Mess to Miracle's - It's Bigger Than You

turn with me to John the eleventh chapter verses 1 through 14 if you're able to stand we ask that you stand for the reading of God's Word if there's anybody in the for you let them in now John deferred the eleventh chapter verses 1 through 14 John the eleventh chapter verses 1 through 14 when you found it shout hallelujah I already am I read it to you aloud as you read along with me silently John one eleventh through actually it's 11 through 15 I apologize 11 through 15 1 through 15 John 11 chapter verses 1 through 15 and it's reasons follows now a man named Lazarus was sick so for me passage you've heard it my president got will breathe life into it and let us see it and hear it like we've never seen and heard it before now a man named Lazarus was sick he was from Bethany the village of Mary and her sister Martha this Mary whose brother Lazarus now lay sick was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair so the sisters sent word to Jesus Lord the one you love is sick and when he heard this jesus said this sickness will not end in death no it is for God's glory so that God's son may be glorified through it it is for God's glory so that God's son may be glorified through it now Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus verse 6 so when he heard Lazarus was sick he stayed where he was two more days and then he said to his disciples let us go back to Judea and verse 8 but rabbi they said a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you and yet you were going back what's up with that verse 9 Jesus says well are there not twelve hours of daylight anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble but for they see by the world's light it is when a person walks at night that they stumble for they have no light and after he had said this he went on to tell them our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep but I'm going there to wake him up and in verse 12 the disciples said well if he sleep he's good let him rest verse 13 Jesus had been speaking of his death but they thought he was talking about a natural sleep and in verse 14 so then he told them plainly Lazarus is dead and for your sake I'm glad I was not there so that you may believe but let us now go to him God I asked for your preaching power let the grace of the anointing rather of the Holy Spirit to overtake the Grace on my life and that you be glorified and thank you that you have selected chosen hand-picked me for this very moment is the by an assignment one that I do not take lightly but I enter into reverently and with all respect and admonition for who you are and what you're capable of doing in my weakness your strength is made perfect in the frailty of my humanity your divinity can override and supersede any ailment at any furmity that the devil is trying to arrest my body with and so take control take complete and utter control and be glorified use me mightily in this place but the power the anointing of the Holy Spirit be glorified in this place and I ask God that you would kill our ignorance with your truth that you would destroy things that we did not know and replace it with things that we need to know and that you will remove things that we think we know and replace it with things that are better to know God get the glory but the conclusion of the matter is that our about us is about you be glorified in Jesus name in Jesus name Amen you may be seated in the incredible awesome magnificent marvelous presence of our God and on your way down till the people around you it's not about you it's not about you it's not about you say one more time to yourself say cell it's not about me and this time I want you to be a little bit more emphatic and definitive with it you just say self it's bigger than me it's bigger than me I started this series last week and what an incredible amazing awesome experience we had last week in the Word of God absolutely mind-blowing to me my wife and myself as well as well my wife myself we actually had opportunity to go through read through all of your cards and to be prayerful with you and and I actually called my ministers in in the middle of the week to pray over the cars that you placed at the altar and the things that unique God's divine intervention and assistance with getting out of being released from and walking into the the season of deliverance and liberation that you so desire and it was absolutely a divine moment to know that God is capable first of all but secondly that you were honest enough with yourselves to actually articulate the desire of your heart for God to deliver you from specific areas of your life that was remarkable to say the least because so many of us remain in bondage because we refuse to acknowledge that we need God to do some things inside of us and so thank you for your obedience thank you for participating and being a part of the process of God doing and fulfilling his will and his assignment in your lives it is an absolutely outstanding and amazing gesture on your part that I know I didn't take lightly nor for granted but more the god honors that act of obedience last week so do me a favor because I know that the reality is once you acknowledge that once you opened yourself up and you begin to say God there's some things I want to reset them some things I need to change that you became a target and that this has possibly been a week that has drawn fire in your life and I want you to rejoice in this reality the fact that that is the case that the moment you decide I'm gonna reset some areas and some things about myself and you become a target for the enemy to do everything that he can to distract you and to derail your possibility and to kill your potential the fact that you're sitting in the sanctuary right now is evidence that God is a keeper all week long he has kept you don't wait on your labor but celebrate like you're grateful praise God and so none of us all of us have been through and been to and been in a moment of life where we have experienced and we understand what it is to go from mess to miracle there's not one of us who has not had a day that we have not been under attack and or had the enemy to derail the things that we thought that we were on our path and our way to and so there's not one the Bible doesn't say all of sin but it says not y'all of sin rather but it says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God which means that there's not one of us who should not celebrate the fact that our lives have been in a mess some of us have been through a mess some of us are a mess come on let's be real today can we be honest with each other this morning and then others of us have gone through it and others of us are on the way to it but at the conclusion of the matter the fact that we are standing here today sitting here today the fact that we're here with arms to raised with hands to lift with a voice to shout with legs to walk with feet to shout on with breath in our body is a testimony that God is a keeper and that he can take us from a mess and perform a miracle if you want to see a miracle you don't have to look any further just look right here some of you are the embodiment of what miracle looks like you are the miracle walking because if we'll be real with each other and be candid we should have been we could have been and we would have been but by the grace of God he took the portions of our life that were going through that were in that were a part of a mess and he performed a miracle the miracle as you made it without losing your mind I want to preach to a real church today the miracle is that you got here without having to deal with the thing that the enemy wanted you to deal with you didn't mean for you to crawl out of it to scoot out of it to roll out of it or even to limp out of it but he meant for you to die in it so he met you made it by what we call the grace and the mercy and the favor of God if it were not for His goodness for his mercy and for his favor you would not be here right now the fact that you are here is a miracle you don't have to look any further than the man or the woman in the miracle you are mirror you are a miracle in yourself testify to somebody said I probably shouldn't have made it but I'm still here you gotta act like you mean it this time so I probably shouldn't have made it but I'm still here I'm still here by the grace by the mercy by the power by the favor by the forgiveness by the love by the keeping by the covering by the shielding by the protecting by the increasing by the elevating by the I wish I have somebody that realize you probably should not have been here but by the grace of God he through acts of miraculous feats has allowed you to make it this far I am I'm a miracle but by the grace of God here am I do you ever wake up any days and just look at the look at your life and say Lord I don't understand how I got here okay I see some of y'all got short memories let me take you back for a second if you look back over your shoulder and reflect on what you were in and the mess that that the enemy made in your life you really ought to be able to shout right here because if you'll be honest about it if you'll be real transparent with yourself about it with all that you've done with all that you've been through with all that you've experienced with the mess that the devil made in your life in your circumstance in your situation you should not have been here by now because the Bible says very clearly that he comes to do three things to steal kill and destroy the fact that he was not able to prevail means that God miraculously draped grace and mercy over your life so that what should have been for your demise actually was for your making I don't this is not for everybody listen I'm not really feeling well in my physical self but in my spiritual self I'm about to I'm about to shout and run down this aisle because when I think of his goodness when I think of his goodness when I think of his goodness every door he's open every way he's made how he did not let the devil do what the devil wanted to do how it didn't stop me it didn't block me didn't hinder me didn't hold me back how it distracted me but I still got my focus back and God still doing a new thing when I think of his goodness and all that he's done I am the miracle the miracle is me tell somebody I am the miracle I'm the miracle I'm the miracle you saw where I grew up and see where I am right now you know I was a miracle if you see my income now if you saw my outcome then you would understand I am the miracle if you know what the doctor said 10 years ago and you see what we got right now I am the miracle if you know what my wife went through several years ago 10 plus years ago 15 years ago and see that she's still right here shouting and lifting up holy hands in the sanctuary you would understand why she's a miracle you would understand that the doctor told my wife and I we wouldn't have any children but I got two beautiful baby boys you would understand why I got a shout the way I shout because they are walking breathing miracles every time I come into my house and turn the key every time I walk through the door and see that the lights are still on see that I got running water see that I got gassed and I can turn on in a stove see that they got heat that I can relax and be comfortable if you knew what God brought me from and what he kept me through you would understand why you can sit like a silent statue if you feel like it but what everything that is done for me can't be quiet cuz I am God can take your mess and turn it into a miracle slap somebody high five and say he preaching good to me right now yeah I'm looking for a miracle where you lookin no further you look in the mirror you'll see the miracle of what God is capable of doing Jesus in this time in this era this dispensation of time within the text Jesus was a man of prominence prestige and of power he had extraordinary capabilities he had potential that was beyond himself he was so magnificent that people would come in droves from miles and miles of miles away just to hear the words that were audibly spoken from his mouth they felt that the miracles that he was performing and they were being manifested around him was so significant and so magnificent that they warranted their attention their undivided attention to the words that he that he spoke will that exude it from his mouth and so because of this it caused him to grow in stature within the eyes of all those who ever encountered him so everybody that was looking for miracles everybody that was seeking and searching something miraculous in life everybody that knew that there was something extraordinary something special that was happening they would all seek out they all sought to be in the presence of this Jesus because they had figured out that wherever he is miracles follow wherever you find the Spirit in the grace of God wherever you find the presence of God doesn't matter what the enemy is speaking what he's doing what he's throwing at you miracles are still gonna follow Jesus was so miraculous that whatever he spoke he spoke with the divine authority he spoke because he was a man of prominence prestige and power he spoke with authority and integrity within his words that caused people to stand steal and pay attend he calls people to literally just draw in droves flood a space didn't matter how tight the space was you had enough people wall to wall trying to hear the words that were coming out of the mouths of Jesus that's how incredible he was watch this he didn't have technology he didn't have social media Facebook Twitter he didn't have a microphone he didn't have the fancy lights he didn't have screens he didn't have the words that were in small third letter of third row captions that were placed upon the screen he simply had his voice and he had the words that was so powerfully put together and that's so magnificently constructed things in people's lives just by the virtue of them having been spoken over him over them and so what people started to realizing and didn't really understand at the time but began to be manifested over the course of time is that he was speaking the word or in other words he was speaking himself into their lives let me help you understand that in John one and one that says in the beginning was the word the Word was with God the Word was God if you look at John in the book of John also tells us that Jesus was the Word made flesh so anytime he would disseminate the word he was really giving them access to himself he himself had divine authority he himself was able to speak with another level of confidence because he himself was the way the truth and the life and he knew that the embodiment of what God had already exist would already existed in the mind in the eyes of God what had already been set in motion the joy the peace the abundance the fruit of just being around and in the Spirit of God was embodied in the essence of his own DNA so the very moment that he opened his mouth he presented and gave himself to people and whenever he gave himself to people it caused them to feel and experience the Word of God in a way that miracles were manifested innately and organically just because they had another part of Jesus handed to them I yet with me Jesus was so magnificent that he stood out in the middle of an open field and there were five thousand men and who knows how many women and children that gathered an assemble and they his words was so eloquently spoken so powerful so authentic so full of integrity so full of transformative grace that nobody wanted to leave even at the expense of missing a meal until the extent that the disciples had to come to him as a master these people have to be hungry and then he performed a miracle right before them and they see you you know when the word is going forth because people don't like to miss it they don't want to move and they don't want to leave because when the miraculous word of the transformative word of God is going forth it is God introducing another side or another facet of himself and it captivates people another time was when he was in a house and people would pull up boarded up and and consumed about him in a house and it was so congested and people were so mystified with with the authenticity of what he was speaking with the power the eloquence and and in the authority that he spoke in that these brothers said we can't get in through the door and there's too many people around him so what we're gonna do is we're gonna climb to the roof tear the roof off and we're gonna lower this sick man down in front of him and and literally the people were able to watch the manifestation of a miracle right before them because of the faith of these men that these brothers that lowered this sick man down through the roof I'm just trying to make sure that we understand that where Jesus is where his word goes forth that miracles are going to be manifested and so it's no mystery to me it's no mistake it's no accident it's not it's not something that's even back to how God continues to perform miracles in our lives because if you sit here and listen to his word long enough miracles will be manifested in various areas of your life that's why the scripture says that word Lord have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against you meditate on his word what day and night that his word is more necessary even than our daily bread God wants to make sure that you understand the value the power the interpretative intensity the the ability of his word once is placed into your life and so that is my responsibility today is to share the Word of God and to give you access to a particular story that that is a story of miracles and I don't think the miracle is gonna be manifested in the way that you have been accustomed to seeing it miracles are manifested all the time and it causes us to to have to challenge ourselves and challenge our own rational thought because if it's a miracle that's manifested it's not going to happen in the capacity of the way that is normal customary or something that we can do within our own strength are y'all with me slap your neighbor and say keep up we're going somewhere no child left behind so watch this how many of us have wrestled with this concept ganda what about my life actually causes me to matter in your mind I mean it's a simple question but it's a deep question and it's a question that is so common because the greatest question in the mankind is what am I here for what value do I have what am i worth why in the world would you love me enough to allow your son to coming down across from me what is it about me because my life is is it's not it's not worthy enough to be in your in your hands or I'm not worthy enough to be called one of your children what is it in my life that causes you to love me the way that you do and I can't find the value I can't find the words I feel worthless and hopeless and helpless and I feel like there's no purpose for my even me even existing and and and the longing in of the of the heart and the desire of the heart the passion of the heart is so that God can use your life and perform miracles through you so that you'll be able to so he'll be able rather to get the glory out of your life there's some of you even who last week you place things on the altar not because of yourself but you say God I want you to get the best out of me I really want my life to matter I really want it to be valuable to somebody else I want my children and my children's children to be benefactors of the good that you've done through me I don't want to be obsolete I don't want to be obscure I don't want to be none and insignificant I don't want to be non-existent I don't want to be somebody that's just anybody but I want to be somebody that's somebody because you are using me in magnificent ways and I want to help you understand that the way that God is using you is that he allows you to go through seasons of mess because your mess will give evidence that he's still capable of performing miracles okay this side got it so let me work with y'all for a few minutes if he have not allowed you to experience the things that you experience then the people around you would not understand that you've got a God who is able to restore you to increase you to redeem you to purchase your sins and cast them into a sea of forgetfulness see some of y'all already forget but you need to remember what God has done in your life because what he's done in your life means that he he used you so that somebody else could see that you got a God that was able tell somebody beside you say neighbor if you really want to know how God is using people just look at me just look at me just look at me I was too up from the flo up I was broke down beaten down I was knocked down I was torn down come when I was ratchet I was wrenched come on I wish I had somebody that would be honest up in here because you look good today but you ain't always been right where you are now now I know some of you need to be real with yourself even further because it's not that you do the things I don't do the things that I used to do as much I'm just a work in progress but if you knew what I used to be and saw where he brought me from you would understand how much of a miracle the fact that I'm even in church today the fact that on the Sunday morning I rolled out of the bed and made it to the house of God is a miracle in itself I wish I had somebody that would be honest and testify Jesus was a prominent man prestigious and powerful that words that proceeded from his mouth they literally change and alter the reality of a circumstance immediately upon being spoken because whatever he spoke was from himself and he himself was a part of God and so understanding that he was perfectly human and perfectly God means that that everything that he spoke had the absoluteness of God himself so his his ability to speak life into death situations his ability to reset the reality of everyone's circumstance should cause us to pause and pay attention to his methodology we see what he's done we're even now understanding how he's doing it but I want to break down even further how God does what he does to get us to where we need to be oh yeah with me I said I go with me okay so so the first thing I want you to understand and I need you to say this to yourself you're gonna talk to yourself a lot so if you feel like that makes you crazy you're gonna be crazy today just say self it's just a moment see in the text you see that Jesus he had an affinity and a fondness to the city called Bethany Bethany was close to Jerusalem and he would spend a lot of time in Bethany because Bethany the word Bethany if you look at the literal translation and break it down it means a poverty an impoverished place or a place of humility or humiliation or a place of brokenness Bethany was an impoverished broken humiliated place and so it's no wonder that God would spend that Christ would spend his time in a place of humility and brokenness because he hangs out not in the haughty places of people's lives but if you really want to see the miracles manifested in life then God will meet you at the bottom of your circumstance because that's where he's comfortable enough to know that you won't get in the way of what he's trying to do in your life there's a lot of people who push and press and they want the prominence and prestige of being popular and they want to be in the front of the sanctuary they want to have a microphone in their hand and they want to be important and they want to give you a a resume every time they give you their name they want to tell you about their achievements and accomplishments but you got to understand that God resists the proud and he hangs out with people who are willing to be broken and spiritually humiliated to a point of acknowledging God I can't do nothing if I don't have you on my side so it's no wonder that he made himself at home in the city of Bethany but even more so he had friends there he had become fond and gained an affinity and a love for Mary Martha and Lazarus the Bible even shows an opportunity that they had where they were dining in his home and it was a it was a wonderful opportunity for Martha to serve Him Martha was thanking him for all that he was but while she was thanking him for all that he had done and just serving him and and she she had the Grace and the gift of helps and so she was in the kitchen and she was preparing things for him in a spirit of Thanksgiving admiration a spirit of love fondness and affinity because he was a friend of the family and now while Martha is doing this Mary is in there on her feet and on her face wiping his hair with our own tears so Martha was appraiser Mary was a worshipper Martha Martha was one who had mastered something that everybody has the capacity to do are you with me people right now in this day and age are given Snoop Dog the blues because he came out with a praise gospel album and when he came out with this praise CD you had all the super Saints all the same sanctified fire baptized filled with the Holy Ghost who were trying to figure out how in the world is Snoop Dogg doing a gospel CD I won't even tell you all about the argument that I had with an individual on my staff in close quarters I'm not even gonna tell y'all who it was and everybody's flustered and frustrated because they can't understand how can snoop I mean and you know snoop is he's giving them praise like they never seen praise before and they can't understand how in the world Snoop Dogg able to praise but you gotta understand what montfort did in the kitchen is not something that everybody cannot do so let me help you out praise is not relegated and isolated segregated or insulated to one group of people I know I might get in trouble with some people about this but it's cool I'm good and I got an ain't scared of none of y'all watch this here and a little piece of leather and well put together in the hell can't stop what God is doing say what you wanna do what you wanna is all good with me watch this here Snoop Dogg can praise God because the Bible says let everything y'all missed it when the birds are singing in the morning time they singing praise to God when the wind is whistling through the trees and I wish I had somebody that understand when the monkeys are grabbing limbs and swinging from place to place their arms are extended as if they're saying glory be to God that I still got movement and here's the problem you got more unsaved people that will praise God harder and more diligent than some of you super saved people that's been saved all your life I wish I had about 100 people that did not mind praising God in this place open your mouths and give him what he deserves let everything let everything this how you been looking the whole service my wife made me come I'm just here so I don't get fined but the Bible says let everything let everything in sermon to his gates with Thanksgiving into his corpse with what into his cross with work let everything that has breath you got another chance and this is the last one but you better give God what he deserves you better act like you came in here to praise God God inhabits he lives in the praises of his people ain't no lesson about praise me angle let the world out freeze me and I don't even need any rocks crying out in my place if you knew the miracle that I am watch this you don't have to be saved appraised [Applause] everything means what it didn't say let everything that's saved inside let everything that loves God but it said everything that has that's this but Mary figured something out that Martha didn't know Mary figured out that everybody might be able to praise but it's a whole nother thing to know how to worship you praise God for what he's done but when you worship God it means if you don't ever do anything else you're worthy of my worship worship will worship will miss your makeup up once it will have your eyelashes hanging out on your cheek worship will cause your good weed to fall off and hit the floor Russia will cause you to lay prostrate were super hits you in the grocery store why should I have your hands up going down the street in there anybody that knows how to worship God worship moves you from the outer to the inner worship takes you behind the veil where miracles are manifested worship gets you to a place where the devil can touch you he that dwelleth in the secret place don't you tell nobody but the secret is only a secret from the devil he didn't keep it a secret from us because he told us if you dwell in the secret place where is it under the shadow of the Almighty you see you gotta understand that worship will cause your enemies to walk by you and not see you and not know how to attack you you got about 10 seconds not because of what he's done not because of what you got not because of what he's brought you out of but just because of who he is just because he's magnificent just because he's holy just because he's awesome just because he's incredible just because he's ill said I just because he Elohim just because he's your Obadiah just because he's your alpha just because he's Jehovah said can you just because he is Emmanuel just because he is adenine just because he is ll yo just because I wish I had somebody that would worship Him just because he's cow hallelujah vegetables don't need no music worshippers don't need your approval worshippers just need a heartbeat because every beat of my heart God beats for you every time blood flows through my veins it's because of you every time breath is inhaled and exhaled it's just because of you I don't need you to remind me I know who he is and I worship Him in spirit and in truth the question is I'm gonna be y'all live in Bethany how many of your houses would he feel comfortable in would he pass by you and go to the neighbor down the street would he hang out on your blog at all cuz he's looking for a place of brokenness of humility somebody who's spiritually bankrupt and realizes I'm nothing without you I'm nothing without you I need you I need you I need you I need you I need you maybe you are neat you're nothing without you I need you I need you I need you I need you and leave you I'm nothing without you I need you I need you I need you I need you he's looking for somebody that is not looking at everybody else but they're looking unto the hills from whence cometh their help and they're just saying God I need you I need you I need you I need you I need thee every hour oh god I need thee every hour I need you I need you I need you I need you it's looking for people who are not caught up in the pretense in the precept of what it looks like but all they need to do is get in his glory I need your glory glory because where your glory is and miracles are manifested things that looked impossible become possible again things that people said I wouldn't do I'll do it again people said it I wouldn't have it but because of your glory it will people that thought they were gonna keep me back and blocked me from it they will have to be reminded that with your glory I can still walk into it and eat you I'll eat you I'll eat you beat you with my broken people in this place God took you through your mess and he broke him because he knew what was inside of you that you didn't realize what was inside of yourself that's why Paul says it is good that I have been afflicted because when he broke you some oil started flowing and when the oil covered the grace on your life there was nothing that God could not use your life to accomplish and to achieve and you didn't even know he was doing it but you were the miracle in the making come on 10 seconds is it I ain't gonna have to push you come on honey worshipers in the house honey worshipers that'll cry out to him I need worshipers that are resent the atmosphere in this place Kimani worshipers that are broken and humiliated that you don't care who's looking no what it looks like but you you know how good god is and how much you need him in your life because of his character because the integrity of who he is real worshipers worship in spirit and in truth hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah glory to his name sit down if you can if you can hallelujah Jesus I feel something shifted in that atmosphere glory hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus Jesus sit down if you can't sit down if you can glory to your name well God glory to your name there's a sweet sweet spirit in this place lilulu G's as yolks are being broken bondage is being destroyed a power of God is about to be manifested in your life like never before signs miracles and wonders are coming to your doorstep don't worry about it your children will be alright God sent a prophetic word in the house that it's already worked out for your good it's already coming back together you just can't see it yet if it wasn't a mess you would never see a miracle but God's about to do something miraculous in this place thank you the increase in favor of knocking at my doorstep thank you God that grace and mercy are standing on either side let your glory be revealed you're gonna glory glory let your glory fall in the house right now Oh God fall on every home in this place right now Jesus fall until every child become safe right now God fall in the building right now God until cancer is healed until things are put back together again fall and your glory fall in this place right now until marriage is amended until relationships are put back together again fall in this place right now God until sickle cell and heart disease until cancer and diabetes come under the subjection of the Holy Ghost fall in the house right now Oh God let your glory your glory let your glory your glory let your glory and glory let your glory let your glory let me get your glory your glory - your glory fall in the building right now god I come against the devil in the name of Jesus every lying tongue that raises itself against the knowledge of who you are we cast it down and put it under the subjection of authority of Jesus that are working within us we take up farming over the airwaves right now let your glory your glory your glory for [Applause] [Music] destroy of a yoke of bondage destroy everything that came up against us destroy every dot of the enemy we raise our shield of faith let your glory fall right now let your glory fall right now let it fall right now let it fall right now fall in a financial situation Oh God that everything that the devil stole from us you replenish and restore with increase and interest let everything that the devil thought he was going to do to cause us not to have what you set belongs to us let him decree and declare right now what he thought you would not do but we stand on the promises of God and everything that you said belongs to us we take authority over it the violent take it by parts and we take authority over it right now it will be done hallelujah Jesus I know this is old-school for some of y'all but this is how your grandmama made it this is how your great-grandmother made it they didn't have a lot of music they didn't have a lot of fanfare they didn't have a supporting crowd all they had was Jesus they would walk around in the back room saying Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus see Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus hallelujah somebody glory glory glory glory glory hallelujah glory hallelujah some of you just caught the prophetic word that this is the last page this is the last moment you just serve Satan his eviction notice that he's no longer welcome on your level and in your life this is the last day glory glory glory glory glory glory glory glory glory glory hallelujah Jesus [Applause] [Applause] hallelujah your worship just carried you in the territory that so money can't get you your worship just carried you with divine authority in the places that your position won't get you your worship just carried you into the face of God and where there is a spirit of God there is Liberty so whatever the devil thought was going to arrest you you just got loose from it in the name of Jesus you ought to be rejoicing now because it's already done hallelujah hallelujah God honors your worship God's been waiting on up a house of God that's not a shame to worship Him God's been waiting on a house that was running shame to throw your program to the wind and how much the wind have gone as it moved through the building God's been waiting on a real church that's really ready to worship Him in spirit and in truth I think and praise God that he stopped in here today because when he stopped in nothing in your life can remain the same everything in your life is about to take a change I feel a shift in the atmosphere you're not gonna be on this level next time this time I wish I had somebody that understands he's about to take everything to another level this is the last day we're gonna hang out in low places because if you humble yourself before the hand of God in due season we shall reap if your fate not I came to testify your in due season this is your birthing moment this is your last trimester this is your water just broke and you're about to burn something new into the earth Rama new business increase plus it may sit down if you can thank your holy gums think you're holding up ma'am ma'am I think the Holy Ghost Thank You Holy Ghost thank you Lord Jesus I'll keep trying to move on but I feel like you one push you away from your breakthrough some of y'all are one second of worship away from your promotion you you you worship you worship about 30 more seconds God's gonna liberate some things in heavenly places that's gonna overtake you in the earth realm and even your friends and family I don't have to scratch their hand and try to figure out what just happen or bless your name Oh God Oh bless your name oh God [Applause] [Music] for blush turning Moga Oh bless your name Jesus sit down if you can secular lately the more I worship the better I feel more I worship the better I feel [Applause] sometimes sometimes you gotta break protocol sometimes you gotta break protocol and you got to forget who ooh who's looking and what they gonna say sometimes you just gotta break protocol cuz you make the enemy main mad and angry because you just you didn't follow your normal program sometimes you got a veer off course and just let God have his way and you got to tell the rest of the world after these messages I'll be right back but for this few moments I need to get in the face of God I'm tired of everybody else being in my face I need to be in his face because this is what you haven't figured out about the glory Satan can't stand to be in the presence of the glory of God if you want to run him out of the presence of the glory of God then just invite worship into your space and Satan K hang out he does not have rain in high places like you do but God says I made you to be seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus and so if you really want to get Satan off your heels you got to learn how to go higher how do I get higher through praise and worship how do I increase through praise and worship how do i elevate through praise and worship you need to go higher I need to go higher I need to go higher I need to go higher I need to go high I've been hanging out in low places I need to go high here I need to go higher I need to go high here I need to get to a place where the enemy can't touch me I need to get to an altitude that the enemy can't survive I need to go higher I need to go higher many years ago there was a snake that got loose some kind of way it got in the cockpit of an aircraft and the pilot the copilot were in in the aircraft copilot looks down and gets nervous and panics because he said it's a snake in the cockpit so he's panicked didn't know what to do the pilot looks over with calm and with ease and said listen let's take off quickly it's an oilier than him it's a snake in the cockpit he said I know let's take off come on full throttle let's go is that all you know you you understand we need to get out because it's a snake in the cockpit he says no I read about the snake let's go so he follow the orders of the pilot finally after resisting a few times and they began to climb and they take out two two and he goes higher and higher and higher and higher until he was about twenty to thirty feet in the air what the pilot knew that the copilot had not figured out is that snakes do not have the capacity to operate with compression in the airspace so the higher you go the more you kill the snakes that are trying to get into the cockpit people to take this sit down sit down sit down come on [Applause] come on sit down sit down sit down say this with me it's a moment I'm a rush through this rest of the because I'm I want to say I'm out of time we got took our time I'm so glad he did so glad he did it's a moment it's a moment sometimes it's difficult to face and confront the moment that you're in it's hard Mary and Martha there were friends of God there were friends of Jesus he loved Lazarus he loved them they were in a moment of crisis the brother was sick somebody you can relate to this when your family members are sick it changes everything in your world you got to care for a sick loved one changing bed linens and bed pans and cleansing their body and washing them seeing the persons who cared for you now helpless and needing care being to be cared for there's a difficult season it wears you down it's heavy its weighty and it causes your whole world to turn upside down now you have to figure out how you're gonna do things we're gonna stay in what can we put them more I'm gonna take care of the kids and Momma the grandbabies need me but mama needs me too it's a weighty place sometimes we go through these seasons and it's hard post except the moments that we find ourselves in but God gave me this good news and I'm gonna share this it's a moment okay y'all missed it I'm gonna try one more time you're having a moment you're having a moment I don't care how bad it is I don't care how bad it feels I don't care what it looks like I don't care how much pain and pressure you're under you're just having okay what the doctor said I don't care how much it hurts I don't care how dark it looks I don't care how dark the prognosis and diagnosis God sent me to remind you it's just I'm just having a moment people come to you and I don't care how sad you are and how many tears are rolling down your face what needs to come out of your mouth because I know the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks is that you just say excuse me I'm sorry I'm just having a moment singing sayings used to sit like this trouble it's just God sent these three scriptural passes i'ma throw them at you right quick gotta catch them fast psalm 30 and 5 says weeping may endure for a night good morning y'all good morning it's just romans 8 and 18 says the suffering of this present time is not worthy to be compared to the glory that he's about to reveal 1st Peter 5 and 10 says and the God of all Grace who called to his it called you to his eternal glory of Christ Jesus after you have suffered a little while he will himself restore you and make you strong firm and steadfast say this to yourself say self it's just a moment it ain't goal as always but I'm coming out of it may have to weep for another night but God when morning comes Uncle shout like ain't nobody's business it's just a moment they found themselves in a moment and what causes the moments is the misery that accompanies those moments the misery of the condition that they found themselves in was that their brother was sick and it looked like he was about to die first five says now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus so when he heard that Lazarus was sick now an order to pay attention to the verbage in verse five now Jesus loved Martha and her sister which is Mary and Lazarus he loved them so when he heard Lazarus was sick he stayed where he was two more days now if we could just think from our human perspective so I know y'all super saved and y'all like oh but the Lord had a plan that's cuz you know the end of the story but when you end the story you know when you got your eviction notice on Monday and you praying and it's Tuesday night and he hadn't seemed to have shown up or be listening to you when you're in the story when the doctor says it's Stage four and you've been praying since it was stage two and it don't seem like this thing has turned around when you in the story and it seems like God has folded his arms and is standing far from you and looks like he's nowhere to be in sight it's a whole nother level of misery and complexity and it's perplexing to the extent that you ask yourself God what's up I've been praying and crying and crying I've been fasting I laid hands on myself I called for the elders i anointed myself with oil I touched my children and my children's children while they were sleeping I prayed over them I've been praying over my financial situation I've been faithful in my tithes and offering I've been attending worship I worship you when it was time and opportunity to worship I praised you I've been witnessing and telling everybody else about you I've been I've been testifying of your goodness I've been shouting and standing on every promise that you made and you still haven't moved but you say you love me I can't be the only one that's had moments when you ask God like if you really love me how could you let this happen to me if you really love me like you say you do why you let me go through what I'm going through what do you do when God's timing just doesn't make sense in the text the patient is miserable I'm sure Lazarus at some point was thinking y'all send for Jesus that's my homeboy he hangs out at the house I watched him I seen him he could turn water in a wine made the dumb to talk lame the walk heel blinded eyes will just look spitting some mud he can do this come on get him go get him did y'all tell him well what'd he say the patient is miserable the sisters are miserable yo go get Jesus tell them how bad it is tell them that our brothers about to die we need him we need him like we've never needed him before we need him to show up and do something incredible go get it now just tell tell them it's you make sure you say this tell them it's Martha Mary and Lazarus tell tell them it's know y'all see you're missing the make sure you tell him his Martha Mary and Lazarus from Bethany on Mountain Street cuz I need y'all to make sure he understands who this is and they bring up the message and he says all right I think I'll just stay here two more days he might as well I said all right let me just think here until he dies and then he had the misery of the disciples the disciples were miserable because they were looking at him like let's get this straight Lord we just came through Judea they tried to kill us stone us to death and now you're saying we gonna turn around and walk back through the same territory where they just tried to take us out he said that's what we're gonna do Lazarus is sleep if he's sleepy good Lazarus is dead you know doubting Thomas also lame didymus came through and said well let us go on back through and I did and at that moment I'm sure there was confirmation of what God had already known and what Christ had already conceived he said I'm glad I'm glad I wasn't there for your sake I'm glad I didn't show up cuz now you're about to see a miracle here's the problem come on most I'm almost done here's the problem everybody wants to see a miracle but don't nobody want to see the mess the only way you need a miracle is that you've exhausted all human opportunity you gotta be backed into a corner with no more options in order for a miracle to even be manifested cuz if you can fix it you don't need God to fix it if you can work it out you don't need God to work it out that's why he says think if not strange concerning the fiery trials which are to try you as though some strange thing has happened but if you need God to do it then that's when God says now I can roll up my sleeves and perform a miracle because nobody will be able to take credit for what I'm about to do in this next season what you're about to witness him do in your next season of life it's gonna be someone oculus that your boss is gonna try to scratch his head and think about how in the world did you come up the way you came up your friends and your co-workers your colleagues even your doctors gonna come in and have to admit that they were just practicing medicine because they're not gonna be able to understand how God turned and shifted your situation the way that he did God says I had to let it become a mess in order for you to see a miracle that's why Paul says it is good that I have been afflicted that's why you gotta thank God I'm glad that I'm going through what I'm going through had I not go through what I went through had I not known to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of living I would have fainted a long time ago but because I know who God is and what he's capable of doing I know he's a miracle working God I'm not gonna panic but I'm gonna praise I'm not gonna doubt but I'm going to believe I'm not going to throw in the towel but I'm gonna keep shouting I'm not gonna give up but I'm gonna keep praising I'm not gonna let the enemy distract me but I'm gonna keep worshiping imma set my face like a flint and keep my eyes on Jesus and keep doing what he's called me to do because I know that ethic occlusion of the manor the miracle is going to be when I limp out of it and when I crawl through it when I roll around out of it when I scoot beyond it but the miracle will be that I still be standing on every promise that God has made Mary Mary fame she fell out at his feet she says lord if you had been here my brother would not have died now mind you met Mary and Martha both they had the presence of God the promise of God and the power of God right in front of them embodied in the person of Jesus Christ Martha Martha ran out to me she says Locke you hadn't if you had just been here my brother Lazarus would not have died but then she she came to herself she had a moment of Revelation she had a revelatory moment she she said if you hadn't been here my brother wouldn't have died wait a minute but even now even now see some of you are in an even now moment even now as bad as it looks as bad as I'm going through as much as the devil has thrown at me as much of a mess that he's trying to make in my life even now you can bless me if you just ask your father for it so here's the twist right here Jesus was troubled the scripture tells us that he was troubled and there's four words my mom is not here today they are the town today but there's four words that because of my mama I've learned that I never want to hear Jesus say I'm a condition for you in verse 40 then Jesus said did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God did I not tell you so I must shorten it in saying didn't I tell you so every now and then when I was growing up my mother would lay hands upon us ready y'all can figure that out some of y'all grew up the same way I did you'll get it every now and then my mother would lay hands upon us and every time she would lay hands with every with every hand she laid that was a word that accompany that hand y'all understand what I'm saying didn't I tell you so I learned in my life I hate those words together and I never want to hear Jesus say did I didn't I tell you that no weapon formed against you shall prosper didn't I tell you that greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world didn't I tell you that you are more than a conqueror because I love you didn't I tell you that I prepared as a table before you in the presence of your enemies didn't I tell you that I was wounded for your transgressions bruised for your iniquities the chastisement of my peace is upon you and by my strength you are healed didn't I tell you know you're the head not the tail above not beneath didn't tell don't ever want to hear Jesus say didn't I tell you and so didn't I tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God so I need you to understand the miracle that we have always shouted was the resurrection of Lazarus you know the story stood before the tomb of Lazarus about when we start shouting right here you stood before the tomb of Lazarus and he looked at the tomb and said Lazarus Oh Oh Lazarus come forth and out some theologians and some preachers pastors bishops elders and apostles who have all come to the surmise the conclusion that if he had not called Lazarus by his name that every dead thing in the cemetery would have had to be raised from a daily level to a living perpendicular but within God that he Illustrated his power by looking at the dead the circumstance of Mary Martha and Lazarus and he said Lazarus come forth do you know the end of the story that Lazarus came out bound in his grave clothes they had put him in the burial sound they had wrapped him tight and laid him in a tomb and he said move the stone everything that's blocking you from coming out you laid it on the altar last week move the stone and Lazarus came out hopping in his grave close but I don't want you to miss this that was not the real miracle when Jesus stood before the toe he was troubled and he began to weep most of the people even at the graveside that day assumed it was because his friend had died but what he was weeping for can be really illustrated illuminated and understood when you listen to the verbage that he spoke at the graveside when he looked at the tomb first thing he said was not Lazarus come forth the first thing he did was lift up his eyes towards heaven and said father I know you have heard me I know you have heard me not I know you are hearing me not I know you will hear me but I know you have heard me which means before he ever got to the tomb he had already had a conversation with God about what was going to happen at the tomb so before you ever got in the mess God had already talked to his father about your mess before he ever performed a miracle and brought you through it I know that you have heard me he said and I'm asking this out loud not because I don't believe but Lord I'm doing this so that everybody here everybody connected to this graveyard everybody that's at this burial sing can realize Who I am and that you sent me so you need to understand that the reason you went through what you went through the reason that you're going through what you're going through the reason you're dealing with what you're dealing with it's not about you but it's so that everybody who's around you everybody that wrote you off everybody that funk she wasn't good enough everybody that thought she wasn't qualified everybody that could not understand what your credit was jacked up but you were still going up everybody that couldn't understand how you came through your sickness it's not about you but it's so that everybody connected to you who looks upon your circumstance will have to step back and acknowledge this is the Lord's doing and it's just marvelous in my answer I can't speak for nobody else but I'm so glad I'm so glad then he looked at me and found enough of my life Shawn the phrase inside of me to let me go through what I had to go through and I realize now it wasn't about me but I went through and let's go [Music] and because I made it so somebody the same God same God same God same God that kept your grandmother same God that kept your great-grandmother same God that brought you through last year same God that kept you last year same God that gave you right - same God that kept your neighbor say god that perform miracles in my life is about to blow your mind is there anybody I need everybody please somebody because you are the miracle I am the miracle he raised me he saved me he changed me he delivered me he lifted me he pulled me he encouraged me he kept me he helped me he saved me show the rest of the world what it looks like to come out to come to come over it [Music] [Music] it's me it's me it's me I was sinking deep in sin far from the peaceful Shore but the master of the sea this berry crown from the waters from the waters of depression from the waters of sickness from the hopeless [Music] [Music] touch the pot a miracle a miracle a miracle should have been to buy the house just a miracle I should have given up that net up my life is the miracle I almost gave up almost checked out of here but life is the miracle my life is an example if God can do it for me he's about to do it for you and some of y'all might be okay right here but what I'm expecting God to do Kate praise him like a use the praises but I gotta take my fries that you got a new craze for a new season you got a new shelter from new Georgia so wait on your neighbor take your praise [Music] I got a tape man I gotta take my place [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] I see you in the future and you look better than you look like this you got no money in the bank you'll get much joy in your life you get more peace in your heart you got better relationships you got better increases you got greater flavor you got more power you got more pep in your steps see you in the future but the question is where do you see yourselves if you see yourself don't wait on your neighbor [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] miracle I am the miracle [Music] I don't know what you're waiting on you better shout like you know you love America I should have been I would have been I could've been but God but God [Music] [Applause] [Music] every time I turn around every time I turn around because he keeps on pointing has fallen lobbyists fault and he's in the room [Music]

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Length: 80min 49sec (4849 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 02 2018