It's Bigger Than Me // B!G SERIES (PART 1) - PASTOR MIKE JR.

I want to make a declaration I want you to repeat after me say Heavenly Father in Jesus name I declare that what you're doing for me this year is being how you not praise God after saying something like that i'ma say it again Heavenly Father in Jesus name I declare that what you're doing for me this year is being I have big faith I have a big prayer life I give being I dream big I live being I have big peace and big blessings are coming my way I date her really in every blessing you got when you get to work tomorrow and they get on your nerves just do this when you walk in the store it is too hot for you just do this this means everything I need from God is get ready to come into my life somebody shout big blessing I come in my way I declare no latch I am free from my past I shall live and not done I declare you are restoring health unto me and with long life you will satisfy me everything I touch I'm in the wrong church today everything I touch they called it y'all encoding it everything I touch will prosper touch everybody allow you and sell everything I touch will prosper you're gonna walk out of here today and somebody gonna come up to you you gonna say I would shake your hand but I don't know if you like me for real or not yet cuz everything I touched prospered I'm not wasting my touch on people who don't appreciate my anointing so just touch yourself and say everything I touch it's about to prosper this is the confidence I have according to Joe 22 and 28 if I speak it God will grant it according to his will on earth as it is in heaven it is so somebody shall I receive all that Matthew chapter 8 verse 5 and 6 when Jesus returned to Capernaum a Roman officer came and pleaded with him Lord my young servant lies in bed paralyzed and in terrible pain i'ma read that again my young servant lies in bed paralyzed and in terrible pain if you're not you mean fine somebody around you who's expecting a big year look at them and say neighbor there are some things I did because I had to cuz people were dependent on me I didn't even like it but in 2020 I'm cold with it cuz I understand it's bigger than me you may be seated I want to talk from part one of this introduction into this new series I want to start to kick off 2020 and title it's bigger than me I want to ease into this introduction with the question a question I believe is both critical key consequential or quintessential to our development into becoming what God desires us to be in 2020 I believe it is tantamount to the task that God has given each of us for 2020 and that question is at the core what does God really want from us at the core what does God really want from us I believe every person under the sound of my voice or watching me from wherever you are at any point if you're in a real authentic relationship that is a question you have to ask what do you want from me any relationship that is going to be fruitful prosperous and flourish there has to be a clarity of roles and responsibilities and I believe in our relationship with God at the core there is a question we all must answer what does God really want from us I believe that it's critical why because it's possible to be in a relationship with someone who has good intention but bad execution I felt some in this section that has good intentioned but bad execution explain that Pastor Mike they're giving you what they think you want not what you really mean so with not that they're a bad person they just have bad execution and if I was to access everyone in this room we will come up with an amalgam of different responses to this particular question what does God really want from us some people would say allegiance he wants us to pledge allegiance to be a Christian grandmama said it like this for God I live and for God I die some might say he wants obedience he says obedience is better than sacrifice that if God says give give if God says trust trust some might even say he wants intimacy your prayer life your worship your personal devotion time those are three good things I would agree allegiance obedience intimacy I wouldn't necessarily disagree with any of those I don't believe they're incorrect I just think they're incomplete why Pastor Mike because I believe those three things along with many others that we can list is the fruit of what God wants not the root of what God wants I'll sit on the edge of your seats I believe I have the answer I believe at the core I would like to offer for your consideration that what God wants from each and every one of us is God wants to be believed now notice I did not say believed in I said God desires to be believed you can believe in something but not believe something how do I know that is possible because the Bible says demons believe and they tremble at his name but they necessarily don't believe him God deeply desires that we believe I hope you can hold on to your seat that he is exactly who he says he is and he will do exactly what he says he will do he says I want you to believe not just in my existence but in my nature and my ability this type of belief is what we call biblically faith it is what we call faith because it is possible to use that word faith richly but understand it poorly it is possible to use that word faith richly but understand it poorly he says I want you to believe not just believe in me but believe me I want you to believe in my nature my nature the essence of Who I am that when I say I am a way maker you believe that when I say I am a miracle worker you believe that when I say I am peace in the middle of a storm you believe that when I say I am what God says I am you believe that I'm gonna go through I am bread when you're hungry I am water when you're thirsty I am a hill I am a mother to the motherless a father to the fatherless believe my nature but also believe in my ability what's my ability that I can supply all your needs that if Hale jumps off in your life I can keep you in perfect peace that when you in need I can do exceeding and abundant above all you could have an acting dream or imagine I need you to believe not just in my existence but in my nature and in my ability we believe that he is but we don't do what he tells us to do faith is belief or trust that produces a corresponding action faith is belief or trust that produces a corresponding action make that make sense pmj if your faith doesn't lead you to do something it's not real put scripture on it because faith without works is dead faith absent of work isn't working preach pmj faith should cause you to do thank you dr. Darius Daniels faith is acting like God is telling the truth all the time about everything faith is acting like God is telling the truth all the time about every thing I might have Church by myself because Miz mostly y'all missed a very important word in that definition notice I did not say faith is feeling like I said faith is wood acting like notice I didn't say faith is feeling like faith is acting like because just because you don't feel it don't mean you should be acting on it faith will make you bust moves you don't feel because you know God can still do what you don't feel am i preaching to somebody and I didn't come to preach to everybody I came to preach the three people who can say Pastor Mike I just don't feel faith I have don't faith that when he said he would be a weapon no weapon formed against me shell behavior prosper I believe that when he said when the enemy comes in like a flood the Lord will raise a standard against him I believe that when he says my enemies will come in one way but by the time I'm through with them they'll leave seven ways I believe that I have faith and the problem is many of us understand faith we know faith but we understand it poorly so what do we do we assess natural words to a spiritual thing so you think faith is up to being optimistic faith can cause you to be optimistic but optimism a faith faith can cause you to be optimistic but optimism isn't faith see faith optimism has no object optimistic doesn't go into anything it has no object faith has an object it has a beginning it has an end looking unto God who is the author and the finisher of my faith you can't put optimism into anything you can put faith into something how do I know p.m. Jakes optimism says the world will figure it out optimism says it will work out faith says God will work at our optimism says I don't know what's gonna happen I'm just gonna hope for the best faith says he may not come when I want him but God is a known time God yes he is faith saith God has a control over every situation in my life that's why I might have Church by myself today I think it's impossible to have a heart filled with faith and not have a mouth filled with praise help me Holy Ghost that's why I believe it's impossible to have a heart filled with faith and not have a mouth filled with praise praise is faith talking help pmj praise is faith or in other words print faith is the substance of things hoped for it is the evidence y'all miss your first shout of 20/20 faith is the substance of things hoped for it is the evidence your problem is you don't understand the scripture you thought faith was just substance but the scripture says it is the evidence what is the in faith which means when you don't have proof as long as you got faith you got evidence which is why both can't figure out why you ain't depressed and suicidal while you shown when you ain't got evidence it's because I got faith and faith is just like having proof cuz I know I may not have it but if my father got it that's just like me having it ain't preaching to everybody I'm only preaching to three of y'all who's learned how to praise God with no evidence the reason your neighbor and shout it because they need proof in order to praise God they call shout win the bill paid I'm craving up the shelf big photo bills pay they go shout when they get the jobs I cash out on the interview they go she'll win the doctor report come back I can shout when I start coughing does not know God is still able to do exceeding somebody jump up and sit down and stop playing I got faith Lucas your neighbors say you don't mess around and sit next to the right person tell me cuz I got crazy faith I tell him I got big favor tell them I got the type of faith that I get excited about stuff that I already know might not even work but I know God a rich way down and flip that thing I got faith faith it's when praise gets too tall can i go deep in here can I go deeper in here faith is my articulation of my expectation of God into vision in my situation I got bars in here y'all missed it faith is my articulation of my expectation of God's intervention in my situation make that make sense when I don't know what to say I just shout and when I shout that's all heaven I'm expecting you to skip it and turn it around no no oh that's why in 2020 I don't want to hear no Sarah you know how shout like that but you know I love God but I don't praise like that huh it's impossible to have a heart filled with faith and not have a mouth they'll replace you quiet you ain't quiet cuz you're shy if you'll sit there worried about what somebody next for you gonna think about you you got the wrong mindset look at your neighbor and say neighbor I could care less what you think about me i'ma give you 30 seconds and don't make this wheel faith faith is my articulation faith praise somebody say praise this side say praise si say Thanksgiving say praise now you need both the problem is too many y'all got too much Thanksgiving and not enough praise Thanksgiving says Thanksgiving it's reactive praise is proactive thanksgiving is for winners over please is for winners spotting and we in it if you can only shout when it's over you gotta promote yourself to a place where you can praise God before it happened and faith is praise language hmm when we tiptoe into the text I want to suggest that you today that the stuff god get ready to do for you so big you don't have to have faith which means you don't have to help raise which means you don't have to be thinking God for stuff that ain't even manifest again yo when we pull up in a text we see a brother with big faith because the scripture says when Jesus returned to Capernaum a cuddle Roman soldier Roman officer Cain that's enough to tell a whole church up right there he came and pleaded with him I got a big question I got a actually because 20/20 we believe in God for some big stuff but I want to argue with you live long enough life gonna happen am I talking to anybody live long enough something gonna jump off you weren't prepared for live long enough you won't get a bill that you ain't got enough to hell don't live long enough somebody gonna turn their back on you in a question I got to ask you today is when life happens who or what do you run to and the reason somebody out stressed out cuz the last liner that so gay right who do I run to when I gotta get this bill pain Jerome when mama gets sick who you run to I want to ask you this question who or what do you run to and as your pastor is my job in 2020 to help you make the right choice to help you make the right choice if you find out they got a family on the other side of town today and if growing and break your heart what you run into if you go to the doctor Tuesday and you get a report you didn't want to hear who you run into yeah if you go home after church today and somebody's broken into your house and everything you love has been taken it's Ram sack all your kids stuff is all over the place and you don't have insurance to put it back who you gonna run to preacher Michael McClure no you're gonna run to a bottle you're gonna have to get sloppy drunk but after you get sober it's still gonna be there no Pastor Mike I'm gonna have to go smoke one I'm gonna have to go blow one I'm gonna eat the hardest thing I can find I need acid whatever I can find right now to get this off of my heart off of my mind no it's still gonna be there when you get back Pastor Mike I love this Pastor Mike I love them and I gave them my whole heart and they found out they got a whole nother relationship they cheated on me they broke my heart I don't know what to do so you're gonna go find another one to get over this one who you gonna run to what am I trying to get you to realize live long enough I like this brother in the Bible because when stuff got tight he ran to Jesus when stuff got tight he ran if she's can I say something that I wanna pile I want to apologize to every person watching me and sitting in this room because for years the church has made you feel bad that you will go missing for five Sundays go missing for two months something jump off and then you come back to church then her ignorant preacher was sending a pulpit of ignorant first member would say stuff like see stuff got tight now you're running back to the church that's what we here for you miss what I just say it when stuff get tight who you run into don't don't do that don't do that you see me here looking down past my why you're so impressed by this man stuff got ty he went to Jesus don't anachronistically impose you know time on the text anachronistic thinking and anachronistic thinking break that word down anachronistic it means to impose your time on the text don't look at first century pillar Palestine and then think about 21st century Birmingham don't sit here in your comfort and say it's easy to go to Jesus no this brother was a Roman officers the Romans and the Jews didn't get along it was a hit out on Jesus they wanted to kill Jesus people didn't like Jesus he was a revolutionary they thought he was a problem starter he's sitting at home thinking to herself now my partner dying I love on my my servant is dying I need him healed it's only one person I know I'm pretty sure he doesn't called everybody in called in a physician called in the person in the neighborhood with the home remedies and they don't total give him some cash stolen some flaxseed oil and he'll be fine that didn't work and now he's sitting there looking I'm like he bout to die what's going on and all of a sudden he thought to himself now I know this ain't popular this could preach myself but I know a man now yes he'll help me I know your neighbor ain't gonna catch this you sit next to an undercover hater reach over that hater please then high-five another neighbor and say neighbor if you need anything I know a man I look out another neighbor say if you ever sick I know a man if if you're ever need a bill paid I know a man if if your family in trouble I know a man grandmama said just a little talk and I know a man he says I gotta go this brother could have been killed for coming to Jesus no he could have been killed for coming in Jesus could have lost this job for coming to Jesus could have been put to death for coming to Jesus they could have stoned him for coming to Jesus you make us look weak if you how is it we don't like Jesus but all of a sudden here you go running to Jesus you make us all look bad I believe I got a preach that seven people the whole church trying to be quiet only 70 y'all gonna get this with me cuz you're in the same position I mean us7 gonna stand up and point at each other and look everybody else gonna look at us like we crazy but this between me you this brother looked at his problem and then look at his haters he looked at his problem then he looked at his other situation and said you know what I got to go to Jesus why it's bigger than me priest pmj know and I trust me I don't want to do it I gotta do it that's only for three of y'all who done set outside a job and had to convince yourself to get out the car cuz everything in you didn't want to do it but you knew I got to go get this check cuz it's bigger than me that's what who wanted to give up on a relationship but you love your children and you love your family he said you know what I'm a trust guard again why it's bigger it's bigger than me many people have to have that conversation with yourself when you get in the car every time you think about quitting you and say no it's bigger than me too many people depending on me imma say this only seventy I'll go catch it for you you won't win for some of us we gotta win pull it my priests in Sioux cuz if I don't get it ain't nobody else in my circle go get it so God give me the paper that's carrying my mom and him my Cubs in them my freeing them give me the favor yes shut up mama God said I'm giving you a second we're right there failure is not an option it's bigger than you you will not quit you do not lose your box you will not throw in the towel I'm placing you put it is bigger Hemme it's bigger than me their Sundays when I can't even stand up my wife and creeper close to me no it is I have kind of Krunk chronic foot problems and you have to understand that I'm glad to take pain pills just to stand on this stage the people like you just need to go to one side you know it's bigger than me no look at me praise saying you can't have a Sunday where you just say ain't coming to church today I want to sing I'm tired you don't know whose life is dependent on your worship so you got to get up out the bed and say you know what it's bigger than me first touch y'all can't have a bad day you can't be arguing at home and then come here and decide to be nasty to folk when they walk in you don't know who walking in on the verge of suicide and depression every time you hug somebody you squeeze them as tight as you possibly can you want to know why it's bigger than me ain't preaching to everybody I'm only preaching the three of y'all who's had to pour Wow empty preach pmj I'm only preaching the three of y'all who had to encourage other folk when you didn't even know what to say that your old self I'm only preaching the three of y'all who's winning to your account and took care stuff for other people and didn't have a clue that you was gonna take care of your own stuff and bow call you crazy I'm not crazy I don't realize Who I am and because I am Who I am it's bigger than me can't you imagine that brother walking and the other soul just looking at him like way going either sitting there looking like whatever y'all gonna do cool but I love who's at my house too much to just let them down like they die it's bigger than me it's it's bigger than me and the scripture says he implored him clergy I like cross referencing the Bible I love cross referencing the Bible whenever you get time just always look at all the translations that I bless your life this birds who says he implore King James says he but saw an ASP says he entreated and I be said he pleaded New King James Version says he begged preach Mike he begged Jesus Jesus I need you to do it that's a whole nother level of humility I'd get to in a minute he said I need you now here's my problems I need every in this room to sit on the edge of your season don't forget your pastor say at this it's called the synoptic Gospels the synoptic Gospels which means Matthew Mark Luke and John sometimes tell the same story four different ways it's from their vantage point okay so my only problem is in this particular text Matthew chapter 6 look at Matthew versus eighth chapter chapter 8 verse 6 he says my server is paralyzed look at this in terrible pain that's crazy ain't it he's in terrible pain my only problem is when I cross-reference this with Luke chapter 7 verse 2 Luke says he's near death look no Matthew say as he's in pain Luke says he's near death y'all will be seeing one be good one Matthew said Matthew said no he ain't gonna die he just had a lot of pain Luke says no this brother is sick and near death custom like which one do I believe well let's check the background Matthew is a tax collector Luke is a physician priest pmj Matthew no money Luke no bodies y'all miss what I just said I want to say this to you if you ain't careful you better stop allowing unqualified people to assess your situation hear me stop allowing people tell you what to tell you what's tolerable cuz what looks horrible to one is terminal to another oh my god that was crazy you better stop allowing unqualified must say that again cuz I think you missed it and Matthew chapter 8 verse 6 it says he's turned he's oh my god he's he's terribly ill in Matthew chapter 8 he says he's terribly ill in Luke chapter 7 he says he's near death the only problem I had with that is that Matthew is a tax collector he knows money he doesn't know health Luke is a physician Luke says Matthew I love your brother but what you see is soluble is really terminal if you don't stop allowing unqualified people to assess your problems you gonna die in what could have been healed preach pmj here's the new phrase for all my members to the citizens of Rock City there are certain people you can kick in with but when life get real you got to look at them and say ain't being funny but about this I got to go up [Applause] y'all miss what I just said no no I ain't trying to be funny but you don't have the capacity to assess my issue I gotta go up and be careful cuz if you're not careful people will keep under estimating and devaluing your pay that's crazy ain't it underestimate well stop acting like that ain't that deep it's a you did you well you just need to get over y'all broke up it's over with move on Oh act like that well you date everybody ain't been in but two relationships for reason so for me is the difference between somebody who was in one relationship nine years and the second relationship seven years you date somebody every season you gotta win a man or fall man a spring man it's leap year you don't have two men in the same month hit me when I say this I need somebody y'all crazy who can assess my issue sisters give me a wet work get that brother look at you and say about just need a little bit more affection like you talk to me crazy bolita bolita don't minimalize that fellas if she look as sad just want you to communicate and it's just you can just be a little bit more respectful believe believe that don't underestimate and devalue somebody's pain this is critical and look at this I want you to catch it I want to see no i dont preach three times two times already this is my third time I know service call Tish yet I'm gonna see if you catch it okay because this brother rose up on Jesus as Jesus go to verse 6 he says my servant is at home he's terribly ill verse 7 Jesus says I will come okay you missed it you missed it y'all slow - okay thirst 6 verse 6 he says hey Jesus my servant lies in the bed paralyzed and in terrible pain verse 7 the Lord said I he'll come oh my god I need a better Church I don't want it young church no more I want an old church I want two old Baptist Church with 20 deacons 15 church mothers I want a nurse this deal I want all of that cuz y'all young new school hip-hop suburban eyes Christians make me work hard y'all don't see it y'all gonna shout verse 6 he says I got a problem verse 7 Jesus sayeth I got the answer verse 6 he says he's sick verse 7 he says no we're okay here let me give it nowhere between her 6 and verse 7 does he ever ask Jesus to do anything all he did was talk to Jesus and before he could finish talkin Jesus says I'm gonna do it I wanna prophesy that this can't be the year God started answering stuff you was praying about that you necessarily didn't ask him for y'all miss what I just said okay here it is here it is this is actual footage of the next month in your life God if you don't mind just giving me strength to deal with this job I will promote [Applause] come on come on tell me whoa whoa whoa whoa I was just praying about the job yeah I heard your lips but I felt your heart so before you even say anything else i'ma elevate your situation I'm giving you two words that you ought to pray I would like to start this message out by saying faith is acting like you believe what God plays is my articulation of my expectation of God's intervention in my situation I wanna prophesy two words that if you got paid you'll believe I will pay to be or I will heal your body I will fix your family just five people at shop he will he will he [Laughter] he says I will not I'm sound oh man I ain't got no time left I'm very sound so I'm not a sloppy preacher that's the problem with me I like giving y'all all the truth okay I got a I got plenty time all the time in the world all the time in the world crap okay so hear me round state it's okay watch this so here's my problem and Matthew he says he's Matthew said I never asked him and he did it but in Luke Luke says no he asked him come but that's the problem with the synoptic Gospels is for people's opinion well I want perception I want say opinion perception okay all right so tears you Matthew you mark you Luke you John baby girl okay so here's the problem if Matt if he wrote his Bible today tears chapter 1 verse 1 and Pastor Mike was on priests pre-owned stage preaching a powerful sermon his face began to itch he began to scratch his face and continue to preach she gonna preach while he was on stage the crowd was screaming he will and he began to scratch his face close to his nose cuz something was bothering him but he preached in spite of he's gonna say as he began to preach I noticed cameras and lights and people begin to Yale as passed the mic begin to dig in his nose she's gone preacher I couldn't help but notice as pastor my preach he's digging in his nose now is she lying no is he lying no cuz from where he said he can clearly see I'm scratching my face from where she sit in looks like I'm digging in my nose but I'm actually scratching my face that's why folk can't figure out because from their vantage point it looked like you was dying [Applause] so Matthew says he needs Luke says no idiot he did act best Mike so how you gonna preach it how'd you gonna clearly stand here and say he's gonna give me stuff I asked for when Luke clearly says he acts for it I can use both of them I can cross-pollinate the text and I can say they're gonna be sir scenes of your life what if told you ax he gonna do it then they're gonna be sir scenes of your life well he's gonna wait till it comes out your mouth you have to discern the season if it's bigger than you there are a couple things you have to get go over the first thing you're going to have to overcome is the fear of being different tell me Holy Ghost the fear of being different make that make sense pmj go to go to verse 5 go to verse 5 go to verse 5 go to verse 5 and when Jesus into Capernaum a Centurion with Jesus in occur per diem sign of a Centurion a Centurion centaurian from the root word century so Centurion root word century where the century mean 100 Centurion is a Centurion 1 out of 100 he said 99 can't stand you but I'm gonna be the one yeah I'm gonna be the one I want to ask you a question maybe you keep getting left out cuz you trying too hard to fit in no I'm different the fear being different he says no your desire to fit in is why you keep being left out is being different is what's gonna make the difference no hear me when I say this the fear being different it's bigger than me God said I never called you to fit in I never called you to get along with what they're doing you're different embrace you're different as a matter of fact if we can have a real conversation when did you start caring that you didn't fit in what jumped off in your life that made you think the affirmation of them is gonna cost us success in you you different you're different you're fearfully and wonderfully made you were created on purpose you was crafted for your call you were designed for your destiny you were you you was fashioned for God's wheel you are different hear me when I say this and don't be afraid to be who God called you to be this century in sickness in oh I see 99 who's saying no imma be the one who say yes can I actually a question can I ask you a question can I ask you the same question John had his people go at Jesus while he was in jail John sitting in jail and he got to trippin how is it I'm sittin in jail when my cousin is Jesus she says I tell you what the Bible said he gonna heal miracles and say hey what go ask my cousin a question they said what are you the one should I work for another jesus said go send my cousin another message says she want to talk tell him I opened blinded eyes I didn't heal the sick I don't raise the dead I beat that one I got a question to ask you today are you the one well should I look for another you so busy complaining about your family don't realize he put you in it for a reason help me Holy Ghost you to one well I can't I can't stand nobody on my job I just don't fit in with none of them cuz you ain't supposed to you would preach Michael McClure I can to suggest the fear of being different don't be afraid to be who God called you to be if they can't accept you for who you are they do not deserve you give me when I say that I am for one i'ma catch this I'm the one I'm embracing imma be the one who changed my family's destiny I'ma be the one passing like everybody my family get a divorce not me i'ma be the one ain't nobody in my family got no money no ain't none of y'all got no money don't say that around me no more see I won't or I am giving you permission to interrupt conversations that's what we doing all 2020 we stopping folk all 2020 see that's why I can't stand don't nobody ever make it real pause you ain't gonna make it from here if you comfortable with that speak that over your own life okay okay they got three words I gotta give you my mama check me i'ma check y'all I was on the phone complaining with my mom about six days ago right I said mom I'm just tired of people I wasn't well I said mom it's like we always got to go through such huh she said return to sender so you know I said I said mama what'd you say she they returned a sense like a FaceTime I said boom and I said it again said return to sender I said what got me you ain't never got no package that chain won't oh you ordered it and it didn't look like what you want you put it back in the mail and you return it cuz it ain't gonna stay in my house I said I'll reseed so the next time they look at you we ain't never gotten a return to sender I am the head and not the tail the Linden not to borrow above and not beneath I am I gotta go fast but number two we have to overcome pride somebody say it's bigger than me he humbled himself and came to Jesus he humbled himself he humbled himself look at this Jesus was considered a thug I'm serious they consider Jesus a thug a revolutionary a starter he was a problem started everybody else comfortable with the way stuff is here come Jesus saying we don't do it different he was a revolutionary say the thing we do with Jesus the same thing we do with dr. King we freeze dr. King at the march on Washington and we ignore him in Memphis demand and Piatt paid he wasn't killed for being a dreamer he was killed for being an agitator now mister I just said as long as he was telling us to dream together they would warn him about assassinations when he starts saying pay us better they let him die so so Jesus was not this King of Kings to them he's the King of Kings to us but he looked and said you know what I'm a Roman soldier I'm so popular that if you hit me that's an assault on the king you gonna be put to death but I'm a humble myself when it's pride that's a beautiful Greek word Hebrew word I'm sorry called guy on which means exaltation to rise up when you exalt yourself you look down on others pride is exalting yourself above God and others placing your focus only on you pride elevates and exalts itself pride as arrogance presumption could see self-satisfaction boasting high-mindedness the root of all sin is pride did you catch that at the root of all sin is pride if you look carefully at the word pride right in the middle is the letter i' pride right in the middle is the letter i' because pride focuses on itself it is an unhealthy obsession with yourself it all boys down to self worship pride is what got Lucifer who was a leader in heaven now known as sane demoted he was prideful he was a prideful leader and he focused only on I according to Isaiah 14:12 and 14 I'm gonna teach on this one weekend I'm telling you I've learned the five I wheels of Lucifer five-hour wheels of Lucifer Isaiah 14:12 and 14 I will ascend into the heaven I will exalt my throne above the stars of God I will also sit on the Mount of the congregation on the father sides of the north I will ascend above the heights of the clouds I will be like the Most High pride has focused on I if you want to predict your failure see if you're operating in pride wow wow if can't nobody tell you nothing won't nobody tell you nothing preach pastor Mike McClure jr. pride brings destruction and a great fall according to 1st Peter 5 and 5 listen closely according to the 1st Peter 5 and 5 it tells us that God opposes the proud he opposes the proud God hates pride the Greek word for oppose is an ax to toe so Anitha Tazo which means to rage a battle against who be in Pride is to be at war with God I don't think you heard what I just see it to be in Pride God opposes prop which means he wages war against pride I want you to catch this right quick I'd rather catch hail from the devil because if I'm at war with the devil I can call God who do you call when you fight him we need pride in but if you're not careful pride to eat you from the inside out proud to have you thinking too much of yourself yeah pride pride pride pride pride some of y'all I've been through enough hell for everybody on your road and you came out and you even realized pride got you celebrating too long yep so you went through all the hell and you came out so now you're saying I made it I made they tried to kill me but I made it they judge me but I made it you'll realize the enemy comes to steal kill and destroy steal comic he'll come and destroy come what's that what's that p.m. James three different strategies which means whenever the devil comes y'all got to wake up wake up please wake up please please please wake up and see the Bible for what it is hear me when I say this the enemy doesn't come period to steal period no he says to steal kill and destroy which means and one attack three things happen but problem that you see it so what happens is here it is y'all went through all that hell y'all almost got a divorce y'all almost broke up y'all always then make it so you look back and you say stuff like but we made it a devil try but we made it but pride don't let you see what didn't know y'all relationship made it but y'all trust did cuz although he didn't kill the marriage he stole the trust fridge for MJ so hear me cry somebody say pride if it's bigger than you the first thing you got to overcome is the fear of being different bu-bu-bu-bu-bu if you gonna need a song you ain't gotta leave it like Curtis beat you if you gonna speak gods where you got a preacher like me feed you be confident in your own skin am I being honest with anybody be who God called you to be hear me when I say this then you got to overcome pride but then number three I'll get tired of me number three faith fatigue faith fatigue you've been believing in the wrong stuff so long you don't think nothing works or you misdiagnosed you're no help me god I got so much left but I'm trying to keep my service to a certain time for him in 2020 faith fatigue faith fatigue can I ask you a question if you believe in God for something attending God's will and it don't work who fault is it it's crazy ain't it you think God's will is it God's will for your life oh you don't put your faith in people and once they let you down you convinced you're selling me show you let me show you how the devil works you put your faith and hope in them they let you down you bounce back but don't realize he stole your faith so when you go to believe in God is now hard because you've convinced yourself if I can't trust the people I do see [Music] it's bigger than me it's bigger than me be who God called you be okay I this man says can't you see they like I'm getting overwhelmed thinking about it he leaves home now this is what's crazy oh my god ain't see that I am see that he leaves this brother at home sick when he gets to GD says he's at home ill I don't know he died on the way there which means he left home with a belief and that belief was strong enough till he got to Jesus hear me what do you believe in God for hold on to it he kissed the Jesus says I will this was crazy can you imagine this he says he says I need you to come and do so so so and so he says I will come they start walking but while he's walking Sarah to me he starts thinking this is crazy I want I want I want you to paint this picture right Jesus Jesus you my child let homesick I need you to come I will come okay like what's he expecting ah yes when I need a strong three days when I get to heaven all right I know it might not be possible when I get there he gonna be like well done that good a faithful so you'd be a family hold on real quick all right right before you give me that can I get like three days then she's gonna be like what do you mean I'm like I need to talk to a couple of people cuz I got questions like what you mean like okay so so when you told him he really think he was coming because after Jesus say if he's comin look at what he does he says I will come he says I whoa yeah don't come to my house this crazy I'm not worthy he said think of it he said he says lower uh whoa all right all right you're gonna come to my house my intimate space you're gonna see where I live you're gonna see my mess no yeah yeah I'm not worthy for you to come to my house priest BMJ just say the word I've learned I've learned studying divinity that there are certain barriers that block best we have a ideological barrier here that I don't have time to get into we have a theological barre we have a distance barrier how imma heal him if he ain't here up until now every person in a Bob will been healed because they've been in his presence this brother big-big this brothers faking being he's saying now I know you ain't never healed nobody from a distance but if you be who I believe you can do it from right here now this is y'all y'all do y'all see I'm on a live one who see this hate you see Kate you imagine I gotta I gotta play devil's advocate got time I got to play devil's advocate look look at this he said he says hey I'm finna go ask Jesus to heal him y'all finna go he paralyzed I can't carry him the whole way there he don't come to the house he ain't got to come to the house well he healed others so somebody had to lay hands on him okay he remember the girl who grew up down the street Easley on 51st Street yeah she was bleeding for twelve own years he touched him and she got healed cool my old boy from Pratt City was blind he said Jeeves he said yeah I hope remember old boy from me for Eastside I heard he spit in his face his eyes came back you remember you remember l-boogie l-boogie from the north side died and he got shot three times he didn't come to the funeral he gets it at gravesite and says Lazarus come forth oh boy gets out the grave and he's thinking to himself that's good but I need bigger he's a do me a favor I'm a man of authority but I'm also a man under Authority I say to this one go and he goes I say it said this one come and he comes so I know if my word is good enough for them to obey I told you in the beginning sickness has to believe there is a name above every name and at that name every knee shall bow he's all I need to do just say the word Jesus looks at him and says I have never seen in all of Israel such great faith if I could rewrite the Bible I would change that one word out great for being if they would have say a big I checked every translation to try to find big I couldn't find it he said great faith how do I know that's big faith because he told me in the beginning you need great faith are you mrs. faith Desai's he says but you know what you got musta see just like it ooh-whoo lastly put that in my nose I'm gonna come back and get that next week I'm gonna come back and get that next week yeah everybody got the standard issue must have seen whether you upgrade it or not is up to you priest p.m. gate I oh my god all I gotta come back and get that he said no I'm gonna give all y'all the standard issue must the see what you do with it is up to you this brother said no I upgraded it it's almost like downloading a free app but then the good stuff you have to pay for he says no no no no I'm a hub great he said I got great faith and look at what he says it is because you believe it has I says because who believed when did it happen while you was talking he was healed I want to ask you one question as we leave who healed the boy who did it did Jesus do it cuz it's good to say it because you believed but no way in the scripture do I see what Jesus spoke to you in other words Jesus trying to get you to realize you got the power I just want to see if you Father in Jesus name - every hand lift that I ask that you restore their belief I speak big faith coz God is bigger than me I got a family depending on me we got friends depending on us God I'm dependent on me I come against break down I come against self doubt self pity I come against the cancer of comparison God so many of us are too busy looking at what other people are doing not to see the good things that we're doing so god I come against comparison I ask that you help me to come o overcome the fear of being different help me to overcome my pride help me overcome my faith fatigue because even as the pastor of this church there are times when my faith gets tired God but I realized now it's not my faith that's tired it's my hope I will put my hope and certain people and they will let me down put my hope and certain things and it would break down but God that's why out at 36 I understand why my grandmother would say my hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and is where I dare not trust but wholly lean so God as we stretch our hands we just ask that you restore every area that was broken repeat out to be say lower I give you my heart bow did in Jesus name clap your hands if you receive

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Published: Sun Jan 05 2020