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Tell them I couldn't close my hand earlier. Now I can close it. I got arthritis and I. I tried to close my hand. I couldn't all day and I just. Yeah, right there in the preacher. First the blade, then the earth, then the full corn on the ear. Love you too. Have you noticed a difference from the first time I've seen you? Well, tell me how. Oh, you haven't had any seizures? How often would he have seizures before? Once in the first month. And I haven't had any since last year. You know, keep getting stronger. Thank you Jesus in advance for a walking miracle. Jesus name. I love you for real. Come around anytime you want. We are raising up a family in this church. We're raising up a family in Pittsburgh. We're raising up a family in Texas that don't just know about God, they know God. They've handled his power. They've seen his power flow through him. You're coming out of here today carrying fresh fire, fresh anointing, never to take another backward step. Now go to, let me see, chapter 17, verses 1 through 9. When Abraham was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, Am el shaddai. How old was he? So if you're on a fixed income, it's going to get unfixed. Today, Abraham was 99 years old. The Lord appeared to him and said, Am El Shaddai. God Almighty, serve me faithfully and live a blameless life. And I will make a covenant with you by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants. At this, Abraham fell face down on the ground. Then God said to him, this is my covenant with you. I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. What's more, I'm changing your name. It will no longer be Abram. Instead, you'll be called Abraham, for you'll be the father of many nations. I will make you extremely fruitful. Everybody say extremely fruitful. You ever been around in business? I don't mean maybe some of you are like this. I know some of you are like this. But you get around people. It's like they're not even trying. Just whatever they get involved in starts growing. Anybody ever met anybody like that? They just, like. It's like they just fall backwards into money. That's a fruitfulness thing. Has anybody ever met anybody that if they get involved in something, it's going to go down? Okay, Yeah, I figured. I figured based on the graph that we showed, we'd know more people like that if they're involved. Everything they touch turns to poo poo. And then there's other people, like, if you get involved. If Joseph got involved. Potiphar realized I'm doing well because of this slave and had him come live in his house. When he went to prison, the head of the prison made him assistant warden because he said, this guy. This guy knows what he's doing. That's the Abrahamic blessing. I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations and kings will be among them. I will confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you from generation to generation. This is a What kind of covenant? God did this in the Old Testament, but then what? He made some bad investments in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. And when the church came around, there was no money. No. It's an everlasting covenant from generation to generation. I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you. Hey, let me ask you, Sister Clarita, when you were growing up and your dad was starting out, was it like, had he already got his breakthrough and come over, or were you guys still kind of coming up economically? Yeah. So I would love if there was more time. Like, I figured she grew up like me, where. And then now her dad is doing great. My dad's doing great. It's been funny to watch the blessing just kick in. I've watched it kick in on preachers that don't even really believe in it. But then as they start, they live pure. You know, there's a lot of stuff in Christianity that makes you money. Not having to split 50% of your net worth with some lady every few years helps. It'll keep your marriage together not having to pay. Do you think I'm ever going to have to pay for rehab or a methadone clinic for Camila? I don't think so. Not going to happen. Your children serving the Lord, your marriage staying together. I haven't spent $1. How many of you that didn't get saved till later? You spent at least $10,000 on alcohol and cigarettes. Okay, I have that money. I have the alcohol money. All my peers from high school and college that went out partying, I've got all their money. When I went to the stand at the Win Encore in Las Vegas, all those guys, you know, I bring $2,000 and gamble it. I don't. I bring $2,000 and keep it and multiply it. So just those things start to get you to accrue money. Then you get into the supernatural multiplication of the money. Can you say, amen? I will give you the entire land of Canaan where you now live. As a foreigner. To you and your descendants, it will be their possession forever, and I will be their God. Then God said to Abraham, this is why I'm going to preach this. Because any preaching that doesn't give you something to do is just theater. I could get this place shouting like we've shouted before. God's going to God said, he'll bless you. Amen. And that's why everybody's at the bottom in the Pentecostal Charismatic Movement, because they tell them all God's part, but they left this part out. Your responsibility, everybody say, my responsibility is to obey the terms of the covenant. You and all your descendants have this responsibility for how long? How long? You have this continual responsibility. So I learned here that I can't just claim Abraham's blessing. I can't say, Father Abraham had many sons and many sons, said Father Abraham. I am one of them, and so are you. So let's just praise the Lord. Right arm, Father. This does not facilitate the blessing of God. This does not facilitate the blessing of God. This does not facilitate the blessing of God. That's an old children's church song. That's not how you get it. So then I not only want to know what's mine, I want to know which. That's what we spent the last two weeks on. I want to know what my responsibility is to get it. If you read the Bible as a promise book, you're going to be confused. You're going to be at the bottom of that chart. Because why? You know, I don't understand why God's not coming through. I've been believing him. I've been confessing. Yes, but there's more than believing and confessing. Abraham didn't sit around believing and confessing. He was a cattle rancher. He worked. There were things that God told him to do. Leave your father's family, your native home, and go to the land that I'll show you. And God said, this thing that I did for you, I'll do for everybody that has that covenant, provided they keep that continual responsibility. If you read the Bible, looking for what it tells you to do, and you do it, you never have to worry about God's end. God's end is guaranteed. God is too faithful to fail. Then if they teach grace, Grace is a covering for disobedience. You know how many know there's grace? So is there a grace in the Bible that covers disobeying God? Is there a grace that if the Bible says to take a day and set it apart like we're doing right now to the Lord and sit under His Word and meditate on it, is there a grace for me to stay home and not do it and it'll work the same? No, there's not. There's no grace that covers disobedience. Grace is not to make up for your disobedience. Grace is an empowerment to do the simple commands of the covenant. So as I teach this, you're not just going to learn what there is for you to do. God's word is going to empower you to do what it says to do. Put John 1:12 up on the screen. John 1:12. But to all who believed him, talking about Jesus and accepted him, let me see. King James. He gave them the power to be the sons and daughters of God, if you believe it. But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe in his name. Say this out. When I believe it, God gives me power to become it. I had people in my own family when I started listening to guys like Jesse Duplantis, Leroy Thompson, guys that told you you could be blessed. Fred Price. You know Fred price, building a $12 million church in the 1980s, coming out of Compton as a black pastor. When Banks told him, we don't want a black church here, and he did it anyway. Cash, that guy picked up something. What is it? And so when I started listening to him, no, you're going to see, those guys just found a way, like, to trick you. I don't think so. So I tried it. And sooner or later, the people that told me that had to come back. Nine years later, 13 years after, waiting for it not to work, I said, now, now, tell me how you do things again. Because God doesn't have any favorites. God doesn't care what color you are. God only sees two colors, faith and unbelief. And when you have faith, God will Move heaven and earth to see his covenant through in your life In Jesus name can you say Amen? So what is there for me to do? I made a list that was kind of weird. Last night I came home at 2, which was 3. Cause we lost an hour. And I was gonna go to bed and then I just started getting this message stirring in me. So I was like, I'll do it when I wake up. But I thought, nah, you know what? I'll do it now. So instead of waking up early to study, I stayed up till about quarter to six. And it's no big deal. I dry snorted some pre workout, so I'm good. But this really came on my heart. What are. I can't give you all of them, but what are the things that Abraham did that are an example in Isaac and Jacob that were to do? Number one, Joshua 24:2. Why did God tell Abram to leave his father's family? That was a big deal, you know. Now if you want to move from Coraopolis to Wilkinsburg's not a good example because for what I'm gonna say, it would still happen. I was gonna say you could get killed back then, but you could get killed moving to Wilkinsburg. If you moved from Coraopolis to Indianapolis, it's not a big deal. You move, drive on Interstate 70, move there, the realtor shows your house and welcomes you in. Back then, if you left your family and your clan and you went to some strange place, they're gonna kill you. In fact, you read that when Abram went there, he told his wife Sarah, tell everybody you're my sister because you're pretty. And if they know I've got the prettiest wife in here, they're going to kill me and take you. That's where he was moving. So it was a big deal to leave your father's family, your native house, and go to the land that God shows you. So why did God do that? God just wanted to test him? No. Joshua 24:2. Joshua said to the people, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says. Long ago, your ancestors, including Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River. And they did what? Let me see it in the King James. And they served other gods. Books that are written alongside the Bible from Jewish tradition say that not only did Abraham's dad worship idols, he was an idol maker. And God told him, if this is going to work, you're going to have to get out of your father's house where they worship Other gods and worship only me, number one. If you're going to have what Abraham had and do what he did, you have to leave the idols of your family. You have to leave what people elevate above the word of God. Can you find the scripture for me up in the control? I think it's Matthew 12, or it might be Mark 12, where Jesus told the Pharisees, you do make the word of God of none effect by your vain traditions. You have traditions that you elevate above the word of God and it makes it to none effect. Now, I'm going to tell you, at one of our churches, we've got four of them. There's a First nations lady, Native American, first nations in Canada. Native American. And she, you know, there's a massive move because the devil's stirring up all kinds of racial hatred, period. You know, as a white man. Don't go to a white church. Don't go to church. That's a European thing. Worship our ancestral gods. Well, she did for a long time. She came to one of our meetings and came to the altar with an ankle bracelet on from getting in a fight. Her girlfriend's boyfriend got assaulted her and. And she pulled a gun on him and. And I can't remember what happened. She was on parole. She had never gone to church. Her mother brought her to church. She. She vaped and drank and every, you know, the whole kind of life carried a gun, getting arrested. And then she got as much as anybody in 23 years of ministry. She got born again. When we were doing, like, quarterly and weekly meetings leading up to the church, she never missed one. Then her. She's living with a boyfriend. The boyfriend said, if you keep going to that church, you can't live here anymore. And so she said, fine, and moved out and got her own place. Working as a nurse with a kid. Never moved back in with that guy. Then. Then got a place, got a car. Is making, I think, six figures, if not close because she's doing, like, mobile nursing now. And then she said, my family is giving me a hard time. You're one of us. We don't do that. Quit doing what they do. The whole family's poor, though. I'm not insulting her. She told me, no one has any money, just me. Nobody works. Everybody's on government assistance. And the thing she's doing different, they're trying to get her to stop. You should know up front, when you decide to serve God, all of hell's gonna break loose to tell you. Remember, we're this. Remember we're this. You're a Smith. You're a. You're a Walensky. That's a steakhouse. I'm just going through it now. You're a Ruth. Chris. You're a Denny. You remember, you're a Denny's. And you will not besmirch the Denny's name. They're going to tell you you're a Shuttlesworth. I'm not a Shuttlesworth. You're not. Whatever you are. We are the seed of Abraham and heirs according to the promise. You join not in a cult way. We don't sleep here. None of you come over my house. But we have joined a new family. God is our father, Jesus is our elder brother, and the devil is no relation at all. We have no regard that our father used to be an idol maker and worshiped idols. We're going to a different land and we're serving a different God. And we get a different result. Can you say amen? In your breasts, in your lungs, in your esophagus, and in your heart. The Lord has cleared out everything that's of infirmity, everything that's of disease. That's why you kept standing up and lifting your hands. You could feel it. And then as you lifted your hands, it kept doing more and more. Your strength is returning to you in full measure. You're gonna be able to eat what you want when you want, sleep through the night, use the bathroom on your own, wash on your own from the time you now till you go home to be with the Lord in Jesus name. Use another company to do another thing. People. Why is your oxygen out? Might as well end on the high. Go ahead and receive the offering. We'll see it tomorrow night. Jesus is our elder brother and the devil is no relation at all. We have no regard that our father used to be an idol maker and worshiped idols. We're going to a different land and we're serving a different God. And we get a different result. Can you say amen? People don't see it. They don't see it. Like that guy arguing with Adalis in prison. She's preaching on the curse and the blessing, and he raised his hand. I don't believe in the curse. And the guy next to him goes, bro, we're in prison. People can't see it. You have people, oh, this is all crap. You know there's 38 on oxygen. I don't believe any of that. I believe they just want my money. You're in your pajamas. What money? You know you're on SNAP and WIC and whatever else, and you think the church wants your money. And then somebody from your family starts going to church and breaking through. And rather than say, wow, you found it, now there are those people that are breaking up. Hey, wait a minute, you found something. I'm coming with you. But you got other people, you know, oh, you got that church now. We're Methodists. Are we? There's not one Methodist pastor on planet Earth that knows anybody in our family. We're Catholic. Since when? You know, back in 1971, I had my first communion. Okay, great. That's great. But they try to hold you on tradition. Mark 7:13, making the word of God of none effect through your tradition which ye have delivered and many such like things do ye. Let me see. Nlt. And so you cancel the word of God. This is great. Keep this for next service. So you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. That is, that's why I have this. Number one, you cannot make this blessing work. Leave it in your father's house that worships idols. And so it was interesting. That girl left her boyfriend and then the boyfriend was sitting in church. About six months after she came, she said, I told him, I'm not getting back with you. So if you're here, it better be because you lay. But he was, he was floored. See, he thought when he threw her out of the house, everything was going to collapse. But you're going to find out, like Isaac, they can take your well, but they can't take your blessing. They can take your land, but they can't take the blessing that produced the land. Because the blessing isn't the things you have the blessings on the inside of. You say it out loud. The blessing is not what I own. The blessings on the inside. See, that's why when you understand that you're a giver and when you don't have the blessing of God, you're a hoarder. You, you don't give, you keep everything. Because what you're blessing is what you have. But as a Christian, you have something that produces the blessing and you're going to see it work. Hardcore in 2026, in Jesus name number one, leave the idols of your family. I'll leave that between you and the Holy Ghost. But any tradition your family has. I came from a tradition where ministries don't tithe because we're Levites. People are to tithe to the Levites and then we live off the tithe. But then I read in the Bible a tithe of the whole earth belongs to God. And it not only didn't exempt the Levites from tithing, it said a tithe is to be brought to the Levites and they're to take a tenth of that tenth and give it to the Lord. So I started the tithe. You know, I've got a ton of people in my family in the ministry. None of them have ever received a million dollar check. We're at number six with more on the way. Somebody just pledged one yesterday, by the end of the year that they're going to send a million in. Most of my family has never broken a million in a year. We had 1.56 come in last week. So I'm not saying that to brag. I'm telling you there's a difference. So if you think I'm getting lucky 16 years in a row or whatever, then think whatever you want. But I found something in the Bible that worked during the housing crisis, worked under Obama, worked under Trump, worked under Biden, worked under second Trump, worked before Obama, under Bush. Once you get it, it doesn't matter what happens out there, because your blessings not determined from below, your blessings determined from above. Number two, embrace a wholehearted commitment to God and the interests of his kingdom. You don't use God just as a word. God is your everything. He's above all. His house is above all. Get away from all these people that devalue. You know, church is just a building made by man. So is Denny's. You still go there. What do you have this aversion to buildings all of a sudden? This is the building made by man. You know, I can feel God just as easily on the golf course as I can in church. Yeah, keep talking. Hang around people that have that kind of commitment to God and watch how it works. I've never seen one miracle. I've never seen somebody golfing and go, son of a gun, my leg just got healed. No, there's a power when God's people gather together under the word and lift up holy hands and worship. Number two, embrace a wholehearted commitment to God and the interests of his kingdom and you'll get mocked. I get mocked for it still. All right. Church is doing 21 days of prayer and fasting. Yes, we're on building number four. We're gonna have one of the 10 largest full gospel churches in the mid Atlantic up through New England in four years. So knock it all you want. I found something here. I'm not gonna have the world dumb down my covenant with God to an acceptable American level. That happens in everything. I've talked to Muslim people. Their kids don't pray five times a day anymore. Everybody quits having anything to do with God and spirituality of any kind when they come to America because everything's easy. You don't need God for money. You don't need God for healing. You don't need God for anything. Free health care. No credit, bad credit. No credit at all. Call this number right now. We'll give you up to $29,000 in less than 15 minutes. You don't need God. But then soon the help of man runs out and you need God. I made up my mind and you've made up your mind. I'm not waiting until I'm at rock bottom to call out to God. I'm going to embrace God. I'm going to walk with God. I'm going to make him my everything. Every day of my life. Develop deep intimacy with God. I have a friend. Put Psalm 1:1 3. First Psalm, verses 1 to 3. Oh, the joys of those who don't follow the advice of the wicked or stand around with sinners or join in with mockers. Now, I'm not telling you you have to yell at your family, but you should not feel bad about not joining in with mockers and not following wicked advice. I don't think you should tithe to that church. That's called wicked. What do you know?
