How to Mature Through Pressure - Sunday Service

father we thank you for this another opportunity to minister to these your precious sheep thank you Lord that Revelation knowledge will flow freely uninterrupted and unhindered by any satanic or demonic Force father I pray that you will speak through my vocal cords and think through my mind as we prepare to go on this journey we're going to need your help Lord as we begin to recognize certain things we we're going to need you and help us to realize and to see things not to condemn ourselves but to Enlighten us that we can handle it in the way that you would have us to handle it and we know that's not by ourselves but it's with you so I pray that every ear is Anointed to hear every heart is Anointed to receive in Jesus name we pray everybody said amen all right guys ready you can be seated if you have your Bibles go with me to the book of First Peter chapter 1. verse 6 through 7 First Peter chapter 1. and verse 6 through 7 in the NLT First Peter chapter 1 verse 6 through 7. we're going to talk about mentality uh maturity excuse me maturity through pressure maturity through pressure now there's probably no one in here who would say to me oh but brother dollar I really enjoy pressure wow it's like it to me is like there's just really no such thing as life without it there's nobody on the planet that is void of pressure which causes me to think there has to be some type of something that comes from it you know and a lot of you who are here you don't mind me talking to you just for a moment so you can get where I'm going but a lot of you who are here today you are operating in anointings and gifts and callings that you know about right now but the spirit of God's been dealing with me for several months that there are anointings and gifts and callings in you right now that have yet to manifest there's stuff in you that you can do that you don't even know you can do yet there are surprises in you that are going to be revealed from you that you're going to start doing and you thought I didn't even know I could do this and yet it's going to require something to bring it out it's going to require something that'll be responsible for pulling out those giftings and those callings and those things you have in you I I don't know how theologically correct it is that I'm about to say but having gone through this for 41 years in my Ministry and life I wonder if we would one day come to the place of maybe just wondering if pressure might be a gift because we all have it some kind of way some kind of form some kind of shape you kind of go from one place of pressure to another place oppression and I realized in athletics it it's it's a must not only in high school but when I was fortunate to play college ball one guy said I've got to put you under an enormous amount of pressure so that the game won't be the time where you receive the most pressure I got to give it to you now and sure enough we all felt like we were well well prepared to do things above our ability because of the pressure there was mental pressure that was applied all the time physically there was pressure applied all the time and for me I had to maintain a certain weight because I was doing some some unbelievable thing on every team there's got to be just in case something goes wrong and the first string gets hurt second string gets her third string get hurt somebody on the team got to be responsible for a fourth string and my fourth string was Center and I'm thinking I'm never going to play center in no college ball that's not going to happen but just in case three centers got hurt I would have to be prepared to do it which means I had to eat dinner with the centers and they would make me eat more and they would wait till I got full and then you got to eat more and I'm like I don't want no more well you got to eat more I'm gonna tell the coach whatever but you know what happened three centers got injured I remember calling my dad and I was like you ain't gonna believe what happened today and I got the call and I played center for the whole game I thought well at least I got my hands on the ball but there was preparation to bring out of you something else that you didn't know you could do wonder what's in you wonder what's been kept out of sight in you that maybe some pressure that you might want to run from is going to be responsible for bringing it out and I am saying today we got to stop running from pressure because listen Satan wants to use pressure for your destruction but God will allow pressure to give birth to some stuff that's on the inside of you I realize in developing muscle in bodybuilding it required pressure to develop muscle tissue and you can get up there and get a little lightweight get a 20 pound and put the dumbbell here in and and a Snicker bar right here and do this and then invite and do that being just wasting your time it's not going to happen just wasting your time there's pressure to eat the right thing pressure go to sleep the right way and pressure applied to that physical body causes development growth is one thing you can grow up but to develop a bicep muscle requires pressure now think to yourself maybe some other things that require pressure going into the armed services it requires pressure I mean time you get off the bus somebody is in your face they on purpose make sure that you are up make sure that you don't go to bed they know you're tired they know you're sleepy but you've got to perform under pressure and it's there in and out every day how many have been in the military before over and over and over and over and then all of a sudden it it's just unknown you come home on vacation you're up at 4 30 wanting to go run somewhere brings out into you something you didn't know you have and then we got saved and born again as Christian people and thought oh we don't need any any pressure and yet life is full of them mental pressure pressure when people hurt you and pressure when people leave you and pressure when people betray you and pressure to get this job of pressure to maintain that job and pressure to change and pressure to change what you don't want to change and pressure to either yield to the flesh or and pressure or to to choose to live the pressure is going to produce some kind of fruit that's what it's designed to do produce some kind of fruit pressure I knew before I could preach the gospel of grace I used to ask why I can't even wake up and open my eyes without something going viral why why am I always under scrutiny and pressure and I used to think that preaching people and preachers were always going through something must be going wrong in their life boy I had a chance to rethink that every time I see somebody anybody just constantly going through I'm liking what kind of anointing God working in them I don't look at it anymore something wrong I'm looking at oh my God wonder what they are about to do what is God getting them ready for and so if you're under an enormous amount of pressure that's going on God is getting you ready for something maybe there's something getting ready to come on the earth maybe there's something getting ready to happen in your life on your job I don't know what it is but honey I believe that if God allows pressure to work against you he is trying to develop you and work something out of you and the devil is upset because what the devil wants you to do is is to allow that pressure to keep you where you are and stand the flesh the devil wants you to Under Pressure let's cuss somebody out under the pressures let's let's do something devilish let's yield to the flesh but you've decided I'm going to yield to the spirit under pressure and no matter what happens I'm still believe God almost still believe God I almost still believe God I must still believe God two years from now all that believing God under pressure just makes it normal something happens you're like I believe God because he knew you needed to have that kind of stuff that's that that that right stuff being pulled out of you but we cannot neglect the calls anointings and gifts that God ought to have on the inside of you that he wants to bring out if you and you can't be afraid of the pressure of the devil you can't be afraid of lack you can't be afraid of of any of those things because remember it is he that's working in you he's bringing something out and when all of this world goes nuts and goes crazy you will be equipped to stay in Jesus and be used by Jesus to do a magnificent work in these last days now that I got that out of me let's go ahead and get started that's not it was for me too let's look at this in NLC so be truly glad there's wonderful joy ahead I said there's wonderful joy ahead I don't know what most of you are going through but there's wonderful joy ahead and the joy of the Lord is your strength right there's wonderful joy ahead even though you must endure many trials for a little while did you see that there's wonderful joy ahead even though you must endure many trials for a little while so whatever God has ahead of you and for you requires for you to endure and endure means to outlast Outlast the trial Outlast the pressure Outlast the trouble trouble will come but you will Outlast it trials will come you will Outlast it for a little while and you know when God says a little while that could be three years you know what I'm saying but whatever the time is you will endure many trials and the joy will come if you'll endure it you have endurance ladies and gentlemen there's nothing that you're going through you cannot Outlast yeah but you don't know how bad it hurts you'll Outlast it yeah but I just got a divorce you'll Outlast it I just lost my job you'll Outlast it oh I just been so hurt you will Outlast it I like where my mother said this to me she said you know you'll get up one morning and it'll be a gone I'm like that that's true but you gotta outlash it think about the enemies fighting you and you will Outlast it that's frustrating to him because he's like you just won't die will you you just won't crumble will you you just won't go won't go to that old crazy life will you you just keep on standing up saying my God will supply all my needs according to his riches and glory and then something else comes oh they're gonna take your car my God shall supply all my needs because and then they actually come take your car my God child supply all of my knees I had to buy riches in these riches in glory help me Lord help me Jesus then they turn your lights on my God what are you doing you're outlasting it you're outlasting it you're outlasting it because the morning is coming the morning is coming all right watch this verse seven these trials will show that your faith is not phony your faith is genuine see there's some people that just talk it but they don't really believe it the trial will let you know when somebody is just not real we'll see how much you stand they're trying to let you know some people as soon as trouble hit them you don't see them no more they quit God quit you and quit the church it'll test to see if your faith is genuine I believe that your faith is genuine honey you have come through it all you came through a pandemic you came through all kinds of weird shutdowns you came through and here and and here why are you here here you are again here you are again and the devil like why are you here see he was just giving himself a big hand clap because being able to keep most people just stuck and you're here you just keep coming through you you came through just like that woman that Queen wasn't whatever her name was if I perish Esther if I perish let me pray what was she talking about she says God gave me a word I got to take it to the king and he might kill me because most folks that ever did what I'm getting ready to do he he killed them but if I perish then let me perish I'm going to see the king and I'm going to do what God tell me to do you keep showing up and I'm telling you if you keep showing up God's getting ready to show out for those that keep showing up see if your faith is genuine that it's being tested as fire test and purifies gold though your faith is far more precious than mere goal so when your faith remains strong through many trials did you see that when your faith remains strong through many trials I think the last three years the things that have happened to me has to test the genuineness of my faith the genuineness of my faith man I had singles at one point it was the point where the boils appeared and I put a big shirt on got on the plane and went and preached my wife said why what are you doing doing I said I'm going to preach she said and she just didn't say nothing and I went and the pain was excruciating and I stood up and I taught the word of the Lord and I kept preaching and if I finished I said take that devil now I don't want to pick some kind of fable to you shingles is the devil ain't no other way to say that shingles ain't like the devil it's the devil DNA incarnate in shingles felt it was the time for me to know what Paul knew when there was a a a it was actually the devil but it was sent to Buffet him and he prayed three times God take this off and God didn't move and until he realized in my weakness that's when I'm strong I had anointings come out of me with boils on me that I didn't even know was there glory be to God in my weakness then and I may am I made strong easy to quote those scriptures and you will all have the time to see how genuine your faith is everyone there's a separation from the sheep and the Goat you understand there's a lot of goats that go to church and all they do is but the trials will test the genuineness of your faith and he says strong strong through many trials it will bring you much praise if you do this it will bring you much praise much Glory much Honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world see my eyes are set on that day which I feel is very close I feel this very close I don't know what the rest of the world's thinking maybe they're thinking well this is not real this is not true growling them just saying all that because they're trying to get people's money this ain't gonna happen you know they'll be three there are three different stories told about Jesus I mean who really know him in the first place and all that kind of stuff whatever you may say what you want to say but when all this stuff come down I know I'm gonna have to stand in front of a god and I've already just played it there's certain things I don't want to have when that day comes and one of those things is regret I don't want to stand up there regretting oh I wish I would have just stood a little longer oh I wish I would have kept I wish I would have not run from pressure every time it showed up and then God shows me what he was trying to do but I kept running away from it those three Hebrew boys who were put in the fiery furnace they had just made their mind up whatever you can put us and do whatever you want to do but our God talk about depending on God but our God will Deliver Us from this too my God's going to deliver me from this too and whatever you're going through right now your God is delivering you from this too this stuff right now that you're facing God's already working out a magnificent plan for you to have full of you're gonna be full of praise and glory and honor praise God because you refuse to let pressure dictate your next move [Music] um [Applause] turn somebody and tell them you're gonna be all right turn the other side say we're all in development and those that remain in training you will see the end of your faith amen now I gave this to you before but in another series let me give you the definition of the trial of faith what is the definition of the trial of faith I'm going to tell you what it is by first of all telling you what it's not the trial of faith is not a testing as to whether or not there is faith so the trial is not trying to test whether or not you have faith or not nor is it a test to see if your faith is sufficient so when God's taking you through things it's or allowing things to happen to you it's not to test whether you have faith and neither is it to test whether or not your faith is sufficient but rather it is purifying it's the purifying of Faith it's a removal of all impurities of dependence upon self a purifying of Faith a removal of all of the impurities of dependence upon yourself here's the main issue these pressures will be allowed to show up in your life to get you to the point where you are no longer depending on you that you now will depend on him I had a chance to look at that and every pressure cook situation I was in I remember trying to depend on me first and that wasn't working well and now once I woke up and I could see wait a minute the impurities of dependence on myself oh that's changing because now when stuff happened I ain't even trying to dip into my intellect to see how I'm going to handle it now when stuff happens the first thing I do my first move God I need you God I need you so are you still being impacted by the impurities of dependence on yourself because God knows wherever you go you're gonna have to be able to depend on him when you get there because you are a branch he is the vine and you got to stop thinking you're the vibe you are a branch all we will ever be is branches well you went through that trial that pressure you still depend on you well I know such and so such as I call I do that you went through that pressure oh well I'm such a social he'll let me borrow this then you went through that pressure and you keep going through pressures with the impurity of self-dependence but one day there's going to be a trial that shows up in your life and ain't nobody or nothing gonna be able to help you accept God and that's when everything's gonna change see a lot of us are cool because we know somebody we are educated we have money we have all of this stuff so the impurity of dependence on self is still there and you might say I depend on God but you really don't because in your head you already got an idea of what you're going to do but when the world starts acting funny and crazy like it's acting right now I don't know if you realize that we the whole world is under the threat of nuclear war and if anybody drops anything nuclear it's going to affect the entire planet just cause you're over here in College Park don't mean that you you won't you won't experience the stuff and the threat of bank failure the threat of systems that you've become used to all of that this is why I'm I'm precise at what I teach in each series because if you look at them it's trying to prepare us for whatever may come because we depend on God yeah so the pressure you crying about right now stop crying it's trying to get you ready to have total dependence on him so if you're in a situation and the stars are shut down and you need something then the wisdom of God shows up or a raven will show up on your front porch and you'll know it was God that brought you out of that situation but we've got to get the impurity of dependence on self out of the way hints the trials of your faith oh my God I began to recognize that and it was right along when the pandemic first hit I'm like well I'll do 10 Services I really was going to try to do that I'll do 10 Services because they weren't letting us have but what 20 people at a time I said well I'm gonna just do 10 services time to say are you crazy she said if you did 10 Services baby look how many people that is you still got a long way to go and then they came up and they said no nobody shut her down they shut the church down oh like no they did not they shut the chairs down so here's what I said I said well lord it's been a good ride man I tell you we we made a difference in this world thank you Lord Jesus it's been awesome it's been good and then I pause and I said wait a minute I still have you I said wait a minute but I still have you I still have a relationship with you I said what you want me to do he says you are to not change anything go to church and preach I say ain't nobody there huh he said I'm there technology was prepared for a Time such as this they're there and then it says matter of fact I want you to talk to everybody every day I said on what he's on the computer I said I'm not working on computer you no I don't know you know this and I said so what do I do preach sermons every day on a computer he said no just everything you share with me every day your daily walk with me share with them let them in on it I said but you know why make confessions he said well make confessions with them I said well you know you you drop stuff in my heart I said when I drop your heart drop it in the nails I said well how long do I have to do this and I hear nothing oh now you ain't talking God is so smooth and so I got started and I got started and I got started and I got started and we said Psalms 91 until it was coming out of our hair and today we're still saying psalm 91. you got to know that all of that stuff that we went through was not in vain it's prepared us for something and I don't know about you but it certainly prepared me because I'm like I am no longer afraid of empty seats ten years ago I walked out here and saw the congregation like this oh Lord have mercy oh God who has sinned that these many people showed up at church and not not to what YouTube I'd freaked out he had to teach me something he had to bring something out of me and I remember one Sunday I was preaching at Pulpit nobody wasn't here and I felt the anointing of the Holy Ghost I started almost crying and when nobody here wasn't nobody and any amen I got sound like this amen oh gather together and then and most people some people are still having church that same way they got used to it they say well this is my church I'm good you know I'm 90 years old and use me trying to get out and do it or or I'm I'm great where I am now and I ain't got no problem with that you're good because I had to be delivered from seats in order to be comfortable with this kind of way of pastoring people virtually and passing whoever would show up so I wouldn't open my mouth up and try to condemn people for not coming in and saying and then I have to make up a lie you know God's gonna get you if you don't come back because you're forsaken the assembling of yourself and that's what you're doing and you're gonna go to hell for say sending people for hell will not come to church think of that God always uses those pressured situations to prepare us for something to come and I'm telling you something's coming something's coming that you ain't never seen ever in your life but you know what you World Changers will be ready you will be ready it's kind of interesting to share this kind of message with people because they don't believe nothing happening this stuff already happened I think there was a company I believe the company name is CERN I'm not sure they have been developing a dimensional gate I saw pictures of it a dimensional gate that they don't even know what's going to come through I said this is sci-fi it is real there are people who have been using technology to try to do things and they prepared the whole world for even the dimensional gate it's all on the movies dimensional Gates and everything hey what you think gonna come through come through or dabble around with stuff open and stuff you don't need some gonna come through that sounds weird huh you got to really dig so you can find out what's going on in this crazy world you're just thinking it's about you your mama how you gonna pay your rent all your money spent a little bit you you thinking about that kind of stuff this thing is so much bigger than stuff that you have probably never even heard of in your life demons are going nuts trying their best to possess as many people as they can or if they can't totally possess them try to influence them try to just take a hold on stuff Satan's just just having a ball like oh we got most of the world right now and the church you know they just like little whipping out and all that kind of stuff but no no no no no no no no no no no no no no we will arise out of the ashes we will rise out of the pandemic we will rise out of the trouble we will rise out of the trial Satan ain't gonna never win here he's fighting a battle that he can never win and besides all of that greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world you were born for this time if God didn't think you could have impact in this time you would have been born a hundred years ago but God knew that somebody like you somebody like you needed to be alive right now that the devil ain't seen nobody like you Hallelujah you got that dog gone at this about you you're not gonna quit you're not gonna give up you're gonna stand on God's word come hell or high water the devil ain't never met nobody like you before [Applause] removal of impurities of dependence upon self so with all believers failure of the flesh may be God's mean to bring about a greater dependence upon God that grows into an enriched spiritual life that's why you shouldn't beat yourself up so bad hmm what is he trying to enrich he's trying to enrich you depending on God in everything this life as a Christian has got to be about more than the stuff you can get you do know that don't you you do know that this thing is way bigger than believing God for a car you you do know that right got to know that's not the sum total of this life that we live as Christians that'll come but you can't make it the object of your Christian Life you do know that praise God I pray every one of you be able to live in a house you want to live in drive a car you want to drive and and be comfortable I pray that but as long as you know that's not the sum total of this life [Applause] boys coming back we're right at the brink of one of the most powerful times that the Church of Jesus Christ has ever seen there is a deposit of Supernatural power that is being made in the in some of your lives that you don't even know whoa manifestation is about to catch up with your confession do y'all understand what I just said [Music] but he's speeding things up now I mean I mean oh Lord Jesus yeah that's a great example thank you Lord if you remember when Jesus walked past the victory and it half figs on it from a distance and when you when you have excuse me had leaves on it and when you have leaves on a fig tree you're supposed to have figs there the Bible says that he was hungry and it got close to the tree and found out there were leaves but no figs and he cursed the tree and he said no man will eat fruit of this tree hereafter and he went on to his destination and he came back by 24 hours later now we just noticed it 24 hours later I don't know how quickly that took place but I know 24 hours later they came back and the truth dried up from its roots which would absolutely say no man's gonna eat fruit of it because it it can't exist anymore it'll never again produce figs it was right up front this route we say it took 25 hours we don't know that we know he said what he said and he left it might have took place in a matter of minutes because the root can dry up and you can still see the leaves still there I'm telling you it and that's what that's what just came out of my mouth that your manifestation is about to catch up with your confession why because the manifestation is no longer dependent on you you are now dependent on God and without him you can do nothing becomes a reality in your life and so God is not able to do a whole lot quicker what he wants to do oh yeah I heard that because you don't finally got out of his way [Applause] wow failures due to dependence upon self should be stepping stones to deeper spiritual experiences failures due to dependence upon self and and I'm sure I know I have in my life you can locate a lot of failures that came from self-dependence instead of God dependence and he said those failures should be stepping stones to deeper experiences in Christ don't ever come out of a trial without the wisdom of why that happened I went through it now let me back up and see what and here's the wisdom I hope you resolve here's the wisdom I hope you see man why don't I go through that because the impurities of self-dependence are still there I still think I don't need God and I run to a lot of men that believe that I still think I don't believe God I'm strong I'm a man I don't need God so what how many more trials do you have to go through until you get to that point of knowing you can't do this without God you are branch and you try to act like you're Divine you're a branch you ain't gonna be to produce no fruit on those on the vine without the on the branch without divine and that's what that's that's the picture of it it's you trying to produce fruit in your life and let's say sometimes through your own efforts you get something to happen but you don't see the end of that thing the end of that thing is you needed him for sustaining power you got to stop being satisfied with temporary success because sometimes it's it's just a it's just it's just a a mirage it's it's temporary any success I I achieve no or I receive in my life I wanted to be because I depended on God I want to look up and say oh look at what God did because when he does it he gets the glory when you do it you brag and give yourself the glory so he's trying to get a people that will use their failures as a stepping stone but that sounds weird well I don't ever have any failures you got one now you're prideful use it as a stepping stone I failed here I didn't depend on God here I depend on this this this failed here my marriage I'm God's telling me to be quiet I got to open my mouth I got to have the last word on everything I failed here in my business because you know I sat here and I was so prideful about telling people I had a business that I quit the job that put food on the table and got involved in a hobby that was so far from being a business but it was a hobby but it satisfied my ego y'all hear what I'm talking about because some of you look at me like I don't have any idea what you're talking about and I am talking about sufficiency that you try to get from yourself Stepping Stones to Greater places I love the beginning of these series because I get a chance to just waddle around all kinds of different places stick all kinds of stuff in you as far as seed is concerned get you to thinking like I'm thinking and so as you're thinking about this throughout the week you're going to come back Revelation is going to flow out of me because we're on the same page I can't teach some of these stuffs outside in other churches because they're not you you you used to me you know I'm going somewhere you allow me to room to set it up throw all all kind of stuff with you yeah yeah yeah yeah I got it I got it I got I'm trying to get practical and practical and then come back with the scripture I ain't gonna tell you another thing in the description I'm gonna come back with the scriptures and and and it's it's going to be an amazing time because after this is over with you will never again be afraid of pressure [Applause] let me show you this so we're running out of time Romans 5. 2 through three in the King James first and then the NLT Romans 5 verse two through three here's something that just got me we Glory through tribulation through trouble through pressure so let me say it like this we're supposed to Glory through tribulation and through pressure look at this but home also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God and not only so but we glory in tribulation also knowing that tribulation produces patience or a scratch that word produced years ago I I had a problem with that word produced because if trouble could produce everything then everybody need to go through it but here's what I'm saying the workers or employees so when I'm in trouble I hire patients you see it makes a difference right when I'm in trouble I employ patience patience means consistently constantly the same I don't change about my stance on depending on God and so Trouble Comes I employ patience I still depend on God I still depend on God I still depend on God I still depend on God now the trouble may be changing but I'm not tribulation employs patience all right now what does patients employ in order for it to continue to go look at verse 4. and patience employs experience oh so when the Trouble Comes I hire patients when I hire patients patients now employs the experience what experience the experience of victory there's something about being the same about depending on God that will implore the victory that comes from dependent on God so patients employees or hires experience and what does experience hire now I have experience experience hires hope so if you ever experience the victory you now can have hope for more yeah I don't hear what I'm saying trouble hires patients so trouble while I'm in trouble I'm hiring patients I'm going to say his name about the same about depending on God in trouble patience is going to bring about the experience hires it and the experience of Victory is going to hire hope look at what came from tribulation look at what came from Trouble Trouble Comes I am now hiring patients patience is hired it now must hire experience a victory experience of victory has now showed up I have hope ultimately that hope is going to take me all the way back to the beginning where I depended on God in trouble and patience was hired in trouble and the experience of Victory showed up from trouble and Hope Came From the trouble all pressure that developed the experience the uniqueness of the world changer that people are going to be looking and like what you doing I'm dependent on God but I thought you lost your job yeah it wasn't thought I did I did but I depend on God ah and and and and and I'm not going to change I'm gonna be all right I'll get a better one some of you spend years oh God give me a promotion in my jaw oh God give me victory in my job oh God I need more money in my job and then you know oh God is saying well you're gonna have to leave this job because it ain't happening here [Applause] don't get stressed out don't get upset don't be going around all these years I don't work for y'all and y'all gonna do me like this you're the one who asked for a promotion it's just that they have so as soon as they come depend on you dang I ain't they never gonna find me but I depend on you and then they start going through your head I can't believe they let me go but I depend on you and then you depend on him become something you remain the same at and then all of a sudden that patience now you experience a new job with five top making five times more than what you made before and now that you have the experience you want to now or that you want in the first place now the Hope comes you want to you want to find me again long why cause I depend on you I no longer see that as a negative experience I see this as an experience of Hope and victory and development because it got rid of the impurities of depending on myself the stuff the stuff we just we just can't see it while it's going on and what happens is remember Satan is trying to see how he can take advantage of the pressures in your life will you choose to develop in the spirit or will you choose to develop in the flesh you've been praying for a promotion they let you go from your job now you got you you got to tear everything up you know they fight you okay well I'll leave and I don't think this is right your mama your mama your mama your mama [Applause] so you're developing and allowing your emotions your negative emotions to take you in a in a in a direction that you don't want to go so now you're developing in something that he now causes you to stay the same and you won't stop doing that and now you have the experience of what happens when you do something like that and then you're in hopelessness because of your experience of what happened you see so so pressure is going to be here you're going to either allow it to move you into better places and give birth to those things that are inside of you that you don't even know about yet or you'll allow Satan to use it and put you in a place that'll be satisfying to yourself to your uh yourself you know when somebody does something to you it's satisfying to be able to customize no it's not somebody doing say something to you and you should be holding it beholding and you know the flash wants to use them compound custom words y'all looking at me like that but if it feels a little satisfying like uh-huh I told you I told and you're gonna get on the phone you know they let me go and you know what I said to them hear what I said to him you blanket it blank blank blank blank so did you know now don't you you learned something today didn't you they didn't know who they were messing with but you don't know what you just avoided an opportunity for God to bring something up in you and that you would have never experienced through your own even self-diligence that's tough man that's tough I had a situation like that just two days ago it was tough it was tough man I'm sitting in I was asking questions trying to be pastorally a guy responded to me in a way and I was like oh love and I looked again and I'm like oh law so open my bible up and I said I was trying to read the scripture but they were none of them was making no sense can I cannot be honest with y'all man it just I they look like algebra it looks like because all I was thinking about like no this chocolate didn't [Applause] my heart stopped being fast I start feeling pain in my body that I thought I was done with and I wouldn't put it to bed how many of you got to put it to bed I wouldn't put it to bed and because I didn't put it to bed I was I was rehearsing it mm-hmm I should have put it to bed then I started nursing it but God wanted me to disperse it but I'm like not yet because I got to let him know [Applause] and I made it through whoa went preached the gospel made it through felt good it'll be all right and that same demon was still there when I got back on him and me I had just been a preaching I'm like oh no no this this got to go down now I went to trying to rehearse it but now now this got to happen this got to happen oh blank yeah it got to happen it got to happen now [Applause] you know what I said he said if it happens you have taken a step backwards instead of forward put it to bed I said I'm trying it ain't ready to go to bed it ain't sleeping Lord it ain't ready to go to bed I got cuss words that my mama used to use that came up out of me I I wanted to try them out foreign want to delete maybe I wouldn't be here this morning sharing this scripture about pressing [Applause] got up the next morning after I put myself to bed so glad that the best part of me because I remember saying in this Lord you got to help me and it's wrong Lord you got to help me now and he was having me God got to build got to be a very present help in a time of trouble I'm so glad that I didn't take a step back knowing I had to come and preach this to you I'm a better man today someone walk with wisdom today I don't need to don't need to happen you know I got appointment you know as soon as I get I got I gotta run to do something and meet my wife somewhere and it it'll be all right but you know you know I'm a human growing and I have been through a lot and I am able with God's help to go through this stuff because that's what we're looking for more bad examples and I'm not going to do that I'm not gonna do that I'm gonna be just fine even if I got to run sometimes you just need to run if you feel like you know if you don't feel the help right away you need to go to the bathroom you need to run you need to go get a Snickers real quick maybe I'm just home you know that commercial he hungry just give them a Snickers this is real and when you make the choice there is pressure look at did you see that just that illustration there's pressure on both sides it's the pressure trying to stop you from depending on God and then there's the pressure to try to get you to yield to the flesh and depend on yourself so you can either allow pressure to be used for the betterment of your life or you can allow it to just keep bringing you back to that same old place same old place that same old place I remember I went through something like that and one of my sisters came up to me and they said who tell we need to kick like like like like they were saying but we know you got depression we're just gonna go kick their tail and it'll be all over with we're growing I share this with you freely I want you to know how real this is this stuff can sneak up on you just like it did Peter you fully intend on going the right way but Satan with his tricks trying his best to get you to go this way because you hadn't passed that test yet and it doesn't get easier until you pass that test until you resist it and say no I'm not doing that I'm not like that anymore I'm a better person than I am and besides I depend on God and he is able to keep me from falling he's able able to present me faultless before the almighty God that's dependent on his ability to keep you from falling but ain't no need to be getting up to you to oh yes church now see I am preaching to you but I I don't fall to an impression Bob the faith fifteen hundred eleven million times on oppression that's why I understand it so well people talk about me what do you think I do sit in the house and say hahaha that's nice that's nice I like where they live at then I go searching for my peace be still foreign I gotta talk to you with whatever really illustration that I come up with even though it shocked some of y'all deep folks I need you to know you are a human I am a human but the Christ Jesus that has entered on the inside of me is trying to develop me to go to the best place how many times you don't cuss somebody out how many times you're gonna miss tomorrow how many times you're gonna act like a fool how many times your pride gonna stand up time I got to show you you don't know who you messing with how many times you gonna do that you don't been there and done that over and over and over again and it doesn't produce nothing but an angry lonely bitter individual it's time for you to do better it's time for you to stop depending on yourself and it's time for you to depend on God because he's going to take you to a place that you've never been before he's going to take you in a new adventure that you've never seen before but you got to depend on him and he'll teach you love he'll teach you forgiveness he'll teach you all these wonderful friends fear is going to produce fruit fruit what kind will you allow it to produce what what what Vine are you connected with no one in the world I go I'm not gonna be no old fool a man that can control his tongue will control his entire body sometimes it is just as simple as keeping your mouth close I was around some guys other than one of them said well you know you people I'm like oh you people you you and I heard the Holy Ghost keep your mouth closed don't you say Wonder don't respond to it act like you ain't even here you can depend on God he'll give you wisdom to show you how to respond but too many of us think it's all right you don't understand what's on the line by continuing to fail the test of pressure can be a gift if you will allow it to lead you down the right path the Temptation is real I just explained it to you the Temptation is real I'll have by five more testimonies next week these ain't no 20 30 years testimony these can be 48 Hours testimonies everything on the way to church testimony [Music] if if I don't bring this down on the level then the the prize of what God wants to bring out of you it really won't work because you're I made it too deep for your practicality and I'm trying to be so practical so when you walk out of here and you have a flat tire you know I am not going to pass you on the way out here and watch you cuss your time baby come on they're more tires maybe somebody might walk by and say listen I'm gonna give you a whole set of new tires I just broke my heart to give you a whole set of new time that that's that's what happens when you let and depend on God and let him take you to this place he gonna bring some beautiful things out into your life you get anything out of that this morning so we're going to pick up at Romans 5 and we'll start this series and I think that it will will help to really adjust some stuff you're going to see some amazing things in scripture as we continue to learn how to mature through pressure I mean we have to mature you'll see lots of scriptures that says you can't stay a child you can't stay a babe there are certain things that God can't even do with you or for you without maturing this series is about maturing it is time for us to grow up and start maturing amen lift your hands father we receive the word we are grateful to you we're grateful for you we pray that this will begin a journey where we say we depend on you and we need you blessings over this congregation blessings over their family blessings over everything they do and I declare all is well with them in Jesus name amen I was thinking the other day about giving and if you need an offering envelope raise your hands while I say this ushers go ahead and get it to everybody it is the most freeing thing ever to know that when I learn how to depend on God there was no pressure in giving and I started asking why are people pressured when giving time comes because they really hadn't resolved who they depend on when you depend on God and you see giving as a worship to God there's no pressure we're giving and I remember the times where pressure was always on given I'm like I'm getting ready to give this way I could be doing this I could be doing that and it's like wow that's got to be conflicting but when you depend on God and you begin to recognize that I get to do this I get to worship him in the beauty of his holiness I get to give not out of necessity not because I'm trying to keep a commandment not because I'm trying to avoid a curse but I get to give out of honor and appreciation and Thanksgiving and and gratitude for all that God does in my life and I get to give knowing that I'm depending on him for my financial situation that changed everything that I depend on God and if you should get these wonderful businesses making billions of dollars a year depend on God to say this day I'ma close I don't need the extra day I depend on God this day I set aside for Thanksgiving and worshiping God that's a powerful thing that happens when you do that so let's prepare our gifts we give unto the Lord freely we give unto the Lord not under a commandment but from a cheerful heart and I tell you that just changed everything it changed everything well what percent you give it depends on whatever God puts on my heart he says well what what do you feel like you want a given I start thinking about his goodness and I start thinking about what he's showing me and how he's dealt with me and how he's loved me and and I give and I look up sometimes it's way way over what I used to hear out of commandment not a bondage I give freely as the Lord leads me in and I just want to worship him and that's what this is this is worship this is saying to God what do you want to do through me how do you want to use me I mean even am I giving God spoke to me this morning in my closet he said go ahead and make your offering out I'm like yeah yeah make it out right now put on my heart I need help in this area I wrote down what he told me to give I mean you know God's never going to be in debt to anybody but as a worship for him I depend on him I don't depend on what I put in this so it's not a loss when I give it I'm not dependent on anything I give as I say I'm Giving To Worship the Lord I depend on God a lot of things are set straight when we make up our mind to depend on him and allow the impurities of self-dependence to be dealt with if you're ready to give you have your envelopes or whatever device could we pray together over this Lord this is our worship this is our seed that we give not out of necessity but out of a cheerful heart a heart of gratitude and Thanksgiving we praise you for the opportunity to do this now Jesus day amen let's just go ahead and receive this somebody asked me one time well don't you need to get people saved for you take the offering up no no no no the offering is a part of worship I want to finish the worship service first and offering is that part of that is giving as a worship unto the Lord praise God amen oh I'm excited about this series man this this is we're gonna be good gonna help you out a lot help you out a whole lot this week share goodness with somebody a word an encouraging word I don't know a handshake or a God bless you no matter how small it is do something away from yourself into somebody else's life that will bring encouragement a smile something just try it It'll be such a blessing to your life to get to see how it doesn't take a lot to make people's day amen well if you're here today in the dome you've never made Jesus the Lord of your life and the day you say I want to get born again I want to get saved I wanna live my life dependent on him I'm going to pray this little short prayer and if you'll pray it with me I'll lead you straight to the throne you know somebody said well I thought we had to come up you can come up if you want to or you can stay right there at your seat what matters most is what you're getting ready to receive into your heart and that's him those of you who are watching online if you want to get born again pray this prayer after me Heavenly Father I realize that I'm a sinner but right now I Repent of all my sins I received the free gift of forgiveness and I have come to understand that I need a savior I can't do this alone Jesus Come into my heart be my Lord and my savior and by faith I receive you Lord I believe you Lord I Trust You Lord thank you for saving me this day in Jesus name amen if you pray that simple prayer with me today you are saved if you are all watching online again you can text the key word I'm saved that's one word to 5155 provide your name and email address and we'll send you a free booklet today if you're here and you just prayed that prayer and you just got saved would you please come on down we want to get you up in the prayer room those of you who 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life unto him who perfects everything that concerns you unto the God of all Grace and comfort May protection be over you and your family May doors open that were once closed to you May such favor increase in your life and I declare that there is no lack that can ever conquer anything that you're doing I pray that the power of His spirit will escort you throughout this week that you will be a recipient of the wisdom of God of the plan of God and of the power of God I thank God that protections over your children I thank God that your marriage is strong I thank God that restoration is is is stable and Powerful over your life and no weapon formed against you will prosper and now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the almighty God be glory Majesty dominion and power both now and forever and everybody said amen God bless you everybody have an amazing day today you asked and we answered we know there are friends of the ministry who prefer CDs 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Published: Sun Oct 09 2022