Conquering Carnality

and amen on your way down somebody shout conquering carnality I am not I'm not sure if I have ever in my life or in my lifetime I'm sure it's probably other people have seen it but in my lifetime I'm not sure that I have ever seen a moment where people are so utterly stressed out stressed out struggling they're struggling in their health struggling in their mental health struggling in marriages marriages are under attack struggling with emotional disorders struggling with singleness struggling with discontentment struggling to get ahead or at least get even struggling and yet and yet all at the same time we've never had more ministry available to us then we have today and so for them for the most part we are just one mouse click away from somebody's ministry from a podcast from a church service you know there was a day you couldn't just click on and go to any church around the world but today you can pretty much do that we have we've never had more Church at our fingertips more more books available more blogs that we could read more Scripture that we could just click on and and and go through a daily devotion there's stuff all over the place that can help us grow by leaps and bounds in God and yet there is a stroke struggle like like I really I don't know I don't know that I've ever seen it on such a level you turn the news on and you see it on people's faces and you hear it in people's cry we smile we still smile we still sing we still praise I saw some of you today praised and and and press through through into worship even though you had to press through pain and tears and and and we've got we've got the ability to tap into a glory because we're beginning to understand the glory of God and that it does cost us something you can just come in here and enter into praise and that's just free but if you go really enter into glory that's ultimately gonna cost you something but isn't glory what we want to enter into because all of our needs are supplied according to his riches in what glory so if we're going to to be able to have God's supply all of our need then we cannot just tap into praise and we cannot just happen to worship but we got to tap into his glory and get in spite of all of that that is available to us people still struggle when we prayed the benediction and we turn off the lights and we go into the parking lot and we drive into a house and we go home many struggle we can we can have a great time in church but we go home and we struggle with discontentment we go home and we struggle with discouragement with dissatisfaction we struggle with a restlessness in us and all of that bothers me because I don't know how we can be so discontent and yet have so much glory available to us at the same time I'm just that kid that asks all those kind of crazy questions how can this thing be and all of that bothers us but I want to take the next few moments and and just kind of delve into it and and see if we can come up with with a few answers and prayerfully I trust that by the time I'm finished today that the word that is in my mouth and the word that is in this book right here will help those of us who are willing to be honest and say yeah the struggle does get very real from time to time so let me begin by saying this whatever you feed it you'll see flourish okay can you can can you say this after me whatever I feed will flourish say it again whatever I feed will flourish people who constantly rehearse their problems who constantly rehearse their difficulties and their challenges and their situations and and people who are constantly telling you and saying what I don't like about I don't what I don't like about this job and what I don't like about this house and what I don't like about this marriage and what I don't like about this church people who continually rehearse those things discover that they never get better but they only get worse when you because when you feed negativity your words and your language and your thoughts it gives growth and it gives life to those things because whatever you speak to is what you're going to get more of if you give me just a little high if you have a child who is always rebellious always in trouble and every time you look at them that's how you address them your rebellious or troublemaker guess what you're gonna get more of you're gonna get more of that behavior because that's what you're speaking to and where the focus goes the power flows touch somebody tell him where the focus goes the power flows let me tell you let me say it like this we how many of you know we live in three dimensions if you know that lift up your hand if you don't don't be embarrassed but if you know that lift it up okay so we if you don't know that then extra-extra hear all about it today we we live in three dimensions we live in the spirit realm and and in the spirit realm it realm is where we are made alive it's where we are quickened and quickened doesn't necessarily mean uh you know that kind of thing you'll say somebody quick and but that's not exactly what that means it just means that you are made alive so so we live in spiritual realm and we also have a soulish realm so we have a spirit we live in the spirit realm and we live in a soulless realm the soul realm the soulless realm is the emotional it's the it's the the mental it's the memories it's the scars it's the wounded areas where we struggle in our mind and it's the soulless realm is often where the clutter in our life gathers together all right it's like the junk drawer in your house you know does anybody have a junk drawer in your house see I love that y'all are some junky Christians I love it I'm not the only one but we have a junk drawer and we recently moved and we were not in we were not physically in that house until we had a junk drawer we had a junk drawer gone before we ever actually moved in it is it's the junk drawer it's where everybody comes in and drops everything into that drawer pretty soon that all begins to build up and next thing you don't even know what all you got in there because you got so much in there you can't even see what is in the drawer it is the collection point that's what the soul is the soul is the collection point it is the drop-off zone the soul accumulates the soul becomes the gathering place and it collects so much because it gathers things from your spirit it gathers things from the spirit realm and by that what I mean it's like all of a sudden you know that you know that you know something you don't even know how you know it you just know you ever been there you're like I know that asurs I know my name I know that thing right there you don't know how you know but I'll tell you how you know because your spirit knows and your spirit talks to you and it lets you know and now you just know things and so what you're doing is you're getting that information from your spirit your spirit sends signals to your soulish man it sends signal to your mind and all of a sudden you know what you didn't know two minutes ago so not only does just so collect things from your spirit but it also collects things from your body because we are a trichotomous being we are spirit we are soul and we are body that means we live in three dimensions now we often hear it like that we often hear spirit soul and body but it's important for us to get the order correct and understand that it's body soul and spirit can you say that body and spirit the reason it's body is because body is the first dimension body is the first dimension your soul is the second dimension and your spirit is the third dimension so the body represents the outer core it reps it represents the front yard of who you are and the soul represents the holy place and your spirit represents the Holy of Holies in the outer court or in the body that's where all of your senses are and that's where they gather information it's like for example your ear gate your I gave your your what are they your smell game whatever it is all of those gates okay so I could be talking to you I could be having a a conversation with you and while I'm talking to you somebody can walk by us and even though you're hearing me you see them because your eye gate saw them and yeah I gave took in that moment your I gave them up they can come in and they can sit now next to you they can lean over and touch you while I'm talking to you but you can hear me and yet you feel that touch you feel that it's your senses it's coming in through your touch gate they can wit be wearing the best cologne and while I'm talking to you you can be less and amides thinking I wonder what they're wearing cuz that smells so good and so because your smell gate has taken all of that in so are you following me your mind has taken all of this information in and it's all coming in through your senses and because your mind can be your junk drawer your mind can be a gathering place your mind can be the holding tank for what your senses are bringing in it gets in there and it lodges in there that's why you can go through an incident and long after the incident is over your mind still holds on to what it gathered when it was going through the incident are y'all following me people can tell you they can they can tell you negative things as a child they can say you're nothing you're never gonna grow up to be anything at all and you can be full-grown and still be affected by what they said to you when you were a child why because your mind your junk drawer took it all in and it still holds it it took in what your ears allowed to come in and it still holds it in place people can say things to us they can walk away and say you'll never be nothing because I'm getting ready to leave you and yet we remember that and and our mind collects it and it becomes our mind becomes the baggage all the excess baggage of what happened to us back then and we keep remembering it and the person that said it to you could have hurt you deeply and it could have been 30 years ago but you're still carrying it because your ear gate your I get your touch gate your smell gate took it all in and they can die and you and still be controlled by the things that they did and the things that they said come on help me church come on help me church help me sound man help me Church I said some of you are struggling today with things that you heard twenty years ago the person is dead and gone that's why you can't wait for people to apologize to you whenever they hurt you and offends you you got to forgive them even if they never apologize to you because what happens if they die you gonna live the rest of your lives tormented by what somebody said the devil is a liar I am NOT gonna live my life tormented by what somebody said to me who is Six Feet Under [Applause] y'all better help me look at somebody until am i living like that I live in it it's crazy because it's over it's over but your solace realm has taken it all in and this is why we got we can't wait for people to apologize the minute they mess you up and push you around you need to say you know what I forgive them I forgive them and I'm gonna get over it because if I don't they will always be in control in the grave but in controlling me the devil is a liar because when that happens whatever they did or whatever they said it becomes a snare to us and whenever your mind whenever it becomes it becomes a trap for us and the enemy will often set people up when they are young so they he'll set them up when they are young so that as they grow older they will find themselves in the trap and they will never become everything that God has called them to become so so you got a make up in your mind I don't care who said what I will be free I said I will be free somebody ought to put that in the atmosphere right now I will be free I will be Saint again I will be free I will be free why because my soul has escaped the snare of the Fowler that's what the Bible said your soul your soul the thing that's holding all that baggage can escape the snare the trap that the person laid the Fowler set for you so you've got to let it go you got to forget it number one you got to let that thing go you got to forgive them and when you do it puts you back in control of your life and not their look at somebody and tell him take control of your soul tell him tell them take control of your soul so what you allow to be collected what you allow to be rehearsed what you allow to go over and over and over and over in your mind will eventually affect every area of your life for to be carnally minded is dense I said to be carnally minded is death so what does it mean to be carnally minded it means to be fleshly minded it means you allow your mind to be affected by what your senses perceive let me say that again it means it allows your mind to be affected by what your senses and your flesh is perceiving when your mind is full of what your senses have brought into you that's how you become carnally minded okay you're following me and for those of you who feel like like the message today is irrelevant to you because you are saved let me quickly remind you that when God saved you he saved your spirit he did not save your body okay cuz cuz Hetty saved your body you wouldn't grow old you wouldn't lose a hair you wouldn't have a wrinkle he did not save your body he saved your spirit as a matter of fact your spirit is saved your soul is being saved and your body shall be saved say that with me my spirit is saying my soul is being saved and my body shall be say that's why you can be saved in your spirit shall dance holla be the loudest person in the church run all over the building and go home and be miserable and your kids just want to know where is my dad that was at church where's my mom that was at church because listen don't think just because people run all over the building and dance that they are actually happy hello just because you run all over the building does not mean that you are happy and you have peace as a matter of fact sometimes it's a sign that you don't have peace y'all and go say nothing in here but it's the truth it could be that people are running in an attempt to escape all of the pressure that's going on in their mind their nerves are shot they overwhelmed their hearts broken and they're rocking and they're reeling because life has knocked the wind out of them and they get into church and they find a way to escape all of that can I tell you some of the craziest people I have ever met in my life are those radical running loud shouting fallouts they will knock you out you build a circle around them they'll take the ushers out they'll take everybody out and and we think it's because they're deep they are not deep they might just be a little crazy I'm not saying that God won't knock you out I'm not saying that you ain't got a right to run all of that you got to hear it hear it hear it don't don't don't separate my words from my spirit that's what I'm gonna ask you to do today because I realize there are times that we run but everybody that ain't that's running ain't running because they have peace no they they they come to church they run they howl and they go home and they are on the on the verge of having a mental breakdown as think about this as a matter of fact some of the most common behaviors in people that have totally flipped out and totally lost their mind is that they will sit and they were rock and they will quote scriptures the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want come on now you know they'll say hi my name is Joseph my name is Abraham my name is Moses because they're so they're so religiously minded and they're so beet used to being deep they're deep but they don't have peace now don't now hear that being deep does not necessarily mean that you have peace it does mean however that you're looking for it that you're after something you're looking for something to anchor you that you're looking for a rock to steady you that you're looking for a place that will build you up and hold you in place from time to time but but it doesn't necessarily mean that you found it you understand that so to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace and if we are not careful about what we allow to come into our minds on a consistent basis before you know it our mind our soulless realm is filthy yes I'm not going to church folk it is filthy I'm not necessarily talking about filthy because of immoral thoughts even though that is true I'm not necessarily talking about filthy because of pornography or lust or adultery or fornication I'm talking about filthy and cluttered with stress with anxiety with worry with trauma with grief and with fear no you don't smoke and no you don't do drugs and no you don't curse and no you don't kill and you don't steal and you don't fornicate and you don't commit adultery but that does not mean that you are always clean in your spirit you can be morally pure and still have a nasty spirit you might not commit adultery but you sure talk about everybody else that does full of anger full of bitterness full of unforgiveness full of envy full of strife full of jealousy full of prejudice full of pride full of all of that kind of stuff and those kinds of things can live a long time in the church because they're not easily detected you can hide those things and you can hide them pretty well so that means you can dress holy you can look holy you can wear the right length of dress you can wear the right tie you can talk holy and you can stay away from unholy places but you'll feel with bitterness and you'll feel with stripes and you'll film with envy I've seen a lot of people struggle the kind of people who do struggle morally and yet they could be some of the kindest some of the most loving they might be in a gang but if they think you need help they will come and they will help you they will protect you if you need help if you need food they'll be they'll be happy to give you money they might turn around and kill somebody but they don't give you money so that you can eat you understand what I'm saying there that they have a lot of issues but see for religious people it doesn't matter you can be hungry you can be thirsty but they are so dogmatic and so religious that they Ango they wouldn't spit on you if you want fire does anybody know people like that telling you I wha I I saw this one woman walked up to my she was very religious I grew up she and she was my Sunday school teacher in church she was very religious and I watched her when bishops mother and father came to pastor the church I grew up in they had a little bit of a edge on them and my mother-in-law wouldn't wear pearls but we didn't wear pearls when I was coming up okay but when my mother law the pastor's wife wore pearls I remember it was winter in in Detroit and you know they wear galoshes I don't know if y'all know what that is but yeah y'all from Chicago you know what I'm talking about but she had her galoshes in her hand and back my mother-in-law into a corner flapping those galoshes telling her you better get that nest off of your neck those pearls are not of God just talking talking trash to her that was my school teacher from that day forward I knew I never wanted to be religious because I from that I watched my mother-in-law cry all over a string of pearl if you're watching today miss [Applause] sorry God is not happy about that I know [Applause] how about this this is way bigger than her pearls but guess what I love Jesus with all my heart Jesus don't always love Jesus and never be religious because religion does not equate relationship I said religion does not equate relationship it's possible religion with church and never have relationship with God oh I should have killed every religious spirit in here to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace what I want us to understand is that whatever we feel that is what is going to grow so if you are always feeding your your mind your if you're always feeding your flesh if you're always feeding carnality if you're always feeding on gossip and sensual kind of stuff and you you can be sensual and not be sexual okay so I'm don't get those two things your senses out what what you know taste touch see smell hear all of those things you can if you're always catering to those kinds of things then that is what is going to grow in your life and there's no sense in wondering why you don't have life and peace when all you do is feed on your procedural carnality and feed your flesh how could you have peace when you are always in the middle of everybody's gossip did you child I tell you I don't what I heard this what I heard you know they're about to lose that house they bout to lose that car she's about to lose her job I know that traffic and when you're feeding on all of that stuff and you become part of all of that stuff how in the world do you think you're supposed to have peace you will never have peace like that you can't feed that stuff to yourself and to your flesh and then expect to have peace anytime you eat more of the world than you do of the word you have eaten an unhealthy diet hello you can't feed on gossip more than you do on prayer more than you do on praise more than you do on to worship more than you do on the presence of God and still think that you are going to grow a healthy spirit no you are carnally minded and being carnally minded is going to lead us to nothing but death death in our dreams death in our families death in our desires death in our careers somebody ain't got enough sense to realize the reason you're losing like you are right now is because God's trying to get your attention and tell you you need to start feeding your spirit life joy health peace my presence my glory instead of getting caught up in everything that's going around you the men you read the very reason that many people are struggling to find peace is not because of their marital status it's not because of their spouse it's not because of their looks it's not because of their age it's not because of their career it's not because of their financial standards it's because our minds are filled with clutter and if we if we are supposed to according to the Bible to think on what so ever is pure whatsoever is lovely and whatsoever is of a good report but instead we are thinking on whatsoever is on pure and unholy and and of a bad report no wonder we don't have any peace we need to find a place in God let all of that go lay it all down cast it on the Lord and say Lord look whatever you do with that mess over there it's totally up to you your God you do with it what you will do with it it's not even my business God it is your business I'm turning it back over into you today and as for me and my house we will serve the Lord we will love the Lord so the challenge that we face churches weave is we got to build up that's part of our lives and for many of us the flesh part of our life that's too strong and the spirit part of our life is too weak and the telltale sign that you are a weakling in your spirit is when you fail to embrace God in worship I'm trying you're here you're saying you stand but you never really engage because you get bored too quick you're like you like the idea of it but you don't get out of it what other people get out of it but that's because your spiritual muscles are underdeveloped hello I said your spiritual muscles your mind is trying to turn back and your mind is trying to turn you away from spiritual things and so your mind gets a thought and it wanders and you are all the way in the next week wow we're singing the praises of God and you're clapping but your mind is not here another sign is that you are spiritually weak is that you don't like prayer if I ask you to pray you can pray for two minutes and after that you're like oh I'm uncomfortable I got you become more conscious of your physical body then you do of your relationship and your communication with God and only that we really do like prayer is when we get in trouble and when we get in trouble we will come and we will pray hard okay we will pray hard because we are more into building up that which is sensible that which we feel then we are into building up that which is spiritual so it's easier for you to talk to people that you can see than it is for you to talk to a God that you cannot see so we spend more time talking to our fake friends on Facebook did we do talking to our Father who gave His only begotten Son would even have a voice to talk come on y'all and many times there's nothing you don't love God because you do and it's not that you know it's it's not that you you it's that you don't like the singing and you don't like the music because you do the problem is you just don't enjoy it because you are spiritually malnourished and so you do it but you do it out of religious duty and anything that you do out of religious duty you will not do it for long because you don't enjoy it you're not doing it because you enjoy it you're doing it out of religious duty but the Bible said in Hebrews 5 and 14 if you have to pull it up for me it says but strong meat belongs to those who are of full age say somebody say full age Hebrews 5:14 but strong meat belongs to those who are of full legs that don't mean old people that just means people who are mature those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil now that's good news right there it tells me that you can exercise you can exercise you can exercise it by using it and the reason that we're not enjoying it is because we are not really using it do you understand what I'm saying see when you first start working out the muscles that you very rarely use they give you the most penny anybody know what I'm talking about if you've got a muscle that you don't very very rarely use you can do the slightest bit of work and the next thing you know the next morning you are so sore you can hardly move why because that that muscle is not normally worked out like that and so anytime you have a muscle that doesn't necessarily get used your flesh cries out against it so in order to develop it you've got to use it the reason our flesh cries out against praise and real worship and pressing in and going after the glory is because we're not used to doing it and so because we don't use it it's our flesh cries out and let me tell you something just coming to church and just being a spectator in the house of God will never develop that part of you and it's not I said it's not that you don't love God it's just that you don't you you don't you don't know how to really tap in and worship and it's just many people just don't know how to open up to God we open up to everything else some of that God we can't open ourselves up to God but if you're ever going to make the transition out of the natural and over into the spirit you've got to be in touch with yourself and you got to be able to get in touch with God because if you don't learn to open up to God you're gonna be bored and you're gonna want us to move on real quickly but do you know what could happen in this room if every last one of us literally it's hapten to the presence of God the power of God would fill this room in such a dimension that the sick couldn't stay sick and the bound couldn't stay back why because the glory would fill the house and we couldn't even stand but it doesn't work like that because we got people who don't know how to enter in they don't know how to use that muscle they don't know how to get before God and be vulnerable and open up and say God I need you I'm not even afraid to say on nature I ask you Lord to kill everything in me that's not like you you've got to open up your spirit to God and if you don't he will never be able to do in your life what he wants to do in your life I don't care who comes in and prophesize it it will never happen because you were not willing to make the transition out of the flesh into the spirit so we I think we do two things one of two things we either open up our spirit or we open up us less more and more and more and more and we are trying to meet a spiritual need with our flesh you understand what I'm saying it's like thirst and hunger I heard one time that they said sometimes we get those two feelings those two senses we get them confused but it's not that we're really hungry it's just that we're thirsty and if we were drink sometimes you have to drink a lot before you understand no it wasn't a thirst it wasn't a thirst craving it was it I really was hungry but sometimes you can satisfy that hunger by drinking because really what you are is thirsty your body needs water but here's what we mess up we keep instead of giving the body the water it needs we give it food because that is how we have trained ourselves to respond to that need we trained ourselves to respond to that need with food that's the same way it is with spiritual things you know something is missing you know that you're not happy you know that there's a need you know that you're frustrated with everybody that's around you you know that your spouse and your kids and your co-workers and your in-laws are on your very last nerve and the reason they're on your last nervous because they are not giving to you what you think you need in the way that you think you need it so you're trying to get more flesh stuff you try to get more flesh stuff to feed an inner need and really what you need is God you don't need any more flesh stuff do you need to just get alone with God you are like the woman at the well you are thirsty Jesus went to the well he went to the well is he her because he knew she was thirsty he knew she'd been married five times he knew that she was living with the man that was not really her husband he knew that she was living a life by her senses he knew that she was carnal he knew that she was religious he knew that she thought she was a know-it-all our fathers worship in the mountains that's why I imagine her talking to Jesus like that so he says to her woman the hour is come and now is that day that worship must worship in spirit and in truth so in order to get what you need you are going to have to worship in a place that you are not used to and that place is called the Spirit pull on somebody and tell them we're going into the spirit and this is where this is where most people miss this thing and the reason that we don't enjoy it we don't enjoy it is that real worship requires us to transition out of the natural and over into the spirit it requires that we try we're so used to wanting to know everything I know where I am I know it's next I know what's going on I know who's around me but when you tap into worship you tap into something you don't know nothing about I said you tap into a zone that is unfamiliar to you and you're so used to having having to know everything that's around us that it makes us uncomfortable and it makes us vulnerable and it makes us impotent to perform so therefore we need to exercise by reason of use our senses in the spirit realm when was the last time that you did anything so exercise spiritually I know you go to the gym I know you lift weights I know you get on Facebook and Instagram and put your little sex yourself out there for everybody to see I know that but I wanna know your spirit man well it's been a minute pastor well that's why your spirit is weak I said that's why your spirit is weak that's why you can't worship that's why you can't press that's why you have no stamina that's why you're impotent to perform you gotta exercise in the spirit cut the TV off shut the computer put the phone down sign off for social media start working on becoming social when was the last time you were comfortable just being alone with him in his presence when's the last time you cut everything off see a lot of people are uncomfortable with that so they can only get in there for about a minute and then they got to turn step-mom turn the radio on turn TV on do something cuz they're uncomfortable being alone with God so they got to make some kind of record but I'm gonna tell you if you can't enjoy just you and God alone you'll spirit is weak and it needs to be exercised and it needs to work out and it needs to be trained if you have a problem with prayer because you run out of things to say the next time you're on your way to work get in your car drive down the road and practice for everything you see pray about it lord I thank you I thank you for life I thank you for green trees I thank you for fruit that grows on trees I thank you for a highway lord I thank you I thank you that I'm safe I thank you oh I thank you that that's a stop sign it tells me where to stop and it tells me when to go Lord I'll thank you I pray for discernment practice look at somebody telling practice practice practice if you can't be comfortable with being alone with God then you are in real trouble you're really immature and you need to do a work you need to work out okay I need real quick I'm just gonna give you this little visual and then I'm gonna be done for today and hopefully I can pick it up maybe next week Lana I want you to come up here and a Rose Tina Kristin No I am I want you to come thank you you come okay let me see you three two circle around here just keep circling just keep circling around here y'all see this Tina's at home she's in a house she doesn't realize that she's not alone no she thinks she's in there all by herself she doesn't know that the angels of the Lord are encamped round about her she doesn't know that she's in the presence of the Lord at all times she doesn't know that she's actually never been alone that she's never been by herself and that she's got angels watching out over her and over her stuff she doesn't know that they were with her this morning when she woke up she doesn't know that while she was asleep that they were all around her protecting her she doesn't know that when she got in her car that they got in her car with her she doesn't know that when she got in a car wreck they were in the wreck with her but they preserved her life she doesn't know that they surrounded her in the storm she doesn't know that they are protecting her from danger seen and unseen she doesn't know that the Spirit is around her because she can't see them she can't hear them she can't touch them she can't smell them that she can't taste them and so she ignores them and she ends up perceiving me as her pastor somebody on the outside who is more real to her than those who are on the inside so God has to open up her eyes so that she can realize that she is surrounded by help she's encircled by help she has has been built around her in the spirit okay you y'all stop circling her now y'all I mean keep keep in a circle form but just stop moving for a moment and back up just keep backing up keep it now I want you three to come in and I want you to circle her these three let me tell you what they represent they represent problems they represent trouble they represent trials they represent dilemmas they represent memories they represent the burdens that she carries all day and all night they are in her circle the rest of y'all outer circle going now now they are in her circle and because they are in her circle she can't see that she's got help because she's so busy seeing the situation she can't see that the Spirit is there to help her because she sees is the outer circle because now y'all got one big circle going and you're totally out of order I need you three Anna Rose Atlanta you get on the outside you and you on the outside no roads you're with it now y'all know got me confused now circle around her closed closed closed now y'all are the bigger circle okay y'all following me right there she can't see that help is right there because she sees everything else in her face that makes me think of a prophet in the Bible days who had a servant and he sent his servant out to see what was going on and when his servant went out to sea he saw that the city had been surrounded by an army and he went back in and he reported to Elisha do not fear with us [Music] [Applause] Theriot to acknowledge him I dare you to talk to I tell you to recognize him I tell you to salute him I dare you to sing [Music] [Music] because that's what we do at home [Music] [Applause] because spirit hit somebody and say let's step off [Music] secondly is in the spirit right through it [Music] area [Music] don't move don't move cuz I'm done the problem the problem with the church today is that people don't stay in church long enough to press in those spirit they don't stay and worship long enough see we come in to his gates with Thanksgiving we come into his courts with praise we're thankful unto Him and we bless his name those two levels are about him but when you pass into that third dimension and you start tapping into glory that's about you that's where God supplies all of your needs so we come to church grumpy we don't want to say that we're cold don't be warming me up with no praise and worship and then we come in like like like depressed and we go out just as depressed as we were when we came in because number one we didn't do it in order we didn't come in crossing the threshold saying lord I thank you I thank you for what you've done in my life I thank you that I made it I made it to the sanctuary I thank you I thank you lord I thank you for what is going on in this room oh and as soon as you press B on that dimension you tap into worship lord I thank you just for me who you are you're faithful Lord you're faithful you're merciful Lord you're full of kindness oh you love me with an everlasting love and then you get beyond that point and you tap into glory when you tap into glory sometimes you ain't got a whole lot to say because that is where the real act is taking place that is where the real connection is being made you have stepped out of the flesh and you are now into the spirit but because we don't want to press and I understand what the devil fights that because once you step into that dimension every foe is defeated Oh first there is there is a path Bishop Utah there's a path in job something Jo what's the scripture what is it no I know what to say there is a path that no lion's whelp has passed job 29-28 hurry hurry choke 29-28 y'all wake till 29-28 anyway while they're finding it what I'm trying to say to you is that there is a place there is a dimension in God where those troubles that are circling like vultures around your life they can't find you they can't reach you they can't touch you there is a highway there is a path Lord do we know we're joke 20 anybody in this shirts gonna help there pass out it's not a joke 28 hold on baby damn girl maybe it's a Bishop's farm hold on there is a path there is a place but here's the problem we don't we don't stay there long enough to press into that see when I was coming up in church we we had to tarry you'll know what does anybody know what Terry means I realize that the Spirit has come but but but there is a place there is a path there is a highway there is a path that no bird knows nor has the Falcons ice in it do you see that there is a path that no vulture is going to be able to reach you or snatch you or harm you it's a highway it's that highway called holiness and when you can live on that place and on that level in in that zone and press to be in there the proud Lions have not trodden dydt nor has the fierce lion passed over it the path no bird knows nor the Falcons eyes seen it listen we have to press into that place you gotta press into that zone problem with us is we gotta be out too quick so therefore we have a form of godliness but we deny the power thereof because if God doesn't do it real quick and in a hurry then our fleshly mind but you have to go we got to eat we're supposed to meet at the restaurant is such that I got to go to the mall I never go home I got to take a nap I got up for the early morning service so we give up on having an encounter with God but if we would ever get us hungry in the spirit as we are in the flesh I'm telling you the power of God would fall in our midst with this worship moves us from just being in church to being in his presence worship moves us from just being in church to be in his presence if I'm gonna get up and come out I wanna be thank you Jesus there ought to be oppressing your spirit and you know what especially those times Tina says lift your hands and praise him all over this building fresh in those times of your life oh I do not feel like doing that that is when you need to get them up as high as you can get them because the opposition is only a sign that you are close to that breakthrough the enemy is gonna fight you but you gotta keep pressing and keep reaching so that you can obtain listen and throughout the week don't live so carnally minded that when it comes time for us to press into that spiritual realm that you can't go and you can't get there because you've been so far away from it all week long that it's so foreign that when you come in here you feel like you don't have a right to enter in it's all a trick of the enemy just stop living carnally minded somewhere during the day stop Falls build an altar talk to God say I want to be in touch guys I want to be in I want to be in touch with you who is all-powerful and me who is nothing without you see some people are too full of pride so they came reaching and they can't tell god they might tell him I love him but tell him I need are you kidding me no everybody has got to get to the point it gotta need you I just sometimes that's easier for women sometimes that's easier for women I'm not a little whites like that but as a man I challenge you to come before God just as you are say God I need you I can't do it without you I can't do this job I can't raise my family I don't have the answers for my children I don't know what to do with my wife I need you in my life if you'll let him know you need him he'll be there to help you every head bowed every eye closed

Channel: Sheryl Brady

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Keywords: Pastor Sheryl Brady, Sheryl Brady, The Potter's House of North Dallas

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Length: 58min 57sec (3537 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 24 2019