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Miracles Are Connected To Reverence & Honor | Nancy Dufresne | High Springs, Florida | JTH Crusades 2026 | Monday PM
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Nothing we do in any part of our week equals this right to come together under the anointing corporate faith. One of the greatest honors we have. We're members of his body. Amen. This is set aside from anything else that we do. And I tell. I tell you, it's so far above. There's nothing that's a close second to what we get to do. Amen. And when we come together. Praise the Lord. I love something that mom and dad Goodwin, in their services, they would say this. If you'll move while God's moving, you'll get what God's got. That's why what was going on in the first part of the service? Don't decide what part of the service. Just move when he's moving. Amen. And we already got so much. Didn't you get so much already? Yeah. Hold onto it. Don't just leave it in the room. Take it home and live it, because this is the mistake. Many times we just leave in the room what we felt in the room and what was ministered to us in the room. But he ministers it to us. So we. We take it and live with it. Amen. So don't let go of any bit that you received already. Hallelujah. Well, team, aren't they something? Yeah. Isn't the Holy Ghost something, too? Thank you, y'. All. I mean, these people are so easy to work with, because they're not. They're just wanting to bring their supply. And that's why the anointing is so, so blessed on them. Hallelujah. Well, turn around to three or four people, give them a great big God bless you, then you can be seated tonight. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. When I walked into my hotel room last night, I had something come in my heart of what direction to go for tonight. I always come with so many sermons, and. Because when you come prepared a lot, then the Holy Ghost has a lot of options. Let me just say you can go wherever he wants to go, hopefully, if you're prepared enough. But you prepare like there is no Holy Ghost, then you preach like that's all there is, is the Holy Ghost. Amen. I want to start with something that dad Hagin said, and I harp back to things that dad Hagin said because we're carrying out things. He spoke by the spirit. That gives us clarity and direction for the days ahead. And just because the man isn't here doesn't mean the words aren't valid. Amen. And people will say, why do you quote dad Hagel? Why do you quote Paul? If it's all about they have to be alive, then you have to put your Bible aside. You can't quote any of it. But it's not about. It's what God delivers through a man. And when they leave, what was delivered, remember, remains. And it's some. And it's not wise to think that because the man who spoke it isn't here, it's no longer valid. They've missed the whole point that this comes by the Spirit. Amen. But dad Hagin made this astounding statement. And especially as ministers, as pastors, we need to hold to it and see to it that it. It is the. A part of our foundation. And he said this. When reverence and honor are restored, well, that tells us something's lost. He said, when reverence and honor are restored, there will be a restoration and multiplication of the miraculous power of God. So we can preach on miracles and preach on that we're believing things, but we have to have some things in place for that to happen. So we see that the words, two words, restoration and multiplication, we're interested in, but they hinge on two other words, reverence and honor. So the restoration has to happen of the reverence and honor before the multiplication can take place. Amen. And this is what. If you ever study generals of God and you go back in their lives, you see this, that there was such a degree of reverence in them. That's what God worked in them before he put them on the platform with a large voice. He had to work reverence and honor in the man. God's building a man. He's not building a ministry. That's right. Amen. Amen. We have to know that. And people want their ministry big. They miss the whole point. God's building a man. And the ministry is just the outflow of what's been built in the man. So in us, not just in the ministers, but in the congregation, in the body of Christ, reverence and honor has to be built in us. Amen. You can bring me back just a little bit. I don't like myself that well. Thank you, Joel. My voice. I edit every single episode of Jesus the Healer, and it's a grace to edit it. How many of you like to listen to yourself? Just a smidge. Just a smidge. Smidget. Smidget. Brother Joel knows what I mean when I say smidget. So in this statement, we see that miracle power coming in. A manifestation station calls for a certain atmosphere. It won't just happen just in the old place. The power of God's present everywhere, but it's not manifesting everywhere because there are certain ingredients and components that have to be present in that location. And among that. There has to be a certain atmosphere in the room, but there has to be a certain attitude in the people. Dad Hagin made this statement. It's some of you that got to be in his meetings. You may remember him saying at times, he said, well, we got to 40% potential of that prophet's office tonight, or we got to 50%. The highest I ever heard him say was 70%. And he said, people will say, well, why didn't you go to 100%? Because he said, that's as far as the people would go with me. So it's not just about what the man wants. It's about what the room will respond to. So it's not just about the preacher having reverence and honor. It's about the people. Amen. We all. We all are to carry that. So when reverence and honor for God are present, miracle power can flow unhindered. Amen. Greater flows that we want call for greater reverence. And our reverence and honor for God can mature, just like our spiritual life can mature. It should always be growing. Degrees of reverence, degrees of honor. And I'm not talking about religious. I'm talking about a heart attitude that will not bend and compromise until God gets his way. Amen. And if you'll ever see this when it concerns me, when preachers are too casual with God. Too casual. He's not your buddy. He is Father. But there was one thing. I never treated my own natural dad like I treated my buddies on the playground. Never. I would say things and talk to my friends, my playmates on the playground, but I would never dare say it to Daddy or to Mother. I don't care how old I got. Because there was an honor as father. He's not buddy. He's not my chum. That's right. And people treat him well. He's personal. Yes, he's personal, but he is God. And the approach must be appropriate. Amen. How many times my mother and my father were generous to us. They did not believe. My mother did not believe in giving us allowance. She didn't believe in that. Why am I paying you to make the bed you slept in? Why am I paying you to clean the kitchen? You messed up. She said, I don't pay you. When you owe this household something, I don't pay you for what you owe the household. So you do what you want to do. I'm just saying, my mother said, well, I'm teaching responsibility. Well, you're teaching. Well, anyway, my mother taught us, you owe the house. The house doesn't owe you. You owe the house. So you do what you do. You. But they said this. If you will be obedient to the house when you want something, we'll be generous. So if I wanted to go out with my friends on Friday night, go to the movie, I could go and say, can I have money? And Mother would say, let me think about it. What has this week looked like for you? You see, because she didn't give us this entitlement mentality, I don't owe you something. You know, and too many times we can treat God like he owes us. And I've heard some devastating statements. This devastates me. I don't know, maybe it's just me. I had to forgive God. I can't tell you the number of times I've heard people I've had to forgive God. No, you need to repent for having an offense with God. You don't forgive God. That is dishonor. That is total lack of reverence. Not even knowing who you're dealing with. Treating them like the neighbor you're upset with, that you think you can cop something against God, and then I'm going to forgive him. Oh, holy, holy anger right there. Holy anger. No, you don't need to forgive God. You need to repent for your offense. The only one who's ever done you nothing but good. And you copped an offense because you're treating him like he's your chum. He's not your chum. Amen. There's something you have to. You go back and you study these generals that had mighty moves of God. That was one of the foremost things you see about them is their total reverence and honor for who they were dealing with. And until that's restored, we just need to tighten up the way we present ourselves. Well, praise the Lord. There's a reason the service started out with everyone shouting. It's called painkiller. Every dentist administers it before they jerk your teeth, before they drill on you. They get you laughing and rejoicing. And when he started doing that, I go, I know why the Holy Ghost is doing that. Because we're fixing to have us some surgery. And if you'll realize the surgery, you're better after. It's over with. Don't wake up during the surgery and jump off the table. I got you opened up. Now let's complete it. I'll sew you back up. Don't get off the table before you get sewn up. Things will fall out. I'm teasing, But there needs to be in this casual society that has really crippled honor. It's a casual society. And now they're casual with their thought life and they're casual with their words and they're casual with their friendships and they're casual with what they watch on the computer and they're casual with where they go. This casual society that has been so embraced by the church has been robbing something out of the church. And you say, oh, oh, oh, don't touch that. I'm all over it, baby. I'm stomping it. I'm stomping it because it's robbing miracles. It's dishonoring the Holy Spirit of who we're dealing with. Praise the Lord. I don't give whooping calls in a service. High fiving. I'm just saying we're the body of Christ. Seriously, this is not the ballpark. When we were coming together, holy actions toward a holy God to receive a holy flow dealing with holy words. And I'm not gonna treat it like I'm at the ballpark. Come on. Amen. And let's just go on. You wanna go on? Because I'm leaving town anyway. Come on. Come on, let's go. If people can't tell whether you're going to the beach or the church, something's wrong. Oh, come on. Right there. Come on. There needs to be a difference. There needs to be a difference. Well, I'm trying to relate. Go into all the world and relate. Is that what Jesus said? Go into all the world and preach the gospel? It's the gospel that's going to rescue them, not relating to them. I'm redeemed so I don't have to be at that level. And I'm telling them, come up, come up. There's more for you. But if I look like them or less than them and I present myself that I am too casual. You're welcome. I'm just telling you there's a reason the Holy Ghost had David do all that. I'm just gonna look at my paper and not look at your face. Where does this restoration of reverence and honor need to take place? 3 places. The body of Christ, the local church and the personal life. All three. The body of Christ, the local church and your Personal life. Hallelujah. And it's going to start with your personal life because you carry that to the local church, which then translates into the body of Christ. So when we talk about this word revival, it's about you. It's not about God doing something on the big scale. It's about you. Amen. Hallelujah. And when reverence and honor is given its rightful place in our life, it elevates everything. Dad Hagin makes this statement. Statement. He would say to us, God is a perfect gentleman. He will never force you to do something. He will never force his will upon anyone. That's why you have to invite him. Ask. Jesus said, the Father knows what you have need of even before you ask. But know this, just because he knows does not mean he moves. Jesus said he knows what you have need of. Look at this. Even before you ask, he's saying, you still have to ask even though he knows why? Because his knowledge, knowing what you need, is not his permission to supply it until you ask. Because faith is nothing but inviting God to do what he already has made available for you. That's all faith is. Father, I give you permission. Everything of your plan, I give you permission to work it in my life. Amen. He will not do it. And dad Hagin says, because he's the perfect gentleman. But I also add this on. Because his honor is so great, he will not violate a man who's even dishonorable. Because his honor is. Does not equal man's. His honor flows out of his own being. Our honor is to be from the being, the one that indwells us. We're not out equaling the world. And in society, honor diminishes every generation more and more and more. And that same spirit tries to get in the church. And the reason it tries to get in the church, because it robs it of power. Because to work with God, you have to have reverence and honor for. For who you're dealing with. Boy, y' all are quiet. 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Well, this is what we're preaching about, of wanting miracles when we have to deal with these components that set the place. Amen. What's that mean? What about honor and reverence in our thought life? Now let's talk about it. For the individual reverence and honor in the thought life. How dare us think that we can touch into anything we want with our mind and think that we're going to arrive at the right place. My mind is his Call him Lord. That means he's going to want to have something to say about what you allow yourself to entertain in your thought life. And just because no one knows what you're thinking does not mean that it's permissible because God knows. And we, we discipline our thought life to honor him. Amen. I will not dishonor him, by the way I think about that person. It's a dishonor to God. I will not dishonor him by how I think about my fellow congregation member. I won't do that. I will not sit and meditate on thoughts that are against the man of God, my pastor, that God put in my life to be the oversight. I will not dishonor that in my thought life. Thinking I can think anything I want and spout out my opinion anywhere I want and then come and get my miracle. Not going to happen. Not going to happen. Not going to happen. Because Jesus stood in front of Lazarus grave and he said, father, I thank you that you hear me and that you hear me always. You don't just hear me when I'm standing in front of something dead. You hear me when I was standing and talking to my family member. You heard me when I was talking to my boss. And you heard me when I was in the lunchroom with the fellow employees. You heard me. And that's going to play into whether I get my result when I'm standing in front of something dead. That's what I'm talking about. Honor and reverence in every part, every fold of our being. Spirit, soul and body. We just can't do anything we want with our body and think we're going to receive a miracle when we've dishonored God. We can repent and get that right. But we can't keep practicing and think we're practicing wrongdoing and think we're going to end up and just be rescued by miracle power when we purposefully are not doing something toward honor and reverence with God through our body. Because the way we live, as we said last night, the way we handle our body is a form of worship. The thoughts we carry is to be a form of worship to God. I was dealing with my husband's homegoing. This happened right after he went to heaven. And we had, as a family, we had eight big projects. You've heard me talk about those. They were. We just had to have a miracle. Miracle after miracle after miracle after miracle. And there was so much on our plate to deal with. And so one, a person took an action that was completely Unnecessary. They just threw another wrench in the whole thing. And I was so disappointed because they knew all that was on our plate. And you just created something about yourself that was completely unnecessary with threats and things. And I was just disappointed, you know, because it's just not appropriate. And so I was putting on my makeup. Ladies, you know, this 20, 30, 40 minutes, whatever, however long you do it, it takes me a long time. So I had a lot of time to think. So I'm sitting there and I'm thinking about this, and I really wasn't offended. I was just disappointed and thinking, I just wish they hadn't. It was just unnecessary. And I'm getting ready to go teach in the Bible school. And I sat there for about 45 minutes just mulling on this. And God said to me, you can think of that if you want, but to think about that, you have to give up fellowship with me. You could have been fellowshipping with me, and you chose to fellowship with that. What's that? Honor and reverence for who abides in us, that we're giving things that try to trouble our life our attention when the rescue for our life is already in us. Boy, you're so quiet. Is it landing? Are you thinking? Amen. Our help is in us. Don't let that which is trying to trouble you gain the attention that belongs to your help. Turn your attention, turn your thoughts completely to him and his word, because he is your rescue. He is your safe place. The troubling. The more you think about the wrong thing, you're giving it permission to stay, but the less it gets your attention, it's going to go somewhere else where it can get gratified. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. Let's go back to our paper. I have notes for times like this when people go quiet. Reverence and honor is not just something we put on for church. It's our lifestyle. And until it's our lifestyle, we've got room to grow. I'm not talking about being religious. I want you to know I. We've gotten to be around some, and the Andersons have gotten to be around different ones. Ms. Reba has gotten to be around some leading people in the body of Christ through the generations. And they are the most normal people. They're not weirdness. They are so comfortably themselves because they're not trying to appear to be anointed. Get that? Don't try to appear to be anointed, because when you're anointed, you don't have to try to appear. And if you're not that anointed. Just don't try to appear. Just keep growing. Amen. But dad Hagin was so easily. He didn't talk to you in scripture and verse. Dr. Sumrall so easily himself. He didn't talk to you in scripture and verse. But scripture and verse governed everything they said. That's what I'm saying. Amen. So reverence and honor is not something we conjure up. We make it part of our lifestyle. We say, you're not talking that way in my house. You're not saying that, and it's up to you to enforce it in your house. And if you won't, I'll just tell you what my mother's counsel was. Can I tell you Muck's counsel? That was her grandma named Muck. One of the grandkids gave her that glorified, dignified name, Muck. And pastoring, because pastoring is parenting. So I would just go back and I would think, thank God I came out of a sound home. We were not filled with the Holy Ghost. We weren't saved. We didn't know we weren't saved. We didn't know you needed to be saved. We thought we were Christians because we knew God existed. We went to church. I played the organ at church. I was there. I had a key to the building. If anybody can get saved, be saved with a key, that was me. But I wasn't until I was 19. But my mother was raised in a line of preachers, old Methodist circuit rider preachers was her lineage. And that was all passed down. And they had without holiness. No man will see the Lord. And there was a reverence. And my mother carried that over. My dad was raised on the Baptist side. And so you had a Baptist and a Methodist living together. Well, praise the Lord. But what I'm saying, even though we didn't know the word, the standard of the word was in our home. We didn't know the verses, but we had the standard of the word. So I could harp back to the way I was raised to find the answer in pastoring, because my mother pastored or raised this family the way I would look in pastoring and go, what would mother do? And I so often found my answer so easily because pastoring is parenting. And my mother, I remember sitting listening to her talk to a grown man who was having problems. And they said to her, well, Carolyn, there's this problem. And my mother was loaded with common sense. My dad was loaded with common sense. And so they were very clear thinking. And so they said something to her and mother said, well, I can tell you a problem. They said, what is it? She said, you need to take the pants off your wife and put them back on yourself. And they said, my wife's not wearing my pants. She said, that's the problem. You don't even know you don't have pants on. You think you're wearing them and you're not.
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What am I saying in your home? Be boss, Say, this is not going on in my home. And it's not love to be quiet when something is derailing in your home. Love holds order. Don't get confused about the divine love of God. It will not turn you silent and meek in the face of sick. It will not turn you permissive. Amen. So when something is not right in your home, you need to stand up and say, that's not going on in my home. You're stopping that. And that is the flow of love. Because one day, in the perfect society of heaven, things try to get out of order. And God, who is love, rose up and kicked it out. Because love is not permissive toward continued wrongdoing. I'm not funding wrongdoing. You're welcome. And you don't have to pray near as much when you just be boss. When that's your position and that's your place and that's really how you keep it safe. When you allow. When we just. In the body of Christ, when we allow things of dishonor to go on in our home. Our home is no longer safe for our children because you're opening up your home to all kinds of things when there's not honor and reverence for God, for the word. Amen. You can't force people into certain things, but you can set the standard. Amen. Well, there. I will go back to my papers. Moments of reverence is not reverence. It's a lifestyle. It's a lifestyle. It has to become something that governs the way we live every day. It's something that dictates and governs our thought life governs our communication of what we say and what we don't say and governs our actions. Where we go, where we won't go, what we watch. And if what you see on the computer is tripping you up, get rid of it. Because your destiny is not a fair exchange for something on a computer you don't control. Well, We're talking about miracles. We're still talking about miracles. We still are. Our honor and reverence, then. Not only that, it governs our time. That we're not giving our time to wasting it. When Jesus purchased and says time is short and we're spending it on the wrong thing, it's a reverence and honor issue for who we're dealing with. Because my time is not my time, it's his time. He purchased everything of me and I'm not authorized to take this life and waste it on something that is not going to fulfill what I'm born for. I'm not saying you can't have enjoyment. I'm not saying you can't have relaxation. I'm saying this is a very wasteful society. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. Are you still good? No one's like bleeding out, are they? The law of honor and reverence is spoken of in the Word in the Scripture. Those who honor me, I will honor. Those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. Now that's the law. Honor and reverence. The word honor means to be heavy or weighty, to have high regard for to treat as very important. To give priority to honor is in the order we put something. When we put something first, that's a place of honor. To honor the Lord is to put him first. Right? Then the word reverence means high respect. It's an attitude that really carries a form of worship. The more we honor and reverence God, the more he will honor us. Why? Because you can only receive honor to the measure you give honor. Well, praise the Lord. The law of honor will work for you, but it will also work against you. And it says that those who don't honor him, those who treat him lightly, despise him. No one says, I despise. I despise God. But those who despise Him, God will treat lightly. Why? Because that's all he can do with them. Because how they treat him is all they can receive back. Because everything is a seed. So to despise means something. To despise something is to not treat something as important, to not giving it honor, to show lightness or treat it trivial. How many of you know that's going to deal? That's going to address how we come to church, how often we come to church, how we gather together. Right? Reverence is something that has been diminishing and it will continue to diminish with every society. But know this. That same spirit that's in the world tries to get in the church. But I'm not going to identify with those who are losing ground in the flow of honor to try to win them. I do not have to identify with Someone to win them. It's not my identity that wins them, it's the gospel. And people have said, well, you have to dress a certain way and you have to do your hair a certain way. I was 19 years old when I first went to a dad Hagin meeting and he was in his 60s. And I never thought he's too old for me to listen to. He carried something my heart was hungry for. That's it. And it wasn't about the package. And if you make it about the package, you don't carry what you ought to be carrying. Because as a 19 year old, that man was all I was interested in listening to. There. My insides got satisfied when I read his books and when I listened to his tapes and I listened by the hour and the hour and the hour, and there was not this carnal natural measurement that people do today. They show their carnality. How about we go to a scripture? Another one? Acts 10. You're saved. Can I tell you this? You as a Gentile, are saved today because of one man's honor. And I'm not talking about Jesus. Acts, chapter 10, verse 1. And I'm going to read out of the Amplified classic translation. Acts 10. One amplified classic. Now living at Caesarea. There was a man whose name was Cornelius, a centurion captain of what was known as the Italian regiment. A devout man. Ha. Not a Jew. Italian man. Not a covenant with God. But he was devout. Well, there was something on his insides that caused him to reach in heaven's direction. You don't have to be raised in a Christian home to be devout. There's something on your insides that hunger for something. A devout man who venerated God and treated him with reverential obedience. Huh. Look at the next phrase. As did all his household. Huh? That wasn't just by accident. He demanded his household carry his standard. He brought his household into reverential obedience. He didn't just hope they wanted to go to church with him or whatever. He was the standard and set the standard and demanded the standard, like Joshua. As for me, in my house we will serve the Lord. You live in my house. You will live by my standard. Why? Because you're not smart enough to pay the bills. So my standard goes well. See, I just helped some of you and you didn't recognize it. But it's okay to be the head. Yeah. So, verse two. A devout man who venerated God treated him with reverential obedience, as did his household. And he gave, mmm, reverence and giving. Just know this God will Prove you with provision to. Determine if you're ready for power. That's why I want to say, test you. He will test you, but not with evil. He'll test you. He'll put you to the test. Will you obey him with money? Because power is what he's really trying to get in the flow of your life. And you don't realize that money purchases something beyond products of the earth. I can't tell you when people had talked against my husband and I, and God would say, give them. And we gave, not minimal. On one occasion, I gave over. I gave a quarter million dollars that I did not owe, because God said to people who were opposing to keep peace, because if money bought them peace, that's fine with me. Peace was worth it. But God then said, I'm going to bless you so much. It was not about money. It was about, can he trust me with more? I'm not trying to toot my horn. I'm telling you, God will put you in a place to see if you'll obey him in giving, to see if you're ready for more power, more anointing, more. A greater voice, greater responsibility. And he will use that money to do that. Now you think about how can that happen? Look at. Anybody ever heard of Phil and Fernhausen? You ever heard their testimony? They began tithing. They hit upon this idea because they wanted to. They wanted more money to give to their church. So they said, God, we're going to start not just tithing on what our income is. We're going to tithe on what we want our income to be. Yes. Yes. That's what they hit on. And they said the most remarkable things started happening the moment they did that. The first time they said, the gifts of the Spirit operation. And from then on in their prayer life, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, and it started happening. He said, the nine gifts of the Spirit were unlocked to us. Why, God will test you with provision to see if he can trust you with power. And don't you forget it. So y' all are even quieter. We've already received the offering, so you're good, but with reverential obedience. It says about Cornelius, look at this. And he gave much alms to the people and prayed continually to God. He carried a walk in God's direction. And God had to respond, even though he wasn't a Jew. And he didn't have a covenant that the Jewish man had because of the way he reverenced God. Those who honor me, I will honor. And he initiated that fellowship of honor. Not God. Cornelius initiated that verse three. About the ninth hour, about 3pm of the day, he saw clearly. Cornelius saw clearly in a vision, an angel of God entering and seeing, saying to him, cornelius. And he, gazing intently at him, became frightened and said, what is it, Lord? And the angel said to him, your prayers and your generous gifts to the poor have come up as a sacrifice to God and have been remembered by him. So the characteristics we see about Cornelius are he's devout, reverential obedience to God, he trained his household in the same direction, he was generous, he was a praying man. And all of this was without a covenant. These spiritual characteristics made him and his household adore for God. And he came. You remember, send for Peter. Peter came, preached the gospel. He preached the gospel to them. And while he's preaching, the Holy Ghost fell. Where did the Holy Ghost manifest? In an atmosphere of a man who was reverent, who was a giver. And when you get to heaven, find Cornelius and say thank you, because you were the door that opened up the gospel to the Gentile. One man's reverence opened up the way of salvation for every Gentile to receive and become a child of God. One man. Just think what your reverence could do for your city. John Wesley they're talking about, if you ever read anything on him, they call him the man who saved England. Because France had been through devastating revolutions, they were trying to work that same thing in England. And John Wesley just got hold of the gospel and God got hold of him. And he was a praying man, he was a man of the word and he preached like a fire, he was so full of fire. Him and George Whitefield were contemporaries together. But God used that man to rescue an entire nation. And his whole premise was, without holiness, no man sees the Lord. What was that? A reverence for God. And that one man's reverence for God turned an entire nation. One man's reverence can turn not just a region, it can turn. Turn nations. Why? Because when we realize who we're dealing with, our approach to him is appropriate. Because he's looking to. To manifest. God is not looking to withhold. He's not looking to keep people out of heaven. He's not looking to withhold reasons why you can't be healed. He's always looking to get to you what you need. But there is a proper approach to him. And the story I didn't finish with my parents is that whenever I needed something and I wanted to go out with my friends, I didn't just say, hey, give me Money. The approach mattered if I wanted to get something. If that works with your parent, and it should have worked with your parent, they shouldn't have handed you something without proper approach. But if that matters with a human, how much more it matters with a God who is the Creator of all proper approach matters. Come into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Come talking about him. Not you. Come with him in mind and not you in mind and your prayer problem in mind. Because you need his help. You need what he's got. He already knows what you got. You need what he's got. Put him in your mouth. Put him in your mindfulness. Approach him with him in your mouth. If you start every prayer with a repentance, it's because you're living under condemnation and sin consciousness. Because he needs to be approached. Yes. If you miss God, absolutely repent. But that should not be our approach to God. The approach to God is coming to his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. That's the approach that assures that you're going to gain an ear. That's reverence. It's honor. Well, praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Reverence and revelation are connected. When you want revelation from God, reverence is a receiver of revelation. How we treat the Word is how the Word will treat us. We treat it lightly. We don't get much of it. The only part of the Word that will work for us is the part we honor. You understand that? I was raised in a denominational church, precious people. But we weren't taught salvation. And salvation was not working among us because we didn't know to honor Jesus as Savior. And no one got saved there because he was not honored as Savior. No one got healed there. We didn't know healing was available because we weren't honoring him as healer. No one got healed there because we didn't honor him as provider. I never heard of financial miracles happening in our congregation. Because the only part of the Word that works for you is the part you honor. How do we honor? We believe it. We put it in our mouth. We say, this is the way I think. This is the way I talk. This is the way I say about God. I don't accuse him and think, he's got to. He owes me something because of how somebody treated me. Don't ever accuse God with people's actions. How would you like it? How would you like it if your neighbor came and cussed you out and you go, I don't even know you. Why are you cussing me? Out because my husband was mean to me today. Don't accuse me with somebody else's response. Yet people accuse God all the time because of how somebody treated them. It's a dishonor. How dare you think. How dare us as humans think that we can approach God any way we want, say anything we want, accuse him. Well, praise the Lord. When I said to God, after he talked to me and gave me the resources to even buy the vacation home of Amy Silk McPherson, I said to God one day, I said, God, it just blesses me that you thought of me regarding that home, because there's so many that tried to buy it, others that wanted to buy it, even board members of the Foursquare Gospel that wanted to buy it, and others had more money than me, but I had the favor and they agreed to sell it to me. It wasn't for sale, and I approached them and others had approached them for years. For 10 years they'd had it, and people tried to buy it. Even Hollywood actors tried to buy it, and they wouldn't sell it to them because God had me in mind. And I said, God, just that, even if I didn't, just knowing that you thought of me, that I was in your mind for this home that just blesses me so much. And then this is what he said. He said, it's because of your honor for generals of the past that what you honor, you get to participate in. Get that what you honor, you get to participate in. And this is why some don't get to participate in Jesus Hometown. They didn't get to participate with the miracles, with healing power, with delivering power, because they didn't honor him. Why did they not honor him? They were offended at him. You carry offense. You can't reverence God when you're offended with somebody, because offense doesn't just live in one region of your life. If you are offended with one person, you are an offended person. You never thought of that, did you? You thought that you had to get offended with at least 10 people before you were an offended person. If you're offended with one, you are an offended person. And Pastor Anderson sits here and laughs and chuckles on the front row. Is that encouragement to keep going okay? Because, well, you know, how my family treated me, how this person treated me, that. Listen, I'm not saying that how they treated you was appropriate, but I'm saying you have a higher place to fellowship with than the misrepresentation, the mistreatment of someone else. God offers you himself. And you can go there and say, that's not worth it to me. I'd rather have the fellowship of God. I will not exchange God's fellowship for my offense with that person because that's too high of a price to pay. Because reverence and honor do not live where offense abides. Can't do it. Can't do it. Well, praise the Lord. What you Honor, you get to participate in. Look at Acts chapter 16 and verse 14. Acts 16:14. I'm actually going to read this. Maybe you shouldn't look at it because I'm going to read it out of the Moffitt translation. I don't even know how the King James reads, but I want to read it out of the Moffat transition translation to you. Acts 16:14. Speaking about Lydia, Paul had come there to that region and it said she reverenced God and the Lord opened her heart to attend to what Paul said. What was Paul saying? Revelation. Words of God. So because she reverenced God, her heart came open and revelation came in. When we need revelation, address honor. Address reverence, honor the word, go seek out that word. Because the word can be. Can land in a place of reverence. It can't just land anywhere. It's not that God withholds the word. Lack of reverence won't let it in. You understand that? Well, praise the Lord. So do we see what it means when Brother Hagin said I believe completely by the spirit of God when he said when honor and reverence are restored, there will be a restoration and a multiplication. Yeah, a miracle power. Now let me, let me stop there just because I want to end this with something. I was watching something. I like documentary type things. I want to see the backside of something. I like seeing certain events, but I want to see, I want to see the operational side of that. And they were, they were going, they were interviewing the owners of the people who owned the castle in England that is used in the show. I think Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey and that fabulous residence because that's not a set, that is a literal location. And they were interviewing the owners and it's really quite a younger couple that owns it, I would say 40s, maybe early 50s that own it. And one night they went and they. The interviewer took the camera and they're watching because they still had a full time butler serving there and it's just the two of them that live there. And they were setting the table and this interviewer with the camera was following and this man was setting up the table and the old English style, he would pull out a ruler and Measure how far the plate was from the edge. He would measure the fork placement, the knife placement, and he just measured everything out. And the interviewer said, there's only two people here. You're doing that for two people. And he said, why do you go to so much trouble to get it that perfect? And I love the butler's answer. He said, once a standard is lost, it never returns. In other words, if I let down. If I let down, it'll be lost. And who's going to bring it back for your life if you lower the standard? If you lower the standard, who's going to bring it back? You're living by the standard you choose. God does not force his standard upon us. He offers it. We choose. God said to me sometime back, he said, I don't set your standard of living. You do. And he was talking about financially, if you want everything to be a struggle, if you want to live paycheck to paycheck, that's fine. But if you want a stand, different standard, God's not setting you at any stand standard. He lets you choose. So let's choose in a way that honors him. Amen. Praise the Lord. Are you helped tonight? Can I tell you, I believe in being comfortable. I believe in, you know, I'm not. People have said to me, I didn't even know you owned jeans. You know, when they see me out and I'm wearing jeans or something, they say, I didn't even know you owned jeans. Well, I do. But I endeavored to dress appropriate because there are certain things. And I just. I was looking in the mirror the other day at myself, and I thought, nancy, I was at home. And I said, nancy, you've got one life. Don't live it in sweatshirt. Because I've gotten tired of looking at myself looking like that. And I thought, you know what? I produce differently when I carry myself differently. And I thought, I'm fixing to go back home, and we're just going to tighten some things. I'm not talking about surgery. I don't do volunteer pain. I don't do volunteer pain. I've not been poked, prodded, pulled, or whatever. And people. Can I tell you a story on Ed? Can I tell you a story on Ed? I mean, just to lighten the mood, because some of you are a little tense. Ed loved to watch two things. Well, really three things. Meacham car auction. And he would come out with these wild hair ideas. We're going to buy this car and make a million dollars off of it. And Steve would say, dad, the Bottom of that's rusted out and it's only worth 15,000 at its tops, you know. So he loved watching the Meacham auctions. Another thing, he loved watching the Court Channel trials. Loved that. He said, those lawyers are so stupid, I could win over them. And the other thing is, he loved to watch surgeries. Just cut them, open, camera, everything. I'm going, I've got to leave the room. I just can't watch it. But he would watch mainly plastic surgery, you know, for the face, the pulling, the tucking, all that kind of stuff. I'm not for it or against it. Don't say anything. Don't you? Do you? I don't care. You do you? But he came out one day. And he said, you know, I think you should have a little bit of something done. And I said in love, because if you let them step over the line, they keep stepping over the line. You let them know there's a line. And if you don't know where the line is, I will redraw it. And I can't help it if your foot is there and gets cut off. I said, if you want to watch that for your benefit, go ahead, but don't watch it with eyes for me, because you are 20 years older than me and I've never said a thing to you and don't think I can. So, no, thank you. I'm quite happy with the way. It's an honor to grow old. It's not a hardship, it's an honor. A lot of people would have liked to have done it. And I've got no complaint. I've got no complaint. My body works. No complaint. Amen. Don't fall into the mindset of people who are struggling with their life. That's not us. That's not us. Do what you want to do, but don't fall prey to someone else's poor self image. Amen. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Now, let's go ahead and have you stand on this, because I want you to be standing. And you'll have to let me read this because this is the way it came to me. Just because you're standing, your ears didn't quit working. I'm not dismiss. I'm going to say this, then I'm going to minister. So if you want to come up and get ready. Cause we'll minister to anyone who. This is your last night that you can attend, that you came to have hands laid on you. We're going to minister to you, but I'm going to let them get Placed because I don't want you distracted by any anything that they have to move to get up here. And I don't want you to miss this. I'm going to speak to pastors. Okay, Pastors, are you listening? And I would even say online, if you're. If this is. If this applies to you, take it. But this does apply to at least one that I know in the room. But there's a pastor present. You have someone in leadership, and they are not clean. They're not clean. I could tell you. But just know this because they're not being addressed and they're being permitted to keep functioning. It's holding you out of some places, it's holding the church out of some flows, and it's holding a measure. It's holding you out of a greater place of glory. God has for the congregation to go because that uncleanness is not reverent and honorable to God. Praise the Lord. So it's affecting the whole congregation. It's affecting the whole church. I could tell you who it is, but when God brought this to me, he said, I need them to discern it because they need to discern as pastor, when things need to be addressed. And they don't just leave things there, because it's been that way a long time. I don't care how long they've been in that position. I don't care how much you need them. You don't need uncleanness. And they've had time to correct it, and they're not correcting it, and you're not safe, and it's robbing the church and it's robbing the congregation. And it's important that you discern that. And you step in because you're going to need discernment to pastor. Amen. So if that's you, pay attention and you need to. Don't just assume everything. And I'll just say this. They're on your platform. They share your platform with you at times. So you need to discern God. Is that this because it is holding you and the church out of a further place? Why? Because when honor and reverence are restored, uncleanness is not something that God can promote. Amen. Praise the Lord. So I don't know about you, but I'm glad. I'm grateful for help. I'm grateful for direction. God has shown me things about things I've needed to correct in my own life. And I say, father, thank you so much. That does not cause me to put up a wall toward Him. I'm just Grateful he didn't lead me going the wrong direction. Amen. And pastors, we need help. We need the help of the Holy Ghost. And it's very important. And I'm not sure why you haven't addressed it yet, but you need to discern and address it, okay? Because there's more for your people. But they can't have the greatest flow God has for them because of that which has not been dealt with. Okay? Praise the Lord. Hey, we're a church family. And in a family, there's all kinds of flows. There's encouragement, there's instruction, there's teaching, there's correction, there's adjustment. Hallelujah. And that's just part of the family. And I make no apologies for it. I'm not afraid to say it, but I want you to hear it and I want you to discern because I don't know if there's a thinking of. Well, it's just been this way a long time. You cannot live on autopilot and you cannot pastor on autopilot. You pastor by what today the spirit of God is saying to you. Amen. Praise the Lord. Let's just lift up our hands and worship the Lord. Father, we thank you.
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Thank you, Lord.
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We glorify you. David, did you like that sermon?
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I was hanging on every word, you know. Look, can I tell him something real quick?
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Yeah.
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In alignment with your message, miracles. This. This was a miracle message tonight for us. Now that I'm talking in a more of a sane voice, when I said a moment ago in why Mama Fl, Florida, which is probably two hours south of here, that's the Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee, a dedicated piece of property back in our day, seven 60s and 70s. It's still there now. The original tabernacle has been torn down and they built a different building. But while you were preaching, since that came up in the beginning, and I'm just curious, is anyone here? Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee. Lift up your hand real quick. Or formally was. So you know what I'm talking about. So we called it camp meeting. Yeah, like a dedicated week where they preached and sang and so forth. And when I say the power of God would sweep through that room to the point, I don't know, that if you could hold still, you had to respond and miracles would take place. So while you're preaching, I remember this. You know what? They. They might have not been the most learned in things of righteousness or the authority of the believer or the power of the tongue. If I may say this respectfully, when you Looked at the congregation, they certainly didn't know anything about the makeup counter. But that's not what produced the miracles. Yeah, there was an honor and a reverence and a sanctification and a separation from the things of the world in their daily life.
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Our lives have to look different in our daily life.
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And guys, I'm just right there with you. I was sitting there, I'll pay any price, make any adjustment, do anything to be included in this last days move of God. I don't want to be sitting on the sideline. And the Lord said, I had it ready for you, but you would make this adjustment or you would make. So while you were preaching, I can't help it. It's my childhood, my teenage years. It's so much of the music. Guys, there were 500 people in the choir, 5,000 in the congregation. And that's wonderful. And I to this day have never heard the sound, if I may, in the tribe that I run with now. I've never heard that sound that I heard then. But while you were preaching. And thank you for, for telling us the truth. Because they did understand that, yes, that my body is the temple and tabernacle of the Holy Ghost. I'm not my own. I was purchased by him that the highest place of worship is, I beseech you, that you present your body.
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And so, and David, as much as God has helped us to teach and understand this subject of faith, it's not a substitution for reverence and honor.
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No, obviously not.
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It's not a substitute. We just can't throw more faith at something when we lack reverence and honor and think that we're going to arrive at something else. And one of the things that God said Jesus said to me in my hotel room when I was in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2018. He talked to me about the price of the double portion anointing. You know, we put that in a book. And one of the phrases he used, and I had never heard this phrase before, he said, this calls for a maturity of consecration, meaning our consecration should grow. We don't arrive. You know, when you look back and you say with what God's dealing with you about now, the consecration, you go, God, I'm so sorry. Ten years, I didn't see that ten years ago, I didn't see that. Or five years, it's okay. You didn't see it because you mature and you see more as you mature. So I think it's appropriate for us to have a maturity of not only consecration, but of reverence and honor. How about we just consecrate ourself to be reverent and honorable toward this that God has for us? Amen. Father, we thank you. Thank you, Lord Jesus, thank you for the words tonight. We trust that what was on your heart was what was spoken tonight. And Father, we thank you that your word is a lamp to us. It's a light to us so that we know how to walk more accurately. So that our paths, our steps, are not just accurate, but they're pleasing steps that you're pleased. And Father, that the reverence and honor that we carry for you, it boomerangs back into our life and gives us the best life that it elevates everything, that nothing is to stay the same. So we consecrate ourselves. Say this of me, Father, I want all you have for me. And I want my life to worship, glorify and honor you. And I want you to know I reverence you. I honor you. And those aren't just words. I choose to make them my lifestyle even more and more. And I thank you for not leaving us like you found us. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at dufresneministries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings. Share your testimony, become a partner or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.