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Reviving Faith in Troubling Times

acts 20: 7-12 when you have it I want you to signify by saying I have the bread on the first day of the week we came together to break bread Paul spoke to the people and because he intended to leave the next day he kept talking until midnight don't worry I won't exercise that tonight and there were many lights in the upper chamber where they were gathered together and there sat in the window a certain young man named udus been fallen into a deep sleep and as Paul was long preaching he sunk down with the sleep and fell down from the third Loft and was taken up dead and Paul went down and fell on him and embracing him said trouble not yourselves for his life is in him when he was therefore was come up again and had broken bread and eaten and talked a long while even till the break of day so he departed and they brought the young man alive and were not a little comforted I want to go back to verse 10 and Paul went down and fell on him and embracing him said trouble not yourselves don't worry for his life is in him and all of God's people said Amen on your way to your seat give somebody this directive and I need you to tell them at the beginning of the service because they may need to send out a text message tell your neighbor cancel the funeral y'all be seated somebody may say who got the body not this one cancel the F canel the f [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] tonight's um sermon lesson is coming from the New Testament book of [Applause] History we call it the book of Acts and most Bible commentators have added an inscription to this book title and most of you probably have it in your Bible they call it the Acts of the Apostles not to debate them or not to um consider that I have the power to change their mind but I would like to suggest that a more proper title for this book should not be the Acts of the Apostles but the acts of the Holy Ghost because what is it that we can do without the power of the Holy Ghost and I believe that is the root cause of why so many of us are burning out so easily because this thing that we're called to do how will you do this zerubabel with nothing but a plummet in your hand said not by might not by power but by my spirit said the Lord some of you are note takers some of you are auditory Learners so I want everybody to look at somebody and tell them them you can't do a spiritual assignment with the arm of Flesh arm of you can't you can't and this is why it is very important that when we're making spiritual decisions stop bringing carnal-minded people in the meetings just because somebody work at the local bank don't mean they should work over Church finances just because somebody's a school teacher don't mean they should be teaching Sunday school it don't mean you can't but it ain't always the same [Applause] Grace stop bringing people to the table that don't pray and don't fast spiritually things spiritual things have to be spiritually discerned it's the acts of the it's the acts of the Holy Ghost and this is why it is very important as we are progressing in our Church culture with technology and with with a multiplicity of worship expressions and I say that with excitement I don't say that condescending because when I was growing up in church there was not many uh multiplicity or diversity of worship expression you either sang in a choir or You Usher right but now young people have uh different Avenues and different ways of expressing themselves elves but in all of our advancement of technology and our worship Arenas with all of our openness to new ways of doing some of the old things we must make sure that we don't move from the foundation but we build on the foundation because something has happened that we have now become so free to do so much Hallelujah we have been so exposed to so many other things that now we have a generation that don't feel that they need the Holy [Applause] Ghost when I was growing up in Holiness they told us you either had to have the Holy Ghost or you had to be actively seeking for the Holy Ghost I don't know if y'all had it but we had something called Terry service oh y'all had Terry service too well no matter what kind of degree you had no matter how much money you gave we told people you need the Holy Ghost but now when people join the church the first thing we want to do is give them a position and we want them to serve and we want them to sing We want them to dance but let me tell you something just because you learn a holy dance don't mean you got the Holy Ghost I need to I need you to scream up and down your road tell them everybody need the holy ghost in the evil day we living in everybody need the Holy Ghost somebody sat down with me recently and say ask me says what do you got to do you got to have the Holy Ghost to go to heaven do you got to speak in tongues to go to heaven I said you need the Holy Ghost to go to Walmart you need the holy ghost to drive up and down 95 you need the Holy Ghost to deal with church people on a regular day yes you need the Holy Ghost and when I said you need the Holy Ghost you need everything that come with the Holy Ghost would you buy a car and not want everything that come with it I want the tongues I want the discernment I want the tears I want the conviction I want to be challenged I want everything that comes with the Holy Ghost and the sad thing that I'm seeing across the country it said I'm going to churches and some of them have good music prolific preaching but the real name of their church is kabad where they're having Church Without God now I understand business I understand business I understand Administration I have multiple campuses I understand the discussion of all these things but there's a problem when all preachers just want to talk about is how many me how many members you got doc how much money y'all rais doc at the end of the day I want to know how many souls are getting saved because the currency of the kingdom is not the dollar the currency of the kingdom is Souls if you win souls he'll take care oh my God I need you to look at somebody tell them there's money in the mouth of the fish I need some of y'all going to get it in a minute look at somebody tell them that's money in the mouth of the fish if you have a budget issue it's time for you to go fishing acts of the Holy Ghost he said listen y'all be seated please he said listen you are he [Applause] [Music] said that's what Jesus said he said receive ye the Holy Ghost and then he said and when he blew on them nothing happened and that's where some of you are right now you've got instructions from God but it ain't been nothing happening you got a word from the Lord don't y'all leave me out here by myself you got a word from the Lord you turned around three times you felt a conviction you felt a witness in your spirit now you're in this in between place you're between Malachi and Matthew and God ain't been talking lately and where you are right now looks nothing like what he promised and all he did was look at them and said receive ye the Holy Ghost they didn't fall out they didn't shake they didn't speak in tongue what happened somebody shout nothing and you haven't really praised God until you praise God in the midst of nothing my God see some of y'all can't praise him tonight because you're in the in between and you got your arms folded and you're mad because ain't nothing happened lately but it takes a real worshiper that says I don't know what you're doing I don't know what's going on I thought things would be different by now but though you slay me yet yet will I trust [Applause] you and nothing happens and I'm preaching to some people in this room who've had had a had a word from the Lord but ain't nothing been happening lately he told him he says go to Jerusalem and you stay there you T there until I endow you a power from on high and after the Holy Ghost has come upon you you shall have power to be Witnesses under me in Jerusalem Judea help me Church Samaria and to the utter most parts of the world y'all be seated please he appeared to over 500 but when we look at Acts chapter 1 only 120 showed up I want you to look at somebody on the left and the right of you tell them you're going to be glad you showed up some of y'all had the Press through some stuff to get to the 757 some of y'all had to press through some stuff to show up at church on Sunday morning but it's going to happen for those who showed up you didn't always feel it you didn't always want to people have no idea how many times you had to coach yourself to the shower and Coach yourself to get dressed and Coach yourself to get in the car and Coach yourself to get out of the car just to say praise the Lord everybody see people think it's always easy for you but how many in here can testify that I quit more times in my head than people really know about look at somebody tell them you really don't [Music] know you have no idea how many breakdowns some people in this room have had before they came out and led you into worship you don't know how many times there have been pastors in their office dealing with betrayal dealing with their own mental illness and asking God give me one more strength give me one more one more anointing give me touch me one more time not for me but do it for the [Applause] people and I come to tell some of you there's something that's about to happen for you not because you did everything right but because despite the days where your strength was small you showed up I I want you to find somebody in this room that have been strength for you in times past and I want you to look at them and tell them thank you for showing up I know it ain't always been easy but thank you for showing up thank you for preaching to us thank you for praying for us thank you for the times you said nothing but I looked at you I heard Sophia on The Color Purple she said no fear the day I saw you in that store I knew I'm sorry I knew there was a God don't you realize some of us if we don't clap our hands if we don't shout just us showing up is a praise because there some of you in here the devil had an expiration date over your head but scream at somebody tell them look who survived people waited for you to fail people waited for y'all to get a divorce people waited for your church to shut down but only 120 everybody heard the instructions are y'all okay with me you good everybody heard the instructions please be seated but only 120 showed up and they sitting in their upper chamber we call the upper room some Scholars make a mention that it could have been Solomon's porch but we know they in this closed in space in Jerusalem during a busy time during a time of feast a pilgrimage Feast where everybody over the the Known World all the Jews of the dipera have come to jerus speaking different languages we worshiping the same God speaking different languages but all the Sons and Daughters of Abraham speaking different languages but all the followers of the Torah yeah they're there they're Jews but there's a group where everybody else is out in the street they in this upper room waiting on the Fulfillment of a word and when the day of Pentecost was fully Cal they were all in one place with one Accord what do you think would happen if we got on one Accord in our [Music] church what what do you I need you to look at somebody if they're a member of your church you may be sitting away from them and just look at them and just wave your hand at and tell them let's get on one Accord if we get on one Accord our present church building will not be able to hold the souls that God is going to send if we get how in the world did Generations before us do more than what we did and we got more than what they had my God why they had something that we don't have they had a one accordance glory be to they had all things in common somebody was frying fish and somebody was frying chicken and the money was going to the building fund and won't nobody worried about who was over it because they understand I don't have to be over it to serve it they were all on look at your neighbor tell your neighbor I don't have to be over it to serve it okay now y'all just said that God going to expose you because what happens if you don't win the [Applause] election if if your passion is for the women's Department you don't have to be over it to serve in it oh my God I don't have to be the president I will take my ideas and hand them to the person that's in charge and tell them whatever you need I'm here to support you I'm not CH oh y'all didn't got mad at me I I saw y'all got tight I'm not your compet somebody I'm not your competition this is not about me as an individual I want to see the church grow I want to see the church live and when you don't get your way how you act afterwards is a reflection of your heart [Applause] Bishop wherever you need me to serve uh what whatever you whatever you need me to do Bishop I'm open okay if you want me to Ser I'll do it but I don't have to I I don't have to do it like you know if you want to give it to somebody else I'll support them yeah oh Bishop what oh oh Bishop I'm honored but if you find somebody better Suited [Applause] yes yes my church is bigger but don't mean I'm the one that's the most skilled to do [Applause] what the Bible says they were all in one place one Accord because they had the same agenda the reason why it's hard for us to get on one Accord because we have too many [Applause] agendas and this is why I am pushing our church culture to have a Marketplace anointing I'm looking at this young young man from my church he went to school he majored in biblical studies he's he majored in pastoral studies but he works in education so right now in his life he drives me on the weekends but Monday through Friday he's working in his pastoral role in education uhoh uhoh uhoh you hear me this this young man right here he is he runs his own engineering consulting firm he's a prophetic voice but you know what he does on the weekends he's carrying my [Applause] bags and he prophesying Monday through Friday to engineers and it Consultants what I'm trying to get you to see the reason why we have so much division on Sunday is because people don't have Victory Monday through Friday but when God is blessing oh look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor I don't need Church to be anointed I'm anointed wherever I'm working I'm anointed I'm an apostle at my job I'm a bishop so if y'all don't ever give me a different color robe it will never hinder me from walking in my anointing tell somebody in your section too many agendas they want you to make them something but you can't make me something when what I am God already ordained me to be woo the Bible said they were all in one place with one Accord and suddenly that came a sound from Heaven as a russan might [Music] [Applause] see that's why you have to have a season of nothingness it was to clean out your pallet what you thought was nothing was really God giving you a reference point because when he blew on them and said receive ye the Holy Ghost and then when the wind came in Acts chapter 2 they knew this is that my God that Jesus was talking about I need you to look at your neighbor and grab them by the hand and tell them God is about to make sense out of the last season there some folk who left your church and you still don't know why they left God is about to make sense out of there was some things that didn't work out you looked at a building and you knew that building was yours and the deal fell through tell somebody God is going to make sense out of it there are some people you would have never let them go so God had to send them to make room for who he was getting ready to send in your church I need somebody just about 75 of y'all I'm going to ask you to do something crazy I want you to praise God for what did not work out cuz there's a wind coming he going to make sense out of it there's a wind coming he's going to make sense out there's a win woo there will thank you for your patience thank [Applause] you will you prophesy to somebody lay hands on those their shoulder tell them there's a wind coming and tell them this next wind is not blowing against you it's blowing for you there's a wind there's a wind there's a wind coming Jesus said believe on me that's the scripture have said and out of your belly I said out of your belly sh River I need somebody to throw your head back sh River i r h of Living Water scream at somebody tell them there's a wind coming man my introduction is always long and the people heard it and said they these men are drunk and Peter stood up and did not deny their intoxication he said we are drunk but not as you suppose this is that that was spoken by the prophet Joel that in the last days said God hallelujah I will pour out my spirit upon All Flesh your sons and your daughters your sons and your I want to hear the sound of the daughters they shall prophesy old men should dream dreams young young men will see Visions tell the people in your section tell them we need everybody we don't need a millennial church we need everybody we need Church mothers come on we still need deacons and church fathers we still come on tell somebody we still need the see season Saints they know the way they know the way they know they know where the pits are how they know where the traps are we need everybody and what happens after Acts chapter 2 they don't y'all please be seated I I've gone longer than I anticipated what happens in after Acts chapter 2 they don't go building churches when Jesus says Upon This Rock I will build my church is the word eklesia which I will build my assembly I will build a gathering of people called out ones so where do they go in Acts chapter 3 they still going to the synagogue they still going to the temple because in their mind we're not starting a new religion this is this is the god of Abraham Isaac and and Jacob Peter got up and says I'm preaching Jesus this is Yeshua hamashiach the kristos the one that had been prophesied Hallelujah the one where the Prophet said he will be born in Bethlehem the one where he said that he would come out of the tribe of come on come on this is the one that the scriptures talked about and his name Shall be Called wonderful counselor Mighty God Everlasting father this is the one and so I experience this as I have this Interfaith relationship with Orthodox rabbis now don't y'all judge me this is my calling all right you were about your calling my calling I can do it and come out and my faith still be intacted right now I said they're Orthodox rabbis they're not Messianic so they don't believe in Jesus but when we sit together and I C to Jerusalem and they come over here we sit together even sometime I come down to 757 uh to the synagogue down here Community because Rabbi pasak willik here has family here and we'll go sit there cuz you all have a Jewish Community where they can eat more kosher right without any Pig being anywhere a restaurant so we sit around and we'll talk over the scriptures and it's always amazing to me that the same scriptures where we see Jesus they don't see it Romans said Paul says they will be blinded for our sake almost like if Joseph is a type of Christ we would didn't understand why when his brothers get to Egypt they don't recognize him the Egyptians know him but his brothers don't know him and he does not reveal his identity to his brothers until he takes the Egyptians out of the room my God I ain't got time to preach escy but could it be that they won't know his identity until he takes us out of the room but that's another [Applause] story but when I go to Jerusalem and I take pastors with me uh I I love I love going there and there's so many different places I love I love the modern city of Tel Aviv it ain't biblical but I love it you know Tel Aviv wasn't in the Scripture it was just a sand dune at that time but I love the modern city of Tel Aviv I love going to the Sea of Galilee and being on the on the boat and I've witnessed how it can be so calm and then all of a sudden you've seen that then it could be so calm and then all of a sudden Wind come and now you understand why the disciples could get fearful I I love the the garden tomb where some believe this is where Jesus was bu galara you know you have the Church of the Holy sea which is in one place and then galara the place of the skull and another place and it depends on who you believe we determine where you think Jesus died right and all of these things are open to question except the Sea of Galilee that's the same sea but it's another place it's not open to question is what we call the Western Wall or what some people call the whing wall now this is not the wall of the Temple this is the outer wall outside of the temple that's still standing after all of these years and because of the prophecy where the Lord says once the temple was built he says my eyes and my ears will be there perpetually forever so when you pray in this place I'll hear you because of this Jews to this day go to that Western Wall yes sir right and they start rocking and praying it's called shuckling to the point it blew my mind when I saw it I says are they Pentecostal too because when I grew up we would we would rock back and forth too it's what they call finding the rhythm of prayer and they go praying and then so I go to the wall praying and you can't go there and pray without a Kipper or yamama up on your head because they believe just like when the priest went into the holies of holies I hope I'm not boring y'all with this y'all stand I'm almost finished when the priest goes into the holies of holies he would wear a m upon his head declaring Holiness unto the Lord and so there it says you can't come toward the wall and God's sacred presence without your head being covered now I don't believe in some of these legalistic ways but I do believe we need to keep sacred things sacred because when you used to come to church you didn't just stroll up and down the aisle you had to stick your finger up you at to B that's I don't believe in all this stuff but now we sitting in on church on Facebook we in group chats talking about what's going on talking about people's shoes and people's dress in the middle of the service and we're wondering why we're not seeing [Music] Miracles and so I put on my Kipper we go to the wall and they start praying and start rocking and what they're praying is for the rebuilding of the temple and they're also praying for the Messiah to come and while they're rocking s Messiah come I'm on the other side rocking saying Messiah come [Applause] again cuz he's still coming Hallelujah do y'all believe it I said he's still [Music] coming and and we see the next chapter Peter and John they're going to the temple they're going to synagogue they're going to worship like they've always worshiped but this time with the revelation of who they're worshiping and and the scriptures are going Miracles are taking place at the gate called Beautiful Acts chapter 5 the church is growing and expanding glor be to God and people having all things common if I got you got and then people got excited and start testifying like praise the Lord Pastor oh we G to sell this land and we gonna give all the money to the church you know how people get excited that's why we have to cut out testimony service cuz people got excting and start [Applause] lying and what happened Anan Safar lied and they fell dead in the church and I'm telling y'all God going to send a Revival in the church but it may not come through your [Applause] flyer I'm going tell you one way Revival is coming back to the church is when fear comes back to the house of God sir now I'm not talking about you got to be perfect but you do got to be postured we living in an hour where people are serving without repenting people are doing their stuff and they're bold with it they will post it on Facebook and dare you to say anything about it and a sign that you're not repentful is when you bring up other people's name when you are being [Applause] corrected and the Bible says Anan Saar fell dead and the church grew and then we go into the next chapter and we find this zelous young man glory be to God zelous young man going to destroy Christians huh what happens he has a god experience he was zous he was passionate but in the wrong direction and he says Saul Saul why do you persecute me who are you he said I'm the Christ the one you persecuted he goes to the house of ananas he doesn't go straight into the ministry he gets seated first I want you to look at somebody and tell them you can be called tell them you can be anointed and still not ready not ready everybody clap their hands everybody clap your [Applause] hands and then we find out that this gospel is not just for the Jews it's either for those in the house of Cornelius and then we find out that there are some disciples in the upper coast of Ephesus they were called John's disciples and they had not yet received the Holy Ghost since they became a Believer and among the expansion of the church came great persecution to the point Apostle Paul is preaching and running he's ministering and dodging you're not anointed until you called to some people who hope you fail look at your neighbor tell your neighbor you don't get to choose your assignment you only get to choose whether you surrender to it everybody want to be called to the church they got everything together but you may be called to 10 in the middle of nowhere and you got to be faithful over what God has given you ain't no need me working with the young people ain't but the same three kids well you better serve those three kids like those three kids are a whole nation and a whole Army because you don't know what God is going to do with one of them and now there are rumors concerning Paul's destruction and demise he's not afraid of dying if you look at the scripture as you look at the rhetoric of apostle Paul he's not afraid of dying he's afraid of dying without fulfilling his assignment that's why even John says should are you the one or should I look for another cuz my assignment is to prepare the way I don't want to die if you're not the one and the Bible says in Acts chapter 20 Paul is making some last stops he's preaching and giving everything he got because he doesn't know whether he'll come back through here again hear me and the Bible says he in a good storefront Church you know why I know it's a storefront Church cuz you got to go upstairs to get to the sanctuary and if you got a storr church you better praise God for what you got cuz I'm telling y'all I didn't experience more power in some sow front churches and I have been some Cathedral now I'm not I got a cathedral so I'm not mad at you if you got a cathedral but sometime we lose some things in transition and I don't know about y I stood up in our church one Sunday I said I told God I said take us back to the smaller church if we not going to have power in the larger Church isn't it something how when we didn't have nothing we had a praise now we got a few dollars we can rub together and we feel like we didn't graduated above praise I don't care if you're a bishop or an apostle you should be the first one Leading the People In Praise whatever it took for you to get here it's going to take for you to get to your next place look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor don't you ever get elevated above praise I'm closing now he's preaching and he's long- winded not just because he wants to hear himself preach he says I got to pour everything into you that I got and the Bible says there was a young man sitting in the window yeah and the Bible said he fell out of the window and there y'all go ready to start talking because he didn't he didn't fall in the street he fell in the church I'm going to close this out and and I'm glad we shouted at the beginning cuz we man not shout at the end the question is how well do we handle people when they [Applause] fall he fell he was a young man first of all we need to have that discussion he was a young man in the church and we keep on saying where the young people are where they at some young people don't go to church because they feel like they'll never be good enough for church never good enough for God never good enough for the Saints yes sir I grew up in Holiness and I thank God for it I grew up in the Holiness Pentecostal Apostolic church that mean we were the only ones saved yeah oh don't y'all look at me like this some of you feel like y'all were the only one saved too and God only spoke through your pastor and when we got saved they gave us a set of rules they told us all the things we could not do and that's why I tell this generation if y'all think we strict today you ain't seen nothing you have been talking about I'm just churched out how can you be churched out and you only go to church one day a week when I was growing up we had Monday night prayer Wednesday night bible study Friday night carry service s cow rehearsal Sunday morning service Sunday night service and we took up an offering at every last one of them so how are you Church [Applause] down you had a whole pandemic and you still churched out it ain't the church that's burning you out is you trying to do church and sin that's what's burning you out that's exhausting tell your neighbor you can't do both successfully you can do both but not [Applause] successfully and I found myself trying to keep all of those rules now when I was coming up in this way you know I thank the Lord that I'm this bridge I'm I'm old enough to have been exposed to the older Saints and I'm young enough to be in this generation this hour but when we was growing up we I didn't wear shorts you didn't wear no shorts we didn't supposed to go to the movies now I didn't say I didn't go I said we weren't supposed to [Applause] go you understand we were holy people the only challenge with this is if you could keep all the rules it made you prideful and the moment you messed up one of the rules and made you shameful and we start living in this oxymoron this contradiction of never feeling good enough for God never feeling good enough to serve and I was comparing myself to the product of the seasoned Saints [Applause] I was comparing myself to people that were triple my age and their testimony is when you see me coming I got Jesus on my mind when my testimony was when you see me coming I got him on my mind sometime I just wish somebody would have sat me down and told me about growing in Grace now you ain't got to tell all your business but I wish some of the Saints would have pulled me over to the side said now you know my oldest child ain't by my husband I just wish [Applause] somebody see we are people who celebrate our trophies but we don't know how to heal our [Applause] wounded and there are some people that says if I can't do it perfect I won't do it at all we got to give credit to the people who after messing up they [Applause] stayed because the sad thing is is the very people that will put their mouth on people are people who are guilty of the same look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor don't have amnesia don't have a come on you haven't always been saved since you've been saved how many of y'all God has had to save you more than once the first time he saved me from my sin but the second time he saved me from myself more than once and I want you to look at somebody tell him and he's still saving me and it D not appear what we what we shall be but if I stay with him when he appears I shall be like him and see him as he is take this Joshua the Bible says this young man was in a high place with a whole lot of lights with a whole lot of lights don't you know this is why when people are being elevated and ordained and consecrated they don't need a whole bunch of fans they need a whole bunch of intercessors that's right cuz as long as you stay in with the group you all right but the more public you are the easier Target you become and I thought I knew who my friends were when I was struggling but people start acting strange when you start prospering they start acting different but after you have watched me suffer after you've watched me have setbacks look like to me you will be happy for me when God start opening doors for me I need you to look at somebody and tell them I want to see you win tell them I want to see you prosper I want you to have everything that God has for you I want you to shout for your neighbor I want you to shout for your neighbor I want you to shout for your pastor shout for your first lady shout for the Youth president I want you to [Music] win that's what the deep is doing but God is looking for Sharpshooter intercessors you don't ever have have to have a meeting with your pastor you don't have to be your pastor's armor Bearer agitator agitant nurse ma or nothing but I need to know is there anybody in here you got your pastor Spirit you love your leader and when God drops something in your spirit you'll get on your face and say Lord cover my pastor cover his house cover his marriage cover his children I ain't never got to go out to eat with them I ain't never got to sit in that car but I'm an intercessor I push back the forces of Darkness over my man of God I push back every demonic Force I see you loose Spirit of Jezebel you will not manipulate you will not come in this house I come against the spirit of aaliah you will not be successful you will not divide this church when the enemy comes in like a flood God will come on Lift It Up Lift Up Lift It Up Lift It Up [Applause] [Applause] so he dead he dead he dead oh he's dead oh that was a Oh that was a strong he's dead oh he's dead and the Bible said when they picked up his body yeah Paul said hold up and the Bible says Paul was willing to put himself on a dead body there are some people Bishop they want to walk in with you as long as you being celebrated but I want you to lock with somebody and tell them I got your back for real if they fighting you they fighting me if they talk about you they talking about me I will not be silent while my friend is under attack you don't have to fight but I fight for you come on tell somebody I fight for you I'm too much of a Peter to ever be a Judas I cut somebody's ear off and Jesus will have to heal it later but I'll fight for you he was willing he was willing to put his body on a dead body it's called the ministry of resuscitation I want you to grab somebody by the hand this is what Paul says he says everybody is looking at this situation and saying it's over for him he's dead it's time to bury him but listen what Paul says there's life still in him I want you to encourage somebody just rock the hand tell them there's life still in you there's life still in your ministry there's life still in your marriage there's life still in your church there's life still in your finances how do you know cuz I'm speaking it and in my tongue lies the power of life and death I come to tell somebody at second jurisdiction pull on somebody tell them cancel it cancel it now cancel the hearse cancel the Paw Barrel cancel the floor barrels cancel the funeral we don't need that casket we can't die now tell somebody you can't die now you got too much to live for you're going to live and not die cuz you got to declare the word somebody in here you've been thinking about resigning somebody in here you've been thinking about quitting but get out of your seat and tell somebody tell them snap out of it cancel that funeral not today and not tomorrow I want to leave you with this encouraging word be not weary in wello for in due season you're going to reap you're going to reap you're going to reap in the Fain n push somebody and tell them you better not quit you're closer than you ever been before come on tell them you better not quit live Elijah live Elijah cuz them that se inar you they going to reap in I'm from Gretna Virginia and we have a word in Greta in the southern part of Virginia called reckon and Paul is from Virginia cuz he says I reckon that the sufferings of this present time is not worthy to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed scream at somebody tell them cancel the feral rip up the letter you're getting ready to live increase is getting ready to hit your life expansion is getting ready to hit your ministry it's going to happen so quick it's going to make your head spin it's going to be one [Applause] thing on the hill of another tell somebody say somebody stop making plans to die and start making plans to live I've been a lot of places I've been to Toronto I got a church there in Canada I've been to Brazil I got a church stand some paollo I've been to London I preached for Bishop John Francis I spoke at a conference in Mongolia and took a flight over to Beijing I've been to India to carola and hydran and had a layover in Mumbai I traveled all over the world I've been a lot of places and I've seen a lot of things but out of all of these years there's one thing that I've never seen I've never seen the righteous forsaken go hisy somebody scream at somebody tell them there's a day after this there's a moment after this whatever God said it's going to come to pass whatever God spoke it's going to come to pass I need about a hundred people if I don't get every body I need about a 100 people to open up your mouth and Shout I still want it I messed up but I still want it I did dot every eye but I still want it I made some mistakes but I still want it I want I'm finished do you know it's possible to do Church without doing God and not because you want to but you can go through some Seasons as pastoring will you just start doing Ministry on autopilot don't y'all leave me out here by myself anybody know what I'm talking about where you going through the motion but on the inside you just feel dead right you just feel de and and you thought about opening up to somebody yes sir but because you're everybody else's encourager people think people would think you were crazy have you ever went to maybe thought about opening up to somebody but before you could tell your problem they start loading on you their problem and what do you do you start doing what you always do and you can be a giver in such a way that sometime you feel unseen and we can have people right Among Us drowning and we don't even know it we can have people drowning in depression and we because all of us are the embod of some sort of contradiction well we're strong and yet weak all at the same time we are prophets we got to word for everybody else and then there some things in our lives we're wondering what's next for us in 2010 when that great earthquake 7.0 hit Porter prince in Haiti Hallelujah all of those buildings had collapsed in Porter Prince by the time they got to the 10th day they considered if anybody was still living when the earthquake happened under their rubber they got to be dead now it's time to start pushing over these cement buildings man got up on his bulldozzer to got ready to push over the ruins of a Department apartment building and all of a sudden when he stepped up on the bulldo he said hold up he told the man he told one of the workers he said I heard something he said I don't hear nothing he said said just may be me did he went and got up on the seat did he heard something he said hold on I heard something I know I heard something and they got closer to the broke up cement and they heard a woman singing in the midst of the rubber they start lifting up these heavy cement beans and it was an 84 year old woman that had been trapped for 10 days they said how did you survive she said well there was water dripping this is somebody's drip tonight let me tell you the water sustained her [Music] but it was the sound that saved her life the water kept her sustained but she says while I was laying here I just decided I would start singing my gospel song some of us if we stop praising God we going to lose our lives I need somebody in this room you've had some setbacks on over the last season but I dare you to make a sound make a sound make a sound make a sh I know it's been hard I know you carried the way hey come on a sound is about you Carri the pressure you carried the pressure but I declare you will not have a heart attack come on somebody open up your mouth God has giving you Deliverance in your mind some of you been tormented in your mind but you ought to shout louder than the voice of the enemy The Devil he's a liar I said he's a liar he's a liar you will not break under the pressure you've been aign for this youve been Grace for this you not going to lose your mind you're not going to lose your marriage you're not going to lose your children you're not going to lose your I okay [Applause] hey Mama listen what I'm telling you I'm finished now but I'm telling you I feel the Holy Ghost in this room right now I feel the Holy Ghost in this room I want you to put your arms around somebody you trust real quick just put your [Music] arm why did he put his body on that dead boy I don't know what y I'll call it in this part of Virginia but if somebody's battery go dead we get some jumper cables and we we connect to it we push down on the gas until the power come back in the battle I want you to speak to that person near you tell them I don't have to know the details tell them I know we all fighting some something but tell them but tonight I am not your enemy I'm going to shout until the power comes back shout for your neighbor shout shout when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for me my soul Cries Out Hallelujah I thank God for saving me out of all the things that I've experienced in life nothing compares to accepting Jesus as my Lord and my savior if you are not saved and you have not experienced the saving power of Jesus Christ right where you are ask him ask him to save you and he'll meet you at the point of your need if you need to connect with someone or someone to pray with you send your prayer request or call the number on the screen and we will be there to share Jesus Christ and the message of Hope with you I want to thank all of you who have been supporting our ministry down through the years it's because of you that we've expanded this YouTube channel we've expanded all on the outlets that you're hearing of this message so what I want you to do is make sure you share make sure you subscribe and send this message to someone who needs to hear it and for all of you who desire to support our ministry there ways to give on the screen and remember when you sew into our ministry you're not just helping us do ministry domestically but you're partnering with what we're doing all over the world the seed may leave your hand but it will never leave your life this is Bishop s y young are saying go with God because he's already going with you God bless [Music]