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Is, uh, [Applause] thank you, Jesus, thank you. [Music] My eyes on Your face, [Music] to look for Your goodness, [Music] the joy and the strength. [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh, [Music] my weapon will be myself. [Music] [Music] With nothing, [Music] bring a heart that wants You fast. Make this place, [Music] come. [Music] Is, [Music] make this place, [Music] is. [Music] [Music] Oh, [Music] see my soul. [Music] This place, my soul, make this place. [Applause] Is, [Music] foreign. [Music] [Music] [Music] Hallelujah! Come on, let's give God another handclap of praise! [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hallelujah! We're about to sing another song. You can be seated if you need to this morning. I just want to tell you, there's been one sentence that's been ringing in my head since I woke up this morning, and that is, "I have a King." I have a King. This, this little body you see up here, you know what, yours too. You're a citizen of a country, and it's subjected to whatever country this flesh you live in is subjected to, whatever the leadership of a country would be. We got a pretty great country, I'm just going to be honest. We're here gathered today, worshipping in China today, they can't do this. Korea today, they can't do this. They are, but they sure are not doing it like we are. We're doing it in freedom. So I'm thankful today. I'm so thankful that I'm a citizen of a country that allows me to worship. [Music] But ultimately, you've got to hear me, but ultimately, I'm not a citizen of this country. I'm a citizen, as the word of God says, of a heavenly [Music] and one day, I'm gonna leave this old body with them. They're gonna lay it, hopefully, in this soil that we're standing on. They're hopefully gonna lay it in the United States of America soil. I pray it's still the United States of America when they lay me down, but it doesn't matter. What matters is this spirit, this soul, serves a King. A King that's never lost a battle. A King who has never faced defeat. A King who has never lost a battle. My King that I serve is ever victorious. [Music] I'm telling you, we serve Almighty God today. He's not just my King, He's the King of Kings! Aren't you glad you served Him today? Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad you served this awesome God? I'm so thankful for the God that I serve today. Sing it here, worship with us today. God, we love You so much. [Music] Never, never. [Music] Oh, [Music] [Music] Victory [Music] belongs to [Music] There's power in that mighty name of Jesus, and everyone He wages, He will win. And so I'm not backing down. I know how the story is. [Applause] I'm victory. [Music] I'm gonna see a victory. [Music] Foreign, foreign. You take what the enemy meant for me. [Music] [Applause] Is, is. [Music] [Music] I'm gonna see. [Applause] [Music] You. [Music] Me. You may hear this song we're singing today, and you may think we're trying to make some kind of political statement. No, no, no, no, no. You didn't hear what I said the first time. I serve a King, and my King has never lost a battle. It doesn't matter who's in the White House. It really doesn't matter what continent I'm on. I serve Jesus Christ Almighty. I serve a King that has never lost a battle. It doesn't matter who's in the White House. They can put Staples the Marshmallow Man in the White House, and I'm still gonna prosper. I'm still gonna be a child of God. No matter what happens, God's gonna turn it for my good. It doesn't matter. Are you hearing me, church? You are a child of God today. You are a child of God. Hold your head up, child of God. It's time to praise Him today. You take what the enemy meant. God, sing it out! [Applause] Perfect. [Applause] Foreign. [Music] I'm gonna see one, one. [Music] It's all Yours. [Applause] Lord. [Music] Foreign. I'm gonna see. Come on, stretch your hands. Or this family church, let's believe for a miracle right now. Whatever the situation, whatever the problem, whatever the situation, my God has never lost a [Music] Hallelujah! [Music] Oh, [Music] yes. [Music] Hmm. One more time, church, let's lift our hands. Let's give Him some praise and worship in this house right now. God, You are worthy. You are worthy. I love You, Jesus. I love You, God. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Let's give God a handclap of praise today. God, You're so worthy. God, You're so worthy. Jesus. God, You are so worthy. Jesus. Oh, thank You, Savior. Hallelujah! You can return to your seats right now. Hallelujah! If you will remain standing, we're about to receive the offering. Ushers, come get ready to receive Sunday's tithe and offering right now. This would be a great time while you're standing, reach back there when you're grabbing your wallet out, grab that cell phone, open up Facebook, and share our live feed. Share our live stream. Well, there's a lot of things you could share on Facebook today, but that's the best one I know of. That's the best thing I know right there. Hallelujah! Lord, bless this offering. God, we ask You to receive it. And today, God, let us give cheerfully. Today, God, I want to be blessed. If you want to be blessed, come give Him today in Jesus' name. Hallelujah! [Music] [Applause] [Music] Come on up, choir, after you. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hallelujah! This morning, worship with the choir as we sing, "God, we love You, Jesus." How many of you gonna help this choir today? [Applause] Hallelujah! [Music] There's [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] There's nothing better than You. There's nothing, you know. [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh, [Music] Jesus. [Applause] Nothing is now and is Him. If He's the best thing you've ever found, if He has made it way for you, well, there seems to be no way. If He woke you up this morning, put your hands in the air and say, "Thank You, Jesus!" [Music] Hey! Yes! [Applause] Me. [Applause] Nothing in this world. [Music] When I found Your yes, there. [Applause] See me. Hallelujah! Somebody give Him some praise right now! Oh, if He brought you back to life, if He raised you from a grave of sin and definition, if He brought you back to life. [Music] Is. [Music] [Applause] Jesus. [Applause] Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Jesus! Clap your hands to it right now! Do you believe He's the only one who cares? Hallelujah! Jesus! Hallelujah! Jesus! Thank You! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! You can make your way back to your seats. We're about to bring Pastor Copeland to preach the word to us this morning. I love the spirit of God that I feel in this place today. Hallelujah! Are you thankful for what you feel in this house? Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Thank You, Jesus! God, we have been so blessed just to come into this place today, and Lord, I believe the best is still yet to come in this service. I believe we're gonna hear something incredible from our man of God today. Are you thankful for your pastor? Pine Grove, thankful for a man of God. Hallelujah! Pastor Copeland, we love you! [Music] [Applause] God bless you. You can be seated just for a moment. Uh, as the choir goes out, if you, if you need to get a drink of water, refresh yourself, use the restroom, anything like that, right now would be the time to do that, because when we start going to the word, you're going to want to be in here for what the spirit of the Lord says today. There's a couple of comments I want to make before we go to the word of the Lord. The first one is, I want to welcome all of our guests. Thankful for all of our guests in the house of the Lord today. We're glad that our guests are with us. We're honored that you would spend time with us today in the house of the Lord. And there's a couple of comments I need to make. I was overwhelmed with the success of Ascend this weekend. Thank you so much for all who supported that. Brother Cornelius Williams did a tremendous job, uh, preaching that service. And, uh, I do have one little comment to make about that. I don't know why that everybody in the church thinks that because it's a youth conference, that you can't come. I, I don't know where that comes from. I've never banned anybody [Music] from a youth conference. In fact, it's just the opposite. We need to support our young people. We need them to feel like we care [Music] about what they're doing, and we need to be here and show our support. They support us every service. They're always here. They're always supportive of everything we do. And so when we have a youth conference here, it goes without saying that the people of the church should show up and back that youth conference. [Music] Um, anyway, one of these days, we're going, we're going to get all that together. Y'all going to actually show up, come to one of those, and, uh, so that we don't have a bunch of guests wondering if anybody goes to church here. [Music] So, but thank you so much, uh, for being a part of that. To the youth committee, the Cardinals, for the Cardinals did an outstanding job of organizing that, putting it together. The youth committee works so well. The youth committee works so well to make it happen. And, and thanks for those that got together and cooked for the ministry that was here, uh, the Belks and those that helped the Belks. The food was actually tremendous. This church is the greatest church that I know anywhere in the world. I don't know of a greater church anywhere on the face of the earth. And with that said, I also want to say a great big thank you to the church. Now, let me, let me preface my last statement before I book a word by saying this: I don't expect anything from this church [Music] and what I mean is, personally, I do. I expect a lot out of you as your leader and as your pastor. That's why we have the church that we have. If I didn't expect great things out of you, we wouldn't, we wouldn't be where we are. But I'm talking about on a personal level. I don't expect anything from you. But with that said, let me say a great big thank you for the last few gifts that you've bought me. They've been very thoughtful. [Music] Yet last night, I had to be, I had to be part of a service in Louisiana, and I went by myself. And driving back, I became so very thankful for the vehicle that you went together on our 18th pastoral anniversary and bought me. As I traveled back in that car, I thought of how grateful I was that you were thoughtful enough to do that. Thank you for that. [Music] By the time it's three years old, it'll have 50,000 miles on it, so I've driven it a lot. But I've tried to keep the miles off of it too. I drove other things and all that, but there's nothing better on a trip than that vehicle. There's nothing more pleasant to drive than that vehicle. So thank you so much. And then, this is one of the things that's changed my life right here. I just can't believe what use I'm getting now. This iPad Pro. I mean, I'm, I've never in my life been paperless, but this has made me paperless. Everything else I've ever tried to use, it did okay, but it just wasn't what I was used to using. And that's a, that's a, one of those yellow, um, whatever you call those things, one of those yellow, big yellow legal pads and a Bible. I mean, you just can't improve on greatness, and that's greatness. Um, there were glitches to everything else I ever tried to use, whether it was a computer or an iPad or whatever, you just, I don't know, explain it, but there's just always glitches. They just, I spent more time trying to get it to work than just taking a pen and paper and writing it down, except this thing right here, because I, I can write on this thing right here, just like a legal pad. And so I'm, I'm a thrilled individual today. So thank you so much. Thank you to a great, great, great church. Let's go to the word of the Lord. If you'd stand together in honor of the word of the Lord. What's greater than God's word? I don't know of anything greater than God's word. Psalms 91 and verse 1. Psalms chapter 91 and verse 1 for your consideration today. Psalms 91 and 1. Psalms, the 91st chapter, and we're going to begin reading with the first verse. [Music] He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Now, let's look at that before you move on to number two. Everybody say, "The secret place." Everything in living for God starts in the secret place. You'll never have a public ministry until you've had a secret relationship. Too many people won't want, they want publicity. [Music] And the secret place, it's not a place you visit. Oh, it's a place you dwell. You live there. You'll never get to visit the public ministry places until you dwell in the secret place. [Music] Next verse, verse 2. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge, my fortress, my God, in Him will I trust. God bless you. You can be seated. Would you lift your hands and ask the Lord to anoint His word? That well, His word's already anointed. Ask Him to anoint our ears and our spirits to receive it. God, in the name of Jesus, and by the power of the Holy Ghost, I'm asking You to speak to our hearts and our minds today. We need to hear from You, Lord. We need Your voice in this place. In the name of Jesus, speak to our hearts and our minds and our spirits today. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Jesus' name. Are you ready for the word today? I want to preach to you for a few minutes from this subject, and, and listen to it. This is what I want to title this message: "You Got to Open Your Mouth and Say It." You've got to open your mouth and say it. The psalmist said, "I will say." Not, "I will think." "I will hope." "I will ruminate." He said, "I will say." Well, that didn't do much for y'all. Now, when we were in, uh, when we were in Sunday school, youth counting, they had a tough crowd. They said, "All right, shake your hands out like this. Stand up and turn yourself around." They tried to get our blood moving. We need a little bit of blood moving this morning. That, uh, that should have got way more than it got. The power and victory in your relationship with God is in you speaking, not in meditation. We're, that's Eastern religion. There's a place to think about the Lord. There's a place to, to meditate on His word, but that's not where the power comes from. The power comes in when you have enough guts to say it. Now, I've got to, I've got to divide a few things here in the beginning, and that is, there, there is a time to say it to other people. There is a place of prophecy in the church, and that's not what I'm preaching about right now, okay? Because that's what gets a lot of people in trouble is they, they prophesy to people when they ought to be prophesying to themselves. That's another level. That's another dimension that we're going to get in, and we're going to talk about more and more and more as we swiftly approach the, the, the, uh, coming of the Lord. But the foundation, the beginning, has got to be prophesying to yourself. [Music] The foundation is, you've got to get good at talking to yourself. I want to, I want to take some time and preach to you today. This verse starts by David saying that the, the foundation of all of it is where you dwell. Where you dwell? Where do you live? Where do you spend your time? You see, what comes out of your mouth is largely dependent on where you spend your time. If you dwell in Fox News, you're going to be Negative Nelly. If you, if you dwell on the phone with other gossipers, you're going to be Suspicious Sally. And what comes out of your mouth isn't going to bless anybody. The longer you live for God, and the longer that you spend time with Him, there should be a build-up in the Holy Ghost that is absolutely resistant and almost violent against negativism and against gossip. I'm going to say this right here in the beginning: If somebody tries to gossip to you, don't make you angry. I, I question your Holy Ghost. Well, that didn't go over good either. I'm telling you, there's something in me that when somebody comes to me wanting to talk about negative about somebody in this church, that there's a fight that rises up in me. There's something in my Holy Ghost that just says, "The audacity! The unmitigated gall that you have to talk about!" Don't you know that my Holy Ghost is resistant to that? I question anyone's prayer life that can receive gossip. I've just been doing this too long. I've just been in the ministry too long. I've been apostolic too long. I question anyone's Holy Ghost that can receive gossip about a brother or a sister. [Music] Boy, it got quiet in here. It got quiet in here. There ought to be something that rises up in you that says, "It! Who do you think I am that I would let you talk to me like that?" To show all as much lack of respect for me. I'm amazed at how this is having trouble going over today. Do you understand? One of the, one of the biggest insults that anyone can give you and their respect for your character and integrity is try to dump gossip in you. What they're saying to you is, "I don't respect you very much, or I'd be scared to talk to you about this." If I respected your walk with God and your character and your integrity, then there's no way I'd ever try to gossip to you. By trying to gossip to you means that I don't think you're much of a prayer warrior, and you're not much of a Christian. It should make you angry that they don't think more of your character, and then it should make you angry at yourself. Well, man, well, there's just some subjects you get on that it's kind of like trying to wade through a swamp with alligators. I feel like Paul today. I want to, I want to ask you now that I've told you the truth, will you become mine enemy? I mean, you really need to think about that. Any married woman that loves her husband, that, that another man indicate that she would step outside her marriage, if she's any character, integrity, all that does is make her mad. She, the only way that can compliment her. Well, there's some words, but I just don't want to use them in the pulpit for what she is, if that's complementary to her that another man would want her and try to pull her out of her marriage, she's got no integrity. They're street words for a woman like that, but I'm not going to use them in the pulpit. And it's probably part and parcel to why that a marriage is struggling. And the same is true of someone that would think that you want to receive gossip. There should be something in you that says, "Don't insult me. Don't insult my character and integrity. I've got no time for that. My ears on a garbage can. My ears aren't a garbage dump. My spirit is not a garbage dump." What am I preaching to you today? I'm preaching to you that the entire basis, man, I, I, you know, I, I don't want to, I want to keep this merit, I want to keep this message positive, and I don't want to mire this thing down, but I've just got to tell you, there's too many of us wanting to run our, run around and lay hands on people and pray for people and prophesy and give people public words when we don't have a private relationship. You've got to dwell in the secret place, and you've got to learn to talk to yourself before you can talk to anybody else. [Music] The entire problem with Joseph, this is important for you to hear, but the entire problem with Joseph is Joseph tried to create his ministry before he created his own integrity. And if preaching like this runs you off or turns you off, then you want to show and you don't want to be real. You can't have a public ministry before you've got a secret place experience with God that is built on integrity and character. I don't need anybody praying for me that wants to gossip to me too. I don't need anybody giving me words from the Lord that wants to damage someone's character to me later. I need to be, you to be righteous and have integrity where I can have confidence in your prayers, where I can have confidence in the word that you give me, because there's one thing I know for sure, that's Bible, and that's that pure and bitter water don't come out of the same well. I, I got several other pages. Y'all gonna have to help me get past this one. You say, "Well, move on." Well, I can't. I'm just, I got too much doctor in me to stop the surgery before all the chunks out. I got to get all this cancer out before we move on. I'm telling you, in the Holy Ghost, I'm going to get right down to the nitty-gritty. And where we live today, the reason so many people struggle in having a public ministry is because no one has confidence in them because of what they do, what they say, what they speak, how they act when they're not under the anointing. You've got to live in such a way that when you give me a word, I got confidence in it. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Y'all got that? The answer is, is dwelling in the secret place. And so many people want to get the cart before the horse. I'm telling you, you can't teach, you can't minister, you can't do anything to people that have not got confidence in your private world, in your private life. There's got to be a man to back up the ministry. There's got to be a woman to back up the word. There is a tendency in people. It's not just, it's not just leadership. You know, one of the big struggles that we have in churches is you've got these guys in the church that say, "Well, Pastor, I'm gonna go find another preacher that'll put confidence in my ministry because it's obvious that you're not gonna, you're not gonna ever release me to do anything." And I, I don't want to hurt people's feelings, so I'm just gonna say it publicly here, but people that hear you preach, kind of want to know that you pay your bills. People that hear you preach, kind of want to know that you can hold your marriage together. There's a tendency in people to say, "Hey," and listen, this doesn't mean you have to be perfect. I've pastored here for 23 years, and I've not been perfect. I've made a lot of mistakes, but there's a difference in mistakes and character issues. Well, are y'all gonna make me work for it today? I can just tell, you're just gonna make me work for it today. [Applause] There's got to be a life to back up the ministry. There's got to be character and integrity. I, I don't get in trouble. I know somebody said, "Well, Brother Copeland, you've not got a lot of mercy for." It has nothing to do with mercy or lack of mercy or anything else. It has to do with the realities of life, whatever they are. Hey, life's tough, pal. And me softening the words isn't gonna fix the issue. The issue is, is if you'll dwell in the secret place and you'll get a private relationship, then God will set up a public ministry that will be outstanding. But if you try to have a public ministry without dwelling in the secret place first, it's gonna be disaster over and over and over again. It's gonna be disaster. There's, and know that there's some things that only you can do. No pastor can make a ministry work of a person that's never really built one. And there's no way to circumvent that. It's impossible to fix that. It's impossible. So many people think that because you can, you got the right voice and you can say it just right, you can stir people up, that that's preaching. And it is. It's just not ministry. There is a, there is a, there's two different things. And we don't talk about this a lot, and I don't have time to really get into this, but there's two different things that happens. Well, there's multiple things. I don't want to limit it to, but there's multiple things that happen when a person preaches. One is on a very fleshly, carnal level, and that's the ability to get people jumping and bobbing and swaying and all that kind of stuff. And all that's great, and all that's wonderful, and it happens in churches and pulpits all across this country, all across this world, all across America today. There are people in pulpits, preachers in pulpits, that are ministering, or, I'm sorry, let me back up, that are preaching to people on a pretty purely physical level. But you got to understand, Donald Trump has the ability to do that too. You've got to understand, there's public speakers everywhere that make thirty thousand, fifty thousand dollars for one speech because they have the ability to get people so fired up. It's like Bill Cosby said that day, he said, "Man, we had a coach. He was one of the greatest public speakers. He said, he'd get us so revved up, man, we're gonna go out there and we're gonna conquer them, and we're gonna kill them, and we're gonna go and raw!" They're just, everybody was so excited in the locker room. They're foaming at the mouth, they're spitting, they're ready to rip somebody's head off. He said, "When we jumped up, we were in, we couldn't get out because the door to the locker room was locked." It's a wonderful thing to have that ability on a completely carnal, fleshly, soulish level. But a minister has something that totally transcends that. And while that physical excitement is going on, there is a ministry to the spirit from that man's spirit to those people's spirit. And if that doesn't happen, there's going to be a lot of backsliding, and a lot of sin, and a lot of confusion, and a lot of people that don't make it, and a lot of people that look at that guy and shake their head and say, "My God, as good as he preaches, it seems like he'd be pastoring a thousand people." If that pastor has not been in the secret place, and in the secret place, God dumping things into his spirit that then transfers from his spirit to their spirit. I'm going to tell you, it is possible. It is possible for a preacher to be a great preacher on a purely calm, purely carnal level, and be so empty in his spirit that his spirit does not feed the people's spirit, because that's a whole 'nother dimension that takes place that makes people prosper, and makes people stay, and makes peop, they're actually ministered to. They can make it, and they can live for God because there's a transfer going on in the spirit world. And most carnal people never know that. They never even know that other dimension exists. And it can only happen in the spirit world. Well, the last two Sundays, I've got our last two few services, I've gotten so off my notes that I have a hard time getting back. But I'm telling you, it takes the secret place. And there is a dimension of public prophecy. I'm gonna get back on it. I'm gonna leave all that right where it is and move on. Because it's already one o'clock. I'm gonna leave all that right where it is and move on. But you just know this. You just know this, that the reason ministries do not take off is not because they have, don't have a pastor that fronts them. Because I'm gonna tell you, if you've got a real ministry with God, even a pastor can't hold that back. It'll happen in spite of him. He'll just have to turn loose. But if you've not been in the secret place, and you've not built that ministry, then a pastor can't call around and get you enough revivals. He can't recommend you enough. Because preachers that really know what's going on realize, "This guy's real good, he can really testify, but there's got to be something beyond that." Are y'all with me today? It's either real or it's not. And it starts in the integrity of God building the man or the woman in the secret place. Building the man or woman in the secret place. And while I'm on this, I'm, I'm going to love you enough to tell you the truth. And that is, there's only one thing that makes a marriage struggle. Only one problems with marriage and money problems in marriage and sexuality problems in marriage and well, he's an Enneagram five, an enemy ground six. I like all that stuff, just don't put way too much confidence in it. Because what we really need to be is an Enneagram prayer warrior, and then all of our problems are solved. There's only one reason why marriage doesn't work, and that's selfishness. And that's it. People are selfish. And if you weren't selfish, your marriage would work. And there's only one way to fix selfishness, that's in a prayer room. You see, the reason the way God set marriage up, the way God set marriage up was the Lord said, "Adam, I'm going to give you a help meet. I'm going to give you someone to help you. She's going to be a helper. She's going to meet you." Notice, He didn't say "mate," He said "meet." She's going to meet you in all the areas that you can't get there. She's going to complete you. And then Paul says a very interesting thing, a very interesting thing. He says, "I'm going to tell you how God loves the church." He loves the church the way that a man loves his wife. And the way that a man loves his wife is is the way God loves the church. Well, how does God love the church? Well, He's willing to give His life for. He's willing to die that she can live. And He'll never leave her or forsake her, no matter how she lets Him down. Boy, it's gonna get rough today. I'm going to tell you, the way a surgery saves your life is that it almost kills you in the process. And if you live through it, you're better than you've ever been before. And that's the way a good message is. Don't forget, don't forget in the days, oh, hey, I know this is, listen, I know this is on Facebook Live. That's good. I hope they record it and screenshot it. I'm gonna go ahead and say it anyway. In the days of Joel Osteen and T.D. Jakes, with all their self-help sermons, let me tell you what real preaching is. Real preaching kills the flesh. Real preaching destroys the flesh. Real preaching takes you to the altar and makes you die that you can live, resurrect, and live. Real preaching is a denial of the flesh. Be seated. So the way God set marriage up is that I would ask my wife, "What can I do for you? How can I make your life easier? How can I meet you halfway and help you complete the things that you can't complete on your own?" And the wife asks the husband, "What can I do to take a load off you? How can I help you? How can we pull together and two be greater than one because of synergy?" One puts a thousand to flight, and two puts ten thousand to flight because of synergy. When we work together, we become an army, and we do what's best for our kids, and our finances, and our home, and our family, instead of pulling each each way. But the reason our marriages suffer in the United States of America is because we don't pray and read our Bibles like we should. We watch television, and we look at Facebook, and we take our cues from the world. And the world does not ask, "What can I do for my mate?" The world asks, "What can my mate do for me?" She's not sexy enough, hot enough, good enough. And if you're looking at pornography, sir, she'll never be enough because nobody can live up to a multi-million dollar airbrush. And if all you do is look outside the marriage, and it's an amazing thing to me, and I always try to be a kind pastor, not cutting and mean, but I always wonder when someone wants to come into my office and start talking so bad about their spouse, I always want to look at them and say, "And you think you're all that? I mean, you, you think he married you?" [Music] Um, I'm not for a loss of words. I'm trying to be real careful with them. I mean, you, you think he married Venus? The, the deal is, is you're selfish. Marriage is about giving, not taking. And if you go into a marriage with the idea, "If it gets rough, I'm going to get out," it will, and you will. You see, there aren't good marriages and bad marriages. There's marriages of good people, and there's marriages of bad people. And the marriages that don't make it are the ones that never read a book on marriage, even though we got 30 out there in the bookstore. They've never read one, and they've never been willing to do marriage counseling. That's the same idea as me taking my car back to the dealership saying, "It don't work. It don't work. It don't work." Well, did you, did you read the owner's manual? Or did you do any tutorials on how to properly take care of this car, get the best out? No, I don't read that stuff, man. I just drive it. It just don't work. I mean, it's sitting on the side of the other thing, won't even run. Well, did you change the whole doll? I don't want it anyway, sir. Did you, did you bring it in for maintenance? Did you take it anywhere and get it? No, I don't get in all that maintenance, but it don't work. I'm just gonna get me another one. Okay. Well, let me just give you a clue, sir. If you don't read that owner's manual and you're unwilling to maintenance that one, that one's going to do the same thing this did. The problem's not the car. The problem is a selfish, ignorant person. And that's why you're going to go through four of these and you're still not going to do any better. [Applause] I didn't get mad, I got anointed. You're selfish. Before you can have it. Listen, listen to me. The greatest confusion in the world, and I've been there, and I'm not, listen, I'm not off my subject. The greatest confusion in the world, and I've been there, is to go into a church, and I've preached in them, that you have all these people wanting to come up to you and give you words from the Lord and speak to you and, and, and, and then you find out their cars are being repossessed, they can't pay their house note, they won't work a job, they're on their third marriage, they got kids strung from here to yonder. And you want to say, "Hey, hey, hey, hey! Why don't you quit prophesying and get your life together? And then when you do, your prophecies, I mean, something to somebody." Well, I've just had a lot of setbacks. Well, there's a difference in setbacks and living a lifestyle that's prone to setbacks. I started to say, "Is this okay?" But I know it's not. But there's nothing more horrible than somebody laying hands on you, and you're not trying to be mean, you're not trying to be critical, but they're laying hands on you and giving you a word from the Lord, and all you can think is, "Man, why don't you get your mess worked out? Won't you stop long enough to get your life under control?" Because I have a hard time receiving a word from you because you need a life to back it up. I know I'm going to take criticism off this, but it's the truth. Anyhow, you see, Adam, Joseph's problem is he wanted to make his ministry public before his brothers were able to receive it. His brothers wasn't ready to receive his ministry. They didn't want the spoiled brat prophesying to them. They didn't want the lazy dude that slept while everybody else was working giving them a word, you know, while they're all working themselves to death, sweating, he's, he's laid up on one of the stacks of sleep. They've got to be able to respect you before they can receive gifts of the spirit from you. Um, well, this is, it's tight, but you know, you say, "Well, we want to go into, we, we want to go into gifts of the spirit. We want to operate in the gifts of spirit." Yeah, and, and what I'm telling you is, there's a reason the gifts of the spirit don't operate because it starts in the secret place of the most high. It starts, it starts with your prophecies working in you. Now, I'm going to get to the positive. I got in, and listen, I know that I've rushed through this, and I know a lot of stones can be cast at me for what I've said earlier, but, but listen to me, it is the truth. The truth hurts. The truth is painful. I didn't say you had to be perfect, but I did say you had to live a lifestyle of character. There are bad things that happen to good people, and there are some good people that don't have character, and they make a lot of bad choices, so they can't ever dig out of their hole. Somewhere, you gotta get in the secret place of the most high, and you gotta dwell there. You gotta live there. It's gotta, so take on your integrity, change into into personal integrity, personal righteousness. And then David said this in verse 2, "I will say of the Lord." Most other, most other renditions says, "I will say to the Lord." In other words, you've got to learn how to talk to God before you learn how to talk to other people. I, I don't want to get ahead of myself, but Ezekiel, Ezekiel, the 37th chapter, gives us some very interesting words. The prophet says to the Lord, or the Lord says to the prophet, "I'm sorry, the Lord says to the prophet, 'Can these bones live?'" And the prophet says back to God, "You know, and I know." I know our Savior, our God, is not a smart aleck, or He would have said, "Yeah, I do know." But that's why I ask you, "Do you know?" I knew the answer before I asked you. The answer is rhetorical. I mean, Ezekiel, I'm not asking you because I don't know. I'm asking you because I do know. I need you to tell me. See, y'all missed it. Y'all are still back on that other stuff. Y'all are still hurting. You're still licking your wounds from the first part, aren't you? Let's move on now. Let's move on now. Ezekiel, I'm needing you to talk to me. I need you to speak to me. I need you, Ezekiel, to open your mouth and tell me, "Can these bones live?" Now, this is, this is very important. This is, this is very important spiritual formation that I'm giving you here today, because until you learn to prophesy to God, you can never prophesy to people. You gotta prophesy to God first. This is why people ask amiss. Now, get this. I hope I'm not boring y'all today. I hope y'all want what I'm preaching to you. It's easy for me, without a doubt, to speak to you, Brother Jeffrey, and say, "These bones are gonna live," when God's already told me they were, and I've already prophesied back to Him. You see, the word of faith that's in your mouth, the Bible says, "The word of faith is nigh thee, it's even in thy mouth." The word of faith is not hope. It's not wishful thinking. It's not, "This is what I hope will happen." All right. And I've got to get back to my, to my earlier statement. It all depends on where you're dwelling. If you're dwelling in Fox News, if you're dwelling on Facebook, if you're dwelling with the gossipers, then you're never going to have a positive prophecy to speak. And let me just tell you, that gossiping, the gossiping and griping and complaining and bellyaching is worse than just negative. It pulls you down. It destroys positive. I don't need anybody talking negative to me. I can come up with enough of that stuff on my own. Oh, Hallelujah! Anyhow, I'm going to say that again because y'all didn't get it. I said, "I don't need anybody talking negative to me because I can produce plenty of that right out of my own life." [Applause] I saw, I saw something the other day that broke my heart, and it was so simple. It really was. It was, it was a very, it was a very simple thing. But water, water was coming down, up, down, a down, downspout from the gutters on the house, and it would build up and then release a few teaspoons of water. The rain had stopped. It was just the runoff off the shingles. And there must have been a low place in the gutter because it would have to build up to a certain level so it'd take two or three, probably half a second to build up, and then it would dump. So about every second or half a second, a bunch of water would come down that downspout when it built up in the gutter. Down at the bottom, and I just happen to be sitting out there reading, and I see this spider that's trying to go up this downspout. And he climbs, and he works so hard, and as soon as he accomplishes it, a bunch of water comes down that spout, knocks him down, and he starts over again. He started that climb six or eight times, and the timing was just right. Just when he would get in the gutter and start up, it, another bunch of water would come down and wash him down again. And so I just took my pen out and started writing a song. "Itsy Bitsy Spider," not really. But here's the deal. A lot of times, I feel like that spider. I conquer my own junk and decide to be positive and optimistic over my own life, and then somebody comes along, just washes me back down the bottom of the mountain again. Are y'all with me? Anybody else? Anybody else talk to yourself, get yourself all built up, and then you get to working, here comes Negative Nelly. She needs somebody to dump on, and you must be wearing a sign on your forehead that says "Dump Here." You know, I love you, but you can't be the world's psychologist. You can't be the world's encourager. And I'm not telling you to have compassion because most of that stuff is not compassion. You're not gonna help them anyway because they're gonna have it. That's a lifestyle for them. Just as soon as they dump that, they're gonna go accumulate a bunch more, and they're gonna have more for you tomorrow. They're a magnet for negativity. Am I, am I helping y'all at all today? Is this helping you at all? And so faith is not positive thinking. Faith is not, is not hope. Listen to me. Faith is the gift of God, and it is built in you learning how to prophesy to God using His own word. See, when you use the word of God, you do not ask amiss. Now, I know, I know you want a public ministry, or you should. Everyone here should want to be able to prophesy to others. Here's where we get in trouble. We prophesy to others before we've ever prophesied to ourselves. And it's got to start with me. It's got to start with me getting good at prophesying back to God, back to myself, and to my own situations. I want you to notice that in these situations, in these situations, especially Ezekiel, Ezekiel, the 37th chapter, the Lord asked the prophet, "Can these bones live?" He's out there in a cemetery, folks. This is so important that you understand. He's out there in a cemetery. It's a public burying ground. There's bones everywhere. There's no flesh left. The beasts of the field and the fowls thereof have picked the bones dry. They've bleached in the in the dust. Brothers and sisters, listen to me. There's nothing left to hope for. You can't even hope in this situation. There's nothing to put hope in. Faith in hope, prophecy, and hope. Prophecy and faith is another dimension above optimism and hope and positive speaking. Faith is something. Faith is hanging on. Listen to me. Faith is hanging onto a word that you got in the secret place of the most high. You're hanging on to something God spoke to you when nobody else was around. You didn't get it in a public prayer meeting. You didn't get it in a public altar. You didn't get it in a public message. You got it because you dwelt in the secret place until you and God had a conversation. And here's what God always says: "What I told you, speak it back to me. Open your mouth and say it." And I got to say this one.
More time. You can't prophesy to others till you get good at prophesying to God. Somebody said, "Well, I, I don't like it when prophet people prophesy and then it don't come to pass." You know why? They wasn't prophesying. They were wishful thinking. They were hoping. And anybody can do that. Anybody can wishful think and hope and and and probably get it 50% of the time. But a prophet has been in the secret place of the Most High, and God spoke a word to him or her, and she prophesied it back to God, and then she spoke to the situation.
All right, I hadn't got much time. I'm running out of time. It's already 1:30. So let me just, let me get where I'm going, okay? Because I need to wrap this up. We're going to get another step to prophesying to each other, but let's just work at the foundation right now. We've got to learn, Sister Norma Bailey, how to speak to God and speak to our situation after God has spoken to us. Here's what God said to Ezekiel. "Ezekiel, can these bones live?" And Ezekiel said, "Thou knowest it." And here's what God said, "Then speak. Prophesy to him. Open your mouth and prophesy to your dead situation." All right, hang on. That's good. I'm glad you're clapping, but hang on just a minute. He didn't say go say it to your neighbor. He didn't say go go tell the church. See, that's what Joseph wanted to do. Joseph wanted to go tell his brothers. We need to learn how to prophesy in secret so that God can lift us up to prophesy in public.
Brother Aaron Davidson, I, in my life, have done way too much hoping. Way too much meditating. I've done way too much laying in the bed worrying. I've done way too much saying, "God, I give it to you. I give it to you, Lord." And we should give it to Him, but after we've given it to Him, we've got to learn how, Brother Jason Davidson, in our closet of prayer. I don't mean get up and make a public display. I mean, I've got to learn how to get along with God, find out what God says, and then speak to myself and to God and my situation in the privacy of my own secret place. I've got to learn how to speak to the dead things in my life and say, "You're going to live. You're going to arise." I've got to learn to open my mouth and speak it. I, I, I'm almost done. I'm almost done. I've done way too much wishful thinking and hoping to other people. I've done way too much griping and complaining instead of speaking positive. I've been way too much bellyaching and complaining to other people about the things in my life. I don't like that. That doesn't get me anywhere. Griping and complaining is a waste of time, and it's a waste of energy, and it's a waste of resources. But let me tell you what is powerful. I'll tell you what is powerful. Opening your mouth and speaking it. That is powerful.
Psalms 34 and 2. I almost decided to title this message, "It's okay to boast if you boast unto God." It's okay to boast if you boast unto God. "My soul shall make her boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear thereof and be glad." My soul. It's okay to boast when you're boasting to God. When you say, "God, You said these bones could live. God, You said that this thing can arise. God, You said that this thing could work. Now I'm speaking to Your bones. Get up. Put on flesh. Thy bone connect to the leg bone. Leg bone connect to the hip." I'm telling you, it's time for you and I. And I'm wrapping it up. Musicians, come. It's time for you and I to make up in our mind that we're going to get along with God. That we're going to get somewhere in the secret place with God.
I'm not happy. I'm just going to tell you something. I'm not happy with the outcome of the election. You may be. If you are, that's fine. It's what makes America America. I didn't vote for Joe Biden. I just didn't. And you know what? He may wind up my president. And if he is, if he winds up my president, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to pray for him. I'm going to pray for him every day that I live. I'm going to pray that God makes him the great leader of the greatest nation in the world. I'm going to pray that every good thing he wants to accomplish, he accomplishes. And I'm going to pray that every bad thing that he wants to accomplish is thwarted. I'm going to pray, ultimately, that God's will is done. But I'm just going to tell you something. Something church.
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Griping and bellyaching and negativity and going around with a chip on your shoulder and having a bad attitude isn't going to help one thing. Griping and being negative and fussing and cussing, it ain't gonna change a thing. Ain't gonna fix the problem. I tell you what it will be real effective at, though, is totally ruining your witness and making nobody want to be like you around you. Negativity is worse than bad. Negativity, negative talk, being mean and harsh and critical is worse than bad. And I'm gonna tell you why it's worse than bad. Because negativity has such a horrible down-draw. That's a proven thing. That it takes 15 positives to overcome one negative. You see, I don't believe that. Well, it's the truth whether you believe it or not.
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Ten people. Ten people can tell you, "You can climb that mountain. You can make it. You can make it to the top." And you let one person say, "I don't believe I do." That advises you, and you're done. You're finished.
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Because negativity is such a downward draw. It's such a destroyer of faith, such an emptier of confidence. So I'm going to tell you, I hope something works out.
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I'll tell you this. I want a fair election. If it hadn't been fair, I want to know it. And I want it to be fair. It really doesn't matter to me who's president.
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I think we over, I think we overestimated the power of Donald Trump. I think in the day we live in, we overestimate the power of the of the president. I really do. I think we lift him up as superheroes when the truth of the matter is, the church, the church should feel like our only answer is in Jesus Christ. And I'm going to tell you that God's ultimately in control. And I, I want you to listen to me. In the very, very end of this message, the very end of this message, there is no situation.
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That your God can overcome. It doesn't matter who's president. The church is going to be blessed. You just remember this. You remember. You remember that when the children of Israel were in Egypt, they didn't even have a vote. They couldn't even vote on who was going to be Pharaoh. But let me tell you this, while they were in Egypt, they were not of Egypt. And no plague that came upon the Egyptians came upon the Israelites. They were totally free of all the negativity that went on in the land because they were the people of God. And the church of the living God is going to be blessed. I don't care who sits in the White House. The church of the living God is going to go forward. It doesn't matter who is president of the United States of America. I'm going to be blessed. I'm going to go forward. And I'm going to prosper. And God's going to bless everything I touch. It doesn't matter who the president is. But let me just tell you this. You're up clapping, but the only way I've been able to say this in a convincing manner to you today is because I said it to God in the private place, in the secret place, before I ever said it to you. You wouldn't have believed it. It wouldn't have spoke to your spirit. It wouldn't have ministered to your spirit if I wouldn't have prophesied in my secret place before I prophesied publicly.
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Be seated. I'm almost done. I'm almost done. Listen to me. When I found out, when I found out what happened with the vote, I wasn't happy. Let me just tell you this. There's a lot of good people that voted for Joe, about Joe Biden, okay? A lot of wonderful people. A lot of wonderful people that that maybe go to this church, maybe maybe I want to be a part of this church. So I'm not throwing off on Joe Biden. It just didn't happen to be my pick. But you listen what I'm telling you right now. I went to my secret place and I started praying. And God asked me, "Can these bones live? Can the church have revival anyway? Can you still pray people through? Can I still bless you? Can I still bless you with what's happened in this election? Can I still prosper Christian businesses? Can I still bless people on their jobs? Does it change me from being God? Can these bones live?"
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You know what I said? I said, "You know, Lord." He said, "Then prophesy." I'll tell you what I did. While my family was asleep, I tell you what I did. While my my wife and girls was in the bed sleeping and resting, I got up because that's the way it works for me. And I walked around that house. And I went upstairs. And I walked around downstairs. And I prophesied. And I said, "God's going to bless the church. And the church is going to go forward and prosper. And great things are going to happen. It doesn't matter who's in Washington. This is the last days for the church. This is the church's finest hour. We're going to have revival like we've never had revival before. We're going to see signs and miracles and signs and wonders."
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Hope you know what? That would not even resonated with you if I'd have tried to come out here and do this without getting it in my own spirit. You know why it's resonating with you? Because you know I really believe it. You know I've really been with God. You know that I really heard from God. You can tell as my spirit speaks to you that I genuinely believe that no matter who is in the White House, that this is the church's finest hour, and we're going to have revival like you've never seen before. God is going to open the windows of heaven on the church like never before. So whatever your situation is, stand together. Whatever your situation is, whatever your circumstances are, whatever you're facing today, it's time for you to get somewhere with God. And it's time for God to ask you, "Can your situation live? Can your situation arise? Can you have a restoration? Can you have a revival of your family? Can you have a revival of your home? Can you have a revival of your finances? Can you have a revival of your marriage?" And when God asks you that question, you gotta grab yourself somewhere in the secret place. Don't prophesy to your sister. Don't prophesy to the church. Not yet. That'll come in time. Your prof, first prophecy has got to be back to God and to yourself and to your situation. You've got to be willing to look at God and say, "God, You know my situation can be restored. God, You know that's what the Bible says. The Bible says my soul shall make its boast in the Lord. Lord, You know that You can revive my circumstance. God, You know that You can revive my business. My business can live and prosper again." That's what David said.
I'm almost done. But do you, you know what David said? David said, "I will say of the Lord."
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Then he said three things. He said, "My." Three times he took complete ownership of God's economy. Oh, when you get it, you won't just stand there. Put it up there one more time. He took complete ownership of God's economy. He said, "He is my fortress."
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Y'all got it? Can you put it up there one more time? Psalms 91 and 2. Psalms 91 and 2. He said, "He is my fortress." He belonged. He took ownership of God's economy. And it's time for you to prophesy to your business and say, "Live again. Prosper again." It's time for some of you to prophesy to your marriage and say, "Live again. Prosper again." "I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge. He is my fortress." Listen to me. He's not just a refuge. He's not just a fortress. He's just not a God. He is my refuge. He is my fortress. He is my God. Open your mouth and prophesy to your situation. Open your mouth and prophesy in the secret place. Prophesy to yourself. Prophesy back to God. Say, "God, Your word says. God, You said. God, You said these bones can live. God, You said this thing could be resurrected."
Last thing. In this praise team's gonna take over. You can never prophesy in public till you learn to prophesy in the secret place. You've got to learn to speak to your situation and say, "Live." I speak life into this dead thing. I speak life into this thing. Hang on. There's some of you saying, "Brother Copeland, you just don't know how far gone my marriage is. You just don't know how far gone my children are. You just don't know how far gone my situation." Let me ask you this. When, when Ezekiel walked into that cemetery, that graveyard, where all those bones were, I wonder how past living he thought they were. I wonder if he thought in his physical mind that there was any hope for bones with no flesh. I don't know how many years, how many decades. Oh, you did. I said how many decades they had laid there bleaching. But if God says they can live, then prophesy. If God says they can arise, then prophesy. If God says they can be a mighty army, then open your mouth and say it.
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Somebody said, "I'm scared." I'm scared. Well, just remember this. You're not prophesying to the church. You're not even prophesying to your best friend. You're prophesying in the secret place of the Most High. And you can trust God with your prophecies. You can trust God. Nobody is going to bring it back on you. It's totally safe when it's just you and God and your situation. Get somewhere by yourself and open your mouth and speak to that graveyard. Prophecy. Lift your hands. Lift your hands. Lift your hands. These altars are open. Somebody needs to run up this aisle right now and get around this altar and forget everybody around you and say, "My situation is going to live again. God is going to bring my restoration to my life, my world, my situation." Lift your hands and reach out. Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Open those aisles up where people can get in. Come in close. Men, come in close. Ladies, open the house up. There's people walking up around these altars. Prophesy right now. Open your mouth and prophesy to your situation. Speak it.
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Saturday, surely it was true. But since when? That's impossible. Every time I got you. Whoa. Friday's disappointment. Oh, it's Sunday's empty tomb.
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This is the sound of dry bones rattling. Oh yeah. This is the praise. Make a dead man walk again.
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Stirring something new. Yeah. You're not gonna run out of miracles anytime soon. Sing it. Resurrection.
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This is the praise. Make a dead man walk again. Somebody say, "I'm over. Open the grave. I'm coming out. I'm gonna live."
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Listen. You're not gonna.
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Resurrection.
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Make a dead man. This is my God is able to save and deliver and heal and restore anything that He wants to. Listen, just ask the man who was wrong on the bones of Elijah. If there's anything, anything He can't do. Oh, just pass the stone. What happens when done?
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Again. This is.
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God, hear the word of the Lord right now. Yeah. This is.
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Oh.
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Stand up and walk.
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This is what.
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Me.
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Again.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Come on. The Holy Ghost is trying to move.
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Come on. The Holy Ghost is trying to move.
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Come on. The Holy Ghost is trying to move.
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Come on. The Holy Ghost wants to move.
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Jesus.
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Jesus. Listen to me. Listen to me. I know there's people getting a blessing. Go ahead. But I don't want to interrupt that. But listen. All you that's can hear me. I want you to listen to me just a minute. It's time to understand what the Holy Ghost is trying to do to this nation.
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I'm going to tell you what God wants to do right now. He wants to send the church back to prayer.
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It's time for the church, especially on Sunday, which you ought to be praying every day.
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You say, "Well, I don't like what's going on in this nation." Well, maybe God's trying to unfeather your nest.
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Maybe He wants you to run to the prayer room instead of trying to avoid it.
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Before coronavirus, we had a prayer room. We almost couldn't get in.
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At 11 o'clock, it'd be wall to wall. Some of y'all still hadn't come back. Don't you let coronavirus steal the prayer room away from this church.
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When I walked in the prayer room at 11, I counted 15 families that used to be there at 11 that are not there anymore. You still come to church here. You just quit coming to the prayer room. And I'd have thought with the unrest that's going on in this nation right now, with coronavirus, with the the mess that's going on in the presidency, with the unsurety, the future of our country, you would think that apostolic people would have filled this prayer room up this morning, saying, "God, we need Your help." Let me just ask you this. What's He gonna have to do to us to make us run to the prayer room? I want Him to know. For me, I'm here. You don't have to do anything else to me. Let me tell you what the Bible says. I'm done. Let me tell you what the Bible says is going to happen in the last days before it's all over. The Bible says His people are going to be screaming, "Come quickly, Lord Jesus." As your pastor and as your leader, I want to tell you, if you love your family, and you love your children, and you love your church, and you love your God, and you love your future, it's time for us to run to the prayer room. It's time for us to take prayer seriously. It's time for us to say, "God, I don't need You to do anything else in my world to make me want to pray."
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We spend 40 hours a week on our jobs. We spend countless hours doing all kind of other things. We now where we got work. Apostolics consume hours on Facebook and Instagram and listening to Fox News and keeping up with all that kind of stuff. Well, I'm going to tell you what you better do on Sunday. You better say, "Sunday's the Lord's Day." And on Sunday, I'm not thinking about hunting, fishing, shopping, meals, eating. I'm thinking about getting to the house of the Lord. If you want God to bless your family and bless your home, I'm going to tell you what you want to do. You ought to make a commitment with your pastor that every Sunday you're going to be in that prayer room at 11 o'clock, and you're gonna pray. The church starts. Mama and Daddy, your children need to know the prayer room's important. Your kids need to know the prayer room's important. Your family needs to know the prayer room's important. And then you shouldn't go through an hour and a half service on Sunday and say, "Well, that's enough for me. I can go do a bunch of other stuff now." You ought to be right back here in the second service, saying, "Sunday's the Lord's Day. It's the one day of the week that I focus on God. I give my Sunday to the Lord. I'm gonna have my kids in Sunday school. I'm gonna be back letting my pastor teach me and talk to me and break the bread of life and break the bread of the Word of God into my heart because I want my family. I want my home to be saved." And if all God won't just one day a week, I'm gonna give Him that whole day. That whole day's gonna be His. If anything on earth has happened to you over the last little while, it should be that you've wanted to run to prayer. If all this hadn't called you to prayer, I don't know what to do for you. This should have called you to want to pray.
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I'm done. But I'm telling you, in this kind of atmosphere, you don't have to involve anybody around you. It don't matter what they think. But you ought to look at your situation right now. And whatever it is, family, home, finances, ministry, I don't care what your situation is. You ought to open your mouth right now and prophesy to God and to yourself and to those dry bones and say, "This thing is going to live. It's going to come to life. And it's going to prosper. It's going to be a mighty army. It's going to go forward and it's going to conquer in the name of Jesus." Lift your hands together. We're done. We're done. We're done.
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Mom. Somebody open your mouth and speak. You don't have to call the the name of the situation. Just say, "My situation's gonna prosper. My situation's gonna live. I will. It's gonna rise up a mighty army." Come on. Open your mouth and declare it to the Lord. Open your mouth and declare it to the Lord.
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This is this is the praise. Make the dead man walk again.
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I'm. This is. Hallelujah. Three o'clock. Everybody say, "Three o'clock." Three o'clock. Sunday school right back here in this auditorium. Breakout session. Sunday school department. Youth department. They're gonna have all that at three o'clock. Right now, at two o'clock, they got food next door. There's a bunch of food prepared next door. Please go support our ladies department, the different departments, by going next door and getting a bite to eat. We'll see you right back here at three o'clock. God bless you in Jesus' name.
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