I know where He Brought Me From

[Music] he's right there I'll be happy to his receipt [Music] [Music] [Music] some here belonging to go into it [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] particularly after realizing why I got solo and what happened it was I believe it was God's call for me to pay attention to him right because at that point there was nobody else to me no there was nobody else to rely on but him instead of relying on things that you know I'm used to like you know when getting really down is like I really think about God and how good he's been to me and the joy and having hope and you know remembering that I am somebody right but where does that all start and that starts with knowing that I'm a child of God and being here every temple has really helped with that getting more involved with folks from the ministry staff to just other you know members and getting to know them that has really made a difference I think those organic relationships meeting people meeting like-minded people and people really loving you and helping you grow revenue O'Connor had some we had some rough conversations we don't always agree but it's the love of Christ and everything that he talks about start to beat that and it rubs off on you it really does you may not always see eye to eye with people but it starts with Christ like we're all here for that same reason a plant has to be rooted for it to grow right so if we look at ourselves as as plants you know we're not going to grow unless we're rooted somewhere we're getting water you didn't we're getting fed you know someone is giving us food to grow and it's not just about coming on Sunday while sunday is great I mean you can strain church from anywhere but it's really about being here in the sanctuary and receiving it and being here will really really make a difference and you'll see like oh wow like this is what this place looks like you know yeah [Music] praise the Lord read temple [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] over hats on whoa [Music] absent Oh [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] how excellent is our God and all their great and mighty is the Lord and we've come to celebrate the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living this is the day that the Lord has made we've come to rejoice and to be glad and it is this somebody in the house this morning who's glad and thankful to be in this house just one more time my brothers and sisters would you reach out and touch the hand of a neighbor leave no one untouched as we go to the throne of grace as we indeed ask our Lord to join us in this place this morning this is the day we celebrate our youth and our young adults and this is the day also as we're doing this that we give thanks for scholarships being given things for all of our kids who are going forward to advance their education and so we we and our thankful state are gonna seek the Lord our Lord and I got our excellent is thy name and all the earth you are the great and mighty God the Creator God the one who sits high but looks low whose hands are never too short that you are involved in the affairs of your people we're so grateful and thankful God that we are in your house just one more time we've come god to worship you in spirit and in truth we've come o God to lift your name on high and to speak well of you for you are our dad we are your people we are indeed the Sheep of your pastures so we enter these gates this morning with Thanksgiving come with a shout a mighty shout a dance in our stead so God we ask you to come into this place now Holy Spirit come Tabernacle with us just saturate this place with your presence have your way with us this morning God send a word a mighty word through Reverend Omar past Omari as he comes to break the bread of life just one more time we thank you for all these that are gathered in this place and for our young people who will lead us as we continue in worship o God we want you O God to use them as a as a beacon of light as they continue to grow in the things of God we're looking forward to their leadership as they will move us and continue to build on the foundation that has been said we thank your God that your word has never returned void so you have always said that you will do exceedingly abundantly above all that we will ask our thing we're asking you this morning to do that for us do a mighty thing in this place set people free change hearts turn your people back to you oh god that we may all run forward leave this place the better for it have your way now with us in Jesus name and all of God's people say Amen [Music] this morning's passage comes from First Samuel 15 I've to read the first verse and then Samuel 9 1 through 6 and it reads thus Samuel said to Saul I am the one that Laura sent to anoint you king over his people Israel so listen now to the message from the Lord there was a Benjamin a a man of standing whose name was Kish son of a BL the son of zaroor the son of becquer F the son of FII of Benjamin Kish had a son named Saul as handsome a young man as could be found anywhere in Israel and he was a head taller than anyone else now the donkeys belonging to Saul's fathers Kish were lost and Kish said to his son soul take one of the Serpent's with you and go look for the donkeys so he passed through the hill country of ephraim and through the area around Silesia but they did not find them so they went on into the district of chalene but the donkeys were not there then he passed to the territory of Benjamin but they did not find them when they reached the district of Zeff Saul said to the server who was with him come let's go back or my father will stop thinking about the donkeys and start worrying about us but the servant replied look in this town there is a man of God he is highly respected and everything he says comes true let's go there now perhaps he will tell us what to take this is the Word of God for the people of God thanks be to God at this time we'll continue our worship with our youth and young adult empal we serve Almighty God [Music] [Applause] [Music] your body in battle fool [Music] this king of mighty he is we sing [Applause] fear no evil when you find you [Applause] whoa [Music] just can't afford and mighty he buddy and bad Oh - Heracross you know II when you find [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Victoria [Music] Victoria [Music] [Music] [Music] we bless the Lord for mighty God that we serve don't we we're thankful we think the young adult choir for doing what they always do worshipping our God at the highest level few announcements I want to lift up to you for your hearing since the L motives whose the art of Reverend Janice Williams or dr. Juanita ware and the great art of Evangeline Edwards services will be held August the second at Unity Baptist Church viewing 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. and the service will be at 11:00 a.m. sister Jarrell let yarn is the mother sister hope Dudley those services died those services will be August 1st at Mount Enon Baptist Church in Clinton Maryland the viewing will be at 10:00 a.m. and the service will start at 11:00 a.m. also the mother brother Calvin L coroner Marion Kenner and Mary and Jake Kenner she died the funeral services are pending she was a member of the Alain Chapel AME Church in Silver Spring Maryland as you can tell this is a Sunday where we're focusing on the youth and young adults and we're excited about what God is doing through them and their ministry the pastor said earlier it's a holistic ministry we're focusing on youth and young adult because they are able to minister to the elders able to minister to the peers able to minister to the young it's just ministry so we're grateful to be in the house today church school was off the chain over the weekend in Frederick Maryland Reed temple always does well with it one day elders award for the highest attendance there the elders award for the most creative church school report the Capital District Christian education showcase we had the most participants malika's Cassell was first in the oratorical contest miles say it again oh that was an Amen or something I think miles changed first place artwork Doria massed in third place and oratorical contest Lauren Shepard Missouri Shepard honorable mention for PowerPoint presentation Teacher of the Year was Jared Simpson my own student of the year Donna Mason worker of the year we just dominated we really just dominated so we thank God for what is done in the Reverend Watson's leadership also the annual scholarship banquet was held and we gave out through your tithes and offerings and prayers over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in scholarships to deserving students continuing students in education that sister Nancy Barnes son dr. Barnes who was himself a scholarship recipient gave an amazing and awesome speech amen the official board will be meeting this Monday at 7 p.m. our officers and members you are invited here to go in their location to be here Wednesday night is where you will get the word for the midweek the meat of the word come and tell everybody to come in the house for Bible study amen at this time I'd like to welcome those who are in the house visiting with us could you stand and remain standing so that we may count our blessings any visitors visiting with us so glad that you're in the house today our greeters are passing out a Welcome Packet for you please fill that out so that if there's anything that we can do we're here at your beck and call and we're well able to make sure that you're taking care of in radical hospitality on behalf of the greatest senior pastor this side of glory the reverend dr. lee paul washington his only lady sister anna washington the minister's officers and members of re temple are so glad to see you we want to show you how happy our by once let's all stand let's greet our visitors and greet each other briefly in Christian love right as we now come to order it's so good to check on everybody make sure we okay good to check on your family you're hugging someone you need to pray for it is good now it is time to I have one for an announcement before I announce our offering the Reverend Colin Lambert of st. John AME Church he passed away and died at st. John AME and the Baltimore Conference pastor Peggy walls the pastor there please be in prayer for that family and also if we didn't have enough some are wearing the colleges that they graduated from colleges they almost graduated from colleges that wearin some shirts with colleges and so we this is higher education Sunday so we regress why some of us are wearing these shirts want to acknowledge that amen now it's time to take up the 930 offering and I get excited about that because we it is our time to give unto the Lord our pastor always says and you know he's he's unequivocally correct never ever be cheap with God because God has never been cheap with you he gives us his very best and the word declared that the Lord loves what type of a giver anybody feel like a dance coming on anybody feel like running down and giving to the Lord Amen we got to give $150,000 work scholarships next year and so in order to do that your tithes and offerings will advance the kingdom and we believe in tithing at this church are there any first-time tithers as someone who has grown in their faith to tie it could you stand so that we could see a visible credible witness of what God can do through the spirituality of giving and not seeing any started at the rear of the sanctuary it's time to bring the tithes and offerings into the house of the Lord with the instructions under us just as the young adult choir just tear the roof off of this place some of y'all went to another place but we don't keep working on ya they gonna tear the roof off and give us some giving music amen [Music] open star I can not see Jesus Lee Jesus will [Music] will may go for me Jesus will Oh [Music] [Music] where my [Music] and [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] with [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] glory to God that the what the choir just sung we thank you for the victory of the battle that you fought for us now Lord we ask that you will bless this offering give us the wisdom to use it to advance your kingdom and we'll give you the glory and our unadulterated unashamed worship in Jesus name we pray amen my brothers and sisters is time for our miracle prayer and one of the spiritual leaders that our youth the young adult Reverend Busby will come up and lead us in the miracle prayer praise God if you can just take your minds and Center and center them on the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for each and every one of us let's see what God has for us on today Lord God I stand before you Oh Lord father empty vessel Oh God awaiting your Holy Spirit God we're waiting for you to show up God and show out Lord like never before father we read about miracles in our lives Oh God God oftentimes I say that we haven't pre position ourselves to be able to receive miracles and to be miracles to others but God right now we stand as a waiting congregation Oh God awaiting your Holy Spirit to begin running rapid throughout this place Oh God because God we need you like never before God this world is continuously crumbling around us Oh God and we asked the church God sometimes stand God in hopes that you're going to do something Oh Lord father God sometimes we stand and we're empty Oh Lord but father God right now on today God we're asking that you just give us the the strength of your Holy Spirit Oh Lord that father God we begin to move in the community like never before Lord father God not only in our homes God not only on the street Scott moody in our school systems Oh Lord father God on our jobs Oh God God we ask that you show yourself almighty on today Oh God for father God we sing a song some time ago God and it was this little light of mine God we will sing it oh God with our heads raised up to the sky Lord understanding that that very simple song of God would be able to speak in touch the very roots of our inferiority so Lord God the very it knee places God that we have so God right now I ask that you just begin to sup with a sky that you begin to speak to our very inner emotions God that does not align God the way is supposed to align for God we believe in your miracles God we believe that you are the Alpha we believe that you order make oh God we believe that you are the beginning we believe that you are the end God and that everything we do God and God comes through you Oh Lord so God we ask blow breath into our very existence right now god that when we begin to connect with our brothers and sisters Oh God they they feel your spirit God like that is like electric shock Oh God that goes through our bodies in our very existence Oh Lord say that we can Bianca so that we can be change agents Oh God in a world that's continuously dying Oh God that they can look upon us O God and see that it's Jesus who has been carrying us and it's Jesus that's going to continue to carry us Oh God that we don't look up to a man oh God that we don't look up to a woman Oh God that we look to the hills from which our help comes from Oh God show us yourself God to be mighty God so we can step into battle god and we could be mighty Oh Lord God we distinct you right now God because you thought to show up in our presence on today and move like never before God God we thank you for our pastor Lord we thank you for every minister God every officer Oh God we thank you for every family member who has been praying for each and every one of us Oh God then we don't fall substance garden and fall to the abuse of sin oh god but God we have the power the power that's been bestowed by you Oh God then we're gonna stand up for what's right and do what's right Oh God look obvious that you just blesses the fresh then we just don't sit here and wait on miracles God but that we gird our loins in such a way God that we step God into battle ready to do your will Lord we ask that you have your way all today God that you bless the rest of the service like never before God that you bless the eleven o'clock service Oh God and you bless the six o'clock service Oh God and you show yourself nodding because we know you as a mighty God no God I'm gonna close my mouth and I'm gonna gracefully bow knowing that your presence is here and that you're gonna do their everything that you say you're going to do it's in the name of your son Jesus Christ that we lift our hands that we open our mouths and we say thank you God for that you've done and all that you're going to do amen amen and amen we're gonna have to leave minister of our Sunday night live to come and give us an introduction of the preacher a man let's give her a hand Reverend shall lead up army let the church say a man it's preaching time and there is indeed a gift from God in the house and the person of Reverend Omari Hughes Reverend Hughes is certainly no stranger to read temple he is a son of this house and we thank God for how God is moving in and through his life he currently serves as the pastor of the Redeemer Baptist Church in Philadelphia where I had opportunity to share just a couple weeks ago and it was wonderful to see how God is blessing that congregation through his anointed leadership they are not only growing in spirit but they're also growing in number under his anointed teaching and his preaching and so we thank God for how God is expanding the witness of the kingdom through his mouth and through his ministry through his obedience there in that area he took his undergraduate from Hampton University and he went on to obtain an m.div from Princeton Theological Seminary he is a bright bright bright young man with a keen and sharp mind a strong intellectual gifts as it relates to the exegesis and the division of the Word of God and we thank God that he is indeed a servant a Joshua amen he's under the Joshua mantel for this generation and so he's a voice for such a time as this he's the husband amen to sister Natalie Hughes he is the father to Khalil Hughes and we thank God God has accommodated his schedule that he can come back on this young adult Sunday and youth young adult Sunday to be a blessing he's already blessed us at the earlier service and we have no doubt Amen that the Word of God shall be claimed once again through this vessel so we thank God for him and after the singing of the Samanas selection the next voice you shall hear will be that of the Lord as he preaches the one of his choice servants the Reverend Omari Hughes hear ye him and be blessed [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] come on don't stop praising if you came up to give God some praise come on jump up on your feet on today come on won't you lift your hands in the sanctuary if you ask him to be a temple in your life the Lord is great and greatly to be praised God is great and humming in oh if it had not been for the Lord on our side we wouldn't know where we would be today so god we say thank you God we say bless you God we say have your way we say if it had not been for you we don't know where we would be and so we come out to give your name glory honor and praise amen amen before you take your seats help me in celebrating the man of God who we called pastor at this house I call him dad give it up for Lee P [Applause] big shout out to a mentor brother of mine Reverend Joe deck love so very dearly a big shout out to my sister Reverend shalida fom B to my wife who's watching online you look hot through the camera girl you know what time it is and to my son who's laid up I saw a couple of folks from marriage ministry who I have a chance to do ministry with when I've been invited to come here it's awesome to see you guys and I love you so very much man I have to tell you I really like feel like preaching right now so let's go grab your Bibles come to first samuel 1st samuel chapter first time you'll chapter 15 we're going to look at 1st Samuel Chapter 15 we're gonna look at one verse and then we're going to come back to 1st Samuel chapter 9 and look at verses 1 through 6 let's pray speak father your servants are listening and we pray that you would anoint all of our ears to hear eyes to see a mouse to speak for you and we'll be careful to give you glory and praise we love you in this place in Jesus name Amen if you haven't say Amen and the New International Version the Bible says the Samuel said to Saul I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel so listen now to the message from the Lord if you were to continue to read that chapter what you would find in that context is that Samuel gives Saul instructions that he does not follow he shows up by reminding Saul that he knew him way back when so he says listen man I I'm the one who found you when you were a nobody when nobody knew you when you didn't even know yourself you had no idea of the call of God on your life I was the one God sent in later so don't get brand new on me I know you and so this is what he's making reference to he's making reference to the call of saw which is found in 1st Samuel chapter 9 beginning in verse 1 this is what the Bible says that when Samuel found saw there was a Benjamite a man of standing whose name was Keshia son of a BL son of the roar the son of Becca Roth the son of a fear of Benjamin the scripture says the Kitsch had a son named Saul a handsome and a young man as could be found anywhere in this row and he was a head taller than anyone else now the donkeys everybody say donkeys donkeys of you your King James reader says something different now the donkeys belonging to Saul's father keish were lost and quisha said to his son Saul take one of the service with you and go and look for the donkeys so he passed through the hill country of ephraim and through the area around Silesia but they did not find them they went on into the district of Shalin but the donkeys were not there then he passed through the territory of Benjamin but they did not find them when they reached the district of Zoo everybody says oof Saul said to the servant who was with him come let's go back or my father will stop thinking about the donkeys and start worrying about us but the servant replied look in this town there is a man of God he is highly respected and that is where Samuel anoints all and everything he says comes true let's go there now perhaps he will tell us what way to take a man you can take your seats in the presence I want to preach a message by the spirit and I got to tell you this up at the front because I want to go ahead and cut across the field don't have a whole lot of time want to get right to it this sermon right here is not for people who want to come to church and exit didy this is not for you this is not the preacher for people who want to pretend that they've always been super saved this long sermon is also not for you this is not for people who have forgotten where God found them when he found you this this preaching is not for you I may offend you the sermon may offend you at some point if you wanted those people have you deciding who likes to come to church on Sunday morning and dress up and act like you never did anything that God saved you from and that God never had to come into your life and pull you out of something that you couldn't pull yourself out of if you're the type of person that likes to turn their nose up as somebody else because they're where you once were when God found you if you the type of person that likes to act like you never got caught chasing no donkeys or chasing no worse then this sermon is not for you but if you came into the house of God on today mmm lord help me in here and you know that you know that you know that you know that if it had not been for God if it had not been if it had not been for the Lord I don't really hear it that way I got to go with it if it had not been for God on your side you don't know where you would be then this preaching is for you and I want to preach a message by the spirit in title I know where he brought me from I know where he brought me from I know where he bought me from when I was in high school we used to take trips each year to high school I grew up in Richmond Virginia and on one particular trip my ninth grade year we went camping we went to the woods went camping and when we were there in the woods camping it was like real camping it wasn't like the camping that you do when you actually go stay in the cabin and you tell somebody you went camping it was the camping where you set up a tent and when you need to go do what you need to do you go dig a hole and so everybody who needed to go do what they needed to do had to go dig a hole I had to do the same thing and so I went went dug the hole one day because we're in high school everybody who's there with us likes to be a practical joker and a comedian so I'm there digging the hole and using the hole for what its depth for and out the corner of my eye I see a flash now this is before cellphones this is back when everybody used to had a little wind-up joints and so I'm using my hole and I see a flesh it was evany Ellis evany takes a picture of me using the hole and it's a perfect picture because it's far enough that you can't make anything out but that is me using the hole and ebony did something very interesting pastor she did this I feel this by the spirit she kept the picture that she took of me that day and all throughout high school every time I thought I was cute she would pull out the picture and she would say oh my I know you think you killed right now don't forget I got that picture at home of you and then and then as I got older and I would go through high school I remember on the first date when Tiger I think I was cute and saw she was cute thought I was somebody everyone found out about the day they're gonna come out pull out the pictures ever don't forget I got that picture you at the prom sheera mine she was constantly reminding me that no matter who I thought I was in the present I had not always been where I was and I came by to tell you every now and then God will allow people to come into your life and you won't like it when they get glimpses of you when you're down and you won't like it when they get clubss of you when you're struggling and you won't like it when they get goodness of you when you don't know how to you don't like them seeing you with tears going down your eyes somebody in there has this testimony you don't like when they saw you with cancer riddling your body and you were going through chemotherapy you don't like it when your loved one walks away and you've been through a divorce and you're brokenhearted but he is what I've learned God is gonna restore you did you hear what I said by the spirit God is going to bring you out and every now and then God will allow people to see you when you're down not so that they can keep you there but so that when they bring you out and you have a testimony on the other side they can look and say I know it couldn't be nobody but God cuz I remember way back there where I found you and look at what the Lord has done that's what Samuel I believe by the Spirit is doing with this brother by the name of Saul the Bible says that Samuel comes and before he gives us all instruction he says look at him or don't forget I don't remember where you were when your God found you and when God laid his hand on your life and when God called you I want to say by the spirit you have not always been called you have not always been the anointed man a woman of God that you are the Bible says no man comes unto the Father unless he draws us and God had to pull you out of some things then he anybody with that testimony God had to pull you out of some stuff some stuff that you could not pull yourself out of as a matter of fact I'm not the only one in the house on this Sunday morning who's been a good part of your life chasing donkeys running around after something there watch this if God willing let you apprehend what you were chasing you wouldn't be here standing here today but the reason that you it's not because you're caught the talking but is there anybody here who's honest enough to say thank you that you didn't allow me to get my hands on what I was going after because if you would allow me to get my hands on it it would have destroyed me it would have taken me out and so I say thank you he's chasing his father's donkeys when he encounters his God what were you chasing my brother what were you chasing my sister what are you still chasing on today I know you come into church and you act like you super saved and holy gunned them down and turn your nose up with everybody but everybody in here has chased some donkeys everybody in here has had some proclivities everybody in here is right everybody here still faces temptation today and if God would not have stepped in so that's what he does that's what he does with soul he sins Saul on a wild donkey chaser you know what I love about God even when I'm running after the wrong thing he can direct me to the right thing because God will come into your life and the Bible says it like this he has the power to work all things together for you good and what the enemy meant for you evil didn't he turn around huh didn't he make away huh then he opened doors early but that made a like and so and so and so here's what he does here's what he does oh think I'm ro don't do that yet here's what he does here's what he does with Saul he comes in and the Bible says that Saul is on a wild donkey chaser and I want to suggest to you by the spirit on this morning that the same places that Saul had to go through on his journey to kingship oftentimes the same places that you and I have to go through on our journey the Bible says that he has to go to a place called a frame a frame when you look it up in the Hebrew it means double ash-heap ashes are important at this point Israel is an agricultural society they're an agrarian people they're an agrarian people and so they understand agricultural metaphors that's what Jesus talks about planting seed that's why he talks to the people in the way that they can understand that's why I don't understand preachers today who are so high and lofty that they don't preach to the people where they are they don't give the people the word in a way that they can relate to and comprehended we know you went to seminary and learned about eschatology we know you learned about soteriology but if they another day is what I want to know there's a God in heaven who's got all power and he saves and you know him and you can help me get to know him too the Bible says that they take him to a frame and a frame means double ash-heap now at this point ashes are important because ashes are used as a type of fertilizer for the ground when people are growing things help me God and see what the farmer would do is a strategy that still utilized in many developing nations today but we got all advanced but you know country boy like me you know a little bit about doing some call slashing and burning grew up in my grandma's house burn trash on the backyard I don't know don't know about that here but when we slash and burn crops here's what God is doing everything that's left over from the previous harvest that was unusable oh that was my collected what the farmer would do is that he would cut it down and then he would light it on fire and because fire burns fire gets hot but I tell you something else fire does fire changes feet when the fire of God falls on your life and when God's fire anybody knows some about holy goes fire fire will change your mind fire will change though outlook fire will change you're talking fire will change your walking fire will change you from the inside out and when a piece of wood is burned a chemist will tell you that the tropical makeup and the molecular makeup of that wood is no longer the same it's been changed and a frame that stage is a necessary stage in your life young adult that stage is a necessary stage in your life my brother my sister that stage is a necessary stage in your life my brother who's a Christian you may not shout on it but I came by to tell you God's bringing a word on today that says every now and then you got to let him slash and burn there's some stuff in your life huh you should've let him cut away from you a long time ago there's some stuff in your life it should have been dead and gone a long time ago there's some stuff in your life God's been trying to separate you from some people God's been trying to separate you from and here's what I like about it when God separates you from it God does not allow it to remain so you can pick it back up again my God will burn that bad boy town and why are you crying and why you're mourning what's gone what you fail to realize is God is changing that thing around Oh God help me in here you know the relationship that he allowed to slash and burn shalida don't you know God would use that as the fuel to light your ministry to an entirely new level don't you know the marriage that turned upside down and left you broken and torn apart it's the very same thing that when you got flashes and burns it God will use as the fuel to launch you in the position to receive your destiny don't you know that the very same thing that God is trying to remove from you my god is so awesome my God has so much power that if I allow him to touch it I'm gonna get his hands on it he can burn it up and make it into something from which something else grows I'm trying to help you in here I need somebody to understand if you let them slash it burn it he can bring something new out of it again if you let them slash and burn it so that's that's a necessary part and as a young adult as a young person off the times I don't like that because that means I gotta let some stuff go that involves suffering that involves me having to go through some things that involves me watching something that I once felt connected to and there was much a part of my life be removed from me and just be burned up you can act like you so holy that doesn't affect your heart but I know the devil is a liar and somebody knows what it's like to watch that thing which you were what's raising when I'm growing crops it's different from going to the supermarket I'm out there pulling in the Sun I'm out there tilling the ground I'm watering your bear myself I'm tending you and burn you down it costs me something in your life God will take you through an experience that will cost you something so he can bring something great out of it again so he has to go through a frame he has to allow some things to slash and burn and then he goes to another place that's critically important the Bible says that he goes to a place this car a lame Shalin in the Israel of translation in the original Hebrew it means foxes now now you know you look at I'm kind of a country boy special time my grandmother's house and she lived in James City County right outside of Waynesboro Virginia and when we would get things when I was growing up with her we would not buy a lot of what we got from the supermarket my grandfather had a garden and most of what we ate came out of the garden then there was a brother down the street across the railroad tracks he raised hogs and so that's where the pork came from there was a brother around the corner and Hebrew watermelons so we didn't pick up a watermelon in store we picked up water mountain out a field twist the vine and go get you a watermelon drop the $2 on the brother's porch keep on walking and so when you are raised in that environment you see different things you also see that there are people who keep hens my god I pray you get this by the spirit now understand that Charlene means foxes huh and if you know anything about foxes a fox loves to get into a henhouse Fox don't like them better than to get into a henhouse but here's what's interesting the Fox is not simply interested in getting in the henhouse for the chickens no no no see the chickens are not the delicacy that the Fox is really have to go god help me in here the delicacy that the Fox is really after all the eggs and see the eggs I was vital huh because you've got some eggs in your life it's symbolic of my destiny it's not important for what it is right now but one day there's something that's gonna come out of this egg that's going to grow into something greater than it is right now and can I tell you that there are people who are foxes in your life that God has to remove here's why here's the Lord they don't threaten you in the mouth but if you allow them to stay connected to you they threaten your destiny and so you're scratching your head Shanda trying to figure out why I gotta let them go up when they never harm me they never hurt me they never made me feel bad can I tell you that you serve a God who is so awesome and so great that he is always looking beyond your mouth and I thank God for that that he's considering my destiny even in the present so he removes some people from my life not because of what they've done to me in the present but because if I allow them to remain attached to me they'll get access to mags and I don't know about you when my eggs are too valuable my destiny is to tell you no no no no no I cried too much I fasted too much I lost too much I had too many lonely nights I had too any friends walk away for you to allow the devil to get your legs no no no no no I'm not gonna let you get my I've given up too much I've suffered too much I've gone through too much for me to hand my destiny huh over to a Bama who's not qualified because even if you don't eat my eggs if you don't know how to handle it you'll drop it and it'll break wide open so if you're not qualified there tell me slow down imma watch it and so I've got to understand that one of the stops on my journey is remind allowing God to remove trickery from my life is allowing God to remove people from my life who are fox-like who seemed to have my best interests because a fox is known as a trickster but all the wow they're plotting to take me out I've got to allow God to rule foxes from my life I talk about this critter oh god help me in here I'm not talk about this new brother we got in the White House talk about stab people in the chest I'm talking about foxes Fox is who will rob you stab you in the back and when you don't see them coming they'll take you out they pretend to be one way the foxes have got to go so when are your stops my brother and my sister has to be a frame he got a slash and burn some stuff down one of your stocks has got to be a lien where the foxes are removed from your life and I'm getting ready to go I'm get ready to get out of here but there's one other stop that you've got to make on your journey and that is a place called zoo and I don't know where you are on your journey but this is where you get ready to get involved in a preaching and celebrate God for the word that is coming into your life about what God is getting ready to do for you oh god I want to get out of here let me hate for that and so here's what he does the Bible says that after he's been running around like he's been running around then he ends up going to a place called Zoo no Zoo unlike saalim and unlike a frame is a place that's known as a place called honeycomb Tennessee here's why the honeycomb is important give me one second I'm already here the honeycomb is important because after you've gone through a frame and God has slashed some stuff and burned some stuff down the honeycomb is important because after you've gone through saalim and some foxes have been removed from your life and people who you thought were for you turn out to be against you the honeycomb is important because I heard the Bible say I heard David say oh god I can't help myself today I heard David say that if I would not have believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living I would have fainted a long time ago but I wonder is there anybody here even after all you've been through in your life you still got faith for a honeycomb season in your life is there anybody here is there anybody here is there anybody here you still got faithful a honeycomb season in your life I love this show this thing called Netflix and there's a show on Netflix Aledo call hive alive and have a life is all about a behind couldn't sleep real well last night so I turned me on somehow the lines let me tell you what I learned about a honeycomb a honeycomb is made by a worker bee huh who goes out and connects pollen from plants and every time he goes from plant to plant huh because he's in the honeycomb season of his life the plant is able to produce something that it could not produce I want to speak prophetically into your life that after your f Raheem and after your Sharlene there's a season of your life when everything you touch is blessed is there anybody here is there anybody here you got fainted in the season of your life that's about to be your next God is gonna bless you in such a way that if you're sitting on my left you gonna get blessed if you're sitting on my right you gonna get blessed if you're sitting in front of me you're gonna get blessed is there anybody here the honeycomb season of your life here's the thing this grab a hole in your baby cuz in the honeycomb she's when the honey is coming up everything I touch honey if I reach out and grab you you coming with me you may not have the strength you need but if I reach out and grab you if I reached out in brains if I reach out in worship if I don't have to work to collect God gets me so sticky then everything I touch just sticks next to me everybody can't calm down cuz the bamas can't get stuck everybody can't come though cuz the haters can't get stuck everybody can't come the losers can't get stuck but if you're walking with me and you're walking with my car there's some honey for me and there's some honey for you but that's not all the honeycomb there's a storage vessel the honey is not for now I work all spring long I work all night long I prevailed and I cried I prayed and I fasted so if my energy is called and when my heart is true I can lean over to my right and I can get honey from you and so the honey in my life is for the winter season that's why in a drought I'm still blessed with in the White House I'm still bless you still your neighbor and say neighbor say is my honey cold season I'm coming out of there in my honeycomb season I'm coming out of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force give me my back my back my love I'm stuck in my toy I'm stuck in my peace wanna do it why won't he [Applause] in my honeycomb sees how dare you lay hands on your neighbors say it's Oh honeycomb season you will come out of this you're gonna be stronger wiser better say jump up on your feet and say open up that side coming out of this I'm coming out of Lac I'm coming at equality the boxes are behind the endless shades Samiha safe say [Applause] [Music] feel like you're right on the verge I know we got to go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now feel like shouting right here I'm coming out [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] see the thing that is though I've got to watch it and I've got to internalize the message in an honest way because I don't want to get to my honeycomb season God preached in here without having gone through a frame and without having gone through chatelain first some of us are in such a rush to get to our honeycomb season that we want to skip those other thought stops and so you have unfruitful things they are already stuck to you when the honey is arriving and so those things become a permanent part of you whereas you would allow God to slash and burn them a long time ago they would no longer even be there you won't let him take the bamas and the foxes out of your life you want to keep them around a little while longer because you like them you love them and make you feel good but what you fail to recognize he is God is going to pour his honey because God will not be mocked in due season you will reap if you paint Mac now the choice is do I want to be blessed and covered in honey with foxes stuck next to me or do I want to be blessed and covered in honey with a blessing stuff next to me the choice is yours and I don't want to stop you from praising but I don't want a false celebration that gets you so high over the honeycomb that you run through the ash heap gets you so high over the honeycomb let you run through the chicken coop get you so high over the honeycomb that you still got foxes eating your best in the alive but if there are five people in the house today who say God if you want water honey I'll go through whatever I've got to go through cuz I want a blessing [Music] [Music] I want to move under the direction that a pastor in by the spirit I'm so grateful I know where I know where over time but God is speaking to him and I want to sit under the under the under chef of the house if you are struggling to get to your honeycomb season if you got so many doggone foxes running around you wonder at whether or not just a single egg is gonna survive if you in that place and you hear the word on today and you're struggling by faith to believe God that that's even possible meet me at the altar right now we want to pray for you hurry up come on come on let's come let's come with you come come on let's celebrate them as they're coming I know it doesn't like to be I know it doesn't like to wait for the honey the poor Oh God cannot cannot can I tell you something oh god oh god all that cannot can I tell you something about honey one of the challenging things about honey is that is not pure maple syrup see I like maple syrup we got to co-op and even freshmen I love these moves they're maple syrup even though it dries sticky it pours fast honey honey takes a long time to pour oh god help me Oh Oh God and so I'm frustrated cuz I look up and I see the honey but will it ever drop on me I'm I'm frustrated because I see it pouring oh god help me oh god oh god but but will it ever drop on me because because I've been waiting for a long time I'm tired of being behind on my bills I've been there my brother I'm tired of not having a job I've been there my brother I'm tired of being broke I'm tired of being tired [Music] God has burned so much I don't just have to hash heaps I got five I guess but he will restore the ears [Music] that were sown in tears you just gotta wait for it to drop hands up all over the salt if you need to get here why don't you get here I believe God is gonna move in this place come on come on come on throw your hands up throw your eyes till your head back close your eyes this isn't about you in a process not about you and a preacher this is about you and your God come on just begin to say this just say God let it fall on me God let it fall on me give me the patience that's needed to stay where you have me until the honey drops down God I'm just tired of tired of being tired of I'm tired of being lonely my sisters say as I'm tired of being lonely my brother says I'm tired of having no way out I'm tired of being unsupported I'm I'm tired of being the only one who's not married I I deserve a good man I deserve a good woman I'm tired I'm tired of being tired God not only as I'm tired be entitled tired of moving from place to place I'm ready to settle down I'm ready to hear you speak a word into my life I'm ready to connect to my destiny and if you read this also on today you can be tempted to get excited about Zeus because it means honeycomb but can I tell you the real reason the show it's because after afraid after the slasher for after the foxes after Charlene when he arrives its oof he encounters a man of God who speaks a word into his life and who anoints him for his destiny I came by to tell somebody if you can just hold on a little while longer when God speaks it's gonna cut the word it's gonna connect you to your destiny when when God speaks the word is gonna let you know that a brighter future is ahead when God speaks you're gonna you gonna know who you who you really who you really are heads bowed and eyes closed hands lifted to the Father God we just like you on today thank you Lord God that you you're still creating honeycombs god we've learned from scientists that the shape that a honeycomb is in [Music] it's not in a circle because as other bees bump into one another while they're working the true shape begins to come in and take form God we thank you that in this season of our lives God you're forming us into who you've always created us to be god we thank you that the oil still runs down somebody at this altar felt like giving up on this morning somebody at this altar felt like throwing in the towel somebody at this altar felt like walking away God let them know they're weeping may endure for a night but joy is gonna come in the morning remind them that the honeycomb season is yet ahead and if they could stay steadfast a little while longer our God will not be mocked whenever we sow in you we will read and due season will come God we just ask you to bless this altar with encouragement on this morning and bless this altar with strength on this morning let them know that they're not forgotten in that great things still lie ahead somebody needs to hear that their ladder will be greater somebody needs to hear that the best is yet to come somebody needs to hear that there's more that I has not seen ear has not heard the great thing is that I'm store for those who love you so got a reread temple we say we love you on this morning God we ask you to let the honey run down God don't just touch the hall to touch the man of God touch the pastor of this house kind of squeak over his life let him know that even now in this season there's still honeycomb seasons yet ahead God let his wife know let his family know let him know that you'll restore the years that were sown in tears and God we're not gonna wait to see the manifestation to praise you even before your doing God as we leave this altar as we leave this place to prayer but not your presence we're careful to give your name all glory give your name all honor and give your name all praise everything you're poor now we receive it in Jesus name Amen a man and a man come on give God some praise hug your neighbor at the hall to let them know God's haven't forgotten you the honey's the hunt is going poised still yet to come god bless you join the church please remain if you live you don't have a church home you're not active in ministry please remain if you'd like to join the church after hearing the word this morning please remain at faith [Music] god bless you god bless you brother for coming forth god bless you others that are coming this morning you ought to stop and you need to get to where the honeycomb is we encourage you to come is there another this morning you can come you on your way to greatness you're the church is open the Lord's name be praised amen this is brother Courtney Courtney best coming to join the church this morning God bless you say Amen bless you sister Vanessa is going to give you further instructions our preacher is going to give us the benediction and we praise God for the move of the Spirit this morning at this 9:30 service he'll be preaching at the left 15 service and then at 6 o'clock our Reverend Stephen green will be preaching along with James Haslam will be providing music so we're gonna have a tremendous day the Lord is already opened up the doors heaven poured us out a blessing but we're looking for greater blessings in Jesus name Amen benediction [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Bible says we join hands we lift up [Music] [Applause] you're the god of the frame you can take that which was unsung usable and cause beautiful things to grow out of our lives god you're the god of Charlene you can remove the foxes that would try to rob us of our destiny and rob us blind but you're not just the God of those you're the God of Zoo you're the God of the honeycomb and now unto you well God it was able to keep us from falling present as follows before your throne - you only wise God until you'll be glory be honor be Majesty building me in their power now his for that forevermore the people of God say Amen amen and amen [Music] [Music] [Music] man be blessed [Music]

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Length: 91min 36sec (5496 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 11 2017