Pastor Arthur Jackson, III - "What To Do When Your Promise Is Being Threatened" July 13, 2008

be in my hand and I pray now for this hand I pray for their finances I pray for their faith I pray for their relationship their children their children's children I pray now God you would do something radical for this is the hand of my neighbor don't let this hand leave the same way you came but I for you know God that you would allow a transformation to take place God allows something radical in this place to take place I pray now God that you'd bless me in spite of my fatigue and my flaws and frailty my sins and shortcomings please O God get glory today as you give us growth help me the preach for results not response make an impact to nothing and impression I'm praying that you move me out the way that people will see none of me but all of thee we claim victory now in Jesus name and someone shouted hallelujah god bless you thank your neighborhood for you while you're still standing why are you still standing you can grab your Bibles and open them again to second kings chapter number 4 2nd Kings chapter 4 stand open your Bibles to 2nd Kings chapter number 4 as you're finding 2nd Kings chapter number 4 let me thank God for all of our pastors and ministers or here in the pulpit in the pews and thank God for all of our pastors and ministers wife sister Jackson and just Lois particularly we also think on for members of our document ministry who are here and have been serving all day long this great youth ministry has been serving and singing musicians and dancers are like we think us for your visitors of course I want to get the right into our text 2nd Kings chapter 4 look at verses 17 through 37 it's it's a it's a long story and actually it starts in verse 8 and ian's down in verse 37 and I won't read all those verses I'll just read verses 17 through 20 but that's your leisure I want you to focus in on this text particularly beginning in verse 17 for rule 37 are y'all with me amen I'm gonna read just a few verses 17 through 20 reading from the New International Version of the Bible if you don't have that you can follow along on the screens the word of the Lord says but the woman became pregnant and the next year about that time she gave birth to a son just as Elijah had told her and the child grew but one day when he was out with his father who was with the Reapers he says to his father my head my head his father says to the servant Airi him to his mother and after the servant lifts him up and carried him to his mother the Bible says that the little boy sat with his mother on his lap her lap until noon and then he died let's just stop right there you may be seated in the very presence of the Lord I want to I want to preach this afternoon with your prayers definitely needing God's power from these words what to do when promise is threatened what do you do when your promise is being threatened help me preach today and raise this question to the person sitting beside you look him in the eye and says neighbor what do you do when promise is being threatened hey man what do you do when promise is being is being threatened the one thing that all of us that have a relationship with God know about him and that is God is a God manifested promises that God is the God that does not just make promises but we serve the kind of God that manifests the promises that he make someone should have said Amen the bet that we've come to discover about God that he's not just lip service he just doesn't say things and they don't come to pass but we praise God those of us that have a relationship with him and know him personally we praise God because we know through experience that if God pronounces it and promises it god can also produce it he is a God of manifested promises and I need you to get that in fact tell your neighbor neighbor agonda of manifested promises he just doesn't make promises but he manifest that which he makes as I was reading through first Kings the other day I read across a powerful statement that Solomon the son of David made he makes a statement in first Kings chapter 8 around verse 56 Solomon says that we were to look over the track record of God we would have to admit that not one word has failed of the good promises God has made Paul while writing his second letter to the Church of Corinth in chapter 1 verse 20 he kind of backs that up and suggests to us that those promises that God make are unfailing because those promises are grounded in Christ Jesus Paul Paul says that no matter how many promises God has made all those promises are yes in Christ Jesus that excites me because Titus 1:1 says that God cannot lie meaning that because God has said it it's just a matter of time before God manifest somebody already maybe wondering why am i harping on this issue of God being the god of manifested promises and the reason why is because of this truism alone that that that belief this knowledge alone that God is a God of manifested promises it it helps gird us up against the devil it it help prepares us against the devil because the devil don't want to see you bless tell us someone beside you you don't want to see you bless you don't he don't want you to possess the promises that God has for you he don't want you to have the blessings that God has earmarked for you the devil want to see you struggle the devil I want to see you frustrated the devil want to see you living literally beneath your god-ordained privileges are y'all hearing me today no don't fool yourself the devil he don't want to see you with it however this principle of God being the god of manifested promises it teaches us that while the devil don't want to see you blessed he can't do anything about it gosh I feel like I'm talking to myself that he can't stand can't he don't want to see you where did he don't want to see you as the head he don't want to see you living like you're living driving what you're driving wearing what you're wearing smiling like you're smiling looking as good as you look it drives him crazy he don't want to see you with it but but he can't block it because God is the god of a manifested promises however though he can't the devil that is do anything about you getting the promise his desire is to create an environment that you can't keep what God gives you that that while the devil can't do anything about manifested promises he tries to create so much havoc in your life that you cannot keep what God gives you so the devil strategy is because he knows that he cannot stop he cannot stop block what God has for you his goal is that while he cannot stop you from getting it he works hard to not allow you to keep it he can't stop you from getting the house but he'll create so much havoc in the house he'll make you want to leave he can't stop you from getting the job but create so much havoc on the job he'll make you want to leave and quit the job I'm talking to somebody already that he don't you can't stop you from getting the car but he'll have so many issues with the car you want to make you park it and not drive the car he can't stop you from being a heel but he'll have so much issues with your health you make you want to give up the devil cannot stop you from having it but he tries to create a forum or an atmosphere wherein you cannot keep what God has ordained for you to have but-but-but-but I believe that there are people in the building like me who has made up in your mind that you just don't want to have it but you want to keep what God has allowed you to get I know I'm not talking to everybody because somebody may be satisfied was just getting it but I just don't want to get it I'm at a point in my life I wanna keep whatever God has for me I just don't want to get the job I wanna hold on to it talk to me somebody I just don't want to get a man I want to marry and keep the man I don't wanna get a woman I want to get married and keep the one I got help me somebody I don't want to just get heal and I want to keep my health I don't want to just get my mind I wanna stay in my right man I just don't want to get money I want to keep the money that the Lord allows me I guess I'm preaching to myself I don't want to get ahead I want to get ahead and stay ahead I just don't want to get prosperity I want to get it and keep the prosperity that God allows me to get I just don't want to have children but I want to get the child and keep the child raise the child I'm at the point in my life the Lord I want to hold on to everything that you say I can have but that's not the devil's desire the devil's desire is the steal and to kill to rob and the take from us and so the devil will threaten the promise he'll try to allow us to not keep to create a situation where we're not keeping what God is allowing us to have and this is the situation and the scenario in our text this morning my brothers and my sisters when we look at this particular narrative and we see a young lady that God has a blessed with promise blessed with a son blessed with a little boy but we also see in the same narrative wherein the devil has threatened that promise we're in the little boy that God miraculously allowed her to have has been prematurely taken away from her now when you look at this particular story of course it doesn't start in our text in verse number 17 it kind of goes back a little bit further in verse number eight if your Bibles are open you'll discover in verse number eight and that it says one day Elijah was on his way I'm to Mount Carmel and he passes through the Providence of shanem and as he passes through he sees a young lady and the Bible says when you read verses 8 through 12 that this young lady in verse 9 keep your Bibles open please perceives that Elijah is a holy man of God she sees that he's not just a regular man but she sees that this is something different about this man and they never conversed they never have a conversation at this point but her spiritual antennas are up she discerned that this man is a holy man of God watch this they don't talk they have no conversation she perceives this New International Version says she knows this she sees him passing by and perceives according to the King James Version in verse 9 that this is a holy man of God that passed by continually what she then decides to do is something that sets her up for favor please don't miss this after seeing that Elijah is a holy man of God she gets with her husband and the Bible says the two of them decide to sow a seed into the ministry of Elijah they decide to take it upon themselves to add a prophet's chamber if you will to add an addition to their household so when the man of God passed by he'd have a place to stay please don't miss what they've just done she has set herself up to receive a favor from God watch this she sees that Elijah is passing by continually and she gets with her husband and the Bible says that the two of them make a Prophet's chamber an addition on to their household as a result of that the Bible says one day as Elijah is staying in the house he decides to return the favor by blessing her by filling a void in her life the woman and her husband had no children and so through the Providence and the miraculous ability of God that God saw fit to bless this woman now with a baby boy please don't miss the process on how this woman received the favor she saw Elijah passing by she decides to sow into his ministry and as a result she secured a son supernaturally please don't miss the procedure please don't miss the process the process is she sees Elijah passing by she sews into his ministry and when God ordained for it that she then secures a son supernaturally that shouts me and I repeat that because you got to get it because whenever God wants us to secure his favor our securing is based on our sowing our sowing is based on what we can see so if the devil can ever stop you from sowing about blocking your vision from what you can see then you can never secure or from God supernaturally but if you ever get out of your comfort zone and says and send a message to the Lord that I'm going to so I'm going to so I may not have a lot to sew but whatever I have I'm going to so I may can't so like my neighbor I may can't give like my neighbor I can't give as much as somebody else but what I'm gonna do is that I'm going to gear but what I have and giving is not always reduced or confined to money I'm going to give my time I'm going to give my talent I'll give my testimony I'll give my temple now give my tread I'm going to gear but because I recognize that that the way to secure is through sowing my seed tap your neighbor until a neighbor I got it I got a gear but I gotta give that that giving is not an option and somebody is being turned off because I'm talking about giving but giving identifies us with Christ people that understand that giving identifies us with Christ don't have a problem talking about giving or even given what what can we do that can identify us with cry oh only a few things that we can ever do that can identify us with Christ when we suffer suffering identifies us with Christ simply because the Bible says that Christ suffered are y'all hearing me he was bruised for our iniquities are y'all hearing me he was wounded for our transgressions that the Bible says that he suffered and whenever we suffer our suffering identifies us with Christ and secondly when we give our giving identifies us with Christ simply because we serve the kind of Christ that was a giver are you hearing me he gave sight to the blind he gave healing to those that were without he gave restoration to life to those that were dead he gave Clendon to those that were left were he spent his entire life given and even when it was time for him that he died given he died giving his back to the cross aside to the spear his mother to John his hair to the Crown's his spirit to his father he died giving so whenever we decide to give our giving identifies us with Christ are y'all hearing me this woman gave she she sold into the Ministry of Elijah and as a result of sowing into the Ministry of Elijah the Bible says a god blessed her with a son can the church say a son now every time she saw this son this son was a reminder of a few things that this son reminded her of the principles of God because the principle of God is this that when you give it'll be given back to you press good measure pressed down shaken together and running over will men give on to you it so every time she sees her son her son reminds her of the principle of God every time she sees her son her son is a reminder that if you give sparingly you'll reap sparingly but if your gear but bountifully you will reap bountifully and I'm talking to somebody right now because somebody is a giver the only way you're making it is because you are a liberal giver and because you give some kind of way it's always given back to you and it may not come to you directly but if somebody is good to your mama if somebody bless your father if somebody hook up your children they are giving to you and don't don't you ever get tired of being a giver don't don't you ever get that stingy spirit well you hate to give while you make all you can can all you make and then sit on top of the can you've got God can't bless you that way in order for God to bless you you've got to demonstrate the principle and the principle is the more you care but the more I'm not talking to anybody in this house do I have any givers in this house today that don't mind are giving you don't give to get back in return but you gear because God has positioned you in the such a way that you can afford to be good to somebody else you don't get tired of giving because you recognize every time you give God some kind of way hook a sister up every time you give God some kind of way make a way for you to prosper and then the good thing is God always give you more than you give I just said a word to somebody in this house has anybody ever wrote a check to somebody and before you know what God gave you a check twice as much I guess I'm preaching to myself has anybody ever had the experience and you stepped out on faith and you gave God at i/o an offering and Monday morning you gotta check a rebate check you got money that you forgot for old here you got a refund come on talk to me somebody your insurance charge you too much and you got a refund check in the mail and you had to throw your hands up in the air because you recognize that God was proving himself to you that you can't beat my giving that the more you give to me the more I give back to you Lord give me power that frees one more time today and so so every time she sees this show this child is a reminder of watch this the principle of God but not only does this shower remind her hope you're taking this down of the principles of God this shower reminds her of the power of God someone shout the power of God this shower reminds her of the power of God because keep in mind that her and her husband could not have a children the Bible says that she is I'm in verse 14 that he is old and she is well stricken in age and they had no children and so biologically speaking they didn't have the power to have a children however that God's Word that was more powerful than their bodies that this text teaches us every time she saw her son it was a reminder guess what that we couldn't do this on our own but God had to step in and God gave us his power I don't know who I'm talking to but IIIi praise God today that we serve and all-powerful of God we we I want to serve know this on somebody in this house today and that you think that you have an impotent God the devil is a liar the god I serve is omnipotent he has all power in fact there's nothing that God can't do in fact if you look at your neighbor your neighbor would testify that they're only here this morning based on the power of God because if they could testify the day they tell you that they have been in some situations that the devil literally was about to take them out that they were literally about to go I guess always you should not a wrong person but somebody is sitting beside somebody who was in the accident and it was nothing but the power of God somebody is sitting beside somebody who is this close to losing your mind but it was nothing but the power of God somebody also sitting beside somebody that the devil was just about to take you under but you survived because it was nothing but the power of God and if you know anything about the power of God won't you just slap fire with somebody close to you and tell him maybe it's the power of God it has not been by my power it has not been by my might but it has been by his power Sheriff the Lord every time I was going under his power took me over every time I was giving up his power made me hang in there every time I was crying his power dried my eyes every time I was hopeless yes power gave me hope every time I was broken his power put me back together oh god oh god oh god oh god somebody shall thank you for your power somebody praise him for his power thank you for his power every time every time she sees this Sun this Sun reminds her watch this of the principle of God this Sun watch this y'all reminds her of the power of God every time Alex she sees this Sun this Sun also reminds her of the promises of God keep in mind when he Liza prophesized to her Elijah said let me just read it for you Elijah says to her in in verse number 15 and 16 he says about this time next year you will hold a son in your arms are y'all hearing me and verse 17 says the woman became pregnant please keep your Bibles open the Bible says that Elijah says 12 months from now something is going to happen 12 months from now you are going to have a child and you are going to hold a child in your arms and so every time she sees that this baby boy this baby Bora Minds her of the promises of God this boy reminds her that God is a word a keeper that God will keep his promises can I park there for about 30 seconds up just to give God personal praise for being the kind of God that will keep his promise because I believe that there's somebody else like me who have experience of being the recipient a promises of God and his promise was not based on your practice as his promise was not based on your behavior his promise was not based on how faithful you were but he decided to bless you just because he wanted to see you blessed and if anybody in this house is like me who can praise God just for being a promise keeper why don't you just pause and give God about 30 second please praise him for being the kind of God that's able to fulfill his promises yeah yeah yes and so the Bible says the Bible says wash this let me hurry the Bible says in verse number 17 that the woman becomes pregnant and the woman has the baby however the baby dies I'm not making this up I'm in verse 20 in their swooning the Bible says that the child dies tell your neighbor the baby dies here is this child a promise and the promise dies prematurely oh gosh I got the caster's tonight I'm trying to get you out of here but you got to hear me this is the promised child this is the child that Elijah promised her she was going to have but the promise dies what do you do when that which God promised you don't manifest but what do you do when God has promised you some stuff and it looks as if the promise is being threatened that it looks as if the promise is not going to come to fruition it looks as if you're not going to enjoy the fullness of your name filling me in this house and I know I'm not talking to everybody but Dave I'm talking to somebody in this house who is scratching your head because you've been doing everything and you finally got the promise however your testimony is Lord it ain't working out every time I get on my feet it seemed like another issue knocked me off my feet every time I get one bill paid another bill pop up God every time I get one child straighten out another she'll act up every time I get my marriage on solid ground it seemed like something else come up Oh God I don't know what's going on but the devil is after my promise I heard you clearly I know this is of you God I know you told me to stay you told me they'd do it you told me to step out on faith you told me to get the house you told me to get the car you told me to do it God but it seems as if now he'll that's broken out I don't understand God because it seems as if not promised is me I guess I'm talking to myself is there anybody in the building besides me who's ever had to have a real talk with God you have to put off your makeup get on your knees and tell God God what are you up to why did you give me this marriage and I'm pressing hell in the marriage why did you give me the job and I'm struggling on the job why did you give me the child and I'm struggling with the child why did you bring me out God just to let me suffer God why Lord give me power the priest one motel in the day Lord Lord why Lord look Lord why Lord why Lord why and I know ain't talking to everybody but can I talk to some real people anybody ever had to ask the Lord why come on put off your halo and be real with me anybody ever had to ask the Lord why God why me God why now God the why us God why this God help me somebody God why's this why this God why now god oh god anything but this God any time but now God I was almost better God but this now God we were almost making a God but this God God what the promise is being it's being threatened so I wanted to look at this text Hamilton because my question is what do you do wouldn't the promise Oh help me somebody when that which you know came from God when that that you know was God or can we talk because some stuff I got a little time but some stuff we're not sure if this is of God I don't want to be real hey talking about that stuff some stuff we know didn't come from God ain't talking about that stuff I'm talking about the stuff you know God said this is yours God said this is for you and you know it was God because you couldn't have gotten it unless God made a way I guess I appreciate like it happen you know you couldn't get the house but God made the way you know you couldn't get the job but God made a way you know you can be where you are but God made a way you know you don't supposed to happen but God made help me somebody God had to do the supernatural God had to work on miracle God have to step in and fix it he had the change somebody's mind touch somebody's heart he got to move folk out the way that unless I money get fired that's a creator position of his not to open the door had to close the door not to be creative I have to raise somebody young had to put some money down but you know if God had done it you win I was all free me up to preach so what do you do when that is being threatened well I'll tell you what you do keep on believing hangin in deep now having a noble spirit you just keep on believe and tell your neighbor just keep on believing I can shout right there I said keep on believing let me try it in the balcony cuz only with me down here I said keep on believing you got to believe that God wouldn't have gonna tell you the first time if he didn't want you to have it you got to keep on believing that ever God opened the door he'll open up another you got to keep on believing if he raise you up one time he gonna raise you up another time you got to keep on believing he didn't bring it this far he'll - I wish I had some believers in the house I wish the head about 500 vocals that can make up your mind and tell your neighbor neighbor come hell or high water I'm going to keep all the bleeding my faith looks up to me I'm gonna put my hand and gasping and shruts give me twenty minutes let me unpack this text and I'ma get out your way when I look at this text brothers and sisters here it is this woman's promise is being threatened the Bible says that the child jaesi dies but what impressed me about this woman I'm going to show you is that everything she does and everything she says displays faith in God let me show it to you very quickly look at verse 20 the Bible says the child dies she's doing everything that she can do she cheats she's held the child all morning long she got the child on her lap she got the child in her hands but sometimes thinks of God the problems are too much for our hands and even though she is handling the issue the issue is too much for her to hand dough so the Bible says at noon the child dies so it becomes midnight at midday somebody catch that when you get home but what impressed me is she don't call the funeral home director she don't look for the mortician but in verse 21 and 22 the first thing that she does is she seeks out the prophet repeat that say she seeks out the prophet oh you miss your chance to shout no but she knows the child has just died but she don't make sure all the arrangements help me somebody she don't go looking for a black suit for the boy don't go looking for black clothes for her don't meet with the funeral home director to get the obituary together don't call all the family members together don't have professional mornings over at the house don't start frying chicken no stars trying to fly people in what she does is she puts the boy on the prophet's bed and she gets a donkey and she go finds of the man of God can I tell you why she finds the man of God she finds the man of God because Elijah has a double portion of a larger spirit on him and in first Kings chapter 17 verse 17 Elisha raised a little boy from the dead so in her mind she feel I did it up in chapter 17 verse 17 and the Felicia has a double portion of a larger spirit that means he is doubly qualified to raise my child so I'm gonna find Elijah because what I need is not a funeral home director I need somebody with a death destroying anointing on their life I'm looking for Eli sharp because I need God to do it again can I pause to tell somebody in this house you serve the kind of God that's well equipped to do it again you serve the kind of God that can handle the issues am i talking to anybody in this house has anybody ever has something died in your life had dreams that I had hopes dad have relationships - yes finances dire but the god you serve is the resurrection is he is able to declare I am the resurrection in the life so it's dead I'm able to speak a word and I double dare somebody in this house to lift up your house in praise a voice and praise and declare god is able to do it again God you're able to resurrect my situation let's turn to somebody close to you until a neighbor he's able oh you didn't sit like you were convinced I need somebody who know that God can speak a word and just terms some stuff around I know ain't everybody but I thought I had some deacons there's some preachers there's some missionaries I thought I had somebody that wasn't a novice no offense novice who had the power and equity with God who can tell you may believe God can turn things around God has the power to do it in fact I've seen God step in some dead situations and calls it back to life I've seen God step in dead marriages and calls it back to life here I've seen God stepping big rough situations and call it back to life I've seen God stepping the dead praisers and call a loudly praise I've seen by turning the real God do it again she finds she finds the prophet she needs her death destroying anointed presence in her life so she don't call the funeral home director because she don't need somebody who deals with death she needs somebody who's familiar with life priests boys she don't need somebody that can bury the child she needs somebody who can bring the child back to life again can I talk to somebody in this house when you are faced with deadening situation who do you turn to do you have anybody in your life that can speak a life-giving word do you have anybody in your circle who's so connected with the life-giving saving in Jesus Christ that when you are down and out they can give a word that praying you out of your situation she finds the Prophet Lord let me preach one more time in the day here it is my brothers and sisters she demonstrates her faith number one watch this by seeking out the Prophet can the church say she seeks out the Prophet but the second thing that she does that really blows me away I want you to see this after she seeks out the Prophet she speaks only the positive got somebody going go crazy watch this follow along in your Bibles watch this in verse 20 the child dies watch this verse 20 the child dies she picks the channels up take the child back into Elijah's bed lays a shout out across Elijah's bed watch this she closes the door behind her she goes in verse number 22 she asks permission of a husband husband I need to go see the man of God she says the husband says wait a minute um why are you going verse 23 to see the Prophet there's no new moon now it's no no sabbath it's not you don't take appointments in the middle of the week only here it's the same the time watch this to go see the profit it's not the Sabbath it's not the New Moon behavior this she says watch this she says it's all what's this y'all to be slow to so I'm patient with with those who are slow the child has just died but she says to the baby's father okay okay let's try it again but verse 20 the child has just died but listen at what she says she says it's all right watch this go to verse 26 the Bible says when she gets to Elijah his servant comes out and his service runs up to her watch this and his servant asked her a question she says daughter are you all right is your husband all right is your child all right and she says y'all need filling to me let me try one more time let me try those in the balcony her child has just died in verse 20 and and and when she shows up to meet Elisha get hazy runs out and says listen I got some specific questions she says oh are you all right is your husband all right watch this is your child the one that just died all right listen at what she says she says what everything is all right Oh God woman are you crazy are you delusional are you not just dealing with reality well and the woman says no I'm not abhi above but what I am is cognizant of the fact that power of life and death lieth in my tongue so I got to watch my words help me somebody so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to speak those things out or not ask if they were I know my child has just died but guess what I'm going to speak positive I know he's up in Elijah's bed dead but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna have a conversation that contradicts my context I'm going to tell the Lord it's alright even though I'm struggling even though I'm catching hail I can I talk to somebody stop talking about how bad things are learn how to speak life I know you catching hell in your marriage but it's all good I know that you got health issues but tell yourself I'm healed in Jesus name speak don't speak that are not can I help somebody in this house father somebody's problem is your life has been lining up with your lips you've been talking negative and you've been living naked nothing good to say about your marriage nothing good to say about your husband nothing good to say about your job nothing good to say about your church nothing good to say about your pastor nothing good to say about yourself and because you don't talk anything good you don't experience anything good but i double-dare somebody in this house I don't care what you're going through I double dare you to lift up two boys and the clap is all good it's broke but I'm all good I'm hurting but it's all good catching hell but it's all good because if I keep talking good I may experience good if I keep talking favor I mean experience paper if I keep talking blessings I may experience blessing the woman don't say anything negative can I just we're gonna be out at one o'clock but can I give me can I just take a little time no we're in this text does she ever used the words dead death dying or demise nowhere in the text does she ever confirmed verbally what she has just experienced personally but she tells her husband it's all good she tells the servant it's all good I had a question for her I tracked it down before I got here and I said daughter please please please just just just just one question why did you tell your husband it's all well when you know in verse 20 he was dead and before you answer why did you then come back and tell the servant your child was fine but he specifically asked you is he all right and you know he was dead now daughter if you can answer that question for me I'll leave you alone she says can I tell you why I told my husband it was all good and when I told that servant it was all good she says because I recognized who I was talking to I said what you mean she says I recognize that neither my husband or the servant had the power to change the situation so why should I waste time talking to somebody who ain't got the power to tell oh come and let me talk to you maybe that's your problem you've been spending too much time talking to people that don't have the power to turn your situation around and so baby if you ain't got the power to fix my mess if you ain't got the power to change my car as far as it goes with you it's all good but when I complain to God I wanna complain to the one who can speak a word with your neighbor and say neighbor watch your words that's the how you're doing this all good how should they it's all good how I find this is this all good come you only hearing me I could be struggling but it's all good I can be hurting but it's all good don't know where the bill is coming from but it's all good don't know how I'm gonna make it through the day but it's all good how do I know it's all good for we know that all things work together father to those that love the Lord so as far as I'm concerned it's all good as long as he sits high and looks low as long as he knows my name and my situation baby it's all hail Free People basashi it's all good all good I'm crying but it's all struggling right now so so good as the hasten to get out of here today this woman she has faith even though her promise is being threatened because she seeks out the Prophet she speaks only the positive but the last thing that she does and I'm finished Marilyn she stands on the promises when she finally makes her way to Elijah verse 27 says that the same prophet saying servant gehazi hear this she comes over and he pushes her away she reaches the man of God and she grabs him at his feet and and and somebody who's child ain't there somebody who was not going through what she's going through y'all ain't gonna hear me today somebody that don't know what she's going through because when he asked her she didn't tell him so he don't know what she's going through but he pushes her away because he think it don't take all that y'all having feeling me if she would have told him then maybe he would have understood why she was down there but she didn't tell him anything so he looks at her and he misdiagnosed her actions he's looking with a condescending look like daughter it don't take grabbing the Prophet around his ankle you can act more sophisticated and dignified then that don't you know how to act when you come to church I'm sorry when you come around the Prophet don't you know it don't take all of that don't you know then you take the ethics class and new member orientation don't you know about appropriate church I'm sorry I'm prophet greeting behavior don't you know that when you come in contact with the Prophet you don't supposed to just run and grabbed him on his ankles like that come on don't you know I miss I'm a bear and I don't let folk get close to the preacher like this don't you know this is not how you supposed to act however you don't know what I left at my house oh my god you you don't know what I'm dealing well you don't know that my child has just died in other words because you don't know my story you can't dictate how I respond can I park there for a minute and tell somebody you don't know what I'm going through you don't know what so maybre is going through so if I can't turn around the church just let me run if I got the shower just let me shout if I got to lay out on the floor just step over me come on talk to me somebody if I got to have a connection or just let me have the connect in the Sun because you know what I'm dealing with you don't know what help I'm catching up you don't know how rough it is my child has just died can I help somebody in this house so he comes he tries to make her go away but but but she's building this and soul and she she cries out to Elijah watch this and I'm finished she says he lies a verse thirty I can't I can't let you go she says to him listen did not tell you that did not tell you that that it would have been better not to bless me with a child verse 28 that didn't I tell you don't raise my hopes that didn't I tell you to just just leave me alone it would have been better for me not to even have a child than to have a child and to lose the child this way and the Bible says in verse 30 she clings on to his feet and she refuses to let his feet go because from her standpoint watch this and I'm done her standpoint is I just refuse to believe that God has given me this child then to take the child and not give me the child back I just refuse to believe that this blessing was a trip very blessing I've waited all my life to have this child and I refuse to believe that God has given me this childhood for the child to die not even at the prime of his life so what I'm gonna do a live show I'm going to choose to stand on the promises of him and I'm going to let the Lord know I'm not ready to let go my promise I'm willing to fight for I'm willing to have freight forwarder in other words he likes them whatever you do you've got to come back to my house and say whatever you got to say do whatever you got to do because I believe that the same God that gave and took away is the same God that's able to give it back again as I close this message can I encourage somebody in this house that's whenever your promise is threatened this is the demeanor that you got to maintain you've got to have the mindset is Lord I just refuse to believe that she brought me this far to leave me now god I just refuse to believe that you allowed me to go through nine months of labor in my old age to allow my son to be taken away from me in the prime of his life I refuse to believe God that she closed this door and not open another door so what I'm going to do is god I'm going to stand on your promise so do me one quick favor and we're either here this home to somebody close to you and tell them neighborhood stand on this promise Oh sad like you mean it's a neighborhood stand on his promise uh-huh I don't know what God has promised you I don't know how rough it has been but you've got to have the kind of faith that's the class listen God I declare you didn't give this to me so it's just the fall by the wayside so whatever I got to do I'm going to wait until my trains come and the Bible says as I close the message that Elijah goes back to her household and when Elijah goes back to the house the Bible says he does what Elijah did in first Kings he across the child and the Bible says when he gets off the child huh the boy began to get warm he walks around in prayer he comes back on top with a child and when the child comes back to life he calls the woman and gives the child back to his mother and that's the beauty of the texture and the beauty of the text is this that when God takes from you if you have faith the same God that took from you uh-huh it's the same God who is able to give back to you so do me one last favor I need you to lift up your voice and declare to the Lord Oh God I'm holding on to my promise come on say it God I'm holding on to my promise because I don't believe you given me this marriage for it to fall apart I just don't believe you've given me the house to go into foreclosure I don't believe you've given me the car just for you to be parked but God if you gave it to me I'm trusting you that you will help me maintain it close the message and so brothers and sisters I told the devil even though you're threatening my promise I'm good no weapon that's formed against another shall prosper you can oh you won't but I'm gonna stand on the promises of God you can come against it but I made up in my mind you brought me far what if I'm talking to you huh help me praise God just for the prom help me praise God just for the promise new promise a hood may not have come but you are the praise God in faith that if God said he was gonna do it it's just a matter of time so that close this message take somebody by the hand and tell you need to tell the neighbor this praise is father promised say neighbor this shout it's for the promise of this hallelujah it's father promised this dance it's father promised I know it looks bad yeah I know it feels hard I know you're crying I know you're suffering but I got the news begin the good work I know it's hard but the same one that gave me the promise it's the same one that will give you strength how many know that kind of way give me the strips how many know that God will give me the shrimp if you know he will speak to your neighbor somebody close neighbor he will give you say neighbor he will give you power don't throw in the towel don't walk out don't give in don't give up hey God will well I was a head power will give you power father you know he's bless me [Music] yes he will yes he will yes he will listen tonight seven o'clock we're having deliverance service but somebody make him hold out until tonight somebody you're so bad you might can't make it to seven o'clock you press your way now I'm gonna pray for you maybe you can't wait maybe is so serious that's just saying pastor I can't Pass doc that's past my past work passed one fast spread out cup cup closed [Music] listen listen listen listen I want to share this with you I want you just to hear me please hear me this woman was given a son it was a promise [Music] it was a promise but the Sun verse 20 the Sun died so now it looks as if the promise has been taken away but what this woman does is this it is as if she says you know what I don't receive that I don't I don't believe that God let me get a taste of this just because some of you your testimony is as soon as you got a taste of success taste of home ownership a taste of Independence I taste of relational stability a taste of financial prosperity a taste of a job a taste of a career a taste of mental stability as soon as you get a taste the taste is taken away soon as I mean as soon as you don't even have time to really enjoy it as soon as you start getting on your feet happens now all of a sudden like now god now what like now what no way but can I talk to you today a lady this woman said no that's not my story I got too much faith for this I got too much word in me for this he's brought me too far for this I will watch my words I'm gonna stop speaking life so what it didn't work out with them it's gonna still work out for me so what it did work out there it's still gonna work out so what I'm struggling now I'm not always will be shredding like this so imma stop speaking and if you don't have anybody in your life to speak positive to you sir go home today look in the mirror and stop speaking to yourself [Music] wrap your arms around yourself and start telling yourself you can make it get little get moto-style get with told Dora give with your finances get with your family and it covers your own family when you talk to God stand on the promises say Oh God God ain't let go hang on let go this ain't gonna break me it's gonna make me this ain't taking me under this is gonna help me get over on us this ain't gonna take me on the this gonna make me better [Music] go to the audience my personal cup display to spray and read the prey at random she start from the back G soften the back listen God didn't bring you this far to leave you he didn't take you through what he's taking you through just suffice thank you but gods don't bring you out God's going to bring you out he's gonna do what he's gonna do it as the preachers are praying there's a verse in Psalms the psalmist says a thousand chef's fall about one side and ten thousand on another side but none of these things shall come up against me that's what I want you to stop thinking hundreds may go through it over here thousands may go food over there but he coming under me it may take my neighbor out and make take my coworker out but it ain't taking me out it may stress her out it may stress him out but the Eagle stress me out it may break her it may break them but an eagle break me it made trouble her it may trouble them but an angle trouble me God our Father in Jesus name I pray now I pray now that I touch and agree I touch and agree now in the name of Jesus I pray now God for my sister I pray now God for her strength I pray now God for her patience I pray now God in the name of Jesus that you take every stronghold away we touch and agree now with my brother and my sisters now in the name of Jesus we declare that they will survive with a clatter they will be healed with a clack honor they will come out we declare God they will be better with it Craig are they will be stronger with a Clare God in the name of Jesus this is going to make them better we declare now in the name of Jesus that they will survive they'll come out better than they ever were before we declare in the name of Jesus God that she want to do super abundantly and exceedingly above all all the naked thing in the name of Jesus God and such and agree now I partner with her faith and such in the green now in the name of Jesus oh god doing right now I pray for marriages I pray for finances now I pray for families now in the name of Jesus all got strengthened now god that's one hell week build a map oh god everyone a toy down gotta fix it god Mindy gotta deliver God set free God I know that you can God I believe that's a real God in the name of Jesus don't do it for me gonna do it for them Oh God but in the name of Jesus and it is so give God a strong hand the praise in this place today [Music] come on before you leave the altar the cleric was sharing and the clear I don't believe come on I don't believe just text [Music] [Music] [Music] this is the doors of the church are opened if there's somebody here let's not say if there's somebody here they don't have a church home please stay at the altar please stay in the altar

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Published: Wed Apr 10 2019