The Potter's Touch - Cheering You On

coming up on the Potters Tech sometimes you win because of who's watching have you ever been in the gym lifting weights and you really wanted to quit you just wanted to just just just just stop it but because you're home it was in there lifted weights - and you didn't want him to see you just give out like that you found out you could press more weight than you thought to compress because somebody's one this is the hello everybody I'm excited to have the opportunity to share the word of the Lord with you the flower fades the grass withers but the word of the Lord will stand it will absolutely stand forever we're going to share a word with you today I know there are moments in your life I've certainly had them around where I felt like I was all alone and that nobody cared about me but it absolutely is not true the truth of the matter is the balcony's of heaven are crowded and the saints are cheering you on the message is called cheering you on take a look at this and may God bless you the pinnacle of faith is built on the backs of real ordinary I'll speak bad breath people not angels not celestial beings not heavenly choirs people with pain and passion and problems and struggles and mistakes and mishaps and delays and yet they finish what they started wherefore seeing as we it's our turn look somebody say it's our turn seeing as we are compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses seeing as we are surrounded by the writer here has put the text in an amphitheater as was the custom of the times that the gladiators fought in amphitheaters he has filled the stands with winners and while you are fighting your opponents he has filled the stands with people who have already won the fight and he says how can you give out seeing as you are compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses I would have dropped the ball but because you were cheering me on oh oh my god sometimes you win because of who's watching where the fellas that make some noise fellows talk to me have you ever been in the gym lifting weights and you really wanted to quit you just wanted to just to just stop it but because your homie was in there lifted waist - and you didn't want him to see you just give out like that you found out you could press more weight than you thought you could press because somebody's watching that's the spirit of this text that all who have gone before you the patriarchs and matriarchs the prophets the priests the kings they are watching you the women who did their laundry in the creek are watching you who raised their children out of the garden in the backyard are watching you the people who survived the depression are watching you with your Apple phone saying you can't survive how did they make it with so much less and you've got so much spa and you are about to faint in your mind normally I tell you touch your neighbor but don't touch it just shake him a little bit say wake up I'm wondering how does one faint in your mine and could it be possible that your mind has fainted through the weariness of the struggle you stopped thinking and creating and breathing and doing and going forward in your life because you have become weary in well-doing and the gym they call it muscle fatigue push to them and it carrying so much weight that you fainted or I what David I would have fainted I almost fainted I came close to free me I almost let you I would have to divorce you I would have died I would have quit I would have sent you to my mama's to raise you I would have fainted had not I believed oh here come faith reviving you when you're about to faint had not I believed to see the good see if you don't believe right it won't come out right no wonder he says wherefore see see if you don't see it right you won't stand right in fact the voices that are fighting you in your head are fighting to gain control of how you see your situation we're for seeing as we are compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and the sin that does so easily the center I want to differentiate weights from sin procrastination is not a sin but it's a weights avoiding your responsibilities may not be a sin but it's a weight not confronting issues because of your timidity may not be a sin but it's a weight are you blaming God for things not working when in fact it is the weights that you will not lay aside are there some things you need to lay aside in order to be the champion you were created to be and by the way did Jesus come and dwell amongst us 33 years get beat with the cat of nine tails stripped of his clothing nailed to a cross for you to be a church person who still lives in sin I hear you talking about you saved and that's wonderful but I wonder what you say from if you're gonna live like you live before we got quiet uh it got I don't normally get y'all gonna be shouting aah aah aah how have you changed can you show me your before and after you know how to do those makeovers for the women and they say this is how silent let the folk and this is Hazzard let's now show me your before and after pictures between who you were before and who you are now or have you just added Jesus to the agenda of a life you continue I was talking to a whole friend out on the road that I hadn't talked to for years and years and years we were catching up and we went back to some stuff we used to do that I won't detail and it was a fun vacation from Who I am to discuss who I was and as he went on and on and on about it you know we were laughing and talking and I could put myself right back in the situation and I visited it and when we talked again he brought it up again and started talking about it again and I visited it and then we talked again and he brought it up again and I thought can we talk about something else suddenly I recognize that all we had in common was our history and not our destiny do you have those people in life that appealed to the worst in you and not the best in you and whenever they could net with you they'd bring you down to where you were before now now now now now would you understand something I'm not judging him or criticizing him because it makes me feel hypocritical to criticize his sin because I must humbly admit that there is a part of me that leans but not enough of me to make a life of it and what I realized in our conversation that though I am still somewhat kin to who I used to be I live a life of contradictions because there is not enough of me left that related to what we were talking about to build a life around it suddenly I recognize that my friend has no struggles because everything he feels like doing he does and I am left in the struggle because when I would do good cannot be really something evil is present with me I'm not all the way right but I'm not all the way wrong and so I must be prepared to some trouble between the contradictions oh wow still to come on the POTUS touch the sages of the ages are cheering you're there are praying Grandmama's and mamas cheering you on there are people who had less and did more who are cheering you on what God wants you to know is that you came from - goodness atomic that you came from lawyers and fighters and people who endured afflictions and then do it tough time and Agony's and opposition who prayed in the rain and danced in the storm for you to get here and die tell hell now I want to thank my partner's for your faithful support and provide an opportunity for others to join hands with us to fulfill the Great Commission TD jakes global partnership system is healing the hurting feeding the hungry clothing the naked making a difference about touching the lives of people all around the globe if you want to be a part of Jesus love revolution join hands we're one global family touching the world that the father's love for the purpose of pastoring my church I want to be sure that you understand the theology of the text God has taken off of you what you could not remove the whole purpose of Jesus is to lay aside the penalty of Seir okay there are three aspects of sin the penalty of sin the practice of sin and the presence of sin on the cross he removed the penalty of sin paid the debt for me went to the cross as me was curse because of me took my penalty by proxy he was lifted up as me so I can live as him come on talk to me church he became so much me that when God looked at him he did not see his son he saw my sin and I told you perspective is everything the father saw sin and there he is dying on the cross crying here I Samantha Lee why has thou forsaken me he had not forsaken him he had forsaken me because he had become me can you see that sing wherefore seeing he could not see his son for my sin and when he saw my sin he was smitten of God God smoked the sin that the son carried and because he became me on the cross I became him a body of Christ in this present world and he told me before he left he said I'm gonna superimpose my identity on you and baptize you into the body of Christ and you are gonna become so much me that when you go to the Father don't say this jackie prayer but whatsoever you ask the father in my name y'all can't handle that let me come up out of that let me do not know the reason you have to pray to the Father in the name of Jesus is that Jesus has so become your identity that you stand in the power and the authority of Jesus Christ when you go before the Father and whatever you ask the Father when you say I ask it in the name of Jesus it is because you have been baptized into the body of Christ do you not know this is what the text means when it says in him I live in him I move in him I admire your little look at it look at it it's about seeing it's about seeing it's about seeing the father saw my sin and smote his son and I need to see myself beloved now are we the sons of God though it does not yet appear what we shall be it doesn't it doesn't show yet but when we see him we shall see him as he yes and we shall be lacking so I am changed by what I see how you see God determines how you were change while you go up and down on the roller coaster ride of life sorry we would see Jesus praise teen when you say we don't want to see you we get out the bed this morning to see you we like city choir we would see preachers we don't want to see you touch my you can reach us out want to see Jesus I want to see D I want to see Jesus I want to see Jesus that's why malankov the wanna see Jesus that's why I'm streaming or cuz I want to see Jesus oh hell is Regulus and I'm goin down I need to see Jesus help I've fallen and I can't get up so Jesus took care he laid aside the penalty of sin and the third one he's gonna take care of that either when he comes to get us or when we died a meeting he will snatch us from the presence of sin dead people can't do wrong raptured people are taken from wrong to right both of them Jesus took care of the middle one is on you the practice of sin that's where the struggle is the penalty he said I got there the presence of sin he said I got that too but I left the practice of joy of sin for you to have something to work out on come on come on that's your gym equipment that's where you learn discipline and strict training and muscle development and the ability to say no to the lesser so you can say yes to the greater am i feeding anybody so he says to the struggling Souls like you and me who struggle against who we were and who we are every day and sometimes get so tired of faint while fighting it's so tired of fighting that we faint not outside we faint in our minds give me a minute let me work on this faint in your mind see the guy who smiles in the light is only sustained by the guy who prays in the shadows and what happens with living with contradictions is that there's always a struggle between the light in you and the dark in here come on somebody if you give way to the dark in you you could go all the way down do something stupid marry somebody crazy end up with a disease get locked in jail you could do something so stupid that's why you can never be arrogant because you just one stupid decision from wrecking everything you got am i preaching this thing right and there you are struggling with the discipline because whatever you yield yourself to the most that is what you become and the reason my friend could talk filth all day is because he yields to what I struggled with and I want to know this morning are you a yielder or a struggler neither one of us are perfect neither one of us have mastered it if you feel the fight if you feel the weariness and sometimes you're faint in your mind the only faint because your father you only fought because you struggled you only struggled because you refused to give in to the lesser you that you might be the greater you am I helping somebody today and so this little thought the Lord sent me to tell all of the struggles and all of the strugglers and all of the people who live with the shame of not quite being either one but wrestled the tricks in between the highs and the lows of life there are people in the balconies cheering you on there are patriarchs and prophets cheering you on the sages of the ages are cheering you on there are praying Grandmama's and mamas cheering you on there are people who had less and did more who are cheering you on what God wants you to know is that you came from - goodness talk that you came from lawyers and fighters and people who endured afflictions and then do it tough time and agonize and opposition who prayed in the rain and danced in the storm for you to get here and die tell hell oh I will not die I will not die having done all to stand I will stand anyway and even when I feel like I'm standing alone I will always remember the balconies are filled and all that have suffered before me are cheering me on whether it be you're not your natural heritage or whether it be your spiritual heritage coz while I was preaching God said go and get that because somebody out there says I didn't have no prayin mama that's what's wrong I didn't have no praying daddy if you can't clean it on your natural side we throwed your spiritual side and touch Esther and touch Naomi and tench Paul and touch Tina ah all seeing as we all compassed about oh it was such a great cloud of witnesses Dever you thought I was gonna faint tell hell no there's too many in the balconies cheering me on so let us not be weary in well-doing for we shall reap y'all ain't talking to me we shall read in due season if there's anybody in here has got some faith tell him I sold in tears but I'm gonna reap in joy my harvest is coming though he slay me yet still I trusted weaving may endure for a night but joy it's coming in the morning it's coming in the morning it's coming in the morning it's coming in the morning it's coming in the morn in touch seven people in Talib it's coming in the morning it's coming in the morning it's coming in the morning it's coming in the morning listen before I leave you today I want you to really understand what this message is saying to you no one wants to talk about what you will have to give up to get where you're trying to go the reality is simple you can be more successful if you are willing to be more sacrificial think about that today God bless you have a good one are you sure you can handle the process before you ask for the promise to him who much is given much is required for your gift to the ministry of any size you'll receive cheering you on on CD from Bishop Jake's challenging series press in and win giving me attacked you is a sign you have value and when your gift is $70 or more you'll receive press in and win on four DVDs for you to get here and die tell hello there are people who had less and did more who are cheering you on however when your gift is $125 or more you'll receive the press in and win for message DVD set the ultimate collection of megafest 2015 on 14 cds and your very own mega faith mini book now is the time to press in and win I'd leave a hundred people that's been in a fight been in a struggle been under attack been in a conflict to leave on an hour and dance like the champion laughs you are cut you've got the victory right down take me to church this is the bomb

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 02 2016