I Said Get Up
Pastor Jerry Flowers Jr. Preached on 3/17/2026
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Summary
Pastor Jerry Flowers Jr. challenges believers to move out of spiritual laziness and 'bed sores' caused by disappointment, urging them to trust God's timing and development even when a situation appears dead.
Key points
- •Maturity is the ability to outgrow what used to fit - it is not defined by age but by spiritual wisdom and character development.
- •The enemy often uses the 'Why bother?' narrative to convince believers that prayer and faithfulness are a waste of time during seasons of delay.
- •God often delays an answer as a healer because He intends to show up as a resurrector, introducing a deeper dimension of His nature.
- •Spiritual growth requires learning how to steward disappointment and long-suffering without leaving God or seeking worldly counterfeits.
- •Public testimonies are often unnecessary when the miracle is evident; sometimes God wants us to stop talking and simply 'walk' in the new life He provided.
Scripture
Faith
Spiritual Growth
Trials
Perseverance
Discipline
Life application
Identify a 'Why bother?' area in your life where you have become spiritually lazy or offended, and make a decision to 'get up' by re-engaging in prayer and discipline this week regardless of your current feelings.
Reflection questions
- Which phase of the process are you currently in: Request, Delay, Develop, Eviction, or Fulfillment?
- Are you struggling with 'spiritual entitlement' or jealousy because someone else received their miracle before you?
- What are some 'umbilical cords' to your past or to 'Egypt' that God might be trying to cut so you can fully enter your promise?
- How has your diet of 'social feeds' and viral content affected your ability to discern sound biblical doctrine?
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0:02Let's make some noise for Jesus family.
0:07We could do better than that. Can we
0:08give God some [music] praise in the
0:10house?
0:12A victorious God.
0:16Matter of fact, hold up.
0:18Let's try it this way.
0:21If you ever find yourself in New River,
0:23North Carolina,
0:25there is a Marine Corps air station
0:29where the Marines are training, aviation
0:31training, and they have these huge
0:33aircrafts,
0:34and they're really, really loud. But
0:37outside the military base, it says,
0:39"Pardon the noise, for it's the sound of
0:42freedom."
0:44>> [cheering]
0:46>> So, before you complain about how loud
0:48it is, we're preparing for warfare,
0:52and pardon the noise, it's the sound of
0:55freedom. Do we have any free sons in the
0:58house and free daughters in the house,
1:01free worshipers in the house, and
1:04who the son has set free is free indeed.
1:10Let everything that have breath give God
1:14praise
1:17for freedom.
1:20For freedom.
1:21>> [music]
1:23>> Freedom.
1:24Would you high-five two people around
1:26you and tell them, "I'm glad to see you
1:28in the house."
1:33Glad to see you
1:36in the house
1:38of the Lord
1:40once again. You may take your seats.
1:45I'm so honored to be back
1:47here [snorts] in South Florida.
1:51Yes.
1:54I believe the last time I was here was
1:562023.
1:58And
1:59uh I had two children at that time. Now
2:01we have three.
2:04Pray for us.
2:06Um but I think it would just be
2:09ministerial malpractice to stand before
2:12you all and not give honor to where
2:16honor is due. Can I just
2:18just get us to thank God for the
2:21leadership of this house.
2:24Bishop Hernandez and his beautiful wife.
2:27You could do better than that. 35 years
2:30of faithfulness.
2:33I honor you.
2:36I honor you and uh
2:38you've been in my prayers. My wife and I
2:40love you. Next time Mrs. Flowers got she
2:42has to be here.
2:44There's just a different level of oil
2:45when Mrs. Flowers is in the house.
2:49Um I I really want to get to work.
2:52This is the only disclaimer
2:55that you get.
2:57This
2:58is a resurrection word.
3:01It is a call out of spiritual laziness.
3:07A call out of casual Christianity.
3:10This is going to be a spicy word. I hope
3:13you like spiritual jalapenos.
3:16This is going to be spicy. I did not
3:18come all the way from Houston, Texas to
3:21talk to your cute.
3:23Enough with us being Christians who are
3:26saved but petty.
3:28You could slay a whole workout in the
3:30gym, bro, but can't slay a demon. You
3:33could slay a whole dress. You can't slay
3:35a bad attitude. Enough with that.
3:39Enough with that. I'm not sorry. My
3:40generation requires real.
3:43I am summoned to awaken a people up out
3:46of a spiritual coma.
3:49Hear me on today. This is not the time
3:52for you down in the dust of your
3:55disappointment.
3:56This is not the time for you to feel
3:58sorry for yourself. This is not the time
4:01for you to operate with casual
4:03Christianity because what's happening
4:05especially in Western Hemisphere in
4:07America is we have gotten so spiritually
4:10lazy that just because something goes
4:13viral, we think it's biblical.
4:22So you the way the Holy Spirit gave it
4:23to me, some of us have gotten so
4:25spiritually lazy that we're formulating
4:27spiritual bed sores,
4:30pressure ulcers because you haven't
4:32moved. You're not growing and it takes
4:35for a caregiver to come in the room and
4:37push you and I've been praying, "Lord,
4:40would you anoint me as a spiritual
4:42caregiver to push my brothers and
4:44sisters out of laziness, to push them
4:47out of being bitter, to push them out of
4:49entitlement, [singing] to push them out
4:51of being offended." Somebody say,
4:53"Move."
4:55No, that's not good enough. You got to
4:57say it like you've been at a red light
4:58for 3 minutes,
5:00it just turned green and the car in
5:02front of you is just sitting there.
5:03Somebody shout, "Move."
5:06That's what we want God to do in our
5:07nation. That's what we want God to do in
5:10this moment. That's what we want God to
5:12do in our marriages. That's what we want
5:14God to do in the earth. Get us to be a
5:17moved people.
5:21This is not your deathbed.
5:31This is not where you die.
5:36Hear me.
5:38Revelation
5:40was never designed to be given to you on
5:42your deathbed.
5:46It was designed to be given to you when
5:49you still can apply it.
5:55So, I want us to pray.
5:57Then we're going to get to work on
5:59today.
6:01Father God, thank you for this moment.
6:04Thank you for this hour.
6:07We're so thankful, oh Lord, that you
6:09woke us up to see a new day, a day that
6:11we never saw before, and a day that we
6:13will never see again. Simply for the
6:15gift of life, we say thank you.
6:19Father God, we're praying that this
6:21won't be a flash fire word.
6:25Light us on fire for just a few moments
6:27while we're in church and we go right
6:29back to the same bondage. But God, we're
6:32asking that in this moment, we will be
6:36able to say it was on this Sunday that
6:38everything changed.
6:41We're praying, oh God, that you fall
6:43fresh
6:44on our service. And just like I prayed
6:46in private, I also declare it in public.
6:49All of the study means absolutely
6:51nothing if you aren't magnified, if you
6:53aren't glorified. I'm asking that you
6:55anoint me in this hour as your oracle,
6:57the PA system, the soundtrack of heaven.
7:00Don't let them see Jerry, let them see
7:02Jesus.
7:05Pray that you do it in Jesus' precious
7:07name. And everybody who agrees their
7:08prayer, would you shout all over the
7:10room "Amen."
7:12Amen.
7:14If you would, would you turn your Bibles
7:15to the Gospel of Mark,
7:18chapter 5.
7:20We're going to launch our reading
7:22at verse 35.
7:24Mark chapter 5,
7:26starting our reading at verse 35. Now,
7:30usually when somebody begins to preach
7:33from Mark chapter 5, especially verses
7:3535 and downward, we speak about the
7:38woman with the issue of blood.
7:40That's not what I want to talk to you
7:42about.
7:43There is another particular biblical
7:45character in this text that often gets
7:49overlooked and his name is Jairus.
7:52He's a synagogue leader and he's the one
7:55who came to Jesus and asked him, "Will
7:59you come lay your hands on my daughter?
8:01Because if you do, I know she will be
8:03made well." And as they're on their way
8:06to Jairus' house, there is a woman with
8:09the issue of blood who gets a drive-by
8:11miracle. She just happens to place
8:14herself in the right vicinity because
8:16you do know atmospheres matter.
8:20So, Jesus is having this conversation
8:23with this woman who just got healed and
8:26this is where we're picking up in our
8:28foundational reading. If you're ready,
8:30shout, "I'm ready."
8:32Mark chapter 5 verse 35, it says, "While
8:34Jesus was still speaking,
8:38some people came from the house of
8:40Jairus, the synagogue leader,
8:43'YOUR DAUGHTER
8:44IS DEAD.
8:46WHY bother the teacher anymore?'
8:52Overhearing what they said, Jesus told
8:54him, 'Do not be afraid, just believe.'
8:59He did not let anyone follow him except
9:02Peter, James, and John, the brother of
9:05James. First side bar, be careful who
9:08you allow to follow you when you're
9:09expecting God to do the miraculous.
9:14When they came to the house of the
9:15synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion
9:19with people crying and wailing loudly.
9:21He went in and said to them, 'Why all
9:24this commotion and wailing? The child is
9:27not dead,
9:29but asleep.'
9:32But they laughed at him. Second side
9:34bar, be careful of labels that other
9:36people try to give you.
9:38Because of their opinion you because of
9:41their opinion you could end up signing a
9:42death certificate on something that God
9:45already plans to raise up.
9:48After he put them all out, he took the
9:51child's father
9:52and mother and the disciples who are
9:54with him and went in where the child
9:57was. He took her by the hand and said to
10:00her, "Talitha koum." Which means little
10:03girl, I say to you get up.
10:07Immediately, the girl stood up and began
10:10to walk around. She was 12 years old.
10:14When I was reading this, I wondered why
10:16the author made it so intentional to
10:19remind us that she is 12 years old. And
10:21it was so powerful powerful to me
10:23because I remember that there was just a
10:25woman of blood who had an issue for 12
10:28years. So, the same time this girl was
10:31being born is the same time this woman
10:34got the diagnosis that she's bleeding
10:36and God heals both of them on the same
10:38day. This is why you should never get
10:40jealous of when God does it for them.
10:44Okay, keep reading the text.
10:47She was 12 years old. At this, they were
10:49completely astonished. He gave strict
10:53orders
10:55not to let anyone know about this and he
10:58told them to give her something to eat.
11:02Our clause of concern, our verse of
11:05emphasis, where we're going to park and
11:07unpack and exegete for the next few
11:09moments lives and takes residence in
11:12verse 41 of our foundational text where
11:15the scripture tells us that Jesus walked
11:18in the room.
11:20He touched her by grabbing her by the
11:22hand and said "Talitha koum." Which
11:26means little girl, I say to you
11:29get up.
11:31Could you help me introduce the title of
11:33this sermonic presentation. Find at
11:35least two people around you and tell
11:37them, I said, get up.
11:41I said, get up. On the side of you,
11:43behind you. You don't even recognize
11:45you're being prophetic right now,
11:47because the Holy Spirit's been telling
11:49that to somebody for the last four or
11:50five months. Get up. Get up out of that
11:53resentment. Get up out of that doubt.
11:56Get up out of that bed with that person
11:57that you're not married to. Get up.
12:00Get up out of overthinking. All
12:02overthinking is is a misuse of your
12:05creative self. Look how creative you
12:07are, thinking horror stories that will
12:09never happen. [laughter] GET UP OUT of
12:10worry. Worry is a down payment on a
12:12problem you MAY NEVER HAVE. SOMEBODY
12:14SHOUT, GET UP.
12:17GET UP OUT THE SAME PROBLEM, THE same
12:19struggle, year after year. Can we talk,
12:22family?
12:23Like, I'm cool with taking tests. I'm
12:25just not cool with taking the same test.
12:29I'm cool with taking tests. I'm just not
12:31cool with taking the same test from the
12:33same teacher.
12:35I'm cool with taking tests. I'm just not
12:37cool with taking the same test from the
12:39same teacher in the same classroom.
12:42Can I keep going? I'm cool with taking
12:44tests. I'm just not cool with taking the
12:46same test from the same teacher in the
12:49same classroom over the same subject. I
12:52got one more. I'm cool with taking
12:54tests. I'm just not cool with taking the
12:56same test from the same teacher in the
12:59same class over the same subject and
13:01keep making the same grade. After a
13:04while, you should want to pass. There's
13:07a reason why the fifth grade chair and
13:09the pre-K chair are different sizes,
13:12BECAUSE AFTER A WHILE, YOUR BUTT should
13:14not BE ABLE TO FIT IN THE same place. We
13:17need spiritual mature Christians.
13:23And please don't misconstrue you know
13:25I'm saying. Maturity has nothing to do
13:27with age.
13:29Cuz you could be an 82-year-old fool.
13:33And you could be 28 and have more wisdom
13:35than the 82-year-old. I didn't say
13:37experience, I said wisdom.
13:42Because maturity
13:44if I was a note taker, I'd write this
13:45down. Maturity is your ability to
13:48outgrow what used to fit.
13:54It's your ability to outgrow what used
13:57to fit.
13:58So you're telling me you've been saved
13:59since 1999.
14:02And you haven't outgrown cursing people
14:04out yet?
14:07You've been saved since 2022
14:10and you haven't outgrown being petty?
14:18Get up.
14:20Get up.
14:23Church family, if you look a little
14:25closer at this text,
14:28you will see that it's not just about
14:31this little girl who was pronounced
14:33dead.
14:34It's really about faith under fire.
14:39Can you believe
14:41even after you got a bad report?
14:45See, it's one thing to have professing
14:47faith.
14:49It's another thing to have faith that
14:51has endurance.
14:55It's one thing to say, "I'm a part of
14:57the Faith Center."
15:00It's another thing that when people
15:02encounter your life, they see you are a
15:04faith center.
15:06Y'all missed it.
15:10Jairus comes to Jesus
15:14desperate for his daughter's healing.
15:15And watch this, he gets bad news
15:19as he's standing right next to the
15:21healer.
15:25And he's watching somebody else get
15:29healing who didn't get there first.
15:34It's about faith under fire because
15:35remember Jesus turned and looked at
15:37Jairus and said, "Don't be afraid. Just
15:42believe."
15:44Just
15:45believe. And while he is standing next
15:48to Jesus,
15:49he hears these words that shatter the
15:51soul.
15:53Your daughter
15:55IS DEAD.
15:57WHY BOTHER THE teacher any longer? Why
16:01bother the teacher? Why bother? Why
16:04bother? That was standing out to me in
16:06sermon prep because I recognized that
16:09the statement why bother is a hymn that
16:13Satan wants us to do it with him when
16:15disappointment arrives in your life.
16:19Why bother?
16:20Why bother with prayer? It's not
16:22changing nothing.
16:23Why bother? All this fasting and
16:26believing God, I don't see any change in
16:28my life. Why bother?
16:29Why bother forgiving them when they're
16:31not even sorry? Why bother?
16:34WHY BOTHER TRUSTING God that he will
16:36send me a kingdom man when I have
16:38counterfeits readily available? Why
16:40bother?
16:42Why bother?
16:44Confess your faults one to another. I
16:45did that. Why bother with doing that
16:47again? They used my flaws as ammunition.
16:51They used my flaws as sermon content and
16:54podcast material. So, the next time I
16:56open up it's going to be at my autopsy.
16:58I'm not saying nothing else to anybody.
17:02Can we talk?
17:03Make it personal. I prayed for God to
17:06heal my grandfather. I wanted him to see
17:08me graduate from high school. I was
17:10praying and believing that next week
17:12later he died.
17:14Two years later we found my grandmother
17:16unconscious and I was believing and
17:18praying that God would heal her so that
17:21at least I would have a grandparent to
17:23see me graduate. She died too. So you
17:26think the next time I feel or I face
17:28something that's discouraging I'm going
17:30to pray? Why bother? We have to talk
17:32about this family. Because since we keep
17:36on giving these inspirational sermons is
17:38causing for us to be Christians who have
17:40no depth.
17:41You can't endure anything. You walk away
17:43from the faith if somebody talks about
17:45you. I bet the apostles are like, "Man,
17:47I got stoned. I got beat. I got
17:50abandoned on islands." And we have
17:52people who walk away from Jesus because
17:54of a layoff.
17:57Can you handle the disappointment?
17:59Disappointment has caused for there to
18:02be many agnostics and atheists.
18:05And because we care more about your
18:07pocketbook than souls.
18:11We're giving sugar-coated sermons that
18:14go viral. Then when you hear a sermon
18:16that has salt in it, it tastes like
18:18judgment.
18:22All these sugar-coated sermons are doing
18:25is giving Christians spiritual cavities.
18:29To where you like sweets.
18:31But you don't know how to handle Watch
18:33this. You don't hear sermons much about
18:35this. When the Holy Spirit is producing
18:37this fruit, long-suffering.
18:40See? See, we talk about patience. We
18:43talk about joy. But you do know
18:45long-suffering
18:48is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. Maybe God
18:50is not punishing you, he's training you.
18:53You quit too easy.
18:57Okay.
18:59Why bother?
19:01Your daughter
19:03is dead.
19:04If I was in note-taking I'd write this
19:05down.
19:07The enemy doesn't have to attack your
19:08faith
19:10if he can convince you it's a waste of
19:12time.
19:17Your daughter
19:19is dead.
19:21I want you to feel the gravity of that.
19:24Put yourself
19:26in Jairus' shoes for a moment.
19:29And all of the thoughts
19:31that had to begin crashing in his mind
19:34like waves on a beachfront. If I would
19:37have came to Jesus sooner.
19:40When I first heard her cough.
19:43WHEN SHE FIRST STARTED SNEEZING. IF I
19:45WOULD HAVE CAME TO JESUS THEN, maybe my
19:47daughter would be alive.
19:49Or or maybe if I would have got a
19:51chariot.
19:53And we could have rushed through the
19:55marketplace. Maybe we could have got to
19:57my daughter. Or or or maybe it's this
20:00woman's fault.
20:02I came to Jesus first and she interrupt
20:06the whole process. And remember, he's a
20:08synagogue leader. So he knows the law.
20:11This woman's not even supposed to be out
20:13in public anyway.
20:15Because the Old Testament lets us know
20:17that this woman is considered
20:19ceremonially unclean.
20:22This is so good. Watch this.
20:24So the Old Testament lets us know that
20:27if the unclean thing touches the clean
20:30thing, the clean thing becomes unclean.
20:34But Jesus, the master physician,
20:36switches it around to where if the
20:38unclean thing touches the clean thing,
20:41the clean thing makes the unclean clean
20:43because he's a master physician.
20:49I got to Jairus I got to Jesus first.
20:52Here's the question, family. What's your
20:55posture when somebody gets the blessing
20:56before you?
21:01I told you spicy.
21:04And God makes you watch.
21:12Gets the blessing
21:14before you.
21:16It reminds me
21:18of this parable that Jesus gave in
21:20Matthew chapter 20.
21:22The parable of the workers in the
21:23vineyard.
21:25They've been working all day. There were
21:27people who worked from 9:00 to 5:00 and
21:29they got a denarius. And there were
21:31people who were working from 4:00 to
21:335:00 and they got a denarius, too. I
21:36want you to see their their their
21:37posture when this happens. In Matthew
21:39chapter 20, verse 10, it says, "Now,
21:42when those hired first came, they
21:46thought they would receive more."
21:48Somebody say entitlement.
21:50But each of them also received a
21:54denarius. And on receiving it, they
21:58grumbled at the master of the house.
22:02I understand many of us are like, "God,
22:05I trust you."
22:07But what about when your heart is
22:08screaming, "That's not fair."
22:15How are they walking through blessings
22:18and I keep going through fiery furnaces?
22:20How long do you want me cooked? I'm no
22:23longer original, Jesus. I'm extra
22:25crispy.
22:28How many more storms do I have to go
22:30through? How many more trials do I have
22:33to face? And they're walking through.
22:35When are you going to hear my prayer?
22:37God, that's not fair.
22:41If I could just be transparent, when we
22:43were believing and asking God for a
22:45building, I'm like, "God, I'm studying.
22:48I'm loving my wife. I'm striving to
22:51disciple your people and we can't find a
22:54building for your people, but this other
22:57dude down the street
22:59is not even preaching the Bible.
23:02He gets up there and tells jokes and
23:04inspiration, didn't quote one scripture,
23:07and they just opened their third campus.
23:09God, that's not fair.
23:14Sisters, let me talk to you.
23:16My sister been saved for 2 weeks
23:20and she's already been discovered by a
23:23godly man.
23:24I've been saved for 5 years. I've been
23:27celibate. I'm on the praise team. I'm
23:30worshiping. Lord, if I just be honest,
23:33if I have to be somebody else's
23:35bridesmaid, somebody going to have to
23:36catch these hands.
23:40SHE JUST GOT OFF A STRIPPER POLE.
23:46Is this too real?
23:49That's not fair. Oh, let me tell you
23:51this as a pastor. Just just pastor hat
23:53for a second. You could be doubting
23:56God's timing over somebody who just
23:58settled.
24:00Just because they said I do does not
24:03mean they just got blessed. And you're
24:05like, God, when you going to do it for
24:07me? And if God would talk back to you,
24:09he would say, They look overlooked every
24:11red flag. They didn't get counsel. They
24:14lust drove them. I'm trying to protect
24:16you. Everything that's valuable I
24:18covered. Diamonds are deep. Pearls are
24:21deep. Everything that's valuable I
24:24covered. So, can you trust me while I
24:26hide you? Because you can't just have an
24:28average man. You can't just have a dude
24:30that loves football and doesn't love
24:31Jesus. You can't just have any old type
24:34of man. I need a man who can cover you.
24:36Don't you let culture lie to you. The
24:38highest security for a woman is not how
24:41much you can provide for her. It's how
24:42much you can cover. You can cover her in
24:45the spirit. Cover her in prayer. I'M NOT
24:48TALKING ABOUT FIGHTING WITH YOUR FISTS.
24:49Do you know HOW TO FIGHT WITH YOUR
24:51FAITH? Does heaven listen to you?
25:02>> Sitting up here doubting God's timing
25:03because they just settled.
25:05You listen, don't you relationship goal
25:08anybody.
25:10You don't know what is behind that
25:13curtain.
25:15I'm telling you from counseling.
25:19That's a whole 'nother sermon, Bishop.
25:22When God going to do God didn't do that?
25:26They going to need counseling right
25:27after the honeymoon.
25:30And then they leave the church when I
25:31see when I say, "Man, it's hard to get
25:34God to bless what devil sent, huh?"
25:37It's hard when you want God to step in
25:39when you didn't care about Okay, I'm
25:40sorry.
25:43No, y'all got to have me back for that
25:45one. Mhm.
25:52Y'all stop.
25:53>> [cheering]
25:54>> Cuz I feel it. I'm like, "No."
26:01Jairus,
26:04your daughter
26:05is dead.
26:07Jesus looks at him,
26:10says,
26:11"Don't be afraid.
26:15Just believe." See,
26:17this so good because I think often we
26:19forget
26:21nothing shocks God.
26:25So, watch this.
26:27Jesus already knew
26:30before Jairus ever came to him,
26:34"I'm not going to get to your daughter's
26:36house to be a healer.
26:41You want me to be a healer,
26:44but I know I'm going to come to your
26:46house to be a resurrector."
26:49Wait. Wait. Wait.
26:51So, because I know I'm doing and you
26:54don't,
26:56I could take my time and allow a woman
26:59who has the issue of blood touch me and
27:01turn around and say, "Who touched me?"
27:04If I'm Jairus, I'm saying, "Lord, I
27:07don't care who touched you. I came to
27:10you first. Let's expedite this journey
27:12and go check on my baby girl."
27:16But Jesus
27:18knows all things.
27:21So, anytime you find yourself in a
27:23situation where it seems like God is
27:27taking his time, could it be because
27:30you're coming to him because you want
27:32him to be one thing, but he's taking his
27:35time with it because he wants to
27:36introduce I'm everything.
27:38I'm multifaceted. Now, it makes so much
27:42sense why when Moses asked the Lord,
27:45"Whom shall I say sent me?" God said,
27:47"You tell them I am."
27:51If I was Moses, I'd have been like, "You
27:53are what?"
27:56I am
27:57that I am.
27:59Because you can't compact or
28:01compartmentalize
28:03who I am to a am because you don't know
28:06what am you going to need me to be.
28:09Cuz on Monday, I may be your mind
28:12regulator. On Tuesday, I may be I am
28:15your protector. On Wednesday, I may be I
28:17am your way maker. On Thursday, I may be
28:20I am your peace. On Friday, I may be I
28:23am YOUR DEFENDER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT AM
28:25YOU GOING to need me to be. Just know
28:28that I am. Can we pause right here and
28:30thank God that he is the I am that I am.
28:36I feel this in my spirit, y'all. You
28:39don't know what you need me to be
28:40tomorrow. Just know I'm everything
28:42today tomorrow yesterday and
28:44forevermore. I am.
28:50I want to show you another dimension of
28:53who I am. See, family, you'll never know
28:55him.
28:56You'll never know him as Jehovah Shalom,
29:00the God of your peace, unless you're
29:02faced with a situation where there's
29:04chaos all around you.
29:06But you still have peace within you. I'm
29:10talking about the peace where you'll be
29:11tripping over the fact you ain't
29:13tripping.
29:17I should be upset about what they said.
29:19I ain't even tripping.
29:20I should be mad at what they did. I'm
29:22not even tripping. I guess this is what
29:24the peace that surpasses
29:27all my understanding feels like. You'll
29:30never know him.
29:32You'll never know him as El Roi, the God
29:34who sees, until you find yourself in a
29:37situation where you feel overlooked and
29:39forgotten about. You'll never know HIM
29:42AS JEHOVAH JIREH, YOUR PROVIDER, until
29:44you find yourself in a situation where
29:47you can't provide for yourself, but
29:49someway and somehow God comes through
29:51clutch. You'll never know him. You'll
29:54never know HIM AS THE FOURTH MAN IN THE
29:55FIRE IF HE DOESN'T ALLOW YOU TO GO
29:57THROUGH a fiery furnace. YOU'LL NEVER
29:59KNOW HIM. YOU'LL NEVER KNOW him as
30:01Jehovah Rapha, your healer, until your
30:03mind needed healing, your children
30:05needed healing, your marriage needed
30:07healing, and the Lord healed you. YOU'LL
30:08NEVER KNOW HIM. You'll never know him as
30:11the God who shuts the mouth of the lions
30:14until he allows you to spend the night
30:16with beast.
30:21You'll never know him as a comforter
30:23until you face something uncomfortable.
30:28Gosh, I'm trying to get us to get this.
30:29It's the encounters with God
30:33that shows us he's multifaceted.
30:38This is so good, family.
30:41So, I want you to consider
30:43there's a chart that I made. I want us I
30:45want us to consider the steps of a
30:48delay.
30:49We have a delay due to introduction,
30:52a delay for instruction,
30:55and a delay for disobedience.
30:59One more time. A delay, please write
31:01this down. A delay
31:03for introduction,
31:05a delay for instruction,
31:08and a delay due to disobedience.
31:11The delay for introduction, this is the
31:13text all day.
31:15I'm delaying this to introduce I'm not
31:18just a healer, Jabez.
31:21I'm also a resurrector. Same thing with
31:23Mary and Martha. I'm not coming to heal
31:26Lazarus from his sickness.
31:28I'm going to let him die. I'm
31:29introducing another dimension of who I
31:32am.
31:33Then you have a delay for instruction.
31:36David, you're going to get anointed king
31:39over the Israel while Israel still has a
31:42king because now I need to give you
31:44instructions on how to dodge Saul's
31:47spears and not throw them back.
31:54I need you to get character.
31:56And then the last delay, we don't like
31:57to talk about that one. The delay due to
31:59disobedience.
32:01Because we always want to say God's
32:03timing and God's timing. Uh boo-boo,
32:05some of this stuff is delayed because of
32:06you.
32:07Like you're rebelling your way into
32:09seasons. God's grace will keep you.
32:13Do you have Bible? Yes, I do. Children
32:15of Israel all day. It was supposed to
32:17take them about 11 days to get over to
32:19Canaan. It end up taking 40 years.
32:24If you can identify
32:26which delay you're experiencing,
32:29it will adjust the way you pray.
32:31So, now here's the critical point.
32:34Here's the critical point.
32:35Remember,
32:36Jesus already knew.
32:40Jairus,
32:41she going to die.
32:44But what you came to me to be as a
32:45healer, I'm going to be a resurrector.
32:48So, steward this disappointment
32:52as we're going to your house.
32:55See, the whole sermon is about to shift.
32:59Can God trust you to steward
33:03disappointment?
33:05Two things, write this down.
33:07Do you know how to steward
33:10disappointment
33:12that God allows without leaving him?
33:20That's the first one. Second one, do you
33:22know how to steward disappointment
33:25without the pain leading you to waste
33:28time?
33:31Mess your whole relationship up. The
33:33only reason y'all dating
33:35is because you've been disappointed.
33:39That's it.
33:41That's it.
33:43Can you steward it?
33:45See,
33:46this is what's causing many people to
33:49leave the faith because we think
33:51following Jesus makes us immune from
33:53trouble.
33:56I don't know where we got this from.
33:58I small group with men. Yeah, I was
34:00doing all that praying and I was coming,
34:02but then my life got worse, so I
34:03stopped.
34:07I You didn't notice that the devil
34:09wasn't bothering you when you were going
34:11his way?
34:12Because in your Christian journey, if
34:15you never encounter a devil or
34:17resistance, y'all might be going the
34:19same way.
34:23It's not until you start trying to seek
34:26the Lord.
34:32Do you
34:33know how to steward
34:36disappointment?
34:38And we can't act like
34:40this is not biblical.
34:42Because it had to be disappointing
34:45when God gave the instruction to Abraham
34:48sacrifice your son as he was testing
34:50him. We can't act like this is not
34:52biblical because it had to be
34:54disappointing for the disciples to
34:56follow Jesus for 3 years and see him
34:59bloody mutilated and disfigured on the
35:01cross. We can't act like this is not
35:03biblical for Joseph to not do anything
35:06wrong, but then his brothers throw him
35:09in a pit and sell him into slavery, and
35:11then Potiphar's wife got mad because he
35:13wouldn't give her some, and now he finds
35:15himself in prison. Do you know how to
35:18steward disappointment?
35:22That's where the Lord produces this
35:24fruit long-suffering.
35:29And if there's anything my generation
35:30does not know how to do is suffer.
35:39Cuz what goes viral is your season.
35:42It's your time.
35:44It's your moment. What doesn't is not
35:47your season.
35:48It's not your time. God's handing out
35:50new cars. No, he's handing out crosses.
35:54See? See how quiet it's getting right
35:56here?
35:57When I was talking about you need a
35:58different type of man, YES, YOU BETTER
36:00PREACH.
36:04WHEN I talk about no, maybe you don't
36:06have the character to handle a godly man
36:07right now. It's quiet.
36:10It gets quiet. Because kings regulate
36:14the chaos, provide order. So, if you
36:17like disorder, a kingdom man is going to
36:19make you feel like you're suffocating.
36:22See how quiet it gets right there?
36:25Everybody shouts
36:27Until you start
36:30speaking about
36:32the Lord produces this fruit
36:35of long-suffering.
36:39Why aren't we telling more people
36:42that sometimes following Jesus comes
36:45with heartbreak?
36:48Like, can we be real?
36:50Giving up your way
36:52for his way is not always easy.
36:56You know why many of us have delayed
36:58disobedience? Because you know if you
37:00obey God
37:02and he turns the page, there's somebody
37:05who won't be in the next chapter.
37:07So, you delay with your surrender
37:11because you know if I obey God, I can't
37:13run to their arms anymore.
37:18Disappointment. Why aren't we telling
37:21people that sometimes it hurts when you
37:23stand 10 toes down and you're sold out
37:26and your family starts talking about
37:28you? Your family starts badmouthing you
37:31and then you wonder what's wrong with my
37:33family? Could it be God has anointed you
37:35to be the chain-breaker and you're never
37:37going to get support from people who are
37:39passing down toxicity. Stop expecting
37:42your mama to support when she was the
37:44one that's toxic. You're the one that's
37:45going to break it. Can you steward the
37:48disappointment?
37:54We need stronger Christians in America.
37:57We will leave the church because WE
37:59DON'T LIKE A SERMON AND OUR BROTHERS AND
38:01SISTERS in other parts of the world are
38:03being martyred FOR CHRIST. THEY HAVE
38:05TORN PAGES OF THE BIBLE AND THEY'RE
38:07READING it and holding on to the text. I
38:10was reading a story ABOUT MARTYRS FOR
38:12CHRIST WHERE THIS SON WAS GETTING KILLED
38:14AND THE FATHER WAS RIGHT THERE AND THEY
38:16SAID, "DENOUNCE JESUS." HE SAID, "NO."
38:18HE CHOPPED OFF THE BOY'S FOOT. "DENOUNCE
38:20JESUS." He said, "No." He chopped off
38:22his son's hand. And the little boy is
38:24looking at his father and said, "Daddy,
38:25don't denounce Jesus. I'm about TO SEE
38:27HIM. DADDY, DON'T DENOUNCE JESUS." And
38:30we don't like if it rains. We won't come
38:32to church if we feel like, "You know
38:34what? This is going to mess with my
38:36sleep." And other parts in the world,
38:37they're suffering for Christ.
38:42>> [screaming]
38:43>> There's a weakness we have here in
38:45America. I'm like, WE CAN'T HANDLE real
38:47persecution. You think PERSECUTION IS
38:49SOMEBODY UNFOLLOWING YOU.
39:01Simply put,
39:03pain
39:05is inevitable.
39:07Misery
39:08is optional.
39:13And because there are often times
39:16where God will use the disappointment to
39:19train us,
39:21we will label everything hard the devil.
39:28It's supposed to rain. The devil don't
39:30want me to get to church.
39:34We're in spring.
39:36And y'all live in South Florida.
39:41So, we can't even discern where we're
39:44facing real warfare.
39:48Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12 tells us
39:50this.
39:51For we do not wrestle
39:54against flesh and blood. I love a
39:56Bible-believing church.
39:58But against principalities,
40:00against powers, against the rulers of
40:03the darkness of this age, against
40:06spiritual hosts of wickedness in the
40:09heavenly places. I tried to get my
40:11church to understand this. I said,
40:12"Okay listen.
40:13In the word principality, the root word
40:15is principal.
40:17I want you to think of a school.
40:19A principal's job is to have teachers
40:23who teach students.
40:27Don't miss this.
40:29A principal's job is to have teachers,
40:33music, shows, have teachers to teach
40:37students, us, their curriculum.
40:41If you are aware, there principalities
40:44all over the United States.
40:47On the West Coast, there's a
40:48principality of perversion. The porn
40:51industry is there. Hollywood is there.
40:54In Louisiana, there's a principality of
40:56sorcery and witchcraft. In the Midwest,
41:00Chicago, there's a principle of rage and
41:03murder. In Texas, there's a principle of
41:06religion. We are a lot of Pharisees.
41:08We're called the Texas Bible Belt. We
41:11know the Bible, but we don't live it.
41:16And when you understand that the enemy
41:19has a principle in certain places, then
41:22you can do exactly what Bishop has been
41:23trying to get you to do. Take the
41:25kingdom to the streets, so that
41:28principle can't reign here because the
41:31kingdom is in full effect here. But when
41:33you have Christians who can't handle
41:35disappointment, you won't be kingdom
41:37because you thinking about yourself WHEN
41:39YOU HAVE SOMEBODY right next to you who
41:40is struggling, but you thinking about
41:42your situation.
41:44>> [crying]
41:47>> So, I want us to notice this process.
41:50Request,
41:52delay,
41:54develop,
41:55eviction,
41:57fulfillment.
41:58Okay?
41:59Can I get all of us to say it? Request,
42:02delay,
42:03develop,
42:05eviction,
42:07fulfillment.
42:08I'll leave this up here real quick. This
42:10This problem. Most of us want, request,
42:13and then fulfillment.
42:17Am I right?
42:19I prayed and it didn't happen.
42:21Fulfillment.
42:23Request, delay. Woman with the issue of
42:26blood touches.
42:28Okay?
42:29Develop.
42:30Don't be afraid, Jairus.
42:32Just believe. Let me build up your
42:34faith.
42:36Eviction. Jesus gets to Jairus' house.
42:39They crying, wailing. He says, "She's
42:42not dead.
42:43She sleep." They laugh at him.
42:46Jesus kicks all of them out. I love that
42:49version of Jesus because I'm like, "Man,
42:51you won't pay rent here. You you
42:53>> [clears throat]
42:54>> Mama, you kicked out. Big Mama, you
42:56kicked out. But you know how the Lord
42:57is. If you invite me in, I'm not coming
42:59in as a house guest. I'm coming in as a
43:02landlord. I'm taking over all of this. I
43:05want every room. I don't care about the
43:06potpourri that you put in the living
43:08room. Let me go way back in that attic
43:10where you're still dealing with that
43:11trauma from childhood. Let's talk about
43:13that. I can care less your bathroom.
43:15Ooh, it looks so nice. Can I go in your
43:16kitchen though where you're still
43:18consuming lust? Let me talk about that.
43:24Request,
43:26delay,
43:27develop,
43:29eviction,
43:30fulfillment. Here's the question.
43:33Which phase are you at?
43:37Most people die at the develop phase
43:40because they blame the devil
43:44for when God is developing you.
43:46What you call trouble is really
43:48training.
43:51But the devil is like, "I'm not even
43:52bothering them. Why do they keep
43:53rebuking me?"
43:57This they attitude.
43:59I haven't touched them since 2005.
44:03Y'all laughing, but I'm serious. Yes,
44:05Lord.
44:06I want us to see this
44:08and then I'll be done.
44:11When he walks in,
44:13he touches her,
44:15takes her by the hand, Talitha koum.
44:19Little girl, I say to you,
44:22get up.
44:23Okay. Okay.
44:27After she gets up,
44:30he says, "Okay,
44:32give her something to eat."
44:34Hear me.
44:36Be careful where you feed after the
44:38miracle.
44:41Please hear me, y'all. Please.
44:44Right now, it is dangerous to have
44:48buffet Christianity.
44:53Everybody's not preaching sound
44:54doctrine.
44:57I know I'm new school, but I was raised
44:59old school.
45:00My mama taught me, you don't eat at
45:03everybody's house.
45:08And you know what else she told me? Even
45:10if you hungry, if they offer it, say no.
45:15But I wanted the Twinkie. No.
45:20Anybody else's mama was like that?
45:23You don't know what they put in it.
45:28Trying to get a generation to understand
45:30this.
45:30We have dirty hands
45:34cooking sermons.
45:39And we think
45:41because it went viral.
45:47Dirty hands.
45:51If you knew, I'm telling you, one of the
45:53biggest disappointments of 2023
45:57was I met the people that I grew up
45:59watching.
46:05>> The voices
46:07of pioneers that were going through the
46:09corridors of my home and TBN, I met
46:11them.
46:15And I was grieved
46:20THAT IT'S A SHOW.
46:24They know what to say.
46:27They don't love Jesus.
46:30They don't love people.
46:32They love crowds.
46:36And it hurts
46:38because
46:39I got closer to Christ from your
46:41ministry.
46:45But when I meet you, you're a
46:46businessman.
46:51The fear of God has gone away from our
46:54churches.
46:57Told my wife, the only person I look up
46:59to is Jesus.
47:03That's it.
47:05I met them all. I don't look up to none
47:06of them.
47:09I never wanted to do what I do.
47:12I'm leery of those who want to preach.
47:17Like, don't you know you going to stand
47:18before the Lord?
47:21And we have a higher level.
47:27I'd rather
47:28get on somebody's nerves.
47:32Irritate them.
47:34Die, go to heaven.
47:37And see them there.
47:40Versus me telling you what you want to
47:42hear.
47:44And I stand before the Lord
47:46and I have blood on my hands.
47:50Bishop, I don't even know if you
47:51remember this. Last time I was here in
47:532023, we went out to lunch. And you
47:55said, "I made this decision.
47:57I'm not going to go to church and go to
47:58hell."
48:03Said, "If I'm going to go to hell, I'm
48:04going to do my own thing.
48:06But I'm not going to fake it."
48:15I don't ever want to hear
48:17"Depart from me.
48:21I never knew you."
48:25And I'm telling you,
48:29be careful
48:31where you feed.
48:34Consider that even your social media is
48:36called a social feed.
48:41Want to know your diet? What's your
48:42algorithm?
48:46Show you your diet.
48:49Jesus says something
48:52after all of this that doesn't make any
48:53sense to me.
48:57He says, "Feed her."
49:00And then he gave strict orders.
49:03That's what your Bible says, strict
49:06orders
49:07not to tell anyone.
49:11I think, y'all. I'm like logical. Like
49:14Okay.
49:15Don't tell nobody.
49:20You just were in the marketplace.
49:22And there was so many people touching
49:24you.
49:26That when you said, "Who touched me?"
49:27the disciples said, "Everybody's
49:29touching you." He said, "No, this touch
49:30was different."
49:32So there was a crowd.
49:34You got to Jairus' house.
49:37And you said,
49:39"She's not dead.
49:41She sleep."
49:43They laughed and you kicked them all
49:45out.
49:46But then you told the parents,
49:49"Don't tell nobody."
49:52And then I got the revelation.
49:55What I'm about to do
49:57is going to be so miraculous,
50:00you not going to have to tell anybody
50:02anything.
50:03They just going to see it walking.
50:06The very thing that they said was dead,
50:09they're just going to see it walking.
50:11The marriage that they said was dead,
50:13they're just going to see y'all booking
50:15vacation packages. The ministry that
50:18they said was dead, they just going TO
50:19SEE IT WALKING. SOME OF US TALK TOO
50:22MUCH. Start walking.
50:26You don't need to tell anybody.
50:29They're going to see the same thing that
50:31everybody SAID WAS DEAD IS NOW ALIVE.
50:34THAT'S THE testimony I want.
50:37So I don't have to tell people I've been
50:39praying. I don't have to tell people
50:40I've been fasting. You just going to see
50:42it walking.
50:45Can I get somebody to say this, you talk
50:47too much.
50:55There is
50:57a specific prayer I want to pray.
51:02If it's not you,
51:03it might be.
51:05So you might want to
51:07agree with just a deposit of faith.
51:10If anybody
51:12is facing a disappointment right now,
51:14could you just stand wherever you are?
51:17A disappointment.
51:18A child disappointment, marital
51:21disappointment.
51:26I should look around the room, it's
51:27almost everybody.
51:32If you haven't yet, keep living.
51:35Or you may know the cheat code.
51:39But I want to pray a specific prayer for
51:40you.
51:45Cuz we have people renouncing the faith
51:48at a high volume. And when I ask
51:51atheists or agnostics or even people who
51:53no longer call themselves Christian,
51:55they usually say this.
51:57I asked God too, but he
52:01I thought that God would
52:04If God is so good, why does he allow all
52:06this evil in the world?
52:10So, what's evil, man? All the evil, bro.
52:12Murder and rape and How could a good God
52:15see all of this evil and not stop it? I
52:17don't believe in that God.
52:21I said, "Who murders?
52:23Who rapes?
52:25Is it not man?
52:28So, really what you're saying is why
52:30hasn't God killed all of us?
52:33We tried that with Noah.
52:37Few texts later,
52:39we're right back wicked.
52:42We tried it with Sodom and Gomorrah.
52:45Destroyed a whole town.
52:48Then Lot's
52:49daughters got him drunk
52:52and were having sex with their father.
52:54What is that? Sodom and Gomorrah type
52:56behavior. So, just because I killed
52:59that, doesn't mean I stopped the sinful
53:02nature.
53:05You disappointed at the wrong one.
53:11My prayer
53:14is that in this small moment,
53:17hear my words, the Lord could trust you
53:21to steward disappointment.
53:26Not complain.
53:29Steward it.
53:33I'm trusting you, Jairus.
53:35You're disappointed just for a moment,
53:38but I'm about to do the miraculous. But
53:41don't leave me while you're disappointed
53:42right now.
53:44Stay close.
53:47With heads bowed, eyes closed.
53:50Father God, you told us in this life
53:53we will have trouble. Not we might,
53:56but we will.
53:59But you told us to be of good cheer
54:02because you have overcome the world.
54:06Father, many of us
54:09I don't know everybody's story.
54:11I don't know the betrayal.
54:13I don't know the pain.
54:15I don't know the trauma.
54:17But I do know what bitterness will do to
54:19the heart.
54:21I do know what unforgiveness will do to
54:23our prayer life.
54:26I do know what holding a record of wrong
54:28against our spouse, our children what
54:30that do to our thought life.
54:34Because all bitterness does is
54:35contaminate the container.
54:38Father, I'm asking right now that you
54:41shift the perspective of your sons and
54:43of your daughters to trust you
54:46even when we don't understand. You
54:48already told us that your ways are not
54:50our ways. Help us to remember that you
54:53know what you're doing. Many times, God,
54:55our control issues is our obsession to
54:58control tomorrow. But God, you're a
55:01better God than we ever could be. Help
55:03us to stop trying to lift God weight and
55:05control outcomes and control impact and
55:08control reach and control results.
55:11That's your job. Forgive us for trying
55:13to be sovereign.
55:16I'm asking God that you soften the heart
55:20of those
55:22who have been so upset, maybe even with
55:25you.
55:27Help us to remember the same way you
55:30checked Job for four chapters.
55:34Where were we
55:36when you told the sun
55:39to shine in the stars,
55:41you stretch out the heavens like a
55:43curtain. You know every star in the sky
55:46by name. You know every hair follicle on
55:48our head by number. God, you know us.
55:51Help us
55:52to stop being so entitled,
55:56but to lay down our will. We're asking,
55:58oh God, that you give us
56:00a different perspective
56:02of when you say no.
56:05So much preaching about your yes.
56:09Help us to trust your no.
56:13So that we can know that your yes, that
56:16your wait, and that your no are all
56:19submerged in the same amount of love.
56:25Help us to forgive those
56:27that hurt us.
56:29How can we be Christ-like if we don't
56:30have a Judas?
56:33Help us to learn whenever a Judas shows
56:36up,
56:37something in us has to die.
56:42Kill it.
56:45And you don't cut us to hurt us.
56:48You cut us to keep us.
56:51The same way our OBGYN asked me, "Mr.
56:54Flowers,
56:55do you want to cut the umbilical cord?"
56:58I had to cut it to keep my child.
57:02Cut every umbilical cord that is nursing
57:05us
57:06with Egypt,
57:09so that we can walk into our promise.
57:12Jesus' name we pray. And everybody says,
57:15"Amen."
57:17God bless you.
57:20Come on. Can we thank God for Pastor
57:22Jerry?