The Temple Grand Opening Celebration

application and oh i'm too old for that god said sarah had a baby at 90. and you still telling me what i can't do today your imagination will never be capped again you go i don't care how old you are god said your ladder will be greater than your if you're 68 you better get ready for the greatest days of your life first of all see they telling me to put the mic up to my mouth and they didn't even have it on see y'all ain't gonna make a fool out of me new life that's what you're not gonna do what's up everybody it's your girl lexi i am here in chicago came all the way it's not very far detroit to be with my people pastor john hannah pastor jermone glenn o m g new life covenant church is doing the doggone thing i i haven't walked through the whole building yet because it's too big okay let's get started with that it's too big i don't know if you know they trying to take after solomon and you know we'll talk about that later but it's a lot going on three days who does a ribbon cutting three days how many ribbons you gotta have father son the holy ghost trinity i don't know what's happening but i'm glad to be here and i'm so glad that you're here we had a lot of ground to cover so much is happening uh last night people were texting me people were calling me talking about it was killer it was crazy last night and then tomorrow's going to be even better but tonight i'm here so that changed everything so let's start with that but let's talk about the church y'all if y'all could see how crazy this is like i feel like i'm at like google or something like the headquarters of google you know i don't feel i don't feel churchy yet they were playing jill scott a few seconds ago so that kind of tells you the level of holiness that we're dealing with so you know we're gonna we're gonna work on that we're gonna work on that but okay so i'm lexi you can follow me on social media lexi television all that good stuff um i'm from detroit so i want you to put those of you who are streaming i need you to type it in where you're from give us your name and how you joined us tonight like what made you tune in and i'm going to try to find your name and we're going to talk to you a little bit uh we need your city your state your name and say something good say some encouraging words about the church it is so amazing that during a pandemic that we can still come on put that camera on me you better you better lean in hold up you better lean in she's leaning in let me give you what you need hold on you get my sleeves back up a little bit so you can see this waist what waste anyway i'm starving right now so let's not this ain't all what it's cracked up to be like i'm so hungry i'm kind of i'm hangry right now but that's another that's a whole nother thing okay so this is what you need to do if you have time if you're not doing anything you don't have a hot date like me i'm not you know we'll talk about that later we'll talk about that where the deacon's at y'all got some deacons new life where the deacon's at i need all deacons i need the elders you know what i'm saying i've been starving for a reason i need y'all to come through who's going to pay for crab legs y'all got crab legs in chicago what you're not gonna do is take me to maxwell polish you're not gonna do that the way i'm looking i'm looking how i'm looking the way things are set up yeah i need to go to ruth chris go downtown somewhere okay but anyway if you don't have a hot date like me you need to get to the temple it is so much going on tonight and we need to see your face in the place we're still social distancing distancing we're still wearing our mask i need you to come with your mask don't just come empty-handed we're gonna hand you a mask okay so there's that so just come on to the temple okay so how did i meet pastor hannah i'm a singer right so pastor hannah was he was doing he was he was a on-air personality for a radio show and i met him true story i didn't even know he was a pastor because he was so crazy on radio i was like who is this nut who was he he was cracking jokes the whole time had me in stitches and he was a natural natural personality it wasn't until a year later that i found out that he was he was a bastard it's actually sad now pastor jermon glenn the name jermone why aren't you jerome or or ramon or jermaine like why are we jermon they don't even it sounds like i'm messing his name up it sounds like it's really jerome but i'm i'm messing up jeremiah anywho i met him because we're we're from michigan so i came to his church for you know different concerts different engagements and that's how i met him he's so creative he just does a lot of things now he think he's somebody because he got his little braids and he likes to he likes to shake his braids y'all he like we see you we know you got braids you don't have to make a move don't you hate girls at first you know the girls they first get their hair washed and perm and they and you you say hey girl how you doing what girl you good yes that's pastor jamon glenn he always shakes his braids every chance he gets is unnecessary it's too much anyway um what do i like okay i said what i liked about pastor okay so first of all they try to stay on the cutting edge of fashion okay so pastor jamon glenn i saw him earlier he had just it looked regular but i searched for it where's the easter egg at cause i know it's not just normal you got to do something you got to shake your hair and you got to do something and he's got this band that's going around his leg what does it mean who knows i don't know what it i i don't know what it represents but it's fashion pastor hannah he always tries to have a button up he tried to be fashion forward he tries to do the glasses thing okay i mean it is what it is but um they ain't beating what i'm doing look you say i need you to back up are the pastors doing this are they doing this are they doing of course not no of course not your fashion is in vain cause up the road you need to go to the store but that's that um so listen listen listen listen if you are not in your car you need to be you need to you need to get here tonight who's who's coming tonight who's here tonight bishop iv hilliard if you've ever heard him give a word omg he's the truth uh who else is coming tonight who else is who else is on the donald donald lawrence the donald lawrence uh uh what's that song he has with leandra what yes get back to eat live it on top of the world what that what else what else i got somebody over here telling me oh wait wait what's the song with uh deliver me child listen listen nuh deliver me with leandria first of all donald lawrence just look at it just look at the pants look at the pants don't look at me look at the pants just just just pan down okay if you could tell the people is your michael on i think so great what's up perfect so what does what is this what does that what does that stand for that's a stripe by his stripes nope no no that's definitely not come on come on through okay so what made you just say i'm gonna put it there you could have just had the clean pants actually i didn't you know who did it he actually goes here his name is kevin closet i believe is called okay okay you know he decided that a stripe needed to be right there okay so i embrace the strike how many frames you have how many how many cause you and pastor hannah with these frames how many for because the frames are matching what you're doing the burberry tie i see you the brooch that is jeweled we're doing it we're we're working it shout out shout out to your wife give her a shout out so my wife is pastor erica glenn hey bae because you're doing a lot shout out to the shout out to the wife on tonight on tonight ladies he's he's he's super married so don't even think about it he's happily oh watch it yeah come on earn some points tonight okay cause when it's over i got you to go home okay that's it so what are we doing with the hair though to back it up this is actually pastor hannah's line right there she go she heard her name she said hey let me come here is she fine hey she i got you you know about your makeup i see why you in love yeah you see love yeah that's why they was playing jill scott earlier you was trying to set the mood and get it y'all just came back from out of town i saw you on the ground you know that was a little while ago we just post when we get back you don't want people to know silence well let's talk about let's talk about the couple let's she talk understood the assignment on tonight okay she come on in huh she understood this side right here what are we doing it took me it took me 20 minutes to get in these pants you got it i drink it is i'm dehydrated i'm about to pass out because i had to get in these pants and i'm not drinking anything lexi thanks for being here i am so glad you got a whole makeup line right now i do have a makeup line it's called geet everything is biblically based so i have all of my pals the genesis palette the noah's ark palette i have everything there's a lot going on but why but why bible stories as the palace why not i mean okay why not where did that come from and all the characters are black eva's black and she got a body yes it is true okay so period so we got that this is a lot going on so if you need cosmetics go to geetcosmetics.com that's g-e-a-t i mean look at my face though look at that you know hey she was talking about me being uh married but uh yeah lexi is single i'm so super single excuse me excuse me and uh i need you guys first of all let me say this pastor jamon was supposed to be finding my husband he and pastor hannah i talked to pastor hannah they were supposed to find my husband's show right right you were supposed to create a show and find my husband have you done it absolutely not what were they doing doing this which is more important this is phase one my love life or this it's in god's house he's out there i'm your mate you understand he might be on tv he might be watching so so we finished building the temple we invited you here you did so that now you know now we can say to all the gentlemen out there it's in the house of god yeah you can find your wife i did you know so so man of god if you're looking for it here she is all of her glory i cook let me tell you entrepreneur i don't i don't clean oh i have someone who comes in there it is the virtuous one but i cook ox tails and gravy whatever you need men of god i got you lemon pound cake i do that girl okay okay scratch yeah from scrutiny scratch i use a pound of butter in my pounds one pound that's what they call the pound cake of course i didn't know there it is here it is here it is so okay so who is here tonight there's donald lawrence bishop ivy hillyard yes what's who else that's those are our main two okay a guest the features the psalmist and the preacher man it's a night of faith donald lawrence is going to minister to us sing some of our favorite songs okay what's your favorite man that's so hard um he's such he has such a charming hat that's that [Music] see the thing about donald lawrence the way he writes that's my that's my buddy he is very wordy so if your praise team is trying to learn the circle in one week no don't do it yeah that's not your goal too you got to play him jonathan nelson they write really really wordy they're going to get you listen you're going to sing this word you're going to sing yourself that's what i love about it though i mean he listens to the word interpret the word through songs so when you can't remember the scriptures you remember the song and there it is it sticks i love it and he's here tonight tonight to do what he has to do now bishop iv hill you're it almost goes without saying i saw bishop heal your like preach a funeral and i was just sitting there like i'm a church kid i've been to church all my life and you don't hear anything new you just kind of you're like okay which way are they going to go he comes out of nowhere listen with stuff that i'm going i've been a church kid born on the pew i wasn't just talking about that we had that moment oh yeah we had a moment at the the man of god is here and here we are ladies and gentlemen senior pastor pastor john hannah let's see what he oh what does lexie have on i listen tina came by here in the first of all don't do me don't do me y'all's playing jill scott lexie is left here jill's got in the church sexy for jesus sexy lexi that's right you're gonna be sexy sexy that's what we about to call that's the new tag right there for the hashtag it's sexy like sexy let's see jesus too much you gotta say jesus you gotta gotta put jesus on so glad how are you okay just let me take it all in can i see your socks no i'm not he don't know the lord he had like he going to a foot washington service i'm all covered up thank you thank you wow no socks wow and you know what your wife made sure that you were perfectly located what's happening guys what are we doing you know how long y'all been married too long okay obviously you look great i haven't seen you in forever we're gonna let y'all do this i'm gonna get ready i'll talk to y'all later listen we're excited about last night was crazy and then we have the faith man here today for everyone that's watching yes we need you to share we need you to prepare yes for those in the building we need you to get ready because you're about to get a deposit of faith i believe it that don michael todd came through i heard some people were bringing my phone i'm all the way in detroit and i was getting people were like oh my god it was incredible i was like are you serious it was that incredible it was crazy last night yeah that's what i heard okay how many square foot what's happening so this is 85 000 square feet we sit on 10 acres of land it's the building seats close to 4 000. i can't um it's three green rooms three vip suites it is beyond our expectations i walked in there and it was like lexi you know this is where you know finish putting on your makeup or whatever and i walked in and i said oh what's happening what is i don't it it's just first class that's how we practice i've watched you pray for this i watched this place when there was nothing in it come on and you put it on instagram i was right there the whole time you were travailing over this place you had people coming in here laying on the floor touching the floor touching the walls i watched that we bottled up the dirt at one point and gave it out to members and told them we need you to begin to pray over this land wow because we believe that everything needs to be taken to god in prayer there's no question about it and what i said at the beginning is we are in a whole pandemic so to be able to do a ribbon cutting on a facility like this is unheard of there there are churches that have shut down really have shut down because the members you know you know they weren't coming so they they weren't giving and so there were ministries that didn't quite make it even though we're still in a pandemic there were there were many ministries that folded and so to be able to do this it's beyond we saw the hand of god for real nothing lacked we only saw increase that's crazy so this is we had over a thousand people to join our church from all over the world online doing the pandemic so to god be the glory one thing that we've always said is that every sunday someone has to get saved and god has never let us down well i've watched your sermons on the way to my church i watched you guys yeah i've watched your church yeah okay okay pastor harvey kevin yes i'm very familiar he's from chicago yes he is yes he is i watched you guys first of all this whole thing that you guys do it's unheard of as well nobody does that yeah nobody gets together like that anymore no nobody and i think that's what god wanted us to do to teach a lesson first of all the stage is too big for one person to hold it and if people could realize that god has you to share your life with other people wow so the lord told me um to ex cast a net for pastor jamon to come here and to move over and make room for him nobody does that and you know that and the only reason i did is because god said it and the lord let me know that if you don't obey me you'll miss your turn so if you miss your turn who's the who's the guarantee that you'll get another term you may not and you get one thing i learned is you have to do what the lord says do i'm telling you because if you don't you'll end up doing it anyway but it'll be under different circumstances and you don't want that thank god for pastor hannah for following the leading of god y'all got to walk through here if you still have time put the meatloaf up come on here okay put your ribs up we can we can all afford to lose a couple of pounds just put it up put some foil on it and get to the house of the living god you don't want to miss this and those of you who are streaming stay tuned sit right there we have something awesome for you tonight i'm excited great can we get everyone those those of you that are watching on facebook if you can begin to share call your friends and them that they need to log in for some of y'all if your faith is at an all-time low this is your night tonight listen apostle ivy here is a man of faith i'll just say to you the lord sent me to him when i was at one of my lowest points waiting on this and that man took me in a separate room by his house and gave me some words and i knew that he needed to be here tonight so for those of y'all that have a promise tonight is your night lexie yes sir thank you girl i'm glad to be here i really am you didn't got serious on me i'm used to him cracking jokes so this i'll clown right here i'm not really sure you see that countdown yeah i see it you see it hold up five four two one we'll be back okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] ribbon cutting ceremony those in the auditorium can we hear you release a praise if you're in the building come on you are literally sitting in the belly of a promise and i'm excited tonight i want you to get a good look as we scan this i'm excited to have our board member victor uh one of the other founders of this church pastor terrace is here to my right i need everybody to pay attention this is charles johnson charles worked with us at the beginning of this project he was the one that made this thing really unfold he was the one that said to me pastor hannah we can't just build an ordinary church god wants to do something bigger in this community so what we did i sent a picture listen at this bishop i sent a picture of him that we stood across the street on the ground seven years ago when we did a groundbreaking ceremony but we didn't even own the land we stood on the ground and believed that god was going to give us the land to do what needed to be done so in honor of seven years ago charles and i wore the same suits that we wore seven years ago i'm not breathing but i'm in it but i'm excited tonight that he is here and i'm excited to have a pastor ivy hilliard his wife pershia associate our executive pastor pastor jerome his wife and then our janette who manages our office right there on 55th in michigan what i'm going to ask is that bishop is going to pray the prayer of faith if i don't know anything else this is a man of faith he is literally going to release faith in this prayer everyone that is in the building before you leave here our team is going to take this ribbon in the back cut it up and you're going to take a piece of this cloth home the same god that worked for bishop iv hillian is gonna work for you amen come over here go ahead and pray let's pray father in the name of jesus we thank you for this anointing and we thank you for this we thank you the temple and thought let this be a place of deliverance we declare this is a place where people will come and will leave free of sickness and disease thank you lord this will be a place where dreams will be ignited and fulfilled and thank you lord that this will be a place where you will be glorified in jesus name so we declare it we call it done in jesus name and father i thank you for a boldness to walk by faith and not by sight for all who will partake of this anointing in jesus name amen and come on everybody release the praise right there come on if you need the lobby or even release the praise right there so right now we're going to literally use these scissors to cut come on charles grab those and we're going to cut together i'm just going to stand here and i think that charles should have the honor to cut so move a little closer down here charles all right and on the count of three you guys can cut one two three how are you going how you gonna let the og i'll cut you there it is come on release the praise and we pray that the same god that gave us a ribbon cutting give you an opportunity to cut some ribbons in your life amen let's go in oh before you leave we want to present something we have some scissors that literally have um your name on it to remind you of this day that you allowed us to cut one will go to you one will go to you charles and as one of the co-founders of the church one will go to you as well past the terrance we love you all and we're excited about what god's about to do in this building on tonight let's go ladies and gentlemen please give a round of applause and warm welcome to the south shore drill team ladies and gentlemen do [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] coachella you ready let's go get on drop it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] no no no no [Music] you don't love me this i know boys [Applause] [Music] if you ask me [Music] baby [Applause] [Music] anything you i'm talking to you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] suddenly you came into my life [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] ladies and gentlemen boys and girls i want you to prepare yourself for the world renowned [Music] um [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] wow [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] wow [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] ladies and gentlemen new life on your voice prepare your hearts hallelujah we give you glory and we give you praise lord and we declare that nothing is impossible for you hallelujah thank you jesus come on clap your hands [Music] [Music] you never fail [Music] shout [Music] shout if you [Music] somebody [Music] thank you god nothing it's too hard for you he says i am the lord thy god is there anything too hard for you yeah come on let's sing it let's say it again anything is possible [Music] there is nothing you can [Music] come on [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] comes now [Music] [Music] nothing is impossible for you we stand and we see your miracle [Music] now come on [Music] and it's happening [Music] now [Music] come on [Music] [Music] come on let's lift it up again come on church you say say nothing come here [Music] when is it happening [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] he's [Applause] [Applause] he's still working [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] does anybody believe that all things are possible hallelujah everybody shout with me everybody [Music] [Music] again [Music] sing with me if you believe everybody [Music] [Music] does anybody [Music] i'm standing on every word [Music] [Applause] he cannot fail [Music] [Applause] he cannot [Music] [Applause] if you know that there is no failure in the lord there's nothing too hard for my god he can't do exceedingly and abundantly [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i [Music] i you're my [Music] foundations he cannot breathe [Music] [Music] i am [Music] yes [Music] is no failure in your time he may not come when you want him to hold him but he will stop [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah would you lift your hands church in the room speak well of the lord your promise still stands great is your faithfulness faithfulness [Music] i'm still in your hands this is my confidence you've never failed let's see now your promise still stays come on greatest of faithfulness sing that church i'm still in your hands this is my confidence you've never failed me yet [Music] come on your promises your promise [Music] great is your faithfulness [Music] [Music] now you know that song let's say i seen you i see you come on [Music] [Music] [Music] when there was no way [Music] i see you [Music] [Applause] [Music] i believe [Music] would you take a moment to worship your god hallelujah [Music] thank you jesus [Applause] we let you up and we worship them because we know you're a happy movie god you're the god to get to the impossible thank you god we're standing on a miracle we're standing today [Music] i see [Music] i see you [Music] [Music] and this is my confidence being confident in this very thing that he that had begun a good work in me yeah he's faithful to perform it [Music] yes one more time church you say your promise still stands [Applause] hey i'm stealing your hands hey this is my that you'll never fail [Applause] one more time your promised shield stands great hallelujah come on every voice i'm still in your head [Music] so someone told me years ago that god always answers prayers it's either yes no or wait and the hardest one is to wait but if you wait on god and encourage yourself in the lord everyone that's waiting on god to do it for you never let the praise team sing for you those of you that are waiting on god to do it for you can you lift your hands and say that line that says your promise still stands [Music] the audience should be louder than the stage there it is i'm what [Music] i'm still in your hands [Music] if you believe that give god a praise like he never failed you i need you to praise god like he never failed you even when it looked like you lost you won you never failed if you don't release a praise in this hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] but the sound still ain't in the building the way i know it should be in the building some of y'all still looking around look around and when you finish looking around your promise still stands yeah he's still faithful i need you to i need you to defy every lying demon that's been talking to you i need your praise to outrun your complaint come on come on i'm trying to give you an opportunity you can't receive from god in a spirit of sorrow that's why the bible says lift up your head on your gates yeah those of you that believe that god still has time to do it i need to hear a sound of assurance in this building go go go go go go get your praise back your sound back i've seen you do it i saw it with my own eyes [Applause] before you even leave the building your situation would have turned for the better [Applause] i've seen you do it [Applause] i saw it with my own eyes yeah i felt it in my own spirit [Music] clap your hands one more time and tell god i seen you do it see [Music] you came through before and you gonna do it again hallelujah i need you to air five people around you and just say i seen him do it you ain't gotta touch him but you can hear him i seen him with my own eyes see he made a way out of nowhere he healed my body he shut the mouth of the enemy [Music] and guess what i'm still here [Applause] that's the part you need to send that report to your enemies [Music] that's the part right there i'm still here wait no god to come through come on [Music] that's our welcome i'm welcome with a praise we hope you feel welcome we know we hope you know here that you in the house that he answers it's you what i just said you in the house that he answers and he's no respecter persons same god that's in it here come on it's gonna do it at your house come on lift up your hands and tap in your imagination is flowing your faith is rising he's going to do it in your house come on tap in tap in tap in tap in tap in tap in tap in tap in tap in i'm expecting a miracle yes sir bishop murphy i'm expecting a miracle yes sir he let me come in a miracle to know that i can expect my miracle those of you that are waiting on god and you expecting god to do something supernatural this is your welcome this is your welcome you're welcome once you welcome twice i don't like the way some of y'all looking [Music] but what a way to be welcome i'm expecting a miracle [Music] come on on your way to your seat tell somebody i'm expecting a miracle a miracle i'm looking for the impossibles it's in the room it's in the room it's in the room [Music] it's a miracle in the room there's a miracle in the room and the old folks say and it got your name on it your name on it special delivery on your way to your seat just stay in the seat of expectation no turn don't lean back too far your turn cause you never know when your package is gonna be delivered your turn [Applause] [Music] go ahead and have a seat and pay attention to the screen welcome i'm expecting a miracle your turn i'm expecting a miracle you're tired i'm expecting a miracle your turn this is my week of miracle signs at one time i'm expecting a miracle your time i'm expecting a miracle your time i'm expecting a miracle your turn [Applause] pay attention to the screen what you expect your miracle hey god bless you this is pastor choco i too want to come and congratulate my brother pastor john hannah and anna hannah and the entire team and we celebrate i remember when john came to us there in the humble park community we met because john was doing a spring conference or event with the young people and i was leading the midwest latin young people 11 states and so we were in the same city but we were in opposite directions until god one day spoke to john and anna to come to the north side to a puerto rican church and i remember preaching one day and i saw john in the audience now it's not it wasn't hard to spot him because he was the only black guy in the audience and so after the service i go to him like a scud missile and i said what are you doing here and he said the lord told me to come to you and so for four years john hanna stood under our leadership and i remember he was preaching and he was the first black person to preach in an all puerto rican church and man he you know john already had a platform john already had a following he was an evangelist but i remember one day he would come and preach and he would drop these bombs and he would just preach his heart out and i took him one day and i said john i will never plant you until you have a pastor's heart and he submitted to that and i remember him and anna just kneeling down before me putting down their sword and i said here's your mandate you will feed the homeless men once a week and he would come every thursday from his job to the north side and feed homeless men give them a seven minute devotion and then you think it was over no then i put him in a van and i said now go find the sheep and he would go under the bridges and feed homeless people not begin to break you listen to me that begins to break your past to where he's at today john always loved the presence of god if there's something about i love john is a couple of things number one he loves the presence of god number two his heart for prayer and number three his faithfulness towards his tithings and giving to the church so john i i thank the lord for you and glenn and if there's one word that i can give you guys as you celebrate this great accomplishment of this building if there's one word is this to you into your entire team always live in the battlefield of vision just because you build this great great century it doesn't mean we're done we still got to go out there and empty hell and fill heaven to the glory of god so always live in the battlefield of vision hey love you guys and congratulations wow so for those of you that don't know this pastor alfredo de jesus can we share in the house house up just a little there we go especially with fredo de jesus who planted me um 17 years ago and god gave me the scripture that he said to abraham get the out of that father's house and from among the kindred and go to a land that i would show you and i went over to the north side and said in a puerto rican church and i was like for real god are you kidding me and the lord let me know that i had to send you someplace to someone that i could trust with your vision and i submitted there for four years and he planted me did i think that it was gonna take four years absolutely not but i submitted to the process everybody say i submit to the process so we are a praying church we've been praying for years and every second and fourth tuesday we get up at four o'clock in the morning and we have prayer every second of tuesday this has been going on for over 10 to 12 years every year we go to the beach and we have 5 a.m sunrise service prayer we pray 2 miles down 79th street and everyone hear me clearly everything that you have must be wrapped in prayer your family must be wrapped in prayer your business must be wrapped in prayer even after you have accomplished something you better back that thing up with prayer so tonight i asked my sister who god sent me pastor renee glenn [Applause] she's about to pray a blessing on the house and i don't know about you but i want this place to be so anointed that if they drive by the anointing arrest them i want the house to be so anointed that nobody has to lay hands on you you just come up under the glory and the power do what needs to be done come on everybody lift your hands say god send their glory send your glory pastor renee can you my soul [Music] loves jesus my [Music] loves jesus love jesus [Applause] [Music] hey [Applause] [Applause] loves jesus [Applause] [Music] love jesus [Applause] his name come on church bless his name have those hands i am bless his name [Applause] come on [Applause] [Music] his name church come on i need you to clap your hands like you know how to do it bless his name come on let's get over to the holy ghost bless his name bless glory to god [Applause] [Applause] [Music] i need you to come with me [Applause] thank you jesus [Applause] i love you [Applause] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah what a friend we have in jesus name all our sins and grief to man what a privilege it is to carry everything to god in prayer we approach the throne of grace knowing that you are the great i am that i am you are holy you are holy holy you are righteous you are wonderful you are kind you are mighty we bless your name we adore your god you are our father you are our creator you're but we come carefully knowing that you are wonderful you are almighty yes you are consuming fire we bless your neighbor and we thank you jesus we bless you that we're standing in your promises we bless you that we're standing on your word we thank you for the privilege of prayer in the name of jesus oh god our father before we go any further if you will turn the light from heaven on our soul and if you find anything if you find anything that should not be if you're crying anything that [Music] we want to be we want to be home in the name of jesus sanctify yourself to be brothers of honor in the name of jesus we thank you o god and tonight we come [Music] [Applause] [Music] in the name of jesus we ask you brush this house up bless his house bless everyone that's been assigned her to step foot in this house we thank him [Applause] yes in the name of jesus bless the man of god bless his wife god bless your sister pastor bless his wife oh god parts of spirit god let your fire fall every time the doors in the name of jesus oh god [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] lucifer in the name of jesus give deliverance to all oh [Applause] let the crowd of the saints be heard in the name of jesus god our father we ask you to bless us up with your warring angels standing at every door stand them at every window in the name of jesus let your in the name of jesus let your heavy hold up fill the house oh god have your way in the name of jesus rebuke every spirit that would divide rebuke every spirit that will bring confusion rebuke every spirit that would bring strife in the name of jesus make us one heart one mind one soul one spirit praising her and thanking lord we thank you thank you for your blessing thank you for your blessing you did what you said you would and oh god tonight we stand under the banner of your painfulness have your way tonight do what you want to do in here tonight do what you want to do bless the man of god in the name of jesus [Music] in the name of jesus we thank you for fulfilling up every heart's desire and your way out your way up saints cut your hands up and tell god that you will anoint their mouth anoint him afraid anointed with power give us all our frustrations for us in the name of jesus yes lord we thank you lord we thank you and now god our father and our god our father we pray in the name of jesus that as we lift our voice as we bring this prayer to a close uh you said there was a sound to be heard tonight you said there was a sound out of the sanctuary you said there was a sound out of the melody of the people you said there was a sound there was a sound there was a sound there's a sound there's a sound there's a sound yes there's a sound come on here church lift your voices cry moaning in cronus that cannot be uttered come on here church out of your belly cry out to god out of your belly there's a sound of the messiah that will shake foundations there's a sound out here that's going to move your families there's a sound come on now throw your head back come upon your belly and cry yes [Applause] cry in the name of jesus we got about two more minutes come on here have a messiah open your mouth and cry out of your belly come on there's a move of god when the righteous cry the bible says the lord will hear come on church [Applause] hey come on there's a sound come on hallelujah raise the sound church raise the sound church raise the sound church raise the sound yes yes lord come on god's gonna move in the sound he's going to move in the sound hallelujah there's a blessing out of the sound yay in the name of jesus thank you lord god for blessing this house thank you lord god for blessing this house thank you for blessing our lives have your way lord god have your way have your way at the video have your way have your way god you that promise are faithful you that promise you are faithful you that promise of course everybody be yourself you are faithful you have done what you said you cannot lie you're going to make every word good and our faith says thank you lord that's our response thank you lord thank you for every healing that will manifest physically mentally emotionally hallelujah every soul that's broken that shall be healed thank you for blessing this house it is in the name of jesus the great i am that i am the mighty one the one who is the one who was and the one that shall forever be in the name of jesus i need with everything in you to clap your hands open your mouth and give god the loudest sound of praise in jesus name amen come on release your praise if you believe that he hears and he answers [Music] i told you to expect a miracle come on on your way to your seat say and it is so it's already done [Music] you can be seated [Music] [Applause] [Music] this one gonna come through prayer [Music] and it is so i want to do something really quickly come on say and it is so [Applause] come on one more time just say and it is so [Applause] go ahead and seal it with a wave offering [Music] i want to do something and i'm going to turn the stage over donald lawrence and singers and then immediately after that we're going to hear from apostle ivy hilliard but i want us for those of you all can you sow a seat tonight 25 or 50 whatever you feel meant to give for those that are online we're asking you to sew tonight you can text and give text the words nlcse to 7797 those in the building if you need an envelope you can raise your hand someone will bring you an envelope if you on our app it is one of the easiest ways to give but if you can sow 25 if you can sow 50 you can sow that tonight you can sell that tonight and for those y'all that know this is good soil this is good soil and it's a soil that you can trust again i have some hands raised if you need an envelope raise your hand and they'll bring it to you if you write a check just make it out to nlcse again if you're texting text the words nlcse to 77977 can i get a thousand of you that are watching online to sew tonight to sew tonight come on get it ready and then we're going to prepare to turn the stage over i think i have a video another one more after this okay great so while you're getting your seat ready can i get you to pay attention to the screen and let them play the video while you're preparing your seat hello my name is charles johnson i served as chief operating officer for new life covenant southeast from 2011 through 2018. the vision that helped me sustain the highs and lows of building the temple was the vision that pasa hannah originally gave me i remember when i first met him we walked the land the year had to have been like 2010 and i was working for another company and i had just joined the church and he said to me i can see this area looking like north avenue in chicago and our people the people that go to our church and the people in this community shouldn't have to go outside of their community to see something great to see something marvelous to see something that um inspired them and from that moment i was driven by the initial vision that this was something that was just more than a place to worship more than a church but something that was for the community to help those who didn't necessarily believe in god believe in god when they saw a miracle the most special thing about seeing this process come to life the transformation of the community watching a neighborhood that was uh top three and all types of uh violence high school dropout drug use and to see the community being transformed based upon us making an investment in the community while it was a great benefit to our ministry of creating a home for worship it also was a tool and a catalyst for transformation for the south side of chicago there were many times that i got weary during the process during the groundbreaking pastor hannah had the mayor out had the aldermen out half of our membership out and we were doing a ribbon cutting and we didn't even have the loan and in my mind i was thinking god the pressure's on right now you know what do we do and we stuck to the plan we stayed consistent we stayed faithful thank you to pastor hannah for his vision and his unyielding faith thank you to our current board and our previous board to every member that either given a sacrifice with their time with their finances or with their prayers thank you alderman harris your entire staff thank you to our previous mayor rahm emanuel for his support as we navigated through the purchase of city land the community thank every resident that allow us to come into your community acquire land and build our architect halliburton group thank you to every tradesman john berger steve pink robert knox and a special thank you to a.g financial who took the huge risks from a capital standpoint and chose chicago and new life covenant as a place to invest with all the many stakeholders this was bigger than just new life and us building a church it was about community transformation and for us to do what we did it took all parties involved thank you new life we love you wow right listen every pastor if you're going to do something you're going to have the right person to stand in front of you and i want to thank god for this man of god that god sent me can you do me a favor he hates attention he despises it but i have to salute this man charles johnson can you just stand right there for me can you all celebrate him like he your best friend [Applause] i salute that man and i am honored those of y'all that have your seat lifted up to the lord and repeat after me i'm a tither and i am blessed beyond measure i have more than enough i'm living in my overflow i am living in ephesians 3 20 how long you living it for the rest of my life if you look you could pass the seed to your right pay me attention to your seed until somebody pick it up everybody in church ain't saved and if you steal from us i pray you'll get gout in your right foot i pray your socks don't fit and your right toenail fall off yep cause you're a thief i hope your eyes cross and you see double i bet you won't steal dumbo listen everybody know donald lawrence every church saying donald or songs everybody been blessed by donald lawrence and it was only appropriate that he come and release songs of faith tonight i believe that when you're going through certain things that certain music you cannot listen to and tonight i believe that certain songs need to be released in the house and over your life there's a scripture that actually says and the lord will sing over you come on here how may i need god to sing over your situation sing over your life sing over your house do me a favor won't you put your hands together and let's receive donna lawrence and company all of them i almost said and the pips and the supremes hello new life oh man look at y'all the blessing is on y'all i'm telling you i was here for the groundbreaking and now it's great to just see this right here give yourselves a big beautiful handclap much love celebrate your pastor pastor hannah much love it's great to see you know i kind of moved up here right when he started preaching and and doing conferences and youth conferences and just to see what has happened over the years man the hand of the lord is on you that's all i got to say let's do it you guys i got the company here with me tonight y'all they all came in town for y'all to help you celebrate so we're just going to celebrate and enjoy god with you how many people know the blessing is on you if you know what you can just stand up and sing with us we're just celebrating with you come on put your hands together new life [Music] [Applause] [Music] here we go y'all let's celebrate with new [Music] life oh [Music] oh yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] you are [Applause] [Music] thank you lord soprano be a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] let's celebrate this blessing on you all as we dedicate this whole week to you the blessing is sonia i see it come on y'all tell them let's take what it is it's yours the blessing is yours it's yours it's only beginning the scripture says [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] is [Applause] this is [Music] [Applause] one more time [Applause] oh the blessing is on y'all let's go let's go let's go it starts with your words too so i'm just declaring healing for everybody that came in here with a situation [Music] [Applause] ain't nobody healed your words got power [Music] all night but i'm here um [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] circumstances i'm still here disappointed [Applause] [Music] let's take it out [Applause] with his stripes [Music] we deliver it [Applause] [Music] i [Music] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah huh anybody healed out there yes sir yes sir listen you got power and it starts with your words and and you know what i know you might think you're physical but you're not you're a spiritual being inside this physical reality and i want you to know in everything you got to be spiritual you've got to be spiritual ah blessed [Music] [Applause] experience [Music] is [Music] a spiritual experience [Music] every day [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] but you're living this natural experience is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] god [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] oh help me to be spiritual let me be spiritual oh my lord [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] tell me come here real quick [Music] [Music] that's when the spirit shall inhabit [Music] may bless the lord [Music] oh [Music] oh will take place [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's is [Music] [Music] shall come when the saints go will take place [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] okay [Music] who is [Music] we shall [Applause] [Applause] now listen you know when i see you know just how god has blessed you and i look at this space and it's amazing and i i think you know usually before you get a big blessing there's always this beautiful destruction that happens right before that because anytime a muscle is going to get bigger it always has to be torn down so i can't even imagine what y'all went through before y'all got here but what i am seeing is that you made it through whatever that was you still got your mind you still got your smile you still got your joy you're still saved and you're going on too so give god praise for the go on brother go on for the go on for the golf take your time [Music] some people have really hurt me so but jesus was a friend [Music] he was consistent in every way when satan tried to kill me he came and he put him back in his place he gave me the power to change everything in my life and even though he's hating still existed he will never have control [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he was consistent in every way [Music] in my life [Music] [Applause] yes [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] tell me [Applause] [Applause] me [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] yay [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey hey anybody going on kim come here real quick [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] victory during the test and no matter how you feel who speak the word and you will be speak over yourself encourage yourself in the lord [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] by yourself [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] till you feel them [Applause] [Music] sometimes [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] speak over yourself and encourage yourself in the lord [Music] [Applause] listen sometimes you gotta speak over your own self sometimes you just gotta talk to yourself and say it's better it's better it's better and the more you speak it the more you will see it just real quick before we get off this day just speak over yourself and just say it's better it's better it's better it's better it's better tell yourself i ain't seen nothing yet speak over yourself and say money's coming from me speak over yourself and say my house is better my attitude is better my ministry is better my job is better better is all around me [Applause] ah yes sir hallelujah hallelujah [Music] we're we're done put me in d flat real quick um i was listening to the prayer and the prayer was so wonderful and i was just and i like to listen and kind of be quiet and he was going to sing a little bit of this but before we do it i was just hearing it and i just was hearing lend me your ear thus said the lord just know that my [Music] so there's no need to fear god saves i'm restoring the you song in tears pasta hannah [Music] just sing that verse one time with me [Music] just know that my world will [Music] there's no need to fear one more time [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] more time right there everybody in this last 60 seconds [Applause] [Music] we are [Music] yes sir let the whole house stand right here [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] god we thank you we thank you for this ministry we thank you for what you're doing we give you praise we give you glory just one more time just one more time [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] in jesus [Music] restart [Music] one more time [Music] [Music] god bless you love you pass dan i love you new black family god bless you come on y'all let's celebrate the man of god donna lawrence i love you man appreciate you come on everyone stand to your feet come on center your feet if you do a favor just lift your hands and worship god for just 10 seconds because i believe that these three days for some of you all will be your time of restoration will be your time of restoration come on just for 10 seconds can you worship i mean i believe in divine timing and this is your divine timing that god's going to speak to you and restore you and revive you and direct you your steps are going to be ordered by god i need you to worship him for a few more minutes in advance for what he's going to do for you come on open your mouth few more seconds come on a few more seconds he wants to hear your voice he wants to hear your worship he wants to hear your sound he knows your voice he's a god that's into you like that he can even identify your whispers hallelujah come on tell the lord i'm open and i'm ready come on tell the lord i'm open and i'm ready and i want you to hear me please listen to me the lord knows where to send you and who to send you to when you need to be restored for everyone that is in this building and for the thousands of you that are watching online i want to make a confession to you this building and the delay of it began to affect me that i couldn't even drive by it i would not come down 76th street to come to church i would go to 79th street and go that direction to make sure that i did not come near this building because it had began to take me to a low place y'all don't want to be honest have you ever waited on god to do something but your emotions sometimes got the best of you and when i got to that low place please listen i was still doing ministry i was still traveling and it was right before the pandemic and i was invited to come and speak at apostle ivy hilliard's church and after church we went back to the house and we were sitting there eating and i was just saying do you understand and he just started laughing at me and the worst thing you could have is somebody laugh at you because he was laughing like i've already been there and i already know how this is going to come out and the next thing i know he tapped me and said john come go with me took me in a room of his house and laid his hands on me and prayed and he said one thing at the dinner table i turned i made i turned the sand around as far as i can remember he says every delay i came back and say it's going to be to your benefit and he told me i promise you john every delay it's gonna be to your advantage saints i can't explain it but when i went in i flew that with my head down but i came back with my head up [Applause] cause the right person got a hope to me and i came to let everybody know tonight you in the right place at the right time your faith got unlocked last night but tonight it's about to go to another level without faith it is impossible to please god so i want you to lift your hands and worship god and know that something great is about to come to you a very quick video and the next voice that you would hear will be the apostle himself the man of faith apostle iv a native houstonian bishop ira v hilliard is the co-founder of new light christian center church bishop hilliard's passion to take god's word to a hurting and lost generation has resulted in a current church membership of over twenty thousand he is an accomplished songwriter and author of several life-changing and thought-provoking books after 10 years of mentoring his daughter apostle hilliard appointed his successor dr irisha hilliard as the senior pastor of new light church his unwavering compassion for people along with his faithfulness to build into god's people purpose power and praise continues to yield great results in the kingdom of god please welcome bishop iv hilliard [Applause] amen glory hallelujah while you're standing let's pray father in the precious name of jesus or how we do thank you and praise you for this time of fellowship around your word we thank you for jesus that he's our high priest and that he ever liveth to make intercession for us and we thank you for your word your word is never void of power you always confirm the word with signs following thank you for the holy spirit our teacher our guide and we believe that revelation truths will flow freely in this place unhindered and unchecked by any force now lord you know us name by name situation by situation therefore it is with great confidence that we believe that you will tailor this word for every individual that is our prayer so lord in advance we give you along the praise the glory the honor and the adoration for all that shall be accomplished for all that shall be revealed in jesus name and the people said and the people shouted god bless you you may be seated amen and amen hallelujah well let's celebrate the man and woman the god of this house can we do that tonight we thank god [Applause] for his boldness and his faithfulness amen praise the lord and we love him we love him amen my wife is here lady b won't you just stand and wave my daughter's here with me too amen so we are delighted to be with you tonight and i do uh have applaud uh don lawrence and his singers and singing that word i just love it amen amen and and that lady i don't know who she is but she prayed she y'all got to repaint the place she she prayed all the paint off the wall bless your darling amen for amen praise the lord now um my assignment tonight and i just want to be on point with my assignment in this season of my life you know as you saw with the video i've turned the pastorate over to my daughter and now god told me to go teach faith like he taught me faith everybody say like he told him and so that's what i've been doing and i'm really enjoying this season of my life i have not retired i restructured amen i restructure and my daughter's doing an incredible job and uh so i'm really excited about tonight i trust tonight that you have your uh note-taking device or you have your bible uh and i want to get this right i need to bring it down a little bit amen so we can get in our flow tonight and i'm i really i really believe tonight is going to be a time of breakthrough for somebody i need a better amend than that now now you know you have your mass on so you have to you have to you know you have to speak a little louder amen all right and i think they're going to be able to help us with putting the uh uh some of the scriptures that i'm going to use now i'm a teacher so i will walk systematically through the word of god but i guarantee you your life will change tonight you will listen to me and you will hear what the word of god says your life will change do i need to do something different pardon me okay they're gonna fail okay great all right all right all right good well we're going to look at matthew chapter 5 and verse 16. that's going to be our taking off point matthew chapter 5 verse 16. it's a very very familiar passage we're going to look at it in the amplified i think i'll read it out of both and i think that'll really be a blessing to uh to us now i want you to repeat after me very boldly as uh you're gonna receive this tonight amen this is my bible i am what it says i am i can do what it says i can do i am a believer not a doubter i am a doer not just the hearer and my life is the better after having heard the word of faith faith comes by hearing and hearing hearing by the word of god jesus is teaching his disciples in matthew chapter 15 and he he says to them this passage that i think really was not what y'all saying so i need to do something it's my goal change you want the change i'll move my mind they say i can move my mic up and keep my chain [Applause] i keep my chain all right amen praise the lord now jesus is teaching his [Applause] y'all think it's the chain i don't think it's a chain you want to check my pack hackle's over here all right do i have it right yes sir we're good yes all right what i need to do do i need to take chain off yes i need to take chain off okay let's do this do you see what a chain connected see we're gonna change the connection i come to this church and they undressing me [Applause] amen yeah that's my daughter to get his chain to my daughter not to the pastor yes sir amen [Applause] yeah y'all can tell i like flash [Applause] all right yo let's let's get serious all right praise the lord i guess it was the chain huh all right all right jesus is teaching his disciples and uh there in matthew chapter uh chapter five and look there in verse we started verse 13 you have to solve the earth but if salt lost the savior wherewith shall it be salted it's that's forth good for nothing but to be cast out and trotting on the foot of man you're the light of the world a city that is set on the hill cannot be heard neither do men light a candle and put it under the bushel but on the candlestick and it giveth light to all that are in the house let your luck let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven now um for time's sake i want to move on and um here's my subject tonight i make the difference can you say that i make the difference now initially that sounds kind of arrogant but i think if you will listen to me tonight you will understand really who you are and that you make the difference in the outcome of situations that you're in that you make the difference so say it with me i make the difference say it with a little attitude i make the difference all right so um jesus is telling the disciples and you can see it throughout the word of god he lets us know that we are the catalyst for change in our situation that that we are the catalyst for the move of god in our situation and when we know this we will approach life totally different you'll approach the situation that you're in totally different once you understand that you make the difference now god taught me this years ago years ago uh in 1980 i'm in this little raggedy rundown building i brought some pictures with me so you could get a perspective on where i was and uh god told me he said i want you to show people where you were and show them what i've done for you that is that used to be my church you know one guy told me i'm an overnight success i told him it was a long night you just don't understand it's a long night but but that's that that's the good looking side of the church now that's inside on a sunday morning you can see i got about 50 borrowed chairs but i don't have 50 people who will come out and listen to me preach look at the next photo the next photo you'll see the front of the church and in the front of the church you see there are two cars side by side but the church is not wider than two automobiles and that's why i am and at this place now i am a full-time pastor now i had gone through a church fight i'm ready to go back to work i don't mind being a biblical pastor but god said no he said son i'm going to teach you how to live by faith i'm going to teach you how to trust me i said now lord i don't i won't do that i you know by training i'm a system analyst i have my skills are in demand i really want to go back to work you follow but he said no i'm going to teach you how to trust me and so there in 1980 you know i became a reluctant student of the word of god he began to teach me how to trust him had several visitations from the lord uh there in this little record the building was a five by five closet that we converted into my office i really don't really like to call it an office because it dignifies it too much because um there was only room for a half a desk in my chair and if you wanted to talk to me you had to stand outside man ah on one of these occasions now i got to understand i am very depressed i am not only depressed i'm angry with god and y'all have been angry with god i don't think yeah i'm angry with god i'm depressed i have been embarrassed i'm shamed and god talks to me and he begins to let me know now i understand i started preaching when i was a kid i got called at nine years old i expressed my call to god uh called to the ministry and they made me wait a year uh and to see if i was serious so i preached my first sermon when i was 10 years old i'm 69 now so i think i was serious amen now so i read the scripture joshua chapter one and verse eight now you know i i i was a good student in in in sunday school and all of that but i began to read the bible and god began to open up things to me and it was at like it was like scales fell off my eyes and i could see things differently and here's the scripture joshua 1 and 8 you probably heard it taught how many times but let's see if god will show us something on it tonight as we focus on it he says this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth thou shalt meditate thyroid day and night that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein watch this for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good success and the lord asked me who makes your way prosperous well you know you know i'm real you know i'm real you know churchill god you make me say no don't you make your way prosperous i had to read that again it says for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and i understood here i have been waiting on god and god is waiting on me amen now i got excited because the folk i thought would have helped me wouldn't help me amen the people i thought would help me did not help me would not lend a hand to help me so now i understood it wasn't about them i had no excuse that i was the one to make the difference in my life now listen i am not discounting god and not discounting grace and i'm not discounting his power but i'm the catalyst to cause those things to be activated in my life can i get a witness now that's important as we read through the bible we can see this popping up every time jesus would heal people and he would say your faith has made you whole wow amen amen time and time again you know we would see it in the bible that he would credit what happened to the person's faith and that is when the lord let me know that the promises of god are not automatic now i had been i grew up in a church setting where they told me whatever god wanted to do he'll do anyhow that sounds good but it's not scripturally accurate every time i say that people get quiet in church but let's let's go to school real quick does god want everybody to say oh come on now you know that the bible says he is not willing that any perish but that all come to repentance it is the undeniable will of god for everybody to be saved will everybody be saved so the will of god is not automatic i was frustrated then like a lot of people are frustrated now simply because they don't understand why something hap hasn't hasn't happened in their lives but the promises of god are received by faith you get saved by faith you get healed by faith you get delivered by faith therefore faith is the most important subject you need to master after you get saved you are saved as you to be right now all right listen up for you to get to him all you got to do is die but for you to experience god's best you have to learn to live by faith talk back to me amen now my assignment tonight is to stir you to stir your faith because you make the difference and god let me know back then that i made the difference that it wasn't about what other people had done to me it wasn't about you know uh you know that my color my skin anything like that but it was according to my faith and that i could rise from where i was to do all the things he had put in my heart all the dreams could come to pass relative to the development of my faith i made the difference amen so now look the bible teaches us of course we make the difference when we pray we make the difference god will hear your prayer amen no he he will hear your prayer look at the bible look at what happened after people prayed after people prayed something supernatural happened and we talk about supernatural we're talking about a divine intervention so i understand and god had me understand then that he would answer my prayer amen so really you know i mean that was freedom to me because at that time i didn't have a lot of people who i thought was praying for me anyway amen secondly watch this god let me know that i made the difference with my sewing no no and i want you to listen to me now because that was a turning point in my life that i would make the difference when i would plant into the kingdom of god the story is there in first kings 17. the other widow was there and she had been told by the prophet uh told by god the prophet would come by and so uh you know probably was a good time but by the time the prophet gets there times are bad there is a famine in the land there's a drought and so the prophet asked her for water water was valuable but she gives that to him then he asked her for a cake and when he asked her for the cake she says oh no no no hold on man of god can't do that he says cause all i got is a little meal for me and little oh man i'm gonna fix my last meal and my boy and i we're gonna eat it and die now he could have left the right then and said baby i'm so sorry but he didn't because he knew she her obedience would make the difference in her now and her necks in her now meal and her next meal i watch this and so uh he begins to minister to her and gets her into a place of faith where she obeys god makes the difference and things change amen and amen so there it is in first kings chapter 17 and there verse 12. i think they may have that now i want you to see this because it's important that you understand the power of your obedience the p everybody say my right now obedience yeah my right now obedience and god began to teach me there in that little place the power of my obedience and that i had to put everybody say put i had to put my trust a deliberate act i had to put my trust in god so there it is in verse 12 verse 12 i want you to see that it says concerning this woman all right all right uh it's important that i look at this first king i got second kings here first kings chapter 17 and verse 12. write that down and and uh look at everybody say i make the difference all right it says in verse 12. and she said as the lord god thy lord thy god liveth i have not a cake but a handful of meal and a barrel and a little oil and cruise and behold i'm gathering two sticks and i may go and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it and die and elijah said unto her fear not go and do as thou hast said but make me thereof a little cake first bring it to me and after make for thee and thy son for thus saith the lord god of israel the barrel of male shall not waste neither shall the cruce of all fail until the day the lord sent his reign upon the earth and she went and did and and she went and did and she went and did and she went and did according to the saying of elisha and she he and her house did eat many days she made the difference she made the difference in her now and her next amen now i want to just take you a little on a little journey because i got three simple points tonight and if we're good class we'll get through them and uh your life will be radically changed point number one is kingdom planting is the scriptural order kingdom planting is the scriptural order if i say scriptural order see we got to understand the world doesn't have the right to tell us what to do i don't know what what what gave them the what made them think they have the right to tell they won't even come and then they want to tell us what we should or should not be doing in the church and especially when they come to that offering hallelujah amen amen point number two is going to be kingdom planting uh incurs satanic objection yeah yeah then yeah because you know um you know god's given me the assignment to teach that that's why i teach it because god told me to do it i didn't ask for this assignment he gave it to me and i embrace what god has given me and then the final point we'll get to if you're a good class and i know you will be is that kingdom planting everybody say kingdom planting is a supernatural opportunity come on sit like you mean a supernatural opportunity all right now you know i keep using this word kingdom everybody say kingdom because the average believer is just in church and they don't realize they are in the kingdom yeah yeah yeah they go to church but they they don't realize and i love one of the songs they told me i'm a spiritual being i'm a spiritual being and when i got born again i was taken out of the kingdom of darkness i was placed in the kingdom of his dear son i'm in the kingdom of god now that means i have i have rights and privileges that i didn't have before amen god let me know in the little raggedy building that i'm i'm i'm a kingdom citizen now when you read the bible you see mentioned kingdom of heaven you see mentioned kingdom of god many times they are used interchangeably by people but let's see quickly if we can understand the difference the kingdom of heaven has to do with the literal kingdom that will be set up here on earth the kingdom of god however is the system of god it is god's system the universal system of god principles and concepts and the bible says if we will seek matthew 6 33 if we will seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness all of the other things will be added unto us jesus all through the scripture will talk about the kingdom except a man be born again he cannot even see the kingdom of god you are a kingdom citizen say it out loud i'm a kingdom citizen yeah yeah yeah now what happened he made you brand new he made you you are a new creature you are a kingdom citizen with rights and privileges and you have the ability to do things others can't do amen and amen so one day in luke chapter 17 the disciples and the pharisees was asking jesus where is the kingdom and he said not only you don't look for the kingdom here and there he says the kingdom is within you so you have within you the power to activate spiritual laws that will overcome anything you're facing you don't come to church to get saved once you get saved you come to church to understand who you really are you come to church to understand the rights and privilege that you have because in your situation you make the difference and what i mean by that so so those theologians don't throw rocks at me i am the catalyst when i pray that causes god to move i am the catalyst when i give that causes god to move i am the catalyst watch this whenever i do something what the word of god says when i obey i am the catalyst that causes things to happen and many believers have not come to that realization and you're waiting on somebody else when you hold the key [Applause] let me tell you once i got this revelation back then in 1980 i i understand when i got to revelation my needs had needs but i understood my obedience would make the difference amen when we want to understand what the plan of god is we go to the word of god we understand what god's plan is we don't ask folk who don't come to church we don't ask celebrities we don't ask the news media we go to the word of god and the bible teaches us in in second corinthians ii timothy chapter 3 verse 16 that all scripture is given by inspiration of god profitable for doctrine doctrine is the order of god watch this so i understand watch this all scriptures get given by inspiration of god prophet for doctrine uh now that's the order for reproof reproof is the dismantling of error a lot of error you get in church for correction amen exposure to truth for instruction and writing the correct application of truth why that the man of god may be perfect thoroughly furnished into all good works so i understand now when i want to know something i don't ask folk who don't know but my opinion i don't really care about your opinion [Applause] for me the word of god is truth now let's go to second corinthians chapter nine second corinthians chapter 9 and i want you to look there because it talks about sowing it talks about sowing and god gave me a revelation that changed my life that i know it's going to be life-changing to many of you even tonight amen all right verse seven every man according to perps in his heart so let him give well i'll back up to verse six and this i say he would so it's how sparingly shall reap how sparingly he does so if bouncing shall reap how bountiful him every man cause he purpose in his heart so let him give not grudging love necessity for god love it they come on talk to me god lover they shall forgive and then it says now watch this this is what excited me and god is able to make all grace abound toward you that you always having all sufficiency and all things may abound to what oh my god when i read this back then i understand i'm already a tither back then i'm already tithing but now god is showing me something about an offering he's given me insight into an offering and i'm seeing now that giving must go beyond the time okay okay i see some of y'all struggling with that right now i understand that i i understand that because when i started tithing i i really got upset okay okay okay listen now i'm working in a warehouse uh making 65 a week before taxes times were tough oh my god now i'm supposed to have steel-toed shoes on but i can't afford the real thing so i got imitations i'm already violating the safety laws of the company and uh you know i'm living in a roach-infested place bridgette always wanted to tell everybody she wasn't with me then [Applause] listen roaches were so bad that you cut on the lights and they wouldn't even run now see y'all who laugh and yeah we already know okay all right now so so so so i'm trying to borrow some money you know how when you're desperate you borrow money from folk and you're on you don't even know how you're gonna pay them back you really don't ain't concerned about how you're gonna pay them back if you lose relationship just lose the relationship right now now when you're desperate you understand you just need somebody to let you hold something so i was talking to this guy let me try to get him to let me hold something and he he said ira god will god will bless you if you tithe well i ain't want a sunday school lesson i'm trying to borrow some money you understand and and he would lend to me but he told me god and then he told me he wasn't a tither that god tells me god blessed me if i tithe and he's not even doing it but that was the word i needed i went looked at the word of god and began to study god's word and i saw it that if i would tithe god will open the windows of heaven pull them out of blessing now you know i've heard people say preachers say well you shouldn't give to get that's stupid because the bible tells me to expect something when i give so why you want to tell me that every time god asks me to give he tells me i'm going to get something back given it shall be good but given and it shall be given back to you giving shall be given back to you good man should press down shake it together running over and i'll open the windows of heaven and pull you out of blessing and god is able to make all grace abound toward you and you're going to tell me to give and not expect something back that's unscriptural now let's get back to my story i go and i read the bible and then i see tithes and offerings and this how i looked at it now i made all these bills myself and now garden made something for me too [Applause] i'm just telling you i wasn't all that excited but i needed to move a god in my life anybody need to move a god [Applause] and so my next check i took six dollars and fifty cents that's my i tied off the top because somebody's gonna have to wait anyway some of y'all to get that then i took a five dollar offering jesus and i sold that and i sold my five dollars i'm not telling you do this i sold my five dollars into my man of god i'd be asking my offering and um he didn't want to take this our ira i know how bad you're having it son i can't take him i said no you gotta take it i saw a scripture i read a scripture in philippians 4 19 my god shall supply all your need that's not written everybody that's only written for those who take care of spiritual leadership so i'm sorry so i go from a dollar giver to 11.50 give a trust in god because he let me know watch this watch that if i would do that and obey him he'd move in my life now i understand i ain't feeling with the holy ghost i ain't talking in tongues none of that all i know i'm reading the bible and god says if you do i'll do if you do i'll do if you do i'll do and i said okay because i was a dollar giver i had my dollar ready on sunday and i had changed because if they press me i give them 25 cents but watch this now let me hurry now let me hurry so i give i give and the next week i do the same thing third week i go to work and they said boss want to see you upstairs oh my god they have found out i got invitations to steal towson and i'm about to lose my job so i go upstairs he got a big grin on his face and he says ira your supervisor quit and he's recommended you take his job hold on [Applause] but company policy is that senator you have the lower seniority company policy is you must uh you know that senor promotion is based on seniority so upper management met this morning and we changed the policy hey so you could get your i'm a shout already and i'm still in the introduction [Applause] now i didn't quit cause i got a raise now everybody get a raise god get a raise my man of god got a raise they got it all right now watch this now the scripture says and god is able to make all grace what is grace this grace is the favor of god it's the willingness of others hear me now it's the willingness of others to use their power their ability and their influence to help you when you give god says when you give the offering you can expect god to raise up somebody somewhere to use their power their ability and their influence to help you come on can we say that when i give i'm expecting god to raise up somebody somewhere to use their power their ability and their influence to help me amen and amen amen see most people don't know how to release their faith for their giving so that's why they say i'm giving but ain't nothing happening well i believe it because you just said it and you have what you so what i'm going to do now when i give i'm going to start saying god i thank you you are raising up somebody somewhere to use their power their ability and their influence to help me i didn't even know my supervisor quit we weren't even on good terms i mean what on bad times but you know if if i had been close to him he would have told me i'm gonna quit but i'm gonna i didn't even know it but god raised him up to help me i will make grace abound ah amen amen so listen i'm still working there i'm still working them and then one day this guy named arnold gonzalez walks up to me he says ira you're a mighty smart guy to be working in a place like this well now i'm taking offense because you work here too so he said no no no no he says i'm really i'm really a computer operator and this is my second job i'm gonna tell my boss about you yeah right next day he comes with a business card he says the owner of the company uh frank kurt he says uh frank said give him a call i told him about you i said okay stop calling and frank says uh yeah arnold told me about you young man but i tell you i you know we don't have any openings all of our operators have gone to trade school and um i want you just when you're in the area drop by put in your application and then maybe if something comes open we'll give you a shot as a trainee i said i'll be there tomorrow he said no no no you have to come tomorrow i convinced him i'd be there tomorrow so i went the next day gives me the same spill you know we don't have any openings you know arnold tell me you're smart i could tell he was just doing this for arnold's sake so after i fill out the application he says wait a minute let me give you this little aptitude test he gives me an aptitude test comes out of the testing room big smile on his face and he says this has never happened in the history of our company you made a perfect score on this test watch this we don't have an opening but we're going to make one for you somebody ought to say amen [Applause] god raised up arnold to use his power his ability and his influence to open the door for me now god is not a respecter of persons see what i'm doing tonight is stirring your faith so that when you give now you understand your giving is about to make the difference my my mind in your financial now and your financial nets hallelujah amen and amen now um when we look at the bible we can see several ways of giving that's systematic giving that you should do on a regular basis as often as you're blessed that's spontaneous giving what happened at zacchaeus house when uh nobody asked for an offering but zach here says lord i'm ready to give amen uh and then there is uh a strategic giving when i find a promise for my giving and i give strategically on that then there's there is a sacrificial giving if i say sacrificial giving and it is that sacrificial giving that i think that many people miss ah as i said i had missed it because i had never really understood it never heard it so i'm in a little raggedy building and god asked me for ten thousand dollars see everybody get quiet the high quality will i heard people go that's what i said when god asked me whoa now you gotta understand this is back in 1980 i do not know apostle price at that time i know nothing of the faith teachers at that time all i know is god said i want you to sow a seed of ten thousand dollars in my condition everybody say condition you saw it ain't got nobody on nobody at church i'm living from week to week i got to believe my bread and water in for my family week to week and god wants me to sow ten dollars now in the days and one that's like it's like 35 or or 36 000 with inflation and all boy y'all got real quiet on that okay so i told god like that would have told the prophet man god i ain't got it i told god that's so quick i ain't got it he said but you can get it i said well if i can't show it to me if i got 10 grand laying around show it to the brother well he showed me i had 10 000 worth of equity in my house and i'm not telling nobody else to do this so lady b and i she's an agreement we sold a house and sold ten thousand dollars into the kingdom and i gotta tell you favor exploded over my life in my church come on that's a good place to clap that's a see a lot of people they talk about god but they don't really believe no no seriousness see they have other criteria for them being for god honoring his word they do you see who said i had to have a large church to live large see god said to me if you don't count the people you won't be limited by the people you count no no god told me this he said son you work for me and i can afford your dreams let me say it again yeah god said you work for me he says and i can afford your dreams and let me say that to somebody in the house god can afford your dreams but now what criteria have you put on your belief that god will do it that disarms your faith you said i got to have a college degree god didn't say it you said the bank's got to lend me the money god didn't say it or you listen to me so now watch this why would god ask me for a ten thousand dollar seed because he that souls sparingly can only reap sparrow but if you're powerfully you will reap how a man and a man amen now but when it comes to sowing uh that's a satanic objection amen the devil the bible says we're not ignorant to visit by second corinthians chapter uh 2 verse 11. it says that for we're not ignorant of his devices the devices now what does this devil do he doesn't show up with a hey pitchfork got the scripture there let's say let's get advantage of us for when i hear his advice he doesn't show with pitchfork red horns and suit and all that kind of stuff he showed up in the ring of your mind with thoughts he bombards your mind with thoughts to talk you into disobedience so that you suffer the consequences of your disobedience he wants to steal from you and he steals from you with those fiery darts or thoughts and you have to you're responsible you are responsible for quenching the fiery darts with the shield of faith let's talk about a few fiery darts before we wrap this up one fiery dart it has to do watch this with this fiery dart of the flawed look at the giving moment see you look you look at the giving moment as you know i grew up in church when it come time to give that was like break time you know and really how the pastor how the preacher or the deacon approached it was almost like it was a dirty thing well it's time to get the offer out the way let's get this thing out the way got it and you know they used to have that little table in front say something had a little table and uh but that was break time folk would hit the door go to the restroom go take a smoke or whatever until it was over they had a flawed look at it they looked at it as though it was something to be taken from them not an opportunity to open the door for god the blessing number two is not only the flawed look they don't look at it as you know like a farmer i want a farmer plants but he's excited why because he's going to get a harvest secondly it would be what i call false lordship now what do you mean false lordship here's what false lordship is about yeah i mean you run and shout all around here by jesus lord you love the lord jesus but he lord over your money but if he's not lord over all he ain't lowered at all i'm loving you i'm loving you i'm telling you i've been there i've been there we're gonna talk about the giving moment at the end but but but okay let's look at the next next next fiery dog and that fiery daughter is the fear of lack in the giving moment that if i give this i'm not gonna have enough come on now come on i know y'all 65 a week before taxes i can't make it as it is that's why i'm trying to borrow some money now if i can't make it trying to being a god robber how i'm gonna make it in the natural mind come on y'all judging me y'all judge me i i did that trembling and trusting the fear of lack that was another opportunity in uh 1990. in 1990 apostle price had a crusade at the east uh in uh in east houston at the lakewood church and at the end of the uh at the end of the uh at the end of the crusade dr price apostle price said the budget wasn't met i'm sitting there you know and then god says meet the budget. now i got it but i don't have it for that don't judge me don't judge me now lady b and i was saving for a down payment of her dream house that we would were we were we were it was being built at the time and i finally found a mortgage company that would do it for me it was a beautiful house and a lot of mortgage companies turned me down uh one guy said i just don't believe a preacher to live like that i didn't come for no counseling i came for some money okay y'all quit laughing so if i finally found a company that would do it so i've been saving money put money back they required a significant down payment so i'm sitting there and now god asked me for something not been able to hear the voice of god since i was a child so i knew it was god but if you don't obey god quickly you'll talk yourself out of it because i'm saying i've been i've been trying to save this money you know uh you know closing days coming if i get this man he never it wasn't gonna take all of it but it's gonna take a grip of it you understand feel black so i'm choking and and then lady b you know and then i start talking to myself i ain't asked him to come nowhere i already gave i gave in the first offering already i've given in all of the offers during the daytime i've given an all offerings during the night i've already given i mean this ain't my responsibility lady bee hunch me and she said did the lord say something to you about the budget so i say well let's do half she said are you no better than that i raised my hand price recognized me i said my wife and i we will personally meet the budget tonight boy people exploded oh glory to god hallelujah the budget is met everybody but me [Applause] that devil said right here for the rest of the service you food what you gonna do when you get the clothes and then don't have the money you're gonna lose your earnest money you're gonna lose that house you fool so for the rest of the night i'm binding loose and casting down blood of jesus speaking it i didn't hear nothing that was said the rest of the night [Applause] but my obedience was the catalyst for the move of god because when service was over i'm getting ready to go to my car people just started walking up to me and giving me money we are just so happy you didn't let uh uh houston go down not meeting dr price's budget we call him dr price back then every christian i said well praise the lord thank you jesus hallelujah amen now at first pastor hannah at first i'm walking fast but when i saw what was happening i just slowed down [Applause] same things happen to bridget she's walking with her purse open cause folk put money in we get home and count it it was what we gave away that night that proved the budget was in the house watch this move of god occurred because then that next and next sunday people ask they said can we just receive an offering for you and and lady b because of what you all did and met the budget we said of course [Music] they received the offering had all the down payment but it's more than money my oldest daughter was raised by her mother uh my uh an ex as a jehovah's witness would not let me see her even though the court order said i could see it we had put that thing before god two weeks after we sowed the seed got a call from my ex saying come get your daughter no no i didn't say come visit her i got her clothes packed i am giving her to you [Applause] hallelujah amen that's not all we had a bible study uh in south houston i couldn't get eight people to come to the bible study after i sowed the seed god said now it's time to open the church i said are you looking at the same statistics that i'm looking at and god says yes get the largest building out there that you can oh really so i get the largest building out there was the kroger grocery store and we're going to we wanted to remodel into a church found out that my secretary had been the secretary to the president of kroger we had favor with kroger they paid for the remodeling watch this and gave us some free rent what if i had missed my opportunity that now the place where i gave the seed was the uh uh a place that john osteen built that joel lady later moved and went to the compact center that we bought we bought it for millions less are you listening millions less all because i obeyed god that's what i'm talking about it's going to affect you now and your next so now let's see if we can't start wrapping this up amen so it takes discipline because kingdom planting is a supernatural opportunity can i touch one one more uh uh fiery dog you have to overcome i think this is good that's a good one you have to overcome the fiery dart of uh the fortunes of leadership everybody say fortunes of leadership now here's what afford me by fortunately leadership at the time you're giving you're getting ready to give then the devil said what kind of shoes he got on i was in the store i saw how much them shoes cost that's a tailor-made suit you know i'm just telling myself now wait a minute he lived in oh he lived in that rich part of town did you see that ring on this thing now if they need some money he need to sell that ring i'm telling you the devil will try to put you at odds with your man woman of god as the case may be at the giving moment to steal that moment from you now watch this and i don't apologize for my prosperity i apologize is the brother blessed you better believe you better believe it [Applause] supernatural things happen when you give okay watch this let me let me still work this just a little bit before i move on see if i tell you i've been preaching since i was nine years old you know ten got called at nine and i tell you i'm living by faith and my faith works and i'm telling you i'm obeying god and you can see the promises of god and i'm trying to teach you the promises of god on prosperity if not working for me why would you even listen to me if i'm still broke and still in that little raggedy building first of all pastor john wasn't inviting me i can just tell you right there he wouldn't invite and i wouldn't blame him so and i'm standing up here telling you about prosperity and you'll make your way prosperous and my shoes all run over and all that kind of stuff now what i am saying is true but obviously i don't know how to work it so listen i would just say okay man of god go work it out yourself then come talk to me amen now lady b and i give a million dollars away every year personally okay that's a long way from 11.50 now here's here's why i say that because you know you match my giving then i'll talk to you i'll listen to your argument because the kingdom of god can do more if it's got more to work with and what god let me know it wasn't about me put the third picture up there the picture of the red brick building because i'm in this little red brick building and that god tells me he says uh and i'm i thought i made it right there i'm telling you i thought i'd made it that looked better than that first building than that man i thought i made it i said man i got a brick building i got i got a parking lot i got pews i'm the stench of the of the church fight is off of me man yes indeed and god said no son i got much more he said this is not about your comfort but i want to bless you so you can be a conduit for me to pour blessings through [Applause] watch this now put the other picture up there of of of of the collage of churches church buildings because as a result of obeying god we were able to do all this you see uh-huh isn't that amazing somebody said glory to god yeah yeah yeah all right so see your prosperity ain't all about you it's so that god can pour through you into his kingdom so i give them to bring this to my final point kingdom giving is a supernatural opportunity everybody says supernatural opportunity it's a supernatural not natural opportunity for you and a supernatural opportunity for the kingdom now let's close with the giving moment because it's at that moment when god challenges me to give supernaturally or sacrificially over and above my initial expectation that's where the miracle is that's what god taught me years ago he says now that's where the miracle is the miracle is in when i instruct you to give i move on your heart to give as he did in 1980 as he did in 1990 as he continues to do and he says that's where the miracle is when i ask you for something you didn't expect to give and when you obey me you watch me work everybody say well watch him work that giving moment number one it is a it is a truth moment because now that really defines who you are you can say all you want to but when it comes to how i'm gonna help my money that's what i really believe they got quiet number two it is a testing moment yeah it's a testing moment it's a testing moment because uh i'm being tested for my obedience but you know you can't get promoted until you pass the yeah watch this so it is a truth moment it's a testing moment but it is a temptation moment because the devil wants you to choke yeah he does he wants you to miss out on what god has amen and god let me know that every time he asks me to give every time he asks me to give it's because he wants to bless me with something i don't know what y'all could say but i guess it's true i was in a meeting and this missionary was saying she needed a four wheel drive vehicle to uh to uh to um minister into the hills of africa i had just bought a range rover with that range rover lady b range rover and uh you know y'all could see you know i got a little ghetto in me so i had the gold package on it [Applause] and so you know land cruiser land cruiser land cruiser thank you babe and chris go package on it and god said give it well by that time i already understand i'm quick to obey god raise my head and um i said listen a doctor price maintenance said dr price we're going to i i just bought it it was about two weeks old i said we're going to sow it into the missionary and uh you know by that time i don't have givers remorse anymore i have to give us expectation now watch this once i give it the devil say she ain't gonna take that to africa she gonna be driving little leaguers around in ohio why ohio i don't know okay didn't bother that i cast that down she did take it to uh africa sent me pictures back with her and her her team but then how many weeks later two or three weeks later three weeks later a group got together and gifted me my first rolls rolls-royce [Applause] did you keep it come on now if somebody gave you one would you keep it [Applause] it is a truth moment it is a testing moment it is a tempted moment watch this that moment of giving that sacrifice is a traumatizing moment if i say traumatizing that's why that widow she was traumatized when the prophet asked her i was traumatized there uh when god asked me for the ten thousand dollars traumatized when uh i was in uh the uh the crusade there and he asked me to meet the budget emotionally i didn't like it i mean traumatized and that's natural amen that's where discipline takes place discipline is enforced obedience so i don't do it because i like it i do it because i want the results then finally watch this it is a transitional moment that transitional moment is the moment when you step out of the natural and you start living supernaturally and when god gives you that moment you need to understand how powerful that moment is because throughout the word of god you can see where people were given an opportunity god didn't force them and after that deliberation they said why not me everybody say why not me oh yeah story is told of a guy who was being inducted into the hall of fame of his sport i'm closing here and um being inducted after the induction was over they interviewed him and asked him how does it feel and what was your motivation to uh receive the highest armor in your profession he said well it started with little league he said in little league i uh started playing the league and then i started seeing kids getting re awards and i said why not me so i worked a little harder and true enough i got little league rewards then i went to high school in high school i love to play the sport but then i start seeing kids in high school could go to college free if they were selected if they were good so i said why not me so i worked a little harder and true enough i got a scholarship to a great university then while playing ball in the college and in the university i saw that if you were good you could even they would they could they would pay you as a professional millions of dollars to play play this sport so i said one on me so so i decided i was going to work harder and work harder so i could i could hone my crafts and my skills and i did and guess what i got drafted then when i got in the pros i saw those who excelled they were inducted into the hall of fame their names to be remembered and i said why not me so i worked a little harder and uh and true enough here i am today it's paid off because i worked hard at it because i said if it's working for others it ought to work for me so i'm reading through the bible and i'm seeing this why not me moment occurring abraham pondered the opportunity and decided in faith why not me moses pondered the opportunity to be an emancipator and decided why not me joshua pondered the opportunity to succeed moses and decided why not me gideon pondered the opportunity to leave the cave and to become a general and decided why not me jeremiah pondered the opportunity passed up the fact that he was only a child and said yes i'll be used of god why why not me hallelujah nehemiah pondered the opportunity and decided why not me the disciples pondered the opportunity and decided why not mean the woman with the issue of blood heard about jesus healing others and decided ah why not men blind baltimore's heard jesus was giving sight to the blind and that day along the jericho road he said ah it is no secret what god can do i heard about salvation one day and i said why not me i heard about being filled with the holy spirit speaking in other tongues and i said why not me i heard about laying hands on the sick and watching god move in their lives and recovered and i said amen amen amen i saw in the scripture that god could cause profot to become rich and i looked at that he did it for jabez why not me look at the person next to you and say why not me hallelujah father we thank you this word has fallen on good ground and it produces fruit repeat after me i'm going to lead you in a prayer because you may be watching you may be here in person i would be remiss in my responsibility if i didn't give you an opportunity to be saved why not you people have experienced tremendous turnarounds in their lives because they trusted god with their lives and salvation romans 10 9 says that of thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord jesus believe thine heart god raised from the dead thou shall be saved so tonight if you believe jesus paid the price for your sins i trust him as lord salvation can come to your house today so everybody repeat after me dear god i know without jesus i'm lost i believe your word that jesus died for my sins was raised from the dead to validate everything he said jesus i give you the throne of my heart turn me back on my way of living and from this day forward i choose to please you with my life now fill me with your spirit and power so i can live a life pleased in your sight thank you father for saving me placing me in your family in jesus name give the lord a shout amen amen now i need you to be seated because i have an assignment if i was preaching on healing i'd be laying hands on the sick but my assignment that god has gifted me and it has proven over the years tremendous breakthroughs take place when people obey god so tonight i'm on assignment in this temple everybody say the temple i must own assignment this temple to ask you to listen to the voice of god and to give a sacrificial seed now i know you've already given and we thank god for that but just as i sat there in 1990 and heard from god and it changed my life i have never had a natural need in my life since 1990. [Applause] and i almost choked almost choked almost choked and i thank god and she was my elijah and pushed me past my my choking point so i could obey god tonight i'm your elijah so i asked always pray this was annoying on my life always pray god what you want me to do and when god tell me what do you want me to do i said okay i need you to get in agreement with me tonight everybody say agreement hey i just need you to get an agreement because i'm going to ask you for to do some things and it's not talking to you if it's not talking to you because you don't have it that's you don't have to be upset i just need you to agree that those who have it will do it amen now when people agree and they don't want a card they make noise [Applause] and so this is for the house i want you to understand you know just for john do whatever you want to do with it um but john is just so generous he already already blessed me praise the lord amen so i don't have to do this to for us to make up the money amen i just say that up front this is about you obeying god and then watching god work amen now here's what god told me to do god told me to believe for 30 people to become catalyst givers that everybody say catalyst now a catalyst is something that starts a reaction the reaction that we want in the temple and we believe that this anointing is going to stay here amen is the spirit of generosity and liberality supernatural spirit of generosity and liberality where people will come they will not only praise but pray but they're going to hear god when it comes to giving amen now what i'm asking for now is and lordstr instructed me to do so i'm asking for 30 people who will obey god tonight and be catalyst givers with me at one thousand dollars all right all right hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on now if you're in agreement you say man and make no it's not i ain't saying you got it but i believe for the 30. now whenever i've done it god has always come through i was uh at uh woman now loose one year and you're gonna be blessed tomorrow because bishop jake's gonna be here but i was at one woman now loose one year and god asked me uh and so i think the last day of the meeting so you know people been giving all week and god told me to ask for 10 people to give 10 000 23 people rushed the altar i'm not asking you for 10 000. but now god tell you to give 10 you better obey so watch this now so um you know whenever i've done it i've watched god i watch god work in fact i delight in it i delight in obeying god so i've asked apostle apostle i asked asked pastor john how i could do it because they got this light in my face i can't see hardly none of y'all but they taking the light out thank you so much now can y'all still see me on the screen because you know i'm of the deep dark chocolate variety i need a lot of light okay now god loves what kind of forgiver she'll forgive us so we don't need to look like we've been baptized in pickle juice we're going to enjoy this moment now listen i'm going to pray and then i want you to get an agreement with me i only need 29 because i'm gonna be one but here's what we're going to have to do because pastor john said it could i'm going to have you you got to have your mass on but i want i want to have you to come up here we're going to come up here right you're going you're not going to go beyond the barrier and you got to have your mass on amen now follow the instructions of the prophet all right now here's what i want you to do as i said i'm gonna pray and then these are my catalyst gifts i'm coming your way too amen you say i don't have a thousand that's all right you just agree with me now and let's watch god work in here amen father in jesus name i've obeyed you shared with the people what you said to me to do and so we claim our third 30 29 we claim them they'll obey you they'll not choke they'll respond quickly in jesus name and father we thank you that this these funds will spend supernaturally in this house in jesus name amen and amen so i need my 30. no matter where you are in the place i need you to stand and i need you to come forward come on let's celebrate my 30. [Applause] it's amazing it's amazing oh it's always amazing always come on come on come on obey god obey god jesus [Applause] obey god obey god come on come on i'm waiting for you obey god [Applause] obey god everybody say obey god come on shout it out obey god hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on obey god i need you here i need you here i'm waiting for you i'm waiting for you i'm waiting for you i'm waiting for you now here's the thing i get excited because god always everybody say oh wayne he always does more and listen please don't leave now you you don't want to leave now he's like come on don't put your mouth on this don't put your mouth on i'm telling you because one of the greatest blessings we've ever seen in our church is a couple who gave two cents it's about your obedience in the moment and i know i told you about this some more this is the moment when the devil had messed with you more than any time but if you leave out of here with a supernatural blessing on your life now i'm not talking y'all cause y'all know bingo i'm talking about those who say man i got to get out of here no you know come on stay here if you were seeing supernatural miracles of healing oh jesus thank you lord if you were seeing that and you had a need for healing you'd say i got to stay you need a financial miracle in your life you need some favor to abound toward you you need you need that favor for your promotion i'm talking to somebody amen god's waiting on your obedience everybody say 30 60 100. okay here's what i need to do i need to count y'all off now if anybody's giving over two over a thousand and you're gonna give over a thousand whatever other thousand you're gonna do wave that at me okay oh my god look at this okay y'all gonna mess me up now uh okay if that's you and you giving over a thousand why don't you just step forward you get out the way i shouldn't say get out the wheel get get where i can see you please the lord yeah if you're giving over a thousand come and look closely you can get on the yeah you come a little closer keep your mass on keep your mans on you're giving you're giving over there but yeah i know god just spoke to me i mean just spoke to me about the people online i'm just telling you yeah so that's that's agree that there's a folk online gonna do it too yes indeed and just a minute we're gonna well we're in my camera we can't miss we'll be talking to online camp just look straight ahead y'all see they had to put the light on me because i'm a dog said boy too dark to be over in that corner yeah okay thank you appreciate it okay now here's what we're gonna do as we get started since i can see y'all close i need the number of fingers that you have and then i'm gonna be able to count that out so that's ten thousand that's ten that's eleven twelve that's thirteen fourteen that's five fourteen that's nineteen 20 21 19 20 21. yeah that's six huh that's fifteen thousand huh fifteen hundred fifteen hundred yards but see what was that what was somebody helped keep my help in account what was my account i was at 21 721 that's 22 5 25 25 25 22. we just hold the 5 in 22 22 24 26. now what is this six that's six thousand six 22 what was i huh what was i i was at 26 32. 34. 34 35 750. 30. 37. i was at 3750. huh i was 35 so you two thirty seven seven fifty jesus some of y'all helped me was it twelve 1200. 39 950 239 41. 41 43. thank you 34 where am i what 41 this one that's 46. okay thank you huh 46 and some change okay y'all can go back to your seat all those i've counted let's celebrate them y'all go back to y'all see everybody say 30 60 and 100 huh okay we added 59. 50 000. that's good 30 60 at 36 of what a hundred okay now here's what i'm gonna do after i count you i want you to go back to your seat okay now y'all hold that number there cause i'm gonna start all over at one okay raise your hand so i know that you're not an usher no you're okay that's one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen come on dollar now come on come on fall come on forward i want y'all i'll count you when you get that four i said nineteen that's twenty that's twenty 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 laid in red amen 51 52 53 come on let's get everybody now y'all come come forward 52 what was that 53. i said what 53 okay 54. hey y'all my maturity 54. come on come on come on come on 54 55 56. come on quickly quick quick 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 i got you baby 75 76 77 78 79 y'all together all right 79 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90. 91. come close come come don't don't turn to 91 92 93 94 95 ninety six ninety seven ninety eight lady night 1999 gentlemen in orange 100 hey 101 102 103 104 105 106. 106. 107 108 109 110 together 10 11 112 113. 114 115. did i count mine i don't think i counted mine my fifteen or sixteen i count them i think i kind of said sixteen 116 plus what we had before plus what we had before one sixty six nine when we shout [Applause] now watch here we go listen listen now i'm not gonna call you down but you heaven's got to see your response no matter where you are you can say man of god i don't have a thousand but i can do a hundred or more would you just stand would you just stand right where you are boldly y'all do it quickly yeah do it quickly amen i can do 100 or more i'm obey god i hadn't already i've already given had planned to give again but i'm going to do it i'm going to obey god would you stand quickly stand quickly wave your hand at me stand quickly be shouting amen come on amen amen amen i see your hand but more ungodly more importantly god sees it amen amen that's 100 or more everybody say 100 or more all right god bless you you may be seated now you say man of god i don't have a hundred i don't have a hundred but what i do have i have a sacrifice i have a sacrifice and uh i'm gonna give my sacrifice i don't care what it is i don't care if it's two pennies i'm not gonna ask you what it is god sees your heart he knows what you have but i need you to stand too you show in heaven that you're willing to obey with what you have obey with what you have come on let's shout let's shout come on let's shout [Applause] all right god bless you may be seated father in the name of jesus we've obeyed you in this house and we thank you for this temple and we believe father the spirit of generosity and liberality rest in this house that there will be no resistance to giving when they are asked in the name of jesus and then father you will sow yourself strong and mighty and we have given we have obeyed now we step back to watch you work with favor in our lives like never before that is our prayer father in the precious name of jesus amen and amen now uh i need somebody to come and tell them how they're supposed to give amen i need somebody to come and yeah praise the lord tell them because see the people online they're waiting oh it was on the screen and the people people don't line of giving i know they're going to obey god amen one of the ways that you can give is that you can text the words i know i the pastor my pastor doctor i sense a thousand as well so she's watching so you can text the words nlcse to 77977 for those that have our app you can give on that way if you want to go to our website and give you just go to newlifesoutheast.org again that's newlifesoft east.org and you can give online some of us are still old school that we write checks if you want to mail that in you can military our office and that's on the screen as well i give you your man of god [Applause] how many y'all understand can you just stand to your feet i need you to hear me sometimes god has to get you around wealth if you get around it it gets on you and i'm a firm believer that the lord told me i told that one time can you send millionaires to our church he said they're already there they're just in seed form how many all know that it's not a bl it's not a curse to be blessed it's not a curse to be blessed i heard one old preacher say i make no excuses for what i have for what i have the lord hath provided and you hear me i pray that some of y'all see an immediate turnaround in your seed some of y'all didn't have the thousand but you still want to give you get the best seed you can you gotta get me now i don't care if it's a dollar you get the best seed that you can and you sow it never forget the story of the widow's might she came with the little she had and she gave it she gave it for those of y'all that say i have cash i have a check i dare you to put it in the envelope and you could put it in the deposits in the lobby area lift your hands right now and those y'all that believe that he's literally going to open up the windows of heaven and pour you out blessings that you don't even have room enough to receive you live in overflow hear me clearly your job is not your source come over here those of you that have sown lift your hands and worship god like your blessing just hit your lap come on here your sewing is not in vain your sewing is not in vain your sewing is not in vain this is not a game this is not a trick this thing is spiritual five most seconds of you opening your mouth and worshiping god and i release god a cash anointing and we pray a debt-free anointing that we will have no debt whatsoever and we will be 100 debt-free houses will be paid off come on here student loans y'all not praying come on here 100 debt free i pray the anointing that is on this house be released on every individual i pray the anointing that you put on my life be released over every individual my house paid off let the house be paid off come on here paying cash for your car we decree and we declare that you will don't have to light on anybody to give you everything for my god shall supply all of your needs according to his riches in glory i pray for every pastor every leader got the same word that you gave me and the earth will yield what belongs to you i pray god that you make the earth begin to yield what belong to every shepherd i pray for land to come forth i pray for keys to come forth i pray for doors to be open i pray for keys to be handed to you i pray for every single parent i pray for sponsorship to come forward i pray for walk-up blessings to come i pray for promotion to come i pray that the earthly ear what belongs to you the only thing that's missing now is your praise put up come on you all i need you to know what kind of house you're in i need you to begin to say 100 debt-free credit cards paid off wisdom on how to pay your credit cards off sponsorship being sent come on i'ma let you leave but some of y'all better seize this moment because before the year is out before the year is out this debt will be closed [Music] come on we're gonna let you leave but i heard the lord tell me to push you some of y'all need to pray in the holy ghost for just a few minutes will be handed over deeds will be signed your name is being brought up opportunities are being presented to you your name is being called your name is being called on the count of three everybody just release your name just release your name just release your name this is how i get it i need you to do it one two three john hannah [Music] and your door will be painted red because any door in older times of a painted red means that it was paid off [Music] come on on your way out of the building we pray the blessings of the lord be upon you god many have sown can they get a 48-hour turnaround can some god i need several people to get a 48-hour turnaround with it before the week is out [Music] this thing is spiritual before the year is out [Music] come on some of you millennials better start praising god you don't have to wait until you 40 to be a millionaire you don't have to wait until you're married to old property [Music] come on we about to go what's up ben addiction all of my needs will be met all of my debts will be paid off and i will live 100 debt free i would never tell you to do something that i'm not living i would never tell you to do something that i'm not living and i want the same god that did it for me to do it for you [Music] on your way out of the building i need you to fist bumper elbow five people until i'm 100 debt free consider yourselves dismissed 100 debt free you would not live in the house for 30 years and it not be paid off 100 debt free 100 debt free 100 debt free 100 debt free 100 not one bill not one bill no more cut off notices [Music] come on we're leaving your faith got unlocked last night and it got released tonight 100 dead free 100 different 100 percent debt free 100 debt free 100 not one bill everything is paid in advance all you have are utilities y'all better imagine this life all you have are utilities [Music] i would never tell you to say what i'm not living [Music] come on some of y'all are locked in worship those online i need you to type it on the screen 100 debt three 100 not a feel the only credit card i have is american express come on [Music] 100. [Music] come on we're leaving tomorrow night dr judith mcallister and bishop t.d jakes [Music] everybody that know that god's doing something supernatural for you in these three days if you still in the building release a praise right here [Music] you're flying in town that's not gonna be in vain you're staying up late is not going to be in vain [Music] these are god moments [Applause] [Music] 100 percent debt free 100 debt free 100 debt free 100 debt free [Applause] 100 not 99 100 [Music] all i pay is light gas and cable [Music] 100 debt free stress-free [Music] no final notices no worries [Music] see you tomorrow with your 100 debt free self with your 100 dead free self with your 100 dick free self pastors as a reception in the back i'll meet you in the room 100 mortgages paid you bought a car and paid cash [Applause] multiple pieces of property [Music] summer homes vacation homes 100 percent victory [Music] 100 percent [Music] debt-free [Music] i love you all [Applause] see you tomorrow make your way in this building one hundred one hundred percent free hundred percent different one hundred debt free 100 debt free 100 percent free 100 percent debt free britney 100 debt free 100 percent debt free 100 debt free 100 debt free hey 100 percent debt free 100 percent carefree yes 100 debt rate that's how i live 100 different 100 different one hundred percent debt free one hundred percent debt rate one hundred percent debt one hundred percent [Music] hey [Music] you

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