Sunday, June 6, 2021

come on holy spirit show up strong this morning again come on what you're saying is uh come on chairs it's free it's good morning world harvest church come on come on fire fire falls on us start a new revival fire for us I want you to do it join us and Sing it out loud, let's start a new revival, come on, take it back like you did, let the heavens touch the earth, someone's ready for fresh fire shouting, this house give us more and more of who you are, everyone says about us, you. You are the only one who is so good to see you this Sunday morning and even to see a little more of you without a mask, if you are happy, listen, we want you to take a moment and say hello to someone and say good morning. so go ahead, turn around, walk down the hall, let someone know you're glad to see them here today on all of our campuses, come, get up from your seat, be friendly, listen, you're joining us online right now, Take a moment, write. from where you're looking and then write down what you hope God will do for you today or for someone else so we can agree with you, be friendly, smile, smile, church online, I'm pastor jonathan saprowski.

I'm my wife Kristen and we want to tell you how happy we are that you joined us this morning. You are part of the family and we couldn't be more grateful for you. Hey, we want to let you know that we want to pray for your needs. and whatever you're going through, whatever it is, you need someone to support you, we have our hotline open this morning call, there are anointed and ordained people on the other end of that line who are willing to pray For you, we are very grateful. that you are part of our service this morning and hey let me tell you if no one else has done it yet, you are important to the body of christ and we see you make sure to comment get involved in the service we love you let's have a great service we are ready to shout great father we cannot live this without you but we need the power of your holy spirit flowing through us so we say it like this I need the holy spirit I need the empire of the holy spirit fill me with the holy ghost fill me with the holy spirit of fire say I need I need the holy spirit very simple I need the holy spirit of fire sounds good fill me with the holy spirit fill me touch of the holy spirit raise those hands in the air all of our online campuses and in this room and shout lord, fill me with the holy spirit and fire just like you did in the upper room god, I want your fire to fall fresh on me I want your power to fall fresh on me so that I can be a living witness as your god and good and savior and healer and restorer if you are ready for fresh fire shout once again very big let's go hands up that sign of international surrender father we thank you we thank you we thirst for more we hunger for more and we trust you in all things you are good, you never falter, you never change, always You are the same faithful, although we know that you arrive at the right time when I least expect it, but never behind, so why would I be surprised when you deliver everything? time on the mountain tops, thank you lord, you remain the same and invalid, you never change, listen and I believe I will see the goodness of the lord.

I trust that you will change your fidelity. Let anyone believe in God and good. All your fidelity. Here it is. your word you go before me yes to prepare a blessing and here is the goodness of god is even more you stay in the same times we go the goodness of the lord god of my presence god of my future you write my story you keep it all together god of my presence and god of my future you write my story yes you hold it all together you sing god of my praise god of my future offer and finisher you hold it all together of my oh god of my future you write my story you hold it all together cause you are the sharks alone for saving his life and I believe I will see the goodness of the Lord.

I have confidence as the seasons change their fidelity. I have confidence as the seasons change their fidelity. I have confidence as the seasons change your faithfulness, you know, David said, I would have stumbled if I didn't believe that I would have seen the goodness of the Lord, you know, believe, faith, trust, that's our part, I know sometimes it's easier to say We have to do it, but if we do it, but we believe if you will believe in the goodness of the Lord, you know that he has never failed you and never will. This thing you're looking at now is not bigger than your god, it may be bigger than the last mountain you saw, but it's not bigger than your God, so I wonder if we could just turn our eyes to Jesus like the old lady says song, the things of this world and the sufferings of this world that last only a little time and cannot be compared with the glory that will be seen in me.

I'm looking for someone who says: I choose to trust him. It's another week. It's another day. I choose to trust Jesus again. I choose to believe the report of the Lord. I choose to believe that He is working all things for my good. I choose to believe. that he is going to get the glory of this, whatever it is, I am getting out of this and going to the promised land that he prophesied over my life I choose to believe in the goodness of the lord anyone online one of our campuses or in this room that choose to believe in the goodness of the lord now he will say you are the alpha you keep it all together you are the alpha yes you I don't know how you do what you do but you keep it I don't I don't know how what do you do together now once again you hug you are the last time even when I don't see it you're working even when I don't feel like you're working you never stop you never stop working you never stop you never stop working even when I don't see it even when I don't feel it you're working you never stop you never stop what what what what what what what what what what what what is certain even when I don't see ever stopped someone move on and rest in the love of God rest from the amazing grace he has already provided we worship you in this place we attack you in this place may jesus be elevated from eternity to eternity you are from eternity to eternity you we worship you mighty god we exhaust you our king we praise you we praise you we insult we lift up the name of Jesus then sing my soul my savior god to you how great how great you are how great you are then sing my soul then beautiful church and I believe I will see the goodness of the lord singing that I have confidence I have confidence as the seasons change you are faithful I am sure I have confidence as the seasons change your faith remains we think of your faithfulness remains your goodness remains your goodness remains you never change to god of age in age you are from eternity to eternity you are and we thank you for your goodness we go hands up all over the room online yes beautiful we worship you our god our king wonderful savior be elevated high be magnified you are our focus blood of jesus oh a love that paid my part is to the darkness of my story from the beginning to the fall so that I could rise so we cried come on here is our very simple answer hallelujah lift up hallelujah online campus he has already conquered come on praise him right here holy holy holy my lord here is good news you have conquered foreigner raise those voices hallelujah we worship you we wear you out we honor you we pray we worship you be elevated high am I I am completely in this entire tabernacle on every campus.

Last time you heard it a little louder with everything you have. We will listen for over a year as a church family. We have been faithful in singing and declaring the praises and thanksgiving of the Lord, but we. I have been doing it behind the mask and for the first time as a church family collectively in this room, across all of our campuses and online, this is the first time in over a year that we can actually hear you sing out loud kindness and greatness. of the Lord, so someone take advantage of that once again and shout to the Lord with a voice of triumph, let your voice be heard, let his praise be heard, let those praises sound, son of God, five more seconds, lift up Jesus, let someone give you God or he did it to you. as a compliment, I mean, you survived an entire pandemic, lift up the name of Jesus, say it to someone in front of your seat and tell them that Jesus suits you and you can sit in the presence of the Lord, oh, it's so good to be. with all of you, all of our online campuses and right here in this great tabernacle, if you are happy to be here, just shout, yes, we hear you, listen, whether you are here with us today and this is your first time or the first time in For a long time we like to call you our VIP and we would love to have a record of your visit and connect with you, so we ask that you do one of three things: You can fill out the card there, at your seat.

You can send a text message to the number on your screen or they could even throw you an old QR code for you to scan. If you take a moment, fill it out for us. We would love to have a record of your visit if you complete it. that card towards the end of the service when we pass those offering plates, you can leave it on the plate, but we would also love to meet you here at this altar with our VIP team and thank you vanno, thank you, thank you. that's my daughter, that's the oldest, we would love to give you this filled with goodies from our first family and not only is it a functional bag but it's also a cooler just in time for summer so let us meet you at the end of the service from today.

Well, please direct your attention to the screens. That's right, Shayna Wilson Williams will be at World Harvest Church. We are very excited. That was just a taste, Katie, of what she will bring to praise, worship and ministry, so don't do it. I want to miss it. She will be here next week. How many people will be here to show her bright smiling faces now that we don't wear masks? Oh, it's so cute. Thank you for joining us this morning. I'm Cameron. and I'm katie, this is my beautiful wife katie fontana, now tell them real quick we have a big announcement coming up, but why are you wearing a wig? obviously for the kids, for the kids, she doesn't dress like this every day, this is specifically for her kids, so I want to get that out of there, I love it, oh man, well, speaking of music, this is one of the biggest announcements Harvest Music Live has made in the last year, Pastor Chris, because we're officially bringing back the choir.

Going back now, the pastor said it in our dream team meeting this morning. How many members of the dream team in the house do we know? Many of you can sing, we have been listening to you through your masks, but if you have any idea about being part of the choir, all you have to be able to do is this, you are ready like this and clearly we can't do it in unison, but I'm sure it's okay so if you can swing you can sing in our choir and this is a very special time that we want you to put on your calendar this month we are bringing back the choir so if you are interested on the 22nd of June at 7 p.m. m. park in the north parking lot and you will enter through those doors outside, pastor chris and the wonderful hml team will take you to studio b and sign you up to join the best blessed band in the country and create the best choir in the country.

We'll think about the acronym later. That's right, Cameron, well, even if you didn't. Please know that we have a prayer line. Make some noise if you love the prayer line. Listen 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All you have to do is call this number on your screen and there will be someone there who will pray with you and agree with you. in any desire you have and any prayer request you have, they are able, ready and anointed to agree with you because the Bible says that where two or three come together, he is there, you don't have to physically hold their hand.

You know, call them on the phone, the Lord will meet you where you are. That's just a sample of what my wife preaches to her children. That's right, she'll tear down the house now, talking about tearing down the house on Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. how many of you? I have been enjoying dreams and visions with our pastor Rod Parsley, so he will continue the series this week. We will continue to offer it online, so be sure to join us and I tell you that as long as our pastor says it, he already knows the easiest. way to evangelize today guys, we don't have to buy plane tickets, we don't have to buy gas, all it takes is this guy here, one click on Facebook, share our messages if you're watching online, if you have.

I didn't share it this morning yet, click that button because guess what you could save a soul with just one click because I believe that God multiplies things perfectly, that someone who needs to hear the message and the word logs into their Facebook with their phone and because you shared it and they are your friends, they will hear that message and come to the kingdom of God. Amen, so on Wednesday nights don't just watch at 7 p.m. m., but be sure to share dreams and visions with our pastor. That's right Cameron, well we finally have a very big announcement. regarding your kids and I'm really excited about that, so we're going to continue playing some games, we're going to sing, we're going to dance, that's right, the Kid Harvest Clubhouse online experience is back and it's better than ever.

I'm very excited because it's an episode we create every week. Designed specifically for your children.Well, it's not just for our kids who come to campus, but also for people who can't come to campus and join us live. This is a great way to connect with your kids and learn about God in a way that is fun and creative and designed specifically for them, I have this superhero cape and mask because this week on Kid Harvest we are talking about epic stories. There is nothing more epic than a superhero. discuss with your children and today the big idea is that Jesus changes lives, it is about the conversion of Saul when he is on the road to Damascus, that is what they will learn today, immediately after the service, when you watch that video, your children will be blessed and you can join us. on videos on facebook kid harvest clubhouse on youtube kid harvest clubhouse as well as whc dot life click the link enjoy and share it spread the word because like cameron said before everyone has that cell phone everyone is connected to through social networks. media and what better message to share than the message of the lord, okay, especially for our children, yes, and obviously we want you to bring your children to the world harvest church, not just return to the church, your children return to church, but throughout the world. week listen, we do it with chanel, you put your phone on that youtube swag, they play any video you don't even know, log in to children's harvest, go to whc.life, let them hear the word of god, it's fun but also instills minister to them all week so facebook and youtube tune in because this week if your child reaches out I will personally send them their own superhero cape and masks so they can join us at home while they watch all of this. mes listen to cameron he's a little jealous chanelle had to wear hers all week and why can't I wear mine to church?

Amen, how many of you are grateful for a church that not only loves families but loves our children and we are so excited to join? this new season of harvest and children's ministry and I'll tell you who loves children the most, everyone, stand up, you saw him at the end of the video leading and driving the train and he's getting ready to go on stage right now, make some noise . for our pastor rod parsley with the sweet white shoes look at that you know pastor we are the same shoe size wear your shoes hers are better she says katie yours are cooler yeah don't you love fontanas and miss katie is it now too? proud to say something directing the camera of Kid Harvest Clubhouse wrote that song we had the video for and we love them so much.

I have so many fathers who are like men. My son can't wait to get to Kid Harvest Clubhouse. We love. both and who would know it was a wig as who would know the children never know the children never know maybe it's green maybe it's purple today it's pink that's right and we love you God bless you thank you for everything you are doing, okay, everyone up. What a great God, what a dream team meeting we had this morning. We talk about influence. You are an influencer right now, positively or negatively. You have already influenced thousands of people.

We just don't realize it. They smile back at you and, like Isaac. Newton's law says that everything that has an action has an equal and opposite reaction when you see other people, what you see coming back is the way you have influenced them, so influence someone right now because it's been a long time since that we have been able to see. some faces up here and you know the word says we are the generation of those who seek your face because when we seek the face of the lord we see his mouth we see his smile we see his favor we hear his words that is where he breathes his spirit upon us so I want you to You turn around and smile as big as you can at someone right now, come on, show off those pearly whites, go ahead and do it, listen to every person, even the most introverted, how many of you feel the way you do?

You're a bit of an introvert, like if I gave you the microphone, you wouldn't really want to be here right now, so even the most introverted people in your life will positively or negatively influence 10,000 people in life-changing situations. that each of you, every single one of you, in the last hour have made 35,000 decisions and each of those decisions makes you positive or negative, nellie, you've heard me say it a million times, there's only one thing better than to go to heaven and that is to influence someone to go with you and there is only one thing worse than ending up in hell and that is to influence someone else to be there too and here at the harp we believe that there is only one thing better than being ministered here in the global harvest and that is influencing someone else, how tragic would it be for you to use your influence to negatively impact another person and as a result you end up separated from God for eternity, don't do it, be an influencer, be positive and listen.

It's been a long time since I heard them scream a year and four months and I'm an audience participation preacher and you better stop screaming today someone claps someone spins someone dances someone waves to someone run give glory today A couple of weeks ago I said You know I haven't seen my friend in a while I said call him and see if on this first Sunday in June I didn't know then that the governor was going to lift the mask mandate now if you still want to use your math you're perfectly fine welcome and we just support that 100, but it's not a mandate, if you want to maintain social distancing, go ahead, but it's not a mandate, you see, so we're we're back and some. of you watching at home right now listen, you got too comfortable in your bell bottoms eating your donuts drinking your coffee sitting in your living room or not even doing it live but doing it later listen to the book it says and the book is right and they they are wrong don't stop meeting amen if you are a leader come back here get in the first two rows because someone is watching you you are influencing someone and we are waiting for you we want to welcome you we want miss katie to preach Even you two on earth I have to get out of the way, but if two of you on earth agree now, that is the smallest possible denomination for an agreement.

I have heard that preachers come to fruition, it only takes two, not if there are 3,000 in the room because you may have two, but that other disagreement of 2998 will interrupt the agreement of the two. You're not listening to me right now. You should look at someone right now. Write my eye and tell it don't you dare get dirty. lift up my miracle today my miracle depends on you so rejoice receive your shout receive your praise cast all the demons out of here because my miracle is on the way he is the founder and director of james payne ministries in nashville tennessee 44 years old i have been preaching this gospel full time with his beautiful wife Lori and I have to tell you that this pastor Chris, Mr.

London, has already told you that his beautiful German Shepherd is on his way to the world dog show in Westminster right now. Yes, Westminster, 20 years. I've been working on it, yeah, I'm very proud of it and you know, I tried to tell Pastor Chris German Shepherds to raise German Shepherd remains, but he likes those little dogs and that's fine. Oh, Miss Yolanda likes puppies. I'm glad she likes them. dogs instead of yourself okay praise God anyway this guy Grammy nominated songwriter 2,000 over 2,000 songs 2,000 songs 58 number one songs you don't know anyone who's done that 58 number one songs on the charts all kinds of music awards more than anyone could even name him, he's a member of City Harvest Network, we love him, I said we love him and we thank God that it took this Sunday morning to come and bless my good friend , the incomparable James Paint, but wait, wait, I want you to sing.

A song for me, do you promise me that the last two times I was with you you didn't sing me a song Now I heard that brother R.W Schambach Yes brother R.W Schambach every time he had James Payne in one of his big box stores? revivals he said i want you to sing that whiskey song he writes all kinds of songs if you said the whiskey song some of you will feel right at home would you welcome the incomparable james payne wow? Can I get a copy of your introduction to play every time I preach it makes me want to preach good morning to everyone say it to three people before you sit down god is going to bless someone today it might as well be you then you can sit down hallelujah most of me I spend my life studying about seeds and crops now I found something this week Genesis 8 22 says that from the beginning of time to the end of time there will be time to sow and reap summer and winter.

I discovered in my study this week that what causes the seasons is the earth tilting off its axis in a different direction. The position towards the son of the sun tilts a certain way for the time of planting and tilts up another way for the time of harvest and I truly believe that when it comes to you and me, our life has to change position for planting time and then change position for harvest time. You see, the harvest depends on your position, not towards the sun but towards the sun, and I would like to suggest to you today that you change your position, change your position, prepare for the harvest no matter what the devil has told you, prepare for the harvest no matter what. it seems that in the natural prepare for the harvest when when Jesus wanted to teach an important lesson he used seeds Matthew 17 used the mustard seed to define and describe faith you can't even see this mustard seed we read that but no I don't realize that the mustard seed is unique in that number one, it cannot be cross-pollinated, the mustard seed cannot be cross-pollinated, in other words, if you are going to have a faith that moves mountains, it cannot be mixed with the religion. cross-pollination cannot be done with tradition.

Another thing I discovered about mustard seed is that if you take it and plant it, it will not grow or grow unless you soak it in water for three days. This seed has anti-germinating elements and today we have a church that does not believe in the holy spirit, but in every person, even in every born again person, there are anti-faith elements in us, we are bound by experience and tradition and the holy spirit is needed. you have to soak your spirit in the holy spirit if you are going to give birth to my god i feel like preaching today if you are going to have a harvest you are going to have to absorb your spirit with the holy spirit jude said building become the most holy faith praying in the holy spirit after three days all the antigerminative elements of this seed will float to the surface of the water and you can remove them if we ever need it a saturation of the holy spirit in the house of god we need a saturation I said we need a saturation of the holy spirit God mine, it will remove the anti-holiness elements, it will move the anti-faith elements, it will and you know something more about this seed, you can't take it outside and plant it and wait for a tree to grow indoors for three years before transplanting it outside.

I'm not telling you that this isn't in the Bible, but if you read an agriculture book you will discover that you have to understand the natural to understand the spiritual jesus jesus used birds to teach about money today I pray that someone will look online or in this casa pastor I have to watch it online I can't drive six hours to get to church, but every Wednesday night I found you because this man has influenced my life as much as any man who has ever walked the planet. This is the best preacher I have heard in 1996.

I had been watching the pastor on TV and didn't want to meet him. I don't want to meet him and find out he was an idiot like a lot of other preachers I met because he was influencing my life and I was scheduled to do a camp meeting with him and Jesse Duplantis in Texas and I had to meet the pastor and the guy. I tell you that I am very glad I did it. I fell in love with Pastor Rod because he didn't like others. Come on, there was a humility. There was a pastor. I was dying of greed one Sunday night in 2020, in the month of April.

This man he called me on the phone he didn't have any greeting he just started praying when he started praying the power of god fell in my room I'm alive I said I'm alive I'm not dead I'm alive I'm here to tell you the power of god is in this house the power of god is here you can be this is the only place I get nervous preaching I have sung at the grand ole opry and I was I'm not nervous I preached at tbn I wasn't nervous I get nervous here I was getting nervous I love you too , we even hunted ducks together outside of Baytown, Texas, yes, praise God, well, I want to sing the song you see when I came to church, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic and my favorite whiskey was Jack Daniels.

Some of you act like you don't know what that is. I've been all over the world and when you walk through the hotel lobby. In Africa you see whiskey Jack Daniels Jack Daniels was called to be an evangelist and he got discouraged, so he started making whiskey,what an evangelist I would have been, so I wrote this song, it's not a church song, it debuted at number one on all the charts. and I made it to number five on the country music charts without a record label behind me because of the powerful influence of tbn jan krauts made a video right now we have documentation of over 50,000 people who have been saved by this song alone 50,000 people we have documentation 50,000 people, aren't you glad that God can take an old exhausted drug addict, a non-alcoholic who never did anything good, raised in a family where there was never a Christian?

Jesus found me in a hospital room covered with a sheep. from my third drug overdose he saw something in me that no one else could see not even my family could see it but god saw it pastor I need to redo my bio because I've had 78 number ones now 78 until this week and I've written some beautiful church songs , if you ever heard brother Swagger do his blood still sets men free, I wrote that Mike Perky used to come here and sing, let's have a church, I wrote that and several others, but for the pastor this morning I want to do this. uh it's called the night jack daniels met john 3 16. you don't hear that in church every

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I remember the night at the end of my road in a motel in Nashville looking for hope in my hand there was a bible. I read when I was a kid, but on the table there was a bottle that was driving me crazy. I poured the whiskey into the glass. I prayed that he would help me forget my past. Then I read how Jesus died in that tree, spilled the whiskey and fell. I got down on my knees and that night old Jack Daniels met John 3 16. God's word broke the hope he had for me. I traded the Tennessee whiskey for the Calvary tree that night.

Old Jack Daniels met John 3 16. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Now in this house, when I see those old friends I used to know at that old place I used to go, they tell me I'm different than I used to be and I love telling them what happened to me that night. Old Jack Daniels met John 3 16. The word of God broke the hope he had for me. I traded the Tennessee whiskey for the Calvary tree that night. Old Jack Daniels met John 3 16. Thank you Jesus that night. Old Jack Daniels met John 3 16. Hallelujah, Lord. from god the word of god glory to god i remember singing that at the grand ole opry there were 5,000 people there and I looked in the crowd and I could see people raising their hands when that song went to number five on the country chart.

They invited me to tour Alaska and sing in all the bars. 25 different bars I was in in Alaska singing that song. The West Virginia State Fair had Vince Gill, who is a country singer, on Sunday night. They had James Payne on Monday night. Nobody knew who he was. but I saw 300 good boys lower their long necks and walk up the altar that night and give their hearts to Jesus, hallelujah. Look, they don't know about Jehovah Jireh, but they do know about Jack Daniels. We have to reach them where they are. and get them where they need to be I have to preach I have to preach amen just a second let me get situated here and then we will have a word of prayer uh thank you pastor for having us here uh thank you miss joni i read your blog she is very intellectual and I love seeing Aston dance every time I come to this church.

I feel like I can dance and you know, white men can't dance, but I feel like I can, uh, I thought I would give. a dance class this morning I need to lay out these steps here if you'll just bear with me for a moment this may just take a moment maybe I can get someone to help me just lay them out here while I preach by myself yeah, yeah, okay Now, I want to share some scriptures with you. This message today is dedicated to those who feel that you have been underestimated. Underrated. Ignored. We have to work hard to get back to where we were before this whole attack started. many people have been marginalized. some of you who are watching maybe online have been marginalized.

They can't find what they once had to get up and come to the house of God, well this is your day to change things, change things, this is your day to change things. Look I grew up poor and you know when you grow up poor it's easy to get used to being poor and then God blessed me and so I can go anywhere I need to go now and preach if a church has 30 people and go there and hold a revival even if They don't give me an offering because now I'm rich, God gave me the talent to write the music he made.

I am rich, you see, but if I got used to being poor, I would still be poor, we were so poor. My dad, I was the eighth of nine children, put us in the car that was on blocks and held pictures of what we were like. I would have seen if we could have gone somewhere then you can't convince me that God wants me to be poor I have been poor and I didn't like it I want to be able to give I want the power to do something for the kingdom I think I am talking to people today in the last few months you felt like stopping throwing in the towel instead of giving up, won't you get up?

You know, instead of keeping quiet, why don't you talk? above you know pastor is talking about dreams and visions dream is a creative idea that is asking permission to live a dream is a creative idea that is asking permission to live work will make you live dreams will make you all your life you see but we have all faced each other to roadblocks, potholes and detours on the road to our dreams and we had to get up and that's what I want to talk about this morning, this first scripture that I want to read to you, is something that is happening in the life of Abraham in Genesis 13 and beginning with verse 14 I think they have this for the screen, but it says after Lot was separated from him talking about Abraham after Lot was separated from him, God said to Abram, open your eyes and look. around the north, southeast, west, all that you see, all the land spread out before you, I will give it to you and your children forever, so they will never take Israel, I will make your descendants, I will make your descendants like dust of the earth and nothing will be as impossible as counting the dust of the earth so stand up move and walk through the country along and the breath I am giving you everything say this with me out loud devil, I am going after my things devil I am going After the promise that God made me the devil I will no longer be sitting here I will not wait for him to come to me I will get up today and go after it I have sat here long enough, not one more minute.

I get up and go after what God has said. If you want a move of God, get up and go after it if you are hungry for God. Get up and go after God if you want. to learn more about god get up and go after god hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah glory to god I like what the urban bible says did you ever read the urban bible I like that slang that says get up and walk now my African American brothers and The sisters lo You know, I grew up in that culture, I know what that means, if you don't get up and you can't intervene, there's going to be some trouble up here and God is telling Abram to get up and leave. to take a step get up and start taking a step now god said this two more times he said it to abraham and he told it to moses look look on your screen he said it to abraham he said it to moses so will I expel the nations before you and you will dispossess it that means you will take out the enemies and possess greater and more powerful nations that you listen to when God gives you an order and you will take it out, no matter the impossibilities, I found it in music you know that the radio Christian won't play my songs, but country music will see because God's blessing is in it look at this, every place where the sole of your foot will step will be yours, your feet will take you wherever your faith leads you now. go to joshua, he didn't tell moses and then it's something like moses walked around the promise but never walked according to the promise, he ate grapes of the promise but never owned the vine and there are people in the church who live off someone else's blessing, someone else's prosperity. the advance of others listen you have to have your own I said you have to have you have to get up and you have to move towards yours I'm going after what's mine devil I'm going after what's mine I'm not going to back up I'm not going to back down I'm not going to be silent I'm going after what's mine If God said it I want it Now here's the shortest obituary in scripture Moses my servant is dead and God didn't say Moses forgave the Red Sea and Moses sank He didn't say He said that Moses is dead you see yesterday he is dead is history is history tomorrow is a new day he said now my servant is dead get up and go through this Jordan you and all the people of the land that I will give you including the children of Israel here it is again every place that the soul of your foot will tread I will give it to you just as I told Moses now Moses extended the staff and the party of the red sea Joshua is standing in the Jordan River, the only way he is going to park, he will have to walk out , his disorder did not recede until he came out in the middle of his disorder, when the priest's foot touched the water, the disorder receded. some of you have to get in the middle of your mess you have to tell your mess you've kept me long enough you have to tell your mess I won't stay here I'm going to come on you come to overcome you you have to come, you hear what it is to overcome, you have to to come now.

I was in Israel with one of our missionaries and this missionary gave me a book on the ancient history of Israel and I was reading in this book about them. Three things God told Abram Moses and Joshua and I discovered by reading that an ancient Israeli tradition was to take a sharp object, probably a stone, and carve the name of your enemy on your left foot and carve the promise of God on your right foot . so I took these templates and placed them here and this one on the left is sin, this one on the right is salvation.

Now I take about 7,000 steps a day so 3,500 times I tell sin you're under my feet and saying salvation I'm standing over you oh I can't get help here we go and here this second is the one I had trouble with and here it says addiction look , I was an addict and I still am. a unique difference for addicts now i am addicted to sowing because god said if i became addicted to sowing he would help me maintain my habit so here is abundance and here is or here are addictions and here is liberation what are you saying ?

I'm saying if you're looking online or you're in this building, if you're in trouble, go buy some insoles, get on those insoles, addiction, right on that one, release and 7,000 times a day, tell the devil, tell the devil, I'm not going to come back. I'm not going to give up, I'm not going to give up, God told me to possess the land and I'm going to possess the land. Oh, I'm not going to stop there. Disappointment Disappointment Disappointment Come on Disappointment We all have to deal with it but don't let divine delays create deadly disappointment, you will have some delays, God will tell you wait a minute, you're not ready, but I'm telling you, don't let disappointment come and Tell the devil, no matter what. a destiny for me listen i think 26 years ago in texas god connected your pastor now because destinies are born where anointings intersect some of you did not have a destiny before the world harvest church you did not have a destiny before connecting with the world harvest church i have seen pastors with small churches come here and connect with the city harvest ministries and the anointing of the city harvest ministry and the world harvest church flowed to them now their churches are blowing up my god church I tell you connect I said connect sow in an anointing that you desire I never come to this church and I don't bring a check a seed why because it is your seed that connects you your seed is your resource that connects you with your source your seed builds a bridge that god brings his blessings Through you Jesus was not even going to go to Jairus' house to heal his daughter until they said he would build a temple Jesus said let's go well I have to hurry hallelujah disappointment destiny faith slavery freedom illness healing depression joy lack of forgiveness forgiveness hate love facts truth debt free debt lack abundance some of you need to take a step some of you will just walk just walk for a moment say I'm coming devil, I'm coming devil, I'm coming devil in the name of Jesus I'm going after what is mine, take a step, some of you should walk this path, don't walk this path, come on, can I tell you that 14 years ago I preached this message once and took it back for 12? years and I never preached it again because I was in a dead church and I thought the message had failed.

I went back to that church two years ago and a young woman came up to me, a beautiful young African-American woman, and she said, do you remember speaking? about the influence of the past, do you remember 12 years ago when you preached that message and left traces? She said I was a young woman who had just graduated from college. She wanted to be a doctor, but she said she didn't have the money. I worked during the summer and she said that that night you were going to receive an offering to help the church and I brought all the money I had.

She said you prayed for it and you prayed for me and you prayed for God to make a way. She said. I went to the store and bought some insoles and I put a lack on one and I put a lot on the other now listen, listen, listen, this is not a dance class, but“I could make you dance,” he said a few days after you were there. got a full scholarship, he said, he said I used those insults all through medical school and graduated with honors, wait a minute, wait a minute, he said I'm a blood specialist now, he said I'm Robin Roberts, doctor of Good Morning America.

I said he worked at the largest hospital in New York City. I flew here to tell you this story. That young woman, in the last 12 months, had a breakthrough in curing cancer and now she is on the speaking circuit lecturing doctors about this cure. Because? He saw a preacher in Texas preach a message and he said, I'm not sitting here anymore. I want to be a doctor and no matter what it takes I will be a doctor. Some of you have a dream. God put a dream. in your heart you have a destiny hell has tried to lead you astray you need to get up and take a walk omg i'm putting these things under my feet ah stop walking around the promise and walk towards the promise they didn't set my watch up so i don't know how much time do I have to preach hallelujah it's not about you see I'm 72 years old I have to pace myself tomorrow I get very excited I feel like I've been hit by a truck the gift of the anointing It didn't last 24 7.

This is why that the shepherd needs to rest from time to time. He's glad he does. That gives me a chance to piss off a pastor in Oklahoma because I changed his date to come here, but he's fine. Get over it no, he's a good friend, he was nice but I don't care who I'm contracted to. Pastor Rod calls me. I'm going to the world harvest. I need this message today. Feet are mentioned 220 times or 220 verses in Scripture. 54 chapters of the 66 books talk about the feet your feet have 27 bones your feet have 39 joints according to what I read your feet are very important if your foot hurts your whole body hurts and the Lord did not tell Moses not to tell him to joshua and he didn't tell abraham the blessing that god will just come to you look what happens to the church today is that we sit around waiting for things to come to us instead of going to them the first three songs that I wrote it and I took it an editor in Nashville threw it in the trash and told me I would never be a composer you know what I did I kept writing to you you'll run into an idiot from time to time who doesn't know what you know he didn't know I said it at the piano and he sir told me I would have a number one song next year, but he had it the next year.

He had a number one song. The cloud in which he returns has been recorded by over 5 or 500 artists and is in the hymnal of the church of god one of the songs in the trash is in the hymnal. He had Christians don't make that country music. Country music is the most popular music in Africa and Israel. It's number one music. Well, I don't like it. I don't like opera I thought hell would be opera When you go to heaven I do what I feel I can use to reach people Garth Brooks, who is a country singer, have you ever heard of? god brooks comes up to me and says i really like that john 3 16 song he's the biggest thing so you know thanks garth you know what i'm saying let me tell you something about feet number one feet are Second only to fingerprints in terms of identity, the way they reach you, you see your feet have the thickest skin of any part of your body, but it secretes a smell.

Brother Rob is a hunter. What do you have to do when you go to the forest? You have to cover your smell because even with shoes or boots that smell is transmitted. your shoes and it goes on the ground and animals can smell it fear passes through your feet and the devil can track you because he smells it the devil tracks fear listen God told me years ago when the devil can no longer make you fear that all power is lost upon you glory to god hallelujah you see that the devil can track fear that's why god told abram in the lowest part of his life a lot just left him and he's alone I'm going to tell you if you're going to go where God wants you go.

There are some people in your life. God will have to separate from you before he can speak to you about what he has for you. You will have to have new friends. Some of your friends may. Don't go where God is trying to take you God tracks faith Why did he say walk on that land? Because it will take faith to face that enemy and believe that I am going to expel him. It will take faith to believe that even though I am no longer with you, I am with you. It will take faith to believe that I am going to give you that land and all the armies of the world will never take that land because I made a pact with you.

God traces faith if you don't feel. His presence is probably because you are not walking in faith second corinthians 5 7 says because we walk by faith, not by sight, sometimes no matter what it looks like, you have to step forward and walk by faith, god tracks faith. I want you to know three things about why God wants you to go out and take a step. I didn't know this until this morning. I had to ask the pastor. I'm so glad he came to talk to me this morning. It's always busy and we can't get it. visit a lot, but he came and I had a chance to ask him this question because I know he started the world seven harvest in 1977 with 17 people in the backyard of his mom and dad's house, but we're not there now that we moved. a pastor at some point knowing that he needed this building and this property for the university and for television knowing with his dream and his vision that he needed he came here and told me this this morning he walked on this property god was following the faith pastor I said god , you didn't have the money but god was tracking faith, he said nothing will be impossible when you are tracking faith, he told me this, I didn't know, there is a part of this property that you can't build on because it was on a plain alluvial, you're sitting on it because he's here walking on this other property on the other side where it could be built, you understand and as he walks he tells me that an old farmer in greasy pants came up and said what are the preacher and brother Rod doing They said I'm trying to move this mountain from this side of the property to the other side of the property where we can build this church?

Maybe you heard him tell this story that I never had, but what I'm telling you is that he was out there putting footprints of faith in it on that mountain and God sent someone to move it for him, he said, oh, come on, and He wasn't dressed like someone who could do it, he had old, greasy clothes, but the next morning he went and got all the equipment to move that mountain up here so God could build his church. You don't know what God wants to do for you. You do not know. The devil said you can't have that house there. you were a liar, the devil said you can't have that job, you were alive, the devil said you can't have that car, the devil is a liar, take a step, god follow the faith, everyone is getting sick now, take my turn that you see politicians would like to create fear, it works well for them to scare us where they can control us, you see that religion, tradition would like to make you feel afraid if you leave this denomination, I asked him to tell me that I used to be the god of the assembly.

There is nothing wrong with him God loves him God ordains him so God like that but I went to preach at a divine church that is not an assembly and they pressed charges against me I gave them back their little plastic card I said God is bigger than your denomination This is what they said you will never amount to anything good, I praised God, hallelujah, they wish they had my tithe now, but now they don't have my tithe. Come on, why did God tell the people you know to walk the earth because number one when you walk? something establishes an identification mark many people have different shoes here, did you know that just by your shoes you can be tracked if you pay less or more?

The tread is different the way they are used is different. These are handmade. boots made by manuel in nashville who makes all the artists clothing you need. Amen, I can get you a man. Well, he is a dear friend of mine. He made these boots for me. They are the most comfortable boots I have ever had. feet, amen, you can track me by these boots. Look, I may be the only one in this church who wears boots, but if you notice, when I walk on this carpet, it leaves the impression that I raise German shepherds, one of them is going to Westminster like the pastor said, but.

If he came in through that back door and I wasn't here, he'd track me to whatever room I'm in in this building, you know why, 'cause he's got my scent, he's got my scent and he'll track me, he'll come. down here and he will put his nose here and he will walk around these and if I go from behind, he will track me from behind and kill everyone who gets in his way because he is coming to get me, do you understand what I do? I'm saying he's not a little poodle, come on, come on, he's a real dog.

I said he's a real dog. And there is nothing wrong with people who have these cute little dogs. I don't have any cute dogs. You come to my house. You'll face a killer, come on, and if you beat him, you'll have to beat me. Come on, come on, you hear what I say, but he can track me because he has my scent. God has your smell. God can track you. He can. trace you to the cheap restaurant or the expensive restaurant, I think some of the men here should take your wife somewhere to eat where you don't tell her she can make it bigger, praise God, I'm sorry, I feel that evil spirit coming.

I apologize, but what I'm saying is that I go to different churches. I go to churches and get them out of foreclosure. I go to churches and we managed to burn the mortgage on our 91st church four months ago. We went to 91 churches and got out of debt. I know why God followed me to those churches God followed me to those churches He knew I was there He knew what I was there for Where are you, who is following you? How long have you been afraid to do what God told you to do? You see your feet leave an identification mark number two your feet establish a boundary when I needed 40 acres for my ministry years ago I had no money and I went out and found the property I wanted 40 acres and I walked around it just like that and I put wooden stakes on the four corners and said: this is my property, we are going to take the gospel out of this place all over the world, come on, I went and told the man, I told him we will close the deal in 30 days in cash, he said, man, you must minister, it must be great, he didn't know I didn't even have the down payment, amen, I just had faith, God was following me around those 40 acres I walked and settled. a border, the third thing I bet on claiming when you walk on something and feel it's there, it's a start for God to deliver it into your hands, if it can take Moses to the promised land, it can drive out the enemy, come on, yeah can catch Abraham. to walk, then god can give you the land, but god has to get abraham moses and joshua to do what he said, come 30 days, I still needed the money to close on the property, I was getting nervous, I didn't have the money.

I have some bench the next morning I was praying in my office the secretary said he got a call pastor in Texas I hadn't seen him in years he called he said someone came around here and went to check on you this morning he said I said well I have to close this property tomorrow they will give me another day if I need it but I have to close it he said I will pass it to you overnight it was exactly the penny what I needed to close that property is that your God I said is that your god is that the god al that you serve is that god, that is the god that I serve, hallelujah, you see throughout my adult life until I was 38 years old.

He was in debt and lacking. I was on these last two steps here and I stopped. I tell you something to get away from poverty you have to take a step towards prosperity to get away from addiction you have to take a step towards liberation to be free of debt you have to take a step towards liberation because of debt I burned all my cards of credit and I said I'll never get another penny until I'm debt free and I didn't go again and I was in Chicago, I was six months behind on my house payment, I was traveling around preaching in smaller places.

The churches went to a television studio and the preacher was preaching about prosperity and no one needed it worse than me and I loved his message. I screamed as he preached until he reached the end. Megan when she got to the end said there were 120 people. God is speaking right now to plant a thousand dollars I didn't like it anymore I didn't like the sound of his voice I didn't like it you know why because he was asking me to get out he was asking me to move from where I was to where God was. You see, sometimes we don't like pastors who challenge us.

If I lived within a hundred miles of Columbus, this would be my church and when I was off the road, I would be in the front row telling me to preach it. Brother Rod, preach me at the altar, my God, challenge me in so many churches, you leave a little sermon to a group of Christianites so we can beat the Baptist in the dining room. I'm telling you, we need something, we need some compelling preaching, we must be. challenged this preacher he was challenging me and I didn't like it he was saying that if you don't like where you are you have to sow a different seed I'm going to tell you the same thing if you don't like the seed you're sowing then don't be mad at the harvest you're sowing you are reaping god is not obligated to anyone in this buildingbeyond opportunity when you need a miracle god will give you a chance and give it to you oh come on I'm talking to you when the widow needed food in her barrel he sent a preacher with an opportunity he said there are 120 people when he said I knew that I was one of them, I told the Holy Spirit I don't have a thousand dollars so the preacher said if you don't have it you can make a promise.

I received a card. I wrote my real name on it. They say I do telethons. I know. I wrote my real name and my real address. I and no one had. No one has ever given me a thousand dollars, how many do you understand? No one had ever given me a thousand dollars, so when he said that if God doesn't provide it to you, you are not obligated, I said this is a win-win, I can make a promise, no one Give me a thousand dollars. I can obey God and I will never have to pay them.

I left there and went to Arkansas. I'm standing in the church and this woman sees me and runs across the church as fast as she can. and it's one of those moments where you know you need to move but you just know you can't move I feel you feeding her and she grabbed me and started doing this I found you I found you okay I'm married my his wife is in the hall she's getting ready to come in through the back door there's going to be a problem up here she I'm thinking she thinks she's been praying for her husband she thinks I'm him she was a big supporter for you know, for the cleveland browns, I mean, she was a great lady, she wasn't a homecoming queen, but she was, she was just a fanatic, oh my god, you know I'm trying to let go, I'm seeing angels, you know she is. about to squeeze me to death, man, I'm trying to get a listen, she's a fanatic and I finally pull her away from me and say, oh my God, woman, get a grip and she crouched down on the floor and pulled out a thousand dollar check, He said yesterday morning, when I was praying, God told me to give you this.

I wish I could tell you. The first thing that crossed my mind was that promise, but it wasn't like that. I am six months behind on my house payment. This suit I wore, you can read it because I said I wasn't going to buy another one until I could pay for it in cash. You see, I thought of everything I needed. You thought you were the only one but you see there's a seed in every harvest and a harvest and every seed you didn't get, I said there's a seed in every harvest and a harvest and every seed, this was the seed in the harvest to get the harvest in the sea, you see, if you keep sowing what you don't need, you will keep reaping what you can't use, don't give me seeds, I know a little about this, you see, God gives you what you need.

I have to create right what he promised, the Holy Spirit said you better take that seed to the post office right now, so I went to the post office and put it in the mail. I'm six months late on the plane home. We just built a new one. house we had a 30 year mortgage on the house and the payments on the house it was a nice house it cost almost 2,000 a month ago and you know when I was 37 it's been a while and that was a big mortgage so because I was living the life, man, I was living the life I was, I was shopping Calvary style.

You see, he was spending money. I didn't have to buy things. I didn't need to impress people. I didn't know. You already know. And I have. in debt, but I tell you that you can get into a mess and God will get you out of a mess if you take a few steps, some of you may be in a mess today, but if you take a step of faith in this service and get away from that problem, God will solve that problem the next morning, after I sent that seed, the bank called me, I came to the bank, I went down to the bank, they had a meeting in this room, everyone was around the table there, I went into the room and sat down and the The president of the bank started crying and said that your ministry touched me a few years ago and that I spoke to all the executives here and they are going to cancel your mortgage, are you here?

I said they will pay off your mortgage and my 30 year mortgage was paid off in 30 seconds and I had my first home debt free and I never paid another mortgage payment, I said I never paid another mortgage payment because I took that step, oh my god, I put debt under it on one foot and debt free under the other I put lack under one and I put abundance in the other 12 months after sowing that seed I had 247,500 in personal debt I had 657,000 in ministerial debt trying to appear on television oh lord, I thought I was an Ishmael and he was about to bankrupt me.

God didn't tell me to be on television. I only thought about doing this because brother Rod was No, I'm just kidding, but he had a note with another bank for television equipment. I went there and told them that after I left this bank and they canceled my mortgage, I went there to tell them that I'm going to start. making payments now about this I went there and talked to the cashier she said she needs to talk to so and so I talked to him and sat at his desk he said said Mr. Payne uh he said a few days ago someone came in I can't tell you here, he said which is anonymous, but they paid for all your TV equipment and everything they paid for with that note, you don't know it anymore anyway, 12 months from that day, 34 years ago, I was now debt free. life my ministry life has been debt free for 34 years 34 years you should slap the lord you should praise the lord you should make a decision today I will go out I will go out m leaving your feet leave a distinctive mark your feet establish a border when israel entered to possess the land the way they owned the land is they found the piece of land they wanted and they walked on it but then after walking on it they had to plant a crop this is where a lot of people miss it is they get up and say they are walking by faith but they never sow that defiant seed a defiant seed in genesis 26 isaac in a famine sowed a defiant seed you see your seed I don't know who is in washington your seed I don't know how much gas cost your seed I don't know if you are Baptist or Pentecostal everything What your seed knows is that I have been anointed for multiplication I have natural seed in my pocket this natural seed in my pocket that happens to be peas it is anointed to multiply but it has been in my pocket for a long time I have no peace you know why because the earth genesis 2 8 god spoke to the earth and he anointed the earth he spoke to the seed he anointed it for multiplication because it was a symbol of christ then he spoke to the earth and anointed it for activation because in john 19 jesus is going to be put in the ground and the ground will activate recreation he was a perennial seed, meaning you only have to be planted once, you see the grass coming up your sidewalk every year, even though you didn't plant it because its perennial life doesn't It will stop and when you plant a defiant seed, you hear what I'm saying is that when you go out and have faith in them, I planted that thousand dollar seed 34 years ago and it still brings a harvest to this day.

Every song I write goes to number one. People record my songs. The doors open for these churches in difficulties like the global harvest. for me to come in and preach, you see, you know how many thousands of preachers greater than me would like to be here this morning, but they are not here, you know why, because my seed opened the door before I got here, my seed I was talking. brother rod before he picked up the phone to call me my seed was talking to the banker before i got to the bank my seed was my god my seed was talking to someone before i got there trying to get a crop without sowing seed its like trying to get a withdrawal from the bank when you haven't made a deposit every battle in life is won or lost with a seed i could still be in debt struggling going from small church to small church trying to make ends meet but i planted a seed defiant the woman In the first king he sowed a defiant seed it's her last meal but she sowed it and the bible said she ate until the famine ended I don't care who's in Washington I don't care what they do I'm going to vote against them, that's it my American right, you know what I'm saying, but listen, Washington doesn't control me, they don't control my finances, my harvest is a direct result of my seed, there are people who can preach to me. seeing me and frankly, but you'll have to get up early to give me more.

You see, I don't think there's a hall of fame in heaven for preachers, but I think there is one for sowers, he wasn't a preacher. God's attention, it was Ananias, he said, I saw his prayers, I followed him in the closet and caught him there when he gave alms to the poor. Look, he was following him and he's been praying for a revival and I'm going to send an outpouring. of the holy spirit in his house the story says that there were 432 people in the house of ananias and god poured out the spirit hallelujah god sent revival can god trace are you walking in faith? look god won't track fear but he will track faith god tracks me wherever I go praise God I have to close here let me talk to the online audience I wish you were here I wish you were here for a moment to stand up and some of you should Some of you today I mentioned something that you're struggling with may be an addiction, you want to come here and pick up that addiction and pick up that release and say: I'm going to put this in my shoes, I'm going to wear them until I'm free, Well, brother, pain, I don't understand that, listen, you don't have to understand, you can't explain faith, I can't, I can't explain how Jesus took water, amen and it turned into wine, yes I can.

That is not scientifically possible, but you see, God is not motivated or moved by science, he is moved by the supernatural. I don't know how, God, how that woman could go and that young girl could go get those insoles and put them in her shoes and you know, get a total, you know, scholarship and get into the biggest hospital and be the doctor in a celebrity. I don't know how all that happens, but God, she said I wore them all through med school and she said I did, I graduated with honors, some of you the devil has withheld you, you don't know what God will do for You if you go out today by faith and say: I'm tired of sitting here for a long time.

Some of you just stand up right now and shout as long as I have a pulse I have a purpose as long as I have a pulse I have a purpose I'm going to fulfill my purpose my dream my I wish God wasn't done with the global harvest church. Your best days are yet to come. My goodness, the Lord is doing a phenomenal job here. Let me talk to the online audience. Let me talk to you. I brought a seed today. I never come to this church at any time. preach that I don't bring a seed this is my natural seed but I have that I have that other seed here somewhere I put it in one of my pockets I promise you and I will find it and I had to go back home I drove up here and I set off and The Lord said you forgot the seed.

He had to go back and collect the seed. I never come to this church with less than a thousand dollars to plant, thank you pastor, this is a challenging seed I am planting. A challenging seed this morning, you know, due to the pandemic, my ministry had to close for over six months. For some reason, the people did not want an evangelist to come. Their people didn't want to come, so they didn't want an evangelist to come. so I'm trying to catch up now I need some miracles to happen and I think today I'm taking a step of faith.

I'm not saying I believe God has promised it. I believe God has promised me. I believe God has promised me. He promised me that miracles are going to happen today. I think that if he spoke to me about a challenging seed, he is going to speak to you who are here. I think he is going to speak to you who are watching online with your smart device. I think God is going to speak to you. , this is a seed, it remains a seed until it is sown, there is a harvest in the seed, but you see, I have to release it when your natural seed comes out, your hand enters the earth, activates multiplication, okay, when your hand, when your seed comes out. your hand enters the kingdom activates multiplication you see you were shouting a moment ago until you can shout about this you will never have that until you get excited about your tithe i i it's already been four minutes but but but I have to do it Say this, but recently the Lord he showed me a revelation from Malachi 3 10 that I had never seen before, you have to remember that the Bible was written for farmers, so when he said, bring the tithe and I will open the heavens, what was he talking about.

It is good that it rains, but if you do not bring the seed, it is raining in an empty field and if you bring the seed and do not bring the tithe then your seed is in famine, that is why he said tithe and tithe offerings. puts you in the right position the seed determines the size of the harvest second corinthians five or nine seven says if you sow a little you reap a loss so a lot to reap a lot I have people coming up to me and you know half a million dollars in debt, give me five dollars and say pray I get out of debt, I said don't waste my time and they say well he doesn't care about money yeah yeah but I don't have that kind of faith. you are half a million dollars in debt and you want to give god five dollars your marriage needs to change and you want to give god five dollars you are trying to create a ministry you want to give god five dollars you are trying to buy a new housewhat is this, I don't know what this is, it looks like a fire fish, yes Mr.

Josh, lost, I'm right, no. No, guys, this is this, this isn't this, this wins a little, so I'm going to give it to Miss Abrielle just because her fire is more readable, but until the next game, see you next time. Welcome back to the clubs, okay, let's dive right into the second part of this story, acts 9, verses 10 to 22. now there is a believer in Damascus named Ananias, the Lord spoke to him in a vision calling him Ananias, yes , sir, he answered the sir. He said: Go to the straight street to Judas' house when you get there ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, he is praying to me right now.

I have shown him a vision of a man named Ananias who comes in and lays hands on him so that he can see again but the Lord exclaimed Ananias I have heard many people talk about the terrible things this man has done to the believers in Jerusalem He is authorized by the chief priests to arrest anyone who calls on your name but the lord said go for saul he is my chosen instrument to carry my message to the gentiles and the kings as well as the people of israel and I will show him how much he must suffer for my name Then Ananias went and found Saul, he laid his hands on him and said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Immediately, like scales, they fell from the eyes of Saul. Saul and regained his sight then he got up and was baptized then he ate some food and regained his strength Saul stayed with the believers in Damascus for a few days and immediately began to preach about Jesus in the synagogue saying that he is truly the son of God, everyone who had heard it was amazed. Isn't this the same man? Who caused so much devastation among Jesus' followers in Jerusalem and didn't come here to arrest them and bring them in chains to the chief priests? Saul's preaching became increasingly powerful and the Jews in Damascus could not refute his evidence that Jesus really was.

The Messiah, okay, Ananias is one of my favorite people in the Bible because he played a huge role in Saul's conversion. Ananias knew who Saul was because his reputation preceded him. Saul had been terrorizing Jesus' followers in the months leading up to his conversion. Ananias even knew that Saul had an order to arrest any believer in Damascus, we do not know how or when Ananias had come to his faith in Jesus, all we know is that the test of his faith had come and it came in a great way, God He told him, hey, that guy who is persecuting believers, go with him, minister. for him, love on him, communicate with him, all those things, that's what God told him to do, it had to be a terribly scary situation in his life, but you know what he did, he did it anyway because he knew that his faith in God would be maintained.

He overcame it and whatever God had planned for Saul and Ananias, he knew he wanted to be a part of it and listen to God and obey his leading because when you obey God's specific instructions, you create the future that God wants you to have, but you. I have to do what he says and that's what Ananias did I wasn't yet aware of all the details surrounding Saul's conversion you know he didn't know the extent of the change that occurred in his heart I didn't know if he hears when I see with him , he or his men are going to try to kill me.

I didn't know that he put all his faith in God and as believers that's what we should do. God doesn't expect us to always do everything right, but he. He expects us to do what he says and what he tells us to do is here in this bible in this book right here is a road map for us if we do what he says he will not fail us again, good clubhousers. I'm so excited you joined us today and remember today's story was about a change of heart and listening to God and obeying Him. It will be amazing what God can do if you simply listen, obey, and follow his instructions.

You can open the windows of heaven pouring out on you when you do that sometimes it can be difficult there can be trials and tribulations that come your way or difficult people or situations that seem a little scary no matter how scary it is because god is with you and yes he is giving you instructions to do something, he will stay with you and he will always be with you, so remember that Jesus changes lives and if you listen to him, he will always be there for you, see you next time.