Untied Knots Pt2

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

There we go. Last week. Amen. Um, we were talking about David's overall perspective of God. And we started out by Amen. This wonderful Psalms where he says, The Lord is his shepherd. Ain't that what he said? He said, The Lord is his shepherd. In other words, he says that I have now made the Lord the overseer, amen, of my life. And so as we were teaching last week, we were disclosing in the opening statement, Amen, that he establishes the kind of relationship that the two have. Amen. And in establishing in it, uh, this relationship is not equivalent. In other words, he doesn't look at God as being equal. And amen, this relationship was not temporary. He says that it's the Lord is my shepherd, amen, and I shall not want. In other words, he's saying that when I met God and I led him into my life, amen. I have let him become the captain of my soul. Amen. Can I say this tonight? When this this is a very big decision that's made. A lot of people think, amen, is who you marry, and that's important. Amen. Where you live, uh, what you decide to drive, and even the place you decide to work. And those are all important decisions that really are considered on a temporary basis. But when you speak of amen, major decisions, the the best, or I should say, the most important decision is amen, is if we let God into our life. Amen. And when you have truly made this decision, amen. You can clap if you want to, amen. I think people who are they they know that's important, ain't it? Amen. It's important, amen, uh, to make that kind of decision to let God, amen. Now, here's the key, and we're gonna get to this tonight. The key is it's one thing to let him in, but it's another thing let him run things. Amen. You ain't gonna get too many amens on that, amen, because we have a lot of saints in this in this culture that argues with God, amen. They argue with him, amen, because amen, they don't want to relinquish. But I want to say this to you tonight, ladies and gentlemen, that when we have truly made this decision, amen, to let him in and become the captain, amen, of our souls, amen. That means that everything about you, I'm gonna borrow one early right now. Look at somebody and say, everything about you goes in total submission to God, amen. That's when you make this decision, amen. When you make this decision and amen, and so everything about you goes in total submission. Now we're gonna definitely deal with a difference between submission, and it's another word I'm gonna introduce to you tonight, amen. But when you do go into total submission, everything about you, amen, goes in total submission, amen, to God. Now we have to include that in order for God to execute, now here's the key. The key is a lot of people have amen, submit to God, but God cannot execute in their life. Uh oh, and so what happens when he cannot execute, then you have, amen, a mental or I should say, a psychological challenge because people try to figure out now, well, I've been in church for a long time, and it just don't seem like you know, God is doing anything for me, amen, or doing anything, amen. And so, uh, and that may be because in order for him to execute his will, amen, the shepherd needs, amen. He needs the sheep's cooperation, amen. You do know in Luke chapter 10, I believe the Bible says, Amen, that Jesus put a gun to Martha's head. And he told her, he said in the Bible, Amen. I don't know where this, what whose version this is, but he said he put a gun to her head. He told her, He said, If you don't let me in your house, amen, you're going to hell. We got to find where that is. Amen. It's it's in the Bible somewhere. Somebody help me tonight, amen. Right, who's the Bible? Amen. Yeah, well, okay. I I best let me let me clean it up. Amen. The Bible says in Luke chapter 10, scripture says that amen, Martha received the Lord into her house. In other words, amen. She gave him access. So what we have to make clear tonight is that God is not a God of force. God is not going to force us into a relationship, he's not going to force us, amen, into prayer, he's not going to force us. Now, what he does, he manipulates things in hoping, amen, that it will lead you to do the right thing. But what we have to understand, he has made us creatures of decisions. Okay. And so, in understanding this, he needs the sheep's cooperation. So, more than likely, ladies and gentlemen, if we do not cooperate, guess what? It's a good possibility that God chooses to go silent in our life. Not many amens tonight. Amen. And so this next word is very imperative because you can be submitted, amen, but do not yield. And when you learn how to yield, now watch this. Submission is simply be that you're giving your life to him. But then God, amen, has to help us to graduate. Because here's the key. The key is if I submit, I can let you in. There are many people who are married, amen, and have our married couples, amen, on paper, and they are married, but in the relationship, they fight. They fight because why? Because each party struggles with yielding to the role or the responsibilities they play in the relationship. See, many times we deal with God, we off-base, we off-kilter because we look at him as being human or equivalent to us. And God says that in order for me to be able to execute my divine plan, I appreciate your submission. I appreciate you letting me into your life. But this relationship is not going to work until you learn how to yield, amen, to me. Amen. Somebody say amen. Amen. And so you'll find that this is the problem that we have, amen, that David is working on tonight in this text. Is that many of us we love to be with him? Amen. We love to be with God. We love amen to wear his name and to be able to, amen, consult him in our times of need and have him to run to us and to deal with us. Amen. But I find this to be funny that we want to be with him, but we don't want him to have control. I wonder if I got some folk in here that can admit, amen, in your journey called Christianity, there's been times you've argued with God. Amen. Because God has tried to get us to yield, amen, to certain things, and we refuse to yield to it. Oh, y'all done got quiet tonight. Amen. Teach Damon White teach. Amen. Because watch this. When you have learned how to yield to God, amen. You've submitted and let him in. But yielding is the power process because when you have learned how to yield to him, now you have graduated. Now you become a grown man. Now you become a grown woman in this way of life. Why? Because now what he controls, amen. You can accept what he decides. I'm about to hit you with something tonight. Amen. Can I borrow another one? That does right. Look at somebody say, Can you accept what he decides? Now you have to think about that answer now. Think about it. Think about it. Can you accept? Can you really accept what he decides? Because when you decide that he in total submission and you say, Amen, I'm giving you my heart, mind, and soul, but I'm also going to yield my energy to you. I'm going to give and yield my energy, let you have your way in my life. That means I'm in a place with you, God, that whatever you decide to do, you'll get no argument out of me. See, it's quiet in here because we ain't got to that place yet, have we? Amen. Because that's that's yielding, yielding to him. And you can accept what he decides. My question tonight, ladies and gentlemen, can I get some value on this mic? Because I'm I'm starting to get upset about this thing here. Amen. Yes, indeed. Give me some value on this mic. Amen. Look, so here's the question: Can you accept what he decides? Can I ask you this tonight? Amen. Can he tell you no? And you still stay with him? Can he tell you no and your attitude still remains the same? Oh my. Can he tell you no and you still show up to church on time and fulfill your responsibilities? Can he tell you no and you can still stand up and say, God is good? Can I ask you a question? Can he let somebody die in your life and you don't question? This thing got cried tonight. Amen. Because there are times when God decides he won't heal, he won't deliver, he won't set free. He says, This is the way this person will have to leave, and you got to accept it. Can you accept the tragedies that he allows to happen? Can you accept the fact that when you've been praying for six months, eight months, I'm talking about yielding, and he decides to ignore your request. He decides to skip over, amen, your fasting, skip over your prayers, skip over your praise, and actually, man, bless somebody who refused to give him glory. This thing got quiet tonight. Amen. He done he done made them look good. They done gave him no praise, no worship, no tithes, no offerings, they inconsistent, but he blesses them and leaves you by the waystime. I'm talking about yielding. Amen. Can he tell you no? Can he can he can he take somebody close to you in your life and he doesn't get blamed for it? Can he ignore your requests? Oh man, can he let you get hurt? And and and watch this. Here it is now. Let you get hurt by an enemy that he chooses not to deal with. Can he let you get hurt? And as you are praying, saying, Lord, you see how I'm being mishandled and mistreated, and you say touch not my anointing. And he says, No, I'm teaching you, love your enemies. I need you to yield to me because I want you to do good to those that hate you. I wish I could talk to a church today. I'm talking about being in a relationship with God, knowing and understanding that when we yield to him, giving him full control and then to accept what he decides. This is what made David so powerful as a worshiper. My God from heaven. Can he? Can't can't can he do? Can I look at this with somebody? Look somebody say, Can he tell you no? Can he tell you no? Can't do you still have the attitude that Lord Mother Toby can I ask you this question? How long have you been saved, huh? 31 years, Lord, have mercy. I I admire you because a lot of folk ain't lasting 31 minutes. You understand? 31 years of walking with God. And have you have you still have that same attitude when you say, Lord, I may not have gotten everything I want, and everything may not have worked out the way I chose for it to work out. And I've prayed and I've fasted, I've studied, and I've been a part of your church, your universal church for years. But Lord, I'm to at a place in my life where anywhere you bless me, I'll be satisfied. Come on, Prophet Job, tell him, Amen. You were a man that worshiped the Lord, praise God, and God allowed a whirlwind to come and wreck your life. And scripture says he did not sin, nor did he charge God foolishly. He never looked up and raised his fist, he never pulled his energy away from the church, he never, amen, let praise leave off his lips. Lord have mercy. Y'all, y'all hear what I'm saying? Amen. Because he said, Hey, if you decide, he said the good Lord giveth, and the good Lord can do what? So can he tell you no? I I'm I wonder if I'm in the church with a few people in here that can say, God has been too good to me, amen, for me to leave out because he didn't tell me no a few times. Because for every time he's told me no, he's told me yes. There is more yeses in my life, amen, than no's. Can the church say amen? And so I want to move on because that was just the foundation of this class, amen. But it's obvious now that when studying the life of David, amen, that we have no argument that he was in relationship with God, do we? No argument. He was in relationship with God, amen. And over the course of many years, amen, he writes to us in this Psalms. And I wanted to deal with this Psalms because again, it just irritates me when we sit in funerals and we hear, amen, on the scripture, on the program, amen. A minister gets up and they decide to come into Psalms 23. Amen. And it's a psalms that we read, amen, when we are departing with loved ones going to the grave. But David writes this when he's alive. He writes this when he's alive, and he reveals, amen, in this particular Psalms, when you read it, he reveals to us, amen, so many sides of God that we're gonna cover, amen, in this series. Amen. He covers so many sides. Now I want to make this plain to you tonight, amen. Because these sides that he covered, they only came when he stayed in the unpopular times. I just want to speak to somebody tonight to let you know, amen, that a relationship does not count if you quit when it gets tough. A marriage does not count, y'all done got quiet. A relationship doesn't count that when something when the pink slip comes in the mail, or if the individual, amen, irks you there's something you don't like about that person, amen, and that makes you decide to throw in the towel. Lord have mercy, y'all done got quiet. Amen. God could not really show sides to David until he trusted David to be able to stay in relationship during the unpopular times. I come to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, that when we walk with God, God has a way of letting us enjoy him, enjoy his presence, enjoy the things of God, enjoy the songs of Zion, enjoy, amen, the shekana glory. But there are times when God, amen, flips the script and he says, and now I'm gonna put you in a season of unpopular times. Because understand something. You know me when the when the rooftop is good, when the house is burning. You know me, amen, when I am leading you out of Egypt and when I'm healing sickness, when I'm raising your brother. But I need for you to know me and to reveal a side to you where I have allowed things in your life to go unpopular. I wish I could talk to you then here because God can only reveal a side in your unpopular times. It is it if it never gets rough in your life, amen, then you'll be stuck at the meeting. And most of the time you'll find in churches people are stuck at the meeting. They are stuck at, amen, the time that they were able to meet God. But when you start asking them, amen, about who God is to them and what has He revealed over the course of their walk, they cannot tell you because they have spent most of their time ducking and dodging the unpopular time and not letting God be God in those times. Can somebody shout, reveal a side? Y'all didn't mean that. That's why I was dead. I don't want to see no side right now. I'm good right now. But honey, you don't control this relationship because, amen, he is the author and the finisher of our faith. And so I want to say this to you tonight for those who I just said who was afraid to shout, reveal a side to me. It's gonna happen anyway. I don't care what you think, I don't care what you say, I don't care how many times, amen, you try to run, he's gonna reveal a side. Look at her and tell her, You he gonna you're gonna see another side this year. Yeah, you're gonna see another side. So for those that have an issue with that, let me say this to you. Another point in this Psalms I have to make is this David, when writing this psalm, he kills, amen, the perceptions of Christianity. Amen. And you say, What is the perception of Christianity? Because many people, amen, have a tendency that when they come through the door, they already have patterned God to fit their expectations. Mother Tobert, I'm awfully afraid, amen, that in this generation that we have today, people have already patterned him. They have patterned him, amen, off of the narrative that they have set in church. They have patterned him off of, amen, what they grew up hearing that wasn't true. Amen. They have patterned him. This is why God goes into relationship because he wants to break the pattern. So David writes this Psalms to give us an understanding that he is trying to break, amen, this pattern that is set because a lot of folks have a own perception. They come through the door, they pattern God to fit their expectations. Amen. Like you hear them say, them jack legs, if you give God a praise for the next 30 seconds, there's gonna be something in your mailbox when you come home. I have praised God like that all day long and got home and mailbox is empty. I ain't got many amen tonight. I wish I I guess I'm in the wrong church. Amen. Can I talk to the church tonight of how, amen, we have created this perception of God that's not true?

unknown 19:18

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

David, he breaks the pattern. Amen. He says, We're gonna crack these expectations, we're gonna crack the pattern, amen. Because here's the key. The key is that a lot of folks don't want him to break the pattern. And so they want to keep him in a certain box and say that you know, anything else that I see that I'm not used to, it intimidates me. And it runs them off. How many Sunday morning worshippers are gonna bless hell wide open? Because we have the perception that as long as I'm there on Sunday, you understand. But here's the key they fail to realize that God had established Sunday morning for sinners. It's really not for the saints, the saints go to work on Sundays. Oh, y'all ain't got quiet. When Sunday mornings arrive, the saints go to work. Watch this. The preacher has to preach souls into the kingdom, the ministers have to work the altar to bring them souls in. Y'all ain't got quiet in here, amen. The deacons make sure that the church is up and going, so amen, and the lights are in and out. Oh, y'all ain't got quiet. Everybody that's assigned, amen, to an office is supposed to be on their post so that we are able to convince the world. Come on, somebody. We better work on Sundays, amen, to try to win the world, but we are perfected on Wednesdays because, in order for us to be the church, God, I feel like I feel like I'm teaching good tonight. In order for us to be the church, we have to be washed, transformed, indoctrinated by the word. Can the church say amen? And so he kills this perception, Pat, because here in in the book of Matthew, I believe it is, Matthew, the seventh chapter, amen, and verses 21 through 23, he attacks this theory. He attacks it because he says, he says, There are gonna be people who are gonna come to me and say, Did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not cast out devils in your name? Here we go. We are now creating a perception that my salvation and relationship, amen, is based. Upon what I do in your name. But he's saying that you are controlling, amen, your giftings, but not letting me control your soul. And so he says to them, Depart from me, you workers of iniquity, because you have spent your whole time in church walking and worshiping me with your own perception. Lord, have mercy. Bless us, Lord, tonight. Help us not to create our own patterns. Amen. And and can I say this tonight? Amen. Please do not, amen, try to backdoor yourself to heaven. Amen. You how we backdoor ourselves because in our back pocket we have our own black book. Oh, y'all ain't got quiet. Lord, have mercy. So let's deal with this tonight because we dealt with the shepherd on last week. David breaks down how God was a shepherd. He was the overseer over his soul. He was the captain of his soul. He yielded amen to this shepherd. And we gave you five or six things that a shepherd does. But we're not gonna go back over that tonight because I want to deal with the second half of that verse when he says that when the Lord is your shepherd, here it is. That's what he said. He attacks the first knot. Because, see, the first knot that you have in people's lives is the fact that they're trying to figure out how they're gonna be provided for. You understand? Yes, we do. We we we we we we we we we try to figure out, amen, how are we going to be provided for, amen, by God? You see how selfish we are? We ain't thinking nothing about cleaning this up. We just want to know how we're gonna be taken care of. If I give up friends, if I give up, amen, my familiar Abraham, if I give up, amen, amen, everything that stands in the way of the relationship, amen. Now, how is this gonna benefit me? That's why you have some folk, amen, that straddle because of the fact that they don't really trust what God is pulling them into. Amen. And so they want to understand. He now he deals with this, and he says that the shepherd unties, first of all, lack, he unties the lack in the believer's life. He says, David says this David says that when the Lord is your shepherd, you will never be wanting or destitute.

unknown 24:42

That's part of that.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

And I'm not gonna get many amens on that, but this is what he says: you will not be wanting and you will not be destitute when I am your shepherd and I'm overlooking your life. Because I make key and crucial decisions that's gonna keep you healthy and keep you productive. The only way you're gonna be lacking, amen, and the only way you're gonna be destitute if you decide to step out of the parameters that I put you in, and you put your own self in predicaments that you need me to get you out of. And most of the time, if we be honest, Christians, worshippers do just that because amen, they'll hear the word of God, and but they don't believe the word of God, so it'll make them step out of the parameters, try to take somebody, hold my place in the line, and it won't then go and try to find a way to find a way to produce for their own selves. Then they bring back what they gather up, y'all done got quiet, into the line that they have somebody hold their spot for and they say, The Lord bless me. Then when it goes south, then they be starting missing church because they embarrassed. Oh, y'all ain't got quiet. Because they understand that God said, I make you rich, I don't have no sorrow. But because you won't go to work, because you won't do a good, honest days of work, because you have a tendency to call in it, cheese on your paycheck. Y'all ain't got quiet. And because your paycheck is low, I'm talking to somebody tonight. Amen. Because your paycheck is low, then you decide you're not gonna pay tithes. Then you get mad, y'all ain't got quiet. Because I gave you the job, I gave you strength and energy to work the job. You make a mistake by calling in. That's your fault. What do I got to do with that? And then you punish the kingdom uh. Am I talking to somebody tonight? Oh, yes, indeed. You put your own self in that situation. He says, That's why you're destitute and that's why you're wanting. Because if I'm your shepherd, I'm gonna show you how to manage your money, I'm gonna show you how to be a good steward, I'm gonna show you what job to take. Y'all done got quiet. I am going to show you, amen. Yes, then got quiet tonight, Todd. Todd, this thing got quiet tonight, you know. Because I must be talking to some that's like, uh-huh. Yes, indeed. He says, unless it's a fault of your own, and you've become a bad steward, using your money for the wrong thing. I always tell young couples, and y'all can admit to this. I tell when I counsel with y'all, I told them, I said, don't be trying to run out here and keep up with the Joneses. When you are trying to build a marriage and a relationship, you don't go out and try to run and get something to prove to folk that you bless. Because at the end of the day, them folk ain't gonna really care about what you got. You understand what I'm saying? They ain't gonna care nothing about what you have, and when you lose it, they're gonna be the first ones talking about you. Yeah, I don't know why they went and got that anyway. I tell them, let God be your shepherd. Can the church say amen? Yes, indeed. I'm teaching good tonight. They say it's normal when it's quiet in here. Amen. He said the preacher that came down your street. Here we go. Amen. And so, amen. So, this is a symbolic message here as we're talking about David. He says, You shall not want. And so, this was symbolic behind God detaching David. So, I'm gonna go back to David's life and talk about why David said, The Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not want. He goes back and he detaches David from the field. Now, the question tonight, Elder Hodge, I know I'm revelational, I'm gonna get ready to drop this bomb right here. Is this you say, Why are you going back to the beginning? Because here in the beginning, David has to figure out how God was his shepherd. Okay, he says, I'm gonna detach you from the field. I still feel the Holy Ghost, excuse me. I'm gonna detach you from the field because everything that you've been living off of is what Jesse gave you. Everything that Jesse has given you, amen, is what's blessing you right now. But understand that I've already talked to Saul, I'll talk to Samuel. I spoke to Samuel before you even knew, and I told Samuel, amen, that you need to get down to Jesse's house. Didn't even tell him your name. Just say, get down there because it's gonna happen in that house. And so you don't understand, I've already had my eyes on you before you had eyes on yourself. And when I pull you in, oh yes, I am gonna be the one that's gonna dictate, I am gonna be the one that's gonna control. Oh, y'all done got quiet. Y'all done got her quiet, and so I don't need, amen, you being detached to the field because everything that you've gotten up to this point, amen, is stemming from Jesse. And because I'm a jealous God, I will not share my glory with nobody.

unknown 29:58

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 30:02

So I'm gonna pull you out the field, and so now you say when he says the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. What is he saying? He's saying this when I took you from the field, I'm cutting you from the world system. Yes, then got quiet in here, amen. See, here he says, God wanted David to cut ties with the field, because anybody in here who understands, amen, the field was a system that disappoints. Yeah, I'm talking the four language tonight. Amen. I'm talking the four language tonight. He's detaching from the field, but he's saying, because the field is a system that disappoints. You see, this thing got quiet in here because see you working jobs that ain't paying you nothing. You find yourself working jobs, amen, where they're giving you, amen, 12 hours of work on five hours of pay. And then when the company decides, amen, that it's over with and done, you don't even get a letter in the mail. You just walk in one day and they say job shut down. Yeah, I ain't got many amen today. I ain't got many amen today. But I'm talking about God saying that you are going to be cut from the system. Now, this is why it's quiet, Pastor Sean. Because many of us come out of the world, but we still depend and we still trust in the system. Yeah, we do. That's why I'm not getting no amen tonight. That's why it's quiet tonight. You know why? Because we still, I'm gonna say it, I'm gonna say it loud and say it proud. You know, people who still are trusting in the system because they wouldn't get mad for Trump every time he does something. Yeah, you see, you got quiet. You see, you got quiet, you got quiet because see, I don't understand. I'm just mad, I'm gonna stop. Why are you upset if you are detached from the world system? Because if you know the word, you know that Jesus said this is going to happen. But the last time I checked, the last trunk that was the map was happening, and freeway woman got quiet, and free tried to push with the people, and the moment he pushes them, we're gonna be able to do that. But I ain't got many amen tonight. I guess you know I thought I don't have no amen tonight, that I still got folk that trust in the system. You know they trust in the system that when they check come up short, they offerings come up short. When they check come up short, they church, they they punish the church. You understand? Because they still trust in the system. But see, when I trust in God, so as long as I didn't put myself in position for my check to get cut, y'all done got quiet. I can still invest in the God. Why? Because the Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not want. Y'all done got quiet tonight. Can I talk to the church? Can I talk? I'm on number four. Just I was I would say slap somebody, but don't do that. You might get a lawsuit. Look at somebody and say, let Jesse's stuff go.

unknown 33:12

Let Jesse's stuff go. My Lord. My Lord.

SPEAKER_00 33:18

I'm gonna I ain't gonna charge you for this one. What was crazy about this is he controlling Jesse's stuff, and Jesse didn't see nothing in him. Some of these folks spending all their time on jobs trying to make money, and you ain't going nowhere because the company don't want they don't they don't they don't see nothing in you but what you do. I wish I could talk to some people that catch that revelation and say, I got to make God my shepherd. I'm gonna invest my time and my energy, it's gonna be in something, amen. It's gonna come back. I wish I can talk to somebody tonight. Watch this. He cut him from the world system, and then he transitioned his expectation. Uh-oh. He transitions his expectation. He says, I'm detaching you from the field because I want you to expect from a better house. So when David got in that house, what took place in that house changed his life. Yeah, it does it. It's quiet, you know, because you folks still don't understand, amen, that you can't be outside the house and be blessed. You cannot be outside the house and be blessed. As a matter of fact, at some point in time, amen. The feel is gonna take a toll on you, and it's gonna come out in your looks, come out in your dress. Uh-oh, y'all done got quiet. David got in that house, and what took place changed his whole life. Now, here's the key. The key is that when he got in the house, it didn't happen overnight. Once you understand something, David had to go through a process. Uh-oh, that's the key word. That's the key word. Process, you understand? The process was already in motion when he was in the field. Did you catch that? It was already in motion. That means he don't control the process. The process was already in motion when he was in the field, but when he got in the house, he didn't get the oil right away. So, what are you saying, Bishop White? That's what I'm saying. I'm saying this that many of us come in the house, but we avoid the process that changed our life. Don't we? Don't we avoid the process? God has a divine process. It's all in scripture. It is all in scripture what we are supposed to do. He says, I will give you the desires of your heart. If your ways please me, people can't change their ways, so they get no desires. You understand? They can't change their ways. They're trying to make God keep their ways and accept their ways. He says, I will give you the desires of your heart. If your ways please me, in other words, I'm challenging you. Change how you're thinking, change what you're doing, change your energy, change your laziness, change your stubbornness. Y'all don't got quieter here, change your anger. I'm trying to tell you if you change that, then it's gonna allow me to execute my divine will in your life. But no, we still got smart people who just they just say, I hear what you're saying, I hear what you're saying. Amen. But I'm gonna avoid the process, I'm gonna go around the process, and here you got saints in this church, and you got saints in churches all over. They are trying to figure out how they can prove God wrong by continuing to do what they do and think that God will bless them. Oh God. They don't understand that, Pastor Sean. They don't understand that because they think I'm Him. Y'all done got quiet. That's right. Come in the house, but avoid the process. I don't want to go through trouble, I don't want to give stuff up, I don't want to change who I am. Take me as I am, God. I don't want to deal, amen, with the things you point out. And how in the world can you expect from a better house? Alright, I'm gonna leave that alone. Leave that alone. I'm gonna leave that alone. But I'm gonna I'm gonna go on record and say this. I'm gonna prophesy this right now. I speak it prophetically. Some of us ain't gonna never see the greater until we get in the process.

unknown 37:56

In the process.

SPEAKER_00 37:58

And I'm gonna go as far as to say this. I don't care how many prophets you find, I'll give you money to go find them. Because you can find them anywhere now. They in the bathrooms, they in McDonald's, they work at Popeye's chicken, amen. They on YouTube, y'all done got quiet. They in your family, everybody's a prophet or apostle. Now, here I'll give you some money because you're gonna have to pay for your word.

unknown 38:19

You got that right.

SPEAKER_00 38:20

Yeah, I'm just gonna tell you right now because before you get a real word, you're gonna drop a seed on the altar. So here, come get your money. But I'm telling you for free, if you get in the process, you ain't got to go across town to hear if you're gonna be blessed or not. Because you're gonna know within your spirit. I done lined up with God, and I know that he's my shepherd, and I shall not walk. Yeah, that's the truth. That's the truth. And I want to say this to you too, ladies and gentlemen, my brothers and sisters, who deal with individuals who hate on the church and hate on the system, and hate on, amen, the divine the divine side of God that he requires from his people. Okay, amen. Let me tell you something about it. Did you think that the oil that he put on David, did it ever run dry? Oh, y'all ain't got quiet in here. Do you? Do you think that it ran dry? It was the oil that was put on him that kept him progressing. Saul couldn't kill him because he had oil. Y'all understand? Micah, who was his wife, who despised him. She couldn't stand him, but couldn't break it because of the oil. Don't care who hates you, don't care who don't like you, amen. It doesn't matter when oil is on you. And he says, Well I give you this oil, it's oil that will never run dry. As a matter of fact, amen, I got levels of oil I put on you, and depending on where you are, is the amount that's released. I wish I could talk to somebody in here. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. But you know, it's sad. Can I say this tonight? I'm gonna say it. I wonder how people think they're gonna be blessed if they keep missing Samuel because Samuel was the one that had to pour the oil. So I'm trying to figure out for all the ones who are members of my church who cannot follow what I say. How is God gonna bless you when you keep missing Samuel? You understand, it's thing got quiet up in here. I wonder if I got some Holy Ghost feel for us. Oh, man, bishop. Keep missing Samuel. Lord have mercy. They they didn't David walked in the house tired, and he told Samuel, Man, you ain't nobody, you put your pants on just like I do. Don't need you putting no oil on me. I get my own oil. Ain't that what he said? Ain't that what he said? That's what David said. David said, I ain't got to listen and pay attention. I ain't got to come to no Bible class, no prayer. I don't need that. It don't take all that. As long as I'm there on Sunday. Ain't that what he said? Come on, Jenna, you a preacher? Ain't that what David said? David said, Samuel, you put your pants on just like I do. You ain't nobody. Where you come from? I've been in the field surviving. Matter of fact, let me throw this out on you, Samuel. I killed a lion and a bear with my bare hands. What did you do? You understand what I'm saying. But this is the generation of today, and how they talk back to Samuel. That's how they talk back to Samuel. You understand what I'm saying? Let's give God a praise. Let's stand for the reading of the word. Y'all done got quiet. But there is a punishment for disrespecting Samuel. Come on, somebody. Because you know what happened. Amen. He told Saul, don't you go take that stuff? He did it anyway. Why? He was stubborn. And I just find that stubborn people got mind problems. I'm gonna stop right there. Let me quit. I'm gonna get in trouble. Look, so I want to deal with this. Amen. So can I go to the second knot? How much time I got? Try to do it in 12 minutes. Look, the second knot, David addresses a concept. Now I'm about to get in trouble right here. Y'all know what he said in that in that text, right? He says, The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Let's move to the second one. Shall not want was the first knot. The second knot is he says, He maketh me lie down in green pastures and leadeth me beside still water. Can I ask you a question tonight? Is David talking about grass and water? Oh yes, he is. It's in the text. Ain't that what he's talking about? He said he make he maketh me lie down and grass. When I get saved, he's gonna give me my own backyard. When I get saved, I'm gonna be able to walk by water. Ain't that what he's saying? Oh, come on, preachers. Where y'all at? Where the pastors at? Y'all just too quiet for me. Oh, y'all can't talk to y'all behind the desk, huh? That's when y'all gotta talk when y'all behind. Okay, I get it. I get it. I get it. Amen. So look, so look. That's what he's saying, right? Okay. You know what he's saying? He's dealing with the concept of evolving. Uh-oh. Because the curse of Christianity is people who meet God but never evolve. There is never any evidence that God is moving in their life. I got so irritated working the altar when I was an associate minister because folk come down to the altar with the same old stuff. I just wanted God to give me a better walk and give me a better walk until Monday comes. And when Monday comes, they ain't making no effort. You understand? Tuesday and Wednesday, they ain't making no effort because it's rehearsed speech. It's the curse of Christianity. Oh, y'all done got quiet. David is dealing with the concept of evolving. Because there is never any evidence. You know why, don't you? When a person is not evolving, their mind stays the same. And when God tries to urge it, come on, somebody, they fight with their thoughts. That's why he said, as a man thinketh, y'all done got quiet, so you will be. If you can never evolve, if you can never think differently, then there's nothing gonna be different about your life. And that's what he's saying. He's saying your mind stays the same, and watch this. When your mind stays the same, he says your energy gets passed up.

unknown 45:34

That's good.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

Because now you have you have deadened the relationship with God, and you have not putting yourself in a position. Oh, y'all done got quiet. And so, guess what? If I have not changed in 30 years, I'm gonna have 30-year energy. I have nothing to get excited for no more. You can preach to folk till they face turn blue, but if they have data in their mind, oh y'all done got quiet, they not going to have the energy they're supposed to have. That's what he says. So he says this he says that God can only broaden your faults on him when you get outside of your own perception. Ain't that what I said last week in the class? I said when he says David said, Oh, magnify the Lord with me. It ain't got nothing to do with him, with us making God big. You can't make God big. You understand what I'm saying? But David was challenging the folk around him. He said, Oh, magnify the Lord with me. In other words, you got to get to a place, amen, where you see him where I see him. So watch this. When David talks about green pastures and still waters, he is speaking on how God will not let you stay the same. But he will transition you to show when he's working in your life, when he's working in your life, you don't stay the same. Oh my God. Can I ask you a question? You staring at me real hardcore. Yeah, staring at me. Amen. So let me ask you a question, Tier, Bible scholar. You is it safe to say that the reason why God transitions us is not for where we are, but it's where we should be. Because in order for him to transition David, he says that yes, you have the physicality of a king because you killed a lion and a bear and you watched over sheep, but you don't have a mind of a king. So the reason why I have to transition you so your mind can catch up with your destiny. You know what I'm saying? Because your mind ain't there yet. Oh, y'all done got quiet. If I don't deal with your mind, y'all done got quiet. You are going to be a person with talent and potential, but you're gonna be a waste. So I'm gonna bring you up to king mentality. I'm gonna put you in the palace. Yes, I am. Let you have to go through ducking and dodging javelins to give you a mind. Oh God, I wish I could talk to somebody. So he transitioned him. Now watch this transition real quickly. Watch it real quickly. First of all, he had to transition him from field behavior. Uh-oh, I done covered, man. About 45 people right there. He transitioned them from him from field behavior. What is field behavior, Deacon Lewis? This is field behavior. David was in a position where he had to deal with something that was subtle for anything and had no sense of direction. So God put him around sheep that are intelligent, but they subtle for anything. And they have no sense of direction. That's why sheep need shepherds. And David is spending his first entry level out here dealing with something that has no sense of direction. Will settle for anything. Ah, God. Okay, let me bring it to your terms. Have you been around somebody who don't want nothing but what they got? And when you talk about going higher, going deeper, and going farther, amen, they get offended. What's wrong with what I got? Oh, this thing got quiet. I'm in the wrong church. My God. I'm in the wrong church. Can I say this tonight? He has him around something that has no sense of direction that will settle for anything. But that but God, first lady, saw a leader in David. And when God says, I'm gonna transition you, this is what he says. I'm gonna make you come out the field. Why? I'm not gonna keep you around something that's gonna waste your strengths.

unknown 50:33

Oh my God.

SPEAKER_00 50:38

Boy, that's power behind that. I am not gonna keep you around something that's gonna waste your strength. Because sometimes we have stuff around us that's wasting your strength. Wasting your advice. To me, wasting my preaching. Wasting my teaching. Y'all done got quiet. You understand what I'm saying? I'm not gonna keep you around something that's gonna waste your strength. So my first level of transition is to pull you away from a man, something that has no sense of direction and that will settle for anything. Do I got somebody that can press it? Lord, transition me right now in Jesus' name. Let's talk to the Father. Transition me in Jesus' name. Yes. And so the second level of transition, he goes from field behavior to house behavior. It's quiet, Jenna. It's quiet, ain't it? So now David finds himself leaving the field, and now he's in the house. So here's the key. The key is what you do in the field, you can't do in the house. Yeah, we had a brother here one time, glad he's gone. I said it. Gladdy gone. Glad he gone. There's just some folk that just give you clogged clogged arteries. So we in service one Sunday, and we said, let's let's praise the Lord. Let's give God a praise. And what did he do? He didn't know how to clap his hands and say, Thank you, Jesus. You know, he comes out in the middle of the aisle and starts doing a worldly dance. Right in the church. What you do in the field, you can't do in the house. And he was embarrassed because after he did all that, the saint with him, like, what are you doing? Yeah, this thing got quiet in here. So he puts him in a position now. He says, I'm taking you away from things that's gonna waste your strength. I'm gonna bring you in the house now. Another level of transition. Because now what happens, Todd, when you get around something that you don't wasting your time, you don't deal with it. I think I just taught a class on pigs and dogs. When you recognize something, amen, that's wasting your time, you don't deal with it. You just give it a nice little bless you, bless you. But they don't know in the back of your mind you're done with them. Because here it is, five years, and you still complaining about stuff you complained about five years ago, you stuck in your mind. And I can't let you have access to this powerful energy that God has given me. So he says, now I'm I done took you off that level that you can recognize what's wasting your strength. But now I'm transitioning you now again because in order for you to be a king, you got to see everything. Now watch this. He says, now you're in a position where he leaves with what sells for anything to being around somebody who don't see what you have. Now I'm gonna teach you how to deal with neglect. Because in this way, baby, I'm transitioning you. There's levels to this thing. Oh, y'all ain't got quiet. Y'all ain't got quiet. Yes, yeah, neglect. God just didn't see David, He highlighted him in the midst of neglect. He had to come in the house and he had to walk past people who didn't see nothing in him. As a matter of fact, you only good man for what I give you. Just sit out there in the field and handle the sheep. Because there's seven other guys in here who are more qualified than you. So now I'm gonna transition you from that position to put you in a position where people are not going to respect what you have. Oh my god. Lord have mercy. I think it's in Mark chapter number six. Jesus tells the disciples, He says, I went into my own country. I went into my own country because I wanted to go in there and turn that place upside down. I want to heal the sick, I wanted to raise dead, I wanted to do it all, but I could not do it because they did not respect who I was. And the Bible says he did a couple of miracles and he walked out. A prophet is without honor, saving in his own house. And so here David was a prophet, but God said, I'm gonna make you walk amongst people who don't even see what you got. Because if you a real prophet, not this false stuff. Folks want they prophets and they ain't got no passion. You understand what I'm saying? They giving you general prophecies. Yeah, the Lord told me to tell you gonna be healed, you're gonna be healed. What am I gonna be healed from? Uh uh uh uh we start questioning them guys like that. I had one guy that told me he called himself a prophet, he was in Dayton. Came at me careless and reckless, but I know scripture. Bible says to try the spirit bodies, you understand? He came giving me a prophecy the first time I let it slide. So because I was young, I went to a preacher and I said, I said, you know, you know, evangelist Cosette Sneed, Cosette Sneed. I went to her, I said, now I had an issue. God came to me trying to give me a prophecy. I said, I need for you to tell me how to deal with this. She said, next time he's trying to tell you something, you challenge him by you ask him detailed things about what he's telling you. So he caught me again somewhere, he gave me a prophecy. He said, God told me to tell you that if you do this one more time to this person, he's gonna kill you. He's gonna kill you. And I said, What is he gonna kill me for? Why is he gonna kill me? What am I doing? And I find that when I challenge him like that, he started stuttering. And he got mad. See, anytime they start getting angry, you ain't no prophet. You understand? He was sitting there stuttering, so God said, I'm putting this oil on you. You understand? Because if you a real prophet, watch this. I'm gonna make this horn of oil. It's going to work in the midst of folk who neglected you. It's not gonna shut you down. You ain't gonna be crying, saying, Oh, y'all left me in the field. I don't want to be a part of this no more, this family no more. Y'all done hurt my feelings, and and you and I it was nothing like that. He went right up in that house, got that oil, and God said, Yeah, my hand is on you. Because a real prophet, your oil is gonna work in the midst of unpopular times. I'm concluding right here. I'm concluding right here. I'm concluding right here. But I think I just dropped the bomb on a few people who've been neglected in their life. God was just giving you all.