The best kept secret || Dr. Myles Munroe

The best-kept secret. That's the topic. The best-kept secret when I was a few hours ago in the beautiful city that I was in last. It was a strange experience. I I drove past a beautiful cemetery and in the cemetery there were well-carved tombstones. Beautiful. And as I drove past, there were perhaps thousands of graves in this cemetery. And I was once again reminded of something I discovered over 20 years ago. And that is the wealthiest spot on this planet is not the diamond mines of South Africa. It's not the oil fields of Iran or Iraq. It's not the uranium mines of the Soviet Union. It's it's not the the oil wells of Iraq. The wealthiest spot on this planet is not the sea food of the oceans, but the wealthiest spot on this planet is right in your neighborhood. It's the cemetery. If I could mine the cemetery like you mine gold, I would be the wealthiest man on the planet.

Why is the graveyard so wealthy? Why is there so much treasure in the cemetery? Why? Because buried in the cemetery are dreams that were never fulfilled. Books that were never written, ideas that never became reality, visions that were never manifested. There in the graveyard are paintings that were never painted, songs that were never written, books that we'll never read. In the cemetery are great manufacturing plants that were never built. In the cemetery are sermons that were never preached. The cemetery is pregnant with unused success. Buried in the cemetery is treasure that makes God weep.

My greatest fear tonight is very simple and that is I am afraid that most of you in this room and in this auditorium tonight and perhaps watching this program you are going to add to the treasure and the wealth of the cemetery and that makes me very sad because buried inside of you are dreams that you still carrying ideas that God planted in your heart that you still haven't done yet. Paintings that you've been planning to paint and books you've been thinking about writing and paintings you keep procrastinating about. And what I'm so concerned about is we'll never see your painting. We'll never sing your song. We'll never read your book and we'll never operate in your business and we'll never experience the invention that you keep procrastinating on. I trust that you will rob the graveyard of your treasure. Yes. I pray that you will disappoint the cemetery. I pray that when the the mo gets your carcass, it'll be empty. Treasure.

What do you call this massive treasure that's in every cemetery? It's called potential. Write the word down. Potential. Everybody say it. Potential. Say it one more time. Potential. Why is this called potential? Well, potential. I want to define it for you one more time. Potential is untapped power. Potential is unused ability. Are you ready? Potential is dominant strength. Potential is hidden power. Potential is all you could be but you haven't become yet. Potential is how far you can go in life, but you haven't gone yet. Potential is who you really are, but we haven't seen you yet. Potential is everything you could be, but you haven't become it yet. Potential is all you can do, but you haven't done yet. In essence, potential is never what you've done. Please make a note of that. Potential is never what you've done. It is always what you could do but you haven't done yet. In essence, whenever you've done something, it's no longer your potential. Therefore, potential is everything that is yet unused that is still within you. I am convinced that God has buried in every human being all 5.2 billion of us treasure that is yet to be tapped.

Let's put it this way. If potential is not what you've done, but what you could do, then whatever you've done is no longer your potential. Therefore, you should never be impressed by what you've done. Because if you are impressed by what you've done, it'll stop you from doing what you could do. The greatest enemy of progress is your last success. The greatest threat to moving ahead is getting excited about where you are. Whenever you feel like what you've done is the best you could do, you just died. Come on. No matter what you've done, if it didn't kill you, there's more left. As long as you're breathing, God got something else left inside. Until you are gone, you're still pregnant. Come on. Cuz God sent you here. And no human being came to this planet empty. That's right. I repeat, no human came to this planet empty. You came here loaded and you came here to make a deposit and deposit you will make. And if you don't make, you are a generational thief because you stole from the next generation. My Lord, the next generation supposed to benefit from what you came to deliver. And if you settle down on what you've done and not do what you could do, then you rob them of what you came to leave for them to enjoy. And that is why you should never allow what you've done to stop you from doing what you could do. No matter how great what you've done is, don't park.

[Music] Tell your neighbor, I feel my baby moving. Now I want to talk to you about the best-kept secret. And the best-kept secret is a strange secret because only one person has it. And the secret is about you. There's a secret about you that nobody knows except the one who manufactured you. There's information on you that has been kept because if it was ever given to anybody else, they won't believe it.

First, I want to deal with a little issue before I go any further. I want to talk about how to be set free so you can discover your secret. The key to freedom is knowledge. Just write these principles down. The key to freedom is knowledge. And the key to knowledge is truth. The key to knowledge is truth. And the key to truth is the manufacturer. I repeat, there's a principle. The key to truth is the manufacturer. Let's talk. The greatest enemy of man is not sin. The greatest enemy of man is not Satan. The greatest enemy of man is ignorance. Ignorance is the cause of all destruction. As a matter of fact, we blame so many things on this entity that we call devil that we become irresponsible lately. We eat bad, get sick, and then blame it on the devil. Yeah. Uhoh. Ignorance is the major enemy of man. God says, "My people perish or they are destroyed because of a lack of knowledge and because they have rejected knowledge, I must also reject them and they cannot represent me." And then he goes one step further. He says, "And I must also reject their children." Here's the point. If you don't know anything and you teach your children what you know, then your children is as smart as you. Write this down. All I know is what I've learned. Say it with me. All I know is what I have learned. One more time. All I know is what I've learned. Now, you got to let that sink in for a minute. No matter how many books you bought, you only know the ones you read. Don't look now if someone's looking at you. Some of you bought books last year and haven't cracked the pages yet. And you show people your library and try and impress them what you don't know. Come on now. You bought video tapes and haven't pursed the plastic on it yet. You bought cassette tapes and haven't listened to them yet. You see, buying information doesn't give you revelation.

Now, here's what God says about that. He says, "Because you have rejected knowledge, I must reject you." It's impossible to reject something that was not available. M therefore your ignorance was a decision. Half no 90% of the knowledge you need is right in your house in a book you never read. That's good. Every time you pass a library, knowledge incriminates you. God says you are perishing because you lack knowledge. M. So, don't blame it on the devil. Don't blame it on your mother-in-law. Come on now. Don't blame it on your teacher. Don't blame it on the school system. You don't need a teacher to learn. Oh, come on. Say something. Minnesota. Some of y'all blamed it on the education department. Come on. You don't need a professor to make you read a book.

I'll never forget the day when I walked on the premises of the university I attended. I walked into my first class, freshman, and here comes this professor and I was so excited, all my books, and I sat there ready, eager to learn. And I saw this great bank of reservoir of knowledge walk into the room and I said to myself, I'm going to learn so much from this great man. And he stood there for five minutes and says, good morning. I'm glad that you are here today. Our course of study shall last for this semester. You have five books to read. Tonight, I want you to take the first book, read the first five chapters, write a paper. I'll see you tomorrow. Where you going? I just paid $2,000 to come to this school. Come back here, [Applause] preacher. And he left. And I got mad. And I said, "Wait a minute. I just paid $2,000 tuition and another $1,600 for for for room and board. And I bought all these books for hundreds of dollars and the man spent five minutes in the class. I went to the library and realized that I was going to be spending over $57,000 for someone to tell me go and read a book. Come on, clap. You know it's true.

Knowledge is the key to freedom. But the key to knowledge got to be checked carefully. I used to think that knowledge was power. That's not necessarily true because you can learn the wrong thing. Jesus said the only thing that can set you free is not knowledge but knowledge of the truth. It's dangerous to learn the wrong thing. Well, some people are experts in error. Come on, talk to me. So, knowledge doesn't mean you're smart cuz what you may have learned may not be true. And the most dangerous thing for a person to have is knowledge that is erroneous that they believe is true. That's right. The most dangerous human being I've ever met is one who has zealous error. That's right. People with zeal who are wrong. And it's the cause of great tragedy in our humanity and in our history of man. Most of the problems in our past are results of zealous erroneous people. People who had information that was erroneous. It was wrong, but they thought it was right and they were zealous. Hitler, for example, believed that everybody else was subhuman and the Aryan race was the only true human race. And that error made him massacre millions of people. The crusaders who were Christians were under an error and they killed thousands and thousands of people all over Europe because they had a theological error and tried to force people to come to Jesus with the sword. And then you used to preach against speaking in tongues and you used to rebuke people who did it and now you doing it more than they. Don't look at me so funny. Some of you used to have scriptures to prove it was from the devil. Look at you now. It's amazing what we do with error. We defend it vehemently. That's why Jesus said, "Knowledge of the truth shall set you free." Not just knowledge, but the truth. Yes.

Now, I mentioned to you that truth, the key to truth is who? The manufacturer. What do I mean by that? The manufacturer is the only one who knows the truth about his product. Let me try one more time. The manufacturer is the only one who knows the truth about his product. Everybody else is experimenting. Come on now. That's good. Everybody else is guessing and everybody else has opinions. The manufacturer knows the truth about his product. That's why you shouldn't get information from anyone else except the manufacturer. Don't even believe the retailer cuz he's in business for sales. Lord, help me tonight. That's why I don't trust humans to tell me who I am. Don't depend on customers experience to determine the value of a product because some customers don't know how to use it. Y'all are slow here tonight. We many of us have literally allowed people to talk us out of good products because they abused it and it didn't work for them. Not because your marriage didn't work doesn't mean marriage doesn't work. Hello. You just didn't know how to stay married. You didn't follow the manufacturer's manual. You didn't follow the specifications. Hello, somebody. So, if the toaster didn't work for you, that doesn't mean the toaster ain't no good. You just plugged it in wrong. Are you understanding me? The truth about a product is only hid in the mind of the manufacturer. That's why manufacturers love for you to have their address. You're going to get this after I'm gone. When you buy a product and you open the box, you don't see the product first. You see a book first. And the book has written on it in bold letters, "Do not touch this product until you've read this manual completely." How many of you do that? Don't hold your hands up. And I know why you don't read it. You don't read it because you think you're smart. And because you think you're smart, that is why today you have a VCR machine in your house with 12 functions. And all you know is stop, rewind, pause, and play. Yeah, I got you. Now tell me why don't you know the other eight functions? Why? Come on talk to me. Why? Yes. Why? Because you did not read the manufacturers's manual. Now that machine has the potential to produce 12 functions. But you are only experiencing four. Therefore, you are living below the potential of the VCR.

[Music] What is a manual? Write the word manual down. I want to show you something that will help you forever. The word manual is, if you check it, you'll see it's spelled this way. M A N U. Do you see that there? Manu, it's from a Latin word which means to make or maker. Manu. Now if you put the word manu and put another word next to it, factor, which is the factor that man use it, which means the factor that made the product. You have the word manufacturer. Are you with me? So a manufacturer is the factor that made the product and the book that he sends with it never comes from the retailer. Manuals are never produced by wholesalers. Go ahead. Manuals are never printed by customers. It's called a manual because it's from the manufacturer. Which means the manual means the m the maker's mind. Write it down. It means the maker's mind. What the maker did was took his mind and put it on paper and sent it with his product. So that when you read the manual, you're reading his mind about his product. And he's telling you, don't attempt to operate his product until you've read my mind completely. Why? Cuz I'm the only one who knows this product. Why? Cuz I made it. I designed it. I designed all of the circuits. I know the potential of my product. H it ain't good yet, baby. It going to get good in a minute. Now the manual that you have with the product, if you ignore the manual, you are ignoring the mind of the maker. And if you ignore the maker's mind, then you are experimenting. That's true. People who have read the manual do not experiment. They know what to do. Yeah. They know how to get out of the product which in there because they know the mind of the manufacturer concerning his product. Yes.

Well, I want to invite you to consider where you came from. What company produced you? It's a good question. Sony produced Sony products. Mercedes-Benz produced Mercedes products. Toyota produces Toyota products. Well, I came from God incorporated. Oh, hallelujah. And my company is eternal. Hallelujah. It's not registered with the Dow Jones average. It's not on the stock market exchange because its value is too much. [Applause] And my company that produced me is the only element that has the right to tell me the truth about me. That's good. When the manufacturer produced me, he had in his mind a purpose. Every manufacturer creates products for specific purposes and the purpose for which they make the product determines the design of it and the ability of the product. Therefore, the key to knowing a product's ability and potential is not determined by your opinion of it. Let me take you one step further. Most of you came here in cars. And if you were to go outside and check your car, you'll discover something very strange. When you first buy a car, you sit in the driver's seat. If you check the speed armature registration, there's a number on that registration. The number of that car registration may say 160. Some cars may say 210. Other cars may say even 280. Now, how could the manufacturer place on that registration of that speedometer that number? How can he tell you that this car can travel at 160 mph? What gives him the audacity and the right to tell you without your permission that this automobile can travel at 160 mph? He didn't ask you. And when he sold it, he placed it there. And he's daring you. He's telling you, try it. I guarantee that this automobile could travel at 160. I don't care what you think about it. I don't care what your opinion is. I made it and I put in this car the horsepower and the piston power and the firepower to go at 160. You know, before they release the car, they test it first. [Music] So, they're not asking you to test anything. M it's already tested. They asking you to use it. Now if for the last 30 years 55 one up question to ask you driving at 150 does that cancel the car's potential to travel at 160? No. Let me ask a question again. If you've been driving for the last 30 years at 55 mph, does your experience cancel the car's ability? No. That's why you should not judge life by your experience. Why not? [Applause] If the car is parked outside and you walk up to the car and you say this, now this how this is how it works. You say this car, you are stupid. Can the car still travel 160? Yes. If you say this car, I think you dumb and ignorant and backward. Can it still travel 160? Yes. You say this car, I don't like your color. Can it still travel 160? [Applause] Your opinion does not affect the potential of the car. Please write that down. Opinions do not change potential. Therefore, what you think about the car is irrelevant to the car's ability. The problem is that most of us have accepted other people's opinions about us. [Music]

Now, here's a strange phenomenon. If you've been driving at 50 mph all your life, but you are capable of 150 and I come and pass you at 60, then you are impressed. Isn't that crazy? Here you are driving 50 all your life. Someone passes by making 60 miles per hour and you go, "Wow." And what you don't realize is that you can make 160. The problem is we are impressed by people who ain't doing nothing. [Applause] That's why I never allow what you do to interfere with what I could do. As a matter of fact, I have come here to this conference tonight cuz I had to slow down to back up to some of you cuz you're going too slow in your life. And I've come to say to you, hey baby, press on it. Yeah. There's more inside of you than what you've done. God's not satisfied with your present accomplishments. And so don't allow people's opinions to interfere with your potential. Your teachers call you dumb, just smile and say, "Mind your own business." Hallelujah. After all, most of the time it ain't the students who can't learn. It's the teachers who can't teach. [Applause] Don't let anybody declare an opinion over your speedometer. Cuz God has buried in you untapped treasure. All right. Society is a dangerous norm and I don't want to be normal. Yeah. Someone said to me the other day, "Why you want to be so different?" I said, "I don't want to be. I just am. I don't want to be like you." Why? Cuz it's too good being myself. Hallelujah.

Now, I want you to turn with me to the manufacturers's manual, and I want you to read a section of the manual that talks about you. It's found in section Psalm subsection 139, article 14. Now, for those of you who are religious, that's Psalm 139. And in the manual, it talks about the product. Here's what the manufacturer says about the product. Now, remember, only the manufacturer knows the truth about the product. Are you ready? All right, let's take a look at verse 13. For you were manufactured in your innermost being, knitted together by the manufacturer in your mother's womb. Am I okay? Do you understand this technical jargon? See, I got to talk like this because some of y'all are too spiritual. That's why you're driving at 50. Here you are working in a shoe store and you're excited because you're the supervisor, but the manufacturer is depressed because you're supposed to own the store. [Applause] We get excited about what he's disappointed at. Lord, verse 14, I praise you. Because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are the works of your hands, and my soul knows this. Well, man, this thing gets me stirred up. He says, "I praise you." He's talking to the manufacturer. He's saying, "Thank you, manufacturer. Thank you, factor that made me." Why? Cuz I am fearfully made. Write the word fearfully down. Now, check how it's spelled. Be careful. It doesn't say F A I R. It says F E A R L L Y. It says when he made me, he made me fearfully. The Hebrew word here is an awesome word. It means when he put me together, when he was manufacturing me, he was full of fear. Why? It's the kind of fear that an artist has. He was like an artist putting something together. You know, I'm an artist. I got a degree in fine arts. And there are times when I'm working with a project, maybe I'm painting or maybe I'm I'm uh sculpting and you you have this fear that comes over you because you you you just want it just [Music] right. You don't want to make a mistake. You are afraid of making a mistake. That's the fear that's written here. When God put you together, he was afraid to make a mistake. I don't know about you, but that makes me want to shout. That's why David says, "I praise you." Why? Cuz when you put me together, it is exactly what you wanted. My nose is perfect. Why? Cuz my nose was necessary for my purpose. Come on now. Come on now. Oh my Lord. Yes, sir. My cheekbones are exactly what I needed to be what I was born to be. When you wired me and fixed my hair the way it is, it was related to what I was born to do. That's good. You didn't make a mistake. That's why you should stop hating your face cuz he took a lot of time to put that together. So, stop looking in Vogue magazine. At other people's faces. Hello, somebody. Stop trying to become like GQ. You ain't no gentleman's quarterly. You a gentleman all the time. He was so careful that he wanted you to be not only exactly what he wanted, but he wanted you to look the way you look. That's why in Isaiah it says, "How can the pot say to the potter, how and why did you make me like this?" He says, "Don't you dare ask a manufacturer why he did you like this, cuz he has some stuff you don't know about that required what you got. Your height is perfect." So stop saying you're too tall, lady. Walk proud with your height. Why? It's connected to your purpose. Oh, come on, somebody. Yeah. When he wanted to design you, he made sure. I like this. It says he created you in the innermost being and he put you together in your mother's womb. That means when he wanted you, he was even careful about which womb you were in. If you are black, he wanted you black. If you are white, he wanted you white. If you were yellow, he wanted you yellow. And if you ain't sure what you are, that's exactly what he wanted. Yeah. That's whenever God wants a combination, he combines them. Hey, come on, somebody. Hallelujah. Yes. Tell your neighbor, "I am perfect. I am perfect for what I was born to do." So mind your own business. Clap your hand if you understand what God's doing in this place tonight. Hallelujah. Yes. He knitted me together in my mother's womb and I am fearfully put together. The manufacturer says, "You are wonderfully made." Write the word wonderful down. I want to show you how much we just don't study the word sometime. The word wonder, wonderful is actually two words put together. It's a grammatical construction. Because the Hebrew word was so complicated, they had to use two English words to create the word. I am wonderful means that when he put me together and when he designed me and when he had faithfully finished me putting me all the details, the Bible says when he finished I was full of wonder. [Music] That means when I walk in your presence, it makes you wonder. Wow, look at that stuff. Tell your neighbor, "I'm wonderful." Tell your neighbor, "I know you're wondering about me." Clap your hands. You understand what I'm talking about. I'm supposed to be amazing. If somebody don't like your hair, tell them this is a wonder here. It ain't the fact that you don't like it. You just wondering about it. It makes you wonder about me. I'm full of wonder. You can't figure me out. You don't know what I'm going to do next. Why? I'm full of wonder. When you think I failed tomorrow, I'm full of success. I'll make you wonder. When you thought I quit, I start again. I make you wonder about me. Yes, baby. I don't understand why they not laughing, too. Tell your neighbor, I'm wonderful. I'm wonderful. Tell your neighbor, I'm wonderful. I'm wonderful. Let me tell you something. There are people who believe that they got to be like other people to be somebody. Go ahead. Why would you want to be like somebody when you are an original? It's boring being like other people, dressing like other people. That's why when you go to the to the stores to buy clothes, you'll notice that the cheap ones are all the same. Them rats with all them dress 10 the same. They're cheap. Let me say it one more time. You missed me. When you find 10 dresses all the same, they're cheap. But when you go to Lords and Taylor, Yes, Lord. And you see that dress in the window. And it says $5,000. There's a reason why it's five. Cuz when you wear that, ain't nobody else got that. Come on, somebody. Yeah. When you cut your hair like MC Hammer, [Applause] you cheapening your head. [Applause] When you want to put on suits like Marilyn Monroe, poor lady, you're cheapening yourself. When you show up, they supposed to wonder where did that come from? [Applause] Next time someone tells you, "I don't like your dress," tell them, "I didn't put it on for you to like it." Hallelujah. It's my dress. I like it. It's amazing when women go shopping sometime. Men do it, too. You can always tell when they got a low self-esteem. They like take a crowd with them when they go shopping. Oh, I'm going to get in trouble now. And they see something they like. I mean, here you are. You see the thing, you like it. You like it. So, you take it and you go into the dressing room. You put it on. You like it. You come out and you say to your friends, "What do you [Applause] think?" Why are you asking them? And then your friend says, "I don't like it." You say, "Neither do I." That's true. And you go, "Take it [Applause] off." Tell your neighbor, "Be yourself." Wonderfully made. And the next word that just trickles me, it says, "Marvelous are the works of your hands." Everybody say, "Marvelous." Come on, say it. Feeling marvelous. Come on, you got to say it deep. Marvelous. Got to move your body. Come on. Marvelous. All right. Write the word marvelous down. It's from the word marvel. What God has produced supposed to make people marvel. I was in the airport in Atlanta last year and I saw about six young men come down the airport walking and they all looked exactly [Music] alike. It was crazy. They had the same haircut like MC baggy pants and they were all [Applause] walking and I sat there and I laughed to myself. Said, "Why would people want to get lost in other people? You're too important to be covered up by other people's personality. Some of you parents got to stop comparing your children. Why don't you be like John? Shut up. He's different from John. [Music] [Applause] I know it's good preaching. You ain't hear nothing yet. Marvelous are the works of your hands. And he says, "My soul knows this." One of the most powerful things in this verse is that last statement, "My soul knows this." I don't need no magazine to tell me I'm marvelous. I don't need no psychologist, psychiatrist to tell me I'm wonderful. My soul knows this. I don't need no one may I look good. My soul knows I'm good. I don't need no one to affirm and confirm and reaffirm who I am. I know that I am marvelous. You see, when you don't know this thing for yourself, then you'll go to other people for affirmation. And believe me, if you go to other people to find out who you are, they'll never make you more than they are. [Applause] That's why you got to discover for yourself. Yes. Your own treasure. Yes.

Now, this next verse is really difficult to comprehend because the next two verses talks about something that is so heavy that it would take about 3 weeks for me to teach it. But let me just mention a couple of thoughts. When I was woven together in my mother's womb in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. God says when the sperm and the air collided and germination took place, my eyes was on that and my eyes never left it. That means there's one thing God is always watching and that's a pregnant woman. So when you go to get your private abortion, All of heaven is front row watching. God is personally observing the awesome potential that you are meddling with. You don't know who you're carrying. That's why you shouldn't touch this stuff. Suppose Mary had an abortion. I'm so glad that Moses' mother saved his little body cuz in that basket was Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. In that basket was the ten commandments. Tell your neighbor, you don't know who you carry. That son who seemed to be so wayward with right now. And that daughter who seemed to be so much against social and and academic harmony. The one who seems so rebellious. Don't you dump that daughter. Man, who would imagine that a serial killer? A guy who killed so many people that we lost count. That in that serial killer was first and 2 Corinthians, Galosians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Titus and Timothy and Fiman. Three quarters of the New Testament was in a serial killer. Come on. You just never know who he's knitted together. I'm so glad your mama didn't abort you. And I say to every doctor watching this program who's practicing abortion, the only reason why you are able to practice abortion is because your mama didn't do it to you. It's true. Verse 16. Your eyes saw my unformed body. Oh dear. Are you ready? All the days of my life were already ordained for me and were written in your book before any one of them began. This is where it gets deep. Not only did he form me in my mother's womb, but it says all of my days of all of my life were already ordained for me, finished and programmed and were written in his book before any one of the days began. In other words, before I was born, there was a book on my life that was finished. You are not a mistake. You are a bestseller waiting to be written. All of my days were already recorded in your book and they were there finished before I was released from my mother's womb. That means God has a book on your life and God never writing less than a bestseller. God has never produced a failure yet even though people fail. This also means in the next verse that in that book God has written everything you're supposed to do and be. And the next verse says, "And the thoughts that you have of me, oh Lord, are so awesome that if I were to try to comprehend them, it would be as awesome as attempting to count the sands on the seashore." I hope you get this thing. It's strange. It says, "The book on my life has some thoughts in it that you have about me. And the thoughts you have about me are so awesome that if I attempt to understand them, it would be as awesome as trying to count the sands on the seashore. In other words, the stuff God has written on you will blow people's mind. The stuff that you are supposed to do on this planet before you die are so amazing that if God was to tell you them even now, you tell God he's lying. And that's the problem. The problem is you've been traveling at 55 and God's trying to get you up to 160 and you're saying this can't go 160. You know why you don't go beyond 55? I'm going tell you why. Because there's some laws that have been created by man. Come on. [Music] [Applause] And those laws say you can't travel beyond the speed limit. Last time I spoke to the manufacturer, I asked him, "What are my possibilities? How fast can I really go?" And the last time I spoke to the manufacturer and asked him, "What are my possibilities?" Do you know what he said to me? All things are possible if you [Applause] I like that. There's a book on your life, young man. That's why you shouldn't settle for the grade book out of school. You shouldn't settle for the report card. That's it. That's it. That they gave you cuz that's not the book on your life.

Now the question is what are these thoughts? Please check verse 17. How precious to me are your thoughts, oh Lord. How vast, how big, how awesome they are and the sum of them. Were I to attempt to count them and understand them, it would be as if I'm trying to do the impossible. Like count the sand on the seashore. Do you get the spirit of what he's talking about? He's saying the book on your life has information in it. And the information is so awesome that it will blow everybody's mind. And if you were to try and understand what God thinks of you and what he wrote for you to do and what he planned for you to accomplish, you yourself would have difficulty believing it cuz your social and mental conditioning restrains you from accepting God's vision. What are these thoughts that God have about you? And this is what I want to close on. I want you to turn with me to First Corinthians. I want you to connect these thoughts. 1 Corinthians chapter 2. This is the manual we reading on the product. Tell your neighbor, I feel my engine's raring up. Tell your neighbor, I'm going to leave you in a minute. When I come back here next year, you shouldn't be where you are in life. When I say come back, that means you shouldn't be working in that same position. Put your eyes on your boss's chair. Oh, come on, somebody. Stop settling down for being a secretary. That's only a temporary detour on your way to employing yourself. What are these thoughts that David is talking about that are hidden in this book? Well, Paul picked them up. Paul picked up where David left off. Paul says, "I discovered things that were hid from the the the ancients and the patriarchs." Lord, I'm a shout all by myself. No, you can't handle that. That better don't teach that. No. No. You can handle that. I'm No. That No, that's too heavy. Yeah. Uh, let's go to Ephesians. That's too much. You really want this, huh? No, this going to be too heavy. Let's Let's go. Let's go to Ephesians chapter 1. One minute. Who's teaching this? Come on. Go with me to Ephesians. I can't drop Corinthians on you yet cuz they're going to be too heavy. Let's go to Ephesians. I want to prepare you for Corinthians. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3. Praise be to God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. First, I want you to circle the word has, or hath. The word has or hath is past tense, which means that God has already supplied everything you would need to fulfill your purpose, but it's locked up in the heavenlies. It's on earth in the physical, but it is activated from the spiritual. Amen. Which means whatever you was born to do, all resources are already available. However, these resources do not move towards you until you start activating your purpose. In other words, if you don't begin to do what you was born to do, then what was provided for what you was born to do does not come to you. Yeah, my Lord. He's already provided everything you need for all that you need. He's already done it. That's right. The next verse tells you why for he chose you in him before the foundation of the world. When did he choose you? Before the foundation of the world. So God didn't choose you lately. That's right. And you were not chosen when your mother and father went to bed. Matter of fact, your mother and father went to bed because you was chosen. So don't get too uptight about your parents. If they're alcoholics, no problem. Just say, "Thanks for getting me here. Let me get on with my purpose. Huh? You might know who your daddy is. Never knew. Stop worrying about your daddy. He was used by God to get you here. That's all. You got work to do, young man. You got work to do, young woman. Stop regretting your past and start working on your future. He chose you long before your mama knew you. He chose you because he predestined you. Verse 5 to be his son. Predestined means he set the destination before he began the journey. He finished you before he began you. He completed everything before he started your life. That means you are not an experiment. You are an adventure. You know people who discover their purpose in life, they love living. Yes. Oh, when they wake up in the morning, they can't wait for the sun to rise. When you know why you was born, you hate nights because you don't want to go to sleep cuz you can't wait to get up and get started again. If you are bored, it's because you don't know why you were born. Discover your destination and the journey will be fun. Even the potholes will be experience on your way to your journey. You will never be discouraged with detours if you know your destination. You didn't hear what I said? Think about it. If you know where you're going and you plan to go a certain route and the road is blocked and they say go detour, you don't get mad and go back home. Hello. You know where you're going. So, you take the detour cuz you know your address. If you know where you're going, then any temporary mishap does not deter you to go back. He says he predestined me. Pre means before. Destination means the end. He set my end before I began. Therefore, you are not a mistake. You are not an experiment. God's not playing games with your life, sir. Madam, you were born and sent to this earth because there's a specific thing you supposed to start that's already finished. When you see your destination, it's called a vision. And every person in this room should have seen their vision. The problem is when you see the vision, it is so awesome that you say, "Mm- that ain't me." You know why you say that? Because you've been conditioned by your society and by your parents and by your family and by your community to not believe it's possible. That's why the thoughts about you are so awesome. David says that if God was to show them to you, you'd believe it's impossible. Verse 11, in him you have also been chosen, having been predestined according to what? The plan of the manufacturer, who works out how many things? Everything. To conform to what? His purpose. He has a purpose for your life. And he works out everything to conform to his purpose. Everybody say everything. Everything. Say it loud. Say louder. Everything. How many things does he work out? Everything. And he works it out to do what? To conform to his purpose for your life. That means whatever he gave you birth to do. No matter what mistakes you made, he'll work them in and make them a testimony. So no matter how many times you fail, the manufacturer never gets upset. He takes your drug addict problem and he says, "That's all right." And he makes it conform to his purpose, put you back in your purpose, and he says, "We'll use it as a testimony." Yes. When you got pregnant out of wedlock and you feel like your whole life is finished and you got to drop out of school and you can't go on and everything's all messed up and you feel like quitting and committing suicide and you want to kill the baby and God is saying no baby that's all right that's all right the baby is my property children are my heritage even though the situation wasn't right the baby is right he says now I want you to come and bring the baby with you I'm going to put you back in my purpose for your life and I'm going to use the baby as a testimony so I can show people that I can make an illegitimate child a legal leader. That's what God does. That's what God does. He makes everything conform. Chapter three. Chapter 2 rather verse 10 he goes on now watch the manufacturing language he says for we are his workmanship manufacturing language and we were what created to do good works which were prepared for you how long before the earth began the works that you were born to perform were already prepared long before you were conceived which means you were born to do something that's already finished that God wants you to start amen amen. So, you came to this planet not because the sperm slipped. I like that. Tell your neighbor, I'm not a slip. Tell your neighbor, I was chosen. I was chosen. Before the earth was made. Before the earth was made. Do you know that every time a man releases sperm, they scientifically proven that 500 million sperms are released. Every time a man releases sperm, at least 500 million. Could you imagine? And all 500 million of sperms, all of them dash toward the egg and they try to beat each other and only one makes it. Guess who made it? [Applause] That means there were 500 million of them and God was watching them and God says, "I want that one." Guess who that was? Oh yeah, that was me. Hallelujah. Oh, come on and play it. Come on and play it. Not a mistake. Not a mistake. Not a mistake. Tell your neighbor Luther Ran Vandross says one in a million. But he never met me before. You see, I am one in 500 million. Clap your hand if you understand how important you are. There were 500 possibilities and you were the one that God wanted. The next time you don't feel important, just put this tape in. When you go to work tomorrow, I want you to walk inside your job with your chest [Applause] up. Yeah. And when they ask you, "What happened to you?" Tell them, "I've been with the dock last night." And they say, "What's what's wrong with you?" Ain't nothing wrong. Everything's right now. Yeah. And then they say, "Who do you think you are?" Tell them you don't want me to tell you. Woo. Yeah. Next time your mother called you a black sheep of the family, tell them that's all right. At least some one out of 500 million black [Applause] sheep. Shake your shoulders. Yes. You're not a mistake. Say it. I am not a mistake. I am not. Come on, say it from your heart. I am not a mistake. He said he chose you before the foundation of the world. Someone asked me on a TV interview the other day said, "What do you think about the abortion issue?" I said, "What do you mean?" They said, "Are you are you choice pro-choice or what?" I said, "No, I'm not pro-choice. I'm not even choice." They said, "What do you mean?" I said, "I am pre-choice. You'll get it next [Applause] week. I was chosen before the foundation of the world. So you ain't got no right to touch me when I'm in my mother's womb. He prepared works for me. Well, what are these works that he prepared? Now, let's go to first Corinthians. Get ready to be transformed. And then we're going to come back tomorrow session and we're going to get into something deeper. All right. It says here in chapter 2. Oh, I love this. Everybody say, "The greatest discovery." The greatest discovery. Say, "The best kept

"secret." The best kept secret. In verse seven of chapter 2, Paul is talking about a mystery. He says, "No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before the time began."

Let's read this again. This is really heavy here. Paul says the stuff I'm talking about, he says, is information that is a secret that God has. It's God's secret wisdom. Who has the wisdom? God. And what is it? It's a secret. What's the secret wisdom that God has? Read it. It is a wisdom that has been hidden in God. How long has it been there? Before the world began. Who's the wisdom about? It was destined for our glory, not his. Who is the secret about me? Who has it? God. Where is it in God? Who is it about me? What's this secret he has? It's the thoughts about me that are in the book. His book about me. How come I don't know them? Because before he could get them to me, I fell. So, he kept them because he's the manufacturer. He's the only one who knows the secret about the product. And he says that this secret was kept in God before the earth began. And the secret was destined for you. It's your destiny that he's keeping. Wow.

Verse eight. None of the rulers of this age understood it. Pause. Look at me. Look at me. This is awesome stuff here. Don't miss this before you go to bed. He says the secret about you that God has none of the rulers or the experts or the leaders in the field of psychology, biology, behavioral scientists, whatever educators they are, he says none of them know about this secret. Glory. He says, don't you believe your guidance counselor? Come on now. God's deep. He said, "Don't let no expert professor say that you got a brain." Come on. Don't let no expert behavioral scientist say that you don't have the flare for art. Don't let some teacher who need teaching himself tell you that you ain't good in maths. Come on. He says, "Stop allowing these rulers of the age to try and attempt to tell you what you cannot do." He says, "The truth about you, I get it and it's hidden on the inside of me." Cool. That's why I don't believe anybody's opinion of me. Amen.

How can you allow your life to be determined and to be destined by an exam right for two hours? Are you crazy? So what if you went to medical school and you failed that exam? You're still a doctor. Go to another school. Come on now. Don't let one exam determine your future. Some of you are still victims of some high school teachers' opinion. My God, they told you you were average and you still living with it. You're 40 years old and you still think you're average. That's why I've come here to tell you, press the accelerator. Leave your teacher's opinion behind. He says, "The rulers of this age did not know this information, did not understand it. Because if they had understood this, they wouldn't have crucified Christ." What's he talking about? He says they didn't know who he was. Right. [Applause] After all he did, they still couldn't figure him out. How you going to allow them to judge you?

Oh, but I love the next verse in the manual. The manual says, "For eyes have not seen." Yes. Lord have mercy. Ears have never heard. Are you listening to God? God says all those things they said about you ain't true. Whatever they heard about you is wrong. Yeah. Whatever they saw you do so far, he says, "Don't let them judge you on that." Come on. Cuz eyes haven't seen yet what I'm going to do with your life. And the newspapers haven't heard anything yet about what I have planned for your life. And you are not too old. So stop planning to retire. I'm not finished with you yet. God said, "There's some stuff I got for you to do in your old age." I like this third line. Nor has it entered into the mind of man. What God has in store hidden for you. Hallelujah. Just when they thought you had you figured out, when they thought they knew that that's all you could do, he said, "Let's do something else." Right? He says, "And all this stuff, I love this. God has revealed it to you by his spirit." And this is where I want you to drive this home. He says, "The only way that you can know the truth about yourself is that it has to be revealed to you by the spirit of the manufacturer. That means the only one who can tell you the real truth about who you are is the one who created you." And in order for you to know it, it has to be a revelation.

Jesus said to the disciples, "Whom do the people in Minnesota say I am?" And they started listing all these things. Now, if you ask the same question, you wouldn't like the answers. I mean, just think about asking your neighborhood, "Who do you say I am?" Oh, you wouldn't want to know, baby. And they said, "You are Elias, you are John the Baptist, you are the prophet, you are Elijah." They did all these opinions and all of them were wrong. Can I suggest to you that every opinion men have of you is wrong? Jesus proved it and they do have opinions of you. Then he turned to his close friends and he says, "Now, who do you say that I am?" The question was not to find out who he was. The question was to find out who they thought he was. Cuz he knew who he was. He didn't need their opinion to be somebody. He was somebody before their bodies came along. He was trying to prove to them how wrong you can be about people. That's good. Yeah. And they all looked at him and they were afraid to answer. And one of them decided, I'm going to take a chance. So Peter said, "Uh, I think you're the Christ, the son of the living God." Jesus refused to give him credit for the answer. This is very important. Jesus said, "Peter, human opinion and analysis could not have given you that conclusion." Flesh and blood did not reveal that to you. Here's the point. The truth about another human cannot be known by another human except the manufacturer gives them secret information. [Applause] You get it? He said my father is the only one who has information on me and you couldn't have known it unless he told you the secret. You are so deep, brother, that it'll take a revelation to discover the truth about you, young woman. I don't care where you've been and what you've done and how far you've fallen. There's some stuff about you that the neighborhood don't know. And only God knows it. And every opinion that they've ever told you is wrong because they don't know the secret about you. Cuz the secret about you is hid in the manufacturer. [Applause]

Now, how do you discover this secret? Now, let's go home and shout. He says, "The spirit, capital S, searches all things, even the deep things of God." Everybody say, "Deep." Come on, say it deep. Deep. Say it again. Deep. One day I was reading this and I tell you I almost wept. The Lord opened my eyes and I saw exactly what he meant. He said, "Son, I want you to understand what this is about." He said, "I want you to see." And I saw it. I saw the Holy Spirit. He searches all things. Where are these things? They are deep in God. The truth about you is so secret that the only person that could get the information is the one who could go down inside of God. And when he goes down inside of God, he's searching to find out all the stuff about you. In other words, the stuff about you is so heavy that it is deep down in God. And the Holy Ghost got to go diving for it. Amen. Can you see the picture? And he goes searching for it. And when he finds it, it says here, "For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of a man. Even so, no one knows the thoughts of God." Remember them thoughts in the book. Except the spirit of God. So only the spirit of God can go deep down into God and find the true thoughts about you and bring them back and reveal them to you. That's why it says in verse 10, God reveals the stuff that no man has seen nor heard nor known about you. The Holy Ghost brings them and reveals them to you because they are locked up in God. [Applause]

Oh Jesus. That's why you should not allow people to create you. My Lord. Amen. My God. I am suspicious of everyone's opinion of me. Because you don't know anything about me except it was revealed to you by my father. And one thing with God, I tell you something. He doesn't reveal things about you to people because if they knew who you were, they'd try and stop you. Uhhuh. That's why he keeps the secret. And angels sang the birth of Jesus. The wise men came looking for it. Herod says, "Something's going on. He discovered a little bit of the secret and he says, "Now, when you find the baby and there are people who feel the same way about you, "When you find him, come back and tell me and I'll come and worship him with a knife." Yeah. There are people who don't like you. And when you declare what you're going to build and what you're going to establish and which business you're going to start and how you go into school and you're going to study this and you're going to build that, they get mad at you and they plan to sabotage your vision. Come on now. When Joseph saw his secret, he told his family and his brother said, "You going to do what?" Come on. So they plotted to kill him before his secret could become a reality. It says the Holy Spirit in the same way knows the thoughts of God. And therefore we have not received the spirit of the world. There it is. Don't let the world tell you who you are. Amen. But we have received what? The spirit which is from the manufacturer. Why? So that we may know and understand what God has freely given us.

Last verse. For who has known the mind of the Lord? Good question. That they may instruct him or counsel him. It's an awesome question. Who knows the secret in God's heart? He says, "No man." Who can counsel God? Let me make a comment here before we close. God says, "No man knows what I know about you, and none of them can counsel me about you." You see, there are people who would go to God and say, "God, don't use him." The counseling God, why you choose her? I don't like her. Of all the people you could choose to do this, God, why you choose him? You're counseling God. God says, "I am the only one that knows the secret about you." And who knows my thoughts? Nobody. But read the last line together. He says, "But you have the mind of Christ." Hallelujah. You can know who you are because the one who lives in you can dive in God.

Close your Bible. Lift your hands. Just worship him for a second. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Some of you have been struggling, fighting, hurting under people's opinions. Tonight, separate yourself from people's opinions. Walk away from the past that has trapped you. Say goodbye to the analysis of education, the conclusions of family and parents and friends. Walk away from those things that limit you and give yourself back to God. Yes. Now, lifting your hands means you're lifting all of your organs. You are surrendering everything in your body to the manufacturer. Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you that your word has its own life. Let there be change from this night forward. I pray for those here tonight who have been oppressed by the past, who've been victims of other people's opinions, who have been buried under the experiences of hurt. Let them hear your voice. Show them their vision again. Awaken the dreams that they had when they were children. Bring back, Lord, the passion for life. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. Some of you have been living in great oppression. Saved but oppressed. God wants you to walk away tonight knowing that your past is not your future. If you want to walk away from what you've been trapped by, maybe you've been a victim of incest and you've been fighting that thing, singing in the choir, but yet weeping on the inside. God wants you to let him know. He wants to let you know that that is not your life. That was an event that is not your life. Yes, you must walk away from that. Make a decision tonight that you are going to unfold before the world. You're going to manifest the potential that's inside. You're going to leave this earth with a testimony. You're going to build a monument with your obedience. And some of you have been hurt by divorce. You've been plagued by your failure. You've been feeling like you can never get away from the shadow of that thing. God has sent this word. He's imported it thousands of miles away to tell you that you can walk away from that shadow and stand on your own feet now and walk in the will and the purpose of God. If that's you tonight, I want you to stand up on your feet. If you're willing tonight to walk away from your high school teacher's opinion, walk away from your boss's attitude. Stand up and do it tonight. As I stand on your feet, you'll say, "I'm standing on top of this. This will not trap me any longer." If that's you, I want you to stand up on your feet all over this auditorium. You're saved, but you're going to walk away from the oppressions. Stand up if that's you tonight. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Oh, God. Some of you have been hurting from your parents. Your father has been abusing you. Your mother abandoned you. Maybe you're an orphan and you don't know anything about your past. God has sent this word to speak to you and to say to you that no matter who your parents were, you are the one with the purpose. You are the one that was brought to this earth to do something wonderful. And if you want to do that, he wants you to walk away from your regrets tonight. If you want to join these people standing, you stand up and say, "I'm going to walk away from what I've been hurting from. I'm going to walk into what I'm supposed to be." Will you stand? God bless you. God bless you, sister. God bless you, brother. God bless you. God bless you, brother. God bless you, ma'am. God bless you, sir. God bless you, young man. God bless you, madam. God bless you, ma'am. God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir. God bless you. God bless you, ma'am. God bless you, sir. God bless you. God will release you. He will do this work. It is his desire that you discover the secret about you. You are the best-kept secret that the earth [Music] has. I want you to take your hands and put your hands on your heart. Those who are standing, are you covering your heart with the anointing that God gave [Music] you? Anointing comes for ability to accomplish a task. Anointing is ability to do work. You were created to do the works that were prepared for you before you were born. You are not to just make a living. You were born to give life. You were not created just to be employed. You were born to be deployed. God has sent you to do something that no one else could do. And that's why you must not die until you have accomplished and you've captured your purpose for living. You must find that thing, that desire that's there. Capture it. Something that's more important than death, something that's worth dying for. That's what God wants. And I know you have it. Pray this prayer with me. Heavenly Father, Father, I receive this word. I knew I knew my life was for a reason. I always knew I always knew there was a cause for my birth. This night I declare I declare independence from every opinion that has oppressed me. I declare I declare total independence from every scar, from every scar, every depression, every depression that has minimized me. I forgive. I forgive all who have hurt me. All they were ignorant. They didn't know who I was. They didn't know who I was. I am. I am a blessing, a blessing to this planet. To this planet. And this day I declare I will die empty. Oh, lift your hands and worship him right now. Thank you, Holy Ghost. Thank you, Holy Ghost. Oh, come on. Worship him wherever you are. Everybody stand with him wherever you are. Come on, just worship the Lord. Lift those hands up and give him your whole life. Hallelujah. We worship you, oh holy manufacturer. You are the Lord of our lives. You created us. You manufactured us for your purpose. You gave us your heart. You gave us life for your purpose. Oh Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We bless you, oh holy [Music] one. Release in us, Lord, the gifts that you have buried inside. We declare your glory in the earth, Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Music] Thank you, Lord. The presence of the Lord is always present to confirm his word. We're going to leave orderly together. The Lord sent me here just for you. He knows exactly what you're facing, what you're struggling with on the inside. And maybe you didn't give your life to the Lord 100% before. Maybe you've never given 100% submission to him. If you want to do that tonight before we close, I want you to just slip out of your seat and come and stand. I'm going to wait just 5 minutes. Matter of fact, I'm going to wait less than that. It'll take you less than that to come here. If you want to give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ 100%. You want to submit yourself to his lordship. You want to be saved, born again. You want to be redeemed. You want to become what he created you to be. You want to do that tonight. I want you to step out of your seat. Come stand right here with me real quick. I want to pray with you personally. You want to give your life to Jesus 100%. I want you to come. Come downstairs. If you're upstairs, I want you to come downstairs here. I want to pray with you in the name of Jesus. Come on. Can you come? God bless you, man. God bless you, man. Give your life to Jesus, young men, young women. There's a reason for your life. There's a purpose for your birth. And you cannot be in God's will without coming to God first. You got to give your life to Jesus first before you can discover why you were really created. Will you come right now? Give your life to him. God bless you, man. God bless all of you. God bless you, sir. Yes. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Is there anyone else? Maybe you backslid. Maybe you decided that you are not worth coming back to God. Maybe you've sinned and you feel that you've done the unpardonable sin. Believe me, you really haven't. He still loves you. Forgives you. Will you come and join these people and reconcile yourself back to him? Put yourself back in his hands. Let him put his hands on you again and let him give you his whole heart. You want to do that tonight? I want you to come reconcile yourself to God before we go and leave this place. Tomorrow when you come back, you'll know that you belong to him and we can get on with the real business of finding out what you were born to do tomorrow. Will you do it tonight when you come? God bless you. God bless you. Anyone else want to come before we pray? Thank you, Lord. Reconciliation to the Lord. Amen. God bless you, young man. Hold hands with the person next to you. Let's just thank God in agreement for these people who've come. These counselors behind you are here to serve you. And they are here to just confirm what God is going to do right now. And they're going to pray with you personally after I pray with you corporately. And then we are going to leave this place together as one big family. Amen. If you're standing in front, I want you to look at me real quick. Just look up at my face here. Look at me. Did you understand what was taught tonight? Was it clear? Do you know that you are not a mistake? You know that now. You know that God gave you birth because there's something on his mind that he wants you done on earth and that he gave you birth to do it. Do you know that there is a book on your life now that God wants you to fulfill? Do you know that no one knows the truth about you now except God? Do you know now the only way for you to know that in secret is that the Holy Spirit got to tell you? You know that. And you know now that the only way to receive the Holy Spirit is to have a holy house for him to come in. That's why Jesus shed his blood so he can use the blood to wash you. So you can become holy so that the Holy Spirit could come back and live inside of you. So he could tell you the secrets about you. You understand? Being born again, Jesus said, is the Holy Spirit coming back inside. You're born of the spirit. Why does the Holy Spirit have to come inside? Well, there's a reason why. Very simple. Joel said, "A lot of these folks behind you don't they don't even understand what I'm going to tell you. Even though they have the spirit, some of them don't understand why they have him. The Holy Spirit doesn't come to you so that he can teach you how to dance. That's not his purpose. His purpose is not even to come for you to That's not his purpose. Yeah. He didn't even come for you to speak in tongues. That's not his purpose. That's a tool. That's right. Joel says that when the Holy Spirit comes upon flesh, when he comes into flesh, among all flesh who call upon his name, it says that two things will happen. And he never mentions tongues. Interesting. He said, "If you're old, when he comes upon you, you'll have a dream [Music] again. He'll give you your dream back. The old man shall dream what?" Dreams. He'll give you back your dream. He'll show you the purpose for your life again. He'll let you see what you always wanted to do all these years. That's why you're not satisfied. That's why after you've done all this work, work for this company, and you're 60 years old, all they give you is a golden watch and you're depressed because you haven't done what you was born to do. And so when you come back to him, he gives you back your dream in your old age. And if you're young, he gives you vision. [Music] Hallelujah. Some of you in this place, your pastor has been preaching to your members here for years and God prepared you just for me. All of his teaching preparing you for this night. Cuz some of you in this room, you have been saved for years and got the Holy Ghost and all you've been doing was making a pew warm and singing and worshiping. That's not what he came into your life for. He came into your life for you to capture a vision and to go out and do it. He gave you the Holy Ghost to reveal to you the secret for your life. And the old shall dream dreams and the young shall see visions. And when they see it, they'll prophesy. That means they'll talk about what they see. I see a school, a 10-story building. They start prophesying. I see a business. I see a boutique. I see a manufacturing plant. They begin to prophesy. I see myself in college with a degree. I see me in a foreign field working in a foreign government. I see me in the field helping children. I see a daycare center. I see a youth hostel. You begin to prophesy. When he shows you vision, you begin to talk about it. That's what prophecy is. Prophecy is an overflow of what you see in your spirit. Amen. And that's what God's going to do for you tonight, sister. Instead of just being a housewife, he'll make your body a house. And he'll give you a house life. And he'll give you a reason for living bigger than just making a living. He would make you more excited about your vision than your salary. Amen. And your job will no longer become your destination. It'll just be a means to an end. Cuz there's something greater than retirement. [Music] You're not finished yet. God ain't finished with your life yet. That's why you're still breathing. So, embrace the secret of the Holy Ghost because it's about you. Bow your hearts with me. Let's [Music] pray. Lord Jesus, you died for these people just like you died for me. You came to repair the product and you are the only authorized dealer because you are the manufacturer, yes, of these lives. You knew the parts that needed repair and you knew the cost of it and you have bought genuine parts back to us. You knew the part that was missing. It was the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. Now, Lord, I ask you to do what you do best. Salvage these products. Yes. Salvation these products. Put them back together. Repair each woman, each man right now. Lord, let your healing love repair their lives. Wash away their sin. Cleanse their unrighteousness. [Music] And tonight, that past is forgiven. Squeeze that hand and thank God right now for your past. It's gone. It's forgiven. Even though you can't forget it, it won't affect you anymore. Your past is forgiven. Glory to God. Thank you, Lord. Now, Father, fill them with your Holy Spirit. Pray this prayer with me out loud. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, you are my Lord. You are my Lord. I want you to pray that again, but this time I want you to understand what you're praying. Those of you who rent, you call the guy who you rent from your what? Your land. Lord, the word Lord means owner. Christ is not renting your body. I'm talking to you Christians cuz some of you been renting your body out. You've been allowing sin to lease it. [Music] You don't own your body anymore. You can't fully smoke anymore, without permission. You can't drink what you want to anymore without your permission from the owner. You can't let the body lay with anyone without permission from the owner anymore. If you're shacking up, unshack yourself. [Music] The next time you say he's Lord, please understand you're telling him you are the owner of my life. Except to man, confess him as Lord, he cannot be one of his. If any man would confess with his mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe in his heart that God raised him from the dead, that man shall be saved. Pray with me one more time. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, you are my Lord. You are my Lord. Squeeze that hand. Think about what you're saying one more time. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, you are my Lord. You are my Lord. You are the landlord. You are the landlord. Of this body. Of this body. Of this mind. Of this mind. Of my spirit man. Of my spirit. You are my Lord. You paid for me. You paid for me. I receive the Holy Ghost. I receive the Holy Ghost. Lift your hands right now. Receive him. Just go ahead. Receive him right now. The Bible says, "No man knows when he comes and no man can see when he comes, but like the wind, he comes into your life. Receive him right now, young man. Receive him by the Holy Ghost power. Be filled with the Holy Ghost. Lift your voice and worship him right now. Come on, open your mouth, young man, and thank him. Thank him for the Holy Ghost. Receive him right now in the name of Jesus.