RISE 2019 | Jentezen Franklin

you have your Bibles open them with me to Deuteronomy chapter 7 Deuteronomy chapter 7 that's the Old Testament if you never read that you might all - every once in a while but I'm going I'm going to the Old Testament Deuteronomy chapter 7 and I'll begin reading with verse 21 for you shall not be terrified of them for the Lord your God the great and awesome God is among you notice that God is great and awesome for those of us who serve Him but he's terrifying to our enemies there's a lot in that verse the fact that God is great to us but he's terrible to our enemies and I love that verse 22 the Lord your God will drive out all those nations before you here's the key little by little you will not you will be listen to this little by little you will be unable to destroy them at once lest the beasts of the field underline that if you've got an old school Bible the beasts of the field become too numerous for you the Lord your God will deliver them over you and inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed I want to talk to you about that little phrase little by little what I like about coming to places like this is I don't feel pressure about you know having a message that is a conference message I've never preached this sermon anywhere but except at free chapel just a few days ago but it's still burning in my heart and I know that I know that I know it's for somebody in this room tonight and here's the title little by little there's a revelation in that text you see when you understand what God was telling Israel he was saying simply victory success are no longer in debate in Jesus name victory and success the promised land shall be yours and I want to say it over your life it's not in debate whether or not you're gonna make it to the land God's promised you you are gonna make it your ministry is gonna make it your calling is gonna make it your church is gonna make it you're gonna make it everything that you've longed for everything that you've dreamed for everything that you believe for the enemy thought you would give up on it after all that you've been through but something in you won't die something in you won't quit something in you won't change something you won't let go and it's because it exists and I'm telling you tonight that success and victory are no longer in debate in Jesus name in your life let me give you scripture to back it up Psalms 84 and 11 declares no good thing will he withhold from them who walk uprightly not in your own righteousness in the righteousness of Jesus Christ those who serve Him those who walk uprightly God will hold no good thing from them if he's held it from you it's because it wasn't good for you at the time you wanted him to give it to you God will provide every good thing you need in your ministry in your family in your life if you will do as he tells you to do it's his very nature God wants you powerfully favored God wants you supernaturally gifted God wants you abundantly fruitful and successful so I want you to get behind what I just said like you believe it everybody say God wants me powerfully favored say it is so in Jesus name God wants me super naturally gifted anybody believe that say it is so in Jesus name God wants me abundantly successful and fruitful say it is so in Jesus name now take a praise breaking thank him if you believe that keep me up now I've got a little throat thing so just keep me right where you got me all right that's exciting so why is my progress in my success and the dream that I feel like God put in my heart pastor Jenson why am I not advancing why am I not seeing things go faster I thought I would be there I thought I would be much closer I thought I would be further along than what's happening in my life have you ever taken your kids we have our kids with us my grandkids my wife and I are over in Orlando and we just I just hopped over here tonight but we're at Disney this week and they they have go-karts and they have all kinds of rides and I remember when I was a little boy that my dad bought a minibike does anybody remember the many bikes and the go-karts and when my brothers who were older would ride the goat cart it would fly but when I would get on it at about eight years of age he had something called a governor that he put on it and no matter how I pounded my leg trying to put my foot through the bottom of that go-kart it would only go so fast because he had put a restrictor or a governor on that engine that it could only go so fast cause he knew I couldn't handle it like they could handle it no matter how hard it is to you know see other people going past you faster and faster and faster and sometimes that's how it is in our walk with God in our ministries we're screaming faster God quicker God greater God and it doesn't seem to be happening but my goal here tonight is to defeat doubt and to conquer confusion in your mind what God has promised you is going to come to pass the doors will open the phone calls will come the opportunities will arise the buildings will come the resources will come the dreams will come the people will come the the souls will come Jesus will be exalted it's not about you it's about him but many of you have irritation and agitation and frustration and you're asking why am I not there yet why doesn't it grow quicker why don't I see overnight success and the answer is not you know what is the problem it's not a what it's a who it's God God loves you more for who you are than what you do I thought that when my church was 300 if I could get it to 500 I don't know why but I thought somehow I would feel more favored and more gifted and more blessed and when God took our church from 300 people to 500 people I found out God didn't love me anymore at 500 than he did 300 and I thought when he took us from 500 to a thousand that I would realize how much he loved me more and I found out it was very disappointing when it was about that because he didn't love me anymore when I had a thousand that I had helped reach for his glory I hope you know you're going through stuff while all that's happening that's purifying your dream and purifying your goals and purifying your ambitions but I found out you know that God doesn't love me for what I do he loves me for who I am what we want to do should always be overshadowed by who we want to be Luke 10 and verse 20 said rejoice not that the spirits are subject to unto you don't rejoice over what you can do for me but rather rejoice that your name is written in heaven rejoice over what I have done for you because I love you not for what you do for me and how big it is I love you for who you are you are my child and I couldn't love you more right here right now with whatever level he's trusted you with you need to praise him that his love is the same yesterday today and forever give God a praise if you believe Matthew Matthew 7:22 reads like a revival dream list have we not prophesied in your name have we not cast out Devils in your name have we not done many mighty works in your name and then the dream turns into a nightmare when he says depart I never knew you because he's teaching us a vital lesson that relationship supersedes what we do for God God is not impressed with what we do for God if we're not growing in our intimacy and relationship with Jesus Christ it's not about what I do it's about who I am and I don't want the ministry to take away from my walk with Jesus and end up it being about a big ministry but a Shrunk heart we won't we don't want what we do for God to be overshadowed by who we are First Samuel 3 in verse one said and the child Samuel ministered under the Lord this is astonishing listen 1st Samuel 3 and verse 7 said now Samuel did not yet know the Lord he ministered under the Lord but he didn't know the Lord our greatest blessing is not our gifting it's not our talent it's not the ministry that we can do for the Lord but simply to know God and to be known by God it's what everything flows from if any man glory let him glory in this that you know me jesus said it's possible for you to get what you want at the expense of losing what you need and that's why Deuteronomy 7 21 is so powerful many of you are wanting what you want at the expense if you're not careful of losing what you need Deuteronomy 7 21 the Lord your God will put out all of those nations before you hallelujah praise God but here comes the balance we want it here we want it now but he said it'll be done little by little little by little some of you are listening to me tonight and you don't understand and you've almost put God on a clock six months I'll give it six more months I'll give it a year I'm tired of being in this place I'm tired of this season of my life I'm tired of being single I'm tired and the Lord says I'm preparing you for what I promised you God said I'll give you I'll give you the land nothing can stop it nothing can halt it you will conquer them but it's gonna be little by little and the Lord your God will put out all of those nations before you little by little you may not consume them at once here's the key lest the beasts of the field devour you it will not be instant it will not be quick and Antonis a joyful sermon to preach I came to get a double portion so I could leave I'm saying you're not gonna get that I'm just telling you if God's gonna trust you with much he's gonna take you through some seasons of a little by little you hadn't missed God you're not in the wrong place you haven't waited to you're not too old if God told you he was going to do it he's going to do it and you're closer than you've ever been give God a praise I'll keep preaching I'm gonna tell you why it hasn't happened fast and easy for you because there's a God who loves you too much to give it to you and then see the Beast devour you the Bible is teaching us a principle and here it is that anytime God's going to trust you with something significant there is a beast an evil beast that is assigned to attack and I hear people all the time say I wish that you know I had what that pastor's God or that ministries God or this one or that one you have no idea the beast that has been released it's stuff you can't put makeup it's stuff you can't put in a book it's stuff you can't tell nobody about it's crazy warfare it's stuff that you could never sit down and describe and it's like I cannot believe this and I wasn't ready I thank God he put a governor on my ministry I thank God he didn't give me what I've got now I thank God he took me into the land little by little and I learned how to pray and I learned how to wait and I learned how to fast and I learned how to go back to the word and I learned how to fall on my face again and get back up I learned how to hold on even when people left me I learned how to believe even when people said he's over I learned little by little God says if I give you instant success all at once you'll be consumed by the beasts of the field that you're in I love you too much to release the beast on you before you're ready God loves what you are more than what you do don't you ever forget that because it's great when the numbers are high and you feel good about yourself but I promise you they'll go through those lows where you feel like I've been God forsaken and nobody cares and nothing but I promise you if you can remember he loves me more than he loves what I do you'll be all right we don't even know what success is in hell oh that one's got ten thousand that ones I'm preaching preachers here we've got a bunch of preachers if you're visiting this is for you to in your own little world but I'm preaching to a lot of preachers but I know House preachers are and if we're not careful we we don't even know what success is I'm saying like we're not gonna know what success is till the trumpet sounds and some of the most successful people that you saw in ministry they're not going to be successful let me tell you what success is if when the trumpet sounds you go up and your family goes up and my children go up my family goes up my grandchildren go up I am a success not because of the numbers but because I know him I know him and I brought some with me that's success the question is not can God handle it the question is can we handle it there's no limits on your ministry the only limits is how much will you give him the glory or will the beasts the pride and ego take over your life and suddenly you get to thinking you're a bigger deal than you really are because that's the beast that will come after you ego tis 'm ego pride self-reliance I don't even have to read the Bible anymore I don't even have to fast anymore I don't even have to have a burden anymore to preach I can just get up on the machine and I'm not preaching anybody out there this is stuff I've had to go through but I'm going to heaven I don't care life's too short don't argue about what I made up my mind is I've come too far now to turn back I cannot turn back I gotta make heaven my home I gotta get my family to heaven and I gotta get my church to heaven and I'm believing God tonight that somebody's gonna get these words in your spirit maybe it's not going as fast as I wish it would but little by little I shall possess my promised land give God a big shout of praise Tony you know this man one of the biggest mentors in my life TF tinny who's gone to be with the Lord said something powerful he remind me and I'm sure others but he would call me all on just a quick phone call and he would say Jensen I need when he did said my first name first it's not gonna be a good talk one time he called me said Jensen have you hugged your children today click not Hatton all day he called me one time and he said Jantzen there are three reasons why I do not commit adultery now he's 80-something years old son okay 86 or something like that close to it he said no he said there there two there are two reasons he said number one gods against it and number two they tale and he hung the fire that is safe somebody's ministry right there don't they always tale don't they all gods against it that's it click he called me one time he called me one time boy we were riding the wave you know the ministry is just just doing a lot of great things were happening I guess I I guess I bragged a little too much or something he said you know just rained all over my parade he said you know it's never far I never forget him say from from from glory to goofy wonder how many of us God would trust with so much more if we wouldn't go from glory to goofy if failure and defeat has killed its thousands instant success has killed its tens of thousands and no more no more let's submit to God's timing let's let's submit to God's plan let's just say Lord I don't want more than what I can handle I trust you my times are in your hands now this is so contrary to what we believe I want it here I want it now I don't want nothing God doesn't give me nothing I don't want to go nowhere God doesn't send me I don't want nobody in my church God doesn't call me to God can drop success on some of you business people and you would go from glory to goofy and pastor wouldn't see you on Sunday morning anymore cuz you got a big yard out there and you got the house in the mountains and the house nothing wrong with that stuff God doesn't have a bit of problem with you being blessed but when it becomes the thing in your life and he's not the thing in your life he loves you for who you are not what you do or what you have or how much you're worth it means nothing it impresses man but I'd rather impress God I'd rather know that I am living like a life that brings glory and I know him and he knows me take a moment and lift your hands and shout I love you Jesus sometimes God loves you so much that he slows you down he could do it overnight Tony he could do everything your heart's so pregnant your you guys is so obvious that there's so much in you and God could do it just like that but he says I'm not gonna do that because I love Tony and I love his wife so much that I don't want the Beast of the field to devour all the powerful things because I promise you it'll come from every angle that I'm just going this is honest preacher confessions I'm just telling you I can I've had things hit our life our marriage our family everything you can imagine that's why I don't have no stones to throw at nobody just admit it quit it and forget it let's move on that's it that's the formula for salvation if minute quit it and get it get on down the road and sake to God be the glory worthy is the Lamb but when you begin to see God and I'm preaching this people like Tony and his wife David it's amazing it's what you're doing your generation is gonna do so much more there's a big big things God's planning here this word tonight I feel it heavy on my heart the Lord said I want you to make sure that when I get give you the promised land it's not for your fame but for his mighty name it cannot be for your fame it cannot be about you it must be you must be careful careful careful I'm nothing I'm nobody I don't deserve to be up here but if he can find churches and ministries and business people who will say it's not for my fame it's for your name God will do great things for you if you won't go from glory to goofy I'm almost done but can I preach about six more minutes about 6 more minutes is all I need let me talk to how many leaders how many of you are leaders of your home let me see then you're a leader how many of you're a leader of your home hear hear how many of your leaders of ministries how many of your leaders of churches let me see your hands yes yes listen to this David fought Goliath and the Bible said they set their armies in array to go out to battle and Goliath had a revelation go I said oh no no that we gonna fight like that this is not a battle of army against army he said I'm a champion go I said this I'm a champion and you pick a champion out of the Israelite camp and send me a champion and champion evil champion against spiritual leader champion and we're gonna let them fight and whoever wins all of those under that leader serves me and the Philistines or if I lose the Philistines serve the Israelites whatever happens to you to to your champion this is why you need to pray for your pastors that's why prayer is not we cannot become a bunch of professionals who don't pray because listen to this whatever happens to your champion your leader happens to the people I want to make it clear Jesus is my champion and he took Goliath's head off at Calvary but I also feel the weight of my family and the ministry that God has trusted me with and that's why we must pray for our leaders because what happens in a church for the most part this is strong I don't believe God blesses churches now y'all can correct me after this service God blesses ministers and ministries and if that Minister gets the victory the people will have the victory that Minister has faith the people will have faith if that Minister has Liberty the people will have Liberty if that Minister has a prayer life the ministry will have a prayer life I know that sounds pretty heavy don't get in Minister if you think it's games if you think it's Instagram photos don't ask the church the fast if you don't don't ask the church to pray if you don't here's a big one don't ask the church to praise if you sit there like a you are the worship leader and if you don't wiggle eyuth doesn't win the battle of worship his everybody else becomes a slave to pride and ego 2nd chronicles 26 and verse 15 I've got three and a half minutes and I intend to use them all and his name was spread abroad he became famous there's people I'm preaching to under the sound of my voice and your name is going to become famous and and and people are scared of that God's not scared to give a name to somebody that is recognized and here's the tragedy and he was marvelously helped until he was strong for 16 but when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his own destruction I'm preaching to me this scripture is the one that hunts me can God trust me with strength can God trust me with exceedingly abundantly above all I am and I went on marvelously helped of the Lord get to feelin I'm so strong I'm so gifted I'm so talented that I don't have to see my relationship with Jesus Christ God don't bless me out of the church that'll be a prayer we ought to put that on your refrigerator God please don't bless me don't let me get so blessed then I'm busier with all this stuff and I'm not part of the church I close with this Song of Solomon chapter 8 and verse 5 who is this coming out of the wilderness leaning on his beloved you can come out of the wilderness of barrenness you can come out of the wilderness of dryness but you cannot come out instantly he's gonna teach you while you're going through it to lean on him to lean on him through every crisis through every good time through every mountain peak through every high every low every betrayal everything that you go through keep leaning on him and lean on him more and leave and the older you get you gonna have to really lean on him you have no idea you young whippersnappers you have no idea how much you better be leaning on him you can't lean on your intelligence you can't lean on your personality you can't lean on your good looks because you start getting all this this you can't lean on your talent now listen to this I won't give you victory at once it would HIGHLY expose you to the release of the beast not only you it would highly expose your children it would highly expose your children's children I'm a multi-generational God if some of the things that I've put in your heart will not be reaped until the next generation or the next generation but everything I put in your heart and you want it all now coasts but they don't need to see you do that cuz that's their leg of the race and and and you keep asking God why and God saying because it would bring the release of the beast on you and your children and your children's children watch this what beasts do you get exposed to when you get success - into - quick the beast of pride the beast of arrogance the beast of haughtiness here's a big one the beast of independence from God I can do it I'm gifted here's another one the beast of independence from the body of Christ when you're too blessed to come to church you've been blessed right out of the church elitism egotism if you're gonna be gifted and you are if you're gonna be productive and you albe if you're going to be powerful and you are you must hide behind the cross I'm not gonna give it to you all at once if I do the Beast will consume you listen to this the higher men and women get elevated the less covering you have when you're running with the pack nobody notices you but when God begins to elevate you all that means is you have less covering the greater the target you become for the Beast I don't mean to be negative I don't think this is negative I just I'm just preaching what God told me to preach and I don't want you to be afraid of success I don't mean it that way because let me ask you this question does a private on the battlefield in the army who has more protection the private that's down here or the five-star general who walks out on the field he's got bodyguards all around him so the higher I've heard preachers all my life say the higher the level the higher the devil and there's so much truth to that but let me say it like this the higher the level the higher the angelic protection the higher the it's not that we can't handle it it's just we've got to keep leaning we can't become self-reliant I close with this thought the prodigal son said I want it all now quick fast give me my inheritance I want it right here right now I can handle it give it to me faster-faster-faster the Bible said the elder brother stayed home and grew bitter you know what happened to the younger boy who got it too fast he ended up in the Pigpen it was a disaster he lost everything but came back to the Father but what we have to watch out for especially when we've been in ministry land a WoW is that elder brother syndrome that starts to resent the father because he's blessing others there's zipping by and he's got a governor on your little go-kart and that church is growing and that ministry is doing it and nothing's happening much with me but it is more than what you do it's what you are little by little your father listened to this your heavenly Father has not forgotten about you lift your hands toward heaven the Beast will appear when you get there and you'll be ready and I'm telling you tonight the question is not can God handle it and make it happen the question is can you handle it because as sure as you sit here he's gonna do what he promised he was going to do by how many of you've seen God doing some things and you're ministering in your life and it's not quick but it's a little violent do you know it's little but it's loaded and if you learn despise not the day of little things throw your hands up toward heaven open up your mouth toward heaven open up your voice toward heaven let's just stand to our feet from the front to the back throw up those hands one more time everybody throw those hands up and open up your mouth and for the next thirty seconds I want you to begin to pray and the Holy Ghost for the next 30 seconds I want you to begin to talk to Jesus for the next 30 seconds I want you to say god I'm not gonna get impatient with the pace of God I just know you're gonna do what you said I just know Lord and if it doesn't happen in my generation it's gonna happen in my kids generation if it doesn't happen in their generation it'll happen in their kids but everything you promised it's an Abraham Isaac Jacob blessing and God will bring it to pass just like he promised so don't be discouraged he's not gonna release the beast if you will receive victory little look come on lift those hands you've got another 30 seconds I want you to pray in the Holy Ghost can we just pray in the spirit just a moment those of you who've been filled with the Holy Ghost if you don't understand this I understand you don't understand but we're gonna pray in the spirit as the Bible said because I feel like we're supposed to I hear my spirit crane Chris Iannetta my cushy nevermind Arabic hosiah Christian award about her son encourage somebody encourage somebody here the night your father has not forgotten about you he will bring it to pass just like he promised reach up and raise him reach up right now there's faith in this room on him the tri-state climb out of the will come out of the Berenice leaning on Jesus when you ate on him man can't shut the door he opens doors no man you know my my monocle oh just another moment and to pray the spirit that you don't pray in the spirit prays out loud God's moving in your family right now god the gray skinhead there's nothing you've done the blood fix there's nothing new there's nothing wrong with oh he'll success is coming astonishing things are coming not on your time ability lien when your little Jesus I want everybody in this room would say Pastor Jentezen you preaching to me tonight you kind of hit me from left field tonight I didn't see this one coming but I've been a little frustrated and agitated and irritated because it feels like it's just not going quick enough and fast enough I'd love tonight for the precious hand of God to come upon me one more time I would love for the Spirit of the Lord to anoint me all over again and now I leave this place with my eyes wide open that little by little it's going to happen that's what I really feel that's what I really feel the reason I preach like this it's like if you I don't want what God wants to bless you with become your Achilles heel so this is your night there's young people under the sound of my voice that God's gonna raise up in all kinds of fields in music and all kinds of fields there's no limits on you there's no limits on the places God will take you there's no limits on the opportunities God doesn't have a problem with big he has a problem the only thing that limits you is how much praise you'll give back to God and truly lean on him if you know I'm preaching to you tonight get out of your seat get down here we're gonna pray it just a moment the Holy Spirit is gonna confirm this word in in a strong way I'm just gonna say it like I feel just get in as close as you can get there's pastors and their wives there's church leaders there's business people in their lives there's young people there's single moms there's all kinds of people fighting some Goliath and you know that that that if you don't handle that giant it's not just a battle about you but it's about those under you this is your night this is your night this is your night now lift up those hands high and I want you just to go after God I want you just the singers to come on and just begin to go after God just begin to see God just begin to cry out to God all over this room come on we're gonna take just a few moments lift your hands how you didn't come just to come to conference you came to hear from God you came to get that fresh direction you desperately need to touch again some some old bones some something that once brought a spark in your spirit it's still there just reach out now to dream the vision that God's given you it will come to pass just shake off that discouragement and say Lord as long as I'm moving forward I don't care how long it takes I know it will happen little by little it is happening little by little it is unstoppable little by little that's it lift your hands all over this room and begin to pray now boldly boldly boldly asked boldly see boldly go after the Lord go after him evangelist go after ambassador go after ambassadors wives it's more than you think it's bigger than you think it's beyond what you think you're capable of it will make no sense when you get there but you'll always remember to God be the glory to God reach over and lay your hand on somebody praying the Holy Ghost come on just another moment I still need the Holy Ghost I don't know about you I still need him I need him to touch me I need him to mess me up sometimes I need him to break my cold callous heart I need him to I need him sometimes just to empty me out a chunk of offense of her disappointment anything is not like Jesus I don't even get easier I don't know I serve the Lord it would get easier I'm just gonna tell I'm leaning on him like I've never leaned up I mean like I've never needed when the traffic science your success when the trumpet sounds we'll know if your you

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