Dig Your Own Ditches - Bishop T.D. Jakes [October 27, 2019]

[Music] the Lord has given me a word to share with you today again at second Kings chapter 3 verse 13 when you have it say man you're still looking for it saying pray from me hey see y'all don't even have to look right now see it back in the day you had to look now y'all got them phones she cheated you just google the Word of God make him look like he was studying all week and Elijah said I'm to the king of Israel what have I to do with thee get deed to the prophets of our Father and to the prophets of our mother and the king of Israel said in him a for the Lord have called these three kids together to deliver them into the hand of Moab and Elijah said as the Lord of Hosts liveth before whom I stand surely were it not that I regard the presence of Joseph at the king of Judah I would not look toward thee nor CV but now bring me a minstrel and it came to pass when the minstrel played good God that the hand of the Lord came upon him and he said thus saith the Lord make this valley full of ditches I will say that again go back to that and he said thus saith the Lord make this valley full of ditches read on for thus saith the Lord he shall not see when neither shall you see rain yet that Valley shall be filled with water that ye may drink both he and your cattle and your beasts and this is what a right thing in the sight of the Lord he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand and he shall smite every fence city and every choice city and shall fill every good tree and stop all wells of water and mark every good piece of land with stones and it came to pass in the morning when the meat offering was offered that behold there came water by the way of Edom at the country and the country was filled with water can you say man I want to go back to that verses where they let us say of the Lord dig ditches make this valley full of ditches let me get it just right and he said thus saith the Lord make this valley full of ditches remain standing I want to pray with you but I'm gonna talk to you over the next few moments from the suddeniy dig your own ditches dig your own dish look at somebody said dig your own ditches I'm sitting beside you but I can't do it for you you got to dig your own ditches you can't get your ditch dug because you go to the potter's house you can't get it done because the bishop Jake's is your pastor you have to dig your all ditches somebody say man it's fruit of the Living God folks fresh all off since we endeavoured to unveil and I'm told that which you've imparted unto us speak in such a powerful and profound way that our lives are altered forever it reparable changed by the power of an experience with you we did not come out here to have an encounter with man we did not come out of here to engage with flesh and blood alone but we came to seek thy face O God because you are God and besides you there is no other now open up the book to us make it relevant make it clear make it plain and make it life-changing as we open our hearts to receive your word in Jesus name Amen you may be seated in the presence of God let's go to work God is a God that transcends capacity what do you mean by there God is a God who transcends capacity their their capacity has limitations and God has limitless capacity can be measured and God cannot be measured one of the most difficult questions for God to answer was who shall I say sent me he said how shall i capsulize Who I am just tell him I am that I am he trans sins capacity he forms before filling and then feels all capacities for example he formed Adam filling him after he formed him stooped down and got a clay pot and then filled it with air and called his name Adam that vessel that he made was a vessel of capacity somebody same look at your neighbor say what is your capacity the word atmosphere comes from the Greek word vapor it means vapor the word is cythera it means vapor and Atmos speaks tamal in other words atmosphere is in the Greek of vapor ball a vapor ball just-just-just a vapor ball God created atmosphere before he created humans he formed an atmosphere and then everything that he created entered into that atmosphere atmosphere is an important thing you must understand atmosphere is vitally important if you want God to move a lot of people don't realize that they don't understand the power of atmosphere that God is attracted to filling the atmosphere the ball that is created when we begin to understand his propensity to fill out Switchfoot for example let me break it down from this perspective we have a saying that the glass is either half half-full or half-empty it's neither the glass is neither half-full or half-empty because if you fill the glass half full of water it's still full y'all ain't awake in just because it's not full of water doesn't mean that it's not full it may be half filled with water but the rest of it is filled with air because there is no such thing as half-full there is no empty space or capacity that some substance or matter does not dwell in come on talk to me somebody we know that molecules are connected atoms are you with me well what about the spaces between the atoms atoms have spaces between them just scientists says they're empty spaces empty spaces they cannot understand how molecules really stay together because they're really not fully connected there are empty spaces in between each molecular structure they're empty to science but theology answers the question that God feels up the space between that Oh y'all don't believe me y'all Oh believe me let me go in here and prove it Colossians 1:17 says and he is before all things and by him all things what consists all things consist because of him he is before all things and by him all things consist then in other words he is calling he is causing all matter to stick together by filling in the spaces or your terror would fall apart or your clothes would fall apart or you would fall apart everything that we call material that we call real it's held together by the creative I'm not present God everywhere everywhere if you're searching for God the search is over he's in between every joint and every fiber of your being he's in between every violent killer structure he's in between every electron he's in between every atom God causes all things to stick together because he is a space feller I'm talking about your goddamn eye God he is a space filler and anywhere you want God there has to be space are you hearing what I'm saying to you he has a way of filling all space that's open to him and we see him filling space when he created Adam it created a capacity it created a void it created a vortex and God immediately fill that space and man became a living soul because God fill that space he created the earth and filled it with vegetation he created the sea and filled it with fish he created the atmosphere and filled it with birds God always feels whatever he forms because he's a god filler good god am i I said he's a God filler I was saying again he's a gap filler I said he's a gap filler I said he's a gap filler he fills up all the gaps in all the spaces so if it looks like your life is not coming together that's an illusion it's got to come together because he's a gap filler he is the distance between your extremity and your opportunity he is a gap filler if you stretch your arm to the furthest point and can't reach what you're after God is the gap filler that feels of the gap between your limitation and your vision God is a he's a gap filler if you're in depth you ought to be shut me down right now because you can't make ends meet with what you got don't worry about a thing God is a gap filler that's why when God's favor is on your life you get into positions that situation that other people don't think you ought to be and they're probably right I don't have enough to be where I am but my god is y'all can't handle me this morning and our text today we have three kings will force one of them is named Jehoshaphat he is a Judean King he is an upright and righteous King he has a heart toward God his mind was to serve God at the time of this text he is the only one that Elijah the Prophet truly respected the other one is Jehovah who is the king of Israel you must understand that Jehovah is the son of Ahab and Jezebel he is the son of Ahab and Jezebel he is the king of Israel his name is Joe horrible he is the offspring and half was his daddy and Jezebel was his nasty mommy [Applause] when you get over 60 you can say family yeah that's the old folks turn so you know what kind of persons your whole room was likely to be because he didn't start off so good he is a succession of nine wicked kings that controlled the Northern Kingdom he is just one in a long line a wicked after wicked after wicked after wicked King Jehovah met Jehoshaphat were as different as night and day and the third King is the king of Edom and the king of Edom dwelt in the desert and they don't give us a name for the king of Edom because in all likelihood he is probably appointed in a temporary position and it's not actually a king but is somebody that has been appointed into a position and these three kings who have nothing in common have had to come together because they have a common enemy it's funny what makes people come together they come together for all kinds of reasons not always because they like each other not always because they have something in common but a hard times that make people who don't even like each other come together are you hearing what I'm saying to you I've never seen America get as United as quickly as they did on 9/11 what nobody Democrat with nobody Republican with nobody gay or straight or black or white or saved on saying we were all connected all in agreement nobody was fighting about nothing all of us was insurance of where church attendance went through the roof all of you people that sitting in bed this morning and didn't feel like coming to church let me tell you something if trouble comes you will get out of bed I started to come but I didn't feel like come in today that's a luxury of good times when bad times come people will seek the Lord with all tenacity they will go out of their way to find some kind of way to get him to the presence of the Lord if you can't give to church you'll have Church in your house Oh y'all don't know nothing about Church in your house y'all about yeah that's what's wrong you don't know anything about church at your house the king of Moab had risen up against him and they were strategizing how to take him they were all at war with the Moabitess the decision was made to attack Moab from the south which meant that they had to walk seven days through the desert with not only three kings but three armies so the King Jehoshaphat had his army King Jehoram had his army the king of Iran had his army and all of them are marching seven days to get the right angle for the attack even with three armies they didn't want to fight Moab from the wrong spot they wanted to move into position look at your neighbor say you got to get into position they wanted to move into position to be prepared to fight the king of Moya and they had to go seven days through the desert in order to get in the right position and while they were trying to get there they ran out of water they just ran out of water I want to talk to somebody who's trying to get to a place [Applause] and you've had to go through some dry places to get there and I'm not saying you're not a Christian and I'm not saying you don't have friends and I'm not saying you don't love God but let's be honest sometimes you just run out of water you just run out of what I still want it but I ran out of water I still believe it but I ran out of water I'm still gonna do it but I ran out of water I was going to school but I ran out of water I was going to buy a house but I ran out of water I was going to build a family but I ran out of water I was going to climb this mountain but I ran out of water and the fact that they ran out of water their thirst drove them to Elijah now I want you to be very specific when you look at this because the Bible says the Kings came to the Prophet normally the Prophet would come to the king because the order of protocol is that the king should have sent for the prophet and the Prophet should have come to the king but when you get thirsty protocol I said when you get thirsty protocol goes out the window yeah yeah I know you're dignified if you don't split into verbs or adjectives all that fancy stuff but when you get thirsty protocol goes out of the window all of these people that you see up front with these Swimming's articulate profound prolific prayers of social graces standing independence by God then we've come on this auspicious journey I'll seek in your faith you pray like that in front of people but when all hell is breaking loose in your life I said when all hell is breaking loose in your life you don't have time to worry about diction or grammar or protocol you deserted my God my God my God my God my God my God my God my God I want to talk to somebody who ran out of water I want to tell you that just because you ran out of water doesn't mean you're not gonna get there y'all aren't here to be let me talk to y'all over there just because she ran out of water doesn't mean you're not going to get there let me try the choir just push it ran out of money that me you're not going to get there just because you ran out of help that mean you're not going to get there just because you can't see your way clear that me you're not going to get there just because your support team ran all for you doesn't mean you're not going to get there just because your husband left you doesn't mean you're not going to get there just because your wife cheated on you that lien Oh I was ahead of thousand get their people yeah yeah yeah yeah I gotta get there I gotta get there I gotta get there I gotta get there I gotta get there I got to get there ten three people said I got to get there [Applause] I gotta get there I gotta get there ain't no question about it pastor Robinson I got to get there come hell or high water I gotta get there I gotta get there if mama has the fried chicken to get me started but I got to get there if I have to build on baptism pool I got to get there if I got to fight my old Devils I got to get there if I have to hold my peace I got to get there I really don't know how to minister to people who give up easily because I can't relate to them I've got to get their sort of person is there anybody else like me in the building is there anybody in here that failure is not an option you just gotta slap somebody saying how to get there I may be late but I gotta get there I may be broke but I gotta get there my hair may be all over my hair but I gotta get there I think how to cry myself to sleep but I gotta get there I may have to walk while you run but I got to get there I'm talking about the department that relentless and today sir I gotta get there the only problem is you can't get there without God you cannot get there without God and God will annoy the more mites to attack you to show you that you cannot get there without him he will back you in a corner and give you a problem that you can't fix to a humble you down to make you admit I have to speak God I cannot get there by myself if I could get there by myself or out of state in the bed this morning I know that I don't sounds good but it's true if I could get there by myself out of state in the bed this one but because I need God to give me the strategy to give me the wisdom to give me the endurance to give me the fortitude to give me the tenacity to give me the direction whatever I got to go through I got to get in touch with God cuz I got to get there I got to get there I baby by me when I get there [Applause] but I gotta get there I said I'm a benign and when I get there but I gotta get there I'm talking about that nebulous in the script place that God has predestined and preordained you to get and you know in your spirit when you are there and you know when you are not there and all the people who are trying to be a pacifier in your life you keep going to people if you find out ain't no milk in this it worked for a little while but you ain't fooling me I got the kind of thirst that you can't fooled me giving me rubber I'm thirsty I gotta have the real deal I gotta get there who am i preaching to this morning so they came to Elijah they came to Elijah and they didn't come to Elijah because all of them believed in him yoram didn't believe that it didn't believe in Yahweh not fully not totally he didn't fully serve the Lord he said he served the Lord but he also had these caps and idols that he had built up because for him it was a political thing if he said that he served your way he would get one group of people if he had the caps up he would get another and so for your harem it was just a play on the feelings of the people we get a lot of that I don't know if I should go there we get it a lot of that I know some people on Fox News who are not conservative but if you work for Fox you got to say the right thing and I know some folks that work for CNN that aren't liberal some of the people you mad at over what they said they're saying what they're supposed to say because you call it news they call it business and they're trying to control a particular turf and so whatever I have to say to capture the fascination of the turf oh yeah I worked in the business I understand the business is about numbers and demos and appealing to a demo so they baits you and they put up whatever sign they need to put up to get your eyeballs to get the ratings so they can charge more money for advertising so that they can make more money [Applause] they don't want the truth Jesus if that were not true how could somebody work for Fox News and then take a job at MSNBC wake up people wake up this is a jehoram spirit this is what's killing our country because we drink the kool-aid that they make and we believe that they really believe what they said and we end up fighting each other over what they said and all the while the big business people are making money off the fight cuz because good news don't make good ratings so if I need to say your way I'll say your way if I need to say can find say can cuz I'm trying to control the market all y'all can't handle the truth y'all can't handle the truth and I know you disagree with me but I got a difference from you I've been there I've been in the meetings I've been in the staff rooms I've been behind the scenes and I've done some part-time work for I know what I'm talking about it's a business control my ratings and they're getting rich making us mad at each other I said they're getting rich making us mad at each other and you sitting up here with your broke self ready to fight somebody you don't even know and they're walking test my tournament says your Horeb spirit and so there you are arguing with people that you ought to be a peace with not speaking to people about the fight in a restaurant ready to cut somebody out with your safe self all because we're being manipulated by somebody who's giving us whatever image we need to have to get our attention [Applause] this is your homeroom smeared I've been in the meetings with the elected officials who decided to march out a particular subject in order to wear up the base that's not new that's been like that for years certain things we're up the base if they know how to manipulate you and get you scared that if you don't go out and vote this is going to happen to you and that's going to happen to you or this food the white folks are going to take over the gay folks are gonna take over they know exactly what to show you to ignite the base because all they want us to vote oh I know it's not all like that but it's mostly like that it's so much of that the Democrats which have become Republicans the Republicans which have become Democrats and then some of them go independent of what whichever way I can how is seductive and your home has succumbed to the seduction that anyway I got to get there I'll get there so I'll talk a little your way talk a little idolatry don't judge it his mama was Jezebel [Applause] Apple don't fall too far from the tree and soju horrible and jehosophat come together with the King of England and they all go down to see the Prophet and Elijah is seven shades a rude he said he says to them when they come to see him I wouldn't even look at you did you notice head in the tail he said I wouldn't look at you I wouldn't come out I wouldn't even see you if it weren't for Jehoshaphat because Jehoshaphat was sincere sincerity Trump's manipulation every time I said sincerely Trump's manipulation every time that's why when we get somebody in office as sincere you will run every manipulator in the long run you will come out every time because people have the ability to tell when you are authentic everybody who's got an instinct to understand when somebody's authentic clap your hands manipulation will only carry you so far [Applause] [Music] every lies that says if you think you gonna manipulate God you crazy your home you at my front porch get off my porch I wouldn't even look at you I wouldn't even look at the king ego you know you don't have a relationship with God you only use God when you're in trouble [Applause] you're only using God because you're in a crisis right now your momma see your daughters in the hospital your child is in the crisis you're strung out on something and so you come down here to get a little bit of Jesus you really don't want to change your life you just need enough Jesus to help you get there you don't want him to invade your space and get in your business you just want to come and get inspiration you want to get motivation but you don't want to change anything nothing is that's hypocritical as church folk you make me get out the bed this morning I will let you have it a form of godliness designed to power their Hall you will lure them Fox and CNN and if I simply see but let me tell you about church folk everybody talked about heaven ain't going there everybody talked about Jesus ain't going there everybody preacher though loved the Lord everybody out here on the field and preacher because they want to win souls hit your neighbors say wake up game those game game those game real those real come on somebody and when you're a real person when you're a real person you want real around you you don't have to be perfect just be real you don't have to be spectacular just be real you don't have to have everything lined I'll just be real Eliza was not for the foolishness he said I wouldn't even look at you see when you get a certain age [Applause] I don't know what age it is some focus 21 some focus 51 but when you get a certain age there's some stuff you don't even look at anymore because you don't have time for somebody trying to walk you oh you're a chef like I'm preaching you a shout like I'm preaching and Alijah God's man ran out there to the Kings who could have killed him and he said only want to look at you the courage you have to impress of my shop courage you have to have courage to confront folks yeah they're encouraged to take a stand you have to have carry to separate yourself from the game you have cries and said I know this is a game I'm not stupid I may do it but you didn't trick me so Eliezer says the only reason I'm talking about to you is because of Jehoshaphat so I want to take a minute to talk about the power of one out of three kings only one of them had the hook-up had the connection had the ability to move god only one only one you might be the only one in your house that has the connection with God that is a blessing the whole house touch your neighbor saying only takes one when God got ready to build the ark he didn't form a committee of architects and designers he spoke to one man when God got ready to create the Hebrew nation he didn't build together aboard and go through a committee he spoke to one man and said get thee out of our country and away from thy kindred when God got ready to redeem the world he didn't set all the angels he sent one wrapped in flesh Laden swaddling clothes hooked up in a manger it only takes one it only takes one mahatma ghandi it only takes one dr. Martin Luther King it only takes one Jeff Kennedy it only takes one you don't have to have everybody on your side I don't know if you bold enough to say this or not but I guess I might say I am the one I had to walk with people I don't like I had to sit with people I didn't agree with I had to deal with people that I knew was faulty but I is that your hot Safed in the house make some flour oh my god I feel like something's about to happen in here this morning I said I feel like something's about to happen in here this morning touch a neighbor say I am the one that's why the devil fights maid that's why I tried to kill me that's why I tried to destroy me that's why it fights me every time I get up on my feet that's why I tried to keep this sick and keep me down and keep me worried and keep the old press because he'll knows I am the one tell those I am the one [Applause] I'm the one I'm the one I'm the one I'm the one I'm the one ten somebody said I am the one somebody said I am the one to somebody said I am the one way handle yourself as I am the one opened your mouth and give God the praise I am the world you're the one holding the house together you're the one you're the reason the company didn't close you're the reason the business is still standing up you're the reason that the kids didn't blow out their brains you are the one that's holding it together and I want to tell you no weapon formed against you shall be able to prosper and every time that rising against you God will condemn God has a purpose for your life God has a purpose can I go deeper sit out I'm going deep [Music] [Applause] you better know who you are you're going to stop being coy and understand who you are you better understand your place in the kingdom you got to stop being passive and understand the power that you got you got to know the power that you got you got to know the power you see they had they have vexed Elijah's spirit and I'm glad that they break his spirit because I needed to know that you can be anointed and annoyed this text is in the Bible for me I'm gonna let you hear it but it's really for me because sometimes people will annoy you - the enemy says how could you be annoyed and still be annoyed you Elijah said y'all have gotten on my nerves and now you want me to prophesy [Applause] so he says sin for the menstral cuz I gotta change [Applause] if I'm going to get God Shabba to come in this face he won't come if I'm filled with aggravation he says sin for the minstrel and let him play cuz I'm getting ready to change the atmosphere and we'll create a praise ball for God to dwell II for God to speak here because he's a gap-filling god I said he's a gap-filling god I said he's a gap-filling god I said he's a gap-filling God you will remember when I was teaching on the Ark of the Covenant and how the cherubims were standing on the top of the Ark of the Covenant and Shekinah glory sat down in between the cherubim you will remember that God is a gap-filling God you will remember in the 6th chapter of Isaiah when the champions were singing one to another holy holy holy is the Lord God of hosts that God stood in between their conversation because he's a gap-filling God you will remember when Mary came down to the two there was an angel over here and there was an angel over there and he came out of the grave because he is a you will remember that there was a thief on his right side and there was a thief on his left side and they hung him high and stretched him between two thieves because he is a so Elijah said I have to create a gap a space for God to dwell send for the menstrual and without a song being sung music itself music itself created an atmosphere for God to speak in he created an atmosphere for Elijah to be able to receive the Word of God all of you that don't think that the worship service is important you don't understand you say all you need is the Word of God but you won't have that you can't just come jump out the car and catch the message and fully get it because worship creates it so people who worship get more than people who don't because people who don't don't have a gap for God to feel because they don't have atmosphere if you have to understand three armies are about to faint and their animals and their cattle are about to collapse they have been walking for seven days in desperation three things two of which don't even support your way now come to Yahweh's prophet for a word Elijah comes out on the front porch there why don't you ask your prophets to pray to your gods [Applause] why don't you the one you serve is the one you are to pray to I'm a mess watching a little bit you can't serve the devil all week and come in church on Sunday and complain because miracles aren't happening in your life why don't you pray to the one you've been serving all week imma go over here because it's getting hot over there why don't you pray to the one you've been serving always you don't really have a relationship with Jesus you have a relationship with Sunday you don't pray in your house you don't pray over your children you don't pray over your life you don't put them to work praying you don't leave word prayer but on Sunday morning you come to the Prophet and you want to receive a word from God but you got no God and Elijah said fooling with you is about to make me lose my God where the real Chris is that there are some folks if you keep fooling with them you gotta send for the mistral yourself because you don't know what God is saying by the time they get to get on your nerves Elijah says send for the minstrel [Applause] if you have any idea how powerful your ministry is if you had any idea that's why we cannot keep people on these instruments who see this as a gig because this is not a gig this is not a stage just for you to sell more albums this is not a platform this is not a talent show glory to God this is a ministry for the Holy Spirit to flow to somebody start praising him right now yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we will atmosphere and he will atmosphere somebody sorry I need a little atmosphere give God something the city something to inhabit give God something the grass sits on the men's job get it out on them keys sent by the minstrel [Applause] when you hear that that means something is about to happen when you hear that that means God is about to speak with you here that that these God's about to fill the gap come into the space come into the room make some ties in this house [Applause] and God says I'm going to do it for the ha so fat because Jehoshaphat don't wait til Sunday morning to get his preys on because the hearts of fat was praising me in his car because your heart to grant will pray on his job because your Haase fat will pray over his fields because the hosel that will lay hands on his kids because the house of fat get wait till he got thirsty to call on me and the horror of you you just go get blessed by default there are some blessings that you get by default you don't God didn't bless you because you're you God blesses you because of who your next to Noah's kids got saved from the flood because of who their daddy was some of y'all you you haven't even got it yet you're just around somebody who got it you around somebody who's so blessed that their cup runneth over and you think you are cup because you got coffee in it you ain't a cup you are salsa you're not a tough baby your salsa until you can generate this in your house if you can generate this in your car until you can generate this by yourself you're out a cup you're a salsa [Applause] jehosophat was a cop Joe Harbor was a salsa satellizer says sin for the menstrual and let him create an atmosphere and when the minstrel began to play hit that thing again when the mess will begin to play [Music] [Applause] [Music] the spirit of prophecy [Music] came into the atmosphere [Music] the word of knowledge came into the atmosphere and a lipping spirit came into the atmosphere a prophetic utterance came into the atmosphere and as the minstrel began to play I shut that down we've seen this before haven't we you remember when the demons were in Saul and they called David to play his instrument the instrument all by itself without the lyrics without a song without a voice just the music itself created such an atmosphere that the demons had to flee play that things yeah imma grab some demons out of this place today the demon of doubt the demon of fear the demon of stress the demon a worry the demon of perplexity the demon of failure the demon of fear you gotta [Applause] now watch this because the minstrel created an atmosphere a prophetic word came through and he Lazar looked up and said thus saith the Lord dig ditches in your Valley wait a minute God I'm not asking you for no more work I came down here because I want water the water requires work and God without explaining it tells people who who have been walking in a desert seven days without water to dig your own ditch but I'm tired Lord but I'm weak Lord but I'm thank Lord this is the wrong time in my life for you to ask me to dig if you don't ask me five days ago it'd have been better but you asking a faint man - dig dig ditches is to create space create capacity how much water you gonna send how much ditch you gonna need y'all be here dead I'm a born hole y'all can handle that y'all can't handle that you run out of ditch before I run out of water according to your capacity that's I'm going to bless you according to your capacity how much ditch can you be what have you dig I'm gonna fill it so you can't blame nobody if you only got a trickle of water it's only because you only dug a little bitty if you dropped that hole and got you a shovel when he says to them to dig your own ditches or the big ditches in your Valley he's saying how much I respond to you is up to you how much can you dig I won't do anything till I see you do [Music] I am a God who responds to capacity if I were to bloom or breath in Adam than he had lungs out of killed him I blow in according to your capacity to receive that's why I told you not to be jealous of other people because I gave him what he could handle and I'll give you what you can handle comparing yourselves with one another is not wise because I'm going to respond to you on the level of your capacity now somebody in this room it's just raring to throw your hands up and say increasing my capacity [Applause] I was praying several years ago and I was asking God to increase my capacity to receive because I had received to the level of my capacity and I was believing God to do something in my finances and at the moment in our service several years ago when Tyler Perry laid hands on me and everybody was freaking out about it what they don't know is that I had been up there praying to increase my capacity to receive on another level and the level I was praying in he was the only one in the building and the reason I submitted to it is that some people can enlarge you because they have faith to believe on a level you have not experienced they can strengthen your chords and live in your stakes that's what the symposium was about yesterday it was about stretching you beyond the parameters of your normal increasing your capacity big ditches in your valley wait wait that's the weight that kind of that's kind of like a hole in a hole the valley was actually a river man anyway and you want me to dig ditches in what was already a valley in other words for what I'm going to give you your capacity is not big enough I gotta take you I don't know who I'm preaching to you but God says what that that little trench that little natural trench you have in your life it's not going to be enough to sustain you for what I have planned for you is beyond what you had planned for yourself so you need to be enlarged enough to dig a ditch in a valley is to put a hole in a hole let me show you this let me show you this way the widow was getting ready to sell her kids and pay off her debts cuz she was in debt and the prophet Elijah came to her and said borrow vessels wait wait wait I'm already in debt and then he says borrow a lot of fuel that's what God is getting ready to pour you gotta have enough capacity watch this watches watches so they borrowed all the vessels they could and brought him into the widow's house and out of what she had there was a flow and as long as there was a capacity there was a flow the Bible says as long as they had an empty vessel the oil flow because God feels all open space God won't stop till your hunger stops God won't stop till your thirst stops that's why the oak are the more I feel it the more I feel it that's why the enemy is trying to cap off your thirst make you stop living make you stop longing make you stop breathing make you stop warning make you stop believing make you stop asking make you stop seeking because God responds to you he that hungers a thirst after righteousness shall be filled I'm not telling you because you need to be filled I'm filling you because you got capacity he that hungers and thirsts has capacity I feel you according to your capacity if you were hungry I would feel you if you were thirsty I would feel you if you would dig your ditches deeper I would send more water to you than you could ever imagine I will open up a flow in your life that will blow your mind so you know what the enemy does he comes to numb your thirst to make you think that all you have is all there is then your life is not gonna get any better that it's not gonna get any richer that it's not gonna get any fuller that you just have to settle for this this is all you're gonna ever be this is all you're gonna ever do this is all this is all this is all after all look at what you've been through look at what happened to you look at what happened in your life look at who your mama was look at who your daddy were look at where you didn't go to school look at what you didn't get look at how you lost your job he will try to talk you into not digging your ditch but I came to tell he'll I got a shovel I got this shovel and I'm looking for me a bulldozer I'm looking for me a bulldozer I'm looking for me a bulldozer but I don't have time to be playing around with this shovel I don't have time to be playing around this server I'm too old to be shoveling my I got to get on a bulldozer I'm trying to go right now it creeps me why is it that simple go to the same service that other folk go to and some get something and some dough some lives are changed and some aren't why is it that you can raise five or six kids in the same house and two of them giving them four of them donor capacity they didn't Hungerford they wouldn't dig ditches in their valley they didn't see it as an opportunity to receive they took it for granted and they didn't dig ditches and now they don't have it why is it that your grandmama could cook and you could even brag about her cooking and now she's dead and you don't have the recipe you ain't the food but you didn't dig the ditch dig ditches in your Valley Lord I'm faint and I'm in a valley and you want me to dig from a low place anybody can dig from a high place but you want me to dig from a low place my emotions are shot my nerves are fried these people are driving me crazy and you want me to dig anyway dig in your Valley I want to talk is there anybody been in a valley waving their hand in it God says right in your valley it's where your faith is proven when the odds are against you and you're backed up against the wall that's when you show what you are really made of when you are about to pass out and you say though he slay me yet shall I trust him that's how you prove that you are legit dig ditches in your good gardeners oh my god I think you see I feel God talking to somebody I'm giving you the word but you're receiving a message I'm telling you a Bible story but it's speaking to your story and God is giving somebody directions right now about what he expects for you to do to get the breakthrough in your life just when they counted you out just when they thought you wouldn't be back just when they said you'd never be nothing just when you were back to get sawol just when you were tired and wanted to quit just when you were frustrated and people had pledged on their God said dig slap somebody say dig if you dig right now something is going to happen if you dig right now something is going to move if you dig right now God is going to respond in your life anybody ready to dig this boy can I go deeper so he says to him dig ditches in your Valley now I'm the Prophet he says I give you the word but I'm not going to dig for you I've learned that it was not my job to do the digging it took me about 20 years to figure that out every time I had a member some went wrong or some kind of scandal broke out of people wrote a blog or they talked about something I thought it was always my fault it is not my job to do your digit once I give you the Word of God I go to bed I take a nap every Sunday if it ain't but 15 minutes I take I mean it ain't really not working when you slobber any than that I go out eyes up in my head where they have to put a mirror under my nose see if I'm still breathing because my greatest release is to give you the word and what you do with it is up to you what I'm trying to tell you this morning ain't nobody go dig for you I told him brother Antipas I said all of that stuff we were talking yesterday that amazing information in the symposium and being exposed to all of that it's good that everybody was all excited I said but they don't understand the courses are not like the symposium because when you take a course you got to do your own digging now when you in a symposium you took a few notes out of what I do [Applause] but when you take the course you gotta dig your own ditch once your marriage to work dig your own dish watch from who you want your marriage to work you got to dig your own ditches you got to be vulnerable you got to do stuff when you tired you get you gotta make room for what you pray for you you single and you livin it up you go when you want to you come back when you want to you don't have to do that that's fine you like that you better stay like that because the Lord for what it's worth the Lord told me to share with you what this message walls down to is make room for what's coming next make mate wrong who am i preaching to make room you don't understand how hard it is to make room for something you haven't got yet you don't know how hard it is to go back and command this these armies that are about to faint you got work to do I thought y'all went up there to get some water no we came back with some work because the water is in the work so you have to dig your own ditch i can want the best for you all i want to i can believe in you i can pray for you I can undergird you I can even be there for you but I can't dig for you I'm learning that as I'm gonna I cannot dig for you I used to think that just because I wanted you to have it I could almost make you take it but I can some of you are experiencing that with your own loved ones you want more for them than they want for themselves and you sit up here feeling guilty and feeling bad the truth of the matter is everybody has to dig your own now this is the part I like and now that that's the part I like this is part of the prophecy online he said when you dig your own ditches this is the word of the Lord there will be no win there will be no win in other words there will be no sign you won't you won't see the clouds gather or hear the lightning flash it won't look like it's about to happen [Applause] there will be no that shahu there will be I love this verse there will be no wind wait a minute there will be no rain [Applause] you won't see this coming what I'm getting ready to do for you is not coming through the natural there will be no wind oh my god somebody had just hit him right in their belly they just realized God is talking right to you there will be no wind there will be no rain there will just be water now I don't know whether the digging broke up the water that was under them I don't know whether they don't ill they hit something or whether they dug till he created something all I know is that it didn't come down it came up mmm I preached in this morning if it came I shall woo it came out of nowhere it came out of nowhere there was no sign it was gonna get better there was no there was no rain saying it was gonna get better counselling how can we work terapy hasn't worked trainee has it work fussing hadn't work crime hasn't worked did the press had to work there will be the word there will be no rain this show oh my god I hope I hope you won't be receiving this there will be no wind there will be no rain but I swear there will be water [Applause] there will be so much water that not only will Jehoshaphat drink but your harem will drink all of their men will drink all of their cattle will dress God said when you hit him it's going to bless people that didn't have nothing to do with [Music] clap your hands if God's talking to you so they dug ditches in their Valley and without any Sun oh yeah without any warning without any clouds gathering without any Thunder roaring without any Lightning flashing without any drops falling on the ditches started filling with water and he filled it according to their digging and he filled it according to their digging stop telling me Thailand don't work stop telling me giving doesn't work it'll work if you work it it'll work if you work it but if you think you will pay God off while you don't change your behavior if you think you will run down here with your little check and not change your ways if you think you're gonna pay God to bless you like he's a pimp Danny get a work faith only works if you work it touch the neighbor say I got some digging to do wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute I only want the people who are trying to get there where are the people that's trying to get there this is the word of the Lord to you this morning you got some digging to do [Applause] and God says how much filling he does is dependent on how much digging you do you remember last Sunday when I had you hold your stomach in Hama and deliverance hit this place like I don't know I have seen it hit this place in years and the glory of the Lord beginning to fall in this place it failed because we we did some digging we up looted some stuff we got to the core of some things we had to be vulnerable we had to be transparent you couldn't fake you couldn't be cute you couldn't sass him to the altar to show us your stilettos you had to kick off your shoes and scream like he was in a labor ward but when we started digging God started filling let me tell you what happened it filled all the ditches all three armies drank their cattle drank and it was still full Elijah Elijah said this is a small thing the God to quench your thirst you think God has to strain to quit youth why would you serve a god that has to strain to quench your thirst why what are you raising your hands for clapping about if your problem is being to God in the morning King Mesha who was over the Moab's woke up and in the morning light he looked and saw this river and it looked red and he thought it was the blood of the Israelites fighting amongst themselves and so he said they fought amongst themselves and filled the valley with blood they're gonna be easy let's run down there and take him and they ran down there to take him senator and then me Israelites whipped a socks off [Applause] they because ain't nothing like fighting me when I'm refreshed ain't nothing like fighting when I was threat you might could take me out when I died but if you mess around let me get a little refreshed I'm ready for you now they beat them half to death but they couldn't defeat the Moabites until they dug their ditches what are you trying to defeat what standing in the way of you and your next miracle what breakthrough do you want bad enough to walk forward and dig for it what are you believing God for to happen in your life what do you need done so bad that you'll form alliances with people you don't like and talk to people you don't even agree with and put your little petty feelings aside and hook up arms or jehosophat with Forja horrible with a king of Eagle heart and all join together because we got the same devil to fight if that happened in this country I mean let's just fantasize for a minute if that happened in this country if that happened in Nigeria if that happened in Kenya if that happened in Zimbabwe if we all got together because we had a common enemy if that happened in Norway if that happen in the Middle East if that happened anywhere in the world do you see the trouble going on in Hong Kong and China try this snuff out then people and then people who are not trained in warfare just keep on coming and I told you that something God is on the side of the oppressed history has proven you can only hold and oppress people down so long sooner or later they will rise up they will rise up and take the rightful place I don't care you talk about domestic violence I don't care how I don't care how little a woman is I don't care how big the man is I don't care how many times you have knocked her upside the head when that little woman gets tired of being sick and tired I'm telling you I'd rather fight the man then fight the whole breast woman cuz an oppressed woman to do something to you that you didn't even know was possible you cut the bottom of my feet with razors yes why you asleep you put decon in my meatloaf yes and pour ketchup over top of it when you oppress people long enough they get creative they get radical everything gets dangerous they sour bacon chocolate pass they'll do whatever if you put if you push me if you push me father if you pat me in a car don't do that if y'all didn't see the movie you don't go to talk about I slip that in there you have to see the movie to get it so you just gonna lay down and feel sorry for yourself or are you gonna dig your own ditch because if you dig it if you go back to school if you reinvent your life if you go after your dream if you get active and start searching for what you've been praying for if you start talking to people you normally wouldn't talk to if you start making connections if you dig your own ditches it's coming out of nowhere [Applause]

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Length: 85min 35sec (5135 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 27 2019