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Foreign, foreign, foreign. Thank you. Foreign, foreign, foreign, foreign.
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Every day, every day.
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Okay.
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Every day.
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Hallelujah! How if we could, let's raise our hands. We got some worship tonight. God, we praise you, Jesus. Lord, we give you praise tonight, God. Oh, we worship your name, Jesus. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Oh my God, He's worthy tonight. Hello, y'all can be seated as the, um, youth presbyterians getting ready. God's been doing on my heart with something to say and, um, I want to start with Hebrews chapter 11, verse 1. "Now faith is the substance of things unseen and the evidence of things hoped for." See, faith is what you, what you believe in when you do not see it. Faith is when you see a closed door and every circumstance is against you, but yet you take a step towards that door. Hallelujah. Faith, you know, God will test us through faith. God will test us. You know, there's times where He's willing to see how far you're willing to go in your prayer, how far you're going to worship Him. Maybe there's times when nobody else is worshiping. He's wanting to see if you'll worship Him. Now, there's times in prayer, He's going to see if you'll pray, or you'll be the only one praying when nobody's praying. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
And, um, God uses faith to test David.
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Um, God used the, um, you know, when David, you know, we all know the story of Samuel, when the prophet went to Jesse to anoint one of his sons king. And Jesse brought out, he brought his oldest sons, the ones who looked fit and he looked to be king. But God, and you know, and the prophet said, he went to the oldest and he said, "Well, this one's fit to be king." But God said, "I do not look at the outside appearance. I look at the heart." You know, it's not about what your last name is. It's not about how good you are. It's not about what you have. It's about what your heart is. It's about what you believe in and what you have faith to do. It's not about what you are. It's not about what you look like. Hallelujah. It's about what you believe in. Do you have faith to push it? Do you have faith to pray when nobody else is praying? Hallelujah. Maybe, maybe it's time for you to fast and nobody's fasting. Hallelujah.
And then He sent the trials with the lion and the bear. And you know, at this point, we all know the story. When David is anointed king, and he's coming to the line of the bear. Well, at this point, David, Dave is not sure he's going to win this battle. But God, but he said, he's not believing in the lion or the bear. He's saying, "You know what? I, I may not can defeat this, but my God can. I have a God that's bigger." There's tools that God will use us to prepare us to the place we're in. You know, David was called to be a king, and he wasn't a warrior. He was in a preparing place that God was using him to be a shepherd. It was a foreshadowing of what he was going to be for his people. He was supposed to lead his people. He was using this for an opportunity to be used. And David never missed an opportunity. Hallelujah.
When David went to the battlefield to give his brothers, you know, cheese and food for the war. And you know, everybody that looked like they had it all together, they were the ones trembling. They were the ones that were cowered down before this Goliath. But you know what he said? He said, "No matter what circumstance I'm faced with. He said, "No matter what circumstances against me. No matter how big the trial looks, I'm going to do it." He said, "I may not have the armor on. I may not have what it looks like, but my God, I have the faith to push towards it." He said, "I don't care what the circumstance is. My God is bigger." Hallelujah, hallelujah. I never want to miss an opportunity to be used.
Wash it with him as they sing.
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Thank you.
"This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice."
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Celebrating the presence of the Lord. He is worthy to be free. We'll celebrate in the presence. In the Lord has made. I will rejoice.
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Presence of the Lord.
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The Lord. "This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad. This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad." There's a day that the Lord.
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I will rejoice.
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Celebrated.
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Hallelujah.
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Why don't you turn into wine? Open the eyes. Darkness into the darkness, you shine.
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Like you. Yeah. I got is.
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Our God is greater. Our God is awesome. Do I move your eyes?
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God. Our God is awesome. Our God is stronger. Yes, He is. Our God.
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My God is dead again.
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God is.
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I got it right.
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River has fallen. Now we're done. Can't show me.
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God is loving anymore.
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He feels the gap. He's the healer. Thank you, Jesus. You can return to your seats. Today, I'm thankful for our youth group. Thank you, Jesus, for anointing young men and young ladies. Thank you, Jesus. Our ushers can come. We're going to give you an opportunity to be blessed. As they're coming, I want to say something about this youth group. You don't realize how good of young people that we have here.
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On Monday night, they're up here on their own practicing so that they can sing these songs to us. On Tuesday night, they don't have anybody up here driving them. They do it themselves.
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And there is a, a willingness in their heart that sets them apart. And I'm gonna, today, this just happened today. And maybe it's happened for a reason. But we ended up, and you can be seated. I'm sorry. I'm gonna be quick, but I feel like this is important. I want the young people to hear this today. I ended up at East Central Community College. And juniors from all over the high schools in our area.
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Came to that college today. And, uh, to be introduced to a, maybe a career. And we brought our juniors there.
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And as we arrived, we realized that we were a lot different than everybody else. And the difference, and this is what I want the young people to hear. The difference.
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That you are the difference. That you have. Don't lower yourself when you get in the midst of a number that may be bigger than you. Don't be intimidated.
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Your difference is your power. And that's your voice.
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You'll reach people through your difference. Let it be powerful. Don't be ashamed of you. Don't be ashamed of the difference. Is my man? These young people out here gonna get right up here and they're going to lead this service. They're not ashamed. I didn't see. I didn't see a person in the crowd today that I feel like has ever done that or ever will in the next few moments. I, I didn't see it today. I didn't even see. You don't realize what you have until it's contrasted by something different. And we can, we can settle and say, "You know what? Our young people." You know, "I can't believe they, they was in there tearing this up the other day. I saw them. I heard they was down there doing this the other day." And they, this happened the other day. Well, I'm gonna tell you something. I saw them in the midst of a crowd today.
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And there's so much greater than we think they are. And I'm thankful for them. Lord, bless this offering. God, use it to the furthest of the kingdom. Lord God, anoint our youth. God, let the power of the Holy Ghost fall in this service tonight. In Jesus name. Worship with us today.
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Thank you.
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Man, the heart is.
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Thank you.
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Amazing.
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And forever.
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Thank you. And with authority, you've spoken. And you said the captives are free. You're the king who came to serve. And your mercy, oh, you became the way for us.
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Woman, amazing. And forever.
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Mercy.
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To remember. More than a man. Amazing. You are amazing.
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God bless you. You can be seated. Just for a few moments. We're about to bring this preacher to the pulpit. And I'm expecting people to receive the Holy Ghost tonight. How many of you believe people's lives are going to be changed? People are going to be delivered. People are going to be set free. And I want to thank you for being faithful to the house of God tonight. There's a, just a couple of things that I want to, um, say very quickly. First of all, is I want to thank you for your giving. I want to thank you for your giving. And you can see by the fact that you couldn't use the back doors tonight, that the money is being put to use. And so, we've got tile going on in the tile going on in these rooms. We got the porches being redone. And well, they just, they just look beautiful. They look great. And, uh, we got the lights being replaced behind our stained glass windows. Painting going on in the gym. I think they're done with that. And they're going to come in here, I believe this week. But this week, they're going to clean all the pews and all the carpets. And so, all these pews and carpets are going to be steam cleaned. And after they're steam cleaned, just kind of think about that before you give that kid a magic marker to color with in church, or an ink pen, or a red Kool-Aid.
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Listen, I know that I know that we have kids or going to be kids. There ain't nothing we can do about it. But we can try. So give it your best. Think about it. Think about keeping this beautiful place nice. And, but they're going to be coming in and steam cleaning all this. And you wouldn't believe what it costs to have all this cleaned. So thank you so much. Thank you for loving your church. Thank you for giving to your church.
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Um, now I'm going to say this, and I want everybody to understand something. I want everybody in this church to understand classes that we're doing on Wednesday nights are important. I also want you to understand that prayer is important. So when we get close to an event and we suspend prayer in the classes for a Wednesday night or two so that we can prepare for that event, that is not an indication that the classes are not important and that prayer is not important. It's an indication that I don't want to take advantage of your time and I don't want to tie up another night of your week. How many of you understand that? And if it, it, it takes a church to be a church. And so some of these things, the only way to do it is get everybody down here and get busy hands and knock it out in a night. Because what it would take two or three people a month to do, a congregation can come together and do in a couple hours. And so, we've got a 25-year anniversary, 100-year anniversary of the church coming up. The church will be 100 years old. And Brother Parker came to me and said, "Brother Copeland, I hate to take up another Wednesday night, but we really, really, really need it." So I'm asking the teachers that are teaching on Wednesday nights to not feel like that we don't think your teaching is important. We certainly don't want to indicate that prayer is not important, because it's the most important thing we do. Prayer is more important than a church service, because you can, you can, you can live for God on prayer without having church, but you can't have church without praying. It just becomes a social event. And so, it's the most important thing we do. So because we're going to suspend Wednesday night for a couple of weeks so that we can have this place ready and looking nice when all of our guests show up, I just don't want it to be someone thinks, "Well, Brother Copeland must not think Wednesday night prayer is important. Brother Copeland must not think that teaching is important. Brother Copeland must not put a value on the class that I'm teaching." That's just absolutely not the case. It is a valuable, valuable thing.
The second thing that I want to talk about that's been on my heart, and a couple of things have caused me to, caused me to come back to it. This has been on my heart for a long time. It's just a couple. I got to talk about it this week. And I thought, "You know what? Tuesday night be a good night to bring this up and mention this." But so I want to mention this real quick. And I promise you, I'm not killing the service. I'm telling you, when this man gets up here, he's going to preach, and we're going to have church. And I, and I'm not going to take just a moment with this, because you're smart people and you know what the Bible, or not the Bible, I almost said, "You know what the Bible says." The Bible don't say it, but it'd be, it'd be good if it was in there. The Bible, I almost said it again. There's an old adage that says, "A word to the wise is sufficient." And I, you know, I got to thinking about this the other day. This church community has grown. And they're, there's so many positives to a church community, but there also can be some negatives to a church community. And you never want the negatives to outweigh the positives, or you start having problems. And so, I, I want to, I want to tell you that respect, respect your church community. Don't expect things out of your church community that you wouldn't expect out of other people. A lot of times, it's our expectancy that causes us problems. In other words, you know, you, you rent from the mean man down on the corner somewhere. He drinks and shoots out the lats and cheats on his wife and acts stupid. And boy, you, you, you, you know, you have your $500 a month there every month, right on time, because you're scared of him. But then you rent from a guy in the church, so to speak. And I'm not thinking about any situation in particular. I'm using this as an example, okay? If any of y'all behind on your rent, I don't know about it. I'm just pulling an illustration out of the air.
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Wife wants to go to the beach. And you think, "Well, we ain't got the money to go to the beach, and we owe Brother So-and-So the rent." Then you get to thinking, "Well, you know, he's a brother in the church. He won't mind." How many of you understand what I'm saying? And you go to the beach and don't pay your rent. And you think, "Well, he's a brother in the church. He understands. We, we needed a few days off." And then you can't catch up on your rent. And he comes and duns you. And then you, you just about get upset. And you get to thinking, "Well, why is he treating me like that? I mean, we're brothers. We go to church together." He's not treating you anyway. You.
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Did that. You created that environment.
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Because he's a brother in the church does not mean that the equitable situation and agreement that y'all went into suddenly has to change because you gotta anchor in to go to the beach because it's not with nice weather. Let me, if you understand what I'm saying. Now, again, I'm not thinking of somebody that nobody came to me and said this was going on. I've been pastoring 25 years. I know people. What we really should do is instead of always expecting our brother to go the extra mile for us, we are to be the one that goes the extra mile for our brother.
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Are you scared of him? Pay your rent on time for a good brother because he's a good brother and you want to be good to him. He has plenty of money. Well, that don't, that don't come into the equation. You agreed to a certain amount of month and it doesn't matter if he's rich or broke, you made that agreement. How many of you am I making sense to y'all? Because what happens is we get in the church, we get full of the Holy Ghost, we get all these good companions, all these people that we're running with, their good brothers and sisters. And then we start having interpersonal problems because we think people ought to do stuff for us because we happen to be a brother in the church. That's a bad way to view your church. The daughter gets special privileges because we're brothers. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible don't say expect special privileges because it's the church. The Bible says go the extra mile. Hallelujah. And so, we also, we also get to do in things for each other and working for each other. We'll treat each other fair, be equitable. I shouldn't expect you to do things for free for me.
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Which you shouldn't overcharge me in order to be equitable. It ought to be fair.
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How many of you am I making sense that you know what? That does that does away with all the problems. That does away with all the circumstances. You, you don't have problems unless you create them by expecting more than you should expect out of the situation. A lot of people, people start this deal, "Well, he's a, he's a brother. He don't mind that." That right, that very attitude right there is where the problems begin.
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Am I making sense to y'all? And then you create your own situation and then you start having issues. Now, if you decide that you want to do something for someone and you, you want to be good to them and you want to be kind, there's no problem with that. The problem is when it starts being expected. I like it every once in a while when somebody comes up to me and says, "Don't worry about it. You're my brother."
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But where I'm wrong is the next time I get offended. "You mean you're going to charge me?" Am I making sense to y'all?
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If we'll just, if we'll just treat each other right and be fair with each other, we will never have interpersonal problems. The other thing is, let church be church and let business be business. Now, I can't tell you how important it is that you understand what I just said. Let church be church and let business be business. What does that mean? Well, that means if you run into your dentist at the grocery store, don't go up there and open your mouth, right? Or in the middle of the fruits and vegetables, look right here, Doc. He's at the grocery store. Let him buy his cabbage and go to the house. Call him and make an appointment. Am I making sense to y'all? The same is true at church.
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If we get a dentist going to this church, y'all don't have him checking out your cavities back in the third pew. Have enough sense to to have church with him and love him. How you doing, Dalton? Call him tomorrow.
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Again, you're expecting more because he's a brother.
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And you know what you do? And you're cheapskating and you're trying to get a free appointment on the church pew. And that ain't fair to him. And you know what he'll do? One of these days, he'll be saying, "My God, I can't go to church there. I can't worship for chicken people's cavities."
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And it doesn't matter if they pour concrete or they're a carpenter or whatever. Call them tomorrow. Don't try to get a free estimate in the back row while somebody's trying to get the Holy Ghost. Am I making sense to y'all? Sister Ashley's opened a practice in town. Man, we don't, we don't need her coming to church. Thank you.
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Is this all right? Man, let her come to church. I don't need to look back there while we're somebody's up here getting the Holy Ghost. Somebody said, "Anything? Leave her alone. Call her and make her an appointment." Well, I just thought, "You know, 100 go down there and see. I thought you just literally look at my tonsils out there and the Fourier save me at 100." That's not fair. That's not equitable.
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Through the halls of CPA. We don't need somebody asking tax questions. If you've got tax questions for him, make a, make an appointment.
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Go to his office. Now, let me flip it around. Let's say that, let's say that you do struggle and you are behind a little bit on your rent. The same is true the other way. I don't need somebody that has rental property done in people in the church while they're trying to worship. "Hey, you're going to pay your rent."
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Don't do that at church.
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If they owe you money or they owe you rent, you take that up outside this building. Let this be the church.
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Let this be the house of God. I don't need somebody losing their soul and scared to come to church because they owe somebody else that comes church. Your money. Do y'all handle that somewhere else? Now, you say, "Brother Copeland, what are you, what do you do?" Everything I'm talking about is talked about in the books of Psalms and Proverbs. Hallelujah. Don't, don't lend somebody money if you think you're not going to get it back, because it won't be long and you can't be brothers. Sometimes the best thing to do is just say, "You know what? I'm gonna mark that down as a loss. I'm not going to do business with them anymore." And walk up and hug them and say, "Don't worry about it. Let's be brothers. $300 ain't gonna kill me." And if you can live with it, I can. But the main thing is, let's go to heaven together. And then just make you a mental note, "I ain't never gonna loan them money no more." Somebody said, "Well, I can't live without that $300." Don't never loan money you can't live without. You be smarter than that. That ain't their fault. That was your fault. Emma, is this okay? Am I making sense? Somebody said, "You're doing this in evangelist, it's sitting over there." Well, my Lord, he's been here since the beginning of the year. I got a pastor sometime another. Hey, now listen to me. I'm done. I don't know of one person that owes anybody money. I don't know of one person is behind on their rent. I don't know of one person that hadn't paid their bills. I've got not one person in mind. You know what I'm doing? I'm looking across a big church community and saying, "We love each other. We have a great thing going. Let's don't let stupid little interpersonal stuff mess it up. Let's let the church be church and let that all that business stuff happen out there somewhere. Don't talk shop at the church house."
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Just don't deal with it at church, man. You need to, you need to talk to Sister Jennifer Branning.
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Man, call her office and make an appointment. Don't hammer up back here somewhere where she's scared to come to the house of God. And on and on and on with that. I mean, I could talk about that with anything. Poor brother, brother, uh, real estate agent, Brother Forsyth, does real estate. You know, when you need to deal with real estate, you need to deal with real estate Monday morning. You know what you need to do on Sunday? You need to worship beside him. Say, "Praise God." Reach over and pray for him. But don't ask him about real estate.
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And I could go on and on and on with that. I'm not talking about one or two particular people. I'm talking about all of us. A word to the wise is sufficient. Let's be at church while we're at church. Let's put God number one and make Him the center of our attention. And take care of our business some other time. Don't you think that's good? Don't you think that'll make everybody happier when they come to the house of God? "I was glad when they said unto me, 'Let us go to the house of the Lord.'" You know why David said that? Because it was a reprieve from everything else. It was a reprieve. It makes this safer place, a safe place. If everybody says, "You know what? I'm not going to bother somebody. Don't remind somebody of their problems while they're at church. We'll do that some other time." While we're at church, you know what we're going to do? We're going to worship God. We're going to shout and dance, talk in tongues. We'll worship. We'll worry about all that other stuff later. Jesus ought to be the center of our attention while we're in the house of the Lord. Come on, let's give the Lord a good hand clap of praise together. Stand together again one more time. Thank you so much for your liberal giving. I'm thankful that you love your church. And you know what? I pray that God blesses you abundantly. Open the windows of heaven upon you and pour out blessings beyond what you're able to receive. Hallelujah. Jesus. Dear Lord, anoint this great man of God. He operates in prophecy. I have confidence in him. I love him. Welcome, Brother Brister. This pulpit. Could we put our hands together and give God praise in the house of the Lord tonight? Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. I know we've slowed down a little bit. Could you lift your voice and give God praise in the building tonight?
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Call. Have mercy. I feel the Holy Ghost in this house. Oh, I, I know, I know, I know it's Tuesday. But I've been praying up here all day. And I, I feel the Holy Ghost says, "Talk to me this evening." And, and, and, and I, I just believe tonight's the night that somebody begins the process of getting everything you've lost back.
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Oh yeah. You're gonna get your joy back tonight. You're gonna get your peace back tonight. You're gonna get your, ah, hallelujah. God's the beginning of the process of working on your family right now. And God's gonna help you get it all back. Oh, hallelujah. Anybody hearing me in the cheap seats back there? You're about to get your health back. You're about to get your. Hallelujah. Somebody's about to get their vision back tonight.
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Somebody, God's gonna give you your dream back tonight.
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I know, I know, I know we got all kinds of distractions. And we couldn't even come in the door. We're used to coming in and all that kind of stuff. But in all of the distractions and all the stuff that's going on, God has stepped into this building tonight to give you everything that the devil took. That the devil took from you. He's ready to give it back to you if you're ready to fight for it.
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Come on. If you're ready to fight for it. In this field. And there is not one thing that has been stolen from you that you can't recover. There's not one thing that the enemy has robbed from you that you can't recover. It's time on Tuesday night to recover all.
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Hallelujah. The Bible says that David was off on a mission for the king. And while he was off on a mission for the king, some robbers come in and took everything they had. Stole their wives, stole their children, burned their homes down, took their possessions. Hallelujah. I'm preaching to some people in this building tonight that's lost some stuff.
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Hallelujah. And you don't necessarily have to lose because you've been all goofing off. Sometimes the devil will break in and steal when you're off doing what you're supposed to be doing. Praying. He's just a thief. And thieves do what thieves do. They steal.
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Hallelujah. The enemy has come to steal, to kill, and to destroy. And he's stolen some stuff from you. He's robbed some stuff from you. He's taken some stuff from you. But tonight is the night that you get it all back. I had come to hype you up. I'm telling you in the Holy Ghost, God is ready to restore some people in this building because you have been faithful. God's ready to restore some stuff you lost because you've been doing what's right. Hallelujah. God's ready to restore because you've been praying like you're supposed to have been praying. God's ready to restore.
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The Bible said, thank you, that David took his band of men and they went and they found this little band of Philistines that had taken everything they had from them. And they went and they surprised them while they was having a party over what they had robbed David of. And the Bible said that they fought and they fought them all day. Hallelujah. But at the end of the day, the enemy was destroyed. It wasn't but about 400, 400 of the young men that escaped on camels. But David and his men went home. And the Bible said that David recovered all.
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Hallelujah. I'm telling you, God wants to give you the peace in your family back. God wants to give you that.
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Hallelujah. I'm telling you, I'm preaching to the people in this room right now that sin has robbed you. Hallelujah. Of peace in your house. But because you've come to God, and because you've laid it on the altar, God's about to give what you've lost. He's gonna give it back to you. He's gonna give it back to you. Not one thing that the devil stole is he gonna retain. But the people of God are going to recover all. Hallelujah. Now, here we go. I'm about through.
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But watch this. I got a lot to say, but I'm about through. To everything there's a season.
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And on purpose for everything under the heaven. And then there's about 15 or 16 things listed under what there is a time for. Okay.
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But not one time in Ecclesiastes chapter 3 does it mention a time to quit.
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Hallelujah. Not one time in the word of God does it ever give you a reason to quit. Hallelujah. I know it's been rough. I know hell's been fighting you. I know you've lost a lot. But you're gonna recover all if you don't quit. Hallelujah. Be not weary in well-doing, for you're gonna reap if you don't think.
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There's people in this room that have lost peace. You've lost joy. You've lost contentment. People in this building that's lost family.
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There's people in this room that are dealing with the loss of a ministry. The Holy Ghost told me today, "It's time to get it back."
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It's time to get it back.
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It was real, but you lost it. And God wants to give it back to you. It was right, but you lost it. God wants to give it back to you. Hallelujah. You really had it, but you lost it. But God wants to give it back to you.
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Hallelujah. I tell you what God's wanting to do for somebody in this building. He's wanting to turn your country song around backwards. Hallelujah. You've been singing this sad, pitiful little country song. "I lost my dog. I lost my cat. I lost my bass boat. I lost my wife. I lost my house." And God's getting ready to turn your little country song around backwards and give your wife back, and give you your kids back, and give you your joy back, and give you your home back, and give you, and give you your ministry back, and give you your hope back, and give you peace back, and give you your joy back.
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Holy Ghost told me to tell you today, one of the main things He's wanting to give back to you is your confidence.
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Hallelujah. I don't mean to leave your standing. You can be seated if you need to. But, but, but, but we're about to wrap this deal up. Hallelujah. But I'm just telling you, there's somebody in this room tonight that God, God wants to give you the confidence that the enemy has stolen from you about, about how He wants to use you in His kingdom. Hallelujah. The gifts of the Spirit on you are on you. Hallelujah. Operating in the gifts of the Spirit is supposed to be a part of your life. And it's been robbed from you. And the devil, the devil has lied to you and said, "You can't be restored." But God's wanting to give you your confidence in God back so you can be used the way He wants to use you.
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The dumbest things that I have ever seen. But I have had in the past people come up to me. They don't go to church here anymore. I hope they're listening online. They've come up to me after they were praying with someone to receive the Holy Ghost, and that person did not receive the Holy Ghost. I walked over to that person and laid my hands on them, and within just a few seconds, they were speaking with tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance. And I've had those people take me by the hand and say, "There must be something in your hand that's not in my hand." No.
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It's just, it's just I've recovered something that you've lost. And that's confidence. That's what Hebrews said, "Cast not away your confidence." Hallelujah. I don't care how many mistakes you made. Don't lose your confidence. I don't care how long you've lived in sin. If He took you back in, take the confidence that the enemy stole from you.
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It's been prophesied that we're about to see 20 and 30 people receiving the Holy Ghost in a service in this building. You know how that's going to happen? Some people in this room tonight are going to run to the front of this building and take your confidence back.
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You got it. It's on you. And it's time to use it. Hallelujah. I'm telling you, God is sending us by the droves, especially in our services on Sunday. And I'm telling you, everybody under the sound of my voice that is filled with the Holy Ghost, it's time for you to quit being satisfied with just having the Holy Ghost and warm and a few at church. But it's time to take your confidence in who you are in God back and start operating in the spirit. Hallelujah. Start laying hands on people and seeing them filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. Hello. You gotta get this. Bishop, I don't have self-confidence. I've got God confidence.
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If I was doing this based on confidence in myself, I'd be sitting in a corner shivering somewhere because I have no confidence in myself. In my flesh, there is no good thing. But there is nothing but good in God. And I got God in me. And God is able to use me. God.
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And God is able to use you. He wants to use you. It's time to recover your confidence in God.
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You got it. He said James 5 said, "Elias was a man of like passions." Elijah was a man of like passions, just like me and you. Jude.
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Just like me and you. Alyssa, just like me and you. Chancelly, like passions, just like me and you. Brother Thomas, like passions, just like me and you. Brother Forsyth, a man that had the same kind of passions that me and you have. Brother Henry, a man that had the same hang-ups that me and you have. Brother Ingram. Hallelujah. The Bible said that he prayed. And the heavens were shut up.
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He prayed. And it didn't rain by the space of three years.
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A man with the same kind of passions of me and you. His prayer controlled whether it rained or not.
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Because the power is not in whether I am perfect or not. It's in whether I'm willing to give myself in prayer or not. And it doesn't matter how flawed I am. If I'll give myself in prayer, God will use me. And I can be restored in my confidence to be used of God.
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So I, I got to tell you that it's time to take your confidence back. And it's time to take your home back.
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And it's time to put, take your children back. And it's time to take your peace back. And it's time to take your joy back. And it's time to take your health back. And it's time. Hallelujah. To take dominion the way God commanded you to take dominion on the first page of the Bible. He said, "I created man and I gave to him dominion." And the devil stole it from me. But I'm telling you tonight, on Tuesday night, it's time for the people of God to take their dominion back. It's time to. Hallelujah. He is not the prince of this world. I am the prince of this world. I am the son of the king. I am a son of God. Hallelujah. This doesn't belong to the devil. It belongs to me. It's time for the people of God to understand what and who you are. I may get kicked out tonight, Brother Davidson. I'm not lower than the angels.
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I just, I lost half the Bible scholars in the room just now because the Bible said in Psalm 8 and 5 that we were made a little lower than the angels. All you got to do is have a degree in Strong's like me. Look up what that little word "angel" means. I don't know why in the world they decided not to translate it right. But it's the reason I'm bald right now. All my hair blew off when I read this. I looked up that word "angel." Happened to Brother Ingram too, evidently. Knocking. I looked up that word "angel," and it's the word in the Hebrew, the word is Elohim. Anybody know what Elohim means? It means God. He said, "He made us a little lower than God." I don't take orders from demonic spirits. I don't take my honors from angels. They take their orders from me. I've got dominion in this world. I've just gotta believe it and take it all back.
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So, there's three dimensions that He said He wanted us to take dominion: birds of the air, things above; fish of the sea, things beneath; beasts of the field, earthly things. Hallelujah. So, Brother Craft, not only have I dominion in this world in earthly things, but I've got dominion over heavenly things. And I've got dominion over, over demonic things. Hallelujah. There is no demonic spirit that has authority over me because I understand who I am as a blood-bought, Jesus name baptized son of the king. I have dominion. And I've taken it back. And it's time for you to take it back. It's time for you to stand up and realize who you are and fight for it. I ain't gonna lie to you, Brother Thou, and tell you it's not a fight to get it back.
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Because from the time we're babies, we are taught to live beneath our privilege, taught to live beneath our right as who we are as sons of God. Hallelujah. And it's somewhere another you have to buy into who you really are and square your shoulders and say, "It doesn't matter what I've been put, Hallelujah, in the past, but I'm fixing to take what the word said is rightly mine. And I'm about to take everything that the devil stole from me. I'm gonna take it back." Thank you. It's the will of God that I prosper.
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Being healthy, even as my soul prospers. But I gotta fight for it.
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And it's time for some people in this room to get your fight back. Yes, sir.
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How much more do you have to lose before you get your fight back?
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Else is the devil going to have to take from you before you get red-eyed and red in the face and say, "Not one more thing is gonna be lost, and I'm about to take everything that he's already got back."
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Come on, musicians. I'm about to take it all back. Hallelujah. I'm preaching to families in this room that you've done made up your mind that it's everybody else's family that's gonna have revival this year, and we're gonna be left back. And I'm telling you, it's time to look the devil in the face and say, "You've lied your last lie to me." Hallelujah. I'm about to take my family back. I'm about to take my backs and loved ones back. I'm about to take everything that the devil stole. I'm getting it back.
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Against your enemy is what the enemy has stolen from many of you in this room tonight. But on Tuesday night, when it's not orthodox to go here, we're about to go here. Hallelujah. It's time to get your worship back. It's time to get your praise back. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I said, "It's time to get your praise back." Y'all felt it tighten up just like I did when I said that, didn't you? That's because the devil don't want you having your praise back. He don't want you getting your shout back. He don't want you getting your dance back. He don't want it. Hey, there's, there's ex-runners that need to get your running back. There's ex-holy rollers that need to get you roll back.
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Come on. There's some people in this building that used to praise until sweat drip down your back and you left soaking wet after a good praise party. And it's time to get your praise back. I know it's been difficult. I know it's been hard. It's time. Oh yeah. Now hear me. I know, I know that it ain't all in the shout. But brother, you better hear me right now. Some of it is. Brother Tanner Hardy, and you better not let the devil take yourself. You better not let the animal. Let me tell you something. We're about to praise God around here. I don't want anybody left out. Hallelujah. This is how we fight our battles. We fight in praise. We fight in worship. We fight in dancing. We fight in clapping our hands. We fight in lifting our voice. We fight.
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Listen to me tonight. Ain't the night to be cute.
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Hallelujah. We used to not have a problem with guys trying to be cute. But we got a problem with that these days. It's not time to be cute tonight. We're at war. Hallelujah. I'm just going to tell you tonight, there's stuff riding on your praise tonight. Young men, their souls riding on your dance tonight. Brothers and sisters, and it's not a time to be cute. It's a time to go the Lord. It's a time to fight and pray. Yeah. Watch.
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Listen, I was, I was preaching somewhere between here and there. And there was a situation going on, Bishop, that I know you don't know nothing about. But, uh, there was a, a marriage situation in that church. And the husband was sitting on that side of the church, and the wife was sitting on that side of the church. And they was about two weeks away. You don't know nothing about that. We don't, we don't have all that kind of stuff going on around here. Praise God. Thank the Lord for it. Hallelujah. But they was, they was sawed up, looked like a couple of toad frogs back there. Hallelujah. And I got to preaching on a Sunday morning. You think Tuesday night's weird for shouting? Sunday morning is really weird.
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Y'all don't even know about Sunday morning church anymore. The whole rest of the world does. Sunday morning church. Thank God we don't do it here. Praise God. That's enough to shout about. Praise God. On Sunday morning, I got to preaching kind of like I'm preaching tonight. And I saw some fight get a hold of Brother Toad Frog sitting back there. It got all up in his face, you know what I'm saying? You can see it when it gets on you. And the fight got on it. And evidently he said, "You know what? I'm about to lose everything I got. My family, my marriage, and everything else. I might as well try to at least fight for it one more time."
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And all Brother Toad Frog come running out of his pew and shouting and dancing all over the front of the building and begin to weep and cry and prayed back through the Holy Ghost and was talking in tongues. And less than, hey, less than two weeks later, right before their divorce was supposed to finalize, the people's papers were shredded. And Mama and Daddy were standing right from the pulpit, holding hands, shouting and dancing and talking in time. Hallelujah. You cause you gotta be willing to enough for it. You can get it back. But you got to be willing to dance for it. You can get it back.
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David said, "I am sick and tired of the presence of God not being where it's supposed to be in the Tabernacle in Jerusalem." Hallelujah. He said, "I'm willing to go six paces and stop and praise, and six more pieces and stop and praise, and six more pieces and stop and praise." Hallelujah. He was willing to praise until his kingly garment fell off. Hallelujah. You know what David showed us? David showed us that praise precedes the presence of God. If you want the presence.
God, back in your home. Dance for it if you want the presence of God back in your life. You gotta praise. Heart, it's a fight. It's a fight. It's a fight. Somebody shall praise as a weapon. You got your weapon. You got your weapon. Hallelujah.
I understand that there's some people in this room right now that's so tired and weary and you fought so hard. You don't have the fight that you used to have. That's all right. That's what we got young people for. The Bible said that out of 600 men, only 400 went into the battle with David. Two, uh, 200 were so tired that they couldn't go into battle. They stayed back with the baggage.
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Back from the battle. Prize, prize. Oh, you didn't hear me. Hallelujah. If you can't go where we're about to go, don't worry about it. If you want it, these young people's gonna dance for you. We're gonna fight for you. We're gonna shout for you. But everybody gets the same prize. Everybody.
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No, here we go. You got a price, partner. You got a price point. Everybody get one. Now, listen. I, I ain't playing. I ain't messing around. But while you're praising, chains are gonna break, and yolks are going to be destroyed, and generational curses are going to be broken. Now, watch. I don't want you fighting cute. It ain't the time to fight cute. Our families are at stake. It ain't time to fight cute. If it was just possessions at stake, we could fight cute. But we got families going to hell. We can't fight cute. You know how you need to fight? You need to fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp and it's about to rain.
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Noah said only two, two could come in. And we got three monkeys on the ramp. And I'm telling you, if I'm the third monkey, you better know I'm about to be scratching and clawing and fighting for my life. That's the kind of tenacity you need. Praise on Tuesday night.
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Something down.
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Jesus name.
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Something happens. Something else.
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Something happens when I call your name. Something happens when I call your name. Something happens when I call your name. Something happens when I call your name. Happens when I call. I call Joy. Joy of things when I call your name.
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Change. Get it. Hello Monday.
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Speak Jesus. I just went. Hail thought he was winning. The church through a praise party and brought his party to a screeching halt. Hallelujah. We're about to take everything. Hallelujah. You're taking your mind back. You're taking your emotions back. You've taken your peace back. You're taking your joy back. Come on, somebody. Put a stop to hell's celebration and throw a party. Hallelujah. Letting hell know that God's people still win. God's people always win. Thank you. Come on. No weapon formed against you shall be able to pass.
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Okay. It happens. I wanna call your name. Watch him break through. Watch him play through. Thank you. Me.
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Lose when I call your name.
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And healing happens when you call his name. He is.
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Oh my God.
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Your name.
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It happens when I call your name. Nothing happens when I call your name. Something happens when I call your name. Something happens when I call your name. When I call your name. Hallelujah. I wonder if we can dance and give God praise in this room for about 30 seconds with no music. Come on. Come on. Every singer, musician, wherever you're at, praise God all over this building. Lift your voice. Give God a shout of praise. Come on. Leave for joy. Clap your hands. Worship him in this house. Come on. Just human voices all over the big praise. Pray. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Change. You're breaking while you praise.
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Come on. I feel Jericho walls falling while you lift your voice. Shall unto God with a voice of triumph. Come on. Let the devil know we will win. We win. We win. Come on. Come on.
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Come on. I believe miracles have taken place in this room tonight.
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Come on. If you believe God's worked a miracle for you tonight, why don't you lift your voice and give him praise? Come on. If God sent deliverance into your mind, give him praise. If God's, if God's brought healing to your body, give him praise. Give him praise. Give him praise. Come on. If chains have broken in your family, give him praise. Come on. I want it all back. I want it all back. I want it all back.
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Bishop, just I asked him. Bishop, just told me you had a back problem. I didn't know that. But as I was standing here praying, I saw your skeletal system and I saw three red lights on your spine. And I believe God's healed you in three places.
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Your spine tonight.
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Jesus name. Receive it in Jesus name. He said you have a heart issue. I want to pray again.
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Come here, brother. These churches are going to bind together and believe God for a miracle for brother Gray right now.
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He's become a great asset to this church, and we can't do it without him. We're going to believe God for a miracle. Hallelujah. Let's, if you believe God for a miracle for our brother, God.
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Hey, everybody. I want to, I feel like I need to tell you what's happening. Jermaine, long before he was a part of Pine Grove Pentecostal Church, it really gotten serious about living for God or received the baptism of the Holy Ghost or anything. Got an attack situation that finally caught up to him. So it's a tax deal, federal, federal tax deal, and he's supposed to report to jail Friday. He don't know how long that they'll, they'll keep him. Could be, it could be a few months. It could be a few years.
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I just can't, I just can't feel like it's the will of God. I, I just can't see that it's the will of God for him to have the kind of impact on his, this revival that he's had, and then all of a sudden he'd be taken out of the equation. We've talked about heaven, 70, 80, 90 guests in this revival. This man's probably responsible for half those guests or more. We need a miracle for this man. It's like I told you a few weeks ago, I've seen God come through at the last minute.
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How many of you will take this serious right now and work with us? Brother, brother Jerome Frederick, come up here. You're a man of faith. I want you to help us pray. You know, I didn't just decide to call you up here. When I, when I turned to look at him and I saw you, the Holy Ghost said, get, spoke to me, said, get Jerome Frederick up here. I, I don't know. I don't know what you mean to this equation right now. My God, I just felt an overwhelming power of the Holy Ghost.
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God, by the authority of the name of Jesus.
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We believe you're going to correct this situation.
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We believe in faith that this man's not going to miss one service by the authority of the Holy Ghost in the name of Jesus. Turn this situation around.
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We thank you for it. We believe you for it. We praise you for it. Come on, give him praise in this building.
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Yourself. Go ahead, brother Jermaine. Believe, believe him for it. We're not going to walk in fear. We walk by faith. We're not going to walk by, well, how it looks. We're gonna walk by faith. There's nothing too hard for God. And I believe he's working right now. God, in the name of Jesus.
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All right, then. I'm going to believe it.
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Oh God, would you lift your hands and claim that right now? Minutes. Come on. Come on. Lift your hand and claim that right now. Minutes. Come on. I need every 100% in this house to believe that. Minutes. Not much, not weeks, not days. Minutes.
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What an anointing of the Holy Ghost is sitting in this place tonight. How many of you feel the anointing of the presence of God? How many of you received your miracle tonight? Come on. How many received your miracle tonight? Sister Campbell, it's so good to see you back there. God bless you. So glad, so honored to have you. Honored to have the buttons with us tonight. We love and appreciate what they're doing and Philadelphia for the kingdom of God. Again, brother, brother Parker, brother Parker has requested that tomorrow night be a work night. Please come help us out. Listen, we're trying to get ready for our guests. Come help us get ready for our guests. And to every teacher, let me, let me before you get stir crazy, let me just say this one thing. I'm about to dismiss you. But to our teachers, please stay sharp and stay ready because we're going right back into teaching. We're not, we're not abandoning this. We're not abandoning this. We're just postponing it to get ready for a momentous occasion. We have a baptism. So I almost get baptized tonight. So we're gonna have a baptism. What I'll do is I'll, what I'll do is I'll dismiss you. And those of you that feel like you need to go, you're welcome. Those that want to stay away from the around for the baptism, please do. And when they, uh, when they start speaking in the mic up there, let's be reverent to that. Listen, let me, let me say this because I feel this so strong.
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This place needs to be a place where we learn how to be overcoming Christians and overcoming for the, for the kingdom of God in the last days. And one of the things that, one of the things I want to do along with these classes, because we're going to keep them going, we're just, we're going to keep revolving them where you can go and wherever one of you, if you want to, can go to every one of the classes. We're going to keep it going long enough, revolving into eight weeks. But between one week, between each eight-week segment, I feel this so strong in the Holy Ghost to have a couple in this church teach one week. So, in other words, when the eight-week segment's over, have a couple in this church teach one week, and then start the segment over. That'll give the teachers one week to regroup, get their stuff together, and start over. Because there's just some families in this church that I'd like to hear from. The Bible says this, the Bible says the older, the older people in the church should teach the younger. And I just, as I feel that there's two couples that's been on my mind that I would love to just take a night and just talk to this church from their heart. One is, uh, brother, sister Aaron Davidson. I'd love to hear from them.
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I, I'd like to hear from. Wouldn't y'all just, no particular format, just about, about being parents and about being grandparents and about raising kids and about building a business, about loving God and
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Holding a marriage together. And just, and I hope she don't mind me saying it, but I'd like to hear from Sister Jennifer Branning. Uh, I, uh, I don't know if, I don't know if any of y'all know this, and I hope she don't mind me saying this, but
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Um, you know, she, and I hope, I hope I'm phrasing this properly, and if I'm not, she, she can fix it. But, uh, she introduced a bill or argued a bill for this, for this, um, abortion heartbeat bill in Mississippi. And that bill was responsible for ultimately overturning Roe versus Wade. That, you know, you know, that's the, that's the kind of far-reaching effects that this church and the people of this church are having, not just on this state, but on this nation. Don't ask to underestimate Pine Grove Pentecostal Church has come to the kingdom for such a time as this.
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And Sister Branning, you're, you're one of our elders in this church that's doing great things for God's kingdom. And, uh, so, uh, we're gonna, we got some great things coming up. So this week, this week we're going to be working to get ready for the, the, the anniversary services. And this may be the last week. It may be we get everything done in the ladies department. Brother Parker won't need us, uh, again for a couple of weeks. But when we get, I will tell you this, when we get this anniversary service out of the way, we're going full fledge back into teaching, building Christians, building people. Too many churches have went to just having church and they're not having enough teaching. Christians are built, they're created through teaching. It's not all emotion. There's got to be some stuff put in us. How to be good stewards, how to, how to build families, how to be good husbands and wives. All this stuff's important to what we're doing. So I love you. Come help us tomorrow night. I'm sure the ladies department have lists for the Parker. I have lists for the men. And you're dismissed in Jesus name. We do have a baptism. So if you want to stick around for that, pay attention. They'll be baptizing momentarily. I love you. God bless.