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If you have a cell phone, go ahead and text the people that usually sit beside you that aren't there and say, "Hey, come on, you still got time. You get, you have time to get here." On this first Wednesday, we are in, in for a treat tonight. There's a lot of new things coming up in the next couple of weeks. And so, if you would, if you would just turn your attention to the screen for just a couple of minutes, we have a special announcement for you.
Hi, this is Brother Tex, and I will be teaching the breakout session for Beatitudes. We'll be talking about life skills, core values of what a Christian is, on how to handle and deal with life's issues. This class will also cover how to fast, how to pray, and those intricate details that take us into the place of intimacy with the Lord.
What's up, Truth Church? I am Brother Jordan Davis, and I will be teaching Bible 101. We will be located in the First Steps Room. And basically, Bible 101 is just a class on, number one, how to study the Bible. We're going to be talking about the five questions you should ask when reading any scripture: who, what, when, where, and why. Not only that, but I'm going to be debunking some common myths and misunderstandings about particular scriptures and stories in the Bible. And finally, we will be going and breaking down, gonna try to break down every single book of the Bible and talk about who authored it, what it means, and what the general theme of the Bible is as a whole, and especially how it relates in every single book of the Bible. We can't wait to have you there, and I can't wait for breakout sessions.
Shalom, Hashem. Hello, people of God. My name is Brother Jonathan. This spring breakouts, we will be covering Biblical Hebrew. I promise you, I'm a beginner, so you won't get fluent, so don't come expecting that. However, we'll learn some words, some phrases, a couple of verses, so you might learn a little Hebrew. But I promise you, we'll learn a lot more about the Word of God and how it relates in the Hebrew sense to take us a little deeper in that Word. Look forward to seeing you then. Shalom.
Give him a hand, everybody! You do not want to miss. You do not want to miss the next six Wednesday nights. The next six Wednesday nights, there will be one break where we have church-wide prayer, and then we will come back the next, uh, first Wednesday, and it is going to be a continuation of our spring breakouts. They're going to be awesome. You do not want to miss them. We got to go deeper in the Word of God. Somebody say, "Amen."
Man, I want you to join with me in prayer. I know we kind of getting things out of kilter today. We have a special need tonight. Sister Pam Fee was going to try her hardest, her family's going to try their hardest to get her here tonight. The doctors came in today and gave them that certificate that nobody wants, and they said two to three days, and they are broken-hearted. But God does all things well. I do not waver from that. I believe that. I believe that in my life. I believe that with my, my dear wife as well. He does all things well. I'm not going to charge him foolishly. I'm going to lift my hands and worship Him, no matter what comes our way. Amen. That has to be our heartbeat, our mindset. Amen. We love Him, no matter what comes our way, no matter the hurt, the pain. Praise God. Praise God.
Sunday morning, Sunday morning around seven o'clock, Sister Nikki Grant walked into her bedroom, and she was talking to her husband, and he was not responding to her. So she turned around and looked, and Brother Grant went on to be with the Lord. And his service is going to be this coming Saturday, I believe it is, one o'clock, right here at this church. So if you're able to come, we'd love for you to be here for that, to support them, show your love for them. Thank you to all our small groups, they're helping, uh, serve them food and making sure that they are feeling love from the body of Christ. I want to encourage you to pray for Sister Nikki Grant. She is loving Jesus Christ, thankful that God answered a prayer that allowed him to go peacefully in his sleep. And so today, here in the, in the sanctuary, I just worship the Lord with her. And so I want us to give God praise and give God honor. But let's pray for our dear family today in the name of Jesus Christ.
We thank You for Your goodness and Your mercy and Your power, Lord. I'm asking that Your blood would begin to cover right now, Sister Jolanta, Brother Ralph, O Lord, Carl Fee and his wife, and their grandpa, and their baby, in the name of Jesus. Lord, cover that family. Wrap Your loving arms around them, Lord. Hear us from heaven tonight in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, You are able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or even think. If it be Your will, Lord, to sustain life, blessed be Your name. If it, Lord, be Your will to take Sister Pam, Lord, blessed be Your name. In Jesus' name, we give You glory and we give You honor. Bless us tonight as we worship You, as we lift our hands and lift our hearts to You. Let Your presence fill this house. Let us go a little deeper today. Let us go a little higher in worship, in praise. Let us step out of what we would normally do and fill this house with Your power. Would you clap your hands unto the Lord? Would you magnify Him like you really love Him? Would you worship Him as though He's the only person, the only thing in the room right now? We honor You. We praise You. And we thank You.
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You do it again, just like before. You heal your broken heart, your life. He can restore. You'll do it again, 'cause He's your best friend. He'll never let you down. He'll never let you go. You'll do it again. Oh, just like before. You heal your broken heart, your life. You can restore. You do it again, 'cause He's your best friend. He'll never let you down. He'll never let you go. Lord, I am broken. My life is in pieces. But Your strength is perfect in all my weakness. Lord, I am broken. My life is in pieces. But Your strength is perfected. Lord, I am broken. My life is in pieces. But Your strength is perfect in all of my weakness. Lord, I am broken. My life is in pieces. But Your strength is... [Music]
Do it again, just like before. You'll heal your broken heart, your life. He can restore. You'll do it again. [Music] 'Cause He's your best friend. He'll never let you down. He'll never let you go. Lord, I am broken. My life is in pieces. But Your strength is perfected. Lord, I am broken. My life is in pieces. But Your strength is perfected. Lord, I am... [Music] Lord, I am broken. My life is... [Music] Lord, I am broken. My life is... [Music] Lord, I am broken. My life is in pieces. But Your strength is... [Applause] Is... [Music] [Applause] [Music]
Jesus, oh Jesus, Jesus, I'm calling You. Jesus. [Music] Jesus, Jesus, I'm calling You. Really in Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, oh what a name. Jesus, Jesus, I'm calling You. Jesus. [Music] I know I'm broken, but You can heal me. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I'm calling You. I know I'm... Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. [Music] Across, ladies and gentlemen, come on, lift your hands to the King right now. [Music] Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. [Music] Jesus, I wanna say who You are. Jesus. [Music] Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. [Music] Would you grab the hand of someone close to your family? [Music] To the heavens right now. [Music] But You can heal me. Jesus, Jesus. Don't get in a hurry. Allow God to begin to tenderize your spirit for the Word that is going to come forth in just a moment. [Music] We heard about it on Sunday morning. Less of us, less of us, and more of You, Jesus. Less of what I desire, what I want, but God, what You want in me, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Come on right now, all across this building. Would you lift Him up one more time? Would you reach for Him right now? Come on, sir. Would you reach for Him? Come on, young man. I've seen Him dealing with you already. Would you reach for Him? Well, that's it, Dad. Reach for Him right now. Just as I've been standing up here a few minutes, the presence of God has begun to minister and begin to touch. Would you just reach for Him right now? [Music] I'm broken, Jesus. I'm hurting, Jesus. But I still need You. I need You to touch me. I need You to minister to me. O Lord, draw my spirit. Join my heart. God, I want to touch the hem of Your garment that I may be made whole on this Wednesday night. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise God. Would you give Him an ovation of praise? Let it last longer than 10 seconds. Would you thank Him for His power, His Shekinah glory that is moving in this place right now? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. God, I honor You and I lift Your name up on high, for You are great and greatly to be praised. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Our team probably wonders what I'm doing up here right now because I'm into smooth transitions, but I felt it necessary. I just told Brother Gary I wasn't going to do this, but I just felt it necessary to bring a friend, a friend to this pulpit that I told him, I believe it was yesterday on a voice text, that I don't believe in just happenstance. I don't believe in coincidence. I believe in a God that divinely orders things, and I believe He has divinely ordered Brother Copeland and his family to be here. His wife has family in the area, and so they came to visit family. And I told him a long time ago, don't come back if you're not gonna let me know you're coming back. So he's here, and he's gonna minister the Word of the Lord all the way from Sebastopol, Mississippi. Amen. Would you welcome Brother Copeland as he comes? Deliver the word. Would you preach for him and let your heart be open to what he's going to preach into our lives tonight?
Praise the Lord. Aren't you glad to be in the house of God tonight? Why don't you, why don't you be seated just for a moment because I have a few things I want to say, and I don't leave you standing while I say those things. The sweetest words that can be said in an apostolic church is, "You may be seated," because we get excited and we'll just leave you standing all night. What a privilege it is to be, uh, in church with you. I preached in this congregation 27 years ago. 27 years ago. I know I don't look that old, but I did anyway. 27 years ago. It certainly wasn't this building. This facility is gorgeous, and, uh, man, everything's first class. Uh, I appreciate that. I like that, and that should make you happy, and that ought to make you proud of your church and proud of your leadership, proud of your pastor, Bishop. They say that when, uh, guests pull up on a church parking lot and walk in the building, they know within seven minutes if they'll ever be back at that church ever again for the rest of their life. Seven minutes. The first seven minutes. And, uh, I'm telling you, the experience of pulling up in this parking lot, walking into this building, makes you want to spend the rest of your life in this facility. That's awesome. That's awesome.
Now, I want to, uh, I want to start by saying, giving honor to Bishop and Sister Gilbert, and Pastor and Sister Gilbert, and their family. Um, and I'm not, I'm not just doing that, I really mean that. I give honor to these people. Uh, I was raised in Pentecost in the Texas District, and so I'd heard the name David Gilbert all my life. Uh, I grew up in youth camp as a, as a young man in youth camp when he was running around with the preachers as a young preacher. And, uh, I don't know if that makes us old or just seasoned or what it makes us, but I'm certainly a lot older. You don't look any older than you did back then. And, uh, Sister, Sister Gilbert is one of the sweetest, most precious ladies in the world, and I mean that, graceful, and raised a great family. And then for Brother Darren Gilbert, I don't, I don't know of a more able man to lead this church into great revival and great harvest, and I mean that sincerely from my heart. Just the little time I've spent around him, I'm telling you, this church has his heart. The harvest, the last harvest, has his attention. Yes, it does. And I understand, I would be a, I would be a foolish man to get in this pulpit and ignore what's going on right now. I understand that there are times that this man feels like he is fighting for his life in his world and his wife. And it would be very cavalier of me to get up here and preach without mentioning that. Let me just tell you this: trouble makes us greater. Trouble makes us greater. And, uh, I understand that you can, Brother Darren Gilbert, I understand that you can feel very distracted during these times. You can feel like you're not at your best during these times. Please don't let those feelings overcome you, please. Because God has given us the potential, God has given us the unique potential under anointing to actually perform better under pressure than we do when we're relaxed. And I believe that great revival is coming to this church during this time. Uh, I'm so glad to have my wife with us. I'm glad to have my daughter Savannah with me, and we're going to have a great time in the Holy Ghost. Greetings to this wonderful church. Man, what an awesome spirit of worship that I walked into, and that speaks of prayer and dedication. I'm gonna, I'm gonna do something that I'm nervous about now. I've been preaching for over 30 years, and I am so nervous right now. And the reason why is because when I go preach out, I always reach and grab a message that I preach over and over and over and over and over again, where I can walk to the pulpit real secure, knowing that it's pretty well gonna work. [Music] And I have wrestled all day long because God spoke something to me to preach tonight, and I'll just be honest with you, I hadn't wanted to preach it. I called, I called Dennis Clark about 5:30, hoping he would talk me out of preaching this, but he didn't. He said, "Go preach it. Go preach it." And, uh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be transparent of why that I'm a little apprehensive about preaching this message. You don't realize this, but this is a tough spot to be in to preach at this church during this time. I've been praying for your Bishop, Brother David Gilbert, because he struggled lately in his health. My wife, and I'm not just saying this, I mean it, she spent many, many prayers and tears over your pastor's wife. And I know that those things make this church naturally apprehensive. So think of what it's like to walk into that environment. If I ignore all that, I'm too cavalier. If I deal with it, it can get too pointed. [Music] If I preach faith, it can make you feel like, "Well, what's wrong, Brother Copeland? Don't feel like we've had faith. We've had faith." If I preach tears, it's easy for you to say, "Well, my Lord, we've cried enough. Can't You bring us a little bit of hope?" [Music] It's a spot. And so the only thing I know to do is obey the Holy Ghost and exactly what He said to say. Would you stand together? [Music] Brother David Gilbert, I meant the words that I said earlier. I respect you. Brother Tim Copeland, my uncle has talked about you my whole life. He respects you. Believes in you. [Music] Brother Dennis Clark, one of my best friends, thinks you're the one, the greatest preachers in Pentecost. And so I feel so at home and so relaxed in this environment tonight. I want to go to Isaiah 45 and I'm going to skip around just a little bit. Brother Darren Gilbert told me on a number of occasions to send my scriptures to the media team, but since I argued with God all the way till He said, "Come up here on the platform," they never got them. Isaiah 45 and 3. Isaiah 45 and 3. If this turns out good, blame it on God. If it don't, blame it on me. "And I will give thee treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I the Lord, which call thee by name, am the God of Israel." Let's look at verse seven. Verse seven. "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things." And then verse 9 through 10. Verse 9. Isaiah 45 and verse 9. [Music] "Woe unto him that striveth with his maker." Anybody ever been guilty of that? Um, I think I've been doing that all day. "Woe of him unto him that striveth with his maker. Let the potsherd strive with the potsherd of the earth. Shall the clay say unto him that fashioneth it, Why fashionest thou me? or thy work he hath no hands?" Verse 10. "Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?" Would you lift your hands right now and ask the Lord to speak in this place right now? Would you do that? Jesus. Dear Lord, by the power of the Holy Ghost and by the power of Your anointing, I'm asking You to baptize this place right now with Your glory. I'm asking You to reign in Your tabernacle tonight. Speak to hearts and lives and minds and spirits all over this building. In the name of Jesus, we praise You and we give You glory. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. God bless you. You may be seated.
I believe with everything that is within me that the greatest miracle this church has ever seen is going to come out of this struggle that Sister, Sister Ginger and Brother Darren Gilbert have gone through. I believe that a miracle testimony is going to define this church in just a few days. I believe that Brother Gilbert, I believe that the miraculous hand of God is in everything that you've struggled with over the last little while in health reasons. I'm not trying to identify, I promise you, I'm not, because everybody's got their own situations. But three years ago, my wife was bedridden. I know what it feels like to walk through those days of wondering, "What on earth, God, are You going to do?" I can remember searching for doctors, taking her to medical centers, taking them to doctors, and some of them shaking their head and saying, "It's all, it's all in her head. It's just, there's nothing wrong with her. She just thinks there's something wrong with her." I, I can remember leaving, and my wife crying, tears rolling down her cheeks, and her shaking her head, saying, "I'm not crazy. I'm telling you, I'm not crazy. Something is wrong. Something is wrong with me." I can remember having to go out of the country in order to find medical help for her, going to other countries and asking doctors in other countries to take a look at my wife and see what could be found that was wrong. I'm not going to get into all that. I'm just telling you, I know what it's like to feel like that everything around you is in darkness. Anybody else wave your hand at me if you've ever been there?
I want to go back to Isaiah 45 and 3 and remind you of what the Lord says. This is what I want to preach to you for a little while. I want to title this message: God is Ambidextrous. I wonder if there's anybody here that don't know what ambidextrous means. Raise your hand. Ambidextrous just simply means that you can use both hands equally. It means that you're just as efficient with your left hand as you are with your right hand. The amazing thing, Brother Pastor Gilbert, is that from the beginning of the book to the end of the book, 66 books of the Bible, and not one place do you ever find the Bible referring to God's left hand. I won't take time to go into it, but over and over and over and over and over, His right hand is referred to. Psalms 20 and 6. You don't have to go there. Please stay with that scripture, if you would. But Psalms 20 and 6 says that He would save us with the strength of His right hand. Psalm 74 and 11 says, "Why draweth Thine hand, even Thine right hand?" David is asking Him, "Why have You withdrawn Your right hand away from me?" And then he specifies, "even Your right hand." We're going to talk about that for just a few minutes here tonight. David was experiencing in that moment when he said, "Where's Your right hand?" He was experiencing the left hand of God in his life. Psalms 108 and 6. David again prays and says, "Hey, save me," and then he specifies, "with Your right hand." I believe what David was saying is, "I don't like it when You use Your left hand in my world." Isaiah said that God would give us treasures of darkness. I don't know why, but some of God's greatest miracles, He hides in the dark times of our life. We love the mountains. We love the victories. We love for God to come in with a mighty right hand, because His right hand speaks of authority, and His right hand speaks of victory, and His right hand speaks of power. And we love it when God takes us to the mountain. We love it when God lifts us out with His right hand, and we can look at the enemy and say, "Can I tell you something?" The Bible never refers, not one time, to the left hand of God. And I fully believe the reason that the Bible never refers to the left hand of God is because we simply couldn't grasp it if He did. There are some things that's just not worth discussing. The infinite authority of God is not understood by a finite man. There are so many things about this life that we're not going to understand until we get to glory. We're just not going to. And there's no sense in God even taking time to try to make us understand it. It's too intricate. It's too detailed. I heard my grandmother say one time, Brother Tim Copeland's mother, Brother Bishop Gilbert, Tim Copeland's mother said one time, and I was just sitting there as a child, and she said, "Son, you gotta learn to trust God whether it's the mountain or whether it's the valley." She said, "Sometimes God's going to lead you through the valley of the shadow of death." Are you unwilling to go? Do you not trust Him enough to go? And when I read this passage today in verse 9 through 10, where Isaiah says that God speaks to man and says, "Are you going to question Me? Are you going to wrestle with Me when I try to form some things in your world? Is it up to you? Is the, can the clay ask the potter, 'Why are you doing this?'" You know, I can relate to Rebecca whenever God told her miraculously she was gonna have children. She got all excited about that until the labor got there, and she started struggling. And then she said, "God, if this pregnancy is the will of God, why am I having trouble?" Well, let me just give you a clue: you're probably going to have more problems when you're in the will of God than you are when you're out of the will of God. The devil never fights anybody that's going to hell. He likes where you're headed. He's not going to give you problems if you're living outside the will of God and destroying your family and destroying your home and destroying your children. Why would he fight you? You're doing exactly what he wants you to do. Sometimes the smoothest path to live is the one to hell. I'm gonna tell you, when it gets rough is when you decide you're gonna get in the church. Somebody says, "Man, I think I'm gonna get in the church. Man, I'm gonna get full of the Holy Ghost. I'm gonna get religion. I'm gonna get on fire for God. Everything's gonna go smooth in my world." Let me tell you what Jesus said. He said, "Your family's gonna fight you. Your friends are gonna come and turn against you. Your pals ain't gonna like you anymore. You may have trouble on your job." You know why? The devils don't like it when you're headed the right direction. The biggest fight you're gonna have is when you're smack dab in the middle of God, uh, the will of God, because the devil's scared to death of you when you're in God's will. He's scared to death of the miracles that's going to happen in your family, and it's going to happen in your home, and it's going to happen in your children. Somebody came to me one time, said, "Brother Copeland, I didn't even have trouble till I got in the church." I said, "Well, welcome to the church." You think the devil's gonna turn loose to you readily? You think he's just gonna sign a peace treaty? No. You start living for God, and he realizes he's, he's lost one of his heroes. Man, he wasn't just planning on you being lost. He was planning on you taking a whole bunch of people with you. You think he's just gonna turn you loose? He was planning on you taking several people to hell with you. You think he's just gonna readily back off? I'm telling you, when you get in the will of God, Satan is gonna turn every arsenal of hell he's got against you. You know what your answer is? Just keep living for God. Just keep marching on. Don't look back. Don't look to the left. Don't look to the right. God will fight your battles if you just live for God. Don't expect it to be easy, but you will make it. Just keep fighting. I want to encourage you. You know what? I'm in the will of God right now. I want to encourage somebody in the Holy Ghost. Don't you back up. Don't you throw in the towel. Don't you give up easy. Just keep living for God. [Applause] Hold your peace. God will fight your battles. [Applause] I'm off my subject just a little bit, but I can't help it. I'm in the Holy Ghost right now. I'm talking to somebody right now in the Holy Ghost. Mama, don't you give up. You're fighting for your son. Daddy, don't you give up. You're fighting for your children. The devil's after your babies. You better stay in the church. Stay in the prayer room. Stay on the fire line. Keep living for God. If you threw in the towel, it won't just be your soul. You're fighting for the future of your kids. I know it's a battle, but it's a battle worth fighting. Some things are just worth fighting for. The Bible says, I gotta hurry because I don't preach too long. The Bible says that His treasures are hidden in darkness. The greatest, and I can say this because you know what? The church is all I've ever known. I, I was born in this. I was raised in this. This is all I've ever known. And there's good and bad. There's trade-offs to that. I like the fire and the zeal of the brand new people that, that have a great view of what sin looks like, and they come into the church, and, and but they don't ever want to go back. And some of them, some of those that's raised in the church that don't know what's out there, it seems like they spend all their time looking over the fence. I'm gonna tell you what my old pastor, Brother Treadway, told me years ago. He said, "All you that think you went out there and think you won't out in the world," he said, "I'll tell you what, you're just going out there and you get you a big bait of sin." He said, "If you make it, if you make it back, we won't have no more trouble out of you." If you never get back in here. But I was raised in the church, and I've lived for God long enough now to know, and you listen to what I'm telling you right now, the greatest miracles and the greatest treasures and the deepest relationship with God is not learned and earned on the mountaintops. It's learned and earned in the valley of the shadow of death. Those of you that's lived for God any length of time at all know, you know, you understand this, that the real trust and real relationship that you build with God, you don't find that on the mountaintops. You find that in the darkness of your bedroom when everybody else is going to sleep, and you can't sleep, and you get up, and you're walking the floor, and you're saying, "God, You got to help me because I don't see a way out of this. I don't know what's gonna happen to my family. I don't know what's gonna happen. We had so many plans. We had so many things we wanted to do. Are You gonna take all that away from me?" And God, you know what He says? Nothing. Most of the time, He doesn't say anything because He's teaching you to grab a hold of Him and hang on and say, "Whatever the outcome is, I'm still with You. You're still my God. I'm still Your child. I'm not going anywhere. I'm not gonna try to draw You a roadmap of how to get me out of this. I'm gonna trust whatever road I got to walk down. I really do trust You."
Um, I feel the Holy Ghost right now. And so there's the, there's the right, there's the right hand of God where all these miracles and signs and wonders and the mountaintops and all that. And then there's His left hand that He won't even talk about. He won't explain it to you. But I'm gonna tell you, none of us are gonna get to glory without learning the beauty and the blessing of trusting in the left hand of God. That side of God that you wonder, "God, have You turned against me? God, is this, is this really a blessing? Are You cursing me? I don't understand how to interpret this. Did You bring me this far to leave me? Can't You explain it to me?" He says, "No, I can't, because if I tried, you wouldn't get it. It's bigger than you are. It's bigger than the universe." But if you'll trust Me, there's treasure in this darkness. Bigger miracles and blessings come from the left hand of God than they do the right hand of God. I'm almost done. My grandmother told Brother Tim Copeland, this is what she said. She said, "Son, I've been living for God for over 50 years." And she says, "Sometimes it takes a 50-year perspective to look back and see that the things that we thought were going to destroy us ended up being the greatest blessing for our church." She said, "But you, you just gotta walk through it. It's one of those things that you can only see in hindsight. If, if someone tried to tell you, you wouldn't understand it." Psalms 81 and 16. Psalms 81 and 16. And as they go there, I want to tell you that Samson said some very unique words, and I want you to listen carefully to Samson's riddle. Samson's riddle said this: "Can y'all bear with me five or ten more minutes to a close?" Samson's riddle said this: He said, "Out of the eater came forth sweetness." Out of the eater. In other words, what he was saying, out of the, he said, "The very thing that I thought was going to eat me, the very thing that I thought was going to destroy me, what came out of that was meat." What I thought was going to destroy me ended up sustaining me. And what he was referring to is a lion roared against him. He slew the lion. He thought it was going to destroy him. He slew the lion. And then later, when he was almost dead, he found honey in the carcass of that lion. But here's the next one: "And out of the strong came forth sweetness." The worst, the things that we get in the middle of and think, "This is the worst thing I could go through in life. I do not know how I'm gonna survive this." If you're in God and you trust Him, you're gonna find the greatest miracles in your life are not found on the mountaintop, but they come out of the thing that they think you think is robbing, temporarily, you think it's robbing you of your future. How many times in living for God have you wondered, "How do, where do I go from here?" When we look back, had an elderly lady testify in our church just a little while back, and she said she told our church, she said, "I'm facing something right now that I wonder, what's my life gonna look like tomorrow? How am I gonna come through this?" And she said, "But after 60 years of living for God, I know how I'm gonna come through it. The same way I came through all the other stuff." I thought, listen, here's what she said. She said, "Looking at life from the youth toward age, she said, it looks like trial to trial to trial to trial." She said, "But you just gotta get my age, about 75 years old, to look back over living for God and say, 'It was victory to victory to victory.'" It just depends on which side of the mountain you're looking. [Applause] It's a trial when you're going into it, but it's a victory when you're coming out the other side. The treasures are hidden in darkness. The treasures are hidden in darkness. The blessings are hidden in the dark. [Applause] I'm almost done. Be seated. I'm almost done. I, I, I don't, I don't have time to go into this, but let me just mention just a couple of things right quick to you before I go to this scripture and try to bring it to a close. Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln. You all know who he is. Abraham Lincoln wanted to buy law books. He wanted to go to law school. He wanted to be a lawyer. But one of his close friends talked him into taking the money that he would have put into law books and opening a country store. And they opened the country store, and the country store failed. I mean, fell flat of its face. It was over with. They were closing down. And the day they decided to close their store, Abraham Lincoln had 50 cents, and he didn't know what he was gonna do with that 50 cents. And y'all have heard this story before. Wave your hand at me if you've heard this. Good. It's just one or two. And so, so his, his partner says, "Well, I'm done. I'm getting out of here." And Abraham Lincoln looks at his 50 cents. He says, "Man, I can't go to law school. 50 cents. I don't know what I'm gonna do." And about that time, a wagon pulls up in the front of their store. And Abraham, thinking Lincoln, said, "Well, maybe some of this stuff that's left we can sell to the guy." And the guy said, "Man, I don't have any money. I'm not here to buy anything. He says, I'm broke. I'm trying to get a hand out. Y'all have any money I can have it all to get me on down the road." And Abraham Lincoln pulled that last 50 cents out of his pocket and gave the man. And his guy that he was in business with laughed at him. He said, "Abraham Lincoln, that's why you don't have anything. You give everything you got away." And the man had an old wooden whiskey barrel in the back of his wagon. And he said, "Here, I don't want to just take your 50 cents. I'll, I'll give you this whiskey barrel." And he set the whiskey barrel out on the front steps of the store and drove off in his wagon. Abraham Lincoln saw that there was some trash in the bottom of the barrel. He was at a low limb in his life. He said he had a lump in his throat and tears in his eyes and didn't know what his future was gonna be. All of his futures and hopes, dreams was washed down, and all he had was a whiskey barrel with a bunch of trash in it. And so he said, "Well, at least I need to clean this barrel up. I mean, it's all I got left to my name." And he turned the barrel upside down, and all the trash fell out, and underneath the papers in the trash was a brand new book of law. And he studied that book of law and became a lawyer. That put him into politics, and he became the President of the United States of America. I'm preaching to someone that the devil's, you know what? I'm sick of the devil lying. I am tired of the devil getting up on our shoulders and lying to us and telling us it's over. Your dreams are done. It's finished. There's no hope for you. It's all said and done. I'm telling you, there's treasure in your darkness if you can grab a hold of and trust in God and just say, "God, this is one thing I know. My God, I've got to get finished." Psalms 81 and 16. Psalms 81 and 16. Musicians, come if you would. I'm closing. Psalms 81 and 16. The psalmist said, "He should have fed them also with the finest of wheat." Now listen to this. "And with honey out of a rock should I have satisfied thee." Honey from a rock? Who in the world gets honey out of a rock? I don't know of anything harder than a rock. I don't know of anything more unyielding than a rock. I don't know of anything more destructive than a rock. I don't know of anything drier than a rock. God said, "I can't explain it to you because you won't understand it. I'm not gonna describe how it works because you'll never get it. It's for an infinite God and not for finite man." One day when you get to glory, you're gonna understand it. Now, until then, you're gonna have to trust Me that this thing that you're going through, that you're saying it's unyielding, it's hard, there's no softness in it, there's no tenderness in it. I'm telling you, God is telling you, honey is coming out of this rock. Sweetness is coming out of what you thought was going to destroy you. Can you imagine the disciples? Can you imagine the disciples? Here they are, they've, they've got, they've got Israel theology in their mind. Jesus is coming, and He's gonna set His kingdom up in Jerusalem. Stand together. He's gonna set His kingdom up in Jerusalem. In their minds, in their minds, He's gonna set His kingdom up, and when He sets His kingdom up in Jerusalem, He's gonna, He's gonna bring their enemies under His feet. He's gonna claim dominion. And all of a sudden, He starts telling them, "I'm gonna be crucified." "They're gonna nail me to a cross." His disciples can't understand this. In fact, He doesn't even try to explain it to them. He just gives them the riddle that this temple is going to be destroyed, but in three days, I'm gonna raise it up again. Peter draws his sword and says, "They, if they crucify You, it'll be over my dead body." He says, "Get thee behind Me, Satan." There's no way I can describe to you what's going on, but I'll tell you this, Peter, the greatest victory this world has ever seen is gonna have to come out of darkness. It's not gonna come from my, it's not gonna come from my right hand of victory. It's gonna come from my left hand. And you disciples are gonna think it's all over. And your disciple, your disciples, some of you are gonna backslide, and you're gonna give up. In fact, I'm wondering if there's even gonna be faith left in the earth, because some of you are gonna get, give up on Me because you don't understand that I'm ambidextrous. I don't just operate with the right hand of victory. There's some treasures. The greatest victories come out of darkness. Would you lift your hands just a moment right now? Come on. Would you reach out right now? Come on. The Holy Ghost is talking to somebody in this house. All over this building, the Holy Ghost is speaking to people. Hmm. It wouldn't surprise me what happens in the next few minutes. [Music] Somebody said, "Brother Copeland, what are you, who, who in the world are you preaching to?" I'll tell you, if I know humanity, every family in this building right now, every mother in this building right now, every father in this building right now, you have situations with your kids, you have circumstances with your finances, you have situations with your job, you have situations with your home that you can say, "Man, we live in an hour where everything, it seems like you don't have to look far to find darkness." Come on, entertain the Holy Ghost just a moment. We're about to close. [Music] But I've come to prophesy to somebody and tell you, there's honey coming out of this rock. I'm telling you, there's honey coming out of this hard place. Man, you know what the Holy Ghost just spoke to me? I don't know where you sit, sister, but that broken relationship threw you into a darkness that you, you, you feel like a blind man or a blind woman trying to find your way through life. It got so dark when that relationship was destroyed, but I'm telling you right now in the Holy Ghost that there's honey coming out of that rock. There's something great coming out of that broken relationship. [Music] I'm speaking. I wish I knew who you were, I'd walk back and put my hand on your shoulder. I'm telling you, a miracle's coming out of that situation. Come on, nobody looking around. Entertaining in the Holy Ghost just a moment. Come on, my God. I don't know what's going. I'm not tearing for effect. I'm tearing because the Holy Ghost wants to work a miracle right now. I'm talking to people right now that it's so dark in your world that you feel like you're struggling. Can you, can you imagine John the Baptist in prison? John, John has healed the sick, he's raised the dead, he's, he's laid hands on people, he's worked miracles, he's preached the gospel, and he's in prison. And Jesus won't even come see him. Can you imagine how dark his moment was? Can you imagine how abandoned he felt? [Music] He felt totally abandoned by God. John the Baptist, who, who Jesus said, "No man in the kingdom is greater than John." And now he's in prison. Jesus and the disciples won't even come see him. He feels totally abandoned by God. And the reason I bring that up, I didn't mean to use that, but somebody's standing here right now, and just this week, you felt God have you abandoned me? Do you, have you even forgotten where I am? He said, "You go ask Jesus if He's really the Christ." He was ready to give up on God. God said, "Blessed is he who's not offended in Me." I know you can't understand it, John. You won't understand it till you get to glory. But the greatest miracle is about to hit the scene of the world, and you've played a part in it. I want you to lift your hands together right now and give God those broken dreams, those broken hopes. [Music] I wonder if anybody's got enough faith. I'm about to open these altars, but before everybody comes, I wonder if anybody's got enough faith to come out of those pews right now with your hands lifted and say, "God, I believe the greatest miracle I've ever seen is coming out of this darkness. I believe the greatest miracle that I've ever experienced is coming out of this dark time." God, I'm glad that You trust me with Your left hand. I'm thankful that You've trusted me with Your left hand. I'm gonna tell you, God don't trust everybody with His left hand. God don't trust everybody with His left hand. But those that He can, the greatest treasures come out again. Oh, my God. They come out of darkness. Oh, I'm preaching to somebody right now. Reach out. There's, there's honey coming out of this rock. There's honey coming out of this rock. There's honey coming. Oh, there's sweetness coming out of this rock. You thought it was going to destroy you, and it's gonna be what sustained you. You thought it was going to kill you, and it's gonna be what hurls you.
Into victory, there's honey. There's hope. There's hope coming out of this rock.
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My God, have mercy. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. There's honey coming out of this rock. What you thought was going to destroy you is going to be your substance. What you thought was going to destroy you is going to be your life.
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The Lord is my shepherd. He goes before me. Defender behind me. I won't.
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I got to say something right here. No, don't look around. Don't look around because you need to stay in the spirit. But I want to tell you something. The Holy Ghost just spoke to me that there's people in this building that you've been praying about situations and you thought God wasn't working because he wasn't talking. But I'm telling you right now, the reason he's silent is because you wouldn't understand it if he tried to explain it. It's bigger than you are. It's bigger than the cosmos. But just because God's silent, don't mean he's still. I'm telling you, he's working. He's working. He's working in your behalf. Just because he's not explaining it, doesn't mean he's not fixing it. Somebody needs to lift your hands and say, "I trust you. I, I trust you." My God. Come on, somebody. That when you, you're gonna get a release when you profess it. I trust you. I trust you with my circumstance.
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Defender.
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I'm filled with anointing.
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I won't be.
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I am not alone. Sing it with me. I am not alone. He is.
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Is. I am not alone. He's my comfort. He's my comfort always. Hallelujah. I am not alone.
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He is. Guides me. He always guides me. His joy is refreshing.
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His joy is refreshing. Restores my soul. Restores.
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Come. He's sending angels into this building with healing in their ways.
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He's.
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Hallelujah.
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Hi. I am. He always guides me.
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His joy is refreshing. His joy is refreshing.
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Restores my soul. Mercy. He gives me a short. See his glory that I'll see his glory.
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Hallelujah.
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Always.
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Hallelujah.
Alone. He is my comforter. Yes, he is.
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Your spirit me lives. I will walk in your peace. Your spirit lives within me. My victory. My victory. Your spirit lives. Your spirit lives within me. My victory. My victory. Your spirit lives within me. So I will walk in your peace. Your spirit lives within. My victory. My victory. My.
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Is my victory. My victory. My victory. My victory. My victory. My victory.
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I am not alone.
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Always holds me. Sing it again. Hallelujah.
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Oh.
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Hallelujah.
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Yes.
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Hallelujah. I am not alone. No, no.
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Come on. Let's not get in a hurry. If you're able in body, would you stand to your feet and lift your hands to them as they continue to sing this in Jesus' name? If you're able to find it. Lord, I submit to your will today in the name of Jesus. In this bedrock area, Lord, you're gonna feed me. Your God, I'm not alone. Jesus, it doesn't matter how you do it. You don't have to explain anything to me, God. I submit to your will and do your ways.
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I don't understand, God. Hold me close to this dark heart in the name of Jesus.
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In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Would you help me right now? I know that we're in a hurry. I know that it's time to go home and all those things. But if you would, would you gather around your family? Gilbert kids, would you get by my, get my grandparents? I want you to get with your family right now. If you need to come to the front, do that. But I want you to get close to them. They're kneeling on the floor. There's some deal in here and over here. Get by them on the floor right now. Oh, Brother Copeland, and with honey out of the rock, should I have satisfied thee? Does anybody feel like you're in a hard place right now? Wow. Nourishment's coming. Nourishment's coming right now. You don't see it. You don't even smell it. You don't even feel it. There's no plates on the table. There's no forks put out. But nourishment's coming through the rock. Come on, lift your family up right now. I want you to pray this prayer. I submit. I submit to the rock. I've said it since the very beginning of this whole situation with our first lady that your glory be revealed. I submit to the rock.
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Oh, yes. Come on, come on. That blessing that you don't see, that you don't smell, that nourishment that's nowhere in sight, it's coming. I don't try to re-preach what the man of God's preached tonight. But I would to God that we would submit to what the word of the Lord has said. Come on. The way you were. So there's a reason brokenness is there. There is a reason mess-ups and hurts are there. It's a rocky place. But nourishment's come and help's coming. Hope is coming. The smorgasbord that you've never seen before is being laid out before you, piece by piece, in the name of Jesus Christ. Every person under the sound of my voice.
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God, let him submit to the rock. Let him submit to that rocky area, Lord, because, Lord, that hand of blessing, that hand that nobody sees, that we don't understand, is about to do something that's never been done in our lives.
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In the name of Jesus.
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In the name of Jesus. I speak this tonight because it's what I felt. Quite frankly, it's what I begin to see.
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I've said from the beginning, I, Brother Copeland, you've, you literally said words and preached words that I've said in my living room when kids are asleep and wife is in the hospital, must verbatim, and we haven't talked. But the Holy Ghost knows. I looked at Brother Jonathan and I said, "I believe the blessing that he's preaching about is those lost." He spoke it like many ministers before have. A harvest is coming. October. The Jonathan, I really do believe that blessing that that word is speaking directly. It's, it's for everybody. And I know it speaks to everybody. But I'm talking about for the body, this church. I believe that blessing is souls. Some that we know that have walked away and some that we've never seen before. I wasn't gonna say that, but I just felt it so strong in the Holy Ghost again when I got up here. And I believe that that blessing that's coming in the rocky area because I don't have a clue how many people in Tex homeland and around the world have seen and said things and message after message that still comes through on, on Facebook Messenger, of how is Ginger doing? People I don't even know that may not even look like you and me and may not even believe like you and me. Most definitely some of them don't. But they want to know that his glory may be revealed in the midst of a rocky place, in the midst of a stone, in a darkest place because his left hand for the Copen is doing a word. There's some of you. There's some of you that stand in this building and it's no doubt because of the issue of my wife got your attention. The issue of COVID-19 got your attention. And I pray in the Holy Ghost, I pray that the Holy Ghost would continue to grip your heart and you would submit to that rocky place. You would submit to what's being spoken to you in the midst of that rocky place in the name of Jesus Christ. One more time, all across this building, in the name of the Lord God, we submit our spirits and our hearts to you. Your will has been done in this place tonight. Your will has spoke to us through the man of God tonight in the name of Jesus. God, let this resound through the airways and through the YouTube channel. God, let Sister Joe Land to, let Pam and Ralph, oh Lord, let Carl, God, let every Mariah, Lord, let them hear this word tonight in the name of Jesus. Lord, and my wife watches this, let her hear this. So God, in the name of Jesus Christ, Sister Nicky Grant, God, Sister Mary, and many others, oh Lord, let them hear this word. Let it resonate in their spirit and their heart. Lord, let this divine encounter that we have had in this place tonight, Lord, sweep across this place, across these people, and beyond in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, we honor you tonight in our giving. We lift your name up, Lord. We bless your name in our giving tonight. We bring to you tithe. We bring you offering. We bring you sacrificial offerings. Lord, transform truth offerings. Lord, bless the men and women of God as they honor you in their giving tonight. We lift you up and we give you thanks in Jesus' name. Somebody say his name right now. Would you speak his name with authority right now? Jesus. Jesus. Praise God. Praise God. You.