Joseph's Tears - Bishop T.D. Jakes

[Music] i'm going to the book of genesis chapter number 45. i will read extensively out of chapter number 45 of the book of genesis verse 15 through 28 when you have it it's our custom to stand for the reading of the word of god if you would respect that we would appreciate it [Applause] [Music] yeah we have the lord said to me we have got to get used to these services where anything can happen because we can't put the glory in a box you got to be able to release what god placed down inside of you anything can happen in here shout amen somebody [Applause] i have a task before me i solicit your prayers as i delve into this text i do it from a place of great humility to discuss with you what he has discussed with me and to hopefully contemplate with you the ideas that he has shared with me that the church might be edified by that which every joint supply to the thousands and thousands of people that connect with us through cyberspace this is a word from the lord that i am heavy with today uh because it is a prophetic word for somebody regarding how things are going to play out over the next few years in your life and i want you to hear what the spirit of the lord is saying to the church to the best of my ability beginning at verse number 15. moreover it's talking about joseph here he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them and after that his brethren talked with him and the fame thereof was heard in pharaoh's house saying joseph's brother that i come and he pleased pharaoh well and his servants and pharaoh said unto joseph say unto thy brother this do ye laid your beast and go get you unto the land of canaan and take your father and your households and come unto me and i will give you the good of the land of egypt and ye shall eat the fat of the land now thou art commanded this do ye take your wagons out of the land of egypt for your little ones and for your wives and bring your father and come also regard not your stuff for the good of all the land of egypt is yours and the children of israel did so and joseph gave them wagons according to the commandment of pharaoh and gave them provisions for the way to all of them he gave each man changes of rain but to benjamin he gave 300 pieces of silver and five changes of rain and to his father he said after this manner ten assets laden with the good things of egypt and ten she assets laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way so he sent his brethren away and they departed and he said unto them see that ye fall not out by the way and they went up out of egypt and came into the land of canaan unto jacob their father and told him saying joseph is yet a lie good god of mercy joseph is yet alive and he is the governor over all the land of egypt and jacob's heart fainted for he believed them not and they told him all the words of joseph which he had said unto them and when he saw the wagons which joseph had sent to carry him the spirit of jacob their father revived and israel said it is enough joseph my son is yet alive i will go and see him before i die can you say man go back to the first verse for me there verse 15. moreover joseph kissed all his brethren and wept upon them and after that his brethren talked with him i want i want to entitle the message joseph's tears joseph's tears spirit of the living god help me without you i can do nothing but with you all things become possible take me and use me any way you want to use me for the highest kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever and ever my soul says amen you may be seated in the presence of god yeah let's go to work it is odd that there is so little preaching done about this part of joseph's life because this is the harvest of the faithfulness that came through the suffering of his life and yet we preach more about the suffering and the sacrifice then we do the harvest we preach about how he was abandoned and abused mistreated and ostracized but we don't teach people that he came to an end of suffering that not only did he survive but he thrived and that his latter day was greater [Applause] than his former day that in spite of a rough start and a raggedy middle ultimately in the end everything that god promised him came to pass he took him around about way to get there but he got them there this text which is seldom discussed it evokes a myriad of emotions because having gotten there and been sustained and is now the prince of egypt he is a hebrew boy the prince of egypt god doesn't have to raise you up amongst your own people god will take you out of your element because sometimes when you're around your own people they don't appreciate who you really are god will take you out of your element and take you to a place where your gifts can be seen and utilized and he raised him up there this text also shows us our god working through a dysfunctional family to accomplish his own divine purpose jacob's family was as the young people says tore up from the floor up the story stars in the treacherous deceit of joseph's brothers and the plot that caused his father's head to gradually age prematurely broken-hearted and fragmented raising children that don't love each other is a stressful thing it picks up here toward the end with the kind of promiscuous grace that redeems the guilty and creates a stage for the purpose joseph was chosen to be made manifest it this it exploits before us the magnitude and the majesty of the breadth of the kind of person joseph was it was not merely his coat it was his character they could take his coat but they couldn't take his character he had the kind of magnanimous ability the voluminous capacity to be able to have the kind of love that was tough enough to withstand the obstacles of his times it's going to be challenging because it's not easy to jump up and say yeah i got it like that until you've had it tested like that the family had been badly disjointed the reconciliation brings joseph to tears joseph who has a chariot behind pharaoh who commands the authority over the finances for the entire nation of egypt who is revered amongst the egyptians burst out in tears in the face of his brethren in spite of being unjustly treated by them in spite of the way they ostracized him and humiliated him in spite of the way they set out to murder him literally murder him and decided instead to throw him in a pit to be divided by animals or taken captive as a slave they didn't care which they stood back to watch him die have you ever had people that stood up y'all don't understand i'm gonna talk to this say have you ever had anybody that stood by to watch you die set you up and just waited for you to fall and fold in the arms of course you had you can't live in this world and not attract enemies and haters and naysayers and people who despise you that's a part of this world out of 8 billion people on the planet everybody is not going to like you we understand that but it's not just that they hated him it was that they were also his brethren it is not just what they did it is who they were and yet joseph when he is on top and he has the power to be vindictive he has the power to get even he has the power to seek revenge he has the power to annihilate them he has the power to destroy their lives he has the power to cut them completely off he has the power to cut off their food supply and watch them die instead [Applause] he burst into tears joseph's tears are amazing they threw him in the pit and he didn't cry they stripped him of his clothes and he didn't cry they ripped his coat of many colors and he didn't cry they separated him from the love of his father and he didn't cry they sold him into captivity to the midianites and he didn't cry for joseph to cry here he didn't cry in the house of potiphar when potiphar's wife lied on him and he was he had to leave there under a lie and was falsely arrested and he didn't cry he went to jail and he didn't cry he was forgotten by the butler and the banker and he didn't cry joseph is not a whip he's not easy to give way to his but what is it about this situation that has brought him to tears this is all the time that we readily recall joseph tears i would have cried when they threw me in the pit i might have cried when they took my coat i definitely would have cried when i lost my good job at potiphar's house and if they took me to jail i would have been in tears but he stood up to all of that and didn't shed a tear and now when these haters out of one period in his life come back to him at another period in his life he sees them and they are desperate and they're in trouble and a famine is coming into the land and they need him and either the evil in him will rise up and get revenge or his better angels will rise up in him and he will respond correctly have you ever had to wrestle you had two different ways you could react you know the way you should react but when you think about what they did and how you suffered is there anybody in here that had trouble reacting the way you were supposed to lie he is torn in his thinking it is human to remember how can he forget what they did to him he said i know you did it and you didn't do it by accident you meant it for evil [Applause] oh i'm not a child or a novice i understand everybody's not gonna wish me well but it's not what they did it's who it to route you betrayed me too [Music] do you have the strength to allow good to come out of you when evil has been done to you [Applause] anybody can be good to people that are good to them but the challenge of life is to be good to somebody that you don't owe them no kind of good i don't owe you enough i don't owe you nothing i don't know you didn't raise me you didn't love me you were there for me now you and i don't [Applause] [Music] somebody in here knows what i'm talking about time has passed and now you need me time has passed and now you call on me time has passed and now your hearts have softened you need me now and the challenge becomes given the favor that he's been given does he have the capacity in his person to allow the phrase better angels i'm going to talk about that in a minute to rise up out of him and to guide him so that the best part of him is leading him and not the worst part of him the plan of god depends on joseph finding his better angels abraham lincoln who used the phrase better angels so beautifully in his first inaugural address on march the 4th of 1861 was was a time when our country was on the eve of the civil war initially those lines were not in there he added them he says i am loved to close we are not enemies but friends we must not be enemies though passions may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection the mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over the broad land will yet swell the course of the union when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature the better angels of our nature abraham lincoln says as he is leading the nation through the most turbulent one of the most turbulent periods in the history of this country he calls for the better angels and says that ultimately when all is said and done we will recognize that we are one people that we are brethren though our relationship has been strained indeed it had it had been greatly strained and his writer one of his writers who served as lincoln secretary of state wanted to change the land and wanted to write in fact did write guardian angels but guardian angels implied something from the outside what lincoln was counting on is that in the worst of us there there is a better of us that is on the inside that if we will allow it it will rise up and take us through the turbulence of the times we face are you hearing what i'm saying to you not the piotistic term of the guardian of angels no but the better angels would arise and protect them now give me give me a moment i will get i'm gonna get you where you're trying to go abraham lincoln didn't come up with that by himself he is quoting from william shakespeare when william shakespeare writes in othello in the 1600th century he writes about a play called othello and in othello he writes about the better angels fighting down the evil that was done to him abraham reached his back abraham lincoln reaches back to william shakespeare's speech in 1603 and adopts this language better angels better angels it is hard to live a life that exemplifies your better angels when you've had bad times it's hard to have better angels when you've been around bad people it's hard to have better angels when you've got bad memories [Music] all of us have to fight every day to get our better angels to stand up inside of us it's not enough for me to talk about joseph or or even talk about abraham lincoln or william shakespeare the character and othello let me bring this on down to paul paul said when i would do good [Music] evil is present with me he said there's a war going on in my members i could react a lot of different kinds of ways i don't even know how to respond to the moment that which i would do i do not that which i would not do i do oh wretched man that i am who shall deliver me from the complexity of my life there's not a person in this room who has a life that has no complexity we smile for people and we deal with the complexity by ourselves we show up as if everything is seamless but down on the inside we know we got some complicated it's some complicated folks up in here there's some complicated people watching me online you've been through some complicated situations complicated situations is when your mind and your emotions get into a fight and both of them are right i present you and i love you i love you and i'm mad at you i'm sick of you but i'm going to stand by you oh yeah i want to talk to some people that know what it is to have some complicated [Applause] yeah yeah oh god oh god when i think about in my own life there's been times that i had to struggle to find my better angels i remember years ago when i was driving on capitol street we were back in west virginia and the man cut me off and i was in a hairy and this was a simple thing but he was he he took my parking space i had pulled up to park and while i was pulling into park he shot in in front of me and took my parking space and bumped my car and my two boys who are grown now 40 they were little boys i locked them in the car because i didn't want them to get in the fight [Music] i walked over to his window and i reached in the wind and said what's it going to take for you to get off of my bumper whatever it is i got it i was fully prepared to snatch it it was only that much crack in the window i was fully prepared to snatch his body through that window and beat him like a runaway slave over a parkings [Applause] i'm just talking about me i know you never had no moments of conflict where your better angels went to bed and your bad angel said i'd go [Applause] the wise part about it ed is i i went in the dry cleaners he backed up off my bumper once you know that and i went into the dry cleaners to get my dry cleaning and one of the things that was being dry cleaned was a robe a preaching robe and the man looked at me and i looked at him i said yeah that's right threw my robe over my shoulder and walked out the door i was embarrassed but i tried to hide it i was ashamed but i tried to hide it i got in the car and god said look at you i can't turn my head up in it there you are a young preacher just getting started and you gonna fight the man over a parking space while you rush to get your robe so you can preach i'm the only one conflicted i'm the only one complicated i'm the only one that struggles with two different voices i i'm telling you that it is natural to have this fight the text that i read to you it's kind of unfair because i bring you into the story at the end of the movie it's a spoiler alert because because at the time i bring you into the movie you have to begin to recognize certain things about what is going on joseph's brothers tried to kill him they tried to destroy him they conspired to murder him they ultimately left him in the pit he was traumatized god knows how long and naked and hungry and alone and afraid trauma bishop vastly mckenzie said something that i love trouble don't last always but trauma will stay a while the trouble will end but the trauma is still there they said one to another let's stand to the side and see what will come of this dreamer behold the dreamer cometh and let's see what will become of the dreamer what happens to your dream when trouble comes what happens to your dream when delays come what happens to your dreams when betrayers come what happens to your dreams when the money doesn't come when the support isn't there when people sabotage you what happened see the enemy wants to kill your dream [Applause] none of it would have happened if it wasn't for these brothers who were his brothers and his killers at the same time every person in this room had situations in their family that's hard to explain i love you but you get on my nerves [Applause] come on over for dinner but i can't forget what you said about me on the phone and joseph has this ability to be able to deal with this huge situation with the grace that it's difficult to explain and it is here that we come to understand that with with the bombarding of emotions coming at him from all levels his love is stronger than his memory you see when i look at this text i realize that they are both in a family that his brethren have been in a famine for food but joseph has been in a famine for family they were starving for stuff but he was starving for them and suddenly when i realized what made him cry i realized i have never really done a good job of preaching him because i am distracted by what he went through but what he went through in the pit in potiphar's house in the prison doesn't compare [Applause] with why he went through it it is not the what that kills us [Music] it ain't the what i'm strong enough to make it through the what it is so why [Music] suddenly i realized that it was not his body plummeting head first down through the rocks to the bottom of the well that was the most painful it was not the lacerations on his skin or the beatings on his back or being sold for 20 pieces of silver that hurt him it was not that part of his wife lying on him that gave him the most grief it was that his dream was tied to his family [Music] and how can the dream come to pass when the people i love don't i can't reap love back i sow love to you i can't get love back from you [Applause] i want to talk to some people who are partially successful you got it going on in this part of your life but in this part of your life all hell is breaking loose you got it going on over here and you're the envy of everybody but over here you go home and you deal with something completely oh you ain't in here today you didn't come to church today it must be somebody online well come out come out wherever you are come out come out wherever you are on one hand it is the best of times and on the other hand [Music] [Applause] it is the worst of time on one hand you're at the top of your game on the other hand there is this nagging haunting aching feeling that will not leave your heart it will not go away what do you do when your love won't go [Music] away and your common sense says leave them alone leave them alone is there anybody in here that's got stubborn love tenacious love relentless love is there anybody in here that has ever told yourself i'm not gonna do nothing i'm not gonna say nothing i'm not gonna help i'm not gonna open my mouth and all the while you're saying it you fixing dinner talking about come on in and get something is there anybody in here that's ever been mad at yourself for being too nice come on talk to me somebody i can't be the only one in here that got mad at myself and told myself you stupid you're just stupid you let people run all over you never really realizing that what i hate about myself is what god loved never really realizing that the whole basis of god's favor on my life is because i have stubborn love you see it hurts to have stubborn love it hurts to keep on caring even when you're not treated fairly but there's something down inside of you they cannot render evil for evil enhance it hurts to say i'm sorry when you know you wasn't wrong it hurts to hold your peace when you know you write about somebody talk to me somewhere if i'm talking to you make some noise say something to me if you understand me i don't hope to get everybody i know this ain't for everybody cause some of y'all too evil they even understand what i'm talking about but there's somebody watching me right now that knows what it is to argue with yourself all night long and say what you ain't gonna do and get up in the morning [Applause] and do it anyway because you got stubborn love and now i see why god chose him god chose him because god couldn't trust any of the other brothers to have the radical kind of love they could look beyond what was done to them [Applause] god needed a lover somebody who would love anyhow so that he could work out his purpose and his will he could not work out his purpose through somebody who was vindictive and spiteful and hateful and could not find their better angels god said this is a moment that will require your better angels [Applause] in order to get what god has for you right now it will require that you summons your better angels and that you stop calling it weak who am i talking to [Applause] i got a couple of things that i want you to get out of this i want you to get out of this how do you handle advantage [Music] because how you handle advantage determines whether god will trust you with power some people can't handle power because they're so vengeful that if they ever get the upper hand they're gonna go for revenge rather than reconciliation and you've been praying for power and you've been praying for promotion but god can't trust you with promotion because your heart is not big enough to have the power that you're asking for and the kind of favor that god wants to give you it's going to come to somebody whose heart is bigger than their head [Music] oh i'm losing i'm on this jesus this is going to be number two i want you to understand that love never fails it may take a long time it may look like it's been knocked out it may get blooded it may get bruised it may even require stitches but when the fight is over love will always prevail can your love survive or fall joseph had taken a fall in a pit but his love survived the fall you can't raise children if your love can't take a fall you can't have a relationship if your love can't take a fall you can't run a business if your love can't take a fall you can't have a dream if your love cannot withstand a fall [Music] have you ever dreamed you were fallen you remember that powerless feeling of falling and how frightening it is when you wake up because you're falling and it feels like things are out of control there are going to be some moments in your life that it feels like everything is out of control joseph has gone through a long period of bad getting worse and the only thing consistent is that he was still in love with his brothers and his father man there are some people you have to love at a distance there are some people who are so unsafe to love that that you have to love them at a distance because because who they are at this stage is not who they're going to become at that stage but for right now i have to love you give me 50 feet i love you but give me 50 feet you you crazy give me 50 feet you're going through some changes give me 50. oh come on is there anybody in here got somebody you love but you got to give them some the third thing i want to ask you is do you have the grace to accommodate people changing or are you still angry over something that's 20 years old [Applause] [Music] do you have the kind of grace to accommodate that i might look like the same person but i'm not the same person at this stage in my life that i was at that stage in my life so much time had passed that they didn't even recognize joseph some of you have been holding a grudge so long that you can't even remember the details you just remember the hanger and you're still mad and god wants your better angels so that you can walk in the favor that he has for you it's going to require that your better angels arise and you stop trying to be your own defense [Applause] because anger often is the camouflage that love wears to keep from being exposed oh god and and in order for god to deal with you number four you gotta have emotional honesty even if it makes you feel vulnerable to be emotionally honest joseph is emotionally honest he cannot help the fact that he loves it he cannot control their behavior he can only control his number five it brings him because of that he can bless them they cursed him i had a pastor called me the other day said this young man leaving in my church and he said he's taking some of my members and he's going away and uh and i gave him stage i gave him a platform he betrayed me and he took some of my memories at 11 and said what should i do i said give him a love offering i said give him a love offering he said a love offering why would i give him a love offer i said because you are too big to have unnecessary enemies he gonna have enough to fight without you you don't have to fight him life is gonna fight him life is gonna change him don't add your name to the list you take the high road as michelle said when they go low we go oh y'all ain't talking to me talk to me somebody talk to me somebody this family has been ripped apart and they are a part of god's divine purpose this family is important because god is going to use this family to start the nation of israel and they have been ripped apart for years and the thing about a rip whenever something is torn both sides get damaged i don't know who i'm talking to whenever something is ripped both sides get damaged you go home bleeding but you think you're the only one bleeding you go home and cry you think you're the only one crying but if it's a rip both sides are gonna cry both sides are gonna suffer they may not show you but there's no clean way to have a rip you don't have a straight side and a rip side when something rips it rips on both sides joseph colt was ripped from him and his family was ripped from him and both sides were filled with pain god was getting ready to do something so amazing that he was looking for somebody who was big enough to do it through joseph understood something that god had brought him into favor to be a channel to bless them that the only reason god put him in the power is so that his power would be used for the posterity and the continuation of the legacy of god if god can get it through you he can give it to you if god can trust you that your flesh won't get in the way i'm talking to somebody who's been talking to god about what he's about to do in your life if god can trust you that the higher he takes you you'll still reach low and pull up somebody else if god can trust you that as he opens up doors you'll reach back and open up a door for somebody else if god can touch you [Applause] look at somebody a type on the line something is about to happen god wouldn't be talking to me like this if something wasn't about to happen if something wasn't about to shift if god was about to raise me up in some kind of egypt if some kind of promotion wasn't coming in my life and god has given me this test so that i'll be ready to handle what he's about to do next in my life there's a reason i'm listening at this message today god is about to raise me up from the prison to the palace who am i preaching to get ready for a switch get ready for a turn get ready for a change get ready for a move get ready for a switch right now holla at somebody something is about to happen something is about to happen something is about to happen something is about to happen something is about to happen something is about to happen something is about to happen something is about to happen something is about to happen something's about to happen something is about to happen something's about to happen god wouldn't be counseling me about power if i was going to stay weak there's something that's about to switch in my life that i've got to be ready to receive give him 60 seconds of crazy holy ghost [Music] so [Music] what i want you to see is that all of a sudden the wealth of egypt was transferred to the house of jacob and the bible said that pharaoh told joseph give him the best of the land load up the assets and the camels i'm going to send him so much blessing that before he ever even gets to me and the lord said to me to tell you if you can get the right attitude god is about to do a switch in your life until the wealth of the unjust is going to be laid up for the just if i'm preaching to you give god a praise right now i don't care where you are sitting on the couch sitting at the dining room table or in this building i want you to just turn around in a circle and say god is about to turn it around [Applause] god is about to turn it around he's about to turn it he's about to turn it he's about to turn it he's about to turn it the lord is about to the lord is about to turn it the lord is about to turn it the lord is about to turn it the lord is about to turn it [Applause] somebody south it will change will change it will change the pandemic couldn't take it the race rides couldn't take it what god has for you is for you i rebuke every devil every foul spirit that tries to cancel out your blessing god said it will change it will come to pass if i'm preaching to you shout about it if i'm preaching to you shout about it [Applause] if i'm preaching to you shout about it [Applause] [Applause] if you've been in a battle shout about it if you had a hard time shout about it if you thought the enemy was gonna kill you shout about it god didn't keep you alive without a purpose the reason you're still here god's about to fill your camel with blessings your ass have not seen [Applause] [Music] type on the line my story's about to change you saw me in the pits you saw me in potiphar's house you saw me in the prison but you're about to see me in the palace my entire life is going in better than it started if you had a bad start give god a good praise [Music] we pray [Applause] y'all are playing with me i said if you had a bad spot give god a good praise [Applause] [Music] [Applause] these are not tears of sorrow these tears joseph had are happy tears how can you say they're happy tears because the bible said he kissed him [Music] see once you know that what they did didn't stop you [Applause] once you know that what they said didn't kill you once you find out that god can get you there anyway [Applause] you see joseph was the love child of jacob and rachel family meant everything and god said i am going to restore listen to this jacob thought joseph was dead he was sure he was dead he said joseph is dead and simeon is gone and now they want benjamin he had accepted that joseph was dead when his sons came back with their camels loaded down with blessings joseph couldn't hardly believe that what he had given up on could still happen [Music] [Applause] [Music] so joseph [Applause] he got his own legs up and he stood straight up and he said i gotta go to my son joseph and connect with him before i die god said i'm not gonna let you leave this world until you see what i promise you come to pass in your life i don't care what the doctor said god said i will keep you alive until i show you until i show you that what you dreamed was not a joke it shall come to pass it shall come to pass [Music] [Applause] say it again say it again say it again that's why joseph oh yeah that's why joseph was crying because the scene i read was the scene he saw when he was a boy [Applause] what started the whole fight was he had had a dream [Applause] where his brothers would bow and worship him and when he walked in the room as the prince of egypt and they bowed before him god said [Applause] they laughed at your dream but it happened they laughed at what you believed but it happened [Applause] and i kept your father alive because he's part of the dream he brought joseph's father and his brothers into the fulfillment of what god is predestined hear me right now you're watching me right now i want you to focus on me right now i want you to focus on me right now there have been a lot of setbacks there have been a lot of betrayals there have been lies told there has been pain inflicted there's been times you've been handcuffed there's been times you've been tried there's been times you've been in situations where you were locked up and you couldn't get out in spite of all of that what god spoke to you shall surely come to pass it will come it will come it will come it will come it will come it will come you weren't ready for it when you saw it [Music] you weren't ready for it when you saw it you had to go through more things to grow into it but you're coming into a season now the things you saw long time ago are going to come to pass and it's going to be the kind of joy that brings you to tears because there were times you thought you were crazy and there were times you thought you lost your mind and there were times you thought you were a fool and there were times you couldn't hardly believe in your own dream but every bit of it every jot every tittle every word every sentence every paragraph every promise everything god told you when you were a child when you were a little girl everything god showed you when you were a little boy playing in a sandbar everything that god gave you god said he gave you glimpses glimpses you didn't have details you had glimpses whoever i'm talking to you had glimpses you had glimpses you had glimpses and you've been looking at your life and say my life doesn't look like what i saw god said that's because it's not over yet god's gonna bring you into a place where everything that you glimpsed is gonna materialize in your life and the praise that's gonna be in your mouth is unspeakable i want somebody that feels a witness to what i'm saying to open your mouth and flood this place flood your house flood your kitchen flood your car flood your place with [Music] here it comes your season [Music] here it comes your season if it wasn't gonna be your season the virus wouldn't have come the plagues wouldn't have been loose the jobs wouldn't have shaken the trials wouldn't have come the storms would have attacked you the divorce wouldn't attack you the sickness wouldn't attack you the only reason the enemy is attacking you is because you're on the verge of coming into a press down shaken together running over supernatural miracle in the lord i don't need nobody to praise him that i'm not talking to i don't need nobody to praise him who don't understand it i only want people to praise him that god they got something leaving in your body that's got something shouting in your soul i i don't care if it's 10 people if this is a witness that the word of god is true in your life in your ministry in your preaching in your family in your body in your finances open your [Applause] mouth [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah yeah that's what i'm talking about that's what i'm talking about right there yeah that's what god wants somebody who believes it somebody who believes it somebody who's been praying about something and praying about something and you can't shake the way you feel and you feel like you're trapped and the thing is complicated and it's complex and it's difficult and it's been tough and it hadn't been a straight line and there's been dark days and there's been lonely nights and there's been times you wanted to quit and there's been times you wanted to collapse but god kept speaking to you [Applause] foreign [Music] so joseph joseph runs up he runs up and he kisses his brothers because they're coming as a sign that the time is now and he starts weeping and he loved him and he missed him but the thing that tipped him over is that the dream was not alive though the visionary [Applause] [Music] [Applause] wait for it in the end it should speak and not lie who am i talking to it's been a long time coming [Music] but a change has got to come it's been a long time coming [Music] [Music] the change the change the change you felt like a fool sometime but the change was coming you loved even when you was mistreated but the change was coming god said stop despising the way you care it is the way you care that made him bless you in the first place he blessed you because he could trust you he blessed you because of the way he designed your heart [Applause] [Music] don't you start being nobody else lord have mercy i feel the holy ghost don't you start walking in nobody else's shoes because your gift is the crazy way that you can take a licking and keep on ticking it's a crazy way that you can love people that other people don't even like that you cannot like what they do and still find a way to love them it's the crazy way that god has put you in a position of power to bring about change with people who your mind says don't even deserve it but god is going to use lift your hands up in total surrender like you're under arrest lord i surrender to your providential will to your purpose for my life [Music] you have created me like you created me for reasons and i know my girlfriend says if if i was you i would take you not me i'm i'm me i can't be you i gotta be me because if i stay me god is gonna bless me lift your hands and open your mouth and thank god for working it out in your life everything is going to work together for the good of them that love the lord [Music] he's talking to you he's talking to you right now he's talking to you [Music] is [Music] he will he will oh [Music] is [Music] i receive it i believe it will do just what he says [Music] [Applause] what [Music] god's gonna change [Applause] [Music] yes it is he will [Music] be [Music] [Music] now bring your hands with me don't let a trace of bitterness don't let a trace of bitterness destroy the word of the lord that's been spoken over you [Music] not a trace of hatred or anger get rid of your victim mentality it's gonna take all of this to get to that [Music] everything is going to fall into place he's moving pieces around he's moving you from place to place to place for such a time as this so that what he said long time ago it's going to come to pass [Music] the word of god is true and your joy is gonna be so full that your face is gonna flood with tears thank you lord you didn't let me live and die without getting what i needed you had to move some pieces around but you placed me in a place for me to receive and i will not let any devil trick me into anything less than my better self hold it just a second lord while other people are saying make me bigger our prayer is make me better while others are seeking status and stage we are just asking you to make us better people because now we realize that if you trust us you can bless us [Music] i pray for divine favor favor so strong that it's generational i pray for the kind of favor that reproduces on our offspring and their offspring and their offspring the changes we make now will change the trajectory for generations to come for generations to come will be changed because of the adjustments that we are making right now the adjustments that we're making right now are going to affect our grandchildren and great grandchildren because something just shifted in my soul i will never be the same again lord while we're praying is there somebody watching me viewing me streaming me in this room who doesn't know jesus i pray that they would come to know him in the free pardon of their sins that they would stop wrestling with god over the hateful things that happened in their life and trust in the fact that god has a plan and that everything is going to fall into place even the things that bruise them and hurt them and lacerated their heart and that right now they will give their life to you in this moment the prayer number is up on the screen for you to give your life to christ if you're in this room and the holy spirit touched you and you've decided to give your life to christ hold your hand up i'm giving my life to christ hold it up hold it up hold it up bless you hold it up high bless you hold it up high if you're in this room and you're backslidden [Music] and this year and this storm has made you act out if you've been going through the period like i was and you ready to snatch people through windows and you have not been the person that you really are supposed to be and you know you needed to get back to church because you you you're turning into somebody else and you need to renew your covenant with christ right now hold your hand up high i want to pray for you everybody who didn't raise your hand be seated nobody standing but those who raise your hand in either category and i want to pray with you father right now i thank you for this harvest this is the harvest that matters this is the harvest that counts the harvest of souls and hearts and lives that are changed by the power of god we stand in your house lord and we confess our failures our flaws our humanities our weaknesses and yes our sins we repent get us together get us right in the center of your wheel so you can finish what you started in our lives we've been delayed but we have not been denied and right now in the name of jesus restore the joy of our salvation i plead the blood over every sinner that your life would be changed by the power of the blood of jesus christ to those of you that online the same anointing that's in this room is reaching out to you right now you will never be the same again and we thank you for the change it's not a feeling it's not an emotion it doesn't mean that i'm quaking or shaking but i receive the change in my spirit and in my life that today forward i'm back yes i and max [Music] [Music] [Music] the bible said when the lord turned again our captivity we were like them that dream then was our heart mouth filled with laughter and our hearts with singing turn again our captivity oh god it is by saying they that soul in tears [Music] shall reap in joy [Music] god said to love radically to love radically to love even when you look like a fool that when it's all over your dream even now will come to pass if you got blessed today give him a praise [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 82min 13sec (4933 seconds)

Published: Sun May 23 2021