The Infectious Spirit of Entitlement! - Bishop T.D. Jakes

glory to god get your bibles and go to first samuel chapter 4 verse 6 22 and there you will find my assignment for this evening honor to the lord and to all of our guest pastors that are visiting the house from near and far not only that if you travel from out of town to be here tonight wave your hand at me glory to god glory to god look at the folks that came from everywhere to be in the service tonight we welcome you right here at the potter's house to receive everything that god has for you you mean business if you travel to be here tonight same man somebody first samuel chapter number four verse number six gonna read several passages of scripture but some of you haven't read your bible all week so it'll balance out hearing the uproar the philistines asked what's all this shouting in the hebrew camp when they learned that the ark of the lord had come into the camp the philistines were afraid a god has come into the camp they said oh no nothing like this has happened before we're doomed who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods they are the gods who struck the egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness be strong philistines be men or you will be subject to the hebrews as they have been to you be men and fight so the philistines fought and the israelites were defeated and every man fled to his tent the slaughter was very great israel lost 30 000 foot soldiers 30 000 foot soldiers the ark of god was captured and eli's two sons hofner and phineas died that same day a benjaminite ran from the battle line and went to shallow with his clothes torn and dust on his head when he arrived there was eli sitting on his chair by the side of the road watching because his heart feared for the ark of god he feared for the ark of god because the ark of god is the presence of god it's the spirit of god when the man entered into the town and told what had happened the whole town set up a cry eli heard the outcry and said what is the meaning of this uproar the man hurried over to eli who was 98 years old and whose eyes had fell so that he could not see he told eli i have just come from the battle line i fled from it this very day eli asked what happened my son the man who brought the news replied israel fled before the philistines and the army has suffered heavy losses also your two sons hofner and phineas are dead and the ark of god has been captured when he mentioned the ark of god eli fell backwards off his chair by the side of the gate his neck was broken and he died for he was an old man and he was heavy he had led israel 40 years his daughter-in-law the wife of phineas was pregnant and near the time of delivery when she heard the news that the ark of god had been captured and that her father in law and her husband were dead she went into labor and gave birth but was overcome by her labor pains and she was dying everybody's dying the women attending her said don't despair you have given birth to a son but she did not respond or pay attention she named the boy ichabod saying the glory has departed from israel because of the capture of the ark of god in the depths of her father-in-law and her husband she said the glory has departed from israel for the ark of god has been captured i want to talk today from the subject the infectious spirit of entitlement the infectious spirit of entitlement i see you tonight and you're all mexican but you're all masked up and you're prepared against the virus that's running rampant but there's one virus that will slip through the cracks of your mast it is the infectious spirit of entitlement don't worry about covey at 19 worry about this infectious spirit of entitlement that is sweeping through our world and sweeping through our families and swimming through our political entities and sweeping through our businesses and sweeping through our home life and wreaking havoc because it's killing us in a way that the news does not cover it is a spirit of entitlement and it is infectious now i know neither the word infectious nor entitlement are mentioned in the text but before i conclude tonight you will find that the root cause of the problems in the story that is depicted before us is really entitlement let us pray spirit of the living god come close come real close and sit upon each of us sit upon us until we feel the weight of glory sit upon us until you break through the outer encasement of our shell of resistance sit upon us until we crack open a new life begins sit upon us until we're saturated with something that's bigger than our own self-ingrandizement i thank you in advance for what you're going to do i believe you for miracles have your way in this place in the name of jesus we pray on your way to your seat with all of your voice shout amen you may be seated in the presence of god time to go to work i said it's time to go to work [Applause] from time to time throughout my career when there was uh the time that i had first started doing gospel plays uh in my for-profit company traveling around the country and then a gentleman named reuben cannon saw us perform when we were in los angeles and said you should make a movie out of the play and we made a movie supposedly for tv but we submitted it to the santa barbara film festival and won first place in the film festival and when we won first place in the film festival we dumped the tv idea and decided to go on screen and we went on 400 screens which is not a whole lot of screens but we did very well for 400 screens and we were somewhat successful and people started to laud and to talk to us about doing other movies and since then we've done several movies and many of them have been powerful and quite successful and people started to murmur and those who were close to me and knew how much work and effort and meetings and presentations it took to get things done they said i'm so happy for you they said i'm so proud of you and i was good with happy and proud and then they said something that made me a little bit uncomfortable just a little bit i understand they meant it in a good way but it made me just personally a little bit uncomfortable they said you deserve it and and before i could get my head to nod i wanted to nod because it was a good thing to say but before i could get myself to nod the holy spirit said no you don't you don't deserve it there are people who work just as hard as you or harder and they did not get it don't glorify your own efforts as if this is the culmination of something that came out of the flesh you do not deserve success you deserve to go to hell you deserve to be cast into out of darkness you deserve to be totally rejected you deserve to be condemned had i given you what you deserve you would be in flames right now it is by my mercy that you are not consumed and if you ever forget it and start thinking too highly of yourself you will bring cursions upon yourself you must always resist the temptation to become drunken off of the accolades of other people and keep yourself in a position where i can bless you for it is not good for a man to think more highly of himself than he ought and you have to watch the temptation to become entitled with self-ingrandizement and think to yourself that the world owes you something because the world does not owe you anything at all [Applause] our problems and i would love to say that it's just generations but it's sprinkled amongst all generations is that we have more and more people who have a spirit of entitlement they want the title they want the accolades they want the resources they want the opportunity they want the money but they don't want to do the work i can't tell you in the years i've been an employer how many times i've had people come to me and say i need a fifteen thousand dollar raise or a ten thousand dollar raise or twenty five thousand dollar rate why'd and they say well i just got married and she's got two kids and i need more money and i think to myself and i'm supposed to pay you for that oh i just had a baby so i need more money so i'm supposed to pay you for having a baby see the entitlement suggests that just because you made certain choices they ought to be uh compensated out of my wallet when in reality i am paying you for what you do here not what you do i know you don't like that because that's in the house right now it's a spirit of entitlement so many times you end up having to let people go because you cannot afford to pay them what they think they're worth because it is not my job to pay you what you think you're worth and i know how we got here we got here quite innocently we were doing the right thing as parents we were trying to build up your self-esteem until you all look at mama's little king if that's not mama's little king coming in here come here let my mama kill that mama let momma kiss your little cheeks or mama's little kid your mama's little key look at that his little princess aren't you just amazing spectacular you're so wonderful you're so amazing you're so incredible and the problem with it is that they believed it so they thought that they should show up and everybody should kiss their cheeks and think that they're amazing and think that they're wonderful and think that they're spectacular and they thought they ought to drive the finest cars and live in the finest house but not go to work oh i'm gonna mess with you tonight you should have got your dance in last night because it's gonna get tough tonight because they have a spirit of entitlement and then we've had so many homes to break up that we've had guilty parents who overcompensated their absence by giving their children more stuff [Applause] in other words we paid them off so that we would not have to bear the guilt of our absence we gave them more stuff until whenever they see us they expect everybody to give them something for nothing i know in contrast to that there are some deadbeat dads and deadbeat moms that don't give anything at all but to those of us that have something we gave something to replace something that's irreplaceable presents do not replace presence at the core of the issue is the simple fact that it is difficult to make the distinction between encouragement and entitlement we said it to encourage you but you heard it as entitlement and now every time you don't get something for nothing and now every time a door doesn't open just because you want it open you have a tempered tantrum because you feel entitled entitled the church even suffers from people who have entitlement people who just got up out of the water still wet with baptism water make themselves apostles two weeks later they got bodyguards and briefcases and bottles of oar and they're marching around and you say who are you i'm apostles so and so and so and so and can't even quote john 3 16 and they're starting a church and ignorance begets ignorance because it's ignorance because ignorance and if you got an entitled leader you're going to have an entitled church because entitlement is infectious [Applause] it does matter who stands in front of you because the spirit that stands in front of you will infect you if you don't believe that watch our nation from president to president from government to government we flip back and forth sometimes we don't even recognize our own country because once entitlement sets in it's infectious it will draw what it is you always attract what you are [Applause] if your arrogant arrogant people are gonna flock to you if you're hateful hateful people are gonna flock to you if your moody moody people are gonna flock to you if your lascivious lascivious people are gonna flock to you if you're envious and full of gossip all the gossipers are gonna follow you they're gonna follow you on instagram and twitter and facebook to keep up with the latest gossip because whatever you feed that's what grows [Applause] entitlement let's define it so that there is no ambiguity about what we're talking about tonight i do not make the assumption that everybody knows what entitlement is entitlement of the plural noun entitlements the fact of having of right to something full entitlement full entitlement to fees and maintenance should be offered in that kind of case the amount to which uh the amount to which a person has a right or they think they have a right to something maybe it's an annual leave entitlement the belief that one is inherently deserving inherently you may say inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment no wonder your kids have a sense of entitlement i deserve it because i'm here people do not realize today it is not what we leave to our children that makes them great it is what we leave in our children that makes them great oh i'm gonna go deeper i'm gonna keep going till i get every toe in the building in fact if you leave more to them than you leave in them they will run through what you left to them because they don't have enough in them to stabilize them to handle what you left to them that's why i told all my children you don't need a job because i'm cutting way into your inheritance i'm gonna leave you a little something something but it's gonna be after i get through can i work for this i'm gonna use as much of this as i feel like and if there's anything left you can divide it up amongst yourself but you better get you a job because faith without is dead you better get a job you better get some work you better not be believing that i'm gonna die waiting on me to die don't be like the prodigal son who went to his father and said give me the portions of good that fallen to me what fallen to you you ain't done nothing you mean you're waiting on me to die to start your life what kind of entitlement that you would rather have a dead father and a full wallet [Applause] the problem with all of our sinful behavior it's an arrogant posture of entitlement you think if you sit long enough and wait long enough it's going to come to you just because you supposed to have it [Applause] at the core of this text for about three weeks the lord has been telling me to preach about ichabod and i kept reading about ichabod and reading about ichabod to see what the holy spirit was saying about ichabod at the core of this text is entitlement and it has started at the leadership and crept down through the ranks of the army and into the people where they take god for granted and they become presumptuous let me remind you in case you forgot how the story has gone we are somewhere in between the judges and the kings the transition of power and leadership we are in that nebulous position where the voice of the priests has become most profound and prolific and powerful and eli has led the people of god for 40 years his influence and power is so profound because they have not yet anointed their first king and on the other hand they have come to the end of their judges so he's standing in a position of unique authority and he birthed his sons into a position of unique authority and maybe perhaps the old man could handle it but the sons are drunken off of their father's position so they have infiltrated the ranks of the sanctuary but not been sanctified [Music] [Applause] if that don't sound like today i will drive my car right down the center of the aisle it's so easy to infiltrate the ranks of the church and not be sanctified to have a form of godliness and deny the power thereof to preach to pastor to lead to sing to shout but it's not really judged to you it's really a gig so even though you're talented enough to bless people you don't get blessed yourself because you're infected with entitlement so you lead us into worship but you don't go into worship and you preach us and do a shout but you don't have a shout and you tell us to pray but you don't pray yourself i'm tired of people teaching me to pray and you don't pray yourself telling me to study and your lazy self ain't studied all week hallelujah you don't know phineas from nehemiah and yet you're telling me to know the word entitlement has wrecked the chats [Applause] we used to have power joke breaking power demon casting power we used to have the kind of power that people would throw down their crutches and start dancing in the service by the power of the holy ghost we used to have the kind of power that before the paramedics got here dead folks sat up and started moving again because the old church brothers would pray of loss but now the mothers have gone sexy and the preachers have become powerless [Applause] and the worst part about it is it has become so normal that we have raised up a generation that likes to sing about glory but has never seen glory [Applause] when was the last time that you saw real glory sit down on a church the kind of glory that messed up your hair dude the kind of glory that wet up your makeup the kind of glory that made you come out of your tie the kind of glory that lasted when the music stopped the kind of glory that made you dance and what nobody playing no drum the kind of glory that got in your house with you got in your car with you the kind of glory that when you were laying in your bed you couldn't stop crying and you were still speaking until when was a win was a where was the last time your children saw you have chat in your house and they said mama what you crying about and you tell them it's nothing but the [Applause] glory all of that is gone now and now we make noise but have no power tinkling brass sounding symbols but we have no power no yokes are broken no people are repenting no people are really changing in fact they're flaunting their lustful behavior right in our face and get mad at us if we don't accept it and they've turned our churches into a brothel and our services into a nightclub and i don't mind the prostitutes coming in looking like hoes but it bothers me when the choir you don't want me to see jesus you want me to see your behind you didn't get dressed for me to see jesus that is the spirit in this text and what is worse still or i'm gonna get worse i'm just getting started cause the lord told me to drive it out and i'm gonna preach till i drive it out i'm gonna preach till shame comes back i'm gonna preach your repentance come i'm a preacher somebody falls out in the halter and says i'm sick of myself yes what is worse is that it's ripped into the culture of the church [Applause] and it has become normalized if you don't believe it go on your internet page you ain't trying to menace to the people you're trying to be sexy [Applause] there you are sitting up there with your preaching self and your legs gapped open and you grabbing your what what does and you expect me to respect you while you walk like a hoe you can't put a collar on that and become consecrated there's a life you have to live there's a walk you have to walk there's a talk you have to talk or god will leave [Applause] i remember when the power of god would get so strong that the instruments couldn't play hallelujah they'd be on the drums and drop the sticks and go to dancing i remember when they started playing the organ and the tears would be all over the keys and the glory of god would start falling i've seen people play up under the anointing of the holy ghost and they'd be shaken and the spirit would be playing the kid but nobody's praying to enter into that realm of the spirit because the spirit of the world has taken over the church and we're not competing for the presence of god we're trying to be like the people in the world oh it's going to be tough tonight when all your heroes are secular you ain't sanctified [Applause] everybody you want to be like is singing in a club smelling like a fifth and because you don't want the glory you don't get the glory and god walks out let me tell you something in the book of revelations the bible says that christ is the one who stands in the midst of seven golden candlesticks and that the seven golden candlesticks are for the seven churches at asia by the next chapter we're at the time he gets to laodicea he is not in the midst of the church he's on the outside of the church saying behold i stand at the door and knock how did jesus get outside of his church he walked out you stayed he left you joined he moved anytime god is talking to the church and says behold i stand at the door and knock that means that if you continue down this road you're gonna have church without me and not just church you're gonna fight your battles without me and you're gonna fight your cancer without me and you're gonna fight your disease without me and you're gonna fight your depression without me and you're gonna fight your plagues without me if you don't want me i'm leaving oh you think revival is just about tickling your ears and making you dance revival is about bringing you to your knees revival is about you laying prostrate on the floor revival is about you breaking up with your boyfriend revival is about you cleaning up your eyes revival is about you consecrating yourself revival is about you speaking in tongues while you're washing your drawers revival is about the power of god helping you to get to work cut off your radio cut on your tongue and get in the spirit so you can deal with the devils on your job [Applause] i am scared of you [Applause] i'm not scared of you because sooner or later you're gonna lose enough to become humble enough to hunger and test for something real israel had normalized home-mongering and it wasn't just in the pews it was in the pulpit it was at the top halfline finishers were picking off the women at the door now god had entitled them as priests to live as levites as a part of the priesthood of the finances of the church but not to take all of it the best of the offerings were to go to god but they were eating up god's stuff so they were mishandling finances and they were mishandling morality money and morality if you don't have discipline about one you probably don't have discipline about the other keep on standing there i'm coming right to you take them still let us off we ain't gonna need to see them red bottoms tonight i want you to see the red blood coming down off the cross i want you to see yourself slain in the spirit i want you to see yourself governing your attitude i want you to get a grip on your tongue and your nasty ways you can't cuss your husband out all the way to church as they get in here speaking tons and expect cancer to come out you got to make up your mind we got a devil to fight like we've never had before and the church has lost her power and it's killing us by the hundreds of thousands they went to battle against the philistines and 9 000 people died in the first battle and still they did not repent they said let's go get the ark of the covenant entitlement let's go get the ark of the covenant we don't need to change our behavior we don't need to change our ways we don't need to consecrate ourselves we don't need to get down on our knees we don't need to crawl on our face before god and throw up some of them demons that have got down in our spirit we don't need to do none of that we can win with a symbol of holiness so they grabbed the ark of the covenant and went down to fight the philistines and 30 000 philistines died with the ark of the covenant now the devil was afraid at first because when they brought the ark of the covenant dark of the covenant had a reputation for getting the victory and it should have been the deal breaker it should have changed the stats it should have been the breakthrough but when you go get a god you don't walk with [Applause] you can't get god to work with you if he don't walk with you let me try it over here you can't get god to work for you if he don't walk with you you can't just get him because you're in an emergency you can't just get him because you've been diagnosed with breast cancer now you got a lump in your breast and you don't want that midnight call to come in at two o'clock in the morning now you're gonna pray now you gotta make up in your mind if you're gonna walk with god you need god before the strike because hell is going to strike you and when health strikes you you got to have something to fight back with 30 000 people died the philistines knew more about god than the people of god did the philistines said is not this the god they destroyed the egyptians there's nothing wrong with god's resume shonda will go god has enough power to get you out of whatever you tied up in tell your neighbor i need you to echo it god has enough power to get you out of whatever you're tied up in god has enough power to bring you out of foreclosure god has enough power to heal your aching body god has enough power to get you away from suicide god has enough power to cast the demons out of your body god has enough power to raise you back up again god has enough power to deliver you god has enough power to save your house god has the power to give you peace of mind god has the power [Applause] and hell was afraid at first they were intimidated at first they said oh my god this is a god with a reputation and if they bring him down here we are going to die they say prepare to die fight all you can but this god is a killer everything that rises against him he destroys it everything that stands in his face he brings it down everything that exhausts itself he brings it low everything that stands up against him always got defeated and if they brought god we're gonna die but they didn't know that god was tired of spoiled children they didn't know that god was tired of children who refused to get better they didn't know that god was tired of people who refused to be healed they didn't know that god was tired of people who refused to change they didn't know that god was tired of people who turned church into a fun [Applause] house and so god let his people lose do you know how hard it is as a parent to let your children lose to let 30 000 of your children die calling on you do you know how sick god had to be of their foolishness to let 30 000 widows be born in a day 30 000 children lost their father in a day 30 000 people died that day with no mortuaries and no cemeteries 30 thousand bodies had to be burned and the stench of their rebellion had filled their hair with infection thirty thousand people thirty thousand people could feel this church to the rafters three times all of them did you would think 30 000 people would make folk change if you didn't read the paper we got 600 000 dead and it won't even make us wear a mask oh no no no you ain't gonna say nothing keep on sitting there we got 600 000 people dead and yet every club in america is filled for tongue kissing all up in each other's face and they don't believe until they're kissing a respirator [Applause] weight is supposed to be about freedom so you got people who are willing to wrap their bodies in seat belts but not their mouth with a mask i'm talking about this spirit of entitlement that is crept in that's made you a licensed rule breaker that makes you live in a false reality an altered reality an altered existence that you think that you don't have to be a mother to be a mama that you don't think that a child changes your life and you steal the girl you were with three kids and you wonder why your kids are running wow it's because they don't have a mama they just got a woman in the house they're the difference between a woman and a mama oh god help me help me jesus there's a difference between a male and a daddy it makes a difference in your house and god let them die 30 000 dead 30 000 people dead and the people were at home waiting for the victory because one of the signs of god being with you is that your enemies are defeated oh preacher can you prove that oh yes i'm glad you asked me david said by this i know that the lord is with me because he has not allowed my enemies to triumph over me when you walk with god you're not supposed to be defeated when you walk with god you're supposed to be the head and not the tail when you walk with god you're supposed to overcome every adverse thing that comes against you i'm not saying you won't have trouble i'm saying trouble won't have you when you walk with god he'll make you more than a conqueror when you walk with god he'll raise you up when you walk with god he'll send honey out the rock when you walk with god he'll send resources out of a fish's mouth when you walk with god he'll open up a door and make a way out of nowhere when you walk with god expect to have haters because god will give him something to hate you about when you walk with god he'll make a way out of nowhere when you walk with god he'll make the crooked path straight i wish i had a hundred witnesses that would testify what the presence of god will do [Applause] [Music] [Applause] pastor tubman now we got church members we used to have saints you don't hear nobody talking about saints no more oh they talk about church full because we can't find those saints no more change dance without music [Applause] oh saints call down power and break yolks smith thinks test cancer out of your breasts the saints plead the blood over demonic forces saints put anointed all in collard greens saints start anointing the pillar of their children and telling the devil you can't have my child saints start anointing the pillar in the post of their house and say as for me and my house we shall serve the lord are there any saints left in the church make some noise get online make some noise holla somewhere give me a sign not your name and tell me you are not supposed to be defeated [Applause] god didn't give you that house to have hell in your house god did give you that apartment so that you could come home to a place of peace you need to cast him demons out of your house some of y'all come to church because you're miserable at home the devil is alive he can't have my house the dog and the cat may have to go but you can't i'm gonna be scared in my own i wish the devil would you ain't gonna run me out of my house you might run me out of your house you ain't running me out of my house you ain't gonna get in my house and tell me what to do don't you bring yourself through that gate and expect to be the boss not up in [Applause] here [Applause] when the people heard that you that god like triple a didn't work [Applause] when they found out god wasn't a butler to come just when you needed him when they found out that god required a deeper relationship than what they had invested they started screaming they started wailing they started making noise because their modernistic ideology about god didn't work and the expensive build they paid was 30 000 more dead people it's expensive to be stubborn you brag about being stubborn i got to know it for myself i got to see it for myself it's expensive to be foolish did you hear me online i'm going to say it again for the folk in the back it's expensive to be stupid it'll cost you your life it'll cost you your marriage it'll cost you your child it'll cost you your mind bagger king was wrong you don't get to have it your way and it would have been unfair except if you said it out god had warned thee life [Music] god had warned eli and told him both of your sons are going to die in the same day because they have turned my house into a mockery and you look the other way and you wouldn't say nothing about it and god said i am sick of you because you're more concerned about them liking you than having my favor and i am going to cause both of your seeds to die in a day and none of their descendants will live to be old men it's a generational curse it's a generational curse somebody's been living up under a generational curse somebody's been living up under a generational curse it's not even what you did but it's what your parents did and what your grandparents did and you're still fighting off your curse but i want you to tell you something tonight the curse breaker is in the house tonight the curse breaker is in the house tonight the curse breaker is in the house tonight your mama got pregnant out of wedlock your auntie got pregnant out of wedlock your grandmama got pregnant out of wedlock now hear your daughter come in with the big belly but tonight we're gonna break curses we're gonna break them off for your house we're gonna break them off for your children we're gonna break them out of your finances just because you grew up in a broke neighborhood don't mean you have to die there i break every curse that's been on your life in the name of jesus hold your finances on your mind suicide suicide no more that don't it's in your house but i'ma break it out of your house open your mouth and holler and let that spirit out said open your mouth and holly let that spirit out get it out of your belly get it out of your back get it out girl [Applause] i don't want it in me i don't want my daddy's level i don't want my granddaddy's devil i don't want my mama's devil i don't want my grandmama's devil i don't want nobody's devil whatever i gotta do to cough it up i gotta cough it up tonight tonight is my night for a breakthrough tonight is my night for delivery tonight is my night for a chance tonight is the night to get the infection out of me it's gotta come out tonight i got a vaccine for it i got a vaccine for your infection the name is j-e-s-u-s it's a vaccine fda hasn't improved it but it's still got power jesus so get it out of here jesus will get it out of here somebody's gonna call it him like you mean it call him jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus i'm not going home with that devil not another night hallelujah [Applause] clean it up get it out of you get it out of here you're more than your loins you're more than your breast you're more than who comes over to nature you're more than who comes over to see you it's a low self-esteem demon but it's got to come out come on open your mouth and holler it's got to come out tonight tonight tonight it's got to come out tonight it's got to come out tonight it's going to cloud it's got to come out if i don't get preaching if i don't get done if i don't get out that spirit's gotta come out it's gonna come out of you it's gotta come out of you it's gonna come out of [Applause] here [Applause] everything you get you lose it every door gets open gets closed every relationship you have you mess it up it's a pain [Applause] you haven't learned to endure anything to stand anything to stand up for something to fight your way through something to be relentless to be tenacious and so since you won't hear the preacher god uses your enemies as your pastor the book of joel chapter 2 verse 11 through 14 god said i will use your enemy to teach you a lesson i'll use the cankerworms and the polymer worms and the locusts to attack your fields and your harvest and your ideas and your concepts and your possibilities and your potentials until i finally get your attention you wouldn't hear the choir you wouldn't hear the praise thing maybe you'll hear trouble i'll send trouble till you buckle your knees i'll send trouble till you lay prostrate on the floor oh you too cute to get on the floor but when i get to whip in your behind you'll lay prostrate on your floor in your cute lily and dress in your fine linen in your red shoe you'll fall out with your doctorate degree you're laying out on the floor [Applause] [Applause] it'll look like your enemy but the bible said enjoy the lord thunders at the head of his army his forces are beyond number and mighty is an army that obeys his command the day of the lord is great it is dreadful who can endure it even now declares the lord return to me with all your heart with fasting and weeping and mourning if you return to me i'll return to you god said rin your heart and not your garments rin your heart and not your garments return to the lord your god for he is gracious and compassionate slow to anger and abounding in love and he relents from sending calamity you didn't know god could send calamity god will send you calamity to get your attention who knows joel says he may turn and relent and leave behind the blessing grain offerings and drink offerings for the lord your god but in order for that to happen there's got to be a change the whole city was in the upper road and the bible says when they came and told eli one of the benjamites came to eli and told him and he told him we'd suffered mighty losses and eli sat there on the throne they said they killed your sons hofner and phineas and eli sat there on the throne but when they told him that they'd taken the ark of the covenant he fell off his throne and broke his neck breaking his neck is symbolic of losing his headship god said i'm going to break the neck of the thing that has broken you down i'm going to break the neck off the thing that broke you down i'm going to break the neck off the thing that broke you down i'm going to break the neck off it i'm going to break the neck of it i'ma break it down i'm going to use this weight against it i'm gonna crush it up under the law it's fat and i'm gonna break it down and i'm gonna crush his neck until you humble yourself [Applause] eli's chair tilted over eli's sons fell dead eli's head was nearly decapitated and god told me to tell you don't lose your head don't lose your head but the thing that has led you down the wrong road is time to be decapitated decapitation is one of the most brutal forms of death imaginable and god said i'm going to decapitate the thing that kept you from me oh you didn't hear me god said i'm gonna decapitate the thing that kept you far from me and i'm gonna kill its children and i'm gonna curse its descendants and none of its descendants will reach old age because i'm gonna completely turn the lineage around and take the position from one and give it to another because i'm gonna do a new thing in you and as eli was dying samuel was growing up in the presence of the lord anytime god kills an eli he'll raise up a samuel are there any samuels in the house god will raise you up but why not being in the background he lies coming down and samuel [Applause] is going up the infectious spirit of entitlement has made you lose battles you should have won and been defeated by adversaries you should have overcome and the problem with you is that you don't even recognize it as entitlement because entitlement has been normalized it used to be when we were entitled we had a rose of church mothers that would pray it out of you they get you bring you to the altar and put you on your knees and make your call on jesus until you started coughing up stuff and they'd run and get towels and you'd cough up demons and spirits and cast them out in the name of jesus i remember when i was younger being in columbus me and bishop watkins cast out a demon at almost midnight and i can still smell the smell a green fluid coming out of that boy's mouth and he grew up and lived and died in the church the rest of his life because once you get it out of here you can stand alone but you gotta get it out you gotta get it out you gotta get it out you gotta get it out you gotta get it out you can't live with it you can't pay with it and put more titles on it doesn't make it go away more titles just make you entitled the infectious spirit of entitlement has stolen our marriages stolen our children wreak havoc in our churches demolished our democracy killing our country shut down our malls closed down our stores and restaurants just because we are infected with a spirit of entitlement that allows us to think that we can break all the rules and still win and we don't repent until we're repenting on a respirator and can't nobody hear you but god a respirator don't care how cute you are a respirator don't care how sexy you are a respirator don't care how much money you make do you think god spent the last 400 days wreaking havoc in the world not to bring you to your knees and there you stand there with your stubborn self go party anyway really you gonna party anyway while your grandmama's there and now your parents are dying and now your children are dying and all you're gonna do is blow dope in my face and let the party go on have you lost your mind don't you smell the stench of burning flesh [Applause] when they cremate a body they strip it naked and push it into the fire and you have to watch your loved ones what's the remains of them burn to ashes don't you smell the stench of god trying to get your attention we are running out of time and you used to play it off and say it's just old folks but now it's killing the young folks now it's killing the young folks and god says i'm going to keep on shaking you till i bring you to your knees i'm going to shake you till you sell out to me i'm going to shake it until you repent i'm i will shake you till you get the real holy ghost not them borrow tongues you picked up at walmart i'm going to shake you until you get the pico till you get some real holy ghost tongues and start praying in the language of the spirit i'm tired of these store-bought tongues i want you to get filled with the power of the holy house and i need it right now [Applause] [Music] somebody how do i need it right now [Applause] i need it for my daughter i need it for my son i need it for my finances i need it for my house i need it for my future i need it for my breakthrough i'm sick of myself i'm sick of smelling myself i'm sick of my own thoughts i'm sick of my own attitude i'm sick of my own disposition you didn't run everybody away but yourself and if you could you would leave you too but tonight is your night tonight is a night for a breakthrough tonight is a night for a change can't you tell the demons are trembling can't you tell that hell is nervous can't you tell that satan is upset can't you tell that satan is trying to cut me off he's telling you don't pay no attention cause i'm getting too close to where he lives but i feel i feel a breakthrough i feel a breakthrough i feel a breakthrough in this house i feel a breakthrough in this house i feel the breakthrough of revival coming in this house and the witch don't want it and the warlock don't want it and the wiccans don't want it and the demons don't want it but the holy ghost overrides you i override the principalities and the powers tonight i override the demonic influences that are coming against you tonight look at somebody say tonight is my breakthrough night i'm gonna break through my past i'm gonna break through my weaknesses i'm gonna break through my doubts i'm gonna break through my fears i'm gonna break through my anxiety i'm gonna break through my limitations i'm gonna break through till i get the baptism of the holy ghost i'm gonna break through till i feel the blood of jesus overshadow me i'm gonna get a breakthrough till i'm talking in tongues in my car i'm gonna get a breakthrough until a demon is afraid to jump on me i declare a breakthrough a breakthrough in my house a breakthrough in my life a breakthrough in my soul a breakthrough in my witness a breakthrough in my testimony i'm tired of playing church i'm tired of playing deacon i'm tired of playing preacher i'm tired of playing pastor i'm proud lord my soul is tired my heart is my kidneys are tired my mind is tired my emotions are tired give me the holy ghost yes give me the holy ghost yes give me the holy ghost yes i can't hear you [Music] whatever you got to do whatever you got to do holler for it run for it run lay on your face for it but before we leave here tonight god has ordered a breakthrough for your life i don't care what you look like i don't care what you got on i don't care what the people say i don't care what the demons say i don't care what hell says i don't care what the spell says get your breakthrough tonight tonight is break tonight i want to break two i want to break two tonight i want to break break break break break i'ma ride it until i break it i'm gonna lay out till i break it i'm gonna scream till i break it i'm gonna holla tell america i'm gonna yell till i break it i'm gonna collapse the american i'm not going home with a demon in my heart in my spirit or in my head i declare war on every spirit that's declared war on me warm my family warn my son warn my future the devil is a liar i will not go to hell from the church the devil is a liar i declare myself loser somebody gonna clap in your hands like it's in your head gonna clap in your hands like it's in your hands gonna move in your feet like it's in your feet i got to be in a real church i got to be in a holy ghost church i got to be an illinois church i got to be in a free church i'm sick of myself i'm tired of playing games one foot in the church one foot in the world one foot in the prayer leader one foot in the club enough enough enough is enough polite is my night i'm coming out i don't care what title i got i don't care what i got on i don't care what i look like here devil take your stuff back take your tools back take your temptation back take your pride back i want to break through tonight somebody make some noise somebody beat the drum somebody play the organ somebody open your mouth and holler where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty where the spirit of the lord is there is life where the spirit of the lord is there is healing where the spirit of the lord is [Applause] yes yes yes yes i gotta have it i gotta get it myself it ain't gonna come and get me i gotta come and get it i gotta have it i gotta have the real thing i'm fighting a real devil and i need a real power open your mouth i can't hear you i don't care what kind of mess you got on open your mouth like your grandmother used to open your mouth like your granddaddy used to you gotta come against this tonight i'm tired i'm tired i'm tired of cute little sermons i'm proud of nursery rhymes i'm part of preachers tickling my ears somebody's got to tell me the truth [Music] give us free lord give us freedom give us freedom before we lose our minds give us freedom before we have a breakdown give us freedom give us freedom give us freedom if we never get a call if we never get a house if we never get a new job give us freedom i'd rather be free in a trailer than to be bound in a mansion give us freedom [Applause] i gotta live this i gotta walk this time i'm sick of this lord's in the spirit of conviction there's still some strongholds there's still some strongholds there's still some strong holes where the demons have got a stronghold but lord tonight i stand here in the center of your house and i say send conviction till they come running to the altar till they lay prostrate on the floor till they get on their knees in their pew send conviction until we catch on fire with the holy ghost send conviction till our hands start shaking and we can't stop send conviction till tears run down our face send conviction till we get a change of attitude same conviction till we start reading our bible send conviction till we turn our radio station send conviction till we get a brand new walk send conviction till we get a brand new talk send it where are you marcus where are you where are you wake up where are you where are you give me something give me something give me something give me something give me something i want some music let's go drive some demons out of here i want some music that's gonna drive some spirits out here i want some music that's gonna break some curses i want some music that's gonna break some yolks i want some music that's gonna come against suicide i want some music that's gonna tear down entitlement that's gonna tear out entitlement that's gonna tear down entitlement i want some music that's gonna humble you i i want some music that's gonna change your testimony you don't deserve nothing you don't deserve a thing shut your mouth talking about who you are and how important you are you're a dog you've been a you've been a you've been in the mud you've been you've been in a gutter and it's time for you to humble yourself it's time for you to humble yourself come on let's tell the truth come on let's tell the truth [Music] send it on down lord send it on down lord let the holy ass come on now send it on down lord send it home down lie let the holy ghost send it on down [Music] [Music] let the holy ghost [Music] oh [Music] now clap your hands [Music] [Applause] [Music] we need your power we need your power we need your power we need your power we need your power we need your power power to live right power don't walk right power to talk right we need your power we need your power [Music] we call [Music] we need to keep [Music] feed the anointing of god is in this place if you open your heart if you open your spirit if you open your innermost pain god will do something in you that hell can't wash off if you open your spirit right now god will do something down inside of you that begins to rectify some of the twists and the turns some of the pain you born some of the mistakes you've made some of the things that have happened to you some of the things you've been victimized by some of the areas that have held you up some of you are 20 years behind schedule you're 20 years behind schedule wrestling with something you can shake off tonight [Applause] [Music] you can shake it you can say it you can shake it tonight you can shake it tonight you can shake it tonight you can shake it tonight immediately right now right now suddenly you can shake it tonight enough isn't enough enough nothing enough enough of that if nothing's enough if nothing else nothing enough enough if nothing enough [Music] [Music] is nothing to that before you lose everything you gotta never walk tonight's your life break everything up break everything break everything [Applause] break [Applause] break everything break everything do it right now right now right now right now right now right now [Music] [Applause] break it down clap your hands and give him a praise and we came to do business but if we only clapping we only shout we won't break the chain we'll rattle it but we won't break it but you know all it takes to break it tonight is for you to make a cold callous decision you're coming out cold turkey you're not coming out in 12 steps you're not coming out in 11 steps you're not coming out in ten steps you're not coming out in nine you're not coming out in eight seven six five four three two you're coming out in one step one cold callous decision i'm outside that's what i'm talking about right there one cold callous decision one cold callous decision we're going to serve an eviction notice on what's been living in our minds and living in our hearts and living in our lives and living in our spirits we're conserving a fiction notice we're breaking up we're getting a bill of divorcements we're quitting we're going to step into our new life we're going to step out of our old life that don't mean you won't be tempted that don't mean you won't be tested that don't mean you don't have struggles that don't mean you might not fail but with a made-up mind you gonna destroy the thing that's trying to destroy you [Applause] i don't care how you destroy it i don't care if you get therapy and prayer and counseling i don't care if you have to anoint yourself with oil every morning i don't care if you have to talk in tongues for 30 minutes i don't care if you have to turn your shower into a sanctuary but you're gonna get a new man after old man you're coming into a new place you're coming into a new spirit and we're gonna get rid of that infectious spirit of entitlement this pseudo church this full religion this full faith that's driven by egotism and wanting to be seen and you're going to have a god encounter before you lose another thing how many of you made of your mind you've lost enough you're watching on the internet hold your hand up i've lost enough i've lost enough i've lost enough you're watching on youtube i've lost enough you're watching on facebook i've lost enough i've been through enough changes i'm tired of playing games this whole crazy worldly stuff is not working i'm gonna have to come all the way over on the lord's side i'm shaking off all other religions i know they've been trying to recruit you i know they've been at your door i know they've been telling you that christianity is a white man's religion but the devil is alive christianity is not the white man's religion there were black people all over the bible there were brown people all over the bible if we have one god he's got to be everybody's god can't nobody own him can't nobody have a franchise on him can't nobody control him can't nobody have a monopoly on him that's what i'm trying to say you can't have a monopoly on my god somebody shout he's my god too we're gonna cast out every idol we're gonna start playing with ouija boards we're gonna stop talking to wiccans we're gonna stop fooling around with white magic we don't need white magic or black magic or blue magic or any other kind of magic we're gonna stop playing around with it we're gonna come up under the blood we're gonna bring it up under the blood of jesus we're gonna bring it up unto the blood of the lamb we're gonna bring it up under the blood of the lamb we're gonna bring it up onto the blood of the lamb church we've been going backwards instead of forwards i want you to make up your mind you're not gonna have a little bit of jesus and a little bit of islam and a little bit of wiccan and a little bit of this and a little bit of that and a little bit of yogananda and a little bit of something else and you got it all mixed up to you so confused you don't know what you believe come out from among them [Music] let them say whatever they want to say let them feel your twitter line let them get on your facebook let them talk about you on instagram they talked about jesus and they're going to talk about you but as for me and my house as for me and my house as for me and my house we will serve the lord it don't mean i'm perfect it doesn't mean i mastered it the only thing it means is i made up my mind i made up my mind [Applause] it's time for me to serve the lord it's time for me to serve the lord now right where you are everybody standing here and everybody standing out there and everybody watching online got a devil to fight you got some philistines that's trying to overthrow you and you need god and ichabod means that god has walked away i don't care about you walking away i can make it i'll be hurt but i can make it i don't care about you walking away i may cry but i can make it i don't care about you walking away i may be hurt but i can make it but if god walk away [Music] everything i live for and everything i fought for is over i got to have jesus if i don't have no coat i got to have jesus if i don't have no lover i got to have jesus if i don't ever have no children i've got to have jesus if i never get the car in my dreams i've got to have jesus anybody feel like that those are the people i want to talk to tonight the people who made up the mind i got to have jesus how many of you have gone through something god has got your attention [Applause] what he wants from you tonight is a maid of mine i will serve the lord i will serve him when things are going right i will serve him when things are going wrong i will serve the lord i will serve the lord i will serve the lord when samuel heard that the hebrews were being defeated he got a lamb and offered it up before god and he started interceding for the hebrews and as the lamb went up in the smoke the prayers reached heaven and god started shaking up the philistines and taking over their systems i already got a lamb and his name is jesus and i'm going to set him on fire with prayer and my prayers are going up before god and there's going to be a change there's going to be a rectifying there's gonna be a correction how there's gonna be a renewal there's gonna be a restoration and it's starting in your heart right now i know you've been through a lot i know you've been through a lot i know you had some tough days i know you got some scars i know you've been beat up i get it i know you've been pushed around i know you've been hurt and i always know you're tired of standing in front of closed doors and obstacles and limitations i know you've been rejected and i saw i know some of you lost confidence in yourself but the lord you serve was rejected he is the stone that the builders rejected and he cares about you he cares so much about you that he's been waiting on you he's been waiting on you to give up on your way so you can have his way and we're gonna get the glory back we're gonna get the glory back we got one more night to get the glory back and whatever it takes we're gonna get the glory back tonight is our decision-making night tonight is the night we get rid of the infection the infection of entitlement the infection of disappointment cause things didn't work out like you thought and we're gonna say not my will but then be done and we're gonna say yes to god and we're gonna surrender to him and we're gonna turn into what we've been running from believers reading our bible i don't care if it's just three verses we're gonna get started somewhere i don't pray if you i don't care if you don't pray but five minutes we're gonna start somewhere let jesus know that he matters to us that he matters to us that he matters to us that he matters to us in the patriarchal days of the bible the fathers prayed over the sons and the father's blessing determined the destiny of the child jacob stopped dying in the bed to bless his sons and to each one he prophesied and they started walking into things because he blessed him and declared it to be so and tonight as i raise my hand over you the coach [Music] tonight is i raise my hand over top of you i decree and declare that the struggles that have permeated your life will be broken by the power of god that finally you will become the woman and the man that god created you to be this is not about perfection this is about commitment i decree and declare that every stronghold that the enemy has sent against you is going to be broken in your life i decree and declare that you will not be a slave to your emotions a slave to your feelings a slave to your fears a slave to your past i decree and declare that the second half of your life is getting on course and god is gonna do new things new ideas new creativity new ministries new passions i decree and declare that the gifts that have been wasted in you are about to be stirred up i stir up the gifts that lie within you i stir them up in the name of jesus i stir them up i stir them up you don't need nobody to help you be what god created you to be stop waiting on somebody to find you find yourself the prodigal son came to himself i decree and declare that you come to yourself right now in the name of jesus i decree and declare that the strength of god is going to stand up in you i decree and declare the anointing is getting in your house it's getting in your car it's getting in your spirit get away from them deadbeat people i decree and declare some of them deadbeat people got you infected kind of i decree and declare a fresh beginning in your life in the name of jesus now listen to me whatever you're feeling in your spirit right now do it whatever you're feeling do it if it's get on your knees if it's talking tons if it's lift your hand if it's open your mouth whatever the holy ghost is saying do do it now now do it right now do it right now whatever the holy ghost says do do it now do it now do it now whatever the holy ghost says do do it now do it now do it now whatever the holy ghost says do do it now whatever the holy ghost says do do it right now do it right now do it right now whatever the holy spirit is speaking down inside of you what feels organic to you what feels natural to you what your heart is saying what's coming what's happening in your spirit what's happening in your spirit what's happening in your spirit bring your body into alignment to what's going on in your spirit stop being a tough guy and bring your body in alive you

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Length: 95min 22sec (5722 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 06 2021