Harvest City Church

[Music] oh [Music] every situations [Music] [Music] then [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] bye [Music] [Music] hmm [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] hallelujah god has been faithful god has been good hallelujah need god hallelujah you're our sustainer god hallelujah you're the lifter of our hands god we just blessed you today god you've been mighty faithful god and your compassion fails not god young mercy's enjoy forever god we just bless you today we thank you hallelujah glory hallelujah we bless you hallelujah welcome welcome hallelujah welcome to harvest city church hallelujah if this is your first time coming in is this your first time coming in we just say welcome come on in and have a seat and we just we just thankful that you all are here to celebrate uh our anniversary our five year anniversary god has been faithful to us hallelujah god has been so good to us hallelujah and we're gonna we're gonna read a scripture really quickly and we're gonna get out of the way it is matthew 16 and 18 it says and i also say to say to you that you are peter and on this rock i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it aren't you all thankful that the enemy has lost and there's nothing that he can do to stop god's purpose and plan for this anybody just thank the lord that there's no weapon form that gets us that shall prosper that god has us covered from the east and the west and the north and the south and everywhere that we go we just want to tell god thank you because he is our protection he is our refuge here's our strength in anything that we do god is with us hallelujah god we just bless you hallelujah we're going to pray father we just want to tell you thank you heavenly father we thank you did you establish us lord god we thank you that you lift us up when you build us up heavenly father we just want to tell you thank you lord god that your purpose and your will shall prevail lord god and we just want to bless you and we thank you for this service lord god and we just want to celebrate you god today we want to celebrate your goodness lord we want to celebrate your faithfulness today lord god and we give you the praise honor and glory in jesus name amen amen come on let's put our hands together and give god a mighty praise this morning we serve an amazing god father you are beautiful in all of your ways so god we just come to sing to you this morning hallelujah jesus [Music] i saw the lord [Music] seated on his throne [Music] and trained up [Music] [Music] the angels proclaim and they say holy holy is the lord god almighty [Music] oh [Music] the angels bow down and as it is in heaven we repeat the sound and we'll never get tired is that you this morning and we'll never go on and we'll join them singing [Music] is [Applause] [Music] they testify [Music] come on [Applause] you'll be glorified and [Music] oh [Music] [Music] they testify [Applause] [Music] god [Music] let's lift it up again y'all believe that this morning sink isn't he beautiful [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] isn't he beautiful [Music] [Music] feeling dead [Music] [Applause] king of heaven be glorified all creation of me [Music] [Music] holy [Music] [Applause] [Music] sing holy holy [Music] yeah sing holy holy [Music] sing isn't he beautiful isn't he beautiful isn't he beautiful come on sing is it he is [Music] oh isn't he beautiful isn't he beautiful isn't he beautiful isn't he beautiful isn't he beautiful [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] me [Music] we come to testify [Music] is [Music] he's the lord [Music] holy [Music] y'all believe that [Music] is [Music] is [Music] are you is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] she's a symbol jesus [Music] oh my world is the lamb [Music] worthy is the lamb you are holy [Music] oh my holy is the lamb sovereign is the lamb worthy isn't them savior is that man redeemer is a lamb peacemaker is my land waymaker is my land you are holidays [Music] come on begin to worship your holy god this morning you're worthy of it all oh my teeth [Music] holy [Music] is [Music] can we give a holy god a great praise say can we give a holy god a great praise i didn't say i sometimes holy god i say can we give a holy god a faithful god a god who never fails a god who's never made a mistake a god who's never left you hanging when you left him a god that never forgot about you when you may have forgot about him can we give a holy god a great praise you're holy and holy you're faithful you're faithful we're saying if you're faithful your faithful your faithful god your faithful god hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah i think we can go one more level up that was cute but we're talking about a sovereign god a god who's gonna do whatever he wants to do whenever he wants to do it we're talking about the almighty god not your mother not your father not your sister or your brother they might fail you but our holy god he never fails he never fails he never fails he never fails harvest he never fails harvest he never fails even when they said he was gonna fail on our behalf harvest he's never failed so god we give you praise and the claibornes we welcome you one more time to our five-year celebration can we give it up for jesus no can we really give it up for jesus [Applause] five years might not seem a lot to any other church but when they counted you out after the first service it means something to us as our pastor said during rally this morning he said whether you've been here five years or two days it's because of you that we're able to do this some of you might feel guilty i just got here and i'm celebrating like i've been here the whole time keep on celebrating like you've been here the whole time amen so again we welcome you we are so excited um for everything that god has done through harvest city church we're excited for what god has is bringing to the table for us today although we are celebrating we still have our arms open right ready to receive harvest all right as we celebrate we still have our expectation and we're expecting god to do great things so um our order of service today or as we're about to go forward is we're actually going to see a video that our wonderful media team can we give it up our media team [Applause] in a pandemic they sprouted out of nowhere and we got something now hey man so we're gonna see a video that has been brought to us by our media team and then we will hear from our very own pastor bill russell but can i know he's not gonna really appreciate it like the way we want him to but can we just clap it up for one of the greatest pastors in the area a fateful man of god an awesome leader a wonderful counselor y'all we really do have a great pastor we really do so i want you guys to celebrate whether you're a guest or not we are all family we want to celebrate and we want to not just celebrate harvest five years we want to celebrate jesus in this place amen can y'all do that for me so i want to try something real quick before y'all get real comfortable in your seat and get sleepy i just want to see how loud we can really get okay i just want to test something out cause it's a celebration all right if he was at the club you'd be loud if you're at a football game you'd be loud so i just want to see how loud we can get so on three we just whether you shout yell hallelujah jesus you want to just scream whatever it is that you do i want you to do what you do can y'all do that for me all right so on three we gonna get loud because we're celebrating something great y'all ready one he's been faithful two he's never failed us and three we're seeing five years harvest makes some noise [Applause] [Music] greensboro i am so excited to share with you about a church plant that is coming to this city in the fall of 2016. harvest city church i am pastor bill russell and i have the awesome opportunity of leading this great group of amazing individuals the bible lets you know in the book of matthew and the book of luke that's a prayer to the lord of the harvest that he may sin laborers because the harvest is plentiful but the laborers are free so as a church we want to gather we want to grow together to reach the harvest to reach the souls how are we going to do it the 14 model it tells us to gather to grow to give and to go this is the opportunity you don't want to be harvested covered [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] yes [Applause] go [Music] there is a river where goodness flows there is a fountain that drowns our rose there is an ocean deeper than fear the tide is rising rising there is a current stirring deep inside it's overflowing from the heart of god the flood of heaven crashing over us the tide is rising rising [Music] [Music] we come alive deep inside [Music] [Music] and who have already lost their jobs um and we are praying we have college students that had to abruptly pack up and go home i'm coming back from this i'm coming back from this [Music] lord i thank you lord i pray that you will strengthen him i pray god that you would touch him oh father god you know the vision that you gave him you know the things that you spoke to him for the church god oh father god the devil seeks to sit there but we have prayed for him [Music] is one way [Music] and jesus is the way [Music] from creation to redemption one way jesus still today for there is one way there is one way [Music] from creation [Music] [Music] i'm so glad i tried again i'm so glad i tried it i'm so glad i tried again i'm so glad i tried again we're so glad we tried church again i am so happy i tried church again i'm so happy i tried church again i'm so glad i tried church again i'm so glad i tried church again i am so glad i tried church again i'm so glad i tried church again i am so glad that i tried church again i'm so glad i tried church again i'm so happy i tried church again we want you to try church again i'm so glad i tried church again i'm so glad i tried church again i've been baptized [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this i recall to my mind therefore i have hope it's because of the lord's mercies that we are not consumed because of his love and his kindness they fail not they are new every morning could you do me a favor and look up to heaven and say greatest thy faithfulness i mean just tell them god you did good god come on just tell them god you did good when i think about what you've done god you did good i would have fainted unless i had believed to see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living i would have won cuckoo for cocoa puffs unless i had believed to see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living i would have lost my mind church unless i had believed to see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living some trumped in horses of the trusted chariot but we will turn to your name and say we will trust in the name of the lord for the name of the lord is a strong tower the righteous run into and they are safe all i want harvest to do is take 20 seconds open up your mouth and give god break [Applause] oh hunter [Music] [Music] yes lord [Music] songwriter said when i look back over my life and i think things over i can truly say that i've been blessed anybody got a test hold up i'm sorry we gotta move we don't got room in the service or testimony but just turn to your name and say neighbor every time i look around god's been good every time i look around god's been good every time i turn around blessings are blessings every time i turn around miracle or miracle [Music] our diocese chairman is here please export him to the public i'm sorry but i feel good they said we won't gonna be here but tell somebody i'm still standing i'm still standing all right all right [Music] y'all my mother's here and she's praising can i get 40 people to dance with her come on one [Music] we gotta go come on come on we gotta get through this service but every time i turn around [Music] god's been good [Music] every time i look around [Music] we gotta go [Music] break it down tell somebody real quick say neighbor that was cute but the next phrase is because not because others didn't think i would make it but the next phrase is because sometimes i didn't think i would make it but i'm here and it kept my mind you got 30 seconds what [Music] oh [Music] i didn't think i'd be here so glad i'm here so glad [Music] [Music] we gotta go i'm glad i'm here i'm glad i'm here i'm glad i'm here to tell a story i'm glad i'm here to tell a story i'm glad i'm here to tell this story you don't got to tell it for me i'll tell it myself i'm glad i'm here to tell the story you don't gotta tell it for me me tell it let me tell it look at your neighbor one more time and say neighbor you don't gotta testify for me i'll testify for my own self say so what's your testimony when i think of the goodness of jesus and all that he's done for me all right [Applause] all right we got to get ready to go [Music] harvest what you're waiting for get to this altar let's dance come on get to this altar and let's dance with my praise get to the office and let's dig let it scream [Music] drive it [Applause] all right we gotta go we gotta go [Music] and we'll understand it better and we'll uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] glory to god hallelujah lift those hands and say what a wonderful savior hallelujah we have your seats in the presence of the lord i'm sorry i get a little excited because god's been good songwriter says he's been better than good to me i'm not gonna be with you long be before you long because there is a preacher in the house today [Applause] but harvest five years somebody asked me was it everything you thought it was i said no it was more than i ever expected hallelujah remember we had a let me just share this we had a wonderful time at our day party yesterday come on clap those hands wonderful wonderful time we had a good time thank you for all those who came that wanted to be there we love our family amen what can you say when god's been so good hallelujah i'm excited today because my mother is here saints can we honor my mother mother russell hallelujah we honor you [Music] she was here when it all started literally literally we honor her we have some guest pastors here i want to call them those who i see pastor pritchett is here pastor joseph pigeon is there and it's on can we clap our hands for him praise the lord overseer lee is here can we clap our hands for him our own dyson chairman is here pastor towns from truth and worship we love you hallelujah some of the saints will be here with us to this evening and then also it is the first time being here at our local assembly but it's not our first time seeing him if you've been in convocation or any of our events you have seen but this is overseer evan richard come on from brampton church texas we honor you overseer hallelujah he is an overseer in our great organization one way churches international aren't y'all glad about our organization our presiding bishop lorenzo hall our vice president bishop bishop s y younger it's good to be covered amen it's good to be covered it's good we're not out here just by ourselves we gotta cover we got accountability anything with accountability is subject to grow hallelujah so we are so grateful for that listen i'm excited because for the first time in the history of harvest city church we have a choir y'all we have a choir yeah come on we have a choir and our choir is getting ready to come and they're going to minister to us and y'all this is their first time so y'all be good y'all support them y'all they got mother man in the choir come on oh i love it i love it i love it i love it so after our choir sings the next voice you will hear is that of none other than overseer evan richer from brampt church texas i just want to say this as they're coming as the choir is coming i just want to say look at y'all and they got outfits come on [Music] can i say this harvest whether you joined last week or you were here five years or whether you were here and you're no longer a member and that's okay we want to say thank you come on can you thank god for every contribution that someone has made now they look like a quiet oh i'm nervous i'm excited i'm so excited so listen i want to share one more thing about overseer and he doesn't know this story um in my interview they said to me they said what about one way what is it about one way what have you seen about one way and i proceeded they asked me a few series of questions and they said is there someone in particular in this organization that draws you to one way pastor cecil scott who is our general secretary asked me that question and i said it's actually oversee a rishi and they said obviously richard i said yes i said because if this works for him i know it can work for us it's one thing if you have an organization that only works for the main church but this thing works for all of our churches amen our bishop covers all of our churches and for years i have watched them in texas and i want to say i'm humbled and honored that you are here today so after the voice of our choir the next man that you would hear is that of overseer evan richard god bless you [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] right [Music] is help me say one more time y'all i'll say yes lord i'll say yes let's go he's done he's done great big put food on my table put the loot on my table all he's done he's done great things he's doing great things oh yeah i'll say yes somebody give him praise somebody give him [Music] so [Music] [Music] with [Music] let's put our hands together as you know god has done great things while you're clapping let's thank god but there's a wonderful choir [Music] that's an exceptional exceptional job the scripture lets us know that bad leadership is a curse and so when we have good leadership we ought to count that as a blessing and i don't know about you but i honor one of the greatest pastors not just in north carolina but the world can you help me celebrate pass the bill [Applause] russell [Music] so proud of you look what the lord has done this is absolutely amazing absolutely amazing um and so i want you to know i come from a culture of honor and leadership i've discovered after pastoring for nine years that the people who only get um upset when it comes to honoring leadership are people who operate in the spirit of jezebel and and so we honor leadership over here and uh we should never ever come to a place to where we allow anyone to celebrate and uh uplift our leader more than the people who sit under his leadership amen and uh i don't know why i'm saying this but you can never receive a mantle nor an inheritance from a leader that you're in competition with [Applause] amen amen now i'm just telling you i just believe that pastor russell has everything he needs in order to take this ministry to the next level the renovations are beautiful and [Music] but the bad news is that it's still too small i need you just to point to a wall in this room and say these walls are lying on us these walls are lying on us because it says that this is the biggest we can get but i'm telling you i see god moving every wall tell somebody give me some room because god is making room for me he's making room for me and i'm telling you these next five years what took other churches 10 years or 15 years rather 20 years to accomplish the lord's going to do it through this church within the next five years i'm telling you i'm telling you to all of god's people to all of the ecclesiastical giants that are here we certainly honor you to the overseer of the chairman of this diocese we thank god for pastor my brother pastor sylvester towns and to these conclave of pastors who have assembled to help us celebrate i said us because i'm a part of harvest city [Applause] to help us celebrate so y'all pray my strength i was preaching last night in um rocky mount uh north carolina and um i thought that harvest city was in greenville north carolina somebody point to me and say trick [Music] and so when i hopped in the car with minister darius and pastor russell and uh i started looking [Music] and i didn't know the trip was about two hours but we just had great fellowship and you can't come to north carolina without stopping by cookout i'm telling you what other place allows you to get quesadillas and chicken nuggets as a side so so i got to make sure that uh i make a stop when i come and so um to minister darius he has been absolutely amazing [Music] one of my sons in the ministry is here i thank god for derek he's here and uh so thankful for him how god has been blessing his business and all those good things i'm not going to stand before you alone because yeah luke chapter 13. the gospel of luke chapter number 13. and um i'm gonna backslide if you don't mind and i'll not read from the king james version is that all right at harvest am i still saved okay i'm going to read from something called the english standard version i'm okay okay i just want to make sure luke chapter 13 and let's bring our attention to verse number 10 verse number 10 five years of ministry i mean harvest i want i mean do y'all real i don't think y'all get it do y'all not realize yeah she's acting i get it do y'all not realize that what y'all accomplished in five years there are churches who've been in existence for 50 years that don't have this this is amazing tell us tell the person beside you don't take this for granted god didn't have to be this good to you don't take this for granted tell the person besides you're not entitled to this god has been good to us [Music] he really has he really has luke chapter 13 verse number 10 when you have it i want you to signify by saying i have the bread and this is what the word of the lord says to us now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath and behold look there was a woman who had a dis a billing spirit or disabling spirit rather a spirit of infirmity for 18 years she was bent over king james version said she bowed herself and could not fully straighten herself when jesus saw her he called her over and said to her woman you are freed from your disability woman thou art loose and he laid hands on her and immediately somebody shot immediately she was made straight and she glorified god spirit of the living god we thank you we praise you we honor you father we thank you for five amazing years we thank you for this great leader we thank you for this phenomenal church and father we thank you that the latter is gonna be greater than the former father i'm asking you to hide me behind the cross and let no flesh get the glory i thank you for an anointing now that would cause demons to be terrified your people to be edified and you to be glorified it's in jesus name i pray and all of god's people said amen real quick before you take your seat i just need you to help me preach this easter speech this morning i need you to look at the person beside you say neighbor god is straightening it out look at somebody else and say did you hear what i said say god is straightening this out now that was good if he was in the greensboro library but i need you to look at somebody across the sanctuary and said neighbor can you hear me from here say god is straightening this out now do me a favor loose those hands clap them like thunder come on come on cap i'm like thunder what i feel glory in the room make it person i'll tell somebody god is straightening me out [Music] oh this is a good church god is straightening this out you can be seated [Applause] but anybody that know what it is to have kinks to have nots tell somebody god is straightening this out [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on somebody said if i don't hear anything else all i needed to know is that by the time i get home everything that was crooked [Applause] tell somebody he straightened it out [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's straightening it out [Applause] [Music] praise the mother don't worry about the folk on your road you ain't got nothing to apologize for tell the person beside you you ain't got to know the details it ain't your business but tell them all you need to know is that god is straightening this thing out he's straightening out your court case he straighten out your legal matters everything that you thought you had to fix [Music] you had to confront you had to address god [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is a very familiar and customary passage of scripture the scripture lets us know that jesus is teaching in the synagogue and he is teaching on the shabbat he's teaching on the sabbath and the bible says that while he was preaching or while he was platitudinizing the scripture says that he notices a woman in the midst of the service now a woman being seen in worship back then wasn't anything unusual especially in jesus day because even then in some cases women were still permitted to be both active and present in the worship experience but when we talk about worship or when we talk about church liturgy which is the way or the style in which an organization chooses to conduct their worship service i want you to know that worship looked different in the synagogue in comparison to what you and i are used to in the church today and this is not a bad thing past the towns because anything watch this that ever plans to have longevity anything in life that plans to maintain its relevancy has to be something that is committed to evolving that's why some businesses and some churches if you will were unable to survive the pandemic because while being trans traditional can be a good thing being transitional is necessary because any organism any system any mechanism any person that is unwilling to change hear me unwilling to learn are unwilling to adapt will eventually die out that's why jesus tells us in the gospel of john chapter 14 he says greater works shall you do in my name why because here it is greatness has always been allergic to being stuck tell somebody i'm too great to be stuck come on i'm too anointed to be silent i i'm too gifted to be controlled i'm i'm too intelligent to be limited just because you knew who i was yesterday it does not mean you know who i am today because i'm all ways evolving [Music] and so the church has always evolved over time and women have always been a part of its evolution women have always been involved if you will why are you saying this pastor because there have been those who have attempted to impose and indoctrinate a falsified theology around the ideology of first corinthians chapter 14 verse 34 where paul mentions that women are to be silent in the church and some have even gone on to interpret that scripture as meaning that women can't preach in the church when that's not what the apostle paul was trying to communicate in the text and so in order for us to be hermeneutically sound one must present the text or the context while being integral to the context and the context is the circumstance that forms the setting for the event the statement or the idea in which something can always be fully understood or assessed and so when paul said women are to be silent in the church when you provide the proper context it's critical and so the question now becomes why did paul say this because that's what context asks as it pertains to content okay all right ask the person beside you why did paul say this i'm glad you asked the reason why paul made this statement is because in that day women were not allowed to sit with the men in the synagogue but they were made to sit in the back they were made to sit in the balcony and because church was not as technologically advanced back then as it is today there were no such things as pa systems or these wonderful uh speakers that are hanging from the ceiling no uh oh god so because there was no p a system uh when the rabbi would teach when the pastor if you will would teach it would often times make it difficult for those who were in the balcony to understand or to comprehend what the rabbi was actually saying and so because of this the women would then lean over the balcony and they would ask their husband what is the preacher saying what is the rabbi saying but as you can imagine this practice would eventually become a distraction and so it was stan the apostle paul he pulled out a pen he pulled out a pad he began to formulate a liturgy as it pertains to the church to fit the context within that time frame in hopes to eliminate the most distraction and so he begin to write women ought to be silent in the church verse 35 and if they have something they want to ask let them ask their husbands at home somebody shout context because to take this scripture literally without placing it in its proper context will eliminate the voice of women all together within the church and so not only would it mean that women are not allowed to not allowed to preach but it would mean that women are not allowed to sing it would mean that women are not allowed to say hi it would mean that women are not allowed to say bye girl i'll catch you next week it'll mean that women can't greet you at the door it'll mean that women can't do the announcements why because silent means somebody shout context and so oh god and so for jesus to notice this woman in service now the claiborne was not anything unusual but how she got his attention man of god was it wasn't unusual that he saw her in service but how she how she got his attention was unusual now she didn't get his attention because she had the best shout out she didn't get his attention because she had the best shout she didn't get his attention because she had the uh a gargantuan offering didn't get his attention because she was waving her hands in worship no but the reason why she was able to catch his attention is because when he saw her she was bent over it's almost as if her posture was that of a hook she was bent over hear me jesus recognized this woman because watch this she was the only woman in the room who looked out of place [Applause] why because when god made you in his image when you became the imago day when when you were created in the image of god it was never his intent for you to live a life bent over i want to talk to somebody who know what it is to live their life or bend over because of some bad decisions that you made in your past because of some mistakes that you made in your past and so now you've grown accustomed to living your life bend over maybe you were raped maybe you were molested as a child maybe you were abused maybe you went through a rough breakup in your life and because of that you've been living your life bent over there was a time you used to have confidence that there was a time you used to feel pretty there was a time you thought you were smart you used to be you thought you was a good man you thought you was a good woman but something happened [Applause] something happened in your life now you're living your life bent over something happened where the church folk don't even know about something happened serving well but the people you serve with the people you play with don't even know what you're going through smiling on the outside but playing bent over singing bent over preaching bent over tell somebody something happened something happened in your life to where your family told you to be quiet about it whatever you do don't say nothing don't don't let this leave the house don't don't let the lip shh tell somebody something happened and now you've been carrying this guilt and you've been carrying this shame and you've been carrying the pain of it and you've been carrying the weight of it all and it's caused you to live your life been to over and the text says watch this not only was she bent over past the towns but the text says that she's been this way for 18 years for 18 years she was afraid to look up for 18 years she walked around with her head hung down yeah for 18 years she was going to the temple wearing the shame of it all i want to ask you a question harvest what do you do when it seems like what you've been carrying has now become a part of your identity what do you do when what you've been carrying has now become a part of your daily regimen and routine when you study biblical numerology you'll know that the number 18 represents bondage the word bondage means enslavement the word bondage means one who is tied up or restrained and so for 18 years she's been a slave to what's had her bent over oh god but now the question becomes why was she bent over well the bible says that she had a spirit of infirmity now for those of you who love the word and take notes i need you to understand this having here it is an infirmity and having a spirit of infirmity are two different things to have an infirmity it means that i have some kind of physical weakness within my anatomy but the spirit of infirmity means that i have a oh god it means that i have a weakness in my mind [Applause] that word spirit in the hebrew greek lexicon it means pneuma now this word pneuma is used in reference to the holy spirit over 213 times in the bible but it is also translated to mean here it is one with a rational spirit somebody shout context that would have to make sense minister darius because you can't say that this woman had a spirit of infirmity for 18 years it wouldn't fit right if you said she had the holy spirit for 18 years and so context is important does it make sense all right so all right so so so tell somebody it was in her mind right okay so it can also be translated as rational spirit rational spirit defined as this by which a human being feels thinks cognitively or decides what are you saying pastor this woman really didn't have a physical weakness watch this but she allowed her mind to think she did long enough until it became real enough for her to decide to live with in other words what she'd been carrying for 18 years hear me was a decision that she allowed to stay beyond this expiration date [Applause] she allowed a decision to get stuck that's why i come to tell you here at a harvest that the devil is not out after your money no no no no no the devil is not after your marriage the devil is not after your career he's not even after your soul can i tell you this even on your church anniversary the devil is not even after your church but one thing i do know that the devil is after the doubt the devil is after your mind [Applause] tell somebody you gotta fight for your mind [Applause] that's why the apostle paul said let this mind be in you which is also god i feel something warming up in the room let this mind be in you which is also in christ jesus why because whatsoever a man thinking [Applause] so easy tell somebody oh you gotta fight for your mind you you gotta fight for your thoughts you got to bring every wicked imagination you got to bring that thing subject because the devil is after your mind and if he can get your mind he can ruin your marriage if he can get your mind oh god he can rid you of your potential tell somebody the devil is after your mind he's after your mind that's why the snickers commercial says you're not yourself when you're hungry and the scripture said in the last days there will be a famine for the word of god could it be that you're not yourself because you've been on the wrong diet could it be that you're not yourself because you've been arguing after all these social media memes and you've been claiming them as prophecy you've been rubbing on crystals you've been playing with tarot cards but now i'm not saying nothing you've been playing with ouija boards and astrology talking about this is my sign this is my son the devil is a liar all of this witchcraft i can't get no help tell somebody all of this witchcraft [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] tell somebody better leave that stuff alone tell somebody else you better leave your stuff alone you better stop praying to your ancestors the devil is alive they can't hear come on he's after your mind [Applause] [Music] that would be new doctrines new thoughts new new teachings that will come to rob the mind of the saints you don't need to burn sage to purify the atmosphere in your house i don't know if they do this at harvest i know it's kind of old school i may be even dating myself but i believe i believe in something that still works that says satan the blood of jesus the blood of jesus is against you is there anybody in the room that still know what it is to pull out all that your house opened up windows at your house open up the door at your house and sustain it the blood of jesus is against you my child don't need no riddling my child don't need no medicine before i go to the doctor i grab some oil and say the blood the blood is over my child because as for me and my house [Music] we don't serve the lord hold on i'm sorry put it in neutral whatsoever man thinking so is he in other words are you ready for this you see y'all making me nervous the only reason he really is the only reason why you've been bent over for so long is because you allowed a thought to hold you captive you allow somebody else else's opinion concerning you [Applause] to keep you from writing the book you allow somebody else's thoughts somebody else's opinion to keep you from switching jobs you don't hear what i'm saying you've allowed listen i found out that god had to save me twice he had to save me from my sin and he had to save me from people's opinions who don't pay none of my bills look at somebody tell them i don't care about your opinions i am what god says i am i am who god called me to be [Applause] you you only been bent over you only been arrested you've only been bound this long because you allowed a fault an opinion yeah to hold you captive hear me when you read the text in luke chapter 18 this woman she didn't come into the synagogue she didn't come into the church with an oxygen tank okay all right um she she did come into uh the worship experience hooked up to an ekg machine she she didn't come into the service uh she didn't come with some kind of assistance she didn't come with crutches she didn't come with the wheelchair but but she was handicapped because she allowed a thought to stay way too long and i want to pause right here and i'll see what see what my way back to the text but i want to pause right here to let somebody know that it's time for you to forgive quickly and heal quickly because the people you're mad at the people you're upset with baby then i went on about their life come on down got married got three kids now and you still stalking that page on social media tell somebody get over it [Applause] when you get over it that's when you give god permission to get you through it [Applause] stay too long now i'm good i need no water i don't drink on the job she allowed a thought to stay too [Music] long oh i think we ought to have some fun now tell somebody she allowed the thought to stay too long [Music] and the bible says and the bible says yeah that's it and the bible says that she was so bent over and she was so out of shape the scripture says that she couldn't even strained herself out and i could imagine that she sold every physician and that she sought every priest i could imagine that she even spent a whole lot of money she did everything she could within her own power to pull herself back together but i need you to lean over and grab your neighbor by the house and say neighbor god is straining this house do me a favor that was the wrong neighbor look at your neighbor said neighbor as a matter of fact grab your neighbor by the hand and said neighbor [Music] god is straightening this out the days of you lacking confidence god is strained into this house i come to tell somebody that whatever whatever your this is before the month is over you're going to testify that god is straightening this house oh gosh the days of you being intimidated god is straightening it out the court case you had pending god is straightening it out the fear of you graduating god is straightening it out every sickness in your body god is straightening it out let's go higher every hereditary disease just got straightened out every person that took advantage of you god is straightening it out and here's the good news harness you don't have to wait until the battle is over but you can shine you can shout right now let's go higher shout out like you already got the victory shout out like god's already fixing i said shout out oh god i feel help because god is straightening everything in your life lean over and grab your neighbor grab your neighbor by the hand and said neighbor by this time tomorrow while you were worrying about it by the time you show up while you were complaining about it everything in your life it's going to be worked out in your favor let's go higher oh i said let me crosstalk tell somebody straight down plus three people next to you tell them straight straight straight [Music] every entanglement straightened out every wish straight down every problem striked out those of you those of you who had questions about your career straight if you believe it by faith that day this will straighten that thing up [Music] come on straight [Applause] it's a fix fight it's a big spot [Music] if you've accomplished this by the grace of god if you've accomplished this in five years with knots here's your personal word if you've made it this far he really is being halfway surrendered [Music] if you made it this far with cakes could you imagine what will happen when god straightened [Music] this out you thought that the water was 2d what could it be [Music] that's the reason why [Music] you thought it was deep it's because you've been living your life bit over [Applause] [Music] [Applause] but look at your neighbor say oh neighbor the water that you're in has not been designed to drown you but tell them the water that you're in you're tall enough to stand in what you've been afraid of you're now bigger then clap your hands and give god glory [Music] is straightening this out listen i don't know what your this is and you don't have to tell nobody but when i name something in the sanctuary in this atmosphere i need those people to go crazy and open up your mouth like you know that is already straightened out those of you who had a fear and you've been feeling like academics is taking the load on you and you don't even know how you gonna graduate i need you to release a sound right now in the room those of you that got a court case pending you you got a child support case pending i need you to open up your mouth and shout some of you got a doctor's report and and the news was not favorable you got cysts in your body you got a tumor you got cancer in your you got a sickness if you believe that by the time you go to the doctor that god's gonna straighten it out i need you to release a sound of prayer come on as you praise him i see money being released i see at the moment he's taking the strength out of the struggle i see money being released god is straightening it out [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i just heard something i just heard something we shout about god straighten it out for something personal but for the last four years some of you been uncomfortable with going to family dinners [Music] family reunions but this holiday dinner this year it's gonna be different because the beef you had with family members god told me to tell you that he's straightening [Applause] he's healing relationship [Applause] let me let me say this i have to be obedient when i say this this is a thriving phenomenal organism that god has planted here in greensboro let me tell you something the enemy can't destroy you from the outside hear me but he will use someone on the inside that gives them space that gives him space to tear down what you built jesus jesus what you've built in five years can be destroyed in five weeks for every person in this room i know this is not power but the lord says that the next release and wave of glory that's going to hit this house is not going to come as a result of a night prayer meeting but it's gonna it's gonna come as a result of a church who's mature enough to say hey we've been having issues with each other there's been tension amongst us we walk past each other doing meet and greet and don't say nothing y'all not talking the next wave of glory is going to hit this house as a result of a church that's mature enough to apologize [Applause] [Music] it's going to come through reconciliation i know you think you're great but god never called us to be an island and here it is greatness is too big of a number for one man to achieve [Music] and so it's going to take a people that have come together and say hey let's straighten this out let's train this out because while we're fighting and being catty and posting subliminal messages about each other on facebook we are robbing the ministry of his potential and we supposed to be leaders how can we expect the church to get together when the leaders are at war with one another i'm telling you i've been passing for nine years and i've seen gifted houses like this they were never they were strong enough to survive the warfare that come on the outside they wasn't mature enough to deal with the conflict on the inside and so if we're going to become a church that god has called us to be in greensboro and the many locations that will be birthed out of this mother headquarters god is making harvest city the headquarters the template of the ministries y'all give birth to i'm looking at some pastors of the next locations in this room [Music] i love harvest church i love harvest city but the only thing that rubs me wrong about harvest city is that it's more than a city it really is really a harvest nation y'all not talking to me here tell somebody we bigger than the city [Music] he didn't call us to harvest just the city we didn't come to greensboro to emerge but we came to greensboro to take on fire for the kingdom of heaven suffereth fire and the violent take it by force listen in this room you can't be delivered until you're honest if you're in this room today and while you may have mastered the image of church you know what it is to be bent over this is not for everybody i'm talking to the people that know what it is to be strong and being strong is not even a choice anymore but you just have to be are things going to fall apart but it's caused you to live your life bent over [Music] if that's you today you believe that god is getting ready to straighten out every idea he's getting ready to straighten out every dream and every vision and every situation in your life i need you just to come to this altar without the assistance of an usher and i just need you to lift your hands as high as you can because i believe as your posture is straightened out and stretched out i just believe that everything in your life is getting ready to fall in line come on all over this place if that's you if i'm talking to you just come to this halter and just lift up your hands because i decree and i declare i prophesy over you that the enemies you saw today you're not going to see them no more come on i want you to bring every struggle every addiction to this altar i want you to bring every habit i want you to bring the thing that vulnerable crosstalk the thing that the enemy's been trying to destroy you with god said i'm getting ready to use it to launch you forward come on lift those hands right there come on lift those hands and as your hands are lifted i want you to put a praise on your lips i want you to call out everything that you need god to straighten out by monday come on if it's your address say your address if it's your car situation name that situation we're under an open heaven be specific because god said i'm getting ready to honor what you said [Music] that's [Music] [Music] he's straightening your back out i said he's straightening your back out he's straightening your back out it's not too heavy god said i'm getting ready to make your back stronger he's stranded [Music] [Music] your finances out i speak that you'll never struggle financially even as a college student even as a young adult i decree and i decline into the motion you straightening your finances out i speak that with your hands lifted he's giving you multiple businesses he's created multiple streams of income he's putting his favor on the idea that he gave you he straightened it out i see food trucks you double crochet i see a food truck i see a food truck i see a last lounge [Music] come on harvest we almost there i believe if you push he'll push a family sinner out of this church if you plus he'll push hard to send his schools out of this church if you blush he'll push a daycare out of this if you push [Music] i speak that this campus is a magnet for north carolina a t i speak that this is the college church i speak that this is the church of greensboro i speak that every soul is coming to this house i decree and i declare that it is [Music] because god said i can trust you with it come on if you know god can trust you with what he's about to bless you with i need you to lift your hands and say god you can trust me you can trust me with more money you can trust me with more digits you can trust me with the healing you can trust me [Music] you can trust me with the clothing line you can trust me with the real estate you can trust me [Music] i'll leave you with this do you point your hands towards your pastor [Music] i never knew that you relocated from new york [Music] you staying was your isaac sacrifice you planting here was your isaac sacrifice and let me rewind god tells abram go to a place and i'll show you it'll make sense if he said bill here it is now go but the question becomes what highway do i take you're telling me to go but what street do i take to get there he just says go and i'll show you when you came he showed you that this is where you were supposed to be but the lord says you survived your isaac test [Music] now watch this here it is god tells abraham this in genesis 12 but it wasn't until 10 chapters later that when abraham is willing to sacrifice what god gave him that god says something very interesting he says for now i know and i want you to know pastor bill [Music] that god is saying here at this five-year anniversary because of the willingness that you've had to make sacrifices up to this point god is saying for now i know now i know i can trust you and when god knew that he can trust him that's when god made him a father to the nations and so i want to tell you congratulations because you passed the test to now become a father that tell us about even at a young age he's making you a father to the nations if you're not jealous and you know god has called your pastor higher i need you to release a sound of praise and say go past the door every fear is coming down every insecurity is leaving every question that you [Music] go [Applause] come on we up with the spirit of doubt we upgrade the spirit of fear our pastor will never commit suicide we come against the spirit of stress we come against the spirit of fatigue i tell emotion somebody say go pastor [Music] keep preaching pastor [Music] you've got what it takes you won't fail you won't fail you won't fail i see more keys coming i see more property being released animal crossing of the hospital i see god giving you faith on school boards i see god giving you favor with city council i see the mayor calling you asking you for advice you want the chaplain of your school but god said i'm getting ready to make you the champion of the city [Music] [Applause] [Music] for now i know somebody shout for now i know talk to somebody tell them god can trust you with it god can trust you with it you survived the animal crosstalk you survived the lie you come on you want us to get even come on be honest you voted to bless them in their mouth you wanted to snatch the weave out their head but because you kept your mouth quiet when you could expose them god said now i can trust you [Music] put your hand on somebody's shoulder tell them congratulations you just graduated where you failed that last you just graduated from every season that has you captain you just graduated from every season that had you in bondage if you believe it open up your mouth come on [Applause] [Music] now i know but now i know [Music] [Applause] [Music] y'all forgive me god just told me he can trust me we can trust you with it [Applause] [Applause] be not afraid of their faces kissing up to the leadership didn't get you here people have confused your honor with worshiping your leader but the lord said because you stuck it out [Music] that god said within the next 30 days i'm getting ready to upgrade everything in your life i wish i had somebody from harvest that love them that are going to praise and god if you know that upgrade just in his life and your house you ain't seen the best of your marriage yet that's an upgrade coming you ain't seen the best of your vision there's an upgrade coming i see cds being released from this house i see music prophetic music being released from this house there's a maverick city but god's getting ready to raise up a harvest city [Music] that's my kind of language right there [Music] uh there's an upgrade right here on this front row everything there's an upgrade there's an overflow that's getting ready to happen for the people right here that's an upgrade god is getting ready to make this third row a row of wealth and prosperity i speak the taliban for this third row that be testimonies before the year is over of how god is counseling one day after the other i speak [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] bring it back just a little bit [Music] even as she spoke at convocation while she was speaking i've been waiting for the opportunity to tell her to get used to it [Music] the first shall be last and the last shall be first the lord said you've been on a revolving stage [Music] you've been behind the curtains [Music] you're comfortable with serving and pushing leadership rightfully so [Music] but the lord told me to tell you that the stage you've been serving in behind the scenes the stage is turning [Applause] [Music] and the lord said he's getting ready to build he's getting ready to bring your field season to the forefront not because you've been perfect but because your heart has been right [Music] and he's blessed you with a husband that's not in competition with you he's blessed you with a husband who knows who he is and because of that what kind of because even as you go forth as god begin to make your name great [Music] those in the front now it's only because they're popular but god said there is a remnant of purity that i'm getting ready to raise up for this latter-day revival and minister claiborne you're one of the remnant come on somebody celebrate less hours more money less hours more money what less out less hours and more money god said i'm getting ready to free you up because of your heart for the ministry i'm getting ready to free you what's up [Music] [Music] stick with your pastor stick with your pastor everything that's on him is gonna fall on you stay close to the oil stay close to the oil i said stick close to the oil all you got to do is be the saucer david said my my clock run is over my cochrane if you just be the saucer you'll catch everything that's on the cup just stay in position and don't allow a fence to cause you to shift [Music] we're done [Music] if you're a member of this church i want you to point to somebody that's a member of this church and tell them you better not move tell them you better not shift [Music] listen if you say god sent you here don't you let a demon that come through here talk you out of leaving where you say god sent you tell somebody the devil is a liar [Music] i found out that people will try to talk you out of a place of an opportunity that they missed why are you telling me to leave my church and leave my pastor and you still a member of it something wrong with you tell somebody i'm sticking close i'm sticking close to my league i'm i'm staying committed to my church [Music] all right i'm over my time [Music] listen [Music] tell somebody you better not shift and don't allow offense cause you to get in your feelings because in this sixth year it's not personal everything is purposeful it's not personal it's purposeful [Music] so if your pastor tell you hey we gotta tighten up this ministry it's lacking hey i need leaders now to be here 30 minutes earlier [Music] y'all hate talking tell somebody it's not personal it's purposeful [Music] because you can never receive a harvest that you don't create excellence and room for [Music] listen i'm done for real and i don't like to be one of them preachers that lie about they done and then go another 30 minutes even though i did that today [Music] tell somebody gotta straighten it down listen i want to be a blessing i want to be a blessing to this pastor i want to be a blessing to this church i don't know if there was a obligation financially were there okay every anniversary there needs to be a financial because you can never feel invested into something that you don't invest into [Music] and the church is the only place where we release uh um titles positions and favor and and and and and and all these things and the people don't have to pay for it but it's robbing them and i want to challenge you with this the lord says where there is no challenge there is no change it makes you uncomfortable to talk about money and because it makes you uncomfortable to talk about money and finances you think the people are going to receive it and look at you differently but the bible says that money answereth all things and these same people that talk about complaining about money in the church never complain about walmart taking their money and walmart they never prophesied to you ain't never prayed for you and so i want us to be a blessing this is called a sacrificial offering i want everyone who can every leader of harvest that's in this church every aspiring leader of harvest that's in this church i want you to come to this altar i want you to sow a hundred dollar seed with me today i'm sowing a hundred dollars because i believe in what god is doing here and so i'm gonna be the first one if you're a leader and you're sowing that with me i want you to come to this altar come to this altar as quick as you as quick as you want god to bless you i want you to come stand with me [Music] the praise was loud it the worship was exuberant but this is a mature church we don't shut down when it's time to give there's more coming to this altar thank you so much thank you thank you so much if this word blessed you the leaders have come but if this word blessed you today i know we have giving by electronics but i want you to come to this altar and just stand with the people that's given a hundred i want you to get a fifty dollar seed for five years if you know that god is straightening everything out that pertains to you if you got that fifty dollars i want you to come to this altar and just stand with these people at this altar even if you're given by phone why are you saying that pastor i can just give from my chair but see in this season after coming out of a pandemic as a pastor i need to know who's standing with me [Music] because the pandemic has caused some people's commitment to shift and it preys on the psyche of the pastor but if you're standing with this church today and you're saying i'm giving 100 i'm giving 50. i want you to come i want you to come you can't give 50 but you can give 20. you got a 100 faith you got 100 faith but you said pastor in my situation i can only give 20 if that's you just stand right where you are right where you are even if you're visiting but you said i believe in the soil i believe in the soil that harvest city i'm sowing 20. come on thank you god bless you god bless thank you thank you overseer pastor thank you in jesus name the giving options are here on this isn't this a beautiful screen can i tell you something y'all didn't get it by speaking in tongues [Music] have you ever caught have you ever called your uh your life your your electric company and tried to speak in tongues [Music] it didn't work you know why i tried i called them they said it was the termination date is this i said they said you still gonna pay it because salvation is free but ministry is expensive [Music] salvation is free but ministry is what and for where god has taken this ministry it's going to take the finances along with your praise along with your prayers it's going to take finances for a trifle cord is not easily broken praying and fasting is good but without giving it's still a twofold cord and it's weak it only becomes a trifold cord when you add giving to it when it becomes a braid because a trifold core is not easily broken prayer fasting and giving if you're sowing that today i just want you to put a praise on your lips right now and let's give unto the lord come on let's give come on let's get [Music] thanks to god as you return to your seats we're going home together we're going home together for those who are given with cash you can give on your way out to the in the offering receptacle on this back hallelujah [Music] hallelujah look at your name say neighbor if you thought this was something wait until tonight our bishop is coming from lynchburg hallelujah the ramp church international their choir is coming um new peaceful zion will be with us truth and worship will be with us but can i tell you who's gonna be with us our god has a name and when we could not get to him he came to us oh there's still one lord all right let's stand we're going home together hallelujah there's still one god hallelujah one faith one lord one baptism hero israel the lord our god somebody said that's our god that's our god he's one he's one y'all i love him i love him i love him can we clap our hands one more time for the word of god that we receive from overseer evan richard hallelujah listen we have some saints here um from all over and i just want to just can we just clap in our hands for all of the guests we have some people from ram church with us texas we have some people from ramp in the back hallelujah joseph pridge and his lovely wife hallelujah we love you oversee elite his lovely wife we love you huh well let's go home because i don't know how to end services like this because i end up shouting again let's lift our hands say all of our needs are met all of our bills are paid we have more than enough all our needs are met [Music] y'all thought that was just an affirmation though that's a testimony all our needs are met [Music] all our bills are paid we have more than enough my house has more than enough my family has more than enough oh we have more than enough more than enough y'all let's go home we already in church longer than we normally would be oh but i got a feeling it's gonna be all right it's gonna be all right greetings it's gonna be all right i was so honored today to break it down one time because i got to let y'all out because we got i want to see y'all tonight somebody said i want to see you tonight at 5. i want to see you tonight at 5. uh i was honored today because we didn't have children's church but we had a young lady that sung in the choir today yes sister riley grady she was the youngest thing up there harvest we got another generation coming up we had two young men baptized in jesus name last week or the week before [Music] i remember we have no children now our children want to be in church and now our children oh yes look i was with braden yesterday at church at the event and everywhere i went he followed me and his father said you know he gonna follow you well minister hunt said it's okay he's gonna be another pastor bill i said well god give them double portion god give them devil for our children gonna prophesy our children gonna go to school and start winning souls our baby somebody says for our house hallelujah i'm not gonna start calling names because i believe god's gonna raise omar up and trayvon up to preach the word of god hallelujah let's go home lift up your hands [Music] hallelujah [Music] i want to say one thing i'm the pastor i got the money can we honor god for minister darius campbell can we honor god for him awesome man of god we have had so many people over the last two weeks speak about him we got a call last night from texas just speaking about how professional and how godly he has been over the last couple weeks he took on a lot in a shorter pound of time but harvest he's doing a wonderful job and next month he will be officially installed our executive pastor hallelujah so minister campbell would you come and close us out god bless you praise the lord let's pray father we thank you god for what you've done we thank you god that you are straightening it out so father god we give you glory we give you on and we give you praise father god we ask that you bless and keep us as we go god keep us in your care and say from all hurt harm of danger it's in jesus name we pray amen [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] you

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