Wait On It - Bishop T.D. Jakes

I wanna turn our attention to the Word of God but I will said that the flower fades and the grass shall wither but the word of the Lord shall stand forever glory to God kingdoms come and kingdoms go leaders come and leaders go sickness comes in sickness goes but the word of the Lord will stand forever if you're looking for something stable then I want to invite you to get into the Word of God go to the book of Acts chapter 1 verse 1 through 8 and there we're going to consider and contemplate the word of the Lord that we might have a different and a deeper understanding into the truth thereof when you find it shout amen okay the former treaties have are made oh Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach until the day in which he was taken up after that he through the Holy Ghost had given Commandments unto the Apostles whom he had chosen to whom also he showed himself watch this closely to whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them being seen of them for forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God and being assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the father wait for the promise of the Father which said he ye have heard of me for John truly baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence when they therefore were come together they asked of him saying Lord will Dow at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel and he said unto them it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father had put in his own power but he shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you and he shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost parts of the earth can you say Amen I want to spend a few minutes from the subject wait on it somebody shall wait on it let's pray father thank you thank you for this day thank you for this moment thank you for our strength thank you for the activity of our limbs thank you for our right mind thank you for the revelation of who you are thank you for the Peace in the power that we have in you thank you for the revelation of the scriptures thank you for peace in the midst of the storm thank you for the healing of all manner of diseases thank you for being Jehovah Jireh thank you for supplying all of our needs according to your riches and glory now I believe you to take over the service do whatever you want to do throw your weight around show the devil who's boss we believe me of her miracles and we thank you for it in Jesus name somebody shout Amen you may be seated well yesterday I decided to go to CVS and because we've been in lockdown I got completely dressed to drive to three blocks from my house to go through the drive-through window at CVS I said you know you've been in a house a long time when going through the drive-through window requires you getting dressed and if you like me you've been shut in so long you have looked at all four walls in your room you've seen the curtains and the drinks and the floor and everything else and and there's a deep deep desire to get out and get involved and get going and do all kinds of stuff and yet we and the wisdom then it takes for certain areas of Steel shut in and we understand what that means and what that takes and during that time it's a it's it's a great time for introspection introspection I had several weeks of introspection yeah several weeks the information I introspected everything a man I said another seven weeks I don't know if I have anything else is left to introspect but I thought about where I was where I'm going where I want to be how I want to get there all that's a part of the process I say that because there's some things that happen in isolation they cannot happen in a crowd you have to go through a period of being left alone with your own thoughts without distraction from other people to really evaluate where you are I say that because I want you to understand where I'm going with this text I want you to realize that this text comes in at a moment of great transition and I want you to understand the transition and the trauma associated with this text these are men who have given up everything to follow Jesus their livelihood their reputations their careers their family relations here marital relations have all been stunted by following Jesus following Jesus meant going wherever Jesus went however Jesus went whenever Jesus went on boats on seas hiking through deserts to dry places through doubts for three years they've been with Jesus you can't run a business three years away from your business so everything they had suffered so that they could be with Jesus and in part because they thought that Jesus was going to establish his kingdom which the text brings out they kept waiting for him to overthrow Caesars influence over Jerusalem and they said he's gonna set up his kingdom and we're gonna be his cabinet you know and then answer we're getting closer to the end and it doesn't go the way they thought it was going to go now discipleship is really being tested because discipleship which is rooted and discipline is tested when things don't go the way you thought they were going to go it's not hard to be a disciple when you get what you thought you were going to get but it's difficult to be a disciple when you thought that what was in it for you is no longer there and then trying to figure out what's going on because they wanted him to be their king and they wanted him to be their ruler and they saw the king but they didn't see the cross and you can't be a king without a cross those things are interchangeable and inextricably connected in such a way that every King has a cross you might not see it but they have a cross every person who's anything that you want to be has a cross to go along with it there's always something hanging off a crown it's a cross people always see it it's always in public but every crown is paid for by a cross the disciples did not understand that there that every development of leadership or prosperity the notoriety or degrees or accomplishment have crosses with it that's why everybody doesn't have a degree because there's a cross with it that's why everybody doesn't have a masters it has a cross with it that's why everybody doesn't make it to notoriety because there's a cross ones and some people would rather have the peace and the power is it's a decision if you go up it's gonna cost you something they didn't know how much it was going to cross Jesus and all of a sudden when Jesus got ready to pay the bill on the next increment of power and authority which was the cross it cost great trauma it caused confusion not only was it traumatic to see a leader that they had been with for years and years and dedicated their lives and resources and finances stripped naked and beaten like a thief till his entrails were hanging out hung high stretched wide nailed to a tree dying in the hot Jerusalem heat in naked in front of everybody and the humiliation and the degradation of his beard plucked from his face and a crown of Florence placed upon his head and his leather riffing on a cross speaking words while bleeding pus coming out of him dying in open Sun it was humiliating it was scary it was devastating it was emotional yes think about it if it were your pastor think about it if it were your leader think about if it was somebody you care about it there you had to watch them die the powerful now seems powerless the mighty seems mundane the overcomer looks like he has been overcome and all of a sudden the enemy begins to place all kinds of doubts and most people focus on the fact they're dead Thomas doubted and there Peter started cursing and that Judas hung himself but they do not recognize the kind of power and pressure these boys were under these boys were under pressure because if you follow greatness you're gonna come to places of pressure that's how you know who's with you by how they handle the places of pressure anybody can with you and be with you and your exhortation but it takes a special person to stand with you in your aggravation and when things got aggravated there was a great great discontentment and there was wrestling and there were turmoil and not only was the heat turned up on Jesus and he was crucified and humiliated like he was a dog like he was an animal and died in between two thieves with no reprieve 'el and no recognition then no voice speaking from heaven and no angels to rescue him he died like the rest of them he died like an ordinary man he died in such a humiliating way that no wonder there was doubt and fear and disarray and controversy but that is not the real problem of the test the real problem of the text is now that Jesus was dead the heat was now on those who were with him now Peter says here they said Peter were you with him at all I wasn't with him no I wasn't without know about it were you involved no he was very bad and a nanny Peter went accosted we were de cousin if he he'd was old then less you know that the heat is not disowned Jesus the heat is on them and because of the pressure to destroy anything associated with Jesus they entered into isolation yeah and the Bible says that the disciples were locked up behind closed doors for fear of the Jews I don't know how long they were in isolation but they were in total isolation like we have been in isolation and isolation does all kinds of stuff to you they were they were isolated they were isolated and in trouble and because right outside the door was death right outside the door was death they dare not go to the market they dare not go to the store they dare not leave their houses and be seen in public places because they didn't have Kobe at nineteen to fight but they were they were on the hit lists of hell they had to stay safe by hiding like a bunch of schoolgirls in Cannes they were hiding for fear of their lives because if they got out into public while they were cleaning out this infestation of Christianity they would have killed the disciples killed and so they were in isolation trying to preserve their life not like us now we're not in isolation cuz we like our house we're in isolation because death is outside the door and we can't see where it is and we don't know what it's going to do and so we feel safe in our house and we rather be born and safe then excited and dead those are the choices and if you lay those two choices in front of me I'll be bored for the next six weeks I'll be born in the next year I'll stay about three years I'd rather be bored in my house for three years then be excited in the streets and dead if those are the choices those were the choices for the disciples either get out and have fellowship and be killed or stay in the road and they were locked up in the road by themselves and Jesus was crucified and there were little rumors of all kind of rumors some had said that they'd stolen his body the body was missing the body had turned up missing they came down then the stone was rolled away the place where Jesus lay he there was no body there and some said that they had heard from angels and others said it was a trick and a prank and they were all kind of rumors and they were sharp and in the midst of that isolation and there's a seclusion that comes a seclusion and Jesus comes into their seclusion now I want you to see this isolation and seclusion are two different things let me look at this a minute isolation and seclusion are two different things to be isolated they're isolated so that they might be insulated from the possibility of anything happening in their life but the isolation gradually turns into seclusion so that Jesus can come into their seclusion because Jesus desired to have a private moment with him he has given up on public displays so even when Jesus rose from the dead he did not seek the crowds he only sought those that knew him he only sought those that knew him because the Bible said the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him and he shall show them his covenant now you remember at the Last Supper he said that the New Testament was in his blood so he's not going to show his covenant to the world because he has come unto his own and his own has received him not he's already wept over them remember all Jerusalem how off would I have gathered you as a hen together no cheese and you would not okay I'm through with that he's turned his back and he's only showing himself to the believers as it was then so is it now there are certain things that God will only show people that really serve him yeah he won't just show you just because you're curious he will just show you because you're fascinated and interesting he won't just show you because you're taking a class in religious studies he will show you because you think you're an intellectual and you want to understand some there are some things that God will only reveal to people who believe in him and so the God who walked amongst him every day has now started showing up in visits and so for the next 40 days he visits him and I thought I'd take a moment and thank God for his visits because I must I must admit it's not that he talks to me every day you know it's not that he talks to me every day it's not that I feel anointed every day it's not that I feel his presence every day it's not less then I speak in tongues every day it's not that I feel his power every day but I don't want to thank him because he visits a village from God can change your trajectory a visit from God can change how you see your life a visit from God can change how you deal with your children a visit from God can change your attitude and your whole disposition I know there's a lot of you watching me that you say that you have breakfast with him every morning but the truth of the matter is every time then God stops my visits he visited Abraham every so many years God would visit him and it would change the trajectory of his life he visited Moses God has a way of visiting you and his visits made a different he visited the two disciples on the road to Emmaus and the visit changed a whole conversation they were having a conversation until Jesus and walked up from behind them and they included him in their conversation and then he included them in his and the Bible said for the next seven miles he unfolded himself through the scriptures and when the seven mile trip was over he made as if he would go on and they invited him into the room because they wanted to visit to continue the only thing about Jesus visiting you is you never want him to leave if you've ever had a visitation of the Holy Ghost you don't want it to be over if you remember I mean a real man I talked about just goose pimples and children but I mean a real visit from God makes you want him to linger abide with us and if I invited him in and I say broke bread the Bible say if they saw him in the order of the breaking of bread some of you don't know don't have a clue what I'm talking about because all you've ever visited with church and you've never have visited Jesus but then there are moments in your life that Jesus will visit you and it doesn't have to be in church he'll come in your house and visit you he'll come in a jail cell and visit you you can be driving the work with tears running down your face and he'll visit you here you wake you up at three o'clock in the morning and give you a visitation that changes how you see everything in your life you have to be a real question to know what I'm talking about but every now and then God visits us and when he visits us he turns our fear removes our doubt and all of a sudden we go into a different state of existence we're not in isolation just because we're in seclusion yeah yeah it's a different tenor to the word we may be in seclusion waiting on a time to come but we're not in isolation so the disciples that we meet who are locked up behind the doors for fear of the Jews are in isolation the disciples that end up in the upper room are not in the upper room out of fear they're in seclusion yeah they're in seclusion there's still nobody else in the room but they're not in isolation then the the reason for them being behind closed doors is no longer the fear of the Jews but they're not waiting for the Holy Ghost to the outward man they're still behind closed doors the situation is still the same the only thing that changed was attitude when we see them at first they are behind closed doors for fear what the world might do but when we see them in the end they're behind closed doors waiting to see what God is going to do and in between these two polarities all the change the narrative was he visited them if he ever visits you the situation may still look the same but it won't be the same because because the visit change its attitude under stay over and all of a sudden you might be in isolation well at one moment but then you go into seclusion because you're there for a different reason same hospital they're different reason living in the same house but it's a different reason going to the same job but this is a different reason married to the same person but it's a different reason driving the same carpet is a different reason hi Lillian why man looks on the outward appearance and says it's all the same thing you know it's not the same thing because you have a different expectation before I was locked up in here because of what I was afraid of but now me here here because of what I'm waiting on something else is going to happen if I stand here a little while longer something is going to happen and the Bible said that he he led them out in the Book of Luke 24 verse 47 that he led them out as far as Bethany and he blessed him and it is a hard thing in the world because can you imagine what it is to be in love with Jesus to the point that John has laid his head on his breast to the point that they've given up everything to serve him to the point that they spent the last three years serving him to the point that they've put their lives at risk to serve it and they loved him and they loved him and now he's leaving the visitation period is over there's 40 days of visitation and then it's over and they know that they will not see him anymore until they see him in clouds of glory it's like taking a loved one down to the airport and you know that they're going away and it's one thing for you to be gone a couple of weeks but when you know that I may not ever see you again in this life that's a whole different kind of feeling it's the kind of feeling you get when you close the casket on somebody love now if you haven't done that you don't know what I'm talking about but if you've ever done that the closing of that cabinet is a coffin there's a finality to it dinner there's a pain to it there's a ate to it because you know that you won't see him anymore on this side and I can remember wanting to bend my head down and peek in for one final lock it was at this point that Jesus leads him out as far as Bethany and lays hands on him and blesses him and gave them joy at a time that they should have had on a pain how can God give us joy at a time we ought to have other pain it's a place of separation this is the circumcision of the disciples it is a cutting away it is the separation is the cutting loose and yet he had Nestor sighs her pain with John had God give you joy and a painful place have you ever had God give you joy with your head every right to be bleeding but he gave you joy unspeakable joy that's what we're looking at in our text and there is no difference between Luke and acts they're written by the same people Luke were Luke but he also wrote ax so ax is just a continuation of the conversation of Luke so Luke 24:47 when he lived him out as far as Bethany and laid hands on them and bless him and told them to go on to Jerusalem when he picks up in Acts chapter 1 it's the same writer writing about the same group of people and since the former treaties have I made out the awfulness of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach he's still talking he just changed things but he's still talking like he turned the page and named the chapter something different but it's the same guy talking these have left the presence of Jesus with great joy they seen him go up in chariots of glory they've seen him come and be escorted on a cloud service and he spent standing up in the air gazing at him an angel said Ye men of Galilee why stand ye here gazing at him this same Jesus that you see us in shall be said in like manner and what ever happened to them feel them with such joy that they didn't have time to ache over what they lost because they were so excited about what was about to happen will you stop focusing on what you lost and get excited about what is about to happen everything will change your life well how do I change my attitude preacher I tried to change my attitude I tried to speak differently about it I tried to feel good about it but every time I try to feel good about it I keep thinking about what I lost the only reason the only way that you can survive what you lost and started getting excited about what you're about to receive is that you need visitation there's some things I lost I would have lost my mind but when I was about to lose my mind he visited me God will come visit you that's the size your pain and give you joy that made me make sense here to make your relatives look at you like you're crazy and they'll get mad cuz you don't react the way they had but you would not like them because yes higher he visited you but he visited me I would have blown my brains out but he visited me I would have shot you but he visited me I would have crossed you out but he visited me I would have drove the car off the cliff but he visited me I would have lost my mind but he visited me understand what it's like to have a visit just a visit just a visit from Jesus trace midnight into morning cherish darkness into down tears hopelessness into hope just despair into destiny just a visit from Jesus trans mourning into dancing just a visit from Jesus their sorrow into the garment of praise just to visit from Jesus Tarrance despair into revelation just a visit from Jesus can stop the tears that are falling down your face just a visit from Jesus you don't need any money just a visit from Jesus you don't need a husband just a visit from Jesus you don't need a wife yes sir visit from Jesus you don't need to do Church you just need a visit from Jesus you don't need to move to another city you just need a visit from jesus a visit just a visit just visit right there in your apartment it's a visit just a visit from Jay won't visit from Jesus and the swelling tissues will go down in the lump in your breast won't visit from Jesus and the hypertension will recede out of your corpuscles and cells just a visit from Jesus and and the mass of cancer will begin the stream just a visit from Jesus and the IV will be here just a visit from Jesus and all the debts will begin to dissipate just a visit from Jesus and you get a revelation on your money just a visit from Jesus and he'll bring you out of debt in the prosperity disability from Jesus and you could go from Rhenish your ownership just a visit from Jesus and you get your focus back in your life just a dinner from Jesus and the wayward child will come back home just a visit from Jesus and you and your sister get back together just just a visit from Jesus my god have mercy have you ever been visited by have you ever had him stopped by your house why are you running your sweeper and he just come in the house with you and you started looking kind of crazy to the kid's cousin Xing you know you're rocking your head and tears are rolling down your face and they come in the house and say mama what's wrong with you and they don't know you got company they didn't hear the door but they didn't hear the door closed nobody heard the doorbell ring but there's a visitor in the house good God Almighty I'm the time in the driveway and I didn't see a car anywhere but there's a visitor in the house I don't see an extra placement at the dinner table but there's a visitor in the house I want to talk to somebody that knows what it's like to get a visit from Jesus you were gonna quit your job but all the nights you got a visit from Jesus you were gonna leave your husband but overnight you got a visit from Jesus let's be real for a minute without here because we're so good but every time we got ready to quit we got a visit from Jesus we got a visit from Jesus and so my brothers and sisters huh huh the text says the former trainees have I made all the awfulness of all that Jesus began both to do entities notice the word began whenever it says he began both to do it to teach it means he ain't finished yet write yourself alone and tell yourself he ain't finished yet tweet your neighbors and tell him he finish it take a picture yo house and put it on Instagram and write up on her - he ain't finished yet take a picture yourself and say he ain't finished yet good God Almighty he just began to teacher God is not through with me take a picture in your church he really said go out in the garage to take a picture that raggedy car and write a note to yourself and say he ain't finished he said all that Jesus began both to do and to teach I'm happy because I know he ain't finished yet he's still working on me he's still building me up he still getting me ready he's still sanding me down he's still nailing me together he's still varnishing me out he's doing some finished work on me have you had God put some finished work on you oh oh you should have seen me before you think I'm a mess now you should have seen me before I came a long ways to be where I am right now somebody's child yes somebody shall yes somebody shout yeah somebody shout yes somebody shout yes again put your hands together and give the Lord some praise now we must understand something these are particularly and there are 11 men left one of them has committed suicide his entrails have spilt out in the potter's field his name is Judas the unity has been broken by suicide so their Lord has been crucified their comrade has committed suicide they're trying to hold the reins together in the absence of the physical presence of Jesus they're trying to figure out who's going to replace Judas they start casting Lots because men will do men things trying to fix God problems but men things won't fix God problems in order to fix a gaurd problem you need a god thing you can't do a man thing and fix a god problem you gotta turn it over to God while they were casting Lots for a boy named Matthias God was looking for a guy named Saul they picked Matthias and God picks all good God Almighty I don't want who you pick I want who God picks that's what's wrong with your life now you've been picking who you pick but the next one who comes in your life you wanted to be who God ah now I wanna admit to my Mathias look like a better deal Mathias had been around Mathias was on the right side of the track and the guy that God picked had been on the enemy of the church it didn't look like a good deal it didn't look like a good decision but when God makes up his mind he'll take wrong and make it right he'll take down and make it up he'll take loose and make it strong he'll pick weak and give it power some of you are in this room because God picture nobody else would've thought you two ever been where you are right now but God picked you out if you app and God pick you out it'll put a running in your feet and carpet in your hands they pick Mathias God pick Paul Paul wrote more than New Testament then my thighs was ever heard of we had never hear of him again historian said he built the church somewhere but he didn't write an epistle not one book was that it had not one miracle was written not one revelation was given that not one dead man was raised not one sick man was healed but the stone that the builders rejected was the one that the miracles came through the doors were opened blind eyes were open the lame begin to walk never despise being God's man I'd rather be God's man than to be your man I'd rather be on God's side then to be on your side somebody who's been rejected give God a little bit of praise right now [Applause] so now they're trying to figure out what to do the last thing they've said in the texts with Jesus even after all of his visits and all of his speaking and all of his revelation they still were not clear of his direction so they asked him when are you gonna set up your kingdom because once people get something in their head no matter how they shall no matter how they dance is still in the back of their mind I've counseled people till my tongue turn blue and once people get something in their mind it's still in their mind all the way down to the end they was asking him oh yeah that's good thank you we gonna have the Holy Ghost thank you for the dead you raised thank you for the sick you heal thank you for turning water into wine thank you for cleansing the lepers set the captives free but when are you all set up your kingdom when you're gonna set up your kingdom the reason they wanted the kingdom is as if Jesus set up the kingdom they were gonna be on the board lord have mercy everybody has a reason why they follow you but Jesus kept on walking and said it's not given to you to know when the kingdom is going to be set up but ye shall be witnesses unto me here both in Judea and Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth good God Almighty I said to myself they shall be witnesses to you were they not already witnesses to you they were there on that night when the wind was whispered through the air and the lightning was flashing and you were walking on water they saw you walk on water like a ghost they will when the storm began to rise and you were sleeping in the bottom of the boat you wife's leap out of your I arrested her the winds and commanded the ways to be steal they were there when you stopped the widow Mane's funeral ran down and touched the casket and the boy got out the casket and started walking all around they were there when you stopped by the blind man and spat in his eye and he washed in the pool of siloam and he came out seeing they were there when Lazarus was down in the tomb and you didn't even go in the tomb you stood outside at the door stood on the front porch and said Lazarus come forth and the dead man came walking out of the tomb they were there they were there they were there with a woman with this your blood touch the hem of His garment and she was made whole they were there when the crowd sought you and you disappeared out of their myths they were there with you to two fish and five loaves of bread and fed 5,000 people huh they were there when they cut a hole in the roof and a lay man came down and you healed him and he picked up his bed and begin to walk they were there when they took you from judgement Hall the judgment hall they were there when they you ha and stretch you Ana they were there when the stone was rolled away and you stood up again they were there when you walked through a solid door ghost enough to walk through the door but man enough to eat fish when you got on the inside they were there how could they not be witnesses since they were there he said all in all Jake's that ain't the witness I'm talking about everything you talking about is on earth but in order to be a witness under me you had to be there when I was in the portals of glory and I rolled up my divinity and threw it from eternity down into time wrapped up in the dressing room of a womb calm area and came walking out in the flesh you had to be there when I said let there be light and there was light and it was good you had to be there when I wrestled Jacob in the middle of the night you had to be there when I appeared in the fiery furnace you had to be there you shall be witnesses [Music] [Applause] you're not a witness yet you got a good memory but you're not a witness yet you're not a witness till the witness comes you're not a witness to the witness comes you're not a witness to the witness comes you know the witness to the witness comes I said how could that be I saw some stuff he said yeah you saw some stuff I said I got evidence he said yeah you got evidence but you're not a witness till the witness comes and witness witness who is the witness witness witness who is the witness the Holy Ghost is the witness and that's why I said you shall be witnesses unto me when the Holy Ghost has come upon you he can witness things that you never got to see and that you never got to do he said go to Jerusalem ma what the young people say wait for it wait for it you got to wait in Jerusalem not till you be endued with power that comes from on a hand I feel most school stuff kicking in right now the problem with the church today is that what everything instant they want it quick but I remember the old school where you have to get around the altar and wait for it good God Almighty if you waited around the altar you didn't let nobody talk you out of that huh if you tear it around the altar you didn't let nobody get you drunk out of that that's something about waiting on it when you get it you appreciated what you need to do is wait till you get an encounter with God a real encounter with God I'm not asking you to give God your heart it's not in the presence of God there is a power that comes from the Holy Ghost of the power from the Holy Ghost out of prison doors a power that the which there is a power that'll break every curse over your life what's your grandmama did huh what's your granddaddy did there's a power that a loose shoe and set you free wait for it there is a power that a bring you off a ventilator there's a power better bring kohli it out of your system there's a power that will set the captive free somebody somewhere give God a praise right now [Applause] [Music] wait wait wait wait [Applause] [Music] is coming in your house wait wait wait for leukemia wait for lupus wait for he says you shall be endued with power from on high after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Judea and Samaria and the other parts of the earth the challenge today is that we don't want to wait for word we don't want to wait God is ready to do it we don't want to wait for it we want to grow up overnight we want to be a bishop in 30 minutes we want to be a pastor in two weeks we want to be an apostle in a year and the reason the church is in trouble today is that we don't want to wait for it but Jesus is teaching us clearly and succinctly the great things come to those that wait they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they surmount up a winds like Eagles they serve Ron and not be weary they shall walk and not faint if you don't learn anything else this Sunday morning I challenge you to learn how to wait for it God's already told you some things he's gonna do in your life some great and mighty things and the prophecies are true but just because it doesn't come speedily doesn't mean it's not gonna happen you gotta have faith enough to wait for it you don't raise a good child overnight you don't get out of debt in three days you don't lose that you don't lose weight in a week you don't have a strong marriage in three years you gotta wait you got a cry for it and crawl forward and work forward and set your mouth forward cry out forward in dear Ford suffer Ford he told him to go on to Jerusalem and wait wait for it I'm gonna send it there's no question am I gonna send it the question is are you willing to wait there's no question am I gonna bring you out but are you willing to wait there's no question I'll answer your prayer I'll speak to your questions I remove your anxiety but you gotta show me that you're willing to wait for it slip your hands up in a sign of total surrender submission to God not my will but thine be done not my time but yours not my plan but yours not my way but yours I sell out I surrender I wait I waited on this alright let the tears come open your mouth up to God I know you embrace it and you're used to throwing tantrums and getting your way and having fits and manipulating everybody and getting things done and being frustrated and you grew up where when you hollered somebody responded but God is not your Grandmamma he's not gonna spoil you he said wait for it what you gon do you ain't got no choice if you could do it it would already be done but you got to go and sit yourself down in Jerusalem and when the day of Pentecost was fully come and they were in one place with one Accord suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a mighty rushing we're here suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly there came a sound from heaven after 50 days like a battery rushing with cloven tongues appeared and sat upon each of them they were all filled with the Holy Ghost we're getting close to Pentecost Sunday and we're gonna have to go back to the old time way for the kind of demons that are coming out of Hell now you will have to get you some consecration or y'all don't even know what I'm talking about and start annoying yourself with all and pleading the blood why you doing all the things at the Surgeon General everybody else said to do let me give you some spiritual weapons you I have to start anointing yourself with the law yes pleading the blood over your house anointing your doorposts anointing your exited entryways and tell no demon you can't come any here the Bible said when the enemy comes in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against his shondo bow shine is hallelujah and it's time to get their anointing oil out most of you believe you don't even have no consecrate at all you don't even know what I'm talking about but the Bible says any sick among you let him call for the elders in the church anointing them with all and the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up we gotta get our oil out for these demons is coming out now you gonna have to get your grandmama stuff out and start walking through your house of knowing in your house and pleading the blood and let your living room be your sanctuary yeah I want to see your knowing and coming into your house I want to see the power of God covering you I want to see you anointing yourself with all while you washing your hands and doing all that other stuff and taking your vitamins that got on your mask you got on your gloves I want you to put some all on your and plead the blood over yourself and over your children annoy them with home I say back up devil you can't come in this house you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you power over coffee at night power over depression and suicide power over domestic violence you have to get off the phone and stop talking to everybody and get on your knees and wait for word to show up in your life you had too much like your worldly friends get out on your knees and wait for it God said he's got something to give you but he's waiting on you to wait for it mister TD jakes is senior pastor of the potter's house I came to leave this word with you the promises of God are right at your doorstep but you gotta let it in you gotta let it happen wait for it stop right now everybody nervous right now Lord Thomas is down peter is cussing Judas has committed suicide but as for me I'm a weight forward sooner or later everything God promised me it's gonna come to pass in my life so I light of my family's gonna come together sooner or later my children go get off drugs sooner or later God's gonna save them from saying sooner or later it's gonna show what I put inside of you sooner or later God's gonna bring me the happiness sooner or later gospel give me some joy I came to encourage somebody he may not come when you on him haha buddies right old time you settle yourself down and wait for it a Samaritan pass is better why does Jesus tell us that the third guy was a Samaritan that's what I want to talk about today a sociological construct is an idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society it's not a god idea what happens that's really frightening to people is when somebody shakes the cage of your country our God is the Caged shaker this is a preparatory Bible class getting you ready for God to use somebody that you didn't expect God will raise up somebody that is least likely and do the Almighty through them to bless you if you're not afraid to allow the Samaritan to become good [Music]

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Length: 55min 19sec (3319 seconds)

Published: Sun May 17 2020