Devon Franklin - "Relationship Truths"

God sent His Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross to share his red blood for your sins and to get excited about somebody walks a red carpet I will not let a person down here get the praise that I give my god who is with me and the eleven o'clock service and melt science today give God some praise he's worthy of your grace he's worthy of your praise he's worthy of don't you know you wouldn't be where you are without it don't let your problem get your brakes you're not going to say that we go sit down many of you are worried right now how many have evidence that God has blessed you in your life before today how many know that God has made a way in your life when you didn't know how a way was gonna be man so if he's done it before why are you doubting he's gonna do it now thank him in advance give him I tell pregnant in advance give him a down payment appraised in advance man y'all don't even understand what God has been doing I'm so excited to be here many of you just saw that trailer right that's where my next film called breakthrough when I was a kid growing up in the church they told me don't go to Hollywood you can't be successful in Hollywood you're gonna lose your faith Hollywood is Sodom and Gomorrah it's the devil's playground and so I would say you need to tell me that I'm supposed to not do what God called me to do just to make you happy but maybe God didn't give you the vision for my life and myself supposed to submit to your direction or let God direct my story I'm talking to somebody right now don't let somebody else live your life you gotta live the life God told you to live your mama may not see it your daddy may not see it your pastor may not get it your uncle your auntie the grandma may not get it but as long as God has it he has you and he'll see you through please don't live somebody else's life live the life God called you to live and as a result this film breakthroughs the third film that I produced I've been in Hollywood for over 20 years people said you can't keep your faith it's impossible and I said maybe it's just impossible with you but I'm gonna let God do the impossible with me anybody ready to let God do the impossible in your life who anybody ready to let God do something that's never been done in the earth before in your life and here's what gets me excited about this movie in this trailer and why it's relevant to you so many people said it's not possible you cannot do it and I had to make a committee of one to follow what God told me even when I didn't see it in my own life it took me 18 years of working in Hollywood every day to finally get the promise fulfilled when he said I would produce my own films 18 years and what's so fascinating to me is people said you're gonna have to compromise the name of the Lord I said that's interesting so in this trailer you heard the actress call on the Holy Spirit was it bleeped out no 20th Century Fox spent millions of dollars to produce that movie and they're gonna distribute it all around the country and then if the trailer can call on the Holy Spirit what does that say about us if Hollywood is being used to get the gospel out the people that run the pub we don't even believe but because I believe I've been able to convince them the awkward students hey come on somebody he's trying to do it in your life all you gotta do is believe I would talk to this side right here all you gotta do is believe and put yourself in a position to receive he will do something in your life that has never been done in the earth before last thing I must say about the trailer will get you the word we're gonna be done that trailer has 107 million views online people came to me and they said Devon you should make Marvel films don't you want to make bigger movies I said clearly you don't know the god I serve I said nothing in his hand is small anything done for the kingdom will last CD first between them of heaven and all these things will be added unto you stop thinking his business as a small business Kingdom business is the business and the last thing I'll say about the trailer is this no matter how much you love Captain Marvel or the Avengers spider-man or even Black Panther yep well Connor forever that's cool but guess what it's all made up made on green screens and back Lots and in computers you can not put on a suit and call your way around the city of Nashville it will not work but if you get into a problem let me tell you about a real superpower and it's called faith all on the name of Jesus you want to see something real [Applause] so you can keep your Mario films I'll keep making Kingdom films amen I'm talking to somebody right now high-five your neighbor sent you it in the right place at the right time you may have your seat you may have your seat as you can tell I'm excited to be here and remind rights for children to know this is the the fifth service in 24 hours amen and I want you to know I'm not gonna give you the leftovers we don't get a double portion this morning when Bishop asked me to come and speak I came here a few months ago and I screamed breakthrough for him and the staff and he said Mandarin I want you to come back and I want you to do a relationship weekend and I want you to give him the truth you know your new book is called the truth about men I want you to give him the truth I said Bishop yo um I don't think they can handle the truth he said no they could handle it anybody ever seen a few good men in that movie with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson you can't handle the truth I said well Bishop listen man if they can't handle it imma blame it on you not me all right so anything I say if y'all can't handle it don't don't make me the fall person all right so what was so interesting in this idea of relationships so often some of you when you hear the word relationship it produces pain because immediately you're drawn to the idea of a romantic relationship and if you're not in one sometimes there can be pain associated with that so God has called me to expand the idea of what relationship means because the reality is this none of us can get through this life by ourselves I gotta repeat that none of us can get through this life by our self we all need somebody to help us through life and that can be a friendship it could be a family ship and it could be a romantic relationship but I want to be clear that the term relationship needs to be broader than just what's happening romantically because you could see somebody in a romantic relationship and they are not actually in relation just because two people are together doesn't mean they are together okay I don't want to mess up somebody's date today but just because you're sitting next to them doesn't mean that they're sitting next to you in their heart hmm I said hmm I'm sorry I'm sorry I don't try to mess up anybody's situation but but if it ain't right maybe it needs to be messed up you know what I'm saying and here's what I began to realize I began to realize that so often we are not honest about what we're going through and as a result God cannot heal us and this area of relationship brings up a lot of pain and so often we aren't in in touch with the pain that we have relative to whatever relationship we have come through or what relationship we may currently be in so God has sent me to a text that I have tried to get off of but literally it's like a song that just keeps streaming and God says this is the text and so the text I'm gonna work from this morning and then I want to talk through you know information for singles for those that are in committed relationships and marriages let me just pause right there how many people are single in the house come on raise both hands if you're single go ahead and wave okay all right all right okay I hear some people in the choir saying okay amen don't beat hold on you know what you know what's so funny is that some somebody had a hard time raising your hand because you told somebody something else and you don't want to publicly admit that you're really single who's in a committed relationship or marriage committed relationship I love it I love it now you know what's so fascinating to me that the ones that are in relationship and marriage scream the loudest and then those that are single I huh by the end of this service the single gonna be shot watch so in this text Matthew chapter 9 verse 27 what's so fascinating is we're following the life of Jesus and here's what's happening earlier before we get to this text gyruss was a Jewish leader who went to Jesus and his daughter was dying and he says Jesus can you come to my house to heal my daughter and Jesus says yes I can come and he's on his way and while he's on his way the woman with the issue of blood anybody remembered the woman with the issue of blood she was a woman who had been bleeding for 12 years she's been all her money on doctors trying to get healed and she could not get healed and Jesus passed by and on his way to gyruss his house the woman with the issue of blood reaches out and touches his garment and she said if I can just touch the hem of His garment I know I will be made whole and instantly upon the touch she was healed her issues went away now what's so interesting as Jesus said who touched me and the disciple said have you lost your mind everybody around here is touching you and Jesus said no this wasn't an incidental touch this was a touch with intention this was somebody who touched me who believed I am who I say I am and I can do what I say I can do may I ask you a question are you praying out of routine or are you praying with intention are you praying just to make sure you don't feel guilty that you didn't pray today or are you praying believing that God is going to do what you're asking him to do mm somebody hasn't caught it yet um Joyce Smith this trailer is portrays a true story Joyce Smith just a few years ago her son John Smith fell through a frozen lake he was without oxygen for 15 minutes they pulled him up from the ice and he was dead they took him to the emergency room they worked on him for another 45 minutes they could not bring him back Joyce Smith is asked to go into the emergency room and say goodbye to her son she goes in the emergency room there is her son John Smith he's not on life support he's not on a breathing machine he is dead she goes in the emergency room and she looks at him and instead of believing what the doctors have said she said I better check heaven on this one how many of you are proclaiming something dead in your life but you have not actually checked with heaven to say heaven is this really over or do you intend to bring this back to life you may not realize it but this is a resurrection service because somebody who thinks that there's certain areas of your life that are dead God is about to bring back to life you think your relationship and your love life is dead just because you have not been with somebody and had a relationship in a long time God says don't you dare think what I'm not doing you better get ready for what I'm about to do somebody's love life it's being resurrected right now somebody ain't got the money you ain't even got the money to finish school and you think it's over God says your school life is about to get resurrected I don't know who I'm talking to today there's somebody you think you're about to lose your house God says you don't even understand I just had to let you know that I am your help it's not your job it's not your boss you think you're going through bankruptcy God says you ain't got about to go through bankruptcy he said the check is on its way somebody's finances are about to get resurrected but you got to speak like [Applause] why would you proclaim something dead that God has not said the same okay I'm gonna give you a commercial break we'll come right back to our regular scheduled program if you can't say anything positive please don't say anything at all life and death are in the power of the tongue you have not because you ask tonight I'm talking to somebody either speak boldly or don't speak at all because what you say has power one of the reasons why you may be in the situation you're in now because you keep saying oh this ain't never gonna happen for me this ain't gonna stop saying what ain't gonna happen and prepare yourself for what is about to happen I'm talking to somebody now right back to our regularly scheduled program Joyce min says I got a check with heaven on this so instead of saying goodbye what does she do she goes over to her son's feet puts her hands on his feet and says Holy Spirit bring back my son right now now she prayed so loudly and so boldly that there was a surge of energy that went into the emergency room and the nurses and doctors were pushed back and would you know as they are pushed back John Smith who was dead his heart started beating again it didn't take a month it didn't take a week it was instant pain yes the EKG machines started going off and do you know that was the beginning of a miraculous recovery where John Smith today is 18 years old no brain damage no I damage no lung damage no evidence of what he's been through I want to talk to somebody who does not bear any evidence of what you've gone through you should be gone right now you should have lost your mind by now but right now you don't bear any evidence of what you've been through people say how are you standing and keeping it together it's because of his grace his mercy and his power who am I talking to this morning hey you don't look like what you've been through this is why it's so important to pray boldly to pray with intention because when you do the impossible can and will happen so the woman with the issue of blood Jesus said who touched me and she came forward and she said I do I did and the Bible says she told her whole truth she said you know how I don't know one day I just started bleeding I don't know where it came from and and you know it made me unclaimed and I couldn't touch anybody and I didn't know what to do and I had a little bit of money and for 12 years I've gone to doctors and I've tried to get healed on my own and I tried everything and I did nothing actually worked and people made me feel sad and people make me feel ostracized and people made me feel depressed but I just kept believing that one day there was gonna be a solution to my problem and Jesus if I'm really being honest at one moment someone who told me that you existed and that you could actually heal the blind and raise the dead and I chose to believe you are who you say you are and you could do who you say you could do but because I'm originally unclean I didn't want to make you unclean so I just figured if I could just touch the hem of your garment season then maybe I could be made whole and so that's why I didn't want to come grab you I just felt I just needed a touch from you I didn't even want you to know who I was I just wanted to do it anonymously and the truth be told Jesus I wasn't really sure but I had enough belief to keep singing through the ground there were a lot of people that stood in my way but I was not going to let you pass by until I got what I came for and I kept pressing through the legs and finally Jesus truth be told I touched the hem of your garden and instantly I felt something healing my spirit and I started shouting on my man on my knees and I said God he's real he truly has this power and Lord I really wanted to go away because I didn't want you to know who I am but now that you asked me to tell the truth I'm gonna tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth the reality is you are who you say you are and you can do who you say you can do because I was bleeding and now I'm healed and now I'm hold and now I'm gonna tell everybody what you have done that is the truth so help me God Hey and Jesus says daughter it's your faith that has made you whole go and be free from your suffering now what's interesting and what relates to our text is this she knew she had an issue she knew she was suffering and as Jesus left the incident with her it says that verse 27 of Matthew 9 two blind men followed him okay somebody hasn't caught there yet I'm just gonna miss it low water while you catch what's going on two blind men followed him okay some people starting to get it now two blind men followed him he how do you follow something you cannot see we read this text and we just say oh yeah two blind men followed him uh-huh right how did you blind them follow something can I say so so if I do this and I cannot see I'm not using the excuse that I cannot see to not go after what's right in front of me just because I cannot see it does not mean I cannot achieve it this is what faith looks like we walk by faith not by sight we can't always see what's going on but we gotta believe that it's right there two blind men followed Jesus how did they follow him because somebody around him was talking about him why don't you start talking about him so somebody who does not know him knows where to find him y'all are being too quiet up in here somebody needs to know where to find Jesus you gotta talk about him in order for other people who cannot see him to locate him there are two blind men follow Jesus you can see him and you ain't following him why what's your Excuse huh what's your Excuse some of you you've had a relationship with God you see what he's done in your life but you get in a relationship with somebody and you let them be your God instead of God being your God oh I'm gonna talk to somebody today oh my goodness you better buckle up I don't understand it we are safe saying if I feel the Holy Ghost and then you're getting a relationship and you don't follow him in the relationship and if you want him to bless what he is not in how is that going to work oh yeah I'm sorry I'm sorry he asked me to bring you out the truth i'ma bring you the truth it's so important that if we know what he can do to follow him in every area of our life even in the areas that are the most difficult the blind men followed him let's stop they knew that they were in affliction they had an issue so they were not afraid in public to say yo we're blind but that's not gonna stop us from going after our healing now what blows my mind if we could have an honest moment people come to me all the time I want to be an actor you know you we're at the Oscars you're with the best actors in Hollywood that's amazing I said the best actors are really not in Hollywood the best actors are in the church because we come in the house of God we wear the Wardrobe sometimes you got to makeup on you say your lines god is good all the time all the time god is good come on now we know what to say and we come in here and we act like ain't nothing going on and we ain't struggling with nothing at least the woman with the issue of blood and the blind man knew that they had issues there's somebody in here you're blind you don't even know it you're bleeding and you don't even see it in order to get healed and whole you got to be honest about what you're going through so can we have an honest moment let's have an honest moment right here anybody have enough courage to admit that you're struggling with something right now come on I'm right into my hands who some of y'all might need to raise two hands because you're struggling with that money thing come on let's have a truth talk right now come on let's just be honest right now all the way in the balcony all the way on the sides all right okay all right now God can do what he wants to do in this service amen because we are being honest and we're being truthful that even though we're in the house of God we don't have it all together and this is one of the reasons why so many of the younger generation are leaving the church because they're finding more truth in the world and in the church we got to bring truth back into into our worship experience and our truth is we all struggle right we all have issues but for the grace of God there go any of us okay so what's interesting and what blows my mind is that in this issue of truth this is where most of us struggle because we don't actually feel that we will be accepted if we're truthful mmm and the church gets quiet here's what's also interesting for all the singles in the house talking about truth one of the things that I find fascinating is that so many people want to put their truth on you if you're single when I was single you know I've been married for seven years yep give that for seven years amen hallelujah so before getting married though I was the last brother of my three brothers to get married my older brother got married first my younger brother got married second they both got married in their 20s and when people would come to me they'd be like um so divine um you're not married yet it's something wrong anybody been there before somebody's there right now I said excuse me when did singleness become a disease I said excuse me I said why are you trying to make make me feel bad about something I'm okay with right now you know what blows my mind as so many people want to make you feel badly about being single but then when you look at their situation you're like wait a minute if this is what it looks like to be in a relationship I'll stay single come on somebody come on could we have an honest moment yes so what we came to happen is that for a minute I felt that wait a minute maybe there is something wrong with me but then I began to realize no no no no no no no there's nothing wrong with me if you're single you're single because your whole watch this when you get married it's not two halves coming together it's two wholes coming together I'm talking to somebody if you're single you're not right for everybody everybody's not right for you and that's okay so stop letting people make you feel less than because you're in a period of time where God is saying I want to work on you right now by yourself and let me tell you something um it's so important to not try to find your value in a relationship mmm okay um can I give you a commercial break we're gonna come right back to our regular scheduled program I promise it's so important when you're single to not fall into the temptation to believe that in order to be valued you have to lower your standard now okay when I was single people used to say to me Devon your standards are too high mm-hmm I said well wait a minute wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait so you mean to tell me that I have to lower my level that I'm living on just to allow somebody entrance into my life and my heart mmm so you mean to tell me that that I'm living on this level but I have to lower my standards let somebody in on this level may I submit for your consideration don't lower your standards because when you lower your standards anybody unqualified can get into your heart as a matter of fact I want you to keep your standards so high people get a nosebleed trying to get with you who am I talking to right now don't lower keep them where they are and let somebody who is worthy to step up to your level you don't step down to theirs and the church has got to say a man a man and a man I'm so tired of people that are single trying to exchange their singleness for a relationship where they cannot be a hundred percent of what God calls you to be let me tell you something if you are in a relationship right now I'm so sorry I've got to tell you the truth and you cannot be who you really are I encourage you to evaluate the relationship if you can only be 75% of who you are today you have to put that to an end either they can accept a hundred percent or they may not be qualified to walk with you on this next leg of your journey okay I'm gonna get back to my notes I just got to tell you what God is telling me to tell you oh ah God why why you want me to say this lord I don't want to say it I'm gonna say I don't say okay so here's another thing here's here's I think if you are a single man mm-hmm you got to start putting some integrity in your date oh okay you know can I go there what does that mean what does it mean to put integrity in your dating it means that if you're not serious with the woman you're dating teller stop playing with her he's uh and as a matter of fact some of you got more than one and the others don't even know about others entertaining today I asked you to bring that to it in stop manipulating women for your pleasure and be honest with what your intentions are and if you don't mean any good then stop playing around boys play men commit who am I talking to right now [Applause] no no playtime is over it's over it's over I'm sorry listen I'm not telling you anything I have not done before I got married I thought that as a single man I found my value and how many women I dated and what I began to realize was at certain times I'd have one on Tuesday one on Thursday and somebody else for the weekend and none of them knew about the other ones now listen there's some brothers that understand what I'm saying just say Amen in your spirit because you're sitting next to the weekend woman right now and they don't know it [Applause] I'm just saying I'm just saying I'm just saying so watch this here's what happened here's what happened true story cuz I thought that was fun I thought oh the more women in the better I thought it was fun but watch this what I thought was fun for me came at the expense of pain for them because I didn't have their heart as my priority I only had my pleasure as my priority and it took a vision from God where God showed me literally I was at my wedding and I was about to say I do and the minister said turn around and as I turned around there down the center aisle where all the women I had dated true story now some brothers up in here you would need more than an isle for all the way my using it but here's the here's the here's the the one differentiator they were all down the aisle but they were slain they were cut open literate down the aisle and God said do you think it was worth all of their hearts to get here he said these are not objects these are my daughters and don't play with him so I say to any single man here the woman that you're dealing with is God's daughter she's not an object don't play with her what may be a fun moment for you may produce pain for the rest of her life be honest with her about your intention and if you don't have any good intention today is the day I ask you to let her go instead of playing with her and then leaving her later in a situation where he may take her years to recover from what you did in a moment I'm talking to somebody you ain't gotta say hey man cuz I know what I'm saying is right the truth hurts yes it does and for a woman a single woman dealing in a situation I want you to have hope relative to being single what is that hope that hope is information what is that information that it's so important to make the decision today one that when you go back to Genesis Eve did not come into the earth asking where Adam was Adam was the one that was incomplete without Eve check your text Adam was the one that I said this is bone of my bone flesh of my flesh for this what this is the reason why a man will leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife Eve came into the earth with two ribs Adam only had one why is that important because I don't want you to be looking for your value in a relationship you're already valued whether you're in one or not I need you to know that here's something that's also important one of the reasons why I wrote my book the truth about men is to give women information as well as showing us as men how we can become the men we were called to be now one of the keys of information if you're single is you got to get out of the gray area what is the gray area it's an area where you're dating somebody you talk to him all the time you text him all the time you may even go to church with him you may have met their family but you don't actually know if you're together kind of let you in on a little bit of truth about us as men a man when he's single knows what he has told you and what he hasn't and if that man has not verbalized that he is together with you I guarantee you he thinks you're not so a gray area whoever has the information has the power so a gray area is where you don't quite know what's going on but you're assuming you may be further along than you really are let me tell you how to get out of the gray areas time to turn on the light you got to ask the clear direct questions and wait for clear direct responses sometimes women come to me and they say Devon well what if he runs what if I scare him away I said god bless your heart you mean to tell me you're on a search for truth to protect your heart your health and your wholeness and the man runs because you want to know what's going on I want you to go ahead and throw him a party thank God that he left because if he left now he was gonna leave anyway a man that does not want to be truthful has no business for you it's important to make decision where you say today I'm going to get an answer and let me tell you something are we together is a yes or no it's not a multiple choice don't be afraid don't be afraid to speak honestly and openly in a relationship sense or dating sense to find out what's really going on the last thing I'm gonna say imma get back to our text and we're going to be done in this age social media in this age of social media in this age of social media in this age of social media Wow social media is messing up more relationships than I mean the enemy just says get an Instagram account that's the I already know your relations gonna get messed up right let me help you navigate social media for a minute one don't just believe somebody is what they say they are check them out no check them out what are they liking what are they posting it tells you a whole lot because you may meet a man in this situation or you may meet a woman in this environment that don't mean that the environments in them you can tell a whole lot about what's in them based upon how they post so evaluate it here's the other thing I would say Oh God why do you want me to say um listen if you are in a committed relationship you have no business liking pictures of other women or other can I say it ah no no there's no reason there's no reason stop liking pictures of other women that only pose a threat to your relationship stop liking pictures of other men that only pose a threat to your relationship may I submit for your consideration that what if God was looking at what you're looking at that's your person that your wit does not know what you're looking at would you be able to stand before him and be honest about what you're looking at it's so important to manage social media so it does not manage you I don't know who I'm talking to right now but I am all up in your business why because I love you so much I want you to have a hole and hunt healthy life and social media can mess up so much stuff here's the last thing I'm saying on social media and you can tell right now somebody is really really into you when you go out how much time they spend plugging into you or their phone and if you really care about the person you're with begin to be mindful of how much you're on your phone when you're in their presence ah okay back to our regular scheduled program the two blind men are following Jesus and on their way they say to him son of David have mercy on us what does that mean it means they say deliver us from our pain deliver us from our affliction again they're being honest about what they're going through now what's fascinating in verse 27 as they publicly proclaim the name of Jesus and who he is verse 28 says when he had gone indoors what does that imply it implies they were having this exchange outdoors and Jesus ignored them or so they thought now they had a decision on the outside of the house do we get discouraged or do we get determined many of us if we yelled out to Jesus and we were blind have mercy on us heal us and Jesus walked by many of us would have gotten discouraged well I guess he doesn't intend to bless me I guess his promise over my life isn't good I guess what he told me was gonna happen ain't gonna happen I'm just gonna stay here outside this house and be upset may I submit for your consideration that somebody in here is staying in discouragement but God is saying I have not ignored you I want to see how determined are you mm oh I'm talking to somebody the dream that he has given you is good what he shows you when you close your eyes he intends to bring into fruition but you got to go after it the Bible says faith without works is dead that means faith with works is alive somebody got to start putting some more work behind your faith you might be discouraged but you got to start getting determined I would not be standing before you now if I was getting discouraged let me tell you there have been so many times over my 20-year career in Hollywood where I wanted to quit there were times when I was passed over for a promotion there were times when I did not get the race there were times when I thought I was going to advance and they told me you're not ready to it there were times when I was serving other people that I thought I was qualified to lead and God says you have to carry a crown before you wear one and if I gave up if I gave up a minute before it was time I would have missed what he had planned for me I had to go from being discouraged to determined here's what determination looks like I may cry but i'ma get up and go to work anyway I'm a I'm a literally be losing my mind but I'm showing up to class anyway I'm gonna keep going until God tells me to stop I'm gonna keep pushing until God tells me it's over somebody's got to go from being discouraged to determine why because you are closer then you think you don't even realize that something God promised you is about to manifest watch this y'all dismember that trailer I showed you when you go to the movie theater you see a trailer what happens you get excited about what's get ready to come do you ever leave the movie theater after seeing a movie that you want to see with the trailer and say oh wow I'm depressed that it's not coming no because when you see the trailer it's a promise it's getting ready to come when you close your eyes and you see the trailer for your life play on the screen of your mind I don't want you to open your eyes and get discouraged I want you to be encouraged that means it's closer than you think you just have to be determined to go after it God is a partner so you got to have the faith and then you also got to go after it turn to your neighbor say you got to get determined turn to your neighbor say it's already yours turn to other neighbors say don't quit turn to your neighbors they keep pushing so watch this and we're done watch this here's what happens they say we're gonna get determined what do they do they press their way on the inside and then Jesus says do you believe I can do this what does this imply it implies that he heard their question on the outside so he hears what we're asking for he just wants us to partner in order to receive it and then he says to them do you believe I can do it now he doesn't say do y'all believe because you can't get by on the faith of your friend you can't get by on the faith of your pastor your grandmother your grandfather your uncle you got to get by on your faith so I got a question for you Mount Zion do you believe that he can do it no no do you believe he can do it do you believe he can do it do you really believe he can do it do you believe he is who he says he is and he will do what he says he will do in your life do you believe that your better days are yet ahead Who am I talking to come on somebody anybody believe that anybody received that yes my sister I see you I see you I see you my sister I see you in the balcony yes so here's what they say they say yes we believe and then it says that he touches their eyes that implies proximity that implies intimacy they had to get close to him in order for him to do something that others thought was impossible it's important to get close to God in this season it's important to not be afraid to trust him again and I got to go a step further Lord you know y'all gonna have to get mad at him he's having me say these things I'm just gonna be honest you got to get close to him if you're dating or in a relationship and what does that mean too often women come to me because Megan and I we wrote the book the weight which is all about waiting until marriage to consummate the marriage and not giving your body to somebody who is not your spouse and there's so many women that come to me and say we wish we could find a man who's in the church to wait but we can that's one of the reasons why I wrote the truth about men to motivate men to say yes I will wait here's why this is important in terms of getting close to Jesus if you are dealing with the woman who loves Jesus so much that she does not want to share her body with you because she values her heart her wholeness in her health that is a sign of a great woman that you should hold on to not a woman that you should be discarding I don't know who that is for but so often sometimes when when when you know brothers looking you know what okay all right we're gonna keep it PG but you understand what I'm saying it's too often women who are supposed to be held close get discarded because they will not lower their standard for a man's pleasure in terms of getting close to Jesus when we get close to Jesus we can no longer just do what we've been doing all of our life we have to do something differently and the next time you as a man get ready to do something with a woman who is not your wife I want you to ask where is Jesus and can you continue to proceed to do what you about to do yes you guys I came to mess up I just I did it because I love you so much that I need you to get where God wants you to be and if you don't really start getting control over this issue this issue will control you you won't control it I do believe that men can leave with love I do believe that we can date better marry better parent better family better but it all starts with putting integrity back into our decision making process amen we got to get close to him turn to your neighbors say don't be afraid to get close to him and this is hid and we're done he touches their eyes and then he says according to your faith be it unto you not about my power not about what I can do but according to what you believe I can do I will do it now many of us because our faith goes up and down and he was doing it if he was doing this to us only one I would have opened because we don't have that kind of faith every day right but here's what I want you to do I want you to keep your faith consistently high turn to your neighbors say you got to keep your faith consistently high so that if God did this to you both your eyes will come back like the blind man they got their sight and they were like wait a minute Jesus is who he says he is he did what he said he could do and then Jesus says um don't say anything anybody in the blind men were like yo listen we ain't gonna lie to you we gonna tell everybody because we were blind but now we see we've had an experience that we can't keep quiet who am I talking to right now anybody have had an experience with God that you no longer can keep quiet some body can't be afraid to call on the name of Jesus because somebody needs to know the power that he has to do what He has called you to do in his life ah the blind man ran from there and forever they were changed how is this relevant to you because in this area of pain is where God wants to do the greatest work in your life and you can be rest assured that when you bring him your pain he will bring you his healing ah I don't know who I'm talking to today but I need you to know if you are single no longer will you have pain because you're single if you're single I want you to stand right now I'm about to affirm something over your life if you are single I want you to stand right now all the singles in the house you are right where God wants you to be he is healing your heart right now he is setting you up for your future right now there's nothing wrong with you there is nothing wrong with what he is doing in your life I want you to feel good about where he has you right now there's no affliction there's nothing wrong with being single it's a powerful purposeful time where God wants to take you where he wants you to be when love is ready it will come until then don't allow frustration to steal your destination too often we use singleness and we get mad God what are you gonna do it he'll do it in his time while you're single get ready for all the things he wants to do amen and don't exchange your value just for a moment with somebody who can't respect who you are and who you're committed to amen I speak light over the singles right now now as you're standing if you are in a relationship or married I want you to stand if you are in a relationship or married I want you to stand I speak life over your relationship or marriage right now the enemy is trying to disrupt the communication in your relationship or marriage the enemy is trying to make you think that you can't trust the person you're with but God sent you here today because he is trying to tell me to tell you it's time to resurrect your marriage you're about to call quits God says no don't quit press in you're about to break up but God says no no come to me before you break up I speak light over your relationship I speak life over your marriage I speak life over your life if you receive this affirmation I want you to give God praise go ahead and praise it go ahead and thank him go ahead and thank him the last thing I want you to do is grab your neighbors hand right now grab your neighbors hand grab your neighbors hand there is no imaginary barrier in the aisle you can cross the aisle to grab your neighbors hand I want everybody touching somebody in the balcony everybody touching somebody I want you to know you're holding the hand of somebody who has tremendous pain you're holding the hand of somebody who walked into this service uncertain about their future you're holding the hand of somebody who has gone through so much but they're still here you are holding the hand of a survivor you are holding the hand of somebody who's about to go to the next level in their life you are holding the hand of somebody that God loves a whole lot you are holding the hand of somebody who God has already blessed and has said they are highly favored so do me a favor would you just go ahead and raise the person's hand that you're holding and look what happens as you raise their hand your hand gets raised this is the International sign for victory there is victory and being vulnerable it's okay to open up your heart again it's okay to receive love again it's okay to believe again it's okay because God will lead you and I to victory dear Heavenly Father I pray over every single solitary soul in the house right now I pray for their love life I play for their relationship life I pray for their single life I pray for their finances their God their profession dear Lord their calling and I prayed their God that from this day forward they will walk in their truth they will walk in transparency and they will walk in love and I pray dear God that anyone who had a broken heart that you would mended anyone who was in pain that she would begin to receive relieve it dear Heavenly Father and I pray dear God that anybody leaving here who did not know what you were doing in their life that they would leave this place with a clearer idea and they would go after what you have already promised them in the mighty holy match this name of Jesus all God's children say amen amen and amen if you receive this word give him a hand praise no don't Patty take him thank you thank him anybody feel better now that how you came in anybody feel more victorious now that how you came in let me tell you something you don't even realize what he's getting ready to do I want you to know your future self will thank you for this moment because you have been obedient now there's some of you as you leave this place you won't have to delete some people from your phone you have to bring some things to an end Amen somebody somebody else still got some people in your phone that you just need to go ahead and put trouble so whatever they call it text you know what you got to get into if you respond when you know better you got to do better and I believe that this moment you know better god bless you god be with you and God keep you all melt Sian helped me thank God for Devon Franklin oh come on we can do better than that I believe somebody's faith just went through the roof I believe somebody's getting ready to go after it look at your name and tell your label neighbor get one last look at me because the next time you see me I'll be going after everything God has [Music] would you give God a Handclap of praise right there hallelujah

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Published: Sun Mar 17 2019