Rev. Doug Klinedinst - How Faith Works

come on is anybody thankful hallelujah for all that god has done for all that god has brought you through for his faithfulness and his goodness let's enter into his gates with thanksgiving today hallelujah hallelujah we worship we praise jesus hallelujah my eyes on your faithfulness oh god let me not forget to sing in the valley to look towards your goodness always sing my heart my heart the joy and the strength to lift up my bring a heart that wants you first will be my is bring a heart that wants you first this place an altar sing my soul will sing my soul will make this place an altar make this painting see my see my soul will sing my soul will bring a heart that wants you first all for your glory come bring the heart they want to birthday foreign hallelujah let's get praise to our lord jesus he deserves all the glory of hallelujah is that won't really it's calling out with heaven's breath who's reaching wide to save our souls only you what is this grace that makes no sense but you never recompense who gives us all a second chance only you only you only you there is no one like our god there is no one like our god there is no other god who cares there who hung the stars upon the night and showed the sun how bright to only you only you only you there is no one like our god there is there is no other god who can say there is no one like a no one god our god there is no other god who can't say there is no one like i got my god no light nor death can separate us from your love no height nor death can stand between us no power on earth or all creation no life your death can separate us from your love there is no one like our god there is no one like our god there is no other god who can't say there is no one like our god no there is no other god who can say there is come on can you lift a shadow praise the vote oh come on church i know we're just coming out of thanksgiving because can we create an atmosphere come on if you know we serve a god that is unlike anybody else oh god we worship you we praise you we magnify you we love your names why don't you turn to somebody close to you and tell them there is no one like our god go ahead and turn to somebody on the other side smile at him give him a fist bump handshake high five whatever is appropriate whatever you're coming with everybody everybody smile at somebody nobody should ever come to church and not have somebody smile at them nobody should come to church and not smile at somebody too come on it's the best place to be you may be seated welcome to dallas first church we're so glad that you have chosen to join us here this morning to worship together we are so thankful for the presence of god that we feel already in this place and are excited and believing for great things that god is going to do in the service i do want to make you aware remind you of a few things before we continue on in the service starting tomorrow begins 21 days of prayer here at dfc turn to somebody next to you and say tomorrow starting tomorrow 21 days of prayer we are believing that god is going to do great things through this god has already been moving this past tuesday instead of our our traditional thanksgiving dinner that we have done in past years we instead this year felt to do a thanksgiving communion service and whether you were here in person or watching online as me and my family were doing we were on vacation but we wanted to join in and we watched and we took communion there just our family and the presence and the power of god was so strong there where we were at and i'm sure it was here as well and so you know that what god has been doing and what how god is leading us in guiding us and i believe this 21 days of prayer is going to be a continuation and a growth of that and so i would challenge you and encourage you don't be satisfied with just showing up on a sunday and just kind of going through the motions but jump into what god is doing at our church be a part of what god is leading us to do and to be and to grow into and so every day monday through uh monday through sunday but monday through friday it starts at seven o'clock here in the sanctuary and then saturdays and sundays on the weekends it starts at six o'clock so every day for the next 21 days we will be having prayer in person here and i would encourage you to be here as much as possible as much as possible be here in person if you can't be here in person join with us online and not everybody can be here every day but everybody can be here at least excuse me at least some of the time so 21 days of prayer seven o'clock weekdays six o'clock on weekends and then of course we are moving into the christmas season and so on december 13th that is our kids christmas presentation and so that is both in the 9 a.m and 11 a.m services so be here if you're at all possible it's going to be a great time and then on the 20th is our church christmas worship service celebration and again that's at 9 00 a.m and 11 a.m so be here be a part of that that is a great time of year that is a great service to invite friends to to invite family to eastern christmas is the two times a year where everybody's looking to go to church everybody's a christian on easter and christmas so this is a great time to invite those friends and family who may not come any other time so reach out to somebody around you take invite cards and invite them to church and of course we are continuing to have midweek services at seven o'clock on wednesdays here be a part of that god has been moving god has been challenging us through the ministry the teaching and preaching of our bishop to to consecrate ourselves and sanctify ourselves it's the direction god is leading us to so be here if you can't be here online then join with us or if you can't be here in person to join us online uh on our website and of course all of this is only made possible because of your continued giving god has continued to bless us because of your giving we're able to have church to do all these things and then we're also able to bless people in our community at thanksgiving time with meals that would otherwise not be able to have them because of your giving and so i appreciate it and i want to give you an opportunity to do that today you can give online at dallasfirstchurch.com you can go on our app and click the giving tile you can also text to give to the number that's on your screen if you're watching from home online you can send it into the po box that is on your screen if you're here in person you can drop it in the boxes at the back on my left and right can we stand can we pray and ask god to have his way in the rest of this service we don't we don't want to just go through a program but we come to hear from god we come to see god move that god has a special planet i i look i i believe with all my heart that god always has a will for a service but if we're not careful we can get in the mindset of we come we sing our three songs we hear a message and we go home and if we don't want to be changed and we're not willing to slow down and pay attention god will let us do it but i believe god is here right now i believe his presence is here and i believe he has a will for this service and a will for you so can we pray and ask god that his will would be done that we would be open not to our ideas and not to what we expect but what he wants for us can we all pray right now close your eyes and lift your hands god we thank you so much for your blessings on us we thank you so much for the privilege of coming into this place of feeling your presence of hearing your word of being changed by your spirit god i ask that you would move here that your will would be done not my will not my way but your will and your way have it lord that you would be glorified that you would transform lives that you would be changed here today we give you praise honor and glory in jesus name amen amen hallelujah i want to challenge you right now to testify of how good god has been by your worship amen give him some praise right now if he's ever done anything for you hallelujah we worship you jesus i saw satan fall like lightning i saw darkness run for cover but the miracle that i just can't get over my name is registered in heaven i believe in signs and wonders i have resurrection power yeah it's still the miracle that i just can't get over my name is registered in heaven oh yes my grace belongs to you forever this is my testimony from dead to life cause grace rewrote my story i'll testify by jesus christ the righteous i'm justified this is my testimony this is my testimony hallelujah come together sons and daughters bought with blood and washed in water we sing the praises of the spirit son and father this is my testimony whose grace rewrote my story i'll testify by jesus christ the righteous i'm justified this is my testimony this is my testimony hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on do you have a testimony hallelujah hallelujah i'm not dead you're not done greater things are still to come i believe if i'm not dead you're not done greater things are still to come oh i believe if i'm not dead you're not done no greater things are still to come oh i believe if i'm not dead you're not done greater things greater things this is my testimony from there to life cause grace rewrote my story i'll testify by jesus christ for righteousness i'm justified this is my testimony this is my testimony this is my testimony from dead to life cause grace rewrote my story i'll testify by jesus christ the righteous i'm justified this is my testimony this is my testimony hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus thank you jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah praise your name jesus praise him thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord god we praise you we praise you we praise you we praise you thank you lord thank you lord hallelujah god bless you you may be seated trust everybody had a fantastic thanksgiving holiday wow ready for another week i want to urge all of you remember this week the next three weeks it's 21 days of prayer i know it's holiday time but let's focus with intensity and clarity of purpose and let's come and pray let's stain the walls with prayer let's pray till heaven kisses earth let's pray until hell trembles and shakes and the devil says paul i know and jesus i know in dfc i know come on somebody there is prayer there is power there is purpose there is praise and that's what it's about tomorrow night we kick this off but i want to urge you remember we've been telegraphing our signals to the enemy we've been telling him we're getting ready to start 21 days of prayer well he's already started he's already stepped up some of you have already felt that in the spirit realm it's already come you you're feeling it it's already in your physical area because what is true in the spirit will show up in the physical and what's true in the physical will show up in the spiritual realm and they play off of one another and so let's just with great intensity and focus and clarity of purpose put the devil on the run and have the joy of the lord as our strength and power and walk in that hallelujah so good to see each and every one of you here today god bless you we're so glad the coopers are still here wow i thought maybe y'all had gone back to california but man they hanging around and that cool good to see y'all others were so glad to see new faces and man i'm glad you're here all right all right all right now we haven't done this in a while robinson i believe that's you i'm seeing back there there you are that's right all right all right we haven't done this in a while are you ready assume the position your hands are outstretched in front of you shaking and quaking and baking that's it you get your eyes wide that's it manny your eyes are wide your mouth is open i'm gonna count down to three and when we get to three you'll throw your hands high in the air it's liable to pull you up out of your seat and you shout yeah as loud as you can all right here we go one two three wow somebody said why do y'all do that that's childish and i'm saying except you become like a little child you can't come into the camp come on you got to have faith and you got to believe and there's something about it you feel better don't you yeah you get and that'll help us in worship and praise y'all get what i'm saying hallelujah are we full of turkey and dressing and dumplings and oh lord help us jesus all right we're looking forward to a great week remember that's it monday through friday night seven o'clock the weekend saturday and sundays at six o'clock we'll be meeting for prayer and that's a good thing so let's pray tomorrow night brother klein dance will be with us again he's speaking for us today my monitors just went uh but he's gonna preach for us today and tomorrow night he will be back with us to kick off this 21 days of prayer hallelujah somebody shout yeah all right all right i'm gonna keep talking they're gonna get this sound right uh it seems like the monitors have gone out and it's all out in the auditorium maybe we lost a little power up here or something hallelujah give me i'm gonna keep talking until we get this right hallelujah folks don't be distressed i'm not that's how it goes you just do it it's getting better and there you go hallelujah i'm like that prophet in the bible said my help is showing up come on now all right all right all right now in this prayer what i was saying now we might be getting a little bit too loud up here getting a little echo in our prayer we are praying and setting the stage for 2021 because god told us on new year's eve last year that by the end of this year he said everything's going to go haywire throughout the year now we didn't really realize just what he was telling us ain't no way i thought this was going to happen and it shouldn't have caught us off guard because he did tell us there's going to be a shift and there's going to be some changes now watch this but he said by the end of the year everything's going to be all right for ministry and for the church and for families within each other now this is the last service before we go into the last month of the year so we're at the end of the year so it's all going to be all right have faith now watch this we're setting the stage in our prayer for our children's ministry our youth ministry we're setting the stage for singles for married couples young adults for outreach missions giving we're setting the stage that's why this prayer is so important we're praying we're praying for the winslow's that are starting a church carrollton we're setting the stage this church is setting the stage for that ministry god to be with them and anoint them and give them power and favor and let the holy ghost flow with victory and many souls say we're setting the stage for revival and growth and progress in every ministry new people coming in we're setting the stage for your family's growth and progress in jesus christ for holy ghost power we're setting the stage that's what this prayer is doing so let's be a part of it wow wow somebody shout wow oh shout it better than that now shout it backwards somebody said i know what's going on your gravestone i said what's that wow oh lord help me jesus well you better find the wow every day and you can find it in jesus christ we're so happy to have with us today doug klein dance and his good wife they are a powerful tandem for the holy ghost and god is operating through them in a powerful ministry for many many years now not just here in the north american church but around our world they also lead our evangelists and their efforts across north america and the world and we're grateful to host them this week and we have several evangelists coming in and they will be a part of this thursday and friday training that we are doing with them so a lot of good things are going on we're so glad they are here she has a 5 30 a.m prayer on zoom man and over a hundred women are on that prayer and we're excited about what god is doing a lot of answers to prayer a lot of revelation a lot of prophetic utterance and we are grateful for this ministry i want you to stand put your hands together and let's welcome doug klein dents wow the victory and power in the holy ghost bless you let's give the lord some high praise across the auditorium shall we do it if he's ever blessed you helped you healed you delivered you if he stayed with it on the other side of a hallelujah sometimes amen once you let the hallelujahs roll you get on the hallelujah side the praise and worship side you can worship your way through worship your way out hallelujah what a joy and honor it is to be here thank you musician singer what an excellent praise and worship service we have had and you feel the presence of the lord across the auditorium of course this is our second service because they're dividing up the crowd to give you plenty of space to social distance and we're doing everything we can to do everything we can hallelujah amen what a joy to be with bishop and first lady foster and this great church and we thank you for all the kindness and hospitality and we thank you for hosting every year for many many many years going on 20 plus i think the evangelist seminar evangelist conference that we have and we have evangelists coming in from around the country this week thursday and friday and you're always so kind to cook us food and let us use the facilities and we're going to have a great time and you everyone loves the bishop i hope you know that they all love the bishop so much and are thankful for him and this church investing in us amen amen matthew chapter 13 what a joy that my wife is with me we've been married 35 years and she's been able to be traveling with me more now that both of our sons are married and we're getting ready to be grandparents our oldest and his wife are due in march and i think i'm in good company that's right i wasn't sure but i thought that was the case and so as a matter of fact i think you're going to beat me to it when's the due date yeah we're not till march you're going to get there and i can ask you how's it going what's it like to be a i don't know what they're going to call you they're going to call me papa k what's he going to all right going to be a grandpa papa tom and uh it's just amazing matthew i gotta pray you know me i get to talk and i get in so much trouble matthew chapter 13 verse number 31 matthew 13 31 my wife will be with me in the prayer meeting tomorrow night trying to get her involved as a matter of fact i mentioned to her bishop i don't know if we could hook up some kind of zoom or something i could get some of her ladies from the call to join in and just be in agreement praying right now we need everybody praying seeking god i believe that intercessory prayer is the transition to the next dimension that god is shifting us into and we're going to pray our way uh over and into that you said you wanted wow on your tombstone i i know what i want on mine something good is about to happen that's what i want on my tombstone that's my phrase in life something good is about to happen i live in earnest expectation that a miracle is about to occur and so i want on my tombstone just just pause something good is about to happen hallelujah don't make me get to preach it on that i want to preach matthew 13 31 another parable put he forth unto them saying the kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed into his field which indeed is the least of all seeds but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs and becometh the tree so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof i'd like to preach to you for a few minutes today on how faith works i'm coming from the foundation that you already have faith you have faith in god you're living by faith but i want to talk to you about how faith functions and works and operates especially in the kind of context that we're in right now so one more time would you lift your voices lift your hands lift your hearts make a joyful noise under the lord all your lambs oh that doesn't even sound like a pentecostal church where's the pentecostals out out there hallelujah come on somebody the lord is good i think i might take his coat off praise the lord with all your heart you may be seated god bless you in the presence of the lord today the mustard seed has been the subject of many sermons many books songs discussions and there are many valuable applications to be observed and the first and most obvious is that the mustard seed is small in size if you if i was holding one up you would barely be able to even see it as a matter of fact i have something that i use every once in a while and when i have it between my fingers my fingers smash over top of it you can't even see it but it's in there and it is so small that it is barely visible it is so small that it seems so insignificant but this indicates that even small faith even little faith is powerful faith and often very effective faith don't let the fact that your faith seems small and insignificant make it feel to you like it has no power it is very powerful to have faith in god because the significance is not in that your faith is small but rather that your god is big and when you exercise even small faith in a big god you release the power of that great big almighty god amen and the the the heavens are his throne and the earth is his footstool and he encompasses he has all power in heaven and earth so when you exercise little faith in a big god you release the potential of his power and might we used to sing it back in the old church i'm not sure we understood what we were singing maybe we understand it better now but we sang faith faith faith there it is i hear it out there just a little bit of faith you don't need a whole lot just use what you've got faith faith faith just a little bit of faith i've come to remind you today that a little faith is powerful that when you have faith in god when you put your faith in him and you say i'm trusting in the lord with all my heart that you have connected with potential impossibility to move the greatest mountain in your life if you have little faith you can move a big mountain it's effective the mustard seed is the least of all seeds this could be viewed in the context that there's nothing about it that is is unique or rare or hard to come by it is it is common faith it is ordinary faith this suggests that faith in its most basic form it's it's simple faith but simple faith works simple faith is powerful faith the faith that just says i have faith in god well that don't sound like much but that's everything right there i'm having faith in god i'm trusting in the lord with all my heart i lean not to my own understanding but in all my ways i acknowledge him that is powerful if you will just acknowledge god is in this thing somewhere i don't know where he is sometimes i don't know what he's going to do i may not even know how he's going to do it but i acknowledge that god is in this equation and i am not going to walk through life without faith in god even if it's small faith even if it's simple even if it's basic i'm going to stay connected to my god by faith as a matter of fact let me share something with you that'll help you for where we are right now we're not used to this but you know sometimes you got to fight for your faith paul said i have fought a good fight i have kept the faith that great apostle said i've got the faith but i had to fight to keep it well let me just tell you flat-footed i'm a man of faith operate in the gifts of the spirit cast out devils seen tens of thousands of people receive the baptism of the holy ghost you want to talk about miracles i've seen about every miracle recorded in the book of the acts of the apostles duplicated in some modern day function or similarity i am a man of faith i walk by faith but lately i've been having to fight to keep the faith now i've got it but sometimes i got to remind myself i've got it i've got to talk myself out of my emotions that want to feel different out of my mindset that starts going the wrong direction i get to thinking and spiraling down into doubtful thoughts and i've got to shake myself and say wait a minute that's not what i believe that's not how i live and i've got to fight my way back to my firm foundation and say i'm standing on the promises of god you're going to have faith right now you're going to have to fight for your faith if you're going to stay in courage you're going to have to fight to be encouraged you're going to have to make up your mind in case you haven't realized neutral's not getting it right now you can't just coast your way through the pandemic you can't coast your way through the chaos that is in this world right now you got to make up your mind you got to choose you this day whom you're going to serve where you're going to stay and how you're going to live and i'm making up my mind that as for me and my house we are going to serve the lord i'm going to serve him through this i'm going to serve him through whatever comes next i'm not going to be a casualty of the chaos that is going on in this world i've come this far by faith amen leaning on the lord and i intend to make it over the next mountain and through the next valley and through the next darkness and i intend to survive the next battle how about you whoo i know it's simple i'm keeping it simple on perfect because i want you to know that simple faith in god is powerful faith common faith is enough faith for these uncommon times i was telling them in the other service so i've been around some of the great men of god women of god of people of faith preached in alexandria poa gotten a long revival there g.a mangan man of great faith told me the same exact story after church every night for six weeks and i listened to him every time and said amen that's wow wow wow that's powerful same stories it was simple i kept looking for some complex understanding just having faith in god just stubborn faith in the lord just not not wavering not giving not giving any room for any kind of other ideas to get in just stubbornly pressing toward the mark then i got around brother t.w barnes great prophet from louisiana that's going on to be with the lord now went and preached at his church sat with him in the office greatly using the word of knowledge and gifts of prophecy and you could say with that man he just started telling you all kinds of things about your life there's no way he could know it operating in the holy ghost he's just talking to me and just reading my mail so sort of speak and the phone rings hello brother barnes i see they're dying that's all right i'll pray in the name of jesus raise them up god bless you click and of course i'm in here as a student i'm trying to learn i'm analyzing every word and every expression i want the formula here i want to know the steps i want to i'm going to write a book on great faith and how it functions and works and i need all the chapter titles and all the sub points and so i he goes back to ministering to me and talking to me and the phone rings hello it's brother barnes i see terrible accident how long do they give him i'll pray in the name of jesus i speak life god bless you click it goes back to talking to me and the phone rings yes it's brother barnes only minutes to live here with him now i'll pray in the name of jesus i speak life god bless you click about this point i can't take it anymore i say elder every one of these phone calls seems to be some kind of like a tragedy seems to be some kind they call me when they're dying and i said you speak like a 15 second prayer i mean i'm waiting on like travail you know following our faces here he says i speak the word i'm like so so how does that you know how does that work explain that to me how you speak it god does it i'm like so so so when you're feeling that how do you how do you move into that dimension he said i speak my faith god does the miracle i keep trying to get the hidden ingredients to this recipe and i'm suddenly realizing there are no hidden ingredients i speak it god does it and you might think it's powerful to be able to just speak like that but what's even greater faith to me is just to believe that after i pray such a simple prayer whatever happens was god's will he trusted not only in his prayer but he trusted that god would do whatever was right in god's plan and he would accept the results as being god's will after he prayed no secret formula just simple faith in god i'm telling somebody today if you have simple faith in god you may not know how you may not know when you not may not know where you may not be able to put it down step one step two step three you may not have any formula for it but if you can stand your ground and say i know god is with me and he's going to make a way he's going to open a door he's going to answer my prayer something good is about to happen there's an answer here somewhere i'm telling you simple faith in god powerful faith moves mountains out of the way because even though it's the least of all seeds small in size simple in nature so common that every person is given a measure of faith that are not those are not the only qualities it has another very powerful attribute and that is that when it is sown the bible says it begins to grow and as it grows it expands and its influence expands and it begins to grow up and stretch out branches and what what happens is when you release your faith whether it be just a simple whispered prayer of faith whether it may be trembling faith may it be just a little trembling step of faith whether it be just a little prayer of faith when you take your first step you pray your first prayer you make your first statement you are sowing that seed of faith and if i had one in my hand and i tossed it out there i actually did in one church i had a little mustard seed and i went like that and nobody even thought anything happened they didn't even see it the seed was so small that when i threw it out there to sow it you couldn't even see it but i want you to know you may pray your little prayer and it doesn't look like anything happened you speak your word of faith nothing looked like it happened you speak your scripture and it didn't see anything happen but when you release it god will increase it it will begin to grow it will begin to expand and in a little while it's going to stretch out some branches its root system is going to begin to move some mountains i've come to encourage somebody today whisper your prayer if you have to whisper it amen stake your little step if you have to take it but step out by faith on your simple faith in god you don't need the whole equation to step out by faith just step out on what you have because when you release it you're going to release the mighty power of god you're going to release the entire weight of the whole scripture you're going to release the entire weight of the death burial and resurrection you're going to release the full measure about the blood of the living lamb of god you're going to release the power of the name of the lord jesus christ and when you speak his name jesus every knee will bow every tongue confess that jesus christ is lord speak his name in the darkness of the night i remember one time i remember one time i was i woke up in the middle of the night this many many many years ago and i was coming i had not been long out of the world and when i was in the world i was pretty deep into some weird stuff and when i when i was coming into the church and living right some demonic spirits would attack me and it was late in the night and i woke up in the middle of the night under a demonic attack and i couldn't move i was paralyzed to my bed i could not move i could not speak so i tried to pray or say something no words would come out and so i'm laying there i felt a very heavy pressure on my chest i knew i was under demonic attack i couldn't move i couldn't speak so in my mind i began to think jesus jesus in jesus name i plead the blood of jesus i pray the name of jesus no words just in my mind but so powerful is a sliver of faith so powerful it's just a little ounce of faith that when i thought the name of jesus in my mind it wasn't but a few minutes i could say the name of jesus out loud and by the time i got to saying it out loud that thing was long gone and victory was in the place if you can't say it think it in the name of jesus i'm telling you a sliver of faith will move the very demonic forces of hell oh somebody ought to give the lord a great big hand praise here right now i feel the holy ghost i feel the anointing of the lord in this place fight for your faith don't give up don't quit don't lay it down don't become depressed and discouraged i've been fighting a little war we talk about this fight of faith i've been fighting a little war in my own spirit lately i've made a decision that i will no longer claim being discouraged i will confess that i have many times been disappointed but i've decided i will be disappointed but i will not be discouraged and so every once in a while i'm mistaken i said oh i'm so discouraged they said no i'm disappointed in what things are but i'm not discouraged in other words i'm fighting a fight i'm changing my mind i'm changing my expression i'm deciding how far i'll go in a certain direction and i've drawn a line and said i am not going to allow myself to become discouraged i will say i'm disappointed this is not what i wanted it's not how i hoped it would be but nevertheless i am encouraged that god is still with me the lord is on my side so come on fight for your faith and say you know what i may not be this but i'm certainly not bad hallelujah i'm still living by faith all right i got to get on with my message y'all are interrupting me now i'm no scientist but a little investigation a little research will turn up another valuable aspect of this mustard seed and that is that the mustard seed in its natural form outside of genetic level manipulation laboratory uh human intellect manipulation the mustard seed in its natural form does not cross pollinate and cannot be hybridized let me just make that simple for you it means if you have a garden and you plant your sweet peppers too close to your hot peppers your hot peppers are coming up sweet your sweet peppers are coming up hot because when they grow together in close proximity they take on some of the attributes of what they grow beside they become a hybrid mixture a little bit of what they started out as and some of what they've assimilated from the context in which they grow it's called cross-pollination they affect one another until they both become a mixture of their environment the mustard seed in its natural form does not cross pollinate plant your mustard seed right by your hot peppers and it's just coming up mustard because that's how faith was designed to operate it was designed to operate in any environment in any context and not take on the attributes of the context in which it's growing your faith was never meant to be a hybrid of faith and fear faith and doubt faith and discouragement it was meant to be faith and faith alone even if it's small it's meant to be pure it's only faith not taking into consideration any of the context around me i love you but can i talk straight to you you can't mix your faith with what you're hearing on the evening news you can't mix your faith with what everybody's saying on facebook you've got to get along with jesus in a prayer closet somewhere and see what the lord says faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of the lord what is god saying to you that's where your faith is how would you like to try to be a pastor right now i feel i feel for pastors it doesn't matter what you do if you have church people accuse you of trying to kill everybody they have no concern for people's safety and welfare you want us all to die and if you don't have church where's your faith aren't you a man of god do you believe in the lord it doesn't matter what you do and then you got everybody going on facebook seeing what everybody else is doing and then they decide that we should be doing over here what they're doing over there and then they'll make a lick of sense because every situation is different every city is different every community is different they're different guidelines and restrictions and then you got to look at the size of the church building and the size of the congregation and the cultural makeup of the congregation and the demographics do you have older folks do you have sick people do you have vulnerabilities you have to look at your entrances and exits every pastor has got to make decisions of how we're going to do things here and you're going to go on facebook and just say well i don't know these people over here but i think we ought to do what they're doing i had a guy i got to move on bishop i've done god off the deep end over here but uh i had a guy called me one time i don't know how he got my number it's i guess it's out there everywhere and god told him i'm supposed to read this certain book and he got telling me a little bit about it i pretty much figured out i didn't believe in it but i said no i'm not buying that book god told me to call you and you're supposed to read this book i said i don't care what god told you i don't even know you i've never spoke to you in my lifetime i don't even know who you are well god said i said if god wants me to read that book he's going to have to tell my pastor he's going to have to tell someone who's in authority over me he's going to tell somebody i know their life i've been i've already put my hand my life in their hands i trust their judgment i ain't letting somebody i never heard of in my lifetime call me up and tell me what i'm supposed to do the bible said no those that labor among you you if you're going to trust somebody you better trust somebody you know their walk with god you know their life you know that they've got a relationship there's a watchman on the wall that is watching for your soul i've got people that are watching out for me and i'll tell you what if one of them called me today and said by the book i'd be at the bookstore with four good services over and i'd be reading it by the night but you better trust yourself to somebody that you know has you or loves you and has your good in mind and is trying to get you to heaven there are too many voices out there there's too much chaos out there you can't look around out there i've got to look to the word of god i've got to get a word from the lord i can't cross-pollinate with everything going on around me faith is meant to be immune and unaffected to all of that it's like the other old song we used to sing in the old church when the earth all around me is sinking sand on christ the solid rock i stand you've got to learn to stand on the promises of god if it's failing all around you don't look at the wind don't look at the rain don't look at all the earthquake and shaking don't look at the news don't listen to everybody's voices get standing on the promises of the lord on the solid word of god and say like the other writers said let a thousand follow my left hand let ten thousand fall on my right it shall not come nigh me because i'm also standing like joshua said as for me in my house we are going to serve the lord you're going to have to decide for you i've got to decide for me but i decided i'm going to live for the lord even if it is a pandemic even if chaos is everywhere even if they're about to have war on the streets i'm going to live for god my faith can work in contradictory context and circumstances back in december 2019 a year ago this time the lord spoke to me on it was december the 24th christmas eve morning and my sons were coming to visit with their wives i was excited about that but i always start my day with prayer normally the lord speaks to me the gentle flow i recognize the flow of the lord it comes and it flows unhindered the lord's voice starts speaking there's no interruption there's it's not difficult it just unfolds in my mind fluidly i know that's the voice of the lord this morning was different he thundered in my spirit out of context of anything else he said your wilderness season is over you enter now in the season of my blessing and abundance well i wasn't expecting that but i'm going to tell you what things got good real fast i went to michigan a week later a year ago this time pastors say we have a family here in the church business people they want to bless you i said oh i like the sound of that they put it up on the screen i looked up there through my squinting nearsighted eyes i said pastor is that alexis he said it sure is this family gave us a 2019 lexus gx460 that's the big one i looked in the glove box 63 thousand dollars oh y'all that don't excite y'all well i'll do a little dance amen i was out of the wilderness bishop things are going good i like this new season i'm in i was riding down the road in that thing with my wife and i said i didn't even know what this thing is this this ride's pretty nice i get used to this as i tell you something's funny bishop i was talking to her i said now you know i did get to thinking about something we do have a problem she said what's that i said we get this thing to florida we're gonna have to pay sales tax i said i'm not sure i can afford to pay the sales tax to get this thing licensed in florida i kid you not we were having the conversation about how we were going to pay sales tax when i got into florida i had text a few of my friends and showed them what god had done i hadn't put anything out on social media and one of my friends called me on the phone i said man i'm riding in it right now he said have you considered the fact that when you get to florida you're going to have to pay sales tax i said we were just talking about that he said well i want in on this blessing i said well what do you mean you want to get in on this he said you meet me you meet me for dinner tomorrow night he said i'm going to pay your sales tax went to dinner he said two thousand dollar check across the table and when i went down to pay the sales tax because i had a letter of donation i didn't even have to pay sales tax it cost me 223 to get it titled i called him up he said just keep the money as a blessing hallelujah come on when you're out of the wilderness the atmosphere changes so i get to the month of march just a few months later and the entire universe goes into the wilderness along with the entire church now i'm going along i'm doing great god's a blessing holy ghost is moving i mean rolling in every direction i mean i've been doing this 35 years and i had never been in a season like that before and suddenly the entire universe is in the wilderness all the church people are in the wilderness and everywhere i look it's wilderness and i don't mean to upset nobody i know it's been a difficult year for a lot of people as a matter of fact when we set the time back a couple of weeks ago some people didn't even want to i don't need no extra hour of this mess keep it moving let's get out of here as fast as we can keep your hour let's go hey anyone set their clock back but but i'm just going to tell you as for me that's for my wife and i our family 2020 has not been a bad year i know that's out of context i know that's backwards and i'm not saying that it doesn't exist i'm just saying that it hasn't happened that way for me 2020 has been a good year it's been a blessed year it's been a happy year we've done well in our family god has been with us every step of the way so i'm in it but i'm not of it i'm in the wilderness with everybody else i'm just not of the wilderness i mean i've been walking through a season that was designed by the word of god for me the lord said you're out of the wilderness so i'm walking through it and i see it on the left hand see it on the right i see it everywhere around me it's all around me but i'm in it but i'm not of it you know you can be in the world but not of the world you can be in a collapsing economy and not of a collapsing economy i'm on god's economy there can be chaos all around you there doesn't have to be chaos inside you this is how faith works it works often times in contradiction to the context in which it has to operate so i get all the way up to the month of june and i go out to california to preach a virtual camp meeting and we were doing everything we were wearing masks and social distancing and fist bumping you know doing all that business but i got around one of the speakers and uh went to breakfast and ended up getting covered well here's how that happened it's friday morning and i'm in my hotel in the lord thundering voice again second time six months later you are behind a hedge i have you behind the hedge have no fear so i'm just going to tell you what i thought well i'm bulletproof i can't get that virus may get on you sorry can't get on me because i'm bulletproof because god told me i'm behind the heads you need to pray more and get behind your heads for yourself i mean that's just what i was thinking now i was still being careful going on doing all the protocols going through i mean i still you know cooperating but i'm just thinking i don't need i mean i'm behind a hedge well i traced it back because i got sick i mean i got really sick i didn't preach for eight weeks and uh i was home bad bad off just barely on the edge and uh and i traced it back and about the way i got it figured out i got up from my prayer meeting got in the elevator went to breakfast with the guy who gave me the cobin within 30 minutes of god telling me i was behind a hedge i was infected and y'all looking at me like i thought you were preaching to us how faith works it sounds like how it doesn't work let me tell you what happened you know murphy's law says everything that can go wrong will in my case everything that could go right did not only did i find out right away that speaker called me said man i got coveted you might want to check yourself out i thought i had allergies i said man i'm sick already i gotta went down to the urgent care they we called them up they said well we can give you a test but you won't know for seven to ten days there's a spike in louisiana this was back in june i said well whatever we need to do i got down there got my tests and the doc said just wait right here i'm gonna tell you right now i didn't ask he just gave me a rapid test i knew right away i went home packed up my trailer headed to florida i was so sick i felt so terrible i didn't even know how i was going to drive that 10 12 hour drive to back to florida the whole way driving home people started calling me we heard you got to covet i said pray for me i'm driving i'm sick i started laying my phone up on the dashboard for 10 solid hours people called and prayed for me one right after the other speaking in tongues speaking faith they prayed me all the way from louisiana to florida one of those that called me was a doctor friend of mine dr anderson he said i've been treating covet i know everything you need he had the prescriptions called in by the time i got home everything was already at walgreens the next day i'm talking to him on the phone he said you need to get you a nebulizer i said nebulizer i've been speaking in tongues all day no it says breathing thing i got on amazon trying to find one he said you need one as fast as you can get it while i'm talking to the doctor the bishop of the church where we attend um text me said i heard you got coveted is there anything you need i said doc i'm talking to doc on the speakerphone texting bishop i said the doctor says i need a nebulizer and do you know anybody who's got one he said i've got one i'll send it over to you right away while i'm still on the phone with doc there's a knock at the door they said the nebulizer outside i said doctor hold on i think my nebulizer's here he said how'd you get one so fast i said oh i forgot to tell you i got the covet but i'm behind the hedge it's going to be a little different operation than you're used to doc hallelujah you see we've got to understand how this hedge things work we looked at we look at job and we say god remove the hedge that's not what happened god never removed the hedge he did move the hedge so when the devil comes to god about job and says i can't get to him you've got him hedged in and all his stuff everything he owns let me get to him he'll curse you to your face god said go ahead but don't touch him so god took the hedge and moved it just around job now his fields are burning down family crisis wealth is going through the floor everything is chaos all around him but from a narrow hedge job says the lord giveth and the lord taketh away blessed be the name of the lord my head's got narrow and things are a little tighter but i can still worship the lord even in these contradictory circumstances enough for the devil he said he said that's not it skin for skin let me get to him god said all right i'm gonna let you do it but you can't kill him so now god narrows the hedge inside job just around his life now his body is no longer behind the edge so he's got boils everywhere he's so sick his his very friends are looking at him said you just need to curse god and die but job behind a very very narrow hedge says those skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall i see god he said i may be sick but i'm still behind the protecting hedge of god i don't know who i'm preaching to right now things may be a little tight sometimes they get narrow sometimes we're sick sometimes we grieve sometimes we've got more problems than we know how to fix but behind your narrow heads of god's protection exercise your mustard seed of faith and say i'm trusting in the lord so just to be very very honest and candid with you i got very sick i was i was so sick i couldn't hardly go didn't go anywhere for weeks and weeks and weeks my wife is making me get up and walk around i couldn't hardly walk i'm breathing i got the nebulizer they got me on steroids all kinds of stuff man i'm just out of my mind and the fear comes because the the virus is physical it's a medical situation but but the the spiritual side is a spirit of fear spirit of fear comes to your brain tells you you're going to die you're not going to recover you know this this is it and and the enemy came and and i told him i said well whoa whoa devil you've come too late the lord got to me before you did i know you've come to kill me and i know you've come take me out and i know you've come to use the virus against me and all this stuff but see the lord told me before i ever took the first breath of this covet that i was behind a hedge so so i am sick and i'm coughing and i'm breathing that nebulizer i'm behind a hedge you have to see me on the other side i'm okay now it's all illustration spirit of fear went on the whole congregation right there amen so sick feverish nebulizer ache and pain i'm behind a protected hedge and i'm telling somebody it's not always pretty it's not always pristine it's not always generic sometimes there's a battle to fight sometimes you're going to get a little bruised sometimes you're going to feel some pain but don't give up on your faith hold on to your little sliver of faith god brought me through out on the other side i'm still here today bishop's still here you got sick bishop you went through it your heads got narrow but look you're back because you came through even behind a very very narrow hedge faith works in the context of contradiction it works when nothing seems to be working right when nothing seems to be going along with your problem you've got to have that kind of faith that'll take you through the darkest night through the deepest valley through the most intense storm through the most impossible circumstance through the very worst and most difficult of times it's called stubborn faith oh i'm out of time all right let me hurry stubborn faith some of y'all married stubborn people you know stubborn you know how stubborn works stubborn is people who make up their mind about something and refuse to change their mind no matter what evidence you show them you say but look but you're not listening to me can't reason with them can't explain it to them stubborn made up mine don't want to be confused by the facts just that's just what i but but it don't make no sense but it's just what i but you're not peanut but it's just what i but you got it but it's just what i by the way that's not a good attribute just so i'm being clear that's not good to be stubborn unless it's faith unless god has spoken to you then you hold on to his word if everything around you is crumbling but god said but you're sick but you can't hardly breathe i'm coming out of this thing on the other side god's done spoke to me i'm standing on the promises of god i'm not listening to i don't have answers for it i know it's simple faith i know it's basic faith i know it's it has no reasoning to it but i'm trusting in god's word to be right as a matter of fact let me tell you how far the bible goes it said let god be true and every man a liar if i've got to decide where i stand i'm standing on the word of god they told martin luther king one time when he was doing one of his peaceful marches a reporter yelled out said dr king don't you know the whole world is against you he just kept walking said well then i guess i'm against the whole world you know that's how you have to be with your faith sometimes don't you know nobody believes with you then i believe by myself don't you know the whole heavenly kingdom devilish kingdom is against you then i'm against the whole devilish kingdom don't you know nobody is agreeing with you then i'll just agree with god all by myself but you've got to make up your mind somewhere i'm holding on to my faith in god one last thing i got to hurry don't judge what's going to happen to you by what happens to someone else in the same set of circumstances that's a mistake god's people make all the time they look somebody else had financial trouble now i'm going to have the same so it's happened to their family now it looks like same thing's happening to my family this happened to my parents now it's going to happen to me this happened to my sister now it's going to happen to me and they start judging what's going to happen to them by what happened to somebody else in the same circumstances that is a giant mistake it does not take into consideration god's plan and god's will for people's lives so but we believed and we prayed and god didn't do it and a lot of people have traumatized faith right now because you've prayed for things that didn't work out the way you wanted them to work out and that's a mistake people make and then they lose their faith in god when it wasn't a matter of faith it was a matter of god's will if we pray for somebody to live and they die you've got to give it to god and say it was god's plan it's not because i didn't have faith i had faith it's not because i didn't pray i did pray it's because god made a different decision and i trust in it there have been good people full of faith righteous people that have died during coven good people they didn't die because they didn't have faith they didn't die because they didn't trust in the lord they died because it was god's plan and time for them don't let your faith be traumatized one of my bishops in my life brother ray johnson powerful man of god full of faith full of character great man of god he got coveted and died i got coveted and lived that doesn't mean i'm better than him i'll just be honest with you he's better than me and every kind of christian standard you could come up with he is a more righteous more faithful more praying more solid man here's what happened god looked down and said you've done a good job your work is done you finished your course i'm bringing you home he looked down at me and said you've still got work to do the bible says of enoch he walked with god and was not because god took him but before god took him he had a testimony that he pleased god we have got to stop lamenting these people that have gone to be with the lord i know it hurts i know there's grief i'm not taken away from that let the tears flow you're going to feel the pain you're going to feel the grief and if it was my loved one i'd be in there praying for a victory i'd be praying they'd get off that bed i'd pray till the very last breath i'd probably play for a little while after the last breath and believe god would raise them up but at one point you'll have to stand back and say okay i've prayed i've had faith i've trusted the lord now it belongs in god's hand it was god's plan and god's will it's not a failure of faith well i hope i'm helping somebody here let me wrap it up to a close here let me i got so much stuff to preach my goodness all right i'll end with ezekiel i love telling the story about ezekiel ezekiel was carried away with israel in the babylonian captivity and the way the if you read just see this in the historical record you learn a little bit about the psychological warfare of the day once babylon captured them killed their soldiers their husbands sons and fathers they stacked them bodies up on two sides of the road and then they march the women and children between the bloated bleeding bruised battered bodies of their husbands sons and fathers psychologically telling them there's nobody left to fight for you there's no way out you'll never recover from this captivity by the best we can tell looking at the record ezekiel would have had to have been a young boy young man about the time he walked through 35 years later halfway through the 70 years of babylonian captivity we pick up the story of ezekiel when he said i was among the captives by the rivers of chabar when i saw the heavenly vision the heavens opened up and god says to ezekiel can these bones live have you ever asked yourself the question what was the significance of those bones why did it matter if they lived or not why did god randomly choose a valley of dry bones and ask the prophet can the bones live there wasn't no random valley those bones had significance those bones represented ezekiel's most traumatic crippling circumstance of life he'd ever been through no doubt he remembered walking through those bones as a boy covering his mouth from the stench and now he's looking at those bleach bones in the valley and god's saying do you think they can live can they come back is there still any hope and he says they'll know us and the lord said prophesy to these bones you've got to get to a place you can speak a word of faith to the most traumatic circumstance you've ever been in in life the thing that took your breath the thing that doubled you over the thing that just collapsed you and traumatized your faith and ezekiel starts prophesying to trauma he prophesies to the contradiction he prophesized the bones and you know the story sent you to sin you bone the bone they stood up in exceeding great army but have you ever wondered what's the attribute of somebody that can prophesy to their greatest calamity and chaos and trauma and life how did he come to a place to be able to do that i'll tell you how it started out with his opening comment he said i was among the captives he didn't say i was a captive he didn't say i was captive down by the rivers of chabar he said i was among captives they were everywhere but he never took the identity of his captivity he never claimed the circumstances he was basically saying i'm in it but i'm not of it i'm in this thing captivity with everybody else he had his chains on like everybody else but he rattled his chains and said i'm here but i am not captive i do not have a captive mentality i do not have a captive mindset i am going to prophesy to this situation our musicians can slowly gather here on the platform and help me out here let me tell you how captive israel was they were so captive that the bible records their response to their captivity and you need to listen because this is where we are they said we hanged our harps and the willows they're musical instruments said we cannot sing the songs of the lord in this strange land we don't like it here we can't worship here we don't like the circumstances so we can't sing the songs my brothers and sisters i don't like where we are at all okay i'm just gonna be honest with you this thing first hit i had 19 meetings cancelling a single day didn't like it another thing is i have preached to my computer in my house for weeks and weeks never even says amen i don't like preachers on my computer i got invited to churches they said they're all watching online i have preached to empty church buildings they're all out there hello hello out there they're watching keep preaching okay strange strange to preach to computers in my house strange to preach to empty congregations that's all watching online people sitting at home their pajamas drinking coffee supposed to be saying amen strange times were in and a big part of the congregation of god's people have hanged their hearts and the willows and you've stopped singing and you don't intend to worship anymore till the pandemic's over and the political chaos is solved and all the races start getting along again well you may be waiting a while because i think all these are signs of the end time you know the bible said in the last days perilous times shall come you know what the word perilous means dangerous now i've preached all over the world i've preached in dangerous situations priesthood in nigeria preaches in pakistan priests in india i mean i preached in places where it was dangerous where it was illegal to even try to make a convert to christianity you got to choose your words cautiously and carefully but you know you can have revival even when it's dangerous amen we're going to have to figure out how we're going to live for god even if it gets worse than this i made up my mind i'm not hanging my hearts in the willows and refuse to sing the songs of the lord if this is the way it is then i'll just have revival here i'll just have revival like this throw me that mask i'll give him a mask illustration somebody needs this and then i'll get out of your way i thought i kept that i'm out in wisconsin i'm preaching in church out there they're under they're under severe coveted guidelines so everybody in the church had their mass on and i'm on the platform fogging up my glasses can't read the words in a song on the screen hot under here and i'm on the platform and i'm getting a bad attitude this is ridiculous i hate this god how we gonna have church of course i look out there they're all wearing masks they're worshiping god didn't seem to be bothering them but it was just tearing me up i can't do it like this god i can't worship like this god how am i supposed to have revival like this god and then the lord did what my wife does reminded me of my preaching he said you've been preaching about it paul and silas it's the midnight hour they've been thrust to the inner prison they've been beat on their back got handcuffs on their hands feet cuffs on their feet they're in the stocks and they're singing praises to god and i'm gonna let this steal my victory i don't like it it's uncomfortable but it's not enough to get my victory i can worship with it i can praise god with it i can fist bump and still praise the lord i can wash my hands a few extra times and still praise the lord i can walk a few feet away and wave and still praise the lord come on we can have revival even in an environment like this i'm gonna leave you alone the problem in pentecost is we are oftentimes extremists we've got people who are so paralyzed with fear they won't even walk outside their house well not to come to church everywhere else the virus only gets you at church but and then we've got other people that they refuse to even acknowledge that we're in a pandemic they don't want to change one single thing neither end of the spectrum is right get in the middle we can cooperate with social protocols we can cooperate with cultural expectations i don't like it not even sure how much it works but if it makes everybody feel better what's the big deal put the mask on wash your hands and praise the lord what the mistake we're making has nothing to do with masks and antibacterial it has to do with our brain we have shut down and we put our harps in the willows we think we can't worship till this is over and somebody's got to realize i can worship right in the dead middle of it right here i'm going to prophesy and i'm going to feel the blessing of the lord so the babylonians they carried them away captive here's what the bible said they required of us a song they said go ahead sing us one of the songs of zion the devil's taunting us sing now church worship now it's not sunday night revival 10 years ago it's 2020 pandemic half a crowd mass wearing antibacterial political chaos everybody hating on each other sing now church somebody needs to say you know what i can sing my way through the darkness i'm gonna worship god he's been good to me i've got enough faith to get me through this situation i'm gonna worship last thing last thing i get out of your way it's happening i feel it all over the place what i'm about to tell you you're already doing i learned it when i went to ethiopia and pakistan we had giant crowds half a million people 80 90 000 100 000 people you can't lay hands on that many people we say we need a different operation laying hands is not going to work there's too many for us to get to laying on our hands is biblical but it's not the only way to get a miracle and the north american church has gotten too focused on the laying on of hands and right now god's trying to show us another method let me show you what it is we learned if we could preach faith and we could get the people worshiping and creating an atmosphere when the atmosphere got right when the song and the celebration and the worship god's spirit came down and people way out there would get healed we couldn't even see them let alone lay hands on them and blind eyes were open and i'm telling you if we would create an atmosphere here right now if we would shout unto the lord with the voice of triumph miracles would happen everywhere you are the gifts of healing are flowing in the middle of a pandemic it's a context of contradiction but it still works the altar is open if you want to come and stand you can wear a mask if you're comfortable you can get out in an hour you can get out by a wall come on somebody can you worship god here can you get some victory here can you let the lord touch you by the authority of the word of god and by the power in the name jesus i release you to worship right now i release you to praise the lord right now i release you to let your praises go up and let god's glory comes to glow breakthrough is coming by faith i see a miracle my god maybe if you want me to touch you i'll lay hands on you but you don't need it you don't need it i know breakthrough is coming by we would raise our hands out over the people like this my god may be a promise that it won't just get your my god i see a miracle oh my god you need to be filled and refilled with the holy ghost i see a miracle come on receiver baby receiver renewing in the holy ghost now i speak healing into your body i speak a miracle into your body i release the name of jesus in the name of jesus be healed in the name of jesus rise up in the name of jesus recover i know get your blessing through your anointing i see a miracle my god made me a promise the water's being troubled get your miracle breakthrough is coming i see a miracle my god made me a promise and it won't stop now somebody say i know i know i see a miracle my god made me a promise and it won't stop now i know i i see a miracle my god made me a promise and it walks up now i know breakthrough is coming up tell her my joy is coming to her the joy of the lord shall be your strength right here you've had faith for a long time before today we've been walking by faith i see a long trail behind you that the lord says it's been a long walk of faith but here's where you are you've been at the same level for a long time too but the lord's season is now to elevate you to a higher level a greater passion a greater anointing praying deeper in the spirit praying in the holy ghost it is time for a large significant acceleration of your walk with god it's about to go into into supercharged i've been walking it's time to run a little bit in the spirit and you're gonna make a take a make a great difference in a short amount of time you've got a good foundation let the lord put some very significant building blocks of your next level in your life in the name of jesus in the name of jesus my brother right here just a simple word from the lord i saw him coming into your mind nowhere else right into your mind saying i'm going to take confusing thoughts and cause them to make sense he's going to bring clarity and significance out of confusion and thoughts that don't make sense i released you the spirit of truth the spirit of truth to come against any spirit of error that the enemy is trying to attack your mind there's a battle of the mind that the lord said i'm going to give you clarity once that gets clear it'll trickle down to everywhere else in your life in the name of jesus your battle i don't like to put time frames when i'm speaking things because you can there's a lot of variables but you were just a just a few days from a significant shift in the battle going in your favor seems like it's been all against you up till now and you've just been kind of holding on but it's about to shift significantly and you're going to feel the wind of opposition has come behind you now the lord is helping me you've been praying it believing it hoping for it asking for it the lord says i am about to answer your prayer it's a little bit longer he's heard it he will answer it in the name of jesus today in the altar you have been in it i don't even know if you realize it or not but a significant deliverance as i watched you pray i saw you being delivered thoughts are coming out of your mind emotions are falling away from your heart you are getting free from thoughts and emotions that have kind of kept you back you are delivered today there is deliverance in you there are there are strongholds that have had a hold on you that you wonder am i ever going to be free from this i declare you free he whom the son is set free is free indeed that big old smile on your face is a testimony of your deliverance in the name of the lord it is possible i want both of you to hear this it is possible to have faith in impossible situations in the name of the lord in the name of the lord hallelujah the lord says his grace is sufficient the grace of the lord will be enough for you to make it in the name of the lord he's going to be your help he's going to be your help yay though i walk through the valley sometimes you don't go come out you gotta go through thou art with me the lord will be with you in the valley your prayers are connected to the ministry stronger than ever before you're an intercessor for ministry pastor bishop of the church ministry of the church ministers that god's put in your life and as you pray and uphold the hands of the ministry the lord will uphold you and your family prayers will be answered that you don't even pray you simply desire because you're taking your time praying for others i feel a touch of physical strength upon you today sister physical strength on your body there's been a touch of the lord there'll be more touches to come it's not a complete work yet but it is a step in the right direction felt a physical touch of god upon your health and upon your body today in the name of the lord could we give the lord some high praise we can do this thing i said we can do this thing yes we can this young man right here came to my mind my sheep know my voice they will not listen to another there are many voices that come at the stage of life you're in but the lord wants you to learn his voice and be able to distinguish it among all the others pray the prayer lord teach me to know your voice to hear your voice one thing that will help you is reading the bible till you get used to the language and when you get used to the language of scripture you'll be able to recognize the voice of the lord it'll be an agreement and it'll sometimes be in contradiction or opposition to all the other voices around you but it'll help you find him in the midst of all the confusion and clamoring voices when i'm talking to you it's like walking into a cafeteria where everybody's talking and you don't really hear any particular voice that's what i feel when i talk to you but the lord's going to let you hear that one voice that is his voice that says come over here follow me i'll take you i'll show you in the name of the lord yes lord sister also expect over the next couple of weeks an elevation in joy in your life joy in your life the joy is going to come rejoicing as a matter of fact i see you in your household uh doing doing work around the house just worshiping praising the lord walking lifting your hands praising god in your house there's going to be a season of joy coming upon you that's going to allow you to rejoice at home not just when you're in church oh does anybody feel the blessing of the lord in the house no weapon formed against you can prosper you're treading on serpents and scorpions hallelujah the word is a lamp the word is a lamp and a light to your feet somewhere there's a favorite bible verse you've not even found yet you're going to find it and it's going to be a significant verse for the rest of your life you're going to say years i lived for god then i found this and this verse became an anchor to my soul in the name of the lord whoa i feel the joy of the lord in the house of god god wants us to know we can do this thing would you give the lord some high praise bishop pray with me just a minute would you would you just lose your voice across the auditorium just worship the lord in prayer come on take control of the atmosphere here there's so many of us here we can just worship the lord in this atmosphere brother right here the lord wants to use me as a sign to you right now to let you know the lord does in fact hear your prayer he's hearing you he's feeling you he's aware of you we know the scripture but sometimes it has to be personal not a sparrow can fall from the sky that the lord doesn't see it are you not much more valuable than many sparrows the lord said just tell him i hear him i'm aware of him i feel him and it'll be a sign to him yes lord you are hearing me you let the man of god confirm it to me in the name of jesus i speak a blessing over this church today i bless dallas first church i bless this assembly in the name of jesus i bring the prophet's blessing upon this house today in the name of the lord jesus christ we bless this house i bless this church and its people its members its associates i bless them financially i bless them with prosperity and multiplicity and fruit and increase in harvest even in the midst of famine and difficulty i bless them with health strength physical strength health even in the midst of pandemic i bless this house today to grow and multiply and have harvest even in the midst of wilderness season i bless this house i bless the bishop his wife and their family i bless them with strength and health i bless them with longevity i bless them with help i bless them with encouragement and comfort in the name of the lord i bless the bishop's mind with a fluid flowing word from the lord in season and in sync for this congregation i bless the leaders of the church the ministry of the church the workers of the church i bless you with continued strength in the name of the lord jesus christ god bless each and every one of you today it's been a privilege to be here bishop if you want to come wow wow somebody shout praise the lord oh lord it's a little loud up here i feel the holy ghost thank you lord you can turn mine down turn mine down you might turn some of them behind me their mics down too all right all right we're not going to let this stop us maybe i need to step back so no i ain't stuck no way jose lord we'll grab these monitors and throw them away hallelujah oh i receive this today i received this faith that has come into this house and the sure word of prophecy that he gave at the end of this message to each one of us now he singled some out but then at the end he prophesied over this whole church come on somebody now's not the time to fall back now is not the time look we fell back and gained an hour come on now's the time to step up step out and believe god as we go into this prayer as we go into this fasting we are believing god from mighty things oh i feel the holy ghost in here today father i pray over each one of these here today god i pray each family will be raised up in strength and in power lord you said by the end of 2020 every family of the church every family of ministry everything was going to be all right that was your words lord i remind you of them it's happening right now it's flowing right now in the name of jesus satan you're a liar your power is broken you are a defeated foe like job of old old we proclaim the victory oh lord i thank you as ezekiel prophesied over dead bones so we prophesy and lord you are our blessing we give you honor and glory in jesus name somebody shout amen all right all right if i can meet with our elders real quick if you can meet me right over here on the left side the five elders all right god bless you this is the day the lord has made let's rejoice and be glad amen god bless you see you in church for prayer you

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