Walk It Out Wednesday: Don't Bury Your Dream! | Bishop T.D. Jakes

Summary

The Potter's House Podcast

Walk It Out Wednesday: Don't Bury Your Dream! | Bishop T.D. Jakes

Date: October 2, 2025
Speaker: Bishop T.D. Jakes (Main Preacher) + assistants

Overview:

This episode of "Walk It Out Wednesday" features Bishop T.D. Jakes encouraging believers not to "bury their dream," even in seasons of trial and disappointment. Using the story of the Shunammite woman from 2 Kings 4:8–37, Bishop Jakes dives into themes of perseverance, reciprocity, favor, faith, trauma, and the difference between process and promise. The teaching is both practical and passionate, culminating in a powerful altar call and words of hope for anyone feeling weary or discouraged about their life's purpose or vision.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Introduction to “Don’t Bury Your Dream”

• Context: The message picks up on the Shunammite woman whom Jakes spoke about on Sunday, drawing from 2 Kings 4.

• Theme: It’s easy to let negative circumstances talk you out of your dreams, but true toughness is internal, not about being mean or hard on the outside (03:29).

  "You have to be tough to get what God has for you, not just tough on the outside... Tough is something you have on the inside that fortifies you and keeps you going." (Main Preacher, 01:24)

2. On Generosity, Reciprocity, and Giving

• Ministry of Giving: The Shunammite woman was notable for her generosity, creating space and providing for Elisha—a symbol of preparing room for God in our lives (05:29).

• Generosity doesn’t necessarily guarantee immediate or direct reward, but God is faithful:

  "If you're a liberal spirit, God says he's going to make you fat. Now, He doesn't mean this way—okay, Ice Cream did that... He's saying, I'm gonna give you more to be liberal with." (09:59)

• Principle of Reciprocity: Healthy relationships are reciprocal; if someone constantly gives to you, you should be moved to give back, even if in your own capacity (13:21).

  "In every relationship there ought to be reciprocity... Harvest is reciprocity to seed time." (Main Preacher, 13:21)

3. Seasons of Sowing and Reaping with Faith

• The Shunammite had seasons of sowing (giving) and eventually entered her season of reaping (receiving a child).

• Faith-filled language changes outcomes and attitudes.
  | "Your spirit needs to hear your mouth confess, 'I'm coming into my season.' The way you talk to yourself has a lot to do with how much peace you have..." (20:56)

• Many struggle not with demonic oppression but their own negative self-talk.

  "Most of y' all...it ain't the demons. You doing that to yourself." (21:11)

4. Parenting, Growth, and Letting Go

• When her son was grown, he visited his father—symbolizing the different roles of parents as children mature (22:47).

• Adult children require less control; sometimes love means allowing them to make mistakes (23:23).

  "You got to give up your role, your controlling role as a mother or father and let them live their own life." (22:43)

• The importance of male mentorship and spiritual fatherhood: wisdom comes with experience, not just age or title (24:01–25:46).
  | "Paul said, we have many teachers, but we only have one father. And don't fool around and lose your father." (Main Preacher, 25:09)

5. Understanding Favor—Favored Through Pain

• Jakes challenges the idea that favor equals an easy or prosperous life.

• The Shunammite woman’s favor did not prevent her from suffering heartbreak when her son died:

  "We only associate favor with success...But if you define favor only through success, then you can't explain what happened to this woman. Her child grew up and died on her lap. Her favor died her lap, but she was still favored." (Main Preacher, 29:57)

• Jesus was favored yet suffered crucifixion—favor does not mean exemption from hardship (31:16–32:12).

  "You can go through a bad time and still have favor." (Main Preacher, 31:16)

6. The Power of Process Over Promise

• The “warming up” of the dead boy’s body signifies how change is often gradual—miracles don’t always come instantly.

• The process (struggle, disappointment, delay) is formative, teaching resilience and tenacity:

  "It's not the promise, it's the process, how hard the process was. The process had disappointment in it. The process had failure in it. The process had disillusionment in it." (60:26)

• "You learn more about God in the process than you do in the promise. God will take care of the promise all by himself. But the process is for your edification." (61:32)

7. Dealing with Trauma, Unworthiness, and the Oil of God

• A question from the audience prompts discussion on feeling unworthy due to past trauma.

• Jakes responds: No one is worthy of “God’s oil”; it’s grace, not merit:

  "If you didn't have no trauma in your past, you still wouldn't be worthy of God's oil. God does not give us his oil because we are worthy..." (64:27)

• Trauma cannot overpower the grace of God:

  "The devil is trying to convince you that the trauma is stronger than grace...Say this until it gets in your mouth...when you start confessing with your mouth the Lord Jesus more than you can confess the past trauma, the trauma will have to let you go. And it's going to be gradual. It's going to wax warm..." (68:04–70:41)

8. Why God Doesn't Give All the Details

• Jakes illustrates with Abraham’s story: God reveals only what you can handle—full disclosure may paralyze rather than empower (72:22–74:48).

  "God gives you what you can handle. It's not God's job to let you in on details. Because if you're gonna walk by faith, faith don't give you details." (Main Preacher, 73:40)

9. Maintaining Faith When Evidence Contradicts the Promise

• True faith persists even when circumstances oppose the promise (76:44–77:40).

• God perfects us through waiting, suffering, and process—not quick, “instant grits” solutions:

  "There is no instant Jesus, because it is the journey that defines him." (Main Preacher, 79:49)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On True Toughness:
  "Don’t get them confused. In an attempt to try to be tough, we act mean. But you can be mean all you want to. Tough is something you have on the inside." (Main Preacher, 01:24)

• The Overflow Blessing:
  "When God says the liberal soul shall be made fat, God says, I'm going to give you more than enough. You're going to have overflow." (Main Preacher, 09:59)

• Favor in Suffering:
  "Favor is not equated to substance or wealth or good times or feeling good. You can go through a bad time and still have favor." (Main Preacher, 31:16)

• Process Over Promise:
  "The process is for your edification. The process is for your anointing. The process is for your strength. The process is to make you tenacious. The process is raising you." (Main Preacher, 61:04)

• On Self-Talk:
  "The way you talk to yourself has a lot to do with how much peace you have and how much contentment you have." (Main Preacher, 21:09)

• On Trauma and Grace:
  "Let go of the idol of your trauma, because you have made your trauma a God in your life...The trauma will have to let you go. And it's going to be gradual. It's going to wax warm." (Main Preacher, 68:15–70:41)

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Important Timestamps & Segments

• Don’t Bury Your Dream Theme Introduction: 01:24–04:11
• Generosity, The Shunammite’s Giving: 05:29–09:59
• Reciprocity Principle: 13:20–16:16
• Faith-Filled Declarations: 20:54–21:47
• Parenting and Letting Go: 22:43–25:46
• Favor Redefined Beyond Success: 29:54–32:19
• Process Versus Promise: 58:54–61:32
• Audience Question: Trauma and Being Worthy: 64:27–71:18
• Why God Doesn’t Give All the Details: 72:22–74:48
• How to Maintain Faith Amid Contradictory Evidence: 76:44–79:40
• Prayer and Altar Call: 82:47–88:44

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Tone and Style

• Language & Tone: Down-to-earth, relatable, and infused with humor, personal anecdotes, and conviction.
• Energy: Uplifting, occasionally fiery—frequently building to shouts of praise and call-and-response.
• Approach: Scriptural exegesis blended with modern application and direct audience engagement.

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Takeaways for Listeners

• Toughness is spiritual fortitude, not external hardness
• Giving with a liberal spirit unlocks overflow blessings
• Favor is present even in suffering—not a guarantee of smooth circumstances
• Faith is maintained not by evidence, but by hope and confession
• Trauma does not disqualify you from God’s purpose or anointing
• God rarely gives all the details—faith’s journey unfolds step by step
• It’s often not instant results, but the process that develops strength and relationship with God
• Never bury your dream—keep walking, keep confessing, and wait for your “season”

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Final Encouragement

The episode closes with a powerful altar call and communal affirmation:
"I will not bury my dream. I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord." (93:01)

And a charge:
"Now you gotta walk it out. And if you have not received the Holy Ghost, open up your mouth and start giving him praise...and watch him lift you." (105:09)

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For those who missed this episode:
It is a rousing, faith-building teaching reminding each listener that God’s favor rests on them—regardless of circumstances or past pain—and that significant things are wrought in the process, not just the promise. Walk it out, don’t talk yourself out, and don’t bury your dream.

Transcript

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[Potter's House Host 1]

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[Altar Call Leader]

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[Potter's House Host 1]

God bless you. Watch it to the end and then share this message with somebody. It's going to change your life and hopefully many others.

[Main Preacher]

I want to. I want to pick up from where I left off Sunday. And in case you weren't here for Sunday, this is walk it Out Wednesday. This is the opportunity where we go deeper into the word of God and we also take some questions from you. And our subject was don't bury your dream. How many people got your dream with you? Don't bury your dream. It's easy to do that. It's easy to bury your dream. It's easy to let bad circumstances talk you out of hoping, talk you out of believing, make you settle for a life that's less than what God planned for you. You have to be tough to get what God has for you, not just tough on the outside. People confuse tough and mean. I have met mean people that weren't tough, and I have met tough people that weren't mean. Don't get them confused. In an attempt to try to be tough, we act mean. But you can be mean all you want to. Tough is something you have on the inside that fortifies you and keeps you going all the time. So I want you to take that toughness from the Shunammite woman that we were preaching on Sunday and we're gonna go deeper into her. How many people enjoyed Sunday? Yeah. Shake hands with somebody say, don't bury your dream. We're gonna be in Second Kings, chapter four. I'm gonna go to some extra scriptures that I didn't have time to go into on Sunday. I'm going to go into some areas that I didn't go into before, and I want you to prepare yourself for that. Second Kings, chapter 4, verse 18 through 27. When you have it, say amen. Okay, you can stand on your feet. You might be standing a little while, because I'm going to talk all in.

[Prayer Leader]

Between, but.

[Main Preacher]

You know how I am. I used to have. I was preaching back in the day. We had readers.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Read. What did he say?

[Main Preacher]

Yeah, I still like that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I still like that kind of stuff. Incidentally, the Shunammite woman is. Shunammite is not an ethnicity, it's a location. It's like saying, I'm a Charlestonian, I'm a Mississippian.

[Prayer Leader]

Okay?

[Main Preacher]

So when we call her a Shunammite woman, it is not an ethnicity. It is a location. It is where she lived. She is no doubt from the tribe of Issachar, because Shunnam was part of the inheritance of Issachar. The twelve sons of Israel of which Issachar was a part, all received an inheritance of land except Judah. And Judah's inheritance was the house of the Lord. Levi, rather, the house of the Lord. And you have to understand that so that you can be clear about that. And the Bible says it fell on a day that Elijah passed to Shunna, where was a great woman, and he just left a poor woman. And I talked about that Sunday that the passages between the poor woman and the great woman, when the Bible calls her a great woman, it doesn't mean she's better than the poor woman. It means she's well off. So he passed to Shunnam where there was a great woman, and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was. I love the word. Isn't it cool? And so it was. It's just the King James language.

[Prayer Leader]

It's so nice.

[Main Preacher]

And so it was. It's not always right, but it's always nice. And so it was that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. Now, I talked about there is a ministry of giving, there is a ministry of helps. And we don't talk about it much in church, but there are people. I bet you're in here right now. There are people in here that just have a giving spirit. And sometimes you get taken advantage of because you got a giving spirit. But if you're a giving spirit, you're creatively a giver. You don't have to wait to be asked to give. You'll come up with stuff. You're thought thoughtful. And the Bible said, the liberal soul shall be made fat. And so when it says the liberal soul means that the liberal soul shall be made fat doesn't mean that you have money, because you can have money and still be stingy. You have a liberal spirit. And when you're a liberal spirit, God says he's going to make you fat. Now, he don't mean this way. Okay, Ice Cream did that. But he says. He says, if you're liberal, I'm gonna give you more to be liberal with. If you're selfish, why would I give more to somebody who's not gonna do anything with it? I give seed to the sower and bread to the eater. I'm not gonna give you seed if you're not gonna do anything with it, but put it back. I give seed to the sower. And it's a frightening thing sometimes because God will give you something to sow and the enemy will be whispering in your ear, say, you need that yourself. But God has a way of giving it back to you. But I want you to understand, he doesn't always give it back to you through the same person you gave it to. I know this from experience. I've gone places to preach and the check bounced, or the offering wasn't any good, or it was a bad check, or the account was closed. But yeah, yeah, 50 years, I've had everything happen. But somewhere along the way, in a grocery store, in a department store, somebody will walk up to me and say, the Lord laid on my heart to sow this into your hand because you can't beat God's giving. God will find a way to get a blessing to you. Even if he has to use your enemy. God will use your enemy to bless you. Are you with me? And she said unto her husband, behold, now I perceive that this is a holy man of God which passes by us continually. That means he was always eating over her house, like the good reverend on soul food. He was always coming over. She was always feeding him. He never asked her. She just did it. She was a great woman. Great people do great things because they have a great capacity, because they are thoughtful. God gives them capacity to live up to their thoughtfulness. Y' all didn't get that that went over your head. They're thoughtful. Some people are not thoughtful. You have to ask them. And some People, you got to beg them. And some of them, after you beg them, they still ain't gonna give you nothing. But there are people that are just thoughtful. And it's not always about money. It can be about running bath water. It can be taking your car to wash it. Just some people, they just gonna give you something whether you ask for it or not. Anybody like that, Wave your hand. Yeah, yeah. And if you're like that, you. You have somebody in your family that's always telling you, you crazy, they using you. They're making a fool out of you. It don't take all that. And what they're doing is talking you out of your blessing. Because as you bless other people, God will bless you.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Fat. Fat is.

[Main Preacher]

Let me tell you what fat is. The man explained what fat was to me. This way. When you fill your car tank up full of gas, and the tank is full of gas, and now it's spilling out. That's what fat is. All that your body didn't use spills out. See, this is. This is overflow. So when God says the liberal soul shall be made fat, God says, I'm going to give you more than enough. You're going to have overflow. You're going to have gas running out into the street, all in your tires, all everywhere. The liberal soul should be made fat. Why is he going to make you fat? Because he knows that you're going to keep getting. You're going to keep sowing, you're going to keep planting. You're going to keep giving of yourself, of your time, of your personality. Some of you can't give a smile. You sitting up in church, looking just as mean as a junkyard dog. But, but, but when you're a giver.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You, you, you, you, you light up.

[Main Preacher]

The room when you walk in the room. Now she says, let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall. And let us set for him there a bed and a table and a stool and a candlestick. Look at her. Designing a room, building a room. He ain't ask her for no room. And it shall be when he cometh to us that he shall turn in thither. Instead of being tired of him coming over, she wants to make it comfortable for him to come more. Wonder if you've made it comfortable for Jesus to come over. Wonder if you've made a room for him. Wonder if there's space in your life to have a devotional and have a relationship with Christ. Wonder if you have a bed and a table and candlestick and a chair and you've decorated it in such a way that he doesn't have to break in because the Holy Spirit is a gentleman. He won't break in. He'll come in, but he won't break in. You have to invite him in. You have to be intentional about it. You can be evil if you want to, but if you decide not to be evil, you can be intentional about it and start worshiping. And if you really start worshiping, you will find out you cannot be evil and worship at the same time to save your life.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You can't do it.

[Main Preacher]

You can be mad when you start. You can be mad because somebody came in, your ex husband came in and he's sitting on the back row with his new wife and you got an attitude and then the service gets good and the Holy Spirit just washes all the way. All that just comes away from you. Are you following what I'm saying? And it fell on a day that he came thither. And he turned into the chamber and he lay there and he said to Gehazi, his servant, call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him and he said unto him, say now unto her, behold, thou has been careful for us. You have given care to me. With all this care, what is to be done for thee?

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

This is.

[Main Preacher]

This is this. I love this word. I love, love, love this word. I think this explains so much of the Bible is reciprocity. Reciprocity. In every relationship there ought to be reciprocity. Paul said, if I give you my spiritual things, should you not give me your carnal things? There ought to be reciprocity. If I'm kind to you, you ought to be kind to me. If I'm loving to you, you ought to be loving to me. It might not be the same way. It might not be the same thing. It might not be the same amount. I had a friend of mine gave me something for my birthday that I just couldn't believe it. I just couldn't even believe it. It was several years ago, but I just could not believe that I would receive a gift like that. When his birthday came around, I. I couldn't give him what he gave me because I don't have that kind of money. But to the limit that I could go, I went to the very limit and found him a watch. It was the last one in the world and had his name engraved into it and brought it up there and gave it to him. Because I believe in reciprocity. I'm not just going to suck up the blessing and say, oh, you just nice. You just so nice. Oh, you so nice. You're so nice. You don't ever do nothing. Cook dinner, make squash, make some cornbread, bake a cake, get some cookies out. Do something so that you have reciprocity. That's what the Bible said. As long as the earth remaineth. It's in the book of Genesis, chapter 8. There will be seed time and harvest. Harvest is reciprocity to seed time. There will be day and night. There will be winter and summer. These things are consistent. Whether you're saved or unsaved or holy or unholy, they're consistent. Reciprocity.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You ought to. You ought to be.

[Main Preacher]

You ought to be convicted. If somebody keeps being nice to you and you don't do nothing, it ought to bother you. It oughta bother you. Ought to just disturb you that you don't do nothing back. You ought to wash dishes sometime. You ought to cook sometime. Every now and then when my wife is cooking a lot, I'll come in and beat her and lay out something and to cook for her and just have something done just to say you ain't got to always be standing over no stove cooking.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Just reciprocity.

[Main Preacher]

You ought to do something. Are you hearing what I'm saying? So this woman had reciprocity. Say now unto her, behold, the prophet says, behold, thou has been careful for us with all this care. What is to be done for thee? Wouldest thou be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell amongst my own people.

[Prayer Leader]

She bad.

[Main Preacher]

She bad. She said, I don't need nothing. You don't need to introduce me to the king and none of that kind of stuff. She said, I'm satisfied to dwell amongst my own people. So she definitely wasn't using him. When he offered her an opportunity to enter into his favor with the king, she said, I'm cool. I'm happy to be amongst my own people. And he said, what then is to be done for her? Look, he won't let her say no. He won't let her say no. What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, verily, she have no child. She didn't say nothing about the child. Gehazi, who was Elijah's servant, says, she has no child and her husband is old. So this is something she couldn't do for herself. I'm not going to explain that.

[Prayer Leader]

But.

[Main Preacher]

But anyway. And he said, call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door and he said about this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. Now, it's hard in the Western culture in the modern time to explain how important it was to women in the Bible days to birth a son. But let me take a stab at it. When you go back to the third chapter of the book of Genesis, the prophecy goes out to Eve that the seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the seed of the serpent, and the serpent shall bruise his heel. It is the first messianic prophecy, and it is given to say that some woman is going to come along. Eve thought it was her when she had Cain and Abel. And that's a whole nother story. And then finally, Seth, she was hoping she would be the woman that birthed the one that. That. That got back at the serpent for how he tricked her. But the prophecy was for Mary. Are you hearing what I'm saying? But all through the Old Testament, you see women saying something they ain't saying no more. Give me a child lest I die. Hannah was crying out for a child, going in the temple, moaning for a child. I don't know when I've seen somebody on the altar crying for a baby. I've seen some crying because they had a baby. But you have to understand, this is a cultural dynamic for Hebrew women, okay? And she said, nay, my Lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid. Now, she has already called him a holy man, but when he said that she was going to have a child, she said, don't lie to me. And this, the word has struck a nerve. It struck a nerve because this woman has come to a place that she's at peace now. She dwells amongst her own people. She's a Proverbs 31 woman. She has a husband, she's doing good, she's doing business. She can afford to build a room onto her house for somebody who comes by occasionally and she says, don't wake up my desire for a child. And in spite of that, the Bible says, and the woman conceived and bare a son that season that Elijah had said unto her at that season, look at your neighbor and say, you got a season. You got a season to reap. After having seasons to sow, you're gonna have a season to reap. It started out a season, she was just cooking dinner. And then she had a season where she was building a house. She had a season, she was decorating for somebody, for somebody else to live in a part of the house that she didn't even live in. But as sure as she had a season to sow, she had a season to reap. And the Bible said, now she has come into her season. How many of you feel like you're coming into your season? Type on the line if you're watching on the stream. Coming into my season, even if you don't feel like it, even if you don't see it, even if the rent to own man came and took your TV out, just go ahead and just say it by faith.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I'm coming into my season.

[Main Preacher]

Your spirit needs to hear your mouth confess, I'm coming into my season. It would do so much for your mood and for your attitude. I'm getting ahead of myself. But the way you talk to yourself.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Has a lot to do with how.

[Main Preacher]

Much peace you have and how much contentment you have. Most of y' all that think that the devil is after you and the demons are tormenting you, it ain't the demons. You doing that to yourself.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You're feeding yourself poison.

[Main Preacher]

Oh, what if this happens? Oh, God, what if this happens?

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

What if the other happens? Then you tell.

[Main Preacher]

I'm scared to death. I'm afraid. I don't know if I'm going to live long. Mama died when she was 27. I don't know if I'm going to make it. And you just feed yourself all that.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Poison and wonder why you're not happy.

[Main Preacher]

But in her own season, she brought forth.

[Prayer Leader]

You got a season coming.

[Main Preacher]

You got a season coming. Don't let the devil talk you into killing your yourself and miss your season. Just because you had to sow a while before you got to it didn't mean you was going, wasn't going to get it. You got a season coming. And when the child was grown. Now look at this. And when the child was grown, it fell on a day that he went out to his father, to the reapers. Okay? So it's so much difference between having a grown child and having a little child. It's altogether different. It's just a whole different experience. You can say things to your grown children that you couldn't say when you were a child. And you got to learn. I'm going just say this real quick and move on. You got to learn when to let.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Them go and be grown.

[Main Preacher]

You got to give up your role, your controlling role as a mother or father and let them live their own life. Whether they. Whether you like that dress or not, whether you like that coat or not, whether you like that job or not. You lived your life. You made your choices, even if it's a mistake. Sometimes you got to let them make the mistake. But because of your need to be who you were, you can't transform into who you are. Oh, it got quiet.

[Prayer Leader]

Jesus.

[Main Preacher]

Anyway, he's out there with his father. She sent him out to the father. It's interesting to note. When he was little, he was with his mama, but when he got older, he went to be with his father. It's already told you, his father was old, but he's still getting something from an old man that he can't get from his mother. See, there's something that you get from an old man that you can't get from a young one. It's a different level of reasoning. It's a different level of understanding. It's a different perspective because they have been where you have yet to go.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You see?

[Main Preacher]

But I'm gonna say this, and I'm getting myself in all kind of trouble. So I hope they don't put this on the Internet. But we got so many young men trying to give advice to other young men who haven't lived any further than the young men they're giving advice to.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And they're.

[Main Preacher]

They're Chief Apostle at 19. They got bodyguards and security guards and briefcases. And they're coming in. And this is my covering. This is my spiritual father, really. You older than your daddy, you know, and it's nothing wrong, because I started out preaching when I was 19. I love young people. But for me to teach on marriage at 19 or 21 would be totally different from me teaching on marriage to having raised my children. I've learned a whole lot of things that were theoretical, that in reality didn't work out the way I thought it would work out. Can I get a witness? Is there a witness in here?

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I thought I knew something.

[Main Preacher]

But when them kids got through with me, they took me to school. I now have a doctorate. I have a doctorate degree in what works and what don't work. But we're losing our fathers. Paul said, we have many teachers, but we only have one father. And don't fool around and lose your father. And don't let the enemy cause you to become disconnected with your father. He don't have to be perfect to be your father. He still gave birth to you.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And he's old.

[Main Preacher]

And the boy is now a grown man. Grown enough to leave, but he's still with his father. And he said to his father, maybe something he couldn't have said to his brother. My head. My head. To be able to say where it hurts.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Did you get that.

[Main Preacher]

To be able to say where it hurts. To be able to say what's wrong with you. To be able to confide in somebody who's not going to tell you business. Now, every old man is not a father. Gray hair don't necessarily make you wise. It just makes you gray. But if you find a real father, you ought to be able to say, my head, My head.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

But today we spend so much time.

[Main Preacher]

Trying to prove to our fathers that we don't need them.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

That we're not honest with them.

[Main Preacher]

To say, my head, My head. Sounds like to me the boy was having an aneurysm. I don't know. I'm just throwing in conjecture there. Whatever it was, it killed him. So it wasn't a headache, it wasn't a nosebleed.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

My head. My head.

[Main Preacher]

And he said to a lad, carry him to his mother. And I talked about that Sunday. About there's certain things that your mother can do that your father can't do. A woman's instinct over a child. In fact, I was reading a periodical that was written by a physician. Says that the cells of a baby never completely leave the mother. The baby leaves, but the cells of a baby stay inside of the mother. So that when the mother gets sick, part of the defense that's fighting for her to get well is coming from the leftover cells of the child.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Whoo, whee.

[Main Preacher]

I'm preaching way better than you. Shouting and when he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he set her on her knees till noon. And by noon he died. And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. And shut the door upon him and went out. Don't nobody do that with dead people. She took the dead child, she carried her dead grown son. Women get strong when it's their kids. You mess with their kids, they turn into Mighty Mouse. And she carried him and laid him on the bed. And I want you sit down so you don't get tired. Now. But while you sitting, remember, I'm still standing. And I'm older than two thirds of you. So if you tired from standing in a few minutes, you ought to be praying for me and speaking in tongues. Cause I'm going to be standing for a while tonight. Okay? And what I want you to see this is what I want you to see. That I didn't get to dwell on Sunday. I want you to see that this woman was highly favored. That the prophet gave her some. He did her a favor. He did her a favor. She didn't Even ask for. And I want to expose the misunderstanding we have about favor because we think that if we are favored or you know how we like to say, how you doing? I'm blessed and highly favored. We love to say that the favor of God is resting on me. That's how I got that job. That was the favor of God. But the problem is we only associate favor with success.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Oh, I'm doing so good.

[Main Preacher]

We only associate favor with success. And if you define favor only through success, then you can't explain what happened to this woman. Her child grew up and died on her lap. Her favor died her lap, but she was still favored. Life is still going to be life. Whether you have favor or not, people are going to die. Whether you have favor or not, people are going to get sick. Whether you have favor or not, people are going to leave you. Whether you got favor or not, people are going to break your heart whether you got favor or not. Don't let the devil tell you that you lost your favor because you lost your friend. Oh, I'm talking so good tonight. I think I'll dance while I'm standing up here. Favor is not equated to substance or wealth or good times or feeling good. You can go through a bad time and still have favor. Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and favor with God and favor with man, but he still got crucified. He was in the will of God, but he still bled out on the cross.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

He bled out because if the blood.

[Main Preacher]

Would have stayed in, it wouldn't have done us no good. He bled out for our redemption.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

He bled out for our deliverance. He bled out for our salvation. He bled out blind, bought a mess, got healed just in time to see the blood come out and the blood came streaming down. He bled out.

[Main Preacher]

Glory to God.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

He'd been walking around with all that.

[Main Preacher]

Blood in him, but it didn't redeem.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Anybody until he bled out. And sometimes you have so much favor.

[Main Preacher]

That God will put you in a situation where you have to bleed out.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And it's painful and you don't like it. And you're in the garden of Gethsemane and you speak, say, father, if it be thy will pass this bitter cup, that means he didn't want to do it. He didn't want to do it. He didn't like the Bible said. He despised it, despised the shame of the cross, but for the joy that.

[Main Preacher]

Was set before him.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

He looked beyond the present circumstance to see what was going to come out of it on the other side.

[Main Preacher]

I'm Helping somebody right now.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I can feel it. You're all sitting up, soaking in the temporary circumstance.

[Main Preacher]

You're only going to be on the cross for a little while.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

After a while, you gonna rise again and the cross is gonna be empty.

[Main Preacher]

Do you hear what I'm saying to you?

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I'm talking to somebody.

[Main Preacher]

The only way you can endure a.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Season of pain is to look beyond it. Don't look at it. Look beyond it. Look beyond it. Having an expectation. Having a hope inside of yourself. Keep your hope if you want to.

[Main Preacher]

Not bear your dream. You got to keep your vision.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

For without a vision, the people perish. I don't care if you got to get binoculars. I don't care if you have to get away from negative people and find.

[Main Preacher]

Somebody that believes in your dream.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You need to be around somebody that.

[Main Preacher]

Is helping you to see beyond.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

It's still possible. It can still happen. You might be an old woman, Sarah.

[Main Preacher]

But you can still have a baby.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Oh, you don't hear what I'm saying to you, Rahab. You might be a hooker, but you might end up in the lineage of Jesus Christ. They all don't hear what I'm saying to you, Ruth. I don't care that you were an idolatrous.

[Main Preacher]

You can change on the road.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

She wasn't in church.

[Main Preacher]

She wasn't in a service. She wasn't in a ceremony.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

But right in the middle of the road, she said, thy God shall be my God. Thy people shall be my people. Where thou lodges, I will lodge. Where thou dies, I will die.

[Main Preacher]

She had a conversion on the move.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

She had a conversion while she was walking. And she was converted by a woman that was depressed, discouraged, and didn't even want to go on any further. Y' all don't hear me. Naomi don't have to be spiritual and happy to affect Ruth. Your mentor doesn't have to be perfect to affect you. She was going through a bad time. Worst time in her life.

[Main Preacher]

She wanted to rename herself.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And all the while, while she's depressed, she's still winning souls. Oh, y' all don't hear what I'm saying to you? She wasn't preaching and singing and laying hands and slinging oil on nobody. She was saying, call me Mara, which means bitterness. I went out full and I came home empty. And while she was talking all out her head, she was still affected, Ruth. Because sometimes, greatest witness is in your frustration and your test and your trial. And when I see you survive hell and high water, and I see you still going forward, even though you don't feel like going forward. Your greatest witness might not come while you're on the mountain. It might come while you're in the valley. At your lowest moment, see you not as powerful when things are going great, good as you are when all hell is breaking loose. There's something about all hell breaking loose that it brings something out of you where people can see you suffer and still be consistent. She was depressed, but she kept on walking. She was angry, but she kept on walking. She was hurt, but she kept on walking. I found out a long time ago, if you keep on walking, you can walk your way out of any thing. If you just keep on walking, you ain't gotta feel like walking. You ain't gotta be excited about walking. You ain't gotta be happy about walking. But if you just keep on. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. And if you just keep on walking in what God ordered, he didn't ask you to like it. He just told you to walk it out. I think this is walking out Wednesday. So we need to walk out some stuff until people get healed and people get delivered. That's why the devil hates you now. I learned way more from my spiritual father.

[Main Preacher]

In his times of grief, in his.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Times of loss, in his times of testing and trial, I learned way more.

[Main Preacher]

Than I did in.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

In his times of success.

[Main Preacher]

I watched him suffer.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I watched him go through turmoil.

[Main Preacher]

I watched him go through all kinds of stuff. And I thought, lord, have mercy, at the things I got to see.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Because when you get close enough to somebody that you can see their wounds, that's what makes Thomas believe. Oh, y' all don't hear what I'm saying. When you see their wounds, see, you trying to see.

[Main Preacher]

See their face, but you need to see their wounds.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Blessed are they who have not seen, but yet they believe. But Thomas believed because he saw Jesus wound. Jesus didn't hide his wounds from Thomas. He showed him his wounds because his wounds was his deed of trust. It was his signature. It was his authenticity. It was his absolute proof that he was the same Jesus that was on the cross. And he said, let me show you my scars, not my scars. Let me show you my scars. The fact that I'm still here. I've been wounded, I've been depressed, I cried myself to sleep, but I'm still here. And I got favor. Even when it doesn't look like I got favor. I got favor to be here, I got favor to still be standing. I got favor to be in my right mind. Somebody get an Ass and settle ass. Cause I got somewhere to go. I got somewhere to go. Cause I'm not gonna let the devil talk me into thinking that I'm cursed. Some of you have allowed the devil to make you think there's a curse on your life. Because you judge favor by your condition, but you need to judge favor by your position. Your condition is going to change all the time, but your position is going to stay the same. I'm still his child. If I'm broke, I'm his child. If I'm prodigal, I'm his child. If I'm in the hog pen, I'm his child. If I'm lonely, I'm his child. If I'm backed up against the wall, I'm his child. That's why you got to be careful about doing something to me. Because I'm his child. Saul was wrong. His reign. But David said, I'm not going to touch God's anointed. He's still anointed. Even though he's wrong and stubborn. And even though he tried to kill me, I still respect the anointing that is on his life. I'm talking about being favored in a bad situation. Oh, God, I hope somebody's watching on the screen. I hope somebody's hearing what I'm saying to you. The devil's trying to talk you out of your favor and make you think that God don't love you. And you claiming that you're living up under a generational curse. You all under the curse because you said you were. If you talk the curse, you're gonna live in the curse. But if you talk the blessing, you're gonna live in the blessing. Oh, you are the type of lie. I'm still favored. I might be in a bad season, but I'm still favored. My roof might be leaking, but I'm still favored. They may have repossessed my car, but I'm still favored. Watch me. I'll get me another car. I'll come back around again. I'll buy me another house. I'll get myself together. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Cause a righteous man will fall seven times, but he keeps on getting up. Glory to God. And just because you caught me while I was on the ground don't mean I'm not going to get back up again. Glory to God. The favor of God is not based on my condition. It is based on my position. My position is secure in him. I live in him. I move in him. Oh, let me stop.

[Main Preacher]

I'm going too far.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Let me stop. Let me.

[Main Preacher]

Let me pull myself off that case.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

My God, I start. I start a fight in here right now. You can't tell me I'm not favored. I've been through too much not to know that I'm favored. I suffered too many things not to know that I'm favored. I survived too many things not to know that I'm favored. I'm not perfect, but I'm favored. I'm not always prayerful, but I'm favored. I'm not always in God's will, but I'm favored. There's a favor that rests on me that's different from anybody else in the world. I ain't jealous of nobody. I ain't got to go see anybody's king. I dwell amongst my own people. I know who I am. I'm favored. The woman said. I ain't got no child but I'm still favored. I don't need. Need nothing. I don't need a thing. Look at how she saw herself. Look at her self talk. Look at how she talked to herself. Well why are you talking to yourself some other kind of way? She could have been complaining. I don't have no child. I got all of this house and I don't have no child. She said I don't need nothing. I don't need to go to the king. I don't need to borrow your favorite. I don't need your influence. I got my own stuff. I dwell amongst my own people. I know who I am. I don't need you to tell me who I am. I don't need a title. I don't need a license. I don't need a decree. I don't need you to believe I'm a preacher. You can say I'm not a preacher all you want. There are preachers that don't do nothing but talk about other preachers. You have never heard me get up in the pulpit and give God's pulpit over to talking about another preacher. Because God didn't call me to talk about preachers. He called me to talk about him. And I'm not going to get in God's holy pulpit and start talking about people. Cuz the one you talking about today you going to mess around and need tomorrow. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Don't you feel that favor? The favor is coming off this stage. It's sliding down into the pews. It's getting in the aisle. It's getting. It's coming, it's coming out of my mouth. It's Coming out of my spirit. It's coming out of my body. I don't have to have no help. I don't necessarily have to have no organ. The favor isn't coming out the drums. It's coming out of me. I had favor in the storefront. I had favor when I didn't have money. I had favor when I had to hitch a ride to teach Bible class. But when I got to the class, I still had favor. Didn't I have favor. Didn't I have favor? Long time ago. Long time ago on food stamps, I had favor backed against the wall, I had favor. Favor don't have nothing to do with your bank account. Favor has something to do with your soul account. I got favor. Favor you can't see. And this is how you this is how you're gonna walk it out.

[Main Preacher]

You're gonna walk in your favor.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You won't walk in your favor.

[Main Preacher]

But you're gonna understand that your favor does not exempt you from life. People gonna hurt you.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

The fact that the boy died doesn't take away from the fact that God gave her the boy. It wasn't a mistake. He died. Excuse me. He was grown, but he died. He lived a long life. Devil, you ain't gonna get this. I'm gonna keep on going. If I have to sneeze ever since, I'm gonna keep on going. He still had favor.

[Prayer Leader]

She.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

She got to see him grow up. She got to see him turn into a grown man. He didn't die till he was grown. Still is favor from God. There is always something to be thankful for. There's always something to be grateful for. You have to choose what you gonna look at. It's the way you tell your story to yourself that's making you sick, that's making making you mad, that's making you frustrated. I can take the same story and spin it around and show you God. We could be at Hell's Kitchen and I still show you God. You can make your bed in hell and I'll still show you God. You can be sick with leukemia and I'll still show you God. You can be blind and can't see, and I still show you God. Blind Bartimaeus couldn't see a thing, but he heard Jesus was passing by. I thank God for good ears. My eyes might be bad, but my ears are still good. And faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. I'm not supposed to walk by sight. It depends on what you say to yourself, what you get. Tell your neighbor I got favorite I still got favor. I might be in a bad season, but I got favor. I may be knocked down to my knees, but I got favor. I may have to crawl across the floor, but I got favor. I may be lied on, but I still got favor.

[Main Preacher]

I may be in the hog bin.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

But I still got favor. The prodigal son had enough favor to know he could still go back home. He'd been with the harlots. He had spent all his money. He was broke. He had disgraced his father. But he said, I will arise and go to my father's house. He never for a moment thought his father wouldn't take him back. Cause he knew even in his mess, he was still his son. He said, I'm no more worthy to be called thy son.

[Main Preacher]

But I'm still your son. Make.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Make me a hired servant. I'm coming home.

[Main Preacher]

It was favor that brought him back home.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

It was favor that brought him to his senses. It was favor that stopped him from eating with the swine. It was favor that caused him to survive enough to get back to his father's house. It was favor that made them kill the fatty calf. And you know why they kill the fatty calf?

[Main Preacher]

Because without the shedding of blood, there is no. No remission of sin.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

It wasn't that they killed a calf just so they could throw a party. Something had to die so something could live. I heard the father. I heard the father say this. My son that was dead is alive again. And the. The sacrifice came when they killed the fatted calf. That calf died. That the son might live. And he kept on walking. And that's what you got to do. You got to keep on walking when you feel good. When you don't feel good, you got to keep on walking. Hallelujah. This is Walk it Out Wednesday. Somebody ought to take a little walk and let the devil know. I'm gonna keep on walking. If the kids don't call, if the car don't start, if I have to move in the garage, I'm gonna keep on walking. If I have to get a part time job, if I have to flip hamburgers, I'm gonna keep on walking. I got favor. Favor in my hands, favor in my feet. I got favor all over me. I said I got favor all over me. Somebody give him 30 seconds of crazy praise. Crazy. No, no crazy praise.

[Main Preacher]

This is what I wanted you to see. This is what I wanted you to get out of the text. That just because you have favor doesn't mean that your life always goes right. Doesn't mean that you win every battle doesn't mean that everybody believes in you and everybody receives you.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

They.

[Main Preacher]

They hated Jesus. They conspired against him. They tried to make his life a living hell, but he kept on walking.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

They despised him. They called him Beelzebub. They said he was a wine bibber. But he kept on healing the sick and raising the dead. You think the victory is to change somebody's mind about you? Let them think whatever they want to think. Let them say whatever they want to say. If you got the favor of God, that's something you can't take from me. God has anointed me to do this. And come hell or high water, if I get ready to do this, can't nobody stop me.

[Worship Leader]

If I get ready, I get ready. If I decide to open my mouth. The power of God. The power. The power.

[Main Preacher]

Now I want you to sit down. Sit down. So I'm just talking to you. I'm supposed to be teaching, but I got this little preacher on me right now. I'm trying to calm it down, but I got.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I'm trying to teach, but I feel some stirring up in my belly. Good God Almighty. Hallelujah. Are there any mamas in the house? What would you do if your child died on your lap? Died right on your lap? And even then she took him up.

[Main Preacher]

And laid him in the bed.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

She didn't bury him, she didn't plan no funeral.

[Main Preacher]

She laid him in the bed and.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Got on an ass that said, slack not thy biddy.

[Main Preacher]

And I told you donkeys don't even move fast.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

She, she must have been kicking the donkey. Cause when I'm after something, don't get in my way. I said, when I'm after something, don't get in my way. If I decide I'm going after something, you better move. You better do stuff you don't normally do. If you gonna stick with me, you got to move. I don't care what your natural is. I don't care what your mood is. If you're going to be with me, you got to go. Cuz I'm going somewhere. The favor of God is on me come hell or high water.

[Worship Leader]

If I tell you.

[Main Preacher]

Now look at this. She went to the man of God. The prophet said God had hid it from me. So you can be a true prophet and still not see everything. You can be a prophet of God and God hides certain things from you. God is not going to explain himself to you. He is not going to show you everything. Some things are going to catch you off guard even Though you are prophet.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Prophet enough to speak the child into.

[Main Preacher]

Existence, but not prophet enough to see that he was dead.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Are you hearing the oxymoron between the two things?

[Main Preacher]

Because when I'm on, I'm on, but.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

When I'm off, I'm just a person.

[Main Preacher]

And the Lord hath hid it from me. And then he says, gehazi, take my rod and go. You mean I have walked? I have rode all the way up here on the back of a donkey to see you. And you sent your servant with a. With your rod.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You didn't come yourself. I came to see you.

[Main Preacher]

When I saw your servant, I said, it is well.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Which lets you know I didn't come.

[Main Preacher]

Here to talk to none of your minions.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I went back to the source. Sometimes you got to go back to the source.

[Main Preacher]

You can't go to the armor bearer.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You got to go to the source, the one who said it in the first place.

[Main Preacher]

And when she made it to the.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

One who said it in the first place, he sent the servant with his.

[Main Preacher]

Rod and he failed. Can you imagine what the devil said to her? Where you favor now.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

The rod must.

[Main Preacher]

Not have no power in it. It didn't work. Gehazi came back and told Elisha, I tried it. It didn't work. Work. Boy still dead.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Time is passing. He didn't.

[Main Preacher]

Got hard and cold. He's stiff. Rigor mortis has set in. But his mama still believe it. You went through a bankruptcy, but you still believe it. Somebody living in the house that got repossessed, but you still believe.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Believing. You hear what I'm talking about?

[Main Preacher]

You still believe.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And that's what I'm talking about. That's how you walk it out.

[Main Preacher]

You walk it out by faith. You walk it out by believing God. Yes, there are going to be voices to come up in your head and say you're a fool. Yes, there are going to be voices that come up in your head and challenge your faith and say, it didn't work.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You've been feeding this prophet. You built a room for this prophet.

[Main Preacher]

And it didn't work.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

That word will leap over top of.

[Main Preacher]

The fact that the prophet spoke the boy into existence.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

It will leap over top of the.

[Main Preacher]

Fact that the boy lived to be a grown man. And it will see, because you see, you gotta understand something. You can do 10 things right and.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Do one thing wrong, and people will forget everything you did right and throw.

[Main Preacher]

It away over one thing they heard. Don't you?

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Don't you count on flesh? Because they'll say, hosanna, today and crucify.

[Main Preacher]

Him in the morning. They will change on you in a.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Minute, leave you standing by yourself.

[Main Preacher]

Of course she had voices saying, look at this. But Elijah said, I'm going myself. And Elijah didn't even use his rod. He got on top of the corpse. The corpse, A deteriorating corpse has so much fungus and bacteria on it that they used to tie people to corpses and punishment for murder. Until the infection from the corpse got into the murderer and killed him. And Elijah laid on top of something that should have killed him. But because he was stronger than the.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Bacteria, he was stronger than the fungus, he was stronger than the molecules, he.

[Main Preacher]

Was stronger than the infection, he was.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Stronger than the disease. Either he was gonna get cold like the corpse, or the corpse was gonna get warm like him. And that's why I can walk with the ungodly. Because I know who I am.

[Main Preacher]

And I'm gonna have more influence over.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You than you have on me. I'm not gonna get cold cause you cold. I don't have to hide from you. I don't have to practice with witchcraft.

[Main Preacher]

Cause you're a witch.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I can walk right through the witches. You can get your roots out and I'll get mine out. Cause I got the root of Jesse and I got the seed of Abraham. And I got the power of the living God. I ain't scared of you. And so the Bible takes the time.

[Main Preacher]

To tell you that the flesh of the boy wax warm. Because it is implying that it was cold. That means when Elijah laid on him, he was cold. And if you ever touched a dead body, you know what I'm talking about, he's cold. If the body is cold, he's also stiff. There is no movement, there is no action, there is no noise. There's no leaping of the hands, there's no jumping of the feet. There's certainly no sneezing. But he progressively got better. Nobody knew he was warming up but Elijah.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Because you can't see temperature.

[Main Preacher]

And the Bible said he.

[Prayer Leader]

Oh, God.

[Main Preacher]

I don't need to be up here tonight, y'.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

All.

[Main Preacher]

I'm sorry, I'm messing up to walk.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

It out on Wednesday. The Bible said that he started sneezing.

[Main Preacher]

That was an outer sign of an interchange.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

The Watson warm was just a secret.

[Main Preacher]

Between the prophet and the body. And nobody knew that the temperature was changing.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

There are some of you, your circumstance.

[Main Preacher]

Still looks the same. But you can feel a change in the temperature.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You can feel a change in the temperature. And I came to serve notice on you that you're not Wrong about it. It may not move yet. It may not make any noise yet. But if you feel it getting warm, believe what you feel. The Bible said the flesh of the boy wax warm. And the prophet just kept on laying there. After a while, he sneezed.

[Main Preacher]

And he sneezed seven times. And on the seventh time, which is the number of completion, it was over. But what I want you to see.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Is not the promise.

[Main Preacher]

It's the process, how hard the process was. The process had disappointment in it. The process had failure in it. The process had disillusionment in it.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

The process had disappointment in it. But she kept on walking.

[Main Preacher]

Just because you didn't get what you want, the way you envisioned it, when you thought it was going to come out a certain way, doesn't mean it's.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Not going to happen. God is teaching you to be tough. God is teaching you to be relentless. God is teaching you. See, having the baby was easy.

[Main Preacher]

She didn't have to work to have the baby. It was fun having the baby. She didn't have to believe God to have the baby. The prophet just spoke it and said, about this time next year, the baby's gonna come.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Nothing was required of her to birth the baby except to push. But when he died, the work moved.

[Main Preacher]

From the prophet to the woman.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And the woman had to believe God.

[Main Preacher]

In the face of failure.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I wish I was preaching to somebody that's standing in the face of failure. I hope somebody's online that's standing in the face of failure. God's got you online. Tonight is your night. He's got you listening at this word to let you know that you're in the process. You're not in the promise yet, but you're in the process of. You learn more about God in the process than you do in the promise. God will take care of the promise all by himself. But the process is for your edification. The process is for your anointing. The process is for your strength. The process is to make you tenacious. The process is raising you. He's maturing you. He's fathering you. He's mothering you. He's adopting you. Hallelujah.

[Main Preacher]

The Bible said that the whole earth.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Will groan and prevail in pain waiting.

[Main Preacher]

For the adoption to it.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

The whole process was in turmoil.

[Main Preacher]

And we're living in a world that's bubbling right now.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

It's in turmoil right now. It's rocking and reeling right now. Everything is shaking right now.

[Main Preacher]

See, I was at Katrina.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

It was.

[Main Preacher]

It wasn't the rain or the wind. That killed the people in Katrina. It was when the.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

When the levees broke, when the foundation started cracking. That's when the water got bad and people started drowning in the water. And the alligators and the snakes started moving through the water. And I'm watching our foundations crack. Our foundations are cracking. Our foundations are cracked. And a thousand may fall at my right side. And 10,000 may fall on my left side. But I refuse to lay down and tell myself that I got to be one of them. It might be somebody that go, but it ain't got to be me. Cause greater is he that is in me than he that's in the world. Clap your hands and praise him. Give me one of them questions before.

[Main Preacher]

I have a fit up here and.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Roll down this aisle and start dancing.

[Main Preacher]

In the middle of the aisle.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Cuz I feel.

[Main Preacher]

I feel an unction in here.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I feel a power in here. I feel a flow in here. I feel a divine move of God in here. Come on. Shout yes, somebody.

[Worship Leader]

Shout yes. Shout yes. Shout yes.

[Main Preacher]

Here's the question. I love this question. Because of the trauma that happened in my past. How can I ever see myself as worthy of God's oil? Sweetheart, let me tell you something. If you didn't have no trauma in your past, you still wouldn't be worthy of God's oil. God does not give us his oil because we are worthy. The woman had the alabaster box, and it was filled with spigner, which is a fine Indian perfume. The alabaster box was designed for the richest of ointments because it held the smell on the inside. The oil is in the container, and the container is wrapped around the oil. And in spite of how strong the oil was, it never changed the container. Y' all don't hear what I'm saying. That's gonna hit you tomorrow morning.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

We have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency may be of God.

[Main Preacher]

And not of us.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I don't care how anointed you get.

[Main Preacher]

Your flesh is still flesh.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You don't believe it, just stop bathing.

[Main Preacher]

You don't believe it, just don't put on deodorant. Don't brush your teeth in the morning.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Your flesh is still flesh. Anointed, bad breath, smelling musty arm flesh.

[Main Preacher]

But it's still got oil in there. And I can still cast out a devil with bad breath. Because one thing don't have nothing to.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Do with the other.

[Main Preacher]

That that is alabaster is alabaster.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And that that is spigner is spigner. And don't get confused. The problem with the church is we think that if we have the spigner long enough, it will change the alabaster. But it won't.

[Main Preacher]

The woman broke the alabaster and it shattered on the floor and the spigner changed the whole room, but it didn't change to alabaster.

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[Main Preacher]

We have this treasure in earthen vessels, but having the treasure in earthen vessels does not change the vessel, but when he shall appear, mortality shall put on immortality. All this Holy Ghost I got on the inside is not going to change my mortal body.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Oh, but when he appears, it's going to change everything.

[Main Preacher]

And when it does change it, it's not going to be because I'm worthy. So the devil is trying to convince you that the trauma is stronger than grace. So what I want you to understand.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Is God said, my strength is made.

[Main Preacher]

Perfect in your weakness. When you are weak, then am I strong.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

So I want you to let go.

[Main Preacher]

Of the idol of your trauma, because.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You have made your trauma a God in your life. And you are saying, how can I.

[Main Preacher]

Receive the oil when I had the trauma of my past? As if the trauma was stronger than the triumphant. And by the way, everybody in here had trauma in their past. Everybody in here.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Me first. I'm first one in line.

[Main Preacher]

Paul said, I'm chiefest amongst sinners. We are not here because we are worthy of God's soul. I'm not preaching because I'm worthy to preach the gospel.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I.

[Main Preacher]

In fact, I told God when he called me, I said, you sure ain't getting nothing. I said, you sure you sure about this? Let's talk about this. Don't make sense. You must have been talking to one of my neighbors. Cause I know, I know, I know you. I know you ain't talking to me because I had no plans of doing this. I'd opened up a club before, I'd have done this.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Look, look.

[Main Preacher]

This, this, this. This is not a good idea.

[Prayer Leader]

But God, who is rich in mercy.

[Main Preacher]

Wherein he have loved us, have chosen us. Are there any chosen people in here? You're chosen. You're chosen. And it has nothing to do with your worthiness now you may have to hear this over and over again. To treat your trauma.

[Prayer Leader]

To treat your trauma, you have to.

[Main Preacher]

Say this until it gets in your mouth. My mouth is not strong enough to heal your trauma because your trauma will not lose its grip until your mouth starts confessing with your mouth the Lord Jesus.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

When you start confessing with your mouth.

[Main Preacher]

The Lord Jesus more than you can.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Confess the past trauma.

[Main Preacher]

The trauma will have to let you go. And it's going to be gradual. It's going to wax warm. It ain't going to be red hot. It's going to wax warm. Every birthday, it's going to get a little warmer. Where my real people at?

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

All the real people know how long it takes you to get past your.

[Main Preacher]

Past and you still working on it. Because every now and then, something triggers.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You and you snap back to where you were. Can we be real?

[Main Preacher]

Can we be real in here? Can we be real in here?

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

This is what gets me in trouble. Because some of these churches try to.

[Main Preacher]

Pass themselves off as something they are not. There are no perfect churches. And if you find one and go in there, then it's not going to be perfect. And you let people stand up and tell you stuff that completely contrary to the scriptures. When the scripture said, there is none.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Good but the Father.

[Main Preacher]

None righteous.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

No, not one.

[Main Preacher]

And you let them get up and parade around in Seuss and tell you how righteous they are and how righteous their church is. And everybody dancing and shouting and you feeling all bad. Don't let the dance fool you. It's still feet of clay.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

We see.

[Main Preacher]

Through a glass darkly, but then face to face. Next question. Why is it that oftentimes God doesn't give us the details of the promise that he has for us? The death of her son in the story. Well, Lord, now let's play this back. Let's play this back. And let's rewrite the text. Because we rewrite history anyway. So let's rewrite the text to go along with your thesis. Okay, great woman of God who has been a blessing to my prophet over and over again and built him a room. I am going to give you a child. And he is going to grow up and die in your lap. She couldn't handle the truth. Every time the boy took a nap.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

She'D be in the room saying, you breathing.

[Main Preacher]

God gives you what you can handle. God. It's not God's job to let you in on details. Because if you're gonna walk by faith, faith don't give you details. Abraham said me and the Lad are going yonder to worship and we will come back again. But he didn't know how he was going to stab that boy. He raised his knife to stab his son, expecting God to raise him up. God was going to raise up a son. But it wasn't Abraham's son. God never told Abram that he had a ram in the thicket until Abram had raised his hand to kill his son. And then when he raised his hand, God said, now I know.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

See, I couldn't find out if I'd.

[Main Preacher]

Have given you all the details because you would have known this was just a dress rehearsal.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

But I wanted you to walk all the way up on the hill fully.

[Main Preacher]

Persuaded that you were going to offer him up as a burnt offering.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

A burnt offering.

[Main Preacher]

Not just a slain offering, but a.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Burnt offering was where all the blood.

[Main Preacher]

Drained down into a pan and the flesh was set on fire.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And it was his son.

[Main Preacher]

Can you imagine? I would act like I was deaf. I said, what you say? What you say? I can't hear like I used to hear what you say. You want me to raise a knife.

[Prayer Leader]

And slay my son and let the pan catch his blood and then take.

[Main Preacher]

The wood, Daddy, I see the knife. Daddy, I see the wood. The knife represents his judgment. The wood represents the cross. That's why Isaac had to carry the wood, because he's acting out how Jesus.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Is going to carry the cross.

[Main Preacher]

Y' all don't hear what I'm saying to you? Do you hear what I'm saying to you? And he's carrying the wood.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And he said, daddy, I see the.

[Main Preacher]

Knife and I see the wood, but I don't see the sacrifice. But what he didn't know is that right over his shoulder, God had a ram tied.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

What God got for you is tied. What God got for you is tied in the thicket.

[Main Preacher]

And you're not supposed to see it right now, or you wouldn't need faith. For faith is the substance of things hoped for for and the evidence of things not seen.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I'm gonna do one more.

[Main Preacher]

How do you maintain faith when evidence contradicts the promise? It's supposed to. That's why you got faith. If the evidence agreed with the promise.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

If a man.

[Main Preacher]

Let me put it to you the way Scripture said. If a man seeth that which he hopes for, why does he yet hope for? For would be silly for me to be standing up here saying, I believe.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

God to let me walk.

[Main Preacher]

Because I can walk. Now, if I was paralyzed from the waist down. Now the evidence is defying the faith. And the faith becomes the substance of the thing that I hope for. For. But if I see that which I hope for, why would I yet hope for it?

[Prayer Leader]

So God doesn't always show you everything to perfect your faith.

[Main Preacher]

So you don't ruin things, so you don't meddle with things. I was praying for one of my children one time. I was praying because they're to going through something. And I didn't want them to go through nothing. And I was praying and I was praying, and it was hard. It wasn't no little something. It was a big old something. And God said to me, when are you going to learn that I know how to raise your children better than you? When are you going to learn that I'm better at being a father than you? No, I'm not going to tell you how I'm going to do it.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I'm not going to tell you when.

[Main Preacher]

I'm going to do it. I'm not going to tell you how long you got to wait. I'm not going to tell you what you got to go through. I mean for you to suffer with it. I mean for you to sweat till drops of blood come out. I mean for you to rock them in your arms and hold them. Because I'm bonding you through the trouble. I'm shaping you through the trouble. I'm perfecting you through the trouble. I'm using the trouble to bless you. And if I did it like you want me to do it, you want me to do it like instant grits. Now, most of you young people, that's all y' all know is instant grits. But these old folks know how long you had to cook them old grits. You had to put them grits on low and you had to wait a long time before they bubbled. And you had to get them right and put a little cream in them, a little carnation milk in it and let it bubble up. Come on, talk to me, somebody.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And drop a little butter over in.

[Main Preacher]

It, a little salt water and let it stir up.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And you had to stand there like.

[Main Preacher]

Your grandmama and stir it.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And you remember how her arm was.

[Main Preacher]

All fat and it'd be stirring up them grits.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Come on, somebody, come on. See, you used to instant grits.

[Main Preacher]

There is no instant Jesus, because it.

[Prayer Leader]

Is the journey that defines him.

[Main Preacher]

When I walked on delrosa, up the.

[Prayer Leader]

Cobblestone streets of Jerusalem, and imagine in.

[Main Preacher]

My mind that I'm walking on the.

[Prayer Leader]

Same bricks that Jesus walked up. And I noticed that God didn't Just put him on the cross. He let him walk it out.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

With.

[Main Preacher]

The wood on his back, so heavy.

[Prayer Leader]

That it bent over it and bent. Touched Simon of Cyrene to help him.

[Main Preacher]

Lift up the cross.

[Prayer Leader]

Because Simon was there for that one moment.

[Main Preacher]

For that one moment.

[Prayer Leader]

And God will raise you up for one moment.

[Main Preacher]

One moment. He will put you up for one moment. He will put you in a position to change somebody's life. He raised you up and put you in that position to do one thing. Other people he's going to use for many years. Some people he's going to use for a moment. One man's on the cross and God used him for one moment to say, remember me.

[Prayer Leader]

When you get to the kingdom.

[Main Preacher]

Remember me. Doesn't mean I think you got Alzheimer's. Remember me as often as you do this. Do this in remembrance of me. So he had one loaf of bread and last supper.

[Prayer Leader]

I gotta quit.

[Main Preacher]

He had one loaf of bread. I don't have to quit. So he had one loaf of bread. Say, I have one loaf of bread.

[Prayer Leader]

And I give you a piece.

[Main Preacher]

And I give you a piece. Give you a piece. Give you a piece. Give you a piece. Give you a piece. Give you a piece. Give you a piece. You a piece and you a piece. And I say, remember me. Then all y' all got to come together. Come on, come on, come on, come.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

On, come on, come on.

[Main Preacher]

That's how you remember him. You remember him because there are many members in the body.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Come on, somebody.

[Main Preacher]

Many members in one body. How can the foot say to the head, I have no need of him? That lets you know what God means.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

When God says, remember.

[Main Preacher]

Are you hearing what I'm saying? Bow your heads. Let me pray for you. You watching online. Bow your heads. I want to pray for you. I want to pray for you. Because God has said some serious things to you.

[Prayer Leader]

I hope you took some notes, not.

[Main Preacher]

Just of what I said, but of things that God said to you about what I said. He spoke to specific situations that are going on in your life right now. And he's telling you not to bury your dreams.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

And now tonight, he's telling you how.

[Main Preacher]

He's telling you how to put the bread back together. He's showing you how not to let discouragement deter your destination. He's giving you the courage to fight on, though the vision tarry. Wait for it, Father, as we bow our heads tonight, O God, we bow.

[Prayer Leader]

Our heads in an uncertain world at a crazy time when the world is in turmoil, chaos is everywhere.

[Main Preacher]

We bow our heads At a time that our government has shut down. We bow our heads at a time.

[Prayer Leader]

That thousands of people don't have a job.

[Main Preacher]

We bow our heads at a time.

[Prayer Leader]

That hatred is rising up like moraine and peeking in our neighborhoods.

[Main Preacher]

We bow our heads at a time.

[Prayer Leader]

That the riverbed is dry and there.

[Main Preacher]

Is no water there. We bow our heads at a time that we can't sleep all the way.

[Prayer Leader]

Through the night without trouble waking us up and troubling our spirits.

[Main Preacher]

For we know not whether the levies will hold. We don't know if the dam will break. We don't know if we will be swimming with alligators or waiting on rooftops. We don't know.

[Prayer Leader]

We bow our heads.

[Main Preacher]

We bow our heads to say, you bigger than us, you greater than us. You're stronger than us. You got more power than us.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

You see stuff we don't see. We bow our heads because we brought.

[Main Preacher]

Our little staff down there and it didn't work. This is a job for you.

[Prayer Leader]

In my marriage, in my home, in.

[Main Preacher]

My body.

[Prayer Leader]

In my own mind, this is a job for you. We bow our heads like children and ask you simple stuff like show me how to think. Praise help my thinking to get right. Some of us have inherited the thinking of our parents and our ancestors. We've adopted worry and we don't know.

[Main Preacher]

Where it came from.

[Prayer Leader]

But we're going to divorce it tonight. We're going to dismember it tonight. And we're going to practice.

[Main Preacher]

Thinking on.

[Prayer Leader]

Whatsoever things are lovely and are of good report. If there be any virtue, if there be any praise, help us to think on this thing.

[Main Preacher]

I'm asking you to be my therapist.

[Prayer Leader]

Would you please be our counselor, Be our master physician. We all dressed up. We don't want nobody to know we're sick.

[Main Preacher]

We don't want them to know that.

[Prayer Leader]

We'Re cold and stiff, that the love.

[Main Preacher]

Of many has waxed cold.

[Prayer Leader]

That we've become indifferent, that we are not passionate about you like we used to be. And we missed the fire we used to have that made us come to church, that made us rush out of the car to get in the house of God to praise your name. We want to walk through the house.

[Main Preacher]

Talking to you like you live with us.

[Prayer Leader]

We open ourselves up to be reshapen because we have been marred in the hand of the potter. We're in your hands, but we're cracked in your hands. Make us again another vessel as seemeth good to the potter to make it. We thank you tonight because all around this room like seeds planted in Mama's garden. There are dreams all around this room.

[Main Preacher]

Dreams that have died in our lives.

[Prayer Leader]

Dreams that have embarrassed us in front of our friends.

[Main Preacher]

Dreams that have brought shame.

[Prayer Leader]

And guilt and turmoil. Dreams that we have not planted.

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[Prayer Leader]

We have not trusted you, but you spoke to us and told us, don't bury our dream.

[Main Preacher]

You never said don't plant it.

[Prayer Leader]

You just said don't bury it. Tonight, let the seeds push their way up through the sod until a green leaf appears out of the dirt. The dirt will still be the dirt, but you will use it to feed the leaf. And neither one will change colors, but both of them are necessary in order for the fruit to come. So I'm gonna bloom right where I'm planted.

[Main Preacher]

I'm gonna stand right where I am.

[Prayer Leader]

And bloom right in this spot.

[Main Preacher]

I thank you, God, for the sweeping away.

[Prayer Leader]

Of dark spirits, depressing spirits, antagonizing spirits.

[Main Preacher]

We spent more time thinking about what.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Might happen than we spent thinking about you.

[Main Preacher]

We repent of making idols out of trauma.

[Prayer Leader]

We spent more time looking up what could happen than we have spent looking for you. But I want to come back to.

[Main Preacher]

You.

[Prayer Leader]

Because in that presence there is fullness of joy. And at that right hand there are pleasures forevermore. And the things that used to give me pleasure don't give me pleasure like they used to. So I'm running back to you. I'm running back to you for the joy I could not find anywhere else. I pray right now that a spirit of repentance would fall on this room until you become the ultimate priority in our lives. And not the newspaper and not the news and not the Times and not.

[Main Preacher]

That problem child and not that thing we have spent our time that we.

[Prayer Leader]

Should have been praising you, talking about stuff that distracted us.

[Main Preacher]

And then we wondered why we had no peace.

[Prayer Leader]

Let peace emerge.

[Main Preacher]

Let it come in.

[Prayer Leader]

Because when your peace is comes in, my creativity is loose, my innovation is loose. When your peace comes in, my power and my authority is loose. When your peace comes in, it blocks the witches, it shuts down the warlocks, it destroys the curse.

[Main Preacher]

Let curses be broken in this room tonight. Let curses be broken online tonight. Let them be broken in people's living room, in people's house, on their couch, on their bed, in the dining room table. Right there. Let the curse be broken tonight. Tonight I make a commitment. I will not bury my dream.

[Prayer Leader]

I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord.

[Main Preacher]

Now, Lord, while we are praying, while.

[Prayer Leader]

We are yet praying, most of the time we just reach in and grab something and give it to you. We just do it. But while we are praying, we want to give an acceptable offering in your sight. The kind of offering that makes our baby sneeze. The kind of offering that wakes up our peace and joy. The kind of offering that will give us a good good night's sleep tonight.

[Main Preacher]

The kind of offering that will cause you to show us the ram in the bush. There's a ram right behind us. But until we lift our hands to offer that that is most meaningful to.

[Prayer Leader]

Us, we will not receive that which is most meaningful to you. And so I think tonight, I don't give carelessly or indifference, but with intentionality. I sow tonight. And Holy Ghost, I promise you, whatever you say, give whatever you ask of.

[Worship Leader]

Me.

[Prayer Leader]

Whatever you speak in my spirit, whatever you stir in my soul, I will plant that tonight like it ain't nothing. Because it is not worthy to be compared to what you mean to me. In Jesus name, Amen.

[Main Preacher]

Now, priesthood, that's who you are. You're a royal priest. You're a holy nation. You are kings and priests under God. What say ye?

[Prayer Leader]

Whatever the Holy Spirit's worth to you.

[Main Preacher]

Whether you're online, whether you're miles away, whether you have a different currency, whether you're in a different time zone, it matters not. Show hell you are a priest of.

[Prayer Leader]

God and give him an offering according to his excellent greatness.

[Main Preacher]

I need not give you figure.

[Prayer Leader]

Because if you prayed with me tonight from a sincere place, the Holy Spirit is going to challenge your faith.

[Main Preacher]

You can't get this kind of word and not have your faith challenged.

[Prayer Leader]

There are some things that money cannot buy. But I pray as I give you what I have that. You'll give me what you have. And together this service will be successful. Not because the bishop taught, but because the priesthood obeyed. Let the spirit of obedience rest in this house as I sow my seed unto the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and do it with a smile, for God blesses the cheerful giver.

[Main Preacher]

The PMTs are in the aisle.

[Prayer Leader]

Priesthood, stand and wave your sacrifice before the king. Wave it before him.

[Main Preacher]

Because God has been talking business to us tonight.

[Prayer Leader]

God has done some big stuff. He's healed, some deep stuff, he's moved. Some stuff that we've been struggling with a long time.

[Main Preacher]

And as we wave the seed before.

[Prayer Leader]

You, we call it done. We call it done. I refuse to work, walk out of this door being the same person I was when I came in, not after hearing this word, not tonight. I will not dismember your message with my carnality. So it now pass your seed.

[Main Preacher]

If you got a seed all the way to the left, you online, you have an opportunity to walk to the top of the mountain and give your offering to God. This is not about YouTube and Facebook and Instagram.

[Prayer Leader]

This is about your walk with God and where you stand with God.

[Main Preacher]

God. This is your covenant with God. So do it as doing it unto the Lord. You that are holding those seats in.

[Prayer Leader]

Your hands, stand with a praise that makes hell nervous.

[Main Preacher]

Pmts.

[Prayer Leader]

Serve the people of God.

[Main Preacher]

You've got a few minutes left on air. Don't let this one pass you by.

[Prayer Leader]

Tonight was a special night.

[Main Preacher]

It had your name on. Had your name on. Read your mail tonight. This is Walk it Out Wednesday.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Right here.

[Prayer Leader]

At the Potter's house.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

If you're glad you're at the Potter's.

[Main Preacher]

House, give him a praise right now.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

If you're glad to, you're at the Potter's house. Give him a praise right now. I said if you're glad you're at the potter's house, give him some praise tonight. I wouldn't have missed this for the world. I wouldn't have missed this for the world. If you got something from God, can you give him some praise tonight? Yeah.

[Main Preacher]

Right there in your house.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Right there in your kitchen. Give him some praise tonight.

[Main Preacher]

While we are yet standing. If there is any backslider who drifted away or walked away or fell away or got angry and fell out with people and left. If there's a sinner in this house that you know church but you don't know Jesus, we're going to end this.

[Prayer Leader]

Service with you on the altar and.

[Main Preacher]

With the blood of Jesus. He's going to bleed out on you tonight. He's going to bleed out on you. He's going to bleed out. If you got the faith to come to this altar tonight, the blood of Jesus. Jesus is going to bleed out on you. And you're going to leave changed and renewed and delivered by the power of God.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

I'm not going to beg you. I'm not going to plead with you.

[Main Preacher]

I'm going to give you an opportunity. I don't know it for sure, but I believe we're living in the last days.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Any day now.

[Main Preacher]

Any day now.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Don't be foolish and see the signs.

[Main Preacher]

And don't read the signs. Come now. Come now. Thank God for these that have come.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Come now. Come now. Is there another one?

[Main Preacher]

Come now while the blood still runs warm in your veins. Come now. Come now. Honey, I want you to come and I want you to pray over these souls and lead them to Jesus. I'm gonna be the father.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

That hands.

[Main Preacher]

The child to the mother. Because Mama knows how to resurrect you. Are you sure you're not gonna come? Are you sure you're gonna miss it? We are living out the word right now. We are living out the word right now.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

We are living out the word right now.

[Main Preacher]

We are living out the word right now.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Last call. Last call. Last call. That's right, son. Come on down here. Last call. Last call. Behold, he comes quickly. Behold, he comes quickly. Behold, he comes quickly. Behold, he comes quickly.

[Worship Leader]

Let's call.

[Main Preacher]

Jesus. Jesus.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Take him out, Mom.

[Altar Call Leader]

Father, we're so grateful for these souls. Best decision you ever made in your life. Best decision you've ever made in your life. Lift your hands with me. You've made the decision. Best decision you've ever made in your life. Father, we love you. We appreciate you. We need you. Save me, Lord. Save me from myself. Save me from my sins. Deliver me from my past. Save me, Lord. I confess with my mouth and I believe in my heart you are God. Be God over my life, over my situation, over my circumstances.

[Worship Leader]

Help, Lord.

[Altar Call Leader]

Help me to live the life that you've designed for me. Help me to walk in the fullness of joy. I love you, Lord. I need you, Lord. Now, when you walk out this room, he's gonna walk with you. He's going to talk with you. He's going to remind you that you belong to him.

[Worship Leader]

The blood of Jesus. Hallelujah.

[Main Preacher]

The blood of Jesus covers you, restrains.

[Worship Leader]

You, keeps you, walks with you, talks with you.

[Altar Call Leader]

Now, God, for those that came we thank you for those that wanted to come. Trouble them till they give up the Ghost. Hallelujah. And say, what must I do to be saved? Now upon the confession of your faith, God has saved you. Now you gotta walk it out. You gotta walk it out. And if you have not received the Holy Ghost, open up your mouth and start giving him praise and adoration and glory and glory and glory and glory and glory. And watch him lift you. Watch him lift you. You feel him lifting you right now.

[Worship Leader]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[Altar Call Leader]

So good to be saved. Lift your hands as a sign of surrender.

[Worship Leader]

Hallelujah.

[Altar Call Leader]

Come out with your hands up.

[Worship Leader]

Come out with your hands up. Come out with your hands up. The Holy Ghost has a warrant for your rest.

[Altar Call Leader]

He has need of you. He has need of you.

[Worship Leader]

Now. Now. Now. Now.

[Altar Call Leader]

Jesus. Hallelujah. We thank you for these newborn babies. Newborn restored. Hallelujah. We thank you for the har. And now you go and reproduce after your own kind. Some people's assigned to you. Some souls assigned to you. What you gonna do about it? In the name of Jesus, we thank you for the word of God. We thank you for the man of God. We thank you for these babies. I remember when I came up, Hallelujah. They said, who wants to be saved? Before I could think about it, I jumped up and started running.

[Worship Leader]

Now you gotta run.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Don't look back.

[Worship Leader]

Run.

[Altar Call Leader]

Don't look back. Look at your neighbor and say, are you saved? Wait for an answer. Wait for an answer. Are you saved? Do you know that? You know that? You know that you're saved? Give him a praise.

[Worship Leader]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Halle. Hallelujah.

[Altar Call Leader]

Glory to Jesus.

[Worship Leader]

Hallelujah. He's good.

[Altar Call Leader]

He's better than good. Hallelujah. Lord, watch over us as we leave this place.

[Worship Leader]

Place.

[Altar Call Leader]

But never your presence. May the Lord watch between you and me. Look at your neighbor between you and me.

[Worship Leader]

While we're absent one from the other.

[Altar Call Leader]

In Jesus name. In Jesus name.

[Worship Leader]

In Jesus name.

[Altar Call Leader]

Come on, Praise team. If I could sing, I would sing something. But I. I'm not going to do that tonight. I'm going let you do that, Chris.

[Worship Leader]

Yes, Lord. Oh, yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Hey. Hey.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

Hey.

[Worship Leader]

He's in the room. Hey. I said he's in the room right now. He's in the room. He's in the room. He's.

[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

He is.

[Worship Leader]

Don't miss the move. Yes. He don't miss the move of God. Yes. He's walking with you. He's walking with you. He's talking with you. He's talking with you. He's waiting. He's waiting. He's waiting. Yeah. Yes, he do me a favor, just lift your hands in the air. Lift your hands as high as you can. Say, I surrender, Jesus. I surrender my mind, Jesus. I surrender my thoughts, Jesus. I surrender my heart, Jesus. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. Thank you for every power. Thank you for every holy. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I give you my best praise. I give you the Hallelujah. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Say so. Let the redeem of the Lord say so. Oh yes he is. Oh yes he is. Yes he is. Yes, he is.

[Potter's House Host 1]

Listen to Potter's house in just a place. It's a movement family.

[Potter's House Host 2]

We are so much better when we come together. And today we're inviting you to be a part of something bigger. When you sow a seed, you're planting the future of hope, healing and change.

[Potter's House Host 1]

In times of uncertainty, the house stands strong. And because of you, it keeps standing for others. Your giving isn't just generosity, it's ministry. And what you sow today will be the miracle someone is praying for.

[Potter's House Host 2]

If this message spoke to you, and if you're ready to step into faith, if you believe in what God is doing here, don't wait. Sow a seed. Move in faith. Every gift, every act of generosity fuels this mission and brings us closer to reaching the lives that need it the most.

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[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

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[Prayer Leader]

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[Main Preacher]

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[Pablo Torre]

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[Main Preacher]

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[Pablo Torre]

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[Co-Preacher/Assistant Speaker]

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[Altar Call Leader]

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