"Joseph" - Bro. Lee Stoneking

eleven years ago this week a good friend of mine died and he's here to preach for us this morning would you please welcome a man who knows a whole lot about miracles and loves God and God uses him powerfully let's welcome brother Lee stonking to preach to us it's wonderful to be alive today in this wonderful atmosphere I want to read to you sketchily from the book of Genesis here in the book of Genesis chapter 37 a name is mentioned of what I feel is one the most noble regaled characters in the entirety of the Old Testament it simply says in Genesis chapter 37 and verse 2 these are the generations of Jacob Joseph being 17 years old was feeding the flock with his brethren Joseph if you look at verse 3 it says enjoy if dreamed a dream and he told it his brethren and they hated him yet the more they already had hated him because they could see that Joseph was favored by their father now Joseph has a dream and he told the dream and the Bible says they hated him even the more then he had a second dream if you look at verse 11 and his brethren envied him but his father observed the saying or the dreams then in verse 19 it says and they said one to another behold this dreamer cometh come now therefore and let us slay him and cast him into some pit and we will say some evil beasts have devoured him and we shall see what shall become of his dreams then if you look in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 13 Jesus is talking about the kingdom of heaven and he gives different examples and parabolic understandings but he says here in verse 45 again he's using another example again the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man seeking goodly pearls and when he had found that pearl of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it I simply want to entitle this today Joseph would you lift your hands your voices in your hearts and once again would you pray that God will speak to you individually and to us here today as a conglomerate lift your hands your voices to the Lord once again and let us beseech him Lord Jesus today in the presence of the Almighty here we can feel the brush of angel's wings the touch of the master's hand the sound of your sandal footed footfall in the corridors of our hearts o master of the universe touch us and lift us O God into the realm of understanding give us revelation insight into the glorious power and presence of your Holy Word anoint these lips of clay to speak as an Oracle of the Lord anoint us both to hear and to speak in this place we will not fail to give you praise glory and honor we ask these things in the matchless resplendent or powerful name of the Lord Jesus Christ and everyone clapped and shouted amen I can feel the afterglow of the service here last night Lord bless you thank you for standing so long you may be seated that was really a weekend clap let's do it again with all of the early morning energy that we have and as David said of old shout unto the Lord with a voice of triumph of soul Lord Jesus today Alleluia Jesus no one can live without a dream when your dreams die it's the end of the world for you the Bible says that another way without a vision the people perish Joseph is probably one of my very favorite characters in the entirety of the Old Testament the reason for that is that Joseph kept the laws of God before God ever engraved them in stone he was a regal noble character and Joseph his greatest challenge in life was to keep his dream alive you've never lived until your brothers hate your dreams sometimes your brothers can be your greatest dream killers what do you do to keep your dreams alive Joseph's real story was the success of failure that ends in victory here comes the dreamer let's kill him first they wanted to kill his dreams and then they wanted to kill him I am convinced after living for the Lord for fifty years I am convinced that God is more interested in developing character in us than he is in delivering us I cannot always control what happens to me but I can control how I respond to it and that makes the difference in fact through this course of journey walking with Jesus there are times the tests and trials have come to me and really ladies and gentlemen tests and trials are God's vote of confidence in you that's why they come Samson for example Samson was mightily used by God but he fell in love with a Philistine woman and he became enamored with her and he came back and told his parents and his parents abraded him and they said to him is there never a woman among her own people that you have to go to these uncircumcised Philistines and all that Samson says was gather for me and Simpson went down to Timnath to see this Philistine woman one of his journeys down there a lion roared against him on the path of the roadway so we have a situation here we have a lion that must have lunch we have a man that wants to stay alive the anointing of God came upon Samson and he tore that lion to pieces like a newborn lamb or a kid destroy it to pieces time came and went as it always does another trip down what's interesting to me is this the Bible says when he came to the spot we had originally slain that lion he turned aside that means then originally after he had killed the lion he must have dragged that lion off the beaten path in behind a boulder or a rock because now he turns aside to take a look at the thing that at one time would have killed him and when he came to that lion the desert climate had done its work the Flies of the air had done their work and the flesh was eaten away but that skin of that lion became tanned like leather and covered the rib cage and there was a hollow place and the bees of the air found it and they built a honeycomb and they filled it with honey and nectar the thing that could have killed him and would have killed him now became nourishment for him and Samson reached in and pulled out that honey and licked it from his fingers and ate it from his hands and then he took some to his mother and father and he nourished them with the sweetness of that honey but he never told them where he got it the reason that God sends some of the lions in life towards you is because he knows you have the strength to slay it but he also knows that six months down the road or a year down the road there's another weary pilgrim coming that will never be able to kill that lion and he so he sends the lion to you so that you can kill it and when that weary pilgrim comes you can reach into the sweetness and the nectar of that victory and they will lick victory from your fingers and be nourished and strengthened and never know where you got it lift your hands for a moment because I'm talking to some of you here today let your voice out this Jesus powerful and mighty the author and the finisher of our faith knoweth exactly what we have need of lava supply of a rock oh sheeeeeit I of Raqqa hallelujah Jesus so as I was saying there have been times when tests and trials have come to me and I know that I didn't pass the test I didn't get a pass a mark so I've gone to Jesus because I know he's merciful and I've said Jesus look if you will run that thing by me one more time I'll try to get at least a c-minus just run that test by me again and God in His mercy he will run that thing by you again because he is perfecting us when you pray God use me and I pray God use me you are schooling begins and your schooling will be different than mine and mine will be different than yours but be very careful when you pray earnestly God use me God use me God use me because you may end up feeling you have been used but that's exactly what you prayed for because when God answers rarely does it look like what you had pictured in your mind or my mind it comes with his qualifications his knees and his specifications but that's what we've asked for got the greatest the greatest thing is to be used by you is somehow to have your anointing somehow have your favour somehow be able to reach out to others and transmit to them the reality and the power of this risen Jesus people if you're an ambassador for Christ it is the highest colleague in the entire world you have become a spokesman for him he has entrusted into your hands and care his knowledge to the entire world bitterness is an acid that will destroy the container it's like a rust it just eats away I've heard people say in my lifetime that's too good to be true but you'll never hear anyone say that's too bad to be true it's always too good to be true my father used to say when I was growing up I didn't understand it then I think I understand more of it today he said Lee don't believe anything you hear not about half what you see well to a young mind that doesn't make a lot of sense but at this point makes a great deal of sense there was a unusual character back in the 70s back in those years when I first came into the church her name was Corrie ten Boom she was a regal wonderful individual her story was that her father owned the clock shop somewhere there in Holland I forgotten the name of the town now but her father had built an additional wall in the home there was a great space between these two walls the original wall and then the wall he had built and he kept Jews alive in that narrow chamber trying to save them from the jaws of Nazism he had some kind of a sign in the window that he would move something and put something there whatever it was and so the Jews walking by would know when it was safe to come in and when it was not safe to come in eventually the Nazis got on to it eventually they saw what was going on and so they broke in and they separated Corrie ten Boom her sister and they separated them from their father and they were carried away by the Nazis they never saw their father again Corrie ten booms story was this she lived in a concentration camp and she was separated from her sister one morning when she came out of this barrack this crude place where they slept starving to death there was a wagon outside the entrance and it was just heaped up with the skeletons of dead women just lying on this wagon that had died in this concentration camp when she walked by she looked up and her sister's skeleton was lying on the top of this heap of dead bodies she could have become bitter a lot of things could have happened but she made a statement that impressed me as a young convert back in those years she said no matter how deep the pit Jesus is deeper I had a man say to me an Amsterdam New York one time was preaching a revival there and he stood in the audience to sobbing and crying but he wouldn't come to the altar and so eventually in my way of doing things I walked back to him timed over the pews and got a hold of him I said why don't you come to the altar I said God is working with you he's on you he's drawing you I can feel it he said well this donkey you don't understand you don't understand I said understand what he said I'm too far down I've done I've done so much evil I've been so bad he said there's no hope for me I said to him no matter how far down you are underneath by the everlasting arms of God and he can lift you up that man broke down sobbing almost uncontrollably and God filled him refilled him with the baptism of the Holy Ghost so no matter how deep the pit this Jesus is deeper no matter how far down you are underneath are the everlasting arms of God that will lift you up I think we ought to give him a resounding round of applause for such and for such price and force it is painful it is painful to love if you love be prepared to hurt it cost Jesus his life years ago when I first started pastoring at a Bible School I want a whole family to the Lord father the mother the son's daughter sons one of the sons was an out-and-out hippie he was just totally given over to all of that lay mastani I want him to the Lord he was marvelous a converted and I prayed his wife through so we became friends and they lived in Connecticut I lived in upstate New York but I would drive down there sometimes to see the whole family just to make sure they were doing all right and that they were in the church there and they were doing well and I preached them at local church also anyway they they said to me they said brothers trunking we want to take you his wife's name was Jerry he said Jerry and I want to take you to a place called Hammond acid beach I knew nothing about that and it was in the wintertime there was snow everywhere he said don't worry he said we're going down to the beach he said because we know a place between those huge boulders that the Sun strikes there melts all the snow and it's warm like even in the summer or spring in spite of the snow all around it's warm so I went because I liked the surf I love to watch the surf rollin I love to watch the seagulls I just I know I never tire of it so I was interested in going and I went and it was amazing it was exactly as they had said between those boulders the Sun had shined down and there was no snow in there and this and the sand was just warm and it was just almost like summer so we sit down in the sand and we were talking about God and watching the seagulls and listening to the surf and watching him and I was just with my hand really running through the sand with my fingers and I came across something that was sort of a look like a like a oval piece of glass but it was frosted Hittle Frost looked to it and then that would there were brown pieces like that and there was some clear pieces like that but they were all frosted and and I said what is this and Thomas had always said that that's sand glass is that what is sand was I'd never heard of it he said well people come in here among these rocks and they throw a beer bottles and soda pop bottles against the rocks and they break him he said when the grass hits the sand he said if you step on of course it would cut your foot to pieces he said what's interesting in is he said with the wind and the waves rolling in the waves those pieces of sharp glass the edges the sharp points they are sanded down by rolling in that water and that sand and it just sands away it just smooths out all the sharp places it gets rid of all the points so it's no longer dangerous he said it's just a great thing for those of us who live in the beaches and know about these things he said it's just sand glass you could jump on it now and it will not hurt you this Jesus as a way of causing the waves of life to roll over us and just absolutely as it were the trials of life to just slowly but surely sand away the rough edges of our life and the sharp points so that when God gets done with you it doesn't hurt other people other people not hurt by stepping on you or being in contact with you the Holy Ghost is talking to some of you right now get your voice out and talk back to him just for a moment local Turkish uddhava rakesh attire Alleluia Jesus and he look at Jesus hallelujah Jesus Jesus I worship you I worship you God in Jesus name so as I said bitterness is an acid that can destroy you but hold on to your ideal by living in the real one of my favorite verses I've quoted this a lot in 50 years Romans 8 and 31 if God be for us who can be against us so I decided one day there are people that don't like you there may be more that don't like you Stone King but if God is for you you're going to make it so what I'm saying to you today is this if God is for us we're going to make it it doesn't matter how many Devils in Hell or combination of Devils or how many human spirits come against us if God is for us if God is for us if God is for you if God is for me we're going to make it that's why we can come to church in the deepest Valley in the darkest of the dark and we can still run the aisles we can still jump and shout we can still dance before the Lord we can still clap our hands we can still sing the songs of Zion we can still lift our hands and worship God because he is worthy of our praise if do it again just for a moment I feel something wonderful I feel something powerful in this place why don't you cap again with all of your might every man every woman every boy every girl and just shout out with Thanksgiving to the Lord Jesus I worship you the devil can never get into your heart until darkness gets in there then he has an avenue but you know there have been times I know that God is powerful I know he's all-powerful I know he can do anything but sometimes it would appear to me that God has just exceeded his own power amazing what God can do amazing that change that he can make could you never and say I know about that but back and say because he changed me I can tell you something if it's not written in your heart if this truth is not bitten in your heart it doesn't matter what's written in the book it's got to get in your heart people it's not enough to know about this truth you've got to love this truth you've got to love it and if you love this truth you can make it no matter what dreams always go to prison to be lied on to be locked up Joseph was always losing his coat he lost it to his brethren he lost it to Potiphar's wife but they didn't get him and that's the thing no matter what this world wants to take from me they can have it but this Jesus is mine and I will hold on to him no matter what happens or what comes down the road of my life because people you've never lived until you have been forgotten you've never lived until you have been imprisoned you've never lived until you've had some of those experiences sometimes for years it can go on there are things that have happened to me that I don't feel should have happened to anyone but you've got the same same thinking there are things that have happened to you that don't seem fair they don't seem right someone said to me just this last year they said with strong King you're so different since you've been through all this I said yes yes I am they said you're 9 ting is greater it get you get more authority in your life he said you're just different I said well it's because I've suffered they said what a price to pay but my answer was but we hold the purchase of such a price I've seen thousands of people receive the Holy Ghost since I didn't raise from the dead I have spoken the word of faith in crowds of 15,000 or more and there will be hundreds of people of all manner of diseases is not the price it's the purchase of such a price i when I was much younger I came across a poem it was entitled others may you cannot I don't know if you've ever read it or not he talks about how others can do this but you can't this one can do this but you can't that poem has become important to me in my walk with God because there was a time in my life when I first started to this I fasted I prayed I cried to God I wanted to be used by God and I kept asking him to use me and I had other friends my own peer group and they were preaching and they were doing this that the other thing and they were doing some things that I wasn't really really comfortable with and one day I thought to myself I'll try it mistake hmm I tried it God slapped me up against the wall just bang and I said but God that's uh I said they do it he said but you can't I've called you to a higher level of authority in power and I can prophesy to some of you young people after watching you here in these two services you are not some of you are not ever going to get to live to the same excessive riot and riotous living as they do out there or even in the church because God has called you to a higher plane a higher level of authority some of you will be mightily used by God before this thing is over so don't worry about what you can't do just rejoice in what you can do the power of God the presence of God the anointing of Jesus I feel like clapping here today I feel like worshiping the Lord here today because God is speaking to us in this place marvelously wonderfully hmm don't give up and hang up on the how I don't know how God is going to do some things I just know he's going to do it because his word says so you have to watch the little personal things they must be attained attended to to help bring you to the place where God wants you to be what do you do when your dream seems to fail I prayed for hours as I said last night it was a trade for hours when I first came into this prayed and prayed well I play for hours and as I said you can't do that and God ignore you he came to me he came to in a dream one night and I dreamed that I was in a football field preaching to thousands of people and when I gave an altar call hundreds came rushing out of the grandstands down where I was preaching and they began to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost I woke up in the middle of the night in my bed with my hands in the air speaking with tongues and crying out to God the years past 33 years later I was asked by the Carver's in Fiji if I would come to the Fiji Islands and preach or General Conference for a couple of years I couldn't go and then suddenly I was able to go so I went when I got there it started raining and brother Carver said to me said brother strong King there are so many people coming to this meeting he said that we don't have a building big enough to house them so we've had to rent a foot filled it didn't click at that point so I said fine so I thought well the first night he said we're going to have a sink spiration and I thought well I'll go just to get the feel of it and see what it looks like so I went and sure enough they had this scrap this little platform and and a shelter out there in the middle of this football field and this this grandstand they stayed about four or five thousand people something like that and they were singing and it was raining just raining and I said to brother Carver how are we going to have a crusade in this football field in all this rain and mud he said I don't know well then the next day he called me said we're in trouble I said why he said well there were so many complaints against the singing last night from the neighbors he said that we're going to have to close the meeting I said how can they close it you already paid the fee you've already paid the rental fee for the football field for the conference he said this is a third-world country they take your money do what they want to and I said really he said that's how it is here but all the time I'm praying God stop the rain stop the rain stop the rain stop this rain and I said to the Carver look I work with the gift of faith I'll use a cordless mic I'll stay in under the grandstands and just preach among the people I'm used to doing that and so that's what I'll do he said fine and I'm praying for the rain to stop what I didn't know was there have been a total drought in that area that they were concerned about the sugarcane drying up scorching they were concerned about the cattle dropping dead in the fields they were concerned about an epidemic breaking out they were going to have to ration the water at the moment my plane landed in that country it decided to rain and it kept raining it kept raining the news spread among those people in nandi that this American evangelist had brought the blessings of God and the rain had returned that all the complaints stopped the grandstands filled people came from everywhere came from everywhere and when I gave an altar call that's Sunday morning people came running out of those grandstands exactly like I had seen it in that dream 33 years prior to that and I think was over 400 got the holy ghost in less than 20 or 30 minutes what I'm saying is this the next year I went into another country down in South America I could only be there one night I did exactly the same thing it was in the middle of a football field there were thousands of people there when I gave an altar call I spoke 20 or 25 minutes and what does it mean to be born-again and when I opened the altars people came running by the hundreds out of those grandstands and in less than 25 minutes 1125 people received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and people walked out of there waving crutches so what I'm saying is this if God has ever given you a dream hold on to that dream it took 33 years for that thing to come to pass in my life but it came to pass if God has ever shown you what he wants to do with you you hold on to the vision hold on to the dream don't let any devil and he'll talk you out of it don't let human spirits talk you out of it like Joseph hold on to your dream it will come to pass it's only a matter of time if that excites you then lift your hands and your voices for a moment and let your voice out because I'm talking to people here under this leadership there are going to be evangelists helping missionaries powerful people will go out of this church there's no telling what God will do here among you before it's all over and as I said last night this building is never going to hold the crowd that's coming you're never going to hold what's coming to this place so get excited get used to it get used to it the balcony chairs in there because there's a hunger out there I can hear the sound of the rushing mighty wind I can hear the crackle of talk and tongues of fire ah hallelujah what do you do when your dreams seem to fail number one be honest face the facts he is the god of a second chance and you'll find out sometimes a third chance fourth chance tenth chance refused to get bitter Satan can inject a thought in your mind they can cause you to self-destruct learn how to use your present circumstances creatively learn to live in prisons that are not of your own making and I close with this the oyster lies at the bottom of the sea he's learned to survive there the currents can blow can sweep through and wash him from place to place but the oyster has learned how to live in prisons that are not of his own making he learned how to keep himself alive at the bottom of the sea for example the oyster lives in a shell and the water is more calm he opens that shell and the gentle currents will cause food particles to flow through the open shell and he'll close that show and digest those food particles but sometimes if the current is little too strong and he's got the shell open a tiny piece of sand will be washed through the open shell and the currents not strong enough forth to take it all the way through and it falls into the flesh of that austere and the oyster has no hands or arms to reach in and take out the irritant he can't do it he doesn't have legs or feet to stand up and shake it out but the piece of sand is an irritant but what the oyster has is the ability to secrete successive layers of mother-of-pearl and the austra begins to create and to secrete the successive layers of mother-of-pearl and he wraps that tiny piece of sand in turning a pearl is a thing of beauty wrapped around trouble a pearl is a tribute to a conquered enemy this Jesus I was an irritant in his flesh I hurt his hands his feet his side and his brow but he did not reach in and pull me out and throw me out as an irritant instead he began to secrete successive layers of love layers of mercy layers of grace until in his eyes I have become a thing of beauty I am a thing of beauty wrapped around trouble I am a tribute to a conquered enemy you are attributed to a conquered enemy I read to you we've heard it preached and taught for years Jesus is the pearl of great price sell all you have and buy it that's not true at all Jesus is not the pearl of great price I didn't purchase him he purchased me I am the pearl of great price you are the pearl of great price he looked for you he left heavens portals and walked through this passionate and he found you and he found me people that's worth dancing about that's what's shouting about he did not pluck us our society may have cast you out your family may have cast you out but Jesus did not cast you out he began to secrete successive layers of love and mercy and grace until you in his eyes have become a pearl of great price you have become a tribute to a conquered enemy you've got a right to shout here today you've got a right to dance here today you've got a right to worship God here today because of where you have come from lift your hands stand to your feet let your voice out in Thanksgiving this morning I wanted to do something this morning to encourage you I want to lift you I want you to understand who you are what you have a hold of that's it that's your voice out to a worry about your neighbor listening don't worry hahaha Jesus Jesus I praise you and Irma should play a hotter other he shot at Rivera shot I catch a tire on door with Alicia tire maracas ha in this house let's give the Lord a standing ovation Jesus we cut for you master of the universe of wait shout to you the victory today in this place the Temple of the rock or supplier maraca he and the law firm rock with acacia doctor of Edessa Tata Ganesha and Gotha the rest should die of Iraq Ithaca shut out I adore akka hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah in this atmosphere in this presence of God is there anyone here today that wants to come running there was to come walking to this altar of prayer and just throw your voice in the air throw your hands in the air and just praise Him and just worship him once again for what he has done for you I talked Alesha taya for the anointing that is upon you but the power of God that is upon you in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus if you are visiting here today I give you Jesus he is looking for you keep on coming just keep on coming and that your voice out o takabisha like ithaca on donna the russia tire ha ha ha kodesh a in the name of Jesus right through here at the Holy Ghost just swirl through the Akasha taka that's it Endora Farakka barrage attack ashitaka I hear Jesus if the name of Jesus name of Jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah all over this audience today just lift your hands and let your voice out even if you cannot get into this altar area back there in the balcony in the back just lift your hands and let your voice out surely the presence of the Lord is in this house and this merchant man this Jesus is looking for the pearl of great price looking for you today reaching out for you today touching you today in the name of Jesus she says sir that's it just again just let your voice out don't worry about a neighbor hearing we're in the presence of the Lord here today we're in the presence of his majesty and power hunter of the russia--the I have a raka here to the record I Ithaca that's a Tucker Chaka Chaka Chaka the actor of the rock at acacia paya that's it that's it that's it in the name of Jesus of Nazareth in the name of Jesus of Nazareth alleluia alleluia alleluia alleluia alleluia butoh reco satire from da Oh many already doing this but if you're a believer here today reach out with your hands and take a hold of someone and just pray for them in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus yes the Holy Ghost is speaking to a number of people there's something very personal going on with every individual here today thank God for his voice thank God for his voice if you hear his voice and you know he's speaking directly to you then just worship it that just praise God in that in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus Fatah shot off a record shot ayah

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Published: Fri Nov 14 2014