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Bishop Hugh Daniel Smith teaching The Royal Priesthood at Embassy Metro Detroit. Full sermon with transcript.

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But our God is able. Our God is able. This series will help us in a great way.

But before I jump into it, I want to just strengthen this foundations. Ephesians chapter number one and verse number nine. Let’s read together. It says, “Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he has purposed in himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him, in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who workketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Say, God is in charge.

You got to get that from the scriptures. I promise you he’s in charge. This is the Hebrew year 5787 which you know Rashashana which has to do with um the sword of the Lord the Lord’s voice being a sword in this time and also we’re coming into a time of great fullness, great rest. We’re going to see an outpouring on another level in this season. And it won’t be because of what we’ve done.

It’ll be because of what he purposed within the council of his own will. We just have to learn how to say yes. The more we align, the stronger it’s going to be on your life. These are the days where God will prove himself above all. Look at somebody and say happy new year.

I know I know y’all waiting for for December, right? But according to the Hebrew calendar, this is the beginning of years right now. Look to the other person, say, “Happy New Year. Happy New Year.” Oh, yes. I know that’s throwing you off your schedule.

See, we so locked into our routines. But what if today is a brand new day? What if God’s getting ready to do a new thing in you right now? Rabasha. Glory to God.

What if today is that day for that big thing from God to happen in your life? What if God’s getting ready to start something brand new on another level in your life today? I’m telling you, this is that kind of year. We’ve been through the purge, but now it’s time for the surge. And God’s going to do it all by himself.

All he needs is an amen out of his church. Somebody shout amen at least seven times. Tell God, I’m not going to argue with you this year. I’m not going to resist the Holy Spirit this year. You’re not going to have to chase at me and fight and wrestle with me.

I’m saying amen right now. Glory to God. Glory to God. That that’s practice for what we have to do all year long. Let the church say amen.

God has spoken. So let the church. We got one job this year and it’s going to continue to ramp up higher and higher for those that are in alignment. It’s not for everybody. You got to be in alignment for it to happen.

And so, um, I’m grateful for that. Let’s skip to the book of Ephesians, chapter 3. Got you guys standing all this time. And verse number eight, it says, “Unto me who am less than the least of all the saints is this grace given.” See the grace is already everybody say given. That was given to Paul, but you got grace given to you too. that I should preach among the Gentiles the uncarchable riches of Christ.

What do we preach? The uncarchable riches of Christ. and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God who created all things by Jesus Christ. Verse 10 everybody to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in heavenly places might be known by the church. What are they going to know? They going to hear and learn about the manifold wisdom of God according to the eternal purpose which he has purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Power pack verses. Father, thank you for your eternal purpose that is sealed in the heavens that has included all of us in your redemptive plan. Thank you that nothing in time can overturn what was done in eternity. Oh God, thank you that we are secure in you and we’re grateful for your plans that are greater than ours. I ask that you would release blessing on all those that believe and let the blessing be according to their faith today.

Because there’s a few people here that has a faith to receive great blessing. Some can receive 100fold, some 60fold, some 30fold, and some a thousand times more. Depends upon depending upon wherever they are. God release the blessing according to their faith in Jesus name.

Amen. You may be seated. We’re going to continue the subject matter that we did start last week on the royal priesthood.

But as I said earlier, I really want to take time to properly lay the foundation. And so we want to revisit some of the things that we’ve said. Before I really get into the deep dive on the royal priesthood subject, I want to talk about something that I know the Holy Spirit wants us all to do this year. And that is master context. We must spend time learning how to master the surrounding context of our life.

Mastering context is so vital because whatever the context is in your life, it determines what’s dormant or inhibited from expressing itself. Or it could be the very thing that allows potential to become reality. All of that is dependent upon everybody say context. Context is the environment that either enables or inhibits inherent capacities from maturing, functioning, and ultimately reaching their intended purpose. So if you want to hurt someone, all you have to do is mess with their surroundings or their context.

And I’ve seen so many people’s lives hindered not by them and their activity, but by the environment. You know how it is. You’ve studied that in college, I’m sure. Is it nature or is it nurture? And if you have the wrong nurture or the lack thereof, it can literally hinder years of a person’s life.

I’m calling it context, but it’s the same. Um, there are individuals who so understand this that they are choosing to weaponize context. That needs to go on the screen right there. Everybody said weaponization of context. Uh some people recognize that if they put the wrong context around a certain people group, then they will self-destruct.

All you have to do is put them all in this neighborhood and just give them a little money and we don’t let them have any grocery stores of their own and whatever else you want to put in there. And it won’t be long before they start turning on one another. That’s context. You read in the scripture uh where the Babylonian uh Nebuchadnezzar, he wanted to control Israel’s material wealth as well as their human resource. So what did he do?

He brought them out of their normal context, out of out of the land of Israel and he took them to Babylon. He took them away from the temple. He took them away from what they uh was familiar with. Uh he took them away he took their he didn’t take their language but he made them learn the language of the calaldanss. He even changed their names and he knew in doing that the next generation would lose touch with their nativity and their history. and they can now extract from them their gifts for their purposes.

But what God has ordained may never come would never come to pass in their life if it wasn’t for the Lord addressing that situation. And so we see this happening over and over. Um context can be weaponized. Weaponized. We’re actually entering into a season where you’re going to see this happen more and more. uh we we understand the historical um examples that are there, but moving toward the future and the present, you’re literally going to see context used to weapon context weaponize to control people and to stunt their growth and development.

Many of you could be further up the road in life and in God if there were the proper environment around you. Some people have been struggling with the Lord. Say, “I just want to get higher. I want to grow. I want to this.

I want to that.” And they think it’s in themselves. But sometimes it has nothing to do with them. It has all to do with the people and the things that are around them. You can be in the wrong church too long. And if you’re not hearing the right stuff, then you won’t grow in the Lord.

And they’ll have you believing that it’s your lack of faith. But if the if it’s garbage coming over the pull pit and nobody’s preaching faith and showing you who you are in God and being truthful with you, then you cannot grow up into him in all things. We’re going to have to Everybody say, “Man is context.” Amen. We got to become masters of it and insist on certain kinds of environments. Um let’s let’s let’s let’s think of even uh technology and how and this is the present and future how it’s going to be used and is being used to create artificial context around people.

Uh we have deep fake technology today and with that technology they can take your likeness and your voice patterns and overlay it with other things or use it the way they want to to misrepresent you and throw your social world into chaos. They can create any kind of context they want. And it’s not just here with def fake technology but you can be talking with someone. Have you ever had a conversation with someone and you said one thing and they put their own context around it and they walked away saying you said this and you like the devil is a liar. You know good and well I didn’t say that.

That’s your own filter. Your mind is full of so much stuff that can’t nobody get truth to you cuz you got so not y’all here. I’m just talking.

But there are people that have so much in their mind. You can say one thing, but they hear something totally different because of filters, context. I was ministering years ago and I had to run out of here and go to the other church and somebody came to me and say, “You remind me of of my daddy. You always walking out on us.” I said, “Oh, oh, trauma. Dad walked out.

So, I’m trying to get to the next church and I’m a father figure.” So she looked at that through her context, her lens, and added that and made me the abander, the pastor that was abandoning her. And this is why it’s so difficult to talk to people today. I remember one person I just said, I don’t know if I should ever talk to them because everything I say turns into something else. And and so it’s t communication is one of the most difficult things in the earth to do because it’s not just what you say, it’s how they hear. And Jesus says, “Be careful how you hear.” Because you can even hear the word of the Lord and put your stuff around it and walk away and say, “The Lord said that I’m getting ready to be rich in 30 days.

The Lord said this is going to happen. And people deceive themselves, wrestle the scriptures to their own destruction as opposed to reading it for what it’s really saying. They’re read. Some are reading it for what they want to hear and then blame God if it doesn’t come to pass. Everybody say manage context.

We’ve got to manage this. We have to master what is happening around us so that what’s in us, our full capacity can surface. And this is where we’re going with this thing because so many are using it the wrong way. The if as long as the fish is in the water, it’s going to uh fulfill its function and God’s original intent. That’s the context.

As long as the bird has access to the sky, you know, it can it’s going to self-actualize in the right habitation. The the snakes do well among the rocks according to the scripture. They they’re different in the the rock area than they are uh in the water or some other place.

And so, everybody has a natural habitat. And there are some places and some context that you require in order to bloom and to blossom and to bear fruit. And what I keep hearing the Holy Ghost say is if we learn to master context in this next season, a lot of people are going to not just bud, but they’re going to bloom and they’re going to blossom and they’re going to bear fruit. And I’m going to show you how to do it in just a moment. We got to master this, though.

We have to master this. When when the wrong cont context is around us or surrounding is around us, you can’t always change it. Sometimes you’re just in a place with those people or that environment. And it doesn’t mean you should always walk away from it.

But the way you master context is by revelation knowledge. Say it with me. Revelation knowledge. This is something that we must all embrace today. I’m trying to show you how to do it.

It’s revelation knowledge. What do I mean by that? If we could answer the question, what is God doing in this? What is God saying in this? Or where is God at in this?

If I can get the answer to those questions, it’s going to release revelation knowledge. And what I learn about God in the situation will create a spiritual context that will impose itself over the natural and change the outcome. What does the scripture say? When your father and mother forsake you, what what kind of context is that? That leaves a person an orphan, right?

Abandoned. That’s pretty bad. What are they going to produce in their life? They’re going to have a lot of problems if that’s the end of that story.

But what does he say? When your father and mother forsake you, what’s next? If they can get a revelation, if they can get some revelation at that point that there is still a God that can be a father to the fatherless, that can be a mother to the motherless. There there if you don’t have any friends, that’s context, isn’t it?

But there is a friend that stickketh closer than a brother. What does what I mean by that? God can be what you need him to be. That’s what he said. He says, I am that I am.

What is he saying? I can be what I whatever you need me to be if you can just get a revelation of what I’m doing in the situation. What does that mean? In every situation, God is doing something.

And so, I need revelation knowledge. Say it again. Revelation knowledge. In every difficulty, he’s in it somewhere. Don’t destroy it.

Don’t walk away from it. Don’t curse your wilderness. He’s in it somewhere. And and we who are walking with God in this season, you’re going to have to have this principle down because your context will change and things around you may be tough, but you’re going to have to find God in it somewhere. And once I get the revelation of what he’s doing, now I got a spiritual context that will superimpose itself over the natural context and it will still activate my purpose, activate my potential, and I’ll still shoot forth.

And I’ll overcome without mother and father if that’s the case. I’ll overcome without friends. If that’s the case, I’ll overcome without the natural things that I don’t have because I got glory on my life. This is the season we’re entering into a season of glory. And that comes by revelation knowledge.

Do you remember when they were debating on who should be the first high priest of of Israel and Moses said it should be his brother Aaron and they were accusing him of nepotism. He and and God said, “No, no, no, no. We’re not gonna let that happen.” He says, “I want everybody to get their rod or get a stick. Go get a stick and and take the stick and bring it into the tabernacle. Take a stick and bring it into the tabernacle.

And whichever stick buds or blooms and blossom, that’s the one I chose.” Now, how in the world can a stick bring forth fruit if it’s detached from the soil? The soil is its natural habitation or habitat. In other words, trees die when you disconnect them from their root.

And so, these trees were dead. But though he didn’t have natural roots, he put the tree in the presence of God. And Aaron’s rod budded. It bloomed. It blossomed and it brought forth almonds.

Not because he had everything right in the natural, but God brought a different heavenly spiritual context called glory that can cause you to be fruitful in spite of what you don’t have working in your natural life. And that’s the message I need y’all to pick up in this next season. You’re going to have to be fruitful in some areas without the the the natural qualifications. You’re not gonna look the part, but you still gonna bear fruit. You’re not gonna be the one they chose, but you still gonna bear fruit because you g you gonna see what God’s doing in it.

You may not even have all of the qualifications. And I don’t like to say that, but God says there’s some things that’s going to happen in your life where that you are coming short of the glory. But God’s going to make up the difference. He’s going I said he’s going to make up the difference. He’s going to fill in the gaps.

He’s going to supplement what you don’t have because the glory of God that’s going to be on your life. Now, you got to get ready for this. If you think it’s all up to you to make some things happen, then you going to max out with your ability.

But God wants to do some things above what you could ask or think according to power that comes from him. So, we need revelation knowledge. Ask God, “What are you doing in this situation? It looks terrible. It looks bleak.

It looks bleak. It looks like I’m going to lose. It look like the devil is getting ready to crush me.

But where’s the Lord at in this situation?” I know he’s doing something, ladies and gentlemen. He’s always doing something. He don’t just He’s not just with you when you’re on the mountain. He’s with you when you’re in the valley. He’s not just with you when you’re strong.

He’s with you when you’re weak. He’s with you when you’re on your back. God, what you doing? I’m on my back. What you doing?

He says, I’m letting you get some rest. Just rest, son. You’ve been needing the rest anyway. Just rest for a while. And when you get up, oh my God, I’m going to let you get up with another level of power.

Are you hearing me? You Got TO SAY, GOD, What You Doing? DON’T Worry About What’S HAPPENING TO YOU. Just know what God is doing for you. Somebody say amen right there and say I’m going to I’m going to win anyway.

Say it. I’m going to win anyway. Say I’m going to overcome anyway. If I don’t have soil, I’m still bringing forth fruit and I’m not just going to bud. I said I’m going to bloom and I’m going to blossom and I’m going to bring forth almonds without any natural support because I’m going to spend my time in the glory of God.

That’s why this is a season where you better get in prayer because when you’re in prayer, glory is going to hit your life. God’s going to give you revelation knowledge of what he’s doing while you’re praying. That’s why you need to be the first one in worship and say, “I’m going to worship God. I don’t care if I don’t like the song. I’m going to say, “Not my will, but thy will be done.” Worship doesn’t start until you say, “Not my will, and and and let your will be done.” The moment you say that, glory comes into your life.

I dare you to say that in meeting. Not my will, but thy will be done. You only get revelation knowledge when you get rid of your will and your plan and your purpose. Then God will release his. Glory to his name.

This is how you master context. Everything is not going to look pretty in your life in this next season. As a matter of fact, some of it is going to look ugly, but you got to say, “I ain’t worried and I’m not scared. I’m just going to hang out in the glory and let God supplement.” Somebody shout, “Supplement. Supplement.

Fill the gaps. Fill the holes.” Oh, glory to his name. And allow a new spiritual context to superimpose its power over the natural and make me fruitful anyway. I said make me blessed anyway. I said anyway.

Anyway, anyway. Yes, it’s messed up, but I’mma come out anyway. I don’t know how. I don’t even have to know how. How many got faith for that today?

I just need to know if you got faith for that kind of thing today. Mastering context and the only way to do it is revelation knowledge. Revelation knowledge. So the first point again, mastering context. Now let’s talk about it.

Revelation knowledge. I want to talk about masterminds because we’re going to we got to get a revelation of the church. And that’s where we’re going. We have to get a revelation of the church. Then we’ll understand where the priesthood belongs.

I can’t understand where something uh minute or small or part belongs until I look at the whole. And this is why there are so many people who can’t find their purpose in the kingdom because they’re focused on the part as opposed to the whole. You really want to know your purpose in God, you got to look at the whole. How do I know where this screw goes or where this steering wheel goes? I There’s a little steering wheel over there.

What kind is it? That’s a Cadillac steering wheel. Maybe there’s a car outside without a steering wheel. If I don’t know the hole, I can’t match the part. And people who are fixated on their individuality will never understand where they fit.

And so this is why there must be revelation knowledge of the whole. And some are saying today, I don’t care about the whole. Well, then you’re never going to find your place.

And so, we’re going to look at this revelation knowledge of the whole. And we’re going to look at the mastermind. And that’s what I want you to see. The mastermind who’s been uh putting all of this stuff together, making sure things happen. God is the master.

Say it. He’s the mastermind. So, this is my next point. He’s the mastermind. And if you look at the text in uh Ephesians chapter number one, you see in verse number eight, let’s put it on the screen.

Ephesians chapter 1 and verse number 8. Let’s read it again together. Everybody read. wherein he has abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself. So his will can be mysterious. Uh verse 10 read, “In the disp that in the dispensation of the fullness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in him.” We’re we’re reading his mind or his plans.

God has plans. Verse 11. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who workketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Now watch this. So there are three words I want you to pull out of that right now.

Number one, I want you to see the word counsel. Everybody say counsel. Two, we’re going to look at the word purpose. And three, we’re going to look at the word will. council as we said on last week is the Greek word boule. The Greek word boule.

Uh those of you that may have been a part of the Sigma uh organization um boule was uh um part of their foundation seeing themselves as strategist. That’s what the word means. uh to be a strategist uh and to uh try to help society by being the strategic mastermind in some kind of way. And so when we talk about council, we’re not talking about c u n uh uh s u i l like the council, but we’re talking s e l which which deals with giving a person strategy. Council has to do with strategy. It has to do with plans.

It has to do with plans. We learned last week that no purpose can come to pass without counsel, without a strategy, without a plan. And so we need masterminds. Everybody say it with me. Masterminds.

We’re in the day where masterminds will, I believe, be some of the the most uh called upon people in this hour because no purpose can come to pass without counsel. We read those scriptures. Let’s hit a few of them really quick.

Now, put a few of those verses up there. We read it last week. Read it again. What does it say? Every purpose is is established by counsel.

So if there’s a purpose, it has to be established by counsel. And with good advice, what do you do? Make war. We’ve learned that we can’t just receive advice from anyone. It has to be someone who has some counsel in them.

They have to be an expert. We said last week, uh, in a field, they have to be an expert. Now, that that simply means that they they have have to have done something. An expert is just not somebody who’s gone to college because there are a whole lot of people who’ve gone to college who haven’t built anything. And this is no dissing people who go to college.

We all need to go to college. But education alone doesn’t make you scholastic education alone does not make you an expert. What makes you an expert is the fact that you’ve done it. If you’ve done it, I know you have understanding and I know you know how to put things together. There are a number of people who who can teach on leadership but can’t lead anybody.

They’re great teachers on leadership but they can’t lead anybody. I want to I the expert is somebody that has people following them and they can actually lead. There’s a number of people who can uh Google or or go to a chat box and put a great lesson together on how to build a house, but that don’t mean they can build the house. The one who can build the house is the expert if they’re good at what they do. So experts are people who have done things and they know how to do.

And God wants uh well let me say give you another one. There are a number of people that can tell you about marriage but they can’t keep their marriage together. There are n number of husbands can tell you about being a good husband, right?

But but that don’t mean they’re a good husband. that there are barbers that can cut hair, but their hair be a mess sometimes. I don’t know. I I I couldn’t conflate a lot of that stuff.

But but my point is this, that you’re not an expert until you can do it. You are not an expert until you have done it. We don’t know how good you are until you can do it. You can tell everybody how to preach. You can preach, but can you do your message is not the one that can get up here and preach, but can you live it?

You can preach repentance, but can you repent? You can preach forgiveness, but can you forgive? You can preach love, but do you love anybody? God says, “We’re moving from theory. We’re moving from scholastic achievement to real expertise.” These are individuals that can walk that thing out in their life.

They are the ones that you must have around you because they’re going to give you the counsel you really need because they’ve already done it. Somebody say amen. Say good counsel. Good counsel. Notice what he says.

Proverbs 15 and 22. Without counsel, purposes are disappointed. That’s why they don’t come to pass. They just didn’t get the right counsel. They got a number of people who gave them their opinion, but they haven’t done anything.

They haven’t done anything. Without counsel, purposes are disappointed. But in the multitude of experts or counselors how purposes are so what will establish purpose? Good counsel. Good counsel guarantee that purpose comes to pass.

Purpose must come to pass. Purpose must come to pass. So the first word is counsel. The next word is purpose. The uh Greek word for purpose actually means uh the bread of presence.

Did you hear me? It means the bread of presence. You know what that means? In the tabernacle there was 12 loaves of bread and they were called bread. It was called the bread of presence.

Bread is the staff of life. It feeds people. So what is God saying? purpose is meant to feed. When purpose is meant to feed the soul and when a person’s purpose or when God’s not a person, when God’s purpose comes to pass, it literally feeds the souls of the people who participated in bringing it to pass. and and and so so what we’re going to see and this is what the Lord showed me. We’re getting ready to see a number of people who are operating in their own purposes and they will have what the Bible calls leanness of soul.

Leanness of soul is when you’re doing a whole lot but nothing satisfies you. You got the house, you got the car, you got this, you have that, and you’re empty on the inside. That’s called leanness of soul. And leanings of soul is an indicator that you’re not operating with his purpose because his purpose will always feed the soul.

And so there’s some soul nurture. It’s the bread of presence. It literally gives you something that satisfies you on the inside. If you find yourself empty after prayer, then your prayer is about you and somebody else, not his purpose. You know what I learned?

That if you’re in God’s plan, watch me now. If you’re in God’s strategy and in God’s plan, if your job is just to open the door and close the door, if it’s a part of what’s bringing his purpose to pass, then your soul will be nurtured with opening and closing a door. I didn’t hear you. I didn’t hear nobody over here say amen. No.

No. I’m I’m so serious. People think that I got to do some big thing in order to be happy. No, you don’t. You have to participate in the purpose of God.

And if your job is just to sing one song or to play or to do run the cameras, if it is God’s purpose, it’s going to feed you while you do it. It is the bread of presence. And we’re going to see a generation of people bankrupt in their soul because they’re running after their own purpose. They’re running after their own idea. I don’t care what they do.

The more they do, the more empty they’re going to feel on the inside. Just like Israel did. Remember when they asked for meat and God gave them quail and the quail would not satisfy them. So they continued to indulge until it came out of their nostrils. And this is what we’re going to see.

And an incontinent generation, a generation of people that are empty on the inside. And they’re going to think the more I take and the more I indulge, eventually it’ll satisfy me. But it’s going to create a sense of addiction in their life and discontent in their life or lack of meaning in their life. This is where we are. Well, you wonder why the kids feeling so down because they don’t have meaning.

And what does that mean? They don’t have they’re not feeding off of eternal purpose. It takes feeding off of eternal purpose in order to have meaning in your life. It doesn’t matter what I do. I’ve been doing it for a long time because I know what I’m doing is connected to eternal purpose.

It feeds me. It feeds me while I’m doing it. It’s called soul nurture. I my soul is nurtured every time I help somebody. If my helping them is a part of God’s eternal plan, they don’t have to call my name.

I’m feeding off of the bread of presence. Is anybody hearing what I’m saying today? It gives me meaning. In other words, my life has meaning when it’s connected to the eternal purpose of God. If you’re still running around and you don’t feel meaning in nothing, then you won’t want to get up in the morning.

Then eventually you’re going to say, “My life doesn’t matter.” And this is why people walk away from their own lives or walk away from people or walk away from church because they don’t feel any meaning to it. But that’s because they’re an individual in their thought. But God’s about to connect you to purpose. Whose purpose? His purpose.

It ain’t about your purpose. It’s about his purpose. And he has a job for you in his purpose. And whatever that job is, if you do it, it’ll satisfy your soul. It’ll feed you.

And you’ll feel like I’m purposeful. I’m meaningful. I got to get up in the morning because my soul is happy. He can make your soul happy doing one little thing. Giving somebody a glass of water.

If it’s a part of a big purpose, you’ll find joy on the inside OF Your Soul. WE got to get back TO Old School. THAT’S HOW it used to be years ago. I just wanted to be in the congregation to do my part. Say amen.

In this house, you may not be in the big crowd. It’s just wherever he sends you. Do you remember Philillip the evangelist? They were having a revival in Samaria and Peter and all of those guys were there was a big ordeal.

But God sent Philillip away. He said, “You go out into the desert and there’s just one cat out there sitting on trying to study Isaiah and I need you to get out there and help him understand what he’s reading.” You mean I got to leave the revival? Yeah, leave. You mean I’m up here? Up here?

People are calling my name. They call him, they say, “Phillip, Phillip.” He says, “Get out of there.” Philip went down there and ministered to one man. Are you hearing me? And the joy of the Lord caught him over. He was so full of it that when he finished ministering, the spirit transported him into another place.

You don’t have to be at the big revival in order to get joy in your heart. You just got to do what God told you to do. that’s in his big purpose. Well, we got to get back to the truth. Some people think, “I got to be over there. I have to be over there.” But what if he called you to be by yourself talking to some kid on the side of the road and helping them with their life?

Your soul will be nurtured at that time. And you’ll walk away from that with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Some of you at the big thing and walking out empty because it’s not the plan for your life that day.

Amen. We got to know what he’s called us to do. Say soul nurture. Soul nurture. So we got to help people find meaning in their existence.

And that meaning is discovered when I participate in God’s strategic plan to bring his purpose to pass. The Lord incorporates a number of people in his plan and they become a part of his mastermind in order to bring these things to pass. So we want big stuff, don’t we? We want big stuff. Everybody say big stuff.

We We want How many want big stuff to happen in your life? Or or stuff that Yeah, I want big stuff to happen. But what is big stuff? Was was the big stuff when Philip went down there to talk to that one man or was the big stuff standing at the revival in Samaria? What is big?

What what is great? What is what is grandeur? What what what is what is it? It’s whatever he tells you to do. It’s whatever.

It’s whatever. I remember when Peter was talking to the Lord and the Lord said, “Listen, Pete, uh you’re young now and go where you want to go. But when you get old, you know what? They’re going to take you somewhere you don’t want to go and you going to die for me. You going to die for me.” He said, “Is that really?” “Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What’s going to happen to John?” And Jesus said, “Wait a minute. What you going to ask about John? I’m just telling you, you going to be a martyr for me in your life.” He said, he said, “If John stays alive until I come back, what’s that to you? I told you to follow me.” That’s why we GOT TO Stop Comparing ourselves with other people and what God has required them to do. And you trying to be like everybody else.

Not y’all here, but some folks is trying to measure their lives by other people’s lives. Watching on social media, saying I’m not anything special cuz they doing that and I’m not doing this and they’re doing that. I got to see if I can do what they’re doing. If that’s the way you going to live, you’re going to be empty in your soul. You better just get on your post and do what God told you to do.

And the joy of the Lord is going to be your strength. GOD Said, “Get Back ON TARGET.” Come on, look at somebody and say, “Get back on target.” Get back on target. That’s good preaching there. I’m telling you, that’s good preaching. That’s really That’s really good preaching.

We need that today. And so strategy is connected to God’s plan. And that’s uh what makes up all of his counsel.

But the purpose, as I said, has to do with the arrangement or what he brings forth from the council. If God’s purpose comes to pass, everybody’s going to eat who’s connected to that purpose. Everybody eats when you bring something to pass that God really intended. Let your family bring something to pass that God ordained for that house. Everybody in the family eats from that purpose.

It makes them whole on the inside. Children who had very little to do with it. You just told them to pray and be quiet.

But as long as they in the house praying and being quiet, God will bless everybody that’s a part of purpose. And I need you to know that purpose is going to come to pass in this season. We’re going to see so many kingdom purposes come to pass in this season. And if you just a part, you all you got to do is be on the team. You could be the sorryest one on the team.

You could be like somebody riding the bench on the championship team, never getting the game. They don’t even let you dress out. But oh, when they win that championship, you standing in the line like everybody else, and you got a ring on your finger because the spoils go to Everybody That’S A PART of the team.

Come on, somebody. Those that are by themselves, they’re going to miss out. I promise you, God has a plan and it includes everybody that’s a part of the plan.

And so, you don’t want anything to disconnect you from what the Lord is doing. He’s the mastermind. He has permitted us all to participate in his plan. Now we know project 2025 uh is a an agenda that uh was put together by the heritage foundation and other thinkers masterminds and they had a system connected to that and there was purpose. Anytime you see a mastermind there’s going to be a system and there’s also going to be purpose and the purpose uh is dependent upon the masterminds.

Then also there is the brother brother uh they allegedly the Muslim Brotherhood uh who allegedly also has a master plan that is unfolding allegedly in the world and uh those that are a part of that you know they’re in the system somewhere and the system has a purpose say systems systems are connected to the plan they’re part of the strategy and a lot of people are in the system, but it’s all designed to bring a purpose to pass. There’s a global agenda and there’s a system at work right now and there are some there’s some everybody’s in it. Have you ever wondered how you can have human trafficking and everybody knows about it and in every airport they’re talking about it but somehow it just keeps on happening and and you better knows there’s some people in the system the people on the take judges lawyers do you know there are some people on the take in the in the in the government because that system could be shut down if they wanted to shut a system down like that but when other folks are on the take is rolling and it’s designed to catch some and release others. others. Systems are meant to include some and to disenfranchise others. You got to know what’s the purpose of the system.

And you can only know the purpose of the system if you know the purpose of the the mastermind and the intent that they had when they put that thing together. The systems around here are not always meant to benefit you. Some of the systems are here to keep you on the outside and to dry you up.

But I’m so glad we serve a God who has a master plan. And he’s greater than the systems of men. He’s greater than the thinkers of men. In the beginning was the word. He was the locust.

He’s the original thinker. Can’t nobody outthink my God. And he thought about it before he made anything. So it doesn’t matter what project 2025 says. He’s going to overcome that.

If you Get With GOD’S PLAN, you’ll overcome everybody’s plot, everybody’s scheme, EVERYBODY’S Tricks Against Your Life. You Don’T HAVE TO Worry About Your Enemies. Just connect Your Life TO The Master Plan And GOD’S GOING TO Bring Purpose to pass. Somebody clap those hands and let’s just thank God right there for master plan. Say the master plan.

Come on, say it again. the master plan. Now, open your mouth and praise him for the master plan because that’s where your salvation is, the master plan. Ain’t no sense of being afraid of what all these people are doing. I’m sitting up there trying to figure out everybody’s plan. I said, “Lord, how are we going to handle this?” He said, “With my master plan.” I was I was literally asking about God about other people’s plans.

It look like we don’t have no weight against them. He said, “What about my master plan?” Read Ephesians 1 again, son. You forgot.

And so we go to Ephesians 1 and we say, “Yeah, he does have a master plan.” And all we have to do is get in the plan somewhere. I don’t care where I’m at in the plan. Just put me in the plan, coach. What you want me to carry water? Yeah, I’ll do that, too.

I would rather be doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tent of the wicked. I would rather suffer the affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. My God, one day in his court is better than 10,000 elsewhere. I got to be in the congregation of the righteous. Not the aggregation.

Not just a pile of people together who are disconnected and don’t like one another, but an integrated people who are connected one to another. The congregation of the righteous that’s become a temple for the spirit of the living God made up of Jew and Gentile and black and white and every other kind of ethnic group. I got to be in that number because I know when he comes in, the spoils go to everybody THAT IS CONNECTED TO What GOD IS DOING. I’M IN The Church. You can go where you want to go.

I’m sticking with Jesus. I’m sticking with the church. I’m sticking with the body of Christ. There is but one Lord. There is but one faith.

There’s one baptism, one God who’s above us all, who’s in us all, who’s working through us all. He’s the FATHER OF US ALL. There’s a Oneness That’S Coming Back That Can’T Nobody Touch. AND I’M GLAD TO BE IN This Number One More Time. I Love The Church.

I Love The Congregation. I Love JESUS. I Love Holiness. I Love GOD’S WAY. I do.

I love the Lord and I love his church. I love the people of God. Look at somebody say, “Do you love him?” We used to Somebody used to say that all the time. Yeah, we love him. Yes, we love him.

And so the master plan, let me hurry up here. The master plan, as I’ve said, is that there would be a cosmic utopia. Everything is going to come back into oneness. And that’s what he says. He’s going to gather together all things in Christ.

That means he’s going to sum everything up and gather them in Christ. Years ago, I had a vision of this true story. went out and bought a photo, a painting uh to reflect the vision. In the vision, I was in a garden somewhere and I could feel every bird. I could feel the grass. I could I was connected to all of nature and the animals and we were all moving in succinct.

It was such a harmonious experience. It marked my life. It happened many many years ago. And then the Lord came in this garden and everything bowed together. And I’ve been trying to understand that for years.

And God has given me understanding of it because this is his ultimate plan that everything is coming back into oneness. I don’t know how the devil’s going where he going to be at, but notice the book said everything. That means every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord. Everything is coming under Jesus. So all the Muslims going to have to get with Jesus.

Are you hearing me? Every other religion, all the spiritualists going to have to get with Jesus. Even the false teachers going to have to get with Jesus. For it’s over, they’re going to be like, “There is but one king and his name is Jesus.” Everybody’s coming under. Every hardened sinner is going to come under.

Before this thing is over, there’s going to be but one sound. Glory to God. One sound. Harmony in the universe. This thing is going to end right.

Ladies and gentlemen, the devil has made havoc. He splintered families. He splintered the heavens. He’s got people. He’s got angels in the heavens fighting against other angels.

Michael the archangel has had to fight with Lucifer. had his angels so many times they argued over the body of Moses. He wanted Moses body so that he could probably make a relic of it and send the people into idolatry. But but but but Michael the archangel said, “The Lord rebuke you.” In other words, we ain’t on good terms. I know we up in heaven. I know you used to be the man, but now I’m the man.

I know you used to love the Lord, but I love the Lord. And if you cross that line, we going to blows. There’s warfare in the heavens. You worried about war on earth? Don’t you know they’ve Been Fighting IN The Heavens for a long time?

Fights on earth break Out Because OF The Fights IN The Heavens. They’re fighting over Your Soul. THEY’RE Fighting Over Your Life. THEY’RE Fighting Over Your Destiny. THEY’RE Fighting Over Your Purpose Because You Belong TO GOD.

BUT WE got to understand something. If you’re on the Lord’s side, you got angels that walk with you. You got angels that are waiting for you to say something. WE GOT TO ACTIVATE, ACTIVATE, Activate All OF Our Power IN This Season. WE Must Activate Our Power.

You’ve come to an innumerable company of angels. You are not functioning by yourself. I’ve been calling on angels lately, saying, “Hear the word of the Lord.” I got some disturbance in the house. Hear the word of the Lord. Let’s go.

I travel with angels. I do. You think you could be in an apostle and not travel with angels? The devil will try to destroy the plane to get to you.

But before I get on the plane, let’s go, angels. We all getting in there together. And this thing ain’t going down because you CAN’T KILL ME UNTIL MY PURPOSE IS Finished Because I’M on the Lord’s side. Somebody say amen. You have to know.

You got to get a revelation. Revelation knowledge creates a different context. You see, the more I talk, the greater the context is for his thought. And that over that that that superimposes itself over what you don’t have. And God can bless you anyhow.

And so you got purpose. And when they come to pass, everybody eats. And so we must bring purposes to pass. I’ve seen a lot of them come to pass.

But God says we got a lot more that we got to bring to pass. So sign up. Sign up to do your part and everybody eats. Really, that’s the way it works. That’s a true congregation.

And then there is God’s will. I said his will was one word. I said his plan or strategy, his counsel was the other word. His will has to do with his decree and what he has said must be or is. When God decrees a thing, who can change it?

And he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy without blame before him in love. And guess what? If you chosen, then you’re going to be holy without blame before him in love.

And somehow his strategy is going to bring you into that place. His plans will bring that purpose to pass. He has adopted us into the family. He sealed us with the Holy Spirit of promise. He’s blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Shout, “I’m already blessed.” Glory to God. He has blessed us. That means he’s favored us. That means he’s shined upon us. That’s that these are decrees that that are that cannot be moved, that cannot be changed.

Nothing in time can overthrow what was done in eternity. These are the bookends, the fixtures, the things that are solid. If you don’t believe anything, you must believe the decrees of the Lord.

Amen. And he said through his redemption, redemptive work, these things will come to pass. And in the future, everybody say the future. Almost done. You’re going to see a universe that’s in harmony.

And I don’t know where all the demons are going to be. All I know is they ain’t going to be causing no ruckus. And all I know is they going to be giving glory to God. All I know that Satan’s going to be somewhere giving glory to God. I don’t know if it’s going to be the kind of glory that you say don’t be like him kind of glory.

See, I don’t want to be on that side of the fence. You know, you got some people in your life, they say there are examples of what not to be. I don’t want to be that kind of glory. Everybody’s going to glorify God, but you could be a testimony of what not to be throughout eternity.

But I’m not sure. I don’t know. I I have to admit it. I don’t know what it’s going to look like, how they’re going to be there, but all I know is it’s going to be perfect oneness. And he said the church is meant to be the miniature version of that in this life as a testimony.

This is the revelation of the church. You got to get a revelation of the church. It’s meant to be a microcosm of that macro vision.

And so you can’t build the church any way you want to. You have to build it according to his plans. This is why we don’t just have people saying this is what we going to do. This church is led by the spirit of the Lord. And we going to build it according to what he said in this book.

And guess what? Because all the people, how do you grow your church? You you guys, they talk about church candy. We talked about that a little bit last week. Uh church candy is how they say they get people in the church.

You got to do all these things to draw them to the church. And maybe some of that has its place. But the reality is the people that have come are those that were already assigned. Did you know some people were assigned to this house? Some people are assigned to you.

We are assigned to be together. And once you’re assigned to be together, the Holy Ghost will bring you together some kind of way. And this is how churches grow. You’ll hear a sound and you’ll be like something in that what that man is talking about is connected to who I am. and it’ll just pull you right into place and nothing can stop that. So the church is meant to be a example, a testimony of, watch this, a society that has Jesus as its Lord.

What does a society look like if everybody is submitted to Jesus? What does a society look like if everybody bows their head to Jesus and does everything he wants done? That is supposed to be what the church looks like. How many say Jesus is Lord in here? Raise your hand if you say he’s Lord.

You see, you see everybody say he’s Lord. So if everybody did what he said, what would this society look like? If everybody did everything the Lord said, what would be happening in the church? Somebody would just have a whole lot of money all of a sudden. You know why?

Cuz God told somebody to give them some money. But if I’m not yielded, somebody say, “I don’t hear him when he tell them to give it to me. I hear it when it’s coming this way. I don’t hear when it’s going that way.” But the reality is the Lord is talking by Holy Spirit all the time. And there will come a time when the church will reflect a society that resembles that cosmic utopia.

Every generation needs to experience a real church. Somebody said, “I know the church, but do you know the real church?” When you get a revelation of the true church of God, you’ll find your place in it. My under my my my concern is that people have a picture of the church that they’ve experienced through their filter. And many times it is a distorted picture. And as I told you last week, some say, “I love Jesus and I don’t love the church.” But just like I told them on last week, and I’ll tell you again, it’s impossible to say you love Jesus and don’t love the church.

If you don’t love the church, you don’t love Jesus. I got to tell you straight. If you don’t like the saints, you you may not like their behavior. Oh yeah, there a whole lot of folks we don’t like that behavior.

But you got But if you really love the church, you’re going to love You really love Jesus, you are going to love the church because the church is Jesus. The church is his body. Are you hearing me? It’s his official house that he lives in and manifests himself through. He’s the head and we are the body.

Do you remember when the Apostle Paul was persecuting the church? Jesus stopped Paul on the road to Damascus and he said, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” He didn’t say, “The church, what you do against the church, you’re doing against Jesus.” He takes it personal. You can’t tell me you love me and don’t like my wife.

Come on, somebody. If you don’t like my wife, you don’t like me because that’s my wife. Are you hearing me? And she’s connected to me. I don’t know nobody say that here.

I’m just making a a teaching point. You can’t say that you love me and don’t like my wife. That don’t make no kind of sense. Ain’t that right, Aaron? That don’t make no kind of sense in the world.

If you really love the Lord, you going to love his people. You going to say, “We are all at some level of deliverance. We are all at different levels of growth. We are all moving the same direction. We don’t have it all together.

We all need mercy. We all need the grace of God. We all need forgiveness. We all have messed up one time or another. We all have come short of the glory of God.

So, how you going to act like you don’t like the church? You You don’t like yourself. If you don’t like the church BECAUSE WE’RE All One Body IN CHRIST JESUS. That’s like somebody said, “I don’t like my toe.” Well, cut it off then. You bad.

I don’t like my eyes. Pluck them out then. You bad. You don’t like your nose. Cut it off.

Okay, you may not like it, but you thank God for it. And you ain’t trying to cut it off. You’re like, I got to breathe. I’m going to have to deal with this hunker. I’m going have to deal with whatever I don’t like about my nose or my ears because it’s a part of The Body.

You May not like your legs, but it’s still carrying you all the way. You don’t see your natural body arguing with itself. your your your hands are not saying I didn’t fell out with the feet. I I’m I ain’t stuck them old corns down there and I ain’t going to do nothing to help him. I know he stuffed himself and I ain’t going to rub him at all. He on his own.

We out of fellowship. I don’t want to have nothing to do with my toes at all. And the hands is arguing with the toes.

But then the toes say, “Wait a minute. Wait. I’ve been carrying you all day. How in the world you going to be mad at me then? What if I stop carrying you?

Then You Can’T GO NOWHERE. The Body Needs Itself, Ladies And Gentlemen. Come on. Thank GOD For The Church. Thank GOD For The Church.

SAY, “I’m in the church with with smelly hands and smelly feet and whatever ELSE IS Still The Church.” And The Blood Can Cleanse US And Wash US And Make us whole. Come on. I’mma mess with y’all today. I’m messing with y’all today. Look at your neighbor and say, “Do you love the church?

Your love for the church has to be for God’s vision of the church, for God’s purpose of the church, not everybody’s behavior. Hear what I’m saying? You got some people in the church who are in the flesh. No, you don’t love that.

But you can love them. You can love them. And so in closing, there are many features that you should see in the church. One is prayer. The early church, the apostolic church, continued in prayer.

Another one was fellowship. Everybody say fellowship or as we termed it last week, convergence. And I’m going to close on this note here, convergence. I want to say a few more things about convergence so you can really get a picture of the church. Conversion occurs when distinct forces, ideas or capacities come together at a common point and through interaction produce an outcome greater or different than their isolated expressions.

Convergence is when things everybody say come together and everybody starts working the way they were meant to work. Did you know that the church will generate its own power by convergence? The church has the power to multiply what it has if we only come together and not just come together in a shallow way, but press into each other. This is the move I need you to get. Why I wanted to come back and share this is because we seek the Lord and we press into him, his presence.

And that’s true. We need to do that. Amen.

But guess whose presence we must press into also? We have to press into one another’s presence. We must seek God with our whole heart and we must learn to seek one another with our entire heart. And I know people don’t have that in in their in their reference as far as church. Soon as somebody look a little strange say forget you too and we out.

But that’s your hand and your body your hand and your toes arguing. It’s going to hinder the whole ladies and gentlemen. And we got you got some funny acting people in church sometimes.

But you got to learn to press in their presence. If God said y’all was together before the foundation of the world, then some kind of way you got to get together in time because it’s his purpose that there’s a testimony of what he said before the world was. If it manifest in time, purpose will come forth. There are some purposes that have not come forth because we have not properly connected with the right people.

And so we’re going to have to connect. Everybody say connect. Say it again. Connect. If there are two tuning forks, put that on the screen.

There you go. Two. I wonder how they knew I was going to do that. If there are two tuning forks and you strike one and it begins to vibrate, the renissance of it will vibrate to the degree where the and the sound that emits from it will vibrate to the degree and the sound and the frequency will be of such that the other one will start making the same sound not having been struck. Go home and try it.

It works. You hit one and the other one will start making the same noise because the frequency is connected. And this is what’s supposed to happen in the house of God when we start conversion. If something happens to one and if you’re connected to other people then they’ll start responding the same way. I was myself along with some of the saints here was in Florida uh this past weekend.

Apostle Rod Mir was with us but three of the saints were here too. some of the ladies were here uh down there rather and uh we were doing a thing down there and uh and the Lord did his thing and on the way home well I was in while I was going down there I got the call that uh my brother’s wife passed my sister-in-law and I got the call went ahead and did what we did soon as they got back Pastor Leah picked me up we went straight to Battle Creek and uh I’m with my brother And he would cry. And as soon as he would cry, I would cry. Soon as he would cry, I would cry. What is that? That’s because we are connected.

And the book said and that and that’s and believe it or not, that’s convergence because all convergence is not just red and blue making purple something good in that sense. Sometimes convergence is is mourning with them that mourn. And if you can, this is how the body works. If somebody’s mourning, then somebody else ought to be mourning because no one should mourn by themsel in the house of God. It’s just like when you’re watching one of those TV shows and somebody start crying and you sitting at home and you’re crying.

It’s because you’re connected to that emotion and then it comes out and it causes you to react. That’s because of connectivity. And so he would cry and I would cry. So I went down there for one purpose to mourn with my brother who was mourning. We just come off a high mountain.

And that was one purpose. But now the next purpose is to go down into the valley and mourn with my brother. You cannot think that purpose is only on the mountain. You got to be wherever God is sending you to fulfill purpose.

And sometimes purpose is in the valley. Sometimes purpose is in somebody else’s pain and feeling what they’re feeling and not trying to pull them out of it. I didn’t try to pull him out of anything. I said, “I’m getting in this thing with you and we going to be together in your pain.” And then God can take that frequency and produce something that was not present because of convergence. Convergence is when two things come together and they create.

And if the body of Christ would create, ladies and gentlemen, we would have more in our midst than what we have. It’s about multiplication. Say it. Multiplication. If you take two part hydrogen or one part hydrogen and two part oxygen or two part hydrogen, one part oxygen and put it together, what do you get?

You get what? You can’t get it any other kind of way. And there are some things and how how important is water? So there are some things very important that will never happen until things come together. Makes no sense for you praying to God because God says, “I’ve already gave it to y’all.

Y’all just got to get together and multiply.” I want to declare multiplication on this house right now. I want to declare multiplication of who you are and what you have and purpose is coming to pass feeding everybody in the house. If the purpose is in the valley, don’t you run from that valley. If the purpose is on the mountain, don’t run from that mountain. Be where God called you to be.

And let’s function like a body and watch God overturn the dark kingdom and watch glory comes back in the house. Now, you might say, “None of that’s happening.” And you’re right. This is why we’re here to preach on the royal priesthood. The royal priesthood is the government of God. It is those the ascension gifts that have come to help the saints come together and learn these things.

I’m a how-to minister. I’m not I’m not the greatest therapeutic minister. I’m not here to minister to make you just feel good about the state you’re in.

But I’m a how-to preacher. I’m going to tell you how to get out of it. I’m going to tell you what you need to do. I’m going to tell you the road that’ll take you where you need to go.

Now, you may not feel the best. You can go somewhere else and you need therapy, find you a therapy preacher and you be the you feel therapeutic about in the stuff you in. And that there’s a place in time for that.

But when you’re ready to get somewhere and ready to go somewhere, you come see me. I’m going to show you how to move forward. I’m going to Show You What The Plan IS Because GOD Wants us to go from glory TO GLORY BY The SPIRIT OF The LORD. Is there anybody want some government on your life? Do you want to feel government to make you rise and do what God Called You TO DO?

THAT’S THIS kind of house, ladies and gentlemen. I’m an apostle with an anointing to move people forward in the things of God. You can’t stay in this place and remain the same. You going to get mad at me or you going to change. You’re going to get mad AT ME OR You Going TO Move Forward.

AND I love you so much. I don’t care IF You Get Mad. I Just Want You TO Move Forward. I Want You TO DO GOD’S WILL. I WANT TO See Purpose Come TO PASS IN Your Life.

IF YOU’RE ON The Same Page, LET’S Give GOD A collective shout in This House For Purpose coming to pass. Oh God. Hallelujah. Somebody shout hallelujah. My last point, everybody stand.

Everybody stand. My last point I want to say to you. That point was mastermind. The last point was futurist. You are a futurist.

Your job as the church is to go to the future because in the future, God says everything is going to be summed up as one. In the future, the whole universe will be one under God. Our job is to go to the future and see what that looks like. Get a revelation of that and bring it back in time. and manifested in the church. Everybody here that’s a believer, you got to learn how to step outside of time and go into the future and say, “Lord, show me the oneness of all things.

Give me a revelation of what that looks like.” And when you get that in your spirit, then you’ll be able to come to the church and say, “Let’s manifest this way.” I pray in the name of the Lord that you learn how to get out of time. You’re not just a physical being. Your body lives in time, but your spirit can go into eternity right now. If you release your faith and go into the spirit, God gives you revelation, knowledge of things that are already done, that will be futuristic in our life, but it’s already done in eternity past. Ask him for revelation knowledge.

That’s my prayer for you today. Revelation knowledge on your children. You look at your kids and don’t get caught up with what they’re doing in a moment in time. address it, manage it, but leave time and say, “Lord, show me them in the future. Show me who they are in your plan, your eternal plan.” Get that in your heart. Then come back in time and minister to them from an eternal perspective.

Minister to them from the future. I go to the future all the time. This is why I don’t give up on people. They can be doing all kind of things in time and I’ll just say you’ll be all right. And they say he don’t care.

No, he care. I’ve seen you in the future. We’re futurist. Say we’re futurist. Come on.

And I understand what that society looks like. That’s what we’re trying to craft here. But I’ve seen many of you in the future. That’s why I say no, don’t mess it up. Just hang in there.

Just hang in there. Don’t quit. If you just hang a little longer, eventually his wisdom is going to kick in. The wisdom is his strategy for bringing those things into fruition or to bring those purposes to God’s strategies work. How do you think he got you saved?

Think about it. How do you think he got you saved? It took some strategy. It definitely took strategy to get me saved. I know it did.

I had to get in at 18. See, I had to get in on time. So, he said, “Ah, I’m going to get Smithy in on time.” And I had to have certain experiences that created the conditions for my ears to open up when the gospel was preached. Had those things not happened, I would not have responded to the gospel.

Come on, let’s worship him right there. He’s God. He’s God. You can think you are out of it, but God says, “Listen, my eternal plan is greater than you. Come on.

The devil attacked me early in life. Had me afraid to speak in front of people. And here in eternity, I was called to spend my life doing it. He thought he can put enough mess in my mind that eternity couldn’t break through.

But soon as Jesus came, he just blew all that stuff out the way. But all that’s got to go. That that’s not you. I was convinced that certain things would never be a part of my life. Do you know that there’s a strategy to get a homosexual saved and delivered completely from homosexuality or a lesbian completely delivered?

There is divine wisdom that God will use to complete. And I bring that up. You know why I bring that up here? Because people have told me that it’s impossible for them to truly get free. I’ve had them tell me to my face.

They say they believe everybody else is fake and who pretended to be free. but they’re really not free. I said, “No, no, no, no. You were called before the foundation of the world.” So, I don’t care how tangled you are up in time. There’s enough wisdom and redemption to untangle the knot and to get you back on track.

COME ON, SOMEBODY. Y’ALL got to believe this thing. This is the power of the gospel. There’s enough wisdom to transform anybody. You can have associations in your mind.

This is why it’s tough for people because whatever you do wrong or whatever you do that you want to get away from, you also got associations with it all in your mind. A song or a neighborhood or a time of day and all you need is that time of day to hit or that song to hit and it triggers that thing. So, we’re not just trying to drive the devil out. We’re not even just trying to heal the soul. We got to deal with everything that was associated with it that keeps triggering that old stuff.

But God says, “My wisdom in the text is it’s it says his manifold wisdom.” That means his many colored wisdom. You know what it means? He says, “I got wisdom for everything y’all dealing with. I got a plan is what he’s saying. I have a strategy.” If you’re called to preach to do something great and you say, “I don’t know how I’ll ever do that.” He’s got a strategy for that.

Your job is just to say amen in this season. Say it. Amen. Trust God. I need you to make a decision today.

I need you to make a decision today. Convergence convergence. When they sing up here, what do they do? They’re taking they’re taking their voices and they layer them in one place. In one place and they put all those voices together, what do they get?

Synergy, harmony, convergence. A different sound comes out when they layer their voices on top of each other. Synergy is when two people are in the same spot. That’s how close you have to get. We got to press into each other.

We got to literally press into each other. We’re so used to being distant. Ken Darius is here. I’m right here. We’re physically next to each other.

But what happens when our minds come together? I feel like Spock. My thoughts to your thoughts. the Vulcan mind melt.

But that’s what Jesus does is my thoughts to your thoughts. My mind to your mind. That’s what mentorship really is. You get close enough to a person where they start hearing your thoughts thinking like you think and you mix them together and then it creates another dynamic that could have never been. I like to think I would like to invite some people sometimes say why don’t you just come and think with me but you can’t be you know you can’t be people that need a lot of action.

You got to be people that just like to come and think and talk it up, chop it up about a thought, what you think about it. And you keep doing it till your thoughts start coming together. And you know when they come together s a convergence and something is created in that moment. This is what he wants for his church. Think with people. get together and fellowship.

That’s what coinia meant. They they fellowship together. They had all things common. That’s the true apostolic church. The apostolic church was a church where there were ascension gifts.

They had breaking of bread, covenant relationship. They had fellowship, which is convergence. They had prayer. It was a community. And that’s what we’re building here, a nation.

Who’s happy to be a part of this congregation? I need to know. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Ascension gifts and the ministry of helps is the government of the house.

If you’re here today and you want prayer to align, that’s the word. God said he’s aligning people today. You want to align. We’re going to talk about the royal priesthood for the next several subjects next several weeks.

But if you want to align, you want prayer, step out right now and said, “I need to align. I want to be a part. I just want strength. I just want prayer. I need something from God.” Is there someone that says, “Pray for me today.” Somebody that may want to join the ministry today. someone that may want to give their life to Jesus today.

Come on, don’t be afraid. Step out and come get prayer. Let’s thank God for those that are coming. We’re giving you time. We’re giving you time to come.

Glory to God. Come on. Come on. There are more coming. This is the day you need to align.

Make a decision today with your life. Amen. God has plans for you that were set before you were born. The day you come into an agreement is the day your life will ease up a bit. The way of a transgressor is hard.

Somebody say, “My life is hard.” My life is hard. The way of a transgressor is hard. If you transgress against the plan, your life will always be hard.

But the day you submit, that’s when it eases out a little bit. Come on. Come on. There’s some more that need to come today. I’m appealing to you.

I’m appealing to you. Draw me close to you. I’ll lay all down again. Help me find the way. Nothing else will do.

Nothing else can take your place. Yes. to feel the warmth of your face. Help me find a way. Lead me back to you. Oh, you’re all I want.

You’re all I ever needed. You’re all I ever needed. You’re all I want. You’re all I want. Help me know you are near.

Tell me though you are. You’re all I want. You’re all that I ever needed. You’re all I ever need. You’re all I want.

You’re all I want. Help me know you. Help me know you are. You’re all I want. You’re all I want.

You truly desire of my heart. You’re all You’re all I ever need. You’re all I want. your eyes. Help me now. Help me know.

You are here. Sing. You’re all I want. You’re everything I’ve ever needed. You’re all I’ve ever needed.

You’re everything. I’m desperate for you. I’m desperate for you. Tell me you are. I want you all.

I want to show you. You’re all I need. You’re all I ever need. You’re all I want. You’re all I want.

Help me know you’re here. Help me know you are here. Lord, you’re all you’re all I want. Jesus, you’re everything. Jesus, you’re everything.

You’re all I ever needed. You are my heart desire. You’re all I want. Help me to know that you are here. Help me know you are here.

You’re all I want. You’re all I want and you’re everything I need. You’re everything. You’re everything. You’re all I want.

You’re all I want. Help me to know. Help me know you are here. Help me to know. Help me know you are here.

Help me to know. Help me know you. Help me to know. Help me know you are near. Help me know you are near.

You are here turning life around. And I worship you. I worship you. You are heal healing broken hearts. And while we’re singing, I’m going to ask you all just to pray with somebody in your seat somewhere.

Just pray with somebody next to you. Just a little prayer. Let’s have a little prayer for the church. For people who belong in the church, for people who need to find their spot in the kingdom. Let’s pray.

I want you all to pray. Find somebody. Let’s just pray together. Way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are.

You are here men in broken hearts and we worship you. Oh yes we do. We worship you. You are here turning lives around and we worship you. Yes God we worship you for we know you’re way maker miracle work promise keep light in the darkness my God that is who you are who you are and that is your nature you are way maker miracle worker promise keeper promise keeper light in the darkness My God, my you make maker miracle.

You’re a promise keeper, promise keeper, light in the dark, whoever. And that’s who we know you to be. Way maker here promise keeper light in the dark. That is who we are. That is who we are.

That’s who we know to be. A way maker way maker, miracle, promise keeper, promise keeper, mighty maker. That is who you are. We believe in you and we know you’ll be awakening miracle promise light in the dark. Glory.

Glory. Merise. Promise keeper. Light in the darkness. My God.

My God. That is true. That is true. That is true. That is who I’m way.

Way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God. That is who you are. That’s who you are. That’s we miracle we promise keep in the darkness my God you believe in you believe in you the way you light is a darkness who you believe in We believe in you.

You’re a white man. Miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God who you are. And we stand totally. We stand a word miracle work promise keep light in the darkness.

Yes, my God. That is who you are. That’s who you are. That’s who you are. We make people light in the darkness.

God. We believe in you. We sing make mirac light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are. Even when I don’t see it, you’re working.

Even when I don’t feel it, you’re working. You never stop. You never stop working. You never stop. You never stop working.

Even Even when I can see it, you work. Even when I Even when I don’t feel it, you work. You never stop. You never stop. You never stop.

You never stop. You never stop. How many believe that today? Even when I can’t see it. Even when I see it.

Even when I can’t feel it. Even when I can’t feel it. You never stop. You never stop. You never stop.

Never stop. Even when I can’t see, even when I can see you, even when I can’t, even when I don’t feel even when I don’t feel it, you’re working. You never stop. You never stop working. You never stop.

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You never stop. Even when I can’t see it, you can see. Even when I can’t feel it, you never stop. You never sound working. You never stop.

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You never stop working. You never stop. You never stop working. You never stop working in your mouth. We believe in your miracle king.

We believe in your miracle working power. We believe in your miracle in your miracle working power. We believe we believe in your miracle working power. We believe. We believe working.

We believe. We believe. Believe in your miracle working power. We believe we believe in your miracle working power. I swear tomorrow I never believe everything Just believe and receive it.

God will perform it today. Just believe and receive it. God will perform it today. Come on. Just believe and receive it.

God will perform it today. Come on. Just believe and receive it. God will perform it today. Just believe.

Just believe and receive it. God will just believe and receive it. Just believe it. Just believe and receive it. God will.

I expect a miracle. I expect a miracle. Thank you team. Thank you. Thank you. to what I can limit to what I can I want you to prepare yourselves prepare yourselves to give your offering at this time we’re going to believe God continuously and continue to worship him in our giving.

Those of you that are giving by the QR code, we just follow those prompting. Those of you that are coming, be prepared to come. I’m going to ask that you would raise your giving device up. Raise it up. We want to pray.

Everybody stand. Let’s everybody stand. We’re going to pray for these gifts. We’re going to pray for your gifts and ask God’s blessing on them. How many got something out of the word today?

Anything out of the word today? That’s what this is about. We want to be the body. Father, thank you for the privilege of being a part of the congregation of the righteous. Thank you for the opportunity to give and to sew and be a part of those who give.

So when purpose comes to pass, everybody feasts in their soul. God, we thank you for collective feasting. We pray you would bless every household today. Let no one be exempt from the blessing because of our connectivity. And I pray that it would be a thousand times more added because of multiplication and love.

Let there be no lack in our midst according to the early church’s president. We command the blessing in Jesus name. Amen. You’re in the hands of the ushers. Makes no difference what you’re going through.

God’s going to make it. God’s going to see you through. So hold your head up. Put a smile on your face. This is another test and it won’t last.

So get ready. Get ready for your blessing. For your blessing. Get ready. Get ready for your miracle. for your miracle.

Get ready. Get ready for your blessing. for your blessing. Get ready. Get ready for your miracle. for your miracle. God’s got a blessing.

God’s got a blessing. See, God’s got a bless. God’s got a blessing. See, God’s got a blessing. God’s got a blessing.

Oh, God’s got a blessing. God’s got a blessing. God’s got a blessing. God’s got a blessing. God’s got a blessing.

God’s got a blessing. God’s got a blessing. God’s got a blessing. With your name on it. With your name on it.

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God’s got a blessing. With my name on it. With my name on it. God’s got a blessing. God’s got a blessing.

Oh, God’s got a blessing. God’s got a blessing. God’s got a blessing. God’s got a blessing. With my name on it.

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With my name on it. With my name on it. With my name on it. With your name on it. With your name on it.

With your name on it. With your name on it. With your name on it. With your name on it. With your name on it. your name on it.

Amen. Amen. Amen.

Amen.

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