Dr. Gerald Jeffers: The Lord Is Calling You Out Of Your Comfort Zone 11 30 16

we're in the midst Song of Solomon 3 a man starting at verse 1 in the amplified that we can begin to look at together and begin to read here what the Lord is saying unto us does anybody want to hear what the Lord is saying one more time just lift your hands to the Lord and ask him to speak to you and ask him to help you to be receptive to what he's saying I need to hear from you but I also need to have the mind to obey you and to do exactly what you are saying father we thank you we love you nanobot rokosz Andre Andre baby coushatta we give you glory alright I'm going to read this to you then it says in the night I dreamed that I sought the one whom I love she said I looked for him but could not find him so I decided to go out into the city into the streets and broadway's which was so confusing to a country girl and seek Him whom my soul loves I sought him but I could not find him The Watchmen who go about the city found me to whom I said have you seen him whom my soul loves I've gone but a little way past them when I found him whom my soul loves I held him and I would not let him go until I have brought him into my mother's house and into the chamber of her who conceived me before your seat in the presence of the Lord would you create a few people around you and just tell them I love you with the love of the Lord hug somebody come on then you might be the only smile the only hug somebody's had all day long thank you the Lord blesses your seat in his wonderful presence I want to speak to you on this subject tonight the Lord is calling you out of your comfort zone the Lord is calling you out of your comfort zone in case you do not realize God is allowing some very drastic things to happen in our lives things that are beyond our ability our talents our intellect our connections that we have with people our finances they are beyond all the things which we possess we don't have the ability to fix these situations God is allowing some very strenuous things because he's determined that we're going to live Zachariah chapter 4 verse 6 as it is placed in the King James Zechariah chapter 4 verse 6 and the word of the Lord came unto Zerubbabel saying not by power nor by might but by my spirit saith the Lord God is determined that we are not going to simply be apostolic in title but we must be apostolic in lifestyle and unfortunately what happens to us is when things go fairly well we get too comfortable and we get to the point where we lose passion Drive and intensity and so unfortunately God sometimes has to allow difficulty to arise to such magnitude that it makes it very clear to us that we need him and that needing of him creates a passion and intensity and a drive of what we call the passionate pursuit of his presence that we recognize that having him is not an option having him is not something that we can do without but having him is absolutely mandatory God told me to tell this church and first we'll look at first Corinthians chapter 2 verse 16 in the King James first Corinthians chapter 2 verse 16 they're having trouble with the screen so you're gonna have to use your Bibles that's why you bring your Bible first Corinthians chapter 2 r16 amen and i just want the latter portion of the verse and in the bible says this for we have the mind of Christ God has actually given us his mind the problem is we do not normally take the time to cultivate and learn the mind of God I've grown up in church oven-safe well over 40 years and traveled many many places and experienced church in many many different places in arena and one of the thing I consistently find is that God's people want God to give more than they're willing to give they want the power of God without much price they want the presence of God without many things to go through they simply want God to bless them because they showed up but it is not when God finds a people that are hungry that are passionate it will absolutely go after him then you will find that God will appear and appear with great power and mind but can I tell you this my friends look at job chapter 29 verse 18 in the King James job 29 18 just want the first part of that verse job said this he said I will die in my nest that nest speaks of a comfortable nests job 29 80 now I'll die in my nest when you in a realm of comfortableness you will die your spirituality will die this is why God is calling you out of your comfort zones to come out of your comfort zone means you get to the point where you don't care what your friends think you can laugh at me you can make fun of me but last time I checked you don't keep demons off of me you might be somebody I talked to you might be someone I laugh with you might be someone who I'm even concerned about but I've got it in perspective because you're not the one that heals me you're not the one that forgives me you're not the one that protects me you are not the sustainer of my sanity nor the lover of my soul nor the lifter of my head you're not the one that woke me up this morning I will not be afraid of you I will not become so afraid of my friends and my peers that I will not give in to the Spirit of God the Apostolic Church has been bragging about one God for years while we are controlled by an unholy trinity the fear of man fear failure fear being hurt we are so afraid of each other we are so afraid of what people think we are so afraid of being hurt we are so afraid of looking like we're not spiritual or somebody that we don't step out of our comfort zones we can't even get people to step out of their seats hardly and go after God you make an altar calling people drag they don't want to be the first one up there because they don't want to be afraid like that and their their news put on blast you call for pre-service prayer and the people of God would rather sit and stare off into space or talk to each other then go and invest and talk to God yet they expect a powerful service yet they expect God to show up yet they expect deliverance miracle signs and wonders but they won't put him the time to cause it to come to pass Oh God raise up a hunger in this church God said if you're not paying attention in this city the devil is running rampant we've got 9 homicides that happened in this city within seven days and God said the only way this church is gonna rise to meet the challenge is you're gonna have to come out of your comfort zone you're gonna have to display more passion than what you're displaying you cannot sit there like our just statues you cannot just simply gently move and expect to move of God there's going to have to be a hunger that comes on the inside of your belly that says I need Thee Oh I need thee every hour I need Thee somebody lift your hands and shout uneasy I need you I need you I need you the Lord has in essence spoken that he is looking for apostolic s-- that will simply stop bragging about a doctrine but are not making it a lifestyle God is looking for people to live the Apostolic doctrine in other words you were only served one God you will not serve the God of fear you will not serve the God of the fear failure or the fear of being hurt or the fear of man people's opinions of what they think about you but you serve only one God and you will only be controlled by one God God is looking for people that will live the baptism in Jesus name do you not understand that baptism in Jesus name when you go down in the water that is the symbol but the substance my friend is found in the very phrase itself baptism in Jesus name the Greek word baptizo means the plant peri submerge the Greek word for name means character identity purpose and Majesty place it all together to be baptized into Jesus name is to be planted buried submerge into Jesus character into Jesus identity into Jesus purpose and into Jesus majesty how can you be baptized in Jesus identity and have low self esteem you got the symbol of the baptism you have not yet obtained the substance how can you be upset and disappointed about not getting your purpose when you are baptized into his purpose how is it that it's about your comfort how is it is about your preference and what you liked when you were baptized into that name you forfeited all of those rights and you did it willingly because you were saying that you love him but God wants to understand from your perspective how is it that you said I'm I read in this name and I'm buried into your purpose and yet you don't want your children to move away when I say it's time for them to move away because you're so concerned about having your grandchildren near you and your children near you you're more concerned about your comfort and your feelings then you are my plan and my purpose but there has to be a hunger that says your plan and your purpose are more important than my pain or my pleasure Oh God have your way we are the true Apostolic that are not just apostolic in title I didn't name but an apostolic in lifestyle and in action Jeremiah chapter 29 starting in verse 11 in the amplified bible Jeremiah 29 verse 11 in the amplified bible and we're going to read down a few verses because we want you to hear what the Lord is saying to you as a people of God we love verse 11 Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11 verse 11 is one of these scriptures that we quote very much in the King James but unfortunately what happens to us as we quote the promises without the requirements we want promises without requirement we simply want God to bless us without there being too much inconvenience to us but I'm telling you if you want what God is offering your flesh is going to have to die you're going to have to come out of your comfort zone of what you're used to here's the understanding if you want something you've never had you're gonna have to start doing some things you've never done you cannot get a $5,000 plus blessing with five cents worth of praise if you are in need of great praise then you must give or great blessing that you must give a great praise now if you don't need much then I understand this response but look what he said he said for I know the thoughts that I think toward you isn't that powerful he said thoughts of peace not evil to give you an expected end that's the King James do we have it in the amplified okay that's fine let's go then to verse 12 verse 12 listen to what he said then shall you call upon me you shall go pray unto me and I will hearken unto you now did you notice the connection then this connects to the previous verse see you want verse 11 or verse 11 without doing verse 12 you simply want to know that he thinks good about you and has an expected end for you that word expected end speaks of destiny he has destiny for you but how that destiny is activated is when you come to verse 12 it's when you'll call upon him it's when you go after him it's what you will pray unto him I know it so it's when you will hearken hearken means you listen with the intent to obey it's when you are already made up in your mind before you ever tell me what you want I've already declared I will do it and I will do it with joy and not with grief but I will do it because I love you because if you're willing to go to a cross from me that I'm willing to be inconvenienced for you verse 13 verse 13 let's move on he said you shall seek me and find me when you shall search for me with all of your heart not the leftovers part of the problem that we're running into it Christianity is that God is getting the leftovers he is consistently reliving the Christmas story that is where there was no room for him in the inn there was only room inside of a stable the places where they kept the animals and this is what God consistently finds out with in our lives there's not much room for him it's wherever we can seem to fit him in he gets the leftovers we're amen in essence the animals would receive but God is looking for somebody that Oh prioritize and know your Bible know your Bible we say a lot of things that are not scriptural we say put God first please find that that's why we're struggling let me show you why we're struggling Hosea chapter 4 verse 6 Hosea chapter 4 verse 6 it is not enough for you to live the rules of the church to do the outward standards of holiness outward standards is the symbol but if you don't have the substance of the standard the symbol means nothing if the symbol is what saved you then you've already lost because all you got to do is look at these Muslim women who are covered from head to toe if that's what salvation is is an outward look that you've already lost that is a symbol you are supposed to be dressed in the inner man your spirit is supposed to be dressed with the garment of praise you are supposed to have on the robe of righteousness you are supposed to have on the armor of God if you don't have the substance the symbol means nothing your hair women are supposed to symbolize submission I don't care how long your hair is if you're not submissive in your spirit to God if you're so strong-willed that you're always trying to twist God's arm to get what you want your hair means nothing we have rested so on our symbols we have rested so on what we do in following the rules that mix us wholly if this could make us holy I want to know why he had to die if all I had to do was dress a certain way and act a certain way and talk a certain way then that's what it took to get salvation widening out to hang naked on a cross because that is not what brings salvation what brings salvation is when you get the substance that goes on the inside that matches the symbol that's on the outside you must have both it's like going to the grocery store and you pick up a can of beans and you get home and you find tomatoes the people didn't match the content you want your money back God said I need for the label to match the content I need for the outward symbol to match what's going on in wordly and the inward to match what's going on somebody lift your hands and tell the Lord I love you I adore you knit up a robe and reiha-sama borrow I adore you hosea chapter 4 verse 6 I want you to hear the word of the Lord my people he is not talking about the world this is very specific my people are destroyed because of the devil is that what he said you destroy because you don't have enough money in short because you don't know the answers to your problems he said you're destroyed for the lack of knowledge you're destroyed because of what you don't know regarding the word of the Lord then he went on to say because thou has rejected knowledge in other words God watches you learn anything you want to learn he watches you get on the computer learn new programs he watches you learn cellphones he watch you to learn how to cook when you wanted to cook he watches you invest time in whatever you consider to be important but now his word you say things that are not scriptural you don't study you just quote what you heard other people quote you never go to look it up yourself you never do and so God takes that as rejection that I am NOT valuable enough for your time valuable enough I've watched you get on YouTube I watched you surf the the net for hours I want you to get into Facebook and talk to your friends for hours but you don't put your face into my book you want all this power they were all this anointing but you don't even invest to know me you think just because you speak in tongues and have my name and come to church and do outward standards this is enough to all of a sudden have a divine encounter God said no no no my friend my calling card has never ever been acts 2:38 you want to know God's calling card blessed are they which are and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled I come in accordance to your hunger you don't have much hunger of me you can just sit there watch your mouth closed and hardly move then don't expect much from me but if you dare to press beyond the comfort zones you dare to press beyond the norm you will find me may I be honest with you the average Jehovah Witness can eat the breakfast lunch and dinner of the average Apostolic without a problem they have an entire book published on how to answer us in the Pentecostal realm which they study and while we're going well I think it's somewhere in Hebrews or somewhere in the scriptures they're quoting chapter and verse they will come and study their Bibles for three hours oh my god if the preacher goes longer than 45 minutes he's long-winded now we'll go home and watch a movie for two hours and feed our flesh of 45 minutes for eternity is too long we're bored when is this preacher going to act like Moses and let God's people go but God said is there anybody hungry in this house is there anybody else a Lord increases my spiritual appetite I've got to have more I do not want the average Christianity I don't want to meander in the maze of mediocracy I don't want to ponder at the pool of popularity I want a divine encounter that changes me look what he said after he said because I reject his knowledge look what else he said because I has forgotten the law of thy Lord God I will also forget your children you want me to touch your little Johnny you want me to touch your little Suzy but you don't have time for me I don't have time for your kids you don't have time to read you have time to pray I don't have time for your children you say why because I'm after a godly seed I'm after a godly lineage and you're not preparing me a godly lineage it took more than just bapt or just just dedicating them at birth it took more than just taking them so the Sunday school it takes for you to live in front of them it takes for you not to live a casual thing in front of them you can't go home and have fake preacher and fright Saint and then expect your children to want to come and live for God they have got to see somebody that is seeking that is pressing consistently going after never comfortable always wanting more somebody yell anymore you hear me now I need more because thou has forgotten the law of that God I will also forget thy children no the devil is not destroying you you want to give them credit your tape no because you don't know what to do as far as your future your finances or your relationships no that's not destroying you no no the struggles you're having in life that's not what's destroying you is that you won't take the time and invest in knowing who he is as I travels I interact with God's people I find that most Apostolic have a sunny school version a city school understanding of God sunny school was their foundation and they've never gone beyond that to study and to invest you start talking about the per ah Abdul ma which is the ashes of the red heifer clueless absolutely clueless how do you understand Jesus as the ultimate sacrifice and don't understand the ashes of the red heifer how do you understand a church service and don't understand the tabernacle of David don't you know that David was the first one to put music and singing into the order of worship of God there was no singing in worship and the tabernacle of Moses David established 288 musicians and singers how are you a singer and a Levite and you've never studied this why are you so skillful at playing and so skillful at singing but you're not skillful at the word that instructed this don't you know that God mentioned music 989 times in Scripture but only mentioned hell 72 times God speaks about music 12 times more that he speaks about hell and yet you don't know what he says about it how do you sing and lead people into the presence without knowledge you want what you want to go where but yet I watch you study in university I want you to listen to monotone professors I watch you pay prices for books of a hundred and fifty dollars or more I watch you want to use six chapters only to turn the book back in and how do I get back any money from it and yet you won't invest in the things of God it's too expensive to spend a hundred dollars for a Bible you go to the bookstore you have a Bible at pictures God said you're gonna get out of this what you're paying what you're putting into it you want more you will find me I am not hard to be found but I will only be found by the hungry you want to come in here and just have churches normal then welcome to churches normal but if you want to get to the point where you want a true divine encounter and you understand that you're just simply not here to have Church but you are the church I want to live with you I want to talk with you I want to move with you I must know you somebody lift your hands to him right now oh god help us we don't even know why we do what we do please don't misunderstand me I've not come by the spirit or to condemn you or to try to put you on some guilt trip God doesn't do that that's why you have to know him because you already know that's not what he's trying to do he said what is he doing he's challenging you he's saying I love you and I died to give you so much more but that more is going to come from investment it's not going to come from sitting in a comfort zone saying that you know me because you are third and fourth generation apostolic don't you understand that Jews had a longer heritage than that they could go back thousands of years into the ancestry you're bragging over fifth generation apostolic really and yet when Jesus showed up on the scene after thousands of years of heritage that they could literally trace back name by name by name they didn't know him I didn't recognize him you know who he was he was walking amongst them talking to them healing in front of them they didn't know it this is one of the greatest concerns of my life I've watched it too many times God steps up into service and his people don't recognize him you say what are you saying well let me show you what I'm saying let's go to Psalm 100 let's start at verse 3 I'll show you what I'm saying by the word of the Lord Psalm 100 verse 3 look at what he says some 100 verse 3 it's okay the baby's alright that's alright God lets that happen he lets opposition happen because you gotta learn to climb over some stuff to get to God you climb over anything else to get anything else you want but my god you not suppose to have any opposition in church and opposed to be any difficulty let me tell you why there's always difficult you ever noticed this n okay what church you go to you're going to find certain difficulties one is the temperature it's always too hot past you're too cold never seems to be just right it's never Goldilocks I ask God about that I said what's that what this he said I watch you get out in temp frigid temperatures to go to work I want you to get out and hot temperatures to go to work and I watch you do it because you learned from Disney aiyyo aiyyo so off to work I go get out of that or out of a aiyyo aiyyo and I watch you wishing you didn't have to get out of bed but push I watch you sit there and you want to get spiritual what st. mattress but I watch you make up in your mind you're getting up it's a case of mind over matter Asst you got to make up your mind you're getting off that mattress and I watch you push out of your comfort zone out of your warm house out of your nice environment to get what you need then I watch you come to church pastor is too hot I can't worship it's too cold do you get it right I'm not coming back sound systems too loud I gotta wear earplugs you want what you never seen that sign you know they're all on the ground laughing sing you want it win you want what see we want all this power we don't have any difficulty or it's the devil we're not supposed to have any kind of a fight when it comes to God he's just supposed to hand it to us and everything she's supposed to be peaches and cream we're supposed to lift our hands and say Jesus and my god the heavens roll back and God just descends because he heard you say his name you're not supposed to fight through tiredness my god we don't even try we just go to sleep we call it meditation we called laying before the Lord we called it joining cane in the Land of Nod no push no effort no fight we don't even fight to keep our minds here God can be speaking to us our minds are off somewhere what we ate last week whew that was good almost felt the spirit when I thought about that thing was good whoo God's going when are you going to fight to come after me know ye that the Lord he is God it is he that has made us and not we ourselves we are his people and the Sheep of his pasture now look at verse 4 look at verse 4 and turned to his gates with his courts with did you catch this oh you didn't catch this you're so used to quoting this until you don't stop take time to study it when you're shouting dancing running the aisles swinging your handkerchief how can in a buckin where are you you entered to his gates with courts with your chest in the outer court you act like this is the depth of the service when you're shouting and dancing and you got your hair speaking in tongues you act like that's the depth of the sir you're in the outer court you're nowhere near Holy of Holies and because you have not studied to know him you think you had such a high service when you had it's hot and you to Jane Fonda workout session and you lost five pounds while you worshipped and praised whoo that's the both worlds glory and the whole thing was transitional it was meant to transition you enter into his gates with courts with be thankful unto him and watch this watch this bless His name this is after the pattern of the tabernacle of Moses so being thankful unto Him is the holy place and been blessing his name is the Holy of Holies that's worship praise is always meant to transition you to worship praise is never meant to be the end-all to be all it is meant to transition you into worship where you start to express to him how much you love him and who he is to you and how much you need him it's when you express and you become emotionally naked with him it's when you let down all of your defenses and all of your barriers and all your guards and you just begin to open up yourself and say I can't go home the way I came I can't leave here the way I came here I don't care who came to play I don't care who thinks anything about me you can think I'm cuckoo for cocoa puffs but I have got to have him touch me and I need more than a shout and a dance that's out of court that's wonderful we're not knocking that you need that for some of you bless your hearts has been a long times that you have that in fact when some of you come into the presence of the Lord you look like somebody stepped on your toe my God if you'd smile you'd end up with a cerebral hemorrhage while you shout in his presence is fullness of joy you look like you've been baptized in lemon juice acting lower than a pregnant aunt but that's why we have to tell the people of God if you're happy notify your face because this joy that I have the world didn't give it and the world did not take it away you hear me now I have an apostolic legacy and I refuse I said I refuse not to be a partaker of what he died for somebody shout hallelujah I told you earlier put God first we ever seen those bumper stickers you ever heard that sign put God first find it Matthew 6:33 let me tell you what he says Matthew 6:33 see if you understand God you would understand God would never tell you to put him first this is what he tells you to put first but seek ye first the kingdom not the king the kingdom that's the ministry the kingdom of heaven seek first the kingdom and his righteousness right wait right power to act right power to do right power to think right and then all these things shall be added unto you that's what you seek first now when it comes to him Amos chapter 5 verse 4 and mister chapter 5 verse 4 he ain't gonna tell you to seek Him first and he'll explain that to you in just a moment but you got to start studying we're quoting a whole lot of stuff that's so unscriptural do you remember how devil got Eve he asked Eve a question what did God say when he noticed that Eve added to God's Word dead you're dead in the water sister you goose is cooked you don't know what you're talking about and that's what's happened to many of you you're quoting stuff and saying stuff and the devil goes Apostolic whatever that's why he doesn't care if you shout you sit there and your feet go ahead baby cuz I know how to take it all the way from you once you're gone I know how to break your heart I'll take this one phone call all it takes is for me to send a thought to your head because you don't have enough word you don't know how to fight it off you end up being depressed lonely fearful miserable look like your lips have been so together with needle and thread like a mule chewing on briars got a unibrow with all this power Oh God's gonna raise up a mighty army that's gonna get tired of living like this I know we don't believe in Halloween but we sure do practice it we live with a mask and a costume we come to church with masks on and we try to fake it til we make it shake hands with people look like we're smiling happy and inside we're dying and literally suicidal we don't have to give to the spirit operating in our church in fact we're afraid of the gifts we're afraid of them Apostolic and scared of the gifts people start speaking in tongues we move we move away from them they might have some as one person called the giffy they might have a disease or something I don't want to catch it how are you Apostolic and don't operate in the gifts that's how they lived they lived on the street operating him the gifts of the Spirit it's not just for the for the ministry it's for the laity shall yes it's for the laity to you the congregation did you see we said Amos 5 and 4 for thus saith the Lord into the house of Israel listen what he said seek ye me and what he didn't say seek me first you not going to tell you to tell me seek you first you want to know why because God doesn't take first place you know why God doesn't take first place because if God is first that means there can be second third and four sit behind him God doesn't play that God is all he's your everything so he just says seek me period and live don't put me first make me everything study study no your word understand the things he's saying the problem we're having is that people want to preach is to excite you he's a good preacher if he can make you dance and shout some of you gotten so you've gotten to be such fat babies in the spirit and you just sit back and wait to see what the preacher can do if he can move me he's good cuz you're sitting there going I shall not be I shall not be moved so he's got to be anointed to move me but God is looking for somebody that'll become so hungry so desperate I don't care who's up here I don't care what they're doing I don't care if you start singing in Chinese music Yong Yong Yong Yong if he's there I'll find him you must be able to recognize him no matter how he comes come on somebody lift your hands again to him in this house in worship somebody's got to have a hunger somebody's got to have a thirst Nehemiah chapter 9 verse 5 Nehemiah chapter 9 verse 5 how many ever heard hallelujah is the highest praise huh come on let me see your hands come on isn't that right hallelujah is the highest praise okay you only caught on yet okay all right Nehemiah 95 let's see if that's true do you keep quoting stuff you're not studying that's why we're getting destroyed we can work like Raggedy Ann dolls Holy Ghost and all because we lack knowledge we lack understanding of God's Word while we know so much about everything else but God you know more about sports figures God does everything against sports what God has against it you get more excited over the creation than you do the creator and if it comes a choice between watching that game and coming this church oh my god you got a tug thank God for a technology that lets you record it while you go oh my goodness there's a who's there game where there's Oh Lord Jesus Oh Mike you know you know more facts and figures about these players and you know about the creator that made them you get more excited about a slam dunk then you get excited about a God who slam dunk the Sun right in the middle of heaven and upholds it by the word of his own power no God is never found with you liking sports who got his problem with is that much of as equal to him or even greater I'll always have a problem with that doesn't matter what it is say man alright let's look at this would you read that we'll look at the names like the Levites Joshua you know just speak in tongues hear through the names okay and and let's start with says stand up okay let's read out loud together stand up bless the Lord your God forever and ever blessed be thy glorious thing which is exalted above all oh wait a minute I thought Halloween was I praise it just says his name is exalted above all blessings and above all praise its exalted above all his name is the highest praise we don't study we just thought we heard did someone say that and we just like little Sheikh just follow right behind it's the highest praise it's the highest praise it's the highest praise you want to know why the devil's whooping you on your job and we'll put you in school and whooping you with your children and whooping you with your mind with worries and fears my god the Lord gave you a book it's an open book test you know what the other amazing things we don't know what hallelujah means most of us we just say it all the time you know question we feel in the Spirit of God you know how do you shake a little bit don't you know what it means let's say twenty thirty years and don't know a simple word like hallelujah and what all this power and authority with God won't invest but want so much all right well let's break it down the Hebrew word is whole all it comes from halal means to our clamorously foolish to boast to shine to rave lale or lay particularly is the and then yah did you ever notice it's spelt J a H is because there's no J in the Hebrew alphabet and that's why it's pounce with a wise halle-loo yah okay so when you say hallelujah you're saying praise the Lord yeah you're right because you know what you're saying right because your spirit agrees with truth although your head didn't know that before hmm all right see a lot of you don't even know why we do what we do is just ritual it's what we do it's church so what we do in church look at Isaiah 12 and 3 that's what we do how many sometimes when you greet someone in church you ever shake their hand say praise the Lord right that's what we do right we don't know why we do it is what we do does anybody want to get deeper into the things of God I want to know him I want to understand these things how can I be powerful and God not know these things I'm destroyed for the lack of knowledge look what he said Isaiah therefore with joy shall we draw waters out of the wet wells of salvation no matter what Jesus said jesus said out of your belly shall flow so he's talking about the infilling of the Holy Ghost all right verse 4 verse 4 in that day what day in the day let you draw waters out of the wells of salvation you shall say what oh that's why we shake hands and greet each other by saying praise the Lord because this is the day in which water flows out of the wells of salvation this isn't just a ritual this is just something we do in charge this has power that's why for while some you don't say praise the Lord anymore PTL for you to say good morning because you don't understand it's a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy and you don't understand that it has a place in the plan of God see what happens is when you shake someone's hand and say praise the Lord you just told them jack clamorously foolish to post to shine to rave to praise God with ones and tires being then now when it comes time for you to do it you begin to lift your hands and begin to declare hallelujah shake somebody's hand and say praise the Lord now come on do what he said do what that person just told you to do come on lift your hands open up your mouth praise come on this ain't just a slogan baby this purpose and what God does whoo my god teach me give me understanding no one today reset those you taking notes write it down we're not turning there but for those you're taking notes Psalms 119 144 give me understanding and I shall live see that's the only thing I'm talking about we don't take notes in the house of God we go to school we take notes we got a job to take notes that's good mother that's right for some reason of the things of God we don't take notes nor do we can get the CDs we don't bother we don't go bother to listen to these things go over these things learn these things get these things into our spirit and all we're excited about is new material I've heard that before he was all right he just said a lot of stuff I already knew the problem is not you knowing the problem is you doing is it in you do you know it Trump there's two part two areas of knowing there's knowing in your head and there's knowing in your spirit where do you know it you might know it intellectually to where you can talk it even teach it but do you know what in your spirit to where you can live it sometimes why you keep hearing God repeating the same things because your note here you have yet to know it here washis so god's going to train us God's going to God is raising up an army of people that have authority and power because they have understanding someone say thank you Jesus for understanding now how many have ever heard it's like a fire shut up in my bones whew that powerful okay would you like to find out what it really means because what we've been saying it means no we don't study we'll go and study on our job they switch over computer programs we'll go learn all these programs we'll go learn all this material for a secular job that's not eternal but something that's eternal you know what we do someone asked did you read a chapter let me show you what we do go to Psalms 117 if you would please you read a chapter in your Bible today yes I did Psalms 117 let me show you what we do I did oh praise the Lord all yeast nations praise them all you people verse 2 for his merciful kindness is great towards us and the truth O Lord endureth forever praise you the Lord verse 3 o give thanks unto the Lord for he is good because it's mercy endureth forever oh you went to psalms 118 you know why because there's only two verses in psalms 117 so we find we make sure we find the shortest chapter two verses did you read a chapter oh yeah we want do you know that they have done a survey amongst Pentecostals which included us and they have found out the average preacher we're not talking the same the average preacher when the Pentecostal movement in which includes our movement only reads their Bible five minutes a day and only prays five minutes a day that's it that's it five minutes a day even your piano teacher tells you to practice longer than that if you're going to be good if you want to get past twinkle twinkle little star like your hand pecking it you can have to put in more time than five minutes a day I'm telling you this is why the doubles not having much problems with us it's not because we don't have power it's because we haven't read the manual on how to use the power if you want to find Emmanuel you've got to get into the menu all which is the word of the Lord all right let's go to Jeremiah chapter 20 let's see how we look let's start verse 7 Jeremiah chapter 20 verse 7 let's see how the Scriptures use you know how we use it it's Acts I shut my bones we we start dancing and shouting and running and you know it's so amazing we don't you know what's that well we know Jeremiah said it in case you know Jeremiah is quite a long book not to mention he also wrote the book of lamentations we don't know what's that all right chapter 20 let's start at verse 7 can we read this out loud let's read this together Oh Lord I was deceived me I was deceived our stronger than AI has revealed I'm in derision daily everyone are you catching the spirit of this he is upset he is hurt he is disappointed he's saying that God's people are mocking him daily for preaching the word of the Lord here any joy yet you any shouting yet you here any dancing yet because that was never what he was talking about they move it to God don't need no matches he fire all by himself fire fire aah fire aah fire aah all right verse 8 let's read for since I speak I cried out I cried violence spoil because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me and a division the more I preach God's Word the more I said what God wanted me to say is the more people of the house of God mocked me made fun of me that's what he's saying now listen to verse 9 that is what we quote let's read it together then said I I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name but his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones I was weary with four baying I could not stay do you understand what he's saying now he's saying I was so tired of preaching and telling folk what to do because all they did was mock me and make fun of me and not want to hear but and I made up my mind I am NOT speaking this word anymore I am God you're stronger than me I feel like you deceived me but I'm not going to speak this word any more but the Word was so deep inside of me this is not the joy this is the word the word was a fire I want to know is the word so deep inside your bones that when you don't want to praise them the word causes you to praise them I want to know the word so deep inside of your DNA until you don't even know what to do but you do know what to do because you know to glorify Him you know to speak that word you know to edify him and you do what the word tells you to do even while the devil is mocking you even while others are saying to you you're crying to God and where is he but that word was a fire do you see the difference of what we've been saying do you see why the devil's whooping us without a problem that's why God's telling you children of God study stop studying your eyelids and start studying my word why do you have strength to cook why do you have strength to clean up your house why do you have strength for everything else but you don't have strength to listen to my word and you don't seem to have strenght to study or spend time in my word come on there Jones again to him and glorify you would you love on him a moment Lord increase my hunger Lord increase my thirst for your word Lord which you increased my hunger which you increase my thirst I need to understand so much more I need to know so much more he animal today under available core Oh Baba I want to know so much more I want to know so much more teach me more come on while we worshiping a little bit longer sound people if you'd help me and go to Hebrews chapter 5 starting at verse 11 hebrews chapter five verse 11 come on let's worship him a little bit more we don't even know we don't even know why we lift our hands one we don't even understand why we lift our hands that's why many of us even struggle to lift our hands if you understood why you lifted your hands you wouldn't have your hands down you would understand what it means to lift your hands come on God doesn't just tell you to lift your hands just to lift your hands come on some of you you might as well just be checking your deodorant you don't even know why you're lifting your hands Oh God trainer so God teach us Oh God give us understanding I want to stretch this I want to stress this again God's not trying to condemn you he's not trying to beat you up he's not trying to put you on some guilt trip he died to take guilt off of you he's not trying to put that on you what he's trying to do is talk to you as a lover saying how do you say you love me and don't know hardly anything about me love is based on knowledge I know you and over hair on your head I marvel at God you know cuz I've got that wavy hair it keeps waving goodbye so God keeps he knows how much when I comb how much is left behind he knows how much is in the comb but yet you don't know things about the 23rd Psalms you think you do but did you know there's eight names of God in the 23rd Psalms did you know the 23rd Psalms is a part of a trilogy of the Sheppard we just once we hear something we get used to it well I already know that so I don't need to look into any more as the unsearchable riches of God there's all ways more touch your neighbor say there's always more always more look what he said and unfortunately this is where any times where we're finding the Apostolic Church of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered sing you're dull of hearing don't have much focus attention capacity to listen after 20 minutes or so the average span of the adult is gone now we'll play video games for hours that which is not eternal that which entertains our flesh but does not set up our eternity we even know the cheats you know the maneuvers on the games don't ask us about spiritual weapons though don't ask us about spiritual warfare now we'll pray through over the video game if it starts acting up in the name of Jesus Lord fix this game I guess God got to get it any way you can but you know verse 12 verse 12 listen to this for when for the time ye ought to be teachers do you hear this you should be teachers you've been in church many many years but you still have need to be taught the first principles of the Oracles of God and you're someone who has need of milk and not of meat we can't talk about certain depths I don't know about you but when I read this scripture it upsets me I wish I could go back in time and smack these folk because if you just could have heard more we could have got more so you don't get it when you can't hear more others don't end up getting more it's not just affecting you I'm like Lord give me a time machine so I can go back and smack the taste out their buds listen this go to verse 13 for every one that uses milk is what I don't care how long you've been saved my friend if you are unskillful in the use of the word of the Lord I didn't say this don't get mad at me I didn't write this I'm not I'm just the mailman don't get all posts on me and want to stamp on me I didn't write this he said if you don't know how to handle your word if you're not skillful in the use of the word no no acts 2:38 is not the truth it's a truth the entire Word of God is the truth he said if you don't know how to use your word you are babe I don't even say 30 years 40 years 50 years you're a baby that's what he said you read what I read for everyone that is is that useless milk is unskillful in the word of righteous for he is 14 but strong meat belongeth to them that are what those belong to those that are mature who have their senses exercised to discern I know is they're not just mature in the Word of God they're mature in the operation of the Spirit of God they know how to walk in the spirit they know how to be used by God through the spirit let me close with this chapter 6 verse 1 listen to what he says therefore leaving behind the principle other dime said leave it behind yeah see acts 2:38 you got to start leaving that behind oh my god that's blasphemy no it's written we've got to stop playing ring-around-the-rosie around acts 2:38 acting like this is the end-all and the be-all and this is the truth of the word of the Lord it is a truth therefore leaving behind the principles of the doctrine let's move on to perfection perfection means maturity the doctrine was never meant to mature you the doctrine is a birth move on past the doctrine and he lists the doctrines he says of the laying on a handling again the foundation of repentance from dead works of faith towards God of the doctrines of baptisms notice the plural because you're doing what baptism water baptism of spirit he lists six major doctrines that you're supposed to know have grounded into your spirit and then move past into the depths of God's Word would you stand on your feet right now the Lord's calling for the hungry he's calling for those of you that want more you're not satisfied with the relationship you have and can I be honest with you sometimes intellectually we understand we shouldn't be satisfied but to be honest - which is the heart that's just where we are as sometimes we have to just go to God and say hey look I know I'm not supposed to be here but I'm here so I'm asking you to increase my hunger increase my thirst crease my desire for more of you I've got to have more of you I don't want to stay here where I am I want to know you someone say I want to know you would you lift your hands to him right now and give him glory give him honor come on I want to know you I want more of an experience I want to know you any hunger anybody hungry in this house don't you walk away and let the devil condemn you don't you walk away let the devil beat you up come on that's not what God's doing come on God is telling you more come on daughter come on son I have so much more for you if your just invest time I've got so much more got so much more Griese my hunger grace my thirst increase my drive I've got to have more Oh God make me actor to apostolic in lifestyle not simply in doctrine take me on just living the rules of the Church of outward standards take me past these things take me into greater depth teach me the depth of who you are from your word under that's right that's right come on blessed are they who hunger and thirst you shall be filled come on he's a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him that's right lift your voices you should be sounding like howling dogs in this place crying out after God hondana ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Honda asoto don't let me be more excited about my children or my grandchildren than I am about you don't let me be more excited about my friends or some sports team or figure than I am about you don't let me be more excited about a car or some tools or whatever it is that I am about you you are my greatest joy come on you're my greatest pleasure come on mama ray Carter ah ba ba ba Sheikh Imam Ahmad rava baba Kshatriya secured to the ba ba ba ba ba Satya is there anybody else that wants to make their way up here and tell God I want some more thank God for those you that made your way up here that are hungry God's going to honor you because you came when you're seeking God's going to honor you but I want to know is there anybody else in this house the spirit little ones Lord wants to know is there anybody else that once more anybody else not satisfied where you are anybody else recognize there's a whole lot more I'm scratching surfaces come on I want to get rid of my scuba gear it's time to get into my spiritual I need more hiya tell Imam and Rahma Baba ah one more one more one more one strengthen your people talk to your people draw these your children a young lady Baba Baba Baba Baba yeah Baba Batra I want more of your presence

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Published: Sat Jan 07 2017