Walk It Out Wednesday: The Rumble in the Jungle - Pastor Don Johnson

Summary

---

The Potter's House Podcast

Walk It Out Wednesday: The Rumble in the Jungle - Pastor Don Johnson
Date: November 21, 2025

---

Episode Overview

This episode of Walk It Out Wednesday is a stirring, strategy-filled sermon from Pastor Don Johnson entitled "The Rumble in the Jungle." Using the story of Jesus' wilderness experience in Matthew 4, Pastor Donnie explores how believers face spiritual battles, “wilderness seasons,” and how God prepares, tests, and ultimately elevates His children through these trials. The message is both honest and practical, offering concrete steps for navigating hard seasons and holding onto one’s God-given identity.

---

Key Topics & Insights

1. Your Identity Comes First

• God’s Intention: Before Jesus entered the wilderness, God publicly declared: "This is my beloved Son, in whom I'm well pleased" (02:26-03:18). Pastor Donnie underscores that God is always intentional in reminding us who we are—even before we face our greatest tests.
  • Quote: “God is intentional about telling you who you are… You need to know who you are before you decide what you’re going to go through.” (03:10)
• The Name God Gives: Our true identity comes from God, not from people or past circumstances (03:41-04:43).
  • Memorable moment: “Who you were can talk you out of who you are becoming.” (04:44)

2. The Importance of Season Identification

• Recognize Your Season: It's vital to discern when you are in a "wilderness season"—a spiritually dry, challenging period (07:33-09:23).
  • Quote: "You have to identify the season." (07:36)
• Position vs. Condition: You may be in a hard place, but your internal condition doesn't have to match your external hardship.
  • Quote: “The position is the wilderness. Your condition shouldn't be the wilderness.” (08:08)

3. Purpose of the Wilderness: Testing, Not Destruction

• It’s a Test, Not a Sentence: The wilderness is meant for testing and growth, not punishment or stagnation (35:25-36:14).
  • Quote: “This season is meant to be a test, not for him to be terminated.” (36:04)
• The Devil’s Limited Power: Only a few times in scripture does the enemy actually speak; we often grant him more power than he has (38:10-39:08).
  • Quote: “We give the devil more power than he should have.” (38:07)

4. Accountability and Mindset

• Personal Responsibility: Sometimes, repeated problems are the result of our own choices, not attacks from the devil (22:11-22:59).
  • Quote: “There are some things — it ain’t the devil, it’s you. You’re blaming the devil when it really was a decision.” (22:11)
• Mindset Shift: Don’t let trauma and disappointment dictate your perception of God’s process; gratitude is a decision (84:41-85:25).

5. Changing Your Community and Conversation

• Misery Loves Company: Be careful not to create a community around your complaints. Break out of spiritual complacency and negative circles (20:28-21:33).
  • Quote: “Why sit we here till we die? … Are you around people that's spiritually killing you?” (20:28, 21:36)
• Guard Your Ears: Faith and doubt are both sown through what you hear. Protect your mind by managing your conversations (39:36-40:05).

6. Standing Firm in Your Identity

• Don’t Perform, Receive: Your spiritual identity is received by God’s declaration, not earned through performance (64:03-65:27).
  • Quote: “Your identity is received, not performed.” (64:03)
• Comparison Kills Joy: Avoid comparing your journey to others—blessing comes with unknown battles (48:09-49:18).
  • Quote: "Don’t ask anybody for what they have until you ask them, Can you show me the receipts?” (48:37)

7. Face the True Tempter

• Self-Reflection: Sometimes, the biggest obstacle is ourselves—not external enemies (45:43-46:13).
  • Quote: “The tempter you might be trying to face is in the mirror.” (45:25)
• Deal with Trauma: Honest self-assessment includes managing emotional wounds and knowing your limits (51:45-52:29).

8. Scripture as Your Weapon

• Right Word, Right Season: Victory in battle comes from knowing and speaking the right scripture, not reacting out of emotion (52:13-53:44).
  • Quote: “You’re fighting a devil with emotions. And the only way you’re going to defeat him is with scripture.” (52:13)

9. Refuse Shortcuts and Embrace Process

• No Shortcuts to Glory: The enemy will always offer quick fixes, but lasting success comes through endurance (67:23-68:40).
  • Quote: “Shortcut isn’t always the best way… The kingdom is going to come after the cross.” (67:23)

10. Authority and the Power to Evict

• Speaking with Authority: You can command the devil to leave—your authority is in knowing your God-given identity (72:07-73:45).
  • Quote: “You can no longer live rent free in my house. I am giving your eviction notice.” (73:40)

11. Wilderness as Preparation and Promotion

• The Wilderness is Temporary: The hard season is not for settling but for transformation (19:05-19:29, 44:36-44:46).
  • Quote: “The wilderness is not meant for you to live in. It is a season.” (19:29)

---

Memorable Quotes & Moments

• “God is intentional about telling you who you are.” (03:10)
• “Who you were can talk you out of who you are becoming.” (04:44)
• “If it’s going good, it could be the devil.” (11:02)
• “God will create a storm to see if you will be happy in the storm.” (09:52)
• “The greatest enemy of progress is comfortability.” (44:32)
• “Sometimes the tempter you face is the one in the mirror.” (45:25)
• “Your identity is received, not performed.” (64:03)
• “Don’t let your condition fool around with your position.” (75:41)
• “Even if the storm don’t stop, don’t be afraid because I’m here.” (76:10)
• “You have no idea what someone sitting next to you is going through; you just see the glory, not the story.” (92:23)

---

Major Principles (with Timestamps)

| Principle | Description | Timestamp | |-----------|-------------|-----------| | 1. Identify the Season | Know if you’re in a “wilderness” period. Don’t let your condition dictate your faith. | 07:36-09:23 | | 2. The Wilderness is a Season, Not a Settlement | Don’t build a home in hardship—move through it, don’t get stuck. | 19:05-19:29 | | 3. Understand the Purpose | The main point of the wilderness is to be tested, not destroyed. | 35:25-36:14 | | 4. Face the Tempter | Sometimes what you’re fighting is within; confront your own mindsets and trauma. | 45:25-47:10 | | 5. Stand Firm in Your Identity | Resist the urge to perform for approval; stand on God’s declaration over you. | 58:39-60:33 | | 6. Receive, Don’t Perform | Accept your calling and anointing—you don’t work for it, you walk in it. | 64:03-66:22 | | 7. Refuse the Shortcut | Don’t compromise for quick relief or worldly opportunities. | 67:10-68:26 | | 8. Use Your Authority | Speak against the enemy, evict what doesn’t belong in your life. | 72:07-73:45 |

---

Practical Q&A Highlights

• Q: How do you keep from repeating a wilderness season? (79:05-82:50)
  • Take accountability — sometimes, you haven’t learned what’s needed to graduate to the next level.
  • Seek help, therapy, or mentorship if needed; God uses support systems.
• Q: How do you maintain gratitude during hardship? (83:29-85:25)
  • Gratitude is a choice; happiness is based on circumstances, but joy is a decision rooted in faith.
• Q: Can you thrive in a wilderness season? (90:29-91:37)
  • Yes, you can and should thrive. Smiling and persevering in adversity defeats the enemy’s plan.
• Q: How do you build a supportive “corner” when alone? (86:55-89:58)
  • You need diverse support: mentors, friends, spiritual advisors. Different aspects of life need different “corner people.”

---

Final Blessing

Pastor Donnie ended by inviting everyone to spiritually build their own altar—a symbolic step of surrender in whatever “wilderness” one faces. He declared that the season is temporary, promotion is coming, and “it’s already all right.”

“It doesn’t matter what the enemy meant for evil. God is turning it for the good…The wilderness was a classroom, and after tonight, you’ve been promoted.” (97:22, 98:20)

---

Summary Table: Principles & Takeaways

| Principle | Takeaway | |-------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Identity Precedes Assignment | Know who you are before facing new challenges | | Seasons Are Temporary | Neither victory nor hardship lasts forever | | Test, Don’t Settle | View difficulties as tests for growth, not permanent states | | Accountable Mindset | Take responsibility for choices; don’t always blame the enemy | | Community Matters | Surround yourself with truth-tellers and people who see God’s call in you | | No Comparison | Stay focused on your own journey; don’t compare your path to others | | Use Spiritual Weapons | Fight life’s battles with appropriate scriptures, not just emotions | | Stand on Authority | Speak with the authority God gives—evict what is not from Him | | Praise & Gratitude | Choose praise, especially in hardship—it changes your outlook | | Expect Promotion | Trust that wilderness precedes elevation and breakthrough |

---

For New Listeners:
This episode is a masterclass in not just surviving, but thriving through adversity. It’s packed with relatable examples, scriptural backing, honest confessions, and practical strategies—making it a must-listen (or read!) for anyone navigating a tough season.

Transcript

[Pastor Donnie]

AI had the time of my life a I never felt this way before.

[Podcast Host]

From building timelines to assigning the right people and even spotting risks across dozens of projects, Monday Sidekick knows your business, thinks ahead and takes action. One click on the star and consider it done.

[Pastor Donnie]

And I owe it all to you.

[Podcast Host]

Try Monday Sidekick AI you'll love to use on Monday.com hey, Ryan Reynolds here.

[Commercial Announcer]

Wishing you a very happy half off holiday because right now Mint Mobile is offering you the gift of 50% off unlimited. To be clear, that's half the price, not half the service. Mint is still premium unlimited wireless for a great price. So that means half day, you know. Give it a [e-mail] Switch upfront payment.

[Podcast Host]

Of $45 for three month plan equivalent to $15 per month required new customer offer for first three months only. Speed slow 135 gigabytes of networks busy taxes and fees extra.

[Supplement Brand Representative]

See mintmobile.com A lot of supplement brands chase trends, but if you're serious about your health, we know research backed science is what actually moves the needle. Momentous works with the best brains in human science to create every formula and every batch is made of pure ingredients tested for safety and does not contain fillers so you get the best long term results possible. Creatine isn't just for muscle gains. It's essential daily fuel for your brain, body and long term performance. Momentous Creapure Creatine is backed by leading performance experts like Dr. Andrew Huberman and Dr. Stacey Sims. Sourced exclusively in Germany, Creapure sets the gold standard for creatine, delivering the purest form Creatine monohydrate that's rigorously washed and never cut with fillers. With over 2,000 five star reviews, over 112,000 customers have seen the results firsthand With Momentous, the fundamentals are done right. Right now Momentous is offering our listeners up to 35% off your first subscription order with promo code Acast. Go to livemomentous.com and use promo code Acast for up to 35% off your first Subscription Order. That's livemomentous.com promo code Acast.

[Podcast Host]

Welcome to the Potter's House Podcast. You are home away from home. Stay a while as the Word of God restores your hope and transforms your life.

[Pastor Donnie]

The Rumble in the Jungle the Rumble.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

In the Jungle Matthew Chapter four, verse number one was my opening statement in regards to there's a fight that's happening in your life. But I found something interesting when I went back and revisited again. Preacher Matthew Chapter Three, when we talk about God's now con, how would like to say it? Validating his son. This is my beloved son, whom I'm well pleased. And I talked about the importance. I talked about God's silence is really a promotion. And that really came to light because God's silence is really a promotion.

[Pastor Donnie]

But then he showed me something else in there that I didn't see the.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

First time that I want to share with you tonight.

[Pastor Donnie]

And we're gonna walk through some points tonight. He showed me something. He said, God is intentional about telling.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You who you are. Okay.

[Pastor Donnie]

God is intentional about telling you who you are.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The problem is we're not around the.

[Pastor Donnie]

Right people that can confirm who God says I am. Typically when God calls his son, he said, this is my beloved son, whom I'm well pleased. God is intentional about calling you who you are, because you need to know who you are before you decide what.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You'Re going to go through. Okay? Okay.

[Pastor Donnie]

Your name is important. Not your name as in your first name and your last name. The name is what he calls you. As a matter of fact, he told Jeremiah, he says, before you was even formed in the womb, in the belly, I knew you. He said, I sanctified you. I ordained you. In other words, I equipped you for what you were getting ready to go through. He said, so it's intentional that I call you your name. It's intentional.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Wait a minute.

[Pastor Donnie]

Your name is the head and not the tail. Your name is above and not beneath. Your name is the lender and not the borrower. Wait a minute, Pastor. That is not my name. That is your name because that's what he said you are. He said, you are the front and not the last. That's who you are. But every now and then, we find ourselves around people who convince us to get to the back of the line. And God is saying, that's not what I called you to do. Do you know who you were can talk you out of who you're becoming.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I'm gonna say that again.

[Pastor Donnie]

Who you were can talk you out of who you are becoming. I'm guilty of it. You're not guilty of it.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Your neighbor is.

[Pastor Donnie]

Have you ever talked yourself out of a blessing? Has God ever told you this is.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

What'S gonna happen in your life?

[Pastor Donnie]

Well, I don't know. Maybe I'm a little too old. I'm out of season. That's the old you talking to the becoming you. And then the battle happens when God is saying, no, no, no, that's not what I told you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Jeremiah, here's what's interesting.

[Pastor Donnie]

He said, I ordained you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Ordained.

[Pastor Donnie]

It is an ed, which means it's past tense, which means he did it before you were even born. So when he says, I know you, it is a sign of intimacy, which literally means he marked you. He says, I marked you. I chose you before you were even born. Why do you allow other people to.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Talk you out of what God called you to do? Is it because technically, Pastor, we look for their validation over God's? Because they're touchable. They're touchable.

[Pastor Donnie]

And you want to know what's really frustrating?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Allowing disqualified people to qualify. You.

[Pastor Donnie]

You. You don't even. You don't even qualify to even tell.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Me how many carrots is on this ring.

[Pastor Donnie]

You're not even a gemologist, so how can you tell me how much this ring is worth if you're not certified to see the value in the ring? How can you not tell me? I'm not chosen by God? When you're looking through a distorted vision, and sometimes people are not allowed to.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Tell us who we are because they're looking through dirty lenses.

[Pastor Donnie]

It's important that you're around people who see clearly. I can see clearly now. The rain is gone. I need to make sure you can see when I don't see every now.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And then when I'm driving. Lady, I said I can't see. I need you to help me with my blind spot. I need you to help me with.

[Pastor Donnie]

What I cannot see. I don't need to talk to me about what I can see. I need you to tell me what I cannot see. And I need to be humble enough to accept what you told me and don't pull out. Because the problem is if I know it's a blind spot and she tells me that don't go, and I go anyway, therein lies the problem. So God is intentional about telling you who you are. This.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

This is Walk it out Wednesday.

[Pastor Donnie]

So we plan to take notes today.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

We plan to take notes. So I'm going to walk through some principles that God showed me in this text.

[Pastor Donnie]

The first.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The first thing is this. The first thing is write this down. Number one.

[Pastor Donnie]

You have to identify the season.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You have to. You have to. I identify the season.

[Pastor Donnie]

It's.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It's in the verse. It's in. It's in verse number one.

[Pastor Donnie]

The Bible says he's led by the.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Spirit into the wilderness. So it's safe to say that this.

[Pastor Donnie]

Is a wilderness season. It's safe to say this is a wilderness season. And we've clearly defined it on Sunday. The wilderness season is barren and it is dry. That is the wilderness season. The only problem I'm having as I begin to look even further, that sometimes there's a difference between your position and your condition. The position is the wilderness. Your condition shouldn't be the wilderness.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay, let me come and get you.

[Pastor Donnie]

God did not have a problem with getting the children of Israel out of Egypt. He had a problem with getting Egypt out of the children of Israel. See, you have to be careful. You can be in the wilderness, but the wilderness does not even be in you. So my position is I'm in the wilderness, but my condition is I'm not bothered by the wilderness. That's why I count it all joy. When I fall into diverse temptation, I count it joy because joy is my position. See, this is why some people shouldn't bother you. I can't believe you did. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's just a position. It's not the condition. So even if God doesn't turn it around for you, he can deliver you while you're in the middle of it.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

See?

[Pastor Donnie]

Oh, my God. It's in the text. He says, watch this. Here's what I do. I'mma take you to a place, I'mma put you in the middle of it, but it can't change you. I'mma prove to you that a wilderness will not change who you are. And I'm afraid that some of us have allowed conditions to change how we think. Do you not understand that God will create a storm to see if you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Will be happy in this poem?

[Pastor Donnie]

He will create dysfunction just to see how you will act in the dysfunction. I'mma prove it to you. He says, have you considered my servant job? God volunteered this man for something that he did not volunteer for, that he was minding his business and prospering. But God said, I want to create a condition that will not change his position. Here's the bet. His devil says, I bet you I can make him curse you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

God says, no, he won't because he's not driven by his condition.

[Pastor Donnie]

And the problem with some of us is our condition dictates whether we trust God or not. If it's going good, then it has to be God. If I'm getting every. I'm gonna say this. If it's going good, it could be the devil.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Pastor Donnie]

If it. If it's going good, I just.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I think I just mess up people up. No, Pastor. Cause good is God.

[Pastor Donnie]

He's. The Bible says he will Appear as an angel of light and he will present an opportunity to you that he knew you wanted from the.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Giddy up.

[Pastor Donnie]

Have you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay, I'm gonna prove it to you.

[Pastor Donnie]

I've done it before.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Maybe you have it. Have you ever prayed with your mind made up? Now, God, I'm asking you to do this.

[Pastor Donnie]

But in my mind I'm gonna do it anyway. But I'm looking for a yes from God. So God says, why are you even asking me when you're already going to do it anyway? You are literally praying with your mind made up. And God is saying, that's not what.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I want from you.

[Pastor Donnie]

I want to create a condition that will challenge your position. I want to challenge you. And I'm afraid that as a church, not the Potter's house, as an organization, the body of Christ, we're not challenging people anymore.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Come on now.

[Pastor Donnie]

Yes, sir. Everyone wants to run up here and.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Sow a seed and then you're rich for the next gazillion years of your life.

[Pastor Donnie]

No one wants to be challenged with.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

A cuss word called budget. No one will be censored by called saving.

[Pastor Donnie]

Because we've candy coated the word of God and made it as though it's spooky. Just speak it and it's gonna come to pass when God is saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oftentimes I'm gonna prepare you for what you prayed for. And you may not be equipped for what you prayed for yet. Maybe, maybe God hasn't given it to.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You yet because you're not ready for it yet. Okay, I'm gonna say that again.

[Pastor Donnie]

Maybe God hasn't given it to you yet because you're not ready for it yet. And you got to figure out, hey, God, when do I use this weapon? When do I use what God has given me? I put the boxing gloves on and it was absolutely fun. But guess what? I am not doing 12 rounds, three at best. If that. He said three at best if that. If you know anything about boxing, the three minutes in the round, three continual minutes was constantly moving. It is one of the toughest exercises in the world. And probably around round number two, I'm going to tell other guy hit me and I'm going to fall down.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Because I'm tired. Now watch this. In your spirit, have you given up because you tired because you didn't have the stamina to get in the fight that you thought you were ready for, praying about something that you thought you needed and all of a sudden got yourself in a fight and God Says, I told you you weren't ready for it. Okay, let me come and get you relationship wise. Have you ever gotten a relationship and you look for the receipt in which you can return the person back? Okay.

[Pastor Donnie]

It is.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It is. It is important that you understand that you identify the season that you're in.

[Pastor Donnie]

What? What season? It is a wilderness season. It does not drive me, though. It does not make me who I am. Because I'm in a bad place doesn't mean I'm doing bad things. And I want to.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Oh, God, help me right here.

[Pastor Donnie]

Everybody's not going to be a millionaire. I didn't say who was and who wasn't, but everyone is not going to be a millionaire. Maybe God is saying, I want to satisfy you so you can create a new lineage, so you can create generational love in your family and break every generational curse. And the money doesn't break the curse. The money only makes you more of what you already are. So maybe God is saying, I'm creating peace in your homes.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay, I said I wasn't going to yell. I said I was just going to talk. It is. It is the wilderness that we got to miss.

[Pastor Donnie]

We misdiagnosed. The wilderness isn't always bad, Pastor.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Nobody want to be in a dry place.

[Pastor Donnie]

I want to be in a bad place. I want to be in a dry.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Place as long as God's there with me.

[Pastor Donnie]

Here's why I want to be in that dry place. Because I know if he's with me, he's making something out of me. And if I know he put me there, I'm there for a reason. And the Bible says, Jeremiah, he says, I formed you, which means I took time to make you. And if I'm taking time to make you stop rushing something that takes time to be made.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay, okay. I'm not. I'm not a cook, but I cook a little bit. I know enough to be dangerous. But the one thing I do know, and all the cooking I do know.

[Pastor Donnie]

You do not cook oxtails in the microwave. I don't know. I know enough. But here, the microwave is equipped to cook it faster.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The problem is it won't taste like it should because it cooked too fast and now it's too tough.

[Pastor Donnie]

Maybe God is saying, I need to simmer you for a little while because you want to be cooked fast. But if I release you too early, you're going to be tough. And he says, I got to let you sit in the wilderness for a little while. And it's okay. I promise. I promise. You.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It's okay.

[Pastor Donnie]

It's okay. And I know it goes against Pastor prophesy.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Say, what's going to happen?

[Pastor Donnie]

Here's the prophecy to you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The wilderness is going to be better for you.

[Pastor Donnie]

No, see, no one really shouts when.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I say the wilderness is coming in your life. Here's where we got to go from elementary school to middle school to high school, to undergraduates, to graduate degree to getting your doctorate. When you go from high school to college, no one is waking you up in the morning.

[Pastor Donnie]

No one is saying, baby, get up. I'm cooking you breakfast. No, no, no, no, no.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

There has to be a thing called.

[Pastor Donnie]

Time management.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

That'S going to teach you life skills, that if you don't go.

[Pastor Donnie]

To class, class is going to keep on going. If you don't go to class, somebody still got to pay the price. If you don't live your life to the fullest, someone is still gonna benefit. If you get it or don't get it, someone is still gonna have to follow in your footsteps. And I'm here to tell you, if.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You do it or don't do it, there's still a lesson learned. Oh, you'll get that one in the morning. Whether you do it or you don't do it, there is a lessons that learned. And here's what becomes so difficult.

[Pastor Donnie]

Pastor. I don't. I don't. I don't want to learn the lesson.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Because lessons are hard.

[Pastor Donnie]

Sometimes they're hard. They hurt me.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

They hurt me.

[Pastor Donnie]

It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay to hurt. It's okay to hurt.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Ask a trainer. It's okay to hurt actual muscles after a workout. It's okay to hurt. Cause every now and then, you have to tear something down before you build it up. And I think we want to build something up without tearing it down first. So we got to be able to get into the word of God, and we got to dive into the word of God. Let me help you. Here's what helped me, and this is what helped me. I used to think the Bible was just a book of stories. So for me, the Bible is not a book of stories. It's a book of strategies. So in every story, there's a strategy, and I gotta figure out how to.

[Pastor Donnie]

Apply that strategy to my life. So God give me strategic measures in that story.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

How can I apply this to my life? Somebody shout strategy. So we take the story like Jesus in the wilderness.

[Pastor Donnie]

How do I apply this in my life?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I told you, the first thing is this how do you. You gotta identify the season. The second one is this. The wilderness is a season, not a settlement. When I say settlement, I'm not talking about a legal thing. When I say settlement, I'm talking about. It is a residence. It is a community that you live in.

[Pastor Donnie]

The wilderness is not meant for you to live in.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay, I'm gonna say Helgen.

[Pastor Donnie]

The wilderness is not meant for you to live in. It is a season. A season has an expiration date, but if you live there long enough, you'll think you always in a drought.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Let me simplify it.

[Pastor Donnie]

If you spend a hundred percent of your time and 20% of your problems.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You'Re gonna think life is always bad. I'm gonna say it again.

[Pastor Donnie]

If you spend a hundred percent of.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Your time talking about 20% of your problems, you'll miss the 80. That's progressive. Life is always bad.

[Pastor Donnie]

No, it's not.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It's where you spend your time.

[Pastor Donnie]

Life always turning.

[Supplement Brand Representative]

No, no.

[Pastor Donnie]

It's where you spend your time. So what you got to figure out is how do I move in my mind from one season to the next? Come, come, come, come, come here.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Four lepers.

[Pastor Donnie]

Why sit we here till we die? If you go back and read 2.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Kings, chapter 7, it is really, really great. You find out the lepers, they're a community outside the gate. So they're a community of sick people, which means they enjoy being around each.

[Pastor Donnie]

Other, which means misery loves company. So we complain about the same thing.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

We always arguing about the same thing.

[Pastor Donnie]

We feel disappointed about this. So you created a community that now you live in. And all of a sudden four of.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Them say, hey, hey, hey, hey.

[Pastor Donnie]

Why sit here till we die? In other words, somebody made a decision, we need to relocate. Now. Guess this, only four of them did it. But it's a community. Might I suggest this to you? You might want to be a part.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Of the four instead of staying a part of the community that's dying.

[Pastor Donnie]

So when I say dying now, they were dying.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Literally.

[Pastor Donnie]

But I'm talking, are you around people.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

That'S spiritually killing you.

[Pastor Donnie]

After every phone call, you feel drained. Do you look at your phone and say, do I contemplate picking this up or not?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Because I really don't know, Pastor, if I have the energy for this today.

[Pastor Donnie]

Why sit here until we die?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

There's a decision that you can make.

[Pastor Donnie]

What God is saying, there's an expiration date, but you choose to stay there.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

If we're honest with ourselves here and online, there are some things it ain't the devil. And it ain't God, it's you. It's you. You're blaming the devil when it really was a decision. The devil put me in this. No, your decision put you in that. So instead of taking accountability for the decision, you pull the Adam and Eve spirit. Blaming instead of taking accountability.

[Pastor Donnie]

Because there's repentance and accountability. There's discipleship in accountability, but instead of taking accountability, you rather shift blame to somebody else and say it's. It's.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

They.

[Pastor Donnie]

They did this to me instead of, I. I made this decision. I'm in this wilderness. And if I'm in this wilderness, God help me with my mindset while I'm here. It's the mind shift of the decision. So when you heard me say, it's a season, not a settlement, somebody should.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Have said themselves, okay, it won't last that long. It won't last long.

[Pastor Donnie]

Whatever you're dealing with will not last long unless you make it last long. It only lasts as long as you allow it to last. That's why you can have joy and sorrow. That's why you can confuse the enemy when things are going bad for other people. Your child.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

That don't bother me. Can you.

[Pastor Donnie]

Have you ever take a reflection of your life? Have you ever looked back over your.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Life and said, that just don't bother me anymore?

[Pastor Donnie]

That just. I. I almost, like, I've outgrown that. You have now created a mind shift to say, you know what? I'm not gonna let them bother me.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I'm not going to let that bother me. I'm not going to let that situation bother me.

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm not going to get stuck in the wilderness. Because what I will not do is I will not be like a dog.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Returning to my vomit.

[Pastor Donnie]

And you're wondering, why is that the only thing you have to eat?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Because that's what you went back to.

[Pastor Donnie]

Yeah, it's understanding.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And I'm not saying this for anybody. And this. This is across the board. I'm talking to myself as well.

[Pastor Donnie]

There are seasons in our life where.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

We feel like we just aren't gonna make it. Been there, done that, got the T shirt, been like, okay, God, I don't know what you're doing, but you play too much right now. Cause this ain't making no sense.

[Pastor Donnie]

Like, I'm trying to find joy.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Matter of fact, I hear what PD.

[Pastor Donnie]

Saying, and I'm trying to dig real deep. Divided.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

But this ain't making no sense to me right now.

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm. And then he hit me with a ton of bricks. He said, right, you make.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You're trying to make it make sense.

[Pastor Donnie]

And I will do things in your life that will not make sense until you get on the other side of what didn't make sense. Has something ever happened in your life and it wasn't until you got out of it, look back and say, oh, that's why you did that. But while I was in it, I was complaining about it. But when I looked back over my life and thought, wait, wait, wait, that's why they had to walk out. That's why they had to leave me. That's why. Oh, I get it now.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You're looking for an explanation.

[Pastor Donnie]

In the season of your life, you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Cannot even understand the explanation. So when the Bible says he's in the wilderness, he said, listen, Johnson, I need you to let them know if they reside there, I don't live there with them. He says, I'm taking them through it.

[Pastor Donnie]

You walk through the valley, you don't stay in the valley. God says, I'm not there. I'm taking through it. So I can prepare you for what you've been praying for, for what's on the other side. He said, but I need you to.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Understand you're gonna have to fight for it. The enemy wants nothing better to do but to get you to settle in the season that God wants you out of. He. Okay, okay.

[Pastor Donnie]

He wants you to settle in the.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Season that God wants you out of. I. Check this out. Now, listen, I'm. I'm old enough to know what tearing service is. Some of y' all don't get the kids like Terrence Terry. What's.

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm old.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I'm old enough to know what tearing is. I'm old enough to understand. You come down to this altar, you call him. Calling Jesus. Call him, baby.

[Pastor Donnie]

Call.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Nah, you ain't got it. Come back to Sunday night service.

[Pastor Donnie]

See, see, I, I, I, I know.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

What that is for a tearing service.

[Pastor Donnie]

But now God's word doesn't change at all. But here's what has to happen.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Now we got to figure out, okay.

[Pastor Donnie]

God, how do we take your word, put it in this generation? Because they're not going to stay on his altar for 27 hours. Holland.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.

[Pastor Donnie]

So there's nothing wrong with his name. And his methods change, but his principles don't.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay, okay.

[Pastor Donnie]

I can prove to you. Somebody shall prove it.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I bet you won't get this message on cassette tape.

[Pastor Donnie]

Tomorrow. You can order this on cassette tape.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Side A and side B. You can flip it over.

[Pastor Donnie]

The world didn't change. The word's gonna be on the cassette tape. You just don't have the equipment.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I take that back. You might have the equipment.

[Pastor Donnie]

I don't have the equipment to play it on there. I'll go even further. Let's put it on eight track. Because I want to show you his principles. Don't change. It's still the word. It's going to be word on 8 track cassette tape, 45 CD download. But the methods do. How do we get this to the world? If you would have told us 30 years ago, you can watch church all across the world on the Internet.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Like, whoa. The Internet? No, we listen on the radio.

[Pastor Donnie]

I heard it on the radio. But the Internet. God is now figuring out ways how he can get his word to his people. And we got to figure out ways. How do we get it to the people and make it stick? The one thing we got to do is stop lying to people.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Everything's always alright.

[Pastor Donnie]

No, no, no.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I've had some good days, I've had some bad days. I've had some heels declined. See, here's what happened.

[Pastor Donnie]

You don't present it as misery. You present it as a challenge that you survived. So now when your children get into that same thing.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Wait, wait, wait.

[Pastor Donnie]

I saw mama survive it. I saw Daddy survive it. So I can do it too. And the problem is we're not showing them the surviving. We're showing them the stage. I want to stand on the stage too. Okay, Bill, you want.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I don't know how to build one. Well, let's talk about that.

[Pastor Donnie]

How do you build it? You build in a wilderness season. Oh, I learned how to stick to it. It's in the wilderness season. I've been asked the question. How did you. I want the same marriage you and lady got.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Earth. Pause. You sure you want that now? You absolutely sure you want that?

[Pastor Donnie]

I sure do.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay. Let me take you to the wilderness. Because you want the glory.

[Pastor Donnie]

You don't want to sit in the story. You don't want to sit in the story because it's the story that you got to survive. And I don't know how many of you can testify that people look at you right now and they have absolutely no idea. Oh, I wish I could be you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And you say child police.

[Pastor Donnie]

If you only knew what it cost me to look like this. If you only. Pastor, you have no idea. And here's the thing I love about the wilderness is it's different for everybody. Everyone's wilderness is different. The only problem I have is when you judge somebody else's.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It don't take that.

[Pastor Donnie]

I don't know why they doing all that dancing and running because it's not your wilderness. I don't know why they're doing all that shout because it's not your wilderness. Maybe if you stood in their wilderness, you'll understand why they shout the way they shout. So that's why I don't bother people when you shout, shout, dance, do whatever you do. Because what they don't know is they're like, pastor, you was boxing. No, I wasn't. I was thinking about the devil. I was dealing with it that one Sunday and I was like, oh no, Joker, you can't bother my future. Oh, people watching me. Oh, my bad. It. No, no, no. It is a reflection of what you've been going through. And I'm sorry if my outward expression is a reflection of my inward celebration. So my wilderness, God is guiding me through it. Baby, you don't know what it took for me to water this wilderness. How I feel like I'm about to come up out of this thing. You don't know. I'm in the wilderness. I just heard God says this thing is about to get an X expiration date. See? So please don't take me. Okay, I said I wasn't gonna do this.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I'm gonna get in trouble right here. Lady, I still love you. It's okay. I'm gonna get in trouble right about here. So me and lady had this debate. We had this debate. We talked about expiration dates on food. Maybe it don't happen in your house. Don't happen. Don't happen in your house. See, some stuff is non negotiable, but.

[Pastor Donnie]

Some stuff, she's like, ah, that's out there.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

No, no. I said, no, that's a suggested date. So it's a little more wear and tear than that. You can see that.

[Pastor Donnie]

I. I'm gonna turn out, she's gonna throwing it away. I'm like, I cannot believe you just.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Threw that bread away. That bread was still some good.

[Pastor Donnie]

She said, no, no, no. I said, baby, I suggested it's a suggested date. She told me, no, no, it's not. No, I said, yes, yes, it is.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And this what we. This what we start laughing. See, it was our upbringing.

[Pastor Donnie]

Our upbringing caused us to look at expiration dates differently. That's why I'm not mad at anybody in here.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Pastor, my expiration date was yesterday.

[Pastor Donnie]

Good for you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Well, if yours was yesterday, God is not a respecter person.

[Pastor Donnie]

That mean mine is coming And I'm not mad or jealous cause you out of yours. As a matter of fact, thank you for being out of yours. You just gave me some encouragement. If God brought you out and I know you were a mess, I know what he gonna do for me.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Stop being mad at other people's expiration. D.

[Pastor Donnie]

Is their appointed date. The season is for a moment. Maybe your date will be shorter if you didn't complain as much. What if.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

What if your complaining is the watering that keep the seed of the wilderness growing? What if your praise drowned out everything and it causes God to expedite it and move it even fast?

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm just suggesting. I'm just suggesting. Maybe one day when it feel like you can't make it and everybody ticks you off, instead of getting angry, you ought to slide the chair back and.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Just start thinking, God, you've been good to me.

[Pastor Donnie]

I know they don't like me, but God, you've been good to me. I know this ain't what I wanted.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

To be because you've been good to me.

[Pastor Donnie]

The kids ain't do it, but God, you've been. You see, now we're changing the watering system.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

See, your sprinkler system should be on a timer.

[Pastor Donnie]

It should be set on a timer. Because when I'm in the wilderness, the only way something grows in the wilderness is it needs water.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay, you're kidding.

[Pastor Donnie]

If the Holy Spirit is the water and Jesus in the water, at baptism, they took water to the wilderness. So he went in with an intent to change the atmosphere. When he went there from the beginning, he said, watch this.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

He says, this is a season, it's not a settlement. Okay, Okay. I got to get through these points. I got to get through these points. Okay, point number three. Point number three. The purpose for the season. The purpose. The purpose. The purpose of the season. I'm going to be real deep right here. The purpose of the season. To be tempted.

[Pastor Donnie]

Period.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

That is the purpose of the season. God, why am I going through this? To be tempted. That's it. That's.

[Pastor Donnie]

That's the only purpose we gotta make. Nothing harder.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The.

[Pastor Donnie]

The purpose of the wilderness for Jesus is to be tempted.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

But it's what's in the temptation that makes everything better.

[Pastor Donnie]

It's trying to get the understanding of God. Why am I going through this? And he gives you a simple answer.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

But it doesn't make sense to you. Okay, here it is.

[Pastor Donnie]

This season is meant to be a.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Test, not for him to be terminated.

[Pastor Donnie]

In other words, this season is testing.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You, not killing you.

[Pastor Donnie]

Now, you may.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Feel like you want to be dead.

[Pastor Donnie]

You may feel like you're dying. But this is simply a test.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Of the emergency broadcasting system. This is simply a test.

[Pastor Donnie]

Every time.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Something happens in your life, I pray to God that he interrupt your vocals and you hear boop. This is simply a test. From the emergency broadcast of the Holy Ghost. This is simply a test.

[Pastor Donnie]

The next time they cuss at you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

This is simply a test.

[Pastor Donnie]

Don't react to it. Don't move on it.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Don't.

[Pastor Donnie]

Don't react. This is simply a test. The next time they act like they don't lost their mind. This is simply a test. God, what is it? I'm not killing you. I'm about to kill them.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

There's no.

[Pastor Donnie]

This is simply a test. Every time I do this, it's simply. That's all it is. The purpose is a test. It's simply a test. We used to have this saying. I. I know what I used to say when I was preaching. The devil should have killed me when.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

He had a chance to. God corrected me. He said, he never had a chance. He never had his chance. Because my hand was on you.

[Pastor Donnie]

Because I only let you go. But so far now you may feel like you wanted to die. You may have feel like everything was going crazy, he said, but he never could do it, he said, because I put boundaries around him. Because what you thought was killing you was only a test to make you so stop telling him what he should have did when he didn't have the power to do it in the first place. Okay, I can prove it to you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

We give the devil more power than he should have.

[Pastor Donnie]

Do you know? Honestly, Honestly.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Honestly, if you read the Bible, from Genesis, Revelation, there are only three major times the devil even talks.

[Pastor Donnie]

Three all is three times. He talks to God. He talks to man and he talks to Jesus. He talks to God about Job. He talks to man in the garden. He talks to Jesus in the wilderness. Why are we giving him more voices? Why you give him more power than he should have. Now, there are scriptures that he's accused.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Of the brethren, but there's only three.

[Pastor Donnie]

Recorded times of them having actual conversation. And God is saying, wait a minute.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

[Pastor Donnie]

Two of the three you lost and the other one I made, right? I made the one in Genesis right. You lost against Job. You come to my son. You never gonna win that one in the first place.

[Beauty Product Influencer]

Place.

[Pastor Donnie]

So the purpose was the test. And so many times we let him have two minutes conversation with us. God says, who told you that. So who have you been talking to? Who have you been communicating with? Who have you said, watch this. Who have you lent your ear to? Because you do know your ear is.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The gate to your mind.

[Pastor Donnie]

So it gets in your ear, gets.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

In your psychological head.

[Pastor Donnie]

And if you hear it, I can prove it to you. Faith cometh by.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Wait a minute.

[Pastor Donnie]

So if I hear it, that means it gets into me. That works both ways. So he says, the purpose of the wilderness is to be tempted. Watch. This is to change the conversation.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

We are giving to. Oh, I probably shouldn't get his testimony. Let me put it another way. You ever dealt with somebody, it's like, hey, yeah, you talk too much. I'm gonna just leave it like that. You just talk too much. You can't tell them nothing, because if you want to be a secret, you better not tell them. You just, you just, you just, you just talk too much. And then there's some people we allow to talk too much in our ecosystem because they leave us barren when they leave from us. So now the problem is you've been talking to somebody in the wilderness. You should have been prospering in. Now you feel like you're drowning. And so we have a question.

[Pastor Donnie]

And the question is this. He said, okay, I, I, I got, I got, I got a problem. God, I don't want to be tested.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I don't know people. Too many of us volunteering to be tested. I know, Pick me, pick me. I want to test. And God told me this one day. He said, here's, here's the thing, son. I withhold information to you until I get a yes out of you. Then when I get the yes out of you, I disseminate the information to it. According to that, you can handle it. So while you say yes, God, you don't know what you say yes to.

[Pastor Donnie]

And then when he got you out.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Here, you say, wait a minute, God. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Wait. You didn't, you didn't tell me all of that. You didn't. You didn't.

[Pastor Donnie]

You didn't tell me all this was in the wilderness.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You didn't, did you?

[Pastor Donnie]

Do you know, you didn't tell me this was going to turn out like this.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And he said, no, no, no, no. I withhold information until I get your yes because I give you too much information before you say yes, you're going to tell me no. And most of y' all agree, just like me, as God had told me some of this stuff early. Now God get somebody else to do it. If you look at the purpose of being tested. The purpose of being tested is that you cannot put a car out until it's been tested properly.

[Pastor Donnie]

Maybe God is saying, I cannot release.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You to what you've been praying about.

[Pastor Donnie]

Until you've been tested properly. So maybe you ought to appreciate the private struggles. See, it's, it's, it's easy. It's easy to sit there when your struggles are private, but when you're public.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You like, wait a minute, God, I.

[Pastor Donnie]

Didn'T mean all of this.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

He said, no, no.

[Pastor Donnie]

That's why I dealt with you privately. Here's privately.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

He deals with Jesus in isolation. He baptizes him in the crowd. He tests him privately. Sometimes. You ought to be thankful, God, this.

[Pastor Donnie]

Devil I'm dealing with, please don't let.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Anybody see what I'm dealing with. And I don't know about you, and I won't shout over this, but every now and then I'm so thankful that God did not put everything I did on display. Okay, okay, okay.

[Pastor Donnie]

I, I, I am.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I am so thankful that God does not take the moment and hook up my memory to an LED screen and let y' all see some of the craziness that be going on in my mind.

[Pastor Donnie]

See, maybe y' all can't say it.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

But I'm so glad that God is delivering Don and still let me be pastor.

[Pastor Donnie]

See, maybe I, I know y' all been saved a long time, but I'm so glad. My enemies should be so glad.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

That.

[Pastor Donnie]

Only thing I'm simply showing you is how do we take tests?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

How do we maneuver through the test?

[Pastor Donnie]

How do we take the word of God, break it down, utilize it, and say, okay, how can I eat this in small bites? Because the purpose of the wilderness, the purpose of the season is simply to be tested for these light afflictions a but for a moment. But they carry a far more exceeding weight of glory. Which means the scale is tipped in your favor because he tells you an opening for these light afflictions. The light. In other words, don't be bothered by what's happening in your life right now. Matter of fact, touch everybody.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Can't say, don't be bothered by it. Don't, don't be.

[Pastor Donnie]

Don't be bothered by it.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Don't, don't, don't, don't.

[Pastor Donnie]

Don't be bothered by it.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Don't, don't.

[Pastor Donnie]

Don't be bothered by it. Because your destiny won't end in your struggle, Pastor.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You just don't know.

[Pastor Donnie]

No, no, no, no. It doesn't End here.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You can. You can write this down. You keep this one. This is not one upon you. I just heard the Holy Ghost. He said, the wilderness is not meant for comfort. It's meant for conversion. It's not meant for comfort, is meant for conversion. And the greatest enemy of progress is comfortability. I'm comfortable here. I'm comfortable here.

[Pastor Donnie]

Now there's a problem. Because you cannot progress because you're comfortable. I'm comfortable what I'm doing past. I'm comfortable in this season of my life. But what if God wants more from you? What if God is trying to pull.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

More out of you?

[Pastor Donnie]

So he got to make you uncomfortable. And then you got to do point number four.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You got to face the tempter.

[Pastor Donnie]

Yeah, you gotta.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You gotta face him. I got. I have to look him in the face and face. Face the tempter. The problem is the tempter you might be trying to face is in the mirror.

[Pastor Donnie]

That's the.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

That's the one.

[Pastor Donnie]

We don't want to fight. I'm okay if some one of y'.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

All come against me, because I. I can deal with y'. All.

[Pastor Donnie]

I bind you in the name of Jesus.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

But what about when you gotta look in the mirror and you are the enemy.

[Pastor Donnie]

You are the wilderness. You are the one that's delaying your.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Destiny because you keep talking yourself out of it.

[Pastor Donnie]

See, it's good to face the temperature when we. The temp.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The. The tempter.

[Pastor Donnie]

When we can point at somebody else. That's easy.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Them. Oh, it's her. It's her. It's him. It's him. It's him.

[Pastor Donnie]

But what about when the tempter is you? What about is you? Because I told you, Satan is after your identity. It's that identity, what God called you to do. Well, Pastor, I need to know what God called me to do. Here's what he called you to do.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Serve him.

[Pastor Donnie]

That's it. Serve him. And out of serving, things happen. Out of serving God. Watch this. After surrendering to him, after saying, God, I give all of me to you, all my heart. I didn't say perfection because none of us are perfect. What I'm saying is I'm facing the tempter and I'm saying, God, please drown.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Me in your Holy Ghost.

[Pastor Donnie]

Make me more like you. And then I praying at once, I'm praying it every single day, God, I know I'm a mess, but please make me like you, God, I made some mistakes, but please watch me, because I know the devil's after my identity. But I know. If I look like you, I know. And here, here's the kicker, y'.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

All.

[Pastor Donnie]

The enemy attacks when you're vulnerable. Sunday, right about this altar call Sunday, it wasn't many people being attacked. Everybody was high. There's a holy hallelujah. But right around Sunday, around 6 o', clock, when that holy ghost lifted, going into Monday, going into work, he waits until you're vulnerable and he think that you can't take it.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

He attacks you. Or he waits until you're depressed or.

[Pastor Donnie]

Disappointed or you see somebody else.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Do you know hate is such a harsh word. But I have a strong dislike for the word comparison.

[Pastor Donnie]

Stop comparing yourself to other people. Oh yeah, stop, stop, stop comparing yourself to other people. It's gonna drive you crazy.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I want to be like them. I want to be like.

[Pastor Donnie]

No, you don't.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I want what they got.

[Pastor Donnie]

No, you don't. Don't ask me. Don't ask anybody for what they have.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Until you ask them. Can you show me the receipts?

[Pastor Donnie]

I need to know how much that costs you because I need to know if I'm willing to pay that much for it. I, yeah, it looked good on you. But now I need to know how much that tailor suit costs you because while it looked good on you, I don't know if I'm willing to pay.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The price for it.

[Pastor Donnie]

So before I ask for the suit, show me the receipt. Before I ask for the anointing, tell me how much it costs for you to get crushed. Before I say God bless me. To preach, tell me how much it costs to preach because it's more than a fee. There's a garden to send me moment that kills you over and over and.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Over and over and over and over and over again.

[Pastor Donnie]

Every time I get the opportunity to preach the living God word, there's a crushing. Are you willing to sacrifice it because.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It looks like glitter?

[Pastor Donnie]

Only for the enemy to put you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

In a place and your gift to carry you where your character can't keep you.

[Supplement Brand Representative]

A lot of supplement brands chase trends, but if you're serious about your health, we know research backed science is what actually moves the needle. Momentous works with the best brains in human science to create every formula and every batch is made of pure ingredients tested for safety and does not contain fillers so you get the best long term results possible. Creatine isn't just for muscle gains. It's essential daily fuel for your brain, body and long term performance. Momentous Creapure creatine is backed by leading performance experts like Dr. Andrew Huberman and Dr. Stacey Sims. Sourced exclusively in Germany, Creapure sets the gold standard for creatine, delivering the purest form, creatine monohydrate that's rigorously washed and never cut with fillers. With over 2,000 five star reviews, over 112,000 customers have seen the results firsthand with Momentous. The fundamentals are done right. Right now, Momentous is offering our listeners up to 35% off your first subscription order with promo code Acast. Go to livemomentous.com and use promo code Acast for up to 35% off your first Subscription Order. That's livemomentous.com promo code Acast.

[Commercial Announcer]

Why choose a sleep number? Smart bed.

[Podcast Host]

Can I make my site softer?

[Commercial Announcer]

Can I make my site firmer?

[Pastor Donnie]

Can we sleep cooler?

[Commercial Announcer]

Sleep number does that cools up to eight times faster and lets you choose your ideal comfort on either side your sleep number setting. Enjoy personalized comfort for better sleep night after night. It's our Black Friday sale. Recharge this season with a bundle of cozy, soothing comfort. Now only $17.99 for our C2 mattress and base plus free premium delivery. Price is higher in Alaska and Hawaii. Check it out at a sleep number store or sleepnumber.com today.

[Pastor Donnie]

He says, listen, here's what you got to do. You gotta face it. I gotta face. And to face it, I have to be honest. Hey, hey.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You ain't ready for that. You're not ready for that.

[Pastor Donnie]

Tell you honest. Be honest with yourself. No, I'm not ready for that. I'm not. I am not ready. I am not ready for that. Do you want it?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Yes. But I'm not ready for it.

[Pastor Donnie]

There are some things I want in.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

My life that I am just absolutely not ready for.

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm. I'm not ready for it. And you know why? Because there's still a word called trauma management.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Can you imagine being Jesus now in the wilderness, potentially. If that was the devil talking to you, how much trauma you would have to deal with? Turn these stones to bread, man. I've been hungry for 40 days. Oh, and 40 nights. How do I manage this? Watch this.

[Pastor Donnie]

Because I can't answer out of emotions. I gotta answer out of scripture. Because the problem is you. You're fighting a devil with emotions. And the only way you're going to.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Defeat him is with scripture.

[Pastor Donnie]

And you got to know how to.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Appropriate the scripture, okay?

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm saying, just because you go to school, just because you know how to read the Bible, that don't mean you anointed Just because you have a title, that don't make you anointed. Just because you got a gun, that don't mean you know how to shoot it. Well, I don't care what you are if you can't appropriate and know how to walk in the anointing of God because it costs you something on how to use it.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Miss me with all that?

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm sorry, That's. Oh, that's because I. I guess I'm tired of these people. You on Instagram now? You a bishop?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You'd have been a bishop. You've been saved 30 days.

[Pastor Donnie]

You've been a bishop 15 days. I don't.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

What are we doing? What?

[Pastor Donnie]

What?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

What.

[Pastor Donnie]

What are we doing? Because now we're misappropriating the word of God, and now we don't know how to use it. Because when he says, turn these stones to bread, the first thing do.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Jesus knows where to turn. Deuteronomy. Man should not live by bread alone, but every word that proceeds.

[Pastor Donnie]

He could have quoted any other scripture, but he knew the weapon to use in the season that it was calls for. Probably lose some claps right here. And sometimes you're looking for something to fight and God is saying, you're gonna.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Have to love it out of them.

[Pastor Donnie]

The devil is a liar. I'm kicking the devil out of my house.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I'm. Open the door.

[Pastor Donnie]

God said, love the hell out of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I'm cold. Spirit scripture, he said. Huh? He said, love it out of him. How do I love it out of him? Stay on that cross. Because the nails didn't keep Jesus on the cross. Love kept him on the cross that he did not come down and not only kept him up there. He says, forgive them, for they know not what they do. The next time somebody decides to persecute you, say, forgive them. Because they know not what they do. They don't know what they're doing because they don't know who they crucified. See, See, here's what we're coming for. Because now we talk about forgiveness. I. I want to help somebody right here.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Let me. Let me free somebody.

[Pastor Donnie]

Don't.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Forgiveness. Pastor, I got a problem. Forgiveness. Okay?

[Pastor Donnie]

Forgiveness does not mean access. Because I forgive you. That don't mean you have access to me again. Because I'm forgiving you for me. Because I don't need me to be hindered from what God has for me. But please don't thank me for giving you. Gives you access back to me. Okay.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

See, let me.

[Pastor Donnie]

Let me. So when he says, forgive them, for they know not what they do. He was entering into another kingdom. He said, I forgive them because they need to understand, even while I'm bleeding.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I can forgive you.

[Pastor Donnie]

And they did not ask for forgiveness. Come on, Wilderness. They didn't ask for forgiveness, and he still forgave them. Oh, Pastor, you walking too heavy right now. What if the only way to get it out of it is forgive them and they don't ask for forgiveness?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Kisses, Israel at best. What if he didn't forgive them? Did he have the right to go.

[Pastor Donnie]

Back home to heaven? Maybe your unforgiveness is blocking access to what God has for you next. Maybe you're holding on to something they did and God is simply saying, that's a wilderness. You need to let go and move on because there's a heaven waiting on you. There's a promise that's waiting on you, but because you're still stuck at what they did, and God is saying you need to let it go because you don't know how to hold on to a wilderness, because the wilderness has an expiration date. And please hit my heart. I'm not.

[Podcast Host]

I. I.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Please hit my heart in compassion. Whatever happened to you, I. I pray for you.

[Pastor Donnie]

But I will tell you this. Your trauma does not outweigh his grace. But I've gone through so much. I've done so much. No, no, no, no, no, no. You got to realize that the enemy comes to kill, steal, and to destroy. And he will do anything he can to keep you from it. He don't care because you put them boxing gloves on. Sunday, he got his boxing gloves on too. You don't think he don't fight back. You thought his hands was tied behind his back while you was fighting. So no, no, no, no, no. So now we're gonna hit him with another. A whole nother direction. He said, listen, turn these stones back. Jump. Jump off here. Jump off. Did not he give you angels charged? He said, no, no, no.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

There you go again.

[Pastor Donnie]

Now you got scriptures, but you misappropriate it. So now you got people that know scriptures but. But don't know how to use them in the right season.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

He said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Pastor Donnie]

Let me help you out again.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Let me roll back to Deuteronomy again. Let me help you out, because I gotta help you out. See, you can't test God, man.

[Pastor Donnie]

Stop testing God. Why are you testing God with something he says? Nah, I'm good.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Cause I'm not testing God. Because you tested me.

[Pastor Donnie]

Because the whole Thing is a transaction. And God's getting ready to elevate his son to a whole nother level.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

But the only way you can be elevated is you got to learn the right language. Okay, point number five. Stand firm on your identity. Stand. Stand firm on your identity. Jesus refused to prove what the father proclaimed. Jesus refuses to prove what the father proclaimed. He says, you're the son. I'm well pleased. The devil says, if you are the son.

[Pastor Donnie]

The father said, I am the son. You said, if I'm the son. Somebody confused in here. The father said, I'm the son. You says, if I'm the son.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

If I am.

[Pastor Donnie]

As though you want me to find significance in my performance. My gift doesn't make me who I am. If I don't turn these stones to bread, I'm still the son. If I don't jump off, I'm still the son. If I decide to walk away from you right now, I'm still the son.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And so.

[Pastor Donnie]

And somebody better realize the fact it doesn't matter what you do, how you thought about it, you're still God's child. We let people rob us identity because.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

They want to be us.

[Pastor Donnie]

You think they just don't like you because they don't like you. They don't like you because they're jealous of you. They don't like how you handle the problem they couldn't resolve. They don't like how you made it through.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

But they couldn't make it through.

[Pastor Donnie]

They don't like why you got the opportunity.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

But they didn't get the opportunity.

[Pastor Donnie]

They don't like it. Why the devil left you. But he's still bothering me. So what I'd rather do is elevate you. I'll pull you down to me. But what I'm not gonna do is I'm not coming down to your level because eagles don't run with chickens.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Chickens.

[Pastor Donnie]

And I'm so sorry. I'm in a season of my life. Even though I'm in the wilderness, baby, I have to. I have to keep. I have to keep flying.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Oh, I'm still trying to teach without shouting. And I feel myself getting excited.

[Pastor Donnie]

So you have to stand firm with your identity. I. Somebody shout.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I know who I am. Oh, no, no. Somebody shout again.

[Pastor Donnie]

I know who I am.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I know who I am.

[Pastor Donnie]

I know it. I know I don't need anybody else to be me. I. I am a carbon copy of my own self. Be your best you. Here's the problem. If you are not you, you robbed the world of the gift that God put in you. If you're too busy trying to do.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

What somebody else does, the gift that.

[Pastor Donnie]

God gave you lays dormant. Now you rob the world. Wait a minute. Will a man rob God? Maybe you're robbing him because people don't get a chance to see him through you. What do you mean, Pastor? They need to know how to operate in the wilderness. They need to see you walk it out. They need to see. Okay, though he slay me yet? Will I trust him? They need to see the scars like Thomas and say, no, no, no, no, I still made it through that. They need to see me make it through the morning time. They need to see me make it through the evening. Maybe God is saying, I'm getting glory out of your wilderness and you're complaining. It's something somebody else should be celebrating me for. He says, walk, walk, walk through it. Walk through it. But I stand firm in my identity because no one's gonna sway me for who I am. One thing I don't have a problem.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

With is who I am.

[Pastor Donnie]

Somebody can honestly come and say, pastor, I don't like you. That's your problem, not mine. That is not my problem. I'm sorry you don't.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And if I did anything to you.

[Pastor Donnie]

I apologize for offending you. But if you don't like me, why.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Is that my problem?

[Pastor Donnie]

Why should I take that energy on? And why should I break my neck to try to convince you to like me when you're not ordaining to be in my circle?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Maybe God allows people to come into our life for wilderness. And maybe the enemy brings people in our life to get us distracted, to.

[Pastor Donnie]

Move us off our purpose.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And maybe the enemy, sitting by somebody your way, that challenges your identity because they are such and such. I am sorry. I don't care how many followers you have on Instagram. I don't care who you are. I know who I am. And as a matter of fact, I celebrate who you are.

[Pastor Donnie]

God bless you, man of God. God bless you, woman of God. Who you are does not take away from who I am.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay, you just missed what I just said.

[Pastor Donnie]

You can be anointed. And I can be anointed, too. I'mma celebrate you just like I can celebrate me. You better preach. Well, you better preach. And if nobody here said amen, I would say amen to myself. Preach. You better preach, boy. I think I will. I will talk to my own self. Happy? Think I'm lying?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Ask my wife. I will be preaching like, boy, you all right?

[Pastor Donnie]

I am good. I am good. But you not preaching my own self, heaven.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

What you dancing for?

[Pastor Donnie]

I don't know. I'm dancing what's probably gonna come.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Because.

[Pastor Donnie]

I stand firm in my identity. It doesn't matter what I'm going, and it doesn't mean I don't go through.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Because I still do. Okay, let's move on. Number six. Number six. Your identity is received, not performed. I'm gonna say that again. Your identity is received. It's not performed. One of the things I think we can mess up all kind of go off, kill within church is that we say, I want to be, prior to coming here, senior pastor in Jacksonville. I would tell anyone ordained, I'm not ordaining you to become that. You're already that. I'm giving you the title of what you already are. So in other words, you were already doing the work, and the work calls for the title. The title don't call for the work. Okay, let me come and get you instead of running out there. The title runs out of the towel. Oh, I'm gonna come get him.

[Pastor Donnie]

The Bible says Jesus puts everything aside.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Grab the towel, and starts to serve.

[Pastor Donnie]

So in other words, the anointing is in the towel. It's not in the title. Yeah, it's not in rabbi. It's not in the bishop. He was already the bishop before he was ordained.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The bishop.

[Pastor Donnie]

See, you need to understand your title, your identity. It is not in your performance. If your identity is in your performance, what happened when you can't perform anymore? Oh, I don't lose who I am. Oh, I don't. Because God gave me this a long time. It does not matter if God. If my vocal cords went away. I learned how to preach a sign language because it's not. It's not in my performance. And I'm afraid that we. We put people on pedestals who perform. Oh, you can sing.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

So you anointed. No, they ain't got nothing to do with it. You can sing because you got to give. But no, no.

[Pastor Donnie]

But when you anointed, that's in your identity. He is Christ. He is the anointed one. So whether he's performing or not, he's still the anointed one. The anointing don't turn off.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It's off on. It's off and on. It's. No, no, no, no, no, no. When I wake up in the morning, I'm anointed. When I go to bed at night, I'm anointed.

[Pastor Donnie]

See, anointing is not performance.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I can walk up to you. I can Tell you, no, no, no, no.

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm anointed. When I feel like I want to.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Do something stupid and I don't do it, that's the oil. And the Holy Ghost saying, you bet. You better not. You better. You better not. You better. You.

[Pastor Donnie]

You better sit down somewhere. You best.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You better learn how to sit and see.

[Pastor Donnie]

We think anointing is performance. Anointing fall on me. Are we here to follow me, God? No, no, no. I need you to stay in me. Once you fall, don't leave.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Because I want you to live in.

[Pastor Donnie]

Me every moment of my life. Because, guess this. I don't want to go to the. I don't want to go to the wilderness without the oil. I don't want to be present in.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

With no spirit of God. Okay, let's get to that last few. Refuse the shortcut solution. Refuse the shortcut solution. I'm probably gonna make some people mad right here. But I still love you. Shortcut isn't always the best way. Even though it appears to be the easiest way. Jesus now has a dilemma. He says, I'll give you all of this kingdom if you just bow down, worship me. That's a shortcut to the kingdom. But that ain't the kingdom he want. Guess this. Because I don't want anything the devil is showing me. You better realize who's showing you what you're entitled to, because he's going to get a kingdom regardless.

[Pastor Donnie]

He's going to get a kingdom. But the kingdom is going to come after the cross. The kingdom isn't coming before the cross. The enemy says, I'm going to give you a shortcut. You can have a temporary kingdom if.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You bow down and worship me. If you just. If you just watch this. If you posture yourself to make me God.

[Pastor Donnie]

Do you not understand what's happening here? This is not just a.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

This is not just a wilderness fight. This is a heaven fight.

[Pastor Donnie]

Remember Isaiah? He said, I will make myself like God.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Here's why he got kicked out of heaven.

[Pastor Donnie]

When he decides to be like God.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Wait a minute.

[Pastor Donnie]

So you after his children and you after his son. So the devil's not after your car. He don't want your house. He don't want your money. He wants you because you look like him. Okay? You have the DNA of what he does not like. Let us make man our likeness and our image. We look like what kicked him out.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay, wait, wait.

[Pastor Donnie]

So now here's another one. So not only I can't get them. So now you send your son.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Question y' all Just walk it out. We just. Walking it out. We're just walking it out.

[Pastor Donnie]

In chapter four, he says, if you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Are the son of God.

[Pastor Donnie]

How did.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The devil know to even tempt him with that verbiage? Because God only announces it at baptism, which means it's possible. The devil is at the baptism. In the crowd, watching you get elevated.

[Pastor Donnie]

And the very thing he saw God give you, he starts attacking it. He said, oh, oh, you think you got saved Sunday?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

If you really got saved, let me see how you gonna act come Monday.

[Pastor Donnie]

If you really think God is delivering.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Your children, let me see what you're gonna do about it.

[Pastor Donnie]

If you really don't believe the doctor's report, let me give you another bad report. The problem is, you give me a second bad report. I don't care. Because I really believe the report of the Lord. I believe what God told me the first time that I'm healed. I believe that he told me the first time that I'm the head and not the tail. I believe what he told me the first time. So it doesn't matter how many times you tell me in the wilderness, I know who I am. It's.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It's.

[Pastor Donnie]

It's the DNA. The last one. The last one.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And I'm gonna get to these questions. The last one is. This is. It's the same. It ties together. Understanding your authority. Understanding your authority. Problem some of us is we don't understand how much power we really have. You don't know how much problem you really have until you open your mouth. Understanding your story.

[Pastor Donnie]

Because at any given moment, I thought Jesus could.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Hey, man, I don't even want to talk to you no more. Hey, bounce up out of here. Leave. He actually engages in conversations with him in the wilderness to show him he does not have power.

[Pastor Donnie]

But then when he asks him something.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

To say, enough is enough, he says, get behind me, Satan.

[Pastor Donnie]

And the Bible says he leaves immediately.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. You've been sitting here talking to this man the whole time, and all you had to say was leave?

[Pastor Donnie]

You mean to tell me I had all that power 30 years ago? 20 years ago? You mean to tell me I've been wrestling for nothing and the only thing I had to do was open my mouth and say, get behind me.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And the Bible says, and he moves immediately. So not only does he move immediately, I believe this. He moves because the word moves him. Get behind me, Satan. Even if you want to stay there.

[Pastor Donnie]

He gotta move.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You'll get that one in the morning.

[Pastor Donnie]

Even if he want to stay in your house. Because I spoke it.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You gotta leave.

[Pastor Donnie]

Even if I spoke him being in my mind, you can't take residence here anymore. You have to leave. Why do you have to leave? Not because I heard it in church, Because I heard my identity and I know what my license say. My license says I have the power to evict you out of a place that you can no longer pay rent in. You can no longer live rent free in my house. I am giving your eviction notice.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay. He serves an eviction notice. He says, get out. Goodbye.

[Pastor Donnie]

So long. Bye.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Bye. And if I can borrow his message. Is Satan here? Yeah. You've been served. You got. You can't see.

[Pastor Donnie]

So it's not only the excitement of.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The word that you hear on Sunday.

[Pastor Donnie]

It's the simplicity of the word. Just walking it out. Like, wait, you mean, tell me I'm dealing with stuff I don't even have to deal with? No, you don't have to. And guess what? If you ask it to leave in.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The name of Jesus and it doesn't leave, that means God ordained it.

[Pastor Donnie]

And if God ordained it, God give me the strength to handle what won't leave until you make me what I need to be. Until it's time for it to leave. Because ain't no devil in hell gonna stop me from becoming what God called me to be. So Satan, the Lord rebukes you. And if you don't leave, that mean you here to test me. So let's just deal with the test. Man does not live by bread alone, but every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. So what's coming out of your mouth, God? Feed me.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

[Pastor Donnie]

Feed me. Feed me. So he said, satan, the Lord, leave. Leave. That's. He won't leave. Then let him stay. God, make me. Mold me. Shake me. Because what I cannot do is I cannot let my condition fool around with my position.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Okay, I'm gonna prove you. Last one and last one. I'm gonna get these questions. That's mine. The Bible says there's a stand storm.

[Pastor Donnie]

Jesus is walking to them on a storm. They see Jesus, they say, that's a spirit.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And the Bible says they get afraid.

[Pastor Donnie]

He says, fear not.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It's me. Be of good cheer. Your boy coming. That's not the Bible, that's my version. Your boy coming. Fear not.

[Pastor Donnie]

I've always had this question and I.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Found out, just reading and studying.

[Pastor Donnie]

He says, fear not.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It's me.

[Pastor Donnie]

Jesus never addresses the storm he addresses their condition.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Fear.

[Pastor Donnie]

Even if the storm don't stop, don't be afraid because I'm here if I tell a storm to stop. I didn't deal with your fear because I told you, let's go to the other side. And the problem is you can't take fear to the other side. So I got to deliver your fear in the middle of a storm. So I'm not talking to the storm, I'm talking to your condition.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Jesus never stopped the storm in that scenario. Let the storm keep going. He said, I want to address your fear.

[Pastor Donnie]

I want to just show condition because you just saw me feed 5,000 plus people. Why are you afraid? You seen what I did before. Why you move by this devil? You seen what I did for your neighbor. Why you move for this devil? You seen what I did for people in the church. Why are you afraid in a storm?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

So not only do they got a fear problem, they got a vision problem. The text said they saw a ghost. He ain't been gone but a few hours, so you can't recognize him in a storm. So you don't even know who he.

[Pastor Donnie]

Is in a storm. He says you got a fear problem.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And a vision problem. I have to correct everything because your condition.

[Pastor Donnie]

And I can prove it because Peter says if it's you. He didn't say it's you, he said if.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Wait a minute, there's that word if again.

[Pastor Donnie]

Is it possible that if is birth from the devil? If it's you. If it's you. God. No, no, no, no, no. This is God. God is coming to get me in.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The middle of a storm.

[Pastor Donnie]

And even if he don't come get me in the storm, he gonna get on the boat with me in the storm.

[Supplement Brand Representative]

I.

[Pastor Donnie]

How I know? Because he proved it last time. He slept in the middle of it, and this time he just came to visit me in.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

All right, okay, all right, okay, okay.

[Pastor Donnie]

I gotta get out of here. See, it's simple how you take the.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Word of God and start applying strategies to your life.

[Pastor Donnie]

So now, when you're in the middle of a storm, now what you're going through, come full circle.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

This is simply a test.

[Pastor Donnie]

That's all. It's a test. And God is saying, don't be afraid.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Let's correct your vision.

[Pastor Donnie]

Because as you walk it out and you begin to rumble in the jungle, I need you sane.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Because the blessings you're getting ready to receive, I need you to know it's me. Okay, so there have been some questions that have been asked that they Put on this queue. Let me see. What does it say? Maybe I should read them. What do you do when it seems like you've been repeating your wilderness season over and over? How do you keep from being weary and well doing? The Bible says hope deferred makes the the heart sick. What do you do when your heart is sick from a delayed promise? Ooh. So the first if I let me answer this, I'll probably work it backwards. You use the scripture, which is good. You just kind of use it a little bit wrong because this might be. Might be a little far.

[Pastor Donnie]

Can you give me.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I think that's Proverbs 13 and 12. Can you give me Proverbs? I think it's Proverbs 13 and 12. Do you have a message bible too? Put in the message Bible, because whoever this is, I think I have the answer for them in the message bible. I know they they like Pastor. I'm gonna get.

[Pastor Donnie]

Oh, there it is.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Here's what she just said. Oh, he or she. Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a sudden good break can turn life around.

[Pastor Donnie]

Here's what you're literally saying.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I'm waiting on a break so my life can turn around. So I'm dealing with this wilderness over and over and over and over again. So my question to you is back at you. Why are you dealing with the wilderness over and over and over and over again. That's without me getting any detailed information. Because if it's a relationship, I'm not dealing with that over and over and over and over and over again.

[Pastor Donnie]

Listen, after the first few times.

[Commercial Announcer]

Why choose a sleep number? Smart bed.

[Podcast Host]

Can I make my sight softer?

[Commercial Announcer]

Can I make my sight firmer?

[Pastor Donnie]

Can we sleep cooler?

[Commercial Announcer]

Sleep number does that cools up to eight times faster and lets you choose your ideal comfort on either side. Your sleep number setting. Enjoy personalized comfort for better sleep night after night. It's our Black Friday sale. Recharge this season with a bundle of cozy, soothing comfort. Now only $17.99 for our C2 mattress and base plus free premium delivery. Price is higher in Alaska and Hawaii. Check it out at a sleep number store or sleepnumber.com today.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Did I talk too much?

[Pastor Donnie]

Can't I just let it go?

[Podcast Host]

Take a breath. You're not alone. Counseling helps you sort through the noise with qualified professionals. Get matched with a therapist online based on your unique needs and get help with everyday struggles like anxiety or managing tough emotions. Visit betterhelp.comrandompodcast for 10% off your first month of online therapy and Let life feel better.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

If it's, if it's money problems, I'm just gonna go through a whole bunch of things. If it's money problems, it shouldn't be over.

[Pastor Donnie]

If you have a money problem, it's over and over. Then we need to sit down, talk to a financial advisor, help me how to do this. If it's a mental problem and it's.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Over and over again, I'm gonna sit down and talk to a therapist. I believe in altar call and the therapist. So when you say over and over again, sometimes that's a personal thing that can dive a little deeper that you may. Sometimes we. We clue me into it. We've been guilty of doing something over. I'm like, don, why are you doing this again? You'll put yourself right back in this mess again.

[Pastor Donnie]

And watch this.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It took me to get me out of it. Honestly, it took me to get me out of it.

[Pastor Donnie]

And if the season happened over and.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Over and over again, and if it's God, God is saying, you didn't get what you got out of it the first time, so you got to repeat the class until you pass it.

[Pastor Donnie]

So.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

So there's so many different answers that can. That, that's. That's a loaded one. Oh, that's loaded. Because I don't want you to be weary and well doing. Because, and let me say this, you.

[Pastor Donnie]

Can be winning in one season in the wilderness.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

In another one, you could be winning.

[Pastor Donnie]

Absolutely grateful in one, and then the.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Next one, you'll be like, I cannot believe this is happening. You know, there can be two truths at the same time. So I hope, I hope that answered. But remember, this one break is coming for you. That one break coming, it's going to change your life. I prophesied over you, whoever answered that, whoever that question was for, when talking about the wilderness and God is setting you up for your purpose or better, how do you maintain gratitude within the hardship that comes along with the wilderness? How do you. Here's what I would say to you. I'm gonna pull the good out of that. I'm gonna pull.

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm gonna pull the good out.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Because here's what. We read it so fast. Here's what I saw. I saw the word maintain, and I saw gratitude. You say, how do you maintain the gratitude? Which means you started off thankful. How do you maintain something? I mean, you started a pace, but something happened that caused you to slow the pace down. Here's what I would tell you to do. Whatever you do, don't let your devil don't let the devil steal your joy. Because what tends to happen is we equate wilderness to hardship. And it may be hard, but it's making us to be a better person.

[Pastor Donnie]

So I find joy and chaos. I don't find myself in a sad.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Place when wilderness is making me better.

[Pastor Donnie]

So what I do is change how.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I think about it. So when you talk about the wilderness all, all the time, we cannot take the wilderness and simply go bad. Wilderness, bad. No, wilderness makes me wilderness. What God is cultivating me. But how do I maintain the gratitude? It is a decision. It's a decision.

[Pastor Donnie]

And I didn't say happy.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And I said, happy means you got.

[Pastor Donnie]

To have something happening. Joy has nothing to do with happy.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Because this joy I had that I the world. And so it.

[Pastor Donnie]

That is a conscious decision.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And. And I know sometimes it's like, pastor, is that simple? It really is. I wake up in the morning. I choose to be happy today. I choose to have joy today.

[Pastor Donnie]

It's my choice.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I said it earlier. My condition and my position is two different things. My position is wilderness. My condition, that's up to me because I don't let anyone control my condition. I said this in our couples class one day, and some of you might get mad and I love you. No one can make you mad. They made me mad. No, they didn't.

[Pastor Donnie]

You chose that.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Mad is a choice they made.

[Pastor Donnie]

No, they didn't.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

They did something.

[Pastor Donnie]

You fell into the trap of mad. Now I'm guilty of the same thing. I said, somebody made me mad. God was like, no, they didn't. You chose to do that.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You chose to get angry.

[Pastor Donnie]

He said, because somebody else could do.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The same thing to you, and it doesn't bother you. I said, oh, you right about that God.

[Pastor Donnie]

He said, right, so you choose to do that. So if you choose to get mad, you can choose to change your emotions.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Oh, this is going to be so good.

[Pastor Donnie]

Because one of the worst things you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Can do is let your emotions drive. And if your emotions drive, eventually you're going to end up in a wreck.

[Pastor Donnie]

My question is, where do I begin?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I'm single. I don't. I better read this one fast.

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm single.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I don't have a strong corner, mostly because of isolation and some concern. What circumstances. Oh, this word touched my soul. And I also left nagging. Left with a nagging question. How do I gather the strength in the corner if I'm doing it alone? Oof.

[Pastor Donnie]

Whoo.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I got. So I want to answer the first part of that question first. Where do I begin? I, Paula, would tell you to begin how Jesus began in baptism. Surrendering. When I say surrendering, I mean surrendering of yourself and accepting whatever God allows. Because you said, I'm single. Singleness has nothing to do with this. Being single isn't a disease, and being married ain't the cure.

[Pastor Donnie]

I mean, I get it.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I'm single. I get it. But single don't mean nothing. You could be married and be miserable.

[Pastor Donnie]

So don't think singleness is like, oh, I'm bad. So I would say this.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I would say, how do you create a strong corner? You generally don't get one person that's strong in everything in your life. So in other words, don't try to get one person to make all of your corner. Right? So I got a person in my financial corner. I have a relationship corner. I have a marketing corner. I have a business corner. So figure out what corner God wants you in. I have a spiritual corner. So while the illustration was to show me somebody's in your corner.

[Pastor Donnie]

But whatever that corner is in your.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Life.

[Pastor Donnie]

Find you a coach.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

There is no athlete that's great that doesn't have a coach. None of them. Michael Jordan, LeBron James, whoever you want.

[Pastor Donnie]

To say, they all have coaches.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Get a mentor.

[Pastor Donnie]

Find somebody to help walk you through.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

That, because maybe you're looking for a corner when you really need mentorship. But I'll say this, though. Make sure your mentor has a model. In other words, they have a proof of concept like you. You can't tell me how to be rich and you broke. Sorry, that's just my opinion. You just can't. You can't.

[Pastor Donnie]

You.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You're not gonna tell me buy your book on how to be rich when me buying your book make you rich. Okay, I'm leave that. I'm gonna leave that alone. I'm gonna. I'm starting something now. It's like, no, no, no, no. Show me some principles. Show me some strategies on how to do it. Because I'll say this for you, because you're gonna need help when you single. You're gonna need help when you get married. You only help when your money comes in. You're only help when the money goes out. So. And you said it's because of some circumstances. So without going into what the circumstances are, that leads me to say, well, is it trauma? So now you gotta do trauma management. You need a therapist. We need prayer.

[Pastor Donnie]

See all of those things.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

So it's not just one blanket answer. And that's actually a great question because you're not really doing it alone. The enemy wants you to think you're alone. There is somebody in your corner. There is. There is somebody that you can lean.

[Pastor Donnie]

On in one area of your life.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

That can help you until you get stronger in another area of your life. Amen. Somebody put your hands together. Was that all? Any more questions? Oh, it's another. Okay, last one.

[Pastor Donnie]

I understand that sometimes God requires us.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

To be in the wilderness and in the season of desert. But are we allowed to thrive on our way there?

[Pastor Donnie]

Yes.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Oh, yeah. Or is this the place where we only have strife?

[Pastor Donnie]

No.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

No.

[Pastor Donnie]

Yes.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You can thrive.

[Pastor Donnie]

As a matter of fact, it's important that you thrive.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It's essential that you thrive.

[Pastor Donnie]

As a matter of fact, you should show the enemy that you're thriving. I. I would encourage anybody.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Here's what I want you to do.

[Pastor Donnie]

The next time the devil or something, I think they got you bound, smile at them.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The devil thought he had me, but he messed up. I'm still here.

[Pastor Donnie]

I am still thriving.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I. I would celebrate the fact that you thrive in everything that the enemy throws your way. So I would answer that unequivocally, yes. Like, yes, as a matter of fact.

[Pastor Donnie]

Smile anyway. Anyway. I don't care what it looks like. Smile anyway.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Somebody shout, smile anyway.

[Pastor Donnie]

That's what it takes. That's what it takes.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Smile anyway.

[Pastor Donnie]

I don't care what they did to you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I don't care what you're facing. Here's why. Because they said thriving, they talked about.

[Pastor Donnie]

Maintaining the fact that you could answer.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The question, ask the question, means you're still alive. See, that's enough all by itself that I'm still alive. And today I simply wanted to take walk it out Wednesday and show you stories. And how do we pull strategies out of that so it's not just a shout on Sunday. It's not. You just see me boxing. It's not a. What are you boxing again? What season are you boxing? What do you deal with? What are you going through?

[Pastor Donnie]

Because you'll be shocked.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The person that you sit next to, what they're going through, and they don't even look like it.

[Pastor Donnie]

You'll be absolutely shocked at what somebody's.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Next to you going through, and you have no idea. As a matter of fact, tell somebody, tell them. You have no idea. You have no idea. You have absolutely no idea. I'm thankful for the opportunity to kind of explain a little bit of my thoughts while I'm preaching and reading the word of God and different nuggets. That's There. But if you don't use these tools, see, we don't have an information problem. We got an execution problem.

[Pastor Donnie]

Information not the problem.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Execution is the problem.

[Pastor Donnie]

And if you. If you allow.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Me, putting these gloves.

[Supplement Brand Representative]

On.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And shouting, dance. If that's your way of saying it was a great message. Sometimes you miss the heartbeat of a really good message because the greatest message isn't preached. The greatest message is lived. So if you can't live this entire series that I just did, then it wasn't a good message.

[Pastor Donnie]

You should live this. I should go home tonight, tomorrow.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Say, pastor, you know what? That's not going to bother me anymore. Even if I'm in the wilderness, I have the equipment that God's going to make everything all right. Matter of fact, God's not going to make everything all right. It's already all right.

[Pastor Donnie]

That's why you should have been clapping, because it's already.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Somebody just shout, it's already all right.

[Pastor Donnie]

It's already. It's already all right. The laughing.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It's already all right.

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm laughing in the devil's face. It's already all right. You ought to face tomorrow on. Even on your way home. It's simply a test. It's simply a test.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The devil thought he had me, but he messed up. I'm still here.

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm still here. I went through the wilderness. I made it through the storm, but I'm still here.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I don't care what you are dealing with.

[Pastor Donnie]

As a matter of fact, I just want everyone to stand.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I want to pray. Typically, we do an altar call and everyone comes around and stand around. But today I want you to build an altar right where you are today. You're going to build your own altar, and it's going to pose as your wilderness. I don't know what you've been dealing with. I don't know what you've been fighting.

[Supplement Brand Representative]

Against.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

But the devil is a liar. It doesn't matter what the enemy meant for evil. God is turning for the good. You. You know what? I love her.

[Pastor Donnie]

Shout that.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

That's her wilderness. And nobody can tell her how to handle her wilderness.

[Pastor Donnie]

And the truth be told, some of.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Y' all want to scream just like that.

[Pastor Donnie]

Because the pressure of life and work.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Feeling like you're not gonna make it.

[Pastor Donnie]

Brokenness. Husband leaving, wife leaving. Don't know how you're gonna pay your bills. And you're saying, God, what do I do in seasons like this?

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It's my wilderness. So, Father, we build an altar right where we are, right where we Stand Jehovah, Jireh, Jehovah, Nisi, El Elyon, El Shaddai.

[Pastor Donnie]

The God who heals.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

The God who.

[Pastor Donnie]

Delivers, the God who hears my voice, the God who called me by my name.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

We thank you, God.

[Pastor Donnie]

We thank you for your oil. We thank you for your anointing. God. Today we stand and build an altar for you. This is our wilderness.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And today we claim victory over the enemy, victory over depression, victory over suicide, victory over anxiety, victory over disappointment, victory.

[Pastor Donnie]

Over discouragement, victory over divorces, victory over this body. Victory over healing. Victory over wherever you are right now, be fighting against. We come against it now in the name of Jesus. Now Satan.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

We talk with you long enough.

[Pastor Donnie]

We've been in this wilderness with you long enough. And today we declare you gotta get behind us. Today we declare you have to move. And for everyone that don't move, God, prepare us for the battle, equipped us how to fight. Give us a word to use in the season. Help us, God, when we're going out. Help us when we're coming in. Anoint us even the more. And, God, we thank you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

We rest on your word. We rest on your reassurance that what the enemy meant for evil.

[Pastor Donnie]

He's turning it for my good. He's turning it Turning it for my good. Yeah, he's turning it.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I don't care what you've been dealing with.

[Pastor Donnie]

He's turning it for your good. Somebody needs to hear that today. He's turning it for He's. He's turning it for. He's turning it for your good. The wilderness was a classroom. And after tonight, you've been promoted. Go expecting tomorrow. Promotion. Go expecting tomorrow. Increase. Go expecting Once you leave here to get a phone call that will change your life forever. For the good.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Somebody shout Is turning in my favor.

[Pastor Donnie]

Okay, somebody shout again. And it's turning in my favor. Put it in a comment. It's turning in my favor.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I cannot. I cannot tell you how difficult that was to not jump, shout, dance, preach, but just walk and talk. Because God was giving me revelation at the time. I was like, God, you are so good that your wilderness is your beginning. God has given you an exit strategy and an interest strategy. And I prophesied everyone in here, that's under the sound of my voice. Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard. Neither has it entered to the hearts of men the things that God is about to reveal. That God is about to open a door. That God has opened up the windows of heaven.

[Pastor Donnie]

And that God is about to show you what you've Been praying for the very thing you've been praising about God says, I prepared you for it and watch it come to.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

So I want to do this. If there's one in here and you don't know Christ and the pardons of your sins, if you don't know, hey, Pastor, I want to be saved. I didn't ask if you want to be perfect. I just asked if you want to be a part of the kingdom. Do me a favor. You don't have to run down here. Just raise your hand if you didn't say, listen, Pastor, I want to be saved.

[Pastor Donnie]

I. I've been running long enough.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I've been dating God long enough. But I. I just. I want to be saved. I want to. I want to be saved. I see your hand. I want to be. I see your hand. I want to be saved.

[Pastor Donnie]

I see the hand.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

You can put your hands together.

[Pastor Donnie]

I see.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I see your hands.

[Pastor Donnie]

I see.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I saw your hands go up. Listen, the prayer line is open as well. For those who are watching all across the world, the prayer line is absolutely open. As we did walk it out Wednesday, had the opportunity to walk through the scriptures. I want. I want to walk through one more thing. I want to walk through one more thing. It's not only the giving of you. It is the giving of your tithe and your offering.

[Pastor Donnie]

It is the opportunity you get to.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Give the sacrificial giving. And for some people, it's not a sacrifice. It is what I call systematic giving. It is systematic giving. On the screen, there's a QR code.

[Pastor Donnie]

You can.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Can raise your hand. PMT be about to serve you. It's funny how we. We talk about offering as it relates to money, to financial things. I prayed this to God before God, I will give you finances if you give me favor back. I want a favor because favor will.

[Pastor Donnie]

Get you where finances can't get you. Now, I don't mind the finances. It's great. But if God with God favor on your life. When God opened doors for favor and we talk about the principles of seed and giving. This Matthew, chapter four, is about Jesus being planted so he can produce a harvest. I'm gonna say that again. It's about him being planted so he can produce a harvest. Except the seed fall to the ground. It is now we are the harvest that's being manifested. And God is saying today, over and.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Over, over and over again. I believe, like the question said, she.

[Pastor Donnie]

Said, I've had wilderness over and over. I believe you can have harvest over.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

And over, over and over, over and over.

[Pastor Donnie]

Matter of fact, I believe harvest will.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

Happen over and over, over and over, over and over again. But if you don't do what us country people call prime in the pump city, people may not understand. Priming the pump prime, the pump begins. And out of the well, you have to be able to put something in the well, activate the well, and then the well will give you something back. That's what tithing offering does for me. It puts us in a posture to be covered by God. And if we're ready to give, Raise your offering. Raise your hand. Raise your hand. Raise your offering. Raise it. Raise it high. Raise it high. Raise it high. Take that, take that tithe that offering with the envelope. Pass it to the left. Pass it to the left. Pass your giving to the left. Don't pass your phone to the left because it may not return. Pass your phone to the left. If it's an Android, so we can just put it in the box.

[Pastor Donnie]

I'm joking. I'm joking for real. No.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

I am joking. It is tithing. And offering for me is not where you just give emotionally. It is a systematic thing that I believe God will return to you some 30, some 60, some 100 fold. So PMT, serve the people of God. I believe God will return it to you. I don't. I don't just believe he'll return it. I believe once you give it, it's already on the way back. Okay, I'm gonna say that again. I believe once you return it. Once you return it, it's already on the way back. Like, it has. It has to do.

[Pastor Donnie]

It.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

It has to do. Oh, everyone's giving. Every, every. Everyone's giving, Give and it shall be given unto you. Good measure, press down, shaken together, running over, shall men give unto your bosom. Good measure. Pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall men give unto your bosom. I've taken this revelation from that text as we pray and get ready to get out of here. I don't want the good measure. I don't want to press down. And I don't want the shaking over. I don't want any of it. I want to be the latter part of that. I want to be the man that gives. You'll catch that one later. If I'm the man that gave it to you, if I created overflow in your life, imagine what I already have. Given. It shall be given. It shall be given unto you. So in other words, God's going to put somebody in your pathway that's going to create overflow for you. I want to be that person that when I cross somebody path I create overflow for them. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. See it's good to be the receiver.

[Pastor Donnie]

God bless you.

[Co-Pastor or Guest Speaker]

But I want to be the giver. I want to be the giver because God trusts you to give. That's what's so important about your tithe and offering that God trusts you to give. So Father, we thank you for what we gave. We thank you for what we heard. We thank you that there was a rumble in the jungle. We thank you for Sunday. We thank you for the ability to walk out what happened on Sunday. Now God, we pray even more that your anointing rests upon us. We pray that everything that we gave today return some 30, some 60, some a hundredfold. Anoint us from the crown of our head to the the very sole of our feet. Now God as we leave this place, but never your presence. So station your angels around us and keep us as we'll forever give you all the praise, the glory and the honor. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.

[Podcast Host]

Thank you for joining us on the Potter's House podcast. Remember, there's always a space in the house for you. Subscribe and never miss a word.

[Commercial Announcer]

Why? Choose a sleep number Smart bed?

[Podcast Host]

Can I make my site softer?

[Commercial Announcer]

Can I make my site firmer?

[Pastor Donnie]

Can we sleep cooler?

[Commercial Announcer]

Sleep number does that cools up to eight times faster and lets you choose your ideal comfort on either side your sleep number setting. Enjoy personalized comfort for better sleep night after night. It's our Black Friday sale Recharge this season with a bundle of cozy soothing comfort. Now only $17.99 for our C2 mattress and base plus free premium delivery. Price is higher in Alaska and Hawaii. Check it out at a sleep number store or sleepnumber.com today.

[Podcast Host]

We all love our pets but we love to travel too. And sadly they can't always come along for the ride. Don't stress. Trusted House Sitters connects you with verified sitters who will stay in your home and care for your pets. All in exchange for a place to stay on their travels. So while you're off exploring your pets get to stay safe and happy at home right where they belong. Find a loving in home pet sitter [e-mail] youm know Hannah and I love a good bedrotting session. Reality TV snacks nearby and now I've leveled up with my self care game with this Shark Beauty Cryoglow, the number one skincare facial device in the us.

[Beauty Product Influencer]

Wait, I'm obsessed with it I've had it for a while actually, and it's the only mask that combines high energy LEDs and infrared and under eye cooling. I really need this because nothing wakes me up in the morning. You could do four treatments in one better aging, Skin Clearing, Skin sustain, and my favorite the Under Eye Revive with Insta Chill Cold Tech. You put it on and it just feels so good under your eyes. Like I actually feel like I got eight hours of sleep.

[Podcast Host]

It's truly like a luxury spa moment while you're literally horizontal. It's perfect for post workout Sunday scaries or when you just want to glow while rotting.

[Beauty Product Influencer]

So to treat yourself to the number one LED beauty mask this holiday season, go to sharkninja.com and use promo code Giggly Squad for 10% off your cryoglow. That's sharkninja.com and Use promo code giggly squad for 10% off your cryo glow.