WEBVTT 00:00:17.783 --> 00:00:21.768 when you make that song personal, it hits different. 00:00:21.768 --> 00:00:32.713 For example, we would not have been celebrating a baby dedication for young eliza if it wasn't for god's grace. 00:00:32.713 --> 00:00:45.506 Now you think about your own life and what god has kept you through and brought you out of, and what God is doing, and have a flashback. 00:00:45.506 --> 00:00:52.262 I wish I could have about 70 of y'all in the room that don't mind having a flashback. 00:00:52.262 --> 00:00:55.426 Flashback to that spot. 00:00:55.426 --> 00:01:05.948 Flashback to that spot that, if it wasn't for God's grace, do I got some veterans in the room. 00:01:05.948 --> 00:01:10.762 Flashback to that spot where God brought you out of danger, seen and unseen. 00:01:10.762 --> 00:01:13.388 Do I have any mothers in the room? 00:01:13.388 --> 00:01:19.668 Flashback to that spot where you said I I can't do this much longer by myself, but, but God showed up. 00:01:19.668 --> 00:01:21.513 Do I have any fathers in the room? 00:01:21.513 --> 00:01:28.149 When the load just got heavy and you were just about to lose your mind, I wish I had some people in the room. 00:01:28.149 --> 00:01:43.968 I wish I had some people in the room that know that if it had not been for the Lord, god on our side, tell me where would I be be. 00:01:43.968 --> 00:01:45.231 You kept my enemies away. 00:01:45.231 --> 00:01:47.073 Thank you, god. 00:01:47.073 --> 00:01:52.051 Father, in the name of Jesus, have your way in this space. 00:01:52.051 --> 00:01:54.804 Thank you for this sweet worship moment. 00:01:54.804 --> 00:01:57.271 Thank you for what you're doing through the lives of your people. 00:01:57.271 --> 00:02:01.281 Your sons and your daughters speak, holy Ghost, like only you can. 00:02:02.543 --> 00:02:11.888 I pray for supernatural focus in the house today, that, god, you will block distractions that come in a variety of different forms. 00:02:11.888 --> 00:02:12.990 No distractions today. 00:02:12.990 --> 00:02:14.733 I pray for energy. 00:02:14.733 --> 00:02:17.347 I pray for strength, not only for myself, but for the hero. 00:02:17.347 --> 00:02:23.323 I pray, pray, god, that we will not just be heroes of this word, god, but we'll be doers of this word. 00:02:23.323 --> 00:02:30.807 I pray, god, that there will be trend, there will be, there will be a manifestation of, of your will before our eyes. 00:02:30.807 --> 00:02:36.322 Before we leave today, lord, when it's all said and done, we're careful to give you a name to glory, honor and praise. 00:02:36.322 --> 00:02:39.665 It's in the powerful name of the glory, honor and praise, it's in the powerful name of Jesus we pray. 00:02:39.665 --> 00:02:44.412 Let the people of God say amen, amen, amen To God, be the glory. 00:02:44.412 --> 00:02:48.777 To God, be the glory, to God, be the glory. 00:02:48.777 --> 00:02:50.602 Listen, family. 00:02:51.784 --> 00:03:03.444 If you've been here long enough, you will probably notice that I say that just about every time before it's time to preach, because that's my battle cry, that's how I crank my engine. 00:03:03.444 --> 00:03:04.649 To God, be the glory. 00:03:04.649 --> 00:03:06.591 To God be the glory. 00:03:06.591 --> 00:03:08.526 To God be the glory. 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:14.746 For those of y'all that know anything about small engines, you know you got your axe. 00:03:14.746 --> 00:03:23.771 If you are a chainsaw, if you will, to start a chainsaw, there's a motor in it, there's an engine, but it has a pull that and when you got to get that thing going, what you got to do, you got to pull it. 00:03:23.771 --> 00:03:29.133 So for me and I'm getting ready to chop down some strongholds, just like this, to god be the glory. 00:03:29.133 --> 00:03:31.403 To god be the glory. 00:03:31.403 --> 00:03:38.121 To god be the glory when I see some people about to get set free, to god be the glory. 00:03:38.121 --> 00:03:40.826 To god be the glory. 00:03:40.826 --> 00:03:44.801 To god be the glory, I'll get my engine wrapped up. 00:03:44.801 --> 00:03:48.132 When I see some people about to recover at all, to god be the glory. 00:03:48.132 --> 00:03:50.604 To god be the glory. 00:03:50.604 --> 00:03:53.109 To god be the glory. 00:03:53.109 --> 00:03:58.804 So I just need to bring you into my world, because when we get to this point, god's about to do something. 00:03:58.804 --> 00:04:06.961 I don't know what you need him to do, but you have come on the right day, because I'm expecting something from the hand of the master. 00:04:07.163 --> 00:04:19.625 On today, family we have been talking about, the Lord has given us an utterance that this is the month of recovery for us here at this church and for others in the land that can receive this by faith. 00:04:19.625 --> 00:04:26.093 That's why we got to pray recovery, we got to be walking obedience and I know, by faith you will recover it all. 00:04:26.093 --> 00:04:31.579 Some of you will recover it all this month, but for others, the Lord is going to start the process of recovery. 00:04:31.579 --> 00:04:38.651 You should expect to see recovery as it relates to whatever it is that you need recovery for. 00:04:38.651 --> 00:04:43.730 We've all lost something in this thing called life and this is a month of recovery. 00:04:43.730 --> 00:04:51.987 I know God is moving in this vein because he's about to use you in ways that he's never used you before. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:06.867 Brothers, all my brothers, I know some were at the early service, but for all of the brothers we had and a couple from out of town, but we had about 30 brothers that were on the man trip, for all my brothers that were, uh, went on the man trip, can y'all stand real quick? 00:05:06.867 --> 00:05:11.685 I want to see all the brothers from the man trip celebrate y'all to god be the glory. 00:05:11.685 --> 00:05:15.812 Thank y'all, thank y'all, thank y'all, thank y'all. 00:05:15.812 --> 00:05:24.372 30, these 30, these 30 men that we had, our uh god is he started moving early in the. 00:05:24.372 --> 00:05:25.062 I've been doing. 00:05:25.062 --> 00:05:41.750 We've been doing a version there of of this way before this ministry started been doing something like this for almost I don't know 10 years or so, and oftentimes it's the end of the like, the last day where we'll see men have some supernatural breakthroughs. 00:05:41.750 --> 00:05:46.266 But God this time started moving. 00:05:46.266 --> 00:05:48.050 We left on Thursday. 00:05:48.050 --> 00:05:53.108 He started moving before we got on the bus and I saw what God was doing. 00:05:53.108 --> 00:05:55.454 We have our church. 00:05:55.454 --> 00:05:56.917 I was so glad that men knew it. 00:05:56.956 --> 00:06:01.470 So time, sometimes some of my leaders even flunked the test what's our mission? 00:06:01.470 --> 00:06:02.172 What's our vision? 00:06:02.172 --> 00:06:11.389 I said it's a cheat code in the sanctuary Overcome, build and be like Jesus when we come into the presence of the most high God. 00:06:11.389 --> 00:06:22.182 So many times there are things that we have to overcome, and you have to overcome before you can build, because whatever you fail to overcome, it impacts the building process. 00:06:22.182 --> 00:06:36.745 So there has to be healed healing first so that you can build what God has called you to build for his glory and for your family, for his for, for, for his vision in the earth and also for the vision that he has given you. 00:06:36.745 --> 00:06:51.687 So when God starts moving and helping people to overcome early, I said, oh my God, this year he sent a bunch of builders because he said, listen, I don't need these brothers to spend all the whole weekend trying to overcome. 00:06:51.687 --> 00:06:53.091 I need them to be a. 00:06:53.091 --> 00:07:01.401 There need to be a shift so they can go from go from overcoming sorrows to going back home and starting to build a community in their family. 00:07:03.968 --> 00:07:05.312 And that's what recovery is. 00:07:05.312 --> 00:07:10.144 It is that the lord is saying, in this month of recovery, that you got to overcome quickly. 00:07:10.144 --> 00:07:13.853 Some of you in this room, y'all, have been struggling long enough. 00:07:13.853 --> 00:07:18.429 I declare that today, by faith, that you got to overcome quickly. 00:07:18.429 --> 00:07:20.572 You can't carry this longer. 00:07:20.572 --> 00:07:26.697 If you're looking, I'm gonna say this I hope it don't uh make you uh feel some type of way. 00:07:26.697 --> 00:07:28.903 You know y'all, y'all already chose the city. 00:07:28.903 --> 00:07:31.170 Y'all can do some stuff to make people feel some type of way. 00:07:31.209 --> 00:07:43.394 Now I'm gonna say this and I mean it from my heart if you're looking for a place where you can find a trauma bond and stay in misery for the next few years, this ain't it. 00:07:43.394 --> 00:07:47.750 At some point we're going to hold you accountable for your breakthrough. 00:07:47.750 --> 00:07:55.600 At some point we're going to look at you and say you've been where you are long enough. 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.689 There is greater in you and it's time for you to walk in it. 00:07:58.689 --> 00:08:11.774 It's not that we're rude, but we just want you to win, whereas some people want you to be in misery because they they benefit off of your ministry. 00:08:11.774 --> 00:08:13.280 The whole industry benefit off you being depressed. 00:08:13.280 --> 00:08:16.468 The whole industry benefit off you being in anxiety. 00:08:16.468 --> 00:08:28.706 Billion dollar industry get all the drugs you want, to stay miserable for the rest of your life, but 1995, we keep you miserable for the next 12 months and we got an extra special keep you miserable going into 2030 if you want. 00:08:29.307 --> 00:08:34.449 But I want to talk to some people and say that this is a moment to overcome so you can start building. 00:08:34.449 --> 00:08:42.067 This is a moment to overcome so you can start building, and that's why I believe the lord has given us this word and I believe click quickly. 00:08:42.067 --> 00:08:47.481 Some of you are about to overcome so that you can start beauty. 00:08:47.481 --> 00:08:52.751 I'm going to give you principles, because there are we. 00:08:52.751 --> 00:08:57.285 We don't necessarily need to recover the same things, but we have all lost something. 00:08:57.285 --> 00:08:59.829 So what I speak today are principles. 00:08:59.829 --> 00:09:15.079 So we talked last week about recovering joy, but there's a word today because if you recover the principles that I share with you, you can recover whatever is specific to your own situation and circumstance. 00:09:16.662 --> 00:09:25.802 Psalm 51, verse 8 through 19 it is our custom to stand and read the word of the lord out loud. 00:09:25.802 --> 00:09:33.169 Together we pick up from where we left off last week and I'm excited about what god is saying today. 00:09:33.169 --> 00:09:38.646 Let's read the word of god together, ready, ready, set. 00:09:38.646 --> 00:09:45.735 Read Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou has broken may rejoice. 00:09:45.735 --> 00:09:52.112 Hide thy face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities. 00:09:52.112 --> 00:09:59.044 Create in me a clean heart, o God, and renew a right spirit within me. 00:09:59.044 --> 00:10:00.385 O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 00:10:00.385 --> 00:10:05.810 Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. 00:10:05.810 --> 00:10:12.676 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit. 00:10:12.676 --> 00:10:21.545 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee. 00:10:21.545 --> 00:10:30.410 Deliver me from blood guiltiness, oh god, thou god of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 00:10:30.410 --> 00:10:41.274 Oh lord, open thou my lips and my mouth shall show forth thy praise, for thou desire is not sacrifice, else would I give it. 00:10:41.274 --> 00:10:44.119 Thou delighteth not in burnt offering. 00:10:44.119 --> 00:10:51.190 The sacrifice of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart. 00:10:51.190 --> 00:10:54.074 Oh God, thou will not despise. 00:10:54.074 --> 00:11:08.890 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion, build thou the walls of Jerusalem, then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering. 00:11:08.890 --> 00:11:13.225 Then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. 00:11:13.225 --> 00:11:20.207 And I would just like to use as a thought today, as we continue to focus on recovery, recovering strength. 00:11:20.207 --> 00:11:22.600 Somebody say I'm getting my strength back. 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:23.803 Yeah, come on. 00:11:23.803 --> 00:11:25.186 Say I'm gonna get my strength back. 00:11:25.186 --> 00:11:29.302 Hallelujah, you may be seated in the presence of the Lord. 00:11:30.404 --> 00:11:33.831 Psalm 51 picks up uh with David. 00:11:33.831 --> 00:11:37.819 Uh, it's an expression after David's confession. 00:11:37.819 --> 00:11:42.174 David confessed, for those that were with us last week. 00:11:42.174 --> 00:11:51.182 He confessed that he sinned against God when he took Bathsheba, who was married to one of David's soldiers, a brother by the name of Uriah. 00:11:51.182 --> 00:12:00.651 He took her, was intimate with her, got her pregnant and tried to cover it up by having her husband killed. 00:12:00.651 --> 00:12:09.393 And when he was confronted by the prophet, he had to acknowledge that he had done all those things. 00:12:10.640 --> 00:12:12.287 There's a lot that we can learn from David. 00:12:12.287 --> 00:12:37.971 One of the things that we learn, first and foremost, is that we learn the concept of God's grace and mercy through the life of David, because grace is that unmerited favor when God blesses us when we don't deserve to be blessed and even though David had done these horrible things, god still favored him. 00:12:37.971 --> 00:12:44.662 Horrible things, god still favored him. 00:12:44.662 --> 00:12:45.043 We talked about. 00:12:45.043 --> 00:12:49.875 It was crazy that David was used by God to write the Bible after he cheated on his wife, after he had a man killed. 00:12:50.516 --> 00:13:00.747 I thought cancel culture was the way of the day, but God reminds us that when you are anointed, nobody can cancel the assignment that I have on your life. 00:13:00.747 --> 00:13:08.751 It's not an escape of consequences because if you realize and look carefully now, he operated in grace. 00:13:08.751 --> 00:13:13.028 But there were a whole lot of consequences associated with David's actions. 00:13:13.028 --> 00:13:15.401 But I'm thankful for his grace because it could have killed him. 00:13:15.401 --> 00:13:16.583 There'll be some people in the room early. 00:13:16.583 --> 00:13:17.886 You know that ought to be some people in the room early. 00:13:17.886 --> 00:13:21.893 You know that ought to be thankful for God's grace because it could have killed you. 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:31.566 There's a lesson that we say and I don't know if I even go with it anymore, pastor Nicky, I don't know if I rock with this one anymore. 00:13:31.566 --> 00:13:34.769 They say experience is the best teacher. 00:13:34.769 --> 00:13:41.969 Experience is a good teacher, but I don't know if it's the best teacher because sometimes you experience something it may kill you on the first time. 00:13:41.969 --> 00:13:48.991 I know people that put put it put fentanyl in their vein the first time and they didn't get another chance, and so I'm trying to remind you. 00:13:48.991 --> 00:13:56.186 There are some people in the room maybe it wasn't fentanyl, but you put some in your spirit and it could have killed you, but by the grace of God you're still here. 00:13:57.088 --> 00:14:07.010 David teaches us about God's mercy, because God could have counseled him, god could have taken him out, but God said I'm not going to give you the punishment that you deserve. 00:14:07.010 --> 00:14:17.080 I'm going to correct you and I want to talk to somebody that's on a journey to recovery and let you know it's not punishment, it's correction, because God is trying to get you to the place that he would have you to be. 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:34.483 But God, we learn about God's grace, we learn about God's mercy, but we learn from David about what to do in life when you have lost your joy, because when you lose your joy, you really lose everything. 00:14:34.483 --> 00:14:41.400 Nehemiah had it right when he was teaching the people after rebuilding the ball that they were going to be surrounded by enemies, and sometimes they would deal with disappointment. 00:14:41.400 --> 00:14:55.051 They were disappointed because they had this temple that had they had built to God and their enemies had torn it down, and Nehemiah was part of the rebuilding process and what they rebuilt was not as big as what they had the first time. 00:14:55.091 --> 00:15:01.529 There are some people in the room God has restored you, but you feel some type of way because you feel like you're not where you used to be. 00:15:01.529 --> 00:15:03.191 Anybody in the room want to be honest. 00:15:03.191 --> 00:15:05.521 Anybody feel like I'm all right, but I ain't where I used to be. 00:15:05.521 --> 00:15:08.308 I'm, I'm okay, but I ain't where I used to be. 00:15:08.308 --> 00:15:18.065 And what Nehemiah did when he saw some people who were frustrated because they were okay but they ain't where they really wanted to be in life, he said I need you, I see something there, concern. 00:15:18.065 --> 00:15:22.453 He said you're losing your joy because you're not happy with where you are in life. 00:15:22.453 --> 00:15:27.051 And, as the people in the room today, you've lost joy because you're not happy with where you are in life. 00:15:27.051 --> 00:15:32.071 And that was a red flag to Nehemiah, because Nehemiah said if you lose your joy, you lose your strength. 00:15:32.071 --> 00:15:34.646 Because he says the joy of the Lord is our. 00:15:34.646 --> 00:15:36.671 What is our strength? 00:15:42.721 --> 00:15:49.839 And and I was talking to some of the elders, as I do on occasion, this time I happened to see Elder Mark and was talking and he said do the people really understand what joy really is. 00:15:49.839 --> 00:15:58.164 And I started to think about that thing and I said, if I was to pull the room, do you really understand what joy really is? 00:15:58.164 --> 00:16:03.012 While God wants us to be happy, our happiness comes and goes. 00:16:03.012 --> 00:16:04.194 I want you to know. 00:16:04.194 --> 00:16:09.014 God wants you to be happy and joyful, but happiness will leave you in a minute. 00:16:09.014 --> 00:16:12.102 You could be on I-85 and somebody cut you off. 00:16:12.102 --> 00:16:13.225 You ain't happy, no more. 00:16:13.225 --> 00:16:15.879 That finger came up that wasn't supposed to come up. 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.044 Somebody know what I'm talking about. 00:16:18.044 --> 00:16:23.623 Happiness can leave you in a nanosecond, but the old saints had it right. 00:16:23.623 --> 00:16:29.980 This joy that I have, the world didn't give it and the world can't take it away. 00:16:29.980 --> 00:16:34.771 I wish I had some people that understood what that joy means biblically. 00:16:34.811 --> 00:16:41.331 The one thing that you got to understand about biblical joy is that it is not of human origin. 00:16:41.331 --> 00:16:43.343 Somebody say it's not of human origin. 00:16:43.343 --> 00:16:45.168 It's not of human origin. 00:16:45.168 --> 00:16:50.281 No, the joy that I have is a gift of the Holy Spirit. 00:16:50.281 --> 00:16:51.123 How do I know that? 00:16:51.123 --> 00:16:54.310 Because the Bible talks about fruits of the Spirit. 00:16:54.310 --> 00:17:02.633 In other words, when I am filled with the Holy Ghost, after I give my life to Jesus, the Holy Spirit starts to produce in my life. 00:17:02.633 --> 00:17:08.633 And it says that the Holy Spirit will produce love, but the Holy Spirit also produces joy. 00:17:08.633 --> 00:17:21.369 Joy, the gift from the Holy Spirit that says that even when I don't feel like praising him, I'm going to praise him because I trust my God, even when I don't understand why it's going this way. 00:17:21.369 --> 00:17:31.168 I'm going to keep my hand in the master's hand because I believe that sooner or later it will turn in my favor and he's working it out for my good. 00:17:31.600 --> 00:17:34.770 I wish I had some people in the room that have some joy. 00:17:34.770 --> 00:17:38.200 I may have a frown on my face, but I still got joy. 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:47.331 I may feel some type of way sometimes, but I still got joy because I trust God to turn it around for me, no matter what. 00:17:47.331 --> 00:17:52.131 Do I have any witnesses in the room that can testify to some people who have lost their joy? 00:17:52.131 --> 00:17:57.567 Can you testify to somebody on your row I don't care who you testify to and tell them? 00:17:57.567 --> 00:17:59.111 I still got joy. 00:17:59.721 --> 00:18:01.793 I got joy through the miscarriage. 00:18:01.793 --> 00:18:02.919 I kept the joy. 00:18:02.919 --> 00:18:05.124 I got joy through the bereavement. 00:18:05.124 --> 00:18:06.547 I kept my joy. 00:18:06.547 --> 00:18:08.451 I got joy through the divorce. 00:18:08.451 --> 00:18:09.993 I kept my joy. 00:18:09.993 --> 00:18:11.621 I cried a little bit. 00:18:11.621 --> 00:18:37.006 I had a few sleepless nights, and in the room there's another crowd, though they said, pastor, I'm glad that there's a crowd in here that didn't lose their joy, but, pastor, I'm in the other crowd. 00:18:37.006 --> 00:18:40.123 What I went through hit me so hard. 00:18:40.123 --> 00:18:49.150 I don't have joy anymore and I want to talk to you and let you know you came on the right Sunday because David lost his joy. 00:18:49.150 --> 00:18:57.408 If you are implicit with a murder and adultery, that's going to cause you to lose some joy. 00:18:59.005 --> 00:19:00.028 And he lost his joy. 00:19:00.028 --> 00:19:04.951 He said I had to get my joy back because I didn't have any strength left. 00:19:04.951 --> 00:19:12.929 And so, in a nutshell, to get your strength back, you got to have your joy, and to have some joy, you got to have some strength. 00:19:12.929 --> 00:19:17.304 They are bedfellows, they are yin and yang. 00:19:17.304 --> 00:19:22.443 You got to have some strength and some joy, some joy and some strength, some joy, some joy and some strength, some two-piece and a biscuit. 00:19:22.443 --> 00:19:26.962 You got to have all of this if you're gonna get what God got for you in this season. 00:19:28.345 --> 00:19:36.770 He loses his joy because of the decision that he made and he he says I I I'm expressing this because I need to help some people that chose the city church get the strength back. 00:19:36.770 --> 00:19:41.663 He says, if you're going to get your strength back, you got to pray like I prayed. 00:19:41.663 --> 00:19:42.567 That's David talking. 00:19:42.567 --> 00:19:50.190 And the first thing that David teaches us is, if we're going to get our strength back, the first part of our prayer has to be make me. 00:19:50.190 --> 00:19:51.993 Everybody said make me. 00:19:51.993 --> 00:19:54.724 Yeah, if we're going to get our strength back. 00:19:54.764 --> 00:20:00.464 Coach, coach, you're a great coach and I thank God for what you and I've been able to do. 00:20:00.464 --> 00:20:03.530 But for the fact I had to listen to your diet plan, I'd be farther along. 00:20:03.530 --> 00:20:04.993 But we'll work on that. 00:20:04.993 --> 00:20:11.153 But in the natural Coach, I'm thankful for what I've been able to do as it relates to strength gains. 00:20:11.153 --> 00:20:16.913 But there's something in the spirit that has to happen today to help people to get those gains that they need. 00:20:16.913 --> 00:20:21.952 And David says the first thing is make me Look at the text carefully, those gains that they need. 00:20:21.952 --> 00:20:24.059 And David says the first thing is make me Look at the text carefully. 00:20:30.700 --> 00:20:35.206 He says this after he's lost his joy Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which thou has broken may rejoice. 00:20:35.206 --> 00:20:49.148 He says make me would suggest that he had come to the ultimate realization that he could not fix his problem on his own. 00:20:49.148 --> 00:20:56.193 That's one of the things that has to happen if we're going to have a shift if I'm going to overcome it. 00:20:56.193 --> 00:20:59.923 I got to get to that realization that if I could have done it, it would be done by now. 00:20:59.923 --> 00:21:03.068 If I could fix it, I would have fixed it last week. 00:21:03.068 --> 00:21:07.342 You get to that ultimate conclusion that, god, I need it done and I can't do it. 00:21:07.342 --> 00:21:09.267 So, god, I need you to make me. 00:21:09.267 --> 00:21:14.204 I want to talk to somebody in the room that's that's unafraid to pray to God like that, to. 00:21:14.505 --> 00:21:17.471 The Bible teaches amen, that we go to the throne boldly. 00:21:17.471 --> 00:21:20.657 What a bold prayer to go to God and say God, make me. 00:21:20.657 --> 00:21:22.261 He says make God I. 00:21:22.261 --> 00:21:27.436 I need you to make me to be able to be of the recipient of joy and gladness. 00:21:27.436 --> 00:21:28.579 Uh, once again. 00:21:28.579 --> 00:21:29.501 But watch what he says. 00:21:29.501 --> 00:21:30.804 Look at the next verse, verse nine. 00:21:30.804 --> 00:21:35.162 Not only uh does he need God to, to, to, to, to to make him. 00:21:35.162 --> 00:21:39.948 He says hide thy face from thy sins and blot out all my iniquities. 00:21:39.948 --> 00:21:47.127 God, I need you to make me, because all I can see is my yesterday, all I can see is my bad choice. 00:21:47.127 --> 00:21:48.363 And there's some people in the room. 00:21:48.363 --> 00:21:52.113 The reason that you don't have joy is all you can see is your yesterday. 00:21:52.113 --> 00:21:54.347 All you can see is your bad choice. 00:21:54.347 --> 00:21:57.586 All you can do is analyze the mistake that you made. 00:21:57.726 --> 00:22:06.169 I was talking to a family member recently who was telling me over and over again how he felt so bad about some decisions that he made. 00:22:06.169 --> 00:22:09.246 Had he gone to school, had he done this, had he done that? 00:22:09.246 --> 00:22:19.424 Is there anybody that can relate to my family member that sometimes you get up and you look and say I wish I would have and I should have, but I needed to remind you of the God that you serve? 00:22:19.424 --> 00:22:24.549 You serve the God of the Kairos and you serve the God of the Kronos. 00:22:24.549 --> 00:22:33.403 You mean that you serve the God, that is the God over the time and the natural, the time on the clock that's on your phone and it's on your watch, but you really serve the God. 00:22:33.403 --> 00:22:42.371 That's the God of the universe, that he is time and because we serve the God of time, that means that it's never too late for God. 00:22:42.500 --> 00:22:52.352 I want to talk to somebody that has lost their joy because you keep telling yourself that it's too late, and I'm here to remind you that the devil is a liar, that it's never too late for God. 00:22:52.352 --> 00:23:02.201 As a matter of fact, this month you are about to see God move and somebody going to say I thought it was too late, I thought you gave up on that dream, I thought you had moved on. 00:23:02.201 --> 00:23:13.308 You'll say no, god spoke to me and reminded me that he is the father of all time and and it's all in his hands and and it's never too late for our God. 00:23:13.308 --> 00:23:28.492 But when he's asking God to make him over because he can't do it himself, when he's asking God to wipe out his yesterday, can I speak that into your life right now that the Bible says this is the Bible. 00:23:28.492 --> 00:23:31.927 Anything that's prophetic has to be backed up in the word of God. 00:23:31.927 --> 00:23:35.042 So I can back this up in the word of God in like six places. 00:23:36.265 --> 00:23:37.828 You are forgiven if you confess it. 00:23:37.828 --> 00:23:39.819 I didn't talk to somebody in the room. 00:23:39.819 --> 00:23:40.918 Before you go any further, you are forgiven if you confess it. 00:23:40.918 --> 00:23:41.560 I need to talk to somebody in the room before you go any further. 00:23:41.560 --> 00:23:43.510 You are forgiven if you confess it. 00:23:43.510 --> 00:23:44.073 That's the Bible. 00:23:44.073 --> 00:23:45.780 That ain't Pastor Walt, I don't have that power. 00:23:45.780 --> 00:23:46.363 That's the Bible. 00:23:46.363 --> 00:23:52.361 The Bible says if we confess our sins, he's what Faithful, and just to forgive our sins. 00:23:52.402 --> 00:24:00.550 So, david, when he said, blot out my blood guiltiness, he is confessing that I was part of that crime that happened to Uriah and I'm confessing it. 00:24:00.550 --> 00:24:02.854 So now God said I'll, I'll blot it out. 00:24:02.854 --> 00:24:05.115 I want to encourage somebody get your joy right. 00:24:05.115 --> 00:24:06.703 He's blotted it out because you confessed it. 00:24:06.703 --> 00:24:12.893 He blotted it out right now because you could confess it so you can get free, so you can now start to do what God has called you to do. 00:24:12.893 --> 00:24:18.767 But then, as he is asking God to make him, he gets to one of my favorite scriptures in the Bible, verse 10. 00:24:18.767 --> 00:24:23.335 He says create in me a clean heart. 00:24:23.335 --> 00:24:25.444 Can we highlight that word create? 00:24:25.484 --> 00:24:27.711 Everybody said create y'all. 00:24:27.711 --> 00:24:44.094 It had gotten so bad for David that what he had done was so bad and he had lost so much that the created went to the creator and said Lord, make me over again. 00:24:44.094 --> 00:24:49.348 Sometimes what we go through is so bad and it hurts us so bad. 00:24:49.348 --> 00:24:58.548 We, as the created, need to know how to go to the creator and say Lord, I need a makeover, I need a fresh start. 00:24:58.548 --> 00:25:03.043 And I believe, by faith, that the Lord is about to give some of you all a makeover. 00:25:03.043 --> 00:25:05.913 He's about to give some of you all a fresh start. 00:25:05.913 --> 00:25:12.050 He's about to hit that reset button in your life because he's about to make you over again. 00:25:12.050 --> 00:25:18.706 He said create in me, which means that I need you to do something special. 00:25:18.706 --> 00:25:23.541 I need you to fix it in such a way, god, that it won't get broken again. 00:25:23.541 --> 00:25:24.503 Create in me. 00:25:24.503 --> 00:25:31.484 I need you to do something special so that this time, god, I won't fall to the same traps of the enemy. 00:25:31.484 --> 00:25:33.127 God, create in me. 00:25:33.167 --> 00:25:33.749 What God? 00:25:33.749 --> 00:25:35.452 A clean heart. 00:25:35.452 --> 00:25:44.615 If you look at this word heart in the Bible and you were to look it up carefully, you would discover that it is beyond just the seat of our emotions. 00:25:44.615 --> 00:25:48.050 It goes really to his mental capacity. 00:25:48.050 --> 00:25:50.340 Can I be real with you, david? 00:25:50.340 --> 00:25:54.711 Mine went in the right place when he was making the decisions that he was making. 00:25:54.711 --> 00:25:56.960 His spirit was not in the right place. 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:03.953 That's why he said create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me. 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:06.067 Some of you all lost your joy. 00:26:06.067 --> 00:26:07.365 You won't like it, but it's true. 00:26:07.365 --> 00:26:11.892 You lost your joy because you was operating with the wrong spirit. 00:26:11.892 --> 00:26:15.342 Can I have anybody in the room that don't mind being honest If you're new here. 00:26:15.342 --> 00:26:16.948 We like helping one another out. 00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:22.232 I need some folks that got it yesterday that say I remember that night I was operating with the wrong spirit. 00:26:22.232 --> 00:26:23.983 I remember that night I pulled up. 00:26:23.983 --> 00:26:26.029 And I pulled up with the wrong spirit. 00:26:26.029 --> 00:26:37.771 Don't worry, god is saying that if you ever pulled up with the wrong spirit, you got to learn to pray like David and say create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit. 00:26:37.771 --> 00:26:40.128 So I don't operate that way anymore. 00:26:40.128 --> 00:26:43.470 Elder Cole, I don't think like I used to think anymore. 00:26:43.470 --> 00:26:55.833 I'm still tempted sometimes, but with a made-up mind and a new mind, god created me a clean heart and renewed a right spirit within me. 00:26:55.833 --> 00:27:07.270 I'm trying to help you all to understand what God is doing for you in this season, one of the lessons that we got from the man trip that blessed me so much. 00:27:09.780 --> 00:27:15.481 A question was raised by one of the great brothers about how do I know that I'm hearing for God? 00:27:15.481 --> 00:27:16.443 I'm trying for those that are trying to recover. 00:27:16.443 --> 00:27:17.005 Oh, that's your question too. 00:27:17.005 --> 00:27:19.251 I'm trying to recover and I'm trying to make the right decision, but how do I know I'm hearing from God? 00:27:19.251 --> 00:27:20.274 I'm trying for those that are trying to recover. 00:27:20.274 --> 00:27:21.156 Oh, that's your question too. 00:27:21.156 --> 00:27:25.905 I'm trying to recover and I'm trying to make the right decision, but how do I know I'm hearing from God? 00:27:25.905 --> 00:27:31.365 Pastor Keith Anderson said something that blessed me and he blessed me real good. 00:27:31.365 --> 00:27:38.272 He reminded us that our God is the master communicator. 00:27:40.100 --> 00:27:41.847 Y'all ever met a master communicator? 00:27:41.847 --> 00:27:46.145 A master communicator knows how to talk to whoever they are talking to. 00:27:46.145 --> 00:27:56.326 I would not call myself a master communicator, but as an attorney, when I get a jury, I size that jury up. 00:27:56.326 --> 00:28:03.924 If the jury look like me and you, I'm going to talk like me and you Know what I'm talking about. 00:28:03.924 --> 00:28:07.521 Now y'all on y'all job, y'all call it code switching, y'all do whatever you got to do. 00:28:07.521 --> 00:28:20.431 If I go out east and the jury don't look like nobody in this room, they didn't know how much I love America and I love my guns because I got to talk to them right where they are. 00:28:20.431 --> 00:28:25.765 You know what I'm talking about Because that's what a master communicator I'm trying to win for my client Got to do whatever I got to do. 00:28:26.989 --> 00:28:40.271 God is a master communicator, which is why the Bible says that some, not all, when I get ready to speak to you, that's why you dream dreams and other people don't, because God knows how to talk to you. 00:28:40.271 --> 00:28:49.248 So don't look at me crazy if I said God talked to me in a dream, because that's how he talked to me and he may talk to you a little bit different, because God's a master communicator. 00:28:49.248 --> 00:29:01.108 For some of you, when you were in worship this morning with your hands lifted up and your mouth filled with praise, god started depositing something in you, because he knows that you are a worshiper and he can get to you through your worship. 00:29:01.108 --> 00:29:09.905 Because he's a master communicator, god is trying to communicate to us that I'm about to make you over. 00:29:09.905 --> 00:29:16.365 And there was this time where he helps us to understand and make over, using his masterful communication skills. 00:29:17.588 --> 00:29:21.846 Prophet by the name of Jeremiah, who he gave an assignment to tell the people of God to turn back to him. 00:29:21.846 --> 00:29:22.888 The people weren't catching it. 00:29:22.888 --> 00:29:29.830 Jeremiah wasn't catching it, as all of the religious talk that God was giving him, it seemed like it wasn't connected. 00:29:29.830 --> 00:29:38.847 So, god being the master communicator, he said Jeremiah, I've given you all the seminary, I've given you all the history, I've given you all the Greek and the Hebrew and Aramaic. 00:29:38.847 --> 00:29:40.392 I need to meet you. 00:29:40.392 --> 00:29:42.789 You need to meet me somewhere, because I need it. 00:29:42.789 --> 00:29:43.955 I'm a master communicator. 00:29:43.955 --> 00:29:47.107 I'm gonna meet you on your road, so you don't miss this, jeremiah. 00:29:47.107 --> 00:29:53.224 Meet me down at the potter's house down there on Main Street, and I'll see you when you get inside. 00:29:53.424 --> 00:29:56.191 Jeremiah goes down to the potter's house. 00:29:56.191 --> 00:30:06.548 He goes down in the bottom of the basement of the potter's house and there's this old potter and there's this old wheel. 00:30:06.548 --> 00:30:11.261 If you've never been on one of them dates where you do clay and stuff is interesting. 00:30:11.261 --> 00:30:12.665 You got to try it out, fellas. 00:30:12.665 --> 00:30:13.326 It's kind of cool. 00:30:13.326 --> 00:30:22.280 You see, they take clay and they put it on the wheel and they turn that clay and they turn that dirt and that water and they keep turning it and turning it. 00:30:22.280 --> 00:30:33.450 God says Jeremiah watch the potter, jeremiah watch the clay as the potter is working the clay. 00:30:35.076 --> 00:30:43.462 The Bible says that the clay becomes broken, the clay becomes imperfect, the clay becomes marred. 00:30:43.462 --> 00:30:47.563 What Jeremiah witnesses next is amazing. 00:30:47.563 --> 00:31:01.471 The potter does not take the broken piece and the marred piece and the imperfect piece of the clay and take it off of the wheel and discard of it, as many of us would do. 00:31:01.471 --> 00:31:02.456 That's what they do to us. 00:31:02.456 --> 00:31:11.876 You know, when you get broken, they take you and they pull you out of your assignment, they pull you out of your family, they pull you out of your fraternal organization. 00:31:11.876 --> 00:31:14.143 They put you to the side because you're broken. 00:31:14.143 --> 00:31:17.539 They say don't call him anymore, don't call her anymore. 00:31:17.539 --> 00:31:21.538 She's going through too much and we can't be associated with somebody that broken. 00:31:21.538 --> 00:31:31.527 But I'm so glad he took Jeremiah down to the potter's house and what's amazing is what the potter did with the broken piece. 00:31:31.527 --> 00:31:44.711 Instead of throwing the broken and marred piece away, the potter put his hands on the clay and the potter started to reshape the clay. 00:31:45.676 --> 00:31:57.605 And the more I read about what was Jeremiah was seeing, the more I see David's prayer when he cried create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me. 00:31:57.605 --> 00:32:01.589 He was praying God, I am that clay on the wheel. 00:32:01.589 --> 00:32:11.605 I got some broken pieces that made me make some broken decisions, because some of you are not bad, but you've made broken decisions because you operate from a broken place. 00:32:11.605 --> 00:32:23.418 But the potter I'm so glad that our God is operates like theter, because when he finds a broken place in your life, he'll put his hands on it. 00:32:23.418 --> 00:32:29.635 That's why we sang songs like lay your hands on me, jesus, I don't mind. 00:32:29.635 --> 00:32:39.527 I wish I had some people in the room that see themselves as clay on the potter's wheel and don't mind saying lay your hand on me, jesus, I don't mind. 00:32:39.595 --> 00:32:52.462 That's what I came in to the house of God with this morning, because I see myself as that clay and I got some imperfect places, but lay your hands on me, jesus, I don't mind. 00:32:52.462 --> 00:33:00.250 He lays his hand on the clay, this potter, and he molds it and he shapes it and he reforms it. 00:33:00.250 --> 00:33:16.188 And then he looks at Jeremiah and said I needed to talk to you on your level so you could understand, the same way that a potter in the natural does not throw away broken charge of clay, he just simply reforms it and reshapes it. 00:33:16.188 --> 00:33:40.075 When you pray, david, to make you over again, I'm not going to throw you away, but I'm about to fix everything that the abuse broke, everything that your situation broke, because the potter wants to put you back together again. 00:33:40.075 --> 00:33:54.048 And if you're in the room this morning and there's an area in your life that the situation broke you, you got to take about 30 seconds right here and preach over your own self and say Lord, just make me. 00:33:54.048 --> 00:33:56.643 Come on, just preach over your own self. 00:33:56.643 --> 00:33:59.406 Say it out loud, make me Social media. 00:33:59.406 --> 00:33:59.557 Type that in. 00:33:59.557 --> 00:34:00.116 Just preach over your own self. 00:34:00.116 --> 00:34:00.254 Say it out loud, make me Social media. 00:34:00.254 --> 00:34:01.467 Type that in Just make me. 00:34:01.995 --> 00:34:10.028 I need to see some people get made before I can go any further, because if God doesn't make you over, then the next part of the message won't make any sense. 00:34:10.028 --> 00:34:11.822 Do I have any room people in the room? 00:34:11.822 --> 00:34:13.941 Do I got any broken vessels in the room? 00:34:13.941 --> 00:34:15.586 That don't mind being real. 00:34:15.586 --> 00:34:18.039 I start with the pastor a broken vessel. 00:34:18.039 --> 00:34:22.162 I don't always make the right decision, I don't always do it the right way. 00:34:22.162 --> 00:34:28.143 I'm not always the best husband, I'm not always the best father, but when I come in in this house I can say make me. 00:34:28.143 --> 00:34:35.427 I need everybody in the house that's unashamed to say God, make me over again. 00:34:35.447 --> 00:34:36.068 That was a song. 00:34:36.068 --> 00:34:37.179 Y'all know I love songs. 00:34:37.179 --> 00:34:40.241 Lord, make me over. 00:34:40.241 --> 00:34:42.395 That's how to be our request. 00:34:42.395 --> 00:34:44.822 Matter of fact, chris helped me out with just a little bit of that. 00:34:44.822 --> 00:34:55.862 We're going to go further, but they can't catch the next part until they get to the point where they understand Lord, make me over again. 00:34:55.862 --> 00:34:58.246 Right there, marcus, just a little bit. 00:34:58.246 --> 00:35:02.880 We're going further, but I need you to catch it, because this message you gotta. 00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:06.777 You gotta get instant deliverance for the, for for you to get your joy back. 00:35:06.777 --> 00:35:08.940 You gotta get instant deliver. 00:35:08.940 --> 00:35:10.183 Lord, make me over. 00:35:10.183 --> 00:35:12.208 Yeah, anybody know that song. 00:35:12.208 --> 00:35:13.838 If you don't know it, look it up when you get home. 00:35:13.838 --> 00:35:19.402 It's a man of god ministering about being broken, and he just asked god to make him over. 00:35:19.402 --> 00:35:21.020 And that's what David was doing. 00:35:21.020 --> 00:35:22.380 He said I'm a broken individual. 00:35:22.380 --> 00:35:26.741 But, god, if you just touch me one more time, I did it and I regret it. 00:35:26.741 --> 00:35:29.224 But, lord, I can't live in regret much longer. 00:35:29.224 --> 00:35:32.826 I need you to make me over again. 00:35:32.826 --> 00:35:35.974 Yeah, if you know it, just sing a little bit of it. 00:35:35.974 --> 00:35:39.445 We're going to be here about 15 more seconds, but I'm trying to get somebody here early. 00:35:39.445 --> 00:35:44.284 If you get here early, that's it right there, right there in the middle of it. 00:35:44.284 --> 00:35:44.864 Look at that. 00:35:44.864 --> 00:35:45.746 I love how we flow. 00:35:45.746 --> 00:35:46.708 Right there, right there. 00:35:46.708 --> 00:35:51.123 Lord, make me over. 00:35:51.123 --> 00:35:52.326 I'm showing you something. 00:35:52.326 --> 00:35:57.507 Oh, yes, lord, make me over. 00:35:57.507 --> 00:36:02.143 Make me over again Now. 00:36:02.163 --> 00:36:03.005 This is not a solo. 00:36:03.005 --> 00:36:04.962 Y'all got to jump in with him when you catch it. 00:36:04.962 --> 00:36:08.465 Make me over again. 00:36:08.465 --> 00:36:13.744 Make me over again. 00:36:13.744 --> 00:36:15.641