- Grab your Bibles tonight and
turn with me to the book of Exodus. Exodus chapter number 17. It's good to be saved tonight, amen. Exodus, chapter number
17 is where we'll be in God's word. Verse number eight. If you love your Bible tonight say amen. - [congregation] Amen! - Bible said, then came Amalek and fought with Israel in Rephidim. And Moses said unto Joshua, choose us out men and go out,
fight with Amalek tomorrow. I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. So Joshua did, as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed. And when he let down his hand Amalek prevailed. But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone
and put it under him. And he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side and
the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. Father in Jesus' name. I pray God for the next few moments, God, that you'd give me
the anointing that I stand in need of. Lord we thank you for your
goodness and for your mercy. We thank you God for
bringing us to this place. You know what a big deal it is in my heart to get to
preach behind this pulpit. I pray God you'd remove all of those things and help
me God, to be a blessing to your people and God will be careful to
give you the glory, the honor and the praise for it
is in Jesus name we pray and all God's people said. I love Joshua chapter number 17. I love this story that unfolds and tell us about Joshua and Moses and
how they'd been delivered. And they come against a, the
Amaleks come against them and they're fighting this fight. And Moses makes the statement to Joshua. He says, "I'm going to go up
to the top of the mountain. I want you to go down into
the valley and I want you to fight" which sounds pretty cool. And it sounds pretty scriptural
until you think of it like this, that if my best
friend in the whole world, Travis Kerlocks here tonight, and if Travis, which just
sounds about like something he'd do, but, but for him
to pick a fight with a bunch of thugs and them, then
them come and want to fight. And Travis say, "hey CT, I
need you to do me a favor. I want you to go down the
parking lot, fight that. And I'm going to go up and top of the church and I'm gonna pray for you while you fight in the fight." (congregation cheers) Just don't sound good. Does it? But Joshua did what Moses tells him to do, - Yes sir! - and the Bible said that
while Joshua was fighting that Moses, Aaron and Hur go
to the top of the mountain. And while they're at
the top of the mountain Moses lifts up his hands. And before long, they
realized that as long as Moses's hands were
raised, they won the battle. But as soon as the weary
hands of Moses began to fall they no longer win the battle but they're losing the battle. I came with a simple thought tonight about the importance of you
and I, as the people of God of how important it is
that we keep our hands up. - Yes sir! - You say "what do you mean?" I mean, it's been a long season. Meeting after meeting. I've talked to preachers
all over the place and they said, it's,
it's taken a little while for people to get used
to going back to church. And I'm not talking about
drumming, nothing up, not talking about emotionalism, but I'm talking about in every everyday life. It is absolutely imperative that you and I as the people of God learn
how to keep our hands up. If we're going to win
the battle of life, you and I must learn to keep our
hands raised in victory to God. I believe there are three
principles that I can pull out of this text that I can prove
to you what I'm trying to say. And number one, Moses has
hands being raised, signified number one, his commitment to God. "Moses, why be on the top of the mountain and not down in the valley?" "Moses why does Joshua have to fight. And you go to the top of
the mountain and not fight." I dare say Moses was
fighting the greater battle than what Joseph was fighting. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers the man that learns to pray
is doing the greater work than the man that learns how to preach. We must learn in this day that the power and the victory is not
wanting who can be the loudest but there is a spiritual
war that is there. And Moses has had to make
a commitment that he's going to let God fight the bigger battle. So Moses goes to the top of the mountain and
Moses raises his hands. Moses lifts his hands up. Moses understood that there was something
about standing still. Maybe, maybe he remembers when he was at the red sea there. And he had to lift the
rod of God in his hand. And the Bible said that
he was to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. He lifts his hands and raises his hands. And that is signifying
his commitment to God. You say "what do you mean by that?" I haven't done this long, but I know that it is a serious
commitment to keep my hands out of gods business. - Yeah - Yeah. We got any fixers in the room. - Yeah come on! - Something goes wrong and you feel like it's your God given duty to get in the middle of all of it, put your hands in it, get involved in it and try to fix it. You know what I've learned? Most of the time when I
get involved with something I ain't got no business being involved with I make things worse way worse than it ever was before. And it is a serious commitment at times for me not to try to do God's job. Now, I know y'all good people. Y'all been serving God
a long time and y'all ain't got the same issues I got. So bear with me. But I have felt before that God wasn't moving fast enough. I have felt before that, God wasn't doing it the way I would do it. The danger there is we
become manipulators. We try to fix things. There was one night I was preaching in Charleston, South Carolina and I was preaching here. You could have fit all the people in that church in this front
little section right here, probably wasn't 20 people
in that little building I was preaching and I do the same way everywhere I go. And there's a little old mama
that came up to me crying. She said, "old preacher, CT." She said, "I need you to pray and preach like it's your last time tonight?" I said, "why?" She said "my boys lost
and don't know God said, I've been begging him to come to church. And he finally come to
church to hear you preach." I said, "praise God, ma'am", at little old church on, I'll never forget he'd come in a big old boy big old camouflage coat
sat there on that pew. And I got to preaching about Jesus, how Jesus can save anybody
anywhere, anytime bragging on the blood of Jesus, how
Jesus can take a black heart, wash it in red blood, and it
can come out as white, as snow. And about every time I got
to anything about salvation that mama would wind that elbow up and right in his
side, right in his ribs. (congregation laughs) I preach a little bit more
about how God could save and change lives she, right into his ribs. I finally quit preaching early because I thought we're going
to have to call an ambulance for this boy. And I remember thinking ma'am,
if you do elbow him enough and if we do go find the 10
strongest dudes in the church pick him up and drag him to
the alter that ain't going to save him. She was trying to do God's job. And ladies and gentlemen I believe a lot of stress we have is when we
try to do God's job instead of getting our hands up and say, "nope, that ain't my battle. That ain't my fight. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What did you hear what they said? I can't do nothing about that. Ain't my battle. God will deal with all that. God will fight that battle for me. But my job is to keep my hands up. Because as long as my hands are up, I win. But when my hands get down
and I try to get involved in all of it, I start losing." There ain't no time for the people of God to play defense all the time. God wants us playing offense. Get your hands up. Let God fight those battles and you move on for the glory of God. Number two, his hands being raised not only signified his commitment to God but it signified his confidence in God. You either, y'all turn me up
just a little bit, fellas, you either trust God or you don't. And for him to raise his hands, it is signified his confidence in God. Moses why ain't you
down on the battlefield? My Moses, why ain't you
down there in the battle? Moses, why are you not down there? Because Moses had confidence that his God was able to fight the battle for him. And in this day and hour,
may I remind you that my God and your God is still able
to fight the battle for you and for me. If he's asked Moses, Moses how do you have confidence in God? He'd say something like this. Well, if God can protect
me as a little baby when there was a death
sentence on every little child that was my age and put me in a little tiny boat in
the middle of the Nile river where there's alligators
all over the place. God protected me from the alligator. God protected me from the current. And if God can take care of me in that God can take care of
me the rest of the way. Matter of fact it went further. The Pharaoh had a death
sentence on his life and not only did God put him
in a boat, but he sent him up the boat in the river where
Pharaoh's daughter saw him and fell in love with him. And God made it in such a way
where Pharaoh's daughter fell in love with him. And not only could Pharaoh not kill him but Pharaoh had to raise the
deliverer in his own house. And Moses would say, I'm
confident that my God is able. If God can speak to me
through a burning Bush, and if God can use me
in spite of my failures, and if God can raise me up against Pharaoh and if God could part the red sea and the water go that way
and that way, we walk across on dry ground and then
the water kill the enemy, then honey, I'm telling
you on this mountain I can keep my hands raised knowing my God is able to
take care of you and I. - He is! - His hands signified
his confidence in God. My past is the promise that God's always provided for us. And God always will provide for us. I was raised, and I'm gonna
need a good amen right here, I was raised on Campbell's Creek. I got a couple of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think my dad at the
time worked at K-Mart. We called it Kmart's right. My dad worked at K-Mart as a mechanic back in the day we were already,
I thought that was a trumpet, amen. (laughter) Well, we was already living
paycheck to paycheck. We didn't have, we lived in a little single-wide trailer up there on the side of the Creek and I
never forget dad coming home. And they, they had done
some layoffs that day. And my dad was one of the
people that got laid off. I'll never forget him coming
inside that little old trailer and telling my mama that
he had lost his job. And then we just didn't know what we was
going to do and all that. And I remember my mom
breaking down, wondering how we was going to provide
how we was going to eat how we was going to do all this stuff. And I'll never forget. Daddy and mama gathered us around that little tiny coffee table. As dad began to praise saying God Kmart was not providing for us. The people were not perfect. You are our provider and God we were asking you one more
time to provide for our family. I love to tell you that every man had just fell
from heaven in that moment but it didn't. Over the next couple
of days, it got worse. We had ham and no burger. (laughter) We had milk and no cereal. We had half of what we did. It got worse and worse
than that, I don't know why the Lord allowed me to
have this memory ingrained in my mind as a childhood other than that, I could use it for the glory of God. A Wednesday night I remember dad loaded us up. We didn't vote on whether we was going to church on Wednesday nights, Sunday nights, Sunday mornings. We load up with the church and that night we pulled
back in the driveway that little old car, the
headlights hit the porch to that little single wide trailer. And it looked as if somebody had painted
the porch a different color than what it was when we left. Me and my brother got out of
that car, ran up to the porch trying to figure out what was going on. It was grocery bags and I ain't talking about
normal grocery bags. I'm talking about Kroger grocery bags. (laughter) Nah, it wasn't any of
that save a lot mess. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about they
was stuffing them bags we ain't never had in our house. Hot pockets. (congregation laughs) I mean y'all they were stuffing them bags I ain't never seen. It was like getting born
again all over again. Me and my brother acted like we was from a third world country,
looking all over the place scavenging through them little
bags and looking around. I remember that. But the Lord allows me to
have a memory in my mind that is precious to me. Of my little old mama
walking up on that porch, wading through them bags. She didn't even see the hot pockets. Mama went to waving them hands. She went to waving them hands. She wasn't doing it for me. She wasn't doing it for my brother. She realizes in that
moment that there was a God in heaven that knew where
we were and knew what we were going through. And somehow some way God sent
groceries down to the house. Ladies and gentlemen,
if God could do it then God could do it today. Those little needs. And he could provide big deeds. He's a God that can provide
whatever you need tonight. Let me ask you this. What do you need God to do for you? What's that thing that
keeps you up at night. God, I don't know how
you're going to do it. I'm holding onto this because I'm scared of them to fall off this thing. I don't know how you're going to do it. I don't know where you're going to do it. I don't know when you're going to do it. Instead of living my life in
anxiety and fear and worry (congregation chattering) I'm going to get my hands up in confidence that my God is able. Number three, it signified his celebration for God. Imagine being on this mountain
top, the battles ensuing, and you realize, Moses as long as your
hands up, we're winning. Keep them hands up Moses. Don't let them fall. I dare you tonight. You'd look silly right now, but hold your hands up and see how long you can hold
your hands up by yourself. You get weary fast. So Moses would get weary
and he'd let his hands down and they start losing the battle. And so here come two men, Aaron and Hur and they said we may not
be the one that has to lift our hands, but we can
be the one that help hold the man of God's hands up. May I say I'm mighty thankful for the people in my life. When I've wanted to give up and I've wanted to throw in
the towel and I didn't think I can walk another mile
or take another step. I've had friends that
have come by and said, brother CT it's going to be all right. Cody, you've been one of those men to me. And y'all been one of those people to me when there's been
times in my life, Scott you've been one of those men
in my life when the times come and I feel like I'm getting weary. It's sometimes it can be
as simple as a phone call. Sometimes a text message
just to know I've got people that'll help hold my arms up. What about a Jubilee in West Virginia where some preachers that
are weary and thirsty and need something from God can come to a place and there's a
church that'll help pay for a hotel room and get them in here? And I know it costs a lot of money. I know you all. There ain't nobody that does Jubilee like Taeys valley does Jubilee. Y'all work it to death. You got the best thing, the
best one in the whole country. And I know sometimes well you might get weary
and tired, but listen to me. How many preachers have
walked through that door and was about ready to give up and quit and throw in the towel only for a choir and some
preachers and a pastor to say come on in and let's
help hold your arms up? You'll preach another sermon. You'll sing another song. Go on for the glory of God. (congregation cheers) Celebrated, the battle begins to be won. The battle is won by God's people and modern day church folk would love for me to believe that Mr.
Moses, in all of his dignity looks down upon that battle as it is won. And maybe he said something like this. Amen. - Yeah. (congregation laughs) - Wasn't that wonderful? "Hur did not the Lord fight
valiantly for us today?" No, we like to put
legends, but we all made out of the same stuff and you can't tell me that Moses, Aaron and Hur didn't have
a time on that mountain realizing that they was
going to lose that battle in and of themselves, but had
it not been the Lord that was on their side, had it not
been the Lord that had come by that day and fought
the battle for them. And I just see Moses raising his hands. It's no longer commitment. It's no longer just confidence,
but it's in celebration. It's in worship under God
and ladies and gentlemen I come to shock some Baptist folk and say it's high time that the people of God got their hands up again and
begin to worship God again. I'm telling you, God's people ought to
be the happiest people in the whole wide world. I hear it all the time. Well, we don't know why the
world won't come in here. Why would they? Our churches are dead. Our churches are dry. They resemble it, I'm going to preach it now, they resemble a funeral home more than the house of the living God. No wonder the world don't want what's in the church because there's more life down the road than there
is in the house of God. It was never the design of
God for it to be that way. I believe when we come in this place it ought to be a place of joy. It ought to be a place of shouting. It ought to be a place
where we come together and encourage one another. When the choir sings,
we say sing it a choir. And then when the preacher goes to preach we say preach it, man of God. I believe they're ought to
be life in the house of God. (congregation cheers) I've been places where
that would make you feel like something bad wrong with you. I've been to them churches
where a simple amen would. - Yep, yep. - Yeah. Yeah. Y'all been there. Pastor Jack Frost is
the presiding minister (laughter) and the choir's favorite tune is "I shall not be moved." Y'all heard about that lady. Hey man, that lady come down to church and she sat on the back row and I mean she was just giving it everything she had. Turn me up just a little bit, fellows, I'm gonna break for just a little bit. And she was sitting on the
back row and she sat back here and the preacher would say,
there you go boy, amen. She'd say, "amen, preacher glory to God. Hallelujah." And the deacons finally went back and said "ma'am we got to talk", say, God you're gonna look back in a little corner. I said, "ma'am, you can't
act like that in this church. You're not a member here." She said, "that's why I'm shouting. Cause I'm not a member of this church." (congregation laughs) And there's something that's
crept up in our churches where people that just want to come and spectate, give a little
golf clap every now and then. I'll tell you this. It's not a matter of if you worship it's a matter of what you worship. - Amen! - Yeah. Yeah. It's a matter of what you worship. And now listen to me. Some of you, men, you come in here and you ain't made a peep. You ain't met a noise. You ain't gonna raise your hand. You ain't gonna say amen but put you in November November in a deer tree. Yeah. And here comes that book. You've been having pictures of all. Come on now I'm in West Virginia. Come on, you get up in that tree. Thanksgiving week, you got your rifle in your hand and you up
there and here it comes. Mr. Rocking chair, through the woods. And you do this. (emulates a machine gun) And that deer falls on the ground. And you say amen that
won't make a noise in here. Yeah, I do it too. (preacher screams loudly) So you ladies said, well, I'm
glad you preached the Bible. Let's talk about you for a second. The day after Thanksgiving,
black Friday comes around and the husband ain't
allowed to go hunting on that day because you done
blocked it off on the calendar. You done got all your places mapped out from, come on, Becky. I'll preach to you for
just a minute, baby. I mean you going, huh? You going to go shopping all night long and Becky Becky's a little Presbyterian. I mean, you might just get
one of them out of her. She ain't gonna make a whole lot of noise. I'm gonna tell you this is
she gives, she does that it's on like Donkey Kong, but
Becky ain't gonna get much. But I have seen her on
black Friday when she goes in that little old store and it's 65% off. Buy one, get one free on top of that and that little Presbyterian
girl that ain't going to make a peep in church, it's now going to happen at all. Thank you Jesus. Jesus bless you now. I mean, having a time, it ain't a matter of if you worship it's a matter of what you worship. Yeah. And then for the rest
of you, don't fit in there. 50 yard line in West Virginia,
Mountaineer or Marshall for all you weird people. Listen up, and you get over
there and your team been losing and it don't look like it's good. And all of a sudden here,
your quarterback lines up throws that piece of
leather in the end zone. He dives out to grab it. Score goes in the air all
the sudden the same people that want to look at me like I'm crazy when I want to worship in church. Now they're up there on that
field and they're worshiping on that ball field, ladies and gentlemen you will worship something. And may we all agree
in Teays valley tonight that there is nothing worth
getting more excited about in this entire world than
to know that your sins have been forgiven by the grace of God. (congregation cheers) And to know your heaven
bound with the hammer down. - Amen! - Moses, on top of that mountain wins the battle and goes
to giving God the glory for what he's done. The church has a hole, for so long been living with hands down in need of revival. In need of the power of God. Our preacher's in need a fresh oil because our hands are down and we're not operating in
victory that God has for us but oh would God would
just be so kind to pass by Taeys valley this week? - Yes sir! - And some people that just feel like they can't walk another mile, could just get their hands up again. - Amen - And say, "I don't know
how God's going to do it. I don't know when God's
going to do it and I don't know where God's going to do it, but I know. I've seen him do it too many times before. I know my God can help me be in." How about Rochester's I don't to y'all come let let's say that God's been good again. Can y'all come do that? Y'all just do that. I picked up my wife a little
bit ago and I shouldn't do it. I seen a priest the other day with the coffee cup said
"be very nice to me, you could become one of my illustrations." (congregation laughs) I begin to think about times in my life. As long as I've known Becky,
she's always been a worshiper. I talked to her dad and her whole life they said "Becky", when she
was Syler's age, she got up in front of the church down
there and begin to sing out. He got the whole world in his hands. He said, but she was
just swinging her hips while she's singing it preached Russ said "this is a Baptist church girl. You can't be doing that." (congregation laughs) She's always been a
singer, always a worshiper. We got married, started singing a little bit traveled a little bit, just barely. (sentimental piano music) When I married Becky her mama was the church
secretary there at the church. Her dad was assistant
pastor of the church. Her mama get up and sing
in the power of God fall. One of the best Christians I ever knew. And she coughed. They thought she had pneumonia,
checked her in the hospital. They said she had a lung disease. We were actually here. I drove preacher Brown up here. We were at this meeting when they checked her into the hospital. A few days after we left here that year, this is probably 13, 12, 13 years ago now, Becky's dad called us and put it on speakerphone and told us that they had diagnosed
Becky's mama with cancer. A hard pill to swallow. We prayed and believed God was going to touch
her and God help her. God's way wasn't our way and in two weeks from the day
that they told her she had cancer, unexpectedly Miss Carol (snaps) went to heaven just like that. Two weeks. Expecting a full recovery,
it was much worse than they had told us. Two weeks from the day they
told us Ms. Carol died. And that pretty, beautiful blonde headed, blue eyed wife of mine, that can sing. There was a darkness that
came, grief, depression. Those arms of her, that
spiritually were raised went down. And I'd pray for her and I'd
say, "oh God, you've got to help my wife" and the devil would come sit beside me at night and say, "go on boy." "You're the one telling
everybody how good God is! Where's God at now?" I remember thinking, well, I need to go and take her to a preacher
and let him preach or say something that'll unlock
the grief in her heart. And we went to those meetings but there was nothing said
that changed anything. We went to the doctors and
they gave her medicine. Can't say that it did anything. That went on. She would not want to go to church. She couldn't stand seeing the
chair that her mama used to sit in the choir. And before you throw rocks at
her, or maybe you should live in her shoes for just a couple of days. - Amen preacher! - We begged God to give her her joy back. A year more went on and I just started dabbling
in evangelism a little bit. And I couldn't even stay in a hotel and I'd have to come back from wherever I was because
I couldn't leave her alone. And I was headed to North
Carolina to go preach one night and I'm almost done, they said her dad called me. He said, "hey, would it be
alright If I come to the house? I said, "well, I'm going
to North Carolina tonight." He said, he said, "I really
feel like I'm supposed to talk to Becky." He said "this morning when
I was praying, I really feel like God put something, a
Bible verse on my heart to give to Becky." I said, "well, Steve,
I'm sure she would love to see her daddy." Steve had already moved out of town to another town pastor in another church. And so when I left, he was driving in and I went and preached
and I came home that night. Began to slip into the bedroom quietly. I was going to go to bed and I came around the
little corner to where our bedroom was, real sharp, and when I come around that corner expected a completely dark
room with a sleeping wife. The lights were on in the bedroom. It's three o'clock in the morning. Becky's seated in the bed
with a Bible on her lap. And I'm in West Virginia
so y'all know what this is. And a million snot rags all over the bed. I thought, Lord, what's going on? I said, "baby, why are you awake?" She said, "I've been
waiting on you to get home. I want to tell you what God did tonight." I ain't heard her say I'm
about to run, right, man. I ain't heard her say nothing about God and moving and
working in a long time. I got, I walked over to her and I said, move some of your rags. You
know, give me a little space. And I, I sat down and said, tell me what? She said. "Daddy came over. We ate dinner together. We laughed together. We talked together" Said "right before Daddy would leave. And I noticed dad's cheeks
and chin went to quivering." She said "Dad told me that God spoke to his heart that morning and gave him a Bible verse to give to me. Daddy looked at me and said, "honey you've lived in this
darkness one day too long. You've lost your joy. You've lost your shout. You've lost your worship. And it is not the will of
God for you to live this way the rest of your life. God gave me a verse for you this morning." She said, "what is it daddy?" He didn't even have to turn
to the pages of the Bible. He quoted it. He said, "Becky, the Bible
says in all things give thanks. For this is the
will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. I said, "Becky, what happened?" She said, "I got mad." She said, "are you telling me that not only did God take my momma, but now he expects me to lie and
tell him that I'm thankful that he took my momma?" Steve said, "no honey,
that's not what it says. Here it's not saying for all things It's saying in all things." Somewhere in this, you've got. Somewhere in this, you've got to get your praise back. Somewhere in this, you've got to find something to be thankful for." She said, "daddy, I can't do it. Daddy I can't do it. My heart's broken. I miss mama. I'm hurt." And her dad said, "honey,
I know God sent me here. I'm going to get on my knees. If I gotta pray for five
minutes or five hours I'm not leaving until
we get some victory." And she said, "I sat
there with my arms, folded I was mad at God in the
world, mad at everybody." She said, "but daddy got on his knees and started talking to God." And said, "God, my baby's heart's hurting. God, my baby's heart needs some healing." And she said, "at first
nothing was moving." She said, "but the longer daddy prayed it was this almost the front
door of the house opened up. And you could hear the sandals
flopping on the ground. As Jesus come, walking
in that little room, spiritually speaking." And she said, "I hadn't felt
his presence in a long time." She said "that as daddy began to pray It was as if he wrapped his arms around me and began to help me." She said "before I knew
it, I fell on my knees." And this is what she told me. She said, "Lord, thank you for
21 years with the best momma any girl could ask for." See what she did? She found something in
it to be thankful for. She started getting her hands up and then she said, "and
when I thanked God for that it's like the holy ghost show me memories of being raised with the
Christian mama and singing songs." And she said, "every
memory that God gave me I begin to praise him for this memory and praise him for that
memory and praise him for this memory and praise
him for that memory." And Becky's on that bed. And she was weeping telling me
about this encounter she had with God and the Bible and her daddy. And she said, "CT, I'm
afraid to go to sleep. I don't know what
tomorrow's going to be like but I feel like God
ripped all that bitterness out of my heart and all the
hardness off of my heart and God gave me my joy back." - Amen! (soft piano music continues) - I'll never forget what long
we got to sing a song again and that girl over there
has never been the same since that night. You say, what did it? I'm not trying to sound super spiritual,
but there's absolute power attached to your praise. Ask Paul and Silas when they was in a prison
cell, what got them out of their prison cell? (claps) Ask Paul and Silas, what happened when in the midst of their darkest
season, they worshiped God. As the wall shook and the walls fell down and their shackles fell off. I prayed. Here's what I asked God. "Lord, what do you want me
preach on Monday night?" What in the world am I going to preach it that ain't already been
preached at a meeting like this Yes, Lord. I'm some young guy. I don't know. I'm not the second preacher on a Monday night, but you believe what in the world? Well, what do you want me to say? And all I know to tell
you is for some of us it's high time that you
quit letting the devil win. You keep living You got to quit letting the devil rob you of your victory. You to quit letting the devil rob you of your shout. You got to listen to me,
there's more songs to be wrote, Miss Lois. There's more songs to be sung choir. There's more sermons to
be preached man of God. And listen. As long as we keep walking
around defeated and discouraged over every little thing,
we ain't going to walk in the victory, but God
is looking for some people on Monday night to find
themselves a place on an altar and say, you're right, preacher. I have let my hands down,
but tonight by faith I'm going to get my hands up. I'm going to get my hands up again and I will let God do something new. God's been too good to me, for me to let the devil rob me As ever we stand all over the church. They're going to sing. God's been good. You mind God, might be a good
time to come find a place and say, God, help me
to get my hands back up. God I want my hands up again. As they sing, you mind God tonight.
