Losing My Religion | Dr. Matthew Stevenson | The Danger of Dumb Idols

how many I were here this morning for service or heard the message if you've not heard the message that was preached this morning it was a message called we are on the same team and it was a very strong word but it revealed that no matter what uniform we wear and no matter what position we play we're still on the same team and it was a strong word the glory of God came in the room for intercession so if you haven't seen it I want you to go back watch it and make it a matter of prayer what God is doing next in the world is going to require people who understand that God is bigger than their group and the people of the Lord said Amen how many of you know God is too big for one group he's gone and whenever you reduce God to your group you make him a mascot and you reduce his strength is God but he is God and if you have not been keeping up with the whole conversation the name of our series is losing our religion if you've been getting freed up in your mind way than me I want to see who's been getting freed up now some of you like no I still like a little bit of my religion I'm not gonna judge you it's okay you know you can have a little Moses with Jesus I understand I'm not gonna judge you I'm just saying we've got to go to the Word of God afresh to examine and explore what it says and the people of the Lord said amen how many of you love the Bible I love the Word of God I don't think as many of us love it as much as we sure but I'm gonna try to hit that in 2020 but I have fallen madly in love with the Bible it is literally becoming my best friend and there was a time that I used to be scared of it because of how it was taught but once I learned how to investigate it a scholar to me on my own I found the love for the Bible because when I went to it I him and when I found him I made a decision that nobody else was worth finding and so I love God's Word today we're going to be doing some comparative analysis so we're going to be quickly perusing several passages but the premise of it is going to be found in the 115 number of Psalms in the 115th number of Psalms we've learned so much it's been a journey and if you're honest it's like a detox if you are finding things come out of you either and how you see yourself or in how you see other people it really really really will heal your life I also believe that if we get some of this right one of the things the Spirit of God share with me is there's a call on this whole church to extend the days of the saints I think that as we engage the Word of God we'll stop saying so many prema toward death and the days will be extended who receives that and believes that I just I'm crazy enough to believe ain't got nothing to do with your genes I think that if you get delivered from religious thinking you'll stay looking young I really believe it I believe it I believe God can extend you he'll give you a Hinds feet and renew your youth I just believe God that you won't ever look as old as you are now that now a single lady should have took out shouting right there let's go do something and you just don't keep up wondering how none yet that's how old I am put Psalms 115 up in the amplified version I don't do very much of this but I told you this morning I'm a member of like 400 denominations so I am so we one read it together Psalms 115 put it up in the amplified version sums 115 and I want it in amplified we're gonna read this and then I'm going to give you three case studies and then we're going home are you ready all right put on your good strong read Bible TV 38 voice all right you ready for that y'all not old enough to remember that is you know we number one not to us Oh Lord not to us but to your name give glory because of your loving-kindness because of your truth and faithfulness why should the nation say where now is their God but our God is in heaven he does whatever he pleases the idols of the nations are silver and gold the work of man's hands read they have mouths but they cannot speak they have eyes but they cannot see they have ears but they cannot hear they have noses but they cannot smell they have hands but they cannot feel they have feet but they cannot walk nor can they make a sound with their throats those who make them will become like them everyone who trusts in them keep reading Oh Israel trust and take a refuge in the Lord be confident in him cling to him and rely on his word he is their help and this she'll keep reading old house of Aaron trust in the Lord he is their help and their shield you who reverently fear the Lord trust in the Lord he is their help in their Shield the Lord has been mindful of us watch this and he will bless he will bless the house of Israel he will bless the house of Aaron he will bless those who fear and worship the Lord with all inspired reverence and submissive wonder both the small and the great keep reading may the Lord give you great in cream on that I because I'm getting really drunk up y'all ready let's do that again may the Lord great increase you and your children may you be blessed of the Lord who made heaven and earth the heavens are the heavens of the Lord but the earth has he given to the children of men the dead that do not raise the Lord nor do any who go down into silence monsters but as for us we will bless and affectionately and gratefully praise the Lord from this time forth and if you love him the word of it you caught up real quick we're talking for about 20 minutes about the danger of dumb idols but danger of dumb idols a primary thought is coming from 3 4 & 5 with says our God is in heaven and he does what he pleases but the idols of the nations are silver and gold the works of man's hands we have the powerful opportunity to be filled with to demonstrate to have relationship with the talking God we serve a talking God and what I'm going to start with is that dangers culturally the dangers generationally the dangers nationally about unchecked idolatry it is almost like the white elephant in the room when you go into any faith space that it almost feels like very many churches very many gatherings and even very many doctrines have a a multi almost a polygamist view on the worship they really do feel a like being open-minded and being up-to-date to everything in all things is the best approach for life but whenever you surrender your life and your decisions and your values to whatever voice is around you you run the risk of inviting yourself into chaos say yes if you don't believe me remember brother Jerome when you were a player from the Himalayas and when you had multiple women at one time it wasn't just two or three gathered in your name god be praised you had about 12 or 13 and what happens is when you start dividing your energy watch this and dividing your time and dividing your affection among more than what you were meant to emotionally handle you may be strong enough to be meat at first but eventually you're gonna leave a number in some genes you're not talking to me eventually you may have a little too much Chardonnay glory to God and you may call one another one have you ever already been saved have you ever messed up and call one of your women the wrong name and it had to go back and say now massage choking the Lord God but what happens is you were not meant to handle too many more ties and too many more than ones in your life and if we look at this historically God's consistent problem with Israel was idolatry and his consistent problem with Israel was that they would not respect his jealousy now when you hear that word jealousy from a scriptural standpoint it does not mean jealous of it means jealous over and that insertion of one word makes all the difference because when he said in Exodus that he was a jealous God he was not saying that he indeed our experience or he ended opposition he was saying because I made you I'll get back there and because I designed you and because I protected you not just from your external in also protected you from your genetic proclivities the dangerous things about how you have made and the genetic trail by which were born I protected you watch me canvas not just from the outside but for about a hundred of us you've been protecting us from the inside because that is my relationship with the human race it is dangerous to assign your destiny to a deity that didn't design you so because a conversation of the Bible is about getting the human race into destiny that basically means the reason you formed the reason you came into the earth if somebody is not responsible for how you are made they should not be trusted with teaching you how to get to where you're going to go let me be exact I tried a truck I like my truck my truck is also a closed confident praise the Lord I'm not the only one Jordan who talks to their truck my truck has a name her name you should be Sheila but lately lately she's been Yolanda I just feel like there's a people wisdom that come to her don't judge me but I like my truck Kenny and when things go wrong with my truck praise the name of the Lord I don't have to go and get all changes monthly some brands do that I have to go annually to get an oil change praise the Lord but one day there was a malfunction in the computer system of my dearly beloved truck and nothing in me thought let me go and call Honda I didn't think let me go and call Nissan nothing in me wanted to call Lexus because the manufacturer is the one with the secrets to how the thing was made from the inside out and the formation of my vehicle could only be translated and interpret by the manufacturer do you know why you may not be in everything you should is because you keep relying on things that didn't make you to try to teach you what's right and wrong with you but when you get an alignment with your manufacturer your mandate is easy you want to stop calling your microwave factory to learn how to use your iron when you tap somebody said God made me God made me you don't believe that song you tell somebody God made me God made me now when I'm struggling against I put a little preaching power I'm trying to pace myself but I'm struggling against is the narrative of your natural parents where you're sitting there and you don't believe you were the idea of God because the mistakes your mama and your daddy made but can I liberate you and let you know your mama and your daddy was only the available role of the necessary skills to you and your daddy trying to teach you about destiny and that it is extraordinarily voice activated the criticism of our psalm is so powerful because there is a continual theme between Genesis and revelation of the voice of God every major business endeavor in the Bible Hillary was came because of the voice of God every major geographical move in the Bible came because of the voice of God when dr. Abram in Genesis chapter 12 go to the mountain I'll show you he started walking and God didn't say nothing but he showed them I mean God is so huge that when Adam disobeyed him in Genesis the Bible said and the voice of the Lord came walking through the garden so we serve a walking voice we serve a voice that can be loud god be praised because when was baptized the Bible say he told Saturn and Jupiter and Mars turn the volume up mrs. in my son and whom I'm well pleased but been in second Kings when he lied she was tired ah God didn't want to raise his voice so he did a whisper he said that the Lord was not in the fire and he was not in the rock in a steel small voice which means that the whole of our Bible is a document of the play a collection of phrases and words and vocabularies and idioms and pictures and points and philosophies that basically prove the powerful nature of the voice of God I'll get there in a minute then we'll be building Hebrews the Bible shows us now that only is the whole of our Christianity about faith but the only reason you have gravity and the only reason you have an ocean and the only reason you got a Sun a moon and the stars the only reason you got the river hallelujah the only reason you got grass the only reason you got snow the only reason you got eyes the only reason you got monkeys the only reason you got penguins ups the only reason she's not bad is because God is talking now in Hebrews it says and by his words were lame which means that when God wants to create something he talks to it when God will resurrect something he talks through that because you ain't happy let me put on a preacher room here the powerful voice of God is so vowing that you don't even have to be alive to hear it tobacco say you walked up to several dead people call them by their full government name and they didn't even say huh that means that the voice of God was so powerful it reversed the natural decay aback the man exactly how it was created the voice of God [Applause] three brief case studies prophet Goldman and we're going home the first hallelujah sorry is about a queen by the name of Sheba this is found in second chronicles chapter nine and Sheba was was was was a bad woman I mean she had lots of kingdoms under her province and she had business enterprises and she did some charity she did some schooling she was a wealthy woman and one day she was scrolling on Facebook to find out what the Dow Jones was doing and she heard about a church whose passes name was Bishop Sullivan and the rumor was that everybody was flocking there and everybody was going there and certain focus on it must be a cult they came preached to real gospel because if you preach the real gospel only to and few don't come but that is something about an industrious woman I wanted to investigate for herself pay attention there was wisdom in her that she was not going to experience it through other people she wanted to go and dispel the rumors and dispel the statistics and see for herself when this woman came into Solomon's Temple the Bible says she saw to the servants and she saw the food and she saw the lights and she saw the order then she saw the men then she saw the children then she saw the decor and she smelled me it didn't smell like fried chicken it didn't smell like stuffed or improve other people and the Bible says before she knew it wants me she was so enamored she was so arrested that she walked up to Solomon and poured out her heart she heart she gave up now anybody knows any woman a powerful influence it's not going to trust you on the first day to tell you everything about her so whatever was going on in that room must have been powerful enough to disarm that woman and she starts talking about her fetus she starts talking about her pain she start talking about reviews of scopes how she did everything that was in her heart that's not the good part the good part is a Bible says Solomon in some every question she had pay attention the core of this message is going to teach you what happens when the heart is confronted because the whole objective of God leading you it's not mental it's not relational it's not emotional God steers you at the heart level he moves or direction in the realm of the heart so the Bible says she came with hard questions now there are several things in a heart if I had a chart I will lay it down for you sequentially but your desires are there your definitions are there your dreams are there your nightmares are there your fears are there your phobias are there some of your mom is there your granddaddy is there yo law Kings out there your vulnerabilities are there your straights are there your weaknesses are there your memory is there many of you think that memory is the issue of the minds where memory is an issue about this is the reason why even if you're not thinking about it some time a bad memory will come back up because the way the heart races hit or bypass whatever you think it and bring something up out of the heart now this is what the Bible says pay attention the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks pay attention if that's true that means that if and when and where God is talking it's not a manifestation of approving points for Christians it's a manifestation of him wanting somebody to know what's active in his heart Shiva opens up I've been through this I've seen this I've been a part of that and Solomon I said everything now here is where we're going when God talks he has more ways to talk than you have to listen which means that Sheba experienced with very many of you experienced some of the most powerful ways God to talk to you it's through the person next to you now I realize now let me tell you get man I understand you tried I mean you know I'm for yourself you don't need anybody here's as long as you got if you're humble you realize how to hear God's doing no matter who he's talking to I remember running from the call of God and there will be homeless people on the streets that would know why I was going and they will say you're called the dog I know and it will literally scare the hell out of me cuz I'm my god no you're in quarters but that means that heaven is bigger than my church if it were reaching an alley you find somebody homeless to confront this I remember being in clubs god be pleased trying to dance on girls and right when I got rid of car baby they'll say you don't belong here now I know they don't mean that me you but God does not care where you are he is so furiously passionate about why he made you talk to your attention he even just do it when you woke me the man is so good so many please say when a man falls asleep he will open up the ears of a manor by giving him a dream to save his soul my second example I've got to be careful with this because this is my life story there was a man by the name of song who came from a very small tribe he was a warrior he was a prince a business acumen but he had no clue what his destiny was do not ever make the mistake of thinking that because you got a good resume you have direction don't make the mistake of thinking that the more credentials you get the more clarity you're going to have Saul had a whole bunch of stuff under his belt and nowhere to go and then it took for life pain watch me to send him on a journey to find that clarity realize that all painful things in life are not the devil sometimes God allows for pain so that you can go on a journey that you are otherwise too comfortable to go on it's not about the pain listen but the pain is the premise for a process and if you were too comfortable you would not enroll in it's almost as if I will allow you to hurt so he can have your ear attack he will allow you to cry so we can see what you're focusing on again and the Bible says all business and he went to fix it on his way to try to fix it it goes Samuel to see this guy has a dangerous reputation he talks in thunders happened he rips Kings to shreds he knows people's names people's addresses he knows all kind of crazy stuff so folk was not real cool with Samuel when they saw Samuel it wasn't always a good sign it was a think I'm not coming to church today it goes Samuel he had dreadlocks all the way down his back so much so that annually he would have to get them trim just so he could walk he was a Nazarite prophet or away is the Hebrew word which means up a holder of visions around which means that gays are and one who knew the future and the Bible say the just like the nature of God watch me if you ask God anything concerning your life if you pray an earnest prayer if you have a sincere desire God is going to go in your city in your family in your nation somewhere and they go mess with a seer if God is trying to communicate with you about something you're about to do that stomach someone you're about to do that's dangerous your next move is somebody else's distress God will come around the nation and start dealing with somebody about you if you're about to do something dangerous the Bible said a saw started coming he said I can't fix this there's the seer here I need to see you here somewhere please to see and they're like oh Samuel lives up there go and find him Samuel comes out and he says hello I am to see you Sean says hey mr. Cyr and Samuel said before you go any further watch me the donkeys you lost have been found so I'm not sad I'm coming to you to tell me where my donkeys is but it proves that the day before Saul met Samuel God was dealing with Samuel about saw the day before Samuel had advanced knowledge about so-and-so and Saul came up Samuel already knew why he was running now here's what goes crazy they come up they eat dinner he gives some very specific instructions pothinus and it doesn't go here go there and when you get to kebaya you're gonna find a company of singing prophets they're going to be there and they're going to be prophesying and when you get around them what's gonna happen is pay attention when you get around people they're talking the future eventually you gonna start talking the future - some of you are not making the type of money you should be making because everybody around you wants to go back to the old landmarks I'll never by a generation of people are so passionate about going back nothing back there for me is not going to the future nothing to do with it so you need to have people around you future in their mouths remember you for that but in this next season of your life what part is about to do friends settle your soul we're only talking about the past how about some future focus anyway Saul gets among these prophets and I don't know what they prophesied I don't know what they singing but that's not my favorite part my favorite part is this Samuel the seer the representation of the voice of God says hey and when you turn from me something's going to happen to you he literally about-face and the Bible says God gave saw a new heart he gave him the heart that he needed for his future but he could not have had his future with the same heart that he had before he encountered the voice of God I'm gonna bring it on home in a minute that's my favorite I love it a new final case study is forced to Rick 1st Corinthians 14 hallelujah thank you Jesus I love you I was ignorant because they are not the same comes in your midst this is what Paul says and y'all are talking in tongues he's gonna look at y'all and say you people are crazy you lost your mind I just got here and here we go these lights as long this music is scary nah here is summer summer summer summer summer summer summer summer summer that's right the hot dog reader and they didn't even say hello all they said was my son my son my son my son my son what a bathroom was and it looked important at the observation one summer summer summer summer but if everybody prophesize if everybody speaks the heart of God then one ignorant or indifferent and what I love visit the Bible say dizzy activity number one they fall on their face now you read that so fast you don't realize what it takes for an unbeliever to fall on their face for an ignorant person to fall on their face whatever happened they fell on their face into the amplified version it says the secrets are there talk to me the secrets of their is raid bad now here we go go here we go and go they not go like this you ain't gonna like it the person next to you got a lot of Secrets ah no you got some secrets you you got a Monday you and you got a Tuesday you you got a morning you you got a midnight you you gotta save you you got a ratchet you you gotta train you then you got a thottie you glory to God you had a twenty year old self now here's a problem some of you older people like to say that's a good word for the young people but the old is not my business I need to know your secrets but you need to know partnership did you know God knows amis if he's calling you he did not get disqualified because of your see I don't know everybody in the room with a secret away cuz everything he needs to know about me I kept pushing him away with a secret to shout real [Applause] the secrets of his heart listen lay bare this what the Bible says he is convicted because a byproduct of hearing the voice of the Lord should never become damnation he is closed in front of all and here's what he says this is why this is an issue of losing our religion the unbeliever not the church person or the ignorant person says something that most of us say about a lot of places God is here I don't know about you I don't God is he the point is in 1st Corinthians 12:2 Paul says when you were evil you were led away by dumb idols that means that in sin you are led by things that came talks you pursue stuff that has no desire to talk to you you follow stuff that is not interested with addressing your concern addressing your design this is why I love Psalms 1:15 because the writer goes head and settles the whole issue by saying here is the problem with the earth they don't realize that how God is in heaven I don't have the time to teach you why that's important but it means that because our God is in heaven nothing on earth challenges him I'm gonna preach this like somebody needs to be encouraged there isn't literally nothing too hard from box is an earth level problem you got to leave and try the bobbins in heaven and the dog that is in heaven up and handle what's gone on in earth whatever is going on in your body that your mind your career the relationship issue heaven can solve it how God is in heaven and he does what he pleases but I like the birds for I love bursts for the idols of the nations to think about your culture think about America the stuff we're worshipping has an origin you can research when they started Buddha was a man that people knew Muhammad was a man that people knew Harry Krishna was a man that people knew whatever people worship we can all verified a mama and a daddy I don't understand why we're relying on flawed men to save us done idols here's what makes me shout look at verse five I'm done they got mouths but they can't talk you go to a dumb Idol wanting to hear nothing and you'll only hear yourself you'll hear your own intuition you'll hear your own stuff and then they got eyes how are you but they can't see and sometimes you just need to know that God sees you if you are afraid if you are nervous you just need to know that his eye is upon you because if his hai is on you his hand is coming next so I would not serve a blind God then he says they have noses but they cannot smell now that doesn't mean anything to you but contextually this is talking about paths and trails every creature every animal they hunt by scent what this rider is saying if you go anywhere whether you're the predator or the prey you never be able to be outside of the range of God identifying you Psalm 139 reinforces this when he says where can I go from your presence if I go to the ends of the earth you're there if I make my bed you're there if I take up the winds of the morning you're there he's my favorite if I make my bed in hell not alert there's so much y'all took the power with you got to be in a whole lot of hail give me a queen mattress but I remember some hard Caesars promise I'm going to know people are getting on my nerves and I'm up a snap to somebody let's follow making your baby in help but you don't want to change and I don't want to change and I make my bed in hell I get comfortable with my consequences I just don't care anymore you're still there he says they have hands verse 7 but they cannot feel they don't feel they don't understand your complexity your issue he says they have feet but cannot walk now I'm not being disrespectful and I understand the great value of ecumenical ISM which is necessary interfaith relationships for the outcomes of cities however here is my I personally matthew l stevenson comma the third EDD what never sign myself up to be a Buddhist I love them jesus loves them but if I got in trouble RJ and somebody needed to run after me I would never worship somebody that was too winded to find me I don't want to hurt you now how many of you know you all sat with me remember your stop has he ever saves you quickly moves you from a quick bullet and a quick disease by simple quick I wouldn't be confident that Buddha could get to me I would never serve a god that's huffin to get to me hold on I'll be there wait a minute hold on you're moving through them they can't make a sound with their throat now we're done David is right in about throat clarity in my family and other african-american families when your mother father protector clears their throat it's not always because they're sick I'm not to do backflips right through here have you ever felt the Holy Ghost [Applause] what he means is did you hear what I said now listen I love God so much he [Applause] did it twice it makes a sound with his throat going I want you to do this no I ready I want you to study this not right now sometime in the clearing up that throat you remember who you're talking to oh yes sir sorry I'm huh here's a scary part of American culture verse eight says everybody that makes them and trust in them will be like them it means if you have no value for the voice of the Lord you will begin to resemble whatever voice you hear that is the connection point your life will resemble the voice you listen to the most your character your attitude your behavior your discipline or the lack thereof your whole life is voice activated which means that whatever you hear has the power to shape you now I don't have enough time but at the end of this where the psalmist goes after he identifies that the gods of the nations are dumb they don't talk I would never serve a God that didn't talk it's too lowly in life I need to know that I'm doing the right thing and going in the right place at the end of this the reward of listening to God is that he will richly bless you it says will bless you listen let me tell you something however whatever you think about your story you alive because at some point somebody obeyed God it may or may not have been mama daddy grandma but somebody said yes to the Lord your existence is proof that somebody responded to the voice of God and when you as an individual respond to the voice of God you allow for people that are not alive to be blessed you and your children here's how we know in verse 18 he says this he says the dead can praise you but we who are alive can the principle is if we're listening to a Living God we can live but if we listen to dumb idols we'll probably die if I had the time I would go into the warning how many of you've never heard preach shout at all God will give you the desires of your heart wave at me don't lie you're right I bet you a shot over the next verse it is a true thing that if you want it bad he'll let you have it with knowledge of what it's going to do to you the next verse says he will give you the desires of your heart if you delight yourself in him now the reason that's crazy is the heart does a whole bunch of crazy stuff if loving you is wrong you want saying this every I don't want to be right there I'd be a little rather be wrong then all right I can't sleep baby can't eat baby this thing to put you on a fast I can't leave her baby and you suicidal without you in my I don't want to go home baby so that means you're not going to work this is my son and all of that you still got time to say don't wanna do nothing it now let me ask you a question why do you want to love that's got you can't eat can't sleep don't want to live don't want to go all what kind of psychopathic mind control and if y'all got y'all sisters and laughing I got to be even [Applause] what do you mean I have personal rights and if you don't get off my porch I'm calling the cops I'm not going to love you I have control you you're going to jail ma'am get off my porch get away from my car I reserve the right to love who the heck I walked along and force me you don't know I'm making a point it's small has we slapped and we bow to serve as we slept first of all you can't be black let me take that much because if you forgot you you said you didn't come home last night my woman humming Hussein until right now they would be on MapQuest I'm telling all kind that's what keeps me holding not only this you got the Holy Ghost you got apps and you start using them tracks to find out where you are it's not easy as it used to be what I'm trying to tell you is your heart will help you looking stupid even though you sing and good music and if you don't there is something here summer you can't clap right now cuz your heart is messing with you you're gonna love me what what if I don't don't follow your heart ain't nothing trustworthy in there you got to follow the heart of God you got to wake up almost daily and say create in me a clean heart cuz when I got it screwed up sometime some of us are living in quads consequences right now cuz we follow the heart and if it's not romantic I bet your shot off this some of you followed your heart right to a stood alone application to a degree you are not using in a field you do not like and you can't even pay your taps cuz you keep putting your student loans deferment but had you stopped following the heart of God he tells you hey shorty I know you like this now but you're not going to be who you are right now you study the future now who you are today admitting you really want to go retroactively and undo don't you because you're followed your own this tight butt is right now you're looking at your credit score is 270 for a posture please pray for me cuz the devil is me that's not the devil that has not been devil Shantay I know some preachers so wicked but in the car was something my friends it's too long for called up they were virgins hang up the phone anything answer but if you're sensitive to a talking God he has ways to steer you in the direction of what he wants to you let me close with this prophetic word follow the promptings of God sometimes you may not hear a thing or dream a thing but there are there is my favorite way that the Lord speaks to me I have a lot of them but is the yellow light when it's like I think this is good but it's not right now let me change my pace in it there is a yellow light of God when it's not a bad thing it's just something that's not supposed to be right now and many of you pursue things that you should pursue in another season but you ignore the problem things man that's a whole language base of God pace pace yourself if you go after something that you're really supposed to have before you have it two things are possible either it's not ready for you or you're not ready for it that's why it's very important that you follow God's promptings in this well how do I know if God has prompted me do you have peace there have been moments well my wife and I have been doing marriage counseling we don't do it as much no more but we I mean we run or five years counseling couples and people will come to our couch and I'd be smiling and in here how about I so want to tell them that they both don't kill each other but you know let me give them wisdom because here's the deal even God does not control your wheel with what he knows so what counseling does it situates you on how to survive through your decision-making that is the prompting of God I know you think it's crazy but if you get to the altar in a dress rich or mama or granny on the front row sometimes that ain't cold feet is the Holy Ghost oh they they will help me they will help me I notice a nightmare for some of you but you're gonna get hurt now but you're making happy later if you get up there you like this ain't I people you get to Tasmanian devil right out there town and then if they call you an ass you will happen say you lost your mind so tell no I just blew out half for the praise and I just want to come back [Applause] if you don't believe me ask somebody that's been divorced they will tell you that they had red flags from day one that they ignore pay a tenth they don't like this come up Lake all to Jesus pay attention to flags [Applause] am i lying about that brother start twitching at Red Lobster someday my I know seriously start playing I always say this and y'all laugh but who you marry is everything it really done and one of the areas is hard is to counsel people in is who they want to be in love with but in dating you find the promptings of God you really do you pay attention to how they deal with other people you pay attention to what they do in their lines and God will start to prompt you now some of you you just like now run get out of here go to Gilligan's Island or go to the sunken play sake some of you here just tell you disappeared but for others of you he'll give you promptings you'll lead you even in business relationships we're in a day of network marketing we're in a day where people are selling things and if you don't have this sermon I don't know why I'm feeling this so but don't be so excited about open doors that you don't ask who open them there is a such thing as the devil behind the door and you want to make sure that you're not ignoring the promptings of God I feel this for many of you in real estate transactions I was about to buy a building couple of years ago you know our story we don't have any debt as an organization everything we own we bought in cash I was going to buy building an Inglewood and a prophet of God came in some fan and she's one of my favorite prophets but sometimes she's so offensive because she promised I so accurately and then she has a Korean accent so you'd be mad that she insulted you like that and she told me she said you know about it building it's a money hole and I'm my lady I got a contract I don't care what you come here talk about no money hell I own more than you don't you tell me and she said no no no I don't build in there is money who is it's everywhere when I tell you that next Sunday pieces of that that roof start falling in and pipe started Burson rats was coming through the toilet I was like Speaker Lord I serve in here and okay [Music] but you need to be so close to God that you'll hear him even when it's what you don't want to hear I told the Lord this year leave me until it hurts show me what's around me even if it makes me cry I want to know what's active in the hearts and the minds and the motives of people around me and here's why I don't want to waste time the problem with dumb idols is they'll have you wasting time in relationships and businesses in roles that you should not be in and the benefit of following the promptings of the Holy Ghost is he'll let you know ahead of time all right now if you're sitting here you got to press you like I need a drink or something cuz you do so I'm something you like some y'all in your mind it's like I need a Marlboro and some Crown Royal right through here be encouraged even if you made the wrong decision the god you serve can give you wisdom from a bad decision so it's not like you have to be in regret about the wrong career or the wrong relationship once you get closer to God he will use those mistakes to minister to you and to show you this is why you did this and that this was broken this wasn't right this was your priority so you never lose you only learn if you follow the promptings of God did that bless anybody in here [Music] now what I see in the spirit is some of you trying to figure out a way to get that engagement ring off with you without their brother seeing and I'm tell you right now you like okay Dania already you take the ring off to him go upside your head after that honeymoon so follow the promptings of the Lord amen I have invited fool uninvite Oh tell him go back home will you just liberate somebody come you ain't got none to prove y'all got to stop getting married for other people I'm telling y'all going in debt expense of y'all are broke you have no business with live told us are you kidding me no need to go to Washington part and hold hands you parents out Jolly Ranchers I'm serious something we always say your first and most powerful business decisions who you go marry come out the clouds find a calculator if I had to do it all over again I would never spent the type of money I spent on their wedding $40,000 without when we got up there and my puzzle lay hands on me he said all right kiss the bride I legit we've been up here all of six minutes I wanted to map my I spent $42,000 I got two Hummers outside six minutes we could've did this over the phone now y'all are laughing my wife agrees if we put that's $20,000 in a 401k or money market then we'll be sitting real pretty right now follow the promptings you should not go back to stripping to pay for a wedding I'm serious if you got to check into cash check how about that win [Applause] no laughing but no nothing I say mistake I know God's voice some of you is out going in today for Sunday's gonna be 20 seconds don't do that say that money you got a Flintstone vehicle lift your hands in the name of Jesus I declare over your life an appetite for God's wisdom an appetite for God's voice an appetite for God's promptings even the compass of God that the decisions you make in the entire year I don't know I'm going here but in 2020 I declare deliberate decision-making that your decisions will be inspired by the voice of God that you will not make wrong decisions in your flesh but you make accurate decisions because you're sensitive to God's words I pray concerning your relationship decisions your money decisions and I published cited in your obedience this will be the most profitable year of your life because you made decisions to honor the Lord in every area of your life I pray for your bodily decisions and for those of you that need to adjust your diet because of your destiny and adjust your discipline because of your destiny that you will have the real power to live up to the standard of God for your life and I say that your ear is no longer captive by the critics by the judges or even by stress in the name of Jesus I declare deliverance from a worrying spirit deliverance from unnecessary worrying panic and that your ear is turned in the direction of the Lord I declare this is happening to you when you wake up it's happening on your lunch break this happening when you go to bed it's happening through your sleep through your rapid mid sleep you having dreams and visions and and you're having experiences with the voice of the Lord I pray for your car I pray that as you drive in your car and cut the traffic lights that the voice of the Lord surrounds you to instruct you and to teach you the way that you should go I send the voice of the Lord to your cubicle to your office to every boardroom in here in the name of Jesus that things that you have been staying years trying to figure out it comes easy as you pursue God's wisdom and I declare that as long as you are following God your adversary will not overwhelm you let that be so over every man woman boy and girl in this place in Jesus name everybody that's making a decision that 2020 is going to be the year when you're following the heart of the Gulf's make some noise right turn we're opening the doors of the church [Music] very many of you need to know that the Lord is trustworthy he can be trusted and sometimes when you think God is not trustworthy you're scared to try new things hallelujah but when you know he's trustworthy you're not afraid to try and even if you get it wrong and even if you do it wrong you trust him enough to lead you in the way everlasting congratulations I really do believe that finally Pastor Linda all y'all on this front row you're about to eat the fruit of your obedience I believe it I believe it [Music] I know we're presbyterian but can we ship into Causton if it happens for the leaders has got to happen for the house be willing you will he has ever made the obedience decision get ready you know food is alright especially us and finally finally [Music] [Applause] Ross the purpose of voice training is to teach you how to make certain moves you tell your pet come gold kneel bow you teach them how to hear your voice so they can know how to move you are about to make some of the biggest moves of your life because you've been in obedience training getting ready to make your next shall I say [Applause] [Music] hallelujah I'm excited about your next big move and listen to my wisdom let me be a father real quick don't talk about it don't bump your gums don't go on Facebook timeout Steve mode you've already broken just move silently because if you move quietly the devil don't know what to sabotage everybody ain't got to know you didn't the doctorate everybody ain't got to know you got a bunch of money but bussing move now your instructions are if you doesn't move and you find favor every time you come in the house of God you better victory lap run in place we don't have to know how you dancing I'm so your net [Music] Shh this race see this is amazing Wow right right number one Shige one son for every business owner every creatives a purpose at 20:20 this video of the strange clients they're not coming from your immediate networks to call you from all over the place now tell my best but I believe that the strangers are champing secret investors secret progenitors even secret opportunities they've been watching you waiting to see how you handle your hardships in the city we're going to open the doors of the church for the busbar strangers you're the restaurant bless you strangers strangers [Music] one of the benefits of obedience is the favor of God when you obey God he favors you so whatever God is telling you to do do it and do it quickly ask questions later it's the last time in your life but you go home back your own favor I'm saying yes with no questions if you hear

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Published: Mon Dec 16 2019