M.E.A.T. Meeting Annapolis | Friday Evening | May 28th, 2021

moments connecting ourselves our spirits our hearts our minds to the will of the father to the spirit of the lord that's here already so if you would join with us if you've come here you've come to participate so i'm asking you we're not really going to lead anything at this moment we're just going to continue to pray so for those of you that would would you continue to pray and let's just continue to put ourselves in a posture in alignment with him tonight in the name of jesus [Music] rise up holy ghost in the name of jesus we lose faith to operate in the name of jesus we lose the spirit of revelation in the name of jesus command our eyes to be open we command the scales to fall off in jesus name [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign praise god just just lift our hands to the lord for just a moment not just at a ritual or habit but out of sincere reverence and praise to him who is worthy of everything father we give you praise we give you praise we give you praise hallelujah hallelujah [Music] father we give you praise we give you praise we give you praise we magnify you we magnify you we magnify you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus [Music] [Music] praise god praise god amen really quickly um if you've misplaced your cell phone looks like a lovely couple wonderful picture of this belongs to you i can't see your face is this you sir this is it what a beautiful picture that is wonderful i feel like the lord wants to do something just for a moment i submitted it to to bishop and brother shelton i want to make sure that i'm in alignment with what the lord wants to do and so i felt the lord speak this to me and we're going to do something just a moment here i want to bring you really quickly and i'm not i'm not going to teach i just want to preface what i believe the lord wants to do here in just a moment very familiar story to all of us acts chapter 8 but just for context for a moment if you allow me to finish the back half of the story verse 34 says so the eunuch answered philip and said i ask you of whom does the prophet say this of himself or some of their man then philip opened his mouth beginning at this scripture preached jesus to him now as they went down the road they came to some water and the eunuch said see here is water what hinders me from being baptized then philip said if you believe with all your heart you may and he answered and said i believe that jesus christ is the son of god so he commanded the chariot to stand still and both philip and the eunuch went down into the water and he baptized him now when they came up out of the water the spirit of the lord caught philip away so that the eunuch saw him no more and he went on his way rejoicing i will kind of piggyback for a moment what bishop said last night i want to make a statement but before i make that statement i want to preface it by saying i believe in the biblical pattern of teaching and training i believe there are things that we need to teach and train there's systematic discipleship all those things uh i feel like you can find those principles in the word of god but let me ask you this who discipled the eunuch where did he go to membership classes who taught him all this stuff what local church should he get joined up to and i'm not saying we shouldn't join up to a church that's not the point who took care of this eunuch do i do i believe that a supernatural manifestation to that magnitude that god would take a man and put him in some other position like that give him revelation baptize him send him on his way and then just say figure it out buddy we've relied too much on information and not revelation and i'm not against teaching and training and in in sharing and bible studies and systematic training and 101 102 103 104 105. but there are some things that god can do in a moment that you and your teaching can't do in years and so i said that because i feel like the lord wants to do something here in just a moment about 12 years ago 10 12 years ago i was me i was taking some trips back and forth to the country of singapore the lord had opened up an opportunity and we've been going back and forth there for several trips a year for about a three year period and in one of the trips uh we had stayed pretty much at the same hotel and for some reason i don't know if it was just just circumstance or it was ordained by god but it seemed to be i got the same hotel view every time and when i returned on one of my trips i noticed that the building that was across the street which at the time i believe was a parking garage had been completely leveled came back six months and within six months there was a building that was taller than the hotel i was staying i don't know with 15th 20th floor something like that i don't remember exactly and that building had already in just that short period of time reached above where i was standing and they were doing this in such a a an efficient and quick and lightning speed and so one day we were at a it was at a man actually that was i believe is one where brother shelton and bishop were there as well and we were i was in the room and i was praying and and i was in a little bit of a lamenting session because uh at the time i was i was probably 29 30 years old and bishop was in his 60s and i thought lord i got 40 years to catch up i don't know if i'm i i hope i can stay safe for 40 years because i look at where he's at and i look where i'm at and i'm thinking i've got a long way to go to get there and the lord said look at that building i looked up that building he said how long do you think it would have taken them to build that 200 years ago i have no idea a long time he said with each passing generation comes the revelation of how to do things to speed up the time in which it takes to develop it's been said numerous times bishop said it numerous time brother shelton said it numerous times it doesn't take much spiritual discernment to realize there is there is a movement in our world towards a climatic event we don't have time to sit here for the next 30 years training everything i'm not saying that we don't need to get together we don't need teaching i say this with respect and i say this with with with complete uh um reverence bishop wright you can't get much better teaching than that and i didn't pay me to say that because i'm his son i said that because we can't get to we got to get to a point where some things are going to have to be put in our spirit not put in our head some things are going to have to come from his book not from a book some things are going to have to be put in us without all the all the intricacies of revelation coming to it they're just going to have to be there and when god wants to activate those as bishop talked about last night with the cicadas he's just going to snap his finger and we're going to go i don't even know how i know how to do this i don't even know how i know what to say i don't even know how i got that revelation and it's going to come from times like this where god is going to download something in your spirit that you don't even know is being downloaded because there's going to be a time where god's going to say okay now is the time i don't even know i don't even know where that came from so tonight walking back and forth i felt like the lord began to press this upon me to do this tonight and i i don't mean disrespectful to anyone here from antioch um at least a portion of you all have to put up with me because i pastor you the rest of you all from antiochus have to love me as your brother but i really believe this is for those of you that have come from outside of this church you come here this is a short window of time but you are all leaving here with with very different situations fighting west coast devils and florida devils and texas devils and every other thing every one of you has a unique situation and god knows exactly the revelations you need to bring forth what he has promised in your city and not everything can be given to you and you wrote write it down and bishop said last night you can fill up notepad after notepad but there's not a note enough notepads in this room to fill up all that you need so there's going to have to be some things that are simply going to have to be by revelation that are just going to have to come now i know some of that that scares some of us to death because that gets out good it gets us out untethered in some some world some other world out there where everything is just floating around and we're grabbing it i'm not talking about that i'm talking about specific times and places where god postures you and says i'm going to put something in you right now that i need to put in you under certain anointings under certain places and i'm i'm i'm pretty confident saying this if i'm incorrect bishop shelton please let me know but most of you that are here have aligned yourself to some degree with the ministries of brother shout and bishop wright so we're in a we're in an atmosphere here where god has placed a level of submission we have god has placed us in alignment together so that he can do things here he can't do anything else it's not about this building or this physical location it has to do with the alignment of our hearts and spirits which then gives us access to things that we may not have access to other places and right now it's one of those times so i believe in just a moment there's going to be a supernatural wind that blows in this place and god is going to download some things in some of your spirits you may not get 75 goosebumps you might not feel the tickle of the feathers of the angels wings but there's going to be some things that are placed in you right now through the wind of the spirit you can't tell me they had the full revelation of the holy ghost on the day of pentecost there were some things they figured out afterwards when god showed you remember back in that upper room when you felt that here's what you really were feeling because there was a need of 3 000 that were standing out there that needed the experience they didn't need the teaching yet so i'm going to ask for those of you especially and antioch you're going to help me pray you're not going to sit there and and and we need this church is we we've we are we are heavy on revelation and that's not mean to say we know it all but we've been very blessed for a long time to have revelation given to us so antioch is we're going we're going to give for a moment i know some of y'all came for your word you'll get your word in a minute but but now we're going to empty out some of y'all can't get your word there's nowhere to put it so for those of you that are here from out of town would you stand again i i don't want us to get i don't want us to look for some some woo feeling if it comes great if it done jesus didn't tell me to for the feeling he just told me that just what to do what if if the feeling comes great if you don't feel one goosebump we'll turn the air condition on if that helps you you get a little chill and maybe you'll feel like you're you're you feel jesus whoo that's the holy ghost no that's just ac i'm sorry but if that helps you we can do that but this is not about feeling bishop said it last night this is not about feeling this is about okay you said it i'm going to release my faith to connect with this word god right now what's happening i don't know it may manifest itself tomorrow it may not manifest itself as brother sheldon told the story for 30 years who knows but i believe tonight god is is wanting to place a spiritual download into your spirit right now in your mind and spirit there's going to be things you're going to understand when you leave here that no one sat down and explained to you you're going to get home and put things in activation you're not going to understand how in the world did i know to say that how did i know to pray that how did i know even to release that it's going to be by his spirit i want you to lift your hands right now antioch would you join with me in the name of the lord jesus christ by the authority of the word and by the power of the name of jesus i loose the spirit of revelation i loose the spirit of revelation in the name of jesus father what you are wanting to do i speak that that happened right now in the name of jesus chad [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] come on there's revelation being downloaded there's anointings being downloaded there's words of authority that are being placed in your spirit that in the next couple of months or years you're going to have to speak those words of authority but they're being placed in you right now [Applause] in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus come on i'm not trying to pump you up or speak you out but there's a manifestation of angels that just came in here for just a moment ago come on this is something that's happened in the supernatural you're not going to be able to see it you're not going to be able to feel it with your goosebumps it's going to be something that you can sense in the supernatural [Applause] [Music] huh in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name [Music] we receive it tonight father by faith we speak it tonight father by faith we claim it tonight father by faith we speak it in jesus name we speak it in jesus name [Music] [Music] in the name of jesus in the name of jesus [Music] [Music] oh yes jesus yes jesus yes jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus [Music] [Laughter] [Music] come on let's just do that all over this place would you just lift your hands and let's just magnify him for a moment um [Music] [Applause] hello hallelujah thank you jesus you may be seated praise god it is it is distressing at times to me that for for too many of those who name the name of christ that all of this is just a little bit too far out for them god is a spirit if you are leery of the supernatural you are leery of god and if i am attempting to worship god while separating myself from the supernatural i have no ability to worship god in a way that he receives it god is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in and in truth it doesn't say god is the spirit they that worship him must worship him in truth it does not say that it says they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth brother shelton was talking today about the latter rain and all of the fearfulness and leeriness i've said for years in the latter reign the devil won two victories the first one was there were many hungry people that wanted god the things of god but they compromised truth trying to have that now if god is spirit and truth and he is spirit and word thy word is truth sanctify them through thy truth that word is truth so god is spirit and truth he's spirit and word okay if i separate my search for god into spirit only and not word then i have asked to be deceived period in the story deceived okay but um the biggest victory he won wasn't the small percentage of hungry people that wanted the things of the spirit of god it was the great fear and resulting paralysis that came upon the rest of the body of christ because of the what they feared was uh fanaticism you may find this hard to believe but there are some here that are old enough to verify this when i became a pastor in 1970 if you had tongues and interpretation in your service even one time your church was in danger of getting too far out there that's not an exaggeration that was the predominant culture in the united pentecostal church i can't speak to other apostolic organizations and and ministries but that's the one i was born in and that was the culture that was the culture and i've given the testimony about the breakthrough god gave me in tongues i received the holy ghost when i was 12. i averaged speaking in tongues maybe 1.5 times a year some years i spoke in tongues once other years because things were very challenging and i was trying to make sure i was saved i might speak in tongues twice that year but because of my pentecostal upbringing it was an excruciating experience that i loathed now that's not as strong as what i feel okay the whole jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus and finally speaking in tongues and if you've been around long enough don't sit there and act like that wasn't the way we expected it to go with everybody and that's the way it we expected it to go and it was humiliating i loathed it but i had to do it to be saved there was no joy in it things had to be desperate for me to go through that i had to be very afraid of my salvation and i needed needed i had to desperately need the assurance to know that i still had the holy ghost to go to willingly go through that i avoided it to the nth degree and then i started flight training and started to go to a church right outside of the naval air station in pensacola it was a little home missions church the guy had an eighth grade education he was in his forties he'd only been saved five years he was a bouncer in pensacola the most feared bouncer in pensacola he was five eight weighed about 160 pounds but he was if he was your bouncer you never had any trouble because it didn't take long to develop the reputation that if you cause trouble he just soon hit you in the forehead with a hammer and look at you and as the bouncers for some reason he could get away with doing whatever he needed to do to keep things calm that man got saved he was unlike any pastor i'd ever had now he didn't use hammers on us he was really a great he was really a good man but he preached something none of my raised in pentecost pentecostal pastors had taught me he preached that i should speak in tongues every day he said that you don't ever leave the he said i never leave the house to go to work till i speak in tongues well my my process to speak in tongues was about two and a half three hours long and i knew that to get to work by seven i had to get up at three to be able to speak in tongues before i went to work so being single and single people have time they just don't think they do i for two full weeks i went to the church every morning and for a couple hours and i'd go to flight training to ground school and then during lunch i wouldn't eat i'd go across the street to the base chapel and pray in there by myself and then i would come back by the church for a couple of hours on my way to study and then go to bed and i was desperate for a breakthrough that i didn't even know was possible but this man that wasn't raised in pentecost taught me that speaking in tongues was available and of course i did what i'd always done ever since 1965 which is another story i went to the book to see if what he was saying was in the book and guess what after all those years of pentecost i found what he was teaching was in the book and so i got a breakthrough and it changed my life but because i talked in tongues and i didn't cause the disturbance and but i wasn't trying to attract attention to myself it was just awesome to have liberty and joy after being a pentecostal for 10 years but i was mocked by pentecostals literally write the tongue talker and i'm thinking no offense if you're baptist but you don't believe in speaking tells right so i'm thinking i did i make a wrong turn into a baptist parking lot where they're this anti-speaking in tongues but that was the kind of atmosphere we lived in and of course oh god thank god he is mostly harnessed harnessed it after all these years but it was just something about once i knew and had confidence in what the word of god says i don't care who you are i don't care what your name is i know what you're peddling i don't care what your pedigree is you don't intimidate me you want to intimidate me with your heritage let's discuss book because i'm not intimidated by somebody that's trying to use tradition against me when i got booked book book book book book book and so the point that was made a few moments ago is absolutely 100 book i talked about it last night a little bit or was it today i don't remember it all just kind of flows together but what do you think the seed is i don't know anything about causing a tiny seed to grow up into a stalk with branches on it and two three four five hundred grains of wheat to grow i don't know i i don't know how to do all that but if i receive that seed into the soil of my heart everything that it takes for that tiny seed that seems so insignificant when it's sown to germinate and grow up into this plant that multiplies itself hundreds of times from that original seed i've said this numbers of times there are two basic types of ministry a couple of you have said this in your church recently there's bread ministry and seed sewing ministry both are valid people come to church they're hungry the person with the bread feeding ministry he's done all the work all the labor all the preparation and they minister bread you can eat and minister to your hunger right now and you leave full and satisfied and that is a valid ministry but the frustrating part about that ministry is the same people that left here full after that ministry within a couple of hours days or whatever are back to being hungry again and then they become addicted to someone doing all the work to feed them every time they're hungry and if they miss a service the next time they get in service their own starvation they're already got their spiritual shakes their their energy level is way down because they they can't feed themselves you see so technically bread ministry is ministry to the immature and it's a survival ministry it's a way to help you survive till you grow up but seed sowing ministry is planting seeds of revelation and the the the individual ground is expected to embrace those seeds and then over time as they nurture those seeds those seeds in god's timing will grow up and produce what it seems almost unimaginable that a little tiny seed is capable of doing but it's all all the instructions are written in the dna of that seed all all that has to be done is the seed has to be received and then nurtured and then it produces in its season in its season and this is what the holy ghost spoke to me the spoke to the lord spoke to me that the hungry when they come into his presence aren't looking for bread maybe you can't put your finger on what it is you're looking for but that's what we're about to do right now we're about to be very specific what you're coming to look for you're coming to look for a seed a word now you understand that listening to a sermon is not the same thing as receiving seed because too many sermons are intellectual and they're performed emotionally but it takes it takes it takes the speaker having received an impartation of seed that lets him sow the seed and then it takes hungry ground or good ground to receive the seed take ownership of it for themselves nurture it for that seed to produce what it was designed to produce life so i'm actually going to give you a title tonight wonder of warner's shock of shocks this is so profound and i'm not really being facetious it's profound in its simplicity here's the difference between the haves and the have-nots this is the difference between the spiritual and the carnal the spiritual are hungry and they hunger for words of life the carnal the non-hungry the religionists are simply fulfilling an obligation how do i know which one it is well let's presume that the person speaking has a relationship with god they've heard from god and that they really are speaking the word from god when you may not re remember all the details but if you've heard if you've received a word of life you may not remember everything about it but you remember the the the the import and the impact of that word when you receive it you recognize to some degree that something of importance has just been said to me that it's necessary for my life going forward it's necessary for my place in god going forward now to me this is just me god bless you i i well this was true when i was younger but i'm gonna say it like this i'm too old to waste my time going places and listening to people that don't offer me any seed and i don't put names faces and personalities as the the qualification of whether or not that person can sow seed into my life it's a witness of the spirit it's a connection between my spirit and theirs on some level even if i'm not aware of it that becomes an avenue of them transmitting communicating that seed from their spirit to my spirit jesus did it all the time i mean you want you want proof of this okay here's here's the proof how can god manifest in the flesh the logos made visible stand and speak by the the authority and the power and the inspiration of the father and people in the crowd go what's he talking about what's that all about what what does he say uh he's a kook that's that's it's too much for me god manifests in the flesh talking right the logos made visible and jesus said the man christ jesus said the things that i speak the father is giving me those things to speak i'm speaking what he is telling me to say and yet there are people in the crowd going huh but then there's others going whoa we've never heard it on this wise we've never experienced this man get this authority he's not one of the scribes he's not one of the priests where's where does he get this from i don't know it's like the two disciples on the road to emmaus our heart was strangely warmed there was some kind of connection something happening between him and them that was on a level that was out of the conscious mind it was in the spirit it was deep calling unto deep you want to leave here different this is what i thought i was going to say last night after brother shelton was done i thought i was going to say it again this morning after brother shelton was done because like i said both times i'm standing here listening to seed after seed after seed being spoken seed being spoken and and the problem is for a true sower that's just not spouting off the mouth but it's sowing seed you don't buy those grains in mass every one of those seeds you're broadcasting that's what the word so means literally in the greek every one of those seeds you're broadcasting you're you're you're sending out you paid a price for that there's there is something behind there's a history behind every one of those words it's not just meaningless flow now i know that the bible says the prophets of old prophesied things they didn't understand and i'm not saying to you that that's not possible today because i'm sure it is i'm just simply saying apostolic teaching is characterized by impartation it's not communication of intellectual knowledge it is impartation of spirit and revelation it's impartation or it's sowing seed if that's simpler for you to get great it's sowing seed it said here it is and each one of those seeds represents a source of life this is going to be a little different i brother shelton's coming after me so i'm going to be respectful of that but so i'm going to read some scriptures tonight and i don't know who's on the computer and i don't i'm sorry i didn't send these i wasn't sure until the last minute i was going to get the release to do this so i i don't have them so i'm going to read them quickly and if you're able to stay with me okay you've all heard this bird these verses amos 8 11 behold the days come saith the lord god that i will send a famine in the land not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water but of hearing the words of the lord has there ever been more sermonizing available 24 7 in the existence of the church and you don't you don't have to you don't have to be some deep scholar in the word you don't have to be you all you have to do is just watch five minutes of a message and if that person walks with god and they've heard with god heard from god you're going to feel an immediate connection with what they're saying but how many of you sat how many times have you in the last 15 months pulled up somebody watched something and you go i don't feel anything i don't feel anything and then you look at the name brand and you go well that that's so and so surely i should be feeling something but you can't manufacture that connection if they've got it and i know that video's not the same thing as live i get it let me tell you something if i did not believe that i could connect to people by live stream or by the videos i've done in these studios or other places i wouldn't waste my time i don't need that can you tell me what store takes accolades as currency what good is it you can't spend it now my beloved on occasions when we're home she'll one of our saturday rituals is she will make homemade waffles and i don't know how long it's been now but years ago for me she would get fresh strawberries and cut them up and whatever and then put them in a bowl and i'd take my waffle and load it up with fresh strawberries i wouldn't even use syrup and butter just load it up now that is breakfast right there fruit and grain right there see and if i want a little bit of dairy i get the whip ready whip out and spread that around on top and what a breakfast that is the breakfast love champions yes that's exactly what it is better than those dried flakes out of a box right but you know what i've got seven grandchildren and some of the older ones don't wouldn't want to acknowledge this but i've seen them all do it i've seen them sneak the ready whip can and right in their mouth right well let me tell you something ready whip as a compliment to waffles and strawberries is it's good i i'm okay with that i can take it or leave it but it's nice touch but ready whip is a diet you can't live off ready whip and there's a lot of folks they want their their milk of the word because that's what they're still on they want it uh uh pressurized so it comes out foamy and so a little bit of milk fills their mouth and they can pretend to themselves that they are eating but after you've sprayed that a few times and it disappeared and swallowed i i like uh occasionally i've gone through a few brands over the years but i'm kind of stuck right now on honeycombs you know why i like honeycombs two bowls have nothing to them i'm pretending i'm eating but if you put a spoonful of honeycombs in your mouth and you crunch a little bit you have to go looking for what's there i know i put something in my mouth but there's hardly nothing there yeah yeah unfortunately i've been in too many church services where that's the kind of diet that some believers want there is a famine for hearing the word of the lord back the first weekend of october i was in ann arbor michigan with brian jones brother brian jones and and i it was my very first session to do and all this new thing the lord had sent me doing and i'm at the hotel room and i'm being picked up in five minutes and i've been waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for the lord to give me direction and it's five minutes i'm putting on my shoes i made sure my ipad's in the case i'm about to walk downstairs and i heard the voice of the lord say according to their hunger so be it unto them well he told me in august he was going to send me to the hungry according to their hunger so be it unto them their hunger and then the lord showed me the differentiation between those that are hungry and those that are not what does the word say the full soul loatheth the honeycomb when people are full of stuff they're not hungry for god they come to church and you can preach the sweetest most wonderful message that anybody's ever preached and they go no thanks but you take a soul that's hungry even if the message has a sting to it it's a little bitter to hear to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet and so ever since he said that to me that night because he gave me that as i was ministering on that direction he gave me i i have spent i don't even want to guesstimate how many times i've ministered since the first of october but i have sat in a service and tried my best to turn it off just turn it off i just want to speak the word i don't want to feel what's coming back sometimes i don't i don't i don't want to be sensitive to that because sometimes it's really discouraging because you you you go across you know you your spirit is sweeping and i can't it's so second nature i can't even stop it it's just just constantly sweeping and you know and whether it's sonar or radar it's all the same thing radar sends that electromagnetic negative pulse and you read what comes back or sonar you send out a sound in the water and you read what's coming back and so in the spirit the lord gives words throughout a message and and you know you know it when it comes and you speak it and you okay you wait for what comes back because people cannot prevent themselves from sending back the response of their heart to that word and you go oh no i i had more hope for them than that that's so disappointing really that's what's in your heart and so then you have to blank that one out and say no no i'm just gonna i'm not gonna pay attention to that one i'm not gonna respond to that one i'm gonna focus on the hungry because this one over here is receiving it's like it like a little bird in a nest you know i can't imagine being for regurgitated food from mama but it must be pretty good because they fight over it right you know i don't i don't know if i ever watched it as a kid i don't even know the name but it was a deputy dog that would go ah i like to preach to people whose spirit goes whatever it is if it's from god i want it no matter how it makes me feel about where i am i want it i want to hear a word of life i want a word of life i want a word from god that when it's planted in the soil of my life it's going to begin to grow it's going to begin to produce life i want a word from of life i want a word of life and here's the thing and this is the most amazing thing about this what brother joel was saying a while ago that is exactly the case i'm standing here speaking single words at a time in some kind of sentence form no two people in this room are hearing the exact same thing i'm not talking about audibly but the lord takes every rhema and and specifically tailors it to you and your need and he implants the rhema you need into your heart it it you may think well everybody's hearing this no that's the point while while the while the the the the man or woman of god is speaking the rhema god takes that rhema once it's released and then he brings it and tailors it to you personally and and it is a word to you but here's the other thing that happens while we're praying i've had this happen a lot in an atmosphere of of the supernatural ministering and and i've been in fact it was the third weekend of august and i hadn't been able to be in service brother george hurd had been with the antioch central for a couple of weeks and i hadn't been able to be there and uh the lord had been had already started talking to me about what i was going to be doing and the latter part of 21 the rest of 20 or rather part of 20 arrests of 21 and i'm sitting in this chair right here and he's minister the holy ghost is moving and all of a sudden i received a word of life he didn't speak to me but in that supernatural atmosphere all of a sudden i'm watching a video vision i'm going it wasn't him ministering i saw me ministering in a certain way and it wasn't exactly the way i had been used very much and i and then it switched i'm sitting there and i'm seeing this not with these eyes but with these eyes i'm seeing this and then it switched and it was going like this and that was happening and and then then it switched again and i'm watching this i it was totally unexpected i wasn't asking for anything i was just tuned in to the flow of the spirit the man of god was being mightily used of god he was speaking rhema to people there wasn't one he wasn't speaking to me but in that atmosphere of the supernatural manifestation of the words of life god chose that atmosphere to speak to me and i asked him i said what do these three visions mean he said what i'm sending you to do the first is what you're going to do in most places on saturdays the second is what you're going to do in most places on sunday mornings and the third is what you're going to do in most places on sunday night and i said i'm going to do all of that in one weekend yeah well now i am how many months nine months since that vision he has never done it the same way twice any place but all three of those visions have come to pass everywhere i've been even though he tailored each one of those to fit the need of a certain place i received a word of life i received the word of life and and you know all this that the lord was telling me was was changing my whole life it was changing everything i mean i'd spent covid in my recliner and in a studio and in i had a studio set up at home in my basement for zoom and a studio set up in the building here to record series and it's just prayer and study and ministry to the end of a camera what a way i that's it i know there's so many people who hate that i love it to death i love it love it love no offense to you i love it why because if i'm ministering to you i can't help i can't stop feeling what's coming back but a camera doesn't give any of that and i get to stay on the subject and i like to stay on the subject because my humanity and the pride that he hasn't completely squashed yet but he's working on it you know sometimes it bothers me right can't stay on the subject i'm thinking what do you mean right can't say on the subject what am i supposed to do tell him he can't speak a word to this one and this one while we're going in this direction i'm supposed to tell him hey lord i'm going to for my reputation's sake i'm going to stay on this subject and ignore everything else you want to do no no and so he's i i'm this was earlier before the vision and i'm i'm praying i'm casting i'm casting casting lord your will nothing but your will your whole will i don't want anything but your will what is your will what is your will what is your will and there were three specific things i was praying very very specifically for and there was there's a man that that he has agreed to be my oversight my spiritual accountability in between when our board of trustees is meeting and i called him i was in vermont middle of august and and i called him i said brother i i have i have some things i want to talk to you about he said stop okay he said the lord has spoken to me okay he said i know it doesn't sound like much that's what he said the lord says go straight ahead forward and he started to apologize i said wait that's exactly the word i needed are you sure yeah are you sure yeah i'm sure i was so sure that when i got off the phone with him i drove back to the rv said to my wife we're leaving now we got to go home i got things to do i received a word of life the point i'm trying to make to you is this if you are hungry for hearing the word of god but you are limiting yourself to only hear it in a church service then you have just tied god's hands this is a relationship the one i have a relationship with is both the spirit of life and he is the word of life manifest in the flesh that's who he is if i have a relationship with him 24 hours a day i have availability to words of life from him all the time do i hear from god on everything absolutely i do not and if you say you do come here and i need to lay hands on you because if you think all of that stuff that's going through your head is god uh you need you got some really big growing up to do and i'm not kidding listen to this this is some this when it comes to the word of the word of god this is just wow psalms 19 verse 7 the law of the lord is perfect converting the soul the testimony of the lord is sure making wise the simple the statutes of the lord are right rejoicing the heart the commandment of the lord is pure enlightening the eyes the fear of the lord is clean enduring forever the judgments of the lord are true and righteous all together more to be desired are they than gold yea than much fine gold sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb moreover by them as thy servant warned and in keeping of them there is great reward who can understand his errors cleanse thou me from secret faults keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins let them not have dominion over me then shall i be upright and i shall be innocent from the great transgression let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight oh lord my strength and my redeemer isn't there any resonance any response in your spirit to god you take in his word and you take in you you receive his word you embrace his word and then there's a response in your spirit that says here i am take me here i am here i am be pleased with me whatever you've got to do that's why they're words of life i receive those words and they produce life in me they produce a hunger for life if i receive his words then the words of my mouth will be a response to his words that the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight oh lord my strength and my redeemer life life not religion life not religion relationship did you feel that response of the spirit that didn't that wasn't me that didn't have anything to do with me that was god responding to hearts that were responding to him god responds to hearts that respond to him if you're hungry for him he will feed you if you're thirsty for his spirit he will give you living water to drink hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus psalms 1 19 50 says psalms 119 verse 50 this is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickened me i love that the proud have had me greatly in derision yet have i not declined from thy words of life words of life psalms 1 19 129 that thy testimonies are wonderful therefore doth my soul keep them the entrance of thy words giveth light it giveth understanding unto the simple is your heart your spirit open to the word of the spirit of god can he find access he will not wrestle you with for control you have to invite him with a choice of your will blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be completely satisfied the blessing is not being satisfied the blessing is hungering and thirsting what am i hungering and thirsting for i'm hungering for the bread of life from the meat of the word i am thirsting for the living water the spirit of god it's not enough to hunger it's not enough to thirst the blessing is hungering and thirsting i want word and spirit i want word and spirit i want word and spirit i want word and spirit it's living water or water of life it's the living word the words of life hey [Music] oh psalms 33 verse 1. psalms 33 1 rejoice in the lord oh you righteous for praise is comely for the upright praise the lord with harp sing unto him with sultry in an instrument of tense strings sing unto him a new song play skillfully with a loud noise for the word of the lord is right and all his works are done in truth he loveth righteousness and judgment the earth is full of the goodness of the lord by the word of the lord were the heavens made and all the hosts of them by the bread breath of his mouth he gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap he layeth up the depth and storehouses let all the earth fear the lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in all of him for he spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast the lord bringeth the counsel the heathen the naughty make it the device of the people of none effect the counsel of the lord standeth forever the thoughts of his heart to all generations verse nine again he spake and it was done he commanded it it stood fast why do we allow our carnality and the adversary to make the word of god that is spoken to us different than the exact same word of god that brought all this into existence if the word of the lord could create the universe what can the word of the lord do in my life what can the word of the lord do through my life there's not two different logo logos there's not three different logos there's not a big middle and small logos it's logos it's god logos says god in the beginning was the glow ghost of the locust who was with god and the logos was god and the logos was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glorious of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth word word word word but not words separate from the spirit because if my body is separated from my spirit i'm dead it's living word it's words of life living word word word word hunger for the word thirst for the spirit hunger for the word thirst for the spirit hunger for the word thirst for the spirit hallelujah listen to this verse eight this is psalm 68 verse eight i won't make reference to the fact this is psalm 68 and that's if you don't know what that means now don't worry about it the earth shook the heavens also dropped at the presence of god even sinai itself was moved at the presence of god the god of israel thou o god did it send a plentiful rain where about that that is confirmed that inherits when it's inheritance when it was weary thy congregation that dwelt therein thou o lord has prepared of thy goodness for the poor the lord gave the word great was the company of those that published it are you in the company the lord gave the word great was the company of those that published it are you in the company who's in the company don't raise your hand the answer to that question is between you and god are you in the company because notice this the lord gave the word but those in that company didn't keep it to themselves they published it that word published is also a synonym of broadcast or so they propagated the seed part of proving that you've received word is you give word freely you've received freely gift part of the proof of you having received the word is you spread word you publish word that's part of it if you have no interest in publishing the word then you have to honestly sincerely examine yourself before god of whether or not you're receiving any word because i can't keep word in me that's great enough to create a universe and lock it up for me and keep it for me it the only way i can i can exist with that in me is to let it flow through me because if i try to hold on to it it's a negative thing to me that's saying it's so gently and kind and nice it's a negative thing to me if i receive word and hold on to it the only way it's safe for me to receive something like a word that was able to create the universe same word is to let it flow through me don't hold on to it just be a conduit for it flow and and flowing in the word it's not just speaking and it's living it it's praying it speaking it in prayer i'm not going to go much longer but uh but we're getting to the punch line here it is first john 1 verse 1. that which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon and our hands have handled of the word of life for the life was manifested and we have seen it and bear witness and show unto you that eternal life which was with the father and was manifest in us that that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the father and with his son jesus christ and these things right we unto you that your joy may be full the logos created the whole universe and then the logos was so humble that it was able and willing to be manifested visibly in the body of a human being so you and i could relate to him on one level but we're not supposed to keep him on that level we can relate to him on that level you know the bible says that you see god in the face of jesus christ second corinthians chapter four verse six you see god in the face of jesus christ so we can see him we can relate to him on one level but we don't keep him on that level because he is creative logos made flesh and he's willing to come to everybody listening whether in room or or live or recorded or whatever he's willing to come to every one of us as living word living logos willing to come to you like that i said to the lord last year where he and i have talked boy we had some no i don't mean to be offensive and if you had cove and you're suffered god bless you if you had loved ones that passed away i'm not minimizing that i i understand the pain of that okay but i'm just trying to say to you that those first four months march april may june were some of the greatest months of my entire life i didn't watch netflix i didn't watch youtube i didn't go on social media except to post stuff i didn't want to read the comments because i could care less what they were if they were that's good okay that's bad your problem this probably is not a positive thing to say but you know i've said a few things that some folks got all up in arms about and i i said to brother shelton they don't really understand do they that i don't care what they think that when you choose to please god what other people think doesn't matter i don't purposely try to be offensive to anybody but he gives you something to say you say it and people receive it fine if they don't not my problem not my word just conduit i mean if you have a phone that you purchased new in the last couple of years i don't care what model you got you paid too much money to throw it against the wall because you don't didn't like what the person said on the other end of the line okay you've already figured out i'm not punishing the phone because of some call from somebody i didn't like and my phone is never apologized to me because it was the instrument that i got bad news on it's never said oh i'm so sorry that i had to tell you that not one time has it done that no i'm not being facetious i'm trying to make a point paul said in first in galatians chapter 1 verse 10 if i seek to please men i cannot be the servant of christ do i seek to please men for if i yet please men i should not be the servant of christ and i've had preachers tell me well there's a middle ground in there what a middle ground okay so i've been married almost 53 years all right i was in a place the other day i administered and there was some food out and of course some they'd been eating on it the whole time i'm talking i'm going when i'm done i'm getting my share of that if there's any of it left and so i'm over there food and this nice lady came up and she had some questions but and my wife was standing right here thank god okay this lady over here she's i don't know if it was the noise in the room i'm hoping it was the noise she was really close and and and my wife didn't say anything she didn't turn her head but i've been married 53 years so i thought i would see just how much she was paying attention so we got in the car and i said oh that lady was kind of close she said yes she was i said i thought so you did a really good job of acting like you weren't paying attention she said and if she'd got any closer i was about to do something about that and i'm thinking boy i'd almost paid to have seen that that would have been good yeah we'll pull up to a place to turn and and you know if i'm going left i say i'm going left and i don't even look i'm trusting her and then she says you got it and i said oh that makes me feel so good thank you for saying that oh you mean i can go you didn't get that oh phew wow if i have to explain that lord have mercy if i would have said to her in the court now alice the lady didn't mean anything by it just because she was practically glued to my side she was trying to talk and if i would have tried to found a middle ground between those two i would have wanted to have gone home with her so i've been married long enough to know i didn't defend this dear sister in any way shape or form i agreed with her totally yes she was i was uncomfortable whoo yeah i was uncomfortable you get that edgy i was uncomfortable i wasn't trying to find a middle ground between that and how many of us are trying to find a middle ground between pleasing god and pleasing man and i'm going to tell you something years ago we had a youth pastor who was quite a personality and and you know and i loved him and we i've known him a long time and and he he stood in my office one day and said to me he said now you know brother right he said now if you could just find a way to say things a little different you wouldn't have people upset with you so many times and then he said it he said i expect everybody to like me and i looked at him and said then you just told me you've never had a word from god or if you had one you didn't deliver it in a way that pleased him because if there's one thing i've learned the hard way god is never going to let you speak his word and tickle people's ears at the same time he always is going to test his delivery agent with who their allegiance is to and if you're trying to find a way to speak the word of god and people be happy with you then you're not speaking the word of god i've seen babies spit out perfectly good milk spit it out what's wrong with you kid this is all you get you don't eat this you don't get bigger no then you can't eat the good stuff spit it out i had to make peace with the fact that i could say his words the way he wanted me to say it and two people could sit right by each other and one gets all upset and angry over what was said the other one goes wow i needed that that's exactly what i needed you go wait a minute did you two hear the same thing no they didn't i only said one thing but they heard two different things because the lord took what i said and challenged the one that didn't want to be challenged and they weren't happy with me because they don't know what the voice of god sounds like the only voice they were hearing was mine so it's my fault the other one is hearing the voice of god they're going wow they're not thinking about he could have said that just a little differently and it would have been easier for me to take you know i like a lot of stuff chocolate covered but a pickle is still a pickle even if you cover it with chocolate it's still a pickle i mean seriously you can pull it you ever been to a fondue place that's dangerous i'd been on a daniel fast about three weeks hadn't had any sugar at all and it was somebody's birthday and i broke the daniel fast at a fondue place because that's what the birthday person wanted to go do and according to the people there after about an hour i was drunk on sugar i don't know i know i was kind of giddy and lightheaded and i don't know where that came from and my system hadn't had any sugar but i tell you what they brought all kind of things out for you to dip in the chocolate there wasn't one tray with dill pickles on it because they knew the best of chocolates doesn't change the nature of a dill pickle i prefer to say here comes a dill pickle from jesus get ready instead of saying oh look at this chocolate thingy i've got here this is look how sweet this is yeah here take a bite of this and then they go you tricked me no no i'm not going to trick you so what's it say john 6 63 it is the spirit that quickeneth jesus said the flesh profiteth nothing the words that i speak unto you they are what the words are spirit and they are life well in a few verses he had said something that people didn't like and so a whole bunch of people left so starting with john chapter 6 verse 66 the verse the scripture says from that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him because he gave them a dill pickle he told them it was a dill pickle their flesh wasn't going to like it their flesh didn't like it so since they wanted sweet and he was giving them dill because that's what they needed at the moment they left then jesus said unto the twelve will ye also go away then simon peter for all of his problems several once while he got it right right then simon peter answered him lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life you ever been to a doctor that says does this hurt does this hurt poke me there again are you going to find out what hurts right why do they do that they need to find out what the problem is they can't feel what you're feeling so they try to probe and whatever you know and the spirit does that but the spirit already knows what the problem is but the spirit probes to force things in your that you've buried inside to the surface because until he forces things to the surface he can't deal with them because you're we live in denial of them and hear me my god is determined to bring everything i have buried from my present and past to the surface and you can ignore it and refuse to deal with it pretend that it doesn't exist but god is not satisfied with you having stuff buried in your heart competing with the word that he wants to he wants uh uh invested or hidden in your heart you hide word in here but you got stuff that's contrary to the word that you've buried in there that you you haven't dealt with so god in his love forces stuff to the surface in our lives through circumstances he prefers to do it by spirit and word god will always use speaking to us and moving on us by his spirit as his preferred method of dealing with any of us over anything he only goes to the next step when we're not listening when we're not responding i was in uh balch springs in uh february i had i don't know that i'd ever preached this before exactly like this but i believe it's mark i believe it's the book of mark where the rich young ruler comes to jesus and says master what do i have to do to inherit eternal life and jesus said keep the commandments and he said i've done all that since my youth and then the bible says this jesus beholding him loved him and the love of jesus compelled him to say to this young man go and sell everything you have and come follow me now we would consider that a harsh statement wouldn't we we would consider that unkind unreasonable but the scripture specifically says jesus said that to that young man because he loved him you see that's the different definition of love compared to our culture today because when jesus speaks love to us he tells us what we need to hear he tells us what's necessary to dig that out it was just a week or half or so before i got married and i i noticed a spot on my knee and hurt really bad and i went to the flight surgeon and he said oh instant right you've got a boil on that knee okay is that like a pimple i'm thinking to myself he's what you gonna do about it he said i can't do anything right now you go you you're not not in flight training today and so you go home and i want you to keep heat on that for for a day i want i want heat continually on that we want to bring it to a head okay he said come back tomorrow so i did and i'm thinking hey it's no big deal it's just a big pimple right no problem and i come in and he says are you ready well i'm here yeah so he takes me back in a treatment room he says lay down up on this uh this uh treatment table okay these two big old corpsmen come in looked at him i said what are they for he said they're going to hold you down you need them to hold me down i said are you going to give me a bullet to bite on two he wasn't yet joking he said you're you're gonna need one i mean what it's just a pimple it wasn't a pimple it had gotten white big white head on it right on the knee joint right there and so those guys grabbed an arm each no one of them was up front and put put all his weight on my shoulders the other grabbed my legs and held them in place and the doctor said now i can't give you anything to numb this because i don't want the needle to cause the infection to go in the bone so he said i'll spray something on the surface but it's not going to help it didn't so i'm laying there trying not i don't want to watch but he takes his scalpel and makes four cuts each one of them starting from the middle of it and i'm ah you know these guys are holding me down i'm thinking that's over with no that wasn't over nothing he says now we've got to get the core out i'm thinking okay what does that entail i found out he began squeezing on this thing now they're really having to hold me down and i think cam came out literally was about that size on my of my finger and i'm thinking that's over with he said now we have to pack this with a treated gauze and let it drain for a while before i can close it up the knife hurt the squeezing hurt worse but when he took that long string of gauze and started packing it with tweezers down inside that hole that yeah that really hurt and he did all of that to make me better because that infection in that spot could have got in my joints and i could have gotten very very sick from that the treatment wasn't worse than the cure the treatment was worse than what would have happened if i hadn't endured the treatment and your lord your father loves you so much the stuff you've buried that you're trying to just deal with your own way and you keep trying to bury it so you don't have to think about it and deal with it he loves you so much he knows you don't have peace and you're not going to have peace till he gets that to the surface so you'll finally acknowledge it and let him help you deal with that who we're going to go to lord you're the only one with the words of eternal life even if the words cut even at the word squeeze even if the words are are packing stuff in the womb that doesn't lord it's love you love me and i thank you for it if you want a life without pain pressure and problems you want a life that is void of the love of a heavenly father because that heavenly father is going to love you and i enough to do whatever is necessary to make us recipients of the words of life and make us conduits that his word of life can flow through us to bring life to many many others in the name of the lord jesus christ in the name of the lord jesus christ he cut are you resisting him bringing things to the surface are you resenting him bringing things to the surface are you re you loving him enough and trusting his love for you enough that you understand that if he's bringing things to the surface it's because he loves you it's because he wants you whole it's because he wants you to be a recipient a receptacle a conduit for his word his words of life he wants to use you but if you were if his word get mixed up down inside with the stuff i buried down in there that doesn't belong there that that contaminates the word it it desensitizes the word it keeps the word from being effective in the name of jesus if you want religion you can go to church and the lord leaves you alone because you want to be left alone and you just go through the motions and fulfill your obligations but if you want jesus and you want his words of life and you want his spirit of life and you want to be a a recipient of them and a conduit for them to others there is work he's going to do in you and to you so that he can then bring you to the place he could work through you in the name of the lord jesus christ come on come on for the next few minutes before brother shelton comes come on in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus yes yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord if you're hungering for the word and thirsting for the spirit you have to trust the love of the father to work in you and on you that he might prepare you to work through you in the name of jesus in the name of jesus by in the name of jesus in the name of jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah in the name of jesus in the name of jesus [Music] christ [Music] in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus come on let's hunger for words of life let's hunger not only to receive them but let's hunger to be a conduit for them in the name of jesus in the name of jesus [Music] [Music] i want to read something to you john chapter 14 verse 30 hereafter i will not talk much with you for the prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me now that's the king james i want to read that in the passion translation i won't speak much with you i won't speak with you much longer for the ruler of this dark world is coming but he has no power over me for he has nothing to use against me he has no power over me because he has nothing to use against me i want to read luke chapter 8 verse 16 17 18. um brother middleton mentioned this last night when he was leading prayer multiple times brother wright has mentioned it today and it i'm going to read it luke 6 8 16-18 no man when he hath lighted a candle covereth it with a vessel or pulleth it under a bed but setteth it on a candlestick that they which enter in may see the light for nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest neither anything hid that shall not be made known and come abroad take heed therefore how you hear for whosoever hath to him shall be given and whosoever hath not from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have now i want to read that again in the passion translation no one lights a lamp and then hides it covering it over or putting it where no one sees its light no he places the lamp on a lampstand so others benefit from its brightness because this revelation lamp now shines within you nothing will be hidden from you it will all be revealed every secret of the kingdom because this revelation lamp now shines within you nothing will be hidden from you it will all be revealed every secret of the kingdom will be unveiled and out in the open made known by the revelation light so pay careful attention to your hearts as you listen to my teaching for to those who have open hearts even more revelation will be given to them until it overflows and for those who do not listen with open hearts what little light they imagine themselves to have will be taken away now bishop has said this two or three times tonight or more tonight and today two people can hear the same word and both get a different message out of it for to those who have open hearts even more revelation will be given to them to the point it begins to overflow and for those who do not listen with an open heart what little light they imagine themselves to have will be taken away that's what the truth will do i i i find myself um i hate jury duty and i've had to do it five times well i had to do it four times i got out of that fifth one because that little clerk come rolling up in that little room where we were i got tamara it's such a patriotic opportunity to be on jury duty i said the devil is alive and you only get to do this maybe once or twice at the most in your life the devil is a lie has anybody in here ever been on jury duty anybody been on jury duty more than once sir how many times have you been on jury duty four four yes well do you have any reason why you can't be on jury duty today no sign me up cause i'm gonna set him free that's what i told the little clerk they set me free yeah now i heard it different than other little people in there that had never been on jury duty oh i'm going to be a patriot and i'm thinking oh my god i hate it one of the reasons i hate jury duty is because you're in there now don't start on me about all this law and order i understand all that and i'm not against it and i understand that we need law and order but the problem i have with juror duty is and it's just me it's not something's wrong with our system on jury duty you're not you're not making your decision on why they did what they did you're making your decision on what they did now i've been called more than four times been called more than five times one of them was a little brother stole a sack of groceries out of somebody's pickup truck left the tools left the radio stole the groceries because the brother was hungry but more than that his wife and kids that were in the car around the corner were hungry and he couldn't find a job but they didn't want us to make a decision based on why he did it they just wanted us to make a decision on was he wrong for doing it well i got out of that one too i don't remember what calamitous event took place to make that happen but the lord delivered me our flesh wants to look at what we do the holy ghost probe is deeper than that and the holy ghost wants to know why you did it he wants to reveal the why of the what and we have made absolute profound decisions in our own lives and in the lives of others based on what they did we'll never stop to look and find out why they did it and you can deal with what all day long but if you don't address why it may not resurface in the same way but it's coming back and why it's going to show back up over and over and over and over and over the holy ghost goes much deeper than that in the church we believe in praying everybody through if 20 people show up in your church on sunday your goal is to get every last one of them prayed through unfortunately that's that's where a lot of times our focus ends i know of a situation where a man was deaf when i say deaf i'm talking about the brother could not hear anything well a man a notable reputation that god uses powerfully was their preaching and god healed that deaf man completely totally restored his ability to hear hadn't heard since he was a little bitty child well a year later this guy was back in that same church preaching again he looks up and that little brother's in the deaf department again so he leans over to the pastor he said is he just down there you know how sometimes the person signing will sit and take a break and then somebody because i know that got to get tiring and so he asked he said is that what's going on the guy said oh no no he's he's not there to help do sign he's he's there to be signed to he said i thought god healed him last year he's well he did well why is he over there again what happened he said oh he willed himself deaf again he asked god to make him deaf and this evangelist said are you kidding me he said oh i wish i was but no no that's what happened why would he want to be deaf all over again he said because we didn't take time to teach him how to live with his miracle he didn't know that the people of god said ugly things about one another he didn't know that while he was sitting in church people were making fun of him behind his back he didn't he had never heard people murmur and complain against the pastor while the pastor was preaching until he'd gotten a miracle and he couldn't deal with it he didn't know how to cope with it and so he went deaf again and it was by his choice and whether the lord made him deaf again or not or just let him have it his way i don't know how it happened but the brother couldn't hear again i do like principles and i understand them some that other i don't get but the principles i i can land a plane on that i understand all that we're real good sometimes at getting one thing out and i mentioned this i guess last night or to day one we can get stuff out of people we can pray junk out but we don't go to the next step we don't we don't stay with them long enough to deal with the next step it's like when david got talking about his exploits as the under shepherd to his father's sheep he said you know he told the king he said i chased down that bear and i chased down that line because they had stole two of my daddy's sheep and what happened son he said oh i overtook him he said when i got to that line he said i i smote him he knocked him unconscious he said well what happened after that he's well i delivered him out of the mouth of that line and then he rose up on me well what'd you do then well i killed him he said you know what that bear did the exact same thing i chased that rascal down and i knocked him unconscious i delivered that lamb out of his jaws and would you believe that old boy raised up on me and went after me well what'd you do i killed him too now i can't tell you that those two sheep were never taken again but i can tell you for a fact that that particular lion and that particular lamb never got another one we have people come in and out of our churches over and over and over and over and over and over and over and we are so spiritually enlightened that if we're not careful we'll sit on our sanctified pews and make statements like well i wonder how long they're going to stay this time well if they ever get the same holy ghost i got they'll stick no they'll be gossip like you are pray to god they don't get the same kind you got so i asked the lord about it i said why did people do that he said because you've you've never made their enemy your enemy you think that they want to go out there you think that they want to be lost you think they want to stray you think they want to be a drug addict or a liar or whatever he said something keeps taking them but all you ever concern yourself is with is what they did you never stop long enough to figure out why they keep doing it or you keep doing what you keep doing we we get miraculous things done in our life and god does things for us sometimes that we just we literally do not have the words to explain or to be grateful like we should and then six weeks later we're standing in the need of prayer again for the same thing over and over and and don't celebrate that you just well at least i didn't go out in the world oh god bless you you should have i mean you might as well have because we set dead on a pew because we never i'm going to tell you the inner man has been the most neglected part of all of what we are above and beyond everything else we get prayer for our situations we get prayer for our circumstances we get prayer for our family we get prayer for our jobs we get prayer for our health we have a lot of temple concerns we do a lot of temple maintenance praying but that's about as far as we get a lot of times we don't go to the next step and deal with what's on the inside we don't we just pray long enough to get somebody home we don't pray long enough to keep them home we don't pray long enough to defeat what keeps coming and prying them out of the grasp of the master i think sometimes this is a hard statement to make i guess but it'd be okay i think some people have been saved too long i think i think memory lane gets so crooked and long that while we shouldn't dwell on yesterday i think there's some folks that are so sanctified they can't remember the mess jesus dug them out of brethren if a brother be overtaken in a fault ye which are spiritual restore such one in the spirit of meekness considering thine own self lest at any point you find yourself being tempted the implication is if you don't restore someone with a spirit of meekness you you don't even want to have you don't want to even be tempted i promise you you do not want the enemy tempting you if you don't learn the art of restoration you better learn how to restore somebody and i've seen people restore cars and other people who didn't understand really what was going on come by and stand and look at them and ask them what are you doing why don't you just go get a new one you're spending so much money on this piece of junk if we're not careful we're going to let the old carnal man make us see one another that way god why why do you want me to work with this person why do you want me to deal with this why do you want me to spend the effort and the time why don't we just go win some new people well because they're still our brothers and they're still our sisters really it's a big deal i've got three children and on any given day one or all of them may just jump stupid and just be the most disobedient little children you ever saw but it does not negate the fact that they're still my children and if one does something ridiculous the other two are not allowed to talk about them and the other two are not allowed to get in their business and my children hear this all you better mind your business you need to be out of your sister's business you need to leave your brother's business alone you better mind your own business for us to have the value in the kingdom that we are supposed to have it can only be as a result of his righteousness in us the writer said the prince of this dark world is coming but he's not going to have power over me because when he gets here and gets to looking around he's going to find that he has nothing on me now he didn't say he was perfect he didn't say he had done everything exactly up to par the effects were prayer of a righteous man remember that one i don't remember when i said it but that word righteous means repentance the effectual fervent prayer of a man or a person with a repentant spirit availeth much now i'm not saying this is a license to go out and just do asinine deeds and everything's going to be fine and god's not going to have a problem with it that's not the case somewhere along the way we we've got to stop beating ourselves up so brutally over what we've done and get honest about why we keep doing it people that really want to obey god and really want to go to heaven and really want to be used in the kingdom don't stop with what they they move on to why the gifts of the spirit are awesome when they flow through us but they're even greater when they can work on us it's kind of hard to trust somebody with gifts that only operate through them but they are never allowed to operate on them you can be in prayer all alone and discernment can come upon you you can be in prayer all alone and revelation can come you can be in prayer all alone in a word of wisdom and a word of knowledge can come and god began to speak to you for you but if if i'm not willing to let that work on me how can god trust me for that to work through me in regards to anybody else the outer man will will line up with wherever the inner man is allowed to be and if the inner man is you know we say body soul spirit but if if we can get it to be spirit soul and body if we can get the spirit up here in a primary position to where the spirit now has the primary influence over the soul and the body then christ is not only birthed in us and formed in us but he's manifest through us i don't think the problem has ever between us and heaven i don't think the problem has ever been god trying to get his spirit in us i think the issue has always been god trying to get his spirit out of us well i want to be used in the holy ghost well i'm sure we all say that but at what price are we willing to be used by the holy ghost i said it today enoch walked with god and was not for god took him i really hope the day can come that i know a few years ago somebody wrote a book about them circles i don't the circle maker or some nonsense well a guy called me or texted me late at night and he said what are your ministry goals i knew exactly he'd been reading that little book and i said i'm not answering that question why not i text him back i said because you've been reading that little circle book and i know that my answer is not going to make you happy and when i tell you my answer you're going to think that your little buddy is just the most lazy slouch that god ever gave the holy ghost to no i won't man i promise i won't i ignored him 12 o'clock came and went finally at one o'clock he caught me just eating him up he called me at one in the morning tell me what your goals in ministry are i said oh kid ducky i don't have any what see i told you you have no goals no then i stopped i said no actually i do i do have one i want to be obedient that's all i really want to do in the ministry is just be obedient but i found out that sometimes i have a problem with obedience i i i have found myself in such great enlightenment at times that i was able to share with the lord a much better way to do what he wanted done that never pans out so i have concluded in my short life on this great planet of ours that the best thing for me to do is get me out of the way as far as i can so i begin to think about it how do i know if i've got me out of the way and then i read that verse of scripture for the prince of this world cometh repeatedly comes over and over and over he comes to see if the house is unswept and unkept to see if after i put one thing out did i replace it with something else that i allow the lord to impart to me the opposite of what he delivered me from if god delivers me from anger then i need to let him give me the opposite of anger if the lord delivers me from depression and hopelessness then i need to stay there long enough to let him infuse me with the opposite of that so that when the enemy comes he doesn't find me vacant and void and available but then i think one of the biggest tricks of the enemy has been to get us to embrace doubt and uncertainty and i've said this a lot all over the place and i'm going to say it again i think one of the prevailing spirits if not the prevailing thing that we find ourselves dealing with oftentimes is hopelessness not just in the world but in the church we got people in the church who struggle to live consistently the way god wants us to live not perfectly but just consistently striving that are living like this most of the time just up and down and up and down and up and down just emotions all over the board and will be delivered for a while from whatever it is and just be running the aisles and just happy for jesus just full throttle and then all of a sudden there's a trigger and it gets pulled and it sends us back into this tumultuous season of emotions and mind games and whatever else and then here comes despair and despondency and hopelessness and i'll never i'm never i'll never i'll never i don't know what i don't know what i don't know what's going on i'm never gonna i thought i was i thought well here's all that self-doubt here it comes now well that's all the enemy needed he don't need me to go out here and rob a bank to have something to work on with me all he needs is for me to open the door in my brain unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think i said it last night if the enemy can affect what you think he'll change what you're speaking as a man thinketh in his heart so is he if it stays in your head long enough it becomes a part of your spirit and your spirit starts regurgitating all of that negative mess i don't like saying stuff like i don't know what i'm going to do well that's a lie you might can say honestly i don't know if i'm going to do what i need to do but we do know what to do take it to jesus lay aside every why'd he say that first you ever stopped to think about that one why didn't he say lay aside every sin and wait that does so easily beset you because sometimes the enemies the enemy's process of getting us to sin is to get us first to take a hold of weights because again we're not repulsed by weights they don't look like sin they don't smell like sin they don't feel like sin and we can justify having it in our life the enemy is not trying to get you to take ownership or us to take ownership of stuff we can't justify having he's trying to be sneaky and get us to take ownership of stuff that we can justify letting being he he's all into getting the people of god to cohabitate with stuff jesus said run out so when he gets us to the place that we cohabitate with doubt i remember one time sister freeman was talking about the time brother freeman got his arm cut almost completely off at the shoulder and she said it was just a little sliver of meat holding his arm on and don't cringe if you just listen to that story about all that corruption running out of his leg and i don't all i said was a brother got his arm cut off ain't nobody squeezed on nothing yet in my story so just hang on and um i listened to her talk about while they were in africa putting up this tent getting ready for a big crusade or something i forgot exactly the details of the story but whatever accident happened to him it cut his arm at the shoulder almost completely off and the doctors were wanting to just go ahead and cut that final piece of skin and be done with it and she wouldn't let them and she talked about how the lord gave her such peace and over the years and and the lord healed his arm put it right back together and and it worked just like the lord intended it to up until the day he died a very old age but i thought a lot about how people go through and maybe i'm the only one that thinks this stuff but how how have some of these elders live the lives they've lived in harder times than what we live in and they went through things i'm not going to say they were worse than what you and i go through today although they may have been but i think each generation's trials are significantly difficult for that generation circumstances but people have gone through things throughout time that it's mind-boggling to think about how they got through sickness i heard a story about a preacher who was driving through louisiana one time and he got to a pine thicket about where the tioga campgrounds are now in tioga the upc campgrounds there used to be a pine thicket there and no dirt road he was on went right up through that pine thicket and he was getting low on gas it was late at night and they just pulled over on the shoulder there in the ditch really and he went off out in that pine thicket and cleared an area built a fire and told his wife he said get get what coffee we've got make a pot of coffee and she said well the kids are hungry they had two boys and he said i know we all are just let me go pray a little bit and see what the lord will do so he went out in the woods and began to pray and the lord spoke to him that everything would be all right and he was going he was going to supply so he walked back to where the campfire was and his wife had coffee ready and he just sat down on a log and she said are you through already he said yeah the lord said he'd supply food our supplier needs well they look up and a german shepherd come loping out of the woods and had a brown paper sack in his mouth and he walked up to the fire and set that paper sack down turned ran back out in the dark well the preacher got up looked in that paper shack and there were four big old fresh-cut steaks and his wife cooked those steaks up in day eight now there could have been something that had prevented that from happening not a devil on the outside but a doubt on the inside not not a circumstance in front of them but a crisis inside of them what if that man had gone out into the woods brother wells and charged god foolishly because there's something in him that in that moment the enemy said oh i can mess with his whole family he's got a root of bitterness in there and he's never dealt with it but i am going to exploit that tonight and i'm going to make him charge god foolishly i'm going to make him assault god and if he had done it that way there may yet have been a dog come loping up in the campfire but he may have three stakes instead of four the lord may have fed her and him two children let him fast till he wasn't bitter no more but sometimes those roots that get inside of us we don't realize they're there until we're going through some junk and then when crisis comes and when events take place that are seemingly beyond our control in that moment if we're not careful we start seeing things about ourselves and in that moment if i'm going to be an apostolic i have got to make one of my primary characteristics that of honesty with me about me and when god shines the light inside me and says that root right there i know you think you can live with it but you better hear me son that route right there is going to destroy you and your household deal with that mess internally well we can just we can just go right on for jesus we can have revival and and god use you to do great things in the ministry and then all of a sudden i was in a church service one time with with nearly 600 people in it there was one man that one man that would not move i guess his mantra was i shall not be i shall not be moved and the whole place was just literally going up in smoke i mean the lord was among the people of god and that brother jumped up went and grabbed that microphone shut all things going on down and laid the thunder to 599 worshiping saints of god in an effort to round about rebuke the one guy in there that wouldn't move 599 people were worshiping their face off but one little old buzzard sitting on the pew wouldn't even move his head okay well i understand that and if you've ever had a mic in your hand worship leading or leading a service or singing a song or preaching a message there's going to be times you're just going to get hung up on that one stump out there that just will not bishop was talking about that earlier well yeah the guy didn't move but there could have been a hundred reasons why but without dealing with why without walking down to where he was and talking to him and brother how are you find out what's going on with the guy no no we're going to shut 500 599 people down and rebuke him by rebuking everybody else and then got mad at everybody else again because everybody else after that shellac shellacking they just got wouldn't get back in the spirit of worship he turned around and looked to me he said i don't know what's wrong in here well i'm thinking no no sparky don't ask me let me think today to inquire he said what do you think the problem is i said do you really want me to tell you the truth yes i said you are the problem and i'm not preaching what you heard me ain't going to do it i said now if you want me to preach you go apologize he didn't and i didn't so there were two problems one we still don't know why that guy wouldn't respond to the holy ghost and we still don't know why that guy responded to that guy instead of the holy ghost everybody else was oblivious to it we got to talking after church he said what would you have done differently i said well first of all i wouldn't have done anything the scripture says let them that are willingly ignorant be ignorant steel if he's setting that back there out of ignorance i'm not going to try to talk him out of it the holy ghost is moving the waters are troubled people are falling out talking in tongues it's insane in this place and you're going to shut the whole joint down because you got one little thread sized root in you and the prince of this dark world came and right up in the middle of a move of god that we have no idea what all god intended to do in that building you let the enemy pluck the one string you got on your little banjo and you were used by the enemy to derail whatever all god was going to do well the truth of it was he had some bitterness he had some anger he had some resentment he had some issues that he hadn't dealt with i know sometimes we say well i've dealt with it now there was a time when i told you the story i told you today about i don't want to name names but i got left on a curb i'm not going to say anybody's name i don't believe in calling people out like that but there was a day when i'd tell that story i meant well with it but it hurt it really did i mean when i tell you it hurt sister wright wanted me to write a book about it one day she said we need a cover you just and let's title it left on the curb and the only image i could get was a mad little fat kid sitting on the side of the street me as a child just this little boy that was just mad because i still hurt there was a wound it was done right god used it it was the greatest day of my life up to that point but i had some unresolved mess in me that when that truth he spoke to me that night well spoke to me you remember that night on that pier out at ruby's i bet you hadn't blocked that one out that was that was traumatic for both of us and everybody else at that table you don't i can't remember i forget either one of them i remember every enunciated syllable that came out of your mouth my reaction was deplorable and i walked out of that i'm going to be honest with you he he was right but i was not in my happy place it was not a good season what he said had to be said and quite honestly it had to be said exactly like he was saying it but joel scarred from that weekend too he was there we were sharing a hotel room until that all blew up and he switched rooms got his own hotel room our relationship's never been the same not really i mean it's true he did switch hotel rooms he got his own room but we're still close but there was a time when i thought about that because there was still something in me it wasn't easy to talk about i can laugh about it now that night on that pier ruby's i wasn't sure if i was going to be saved before that was all said and done well you push it enough times you find out i'll tell you and i never forget i walked out of that restaurant and him telling me to sit you sit down i'm not sitting down i'm not proud of this either in fact i'm saying it in great trepidation for yet on today judgment could yet still fall you want to talk about the grace of god it was manifested on the end of that pier that day and i walked out of that restaurant and him telling me to sit down the whole time mother was all upset and i went and found me a bench out on that beach and i just sat on it and i thought i i i'm done the first plane i can get on and get out of long beach california and go home i'm going home i am done well there was something in me that gave up a little too easy and god was trying to get it out of there but it was kind of like that that curb issue i thought well the brother's coming he's going to come out here on this beach and look for me he did not i never saw him when they came down that pier all i know is brother howard came and found me and when he came walking up to me had my jacket and he said oh god you're coming with me i said brother howard don't make me go get in that van with him i i don't think i can take it you're not riding with him you're riding with me okay you promise yes i promise we walk up to that parking lot and he is sitting behind the wheel of that minivan in the nine and three locked down position staring out that windshield i thought they have conspired against me it's over and brother howard sensed that fight-or-flight deal and there was no fight there was flight ice fix turned around walked back down on that beach i just couldn't and the door opened on that minivan do you remember this brother joel wright he burned your brain too didn't it the door opened on that van and the bishop got out and i thought oh god it's over now he's fixing to rip my head off and he put his arms around me and hugged me and whatever had been in me died i thought god would have had to have burned it out but he didn't just one embrace and that thing in me that just would not die suffocated and died right then there are things that are hidden in all of us that we really don't know are there until things come that challenge us not externally but internally be careful not what you hear not if you hear be careful how you hear there was a lot of instruction not long after that my daddy said to me he said if you will listen to that man and do everything he tells you you're going to make it if he'd have told me that before i went to long beach i'd have probably resisted it because we'd already been having conversations one day the phone rang and i was at my grandmother's house and he calls and i stand on the back steps of her porch looking down through that valley behind grandmama's house there and there was some deer down there under the pecan tree and i had a cup of coffee in my left hand i can't get it out of my head and the phone rings and i picked the phone up off the porch rail and i see it's him i said hello he said you know what your problem is sir you're not dead yet i said what do you mean i'm not dead yet do you have you forgotten how what my world looks like right now he said the fact that you're arguing with me about it proves that god's right you're not dead yet and he hung the phone up on me because the prince of this world was coming because what i haven't told you is the day after that night on the curb and i know some of you will say i don't believe that stuff happens i don't care what you believe the night after that that night on the pier and the night on the curb two separate nights or was that the same night same night that's right it was ah yeah i mean i have surrendered at this point i get in the van with the brother and then get left on the curb after all of my dying but what i did not know was that on the morrow after brother howard and i went to eat lunch and he brought me back to my room i don't know have i ever told you about this and they were playing golf probably trying to get as far from me as they could i'm sitting on the foot of that bed looking out the window and all of a sudden i hear something i felt something and i turned and looked in a dark shadowy man stood about ten feet from me wasn't what i thought i saw he was tangibly standing in my room and he said i'll never treat you like he did and he said if you'll give me those gifts that you were born with all your sensitivities and the gifts that god gave you i'll never leave you on that curb if you'll give me who you are and what you are i will never let you go through another season in life like this one i will give you notoriety i will give you wealth and everybody will love you which was a straight up lie but he said i need you to trust me and i'll give you everything you want well something i learned a lesson that day you better figure the difference out between a blessing and a bribe they're not the same look the same feel the same and sometimes spend the same way but if you had not done it if you had not been that hammer when he came that day only the lord knows what my response to him might have been only god knows because the prince of this world is going to come one way or another and when he gets there if he finds any little bitty string our button he's going to poke it or pull it and in one swift smooth movement he can unravel everything god has tried to put together be careful how you hear if you can't hear the word of god with a pure heart and a right spirit my recommendation is find an altar and stay there until it doesn't hurt to hear it anymore because if we have darkness and if we have something obstructive in our heart and we cannot hear truth with an open heart that spoken truth will rob you of all you think you have we don't just hear it differently but it does a different work inside every one of us if our heart is pure when we hear the word we take that word to the altar and said lord do this in me work on me but if we're bitter if we're full of doubt if we're full of fear that's why when you get sick at your stomach the last thing in the world you want to do is eat because if you're nauseated and throwing up guess what you put more food in there it's coming up too and when there's stuff in our spirit that should not be their stuff in our heart that should not be there and the word of god has preached to us guess what happens we just regurgitate not just that i've been so sick at times and i don't know how you are i hate to throw up even though you generally feel better when it's over i will lay on a cold tile floor i will put a wet rag on my throat one on my head just all kind of stuff to try to keep from throwing up and the last thing i want is to even smell food and i think to myself if i can just not eat or swallow anything right now i think i can keep this down and we don't realize that our spirit man gets in that same condition and we come into the presence of god and we get into where the word's being preached and we're in a bad spiritual condition and all of a sudden that preached word comes and we take it into our spirit and when it hits that sour spirit guess what happens everything that we thought we had we just regurgitate it all out the prince of this world is coming and if he finds anything when he gets there he is going to exploit it for his benefit and for your ruin our ruin i don't i don't want to ever get that close again to the enemy having something in me that he had that much access to that's as close to that as i ever want to be again which is why i keep saying that 2020 should have been for all of us a time of inflection where we start looking inward to find out what's in here see if there be any wicked way in me because anything in me that should not be will cause me to lose what little ground i think i've gained when truth comes stand with me now i realize it's almost 10 o'clock but i think i would be out of the will of god if i didn't say and encourage us to spend a few minutes praying somewhere if you want to walk and pray walk and pray but get honest with god about you for a few minutes even if it's just 10 minutes get honest with god for a few minutes about you lord would you search me and try me and see if in me there is any wicked thing go ahead find yourself a place to pray and again you can sit where you are walk stand lay down whatever you want to do but take a little bit of time before you leave and and open your spirit up to god open your don't don't leave anything off limits to him

Channel: Apostolic Iron

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Keywords: Apostolic, Apostolic Iron, Jesus, Prayer, Pray, Praying, C.M. Wright, Bishop Wright, Pentecost, Pentecostal, UPCI, Call To War, God, Lord, Preaching, Apostolic Preaching

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Length: 160min 37sec (9637 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 11 2021