Don't Forget Who You Are?
Bishop TD Jakes Preached on 3/16/2025Ruth 1:18-22
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Summary
Bishop TD Jakes encourages believers to maintain their true identity in God despite seasons of loss and bitterness, using the story of Naomi and Ruth to illustrate how God orchestrates a harvest even after a famine.
Key points
- •Our identity is rooted in who God says we are, not the difficult seasons we endure.
- •God works through a spiritual rhythm and flow; we must learn to discern His timing rather than forcing our own.
- •Loss is often the space God uses to prepare us for increase and the next phase of our destiny.
- •We must stop labeling ourselves by our current pain (moving from 'Mara' back to 'Naomi') to move into the harvest God has prepared.
- •Destiny often requires walking away from people who cannot keep up with your God-given rhythm.
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Purpose
Restoration
Faith
Trials
Spiritual Growth
Life application
Identify one area of your life where you have allowed a 'bitter season' to rename you, and consciously choose to reclaim your identity as a child of God this week by speaking truth over your circumstances.
Reflection questions
- In what ways have you allowed a difficult season to change how you define yourself?
- Who in your life shares your spiritual rhythm, and who might be hindering your pace?
- How can you shift your focus from what you have lost to the 'harvest' God is preparing in front of you?
- Are you trying to find out who you are through the world, or are you resting in who God has already declared you to be?
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0:00well I'm used to Dr tutman thanking me
0:03for the privilege of inviting him to
0:06speak but now I got to learn how to
0:09switch it around and do it the other way
0:11thank you for inviting me to preach and
0:14to speak this morning at your
0:16illustrious congregation it is just a
0:19blessing and an honor to have the
0:22privilege of being here come on give it
0:24up for this great house of worship come
0:27on this great house of worship this this
0:30is a great house of
0:31worship this is a great house of worship
0:35I don't care whether you've been here 10
0:36years or you just been here 10 minutes
0:39this is a great house of worship you can
0:42clap in here you can run in here you can
0:46cry in here you can weep in here you can
0:51have an encounter with God in this place
0:55shout yes somebody
0:58[Applause]
0:59[Music]
1:01God my God I feel something in the room
1:04already stand on your feet let me read
1:06this
1:07Bible right quick cuz I can be I get
1:11excited when I read the
1:14word we're going to be in the go we're
1:16going to be in the Book of Ruth almost
1:18almost the gospel of Ruth we're going to
1:20be in the Book of Ruth chapter 1 verse
1:2318-22 just a fragment a
1:27morsel a moment
1:30a
1:31beat a whole note in The Melody of
1:36God it is in Ruth 1 verse
1:3918-22 that we extrapolate the fragment
1:42of a text that we might better
1:45understand what the holy spirit is
1:46saying to the church we will not be
1:48teaching just for your intellectual
1:52stimulation or your emotional response
1:56but that you might have an answer from
1:58God to the things you are confronting in
2:01this season and in this moment that you
2:04might hear what the spirit of the Lord
2:06is saying to the church and thereby be
2:09transformed from Faith to Faith and from
2:13glory to
2:15glory in the middle of Naomi's trip back
2:20home she is trying to discard
2:24herself from where she
2:26was so that she can go back to where she
2:30started when she saw that she was
2:33steadfastly minded to go with her
2:36talking about Ruth then she left
2:39speaking unto her ain't no need to keep
2:42trying to tell somebody something that
2:44they not going to do she just shut up
2:46went on come on some of y'all got that
2:48in your own house right now you just you
2:51you just shut up how you doing
2:54fine so she stopped speaking to her so
2:57they too went until so they came to
3:00Bethlehem I wish I had time to play with
3:03that so they too is a is a phrase that
3:05you see over and over and over together
3:08whether you're talking about Abraham or
3:09Isaac or Paul or Timothy so they too so
3:14they too there's a power of two so they
3:17two went on together God will not leave
3:21you without someone to connect with who
3:24gets what you feel so they too so they
3:27too went until they came to Beth
3:29Bethlehem and it came to pass when they
3:32were Come to Bethlehem that all the city
3:35was moved about them and they said is
3:38this
3:40Naomi and she said unto them call me not
3:44Naomi call me Mara now Naomi means my
3:50joy so somebody had bounced her in the
3:53crib and called her my
3:55joy but she says don't call me that
3:58anymore call me Mara which means
4:02sorrow I didn't end up like I
4:05started I started out with great joy and
4:09I am now in great pain and she says
4:12don't call me Naomi anymore call me
4:15tomorrow for the almighty has dealt very
4:18bitterly with me I went out full and the
4:22Lord have brought me home again empty
4:25when they call ye me Naomi seeing the
4:28Lord has testified fight against me and
4:31the almighty has Afflicted me she mad at
4:34God she mad at everybody so Naomi
4:37returned and Ruth the moabitas they
4:40always tell you who Ruth is they never
4:43just mention her name without you
4:45understanding that she has crossed the
4:48line that she is a moritis means that
4:51she is an
4:53idolatrous that she is a gentile and she
4:56has had to cross the line to make the
4:59journey
5:00she she has to be transformed in route
5:04she has to denounce her gods and embrace
5:07naom is God and she is converted by a
5:11woman who is going through
5:15chaos is't it funny how God will use you
5:19the best at the worst moments of your
5:23life now we is sitting up here fussing
5:25about God he had dealt bitterly with me
5:28and all the while
5:30here's Ruth right behind her saying thy
5:32God should be my God thy people my
5:34people and where thou dwellest I will
5:36dwell he teach she's being converted on
5:39the journey renouncing her idolatry but
5:42she could not renounce the
5:47stigma there's a difference between a
5:49stigma and a
5:52stain the stain can be washed away but
5:56people will still have a
5:58stigma oh y'all don't y'all don't hear
6:00what I'm talking about and so so they
6:03they they they are going through this
6:05together and they've come down to this
6:07point and and and so Naomi returned and
6:10Ruth the moabit as her daughter-in-law
6:13with her which returned out of the
6:15country of Moab and they came to
6:19Bethlehem watch this closely in the
6:22beginning of barley Harvest can you say
6:25amen amen I want to spend a few moments
6:28in the word
6:31my subject is simple and I want you to
6:34say it to everybody around you everybody
6:37around you the people you like the
6:39people you don't know the people who are
6:41having a bad hair
6:43day the people who who don't have their
6:46weave glued in right I want you I want
6:50you to get the baldheaded people and the
6:53bushy people with the ponytails on top I
6:56want you to tell everybody you can reach
6:59don't for forget who you
7:01are you
7:09are don't forget don't forget who you
7:13are don't forget who you are don't let
7:16nobody say anything that make you forget
7:18who you are don't let nobody do anything
7:21that makes you forget who you are don't
7:23let nobody roll their eyes and make you
7:25forget who you are don't let nobody try
7:28to stare you down and make you forget
7:30who you are this has to come from within
7:32you don't forget who you are one more
7:38time you may be seated Spirit of the
7:41Living God Falls fresh on the word while
7:43it's being preached I believe if for
7:45miracles and healings and deliverances
7:47and breakthroughs and touches and hopes
7:50and help and Grace in Jesus name we pray
7:56amen well
8:00let's go to
8:04work I was uh taking my son my youngest
8:08son I had five children I was taking my
8:12son to drop him off at College my baby
8:16boy and he was getting ready to get out
8:19the car at that time in Chicago he was
8:21studying a classical pianoo in Chicago
8:25and before he ended up in Los Angeles uh
8:28finishing up his agree and uh he'd never
8:31been away from home and he's the baby of
8:33the family and since he's not here I'll
8:36go ahead and tell you he's a little
8:39spoil edit that out the taper I don't
8:41want to have to answer for that when I
8:43get home uh and just as he was getting
8:46out of the car I said
8:49Dexter he said what
8:51Daddy I said don't you forget who you
8:55are I didn't send you up here to find
8:58out who you are
9:03[Applause]
9:06I didn't send you to take a course or
9:08devise a curriculum or go online and do
9:12a seminar or a webinar to find out who
9:15you are I want you to know who you are
9:20and don't forget
9:22it because life has a way of making you
9:26forget who you are
9:29I was uh coming down the road this
9:33morning and I was coming down with one
9:35of my other Sons at Florida has St aan
9:38would you stand for a minute amen amen
9:41so give out the
9:45praise came over my house told me he had
9:48got a good job I said you got a good job
9:51up here y'all still won we we don't have
9:55no ocean I think that's why we lost uh
9:58and one of my other Sons y'all stole
10:01Calvin he would you stand give God a
10:04praise for
10:06him he came to interview me when I first
10:09started pastoring did the interview and
10:12ended up joining my
10:14church you know how you do when you do
10:16an interview with an interviewer you
10:18never know what the Pres is going to say
10:20so I had my guard up my shield a rubber
10:23band a pocket knife a
10:26switchblade and some bubblegum and some
10:28elephant glue in case it went bad and he
10:31ended up joining my church and stayed in
10:34my church till he came down here and
10:36text me said I heard you going to be in
10:38my
10:40area glad to have all of you all the
10:43pastors all the elders I just want to
10:45say
10:46that don't
10:49forget who you are what's a loaded
10:52statement I am sending you here to get
10:56information not indoctrination
11:01I want you to understand the difference
11:03between the two and just because they
11:05said it doesn't make it so you have to
11:07have a clear perspective of who you are
11:10you we got to stop sending our children
11:13to be told who they are by
11:17strangers our tradition our heritage is
11:21to verbalize to tell to talk to teach to
11:24tell our stories over and over again all
11:27down through time and antiquity ities of
11:29History we have always conveyed our
11:32history by oral tradition very seldom by
11:36written tradition our stories passed
11:38down for Generations that means that it
11:41is incumbent upon the older generation
11:44to impart to the Next Generation a clear
11:48understanding of who you are not that
11:51you're going to be a cheap copy of a
11:53great original I don't want you to be a
11:55duplication of me I want you to be who
11:58you are and as a part of is shaping clay
12:02two different elements working together
12:04on a spinning
12:06wheel on a spinning wheel he works his
12:09magic on a spinning wheel until he
12:12shapes the vessel from a lump of clay
12:15into a vessel of Art and it all happens
12:19in the spin somebody say it all happens
12:21in the
12:23spin you must understand that your God
12:26is a moving God from the very beginning
12:29when the spirit of the Lord moved across
12:31the face of the deep to the last chapter
12:33in the Bible even so come Lord Jesus God
12:36is always moving he's not stagnant he's
12:40not he's not a statue he is always on
12:43the move he is moving he is moving when
12:47I was in Jerusalem around the Wailing
12:49Wall I noticed that all of the Jews that
12:52were gathered around the Wailing Wall
12:54they would stand at the Wailing Wall and
12:57c and they would rock back and forth so
12:59I asked the rabbis I said' why do you
13:01rock when you stand by the wall he said
13:03because we believe that our God is a
13:05moving God and in order to be able to
13:08connect with him we have to catch his
13:15rhythm so think with me then for a
13:18moment that God has a rhythm God has a
13:20rhythm and every rhythm is not the same
13:23there are syncopated beats there are
13:25traditional beats there are onbeat
13:27offbeat one and three two and four
13:30different levels of Beats Our God has a
13:33rhythm everything he created has a
13:36rhythm and anytime the rhythm is broken
13:39the health is
13:41compromised the first thing they do when
13:43they begin to take your vital signs in
13:45the emergency room is to check your
13:47blood pressure because they're trying to
13:49get your Rhythm because your circulatory
13:52system has a rhythm it has a flow or
13:55they they'll feel your pulse or even
13:58your ankle because the same beat in your
14:01pulse should be in your ankle the
14:04correlation of that beat determines the
14:07health of the body because God has a
14:10rhythm God is a rhythmatic god he has a
14:13rhythm whereby he does all things he
14:16creates everything in rhythm in systems
14:20in Cycles in circles he creates the flow
14:24that's why he created the woman last
14:26because he wanted to collaborate with
14:28her
14:29through a
14:32cycle in
14:34creation that causes a
14:37rhythm and in the old days people would
14:40count the Rhythm More than they would
14:42count anything else because the Rhythm
14:44would let you know where you were or
14:46whether whether the seed had been
14:49caught because the only thing that
14:51changes the Rhythm is a seed being
14:57CAU I'm I'm already preaching better
15:00than you shouting you you you you you
15:02have to understand that life has a
15:06rhythm that life has a rhythm this is
15:08important and you can almost feel the
15:10rhythm in this text there's a rhythm in
15:13this text there's a rhythm in your life
15:16don't make all your decisions in the
15:22morning because what what you think
15:24about something at 20 is not going to be
15:27what you think about it at 40 and what
15:29you think about at 40 is not going to be
15:32how you see it at 60 so you can make a
15:35decision at 20 that messes up your 60
15:38because you're caught in a cycle and
15:41you're caught in a rhythm and you made
15:43it with a blind spot and it was true
15:45when you thought it but it wasn't true
15:47when it
15:51happened I can't help but see I'm almost
15:55distracted from the text by the rhythm
15:57of the text itself you see 10 years ago
16:00Naomi had gone from Bethlehem which
16:04means House of Bread but it was in a
16:07famine and it was in a famine and she
16:09had gone to Moab and 10 years later
16:12she's coming back she has gone full
16:17circle she has gone full circle she has
16:22gone in a rhythm of life and what was
16:25true when she started isn't true right
16:28now
16:29now and if you look at your own life
16:32what was true when you started might not
16:36be true right now don't look at your
16:40spouse just keep looking straight
16:44ahead life has a rhythm you think
16:46certain things I want to live over here
16:48I want this kind of degree I want to
16:50work in this field then you end up
16:52working in an area that doesn't have
16:54anything to do with what you went to
16:55school about can I get a witness in here
16:59cuz Come on talk to me cuz what you
17:01thought at 18 might not be what you
17:04think at 25 and you got to give yourself
17:07room to move to vacillate to vibrate to
17:11change direction to get a new pulse to
17:13get a new beat and stop hanging around
17:16people who can't deal with your
17:19[Applause]
17:23pulse you you need likeminded people you
17:26need people who catch your vision you
17:29need people who understand your flow and
17:31even if they don't understand you you
17:33got to know your Rhythm you got to know
17:35that it's time for you to move it's time
17:38for you to make a change it's time for
17:40you to do something different I for one
17:43am tired of trying to just stand up and
17:46be what other people expect me to be at
17:49the expense of being myself I would
17:51rather have you ticked off with me
17:54because I refuse to live like you think
17:56I ought to live where what you think I
17:59where I'm going be my I'm going be my
18:01own person I'm and if you're going to
18:03rock with me you going to have to catch
18:06my rhythm if you going if you going to
18:08rock with me if you going to rock with
18:10me you got to catch my rhythm as soon as
18:12I figure out that you can't keep the
18:14beat we got to go separate ways cuz I'm
18:17too old to change my rhythm I got a flow
18:20going now I got a flow going and
18:23everything happens through a rhythm we
18:25give birth through a rhythm we give life
18:28through a rhythm
18:29we get puled through a rhythm we get
18:31heart rates through a rhythm we walk in
18:34a rhythm we move in a flow we were
18:36created to be like our God who has a
18:39rhythm he's a rhythmatic God if he's a
18:42god he's a wheel in the middle of a
18:44wheel before there was an automobile
18:48before there was a Tesla before there
18:49was a Ford before there was General
18:52Motors before there was anything like
18:54that God created the rolling of a wheel
18:57in the middle of a wheel A Wheel in the
19:00middle of a wheel is God showing you his
19:03rhythm understand this if you open up
19:06the old timing watch not the new digital
19:08watch you open it up you will see a
19:11bunch of Wheels inside the watch because
19:14the Turning of the wheels determines
19:16time every second is a turn every minute
19:20is a turn Every Beat is a turn every day
19:24is a turn all they did was imitate what
19:27God put into the Universe when he said
19:30let there be light and there was light
19:32and all of a sudden he caused the sun to
19:34shine he caused the moon to burn he
19:38caused the Stars to ignite because God
19:40is a god of Rhythm and what they saw in
19:43the heavens they put on your wrist and
19:45made it a watch so that you could keep
19:48time so that you could know God's Rhythm
19:50so that you could move When God Says
19:52move so that you could be still When God
19:55Says be still so that you can hold your
19:58PE PE sometime so that you can speak
20:01your mind sometime and if you don't pray
20:03nothing else today it ought to be God
20:05give me your
20:07Rhythm let me know when to go to Moab
20:10and let me know when to come out let me
20:13know when to weep and let me know when
20:15to laugh let me know when to walk away
20:18and we are catching this text and it's
20:20come full circle and it's got a rhythm
20:23it's got a rotation it's got a a
20:27Stratosphere of function a flow that
20:30causes it to move in a syncopated way
20:34between this old woman and this young
20:36girl there is a rhythm there is a rhythm
20:41there's always a rhythm a rhythm you
20:43can't have nobody walking with you that
20:45can't get your Rhythm you can't be with
20:48me if you don't have my rhythm I'm not
20:50just talking about marriage and weddings
20:52and that too but I'm also talking about
20:54working and creation and leading and
20:57developing you got to find people I
20:59worry less about your degree and more
21:01about your Rhythm cuz I've seen smart
21:04people that were monuments and not
21:06movements and they lost their Rhythm Is
21:09there anybody here that understands what
21:10I'm talking about a degree doesn't mean
21:13you got a rhythm you got to find a
21:15friend that got your Rhythm you got to
21:17find somebody who got your flow who
21:19feels what you feel who knows what you
21:22mean when you say Harry this has got to
21:24be done quick your idea hurry and my
21:27idea hurry might be two different things
21:30I got to find somebody that's got my
21:32rhythm or you cannot go with
21:38me Naomi says stay on back with Ora and
21:43going back to Moab and don't worry about
21:46it don't worry about anything you stay
21:49where you are but rof said as the Lord
21:51liveth I will not leave thee cuz I've
21:54got your Rhythm I got your Rhythm th God
21:58should be my my God thy people shall be
22:00my people where thou dwellest I will
22:02dwell and where thou dest I will
22:07die but she was talking to
22:10Naomi who had left
22:13Bethlehem with IMC and two
22:18sons and over the
22:20seasons she had lost all three of
22:25them it's one thing to lose your spouse
22:27it's another thing to lose your
22:30child
22:32life
22:34brings
22:36loss we don't talk to you about it in
22:39church cuz it it do get it gets the kind
22:42of reaction you just gave
22:46me life brings loss because if you don't
22:49have loss you can't have
22:53increase loss is how you make space for
22:56what God is about to do next in your
22:58life
23:00Paul said they came out from us that
23:02they might be made manifest that they
23:04were not of us for had they been of us
23:06no doubt they would have continued with
23:09us and everybody leaving Ain't a Bad
23:17Thing stop grabbing people by the back
23:19of their skirt trying to hold on to them
23:22trying to make them stay and trying to
23:25get them to do and try to get them to
23:26Love sometimes you got to let them go go
23:29through the pain get over it and going
23:31about your business everybody leaving in
23:33a bad thing or went back it was good for
23:37Ora to go back cuz she didn't have the
23:39Rhythm she didn't have the flow Ruth
23:41couldn't go back because she was so full
23:44of Naomi's Rhythm that she had to go
23:46forward everybody who can leave you will
23:49leave you let them go so that the people
23:51that can get your Rhythm can find their
23:54place and move into their capacity and
23:57begin to flow and stop crying on the
24:00side of the bed God told me this is the
24:02last night I want to see you sitting on
24:05the side of the bed crying about who
24:07left you he said I want you to get over
24:09it because all I'm doing is making space
24:12to open up the windows of heaven and
24:14pull you out of blessing you won't have
24:16room enough to receive oh I felt that
24:18that just hit somebody that just hit
24:20somebody God is making space for what
24:23he's about to do in your life glory to
24:25God so or has got to go
24:30she got to go she's got to go we've been
24:34close but you got to go you had you
24:37married one of my sons but you got to go
24:40we grieved around the tomb but you got
24:42to go go back to your people your people
24:46your
24:49Rhythm have you ever noticed people that
24:51were really educated but they would
24:53still getet
24:56on oh you're not going to talk to me
24:59where my real people
25:01at where my real people at got more
25:04degrees than a thermometer but when they
25:06get to talk and they go hood on you so
25:08fast it will blow your mind poping the
25:11neck
25:17and they got the degree enough to have
25:21the position but they don't have the
25:22Rhythm they don't have the Rhythm they
25:24don't have the flow they don't have the
25:26the technique they don't have the beat
25:28that it's got to have a beat it's got to
25:30have a beat to it success has a beat to
25:32it success has a rhythm to it Miracles
25:36have a rhythm to it the anointing has a
25:38rhythm to it when you see God moving in
25:41the tops of the trees go for it because
25:44God has a rhythm our God is a god of
25:47Rhythm everything in its own time in its
25:50own season in its own Rhythm God has a
25:53rhythm you prayed for it and thought it
25:55ought to be there on Tuesday here it is
25:57Thursday and hadn't come yet but God is
26:00never late if it don't get there till
26:02Saturday morning God's got a rhythm I
26:05wish somebody was in here who understood
26:07the rhythm of God have you ever seen God
26:10wait years in your life to put you in
26:12the right place at the right time with
26:15the right people with the right
26:17mentality Hallelujah you've been trying
26:19to do everything by yourself you better
26:21learn how to get with other people and
26:23get the Rhythm there's a rhythm there's
26:25a rhythm there's a rhythm and the go up
26:28together you've been trying to go up by
26:30yourself but you need somebody with you
26:33to go up with you so that you can catch
26:35the Rhythm touch your neighbor and say
26:37catch the Rhythm catch the you got to
26:39catch the Rhythm you got to catch the
26:41Rhythm you got to catch the Rhythm you
26:43can't just hang around employees and
26:46think like
26:48entrepreneurs you can't come on talk to
26:50me you can't run with janitors and think
26:53like CEOs to be in the room with
26:56somebody that's got your Rhythm stops
26:59you from doubting yourself thinking
27:01you're crazy thinking you lost your mind
27:04people laughing at your dream cuz they
27:06don't have your Rhythm Joseph had a
27:08rhythm none of the other brothers had
27:10the Rhythm but Joseph had the Rhythm
27:13when you have a rhythm and other people
27:15don't they'll try to kill you out of
27:18embarrassment because they don't like
27:20the Rhythm but
27:21somebody somebody's in here who's got a
27:24rhythm I don't know who it is I don't
27:26know why God's got me here on a Sunday
27:29morning I'm not thrown away I'm not I'm
27:31not somebody who don't have a place that
27:34I can preach but I'm On Assignment this
27:36morning to explain to you they left you
27:39cuz they couldn't keep up they didn't
27:41have your Rhythm they didn't have your
27:43flow stop being mad stop being angry
27:46stop being bitter forgive them they
27:49couldn't keep up with their flow you got
27:51a rhythm you're headed somewhere you got
27:54an appointment with Destiny you got a
27:57destiny to still and you're running out
27:59of time and the wheels are turning and
28:02if you're going to get there you're
28:03going to have to hurry up and don't you
28:06forget who you are you you you you got
28:09to get where you got to get when you got
28:11to get there cuz God's getting ready to
28:13do something and where are my destiny
28:16people I want to preach to some Destiny
28:19people I want to preach to some Destiny
28:21people tell your neighbor and say I got
28:23to go I you stay here if you want to but
28:27I got to go you laugh at me but I got to
28:30go I got a rhythm to keep up I can feel
28:34the rhythm of the Holy Ghost I can feel
28:36the moving of the spirit I can feel the
28:38unction of the Holy Spirit and you got
28:41my rhythm you can go with me I don't
28:43care how you wear your hair I don't care
28:45what kind of shoes you got on I don't
28:48care what you look like or how many
28:50teeth you got if you got my rhythm you
28:52can ride with me you can rock with me
28:55you can move with me you can blowing me
28:59oh my God I feel something about to
29:01happen in this place I don't even know
29:04who I'm talking to but your problem is
29:07you're so busy trying to help other
29:09people that you hire people who wait you
29:13down and you can't get the business off
29:15the ground because you're making
29:18business decisions from a church
29:21[Applause]
29:26place I appreciate the fact that you
29:28paid my rent 30 years ago but that
29:31doesn't mean that you're going to get a
29:32job I appreciate the fact that you was
29:35nice to your Grandmama knew my Grandmama
29:38that don't mean we going to get a job I
29:40appreciate the fact that we went to the
29:41same school that don't mean we going to
29:43get a job you got to have a rhythm you
29:45got to have a rhythm cuz what God is
29:48about to do is so amazing that we got to
29:52be there by a certain time we got to get
29:55there by a certain time look at your
29:57neighbor how in
29:59hurry I got to get there by a certain
30:01time I have an appointment with Destiny
30:04I have an appointment with healing I
30:07have an appointment with Glory I have an
30:09appointment and if you're not going to
30:11help me please don't hinder me I got to
30:14get there I got to get there my hair is
30:16getting gray I got to get there my back
30:19is getting stiff if it's going to happen
30:21it's got to go ahead and happen cuz I
30:23got to get there I can't let you stop me
30:26I've got a rhythm
30:33[Applause]
30:38Naomi had lost her
30:42husband immc it's
30:44Unthinkable to me I've been married 43
30:48years it's Unthinkable to me what kind
30:52of pain that must be like to live with
30:55somebody for almost 50 years
30:58and lose
31:00them she had lost
31:04eliminate
31:06and she had
31:09lost two
31:14sons it's disheartening it's
31:16heartbreaking it's terrible and it's
31:19especially terrible for a
31:22woman because you knew that boy before
31:26he knew himself yes you talked to him in
31:30your
31:31womb you shared your lunch with him you
31:34shared your flesh with him you shared
31:38your trauma with
31:42him she had lost her
31:47sons but she had not
31:50lost her
31:52Rhythm so it is possible to have rhythm
31:57and lose relationship with
32:05yourself y'all didn't get that that went
32:07right over your head I saw it it got
32:09caught in your hat back there it's back
32:12in your hat right there right there it
32:14it is
32:16possible to not lose your
32:19Rhythm but to lose your relationship
32:22with
32:25yourself it doesn't matter what they say
32:28about her this is not a a message about
32:33haters this is not about people who
32:36threw you in the pit and left you for
32:39dead this is about how you see
32:43yourself I don't care how you see me I
32:47want you to like me but I'll be okay if
32:50you
32:51don't I be
32:54[Applause]
32:59because ultimately it is not what you
33:03say about me that does the most
33:07damage it's what I
33:10say about me that does the most damage I
33:15can hang up on you I can block you I can
33:19disconnect you I can ignore you I can
33:24give
33:25you and and the ation is over but it is
33:29hard to say to yourself talk to the hand
33:33when it's your
33:38hand and
33:40Naomi has talked to herself till she has
33:44talked herself out of her
33:48identity and your strength is always in
33:52Your
33:55Truth oh this is so good
33:58your strength is always in your truth
34:01it's in your identity it's it it's what
34:04God called you and agreeing with what
34:08God called you irrespective of the
34:13Season what I am trying to to to walk
34:17upon on creep on crawl on is the fact
34:20you can't change your name because you
34:23changed your season
34:28watch me watch me watch me I'm going
34:30somewhere you you don't want to miss
34:31this you'll get in a season and want to
34:34rename yourself because the season cost
34:37you so much now everybody's not going to
34:40get this cuz you haven't been through
34:41enough to understand what this like but
34:43somebody you can lose so much in a
34:46season that if you're not careful you
34:48will lose your identity it will be
34:50identity the they'll come in and take
34:53your identity away from you they say
34:55they can take your identity and you
34:57don't even know they took it and sell
34:59your house while you sleep in your bed
35:02and you wake up in the morning and you
35:04got to get it cuz somebody stole your
35:06identity but don't let it be
35:13you don't
35:15rename
35:17yourself don't you forget who you
35:20are don't fool
35:24around and give up on being Naomi
35:28because you are
35:29bitter over what is just a
35:36season and it might be five ladies and a
35:39goat but for them six people that are in
35:42six beings that are in the room I have
35:44come to tell you
35:45something it's just a
35:50season no no no no no it's a hard
35:54season it's it's it's a morbid season
35:57season it's a painful season it's a
36:01discouraging season it's hard to take it
36:04in this season you will cry in this
36:07season you will curl up in a knot and
36:10scream in this season but it is
36:16just it's a season it's a season who am
36:20I preaching to this morning I don't know
36:23who it is but I'm talking to somebody
36:25who's been through a real rough season
36:28you don't even recognize the season
36:30you're in you have never seen a season
36:33like this in your life you don't even
36:35know how to fight the season that you're
36:37in everything is topsy tur everything
36:41you thought was this way is that way you
36:43questioning your friends your relatives
36:45your cousin and your Aunt Lulu because
36:48you're in a season a season a painful
36:52season and it's a victory for you to be
36:54here this morning just to be in the
36:57building is a victory because if the
36:59devil had his way you wouldn't even be
37:02in the building but because God had a
37:04plan for your life some kind of way you
37:07survive some of you walked out some of
37:10you ran out some of you crawled out some
37:13of you came out on your knees some of
37:15you had to come out on your belly but
37:17you came out your hair is messed up but
37:20you came out you not even worried about
37:22what you got on but you came out you
37:24don't care how your hair is fixed but
37:26you came out because this is an
37:28emergency and all you want to do is get
37:31out of it the girl beside you want to be
37:33cute but you want to get out of it if I
37:36have to come out and not be cute I still
37:39want to come out if I have to come out
37:41with no hair on my head I still want to
37:43come out because I got a feeling that
37:46God is not through with me yet and that
37:49something is going to happen in my life
37:52that's going to turn it around and right
37:54now it don't make no sense and I don't
37:57understand understanding why it's
37:58happening and it broke my heart into
38:01tiny little pieces but I believe I'll
38:04run on and see what the end is going to
38:08be because sooner or later God's going
38:11to make sense out of this madness in my
38:14life sooner or later God's going to give
38:17me Beauty for Ashes sooner or later
38:22God's going to give me the Garment of
38:24Praise for the spirit of Heaven as soon
38:27or later God's going to turn my morning
38:31into dancing and if you think I dance my
38:34last dance you are out of your mind
38:38because God's going to give me my dance
38:40B and God's going to give me my joy back
38:44and God's going to give me my happiness
38:47back the Devil is a Lie I say no to
38:51every devil who told me it would never
38:54get better I say no to to every devil
38:59that told me that my best days are
39:01behind me I say no to every devil that
39:04says I'll never get out of this again I
39:07say no to every devil that told me my
39:11past has destroyed my future I say no to
39:17every devil that spoke to me and said I
39:20won't get up again I don't know when I
39:24don't know how I don't know who God
39:27going to use he may use a moabit he may
39:31use an enemy he may use somebody I have
39:35nothing else in common with but God is
39:38going to get me a blessing because the
39:41Bible said that I must have an expected
39:45end but what do you expect if you stay
39:49bitter if you stay angry why did you get
39:53divorced if you're going to still be mad
39:57[Applause]
40:04we got some stuff to leave behind this
40:07Sunday morning we're going to leave it
40:09behind everything that was weighing us
40:12down we're going to leave it behind
40:14everything that was halfhearted
40:17half-minded half loving half supporting
40:21we're going to leave it behind I want
40:23you to turn around and wave byebye and
40:26telling you got got to go you're behind
40:30me because there's something in front of
40:32me that's better than what was behind me
40:36I want 30 seconds of Crazy Praise to
40:40break out in this house I feel the
40:44anointing of the Holy Ghost in This
40:47Place uh the spirit of the Living God is
40:51in this place uh somebody's Miracle is
40:55in this place uh you you been bitter
40:58you've been hurt you've been angry
41:02you've been mad but you still got an
41:05appointment to keep don't you forget who
41:09you are just because they turned their
41:12back on you don't you forget who you are
41:15and start telling yourself a lie about
41:19yourself the Devil is a Lie you still
41:23going to bring joy you still going to
41:26bring life you're still going to bring
41:29power you're still going to get the
41:31victory in fact the Bible said I'm going
41:36to prepare a table before you in the
41:40presence of your enemies and the reason
41:43I didn't kill your enemy is so they
41:46could watch you
41:48[Music]
41:52eat I want them to watch you eat I want
41:56them to watch you sit up and die I'm
41:59about to serve you a seven course meal
42:03and let them watch you eat and you're
42:06mad at me cuz I didn't kill your enemy I
42:09want them to be a witness to the
42:12blessing that I had for you that your
42:15Latter Day shall be greater than your
42:19former day and I don't know who I'm
42:22preaching to but God is about to turn
42:25things around uh in your life and if I'm
42:29talking right to you I know it looks
42:32silly but just turn right around and say
42:35my life is about to turn around I've
42:39cried I've suffered I've labored I've
42:44done without I've denied myself I put
42:48everybody in front of me but God is
42:51about to turn my life around I gave more
42:56than I got back I was better to people
42:59than they were to me but God is about to
43:02turn my life around I'm headed to a
43:06place of blessings I'm headed to a place
43:09of bounty I'm headed to a place of bread
43:12uh I'm headed to a place where God is
43:15going to open up the windows of heaven
43:18and pull me out of blessing I won't have
43:21room enough to receive and take your
43:24last look at me because you will never
43:27never see this me again I put on a new
43:30garment I'm changing my attitude I'm
43:34changing my disposition look at your D
43:37and say last
43:39look before I change back into Who I
43:42Really Am last look before I get healing
43:47in my body last look before you find out
43:52what I already knew about myself last
43:57look before I go to go from blaming God
44:01to blessing God I'm getting ready to
44:04bless God for something that hadn't even
44:07happened yet I'm getting ready to bless
44:10God cuz I'm on the verge of something
44:12better I'm getting ready to bless God
44:16because I've been so busy looking back
44:19that I didn't look ahead and I tell you
44:21what God has in front of you is better
44:24than what you left behind if this is
44:27your word this Sunday morning I want you
44:32to take some kind of way any kind of way
44:35you feel it and give God a praise and
44:39let him know in the balcony I know
44:42you're talking to me I know you're
44:45talking to me I know you're talking to
44:48me I prayed yesterday you answered me
44:52today you're about to do a new thing in
44:56my life and when I think of the goodness
45:00of Jesus and all that is done for me I'm
45:05not waiting on you to praise him my soul
45:08Cries Out
45:11hallelujah thank you Lord for saving me
45:16anybody else would have lost their mind
45:19anybody else would have blew their
45:20brains out anybody else would have had a
45:23nervous breakdown but the devil is a
45:26liar
45:27now under him who is able to do
45:32exceedingly
45:34abundantly above
45:37exceedingly abundantly above exceedingly
45:42abundantly above what I'm trying to tell
45:46you is what God has for you is so much
45:50bigger than everything you went through
45:54you going to say it was good for me that
45:56I was afflicted if I hadn't been
45:59Afflicted I wouldn't have the blessing I
46:02got right now somebody somebody's
46:06Grandmama somebody's
46:08grandchild somebody help me praise the
46:12Lord
46:13somebody somebody help me I feel a
46:17praise breakthrough about to come into
46:20this place
46:23Hallelujah I'm going with a new attitude
46:26I'm going I'm going with a change mind
46:29I'm going with a change Spirit I'm going
46:32with a change attitude and if you
46:35nervous don't sit by me cuz I feel a
46:40loud praise I feel a Crazy Praise I feel
46:44ating praise I feel praise about the God
46:50of our belly that's going to bind every
46:53devil and every spirit and every evil
46:58thing that came against me you ain't got
47:02to rebuke my devil I'm going to reuke my
47:05devil I'm through being depressed I'm
47:09through being discouraged I declare
47:11myself fre I loose my sh I break my
47:17chain you can't hold me you can't have
47:21me you can't block me you can't stop me
47:25I'll run it I want to run I'll leave if
47:29I want to leave I'll shout if I want to
47:32shout sh
47:40[Music]
47:57[Applause]
47:58[Music]
48:00[Applause]
48:04[Music]
48:04[Applause]
48:06[Music]
48:08[Applause]
48:10[Music]
48:12I can't prove it to nobody I can't prove
48:14it to nobody I can't prove it to nobody
48:17but I feel like something is going to
48:19happen in here this
48:22morning I feel like a chain is going to
48:25fall off this morning
48:27I feel like handcuffs are coming down
48:30this morning I don't know who they're
48:32coming off of but something that
48:34medication couldn't do and therapy
48:36couldn't do the Holy Ghost is going to
48:39touch you and do it right now in the
48:42name of Jesus it's going to change the
48:45way you talk to yourself it's going to
48:47change the way you call yourself you
48:50have name Yourself by your
48:54season don't you forget who you
48:58[Applause]
48:59are seasons
49:04change but your
49:07identity does not
49:10change by your
49:12season I own my
49:14property I own it in the
49:17spring I own it when it gets hot in
49:20Dallas in the summer I own it in the
49:23fall when all the leaves have come off
49:26the tree and it looks like everything is
49:30dead but I still own it I own it in the
49:34ice storm when the ice has covered the
49:37branches and every living thing has
49:40buried itself in the Earth the season
49:43does not change the
49:49deed I still own it I still pay taxes on
49:54it my name is on the deed whether it's
49:58raining or not raining I'm still on the
50:02deed somebody B jump up and holler I own
50:06it it's still
50:08mine everything God promised me
50:12everything God said in his word I own it
50:16I believe it it's mine I receive it I'm
50:21going to talk like I own it I'm going to
50:24walk like I ow it I'm going to live like
50:27I own it I'm going to handle it like I
50:29own it I know who I am you ain't going
50:33to make me forget who I am I am somebody
50:38I am the head and not the tail above and
50:44not beneath I am blessed in the city
50:49blessed in the field bless in my
50:53Uprising I am I am I know I am you don't
50:59like that I am but I know I am Shout
51:05[Music]
51:12[Music]
51:18[Music]
51:37[Applause]
51:44so the two of
51:47them they moved
51:50together in sequence
52:01[Music]
52:03[Applause]
52:09I'm not where I'm going to
52:13be but I'm not where I used to
52:17[Applause]
52:22be every step I take
52:26is getting me
52:28closer to what God has for
52:31me and nothing I
52:34lost is going to stop me from getting
52:37there I may have to get down on my
52:40knees but I'm still going to get there I
52:44may have to crawl on the floor but I'm
52:47still going to get there and so the
52:50Bible
52:51says by the time they got from Moab
52:57to
52:58Bethlehem in the Old Testament it was
53:00called EPA in older writings it was
53:03called EPA more recently called
53:06Bethlehem which means House of
53:09Bread now she left the house of bread
53:12because it was in a season of
53:16famine that's why she left 10 years ago
53:19cuz the House of Bread had lost his
53:24bread and in that Seas season she made a
53:30decision over something that was just a
53:40season don't you leave him over no
53:45season don't walk away from her over no
53:48season I know her Mouse is smart she
53:50talking back to you but wait a minute
53:53you may be walking away from the child
53:54that's going to pass you water when when
53:56you die don't walk
54:11away I'm almost
54:15there I would have
54:18fainted had not I
54:21believed to see the goodness of the
54:25Lord in the the land of the
54:27living in other words I kept
54:31moving cuz I kept telling myself if I
54:35can but
54:37touch the H of His
54:41Garment I will be
54:44[Music]
54:46healed just I just
54:49believe that it's going to happen to me
54:53by the time they got to
54:57Bethlehem the seasons had
55:01changed what was a
55:03famine is now filled with bread sir so
55:08the writer says I'm almost done but the
55:11writer says that they got there in the
55:15time and the season of the
55:19Harvest of the barley
55:24seed y'all didn't hear what I
55:27said the place that they left cuz it was
55:30in a season of
55:31famine is now in a season of
55:37harvest I don't know who I'm preaching
55:40to I don't know who I'm talking
55:43to but she could have stayed yes sir she
55:47could have stayed in
55:48Bethlehem she left over a season yeah
55:53she left over a season now she's bitter
55:55over a
55:57season and she had to go full
56:00circle to come back into the
56:05blessing that
56:07God had
56:09prepared for her let me tell you
56:12something I'm almost
56:13done the enemy is trying to move
56:17you from your
56:21blessing trying to move you from your
56:23blessing because you're in a season
56:27and in a season you'll get
56:31bitter
56:33H oh my
56:35God in a season in a season it'll mess
56:39with who you are it'll get you out of
56:42character it'll make you say stuff to
56:44people that people don't know that you
56:50say cuz you caught me in the wrong
56:53season but if I have stayed
56:57in Bethlehem through the
57:00famine it wasn't going to be but a
57:06season now she has to come full
57:09circle to come back to what she didn't
57:12appreciate
57:16before cuz she did not
57:19realize that Bethlehem was just going
57:21through a
57:22season so she got away from their season
57:26for
57:27famine and lost her season of
57:34relationship and by the time she got
57:36back it was just a
57:40time not for the planting of the
57:44barley that would have been good enough
57:47but for the
57:49[Applause]
57:53Harvest if Ruth would a slow her
57:57down she'd have missed the
58:00Harvest she had to get there in time and
58:04the secret to
58:05life is to get to the right
58:09place at the right
58:11time and the only way you can do that is
58:16don't you forget who you are
58:25[Applause]
58:28hurt but I'm still
58:34walking tears in my
58:37eyes but I'm still
58:39walking lost some friends along the
58:43way I'm still
58:47walking heart got
58:50broken but I'm still
58:52walking property was stolen
58:56but I'm still
58:58walking kids mad at me but I'm still
59:03walking parents mad at
59:05me but I'm still
59:08walking because I believe if I keep on
59:11walking I'mma walk into my
59:16Harvest is there anybody else in this
59:19room that's
59:22determined to walk into your harness
59:28they ask me say why are you working with
59:30entrepreneurs why are you working
59:32because we a lot of
59:36us can I say that still got Plantation
59:48[Music]
59:49mentality we pray for
59:52stuff that we secretly hate
59:57cuz when we see other people get it we
59:58hate on
60:00them and God said you're speaking
60:03against something you go
60:08on it's just that you're speaking about
60:11it in a season of
60:15bitterness when in
60:17fact your name is not
60:23Mar your name is now me
60:28don't you forget who you are because the
60:31enemy is trying all he knows how to
60:34convince
60:36you that you're too
60:39old it's too
60:41late you made too many
60:43mistakes God ain't going to do it for
60:46you the devil is a
60:51[Applause]
60:52liar you're not too old
60:57you're not too
61:00young God is going to do that
61:03thing for
61:05you now I'm only preaching to people who
61:08are ready to give
61:12100% I thought when God had something
61:15for me I I could stay in the house with
61:18my house slippers on in my Rob and it
61:20would come and ring the
61:22doorbell but that's not how it works
61:26you got to put some effort into
61:28this and some of us have been asking for
61:31100-fold
61:33return with 99%
61:40energy whatever you give your energy
61:44to is what grows in your
61:50life if you want to kill
61:52it disturb it it a down is on you don't
61:57have to have fingerprints on the
62:00neck distur it to death what you give
62:04your attention
62:05to gives its attention back to
62:11you are you going to give your attention
62:13to what you
62:16lost or what you got
62:19left Naomi didn't realize that she was
62:22the great great
62:23grandmother of King David
62:27that if she didn't get
62:29Ruth to Bethlehem then the bloodline of
62:33Jesus Christ would not have included the
62:37Gentiles she didn't
62:39realize that Ruth was to birth boy as
62:42this child not so she could tell
62:44everybody she got married look at my
62:48ring but because
62:51Boaz was going to be at OED and OED was
62:55going to going to beat Jesse and Jesse
62:58was going to beat David and Jesus was
63:01going to be the son of David and it only
63:05happened because they got there in
63:10time for the Harvest stand to your
63:14feet wonder what's in
63:16you that the enemy would fight you like
63:19he
63:22does wonder what
63:24bitterness has blocked up the womb of
63:27your
63:31blessing wonder what this little storm I
63:34was going to say our nation but the
63:36world is in right
63:39now unrest
63:42everywhere if God didn't have something
63:44on the other
63:48side that was
63:52better wonder how many people in this
63:55room
63:56it ain't even about you your
64:00children and your
64:02grandchildren and your great
64:05grandchildren are going to be
64:09blessed because of
64:15you I believe God for a th000 people to
64:18S $100 $100 not just
64:21dollars it means I'm going to be 100%
64:25committ
64:26committed to what's in front of
64:30me not what's behind me I'm going to be
64:35100% committed I'm watching online I'm
64:38going to be
64:39100%
64:41committed to what's in front of me Naomi
64:44had no idea in the middle of the road
64:48going through a Bad
64:50season that she would bring forth Kings
64:58n your neighbor say there's Kings in
65:01you you got a kingly fight you don't
65:04even deserve but the devil knows there's
65:06Kings in you the devil knows that
65:09business is going to
65:11explode no no no no I mean
65:15explode it's it's it's it's it's going
65:18to explode you just never had the right
65:21Mentor the right coach the right model
65:24is going to explode
65:26in your life it's going to give birth in
65:28your life and you think it's too late
65:31cuz it didn't come through your
65:33sons and it didn't come through your
65:36husband when God said I'm going to do it
65:38through
65:40you raise your hand if I'm talking to
65:44you okay now listen our effort is going
65:49to have to go up as
65:53Christians our effort
65:56is going to have to go up not just being
65:59busy to be busy and not getting rest and
66:02not taking care that's not what to talk
66:05about but our steps that are ordered by
66:08the
66:10Lord we got to walk in those
66:16steps and not
66:18despise the fact that I'm not there
66:23yet but I'm getting closer
66:29vter don't you forget who you
66:34are I didn't send you here to find out
66:36who you
66:38are I sent you here because I knew who
66:41you
66:42were and God is going to bring you
66:44before great men and
66:46women because they don't know you yet
66:48but he
66:50knows who you
66:51are $100 seed in your hand everybody
66:55that can quickly quickly quickly get it
66:58in your hand online get it in your hand
67:02it just
67:03means there are areas in my life where I
67:06could be more focused if I could be more
67:10forgetful if I could forget the things
67:12which are behind me and reach to the
67:15things before me I could
67:19press I got some more presses
67:23me the other day I had a health
67:27Calamity almost
67:30died really saw the other side I haven't
67:34told anybody about it yet I'm I'm going
67:37I'm going to do I'm going to do a
67:38podcast I think I heard it I going to do
67:42several podcast on what happened it was
67:47amazing as bad as it was I thank God
67:51that I got to have the experience I got
67:53to see on both sides
67:57[Applause]
68:00I didn't come back to give
68:0599% I came to give
68:11100% everything I ever got in my life
68:16took everything I ever had in my life to
68:22produce
68:23everything that happened in my life life
68:26I have never been able to just slab at a
68:30blessing and it
68:32happened I had to give it everything I
68:36had and watch God open
68:39doors if the truth he told some of you
68:42know you've been slapping at it you've
68:45been hitting at it you got a little
68:47hustle going but you haven't seen no
68:51Harvest Harvest is
68:54coming Harvest is coming lift it up high
68:57I want to pray I want to pray over
68:59dreamers business owners 94% of all
69:03black businesses are have less than two
69:06employees you can't always do the
69:09business and run the business you need
69:10some help hold your hand up in order to
69:13have some help you need some Capital
69:16God's going to send you some resources
69:18hold your hand up if you're eligible if
69:20you're planning if you're thinking if
69:23you can't find support where you're at
69:26you need to go where you can get some
69:28support I'm not talking about churches
69:30I'm talking about mentors for business
69:32the same person who coaches your body is
69:34not the person who handles your finances
69:37put it up put it up I need a thousand
69:39people I need a thousand people I you be
69:42online God don't care nothing about your
69:44ZIP code he'll come right where you are
69:48and bless you in in this
69:50moment God is telling you I'm going to
69:53get you there in time
69:56for the
69:57Harvest of The Barley
70:00[Music]
70:02loaves hold it up
70:04high Jehovah n this is my banner I wave
70:09it before the Lord the phone the device
70:11whatever I gave on I wave it before the
70:14Lord it is a symbol of my
70:18commitment to what you had in mind for
70:21my life I'm G stop being flaky and
70:24running out
70:26on Bethlehem because it was in a dry
70:30season only to have to go back to what I
70:34left cuz I didn't appreciate a season
70:39and a
70:40cycle but I'm going to break it with the
70:43seed put it up
70:46high father we plant these seeds in the
70:49ground and we anticipate we anticipate
70:53increase
70:55we don't have to be here in Florida we
70:57can be watching in Canada I don't care
71:00where we are in the world I
71:03anticipate increase in my life and as I
71:06wave the seed before you put it
71:09up cleanse me of all
71:13bitterness cleanse me of the residue of
71:17pain that has engulfed in damaged and
71:19lacerated my soul and prepare me now
71:25to come into my
71:27Harvest while I am strong
71:31enough to bring it in in Jesus name give
71:36him the best praise you
71:42got Pastor buckets Pastor
71:45buckets I want to ask one simple
71:48question Pastor buckets I want to ask
71:51one simple question remain standing
71:53nobody walking please just just one
71:55simple question thank you for coming I
71:58would have been so embarrassed if I came
72:00and I was here by
72:02myself happy to see
72:05you I'm doing
72:11fine I'm doing
72:13fine I feel
72:17good I got my direction thank you thank
72:20you thank you she like my outfit
72:27I love you
72:29too now listen at me real
72:35good if I would have
72:39died it would have been
72:42okay I have been around the
72:44world I've sat with Kings and princes
72:48I've counsel
72:50presidents I produced Whitney Houston's
72:53last movie
72:55I've done all kinds of stuff that would
72:57blow my parents'
73:00mind if I had gone home I'd have gone
73:03home to be with
73:04Jesus it would have been
73:07fine but the reason he left me
73:10here is that I have a
73:13purpose to
73:16fulfill
73:22the I'm grayhair
73:26and getting
73:28older but I know the
73:31way to the
73:34Harvest and it starts when Christ comes
73:38into your heart everybody that can stand
73:41I know some people can everybody that
73:43can stand stand up cuz I don't want the
73:47enemy to use your
73:49knees as an
73:51excuse for somebody not to come to Jesus
73:55I want to take just a moment if you if
73:58you can wait if you can wait five
74:00minutes you going to be stuck in the
74:01parking lot
74:03anyway people are so funny they go from
74:06sitting in church to go sit in the car
74:09so they could drive home and sit at the
74:11house and they race to be the first one
74:14to go sit down
74:16again and it's just 3 minutes against
74:21eternity against
74:23possibility there's somebody in this
74:25room you you have great leadership
74:28ability great entrepreneurial ability
74:31but you used it in the wrong way now
74:33God's going to shift it
74:34around there's somebody else in this
74:37room you have spent your life making
74:39other people look
74:40good because you never named yourself
74:43who you really are you're the head and
74:46not the tail and not not beneath
74:51[Applause]
74:53anybody I came to to
74:57Jesus because amidst all of my
75:02filth I knew there was something else in
75:06me and I could never find it on my
75:10own am missst all my insecurities
75:13imposture syndrome you're not enough
75:15you're not good enough you're not tall
75:16enough you're not short enough you ain't
75:18got no hair what's wrong with
75:22you only Jesus could help me find
75:26who I
75:28was
75:32Dexter before I formed thee in the belly
75:34I knew Thee I ordained thee to be a
75:37prophet unto the Nations I know who you
75:42are if you're in this
75:45room and you've been
75:48mislabeled and even the enemies tried to
75:50terminate
75:52you before you find out who you really
75:54were
75:56tried to make you so bitter that you
75:58couldn't see who you really were if
76:01you're in this room and you made some
76:02mistakes along the way they got you off
76:05track from who you
76:07are I want you right now don't care
76:10nothing about these people in this room
76:12cuz everybody in this room got a
76:15story believe me everybody in this room
76:17a little bit
76:19crazy if if they try to act like it's
76:21not them look at their spouse
76:26don't let people stop you from your
76:30destiny they said don't forget who you
76:32are come to this altar right
76:35now come to this
76:37[Music]
76:38altar come to this
76:42altar coming to this altar is coming to
76:45the place of harvest it's coming to the
76:48place of
76:49renew is coming to the place of
76:53increase I will not leave leave this
76:55service today and be who I
76:58was I feel a change coming in my life
77:01it's going to hit my soul first then
77:04it's going to hit my business it's going
77:06to hit my future it's going to hit my
77:09attitude Brethren I wish above all
77:12things that you prosper and be in good
77:13health as your soul does prosper come on
77:16right now come on come on come on come
77:18[Music]
77:19on hold it just one second ju just one
77:22second and then we're going to pick it
77:23right back up I have a witness in my
77:26soul that today is your
77:28day I have a witness in my soul that I
77:32was sent here for you I have a witness
77:35in my soul that you are not satisfied
77:38wandering in the in the wilderness
77:41rather than crossing the Jordan and
77:43coming into your promised land and I got
77:45a witness in my soul I don't care what
77:47you did or who you did it with there's
77:49been a nagging gnawing feeling inside of
77:51you that there's more in you than what
77:54you've done
77:59traveled around the
78:02world from Ghana to
78:08Australia from Australia to
78:11Iraq I'm a little poor boy born in the
78:13hills of West Virginia in a little
78:15raggedy house with half the house
78:17hanging off the side and we had a floor
78:19furnace and everybody be standing over
78:21top of it like this trying to get the
78:24Heat
78:26that was all it
78:29was but when I found my God I found my
78:33life I found my
78:35purpose I found my
78:37place I found what I was put here to
78:42do and that's what I want for
78:44you come on
78:47today there's 10 more people I wait I'll
78:50wait just one minute there are 10 more
78:51people in this room that you are really
78:53a destiny person person you all tied up
78:56right now bitter right now been angry at
78:58God everything else but you are a
79:00destiny person if you can get the
79:03strength to drop that
79:05anger God is going to blow your mind if
79:09you stop accusing God for what who left
79:11you who hurt you who forsook you God is
79:14going to blow your
79:17mind you think you had submit two
79:19Services you going to mess around have
79:21to go to three God is going to do
79:23something and all staff almost died
79:26almost died I'm we going to have to call
79:28it
79:30paramedics who else is it I see you
79:33coming I'm waiting on you I see you
79:35coming I see you
79:37coming you're you're a special person I
79:40don't mean a perfect person you're a
79:42special person you're a special
79:46person you're created to do special
79:49things I'm not saying it's going to
79:51happen without your attention you going
79:53to have to buckle down it's going to
79:55take everything you got to do it but
79:56it's going to happen in your life I'm
79:58not going to bearish you but I'm still
79:59going to talk to you it's going to
80:01happen in your life if you get serious
80:04with God he going to get serious with
80:06you come on down come on down I'm
80:08waiting on you come on where are you
80:10come on
80:18down I cannot figure out how Jesus could
80:21be
80:22beaten and lacerated
80:25until the inreal were hanging out of his
80:29body and he could so easily say father
80:32forgive
80:34them for they know not what they do but
80:37then when I realize that he understands
80:39every lash was for the healing of our
80:42bodies and everything he went through
80:45helped to prove who he
80:48was then I can say it was good I've been
80:52Afflicted it was good you taught me how
80:55to stand by
80:58myself I thought you were my
81:01strength you taught me how to stand by
81:04myself you taught me I had more gifts
81:06than than I realized I
81:10had wonder what else is in
81:13Me God Expos who I
81:17am if your hands close your eyes open
81:21your heart
81:26God
81:28expose what my destiny is in this
81:32[Music]
81:33season in this young season of my life
81:37in this senior season of my life that I
81:40can still be Naomi and still be
81:43useful that my old job is not my last
81:47job that I don't have to perform like I
81:50used to perform to be who I am God help
81:53me to understand and what you have
81:56prepared for me to eat in the presence
81:58of my
82:00enemies I give my life to you put on my
82:03high I give my sins to you I give my
82:06failures and flaws my talent energy
82:10attention and
82:13time I'm going to be a better Steward
82:16over the days I got
82:19left I'm going to say yes to you
82:23God father I pray that the lives up and
82:26down these aisles and all across the
82:29front of this church would never be the
82:31same again that they would find in this
82:34place a feeding station for dreaming
82:39people and that they would come and get
82:42fed and get restored and get
82:46renewed I pray for every business every
82:49business owner hold your hand up I pray
82:51for every
82:52business that no matter what goes on in
82:54the economy no matter what goes on in
82:57the stock market I pray that God would
83:00bless your business to
83:02prosper I pray that there would be
83:04streams in your desert I pray that God
83:07would open doors and ways for you I pray
83:10that God would let you make the hookup
83:12with the right people at the right time
83:15to step into your destiny and into your
83:18dream I pray a global blessing on
83:22you this is not going to be a community
83:24blessing this is going to be a global
83:26blessing lift your hands up it's going
83:28to be a
83:32Glo
83:33[Music]
83:36God oh
83:39God you don't have enough room for what
83:41God is about to pour out in your life an
83:44overflow is coming in your life
83:46Hallelujah receive it in your spirit now
83:48it's got to be in your spirit you can't
83:50get this being Mara you got to be Naomi
83:53you can't get this being bitter you got
83:55to be Naomi you can't get this feeling
83:57sorry for yourself you got to be Naomi
83:59you can't get this being scared come on
84:02lift your hands up you got to get
84:03courageous in this season we're going to
84:06have to be courageous and take advantage
84:08of every door God is opening up for
84:12usless
84:26[Music]
84:32uhhuh uh-huh uh-huh
84:37hallall yes yes yes I say yes to it I
84:43say yes to it I can do it I can't handle
84:47it I can't make a comeback I can't make
84:50a turn around I can do it again I can do
84:53it again
84:55I can do it now I can do it even now
84:58it's not too late I can do it with them
84:59two kids I can do it with that baby by
85:02myself I can do it I can do it I can do
85:05it I can do it I can do it I know I can
85:07do it I know I can do it I know I can do
85:09it I know I can do it my name is Naomi
85:12it's not bitter I'm not going to be
85:14bitter the rest of my life I will not
85:16spend another day being bitter about
85:19what I can't change I just accepted
85:22Christ a new in my heart I accept the
85:25assignment I say yes to the Lord I want
85:28the whole church to praise him I'm out
85:30of here God bless you I love you I thank
85:35God for you may heaven smile upon you
85:38till we meet
85:40[Music]
85:42again come on clap your hands for Bishop
85:45can we do that