When God Is Up To Something - Bishop T.D. Jakes

look at somebody holler god is up to something get your bibles and go to genesis chapter 26 verse one through six and then we're going to drop down to verse 13 through 16. i really wanted to read the whole thing but i didn't to expedite the time i'm going to go this way genesis 26 1-6 and then we're going to go down through 13-6 say it again god is up to something how many of you since in the middle of i mean i know it's crazy right now chaos everywhere globally nationally and personally and yet in the middle of the acknowledgement of the fact that all that drama is going on yet there is amongst the believers a sense that god is up to something and i'm gonna share with you because i i try very hard to make sure that i have received more than a sermon but a prophetic utterance from god that prepares your heart and mind for what is next let's read the word of god and as we read the word of god i may stop occasionally and dissect it and there was a famine in the land besides the first time that was in the days of abraham so this has happened before and isaac went unto abimelech king of the philistines unto gerard and the lord appeared unto him and the lord appeared unto him and said go not down into egypt i'm going to do that later with joseph dwell in the land which i shall tell thee uh wait stay right there dwell in the land which i shall tell you of stay where i told you dwell in the land which i shall tell you there's something about being in the right place at the right time i would have hated to not been here this morning if my wife would have come home telling me about the service i could never get second-hand information that clearly enunciated the magnitude of what god has already done dwell in the land which i will tell thee of adjourning this land it's adjourning this land in other words i want you to stay in this land and tarry in this land and i will be with thee and i will bless thee i will be with thee and i will bless thee for unto thee and unto thy seed i will give all these countries god and i will perform the oath which i swear unto abraham thy father this didn't even start with you hallelujah hallelujah god is still answering your grandmama's prayers and i will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven and will give unto thy seed all these countries and in thy seed and in thy seed and in thy sea see you got the seed in thy seed in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed glory to god because that abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge my commandments my statues and my laws and isaac dwelt in gerard he stayed where god put him now we're going to go down at uh to verse 13 but in between these passages isaac has had this encounter while he's in gerard where he has lied about who his wife was he doesn't want uh abimelech to know that rebecca is his wife and so he lies about it and abimelech looks out and finds isaac kind of flirting with his wife king james versions his sport i never will forget an old church mother one time told me she used to work in the sporting house i didn't know what a sporting house was so i said what is the sporting house mother she said oh baby you know what a sporting house is i said no ma'am i don't know what a sporting house is and if y'all don't know i have to tell you later it was hard for me to associate the church mother you know so the king james version says he was sporting with her so you you figure out what what it means and all of a sudden abimelech knew that that isaac was lying saying that rebecca was his sister because don't nobody sport with their sister they're not supposed to anyway even abimelech knew that in the old testament leave your sister alone and he got upset with him and he got angry with him because he had hidden it i'm gonna go into this some more but it's interesting that isaac repeats the same pattern as his father abraham had repeated only he's even worse and i'll tell you why later he's even worse and he did it without seeing his father do it because when his father did it he was not yet born so he did not do it because he had seen his father's behavior and he wasn't modeling it and yet he repeated it very interesting how things convey from generation to generation whether you see it or not some of your proclivities are embedded in you oh my god in spite of the atrocity of his his behavior and his habits and his sins the next verse right after that is dealt with says and the man waxed great and went forward and grew until he became very great it's fascinating to me how this text vacillates one moment they're telling me isaac is a liar and the next moment they're telling me that he went on and grew great one moment they're telling me that there's a famine and the next moment they're telling him if you stay in the land i place you in spite of the famine around you i'll feed you in the family god says i'll feed you in the famine stop talking to me about the famine because the famine don't have anything to do with you a thousand may fall at the right side ten thousand may fall out of the left side it shall not command that dwelling place i will feed you in the family because this ain't got nothing to do with your environment isaac this is between me and you and even though your behavior vacillates anyway let me for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of urge and great store of servants god blessed isaac's soul and see the reason god blessed him so is that isaac sowed a seed in that land he sowed a seed in atlanta and god blessed him and he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great store of servants and the philistines envied him for all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of abraham his father the philistines had stopped them and filled them with earth and abimelech said unto isaac go from us for thou art much mightier than we my subject this morning is when god is up to something i appeal to your instincts not your intellect because when god is up to something he may not inform you what he's up to and yet he is up to something i can't wait for y'all i've been waiting on y'all to get here i woke up it was still dark couldn't wait for church because the holy spirit told me i am working even when my people don't see that i'm working i am up to something are you hearing what i'm saying let's pray spirit of the living god fall fresh on your word today move in a supernatural way as only you can move have your way in the midst of your people great god that you are you are sovereign you are absolute you are the king of kings the lord of lords the i am of israel the mighty god the prince of peace the everlasting father the unlimited one all power is in your hand a suspicious god ruler of winds and waves and seas and oceans and planets and galaxies all power is in your hand and yet you can focus on me to the point that the hairs on our head are numbered not counted but numbered if one gets caught in a comb you know which one it was that's how aware you are of me i pray that that awareness would collaborate with this text in such a supernatural way that we are endowed with the sensation of having a conversation with god and i believe you for it i trust you for it i rely on you for it i lean on you floyd do it in the midst of your people in the name of jesus we pray somebody shout amen you may be seated yeah let's go to work i want you to notice as we preface this text that that both abraham and isaac have this in common they are surgeoners they are people who are on a journey they are people who are primarily nomadic there are ye there are years that go by before they stabilize in one place i say that only to point out to you that walking into the blessings and the purpose of god is a journey it's not an instantaneous thing it doesn't happen automatically when god says to abraham get me out of that country and away from thy kindred and go to a land that i will show thee of he doesn't zap him there we live in this automated age where we want to be zapped into things not understanding how essential the journey is the people of god in the old testament were nomadic moving from place to place living in tents they were prepared to go at his beck or call and yet we are trying to build monuments to a god who is a movement your god is a moving god from the book of genesis when the spirit of the lord moved upon the face of the deep to the book of revelations even so come lord jesus every time you look at god he's on the move one point he was moving through the tops of the trees rustling in the leaves and they were moving with god as god was moving and you got to move when god says move and you got to be still when god says be still because god is a moving god he has always resisted living in houses we built houses for a god who will not be stationary he is nomadic and like him those who follow him flow with him so abraham went on a journey and now abraham and now isaac and abraham and sarah are deceased and isaac is a grown man and he too is on a journey now often what causes the journey is the famine our proclivity is to pray against the famine when often the famine is the catalyst that god uses to move you from place to place now not just famines for food it can be famines for peace famines for life famines for opportunity but often when god doesn't move in the place you want him to move he will allow you to experience famines to force you to pack your tent up and move to the next dimension that's why all you're rebuking the devil and binding the devil hasn't worked because god can allow the famine to move you into the next dimension of what he is going to do in your life am i preaching good yeah the other thing i want you to notice is that god moves generationally while most of us think situationally god moves generationally you might not like this part we are always praying to god about situations when god has a plan that is generational sometimes god doesn't move you for you he moves you for your descendants he moves you to position you in a place that in your lifetime you don't fully understand exactly why you did what you did but out of that movement god is thinking generationally while you are thinking situationally i'm going to tell you why this is important a lot of you are disappointed because god hasn't fixed your situation but god is concerned about your generation and sometimes god will use your situation to move your generation into the place that he wants it to go sure we all want to see our children blessed there's no doubt about that we want to see our children blessed but we we are so focused on our dream our comfort our calling that we seldom see the omniscience of god's divine strategy that is to say that sometimes we don't accept inconvenience to accomplish divine purpose purpose will always require inconvenience do you hear what i'm saying to you i said do you hear what i'm saying to you god tells father abraham that his children will sudden in egypt for 400 years and afterwards they will come out with great substance before abraham dies god speaks to him and says your children will adjourn in egypt for 400 years and afterwards they will come out with great substance i only bring this up to let you see how far ahead god is thinking god has a 400 at least a 400 year plan you praying about next week and and god is telling abraham go ahead and rest and don't worry about anything i got a 400 year strategy and the bible says in ephesians that he worketh all things after the council of his own will that means that god is working things not after the council of your will but after the council of his own will then it goes on to say which he hath purposed in himself oh you hear what i'm saying now it's hard to preach this to a narcissistic society who thinks everything is about you it's very difficult to preach this kind of message to a generation of people who have jiffy cornbread half of this room has never tasted anything but instant grits most of this room doesn't remember what a rotary phone was or a party line we got a apple 18. we can't remember numbers anymore because the machines are sapping our intelligence because when nothing is required of you you lose the ability to remember it i grew up at a time that you had to remember people's phone numbers now the one who could remember it at 15 can't remember it now at 65 not because i'm old i'm spoiled my phone just does it quick i hit the name and it dials for me sometimes convenience is an enemy to intelligence and it creates an atmosphere that we are so caught up in culture that we expect god to submit to culture but god is god god is god before they were the where when or this or that god was god god was god god was god before google god was god before microsoft god was god before technology god was god before any of the things that we take for granted now and we expect god to work like our little machines in our own time but he tells abraham after 400 years your seed will come out with great substance it is the afterwards of god that we don't talk about if it doesn't happen quickly we get angry with a god who has the end plan from the beginning this thing is already set y'all you'd have pulled up a chair in front of your led screen and you're watching the news like god is trying to figure it out first thing in the morning you're turning it on you're turning on your phone for updates god doesn't do updates your update is past date to god your updates are outmoded by god god has determined the end from the beginning you know when i'm not doing this we shoot film films and produce films and i used to think that films were shot in sequence but they're not for budgetary reasons alone often the end is shot from the beginning so that when you're in the editing suite all you have to do is edit it into the ending because the ending is already set in biblical terms this is predestined predestined i'm telling you half of the things you're worried about are already set they're already in place they're already there now now now you must understand that god is working on something that is generational and we're reading about something that is situational and what god is talking to isaac about is about his dead father abraham and the covenant that he made with him and he said i have given abraham my word abraham is dead and god is keeping his word to a dead man now you know if god's integrity is strong enough to keep his word to a corpse how much more will he keep his word come on church how much more will he keep his word towards you most people they keep their word while you live in that bed not most some of them just a few of them keep the word when you're living very few people will keep their word after you're gone abraham is dead and god is directing his seed isaac into a place of blessing in the middle of a famine because god has given his word to protect his seed somebody throw your hands up and say protect my seed protect my seed protect my seed protect my son protect my daughter protect my seed protect my resources protect my finances everything i commit into your hands i committed into your hands for your protection regardless to what fox is saying regardless of what msnbc is saying regardless of what is going on in the world regardless of what's going on on cnn my prayer is protect my seed i don't care how many famines come in other places leave me beside the still waters lead me in the green pastures put me in the place that you want me to be because god has a place for you where the blessings will flow often the blessing is only in that place if you forsake that place he said don't leave where i put you because once i put you in a place i put your provision in the place so like hagar who ran away from sarai god said the only reason you're in the desert and your baby is crying and about to die is because you left the place of my provision good god i put you here stay right here the enemy is trying to woo you this way and that way stay right here when i move you move when when i move somebody say when when when god moves i move i'm not gonna move till god was when god moves i never built a house i stayed in a tent i stay ready for change i stay ready for transition now this makes a lot of people uncomfortable because you don't like change but change is inevitable change is inevitable this whole text is nothing but change the whole thing is relative to change now there are three patriarchal characters from which god will establish himself in the earth generally when one sets out to bill the first thing to be considered is the bill when one sets out to build the first thing to be considered is the bill nobody gets ready to build a house without asking how much it cost to walk with god is expensive if you are going to build there will always be a bill you don't start building and then ask about the bill unless you're stupid i have to have an out clause because some people do that let me say it about no man go off the bill without counting up the costs so there's a correlation between building and billing what am i trying to say it's going to cost you something it's always going to cost you something you shout about the harvest but you ignore the seeds you you shout about increase but you don't understand that in order to increase you got to decrease you shout about being exalted but you resist being humble and because you refused to be humble god resisted the proud god won't take you up because you already acted up excuse me for being generational but back in our day we called it uppity she acting all up in here see we i all uppity we act up because we want to impress people but if you really want to go up humble yourself and the more you humble yourself the more god will exalt you the more god exalts you you got to be careful with success you got to be successful because success will make you drunk success will go to your head and make you start talking silly to people that the same people you meet on your way up you're going to meet them now you understand here that isaac is experiencing a blessing because he sowed a seed in that land the bible is careful to say in that land now the land that they gave him because because isaac is a hebrew the land that the philistia gave him wasn't particularly good land and he's kind of leasing the land he doesn't own it but god blesses him in something that he doesn't own all around him the people have the best land he has the weakest soil and the greatest harvest whenever the soil is weak and the harvest is abundant that's showing you that god is with you because wherever god is he'll take less and do more with it do y'all hear what i'm talking about i'm talking about your daddy you ought to be cheering your daddy on i'm talking about your daddy i preached a few weeks ago you have permission and you remember that how many of y'all remember you have three today we are looking at you have provision because it's not enough to have permission if you don't have provision i give you permission to go to france but if i don't give you provision and you don't have provision permission gets you excited but it doesn't get you to france you're gonna have to have some provision with your permission but don't worry about it god's got it coming god's got it coming god's got it covered god's got it covered god's got it covered god's got it covered god's got it covered god's got it covered whatever you have permission for god's got provision for permission and provision will always hold hands they hang out together they run around together when god gives you permission he will always provide the provision now this time he has provided it in gerar so he says go to gerrard don't go to egypt stay right in javar because i have put your provision there they give him some raggedy soil and in spite of his raggedy soil he has an increased harvest there are some people in this room that have had great harvests out of bad soil oh no wait wait wait wait a minute there are some people in this room that don't look like where they came from i'm gonna break it down i'm gonna break it down until you get it there are some people who came against all odds by all rights you shouldn't even be where you are right now if people went back and saw where you came from it would absolutely blow their mind you didn't come from good soil you didn't come from good stock you didn't come from a good neighborhood you didn't come from a collegiate environment you didn't come from the best situation some of y'all started out with the most atrocious situations but because god was with you oh let me remind you how to praise the lord now that you have harvested in spite of where you came from don't you get here and start acting all funny like you got here by yourself when in fact you the first one in your family to be a doctor you're the first one in your family to have a degree you're the first one in your family to break through all the barriers and all the obstacles you're the only one out of your clan not locked up in jail not locked up in prison you could have lost your mind you could have had a nervous breakdown you've been through enough stuff that you ought to be in a mental institution chewing on a piece of cotton and yet god's got you out here functioning and moving and going around and you worried about a car you ought to be shouting about your mind you ought to be shouting about your head you ought to be shouting about your leg you ought to be shouting about your peace you ought to be shouting right where you are god has a blessing for you does god have the provision to go with the permission does god have the provision to go with the permission the question is absolutely yes and yet there remains a question are you willing to dig for it are you willing to move for it are you willing to sweat for it you know god has it but just because god has it doesn't mean it's going to fall within your convenience there's still going to be something required of you in order to get what god has for you look at your neighbor and say i know he's got it for me i may not have it right now but i know he's got it for me i may not look like it right now but i know he's got it for me i may not even know where it is yet but i know he's got it for me i know he's gonna bless me i know he's gonna bless me i know he because he swore he swore he was gonna bless me he he gave me an oath he gave me a promise i know he's gonna bless i don't know who i'm talking to today but i'm talking to somebody in this room you got a covenant with god you've got a covenant with god god bless you in bad soil you came from bad background you were born on the wrong side of the tracks the odds were against you from the beginning they didn't even like you in school and look at god look what the lord has done look where god has brought you from let's take up 30 suckers and just praise him for progress praise him for progress praise him for progress praising for progress praising for progress praising for breaking the rules praising for turning it around praising for opening up doors praise him for making ways out of nowhere i can't hear y'all somebody type it on the line somebody write it in the chat somebody speak a word i came from bad soil i came from a disruptive family i came out of a dysfunctional house and still i rise and still i rise and still i ride and still alright see you spend so much time talking about what you don't have you need to stop and start praising for what you do have i'm gonna give you 30 suckers to let hell know what you've got yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you don't know what you just did when you acknowledge him in all your ways he will direct your path he will order your steps he will nudge you and tell you what to do he will tell you when to move he will tell you when to be still if you start acknowledging god you won't feel so lonely like you out here by yourself he'll wake you up early in the morning and whisper in your ear and say don't go to egypt stay right here in gerard i got a blessing for you pack your bags it's time to move god will give you clear instructions david said lead me in a plane path because of my enemies i got so many haters i need a plane path anybody need a plane path in here well then praising for a plane path sit down let's go deeper my god i feel something in this place my god i feel something in this place my god i feel something in this place my god i feel some of this place it feels like somebody has just been thinking back over where they came from and the strides they made and the journey they've been on and how they had to move and switch and go here and go there and yet god bless them to be where they are it sounds like somebody in this room has got a real deep hallelujah down on the inside whatever praise you got in your belly whatever you're feeling in your spirit whatever's going on inside of you open your mouth and let it let's digress a minute we're going to digress a minute and i want to set some things in order set the text in context to help you to extrapolate from the text to the particularities that i want you to understand so that you will be equipped to see your life from a panoramic perspective rather than to focus on your immediate situation when we understand that abraham isaac and jacob are primary characters of the pentatonic is the first five books in the christian bible and it it it is often all that the prophets had to work with it comprises the creation story noah's flood it talks about the early days of abraham and how god began to deal with abraham isaac and jacob throughout the old testament god refers to himself as the god of abraham isaac and jacob but don't be deceived by that that doesn't mean that he wasn't everybody else's god but it does mean that abraham isaac and jacob are the beginning of a new strand and a new order and they are the foundational patriarchs of of which the old testament would be built upon some of you are at a foundational level you're setting new trends you're setting new standards you're setting new directions you're not going in the way of your forefathers you started you started to blaze a new trail you have broken the yoke of yesterday you are moving into a new future you yourself are a paradigm shift you're a change in the family narrative you're changing the community narrative you're changing the story look at your neighbor and say it starts with you god uses abraham isaac and jacob not because he is not the god of everybody else but it is through abraham isaac and jacob that god ultimately will transform the thinking of the world who is primarily filled with polygamous idolatry and debauchery he will keep a holy line of people that ultimately will scatter all over the world but he uses abraham isaac and jacob he uses abraham first of all to produce a but lest we start to make a god of abraham god waits till abraham's body is dead and when abraham's body was dead and he could no longer produce a seed god gives him a seed that hits the dead womb of sarah and quickens it and brings it back to life now as long as i call it a seed you don't get it but 42 generations later when a virgin named mary brought forth a son he said i am the seed of abraham now i'm talking about jesus jesus says i am the seed of abraham in other words i am what david abraham's loins life i know it was jesus because jesus also says i am the resurrection and sarah's womb was dead but when jesus hit sarah's womb he quickened it and brought it back to life and in spite of her sagging breasts and wrinkled knees she was with child and everybody was trying to figure out how did this old woman get a baby it's because when jesus gets in your womb he will bring life where there was no life at all i don't know who i'm talking to today but god is getting ready to quicken some dead stuff some dead homes some dead churches some dead marriages some dead businesses because he is the resurrection he is the resurrection and the life he that believeth on me though he were dead yet shall he leave abraham produces a seed isaac passes the seed and he passes the seed and the blessing of the birthright to jacob jacob is poor in character but evolves the seed through three women to twelve sons the 12 sons become the 12 tribes of israel are you hearing what i'm saying so god cannot afford to let isaac go down because isaac has to pass the seed he has to pass what he is so that the lineage can continue sometimes god doesn't bless you for you he's blessing you because of what's going to come through you oh y'all don't hear what i'm saying does anybody hear what i'm saying it's not about you it's not about your convenience in fact he will put you in an inconvenient situation and expose you to a famine to shift you to the right place at the right time so that you can conceive and do what god wants you to do when he wants you to do it abraham was blessed if abraham is blessed and isaac is his seed isaac also has to be blessed today i want to focus on isaiah because isaac has generally not really talked about a whole lot he's not really talked about a whole lot but isaac has a grown man is standing in the middle of a famine flourishing isaac's name means laughter and the lord told me to tell you he's going to make you laugh i don't think you heard me he's gonna make you laugh he's not just gonna make your mama laugh he made sarah laugh he's gonna make you laugh he's gonna make you laugh he's gonna make you laugh because god's going to take the little you so and he's going to give you such increase out of it that people aren't even going to understand how you got the blessing that you got god said he's going to make you laugh ain't no laugh like the laugh you have when you by yourself and nobody else is around and you think of something burst out is there anybody in here they've been in the house by yourself and just burst out and started laughing let the other day i just started i thought about something and i just started laughing i thought if anybody comes in here they're going to think i'm crazy what nothing on tv what nothing on the radio but when i thought of the goodness of jesus and all that he'd done for me i didn't shout i didn't dance i just started laughing i want every grateful person in this room to just take a moment and just start thanking god isaac is laughter the miracle baby of abraham and sarah of abram and sarai he is absolute laughter he is joy complete he is accomplishment and yet he is complicated i say he's complicated for this reason there's no question that isaac is a good man he's already proven that while his father was living in the fact that he was grown when abraham walked him up to the altar he was not a little bitty boy he was not a little bitty boy because little bitty boys couldn't carry the wood he is old enough to resist the will of his father but has become obedient to the will of his father because isaac is a type of christ and and isaac has become obedient even if it means death so isaac lays down on the altar like jesus laid down on the cross and became obedient unto death knowing that his father had raised his hand to smite him with the knife isaiah says jesus was smitten of god do you hear what i'm saying to you do you hear what i'm saying to you isaac is that obedient josephus the historian says that somebody asked isaac why did he become so obedient he said it would have been better that i not be born than for me to be born and not do the will of my father so there's no question that isaac is a good man but the complication is he is also a selfish narcissistic liar oh i lost you i lost you because you think there are good people and there are bad people and as long as you can categorize people you feel comfortable but the problem is you can be a good man and still do bad things you can be a good man and still be flawed let all the married people say amen you scared to say man because he's sitting there you can be good over here and be bad over there and abe and isaac is complicated because in spite of the fact that he is totally devoted to his father and submitted himself even unto death when it comes down to being in gerar he lies about his wife to keep himself from being killed he told abimelech the reason i lied is that had i told you she was my wife you might kill me to get her which also means she was fine you know a woman is fine when you scared to admit i don't mean cute i don't mean nice looking isaac said he will kill me for her bear in mind he is philistinian they have a different code of ethics he's the king the king gets what he wants i just said she my sister the weird thing is people say that he did exactly what his father did but but isaac's lie is an unmitigated lie when abram said that sarai was his sister he he wasn't really lying because she was his sister and his wife half sister so it's a half-life isaacs was a whole lie rebecca was at best his cousin he completely lied that's fine but it's a lie he endangered the woman he should have protected he put her in a position to be raped and to be taken he insulted god with his life because god had promised to be with him in gerar and god had promised him that his seed would be blessed so if you believed god why should you lie like most lies his deception was rooted in terror and fear and fear has torment most people lie because they are scared oh i hit somebody at least 10 people went completely quiet and the eyes are shifting like he talking about me whatever you are scared about you will lie about so the next time somebody lies to you ask them what are you scared of it's probably you it's probably you so you ought to see the way the men looking at me like shut up women lie too women a lot better than us oh y'all come on sister don't come on come on sister be real come on be real in the midst of this complicated person there are things that i admire about isaac he has tenacity he has tenacity i'll show you in a minute he has an even killed temperament and he even has a favor that cannot be ignored even though he has flaws you want to put people in boxes because boxes make you comfortable he's nice she's nasty she's hateful she's my sister friend so that's why you keep getting hurt because you expect people to stay in your box in reality everybody in here is complicated i ain't scared of none of y'all i don't withstand every one of you i'm 65 years old i ain't still nobody nobody you complicated you complicated you wasn't complicated when you was dating but now you married you you know you complicated your wife know you complicated your husband know you complicated you look all good on the outside but everybody in here is complicated now if you can love your complicated self how come you can't love my complicated self but you want to put me over in a box and now you're hurt because i didn't live up to being something that you wouldn't oh you're gonna have to cut this out to paint because they can't handle this if my church can't handle it i know the world can't handle it i hope there's somebody screaming they're saying amen to what i'm saying the truth of the matter even good people have flaws god leaps over top of his flaws and blesses him anyway right after the lie abimelech sends out a decree don't nobody touch that woman and it drove me i said why is abimelech so honorable all of a sudden and i started trying to study his religious to understand why he is so honorable and then then as i began to study and look back i know why it's so honorable because abimelech has been through this before he's gone through this with abraham and god has told abimelech don't you touch that woman and abimelech is afraid of god do you not know god will stop your enemies plot you don't hear what i'm saying to you if everybody in this room who had been plotted against and god stopped the plot would make some noise they believed no somebody said god stopped it i wouldn't be here today but god stopped it i would have been destroyed but god stopped it i never would have made it but god stopped it i would have been assassinated but god stopped it do you know how many death threats i get but god stopped it i keep preaching in the middle of everything because i trust god to stop it if god don't stop it it can't be stopped i'm not gonna hide from nobody god is god and he's still in control he'll stop the gun from going off i wish i had a witness in here somebody he stopped you from getting killed in the car wreck he stopped cancer growing in your body he stopped you from blowing your brains out god stopped it even when i tried to hurt myself god hey hey i need a minute to praise him in a good old pentecostal holy ghost sanctified shout because i'm not even praying about my car my house my shoes my clothes i'm just praising him because he stopped it can i have a 60 second praise for the things that god stopped somebody ought to give him a praise a praise a praise a praise yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you stop it i owe you the praise i owe you the praise i owe you the praise i owe you the praise three people and tell them god stopped it god's talked when you get to the third one praise him like you lost your mind praise him like you should have been dead praise him like you should have lost your mind praise him like you should have brought in the towel come on you got 30 seconds left to praise him for what he stopped he stopped cancer he's not plagues god the only reason you got to be 50 is because god stopped it the only reason you made it to 40 is because god strapped it up the only reason you made it to 55 is because god stopped him the only reason you made it to 60 is because god stopped it i wish i had some real people i wish i had some real people it was not your goodness it was not your righteousness it was in spite of your mistakes but god stopped it and that's why you owe him the praise because that god dealt with you according to your sins you would have been destroyed to god be the glory for the things he's done to god be the glory to god be the glory if you've been forgiven for much you are the crazy butcher if god has forgiven you for much you are the crazy so my god my god my god my god my god my god my god my god my god my god my god my god watch this watches i'm almost done the bible said the same philistines that gave him land got envious over how god blessed him because you'll have to understand that isaac sold a seed and received a hundredfold any farmer will tell you that every seed you plant doesn't normally grow but god gave him if he sold a hundred seeds he got a hundredfold hardness ain't no way in the world jesus will let her tell us that some yield 30 some years 60 and others yield 104. what i'm trying to tell you is that god is going to give you an unprecedented harvest on the highest level it won't be 30 it won't be 60 but somebody that's listening at me god is up to something you're about to step into a hundredfold blessing and that's why you got to give him a hundredfold praise everything you plant everything you touch everywhere your feet trot everything you go after god said i'm gonna give you a hundred full return uh somebody shouted with you shout if it's you if it ain't you sit on down with your cute dress on but if you believe it's you open your mouth and holler at your boy i'm almost done gerald the bible says that the philistines envied him the same people who gave him the land to prosper him envied him because he prospered the thing is it doesn't tell you envy never announces itself i'm trying to tell you people can start out glad for you they don't hear me doctor neither and end up envious of you and never announce when the change came the bible says about judas judas was a disciple hand-picked by god but satan entered into judas it doesn't say when he didn't announce it he didn't say excuse me jesus satan has entered into me so stop expecting your friends to announce that they have become your haters you got to keep your eyes open because god's getting ready to give you a hundredfold and everybody who started out with you ain't gonna so keep your eyes open because they're going to switch they're going to switch without announcement they're going to switch and still be grinning at you they're going gonna switch and still come to your birthday party they're gonna switch and still bake your cake and they put him out of jarrah and he went out of gerard and he started digging out his father's whales this is a moment for you to get your shovel out because you're gonna have to dig for the kind of blessing you got has got to have water and you're gonna have to dig for it and and he he un he dug out i don't think i dug his word he dug out his father swells now when you dig where somebody has dug before you still got to dig but it ain't as hard cause the soil is loose it's not going to be as hard as it was for your father but you still got some digging to do know your neighbor say i got some digging to do so don't be calling me all the time cause i got some digging to do and don't be bothering me with petty stuff cause i got some digging to do and no nobody bring me no bad news cause i got some digging to do and i got time for he say she say i heard i thought cause i got some digging to do is there anybody in here old enough now that you don't have time for the foolishness you had 10 years ago cause you got some digging to do nudge your other neighbor say i got some digging to do if you ain't gonna help me dig get out of my way if you ain't got no shovel move on away from here because i'm at the digging stage in my life if i don't dig it now i'll never get it done if i don't dig it now i'm gonna miss my time if i don't dig it now it'll never happen for me and he dug it out you gotta dig it out i know you dreamed about it but you gotta dig it out i know god promised it to you but you got to dig it out i know you got faith for it but you got to dig it out because faith without is dead being alone look at your neighbor and say get your shovel this week get your shovel get your shovel and dig it out the dirty soil the ground is tender but dig it out you're too close to your blessing not to dig it the rest of the way out donald take it out dig it out pass it aside dig it out just faith take it out dig it out put your shovel on it you're too close to the breakthrough dig it on out you're too close to what god promised you dig it on out dig it out quick ending two times he dug it out and they took it back and he let him have it he let him have it his temperament was of such that he let them have it and name the place strife because he was moving away from strife i have moved away from drama i don't have time for drama when he got to the third whale young man he got to the third well when he dug it out he dug it all the way out he hit water he called it rehoboth because god had brought him into a large place and whoever i'm preaching to god told me to tell you don't be hurt over who changed who switched who got jealous who got envious who changed their mind keep on digging if you don't get it in the first well dig the second one if you don't get it in the second one dig out the third one the third well the waters broke loose and the pain stopped and the door opened and god had put him in a place of increase and god had to open up rehoboth whatever this is about whoever this is for it is so big it is rehoming what what you who's after something big waving me what you after is so big that your old friends can't handle it you trying to find fellowship with people who used to be with you but now they're envious of you and i tell you something else they put you out of the circle because you already blessed you already got sheep you already got cattle you already got a blessing and they're tired of you coming in and talking about look what the lord has done now they act funny when you come around now they don't invite you to stuff they used to invite you to because success creates loneliness who am i talking to the place the place is rehoboth you got a hundred-fold return you're gonna be put in a large place to accommodate what god has done you're gonna need a lot of water and you don't have time for the strife you don't have time for the strength lift up both hands prepare your spirit prepare your spirit get rid of your guilt isaac lied and he still got there it was wrong i'm not minimizing it it was wrong it was evil it was selfish it was narcissistic but it was also over pronounce benediction on your inconsistencies you're gonna need your focus you don't have time to be fighting with yourself god is bringing you to a place of increase god is up to something everything that didn't work was too small open your mouth wide everything that didn't work was too small everything that didn't work was too small everything that didn't work was too small everything that didn't open was too small when you get to the large place it's gonna open wide open and god just told me to tell you i'm up to something i'm up to something don't be distracted by the philistines don't be distracted by abimelech don't be distracted by your haters god told me to tell you i'm up to something i got a plan for your life i said the end from the beginning i've already set it into motion that the wish i i've already set it into motion you're right on course for your blessing continue right down the path surely goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life god is getting ready to blow your mind god is getting ready to blow your mind you had to make some sacrifices some of you are making some sacrifices right now some of you making sacrifices in your life sacrifices in your dreams sacrifices in your finances somebody's sowing right now you're not even gonna miss it because what god is getting ready to open up for you is so big the more you sow the greater the harvest i declare increase over every seed that comes on this word every seed that's planted in this environment every praise that goes up in this environment open your mouth wide and give him a praise like you hollering at your kids come on open your mouth get rid of your quiet voice holler like you yelling at your kids open your mouth why god's gonna give you a wide place the wider your shout the wider your place the water yourself shout the water yourself the wine and the place white white white white wide wide wide wide wide white wide wide why why god is about to set you in a wide place god is about to set you in a wide place god is about to set you in a wide place god is about to set you in a wide place you got the nerve to have a dream in the middle of kobe in the middle of ukraine in the middle of gas prices going up you still got something that's tugging at you who am i preaching to who am i preaching to you still got your hope you still got your dream you still got your plan you still got your expectations god said pay no attention to the noise around you to the turbulence to the confusion get away from all the strife what god is getting ready to do for you he's going to bring you into a wide place of influence stop grieving over the well you lost the thing that didn't work the times you tried before and somebody else got the credit god said when you get to the right place nobody's going to take your will when you get to rehoboth rehomath means a wide place a large place of increase is coming into your life i need some real church praises i don't need some pewdiepie church members i need some real praises i need somebody who's believing god for a wide place yes lord yes lord yes lord the lord told me to tell everybody who is seriously believing god for a wide place step out in the aisle right now there's something specific on your mind something specific on your mind step into the aisle right now step into the wide place step into it step into it step into it i'm gonna i'm gonna ask god to hit everything that gets an aisle everything's standing in high everything whose heart is open everybody who's ready to dig for it everybody who's ready to fight for it it might be a ministry it might be a mission it might be a marriage it might be a financial increase whatever it is it's a wide place it's the thing the devil is afraid of it's the thing that hell is nervous about get into any kind of aisle father bless every foot that gets in and out bless every heart that stands in an aisle i decree and declare i decree and declare that they will strike water and all of their cattle and all of their oxen and all of their children and all of their descendants will be blessed through them and as we stand in the aisle as we stand in the stairs as we stand up by the computer as we stand in front of the tv set as we stand up for you i pray the anointing of the holy ghost would overshadow you and i want you to praise him like you're already in your wide place i want you to praise him like you're already in your wide place i'm gonna praise him like i'm already in my wide place i'ma praise him like i'm already in my wide place i'ma praise him like i'm already in my wide place i'ma praise him like i'm already in my wide place i'm praising him from a wide place i'm out of my narrow places i'm into my wide place i'm out of my narrow places i'm into my wide place i'm into my wide place at this stage in my life i don't do narrow i'm into my wide place lift your hands and open your mouth and praise it for a wide player why wide wide wide wide wide wide increase my place enlarge my dwelling place move my cords lifting my steaks i'm in my wide place i'm in my season i'm in my harvest season i praise the lord of the harvest i praise the lord of the harvest everybody who's ready to harvest shout out to god with the voice of triumph shout out to god father we believe father we believe you father we receive deliver us from distractions deliver us from distractions deliver us from confusion deliver us from frustration deliver us from doubts set us free from guilt you cannot receive this and be guilty you gotta let the past go it is over it is finished it is done with it is what it is i'm now stepping into my wide place if god is willing to forget it then i'm gonna be willing to forget it i thank you lord for grace to step into my harvest i'm coming into it now in the name of jesus if the word is blessing you open your mouth and give him some praise right now in the word in the world if the word if the word if the word is blessing you give him your highest praise give him your highest praise run back to your seat as quick as you can run back to your run run run run run run run run run run run run run back to your seat don't walk back run back to your seat move his head run back to you see run run run run run back to your seat run back to you see run back to your seat right back run run run run run runner yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you my witness god said get some seed in the ground get your seed in the ground get some seed in the ground get some seed in the ground get some seed in the ground get seed get seed in the ground get seed in the ground you'll watch it online get seed in the ground get seed in the ground god is up to something god is up to something i know the world is going crazy i know the people are going crazy i know life is going crazy but god said he's up to some get some seed in the ground i got to get to the right place i'm going to the wide place i'm going to the wide place get some seed in the ground get some seed in the ground get some seed in the ground get some seed in the ground get some seed in the ground somebody take me to church take me to church oh folks old-fashioned sanctified holy ghost church take me to church i want to go to church hallelujah you

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Published: Sun Mar 06 2022