I HOPE SO

go to the new testament book of mark mark chapter nine mark chapter nine i want to illuminate for your understanding verses 21-24 mark 9 21-24 would you mind standing for the reading of god's word those of you are physically able mark 9 21-24 once you found it won't you say i got it if you can't find it say lord help me amen mark 9 21-24 would you read silently as i read aloud jesus asked the boy's father how long has he been like this from childhood he answered he has often thrown him into fire or water to kill them but if you can do anything take pity on us and help us if you can say jesus everything is possible for one who believes immediately the boy's father exclaimed i do believe help me overcome my unbelief you may be seated even before going into the word of god new birth i hope you are as excited as i am would you give god a cheer for 21 people already getting saved come on you got to do better than that for 21 already joining our ministry being a part of what it is that god is doing immediately the boy's father exclaimed i do believe help me to overcome my unbelief i want to preach for a little while this morning using as a subject i hope so i hope so would you look at the person beside you and just say those three words to them i hope so in 1984 there was a landmark moment for the african-american community it was almost unfathomable that the son of a single black mother would they throw his hat in the ring to become the first black president of the yet to be united states of america it ignited the flame of possibilities from coliseums to college campuses they were all crying out loud ron jesse run donning an afro in a thick mustache rev jesse jackson would mount the podium and lead a chant that was mesmerizing and spellbounding keep hope alive the hope that we could go from being sharecroppers to the commander-in-chief became infectious to say the least fast forward to 2008 when a freshman representative named barack hussein obama released a book entitled the audacity of hope which is to operate with the gumption that the unlikely can still happen even in the absence of confirmation and history confirmed it with his unprecedented election to become the first black president of the united states and then most recently wrongfully incarcerated philadelphia bread rapper meek mills stated in an interview that he grew up in a community that had absolutely no hope that merely existing was success and the question that i've got to ask you this morning is how did we go from a generation that was committed to keeping hope alive to a generation that operated with the audacity of hope to a present generation that says hope does not exist you are parenting and partnering and teaching and leading a generation that in large measure is waving the white flag of hopelessness no hope in the electoral process after it is that stacy didn't become governor no hope in the education system when you have more debt from student loans than you do from credit cards when school teachers are making less than garbage collectors when you go to college to get a job and then you got to get a job to pay for college no hope in marital prospects where we are adjusting to independence that is crippling it is only in the black community that you'll hear the words i don't need a man you'll never hear a jewish woman say it an asian woman say it it's only in our community that we raise our daughters to live in isolation and as quiet as is kept so few now have hope in church there's the largest hour for black people in america of our people who don't go to church but say they believe in god your grandmothers used to sing a song that somehow got torn out of the hymn book my hope is built on nothing less than jesus blood and his righteousness i dare not trust the sweetest frame but holy lame on jesus name i know you don't know it but on christ the solid rock i stand miriam webster says hope is wanting something to happen hope is wanting something to be true and i wonder if there's anybody who's in this sacred space who desperately with every fiber of your being you want something to happen is it now where i'm asking you to turn to your neighbor i'm not talking to them i'm talking to you but god if you could just get this one thing done for me i want it to happen i don't know where you are in this sanctuary i don't really know you like that but god i need you to do this for me i i want it to happen i'm talking about the thing you don't talk to a lot of people about but you you keep it in your heart and in your spirit i i want this to happen am i the only one who knows that my real blessings i'm talking to grown-ups don't happen under trees but i i i need god to do something before christmas ever gets here i as a matter of fact i don't even need him to wrap it i don't need a ribbon around it but if he could just put me in a place where i can flow in my gift and in my assignment and do my call i'm tired of just existing there's got to be more for my life god this has got to happen i i i need for this to happen and i it it consumes me in my sleep it it it overwhelms me while i'm awake i i i'm not hating on nobody i'm i'm not jealous of anybody but in the back of my mind i want to know when is it going to happen for me when hallelujah i'm i've been faithful i i try to treat people nice and and they still nasty to me when when am i gonna get the breakthrough that i see other folks shouting and praying for i need this to happen i i i just need one contract i i just need one meeting i just need one opportunity i just need to interface with the right person god i just need you to do this for my child i i need you to handle what's going on in my body i got hope that it's gonna happen i i got no confirmation nobody has prophesied to me but i believe in my spirit nobody told me to roll was gonna be easy but i don't believe he brought me this there are two kinds of hope two kinds of hope and the first kind of hope is a first-person hope it's a hope that um i want for myself first person hope is the kind of hope that i want for uh myself my daughter angel who sits amongst you uh goes into her mother's room every night to ask her one question uh she goes in her mother's room every night to ask what what are we eating for breakfast tomorrow that's what she asked her mother every night uh and uh her mother gets frustrated why why do you keep asking me what you gonna eat tomorrow and an angel says cause it helps me sleep better [Applause] because because i can sleep tonight knowing what i'm gonna have god i wish that was that new birth hallelujah okay can i tell you something weeping may endure for a night you want to know why i'm child and get ate for what i have right now i'm shouting for what i believe i'm gonna have tomorrow some some of y'all don't have hope for it but if you believe god's got a blessing with your name on it tomorrow that's something it's first-person hope what i'm gonna have tomorrow and and then there's uh third-person hope third-person hope is uh my hope for somebody else hallelujah that there are no strings attached but but but i know intimately that they've been going through something and i want something to break for them some of y'all don't know how to shout because you don't have legitimate friends but but but those of you watch this who are selfless enough that that you want god to do something for somebody you care about hallelujah that even if it don't benefit me i'm sick of seeing my best friend struggling and by themselves and getting their head up against a brick wall i can tell some of y'all don't know how to flow like this but if you got a friend you want god to bless would you do me a favor and just give god glory for what you want for them i want a job for them i want a healthy relationship for them i want a stable family life for them i want them to get their focus together it may not be a friend it may be a relative y'all ain't saying nothing to me i i want them to never go back to jail again i don't want them to deal with rehab another season of their life i don't want them to fight depression and anxiety i want something for them hallelujah dr henry cloud wrote something amazing you may be seated in um and one of his uh pop culture treatise he argues about a woman that he met in his counseling session and this woman that he met in the counseling session was resolved that she was going to end her marriage because her husband kept wrestling through addiction she came to the sobering reality that her attempts to get her addicted husband clean had all proven futile and so now she was willing to exercise third-party hope believing that god would clean him up and get him out of the dirty waters of addiction she was done and was convinced that divorce was the only option she had you're not going to believe it she had given up hope and she had no idea that sometimes god will render you hopeless because he wants you to take your hand off of it i'm talking to those of you who have found out for yourself that as much as you tried to fix it and make it work and pull it together because that's who you are by nature it wasn't until you took your hand off and said father i stretch my hand of these day anybody this year you had to take your hand off some people and take your hand off some circumstance just for god to get in the midst and her hopelessness is what opened the door for god to operate and once she surrendered everything started falling the place the therapist orchestrated a professional intervention he went to rehab and this morning new birth he's been sober for nine years and still married to the same woman y'all ain't gonna shout about it she gave up on him but didn't give up on god and there's some of you who are in a hopeless situation that the only way that it can resuscitate and rebound is if god gets in the middle of it because you done done everything that you can do out of your own natural capacity but you gotta say lord this battle is not mine this battle is yours [Applause] i can't keep doing it this way but there's got to be a way what you just say pastor i can't keep doing it this way but there's got to be a way i ain't talking to you i'm talking to the person behind you i want just 2 000 of you to just shout it out loud i can't keep doing it this way but there's got to be a way i'm waiting on you i'm coming to get you in one moment come on a thousand of you shouted out loud i can't keep doing it this way but there's got to be a way [Applause] hallelujah so something is getting ready to break i i feel it's right at the precipice of a miracle which you lay hands on yourself and shout it out loud again i can't keep doing it this way but there's got to be a way how much there's got to be a way for me to get this done hallelujah thank you holy god i need you to just encourage the faith for the people down your road and just tell them there's got to be a way hallelujah you're going to get the promotion even though they don't like you there's got to be a wish you are moving out of that apartment and getting in the house with messed up credit there's got to be a wish your son is going to be a man of integrity and honor and character with no relationship with his biological father there's got to be a way your body is going to get healed even with no insurance there's got to be away [Applause] there's got to be a way even at the risk of people looking at you like you're crazy would you just say it out loud there's got to be a way there's god [Applause] there's got to be a way hallelujah hallelujah you getting ready to bounce back faster than you ever thought there's got to be a wish hallelujah elbow your neighbor say you better take a good look at me this is the brokest i'm ever gonna be in my life i don't know how god is gonna do it but there's wealth getting ready to hit my life and there's god there's got to be a way i can't have trump in the white house another two years i don't care if he's impeached goes to jail quits but there's god to be a wife in colossians the son of god is considered the hope of glory and because he is the hope of glory it's crystallized in mark chapter nine in mark chapter nine we're introduced to our essential character of this narrative who is a desperate father and in verse 17 he brings his son to be healed because there's a satanic spirit that keeps attacking him hallelujah before jesus ever meets the son he meets the parent and the parent begins to travail on their child's behalf and i'm talking to some parents who are in this room who got third-party stress god help me because you recognize that this is not the child you raised this is not the child that you made the impartation in that you were intentional on developing but satan keeps attacking your child god i can't hear no worshipers in here i to tell you something that when the enemy can't get to you he attacks your children because he begins attacking whatever is close to you and the father watch this goes to jesus on behalf of the son and begins to watch this to compel him please do something for my child because i need something to break i don't need the spectators to do anything i'm just talking to parents who got a child god help me whose head is in the grip of the enemy but you believing you ain't going into 2019 with a child that is in bondage y'all ain't saying nothing to me god said my authority is so heavy that not only will i change your child father y'all better shout i'll change your child circle of friends god i can't hear nobody but i because they don't know to come to me i want to know will you worship on behalf of your child this ain't for everybody but those of you that need a breakthrough for your child i tell you right now to get in the presence of god like i need something to help you see that i got to get my daughter out of that relationship god help me i i got to get my son away from them people that got no ambition and no goals y'all ain't saying nothing to me i'm i'm frustrated because they don't know i want more for them than they want for themselves i i recognize their potential in their gift and their anointing in their capacity and the devil's trying to kill them before they realize why they were birthed in the earth but no weapon formed against my child shall cross hallelujah be seated in the presence of our god hallelujah thank you holy god satan get off my child god i feel something right there sad get off my grand babies where did satan attack the child satan attacked the child wash this in his mouth so that he could not speak the enemy loves a silent worshiper god help me in here why does the enemy love a silent worshiper maybe you forgot that lucifer before becoming satan was minister of music and because he was minister of music he had to be classically trained so he had to know anthems and spirituals and hymns and contemporary gospel music so the enemy doesn't mind singing did y'all hear what i just said the enemy doesn't mind singing but because he's a classically trained musician what satan can't stand is a scream wow watch but this help me watch this because it doesn't matter whether you're patti labelle or pavarotti you can't scream and be on cage so whenever you scream you drive the enemy crazy and he wants to do everything to stop you i can't hear nobody i dare you to shout like you came to upset the enemy you came to drive him crazy you came to give him a black eye you came to send him back to the pit of hell he wants to silence you and whenever it is that the young man was beginning to speak got upset i want you to read mark 9 when you get home that this father takes the boy to jesus and as soon as he gets close to jesus he breaks into convulsions you just missed that he did not go into convulsions watch this until he got close as long as he was far from where he was supposed to be there was no attack but the closer he got y'all ain't saying nothing to me everything in his system began to shut down i came to tell 2 000 of you if you have been under attack take it as confirmation you must be close you are closer than you ever been in your life you must [Applause] the enemy doesn't want you to get close to god he doesn't want you to get close to god that's why you can have insomnia but watch this if you start reading the bible you'll go to sleep in five minutes [Applause] he don't want you to get close to god and he asked him a critical question he asked him in verse number 21 how long has he been like this the person who you're standing next to sitting next to they didn't just start in this pattern they didn't just start in this cycle but they've been going through it since childhood jesus said in that moment i am stopping the generational curse i thought i was at new birth whatever you've been wrestling with your entire life comes to an end today i don't know where you are but you'll never be insecure another day in your life you will never not love yourself another day of your life says i keep throwing you down [Applause] and i'm throwing you down be seated i got to show you this i'm throwing you down to kill you stay in strings please i'm sewing you down to kill you in water and in fire many of you have misappropriated the intention of the enemy the enemy is not trying to hurt your feelings he's not trying to embarrass you the enemy is trying to kill you and every day you wake up you give satan a surprise party because he never expected you to survive what weaker people would have broke under you are not regular you are not average you're not like everybody else cause you done came through hell and you still look good you you done came to the worst of it and you still got your mind intact i want that hand lifted [Applause] god said whatever you fell for before you ain't falling for the same stuff again y'all ain't saying nothing to me says i'm keeping all haters and liars out of your space y'all better shout better than that he said i never gonna let you get your heart broken like that i ain't gonna let nobody play with your money play with your mind play with your dreams pray with your idea i got a head fence a protection around your life [Applause] how long long you been that way how long you gonna keep eating when you're not hungry how long you're gonna keep drinking cause you bored how long are you gonna keep questioning the word of god over your life when he keeps giving you evidence that he's with you how long are you going to keep blaming what happened in your childhood when god has made it up to you five times how long you gonna keep missing somebody god never wanted you to be with how long so the father begins talking to jesus and he says if you can do anything for him this is what i want for christmas i want you to do something for this boy i'm not even asking you to do something for me but i got third-party hope god can't trust people that are selfish it is only when you start doing for others that god will make it start happening for you y'all didn't hear what i just said he doesn't like selfish people what's getting ready to happen now is going to upset everything in the kingdom of darkness because there's committed to be a shout in this building that is not going to benefit you but you are getting ready to exercise third-party hope i am hopeful that whatever i went through the person beside you will never have to deal with did y'all hear what i just said that whatever i live through they'll never have to go through i am hopeful i need you right where it is that you are would you look at the person beside you tell them i'm not jealous of you come on sir i'm not threatened by you i'm not intimidated by you i'm one of your real friends when i give god this next shout i am not shouting for a car i am not shouting for money but i'm shouting because i hope that everything god has for your life is getting ready to happen i pay you to shout for that neighbor like everything you better shout for whatever you pray for whatever you passed it for whatever you asked god for [Music] says i'm exercising hope because i want god to give you the desires of your heart i want him to do exceedingly abundantly beyond what you can think dream hope or even imagine i need you to elbow that neighbor tell them i hope so there'll never be a bill to come to your house that you can't pay i hope so i pray you will die not by yourself but that god will send somebody into your life to have in the hole i hope so [Music] i hope for your life that you don't have to always be the picture that you got to keep pouring into other people and nobody pours back into you am sharp and tired i hope for your life that the enemy can't even speak your name out loud because there's anointing coming out of you from the top of your head to the soul of your feet now the person next to you they didn't shout that well because they don't know what you need from god but if you know for yourself that i need here like never before ah [Music] i can't hear you sound like you gotta [Applause] hope oh i can't hear you i can't hear you [Music] lift up that hand he said i hope watch this that you realize that your son will never have that fall again hallelujah they'll never have that fall again those of you at this altar i need you to take four steps back for me please hallelujah i feel god in this room precious the only people who i wanted this altar what's this are those of you that have a son that's incarcerated i want you to come meet me at this altar please you got a son you got a grandson that's incarcerated [Applause] they're never gonna fall again [Applause] i said they're never gonna fall again they're never going to fall again new birth i need to hear you open up your mouth for them [Applause] [Music] you got a son that's serving time i need you to come pulling his cloaks to this altar take somebody's hand by your hand i'm exercising third-party hope [Music] hallelujah i'm waiting for two more of you this ain't the hour for you to be embarrassed don't worry about focusing your business i'm waiting on you i need you to come somebody's hand is in your hand you have this i'm telling you i came to assassinate a demon today hallelujah bless his name there's getting ready to be a sound in the glory today i want you to know what kind of faith your pastor has have the kind of faith watch this for every son that's represented at this altar that their sentence is going to be reduced y'all didn't hear what i just said i said they're getting out ahead of schedule [Applause] it's my prayer what's this that the holy spirit is gonna break into their son's cell that they're gonna rededicate their lives to jesus christ in the next 24 hours that when they come out they're going to be men of integrity they're going to be business owners and home owners and husbands and worship leaders god is gonna anoint their head with oil says i'm sick of all of the men that come out of jail being muslim oh y'all don't like me in georgia he said i gotta raise up an army of men watch this that love jesus coming out of jail and as soon as they get out guess what y'all they coming straight to new birth i need you to shout like you see it coming [Applause] [Music] those of you at the altar i want you to take that neighbor's hand those are at the altar take that neighbor's hand you got your own son going through you got your grandson going through some of you came to this altar because your brother is in your husband is in god said how long they been falling like this since they were 14 since they were 17. since their daddy died since they switched schools since they moved to another neighborhood since they've been running with their cousins god said it ends today new birth i want you your faith to connect with my faith for 60 seconds uninterrupted for one minute watch this there's getting ready to be a sound in this room that we're believing that god is breaking out a revival in the penitentiary and every single one of these young men that are represented by family members have had their last fall or y'all didn't hear what i just said they have had their last fault no lawyer will be necessary after this last round [Music] now those of you who are in their birth those of you who are watching online one says you're gonna shout for them even though you don't know them and those of you who are at the altar here is the exercise of your faith you're not even gonna shout for your son you ain't even gonna shout for your grandson you're gonna begin to worship for the person whose hand you're holding god i can't hear nobody in here because i trust god so much that i believe he gonna do it for both of us those of you that are streaming i need you right now to send us the name of your son our intercessors are coming into agreement with you that god is going to break the yoke and he's going to end the cycle when i count to three i need to hear shout a yell a scream a hollow for our black men that are coming out from prison bars and you believe they're starting a new lease on life one minute uninterrupted one two three shall [Applause] i can't hear you shout out [Music] [Music] [Music] let's upset the enemy as these family members go back to their seat i want you to shout like you see their sons graduating from morehouse graduating from georgia tech y'all already saying nothing graduate from hampton you can go back to your seats would y'all shout for them come on i can't hear you lift up that voice [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] what you said to your feet i need somebody to shout out loud i hope so only the people around you know what you've been hoping for it's a little boy came to church little boy came to church in augusta georgia small church couldn't have held a hundred people and the preacher got up and uh said his offering time little boy couldn't have been seven or eight years old deacon's at the altar holding the basket to collect the offering the little boy took his foot and was trying to step in the basket losing his balance the deacons grabbed hold of him just before he fell and said what are you doing a little boy self-conscious embarrassed with glazed eyes said i'm trying to get in the basket and the deacon said man what wha why you trying to get in the basket said i'm trying to get in the basket because the pastor said give god your best this week i didn't get allowance so i didn't have any money so i just wanted to give god me because that's the best that i have and some people in this room who need to climb in the basket you can't give god a gift card for christmas can't take him to dinner god don't want cologne he don't want a necktie god wants you he said come unto me all ye that labor and i'll give you rest i don't know where you are but you're tired of falling tired of perpetuating the same cycle tired of ending up in the exact same place and you're saying i surrender i gotta give give god me i didn't try literally everything else and today this morning i'm giving him me wherever you are in this room you can hear my voice and today you're prepared to give god you not a million-dollar offering you want to give them your heart you want to give them your mind i need you to come from wherever it is that you're standing i don't even know how you survived this year i don't know how you came out of 2018. but i need you to hurry up come on please you don't wasted enough of your life your life starts over right now [Applause] come on please i'm not too proud to beg your life is on the line your soul is at stake satan desires to sift you like we but i'm praying for you [Applause] new birth here they come y'all don't believe god for harvest the bible says that the angels rejoice over one that's found and y'all ain't saying nothing and they're still coming [Applause] they still coming and y'all gonna shout about it [Applause] i need y'all to shout for these black men coming come on y'all ain't saying nothing i need you to shout everything i give listen to me listen i don't know where it is that you are 21 came earlier i'm looking for another 20 to match that 20. hallelujah here comes another brother i need you to give god some praise i don't know where you are but i want you to know you're under angelic arrest i am praying watch this i'm praying even right now that the very sound of my voice will irritate you till you get to this altar [Applause] come come on y'all gotta shout for this [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i don't know where you are i don't know how you got here but i need you to come i want to free five of you very quickly i want to free you very quickly when you get to heaven they're never going to ask you who your pastor is they just want to know who your savior is y'all didn't say nothing to me and i'm going to free five of you who are going to a ministry where you're not growing where you're not being challenged where you're not being stretched and you don't even realize you are being loyalty to your own liability you're being faithful watch this to the undermining of your own destiny this is where you can grow this is where god is going to launch you this is where you're supposed to be i need you to come meet me at this altar please come on new birth would you shout for those who are coming even now [Music] hear this hear me very carefully i here comes a whole beautiful family i need y'all to shout for them would y'all shout for this mother and two sons come on listen to me hallelujah here comes another mother and son i need y'all to go crazy in this room i need y'all to shout for these beautiful black men coming come on y'all ain't giving god glory here they come watch this softly listen to me i don't know where you are i need you to go find two people that you don't know go find two people whose names you don't know you're gonna walk right up on them like you need a light at happy hour walk right up on them watch this don't do it yet you're gonna walk right up on them you're gonna ask them two questions number two number one are you a member of a church where you're growing don't do it yet i don't care whether it's a me or baptist or kojic word of faith independent apostolic presbyterian you name it i don't care what it is as long as jesus is taught jesus is the shepherd and the word of god is being taught secondly watch this i need you to ask them are they saved watch this if they don't know what that means that means no bring them to me if they start stuttering bring them to me if they ask you where we going to eat after this please bring them to me i need them to get saved here are the two people you're going to go talk to watch this you're going to go talk to two people who look like they don't want you to talk to them those are people that need to get saved amen need to join the church home come on y'all let's go to work everybody go talk to those two people find out if they're saved [Music] i'm waiting on you new birthday here they come come on give god some praise for this next wave come on come on shout for this next wave [Music] [Applause] here comes another young man i need y'all to shout for these teenagers y'all ain't shouting good come on shout for these young men [Music] are y'all gonna shout that god is bringing men back to church come on shout men are coming back to church bless his name all right bless the lord i'm trying to move but they still coming here comes the whole family another whole family here comes another one come on y'all here comes somebody else are y'all gonna shout to this come on come on come on [Music] they're still coming y'all better shout right now they're still coming all right is that a whole nother group coming [Music] bless his name here come two more young people y'all better go crazy in here [Music] shut your right hand to faith shut your right hand to faith bless his name i'm trying to move i'm getting ready to pray i'm i didn't mess up the whole time she and i'm the one that made the time sheet up man would y'all move in for me just a little bit just move a little bit closer thank you so very much i need you to make room because one more person is getting ready to come and i don't want them to feel like they're on the out layers i don't know where you are you thought you slipped through the cracks but i'ma hold up this whole service till you get here new birth when they start coming i need y'all to go cuckoo for coco puffs go absolutely crazy would you ask down your roll are you sure you saved come on here they come y'all better shout right now here they come here they count come on shout for it [Music] y'all they still coming they're still coming [Music] stretch your right hand to faith here come a whole nother tribe come on are y'all gonna shout for all these young people joining our church [Applause] listen all right for real put your hands down let me do this real quick if you hear you're not saved you don't have a church home for real i'm tired um i gotta feed my kids before they go back on the plane so can you just hurry up and uh just come now wherever it is that you are and you know you want to rock with us you want to be a part of the new new birth nation you want to be a part of the kingdom of god here in the earth realm would you just hurry up come on please wherever it is that you are i need you to come not now right now not now right now hey y'all come on give god a shout for [Music] [Applause] [Music] here come another young man come on come out [Applause] [Music] all right thank you thank you look at this mother coming with these two kids god bringing whole families all right shut your right hand to faith let's try one more again come out come out wherever you are i want y'all to go tell your job go tell your family your friends that the longest part of the service was winning souls to christ where they do that at that we are a soul-winning church are y'all excited about souls getting saved you excited the soul's getting safe shut your right hand to faith those of you at the altar if you lift up your hands both of them it's not a stick-up is a surrender new birth come on repeat after me you're in the right place at the right time joining the right church serving the only god and i know that's right sure you're right if you know i'm right come on big ups to the savior would you give god some praise all right so all of you who are here if you're faced this way new birth they came as friends but they leaving as family would you give them a big shout come on [Applause] come on new birth y'all got to do better than that louder than that stronger than that [Music] come on give him a chill give him a [Music] chill [Music] you may be seated bless you sir you may be seated in the presence of the lord we cannot just be hearers of the word but we are doers also considered to be the dean of black preaching dr gardner calvin taylor said that no preaching is complete without a practical that we have to find a way to exercise the word of god we found in job that job was a wealthy and an affluent man but every day the bible gives us record he made a sacrifice on behalf of his children asking god to bless him and the cover nowhere in his sacrifice did he ask for him to personally be blessed but he demonstrated third-party hope those of you who are in this room that need god to do something for a family member can i see that hand you want god to do something for a family member hallelujah if it's desperate wave that hand if you asking god to do it cause you can't do it wave that hand twinkle them toes amen it's almost hopeless i want to extend the hope of our staff here at new birth i asked you on last week i uh reminded that same sentiment that i've asked the church to give me absolutely nothing for christmas i'm grateful that you all our gracious church are always mindful to honor leadership i'm thankful for that but i asked our leaders our board over this holiday season we would just be a blessing to the hard-working staff of new birth come on would you help me give god praise for them i come into agreement those of you who are in this room i want you to join me as quickly as you possibly can we get ready to go in seven minutes because i'm already nine minutes over schedule seven minutes we get ready to go but i want those of you that uh you've been carrying a burden for somebody else carrying a burden watch this and you feel almost hopeless because you can't do anything my sister who was here last week is a clinical psychologist at pepperdine university and she said something to me that has messed me up she said to me dr tama did that 87 of our stress is not ours did y'all hear what i just said 87 of our stress is not ours we stress for somebody else we fasted and they eaten [Applause] you can't get out the bed worried about them and they had linux god says i'm getting ready to free you from false obligation you are not their savior i am i want to challenge every person that'll join me even if you're going to do so by your cash app or push push to give i want to give a seed for our staff and even on behalf of our loved ones who are going through because our faith is aligned with that of our pastor to believe that god still honors third-party hope hallelujah can you imagine you're giving a seed today that before you see that relative on christmas a complete turnaround and breakthrough would have happened delayed obedience is disobedience as soon as you have that seed i want it to be a sizable a substantive and a significant one i want to tell you that this seed is cheaper than rehab this seed is cheaper than bail and it's cheaper than prepaid legal because you need god to do what you can't do for yourself as soon as you have it watch this even if you're going to swipe your card even if you're going to write a check watch this i want you to give it but here's what i need you to do here's the catch when you lay that seat on the altar i want you to speak the name of the person you're praying for so that god will know who this seed is attached to wherever it is that you i want you to stretch away even as as close to 100 as you can i want you to do that why because i 100 turn around in their life as soon as you have it come bring it to the altar please our ushers are moving amongst you if you need an envelope or from the window to the wall all of y'all i need you to come as quickly as you can please come on name that person who you're giving the sacrifice for name the person you're sowing on behalf of i want to see something happen for them hallelujah bless you come on speak their name when you drop your seed speak their name speak their name i need you to move as quickly as you can speak their name and keep moving hallelujah speak their name god assign a new angel to them fight for them block them from foolishness give them wisdom discernment understanding come on god [Music] 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Length: 69min 28sec (4168 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 04 2021