The Waiting Room | Pastor John Gray

[Music] [Applause] faster aventure I believe God has healed you my wife asked me a few minutes she said are you all right you see where's your joy do you have your joy I said I got my joy I'm in warfare mode I've been up all night it's strange because I'm starting to feel the weight of what it means to Pastor I've never been a senior pastor before but it matters that a pastor fields and empathizes with the people that are under his or her care this morning we made a decision not to have 830 service because as I was driving early this morning I sensed I said well this wind is contrary and it's raining and I don't want anybody who's volunteering to be in this put them in harm's way of course the devil always whispers your church is four months old and you don't have any money and if you don't have a service you're not gonna be I said shut up because the day I make a decision for money is the day I don't need to be a pastor we care for Souls if this is the Lord's Church he'll make sure we have what we need if he doesn't make sure we have it then we don't need it I understand the corporate nature of the construct of the nonprofit side of ministry but we are the church in the old testament when they gave their 10% they didn't get a tax credit at the end of the year they gave with no chance of receiving anything it was real faith I say that to say to each of you good morning and if my disposition is somehow different from the normal demeanor it is not because I am Sully or unhappy it is because I feel the weight of what it is that God has placed upon me and rightfully so there is a sobriety that comes with leadership and I should sense in the atmosphere something is shifting I sense the atmospheric turbulence that comes with a breakthrough I don't know if you sense it the uncomfortable distance between what he said and when it arrives I don't know if you sense the uncomfortable silence between what he said and when it arrives but I believe I'm called to speak to it right here in the middle and enough of you felt the same unction and urge that you braved unsavory conditions to get to church they announced this storm last week it hit land what Thursday Thursday night Friday morning Thursday Thursday morning right was it Thursday once somebody talked to me Friday we'll say something I'm to ask him questions trying to figure out what's going on we felt the effects on the coast starting Thursday it had been in the ocean for at least two weeks heading this way there was trepidation planning anticipation then all of a sudden it slowed down when you see the devil coming and then he slows down all of the experts said it's gonna go up here to come down here we're not sure that they could do this it's gonna come over here and it's gone and they said we've never seen a storm like this this storm doesn't behave in typical fashion I wish the church would wake up that God was allowing the church to get a lesson that the enemy is not doing what he normally does he's gonna try something different a different pattern it's not new it's just a different pattern Oh help me Holy Ghost [Applause] so everybody's worried about the storm and it slows down and then they said it just set off to the coast just set there like it had a will like it was on assignment and then slowly first at 5 miles an hour then at 2 miles an hour I can walk two miles an hour I don't even go to the imagine center like I should I do two miles an hour for me the end the the the the thing that gets at my core that messes with my stomach it's not when it gets here it's it's waiting if it's gonna go down and let's go don't sit off in the ocean looking at me come on Cletus come on come on it's not just this physical storm there are spiritual storms and things that take place and it's like I know it's coming so let's just go let's let's go doctor's report what well then say it just come on stop poking and prodding and taking tissue I know something's wrong and lost 60 pounds in two weeks and don't take a genius to know something is going on would it just say it we ain't been happy for some years so just come on out and say what needs to be said sitting at the table every night acting like we in love and you know what it's not the truth just say what it is well then don't play with it I know you've been sitting over there with them people over there with your friends talking about y'all just homies but you come home smelling like smoke talkin about us everybody else but your lips is turning black so come on and just say what it is [Applause] [Music] you never can tell when the storms gonna come or how you're going to react to it but something has to break something has to be birthed in this season and if something has to burst then that means us in the middle are not just sitting we're in the the waiting room that was my dramatic and they were like how many parents do we have in here wait a minute how many fathers do we have in here we're to fight that's where the father's at you remember when we had to take our wives in there with them kids hold on stay standing fellas I need your help [Applause] [Music] put her in the room had the epidural the epidermis and you know unless it's a c-section which they probably don't let you in for most of that but natural birth you know they've got these things stirrups I said all Lord no no Lord I need to sit down Jesus sir would you like to go to the now so to see for this here harvest I want to see what isoh come out but sometimes your desire does not line up with your Constitution I have my heart to see it come to pass but I'm not physically able so I need to sit in the waiting room because sometimes there's complications to the thing that's been promised and you got to trust that the doctors know what they're doing because even though you sew to see you can't actually bring it out cuz it was never your job to bring it out there are some things that only heaven can do I wish I had a church on a Sunday afternoon and so while you're standing let me give you the description and I'll let you sit down I say a 40 and 28 have you not known have you not heard the everlasting God the Lord the creator of the ends of the earth neither faint snore is weary when Theory came I did I um I got lightheaded when she came I said no it's happening too fast like literally I was scared I was about to faint when I saw my baby his understanding is unsearchable he gives power to the weak I don't care who you are storms will make you weak they kept using the word relentless they like the rain is relentless they kept saying the rain is relentless someone's like yeah it is relentless relentless rain re IgM alright y'all missed it we're not going anywhere his understanding is unsearchable he gives power to the weak and to those who have no might he increases strength even the youths shall faint and be weary our young people aren't making dumb decisions because they don't love God it's because they're tired tired of getting bullied tired of getting laughed at tired of getting picked on tired of get made fun all you go to church you old punk you go to church all your mama he really believed as a god oh come on man and they're tired and the young men shall utterly fall but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings like eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint they that wait on the Lord I want to talk and preach from the subject heading the waiting roll you may be seated the waiting room the distance between what God said and what God brings is the waiting room is there anybody in here waiting for God to do something I can tell you right now that this will be the shortest sermon I ever preached so I should have got excited for that but they like we heard that before passage on being until 2:30 I was scared this morning because I had to make decisions that affected people's lives and the enemy kept bringing up what I wasn't while the rain was hitting the lie of the enemy and here's the thing about the enemy because Jesus said he is a liar and the father of it but what he does is he'll remind you of things you did and make you think it was the truth what I did is not the truth of who I am it was the truth of that moment but it was not the totality of who I am because I am NOT what I've done I'll come over here maybe somebody needs this encouragement what I've done improperly or incorrectly might have been the truth of that moment but it is not the sum totality of my personhood I am NOT the thing I did wrong I learned from it I dreamed from it Hey I'm human I make mistakes and I'm glad to be man enough to admit it nothing worse than a leader male or female that walks around like they've never messed up can't apologize can't say they missed it can't take responsibility pasteurize I was making phone calls at 4:00 this morning call pastor Darius that's a man of God that man honored me at 4:00 in the morning he said pastor good morning I'm like I would have been like what do you want I said we got some decisions to make yesterday based on all the projections it said that we had light rain and did it up but now it's picking up seal the win we're out here I'm driving on the highway because I wanted to feel what it would be like to drive I'm not saying that to be impressive I'm saying it because if you're a pastor and you really want to feel what your people are going through then you need to get out there and be where they are I'm just talking pastor Jermaine you know why cuz I would want that I would want a pastor like that I don't want a pastor that doesn't feel anything everything he's just he's protected from the reality of life I want somebody that's been through some things that'll feel the pain that's been that's been to a restaurant and only wasn't sure what they could order until they check they wallet I want to be around some people that have been right on the edge like do I have enough and when you go to the gas that you like to 35 on pump to anybody but got to change out the cup holder I want to talk to some people that have been waiting on a miracle but why you wait you did the best you could with what you had I want to talk to somebody this afternoon who understands what it's like to be waiting on God and be not sure if he's going to show up or when he's going to show up so I was battling you not qualified you know church for my so you ain't gonna have no money after this week here you are in this town this ain't even a large town yeah but I serve a large God [Applause] and I made a decision so we're not gonna have a 8:30 service because I think the wind is too contrary and I don't want volunteers coming putting themselves in harm's way and I don't want other people coming putting themselves in harm's way I made the decision and then I organized it I do the right thing and then I was like well should i cancel 11:00 and the Holy Ghost is like no I'm gonna say well I don't know what to do because I don't want anybody to and I'm nervous and there was a look at you confused you don't even know what to do and and what was happening is the the reality of the human condition was taking place inside of my soul that there's a part of me that knows that I'm called to it but then there's the other part of me that is yet fully not fully regenerated yet and so the flesh of me says unqualified unprepared insecure fearful and so I had to fight in the spirit to suppress that part down to be the leader I needed to be so there were people around me that we're waiting on me to make a decision because when you leave you got a lead you can't manage the waiting room anybody other than me believing God to do something so supernatural but you need it to happen [Applause] here back there at home you you wait in the back the fact that we have people in the back the fact that we have people in the gallery in the middle of a hurricane lets me know that there's somebody that needed a word from God today why does it say they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength because I don't know about anybody else but sometimes when I wait I worry well anybody be honest with me sometimes when you wait you worry I've been a worrier but then as pastor Kenan said God doesn't have to prove himself any more he's not on trial with me I've seen him over and over and over is there anyone else has seen God over and over and over again I have but it still doesn't make the waiting any easier somebody say the waiting room when my mother was in surgery when they were checking for where to prostate where the pancreatic cancer was three hours you know what it's like to be in a waiting room not knowing what the outcome is gonna be the distance between your faith and the arrival is the waiting room the distance between your prayer and the placement is the waiting room the distance between your worship and your breakthrough is the waiting room and all of us have been in the waiting room and even right now I believe that this storm is giving many of us an understanding of the waiting room we weren't sure what it was gonna do and when it was gonna happen and so we waited we prepared but we had to wait because we don't know how to react until it arrives but God is saying to some of us before it comes you can do what my son did when the storm showed up and you can speak to it are there any storm Parkers in here is there anybody that ever told the devil that's enough I wish I had about 16 people now I'm not waiting on that devil don't I find that come on out of here no go to the other way not my family not my children no I see you've been looking at it you can't have the cane half my family can't have my relationship no no no is there anybody that's ever spoke to the store Jesus was crossing over with his disciples he rebuked the wind but he said to the sea sometimes you need to reveal then other stuff you need to talk to and when you're in the waiting room you need to know who to talk to stop talking to the devil in the waiting room I've been in waiting rooms with people who didn't have faith well you know it's only 5% survival rate for pancreatic cancer if you don't shut your mouth anybody ever been around medical professionals that just did not believe what you believe and they made it clear yeah I was I want to say his name but he might be watching but the doctor who told my mother he said you will not recover from this almost had a little smirk on his face yeah you got 16 years of study and education and no whole ego and I'm not mad at your education because we need doctors we need medical professionals but don't disrespect my face because you don't believe I'm not telling you what you're doing is wrong I'm not saying what you said it's wrong but if you're trying to talk me down from my faith by intimidating me with your knowledge then you don't know me very well because I'm in the waiting room already so I might as well believe God for a miracle I've been in the waiting room waiting on news is there anybody in the waiting room right now you're waiting on news about a thing a situation you're waiting right now where am i right now people in the waiting room that's why you had to get to church today because I believe prophetically that you pushing through I believe prophetically that you pushing through to get to service has been the final push for the arrival of the promise I prophetically believe it when I left the waiting room watch this there were other people who were waiting for the arrival of my son but they couldn't come into the room because they didn't have authorization there are some people who want to have the benefit of being there when your promise comes but God is not giving them authorization you can't come in I'm gonna need you to stay in in the waiting room and there's nothing wrong with the waiting room if you celebrating what God is doing in me oh please believe me Peter James and John they were in the waiting room Jesus said sit here while I go pray over there but this is what he asked him to do he said pray pray for me pray with me it's gonna in the waiting room and pray pastor DeMarcus my sermons almost over but it's get in here with me then pray when my mother got her diagnosis where were you he was with me we were in the middle of the night praying in a park we were sitting there believing God when nothing made sense and while I shed my tears pastor DeMarcus Hill was right there saying God is going to heal your mother it's gonna be alright and my wife is my witness pastor Byron there were other people who are called looking for encouragement and they said well you better make plans because you know this kind of cancer doesn't is it's not gonna turn out well you want to start making final arrangements and make sure she has a will because you don't want to deal with that kind of stuff I said I'm gonna have to let you go seekers when I'm in the waiting room I can't have competing voices I got enough to deal with in my own flesh I wish I had a I don't need you telling me what I've been thinking in the back of my head because the thing you feed the longest is the thing that is the strongest so I don't want you feeding my fears I need somebody that'll feed my safe I'm in the waiting room I need you to tell me it's gonna be all right I'm in the waiting room I need you to speak scripture Oh for me I'm in the waiting room I need you to prophesy into my future I'm in the waiting room and then I need you to tell me to push it was so funny when I was in the room with my wife and she was birthing our son they told her to push and I'm sitting there with myself trying to squeeze I called myself healthy I'm trying to empathize with the pain of my wife because the closest most women come to death is in childbirth anything can go wrong and I want to salute every woman that has ever put their body on the line to birth our legacy tell us we need to honor these women that have put their bodies on the line I know this will sound crazy but I declare some hurricane babies in this church people who have not been able to conceive you gonna have you're going to conceive and it's going to be in the middle of the storm because your life has been a storm your health has been a storm your body has been a storm your marriage has been in the storm but I declare that things go break in your favor and God is gonna release and then say for everybody but it's for some people and they they can't shout cuz they don't want you knowing what they've been through and it's none of your business anyway and so since I don't want you to know and they don't want you to know everybody's gonna shout starting right now on your mark get set [Applause] [Music] it's the waiting room if the waiting room [Music] it's the waiting room it's the waiting room I said is the waiting room I need somebody to give God praise [Music] [Applause] it's the waiting room it's the waiting room somebody say the waiting room see I don't know about you but I used to catch the bus to work in the school somebody tell pastor Brandon to bring what I asked him to bring and have him tell him to be prepared somebody say the waiting room anybody ever had to catch a bus sometimes the bus has a little thing to keep you covered have a bench anybody been there well my bus stop had more than one bus that would come it wasn't just my bus it was like four or five different buses and when you're waiting on your ride get to talking to people around you everybody's going somewhere different but we are waiting see this is what the church needs to remember everybody's waiting on something so you need to be kind because you don't know how long people been waiting don't be mad if they don't praise like you if they don't shout like you if they look tired it might be because they're tired maybe I talked to talk over here maybe they look tired because they're weary maybe they lost their joy maybe they don't have a praise because they were praising at the beginning of their wait but not even waiting for a while six months a year two years three years and I don't know about you but sometimes when you sit and waiting on the bus every now and then you look down the street to see if it's coming anybody ever looked down the street to see if it was coming anybody ever in the spirit looked down the street to see if God was coming and off in the distance you see the bus you get excited stand up get your stuff rolls up not my bus you see somebody you were talking to get on the bus alright man take care it's so hard to celebrate when you see somebody heading to their destination why are you still waiting to get to yours and my preaching is hard sitting in the waiting room cuz when I first set here it was sunny now I see clouds and I didn't think I was gonna be waiting this long pastor Trevor but now it's raining and the enemy will always throw rain he'll always throw water he'll always throw it on you and he'll want to see if you will respond because he's waiting on you to give up so he'll come with a little bit of water he'll start soft he'll start tender moves you you can't even tell where it's coming from they'll just start it's a little bit of water here a little bit there and start with a sprinkle you still wait scripture says they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength I've been waiting a long time and this storm is getting worse and I don't have an umbrella my shirt says let faith let faith be bigger than your fear but it's hard not to fear when the storms getting bigger then it's not sprinkles they just start getting heaps on you [Applause] and you don't want to mess up your shoes or the microphone and it's hard to worship when it's raining it's hard to praise when it's raining it's hard to give God glory when your outfit is getting messed up but God wants your outfit to get messed up because he's getting ready to change your clothes he's about to give you a karma to praise for the spirit of heaviness and I know sometimes you don't know which way is coming from but you got to stay in the site because they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up and even while it's raining I'm still looking because I know too much about God to know that he never leaves me like this I know it's raining I know the storm is coming [Music] malleable weak [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh wait [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] relentless storm meet relentless church y'all miss it I'm gonna say it again relentless storm meet relentless church [Applause] [Music] and all of a sudden I'm looking down the street and I see in the distance my riders coming deaf will you try but I knew my ride was trouble and I didn't move but I stayed in my place [Music] and the devil wants you to believe that because you got rained on you've been ruined yeah your ride is coming but what you wearing is now destroyed what he doesn't know is that after you endure the storm he will replace what's your loss and it'll be bigger better and newer [Applause] let's show be bigger than yo feet I need somebody to give God a praise [Music] because he's got something bigger [Music] [Applause] [Music] somebody is important buddy Kevin Lauren [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and every now and then elder what you were wearing can be a testimony to somebody else tell somebody don't change so fast when they ask you why are your clothes with because I endured the storm are there any teenagers in here any teenage young men in here what's your name man Xavier what size shoe you wear huh 14 boy what do they feed you are you between a 13 and a 14 or for real 14 huh oh boy what's your 13 how old are you yeah you're 14 wearing a 13 oh he's 13 so he starts seeing right now you a 13 wearing a 13 come here boy [Music] [Music] these are brand-new pair of he got games you can't find these everywhere and somebody's gonna bless you with a pair one day coming up 13 years old you in church you were worshipping God you walked in with those shoes they got you through the storm [Applause] but God wants to know that since you walked through it he's got something new for you to walk out of it still got the tag baby flight club your pastor is proud of try them on [Music] try born [Music] they show Mount up on wings as an eagle or they look real fresh [Applause] because God will give you what you need to fit where your goal you're about to match [Applause] [Music] now somebody you look good [Music] [Applause] is anybody gonna give God one more praise [Applause] pastor Kenny told y'all we raise an offering for the victims of our of the fire a four-month-old Church raised ninety six thousand six hundred dollars and all the families have the money already we want you to know that we ain't going nowhere and the church at it so we ended up with a complete 100 thousand and we distributed it to them so I want you to celebrate this church [Music] because why they going through a storm they needed to know they weren't alone the Lord is here let faith be bigger than your fear I was afraid it didn't think that I had what it took but I do have what it takes I belong to God and he made me pastor I'm the pastor at his church so I got authority to tell Devils get out of here and don't you ever come back again me and my wife we got authority to speak it to the atmosphere and declare blessing and favor and abundance and overflow and increase over every single person that's in this church right now [Music] and if you are in this room right now and you've never given your life to Jesus or you need to rededicate your life to Jesus I want you as our elders are moving I want you to know that you don't have to wait anymore you can come to the altar it's about to be a harvest in here judge you watch somebody's about to get saved somebody's about to get rededicated and other people are about to join our church watch Oh hurricane weekend [Music] [Music] I didn't even open it yet and she's already here here comes somebody else if you need to give your life to Jesus rededicate or you want to be a member of religious church get all of your things and come to the altar right now don't wait don't wait don't wait welcome home young man [Music] they're coming [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] there is somebody somebody is there anybody [Music] [Applause] [Music] the precious blood of Jesus class hurricane Sunday and look what the storm brought in [Applause] here's what I want you to do I want you to pray this prayer with me Lord Jesus it's me I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that Jesus is Lord thank you for the blood that was shed for me I am grateful that I made right not by my works but by the finished work of the Cross and the empty tomb of Jesus you are my Savior and my lord today my life is new my soul is saved and my church is relentless in Jesus name Amen amen and amen we believe if you prayed this simple prayer you just got saved I want you to do me a favor we want to get some information from you so that we can follow up with you I want you to walk to my left and your right this direction in the refuel room we're gonna get some information from you if you all would walk this way and while they're walking we're gonna celebrate our brothers and sisters I said we're going to celebrate our brothers [Music] [Applause] come on y'all celebrate on the beach [Music] [Music]

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Length: 44min 38sec (2678 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 18 2018