What's yet to be discovered?
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 11/13/2023Hebrews 4
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez challenges believers to evaluate what God has yet for them to discover in the final weeks of the year, urging them to break free from the gravitational pull of depression and distraction through spiritual discipline and total surrender to God's manual.
Key points
- •The final eight weeks of the year are a critical window for spiritual acceleration and discovery, requiring a different attitude and focus than the months prior.
- •Missing pieces in your life or dysfunctional relationships are often the result of building according to human knowledge rather than following the divine 'manual' (the Bible).
- •Every person faces a 'gravitational pull' of satanic forces or past trauma that attempts to hold them back from progress; overcoming this requires a spiritual 'thrust' through prayer and meditation.
- •You cannot navigate higher spiritual altitudes using earthly mindsets; you must put on the full armor of God and stop being a 'people pleaser' to reach your next breakthrough.
Scripture
Purpose
Spiritual Warfare
Obedience
Faith
Life application
Identify one area of your life where you have been following your own 'manual' instead of God's Word, and commit to reading the relevant scriptures daily this week to realign your actions with God's instructions.
Reflection questions
- What 'small screws' or elements of spiritual discipline have you left out of your life while trying to build your own success?
- Are you currently letting a fear of criticism or a desire to please others hold you back from God's assignment?
- How can you use the 'noise, smoke, and fire' of your current trials to generate the spiritual thrust needed to reach your next discovery?
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0:00everything that's about to happen the
0:02next eight
0:04months will breathe
0:07life into
0:10everything that you have purposed for
0:14them up to
0:202028 that's why they can't drop the ball
0:22that's why that that's why they have to
0:24function in a different way that's why
0:27they have to take on a different
0:28attitude
0:31that is why they have to get more
0:32serious and more
0:35desperate to want to know
0:40you so father I pray today that anything
0:45that the enemy had designed to distract
0:49them that they'll be so sensitive to the
0:52move of the Holy
0:54Spirit and they'll stay
0:57focused on what you're about to sh share
1:00with
1:01them the atmosphere is set there are
1:04people are
1:05streaming in fact somebody just
1:07forwarded the link to a friend because
1:09they knew and they felt it in their
1:12spirit that what's about to be delivered
1:15that friend who's been talking to them
1:18recently need to hear this I am so glad
1:22that there are people in our
1:24Lives who want us to prosper who wants
1:28us to bless and therefore they'll do
1:31anything to make sure we get in the
1:34room we get into the presence of
1:38God so bless your word today bless your
1:41people and then Lord at the conclusion
1:44of the
1:46word we're going to seal it with what
1:49you told
1:51us that as often as we do it we do it in
1:57remembrance of your sacrifice
2:02that you went all the way to
2:04Calvary you shed your
2:07blood so that we might have life to the
2:10full until it
2:13overflows so as we drink of the cup eat
2:18of the
2:20bread we once again remind oursel that
2:24it is in Christ we live
2:27move and exist
2:32and that the work is already
2:35finished we don't need to fight
2:39anymore the Battle Is
2:43Over we've already won the
2:47Victory and we declare that what you
2:50spoke over this house and your people
2:53for
2:542023 the year of strategic
2:57alignment that you have aligned us with
3:00the right
3:01people so that you can advance us into
3:06greater things I give you
3:09praise for the delivery of the word and
3:13my submission to the holy spirit this
3:16morning and give you praise in jesus'
3:20name amen could you put your hands
3:22together and thank God for what you're
3:25about to hear you may be
3:27seated in the presence of the
3:35Lord so as we come
3:38[Music]
3:40to the close of another
3:44year we have to ask ourselves an
3:47important
3:50question we really
3:53do so many things have been done so far
3:57this
3:58year and now we're
4:00faced with the
4:02reality that it's only 8 weeks left
4:07for this
4:11year and so the question this morning in
4:15the sermon
4:18is what's yet to be
4:23discovered what's
4:26yet to
4:28be discovered
4:32are there more
4:34things for you to
4:38discover are
4:43they why did you wake up this
4:48morning why is it that you are still
4:52breathing you're on that job you're
4:54streaming you're in that bed and you're
4:56laying
4:58down I wonder why God did not allow it
5:03to be
5:04so that your family members all across
5:08the world received a
5:10call that
5:13unfortunately you had
5:17passed wonder
5:20why wonder why God would
5:23have put it in his Sovereign
5:27will that on November
5:315th you would have lived to the fifth
5:34day of the 11th month of the
5:37year and it wasn't a situation where
5:41you're in the hospital perhaps on life
5:45support or again
5:49sadly your death was
5:54announced now you may think it's very
5:56weird and strange that Henry's saying
5:59that
6:00and uh why would he go there and uh
6:03that's that that's kind of like uh
6:06unrealistic because I am still
6:10young still young I'm still healthy I'm
6:15healthy because as far as I know I don't
6:18take any medication I'm not sick uh
6:21there's no medical challenges happening
6:24in my life so you assume that just
6:27because a doctor has declared that
6:31you're healthy and for some of us we've
6:34become our own
6:36doctors we have told ourselves we're
6:41healthy even though our
6:43bodies are given us
6:46signals that something is going on on
6:48the inside of
6:52it you see I've discovered that there's
6:55a lot of young people
6:58dying
7:00you see it on the
7:02news a lot of young people are
7:04dying why is that
7:07so was it their
7:10time was it that there wasn't anything
7:13else on the earth that God wanted them
7:16to
7:18discover so their time is
7:22expired or could it be that many made
7:28decisions
7:31that
7:32cancelled God's timing over their
7:37lives but make no mistake about
7:41it that whether you are old or
7:44young you have to realize that you are
7:48at a point in your
7:51life where you have to seize every
7:57moment God has given you
8:04every moment the scripture says he gives
8:06us new
8:09mercies every day every
8:13morning and the fact that you're in this
8:16room and you're
8:17streaming is a clear indication that God
8:22was
8:23merciful to all of
8:27us and so it is also a sign to us that
8:33there's more for us to discover on the
8:38earth and somehow many of us are at a
8:43place of discouragement because we can't
8:46seem to balance what God told
8:50us that he would do in our
8:53lives with what actually
8:57happened how how is it that since the
9:02beginning of
9:042023 he told us that he was going to
9:07strategically align us to receive
9:10certain things and yet we're in November
9:14and for some of us it doesn't add
9:18up it doesn't young lady you've been
9:21saying the same thing recently you've
9:24been kind of kind of politely arguing
9:27with God what what's up with
9:31this this discovery that I'm on and this
9:34journey of
9:362023 it's not really what I thought you
9:40told
9:42me sir I understand where you're at
9:46because you're trying to balance what
9:48God told you that he would do in this
9:51year to what actually happened and what
9:55has happened in your life does not not
10:00measure up to the prophetic
10:03words that he gave you through preachers
10:07that he gave you through him speaking
10:09directly to you it doesn't add
10:14up many of you are feeling
10:17like there are many missing parts to
10:21this
10:22year
10:24many many missing
10:28parts the relationship that you were
10:30hoping to have it's no longer there or
10:33it just never
10:37happened missing parts because your
10:39family was torn
10:41apart so now you are saying but that's
10:45not what you told me
10:48God
10:50so the family wholeness is
10:54missing that career that you were hoping
10:59to create and to go on this new career
11:03path never
11:04happened so it's missing in your life
11:07you're still
11:08stuck in the same job that you
11:13hate your desire based on the prophetic
11:16word since January was that God was
11:19going to increase your finances and it
11:22did not happened in fact it looked like
11:26you've made
11:27less
11:30you're struggling with God in November
11:33now wait a minute it's eight more weeks
11:35left God what are you doing I mean the
11:40discovery of this year is not
11:41encouraging God because there's a lot of
11:44missing
11:45parts to the
11:48year and there
11:50is nothing else more
11:54discouraging than having something
11:57that's supposed to function function and
12:00it may be functioning but there's a part
12:04missing there's a part
12:07missing because when there's a part
12:09missing to an object it is very
12:13unstable very
12:16unstable something is missing some of us
12:19the parts that are missing it may not be
12:22that God took it away from you or never
12:25gave it to you the parts were there
12:29but in the assembling of your life in
12:32this
12:33year instead of reading the
12:36manual the
12:38Bible to see how things fitly join
12:44together you use head
12:47knowledge to make it
12:50work and now you're in November and
12:53you're blaming God for your bad
12:56dysfunctional relationship you're
12:58blaming God for your
13:00insufficiency you're blaming God for
13:03people who have attacked
13:06you when God was trying to tell you
13:09those parts don't work in your
13:14life yet you were assembling those parts
13:17I remember one time my boys were very
13:20small little kids and I went to the
13:24store to buy them a
13:27bicycle and I bought both of them the
13:30bicycle and I got in my garage and in
13:34fact um the store asked me do you want
13:38to pay for the assembling
13:41fee and knowing me I'm
13:45cheap I said no I can do that why am I
13:47going to pay somebody to do that I let
13:49me do it by myself so anyway I got to my
13:51home and I got into the garage and I
13:53started putting the parts of the bike
13:56together I had a paper out of the box
13:59there was a paper out of the box and I
14:01placed the paper down on the floor and I
14:05remember I was I was at home in the
14:08garage and I sat down and I took out all
14:12the parts and I laid them
14:15out and one by one I started out watch
14:20this I started out looking at the bigger
14:23things the bigger things the bigger
14:26parts of the bicycle um because if in my
14:31head in my head if I could just pull the
14:35big
14:36things and try to put the big things
14:40together then it's piece of cake it's
14:42easy putting it all together so I
14:45started out well you did run well that's
14:48Paul you did run well but somewhere
14:51along the line I got a little bit
14:57overconfident that
14:59Maybe by me doing this it looks easy so
15:04my confidence level got outside of the
15:10manual so I put the manual aside and I
15:15started putting the parts together
15:18because I did not look at different size
15:21screws and everything like that so I was
15:24putting everything together and I felt
15:27so wonderful I mean like a pro man this
15:31was easy everything was ready to
15:35go and I finally got all the parts so I
15:40thought
15:41together and I was ready but I noticed I
15:45notice when I got done there was one
15:49little
15:51screw that was left on the
15:55floor and I said but the bike look like
15:59it's all put
16:02together did is it possible that the
16:06manufactor put an extra SC I'm trying to
16:10figure this out I'm just trying to
16:11figure out maybe he put an EXT extra
16:14screw in the box so but I'm like uh nah
16:17I ain't worried about that no it the
16:19bike looks okay I start pushing the bike
16:22and it was okay so I called my son I
16:25said seon come here come here get on the
16:27bike and and and my son got on the bike
16:30I didn't get on the bike it is amazing
16:33how we have dysfunctional lives we act
16:37like we are all
16:39together and how we put other people's
16:44lives at
16:50risk over our own inability to get it
16:56properly
16:57together my son went in that bike and he
17:01was riding and all of a sudden he
17:03couldn't
17:04break and the front wheel of the bike
17:09literally pulled
17:12away almost hurt my son it taught me a
17:16lesson that
17:18day that you I don't care how
17:22small a part of the process
17:27is
17:28[Applause]
17:30[Laughter]
17:33it serves a
17:36purpose and the reason why some of you
17:39are in November
17:43now and all of a sudden you were riding
17:48high and functioning it looked like
17:51everything was okay you weren't praying
17:53the way you should you weren't reading
17:56the Bible the way you should you weren't
17:58attending let me talk to some of you
17:59streamers you can go to church you can
18:02go to church you can go to church you
18:06can go to church but you have elected
18:09because of convenience let me just
18:12stream ain't nothing wrong Preacher
18:14what's your problem look I'm sending
18:17money virtually anyway what's your
18:19problem listen it ain't paying your way
18:22through your
18:26breakthrough you keep you keep doing
18:29things your
18:31way only to find out when you start
18:36riding or testing what you believe God
18:39gave you now you're wondering why in
18:42November stuff is falling
18:45apart why things ain't adding
18:49up why why is this thing missing in my
18:53life because there was a little element
18:56of your
18:57life you
18:59failed to
19:02insert in all of the progress you were
19:05making since
19:08January you fail you literally
19:12failed and so now you are confused and
19:17maybe disappointed because many of your
19:19faith
19:21confessions have not cleared Heaven's
19:26Bank youve written some checks by the
19:28confession of your
19:30mouth God I declare and I
19:34decree but it hasn't clear the bank yet
19:37it's
19:39November that has left you with a little
19:43hope of
19:44escaping the gravitational pull of the
19:49satanic forces pulling you to stay down
19:53in
19:55hopelessness and so on this fifth day
19:58of November
20:012023 I am sent by God to tell you not to
20:07allow Satan to pull you
20:10away from things yet to
20:15be
20:19discovered I have to I have to Sir in
20:22the red shirt could you come here sir
20:24come here come here come
20:27here I I have to tell you this the best
20:30way I can demonstrate it stand facing me
20:34here the best way I can demonstrate
20:41it the best way I can
20:45demonstrated is you know where you want
20:48to
20:49go there's no doubt in my mind every one
20:53of you know where you want to
20:57go you don't lack
21:01Vision you know where you want to
21:05go but you cannot
21:07deny that there's a grav a gravitational
21:13pull that tends to be restricting you
21:18from moving
21:20forward every time you make steps
21:25forward there's a force I don't know
21:28what your force is or the force that's
21:30trying to push you or to pull you back
21:35from where God wants you to be so every
21:39time you're trying to do stuff right
21:43come towards me your job is not to let
21:45me go forward oh that job yeah yes yeah
21:48that's your
21:50job so every time you are trying to go
21:54forward it's like in the game of
21:57football
21:58I'm strong I'm strong I see I'm strong
22:01I'm
22:02strong don't don't be don't forget the
22:08preacher I'm 59 but I still got
22:12[Applause]
22:13[Laughter]
22:17it so what the enemy will try to
22:21do as you're making progress in life the
22:25resistance the resistance
22:28and I'm telling you it is
22:32exhausted trying to be in this posture
22:36for 10
22:38months it's exhausting you are
22:42desperately trying and it's not that you
22:45aren't making effort you are trying but
22:49the enemy is
22:52determined to mess up your life and you
22:54are pushing and you're doing everything
22:58but I'm telling you what's about to
23:02happen it's going to change the
23:04trajectory of your life you got to do a
23:07quick one on the enemy tell somebody I'm
23:10about to do a quick spin on the enemy
23:13he's not ready for what God's about to
23:16use you to do somebody better give God
23:19some praise up in this house thank you
23:22thank
23:25you your next move move the enemy will
23:29not expect
23:31it woo glory to God somebody ought to
23:34give God a praise right there I said
23:37your next move the enemy is not going to
23:40expect
23:43it so Hebrews
23:464 verse 16 tells us therefore let
23:52us I love this with
23:56privilege approach the throne of
24:00grace that is the Throne of God's
24:04gracious
24:06favor with confidence not doubt and
24:10without fear so that we may receive what
24:14Mercy for
24:16what we screw up man
24:21often and what the word of God is saying
24:24if
24:25you understand your
24:30privilege I want to camp out there for
24:33just a little second if you understand
24:35your privilege and understand who you
24:37are it is a privilege to be in the
24:40kingdom of God it's a privilege to be
24:43called a Son of God or a daughter of God
24:46it's a privilege to have Angels
24:48surrounding you and protecting you it's
24:51a privilege to wake up on the fifth day
24:54of November 2023 it's a a privilege just
24:58to be alive and now that I'm privileged
25:02glory to God I'm going to draw near to
25:06the favor of God don't you be jealous
25:10over my status in life ah I didn't even
25:14place myself here God saw it fit that
25:18Henry would live to see this moment God
25:21saw it fit that you will be in this
25:24season of your life so even if they hate
25:27you don't don't waste time trying to
25:29explain to your haters how you got to
25:32where you are you are just
25:38privileged it's the favor of God on your
25:42life and I've discovered this that there
25:45are some people who do not like to see
25:48other people walk in
25:51favor do I have anybody in the room or
25:54streaming who've got some people who
25:56don't like to see you Pro Prosper who
25:58don't like to see you mount up with
26:00wings like Eagle they always want to see
26:03you crawl but baby fly high look at your
26:07neighbor and say fly high live high live
26:12high live high hold your head up don't
26:15you Hold Your Head Down another day hold
26:18your head up and say I am the
26:20righteousness of God I'm the Seed of
26:22Abraham I'm blessed going out I'm
26:25blessed coming in
26:33am tell your neighbor I know who I am
26:36know I am I know who I am I'm
26:39blessed and I got the favor of God
26:42that's why I'm going to draw near to the
26:44gracious favor of God and I'm going to
26:47do it with confidence you said boy you
26:50just full of yourself you're arrogant I
26:53don't care what you say your words can't
26:59change nothing on me it don't buy me no
27:03clothes it don't pay no rent it don't
27:07pay no mortgage it don't buy me no food
27:11you can say whatever you want to say I
27:14know who I
27:17[Applause]
27:20am would you just tap your neighbor and
27:22say I know who I
27:24am I got the favor of God man I got the
27:28favor of God that's why my walk is
27:30different I got the favor of God that's
27:33why I can't walk with my head down I got
27:35the favor of God that's why when I enter
27:37into a room it Shi the atmosphere in the
27:40room I ain't got nothing to do with it
27:42it's what I
27:44[Applause]
27:46carry it's what I carry it's on me I
27:50can't take it off me it's on me God gave
27:54it to
27:56me
27:58and
27:59so one of the things that I want to
28:03declare to you
28:05today is that there's so much on the
28:09other side waiting for you to
28:13discover there's so much on the other
28:16side of
28:18pain and what whatever people have put
28:22you
28:23[Music]
28:24through whatever circumstances and and
28:27struggles that you have encountered in
28:30life what's on the other side is
28:33bigger than what you can
28:37ever
28:40imagine let me talk to some of you who
28:43are sitting up in this room today and
28:45the rest of you are streaming struggling
28:48with
28:49depression look at
28:52me let me just talk to you for a
28:56moment you only only have two choices
28:58right
28:59now you can
29:01continue to sit in your
29:04depression you can continue to have a
29:07pity party on
29:09yourself you can continue to spend the
29:12next eight weeks of this year blaming
29:15people for where you are and what they
29:18have done in your life going all the way
29:22back to your
29:23childhood you can sit there and get the
29:27pray over what you don't have and what
29:30people have spoken over your life and
29:32how people treated you bad some of you
29:35are still depressed over what your daddy
29:37did to you what your mommy did to you
29:40you are still depressed over what the
29:42job did to you you're still depressed
29:45over what that church did to you some of
29:48you are still at the Faith Center but
29:50still carrying the pain of the Dow
29:52Center that you
29:54left but let me tell you something your
29:57either going to sit there and die in
30:00your depression or you're going to stand
30:03up like a man stand up like a woman and
30:07says I'm not missing God another day in
30:10my life I'm snapping out of this
30:13depression I'm snapping out of it I know
30:17who I am I'm a blessed child of God and
30:21there has to be something about my life
30:23why the devil is giving me so much hell
30:26I must be anointed I must be blessed
30:29there's got to be a favor on me why he's
30:34fighting me so
30:39hard somebody say snap out of it snap
30:42out of it you need to snap out of
30:44depression I rebuke it right now in the
30:46name of Jesus get out of it get let that
30:50thing get out of your head right now you
30:52are blessed you are highly favored of
30:55the Lord I'm don't let clothes Define
30:57who you are I don't care if you don't
30:59have brand name clothes on you're a
31:02child of
31:03God snap out of
31:06it thank God for where you are right now
31:10because there's yet things more things
31:13to be
31:15discovered you just need to
31:18believe some of
31:20you won't be
31:23waiting too
31:25long for what you want want after this
31:30sermon cuz you are about to break free
31:33from the pull of
31:36Doubt with a spiritual
31:40speed that will finally get you to where
31:43God wants you to be I'm telling you I
31:46don't know who this is for but if I'm a
31:49man of God I Promise You by December
31:5331st God's going to do some crazy
31:59unbelievable quick work in your life and
32:04that's why I want you to get ready some
32:07of you are carrying around suitcases
32:10with stuff well honey I know I know what
32:13Society tells us to do when you're
32:16traveling pack your bags and we load
32:19ourselves up watch this we load
32:22ourselves up with all these luggages and
32:25if you take spirit Airlines and if you
32:28take Jet Blue the more luggages you have
32:32is the more you pay for them
32:38baggages but where God is taking you
32:41he's saying I want you to bring the bags
32:44but watch this I don't want you to put
32:46nothing in the
32:51bag cuz where he's taking you he wants
32:54you to have new discoveries come on tell
32:57somebody I'm ready for the new discovery
33:00so lay aside every weight and sin that
33:03is going to easily be set you and run
33:06light run light run light run light
33:09don't put nothing don't put anti Sue in
33:11the bag don't put gousy and Malice in
33:14the bag don't put your cussing in the
33:16bag you come with Jesus alone because
33:19what he's getting ready to put in your
33:21life eyes have not seen ears have not
33:24Hur neither have it entered into your
33:29[Applause]
33:31heart what
33:34he has already prepared for you I'm
33:36trying to wrap this up man this is so
33:40good so
33:42sometimes we find that gravitational
33:46pull pull in
33:49US based on the challenges of life and
33:53doubts and our fears and the
33:56distractions of of the
33:58world and this can make us feel like we
34:02are we're kind of bound if you will to
34:05the
34:07principalities operating in the
34:10world because for far too long you've
34:13allowed the burdens of your
34:16circumstances to weigh you
34:19down far too long and this has caused
34:24you to miss many disc discoveries in the
34:30past you know how many things you lost
34:33this
34:36year you know how many opportunities God
34:40placed on the calendar of this
34:45year that you didn't get
34:49it you let when you were pushing and
34:53pressing through life you let the enemy
34:57me got you so
35:01distressed that you missed the
35:04opportunity to get a quick
35:07turnaround you missed
35:10it you missed a new
35:13discoveries but I've come today to help
35:16you to break free man from the
35:18limitations that are holding you
35:21back and one of the things when God gave
35:24it to me it hit me so
35:27big and I didn't want to say it because
35:32I'm like maybe this is going to offend
35:35some
35:37people but for 32 years I've been
35:39preaching the gospel the words that come
35:43out of my mouth up here I am not
35:48responsible for
35:50them you ever hear these politicians
35:52after they put on the commercial they
35:55say that this these messages are
36:00what in other words they're saying
36:02approved by
36:05me and what God told
36:08me to tell some of
36:11you the reason
36:14why you're held backed with so much
36:20limitation is because you are a people
36:25pleaser
36:28[Applause]
36:32you rather please
36:35people than your
36:41God you are scared of
36:45criticism you are scared of what people
36:48will do when you don't do what they want
36:52you to
36:53do instead of doing what God
36:57requires you to do so do not let this
37:02year
37:03end and you are not strategically
37:07aligned with the word of God that was
37:09spoken over your life do not find
37:13comfort in the
37:15rumbling the noise and the distractions
37:19of the devil that seek to uh if you will
37:25control you based on gravity anything
37:28that can hold you
37:30back that's the forces on the earth that
37:33are designed to hold you down preventing
37:35you from
37:37thrusting into your next breakthrough
37:42thrusting into your next
37:45breakthrough the demonstration that I
37:47was doing with a gentleman a while ago
37:50it was with
37:53speed and an unbelievable amount of
37:58thrusting that shocked
38:02him he had his
38:05speed and
38:07power was not that powerful to stop
38:13me he was blocking me he was resisting
38:20me he was pushing me back he was making
38:25sure I don't make
38:27progress and as long as I played his
38:31game his
38:34way as long as I stayed in the same
38:37posture as
38:39he as long as I used the same weapons he
38:43was using and force and energy he was
38:46using then we're
38:48equal but the moment I flip the script
38:51on
38:53him it changes the
38:57outcome and that's what you are going to
38:59have to do you have got to change the
39:02outcome of your life by by doing things
39:04differently and this is why the Apostle
39:06Paul told us in Ephesians 6:11 he said
39:10put on the full armor of God so that you
39:14can watch this take your stand against
39:20the
39:22devil you're at a different altitude now
39:27you're in a different world now
39:29different
39:31space and you got to be careful how
39:34you're dressed
39:38now have you ever seen the
39:42astronauts when they getting ready to
39:44board the
39:47spacecraft have you ever seen any of
39:49them with the clothes that you and I
39:51have
39:54on think about that
39:59some of us what's preventing us from
40:01getting a
40:02breakthrough every environment we go in
40:05we're trying to turn into a fashion
40:08show when you're fighting War you can't
40:11be looking
40:17cute see when you're about to fight War
40:20come on ladies you can't be having no
40:23lipstick bag
40:25chainer
40:34[Applause]
40:36Brothers when you're fighting War you
40:38can't be sitting there trying to worry
40:40about this and sucking your stomach and
40:42all that kind of a stuff
40:45no war calls for a different
40:50garment it
40:52requires space
40:55outfits and Paul is saying in order for
40:58you to fight against the enemy you have
41:00to dress
41:04differently differently it's a different
41:06kind of heat up there I have discovered
41:09this man I'm telling you there is no
41:11heat at the
41:13bottom it's ice cold at the
41:17bottom but the
41:19moment God starts elevating you to
41:24Greatness demons and
41:27devils and you'll be shocked where
41:29they're coming
41:31from the heat is
41:34on is
41:37on that's why you have to change your
41:41dressing he said put on the full armor
41:44of God not not not a Sunday morning
41:50outfit you in your church
41:52clothes that looks different from your
41:55Friday night clothes
42:00I mean if Jesus would show up Friday
42:03night how would he find
42:06you I mean just think about that think
42:09about that for a
42:25moment
42:27must not be missed by any of you so how
42:31you
42:33dressing how you preparing yourself for
42:36it what kind of garments are you
42:38wearing cuz I'm telling you my mom used
42:42to hear she always say the higher a
42:44monkey
42:46climb it's the more he's
42:51exposed let me interpret it in English
42:53for the
42:55Americans the higher you go in
42:58life is the more you're
43:02exposed to
43:05Danger the higher you
43:10go please take your eyes off things that
43:14are
43:15incapable of getting you to the next
43:18blessed
43:22season you keep listening to your
43:24friends and your co-workers and family
43:27members and and here's the other person
43:29you keep listening to is
43:32yourself and yourself is telling you
43:35well you don't take all of that well why
43:38you going to church why you streaming
43:41you know why you giv to
43:43God it's another area most of you you're
43:47wondering God why I can't get my
43:48breakthrough my finances my finances my
43:51finances my and you've been hearing all
43:55year long
43:56s honor God in your
43:59giving and yourself is telling you child
44:02don't get that P of your
44:04money because you made it a pastor
44:08thing I said you made it a pastor thing
44:11because you had a best friend who went
44:13to another church and the pastor stole
44:15the money or folks did wrong with the
44:18money so therefore based than that
44:20experience you're thinking all pastors
44:22are
44:25thieves it's amazing
44:27how you will go to a
44:30surgeon have no idea of the surgeon
44:35reputation no idea of his
44:38reputation in fact if you have ever had
44:41surgery have you ever asked the the
44:43surgeon to give you his certification
44:45you want to see
44:48it
44:50never I've had three surgeries and I
44:54have never asked those surgeries
44:58please I need to see your
45:01license
45:03never somehow because he said he's a
45:05doctor I trusted
45:07him why is it when it comes to the
45:10spiritual house I get it some of us as
45:14leaders are not acting
45:16right but why is it that we use our
45:21inability to give to
45:24God to to
45:28justify that I'm not going to give it
45:30because I got hurt
45:32before some of you are not coming to
45:34church anymore because you got hurt over
45:36church people are they a bunch of
45:39Hypocrites you got plenty of Hypocrites
45:40living up in your house right
45:44now but you still live there there's a
45:48whole bunch of Hypocrites on your job
45:50that you going to show up to in the
45:52morning but you still show up Tuesday
45:54Wednesday Thursday Friday don't let the
45:57devil lie to
45:59you grow
46:01up Don't Let The Devil tell you all kind
46:03of stupid
46:06stuff cuz he wants to block your
46:10blessings so you need to not miss your
46:14next Discovery to discover what's going
46:17to happen next in your life three things
46:19are you ready for this you have to have
46:21a clear destination in
46:24mind
46:27Jesus when he sat with his disciples
46:30that night to have the last supper with
46:33them he had a clear destination in
46:36mind finish the work he was sent to
46:41do what's your
46:44intent what is your
46:46intent is it that your intent to finish
46:502023 the way God wants you to finish
46:54it or you going to finish it
46:57empty got to have a clear destination in
47:00mind there's a few of us man I'm telling
47:03you we're
47:04determined to see new discoveries number
47:07two generate a spiritual thrust
47:11system you see in the spiritual journey
47:14that we're on we must stir up and
47:16cultivate things that energize us and
47:20give us the strength the Boost to move
47:24forward and to elevate oursel and that's
47:26done through prayer meditation humility
47:30and compassion let me say it again those
47:33things are done through prayer got to
47:36have a prayer life you got to meditate
47:38on the word of God I'm telling you
47:40Church whoever is lying to you and
47:43telling you you can just come to church
47:45on a Sunday morning and feel hyped up by
47:48the praise team and get all excited and
47:50don't read your word will let you grow
47:53spiritually they're lying to you
47:58you'll forever be a believer in the
48:01kingdom of God without
48:04power you'll forever be held
48:08down never can take your life to the
48:10next level because your spiritual
48:12journey or the success of it hangs on
48:16you number
48:18three make your praise
48:22known make your praise known
48:26I've never heard of a spaceship taken
48:30off
48:34quietly I know what some of you are
48:36saying you know some of you are saying
48:37this just not my personality that's a
48:40lie that's a lie oh that's not my
48:42personality to shout that's not my
48:44personality oh it's not my personality
48:45to scream I just saw a few moments ago
48:48when a bunch of these people running
48:49down the stage here and God bless them
48:51that's just them I am a quiet person
48:53that's a lie again
48:56and I'm going to tell you why I think
48:57it's a lie you see we select to do what
49:00we want to
49:02do honestly we do so for example oh you
49:05know I'm not that way you know I just
49:07heard somebody scream hallelujah praise
49:09the Lord no I'm more hallelujah praise
49:13the Lord thank you that's a
49:16lie because I can tell you right now if
49:19I put your finger on the table and use a
49:24hammer
49:27and hit it you ain't going to pick your
49:30finger up
49:35ouch that ain't going to happen baby oh
49:38you going to scream what are you saying
49:40pastor listen I'm telling
49:43you when the circumstances of Life hit
49:48you you got to learn to birth a praise
49:53out of every pain you got
49:59go because there are four things there
50:01are four things that will happen when a
50:03spaceship is taken off and there are
50:05four things that will happen when you're
50:07challenged in life number one noise
50:11noise there's something about noise Make
50:13a Joyful Noise the Bible didn't say just
50:16make a noise cuz some people just make a
50:17whole bunch of
50:20nonsense but Make a Joyful Noise unto
50:23the Lord so there are times your life
50:25where you got to just shout unto the
50:27Lord I'm almost there the second thing
50:30that you'll see when a spacecraft is
50:33taken off is
50:35smoke it's not fire it's
50:38smoke some of you you don't have the
50:41fire yet but you
50:45smoking man you got the smoke on you man
50:49and when people see the smoke on you
50:51they're like child she ain't anointed
50:53yet she ain't full of Holy Ghost yet
50:55she's not on fire she kind of look
50:57lukewarm but I don't mind somebody with
50:59a little smoke you know why they have
51:03potential they have potential you see I
51:06I grew up I grew up kind of like in a in
51:08a poor community and so forth and some
51:11of you young people won't understand
51:12what I'm about to show you especially if
51:14you're not from the islands but I grew
51:17up with my parents at times in the
51:19backyard we will put three stones on the
51:23ground and they'll put the wood between
51:27them and all of a sudden they'll just do
51:30a little
51:31spark and put it on the wood and they
51:34have to
51:42keep what are you saying pastor I'm
51:44saying it's only smoke ain't no fire yet
51:47smoke but if somebody keep blowing on
51:51it and perhaps what you need in your
51:53life right now it's just a few you
51:57friends who won't abandon you just
52:00because you're not on fire for God yet
52:03but if you got a little smoke tell your
52:05neighbor just keep blowing on
52:08me just keep speaking the word of God on
52:11my life just keep encouraging me just
52:15keep telling me don't you give up baby
52:17keep coming to church keep reading your
52:19word keep praying come on now don't you
52:22back away now I just need somebody to
52:24encourage me
52:26and then of course the
52:28fire you'll always see the no or hear
52:31the noise and see the smoke and see the
52:33fire and then movement and this is where
52:36it takes me as we get into
52:38communion now we have the movement the
52:42rumbling and I just feel that that's
52:45what's happening to some of us there's a
52:50shaking and we're panicking and we're
52:52saying oh God what in the world is this
52:55it's like everything in my house is
52:57shaking everything in my account is
52:59shaking everything in my body is shaking
53:02and you're saying God there's going to
53:04be an explosion but not every explosion
53:06is
53:09bad not every explosion is bad because
53:12I'm telling you what God is getting
53:14ready to do he has got to put some
53:17thrust in your life he's got to put some
53:20speed in your life because for where
53:22he's taking you come on now the average
53:25is not going to do it come on now the
53:28average is not going to do it so if you
53:31are going to discover things it's going
53:33to hang on your ability or your desire
53:37to move forward your willingness to
53:39shake things up around you your
53:41willingness to go in Full Speed Ahead
53:45your willingness to praise God in the
53:48noise in the distractions in the things
53:51that the enemy has put before for
53:56you so I leave you with the question
54:01again what's
54:05yet to be
54:12discovered I I I I I I I I don't see
54:17it it's
54:21distorted
54:23huh it's not making sense
54:30sense but as long as I
54:34stay confined to the laws of
54:40gravity to the
54:42control of what's on the
54:46earth and I failed to tap into the
54:51spiritual I'm going to miss my next
54:56and I want you to Bow your heads
55:00today because you are going to
55:03seal this
55:05month with
55:10communion and you're going to say to
55:13God there's more to be
55:18discovered you're taking me into an
55:21unknown
55:24Zone a place that literally makes me
55:29nervous it's it's scaring the heck out
55:32of me I'm dressed
55:36differently I'm using different
55:40weapons so Lord I I
55:44trust that if I can get you in me
55:48breaking of the
55:50bread the drinking of the cup if I can
55:53get you in me
55:57then what's out
56:00there will be in me
56:04too make that decision young lady sir
56:08please make that decision today to say
56:11God I'm going all the way for
56:17you the next 8
56:21weeks I'm going to praise
56:23you the next 8 weeks I'm going to trust
56:28you the next 8 weeks I'm going to make
56:33sure that I get into your word the next
56:36eight weeks I'm going to make
56:39sure that I seow my
56:43seed I do not want the year to
56:47end and the blessings that was tied to
56:50the seed of
56:532023 get pulled hold
56:56back because I was walking in fear and
57:01Disobedience father I thank
57:03you that somebody's walking away
57:07today fully understanding the hour and
57:09the season that they're
57:14in I thank
57:17you that somebody's going to trust you
57:20today to say
57:21God
57:23yes yes that
57:26question there are more things yet to be
57:30discovered in my
57:32life and I'm not going to be held back
57:36anymore I need
57:38you so therefore I Surrender everything
57:41to you I Surrender my will my
57:46everything I give you my business I give
57:49you my career I give you my family my
57:52children my
57:53spouse and certainly God I Surrender my
57:57finances to
57:59you because if I make the mistake of
58:02going into
58:052024 doing my finances the way I'm doing
58:08it God I'm setting myself up for
58:13failure I cannot afford another
58:18setback I cannot afford to miss another
58:23opportunity so father we
58:26pray that as we bless this
58:30bread it will now represent your
58:34body as we drink of this
58:39cup it is now going to remind us of the
58:42New Covenant that we
58:43have through the sacrifice of Jesus
58:47Christ and we give you
58:50praise going to ask that you pull your
58:53sacraments out and if you could just
58:56remain in your seat we're going to do
58:58the communion then receive the seed this
59:02morning those of you are streaming
59:04hopefully you have it ready what an
59:06amazing
59:08way to begin the
59:11month is to say Lord we come
59:14before you
59:16today
59:18remembering the sacrifice of Jesus
59:21Christ
59:22knowing that our confidence
59:25in our blessed future
59:28hangs on what Jesus did at
59:32Calvary we have blessed the bread as the
59:35body of Christ around the world let's
59:38eat all of
59:45it in the same manner let's take the
59:49cup it is now blessed I promise you
59:53according to the word of God God this is
59:55now the
59:56blood of
59:58Jesus let's now drink and expect our
60:03internal miracles to produce external
60:07Miracles let's
60:08[Music]
60:14drink just stay in that presence right
60:18now
60:21hallelujah thank you Jesus
60:27thank you
60:31Jesus thank you Jesus thank you
60:35Lord thank you
60:38[Music]
60:39Lord thank you
60:41Jesus what a
60:43sacrifice what
60:45[Music]
60:48a that
60:50save my life yes
60:57[Music]
61:00sing it again sing it let's just rest in
61:02those
61:05words