"Renewing Your Strength" A. D. Spears BOTT 1988

and if all of you could have been in my room between 2:00 and 4:00 this morning I preached this message perfect I didn't make a mistake I didn't offend anybody I didn't make a fool out of myself but I don't know where y'all were thank you brother Pew you didn't preach to nobody else but but me no no no it couldn't be you better kill her no I guess II tore apart the first part of the message and I have to tell you a thing or two before I start this is totally different I probably will not lift my voice and I know I have been a very I'm a very emotional Bridger I usually preach from the front of the back never were else but I beg you that for now let me to deliver to you something that God has worked on my heart for over four years a week ago I delivered this to my church and I'll not be as long today as I was then but for almost two hours Sunday nights in Longview are geared high we start high and we don't ever slack off the way it is that Sunday night not a person moved it wasn't even there for amens nobody shouted but when we got through it will go down as probably the greatest service that has ever come our way because God did something to our church that night he healed us in the mind and in our hearts and Saints came to me by the droves said I've struggled so long I've been too confused and God gave us an answer then brother tinny had me to do it in a couple of conferences over here and the other night at midnight brother Anthony Mangan called and said to do it here all I can say is this message will not fit everybody today but someday in your life it will tonight will be the ultimate of glory this is the place Alexandra Outreach shaking the world victory glory but for the next hour let me open my heart and talk to somebody who may be hurting this place today Romans a 12th chapter I'll begin 3 passage of Scripture Romans 12 and 1 I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your body as a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service and be not conformed to this world but be transformed you say transformed by the renewing of your mind romans the eighth chapter if I take it a little bit out of context hold on so the UN told me if I got shot too much he would stand behind me and plug up the holes romans the eighth chapter and the 35th verse who shall separate us from the love of God shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword or I am persuaded that neither death nor life all of these thing nothing is going to be able to separate us from the love of God now in the book of where it was Jeremias where it is a man Jeremiah the eighth chapter one more scripture usually but this time I'm in high gear iam and have already preached a half a sermon Jeremiah 8 and 20 the harvest is past summer is ended we are not saved for the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt I'm black astonishment have taken hold of me is there no balm in Gilead is there no physician there why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered would you join somebody's hand and pray that God would touch both of us you and me father God in your name I need you know holy name hallelujah praise God praise God hallelujah God's going to do it God's gonna do it hallelujah Amen thank you and you may be seated I read to you three far-reaching passage of Scripture and I will endeavor to be conscious of the clock today one of them says that there must be a renewing of the mind then in Romans it raises the strange question and I am NOT being negative today at all I think my ministry for the few years that I have been preaching has declared I am NOT a negative preacher I'm always policy but it may sound a little bit negative at this point but hold on the writer raises the question that shall certain things be able to separate us from the love of God I seriously doubt that some of the things that he mentioned will ever touch you and I in the United States of America probably in our lifetime I doubt that the famine of Ethiopia will ever reach in my lifetime and be the raging despair that it has been there I doubt some other things but there is one thing that he raised the question that possibly affects a lot of people in this building today and he just simply said will distress be able to separate us from the love of God and then Jeremiah said that the daughter is sick and if she is sick and if there is a physician there then why is she still sick we live in a very complex age I read recently that the strangeness of this hour is that no longer can we wait for an answer the computer age has brought us to a time that we don't have to wait the answer is immediately and we have become geared to the fact that we are not going to wait and in not being able to wait we end up very very confused and very hurting inside a lot of time I wish today and probably before I am through I will will do it ever preacher that has come to this pulpit has been very honest we have pulled the facade aside we have taken the plastic aside and I for one am sick and tired of being are having to make out like nothing is wrong when inside we're dying on the inside I am shaking the hands with all of you and you've asked me how I'm doing I've lied to most of you since I've been here and most of you have lied to me and we said hey how you doing and it's fine great how's everything man it's good as a church how's everything going hey it's great but inside we look at one another and if we could pull the facade back today inside our churches there are term all people are losing out with God preachers are hurting preachers lives are confused we're at the point we're ready to pull our hair out and somehow we're in great turmoil and distress today but something will happen to us from today forth not from my message but from this convention that we will not succumb to the power of this age we will not succumb to being a confused Church and confuse people with pressure and problems and confusion that will tear us apart and destroy us but we will come forth renewed in the Holy Ghost and renewed in our mind by working of the Spirit of Almighty God in our heart and life now there is a lot of things that the devil will do and many of his tactics has been approached in this convention but there is one thing that we battle that the devil does not have a whole lot to do and that is the devil knows that if he backs off and Falls his hand and sets down if the church becomes confused if confusion reigns in our mind he does not have to do one thing but we destroy ourselves and our effectiveness for the cause of Almighty God all the potential that is in us all the power that lies resident in us all the glory all the action all the motivation that we are pushed to do lies dormant if we allow the confusion of our lives to so confuse us we cannot do the will of God with a confused mind and therefore the devil attacks us but because of the times because of the hour because of the situation we must not allow the enemy to destroy us one thing that we did in our local church and I'm getting a little too excited here but the first thing that I did in the service that night I had everybody to do a very odd thing but order this sounds like you not me I had everybody to just sit there and put their arms around themselves and hugged ourselves it did then what it did right then I'm not going to ask you to do it but when I did suddenly I look across that congregation and the glory of God seemingly put his arm around Saints I watched men suddenly break and cry there was no song there was no music but somewhere they began to pull the facade aside suddenly they didn't care if the rather across the aisle saw that I've got a problem I'm struggling on the inside I'm hurting I'm confused I don't know where I'm going I'm not talking about confusing abductor now don't get me wrong one fear that we have among ourselves is that we are afraid that nobody else has been to the hurting point where we are and because of that we put on the front how you do it great but inside we're time we're hurting no one wants to admit you lose people nobody wants to admit that they're back sliding out of my church nobody wants to admit that they're getting divorced is it long you and I don't want to admit it but somehow the pressure of the mind the confusion the term all the despair the keep pushing to keep going don't worry about it destroy yourself keep on and the devil said if I let them go they will destroy themselves there comes a time if you hear a knocking in the engine don't race the motor if you do you're gonna destroy it when I went to Longview what a one of the men who was a lay preacher in our church came to me name is brother Johnson he came to me and he said pastor I want to talk to you and I said okay and I didn't listen to him I mean here I was ad Spears I preached in three or four fellowship meetings and I even got to go live Tabernacle one time and and you know here he was just for the jumps and but he said son and would tell you something you better slow down I said slow down he said 35 years of age I suffered a massive heart attack and I'll sit on your pews until I die it's getting quiet I'm going a different route but he said I suffered it because nobody ever pulled me aside and set me down long enough to let me heal and they said keep going don't worry Keith and he said now I said on your pews I'll never fall feel a bull kid again and he began to weep and he said you better listen to me but I didn't listen to him because you see that was his problem not mine but then pressures of life begin to build up and then stress begins to come in we don't like to use the word nobody likes to say stress it sounds like defeat it sounds like a backslidden state nobody wants to say we've got problems because when we say we've got problems we almost get on the outer edge of saying we got sin but hey friend we've got problems I stand before you today with maybe even temptations and I stand here with struggles definitely struggles but somewhere it is not God's will for me to be destroyed in the everyday aspect of life it's God's will somewhere for there to be a point of restoration for there to be a healing of the mind for there to be a healing of the spirit for there to be a new way renewing and a restoration now hold on it gets controversial at this point everybody has a right in this service today to hear an answer from God and you have heard it over and over again the outward pressure begins to build up in the mind and if there is not a release somewhere there is going to be a turmoil on the inside your body and your mind are so uniquely made by the designer of the universe you can only take so much I didn't make you that way you didn't evolve into that the designer of the universe says there's only so much you can take and that's it now not all problems are spiritual problems and the hardest thing I've had to learn as a pastor and I'm not sure I've learned it total because I have almost destroyed my own self physically by not understanding this concept but somehow that when they walk in the building we prescribe the treatment and sometimes their problem has nothing to do with the spiritual state that they are in spiritual conditions don't necessarily rise and fall daily the way people struggles and their emotions rise and fall but when people are confused as to what is emotion and what is a move of God then they come off the job and they're tired they're weary their mind is problem and they've got turmoil on the inside they drink enough coffee to kill them they need enough sweets to run their blood sugar up they walk in the house of God and then we say come on worship God they struggle for it and we look at them and say hey you're not worshiping God your back slid you've got the devil you need to be in the altar and so we breed in that man confusion as to what is God and what is a term all of as physical emotion going on in his 'life I've seen them and I've helped to destroy them when they have come to me dying on inside and brother Mangan they've been so with term all when I've looked at him and I couldn't decide for what the problem was I didn't take time to realize that there was all kind of mental pressure going on I just said go on another three day fast go on a seven day fast get in that prayer room and pray five more hours next week and Lois is not popular and somebody is saying but I want to tell you for him there are some answers that we're going to give them that's going to breed enough turmoil and confusion in their mind that they're going to crawl out that back door and there backslide by the droves because somehow God is not the author of confusion now I realize that's why brother Kenny took a little moment before I got up here he heard me he takes all the blame today I prescribed the treatment and you have before when sometimes I have used prayer as an aspirin process it works alright the aspirin does if you got a headache but if you got a tumor on the inside of the brain the aspirin is not going to take care of the tumor and sometimes we've looked at him and we tried to make him around I have maybe not you and we've tried to jump on one more service and we tried to lay hands on him and shake him and said all you need is talking tongues a little bit and it wasn't that they needed to be healed in the mind they needed to be healed inside they were hurting they were dying they were confused they were in agony and maybe all they needed if somebody just sit down and say hey buddy it'd be alright in a day or two you're still a child of God not getting too much response out there but but the biggest response I got back from my church brother Kilgore is they tell me all pastor you convinced me I wasn't back slid because I didn't feel good you convinced me I had washed up with the Holy Ghost just because I didn't feel what everybody else felt but I've been going through a problem I've been distressed and Paul said but we were come to the place that distress he is not going to separate us from the love of God it's not gonna do it it's not gonna do it Amen we we don't want to accept it you see today as I talk I look across this audience and occasionally I see a man do this in a cage last the elated do this but you see especially what I'm talking about now nobody wants to break down nobody wants to get the victim out and said oh god he's talking to me I'm at the end of the road but some of you came to this comforts and you know you didn't come because you wanted to you came because you struggled and said I don't know where to go but if something don't happen I'm gonna cave in I'm about to lose it all my man some of you preachers wives can't take it much longer but God is going to give us an answer and there will be a healing we'll be a restoration just because you've got a problem does not mean there's something wrong just because you've got problems does not mean that you're a bad simmer some of the problems don't have anything to do with spirituality there are problems of the mind that does not have anything to do with your walk with God and I'm going to weight off into that and hang myself after a while not all problems are spiritual but if all problems do not come to a solution they will eventually become a spiritual problem but many of them do not start that away Oh Lord here goes amen there are ladies that come into our congregation that with physical problems and some of them go through it once a month it's called PMS and they walk into the building and they don't feel good and it's just one of those things it's the way God made the body made the life make them run and shout all you want to that's not going to solve the problem because you can't prescribe an aspirin when you've got a tumor in the brain and sometime we instead of healing we've added to the confusion and I've watched new converts when I've thrown out the fact hey what you need more you're just not praying enough you're just not getting with it I was preaching the other night and I noticed you back there you wasn't even with me and then the danger thing comes that the man who is my friend suddenly becomes my enemy because then I began to attack the his reaction rather than trying to treat his problem and and Jeremiah said man there's something wrong my daughter's hurting why is there not a physician there look it up that calls a healer of the mind in Jeremiah is not a healer of the mind there I'm not trying to be psycho but I'm going to tell you my friend there are some problems that all the devil's got to do is set back in the corner we don't have to tempt us he don't have to do anything we're gonna run our motor and destroy ourself if somewhere there's not a balance comes to us suddenly I see more tears beginning to to be evident across disability I was raised on a preacher's home a loving father great people thank God for my heritage but I was raised in an era that I was taught you don't ever slow down you wear out rather than rest out you give yourself you don't ever worry about it you destroy yourself you go go go go go nobody told me that if I did that and I didn't ever pull time to retreat if there was never a time to pull back and be renewed and restored that after a while I'd run out and the pressure of life would get so the stress factor would become so the burns would become so in my own mind in life that I would become confusion it's in time like this when we say hey keep running a little bit faster and you said I've gone I've run as fast as I can I've pushed it all I can I can't push it anymore but I'm afraid our answer is push it some more come on push it or just just you're just you're about half backs ahead so push it some more and we fail to recognize the problem area the mental aspect the physical aspect they've got a problem on the job they've come there man's been cussing them all day long they're not back slid they've been through so much turmoil and care and in dear Lord they come into the pulpit and I've been guilty maybe you hadn't but I've been guilty when we browbeat them and we pushed them down and we've made worse problems out of the situation and we just tagged it all and said it's a spiritual problem you've got and that's all it is to it and it could have been a lifestyle problem and there's some of us sitting in this building have just got simple lifestyle problems it's not spirituality we run stay up half the night eat wrong and then end up stressed out confused I'm glad you're still with me brother killed or are you man amen and and we end up and the first thing you know we end up with a guilt syndrome oh my god I got to get it done got to get it done hey my friend undoubtably the reason God brought us to Alexandria this year is the test that lies ahead of us is so great we cannot get it done if we are mentally a press if we are beat down not by the devil but by ourselves our ownselves and destroy and push and push and run and and I did that I did that that's what they told me to do in 1974 is in a revival now begin to come apart but who do you tell who do you go to and say because somebody where do you go who do you tell next friend I want you to know there's some hurting people in this building today you listen to me I'm not too many years shot 50 years old but I'm not near the individual I should be because I push to push to push that nobody said wait take a minute nobody trying to pull me aside and heal me for the barn set me down in 74 and he said 80 you better listen to me he said I'm telling you to go home to the Quincey and quit preaching for a while well the TW barns and he was at a meet the first day I did this he was there you know you know there and he vouched he was sitting on the second row and he said go home and sit down and get yourself together you wound yourself like an eight-day clock and he said the only way you're gonna get unwound is the way we used to do them you shake it and put it down awhile and you let it slowly on what if you arm the to tie at that moment you're gonna break the spring inside he said go home sit down be reconciled and I said oh man you don't realize but I remembering that time I was preaching revived for mother my husband and I would leave my little trailer into Quincy Drive a hundred and eighty four miles one way I'd preach and when I got through preaching I'd run out of that church and I get in that car I Drive a hundred and eighty four miles your God I found to be Baxley and I fell to not even have the Holy Ghost I'm struggling I'm hurting inside but they told me that you just keep going and that if you got a problem there's nothing wrong on the inside and I would get into that little trailer and I'd close the door and I leaned against the wall and upset of God if you don't help me I don't know what I'm gonna do am i preaching the preachers today am i preaching the preachers wives today your office has become your your weeping chamber it's no longer an exciting place to study your mind is so broken I but yeah a vacation won't do it hold on and I'll get to that after a while somewhere you have to meet the problem right where it is and find out what the problem area is and solve it right there at that moment but then the guilt sealing syndrome starts in hardened me they'll get it all straightened out what I'm doing wrong tonight brother Arnold but it finally I began to question God I said God you don't understand hey youyou don't understand God man I'm racing everything I'm running everything and not succumb in the end of the world to come in and you don't understand I got to push more and do more man the whole world depends on men god stop me though that end he said hey when were you born that's in 1941 and he said the world was in trouble before you got here and it'll be in trouble if it tears long enough after you're gone all I'm asking you to do is play your part on the time I have allotted for you to walk across the stage but I need you at your best I don't need a hull of a preacher I don't mean a broken mental confused individual I need somebody that's been healed somebody that's been restored somebody that's been touched somebody that's been been renewed and I think that's what God's saying to somebody today I'm sorry this is not what you expected out of me because this is not what I've ever done before but a year ago brother Kenneth Haney you were here well ago a year ago I was preaching Sunday School convention in California that year it was in Stockton in the middle of a sermon God spoke to me and I said it publicly and I did not understand why God said go home shut down all of your preaching across the country close it down here to be gone only to time for the next two year for the next year stay home I didn't understand that they invited me back to California for the same convention this past year one year later and when I got back there I did not notice any difference but preacher after preacher came to me and said there's something different about you I don't know finally brother price the superintendent called me aside and he said brother Spears you've breached in my church and you've been to this district and preached I don't know how many conventions but he said something has happened to you he said he said somewhere there's been a healing that's been happening inside and he said you don't preach the way you're used to preach somehow you're reaching down and getting in the heart and pulling out something that got brother pew you were in both of those conventions you will verify the fact oh I'm not trying to be smart here today I'm not trying to be negative I'm just saying that somewhere we can push ourselves until we destroy the only vessel God has in this world to reach this generation is what you see here today if we don't find a balance to it but I'll tell you so I kept pushing I took a church in Longview 1977 greatest church in all the world and I match it with any of you whether the greatest Church Bar None I guess God put me there because he saw it and they have sense enough to stop and slow down man went in there dragged myself to that pulpit dragged myself to the all to pray everything for everything and the altered loved it and kept on and kept on but there is some things my friend I hate to say when you wear it out and tear it down there some things God does not totally build up and restore that's why eighty year old man don't act like 20 year old man it's God's process so we launched into a building program three months from the close of our building program our bank defaulted in the midst of the building program can they hear those little old whispers well I know used to do well on it nobody knows what I'm talking about so I'll go on and so begin to take it on the inside because I didn't know where to go to get here I didn't know where to go so walk the floor I crawled on the floor for three years and I know I'm making myself vulnerable and may get totally criticized but that's what this whole conference has been anyway but for three years I've never slept any brother Williams three years you say you're crazy well I'm just about one yeah slept 20 minutes and once I had the 20-minute sleep then I would get up and then until my body would literally wear out and walk the floor worried confused and I'd crawl living room floor beat the wall pull the carpet bare my face Annabella's thank God in there a preacher somewhere don't misjudge me I've preached a few conventions in my life and I'm not being smart when I say it but I have to say that to say this but I went to enough up and preached enough um that when I left them some time I was more confused and when I when I went to him who mercy some of you don't stare at me that way please but instead of somebody healing it was it was just more term all more a confusion the first thing I found and I see it in some of you suddenly you begin to back away suddenly when you come together and you do your best to just melt in the carpet you would draw yourself from even your friends Merrill John would call Thank You Burrell it's a Haiti everything all right but even your best friend somewhere before God comes there has to be an on an honesty that happens to our ranks and our movement that we can trust somebody and dear God we're almost as scared too because we're scared they'll tell and if one tells it and it gets to the third when it's going to get twisted up and confuse but where is the man who can take me in his arm and say I know you're hurting but I'm going to be a physician and I'm gonna find up your wounds and I'm going to pour the oil if you're hot and I'm gonna care for you and I'm gonna love you and I'm gonna see you restored I'm gonna see you restore I'm not gonna let you die I'm not gonna let the pressure kill you I'm sorry for the world for not calling you I've driven through your city of the last few years and knew that you were hurting and didn't even do it but I beg your apology today Oh God and yet there then we have lost in years gone behind there are saints that we've lost that it's not because they love sin it's not because they wanted to sin it's they were hurt and they didn't know where else to go until the mind got so confused why don't some of you men get that anger out of your pocket and say dear God he's talking to me it's worth I believe it why don't some of you ladies that came to this conference and I said on this platform while ago and I looked at some of you that right now your body your mind your life is totally wore out totally somebody said oh you're telling us not to do the will of God don't take anything and add to or take away from what I'm saying I'm just saying we can't do the will of God if we are a broken messed-up vessel this is all he has to reach this generation is this this and so finally in 1984 I finished that church the Kilgore you came to my dedication and I saw you look at me and you looked at me you knew something one night I walked out of the church Spenser McCool you you were there I walked out of the church that night suddenly I looked at my wife and I said little light you know just like something somebody turned the switch off went totally lifeless and dad she looked at me and said what are you talking about brother Spencer McCool later told me he said I saw the moment it happened he said you suddenly changed I'm jumping over to another part but I've talked to doctors I've sat down and don't don't default me for talking to a doctor if you got a prescription in your pocket somewhere or your wife's on birth control pills Amen don't don't fault me a man you trust God hallelujah I better come back to that later they understood but in in this when finally I reached the end of my road and I was totally broken then I began to struggle and try to find everything I could to find what happened to me and how it could be healed not being smart but I've talked to many a doctor I've done research totally totally destroyed and a lot of it 99% of it had nothing to do with the devil it had to be that I myself did what all a hell could not do and that's load my system until breakdown its immune system and destroy the only thing that God has chosen to use in this world inside this right up here is a little part of gray matter weighs a couple of pounds or so but inside this cranium there is all my center of reasoning is here 100 billion cells here 100 billion and in studying this I found out that this hundred billion cells each one of those cells are connected to a thousand cells making over a hundred trillion cells complex in the study I found out they say that the brain has more connecting points to it than all the computer systems in the world in operation right now part of your brain the size of a black-eyed pea has more connecting points than all the telephone system in the United States of America now in complexity of that your brain is just not setting up there but it is deciding what to do with all of your body and life by the load of problems that you put on it and it responds by whatever you put into it we take on more worry in the confusion and this becomes the very control center of our life each one of these cells putting out your brain makes over 10,000 different kinds of chemicals over 10,000 sometimes welcome to the science class seventh-grade a man sometimes in this system that is making 10,000 different chemicals operating 100 trillion cells speeding faster than like my hand moving here somewhere it's not just something saying it but there are thousands of chemicals that react like a spark plug in a spark jumping and they react to something else and it reacts to something else and my whole system but load that system down put enough pressure on it and scientists say that you can destroy some of those chemicals they cannot be manufactured in any lab in the world and when some of them are depleted the body never makes them back again but somewhere psalm of David said he maketh me to lie - you're supposed to he said lay down because somewhere in that laying down there began to be a healing happen here no God I don't leave don't leave me yet hey man stay with me just a little while longer but thank you sister Mangan hey man it's just me and you now hey man but suddenly all of these chemicals and they begin to pour into our system and then in this computer science center that we've got between our ears suddenly something begins to happen that doctors don't totally understand but this is what happens when stress builds up to where it can't handle the system can't handle it anymore it begins to short-circuit it's not a spiritual problem it's not a spiritual problem the physical it's an overload problem but here is what happens suddenly out stand in the pulpit at times and couldn't tell who was in the congregation couldn't call the name of my Saint is standing look at him like an idiot nobody and then then you suddenly start feeling this Oh hmm must be indigestion what an indigestion it's something up here is notifying you of a short-circuit system that's about to happen because of all the research I have done it says that there are more deaths attributed to pent up emotion that never got out than any other leading cause I got it run here a man and it said that anger will probably be the leading cause of death in the United States of America the money said oh no I thought heart attack that's what I'm talking about somewhere this chemical process gets so mixed up until it overloads and it makes too much of certain chemicals it goes haywire and then it dumps them into an area that it's supposed to dump it into that gives you what's called the fight or flight syndrome fight or flight just simply means that the way God made you you walk through the woods and suddenly see a rattlesnake your entire system does not have to run through and say snake snake snake SNA ke let's see no no that immediately your system goes into action all of your blood in your system leaves the skin and goes deep down inside it's called fight or flight so that at that moment you can be injured deeper then you could at a moment of relaxation and not bleed to death God made you that away but you live your total life in a fire flight syndrome every problem becomes a crises every situation becomes a despair live under stress run run run hurry hurry hurry don't eat right amen get up early stay up late don't ever take time lifestyle becomes so complicated we got around a million miles an hour we all more than we can even rake any men we're confused but we got to go that's the last stop it's a computer age you don't have to wait punch the button the answers there but after while this won't operate anymore and when it don't operate anymore you're in trouble you're in trouble hey I probably shouldn't say what I'm going to say but nobody has said it because it's too embarrassing to talk about but one of my preacher friend a couple that took me in and gave me some of my first revivals people that their relationship goes back to my wife's father's family prayed some of them through it wasn't too many months ago until life became so mixed up shouldn't say it it wasn't very far from where you live just up the road few miles lays everything out takes that gun puts it up there preacher's wife an official I'm not here to debate the point I'm here to say something happened somewhere I won't wait on any father you've got your opinion and I've got mine but I'm just simply saying what would have happened if somewhere somebody she could have opened up to and said I'm having some thoughts and ideas that I don't know how to handle I know you've been I've been taught you're an idiot if you thought these things and I was back slid but but but man I talked to me tell me something no we say how are you doing bye fine could it be that I walked by people today oh I'm not trying to be smart I trying to deliver something God gave me after four years of breaking my own hell could it be that I'm looking at preachers today that are just only days away from a massive heart attack that you don't have to have am I looking at preachers and their wives who are right on the verge of having a stroke only because you've loaded your system so much it's getting quiet amen but Oh God if I don't do anything else today if I get criticized by over half of you but if I read somebody and God reaches out there and begins to start the healing process and the restoring process it will be worth it all that's all right I'll go back to Longview I'll do my thing over there I'm gonna do my best to reach the world but I tell you what I don't really know too many people that are sitting down and are not concerned everybody here's concern you wouldn't be or if you unconcerned we're not a lazy bunch of idiots we're not the dingbats we're not the ones who don't care we're here because we care but ran in that caring amen also at the same time let's stop blowing on let's wait on him long enough until there comes a healing and that preacher in his life that cries in the night that struggles alone and can't find a way out let's let's let's take time to wait on them I would hate it to be said y'all hear about by the spirits died at 45 you did yep yes just want those things die but I would want it does happen and it's happened in the ranks of Pentecost when we've had preachers that have had to retire before God was really through with them because they destroyed the only thing that God had to work with when the mine gets under so much pressure and all the chemical systems is to are deleted and I've got to quit and I've got proof of a lot of this stuff here amen you know medical stuff and books on it and all this kind of junk some of it was in The Reader's Digest and some of it Paul Harvey said and if it's in those two son it is next to the Bible a man you can believe in an emag and sir not all of it but here it you know here's some of it and it just simply said that it is happening in healthy people James E Skinner head of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston says that it is happening in healthy people that suddenly they are dying because of the malfunction related the lifestyle the stressful situations they're in in setting and talking with some of these doctors I found out that when you load your system so much it has to have an outlet it's like you put too much water in a lake it's something's got to happen if it can't go over the spillway it's got to move the dam if it can't move the dam and it's hair up everything on the side God has made you where there are three major areas one is your mind one is your heart and one is what is total physical man and one of those three areas are going to suffer if you don't find a place to come aside and allow God to remove something in you Jesus said and to me it has always been a very strong point I've spoken in tongues I do quite often I've been baptized in Jesus name I preached that the new birth but Jesus said I'm gonna give you something else besides just a tongue talking feeling he said my piece I'm gonna give to you not as the world giveth but I'm gonna give you my peace Oh hallelujah there is some place that somewhere we can stop long enough glory come on I'm not talking about just talking in tongues I'm not talking about just a funny feeling and the time I just run in the building but somewhere there is a place in God that the peace of God that was in Jesus Christ that he lived in this world under all pressure but did not succumb to the pressure of his generation and his time in his hour he said hey buddy I've been through what you've been through I've been where you've been but I want to give you a promise I'm gonna give you something more than just a running down the aisle I'm gonna give you something more than just a funny feeling I'm gonna take my spirit I'm going to take my present but I'm going to take my joy take my piece I'm gonna take what makes me satisfied and I'm gonna put it in you and when it comes in you it will be a peace that passeth all understanding uh it will be something that will remove you again it will be something that heals you again he has chosen you for a work he will equip you with the power to do that work if you don't destroy the only vessel that God has to use you must preserve that vessel and almost give me a few more moments the last days Jesus said they shall run to and fro hurry hurry run run but he said when they do their hearts will fail because when I designed this system I made it or it's only going to take so much that's it my wife's brother is a Mart ition in Shreveport he has been for many many years he's managed some very large funeral homes recently a 24 year old young man died in Shreveport was on Lake Vista no fishing he stood up in the boat and when he stood up he fell over dead of course the family if I'm not mistaken his father was a physician and so his father and the family said we've got heaven on top say something is wrong one of the leading pathologists for the state of Louisiana talked to my brother-in-law and simply said this he said I perform the autopsy from the top of his head to the bottom his feet there was not one thing wrong there was not a physical ailment anywhere he said but I'm going to tell you what happened it's somewhere up here he had lived at a young age of 24 under so much pressure and problem until the system that God had designed simply said we've run out of supplies so shut it down and the brain starts what is called the shutdown system and doctors have told me that sometimes it takes two weeks for the process to finish its route but once it decides that's it I wonder did God bring me and make me vulnerable over somebody to go up and talk about my break whatever you call ahead I hope you don't but I hope that somewhere somebody in this congregation who is right at that point I did this the other day and and I wouldn't embarrass the individual but I finished this and at a certain place and one of the conference's Brotherton and I walked out in the hall and a preacher walked out there and he grabbed me he started crying I hate he almost had to look over his shoulder and he said I want to tell you you saved my life you say and this is not a preacher that that that's one of those kind of gets out all these Williams and all this and this guy's a very solid he's a rock in your district but is that you give me now I could save somebody today for if I had preached to you running and shouting today you would have stayed with me and and and that would have been great and born when it when it was all shouting I turned to my buddy Merle and I said oh god that that's my style why can't I do that why I want I have to do what I'm doing today has thou not known has thou not heard that the everlasting God the Lord the creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not neither is he wearing and there is no searching of his understanding he don't have a problem he giveth power to the faint nobody wanted to identify with the faint so our goal may be we're past that and to them that 1/2 no might he increases their streak hallelujah like what that crazy thing over amen hallelujah for the young men shall faint and be weary and the young man shall utterly fall but that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength shall renew their strength shall renew their strength go ahead remain standing I'm basically through I do this at Longview eman in an hour later then they sit down hallelujah but I want today amen why he said it's going to happen it's gonna happen if something doesn't happen young man's going to say they're going to become weary but they then wait upon the Lord this is a generation that can't wait for a miracle we want it right now but there are some healing processes in the body that it takes longer than 30 seconds some time for it to take care of but all preacher don't don't despair today God is going to begin to somehow plug you in to that supply system that only heaven has and when it's all over with when you come aside awhile when you change in a while when you get some relief for a while then then then then you're going to mount up with wings as he goes huh destined to door work headed for the throne called of Almighty God and at that time after their renewed they shall not be weary and they shall walk and not say Amen and they shall not fall and they shall not fail I can't prove what I'm gonna say go ahead brother dear come here Belinda this is my oldest baby I have two babies this one and my youngest I'm gonna say something and you don't even know what I'm gonna say she's never heard me say this but when I walked through my roughest Valley she is a total reflection of me I see myself in her so much and I could not understand it then but I watched her go through her roughest times of life also because they are a reflection and what we are and I watched her struggle I wanted to almost lost her but until this week I never saw baby wasn't really you it was daddy the greatest revival the world will ever have lies within our doors and it's our kids if the Levitical priesthood hadn't lost their sons there would have been no priesthood I'm looking at a bunch of mothers and daddies today that wish you could put your arm around your because you've got a child that reflects you and oh god I don't care I'm a I'm a do it wrong but I ain't gonna lose mine the hell I may have to go thousand miles out of the way I made the correction different I don't know but I'm not throwing them aside because they're a reflection of what I'm going through with their struggles and trials I'm sorry baby if I embarrassed you didn't mean to a man but I want somebody to go back home and I want you to get your life and I won't let God to renew you because I want that son to be saying I want that daughter to be saved they're struggling because you're struggling they're losing it because you're losing it they're reflection of you and if you die they're gonna die and if you don't get ahold of it and you don't get some help and you don't get some relief they're gonna lose it and when we lose them we lose it all oh God remove that's it daddy go to your side my god if I had a Amen is my other baby here hallelujah my god parents if we lose them we lose it all my fees

Channel: Because of the Times

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Length: 70min 58sec (4258 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 24 2015