"The Miracle is in the Troubled" - Bishop Mark Morgan

[Applause] please remain standing what a joy what a privilege it is that parkway has been blessed amen to be the recipient of the ministry of brother mark morgan and i am thankful god has aligned us to be under and submitted to the ministry of god through this man and so we're going to hear a word from god today how many of you are ready to hear from god i am ready to hear a word from the lord very quickly if you'll just slip your hand up say god i open my spirit to your spirit i open my heart to your heart my mind to your mind let everything about this church be in alignment to the word of god bring it into alignment for the name of jesus christ's sake and we will give you praise hallelujah thank you lord clap your hands as he comes now [Music] well let's continue to clap and magnify the lord this morning amen praise god amen well it's a great weekend we give honor to those who have fallen and those that served our country amen my wife's father lies in a cemetery in springfield missouri who was a world war ii veteran and so we honor his memory here today also praise god well you glad you're in the house of the lord amen praise god i started saying you could be on the lake i guess but uh it's a little it's a little cool here in mississippi i don't this is kind of like san francisco weather here amen and i i got out of the car today and i was like man i'm not used to this normally when i get out of a car in the parking lot here at parkway it's hot and humid and i used to pastor a man in oklahoma i got tickled at him he'd he would he would say humidity instead of humidity as humidity and uh he would say this humidity is not bothering me but the stupidity's killing me amen so there you have it amen praise god amen we give honor today to bishop dale and his family of course to pastor jason dylan amen we honor them and the and the staff and leaders here in the church and it's just good to be here this weekend we were here for a wedding yesterday and so uh brother jason dylan called and said hey if we could get you to stay over sunday morning that'd be great so so we're here amen and uh i i don't know what's going to happen in san francisco this afternoon because half the church was at the wedding yesterday and so it's going to be a true holiday weekend for them trust me amen and but anyway it's always a delight to be here and we certainly have a connection and a fondness for parkway apostolic church god bless you in jesus name amen and i'm glad to have my wife here with me today amen and you've heard me say this she really is the pastor of the church there amen and she makes sure it's running and loving those people and i say it kind of jokingly but kind of sincere too you know they tolerate me they love her amen brother tinney told me one time he said i'm going to tell you what i used to tell billy cole for god's sake don't go home and mess your wife's church up so i try to live by that but i mess up every once in a while amen well you ready for the word of the lord today i feel like god's given me a word for you so i'm excited about that and i woke up this morning at five o'clock i know some of you that that's your normal time to wake up uh it's not mine and uh i never was good at the early morning prayer sessions and all that you know i just kind of figured this god said he's going to speak to people in dreams so if you're going to get a dream you need to sleep as much as you possibly can reason why some of you aren't getting anything from god you're not sleeping enough amen but i don't know my wife and i both woke up about five a little bit before five and just kind of uh not troubled just just so kind of began to pray a little bit and and i found out if you want to go back to sleep you start praying you ever notice that can't fall back sleep just start praying you'll get sleepy i lost some of you right there amen john chapter 5 and verse number 1. i'm going to read a little lengthy portion of scripture here so if you'll just indulge me here after this there was a feast of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem now there is a jerusalem by the sheep mark of a pool which is called in the hebrew tongue bethesda having five porches and these lay a great multitude of impotent folk blind halt withered waiting for the moving of the water everybody say moving of the water for an angel went down into a certain season into the pool and troubled the water and whosoever then first after the troubling of the water everybody say troubling of the water it first says the moving of it now it's the troubling of it so whosoever then first after the drilling of the water stepped in was made whole whatsoever disease he had and certain man was there which had been an affirmative 30 and eight years and when jesus saw him lie and knew that he had been now a long time in that case he saith unto him but thou be made whole and the impotent man answered him sir i have no man when the water is troubled everybody say water is troubled to put me into the pool but while i am coming another stepeth down before men jesus saith unto him rise take up thy bed and walk and immediately the man was made whole took up his bed and walked and on the same day was the sabbath everybody say it was sabbath the jews therefore said unto him that was cured it is the sabbath day it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed he answered them he that made me whole the same said unto me take up thy bed and walk then ask they him what man is that which said unto thee take up thy bed and walk and he that was healed was not who it was for jesus had conveyed himself away a multitude being in that place and afterward jesus findeth him in the temple and said unto him that's a good place for god to find you i want to repeat that that's a good place for god to find you it's in the temple amen behold thou art made whole sin no more lest a worse thing come upon thee and the man departed and told the jews that it was jesus which had made him whole and therefore did the jews persecute jesus and sought to slay him because he had done these things on the sabbath day and everybody said amen i want to talk to you this morning on the subject the miracle is in the troubled the miracle is in the troubled amen father i love you i thank you for this congregation i thank you for the dylan family i thank you lord for the the working of your spirit in this church i pray a special blessing upon the people of god here today i pray that you anoint my mind and my spirit give me clarity of thought help me o god i need your help today lord and i pray that you would confirm your word with signs following in jesus name i take authority over anything that would come to hinder to bind or to attack in the name of jesus and everybody said in jesus name amen god bless you you may be seated amen i'm good amen i i think my wife came today to make sure i stayed on my feet this time and anyway thank you for the boxing gloves amen some of you don't know what i'm talking about some of you do amen uh you know you get these mental pictures of these stories these stories you find in the scripture and it's definitely uh you know things you learned in sunday school i thank god for my sunday school teachers and i give honor to the sunday school teachers of this church amen i really do and man when i was growing up of course when i was you know until i was almost 12 we lived southeast missouri in a little town called kennett and carol magruder made it famous and but i can remember some of our sunday school teachers it was an exciting time i mean they made these stories come alive and uh we we'd have we'd have a move of god in our sunday school classes i could still remember one of their names as sister miller she was also the church piano player sister miller and oh she was just an exciting person and she would tell us these bible stories and and i mean she'd create this and thank god for imagination amen really you need to thank god for imagination if you don't have imagination you need to pray god to give you one it's the ability to image something in your mind and so you know you get these stories in your mind and you kind of see but then when you're privileged to actually go to israel and go to some of these sites it just really really enhances it and gives you uh you know reality reality because you know i had in my mind a completely different situation than uh you know thinking about these stories just but man when you're there you know i always thought that you know there's no room in the end you know was kind of more or less thinking holiday inn comfort inn you know hilton gardens or something like that but the reality is that uh you know when they put them uh out you know on a stable and all more than likely it was just this cave that was there and then you see the hillside and it just you know the reality of all the stuff and of course it really makes these stories come alive and it's definitely very very interesting and everybody said amen and so you know the pool of bethesda the pool of bethesda jesus goes into jerusalem and he goes to the pool of bethesda and uh you know bethesda let me just tell you this bethesda uh means a house of kindness a house of mercy or flowing water and so they would go there jesus picks his way to the pool of bethesda but then it talks about what congregated at the pool of bethesda the impotent the blind the halt the withered they would gather there because at certain seasons at certain seasons an angel of the lord would go and he would trouble he would trouble the waters now i i looked at that and you know you can get dangerous with the strong's concordance trust me amen and uh i looked at it and found out troubled agitate to trouble a thing by the movements of its parts to and fro it goes on to say this to cause one inward commotion to take away his calmness of mind to disquiet or make restless to stir up to trouble to strike one's spirit with fear and dread to render anxious or distressed or to perplex the mind you ever heard somebody say they're troubled boy y'all are quiet out there amen have you ever heard that now listen i'm still in advances of heart you're gonna have to say amen or it's it's it's gonna mess with me and i'm going to end up in some couch somewhere talking to and and you know how that i felt rejected at parkway and they didn't help me preach and all that stuff so you don't want that on your conscience so i'm going to need you to help me here just a little bit amy i know it's a holiday weekend but it'll be okay to you know at least a good baptist head nod [Applause] but have you ever heard somebody say man they troubled that's a troubled person you know the fact is is that jesus comes to this place and again this angel would come and he would he you know i always just kind of thought to be a little ripple you know just a little whatever and then after reading this i realized that uh he didn't just move it you know just gently but wouldn't go to and fro it really it really become troubled you know we drove across the spillway yesterday and i gotta keep this microphone up close we drove across the spillway yesterday and it looked a little choppy out there and yeah and i seen pontoon boats going and and uh last year right as covet hit i decided i was gonna buy a boat so i did and we were going to go take it out to go fishing and so we went up to a place called clear lake it's one of the top rated bass lakes in america and uh but we were going to go crappie fishing and so i took john mark and jeremy and jude and there's another preacher in the area who supposedly knew where to catch them when we got there and man i've met a lot of people that knew where you were supposed to catch them i kind of like brothers dylan's deal i don't go fishing i go catching amen and so we get there in and i noticed that there's only one boat on the lake and we checked it out before we went the weather and all the stuff supposed to be calm and all now i'm going to tell you clearly can get really choppy and it's a big deep lake and so we get out there and we're going across there and the waves are hitting us in the back and they're coming in the back of the boat and that's when the bilge pump decided to go out and uh so we're taking on water and we don't know how to get rid of it and and and just trust me the water was troubled and it caused us to become troubled amen and it's that away it's just you know all of a sudden that which is calm and peaceful the next thing you know it becomes agitated and it's just kind of like you know stirring it up and and choppy and and to and fro and that's what would happen when that angel would visit that place and of course as you know if you know this bible story of course i read it to you all ago so uh the first one into the troubled waters the first one in to the troubled waters got a miracle and and you know this man had been laying there for 38 years and i have no doubt he wanted to get into the water he probably was trying to get into the water but you know other people you know you know can you imagine the attitude that was around that pool can you imagine uh trying to position yourself and you know some of them maybe had family that would come and help them daily to make sure they're close to the water and then of course some like this man he said when jesus asked him you want to be made whole he said i don't have anybody to help me into the water i mean i've been here a long time and i can't get anybody to help me into the water and so you know but you know they close proximity and watching and waiting for that moment now i don't know i just kind of in my own thinking it's it was random it wasn't like you could predict it and say okay every memorial day weekend this water's going to get troubled and we're going to we're going to make sure that we're in the right place but i think it was just kind of random thing and i'm going to tell you something right now in case you have it live life long enough when it when there's a season of something to be troubled you can't predict when it's going to happen i mean you know it's just a season of it and uh a certain season that things become troubled and uh i i can remember years ago god's showing me a verse in psalms and it said and in the night season thou hearst me not you don't get to predict and you don't get to choose when you're going to have a night season that's god's prerogative and the sun can be shining one moment and then you're like jesus why hast thou forsaken me i mean it was glorious sunshine just a few hours ago but now all of a sudden i'm in this horrible darkness and it almost feels like god has forsaken me and i'm going to tell you when things become troubled you can sense some of the same feelings and emotions i almost feel like god's forsaken me in this troubling and in this stirring and agitating of what has been peaceful and what has been calm and now there's anxiety now there's anxiousness and it wasn't that away it was pretty calm just a few hours ago the water was pretty still a while ago but now all of a sudden it's it's stirred up and and it's agitated and it's moving and it's troubled but yet i want you to understand the first one in to the troubled waters got a miracle the first one in to the troubled waters got a miracle you know i i i've been at this long enough to know and in my own humanity when things become troubled we have a tendency not to want to go into it we have a tendency to back away from it try to separate ourselves from it and distance ourselves away from the troubled but i'm going to hear i just might as well tell you what i'm really going to try to say here today is you're not going to get a miracle until you get into the trouble now it was at a certain season that this angel would go and he would he would trouble the waters hmm now jesus shows up and he finds this man been there been lame for 38 years and he just says will thou be made whole and this man says this man says well when the water's troubled i don't have anybody to put me into the water to help me into the water it's kind of like jesus is saying that's not what i ask you i didn't say anything about the waters being troubled i just ask you a simple question will thou be made whole i don't need your excuses don't need your reasons why i'm just asking you an honest question will thou be made whole now you're associating that the only way that you can be made whole is you've got to get into the troubled waters but i'm not talking about the troubled waters right now i feel like preaching here right now amen i'm not talking about the troubled waters right now and so this man jesus said take up thy bed and walk and so he picks his bed up and he's walking and boy here they come i mean here comes some of the pharisees no doubt here come the jews and they said it is unlawful for you to carry your bed on the sabbath i mean can you imagine that this guy's been down there he's been lame for 38 years and they're more worried about the sabbath than they are the fact that this man got a miracle [Applause] and they said who did that he said i i somebody just walked up to me a while ago at random and just asked me and they performed this miracle and they said who is it he said i i don't even know who it was i mean there was a great multitude that was there and jesus just kind of conveyed himself he just kind of maneuvered himself through the multitude and kind of got away from it the guy said i i don't know who it was well don't you understand it's unlawful for this to happen on the sabbath so this guy heed his heads for the temple and when he gets to the temple jesus found him there and kind of introduced himself to him and i'm i'm the one that you know helped you out a little while ago and and all this stuff and on then when the jews found out that it was jesus they set to persecute him i mean they were mad now here's the deal we all can relate to the waters being troubled and the first one in getting a miracle but jesus didn't come to trouble the water he came and troubled the sabbath it's like he took his hand right into the sabbath after all the scripture says he's the lord of the sabbath he can do whatever he wants to do on the sabbath and the jews had got it all messed up the you know man's not for the sabbath the sabbath is for man and so you know it's kind of like jesus reached over there into the sabbath and he just troubled it and then he turned and looked this guy and said you you you want to get into what i'm troubling right now if you want to get into what i'm troubling right now you you can be made whole you're going to get a miracle and the guy said i think i will i'm just telling you you're a miracle is going into the troubled oh yeah yeah you know life's going pretty good everything's fine you know uh um you know maybe i just tell you a couple of personal deals you know i mean we just got this is in 2001. can you believe that what's that 20 years ago 20 years ago so 20 years ago we'd come back from uh crusades in the philippines and you know and i was really tired and kind of you know wore out from it and we've been all there back and forth is that better we've been over there back and forth several times that year and so we come back and and uh i i felt a little tired and and uh um so then uh i uh i told my wife brother keys had called me and said hey randy keys and he said my brother's preaching there in manteca that's where he's living at the time and said you wanna you wanna go there with me in the service i said sure he said all right i'll pick you up such such time and so i told my wife so i'm gonna go in there and lay down and uh i'm gonna rest a little bit take a nap and uh wake me up at this time and i'm i'm gonna go to church tonight with brother keys and so i went there and laid down and i i mean i had just barely laid down until i had a full-blown panic attack and i mean i come flying up out of that bed and i i i can't even explain it was just like ugh and uh i i went running out of the house and trying i just what in the world's going on you know and uh you know it's uh yeah it's crazy and so you know i'm out there in the yard kind of trying to you know and and and uh i'm rebuking the devil oh my god some demons followed me from the philippines and seriously that's what i was thinking i'm buying it in jesus name and then i found out let me tell you when this stuff started and it was really on i i've known what it's like to pray eight hours a day trying to escape it then i found out sister snow told me he said you're only making it worse i mean you're having these panic and anxiety attacks and then you're out here rebuking stuff and and you're just enhancing it you're just making it worse she said now the only thing you know i don't know why i'm talking about all this but the only thing you know about prayer is spiritual warfare she said son only thing you know about prayer is a slugfest she said you don't know anything about just sitting down and meditating on the word of god and letting the word work if you're not binding something and casting something out and fighting something and i lost a whole bunch of you right there let me help some of your theft you cannot stay in that all your life there's a time for war and then there's a time for peace your body was not meant and for you to stay in spiritual warfare 24 hours a day seven days a week every day of your life you're gonna have to learn how to enter into peace and kind of just okay listen i'm over here now i'm not telling you to neglect your responsibilities when the spirit moves on you to do it but i'm telling you god ever so often has to take you into a place of peace now things may be troubled over here i feel the holy ghost i mean it you know and so i uh i come back in and i okay i feel better and i was like what in the world so i don't know you know i think some devil followed me from the philippines and i really did i said i think it's messing with me and i know what it's like to go places and stuff follow you home and so i kind of felt a little better kind of light-headed a little bit but a little bit better and so i don't know what next weekend two weekends late or something i was in revival at clc brother kenneth haney it was on a sunday night and right about been ways in service this thing hit again so i get up my god man this devil sometimes you're gonna learn it's not the devil that's troubling things you're going to have to learn that god has his own unique way of putting his hand in that tranquil pool of water [Applause] and troubling it and stirring it up so i'm you know i i step off the platform go back in there start rebuking this stuff i mean boy we're having revival here i rebuked this in the name of jesus and this gun and i mean i was back there trying to get away from it so long they sent somebody back there and said brother hannah said you know we need you out there it's time for you to preach and so i went out and preached i felt a little better while i preached and on the way home felt okay and then monday morning i woke up to a almost like a living hell i can't explain the darkness it was just i mean i went from this mountaintop of the crusades in manila and thousands of people getting the holy ghost to here and i kind of felt matter of fact i wrote a little book on the night season a little booklet and i put in there you're enjoying the sunshine then all of a sudden where did the sun go everything now is trouble i'm preaching to this church here today everything now is troubled look what the devil did be careful be careful it's jesus that troubled the sabbath it was an angel that troubled the waters but the intent of it was if you can just go into what's troubled there's a miracle there for you don't run from it just go straight toward it but that's not our nature i mean for that you can ask my wife for days and weeks you know but then i want you to listen looking back now 20 years and in honesty i still have bouts of it every so often you know i go in the hospital and come out and i got this little anxiety a little bit and kind of you know so i mean it's not like but here's here's the thing that i want to tell you it wasn't until that was troubled that i got a miracle god gave me a miracle in the troubled i learned things about god in a relationship with god in that time of being troubled let's listen i'm going to tell you something revelations and experiences in the spirit i can't even begin to tell you about and and all you know and i know that the enemy had me convinced i was never going to come out of it i'm going to tell you how good god is okay i was convinced that's never going to change you know you start you know everybody gets on the internet and starts telling you you know you'll have this all your life you'll never be in all this stuff and all and so i'm sitting there in this you know i preached this message and i'm sitting there at the kitchen sink and got a cup in my hand and the holy ghost speaks to me now he wasn't saying a whole lot at that point the only one speaks to me and says how many cups how many ounces will that cup hold and i'm just kind of like i don't know six eight maybe i don't know he said that cup is only designed to hold so many ounces that's it and my cup of suffering is designed in your life to only hold so many ounces and it's not refillable it's not like going to 7-eleven buying what is it a big gulp cup and every time you go back in you can refill it that's not the way god works and i'm going to tell you something you need to listen to me every church every congregation if you live for god any amount of time at all god is going to come to you and he's going to offer you a cup now i understand something when it talks about the cup we're not talking about sin when jesus said nonetheless let this cup pass for me he wasn't talking about a cup of sin he was talking about a cup of suffering because he told the mother of james and john i can't give that to you but can they drink the cup that i will drink of you think that jesus is asking james and john to drink from the cup of sin no it was the cup of suffering suffering is the result of sin but it's the cup of suffering and every one of you at some point in time in your life god's gonna if you held any position with god in his kingdom he's gonna hold out a cup to you and say can you drink this cup with me now i'm about to trouble your life but don't misunderstand the troubled don't misunderstand it there is a miracle in the troubled there's something that i'm going to do in the troubled look for the miracle equilabo tahi look for the miracle it's all stirred up the water is troubled the sabbath is troubled life is trouble the church has troubled but look for the miracle you can just look and say oh my god look at the waves and look how high this stuff is but you got to get your focus off of that and you've got to get your focus on what miracle is it that god wants to do right now [Applause] i need a little help here in the holy ghost what miracle is it that god's trying to do right now you you don't you don't believe me you don't believe me what's this one jesus said all right i want y'all to take off and i want you to get to the other side and take off and they get out there and you know the waters are troubled and they look up and here comes somebody walking toward them they said oh my god it's a ghost and it's not a ghost jesus said it is i be not afraid simon peter said if it's really you if it's really you bid me come who if it's really you and all this is by your des your design then i'm asking you to bid me to come don't tell me to stay in the boat i'm asking you to bid me to come into what's trouble those waters are troubled and if you'll bid me to come into the waters whoo i know my miracle is in the trouble and when simon come climbing over the side of that boat i know some of you already jumped ahead yeah but he started to sink well i got news for you you don't just start to sink you sink you ever jumped in a body of water and just kind of gently started going down degrees okay i'm sinking i'm up to my knees i'm up to my way some up to my chest now you just go down but here comes simon peter but that didn't happen he didn't start to sink until he got his eyes off of the miracle worker and started looking at what was troubled and when he's seen the waves he starts to sing and she said no no no no no don't do that i'm giving you a miracle right now you're wha you're walking you're walking you're walking you're walking you're walking you're walking you are walking you are walking on the trouble right now which means i'm giving you dominion and i'm giving you authority over what's troubled right now don't get your eyes off of the miracle and don't get your eyes off of my authority i called you into the trouble to give you authority and to give you dominion over it praise god praise god i feel the holy ghost trying to help us here this morning [Applause] all i can see is the waves and ah i can seize the trouble all i can see is what's troubled right now but jesus is out there saying no i think i'd rather stay in the boat i think i got the story straight didn't he sell tell simon oh you have a little faith so if simon owe you a little faith what does that mean about the guys in the boat see when trouble comes and the trouble comes most people want to stay in the boat just don't want to be bothered by it don't want to you know just just i'm going to stay in the boat you know it's pretty rough but at least you know i'm in the boat got something to hang on to i'm telling you your miracle's not standing in the boat your miracle's looking at what's troubled and saying you know why god's calling me to get into this i'm not talking about being a busybody guy's calling me to get into this and he's going to give me authority and he's going to give me dominion and he's going to give me a miracle and i'm telling this church right now in the holy ghost i felt this the other day when we talked you know my wife are you sure you need to stay over and on i said yeah yeah because i just something in my spirit and then this morning it just kept coming and kept coming and kept coming and it just like tell the church that things are troubled but to look for the miracle i want to say it again because some of you are having trouble with it don't don't look at the troubled look for the miracle what what's god really doing through all this what miracle is god going to give parkway what miracle god's going to give my family what miracles god going to give me because i'm telling you man i i got some things that are troubled in my life right now i got some things that are troubled in my family right now and god said look the miracle the miracle it's not you staying away the miracle is when you go into the trouble let me hurry here first letter he writes to son in the gospel timothy he's putting the church in on her i've had people you know yeah i don't believe you know and the church coming to church and all that stuff and all i'm just going to serve jesus in my living room and i'll be the first to tell you i think kovid tried to teach us a lesson a lot of folks had a relationship with the church but they didn't with jesus [Applause] and i think the holy ghost was trying to show us now i'm going to make a statement you you guys there may be some fallout here it is not fair to the church for you to say it's your responsibility to teach and to train my kids and my young people i hate to tell you but you're wrong it's your father mother it's your responsibility i mean seriously the hour on sunday maybe a couple hours for a youth service and you think that's enough adequate time and so the oh boy i'm messing this thing up so the church becomes a babysitter for you and the church becomes just you know well you need to teach them and train them and oh by the way you're not doing a good job boy i could get myself in a lot of trouble right now you know my teenager's backslid it's y'all's problem look what you did well what were you doing in your home it's kind of locking up right now for some reason what were you doing in your home oh there's always crazy leadership of people doing stupid stuff but what were you doing in your home i can remember i was getting roasted one time on a on a forum and uh matter of fact it was stuff like m m his initial stands for money morgan he can't even preach without preaching about giving or money and he gets a percentage of every offering that's ever taken that's why he preaches about giving he gets a percentage he's he's all about the money for him and that's why he does what he does and he goes into these places and gets these big percentages of the offering listen if that was true my wife and i would not be here this morning i would be fully retired and i mean they were just roasting me i mean it was just vicious and and i had been warned by by a woman of god you're going to be attacked keep your head down stay on your knees because when you're on your knees you're a smaller target but you're going to be attacked but god said he would raise up a man of war i said okay and so man they were this was following the azusa crusade you know they we weren't is this okay if i tell we weren't going to take an offering we were told we were kind of running the crusade and so we're not going to take an offering and then on the way over we found out that the budget had been met now this is a upc deal the budget had been made so brother haney says you've got to take an offering something we've got to have an offering tonight well how much do we need well if i remember correct it was 60 or 80 or something thousand dollars to finish this budget up and i said oh now the problem is we get into the service and it's just exploding i mean first song david smith's down there and had already prayed through 40-something folks and it's it's you know and you learn a few things about these kind of meetings the devil will give you 50 and you'll miss 500. and so you know okay we're sending them back to their seats and they went back and then they started singing some more and it explodes again and we're stopping we send them back and finally brother manuel leaned over he said i'm going to tell you but you better get up there and take it this thing's going to get away and i said all right well we have and i'd ask everybody and their brother to take the offering oh no no no no no so guess what mmm money morgan so i get up there and i said look we'll take the offering a little later and i was preaching about elijah on top of mount carmel and a part of us put to sacrifice i'm telling you now listen we had over 3 000 people get the holy ghost and people leave there not rejoicing over 3 000 folks again the holy ghost they're just mad that i took an offering at a crusade and so i mean they're flooding down the front i said look we're not asking our guests to do this but all of you that are here with the organization all if you'll give sacrificially there's us there's i mean because they're flooding to the front now there's usher's position and field just and i think i don't remember we got 60 something thousand dollars just doing it that way but oh these guys they they took off and i mean they were blistering me but i'd already been warned and so somebody told my girls about it and they went online and read it and these these are preachers and they're at it and they're upset and they're hurt and they're borderline letting the seed of bitterness get planted so we had a little loft and the computer was up there so i went up there where they were at and i said first of all don't go back on that form the bible's got a lot to say about gossip and slander and all that stuff so just just stay off of it don't get back on there now here's the deal i could have lost my kids right there i could have said with them replibate preachers if they'd give all right but you know what i i i set him down in the loft ma'am was up there with us i said listen one of the things that you need to understand is this there's all kinds of crazy stuff that goes on even people that supposed to be whatever and i said but you can't focus on that i said now i'm going to help you here we're going to pray that god will forgive these people for what they've said and i said and we're not going to attack them we're not going to go after them i said david god said he'll raise up as a man of war in our life but my concern for you i could care less what they're saying i know my heart and i know that's not true and i i care less about that you got to take care of that but my concern right now and i'm trying to help some of you right here my concern right now is not about the world my concern right now is about my girls and we prayed and we asked god forgive people and it started out a little cold because i'm in there ready to hire a hit man and finally we felt the holy ghost come in there that that's my responsibility not as a preacher but as a father that's my responsibility to make sure that i don't allow something to happen in their lives that plants a seed of bitterness in them or gives them a disillusion about the things of god that's my responsibility you can't put that all on the church boy and so so here's what god did for me and i hurried too close here's what god did for me he uh this one guy especially he was he was the main one leading the charge and he was uh out of the louisiana district so david smith called me and he said hey um brother 10 he told me to call you and to tell you that within an hour that man is not going to say anything else and so i found out that brother tinney this is this something that i learned now this is just me okay but when the scripture says that god will arise as a man of war i honestly think that means that i don't have to fight it myself that god will raise up a man or somebody to defend it and brother tenney got on the phone called this man and uh gave him some good advice and in about an hour my phone rang and it was this man and he said brother morgan it's apparent that i didn't understand everything that had taken place and and all you know you can't go on everywhere defending yourself and and trying to explain people don't really want to hear that they they don't want to hear that and so you know you're just wasting your time and so he said look i wasn't aware a lot of stuff that happened you probably hate me all the days of your life and he said but i'm truly sorry he said please don't hate me and i said well can i ask you a question he said sure i said did you learn a lesson in this he said yeah i did i said then if it's at my expense it's at my expense as long as you learn your lesson then we're good you know the same thing i think the next year i priestly was in the camp he come up there and he was hugging me and i'm the man and and all the stuff and all and i'm truly sorry and all but don't you listen to me you can't put all of that on somebody else [Applause] well i can metal right here you know if all you're doing sitting around trashing them and your kids hear that stuff what do you expect human beings are human beings ain't nobody's superman in the church and everybody has the frailty of their humanity have i lost y'all it's just things are troubled even in your family look from the miracle god gave me a miracle and he gave me a miracle with my girls that day that they learn from that how to deal with stuff because that was not the end of it all but how to deal with stuff and all there's a miracle in the trouble now i'll close with this i'll close with this you know paul writes timothy he says uh first that's where i was at a while ago and he said the first letter he writes is about putting the house of god in order how you ought to behave yourself when you come to the house of god so don't cop out on i can have church in my living room i don't need the house of god i know cove had put you in your living room and had to stream and all and god was actually kind of putting us in a little time out like he was doing elijah in the cave you know i i i just lied i'm not quite ready to close elijah gets in that cave and the wind the earthquake and the fire but god wasn't in it but he comes in a still small voice do you know the cave that elijah was in is the same cliff in the rock that god hid moses in when he gave him the law and when god gave him the law god appeared in the wind the earthquake and the fire and so god's telling the prophet i'm not coming to you like i did with the law that's how i manifested then that's the way that i gave the law but you don't represent the law you represent the prophets so you shouldn't need all that you need to pick up on my still small voice and i just want you listen to me we as pentecostals got so used to the wind earthquake and fire of our church services that all of a sudden we're in our homes with time out and shelter in place and you can't you know i mean listen we just a few weeks ago was allowed to go back to church and that was starting out with 25 seating capacity now we're up to 50 percent now they said they're about to move it up to 75 percent and we've even heard you know how government is it can change just like that you know june the 15th no more mass mandates in the great state of cali crazy so you know i mean all that stuff so you know but our churches have been so used to the wind the earthquake and the fire and all of a sudden we're over here in this cave and we're you know it's just us and god said yeah that's exactly right i i had to get you from the wind the earthquake and the fire to put you here because i want you to learn my still small voice and here's what i want you to do i want you to hear me so you can get a plan of action to know what to do when you come out of this cave [Applause] and god put us in this time out over here for a good reset for the church and to get us away you you have to have the wind the earthquake and the fire no i mean that's great i love it all i love our exuberant worship and all but the deal is the holy ghost was intending to speak to us during this time and to give us a plan of action now elijah when you leave this cave you're going to go anoint this one this one and this one and they're going to be a double portion generation so the holy ghost says i'm going to put you over here in isolation not as a penalty everything's troubled right now elijah jezebel's after you the whole nation's troubled but it's in that right there that i'm going to speak to you and i'm going to give you a plan of action and i'm telling you when we process completely out of coven god intended for us to have a plan of action on to know what to do when we come out of this on how to reach this next generation and to watch a double portion generation manifest now close with my original closing first letter put the house of god in order deacons elders bishops second letter something's happened to timothy timothy's put in ephesus paul leaves him there beast of ephesus spiritual warfare in ephesus it's crazy in ephesus and this is where god places timothy it's very apparent that timothy succumbs to a spirit of fear in timothy in his own spirit becomes troubled and paul writes to him and says for god has not given you a spirit of fear of power love and what that means controlled mind you need to learn to control your mind and not let it look to what's troubled yeah timothy there's a lot of persecution that's starting in the church of evans you know they said i i read this that timothy was probably the pastor that john wrote to to the angel the church of ephesus and timothy at i think 80 years of age they drug him through the streets they drug him through the streets and then killed him horrible death and timothy sees all this and he's troubled but god didn't give you that timothy you need to learn to control your mind where you're not focused on the waves and the troubled but you look to the love of god and you look to the power of the holy ghost to operate in your life that's where your miracle is coming from god loves you he knows you're troubled he knows he knows where you're at today he knows where everyone you're at he knows where you're at collectively that's the love of god that's his nature he knows where you're at but but we're troubled okay you're troubled so what god loves us now watch for the power of god but that's going to happen when you control your mind and here it is timothy stir up the gift of god that's within you if everything around you is troubled then i have a suggestion for you timothy trouble what's in you by prophecy stir it up whoo i'm telling this church there's some things that god has placed in you in the spirit and now's not the time to let it lie dormant but now is the time and the troubling of the water now is the time for you to stir up those gifts that god's given you and come out swinging let's praise him let's praise him let's praise him let's praise him let's praise [Music] [Applause] now we're going to do something here i got a i know some folks man this just wrecks them this is wrexham in a minute we're gonna stand and i'm gonna ask god by his authority to let you pray in the holy ghost and somebody come up here a while back said i i just don't think you can turn on off like that i said well if you live close enough to it you can now you may have problem getting there if you stay distant from it all week but if you're living the way you ought to be living you ought to be right there i mean that close to it at any moment any time there are some miracles in this building right now some of you are troubled with health some of your trouble with finances some of your trouble with life some of you troubled for various reasons you're troubled but that's where god wants to work a miracle in your life look for the miracle today god wants to give this church a miracle a great miracle so look for the miracle anybody here today need a miracle if you do i want you to stand um whatever it is spiritual emotional physical financial relational whatever it is you need a miracle in what you stand right now don't want you stand i need a miracle i want you to look around look across the building and i want you to see how many people standing right now now boy i feel some holy ghost direction the world's troubled society's troubled america is troubled so guess what that's where god wants you to head and these signs shall follow them that believe if i've ever had the holy ghost working on me the last few weeks he's been working on me about you need to get back to the miraculous you need to get back to the ministry of the saints and if they're a true believer they ought to be able to go out of these four walls into a troubled world and go into the trouble because you're going to bring a miracle to people that needs a miracle can i just be honest with you and i don't want to kill any faith that's here i think that we've prayed enough for each other we're going to do it again here in a little bit and god's going to give some miracles in this building but i think it's the intent of god for us to leave this building to go right out there into a troubled madison and jackson and mississippi and america and the globe and for us to go into the trouble but we're going with faith in our hearts and we're going as believers have any believers here today no seriously do i have any believers here today i know it's holiday weekend and you got plans and we're trying to get to the restaurant but here's the deal i believe the gifts are about to operate but they're not going to operate through me they're going to operate through you you ever heard covet the best gift earnestly you know what that really means okay you have a need up here you're standing saying i need a miracle okay now i can walk over here and pray for you just pray for you but you know i try to help you but if out of compassion and love i ask god whatever this need is i'm asking you to let the gift of the spirit that needs to operate operate through me to help go into the troubled part of his life and for god to do a miracle right now that's every one of you you know god never intended for it just to be only maybe five six people in church using the gifts of the spirit did you know that when you receive the holy ghost in you is all nine gifts of the spirit so stir up some of you are so afraid of that oh i i don't want to abuse it i've seen it misused i've seen all that but i'm not going to run from it i'm going to believe god so here's what i'm going to believe i'm going to believe when you start praying in the holy ghost here a little bit you're going is it okay for them for them to pray for each other i mean you know california we're still not supposed to be so i'm going to ask the person next to you that needs a miracle i'm going to ask you just turn to them and say okay just you don't have to go into specifics but what miracle do you need and here's where i want you to put it it's either a spiritual need it's an emotional need it's a physical need it's a financial need or it's a relational need okay and when they tell you when they tell you my need is a financial need or my need is a spiritual need or a physical need i'm troubled my health is troubled then i'm i want you at that point to say okay god now i need you to flow through me and for me to pray in the spirit and for the gift of the spirit to operate through me to this person you believe that you really believe that you need a miracle well you know what go into the trouble now pray in the holy ghost [Music] now i want you to turn to the person next to you whatever it is and i want you to ask them okay what what's troubled in your life right now what's troubled what's troubled what's troubled come and ask them what what's trouble and just give them give them that basic answer that i told you i'm troubled spiritually i'm troubled emotionally i'm troubled physically or financially come on tell them tell them and once they tell you then i want you to ask the holy ghost now lord when i lay my hands on them i'm going to ask you to flow through me and i'm going to ask to pray in the spirit and for whatever gift of the spirit that needs to operate to minister covet the best gift earnestly whatever gift is needed i'm asking you to let that gift operate right now in the name of jesus christ now by the authority of the holy ghost by the power of the name of jesus let your spirit flow through these believers you said and these signs shall follow them that believe i'm asking you right now holy ghost i'm asking you right now holy ghost [Music] i'm asking you to use every one of these that's standing as they pray for somebody in this church service today as they stand and they pray for the person next to them i'm asking you to use them right now greatly god to flow through your body to flow through them as a believer to minister because these signs shall follow them that believe these signs shall follow them that believe you don't have to make it up just let the holy ghost flow through you right now just let the holy ghost flow through you right now there you go there you go god wants to give you a miracle today the things that are troubled the things that are troubled the things that are troubled us to give you a miracle

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Length: 68min 37sec (4117 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 03 2021