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And the people of God come on, shout hallelujah! Hallelujah! Come on y'all, said it, shout it! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Would you grab someone's hand real quick and for about 90 seconds just ask the person next to you, you know, how can I pray for you? Now I want you to take 90 seconds and actually do it. Come on, come on, pray for them. [Music]
20 more seconds, 20 more seconds, come on! [Music]
And Father, we give you glory. We honor you for the prayers that have gone up and for every individual in this room that took the time to say, “I will pray for you.” And whatever that need is, we thank you that it's already met in the spirit and we believe it is so in Jesus' name. If you believe it, come on, clap your hands like you do! [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
And before you take your seat, can we bless God for our amazing leaders? Can we do something? Come on, come on, come on, come on, Church! I want to tell you this: you can be seated. I want to tell you this: for a church of this size—and I told them yesterday— a church of this size with this magnitude, you would never see the senior pastor on Instagram and YouTube leading the prayer every day. He assigns that to other people. But to see your pastor still getting up in the morning, doing the little bit, that's why you should celebrate!
That's not coming! Come on, Church, that's not coming! It's not coming! He is very well established across the world; he's an iconic man of God. But to see him still waking up early in the morning giving you what God says and how this past has been so intense and people's needs have been met, you need to thank God that you have a pastor. You don't have a preacher, you have a pastor.
I want to thank God for my wife. She made this trip [Applause] today. I want to thank God for her. She's a Singing Machine! One of these days, I'm going to turn her loose and let y'all hear her do some worship. But she is a machine! I thank God for her. I thank God for our family. And one of our close friends drove from Orlando—I think that's a three-hour drive. Pastor Phield, thank you sir for coming.
I want to look at Second Kings, chapter 4. Are the dolphins lost? So, y'all have no reason to rush from church, but I'm only going to teach for about 40 minutes, alright? 40 minutes, I promise, and I'm going to stop right there. So just hang tight and we'll get out of here together. And I know somebody put on my page, "Soon as you get done, I'm walking out to get some macaroni and cheese. I'll be right there with you, good brother!"
2 Kings chapter 4, verses 8-10. When you find it, say, “I got it!” Alright, that means many of you are still looking. 2 Kings chapter 4, let’s look at this: “And it fell on a day that Elijah passed to Shunem, where was a great woman, and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was that as often as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. And she said unto her husband, ‘Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God which passed by us continually.’”
I think this story that we’re going to talk about today is a very lengthy story. I am not going to assume that many of you know the story, but many of you do. But I want to deal with this particular woman, this Shunammite woman. If you know the story of the Shunammite woman, stand up! Let me see you. If you don't, don't be [Music] embarrassed. Okay? That’s my reason for wanting to make sure that I don't just bypass it.
You may be seated. If you are between the ages of 18-25, would you [Music] stand? Thank you. Be seated. If you’re between the ages of 25 and 45, would you stand? Thank you. If you’re 55 and up and you’re not embarrassed about your age and you’re cool with [Applause] that!
Now here’s what I want you to see real quickly—the 55 and up, thank you for the examples that you have laid for us. Thank you for what you have done! The other two generations, I’m specifically teaching at you today. These 55 and up, they’ve accomplished pretty much all that I’m talking about. And if you haven't, it's not too late; it’s not embarrassing. It’s never too late.
But specifically, 18 all the way up into that 45-year-old range, I’m going to give you some...I’ve been here enough; y’all can call me family now, right? Alright! So take this with love: I watched these people in white that are ushering, I don’t see any 18 to 25-year-olds ushering. I don’t hardly see any 25 to 45-year-olds ushering either! These are people that have been in this church for a long time that are ushering.
As you get ready to maximize yourself, if you don’t maximize yourself in the place that’s feeding you spiritually, you are missing a component that’s going to help drive you to the next level. And you don’t have to clap; I just want you to eat this. It’s imperative that you serve in your local church.
So those of you 18 to 25, I get it. You may be saying, “Yo, I don’t want to wear the white suit!” Tell them to let you put on a white sweatshirt, a white tank top, or something. But get busy in your local church because it’s going to do something for you that the world cannot do. So I want to say that to you as an outsider that has become a part of this family.
Coming in regularly, you need to be seen and it will increase the visibility of your age bracket in this church. Amen?
Now I want to talk about a simple subject today; it’s called unleashing your perception. Everybody shout that: unleashing your perception! Now I really want to take my time and walk this. I don’t have any props; I definitely want to give you the content because I think it’s a game.
Cher, 18-25, 25-45, 55, you can get in on it if you want. But one of the things that Bishop started talking to me about was the conference about him wanting us to maximize ourselves and take ourselves to the next dimension to make ourselves the best self that we can be.
And when I started thinking about that, the word—before I start dealing with perception, I needed to deal with the word potential. Everybody shout potential!
So in your notes, you’ll write down: potential is having or showing the capacity to become. I got something that I can become! Okay? That word comes from an early Latin word and also a late Latin word. The early Latin word is potent; that word simply means that I’m able to do something. You’re sitting potent right now.
The late Latin expression comes from the word potentia, meaning that I’ve got great power and I’ve got great influence. Alright? So you have an ableness, and you also have great power, and you have great influence. My question to you is that with all this potential and potency that you have, what have you been doing?
Because your potential is raw power. And I don't want you to go into 2024 with just raw power! If you go into 2024 with raw power that you haven't applied towards anything, 2024 will be over and you’ll still be talking about your potential. You’ve got to thrust everything that you have towards what it is that you want to be.
And if you don't thrust that, that is not your hater's fault, that is not your mother's fault, that is not your father's fault! That is your fault! I don’t care if you’re crying. I don’t care if you’re depressed, you have to thrust yourself! Even if you have to do it crying, you’ve got to do it! Even if you’ve got migraine, you have to thrust yourself!
Why? Nobody’s coming! There are no Supermans! You are the Superman! If you don’t wake up and look at the raw power that is sitting in you and shake yourself and say, “I'm not just going to have raw power! I'm going to apply this power to something and become exactly what God said I can be!” Somebody shout hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Why? Everybody shout this out: God has wired me! has wired me! to perform! to perform! You were wired to perform! You were wired to be a chain breaker! You were wired to break records! You were wired to do what it is that you’ve got vision to do! But you cannot expect people to come and always encourage you to be who you think you should be! You got to encourage yourself!
You’ve got to look at your deficits. You’ve got to look at how things are broken and say if I can’t find somebody to fix this, I’ll fix it myself! You’ve got to use it! Why? Because you have raw power! Somebody shout power! Power!
Now write this down: this isn’t the time to compare myself to others! Yes, compare myself to the potential that God gave me. That’s the only comparison you need to do right now!
You know you got potential? Well then compare yourself to the potential He gave you! I don’t need to spend time looking on social media trying to see who they are, what they've done, and what they're doing with the same age, went to the same school, and graduated from the same college. That does not matter!
What is the potential that is sitting in you? That you dream of? The stuff that you know God has given you—the influence, the power to make happen in your life! If you don’t compare yourself to that, you're still falling short to whoever has done something great in your eyes because God only made one Joel; He only made one you!
And if you can maximize you, you will be the most powerful you that has ever walked on the planet! Somebody shout hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Shout this out loud: I am unstoppable! I am unstoppable!
I don’t know if you believe that! I don’t know if you believe that! I don’t know if you believe it! I don’t know if you believe it! Shout it out again: I am unstoppable! I am unstoppable!
Do you believe that you're unstoppable? Look at somebody and tell them, “I'm unstoppable!” Look at somebody else and tell them, “I am unstoppable!” That’s the way you’ve got to carry yourself in 2024.
You’ve got to look at whatever's in front of you and you've got to say, “I am unstoppable!” I'm unstoppable! Regardless of what feels like it's stopping you, you've got to keep saying that!
It's critical! Thomas Edison said this: "If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves."
When I wrote that quote down, I said you know what? It's time for you to astonish yourself! I'm not talking about astonishing your followers on social media or astonishing your parents; I said astonish YOU!
“Well Pastor, how can I astonish me?” What I think is interesting that even in Ephesians 3:20-21, “Now unto Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly all that we could ask or think according to the power that does what?”
So according to the power—the God potential that He has put in us—God said, “I can do abundantly above that!” It’s up to you because He placed the power in you!
The power is not coming from outside of you! The power’s not coming from college; all college does is dress up the power. You understand what I'm saying? All you do when you go to the fitness gym and you get yourself in shape, it’s just dressing up the power.
The power is sitting there dormant, waiting on you to believe God, waiting on you to act on God, waiting on you to trust God. But it's up to you!
But how you believe that there's about a thousand people sitting in this room that believe you're about to astonish yourself before the year is over! That before the year is over you’re going to shock yourself!
That’s what astonish means—that I’m going to walk in amazement and I'm going to say, “I knew you could do it, but I didn’t know you were going to do it like this!” Wish I had a witness in here!
Look at somebody and tell them God is amazing! It’s the kind of God that we serve—that when you wake up, yes, shock yourself! That when you go to work, you shock yourself! That when you start the company, you shock yourself!
This is the season that I’m declaring over my own life, and all I'm trying to do is let you in on it. I’m walking in shock, baby! Wish I had a witness here!
“Oh, I didn’t know you was going to do that this year! Oh, I didn’t know you was going to do that this year!” But I receive it, I’ll take it! Thank you, ‘cause I’m blessed coming in and I’m blessed going out!
Look at somebody, high five them and tell them, “Be [Applause] astounded!”
I’m going to tell you something, I’m trying to be calm but I feel the Holy Ghost! Look at somebody and tell them, “I’m already astounded!” If that neighbor ain't praising God, just give him high five and tell them “Nah, no, no, you can’t have this, because what I’m walking with is simply too astounding to touch!”
Somebody that don't want it, I wish I had a witness in here! Watch this!
There are three factors—and I haven’t even got to perception, but there are three factors that unlock potential. Now I believe there’s more than three, but these are the three that I want to give you:
Number one in your notes: work unlocks your potential. Genesis 2:15: “The Lord God took man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to take care of it.”
And when you see a farmer, when he wakes up and he looks out into the field, he has to sow in that field. And when he does that, all he's saying is I see potential! He knows that his work ethic is what's going to birth the potential!
He can’t just throw the seed out there and think it's going to be alright! He has to throw the seed out there believing that I put the greens in there like this and I put the turnips, I put the collards in there like this and I put the tomatoes—but then he has to work what he planted!
And if you’re not willing to work it, your potential will not come forth! You’ve got to work your potential! Even when people are saying, “Girl, come on out with us tonight!” If you’ve got enough sense, you’ll tell them, “I can’t come out tonight, I got to work this potential.”
Same thing you got to tell your brothers: “Amen, come on, let’s go out tonight!” Some of y’all, he want you to go out to church! Some of y’all, your group want you to come to the club! Whatever group you’re in, you got to tell them, “I can’t come tonight because I got to work this potential!”
If I don’t work this potential, it’s going to die on my watch and it will be my fault that all I'm stuck with is raw potential!
I don’t want you to be the person that everybody keeps talking about your potential! At some point, plant that potential, work that potential and let them talk about what you’re producing in your life!
“I watched you when you didn’t have nothing! I watched you when you walked away! I watched you when you took a risk! Now look at what God has done for you!”
You cannot compare your potential, your power to what anybody else is doing! What you got to do is work yours! Work yours! Look at somebody say, “Work it! Work it! Work it! Work it! Work it! Work it! Work it! Work it! Work it! Work it! Work it! Work it!”
You got to work it till it gets right! You got to work it when you're tired! You got to work it when you don’t feel good! You got to work it when people lie on you! You got to work it when you feel like quitting! You got to work it when your hands are hurting! You got to work it when your knees are broke!
You got to work it no matter what! And if you have people that are trying to convince you that winning can be done without work, that's the wrong circle to be a part of! You cannot win without work!
You have to work to win! You have to train! You have to discipline yourself! You have to put yourself in position to win! And if everybody in your circle is constantly talking about other people, they’re never going out to work, they have no work ethic, think you will be like your circle!
That’s it! You’re going to be like your circle! Ain’t no—you! Let me tell you something, when your circle changes, you may be the bottom of your circle, but that's okay!
If you are the top, top of your circle, you’re in the wrong circle! Even when you come to this place that you’ve never been before, you’ve got to find another circle because that circle is going to pull you! That circle is going to make you grow! That circle is going to make you change! That circle is going to stretch you!
When we wanted to get into real estate, you know like Bishop was talking about “I want you to buy your own house.” Okay, alright! So, I bought the house, bought another house, bought another house! Well, I had to get in another circle because the circle I was with, they were still renting!
There’s no problem with us being friends, but my money changed! You understand what I’m saying? My mindset changed! So, I wasn’t sitting up talking about rent no more, and I wasn’t talking about not having the means to do what I needed to do!
And then I had to control my testimony! I couldn’t talk about how He was blessing me, because then my blessing turned into their “You ought to be giving me some!”
Why should I be giving you some when I worked my potential and you watched!
Watch me do it! See my—I want you to be delivered from watching! Look at somebody say, “Don’t watch me this year! Don’t watch me!”
Oh, y'all got the wrong neighbor! Y'all got the wrong neighbor! Tell them, “Don’t watch me! If you’re going to do anything, work with me! Let’s be partners on a new deal! Let’s do a collab together! Let’s create a new joint venture!”
See, see, I didn’t use to talk like that a few years ago, but when I got into different rooms, my language changed! You see?
And so, now here’s what I understood: when I started making money, people that make money always want to make more money! They always want to make more money!
So if you start making it and you start looking, you’re like “Yo, this is feeling pretty good!”
Watch this: your buying changes! You stop trying to look—look like money! Man, I'm so far out there right now! I haven’t even got to this point.
We bought— we like fleets, so we bought these Jaguars! Then I changed my mind, got rid of them, bought a Jeep Wrangler! So, they’re laughing—paid for though! You see what I’m saying?
I wasn’t worried about looking like money, 'cause the money ain’t in the car! The money is in the bank! The money is in a brokerage account! The money is making money!
You see what I’m saying? So what I'm trying to get you to see—and that's really the first point that I want to deal with with this woman—since I'm already there as you as you work your perception!
The first level of perception I want you to work on this year is your funds! Somebody say “F and D, funds, funds, funds!”
And I didn’t use the word finances or automatic, because that's a term that we overuse! But I do want to use the word fund because what you don't understand is that God will send people with money to fund your vision if you do what you're supposed to do.
The money will find you if you're working, if you're working, if you're working! Notice, if you’re not working, you gotta go find it! And you’re trying to find it with a bad credit score; you’re trying to find it with bad leads!
But if you work what you got, there are people with money that are looking to make money, and they're going to invest their money in the potential that is applied towards vision and strategy!
They're not going to invest it in your idea 'cause you’re tired of your job! They’re going to invest it because you got your job and work your idea and you have produced from your idea! You got a side gig making six figures! Wish I had a witness here!
That’s when somebody says, “Wait a minute! Let me get in on this! What do you need to take it to the next level?” And before you know it, it’s not just your funds; you’re using other people’s!
I wish I had a—y’all alright with me this morning? Look at somebody and tell them, “I’m pronouncing something over you!”
Oh y'all weak! Say the thing like you're in church! Say it like your church! I'm pronouncing something over you. Now here’s what you’re getting ready to pronounce—tell them other people's money is about to find you! Other people's money is about to find you!
Now praise him for it! Praise him for it! That’s at every level! A few hundred, few thousand, few million, even a billion. Whatever it is that you need, it’s about to come to you!
But it’s only looking for those who are working their potential!
Are y'all with me here? Somebody shout hallelujah! Hallelujah!
So if we’re going to look at this potential…this is my seon Holy G! I’m on day! Now that's what I'm talking [Applause] about! If I was you, I’d praise Him right there! That’s what I’m talking about!
If you believe this is your season, shout it out with him: “This is my [Applause] season!” Oh my God! That’s explosive right [Applause] there!
Hey, hey, hey!
Come on and praise him! Come on and praise him! Come on and praise [Applause] him! Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Tell somebody, “This is your [Applause] season!” My God! [Music]
Today, be seated. But the way he just did that, that's what you’re going to have to do! You’re going to have to seize everything you want! You’re going to have to take it! Nobody’s giving you nothing!
You’ve got to take it! You’ve got to go after it! And you’ve got to go after it with confidence! And the confidence comes from you working your potential!
You have to work your potential! Work your potential until your potential becomes so explosive that it's attractive to everybody that’s watching it! And people will come and fund your vision! Isn’t that amazing?
Somebody shout hallelujah! Hallelujah!
The second thing that I was supposed to give you, but I didn’t give you, but I’m just going to talk until I hit this next few seconds—alright?
Put honor unlocks potential. Honor! Honor! Exodus 20:12: “Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long in the land that the Lord is giving to you.”
Now if you notice, he tells you to honor because if you do that, I’m going to make the days long enough so you can enjoy recompense.
Okay? Some of us die too quick because we have a lack of honor. And so you want to honor God so this will take you to a place where you can actually have time to receive what God is trying to give you in your life!
Somebody shout hallelujah! Hallelujah!
I’m going to move quickly. The next one that I want to give you is mentors. Write it down! Mentors unlock potential!
Mentors unlock potential. It’s important that you have a mentor that has done what you’re doing and they’ve done it at a higher level. You’re not on the same level!
Okay? And it’s not the job of the mentor to find you; it’s your job as the mentee to find the mentor. And when you find the mentor, hear me clearly: when you find the mentor, it’s very important that you sow into the mentor!
Okay? Sow into the mentor! If you don’t sow into the mentor, you’re not telling the mentor that you appreciate their time!
I’m trying to tell you something! They’re not sowing, they’re not spending time with you ‘cause they don’t have time! They’re spending time with you because you seem like you’re worth their time!
So the least you can do is sow into them for taking the time! They don’t need your money; they just need to know you appreciate them!
Because they can go somewhere else and sow into them! Because they want to reproduce themselves! But they only want to reproduce themselves into people who will work your potential!
‘Cause if you don’t work your potential, why am I wasting time giving you what I worked hard to have? Are y'all here with me right now?
Alright, so one of the most powerful scriptures that I think you need to have is Hebrews 6:12: “We do not want you to become lazy but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.”
Alright? So that word imitation or imitate, it’s a model! That I’m to the point to where I want to model who’s in front of me, okay? That’s going to be very important!
So those of you who are stuck on this, “I don’t want to model nobody! I don’t want to imitate nobody! I want to be me!” It’s okay to be you; but you don’t even know who you are!
Okay? So if you don’t know who you are, the best thing to do is be like the person that you see until God puts an anointing on who you are!
Alright? It’s no problem! If you’re a pastor here under Bishop Henry Fernandez and you haven’t learned your mode of preaching yet, you better walk up into this mic and say, “Well praise the Lord everybody!” and sound like Bishop Fernandez until God helps you with your voice!
Why? ’Cause what he has done, it works! Are you understanding what I’m saying?
So you take the pattern and you work the pattern until the pattern produces who you’re going to become!
Am I making any sense here? So you can imitate them! You’re not trying to imitate their personality; you’re trying to activate the principles that have them where they are!
So that’s why you—I hope y’all getting some out of this today! Somebody shout hallelujah! Hallelujah!
So it's critical! Let me leap forward real quickly and then we’re going to let it go!
So I talked about this particular woman, and this woman, this Shunammite woman—the first thing she activated was her funds!
How do we know she activated her funds? ’Cause the Bible says that she was well off! Okay?
So I’m not just talking to women; I'm talking to brothers! This is your year to be well off! This is your year to be well off! Somebody say that: "It's my year to be well off!" It's my year to be well off!
The Bible describes her as well-off, that she had great influence. I told you what the definition of potential was. She had great influence; she had power!
She had worked her potential to a place that people described her as a great woman. She had her own bread! She had so much bread that in the Bible she is one of the few women that you hear that the Bible describes as a woman that had great influence!
She stood shoulders above all the other women because she went after what she wanted!
Brothers, you've got to be the same way! You should be standing tall among those that are with you! So that you’re not taking your family through what your mom and daddy took you through!
That you have put your family on a whole another level! That you don't have to die for your family to be blessed! Wish I had a witness here!
But once you recognize it and you have put yourself in that position, then it is your job to leave an inheritance for your children’s children’s children!
That's back to those funds! So if you're going to propel yourself, if you're going to be this man of destiny, then you should be trying to create destiny by every step you make in life!
Even your death should take your children to the next level financially! Are y'all with me here?
So the first level is your funds! We talked about the funds; she was well off! She managed her money very, very well!
She managed her funds so well, watch this, that the Bible says she perceived—which is where the lesson is!
The text says she perceived that this was a man of God! This is the nail in the lesson!
This next move she made, nobody announced it! If you watch the Scripture, it says there was a day that came! That means that you have to be prepared for the day that comes!
Nobody's going to announce to you that the interest rates have dropped down to 2%! Nobody’s going to announce to you that Tesla and Amazon stocks have dropped!
This is how millionaires are made! That you’re ready for the shift in the economy! Are you understanding me? Because you’re well off and you’re prepared!
Now the stuff that I'm talking to you about, this is stuff that I learned over the last 10 years!
Some of you that are in your 55s and stuff, or some of you that’s even younger, you’ve been doing it even longer!
But I ain’t afraid to talk about it ‘cause I love it! I wasted time! I started making six figures when I was 26 years old!
But from 26 to 36, I just wasted the money! Even though I was getting raises, 'cause nobody in my family told me how to put money in the brokerage account!
Nobody told me how to move money and let money make money! And to partner with somebody else and create wealth!
Nobody told me that! But I ended up getting in the room with God! And when I got in the room, I started listening to people talk about, “Put your money over here, put your money over there!”
Don't worry about it; just leave it there ‘cause it’s for the long haul!
I wish I had a witness here!
Just do this! You don’t have to live off with this amount of money—even though you make that amount of money! Use this amount of money! Let that money make more money!
I started listening to people talk to me about funds and everything changed for me! And now we live a life where we don’t talk about money unless we talking about making more money!
Now I’m not saying that to you to brag, because I’m nowhere close to where I want to be! I’m sharing it to this 18-25, this 25-45!
To get you to understand that you can live better than what you’re living! And you can do all the fasting you want! You can do all the speaking in tongues you want!
And you can pray all you want! But if you don’t work what we’re teaching you, you ain’t going to never get it!
It’s going to be a cycle over and over and over again! That you need God to pay for your house! You need God to pay for tuition!
You got to get to the place that when you walk in here and they say, “We showing $1,000,” you going to be like, “That’s all?”
Are y'all understanding what I'm saying? Because the only people that gripe about tithes and offerings are people who don’t take care of their finances!
Oh Lord have mercy! Did I cuss on Victory [Applause] Sunday?
The Bible never asks you to give all your money! He just asks you to bless us with a cheerful heart!
Old Testament, he talks about 10%! New Testament, he says, “I just want you to be a cheerful giver!”
He says decide in your heart—what? Listen to him! He says decide in your heart!
Now this is where I run narrative with Old Testament and New Testament: do you love your kids?
“10%? Daddy, I want a brand new bicycle!” Alright, well I’m going to go get the front tire ‘cause the front tire is 10% of this bike!
And maybe I don’t need to give you the 10% ’cause I don’t believe in 10% so I’m going to get you the handlebar!
You don’t do that! You know what you do? You go in debt and you buy it! You go borrow other people’s money and you buy it!
You go do whatever you got to do to buy it! And we don’t complain and we go into debt!
I used to get on here all the time, sitting right there on that front row right there with that nice thing on, whatever that is that Jean set she got on!
I would tell her back in the day, “We not going broke over Christmas!”
“Oh, it's Christmas! We got to get the kids what they want!” We can't!
And I said, “What’s going to happen over when Christmas is over and we ain't got no food and we don't have the money to pay rent?”
They got a bike and no garage to put it in! What’s going to [Applause] happen?
Finally, she started listening to me! So now it don't matter 'cause now, you know what my kids want?
I know this is kind of off, but I feel like I've got to give it to you! It’s just real simple!
So I take my 12-year-old, my 12-year-old—we deal with Cash App—I tell my Cash App, I tell her, “Let me see what your Cash App looks like at the end of the month.”
“If it looks good, I'll match it! If we match it, we’re going to take a percentage of that and we’re going to go look at McDonald's, Disney, Amazon, Tesla!”
And we buy! We don't buy all the stock; we just buy pieces of the stock!
’Cause you start where you are! You can’t start where you’re not!
The idea is to get my daughter's mindset to shift to not necessarily want to buy a Tesla, but to own stock in Tesla!
So by the time she turns 18, she’s got several thousands of dollars in her Cash App!
And she said, “You know what, D? I think I may go down here and buy this thing cash!”
And I’ll say to her, “It’s your money!” You understand what I'm trying to get you to see?
So when it comes to your funds, it's up to you! Yes we can get miracles! But you don’t have to have a miracle if you just work the principle!
Are y'all here with me still? Number two! Number two! Her fears!
You’re going to have to dive deep in your perception as it pertains to fears!
Okay? Remember she says, “I perceive”! Perceive simply means—and I’ve got to go back this so you can understand what she’s saying—she says, “I perceive”!
Perceive means that I'm using my senses to feel!
Now part of the problem with walking by faith is that you have to know if you’re in sense knowledge or whether you’re in faith.
And so one of the worst things we can do is try to tell you to ignore your senses. You don’t ignore your senses! Your faith overrides your senses!
Your faith informs your senses! Your faith can help you so that you can activate beyond the five senses and move into the sixth sense!
The sixth sense is your faith that you walk by faith and not by sight! It doesn’t mean you don’t have sight!
Listen to that! You just choose to see what God says over what you see!
Are you understanding me? So you have to walk into the sixth sense! And so this woman, even though she’s been very, very well—she builds this man a roof!
Builds this man a room! This woman builds a room! She convinces her husband, “Let’s bring the power of God, the potential into our house!”
Are y’all here with me? She builds a room so God can live in her house!
So this is what I’m trying to get you to see! Because the prophet represented the kingdom of God!
And so when the prophet came through, she had the finances to invest in the kingdom! So that when the kingdom of God was coming down the street, she invited the kingdom of God in her house!
She didn’t limit the kingdom of God to just coming on Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights! She was living in the Kingdom! Glory to God!
Somebody shout hallelujah! She had the kingdom living over top of her house!
And she told the kingdom, “The kingdom is here! Come in here and have something to eat!”
Watch what she does! She builds the room! She furnishes the room! She furnishes the room!
If you read the rest of that chapter, she put a table in there! She put a lamp in there! She put a chair in there! She put a bed in there! She built it!
Are y’all hearing what I’m saying? Are you going to build something this year? Are you going to build something that God can live in?
Are you going to build something that the kingdom of God is on display? Every time people come see you, they know the kingdom of God is with you!
Almost finished with it! The fear, after she’s been so good to the man of God! The man of God sends Gehazi, which is his servant!
The servant says, “What can we do for you? Can we talk to the king? Can we talk to the governor?”
This woman, so powerful, she said, “I don’t need that! I don’t need to talk to the president of the United States! I don’t need to talk to any of the House of Representatives!”
She says, “I’m who I am amongst my own people!” That’s in the Bible!
And then he says, “Well, what can we do?” Gehazi said, “Well, she don’t have a son! She don’t have a child!”
So the prophet walks up and says, “This time next year, you’re going to have a child!”
Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute! That don’t mean nothing to you, but it does to somebody who’s been barren!
But it does to somebody who haven't had it! And so when I was reading, I said, “God, what are you trying to get me to tell them?”
God told me to tell you this morning, He’s about to do what you stopped believing in Him for! God’s about to do what you walked away from!
He's about to do the thing that you said, “This ain't going to happen for me, it's too late! I done got too old! Ain't no way I can get it!”
God said, “No, no, no! Tell them I'm going to do it! I'm going to do what they stopped believing me for! That's what I'm going to do!”
Well then, well then! I can hear some of you! I can hear you! “How you going to do it if I have to believe to do it?”
That ain't what the Bible said! She didn’t ask for no baby! She wasn't believing for no baby!
Gehazi told Elijah, “She don’t have no baby!” And in this manner, God said, “By the time next year you’re going to have a baby!”
What’s the proof that she wasn’t believing?
‘Cause she said, “Don’t lie to me!” This is her response! Don’t lie to me!
This shows you that she had gotten to a place where she was even afraid to believe God anymore!
You will put boundaries around certain vulnerabilities in your life because you don’t want to believe God or be embarrassed!
So you’ll just say, “I ain’t doing that no more! Don’t lie to me!”
The man of God walked off. The Bible says she got pregnant—actually the text said she had the baby!
So what I want you to do before we go is lay your hands on somebody and tell them, “You about to have what you want! You about to have it! You about to have it! You about to have it! You about to have it! You about to have it!”
If they ain't getting excited, let them go! But I'm only talking to those that say I’m about to have! This is my year to have exactly what I want!
This is mine! I don’t want yours! I want mine! Wish I had a witness in here! Somebody put your hands on your chest and say, “I want mine!” [Applause]
I know we got to go! Can y'all wait with me for 5 minutes?
Okay? I know the rules! Y'all sit down ‘cause y'all making me get excited!
I’m just trying to want mine! I want mine! She is afraid to even believe! She tells them, “Don’t lie to me!”
But watch this! She has the baby! She has the baby! The baby’s born! The Bible says the baby is grown!
Look at how God does it! Then the baby dies in her lap!
That’s why I want you to read this! Now watch this woman! Better come!
Oh my God, glory to God!
So I told you that your perception is going to have to go in three places: number one, your funds; number two, your fears; and then number three, your faith!
Glory to God! Somebody shout your faith! Your faith!
This baby fell dead in her lap! The woman picked up the baby! Took the baby to the room she built!
See that? That’s why you don’t understand—that’s why you gotta build or something!
She took the baby to the room she built and laid it in the bed she bought!
And then she walked out the house and said, “I need to go to Mount Carmel, where the prophet is!”
She got in the chariot! Told the man riding the chariot, “Don't slow down! Don’t hasten! Get me to the prophet!”
Now here’s what’s remarkable! Y'all sit down, please!
Please, please, please! Just sit down! Make me excited! I’m trying to just talk it!
Watch this y’all! And this is it! I’m through!
He’s flying! Give me some chariot music! I mean they—I mean they moving!
I’m talking about like they getting it! You know? Can you see the man? [Applause]
Like [Applause]! She doing whatever it takes!
The ride is uncomfortable! This ain’t no Cadillac! This is a chariot!
They going over holes and rocks! They going fast! Because she got faith!
She gets to the man of God! What’s interesting is that Elijah sees her coming! Elijah says to Gehazi, “Go see what she wants!”
She says, “The baby is dead!”
Elijah says, “Take the staff, and you run! Gird your loins, and you go run and put the staff on the baby!”
Sounds like Moses! Takes the staff, puts the staff on the baby!
It doesn’t work! This is where you have to have patience, ‘cause many of you, if it didn’t work the first time, you’d no longer believe in God! You quit!
You’re upset with God; doesn’t work! Gehazi runs back! He says it didn’t work!
And Elijah said, “We’re on the way!”
The woman fell down to his ankles crying! And the Bible says this to the prophet or the prophet said this to the woman:
God hid it from me! He was the one that spoken into existence! He said God hid this from me!
Let’s go! He goes in! The Bible says he closed the door!
He goes in! He lays on the child! But watch this, ‘cause I ain’t paying attention to it!
Lays on the child! He prays! Then he gets up! The child did not get up!
We talking about Elijah! And the Bible says he’s pacing back and forth, saying, “God—” Second time, it doesn’t work!
Then he goes and he lays back on the child again!
And when he lays on the child the third time—touch somebody and say the third day!
I wish I had a witness in here! Said the boy woke up and sneezed seven times!
I wish I had a witness in here! Look at somebody and tell them after the seventh time, something getting ready to happen!
I don’t know if you caught it! After the seventh day—yesterday was the seventh day!
This is the next day that God’s getting ready to wake something up that you thought was dead! That you thought was over!
God said I’m about to let it sneeze on you! Wish I had a witness!
I’m about to let it come back to you! [Applause]
This is what I want you to know and I'm done with it: you can st—standing!
Once a person stops breathing, once their brain—once they stop breathing, they only got 5 to 10 minutes before they’re declared dead!
You know how long this boy was out? Over a couple of hours! He should be brain dead! A machine should be breathing for him!
This is how bad the condition was! But because of her faith!
Because she perceived the moment! See, the way to unlock your potential is to perceive the moment!
You’re going to have to perceive it in 2024! There’s not going to be an announcement! You got to perceive it!
And it’s not about blocking off your senses; it’s about using all of them! But letting the sixth sense inform the five!
So the Spirit of the Lord can tell you, “That’s not it! But this is!”
Because God wants to use you in a major way!
Now Faith Center, you’ve been instructed! Bishop told me that we’re looking to grow over 1,700 and 8 something seats of people in this room!
It don’t take two years to do that; you should be able to do it overnight!
But it depends on your perception! Are you going to walk up to people and ask them, no matter how many times they tell you no? Do you have a God that’s so good that you refuse to let them walk away from the opportunity to get what you have?
That’s what you got to post in 2024! This is your time! This is your season! This is your hour to unleash your position!
Bishop, thank you! Bishop, yes sir! I know Bishop wants to pray for all! I think this is a great time for you to take over, sir!
Wasn't this such a great word this morning? I’ve been a preacher of the gospel since I was 15, and I’ve read that scripture over and over!
But the revelation you brought out this morning, never forget it! Never forget it!
We’re about to pray for the oil! Would you bring the bottles of oil down and let’s pray for the oil?
Then I'm going to ask Pastor Tman to pray over the oil!
So where are they? Are they bringing the oil? Please?
And, uh, there they come! They’re bringing it!
And then I want him to pray and then we’ll give instructions on how we’re going to pass them out!
Those of you streaming, please let us know your prayer requests! We’re so grateful to have Minister Rufus Brown’s classmates from Dillard High School class of 1970 here!
Come on, give them a warm welcome! Thank you! Thank you! Where are they? Where are they?
They're over there! Class of 1970! God bless you! Bless you! [Applause]
Why don’t you, Pastor Wilder, bring—just maybe share something and then pray over it, and we’ll give instructions?
Amen!
The anointing, all of the Holy Ghost, as Bishop talked about it—how it’s crushed, it’s pressed so that you can have it as a sign!
The anointing smears over your issues; doesn't erase it, it smears! That’s why you’re anointed!
And I believe that this anointing oil that this team and our leader has designated this moment right now can be applied to any issue in your life!
Any issue with people that you’re connected to! Wow!
And I want to pray that everything that you touch, God will turn it around!
Father, we thank you for this oil! We thank you for this moment! We thank you for this mission!
We thank you for this message! We thank you for this ministry!
As we stretch our hands towards this oil, it is a sign that it works! That no sickness, no disease can out-power the blood of Jesus Christ!
That no matter what we go through, no weapon formed against us shall prosper!
And every tongue that riseth up against us shall utterly fall!
We believe that lives will be resurrected! Will be changed! Money will change!
We believe that debt will be erased! We believe our lives will go into amazement and shock!
That as we move into 2024, we're going to anoint our houses, our doorposts, our backyards, our driveways!
We cast the devil out of our neighborhoods!
We're going to anoint our children on their way to school! We’re going to anoint everybody that we come in contact!
That they will walk in the anointing of the Holy Ghost!
And we believe that as we walk into 2024, we're going to be so oily that when the enemy comes up against us, he can’t do nothing but slip off of us!
Because we got too much power and we're too anointed!
In Jesus' name. Everybody shout! [Applause] [Music]
Hallelujah!
Do me a favor—I want all of you who carried the basket, you carried the basket to the front! I need all of you, follow my instructions!
I want you to come, and I want you on stage! All of you! All of you! Enter here! Enter here! All of you! All of you!
All of you! All of you! Anoint all of them! [Applause]
I love you! On stage! Go down! Go down! Pastor [Music] Tman, I literally—when I saw these people coming down, I literally heard the Lord say to me,
“It is a manifestation of what you said this morning in your opening statement! You said what was missing in leadership was a certain age group category!”
Wow! Wow!
This was not planned! This was not planned! Normally, it would be our ministers who would carry these baskets!
If you understand biblical protocol to carry the oil, glory—to listen!
You had to be called by God to carry the oil, especially in the temple!
When I saw these young people walk down carrying the oil knowing I didn’t plan it—I didn’t even authorize them to do this! But it was God!
But let me say this, and some of you will connect to this: it was a divine act!
When they asked you to carry this basket this morning, there’s a call on your [Applause] life! [Music] [Applause]
Come on! Receive! Receive this morning! There’s a call on your life!
There’s a call on your life! Anoint them! Anoint them! Anoint them! Anoint them! Anoint them! Anoint them! Anoint them!
Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory!
Come on Church! Come on Church! Come on! Let! Let! Hallelujah! Let! [Applause] [Music]
Yeah, yes Lord! Yes Lord!
Yes! Can it? The glory of God be upon you! The glory of God be upon you!
GL! The glory of God be upon you!
Hallelujah! God be upon you! The glory of God be upon you!
The glory of God be [Music] [Applause] upon!
Hey! Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory! [Music]
We [Music] are anointed! Stay right there! We are!
We are! Thank you, Jesus! Anointed! That's it! Anointing!
We are! We are! That’s it! Come on Church! Anointing!
An anointed! We [Applause] are!
That’s it! Come on Church! Anoint!
We are anointed! Come on! Shout it out!
We are anointed! We are!
That’s a go with [Music] power! Come on!
We [Music] are! We are! We [Applause] are!
We are! We are!
One more time! We [Applause] [Music] are!
You will never ever be the same after this day!
Hallelujah! Forever! God has used this fast and Victory Sunday to elevate you to a position you never asked for!
You never prayed for! But when the opportunity arrives, let Him bless you!
You perceive that maybe God wants you to be in this spot today! Come on!
Let it go!
It is impossible for you to carry the anointing right there!
Come on and you not be blessed! [Applause]
Your—I’m telling you, that’s—come on! Oh! Because your hands touched it! Watch what God’s going to do into your life!
I’m telling you! I see that the Lord is saying the floodgates of Heaven are now opened on your life!
And you ought to receive it!
Come on, you ought to receive it! You ought to receive it! You ought to receive it! [Applause]
Hallelujah! Right now! Right now! Right now! Right now! [Music]
Now let! [Music]
Let! Let it! Come on Church!
Come on Church! Sing it!
There you go young man! Let it! God got something for you! Let it! Release it! Let it go!
That’s it! That’s it! Ghost!
Hallelujah! Ghost! Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost!
We are! Yes! We are! Yes! We are!
Heaven! Higher Glory! Now in the name of Jesus!
Let Him have it! Lift your hands! Lift your hands up!
That's it! Let it loose! Hallelujah!
Oh my God!
Hallelujah! That’s it! You give it to Him! Don’t you leave it with you! Give it to Him!
You give it to Him! You give it to Him! Give it to Him! Give it to Him!
Give it to Him! Give it to Him! Give it to Him!
Give it to Him! Give it to Him! Hallelujah!
Thank you! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
It’s alright! It’s alright! It’s alright!
Let Him bless you! That’s alright in the moment! Let Him have it! Give it! [Music]
Let Him have it! Let Him have it! Let Him have it!
Let Him have it! Oh my God!
Let Him have it!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
It’s alright! It’s alright!
Let Him bless you!
That’s alright!
Let Him have it!
Let Him have it!
Let Him have it!
Let Him have it!
Right now! Let Him have it!
Right now! Right now! [Music]
In the name of Jesus!
Let hand! He came up here!
Let Him have it! Lift them hands up!
Lift them hands up! Give God the glory!
Let Him have it! That’s what you came for!
That’s what you came for!
That’s what you came for!
That’s what you came for!
Do it now in the name of Jesus!
We believe it!
We believe!
We believe!
We believe!
Always about [Music] Hallelujah!
Bless brother! Glory to God!
You came over here! Thank you, Lord!
Thank you, Lord!
Lord, thank You! [Music]
Thank you!
Thank you!
Surrender to Him!
Give Him control!
Give Him control!
Give Him control!
Give Him control!
We believe it! Done! So in Jesus' name!
Somebody shout hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Glory to God!
Yes God!
Thank you Jesus!
Thank you God!
Thank you Lord!
Yes God!
Thank you Jesus!
Yes God!
Your presence!
Glory to God!
Your presence!
God has a word in your soul!
Glory to God!
Glory to God!
Glory to God!
Glory! Glory!
Glory!
Come on! Come on!
Come on! [Music]
Thank you, Jesus!
Glory to God!
Glory, glory, glory!
Glory!
We [Applause] are!
I’m sorry!
As you’re streaming and those of you in the building, if you have not made Jesus Lord of your life—based on the flow of this service and the presence of God that you can feel, I encourage you to do so this morning!
I encourage you to turn your life over to Him! Read His word every day! Go to the house of the Lord on a weekly basis! And grow and mature in your faith journey!
If that's you this morning and you believe in your heart that you’re a sinner and you need Christ in your life, please repeat the sinner’s prayer!
Please say: “Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus! I am a sinner! I repent of my sins! I receive the Lord as my personal Savior! And I'm now born again in Jesus' name!”
Amen!
Can you welcome these people to the house of the Lord? Amen!
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