Dig Your Way Out Of It - Bishop T.D. Jakes and Friends

Well, I was praying about what to do and one of the things I'm learning is that when God speaks a powerful word, it's not always good to add another word on top of that word without really digging into it. in that word oh amen amen because just because we taught it doesn't mean you fully understood it, bring that shovel because I said something about digging, digging, yeah, let's dig this thing now, this particular shovel, pastor. Robinson, let me borrow this, this is one of the shovels we used for the construction of the building you are in now, look at that, and that means that the building you are in now started with a shovel and a big hole in the ground and To me this means a lot of things because at the time I held this shovel in my hand to stick it into the ground to build an 80, I think it was an 86 83 million dollar building uh, I didn't have the money, I didn't even have it.

I had, I didn't even have the money down payment, I didn't have a loan approved, I didn't have a bank that would give me We, the money, I had enough money to dig the hole and we dug, we dug the hole not just with a shovel but with excavators , we dug the hole, we dug the hole, we dug the hole and it was a huge, huge hole. It was very exciting and the church was excited and they were dancing and screaming because I was preaching faith and power and we dug the hole and they started screaming until grass started growing in it and they were still screaming a little bit but then the water started filling up. .

I went up the hole and time went by and I couldn't make a breakthrough and while we were digging the hole to build the building I ended up having to dig a hole to bury my mother, so when I see this shovel I see a whole, I see I see a a lot of things: stress, struggle and pain and finally I completely passed the draft. This was a hole I spent every day going to the building. I told God. I told him I wasn't worried. that building I said I'm not going to build that for my children I don't have five this is for

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children and if you don't provide for

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children I will have the largest pool in Dallas.

I'm going to put some concrete on it and paint it blue and I'm just going to open up the biggest pool you've ever seen in your entire life because the battle is not mine, you guys don't listen to what I say, it belongs to the Lord, I said it belongs to the Lord and Let's talk tonight. I received so many praise reports and testimonies from Building for Expansion when I was teaching about it on Sunday. Many people said it blessed them. touched them it changed their lives people were talking about how they cried how they were touched let's go a little deeper because everywhere I could go on instagram facebook twitter everywhere else they said I have my shovel and I'm ready to dig and someone was showing me emojis of people digging.

I didn't even know they had emojis of people digging. I guess they call them emojis, those little video things and them digging, just digging and digging, then digging and digging and then they start. digging again the same dig they dug before and everyone was sending me stuff like that about digging and stuff like that and I was wondering in my mind beyond the excitement when it comes to practicality do we really understand what that means let's back up a minute and Go back to the text where I started when when I started in the text I was I was in second kings 3 8 to 19 and I'm not going to tell you everything, but tonight instead of talking about building for expansion, we're going to talk about dig your way out, okay, dig your way out.

I made a statement in the first part and it says and he said which way we should go up and he answered the way through the wilderness of Edom, then the king of Israel went and the king of Judah and the king of Edom the king of Israel the king of judah and the king of edom now i want to stop there and tell you something the king of israel jehoshaphat no joram the king of judah jehoshaphat and the king of edom had nothing in common they had nothing in common they had different belief systems they had different people but they They had united because they had a common enemy the Moabites were trying to destroy them and the reason I emphasize that point is that sometimes people just want to work with people who are like them, who look like them or who act like them or who they vote like them or think like them or worship like them, you know, people have all these ideas, what are you doing with so and so? come out from among them and separate, but being separated doesn't mean that God won't use other people to be a blessing in his life, in fact, God used prostitutes, oh, you don't know your Bible, heh heh, he used. some of the most ungodly people sent the old and wayward Jonah to preach the gospel.

Jonah, the fugitive preacher who openly defied and disobeyed God, sent him to lead a revival and the revival was effective, the whole nation was saved and Jonah was angry and God still used him. because to achieve his purpose, god will use whoever he wants to achieve what he is trying to do, you must learn something from god about that when god gives you a purpose, he cannot use your family or your

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and he may not use who you had in mind, but when God determines to bless you, you have to build a circle that does not stress you, come with someone, you have to build a circle that does not stretch you and some of you are. so particular about who you connect with that your vision is delayed I guess the king of judah would have said I have been loyal to god I have served god when when the king of israel a long time ago when all of you were serving idols and worshiping bail his mother was Jezebel she had no dealings with you your mother was Jezebel she tried to kill my teacher why would she have anything to do with you your father was an idolater and although you were not as bad as them you have your problems with Jehovah, he said no, no , no, for the immediate need, it is convenient that we form a connection to defeat the Moabites because the Moabites have threatened to kill us and come on, king of Edom, I will take you too.

I'm not an Edomite, but I'll tune in. with you there are no black churches, white churches, Latino churches, millennial churches, boomer churches, Baptist churches, Methodist churches and all kinds of things, we have all kinds of ways of describing our prejudices, but really, when you understand in problems, I mean , really in trouble, when you really get in trouble, I was in trouble and I had a doctor and I couldn't spell his name, but if he could make me better, I went and got the treatment. Listen to what I say. I went and I would ask my wife what his name was again, but if the medicine is good, if the surgery is good, I never asked the paramedic what his faith was before I came. on a rug no no no don't touch me you you no no you Jehovah's Witness you can't touch me no no I don't care what you are give me that oxygen give me that put on the oxygen we will convert you later but now I have to breathe we will have a religious theological debate in a minute but right now I'm focused on breathing maybe you're different maybe you'd rather suffocate but I like breathing I know it's crazy but I like it It's like breathing and if I can get some oxygen, I don't care if it's oxygen for the whites, oxygen for blacks, Jamaican, Haitian or oxygen oxygen.

Just a brother like me I just want some oxygen. Understand what I say. I don't care what color my waiter is I don't care if it's a woman or a man if I want some chicken just bring me some chicken he can bring a little boy bring me some chicken bring me some chicken I want to eat they formed an alliance and the alliance led to the destruction of the Moabites because they understood how to make connection and then they started through the desert and they came to the middle of the desert by the word of the prophet and they discovered it in order. to go further they had to dig ditches in the dry river bed now the river bed was already big enough to hold water but what god was going to do was much bigger than the river bed the prophet said dig ditches in your valley and seven days later trip they had to dig ditches in their valley in the desert without water under the burning sun so they had to sweat and god did not relieve the sweat to perform the miracle oh god did not relieve the sweat look, look, many of We are sitting like this, you know, when the lord gets ready, he will open the way and I will sit here and wait for the lord.

If they had sat there in the desert and waited for the Lord, they would have died, they had to have the faith to go as far as they could with what they had and when they began to sweat in the desert every palaver God did not send them cloud or thunder no breath no sign that help was on the way someone looking at me right now you don't even see daylight you don't see any sign that help is on the way but just because you don't see wind and you don't see rain that means no you will receive water.

The Lord said I'm going to send you the water you won't see it coming how many people are ready for a blessing that you don't even see coming and an unexpected supernatural blessing to sustain you and give you increase and take you to the i I don't know about you but I'm ready I'm ready for it I'm ready for I'm ready for God to shake my world and blow my mind all at the same time to shake my world and blow my mind and I'm making room for it, I'm making it rise, rise, rise, my constant prayer is to rise my ability to go from pastoring in West Virginia, a front church, to pastoring this church, God had to increase my capacity, I had never done that.

I had to believe God for that amount of money and those kinds of people, so many benches and so many staff. I had as many staff members as there were church members at the same time and I said, God, you're going to have to increase my capacity. by pressure capacity by deadlines capacity by stress capacity by anxiety I came here I found myself with problems that I had never seen in west virginia but if God thought enough about me to sin who the Lord calls he qualifies and I came to tell every person in this room can you do this I know it's hot but you can do this I know you're sweating but you can do this I know it's hard and the floor is hard but you can do this or God wouldn't have put you in the situation in the first place if you can't do this, look at someone and just yell at them like you yell at your kids, don't use your nice little voice, use the word like you yell at your kids, say you can do this. you can do this you can do this don't give up on your dream don't give up on your hope don't give up on your promise don't give up on your prophecy don't give up on your destiny don't give up on your destiny don't give up on what God calls you can you do you can do this can stretch you can expand you can get bigger you may have to build more structure but you can do this I rebuke every devil who's been telling you no I don't have what it takes to do the job.

You can, God, I feel like I'm already talking to someone. You, you, you can do this, I've never done it before, yeah, but you can do this, they've never done it before, but you understand. a I didn't study this in school yes I understand but you can do this I don't have a degree in that yes I understand but you can do this if you couldn't do this god wouldn't put you in the situation he calls he qualifies you can do this you can do this and if you don't know what you are doing find someone who does and partner with them say I got the call and you have the information let's get together and do this happens you can make this partnership right there that partnership is the way to The prophecy when your partner, God makes it possible, God told Eve that she must prevail so that you have children, but she could not do it alone, he said, the seed of the woman. he should get up and bruise the head of the snake and the serpent will bruise his heel hey, the problem woman has no seed but she had a partner but her partner had no womb but you guys don't listen to what I'm saying that all creation is based on associations and connections and I'm wondering if you're making the right connections for what's next in your life and what you're willing to kill, what you're willing to kill to get there, what you're willing to do. change to get there how much of what you say that's how I am that's the kind of thing we have to put on the cross we have to put that's how I am we have to nail it to the cross see you Okay, let's put Jesus on the cross cross.

Y'all, okay, let's put lambs on the cross. They don't even mind putting goats on the cross, but when I start talking about putting you on the cross, they get very quiet. But to achieve what God wants to do, you have to get rid of how I am and start saying here I am, Lord, make me what you want me to be, enlarge my territory, increase my capacity, strengthen my doors. I'm ready to go to the next level I'm ready for this lord anyway, bless me lord, I'll be satisfied if I have to go find myself 12 disciples, I'm going to change the world before I get out of here, hey peter. stop fishing I'm going to catch you hey matthew stop collecting taxes I'm going to go look for you hey phillip come here boy I'm going to catch you and little by little start putting together the strategy that is needed when there is no it's not an option say no to me, It's not an option I'm going to get out of this I'm going to record a video and I'm going to put out a panel of people and we're going to We're talking about four people who had to get out of things and we're going to have a very practical talk about how we take what we hear the Sunday and we use it on Monday.

How do we take what we shout? We sang. about we know that God said it just tell Mr. ditch diggerin your life hallelujah yeah now uh excuse me uh how do I do that uh I brought my shovel you know I didn't bring my shirt I didn't have a bulldozer because I thought you were going to do something nice like you did before and let it rain like you know you could make it rain without dig Noah didn't have to dig and you, you, made it rain, uh, you know, you You, made it rain when Elijah prayed.

You can't compare your story to someone else's story. What God has for you is for you. Who am I talking to? Now wait until you meet this panel and see what they had to investigate to get where. They are rotating God puts your greatest miracle in your greatest disaster You have to sweat in the dry places and the Lord told me to tell you that you have come as far as you can on your own God said I want you to have sweat equity because if you don't worry , you won't take care of this, I want you to turn your back on me, please welcome our special guests, executive director of tori, a prison reentry program that she has grown into a nationally recognized reintegration platform that has given a second chance to over 35,000 returning citizens tina naidu seven time emmy award winning reporter and edward r murrow national award winner for her coverage of domestic violence she is a survivor who became a voice for all survivors rebecca lopez he is a pastor author speaker and advocate who inspires with his life story of transformation and redemption pastor michael phillips an accomplished business professional and cvs health executive also dedicated to serving by ministering and mentoring inner city children and youth dr michael anthony hicks jr god said dig come out one more time, give him a big round of applause, but everyone looks good, I feel like I'm in the talk or the view or something.

Great, welcome here, we're glad to have you here, we're glad for your life, we're glad for your story, we're glad for your accomplishments, we're glad for the things that God has done in your life, uh and and we. I'm so glad you didn't quit. I'm very glad you did very well. Yes, I'm glad you didn't quit. Sometimes God lets you go through things so you can model for someone else how to get through them because we. We didn't always grow up in homes where we had role models. Sometimes we grow up in homes where we had disorder and God will put us in a church or a job or a community where someone can model for us that things don't have. start right end right like you like to say wrong lanes have right turns you can start wrong and end right we were talking in the back rebecca and you're on tv and you've been on tv for a while and you've been at our church how long How long have you been in our church? over 15 years now it's been 15 years omg thanks buddy and you've been at wfaa how long were we 25 years 25 years later wfaa and you got seven emmy awards and the prestigious national edward r monroe award for your coverage of domestic violence.

Like, yeah, yeah, that's a big deal. I know this because I am your pastor. You covered domestic violence, but you've been through domestic violence. My first memory of being a kid, I was probably about four or five years old. I remember it so vividly when my father was hitting my mother and my mother was reaching for a phone. Back then the phones were in her and her walls. I was trying to grab the phone off the wall and she was just screaming for help and I was standing there feeling helpless not knowing what to do not knowing how to help her wanting to help and I was just crying and crying and crying and crying. and on top of that, I was sexually abused as a child, from the age of five to 10, so you know my life, I felt unworthy many times, you and I had this conversation before, so I kept doing things in my life in my personal life in my work life I was in my career I was excelling but in my personal life I was totally broken I was broken because I felt unworthy and unlovable so I kept making the same mistakes and doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same results, you know, thank you for saying that and thank you for your transparency and thank you for putting up with that, because what really stands out to me is that you can do well in one area and do very poorly in another. another area and people are so hypnotized by how well you are doing in that area that they don't see your pain, how much pain you took in from being raised in an abusive home, sexually abused as a child and and apparently I can't escape the prison of feeling unworthy.

There was a lot of pain Bishop, many nights when I cried myself to sleep I went from one bad relationship to the next thinking that this is how I was going to find the love I needed and it was the wrong place. It was like that song. I was looking for love in all the wrong places and I came to you and you said stop going back to what's familiar. You are better than that. Dig, dig deep within yourself. and find something better for your life and I will never forget it on a thanksgiving day I was home and I was alone and I was crying on the floor with no one to spend my thanksgiving day with my son he had gone with his father because I went through a divorce and I lost everything in that divorce and I'm there in an apartment, I'm broke, I mean,

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, I'm telling you there were times I had to go through the seat cushions, here I am. on channel 8 news and I was broke looking for money just to put gas in my car and I was very desperate and a friend told me to come to church with me and I grew up Catholic so I didn't know what to expect and I came here and there were people running around and I wasn't sure what to expect, it was a culture shock for me, but you know I listened to you and I heard you loud and clear do something different, yeah, and I had to look into it. deep and did something different, I joined God's leading ladies and before you knew it, I had saved money.

Yes, God is playing ladies other than graduates. I saved money where I couldn't even afford to put gas in my car. I started shopping. at ross dress for less i started saving all this money and raised enough money to buy a house 20,000 in cash wow wow wow oh you should scream for her it must have been so hard because you work in a profession where those women wear bad dresses they wear those expensive dresses for 500 800 and you are shopping to pay less anywhere you can. In fact, someone came up to me and said, you know people are talking about you and wondering why your hair looks like that. and why do you look like you're wearing cheap makeup and why do you dress so shabby and you know, I mean, my shoes were worn out, I couldn't, I couldn't afford anything because I was trying to focus on my son and raising him and putting food on my table.

I honestly had to get to a point where I was just like, you know what, I don't care what people think about me, I don't care, I don't care, and I still feel that way if I mean. For me, it's all about who you are on the inside. It's funny that while you were struggling to learn to feel worthy and not go back to what's familiar, which is not easy to do, by the way, because once a pattern is established in your life, it's hard to break a pattern and It is easy for you to be what you see and in the midst of growing up to become worthy you still have priorities because many women would not have bothered to raise their child. worried about doing their hair and I focused everything on him, he recovered, he is my pride and joy, you know Jacob, he actually worked here in the potter's house and you know it when I look at him now in college and he's doing it and now I am fine.

I'm going to get excited doing the things he's doing and he loves God and he used to sit there in the second row and sometimes he was playing on his phone. I'm like the

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is preaching, you know, and he, but he. but you, but what you preached got into his soul and he's a great human being and that's the thing I'm most proud of that I've ever done in my life was put him first wow wow wow wow we're all working on ourselves about something. that we haven't gotten to that point yet, we put in the work to become worthy it's a process and it's a mental thing and it's a personal thing and even if you did your hair and makeup and paid five thousand dollars for a dress It still doesn't mean necessarily that you are better inside.

Like what did you say to yourself after you left my office? I remember we talked after you left my office. What did you tell yourself that started bringing me on? You yourself must dig to get out inside. Look, digging your way out isn't always the problem. Dig to get out inside. That's the problem. That's where the enemy really wants to destroy you. What kinds of things did you have to say to yourself because I want to? people who are watching online and people who are in the room because not everyone is going to stand up and raise their hand, but there are people in the room right now who are going through what you are going through in one way or another. . another and it is not unusual for someone who has been sexually abused as a child to feel unworthy when you start to be used you feel like a toy and so it is very natural that you become someone else's toy, you know?

And if I do this, will you like me if I do that? You'll like me if I do this. You'll love me and then you get into this trading game? What did you start telling yourself? You know, I think I just got to the point where I was sick and tired of being sick and tired I was just sick of myself I was sick of going through the same thing and I think my

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were sick of me too because they say if you come to me one more time to talk about the same problem over and over again you keep repeating it why you keep doing this and finally I said you know what I have to stop I'm going to stop and I literally went through my phone and deleted the numbers of people that I knew They were dragging me into places I shouldn't go into, into things that me and that being I didn't want to be, I literally cut people out of my life and that may sound harsh, but I had to cut some people out of my life. in order for it to grow and I kept reminding my friends like why doesn't God bring you you know bo while we all prayed for boaz um and finally my friend said you know what stop searching stop searching start loving yourself start digging deep in yourself and start spending time with you spending time going through God's protagonists going through things that make you better and that's what I did and you know, I guess I'll probably announce it now that I have it now that it was sitting in front of me one of my best friends for 15 years, but I couldn't see him because I was here, you know, thinking that all these other, you know, funny guys, the bad ones, were the people that you knew were the funny people, but he was right in front of me , one of My best friends and we have an amazing relationship and um and I think you know God has finally blessed.

Wow, so you ended up with Mr. Fronde instead of Mr. Familiar exactly. Wow, someone should call that man. Do you know how much courage he has? You need to be a public figure and go on stage and talk about your private life, that's the sacrificial lamb, that's an offering because Rebecca has to go to work tomorrow at WFAA and do the news and she had to cover domestic violence. after having experienced it. I wonder if you won an award because you put your heart into it. Yes, there was a story about a woman named Deanna Cook and she died calling 9-1-1, she wanted help and no one could, they couldn't get to her. because there was a system failure both because of the reaction of the Dallas Police Department but also because of what was happening at the 911 call center and she died and I heard that tape I heard her for eight minutes dying calling for help and I thought that that It could be my mom and when I look and when I tell the stories of victims of domestic violence that brought it all back to me and I wanted to change things and that's why my stories about domestic violence and how the Dallas police responded and what they did They really changed the situation.

The way the DPD now responds to domestic violence calls wow wow wow look when I talk about a bill for expansion, everything that you went through, God put you in a place of expansion where you had the voice of that girl who He saw how they beat his mother. I don't have a voice, but now you have a voice that is able to move things through the police department throughout the city and you want all these awards. God gave you a voice and gave power to you and those of you who are listening to me right now. in a situation where you feel voiceless but God is going to give you a voice and he is going to give you influence and he is going to give you the ability to change your situation and the reason you went through everything you went through is so that you can become an answer to someone else's problem and satisfy their need talk to me someone talk to me talk to me I'm going to get to the rest of you but your story is so provocative for me for me when you when when when You look back on your life and you look at Jacob and you are raising your son while raising yourself.

You know it was probably one of the hardest things for me because I was ashamed of who I had become and I kept looking at him and wanting him to be different. I wanted him to be better than I was and that was difficult, it was a struggle becausetime and time again in my life and it has proven it, what I can say is that after that, I think I received my last two black eyes when I was 23 years old. Um, Pastor Robinson. He's been with me through so many seasons and, you know, he really helped me clarify some things because I grew up Christian and I remember my dad didn't come to my wedding.

Wait, wait, you said your last two blacks? I was 23 yes sir with a master's degree wow and you know I was the first person in my family to get a master's degree but they never came to celebrate me they never came to celebrate you and if you ask my father between family functions or events hey what is doing your daughter now? Oh, she doesn't know, she doesn't know what she's doing and when she was a child, the only girl in the house, she watched other Indian girls and I saw how her parents adored them and the people.

I was constantly told oh, you must be spoiled, your dad's daughter, and then they found out that my father was so rich that they never knew my suffering, they never knew the cost and when people make fun of me for coming to this church, I don't do it. do. I know if you don't know the healing I rested and they received. I don't come here for you. They know how they see me on stage now, but they have no idea that I stopped your sermon in the green church and remember being delivered. At one point I was dancing during your sermon and security was about to sit me down and I heard you say, leave her alone.

There were so many seasons in my life that you would say something and that word is what I would hold. Through the ditch and I'd dig my way out, you said when I got fired, I was like there, go and see I was right, I'm dumb, I'll never do it and you said that, that day you said this setback is just a setup for what what God is getting ready to do in your life and those things that I held on to and these same people that fired me remember back in their 40s when we went and did the press conference for them and they were asking me to come back, yeah and you.

They were like no, those kinds of things that God just did over and over again in my life and I think I felt a lot of father pain and working for myself was the way I was going to be successful. You would say the best way to shut your critic's mouth is. to be successful, so I wouldn't respond to my haters, you know, I wouldn't respond, I just kept working and the work spoke for itself and I would be successful, keep digging, yeah, yeah, but I want to share this with you because for four AND four decades later , your body keeps score and although it was easy for me to just work and work and work and try to push myself because I didn't know how to deal with the feelings, but I knew how to win, so I kept doing that.

My body shut down and I didn't know how to get my mind back and PTSD is a very real thing. I think God closed the world with Cobot 19 so he could go to therapy. You know, I'm a doctor. I'm a therapist, I used to tell everyone all the time that every therapist has a good therapist, but I myself hadn't processed that that triggers the pain and what was shutting down my body, my anxiety was out of control, um, but again, the therapy goes deeper. a ditch, yes, yes, so for someone, for her, digging a ditch was an elimination, for you, digging a ditch was getting therapy, even though you are a therapist, you got the therapy you needed and a lot of the things you talk about they happen here. in the ministry it happened at a time that I didn't like personally, I know you, you know, it was just that you were in front of the crowd when I said, leave her alone, it was just an instinct of the holy spirit that said, leave her alone, you know, just I just knew through the spirit that I should leave her alone.

The moment that stands out the most to me was a moment when you unearthed yourself. Now you were working, leading and directing our department and right in the middle you lost your brother and I never saw. You just fell into my life and you kept calling me and asking me, you know, questions about it. Can you mention it for the person who is stuck in pain right now and thinks he will never get out? I'm sure the pain is real. and I thought I had experienced it before losing my grandparents and all that, but I think losing my older brother, knowing that we had been through the hell that we went through growing up and that he had taken the brunt of it, I hoped that our story switch to.

In the end, we're going to be on top of the world, we're going to know that we're going to be successful, we're going to show him and he died on me and he was my buffer Tony, if you saw him, he was 6'3 270 pounds I wasn't his little sister like us, you know, when we went places, Tony was the one that was always, you know, okay, come back, okay, okay, you know, calm down, he would be the buffer and I wouldn't have the never The more I lost God and entered a really dark place. I never lost God, but I lost him.

I was coming here and I couldn't find it and I remember crying and walking out of church one day and I said God. I feel like I'm in this tunnel and there are like holes of light a little bit going through somewhere even if I let go of your hand please don't let go of mine I was very scared because if I lost God I felt like I was going to lose everything he is the only thing that It's kept me grounded I was scared for you I prayed for you I've never seen you so depressed before and maybe you're looking tonight and your heart is broken It's the only pain the pharmacist doesn't have a prescription for. no prescription, no aspirin, no shot, no vaccine, you just have to walk through the darkness by faith and we walk by faith and not ahead and it took a while to see that smile come back but it's back now it's back now it's right now I want I have a lot to do I don't know I don't know who to choose now I have two Michaels to choose from I think I'm going to choose this one first okay, first talk to me about your life and how you grew up in the neighborhood.

I did it. In our days you would have been called a child at risk. They would have done it. I grew up in inner city Dallas. I grew up in Pleasant Grove and South Dallas. I've actually had friends that have gone through your conservative program before um and yeah, they would call it more at risk just because the lack of resources out there is not the people, it's the lack of resources um actually, unlike most of my friends, I had the opportunity to grow up in a two-parent household, so that sets the tone for everything, even if outside the house there can be chaos, so you can only stay in your house for as long as your parents they cannot bubble. wrap yourself up and say oh no, you can't go out now, eventually you have to go out and when you go out you see the poverty, you see the hopelessness, you see people doing whatever they have to do to survive and with that you are kind. of you don't see a model for success you see a model of how to be a blue-collar worker you see a model of how to be a blue-collar worker but you don't see a blueprint for success no one runs to your school to say oh this is how you do it or no one He will come and tap you on the shoulder to say hey, I believe in you, let's do this.

Most of us who come from the inner city have to find our own niche and stick to it. a good thing that will take us to the next level in life and that's basically what I had to do, bishop. I think what really inspired me was seeing my parents' sacrifices, seeing my father work two jobs and his hands hurt from doing the work he was doing and seeing my mother go to work every day and get up early, get dressed. and then, hey, everyone, go take the bus, I have to go to work to try to make sure we had enough.

It goes on until the next day, so when you see that kind of thing it creates a mentality in you that I can't let them down, they've done too much, they've sacrificed too much and even if you help me understand something because some kids see that and they get better and some kids They see that and they get bitter, true, some children see that and it becomes fuel and some children see that and get angry. How did you avoid the trap of saying that there is darkness around me and if my parents are there? work all the time, that's one side of the story, but that's the other side of the story: they leave all the time.

I think for me I had friends in my neighborhood where I grew up who did different things than I would do. I don't think about doing it but I also saw their mother's tears, I also see when you are in that environment you are thinking that you know if your parents work a lot or if you come from a single parent home which I am going to do. something extra that may not be legal is going to help the situation when it actually hurts more, so I never wanted to see my mother cry in a courtroom.

I never wanted to see my mother cry because the police came to handcuff me. He didn't want her to see those tears. I wanted my mother to have tears of joy when she saw me graduate or when she saw me go somewhere and do something with my life, so having the first sight and seeing cousins ​​and friends, mothers really get on their knees and cry. and pray to God that the police or whoever let her son go does something different to you so you can use him as fuel or you can know if you really want to see your mother cry like that.

My answer was no. I don't want to so you went to school you did well in school you earned a bachelor's degree in sociology in 2011 from southeastern oklahoma state university a master's degree in 2013 from the university of phoenix and your doctorate you earned your doctorate in business administration from walden university this year thank you how little money is fine, you have no money bishop there is no money so what kept you going? So I have a lot of different pledges near and dear to my heart and I want to tell this story just because I mentor a lot of young men and they have their grandmother and if you're lucky you also get a chance to see your great-grandmother.

I was lucky that my father was not raised by his mother, he was. for his grandmother, who was also my great-grandmother, and those people from the 1920s are different, yeah, they live by a different creed, they live by a different cold, I think you talked about this in your last song, they live by survival, Yes, not my great-grandmother. She didn't finish high school she had to go to work so I think I was in college at the time and she was going through a lot of different things in college. In fact, I went. I think I went through depression in college because what?

I wanted to do it, I couldn't do it anymore and I was just trying to find my way and for most kids who grew up in the inner city, sports are a way out, sports were really a way out, so I got. Even though I graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma State, my first way out of Dallas, Texas, I went to Howard University, which is a permanent African American school, right, that's cool, right, and uh, but I never had the chance. to play, I didn't do it. having a chance to play because I got hurt my freshman year and then I really got hurt my sophomore year, so all those things are up in the air because I can't do something that I'm used to doing for a long time, it's actually I kind of found a little bit of identity in it, so I had the opportunity in the summer to go on a car ride with my great-grandmother and that car ride changed my whole perspective on life, she said, honey, I don't know what you're going for. to do what she tells me.

You, I don't care what you do, but can you just finish school for me? Can you just finish school for me? Big Mom never received an education and that blew my mind because normally when we talk it's not that serious I didn't even turn around. the radio like normally you know she said you can turn up the radio, you know little kids play the radio and stuff like that, but when we were talking it was dead silent, I know she had the radio on, I didn't hear anything that day I didn't hear anything and she said, Can you just finish school for me?

Do something that no other man in our family has done and when I thought about it I said wow, she's right. I think my uncle was the only one she went. to school, so I took it very seriously and followed it, so at all levels there is no excuse not to go out and achieve what is the highest level of education. I don't care if I'm smart enough or not smart enough I found out because I made a promise to that woman that I would make sure her last name meant something wow wow well she must have tried she must have tried to cry some tears of joy watching you do the achievements that you have made uh because my eyes are a little wet also let it be for him one more time and let's appreciate it, don't forget, if you have questions that you want to send, don't be afraid to send them. they in we will be happy to answer your questions we are having the opportunity to learn how to get out of life's adversities where you start it doesn't matter where you end is all where you end is all and there may be There will be some rest stops along the way and there may be some bumps in the road and you might have a flat tire and you might have to move your thumb, but if you decide you're going to get there, you're going to get there and don't let anyone change your mind don't let anyone change your mind of opinion you almost turned around michael phillips you are a pk uh you grew up in a christian home uh your father was a pastor that generations of preachers come from and you, you ended up in a mess, tell us about it, an absolute mess, not just a mess, a hot mess, yeah, I'm a fourth generation preacher, huh, who promised I'd never preach, ever, but that didn't work out.

It turned out pretty well and the reason I sworeThe reason I would never preach was because my father died when I was 12 years old. And that alone caused the pain that I still to this day struggle with and, like my brother, Dr. Michael, from there, I also had an escape from some of that pain through sports and for myself Basketball was going to be my passport to the world, but my freshman year of college on a full scholarship I was in a car accident, wait, wait, let me stop you. depressed a little you lost your father in how you were 12 I was 12 you were 12.

I was 16. what did he mean to you everything he was my role model he was my father he was a pastor and full time truck driver he had had his own vehicle and I would drive during the week and then I would stop by church on the weekends and he was my role model, he was my anchor, he was everything I thought a man was supposed to be. And when he died suddenly he had a stroke, he had a blood clot in his leg that traveled from his leg to his brain and burst, causing a stroke and heart attack simultaneously from which he did not recover and I remember being At camp, I was at a basketball sports camp when I found out I was sick and in the hospital and they told me I was going to be fine, everyone said I was going to be fine and they came to pick me up early from camp.

They didn't tell me that he had died. I can still see the hotel bathroom in front of the hospital where my mother and grandmother took me. I can still see the faces in the room, everyone was full of pain and you can see their eyes well with water. I knew something was wrong and they took me to the bathroom because they didn't want me to run or make a scene and I just cried but not violently just without understanding he was my model you always say it's hard to become what you don't see I'll add to what I say but It is very easy to become what you are always exposed to and since I lost my model it became easier for me to go to the street because that is what I was exposed to in a small church where he grew up in the church singing hymns clapping praising God with a father and a mother and the fourth fourth generation didn't want to preach ended up being a preacher ended up being a drug dealer yeah, until the end, not just a little bit he was slandering them all really, really, live, it was serious business, yeah, yeah , we, you don't even look like a director, no, that's to see, that was the kick, that's the good thing about good, me.

I'm sorry, that was the good thing about this that I could play in different worlds, I could play in different worlds and then the church became my cover the church with your cover that was my cover I played the drums and I played the piano on Sunday I didn't. I knew but the rest of the week I was out there getting money yeah that was my cover and I did it all through high school until I got my scholarship and then I decided I could have a different life so I thought I was going to have a different life, you thought you were dead for life, yes, you thought you were going to have a different life, you thought you were right, yes, I thought so, I thought, yes, yes, but you, you were a drug dealer.

With all due respect you weren't that good because they caught you well not at all don't say it like that it doesn't fail no so how did you end up then I lost my scholarship I had the car accident this is important because in the car accident I woke up in the hospital my sir torso got trapped under the dashboard my upper torso went through the windshield and I woke up in the hospital tied to a board and I couldn't feel anything and then they rushed me to surgery and Then when I came to I was in the hospital with I had surgery on my leg and they told me that I would never walk again, much less play ball, so in my recovery it was more painful, not physically but mentally and emotionally, because I had lost my passport to the world because no one told me it could be something different than a baseball player, so a doctor or a lawyer or anything else was out of the car, in fact, from first grade to high school.

They told me I would end up in jail. It wasn't until my senior year that someone told me I was smart, so let's get back to the smart part of not being a bad drug dealer. The way we got caught was by accident. running from the local drug police and he ran towards one of our safe houses that we had, we had a whole block full of safe houses, actually we had the whole block and then we had an abandoned school across the street, so We control about three miles, who is it? I wish me and my team my you and your team my squad your squad so a squad and a gang are pretty much the same thing we weren't a gang yeah yeah this was this was a group of guys ironically this was a group of kids who had disappointments and setbacks we all went to school together but we all decided we were going to sell drugs together and then a boy ran into the stash house running from the local drug police your mother was still preaching my mother was preaching every Sunday so now you have a single mother still preaching every sunday raising an angry black man that's true and boy was i angry i didn't know what to do with my pain and what i discovered was the pain that you are not willing to transform you will pass on , wait. one minute the pain that you are not willing to transform you will transmit you will transmit that is a tweetable right there the pain that you are not willing to transform you will transmit delve into it a little more I transmitted my pain through anger and I built a façade of having power as a drug dealer over all these other people who were self-medicating their pain.

I didn't self-medicate my pain, my medicine was power, so I exercised my power by being angry being a date. -unquote, boss telling addicts what to do and where to go, supervising the little guys on the corner we looked at and they beat people up and they thought I'm going to be a kingpin or something and That's what I did with my pain, so I passed it on to everyone I came into contact with because I didn't know how to transform it. That didn't come until later, so I want every single mother raising a black child to hear this, but I also want couples to hear this because it's not just single black mothers who are at risk of raising a child that you love but who has anger that you can't get out;

It is possible to be a parent and have a child who is angry in some way. that you can't get out this is a real problem in our community what you just mentioned is a real problem in our community repressed anger and says that instead of medicating it his drug of choice was power, well, power can manifest itself in many ways different can manifest in abuse it can manifest in murder it can manifest in anger it can manifest in crime it can manifest in many different ways power can take on many things and I'm just saying that so Can you help me so that I can help you identify that what you call demons and what what you call demons and what you are putting could be an angry child who is angry about something they didn't understand and I want you to at least understand it.

If this angry young black man who had every reason to turn out well ends up turning out badly because he's angry at dad, in fact, with the exception of him, everyone in this scenario was angry at dad, or abused or hit. me or let me give you more mom no it didn't replace not having a dad that made it worse it made it worse it made it worse then the best thing my mother did was let me take my lumps is the best What she did because there was nothing she could do but just loving me, even if that was from a distance, even if it was going to be through a cell, so saving you from trouble and getting you out of trouble and fighting for you was I'm not helping you, you had to hit your head, I had to hit myself mine because discipline for a man is an expression of love, that is right and in the absence of yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, we, we do not believe that you love us.

If there is no discipline there and the disciplinarian, the disciplinarian individual that you expected is gone, then the discipline had to come when a church kid who grew up sitting playing the drums ended up sitting in a jail cell, yes sir, take me away there, you will never forget the creepiness. The jingle of a cell door closing echoes and reverberates around the concrete floors and walls of the central block and when they closed that door on me I was in pretrial detention, they set my bail at 10 million dollars, they gave me a charge impeachment and I was facing 30 years in prison, so here I am in pretrial detention, now my dumb self and I that's the best word choice, being my dumb self is thinking, well, I'll be here with my friends, I'm good .

Let's go up, you know, let's go. I'm straight because I know everyone there, but they put me in federal prison and then took me away, so I turned myself in. I don't want to leave that part out. I was running away when the guys raided our place because we didn't know who was trying to hit us. Federal agents raided my mom's house when I found out that, I figured she'd let me leave and figure things out later, so I'm going down. i-95 i'm in richmond and from baltimore i'm in richmond in about two and a half hours on a good day that's a four hour drive i'm there in two and a half moving out of dodge i stopped at a bob evans for lunch i know what Come on, I'll never forget, I stopped at Bob Evans for lunch and my mom called me around this time before, right, let's go next time, tell her two ways and she hit me.

She stood up and she said honey, whatever you are facing, we can face it together. Say I can't talk to you. Talk to you later. You know I have to go. I got in my car and headed down 95 trying to get to Florida. And suddenly I knew. I had to turn around. I knew I had to turn around. I knew that if I kept running, this was going to be my life and I didn't want it to be my life, so I decided to turn it around. The problem was I was in the wrong lane at a busy intersection so I had to flag, roll down the window, wave at everyone and literally just beg for help to get through and that's when I learned that wrong lanes have left turns. right wow yeah wrong lanes have right turns so let me do this because because this is a great story and it has a lot of twists and turns, it includes almost staying in jail, a judge making a decision that led him to oru instead of prison and he was drugged. in oru in a chapel service I'm doing well you're doing very well well and and I ended up getting saved after finishing school and he made a statement to me the other day I went to prison but my son went to Harvard my son went to Harvard, that's right, class of 2020, class of 2020.

Yes, the statement: wrong lanes make right turns, you have a book coming out, your first book, my first book, wrong lanes make right turns, if you've ever been in the wrong lane like any of the lanes we talk about here and you don't know how to get out or you or your daughter are in or your son is or your sister is or your mother is in the wrong lane and you can't figure out how to turn left. right, I certainly recommend that you order this book on Amazon and I'm not trying to sell books, I'm trying to prevent us from having wrong turns after wrong lanes, that, that, if it were possible. someone who finished could have been paralyzed his whole life he could be in jail right now, right now, right now, and I heard his son say the address of Princeton.

My son gave the graduation address for the Harvard Class of 2020. Harvard i' Sorry, it's on YouTube, you can watch it, yeah, it was amazing. I listened to him three times and then called him in Baltimore to tell him how amazing he was. It doesn't matter where you started. Mine is where you end up. certain bishop, can I tell you the picture on that cover real quick what that means just for a second remove the cover so this cover of this book is me at 12 years old, six months after my father died and instead of go to the church?

My mom dragged me and I decided to go down to the corner to play dice because I hated going to church because it reminded me of my father's death. That 12-year-old boy was angry, scared, confused and the worst enemy in the world, but what has God done in my life? , same building, same church I was playing dice in front of 17 years later, sorry my pastor was about to intervene 17 years later, I started my church in that building, so when you talk about digging your way out You have You have to keep digging and if you don't have a shovel, remember that God has a drill, he will go down as far as necessary to get you out of what you are inside.

All of us up here are a living witness and a proof, come on, someone, our living witness and a testimony of what God can do. I don't think you can say anything better than that. I don't think you can say anything better than that and we're almost out of time. I don't see any questions on the screen, it's oh Lulu, I asked the bishop how do you learn to trust God in the midst of your digging. What if you're digging doesn't work? If you are alive to write the question. you can't say the dig isn't working, you can, you can only lulu, you can only say it's not working as fast as you want it to work, the stories you see here didn't happen asfast as They said it, they told it in a few minutes, but they lived it for decades, they lived it for decades and, literally, what you have to understand is that there are no quick solutions to complicated problems.

This woman has a job and continues to struggle with the problem for years. While she was raising her child and she was raising herself, this young man didn't come out of the hood and quickly ended up with a PhD, so when you say how you trust God in the midst of your digging, what if you're digging? That last question doesn't work. What happens if you're digging? It does not work. That's satanic. That's what the enemy tells you. When God is working in your life, he tries to make you think it's not working. And you and you and the first question.

This is definitely Christian, how can you trust God in the midst of your digging? You have no one else to trust. You have no one else to trust. You have nowhere else to go. You don't have anything else that has a positive ending. We trust in God because we have no one else we can trust, there is no one to trust like God, not your mother, not your father, not your sister, not your brother, not your lover, not your lady, not your boyfriend. I don't even care about your girlfriend what you like, you don't have anyone.

You can trust like you can trust God to fix your life, but just because he doesn't work with your schedule doesn't mean he's not working on your behalf now and the last thing you What I want to say to Lulu is don't let your emotions be misinterpreted as faith, it doesn't have to feel like it's working to be working, it doesn't have to look that way. it's working to be working it's working when it doesn't seem like it's working it's working when it doesn't seem like it's working it's working when you don't see it's working it's still working on your behalf it didn't seem like it was working it was working with this young man right here it didn't seem like it was working for her right there I can remember preaching Sunday after Sunday after Sunday and her face didn't change and the mask of pain was on her and it didn't look like it was working but I kept preaching and preaching and preaching and preaching and preaching and preaching and preaching and one day a smile appeared on his face and one day he started clapping again and one day he stood up on his feet again, it doesn't happen on your schedule, but that doesn't mean it's not working.

I'll answer another quick question. Jones John 98 asks how you don't self-sabotage when you're building for expansion and how you get comfortable. In success, how do you not sabotage yourself? you may need therapy you may need counseling you may need to talk to someone you need to identify the self-sabotaging behaviors that exist in your life and eliminate eliminate eliminate eliminate eliminate until you get to something solid and stable and secure and that's a journey, that It's a journey, my friend, that's a process that's not me putting my hands on you and you fall to the ground and you get up and you discover that no, it's not like that, you're not there yet.

You have different things in your life that you have to work on to get to the bottom of identifying self-sabotaging behaviors that are working in your life and then when you succeed, it will feel weird and it will feel uncomfortable, but when you succeed. at success sit on it anyway sit on it feeling weird feel uncomfortable feel out of place feel like you're playing a role in a movie feel like it's not really you eventually you'll start wearing it and it will fit and it's you'll become in you, but the reason you don't feel comfortable in it is because it is strange to you and anything strange eventually becomes familiar, it starts out strange, it becomes familiar and you lose your fear of the people up there and you lose the fear of the air up there and you start to belong up there until suddenly when you prepare to go back to where you used to be now you feel uncomfortable there because even though they knew you when they didn't I know that now you are going to win if you don't quit you will feel comfortable if you don't quit you will adapt to it if you don't quit but at first when you walk in this you will feel like you are living in someone else's house, you are working at someone else's job, you are living someone else's dream and that you wouldn't feel worthy of the position you're in and I'm still not going to own it, it takes a while to own it, it takes a while to own it and rest in it and relax and part of the biggest problem is the fear that it won't last, the fear that That it doesn't last last and that's not just money that's love that's relationships that's people that's children we live with the fear that it won't last but while you live with the fear that it won't last it's lasting and little by little you start to relax and you say oh it's not going anywhere because it's not what's happening around me, it's what came out of me, it's mine, it's really mine, I really earned it, I really built it, that's why it's important that they don't give it to you. .

You have to earn it with your own hands, because if I give it to you I can take it from you, but if you build it yourself, it is yours, you own it and you can walk in it. Thanks for your question. There is a pair. Of the things I want you to do, I want to encourage you to come back, share and watch Bill for Expansion and find your way on the official YouTube channel. I want to encourage you to check out the conservative graduation we just hosted. our YouTube channel and watch and now that you've seen the woman who runs it you not only see the story of the lives she has changed, you begin to understand why the devil beat her all her life because he knew she was going to grow up. and change the lives of 30,000 people and he tried to shut it down and stop it from getting there his story shows why hell was afraid of him in the first place and whatever you do tonight I want you to go to amazon and I want to find wrong lanes, you have right turns and I want you to do it in advance so you can be the first to get your copy and I don't want you to just read it, I want you to study it, I want you to write notes.

On the other hand, I want you to choose little pieces that speak to you and that speak to your situation because it is a guide on how to deal with anger that has gotten out of control in young men and women, in older men, in older women. It hits anyone and comes out in anxiety, frustration, coldness and disconnection from other people, where you will not allow intimacy to invade your space because deep down, anger becomes defenses that protect your pain, but the walls will collapse if you continue. walking around them long enough the walls will fall and the wrong lanes will have right turns I want you to study it I want you to get a study group I want you to get a book club I want you to start talking about it online I want you to start ministering to each other to each other I want you to share it with your son I want you to have a conversation about it I want you to do it in such a way because there is healing and deliverance available to you right now and I want to pray for you right now in the name of Jesus if you have been in the wrong lane if it was difficult for you to turn right if you have come from an impossible situation if you have had a pain that you could not overcome It is over if you have been in a situation where you are in a position, but on the outside, but on the inside , your heart is broken and you feel unworthy and dysfunctional and you are well disguised, but on the outside. inside you are broken I want to pray for you right now so that the healing and liberating power of the holy spirit enters your life and touches you if you are about to give up on your dream and you are halfway there and you feel like you want to give up and abandon school and abandon your dream or abandon your business or walk away from your home or walk away from your life.

I want to pray for you right now that you have the experience so young. The man had an arrest in his car that makes you fight a little harder and dig a little harder until you make a breakthrough in your life. In fact, if you're in this room, you go through it and out. of breath and you're digging and the water hasn't come yet and you're digging and you don't see water and there hasn't been any wind and it hasn't rained and you're about to faint with your shovel in your hand I want you to run over here and let me pray for you while I pray for them because you will not die in this desert and you will not die with your shovel in your hand you will not stop digging until you come out with a testimony and I want you to see yourself on this stage and I want you to see yourself telling your story on this panel and I want that you see yourself leaving because if you can imagine the invisible, you can do the impossible if you can keep it in mind it can happen in your life it can happen to you I want you to imagine writing your book I want you to imagine yourself with your doctorate I want to imagine you in your program television I want you to imagine changing the lives of prisoners around the world and speaking before parliaments and speaking to nations.

I want you to imagine because these people are ordinary people, they are not celebrities, they are not stars, they are not famous. They are just people who kept digging, they don't have any magic tricks, there are no magic bags, there are no supernatural angels standing on their heads throwing dust on them, you can't have the same power that raised them from the dead, it will also speed up your life . mortal body and he will raise you and deliver you if you have drugs he will deliver you if you are selling drugs he will deliver you if you are suicidal he will deliver you if you have a history of falling in love bad men and bad women he will deliver you if you are in a situation where you are being beaten even after the spankings that you are still beating yourself he will deliver you jesus died so that you could live and so that you could have more abundant life and I want to pray for you who are in this circle and I want to pray for you so that in line the power of the holy spirit touch you and find you where you are right now father in the name of Jesus lift up Raise your hands, father, right now in the name of Jesus as I lift up your sons and daughters before you.

Some of them are tired, they're digging and they're tired and they're digging and they're hurt and they're digging. and they are angry and they are digging and they are frustrated and they are digging and they are upset and they are digging and they are confused but oh my God today in the name of Jesus strengthen their hands strengthened their resolve strengthened their commitment they have come too far to give up they have come too far to give in they have come too far to give up and father, I pray in the name of Jesus that by the power of the holy spirit you would give them the strength to keep digging until they get what they are after their children are watching their daughters are watching their parents are watching their neighbors are watching their sisters and brothers and little sisters and brothers are watching them and I pray right now in the name of Jesus that the people around this altar will be the first in their family to do something incredible I don't care what it is I don't care if it's getting a degree starting a business or baking a cookie I want you to do something you've never done before.

The man with the withered hand did something he had never done before and extended his hand. The man who was daily at the door called beautiful did something he had never done. done before he got up from his bed and started walking, the man who was sick with paralysis did something he had never done before he was brought down into the presence of Jesus and changed and that is how you know you are liberated when you do something you have never done before. done before, I believe in God with you right now and everyone who is watching online that you are going to do something that you have never done before, God is going to do a wonder in your life, I decree and declare.

In the name of Jesus that the power of the holy spirit will begin an inner work in your life that is so strong that you will not stop digging until you see the waters fill the ditches and fill the whales and fill the holes and fill the wounds and fill the pain and fill the agony and fill the struggle in your life right now in the name of Jesus, the one whom the son has set free is truly free and I speak of freedom over your life, I speak of freedom over your life I speak of freedom over addictions I speak of freedom over anger and frustration and resentment and envy and strife and guilt and despair I pray in the name of Jesus that God will touch you right where you are and that you will never be the same again and that you will find your right turn may you find your right turn may you find your funny lord may you find your life's purpose to return to the center of the city where you came from and be different from them may you find the power of god to change 30,000 inmates and address the nations.

I pray to God that you do something that surprises you. I pray to God that God touches you in such a supernatural way that you do something so amazing that you replace the people who occupy these chairs. and tell your story to the world there is a story in you that is dying to come out there is a story in you that is dying to come out there is a story in you with a happy ending there is a story in you with a bright future all you have to do What you gotta do is keep digging and you're going to hit it, you're watching online, there's a story in you that hasn't been told yet, it's not over yet, it's not over yet, keep digging, keep digging, the water is coming, no .

It doesn't come in a weekend, it doesn't come in a week, sometimes it doesn't come in a year, but if you keep researching everything that God promised you will be fulfilled, you won't get any doctorate in a year. You don't get a medical degree in two years, you don't get it in four years. He had to fight for it and work for it andsweating it out and working and working and studying late into the night while other people performed. a fool, it's time for you to discipline yourself and get to work because God has a plan for your life.

I feel the anointing of the holy spirit through this place right now touching every part of you, right now changing every part of you. Right now you are breathing life into every part of you and you haven't seen anything yet, the Holy Spirit is touching you and setting you free and I want everyone here to give God some kind of praise and I want everyone online to give Him to God something. kind of praise and I want to hear praise fill this building come on and praise it come on and praise them online praise them in your living room praise them on your couch praise them in your dining room praise them on your kitchen table praise them in your car pray on your phone praise them, praise them on facebook, praise them on youtube, let everything that breathes praise you, the lord god is not done with you yet it's not good english yet, but it's a great faith god is not done with you yet god is not done with you they said I would never walk they said I would never be free they gave him a 10 million dollar bond and he is preaching and walking and living and moving and God is not done with you yet your story is not over you do not have to end up like your friends you do not have to die in the street you do not have to be a statistician father now that we come to the end of this Bible class, I pray that this word will burn in someone's heart tell us everything that is on your mind tonight.

I pray it burns in someone's heart until they start deleting numbers. Our prayer would burn in someone's heart until their life changes so much that they completely change direction. I pray that you heal someone who has been beaten his entire life. They may have been beaten all their lives, but I pray that they never believe it, never accept it, never own it, never claim it and I pray that someone has the courage tonight to rebuild their life, expand and prepare for something better. because The best is coming for you. God bless you and have a great night.