church is staying upstairs in one room and in fact we've had some challenges there we had to remove the toilet anyway it's back it's fixed but she was so precious she uh was leaving early that next morning to go check her house and check some things before she came to the ministry to start helping hand out supplies to the people in our neighborhood and she was just looking all over kathy i'm trying to find my keys i can't find my keys can you help me so i looked around downstairs so she retraced her steps and she went upstairs and she found her keys and it brought back what she's where those keys were they were like in the middle of the floor she had when she had walked into that room the night before she knelt down on the middle of the floor and just wept before the lord cried out to lord worshiped him thanked him for what he was doing and it had a beautiful moment that she had had with the lord a reality struggling and helped you thanking god for all for his protection and so many things anyway she had a beautiful experience with him that night and when she went back to the room she saw she didn't realize that she had had her keys in her hand and had dropped it right there on the rug and so there were the keys again and when she saw those keys she did the same thing again and she like she really had that that another experience just like that with the lord his presence was so real i just wanted to share that with you to know that today that god is there he's right there with you don't give up reach out to him and he will give you the strength you need and the joy amen and i mean all of us need it i mean it's just such a blessing listen even in the good times you need actually i honestly believe that you need more of the joy of the lord as your strength when everything's going good because you can let me tell you why you tend to think you can do it all by yourself yeah or neglect and that is you got a problem when you begin to think you can handle this because you can't see now i want to go back to that point of i said earlier that what god does is call those things would be not as though they were and what god is is the fruits of the spirit nine of them and against such there is no law i want to talk a little bit more about that against such there is no law now this is talking about the god we serve but you know what he gave us his name and we are created in his image and in his likeness and we have been saved by grace so i said even sin can't touch you the law of sin yes the law of sickness indeed if you understand what we're saying here in galatians 5 22 and 23 right and galatians 5 verse 1 when you understand that so that's why you believe with your heart you confess with your mouth that jesus rose from the dead when you got born again i want to tell you something something one well the most powerful thing that could ever happen to you happened right then and there right the biggest decision you could ever make or going to make was that decision when you gave your life to the lord jesus christ you decided to take on the character and the likeness of god almighty himself yes think about that that's a powerful thing that's why nehemiah could say with the wall down yes all the people one mind want to call it and notice they understood you see when you're one mind and one accord you're not questioning everybody this they understood that's unity yes they understood and then they said let's just have a party and i really believe our second president united states john adams when he realized that july 4th was such a special day even though a lot of men died for that day to be free let's have a party let's do fireworks do it oh stuff you see i told a person the other day i saw somebody they got power and i went man it's like christmas i mean christmas you walk in instead of going sweat uh a hundred percent humidity all of a sudden the air can just go hello have you missed me you go oh it's just so wonderful you know and it's such a blessing of the lord so we want to talk to you today that the joy of the lord is your strength and i also want to thank all those people once again i wish i could sometime i think it's not enough i don't know you've been so kind praying for us sending in financial support so we can be a blessing and the ministry has to operate and function and you know what i've paid everybody ain't nobody lost nothing we sent our missionary support oh yeah no no no no just because just because i'm going through something does that mean a lot of people they cut off their mission their support to africa whatever they support no not this man we don't know we don't do that stuff no we made up our mind that our word is our bond and i made up my mind that god's word is his bible that's right right and you know my covenant will i not break saying psalm 39 34. now also the thing that goes out of my lips that's one sign the devil couldn't tear off that church during that hurricane yeah it's still understood that glory to god the steeple's going but it will be replaced oh it'll be replacing the scriptures but it could tear the whole thing off they had the coupler just just a pointy thing like this just that pointy spire or whatever yeah crosstalk was on the top oh yeah oh yeah that's in the making and so i wanted to let you know you do what you have to do and uh and and it will get done so no matter what you're going through though i'll walk through the valley of the shadow of death i fear no evil you know why i'm a paraphrase because you're the biggest person in the valley if god is in you yeah christ then you the hope of glory you are and it's just such a blessing so i want to thank all the people that watch our boardroom chats we're doing good praise the lord the lord like it's in your comments yes and uh send more and more things and and you know naturally you know when everybody has a voice and i thank god for that they have it you know in doing the internet they don't know where is it youtube facebook instagram and some people don't like it but i'm gonna tell you something if you hear people say stuff like he ain't doing this and that's a lie i got the bruises i bear the marks of a christian and and the money's going out we're doing what we could yeah and everything we can wish you could do it all we can yeah but then you know if i did some people said how come i wasn't allowed to do something see you see god's not a respectable person i had one man say uh he said i want the biggest church i want to be the only church i said well that's wrong to think like that what do you mean the baptist got to close their doors the catholics got to close their doors because you want it all it's a little suffers isn't it how come the baptists can't have the church or they're methodists wait a minute we're one family made up of many members my finger doesn't do what my toe does but it knows when my toe hurts and my toe knows when my finger hurts see so we're one body one unit so thank you for helping us and if you'd like to help us you can send a donation to jdm.org and and hit hit the donate button or you can use paypal if you like and whatever oh and i got one more thing and then we'll close we're getting our mail our mail started and watch that this is the first we but they delivered it to us the first time that's never happened but now they're in the history of our ministry they're gutting the whole post office and so they have like a little mobile station and we uh they're letting us go and collect but they're delivering it and guess what we did while they were getting it we brought them food water they just was so appreciative and nice stuff i'm not talking about well we we i invited them to come to annex where we have all the supplies and the the one the girl that's that's been helping us tammy she was able to get a lot of things for her you know she goes she went to steve's church she went to steve stephen steve allen she told me that i had met her before i didn't realize that so the joy of the lord is our strength and it should be your strength until next time this is jesse and cathy we'll see you soon remember the words of god because they always come to pass not maybe the way you thought but if you look for sure you will see an answer more than a problem till next time we see you god bless you bye-bye this media is copyrighted by jesse duplantis ministries for the private use of our audience any other use of this media or of any pictures or accounts without jesse duplantis ministries consent is strictly prohibited

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