Harold Hoffman - Put Your Shoes On

[Music] [Music] [Music] good morning First Church why don't we stand the closest building this morning and give God some hot break come on can we give them some high praise in the house this morning come on how many people are excited to be in the house of the Lord this morning look at your neighbors say I've come to bless the name of Jesus I've come to lift up the name of Jesus [Music] put your hands together [Music] check out what a change [Music] [Music] you are good because you are good you are good to me because you are [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] because [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] to be good [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] you are good because you are [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] but your hands [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'll say because you I got a because you are going Mouse out because you either [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] can we clap our hands one more time and give glory to the god that's always good somebody said that God is good all the time and all the time God is good hallelujah we're so thankful that our guests are here today we're so grateful for if this is your first time here and we're so grateful if this is your second time here this is your 200th time here or whatever we're just glad to be in the house of the Lord I want to explain something really quickly before we continue in worship if this is your first time or a better way to say it like this is if it's been a long time if it's been a long time since you've experienced something really close with God you're in the right place I said you're in the right place this is not a place where we come in and people get judged because they haven't been here in a while this is also not a place where we judge another person based on their prayer life or based on what they can do or the things that they've done or the things that you have done this is God's house and in my father's house there are many dwelling places there are many mansions and so right now we're gonna continue in worship well before we do I just want to give you a couple of steps during this portion of our worship service this is the portion that we turn to our God and we say Oh Lord you've been mighty in my life you've been great and you are greatly to be praised and lord I just want to take a moment God it may not be that long but I just want to take a second oh God and to lift my hands lift my heart lift my voice to you God because you are good that last song we sang we sing because he's good we dance because he's good and we have freedom to Dan Smith freedom to live a life that we should live because he is good now I believe that God wants to do something supernatural in this place and as a sign of surrender to Him we lift our hands just like this we close our eyes and we just forget about everything that's going on and we just say Oh Lord come have your way come and move the way that you want to move Oh God Lord I believe you want to feel somebody with your spirit today I believe that you want to feel somebody with the Holy Ghost God I want I think you're gonna baptize somebody with the with the baptism of fire and the Holy Spirit Oh God so we yield ourselves to you today we give you our minds our hearts that are spirits Oh God for you to move hallelujah hallelujah you're worthy Jesus mountains are still being moved and strong I'll just feel being loose Oh God we believe and yes we can see that wonders are still what you do and bodies are still being raised Giants are still being silly as God we believe and yes we can see that wonders are still but you come and do what if we need a movie does anybody need a move in this house we need I'm not ashamed to say that we need [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we [Music] God was standing here okay [Music] [Music] can you go ahead and offer a sacrifice appraised oh Jesus there is no replacement to when you move let me teach you something very quick I'm not gonna sneak a preach I promise but we sing that we need a move of God there's nothing more powerful than when God moves I want you to think about something if he has filled you with his spirit when you say we need a move of God you need to move you need to go to your friend and pray for cancer to be healed you need to be the one teaching the Bible study so God can flow through you to them it's that rivers of living water stop it's what Peter said he said silver and gold have I none but such as I have I say unto thee rise take up your bed and walk we need a move of God but God designed it to be a move of God in the church for the world so they're gonna go ahead they're gonna sing that song again are we ready it's going to be we need a move change it - we are a mood and as we sing this I want you to find somebody to pray with they're gonna be a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] opportunities under screen behind me listen the Word of God says that this world is waiting on the manifestation of the sons of God it's waiting for you this world is waiting for the church to reveal herself as a place of restoration as a place of healing and repair God can do anything and he wants to do anything through you through you God we're so grateful Lord to be in this place today to feel your mighty presence and your power God your authority on your people on your children it's with great honor that we lift our voice to you now we feel we sense something right now something from another world that is showed up or don't we know it's you your word says where two or three are gathered you're gonna you want to be right in the middle one be in our midst today you're excited to be in church today can we give God handclaps where are you gonna go that you can feel this there's nothing that can replace [Music] thank you so much everyone for being here this morning the first church as pastor drill and said we want to go ahead and say thank you to all of our all of our guests here with us today we'll put our hands together for you thank you so much for coming and may I just say on behalf of everyone here welcome home it's good to have you and we pray that you would you would find comfort in this join our family in Jesus name we have five minutes here we like to do a first church we like to get out of our comfort zone out of our pews we're just going to go ahead and take five minutes out of the service today we're going to come greet you and come exchanged names where they tell you we're grateful that you're here so we'll do five minutes we'll come back here and Jesus name [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] if you enjoyed search so far and have been incredible very very good to be here thank you so much to all of our guests again just so you know we just gotta get through a couple of announcements here today we want to let everybody know here that First Church believes in serving and our king came in the form of a servant and so there's no way we could ever get out of it if he was humbled enough to serve and so we believe in serving and so how do we serve around here First Church if you're interested in joining up on one of our team's growth track is the vehicle that gets you plugged in growth track happens on the first and second Sunday of every month just a two-part class happens over here in room eight during service or into preaching so we're not asking you to stay after or come super early but after you complete growth track you can join a serve team and I'm baba says it's better to give than to receive there's nothing I can come up with in the Word of God where Jesus did anything that was for himself everything was for somebody else and so we want to be just like Christ and serve others and as we serve him so growth track is the vehicle that gets you plugged in around here we're also a church of life groups everybody say life groups they've been incredible absolutely incredible and so life groups let me just explain what that is it's just a small group ministry where we we get together in different homes all over this city and other cities around us and we connect with each other we're there for each other we encourage each other there's there's always something spiritual time of Prayer we just grow together and it's incredible anything that's healthy is going to grow and so life groups helps facilitate growth among the body of Christ and so if you're not and plugged into a life group yet you're missing out at number one but go ahead it's not too late to join up for a life group you can go on the website you can go on our app and you can see Pastor Mike just make sure that you get connected with other people because it's not enough just to be connected with Christ and that might be a little controversial but God said in the beginning he said it's not good that man would dwell alone man wasn't alone got man had God but it wasn't enough just to be connected with God you have to be connected with others and life groups is what that is all about so we're grateful for that we're also grateful that we are a giving Church I know we'd be better than that I'm gonna preach it I was gonna preach over there for a minute boss I can't do that we're a giving Church I promise you this the tithing and the offering that gets returned under the Lord here in this church it goes everywhere it goes locally it goes to our national you know people that we partnered with and it goes global with missionaries Bible schools it goes everywhere so I just want you to know that as you return what's what's the Lord's today it's not squandered you can give with confidence that it's going to go to the furthering of the gospel of Jesus Christ Lord we're thankful for that we're thankful for our leadership mighty God so grateful for our pastor God with his vision and his his passion for missions and others Lord God we we returned to you now or what you said belong to you you said it was yours God today we do it with a grateful heart with understanding Lord that you're gonna take it you're gonna bless it you gonna put your favor on it know our God and we're gonna reach a whole pile of people for the kingdom of Jesus in your name amen [Music] you were [Music] [Music] [Music] beautiful [Music] Oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you're [Music] the very top [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] what a powerful Amy come on say [Music] what a powerful [Music] [Music] [Music] when they saw the boldness of Peter and John yes perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they took knowledge of them they'd been with Jesus makes a difference thank you for being here today it is an honor to be with you in this house exalting him Bible says his name is above every name but Isaiah said he was high and lifted that's why they are praises and then it says there are high praises there are symbols and then there's high sounding symbols just we have the ability to literally put him on a plane we're nothing Peter said you know let's build three temples Moses is here Lodge is here then something powerful happened and it said when they lifted up their eyes all they saw was Jesus there is a place where nobody is on that level he is above I'm reading to you from the book of sec first samuel chapter 20 and verse 35 it came to pass in the morning that jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with david and a little lad with him and he said unto his lad run find out now the arrows which I shoot and as the lad ran he shot an arrow beyond him and when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot Jonathan cried after the lad and said is not the arrow beyond II and Jonathan cried after the lab makes Spade haste stay not Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows and came to his master but the lad knew not anything only Jonathan and David knew the matter a sub DQ today was simply going to be entitled put your shoes on put your shoes on shake hands with someone by you say something very good to them very uplifting say something encouraging to them amen I want to thank thank you for praying for my mother mother is home and she's resting comfortably and so the procedure was a little bit more involved than they anticipated but as someone said here today yeah David I can I love you David David's always loved my mom and she's always loved him back but someone told me today your mom's a tough old bird and and she is so we're grateful grateful so thank you thank you for that we had calls and texts from all over the world praying for your mom that's the advantage of being a part of the Kingdom grateful for the church this is an arrangement between David and Jonathan they're trying to figure out something about Jonathan's dead they're trying to figure out is he furious with David or is he willing to allow him into his life again so in type you have a couple people who are wondering what is the will of the father and they make this agreement between each other Jonathan said I'm gonna take this boy and I'm gonna have him go out in the field and then I'm gonna shoot an arrow and I'm going to make sure that I shoot that thing over his head and I'm gonna ask that young fella very specifically is it beyond you is it beyond it's very clear that the only people that knew what were going on was Jonathan and David the young boy he that was there didn't have a clue totally clueless I want to say at the outset of this message today that not everyone is going to know what's going on in the spirit right now the word says in Corinthians 4 and 18 we look not at things which are seen but at things which are not seen that we actually look at things which are not seeing so there is a place in him where you hear what is not going to be broadcast to the masses you're going to see something that is not seen by everybody it's an election year and like so many others I I'm curious and I listen to the arguments of the various candidates I saw something that made me laugh on on YouTube recently I guess YouTube has become my Encyclopedia Brittanica whenever I want to learn how to do something I I go to youtube I my refrigerator didn't work and I called the refrigerator people and they said we will fix it for $1,400 and so I went to YouTube and I found a guy that had the exact problem that I had he gave me the address I ordered the thing it cost me seven dollars and 40 cents I fixed it in ten minutes for seven dollars and 40 cents for what some other bum was gonna charge me $1,400 for so I'm a great believer in YouTube and I saw something this week that made me laugh it was it was a long list of what I guess you would call luminaries who just flat out said four years ago Donald Trump will never be the nominee of the Republican Party and then after he was nominated the officials went so far as to include the sitting president who said Donald Trump will never be the next president of the United States senators said it Hollywood stars and starlets said it broadcast journalists all said the same thing Donald Trump will never be President I am NOT here touting one political party above the other I'm just a casual observer and an interested bystander who asked a question that a lot of people asked three years ago how in the world did this guy get elected how in the world did this happen I've heard the opinions of so many people but recently an obscure newspaper man gave a little speech little talk and this is what he said Donald Trump heard a voice that nobody else heard and that's why he's president today and he went into great detail about a group of Americans that felt neglected he said many of them do not have degrees they are scorned by the educated elite but they felt that they've been overlooked for a long time and they decided to let their voice be known if that will work for a sitting president it will work for the church you're gonna have to hear something that's not so obvious you're gonna have to see something that's clandestine and muted to so many if you can tap into this things change the message the arrow was beyond the young man and that's my message to you today with this church as it always has been and remains the focus of my life I reach out to you once again to encourage you to stretch because has there ever ever been a time when direction is needed more than right now the secret the so many was a perfect understanding between David and Jonathan do we have the favor or we do we have the fury of the father is the arrow past you or not to the young lives in this church I've said this and I'll stand by it forever you get strength in a church from your elders but the life of a church comes from its youth and to you young men and young ladies that are here it's a simple question but to the anointed shepherd boy that was listening intently nearby listening for that voice to say is it beyond you or not a lot of others will not hear it but to those of you who are listening today you will get an answer to go back to the way it's always been or do we head out towards the unknown our answer ladies and gentlemen is ahead of us it's not in our wake it's not in our past it's you're not at our side it's ahead of us because I'm convinced that perception is more important than power I'm gonna say it to you again perception is more important than power what is it that separates one ministry from another what is that magic elixir and that lotion that separates one church from another this is what it says in Matthew chapter 13 and verse 12 for whosoever hath to him shall be given and he shall have more abundance but whosoever hath not from him shall be taken away even that he hath there is something in the scripture known as the parable of the talents to where the Lord gave one man one talent and he gave another to two talents and he gave another one five talents and he basically said occupy till I come translation says do business until I come back when the Lord came back the man with two had doubled in two for the man with five now had Ken you cannot say that the man were - did any less than the man with five they both doubled what they possessed but - that person that was given a solitary talent he blew off the dust and he returned it intact and scratch-free to the Lord and he said I knew that you were a terrible difficult man that you always reaped where you didn't so and so I hid my talent in the ground and I have brought it back to you the Lord said you wicked servant be cast into outer darkness and then it said he took that talent and gave it to the man who had more than anybody else he did not give that one talent to the man who had four he gave that talent to the man that had turned his 5 into 10 listen again for whosoever has to him shall be given and he shall have more abundance but whosoever hath not from him shall be taken away even that he has there is something in God that you can have and if you have it it guarantees that more will be given to you because contrary to this confused electorate that has somehow been convinced that Bernie Sanders is going to pay off all their student loans I asked someone in our church last time if you could vote they weren't old enough to vote but I said if you could vote who would you vote for and they said we would vote for Bernie Sanders and I said why and he said because when I go to college Bernie's going to pay off all of my student loan and I said no he isn't stupid I'm gonna pay off all your student I saw a man confront Elizabeth Warren in Iowa this past week she wants to forgive 400 plus billion billion with a B of student loans and the man said my friends had new cars while I drove an old 10 year old vehicle my friends took elaborate vacations while I worked overtime I paid for my daughter's education and when she graduated she had no student debt do you intend to reimburse me my money and she said absolutely not another man said I'm a long-haul trucker I've got a hundred and forty thousand dollar loan on my truck will you forgive that as well there's a cost for money ladies and gentlemen money's not free there's a cost involved it and there is something obvious that Jesus said whoever has it more is going to be given to you in abundance and whoever doesn't have it what they do have is going to be taken away and given to the one that has listened to me very carefully God is not a socialist God is not some righteous Robin Hood who takes from the rich and gives to the poor I am 62 years old I've been involved in some form of full-time ministry since I was 19 for the last 43 years now it is obvious that churches that are blessed keep getting blessed and churches that are not blessed are stuck in yesterday what is it then that we can get ahold of that if we've got it I can have more because whatever that is I want it so I'm not here to preach voodoo and some mysterious myth and mystery to you this is what it says later on in that chapter when any one heareth the word of the kingdom and understandeth it not then cometh the wicked one and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart this is he which received seed by the way side you are familiar with the parable of the sower that he sowed ground and some of it was just hard it was the path that had been pounded down by feet there was other ground that had stones in it there were other ground that had weeds in it but there was a fourth kind of soil that produced a great harvest Jesus is at the beginning of his ministry so he is trying to not be so blatantly obvious about his plans and he's doing this in order that the Pharisees will not take up arms against him too quickly when he was done teaching this parable and all the religious people were gone his disciples said what in the world were you talking about and he said the seed is the word of God and the field is the world and he said there are people he said that are like the path and he said you put seed on that path and the birds come and pick it up and take it away that's what he said when he taught the lesson but when he taught the revelation of the lesson he said if you're that kind of person you don't have any understanding and the enemy he said can come and snatch that seed of the word which was supposed to get down in the crevice of your spirit but because you didn't have any understanding it was stolen by the enemy the testimony of the Apostle Paul confused me for some time because as you're probably aware Saul of Tarsus was converted in Acts chapter 9 on his way to Damascus in Syria a light knocked him off of his horse and he said who art thou Lord and he said I'm Jesus whom thou persecutest but in verse number seven watch what it says and the men which journeyed with him stood speechless hearing a voice but seeing no man years later Paul would give his testimony in front of Agrippa and in the 22nd chapter of Acts verse 9 when Paul was recounting his conversion he said and they that were with me so indeed the light and were afraid but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me in acts 9 it said they heard a voice but they didn't see a man when Paul was telling it he said they didn't hear a voice but they did see the light and I always wondered why does it in one verse say they did be a voice and the other one said they did hear a voice it doesn't make any sense in English but when you go back to the original language it makes perfect sense because the original language puts great emphasis on understanding what they heard they heard something in Chapter nine but it was like they were on the edge of a conversation they could hear the muted muffle of something going on between Saul and his Savior but they did not understand a word that was going on between the two and that's how you reconcile these two verses they heard something but they couldn't make out they didn't understand what was being sent and that's why in Matthew 13 and verse 19 it's so important because it is the parable of the sower and what Jesus is teaching is that if you do not understand the times if you do not understand what's being preached to you today then the enemy could just gobble up that word like a bird gathering up seed on a sidewalk what you have is important because if you don't understand the value of what you have the wicked one can take it at his leisure so the thing that is so important right now god help us to understand what's going on what's going on I have preached and I have heard it preached all of my life that when Solomon assumed the throne after David he prayed for wisdom and God gave it to him but in study this week I found out that I was wrong and so was every other preacher I've ever heard because in first Kings chapter 3 and verse 9 I found out that Solomon did not pray for wisdom he said God give me an understanding heart in verse 10 it said the speech pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked for this and if you know verse 11 he said because you didn't ask for riches and long life and popularity I'm going to give you all of that as well and it fulfills the teaching that Jesus gave us in the book of Matthew if you've got it then you're going to be given even more and you're gonna have abundance and if you don't have it what you have is going to be taken away what is the it factor what is the thing that we have to have in order to guarantee the continued favor of God on our life and even more a blessed future and that answer is simple understanding if you read the Book of Luke at the beginning of the book of Luke talking about himself he said I had perfect understanding from the first day what a joy that had to have been to have a guy like that in the church I spend much of my time trying to explain to people why are we doing this and why are we doing that I can't tell you what a delight it is to be the pastor so many of you that just get it early this morning I got a text from someone in this church it was very precious that said pastor we're with you we see what you want to do and where you want to go just lead us and we'll follow for people to have understanding and perception in other words because you have asked for understanding I'm going to give you more than you asked for because in every incident ladies and gentlemen in our lives the arrow is always going to be beyond you everything I have ever wanted in my life was beyond me the college that everybody told me I would never be able to attend but before I opted to go to school in Houston I got a letter in a mail and said we've accepted and we'll be happy to welcome you in our student body they told me I couldn't go to that school but they were wrong the girl that I wanted to marry so many people told me I didn't have a snowball's chance in you know where but she's my wife today the places I wanted to preach and the men I wanted to meet and the level of anointing that I wanted to experience was and the kind of church that I wanted to pass her it was always beyond me iiiiii I had never seen it that sure wasn't something I experienced it was beyond me now we've got a vision of two services on Easter another building and that empty piece of grass over there before in projects that we want to see become a reality all of them are beyond us you got to understand that's the understanding that you gotta get you're never gonna have it you're never going to have it I got a text and then a phone call from brother Robinette just been in Bangladesh with brother Corbin we've got almost $100,000 invested in that work in Bangladesh I won't kid you there have been people and preachers that said what in the name of God are you putting your money for there to that third-world country but two weeks ago they had a crusade an 8,000 people receive the baptism of the holy ghost [Applause] and brother Robinette said I want you to see this and there was a young preacher and his wife that were a part of the team that he took to Bangladesh and that precious Pentecostal girl from probably some small little place in the South in that beautiful southern drawl she said I was praying for this woman and she was born without an ear and we just kept praying into power God moved and she said all of a sudden a woman just started screaming and she just pulled her hair back and she said she had a brand-new ear she said I've just been praying with her ten minutes before she just had a hole on the side of her head but she said when the power of God was manifested I literally saw God grow a brand-new year I saw that explain that I can't I can't that kind of stuff is beyond us don't you get it we're never gonna have enough never I remember standing back in the mud about four six inches deep back there where the sound booth is now there was six columns and just the roof was on there was no slab toward there were no sides there was nothing the wind was blowing through here we had stuck straw in the mud so that wouldn't go all the way up to our knees I remember coming back in here and a day all alone and hearing a voice that mocked me what in the name of God is wrong with you you are never going to fill this thing up where in the world are you ever going to get two million dollars but look around you today it's full its paid off the voices that talked to me were lies they were lies I wish I wish that I would have built a building to see the thousand but we only had about 80 back then so having a building that seat 350 they said you build for twice what you have built for four times what we had thinking that was so far beyond anything that could ever happen but look what God's done because back then this was beyond what I could possibly imagine but we stepped out in faith now we're going to go further it's beyond what we have that's the understanding that you have to get that if you have that understanding that there's never going to be enough then you won't be intimidated by the facts and you won't be intimidated by the prophets of doom and gloom and you won't be disconnected from the Holy Ghost and you won't live in despair it's always beyond me you want to misfit there are people in this room right now you've got vision you know God's called you to do stuff you can't figure it out you can't flesh it out right now but I'm here to encourage you do not give up on your vision because I'm not going to give up on my dream because the Bible said I have planted Apollo's watered but God gave the increase so then neither is he that planteth anything neither he that watereth but god that giveth the increase ladies and gentlemen if it grows God didn't if it grows God did it not by my might not by my power but by my spirit saith the Lord of Hosts read all the books you want to go to all the seminars you want to learn all the principles of growth you want to but jesus said upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it I'll tell you what we have on our hands we have a jealous Jesus on our hands I would like to see Jesus come back right now and confront these these false prophets I would like to see Jesus come back and confront all these people who have said that people God told me this and God told me that and he didn't say anything even close to that we've got people saying this submit no no I'm telling you what we've got a jealous Jesus on our hands because he wants to understand you water you so I'm the one that's going to make it grow don't you dare take don't you dare take credit for that I build the church I heard John mucks will say give me six months if I can build a church anywhere not a real Church not Annapolis you can get a crowd together but to build an apostolic church is a difficult thing because we're talking about rare commitment here we're talking about rare commitment and the difference between the true and the false is sometimes difficult to know because if you go back into Kings there's a prophet there and the prophets of Bale have got the same sacrifice that he has and they got the same wood that he has and they got the same rocks that he has but then he throws him a ringer and he said the God that answers by fire let him be God because he knew something the others didn't know our God is a consuming fire and so in the middle I was going to preach this to you in our mission service but I'll God will give me something else in the middle of a drought this prophet made them pour barrels barrels of water what a waste that seemed to be in the time of drought to be able to pour out all of this water when you needed that 20 bucks but you still gave it away when you're worn out from working all week but you still lift your hands that's why the fire falls in this church because we've got a commitment because where there is no sacrifice there will never be any fire and the second reason this is so powerful is because of the water the others didn't have water we handle water differently than every other Church on the planet we are people that join water with the name of Jesus Christ we handle water differently nothing nothing frustrates me more than a pastor who is convinced I need to quench the moving of the Spirit in order to get a crowd because intelligent people won't come to a worshiping Church and wealthy people won't come to a worshiping Church I was in Lapeer ten days ago Debbie told me about three young men that were there i sat down with these three young men 18 years old from place called Decker Ville I said have you ever been in an apostolic service ever and they said no this is our very first time so I just sat down started talking to him I knew they would take care they were they were farm boys so I said did anybody get a deer this year and one looked at me said I broke my back I said well you mean you broke her back he said I was playing football right before deer season and I got hit by a big linebacker and he broke my back and I was in a hospital and the other one said well I saw a couple of alley to get any and the third one said I got four I said well that's great you got enough for all of them plus one to spare and we're talking deer hunting two deer rifles and we're sitting there in church and singing the songs and all of a sudden the man said we want brother hopping to come and preach it I looked at them boys said pardon me I got to go to work and all of a sudden that boy said you mean your I said yeah I'm the guy so I went up there and I did my thing and I saw those young people begin to sing I'll put that worshiped eating in Lapeer they were magnificent they were incredible I watched 500k man worshipping praising God when I got done I walked off of the platform and there were them three boys right over there by that by right by the platform and I said so what do you think and the 80 the one that had the four deer he said we can't wait to come back this was incredible real legitimate worship will do nothing more than attract hungry people if they're not hungry I'm not interested I'm looking for hungry people I'm looking for people that want to get their sins dealt with that one is sleep at night without despair and a bunch of doubt and a bunch of grief that's what I'm looking for I'm convinced of this I'm convinced abyss this is what God is saying to us do what you can and I'll do what you can because the Bible said for all have sinned and come short everything we do is going to come short of glory if you know your Bible there's something called the Antichrist I wish I had time to talk to you about that when you deal with the God that we serve first he was spirit and then he was wrapped in flesh and became a man and then he birthed the church same thing that goes on in the truth goes on in the false because Satan is a spirit but one day he's going to have a man and that man is going to give birth to a movement I could talk to you about the son of perdition the father of lies I don't have time for all that right now but I do know that according to the scripture he has assigned a number six six six and if you have any understanding of numerology in the Bible six is always man's day seven is always God's day I don't care what the enemy does it's always going to be six six six it's always gonna be flesh it's always gonna be carnal but God kicks it up a notch and takes it to another level I was reading something today that amazed me I listened to brother John's message while I was gone what a great message on sound see ladies and gentlemen if you're here today and you need a deeper walk with God first of all you're gonna have to do something and then you're gonna see it in a moment then the ministry is gonna have to do something I think God's gonna have to do something because you and you alone have to repent no one can repent for you but then the ministry has a job to do we will baptize you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ but then we're out of we're out of our out of our limits here now God's gonna do in just a few moments we're gonna baptize an amazing young man it's already repented he's done his part we're gonna do our part we're believing God's gonna do there are multiple there are multiple accounts in the Bible of Peter and the Apostles being delivered from prison and jail but my favorite is in acts 12 he's not just in jail he's in the inner prison the angel of the Lord the Bible basically said kick see he's so worried about what's going on he's asleep he's sleeping in prison and the angel nudges him and wakes him up and he said we're leaving Peter could have said what about these chains don't worry about that I got that cover what what about the guards don't worry about that I got that taken care of what about the gauge the inner gates and the outer gates how don't you worry about that you know what the angel said to Peter put your shoes on put your shoes on we're going somewhere what I'm asking out of you is get ready for the journey I'll do everything else as a church we've got great prayer meetings for the last Monday I want to know what's gonna happen next tomorrow night I want to see if we're going back to the same old 50 or I've almost see if we're gonna stay above a hundred let's see where you are because I believe in the Holy Ghost God is asking us to do what we can do you've proven for three weeks now you can do this nothing is going out except by prayer and fasting yeah we got this thing moving now we got to keep it moving all right but listen to me very I don't care what we do if we'll do what we can do it will never be enough but if we'll do what we can do God will do what only he can do it will always be more so are you up to the challenge do you understand where are we gonna get this money the coin is in the fish's mouth I'm not gonna tax this church expect you to give five million dollars the way it is right now I believe we're gonna catch a lot more fish jesus said the coins in the fish's mouth if you catch the fish you'll have the coins it's as simple as that are you ready you want this church to stay where we got a nice little thing going on here about 300 325 bills are paid everything's good if you wanted to it's gonna have to be beyond you you're gonna have to see five hundred six hundred eight hundred a thousand and then go to two services in that building you got to be able to see beyond where we are right now because if you don't have that understanding then he's never going to give us more and he's never going to make this place the unique place that it's meant to be because blessed churches keep on getting blessed and revival churches keep on having revival and harvest churches keep on having harvest and the others just stay the same I want to be a harvest church I want to be a healing Church I want to be a Holiness Church I want a manifestation of God in this house it will only happen if we get an understanding I'm giving I'm doing everything that I can I know it's not enough but you know I'm doing everything that I can you're gonna have to make up the difference [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] 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Published: Sun Jan 26 2020