On The Road With Russ Taff

thank you for joining us online today we are so excited about what God is doing here at Family Church and we are thankful that we can extend that to you through the internet now we hope that you have a very Merry and blessed Christmas season with your family now check out this message there's a friend of mine his name is Ken Davis he's a minister of the gospel and we've been friends a long time and he told me that I make a living doing this oh no I come out in the name of Jesus wait I just won't turn it all the way over thank you Pastor I will Lord I will take you and Amy both my lord he he has a a house and some land in Franklin Tennessee and he told me a story not too long ago that his next-door neighbor raised rabbits and showed rabbits in county fairs and state fairs and things like that and there was one prized rabbit that this woman had that had one more blue ribbons than any and he said I came home from the office and pulled in my driveway and our golden retriever had this rabbit in its mouth and just shaking just shaking I started screaming at the dog drop it drop it and here is this rabbit muddy bloody in and he said the rest I took it in the house and took it into the bathtub and I shampooed it Lewis a little fur dry and snuck back over the wife wasn't home from work or the husband either and he said I snuck in the backyard and I put that prized rabbit back in its cage thinking that they would think it died of natural causes he said the wife got home from work about 5:30 in here he heard her scream oh my god and he went running out in the backyard he said what is it what is it she said we buried that rabbit three days ago and it's back so the funny things I've ever heard I usually jump into music and that sort of thing but I want to share what the Lord has put on my heart and and then I'll what every time I live I'll sing because I don't want to miss that if something just incredible happened to me and I start crying if me and Jesus had been on the road a long time we've been all over the world we're saying four presidents and the royal family and it's been awesome ride but every time it service starts I bowed my head and I said Jesus be with me today and this morning sitting over there I said Jesus and that's all I got out in that voice I know to be jesus said I'm here [Laughter] he and I have kind of turned into old friends we've been hanging out together a long time there was a tour I was on back in the early 90s and and it was it was called the young Messiah and Sandi patty and Larnell Harris and for him and Twyla Paris I mean the and there was like 15 artists it was a huge production the city Symphony every city we went to and everybody would hang in the green room when it's and they would come and get you about four minutes before you went on the stage and none of us went out to watch the concert we would all sit because we'd done the show so many times and we would sit in wait and eat laughs to talk in and then the the the manager would stick his head in the door and say rust five minutes and so I would get up and now we get ready and I would take my song and I would just drill it and loud applause and all of that and I would go back to the green room and eat and talk and the Holy Spirit spoke to me one night ruin Chicago and he said I was walking up the stage he said look how excited you are right now you here in man's applause and you're so thrilled he said why don't you get that excited when you hear me do something why don't you get that excited when you see me do something and I went back to the dressing room and I got on my knees and I began to repent Lord I'm sorry for being so self-centered I'm sorry for just being focused on me and what I do in my career and I don't see min a day a revelation for me by the end of that tour all the others were calling me their cheerleader I would sit out there and every time honey nobody got on stage I would just clap and cheer and yell and especially for those that are young and I have become more focused on what Jesus is doing and what I'm doing sometimes when you follow Jesus and you're walking like Jesus was to Jerusalem true ministry happens along the way you know it's like Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem and he would meet this person he would begin to minister maybe that was the reason he was on his way or he had go another couple of miles and to another city and and he would reach out to begin to minister to those people well I found out in my life true ministry happens along the way not what I do up here I mean this is fun and I get to clap and sing and yell and do what I love so much is sing but as I was praying this morning in the Holy Spirit I'm sorry but when Jesus speaks to me I just talk if he said you know why I brought you here I said yeah it's Matt 50th birthday party go no he said no I said you here for a me I know what it's like to be a singer didn't feel it so deep in your heart and not get beyond the walls of your church which is great it's a great gig and God uses her here with the anointing Amy the Lord told me to tell you that's from him and me you're good enough you could have made it you still Bay but you have download your doubted your gift and try this and try this and try this and try this but you're good enough you've asked yourself that question so many years and I have heard vocalists my Hoke 41 years seen singers and worked with artists and things like that when you sing there is an anointing about what you do and Jesus gets involved with what you do and I have spent 41 years traveling and going and I and I started out that way and then you become a record label and you become a commodity and you're chasing your next record you're chasing your next single you're beating your brains out on the road for more recognition in to boost your career at these last 10 years I've come back Jesus are you happy with what I'm doing that your anointing be with him in Jesus that's more important than anything in fact I remember the first Grammy I won and we were at the Shrine Auditorium in LA where Kathryn Kuhlman used to hold her big Crusades in LA and I ran back to the folks and I called my mother and she's a simple woman she was raised on a farm and you know we we spent most of her life without a TV and that sort of thing she knows nothing about music and I mean she's a great singer but I called her and I said mom you're not gonna believe it not just bubbling bubbling so excited it's a mom you're not gonna believe it I want to Grammy and she said that's good son what's a Grammy I said it's a little award to give singers mom and she said well that's good son that's good I'm glad you told me but where she and Dad what they understood is when I sang on the Grand Ole Opry stage they knew that and I became their favorite son because I sang on the grand [Laughter] Amy we just follow we serve where he puts us this has gone on a long time not a lot of artists be out here 20 or 41 years but we serve and we learned the anointing that's what we do we learn the anointing and flowing in that anointing and what I saw today you were connected in a way most artists don't even understand they don't even understand but you're there instead of I was over here doing my thing and singing on TV shows and all this a nothing but the last 10 years I'm right where you are I want to serve Him I want to sing for him and if it's the 10 people or 10,000 I sing for Jesus I'd sing for Jews and you do that I felt the power God while you were singing I felt changed being broken from that anointing it was powerful but the Lord told me to tell you that and so that word is from me and Jesus he's crazy about you he thinks you're awesome he does I just want to share real quick about David I love David but I'll make this quick because I do want to sing a few songs and I'll cut this sermon a half but David had killed Goliath and he had just been sitting up on the mountain he'd just been setting up on the mountain writing songs hanging out taking care of his sheep but he knew his God and he got real acquainted excuse me I haven't had much coffee this morning he knew his God and some of the songs that he wrote were just awesome but if you look at the Psalms one sermon I mean one song he's just flying on the mountain and in the next song he's down in the valley about to kill himself mark Lowry told me he said Russ if David had had prozac we wouldn't have the Psalms [Laughter] but let me set this story up and let me make my point and I'll go to some music but here he was and he goes into town see it's it's something to serve God it's something to like really serve him but maturity comes when you know him you can come to church every Sunday study read and follow and be a good student of the word but that's different than knowing him and see where David was better than everybody else that was standing in that camp that day these great soldiers that had killed hundreds of people and fought with great confidence David knew his God so I move along quickly here David had come down to the city and you know the story they tried Saul's armor on him and it felt awkward and so David went out to face Goliath this nine-foot man and here's this grotty 17 year old or whatever he was and he said king let me use what let me do what I'm used to let me use this sling he said King I killed a lion with this sling I killed a bear with this sling and God's gonna deliver that uncircumcised philistine to me this day I'm gonna take him out to when they were thinking I'm sure you scrawny little runt you just came down to see the battle you changed when you know God you changed when you know God your faith goes to a level that it's never been before and it's rocketed into the fourth dimension when you know him so you know the story and David married Saul's daughter and he went from the mountains taking care of sheep and smelling like a sheep to the king's palace with silk sheets and Cracker Barrell anytime he wanted it but see Saul got jealous and I've seen this all over the country the men of God that are pastors and they're insecure and they see a young minister come along and they're threatened and they choke that man off and he is left destitute because the one in charge did not encourage his gift I have seen that so many times insecure pastors so David is hanging out with Jonathan there they're going to great restaurants in the city silk sheets and having a blast just having a bland they became tight friends tighter than most any other people in the Bible I mean they were close they could finish each other sentences and here comes Jonathan he said David run dad's crazy he's crazy and he has said his heart to kill you and so David jumps with just a clothes on his back and he runs he runs for his life where's he gonna go solve the king his armies can go everywhere except one place the city of Gath that's the hometown of Goliath Goliath was the superstar there he was head of the basketball team he was head of the football team he was head of the army everybody knew Goliath and this little scrunt killed him and so David comes to the gate Goliath had his back and the king that he just killed his hero in front of him talking about a rock and a hard place and the only thing he needed is that crazy back then they kind of stayed away from crazy people and he began to scratch on the door of the gate going into the city and let's spital run down his beard and he acted insane and the king is just dumbfounded it not the guy that killed him yeah King it is he's crazy look at him let me read and so David rose fled that day before Saul and went to a cache the king of Gath and the servants of a cache said unto him is this not David the king of the land did they're not saying about him that and one another in dances and sing and saying solace leanest thousand and David is ten thousand now David took these words in his heart because he was very very much afraid of a cache the king of Gath so he changed his behavior before them and pretended madness in their hands scratch them the doors of the gate and let's saliva run down his beard and a cash said to his service look you see this man is insane why have you brought him to me have I need of a madman you brought me this this fellow to play the madman in my presence shall this fellow come into my house King had enough and David ran again and he went to shouldn't talk into that should talk into this and he ran to the cave of Abdullah I felt so sorry he didn't know if he's gonna be alive the next hour Saul is on his tail he had to be afraid he was a young man and he had just had his first encounter with battle one guy and you know how many times God delivered David later on out of Saul's hands a scene let me read and David therefore departed from there and escaped to the cave of Abdullah so when his brothers and all his father's house heard of it they all went down to be with him and everyone who was just in distress everyone that was in debt gathered unto him every loser around the country heard about it and they came to David he's got four hundred those people that are discontent angry mad at their mother-in-laws I'll never go back home they had been great injustice is done about them and they were hacked off and so David leaves the King and goes to a cave with crazy people that were angry and losers man - bunch of losers during this time David said in that cave and this is what moves me so much David said in that cave with his family and all these 400 people that he became their superior SiC shortly and so he sits down and knowing David he said I'll write a song to God I'll write a song that always makes me feel better and on the verge of death and surrounded by losers David sat down and began to write a song he hadn't read about God he knew God God had performed miracles for him God had visited him on that mountain God anointed that man and Samuel came and told him that he was going to be king and he carried that in his heart surely I won't die today because Samuel said I was going to be king unless he was wrong David sit down and he began to write this y'all talk amongst yourself David sit down and he begin to write this the psalm of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech and drove him away and he departed what do you think he wrote he'd write a country song the world's against me mama left me and I want to drink he's a songwriter but he knew God and this is the song that he wrote and this challenged me every time I sat down to try to write a song sitting there in the cave surrounded with this craziness I felt so alone it's all gonna kill me this is what he wrote a song of David when he pretended to be madness before a bimolecular of him away he sat down in the first thing first line of his song the first line of his song I will bless the Lord at all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth to know God like that that's the first line of the song and so he keeps on going with the first verse my soul shall make its boast in the Lord the humble will hear of it and be glad o magnify the Lord with me and let us knock his name together I sought the Lord and he heard me he delivered me from all my fears they that look upon him were not aware radiant their faces were not ashamed the poor men cried out and the Lord heard him and saved him from all his troubles the angels of the Lord and camp about those who fear him and delivers them o taste and see that the Lord is good this changed my prayer life I used to go to God about everything complain gripe argue until I saw David and what he did and now every time I start to pray I will bless the Lord at all times and his praise will continually be in my mouth I sought the Lord and he heard me he delivered me from all my fear not to just serve God but to know God we sing this song last night no mass Amy to get a microphone they did a biopsy on me three years ago to see if I had prostate cancer and I mentioned last night that you spend you spend the first three or four days just you don't know what to do you're afraid of that c-word and I learned real quick either you trust God and I will bless the Lord at all times and his praise will continually be in my mouth or you say I'm gonna die from this and lose everything I have and be departed from my family but I made a choice from now on start my prayers I will bless the Lord at all times his praise will continually be in my mouth no matter what it looks like out there no matter what the situation that's rising against me I will bless the Lord because he heard me I know that he heard me we have a relationship I trust him I trust him much more than what the doctors saying I trust him so much more than what the the internal revenues coming after me at I trust him and I will praise God because he will deliver me he will 41 years there have been so many times I'm telling to tell you - I didn't know if I'd make it another week career-wise body-wise mentally in every time I would get to a point of desperation Jesus would come come on you've come too far to go back you don't know how close you are to the whole prize keep running keep running don't let fear overtake you don't let discouragement overtake you I made you a promise and I will deliver it and he has and he has I was one of the fortunate ones that came back and mine was negative but as I said last night there were a lot of people that had to start a battle that day battling cancer see Jesus don't walk away from us when we get a bad diagnosis he gets involved he gets involved and when we trust him and when we honor him it moves mountains it moves mountains and if I was just preaching from a cassette that I heard somebody else preach I've lived this I have lived this I almost divorced two times through my career just caught up in craziness and selfishness and the world's not treating me white but Jesus showed up come on rush you're better than this I put myself in you you can do this now take responsibility for what you've done and get back in there and don't blame the whole world for your problems you did it and you repent and you get back up and if it harelips Texas I'm gonna follow Jesus

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Length: 30min 5sec (1805 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 04 2017