Achieving Victory God's Way
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 4/15/2024Revelation 4:11
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez challenges believers to stop building their lives on worldly blueprints and instead achieve victory by aligning with God's unique purpose for their existence. By stripping away distractions, toxic influences, and financial mismanagement, we can spend the remainder of the year experiencing God's sovereign blessing.
Key points
- •Our existence is a sovereign act of God's will; therefore, operating outside of His purpose renders our lives irrelevant to His grand design.
- •Every person is uniquely created among 8 billion people, meaning each individual has an irreplaceable role and a specific 'niche' that no clone can replicate.
- •Victory 'God's way' requires stripping away worldly blueprints for success, including unhealthy social media consumption, toxic inner circles, and unbiblical financial habits.
- •The story of Jonah illustrates that paying your own way to avoid God's will leads to 'stinky situations' and storms, whereas obedience leads to divine sustenance.
- •True success and blessing in the remaining months of the year depend on prioritizing God's glory over the applause of man and honoring Him through faithful stewardship and tithing.
Scripture
Purpose
Obedience
Stewardship
Discipleship
Character
Life application
This week, perform an 'inventory' of your inner circle and social media habits. Identify one relationship or digital habit that is drifting you away from God's purpose and set a firm boundary or 'shut the door' to protect your spiritual energy.
Reflection questions
- In what areas of your life have you been 'paying your own way' toward Tarshish instead of following God to Nineveh?
- If you were to strip away the expectations of society and your family, who did God uniquely design you to be?
- Are your current financial habits based on a 'hustling spirit' of greed or a spirit of trust in God as your Shepherd?
- Who in your circle of influence is pushing you closer to God, and who is draining your spiritual hunger?
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0:00Revelation
0:024 as well we'll begin from this
0:06morning verse
0:1111 if you are a person who would loves
0:15to take
0:18notes get ready because God's going to
0:21release a lot of good stuff to you this
0:24morning the very last book of the Bible
0:28chapter 4
0:30the 11th verse it
0:33says worthy are
0:36you oh lord and God to receive glory and
0:41honor and
0:43power for you created all
0:46things and by your will they
0:49existed and were
0:55created this verse reminds us of the
0:58importance of acknowledging in God's
1:03sovereignty and our purpose in his
1:09creation the verse emphasizes that our
1:13existence is deeply
1:16Associated to the will of
1:19God deeply
1:22Associated to the will of God now please
1:26don't miss this
1:30the verse
1:32emphasizes that our
1:35existence is
1:37deeply
1:38Associated to the will of God catch it
1:41real
1:43quick Your Existence is deeply
1:49tied to the will of
1:52God therefore to operate outside of his
1:56will is
1:58actually making
2:01yourself
2:03irrelevant on the
2:07planet it is actually void in what God
2:11has purposed for your life so that lets
2:15us know that our existence on the earth
2:18is a part of God's Sovereign will for
2:22the
2:24universe whatever you're doing in life
2:27if you're doing it according to the will
2:29of God it serves a
2:32purpose to God's plan for the
2:35universe if you're a
2:38teacher and God purpose for you to
2:40become a teacher it serves a purpose in
2:43the universe somebody is going to be
2:47benefited from your teaching if you're a
2:51doctor if you're a
2:53lawyer if you're someone who works for
2:56the Sanitation Company to pick up
2:58garbage I don't care what position you
3:01hold your life on the earth serves a
3:07purpose in the will of
3:09God you and I are not an
3:12accident we just didn't show up if you
3:16will here without a plan in fact before
3:19we were formed in our mother's womb God
3:24had a plan for our existence on the
3:27Earth
3:30Additionally the verse underscores the
3:33significance of honoring
3:36God and bring in Him Glory as we operate
3:41in his
3:43power the significance of honoring God
3:46honoring God and bringing him glory with
3:50our lives knowing that you were born for
3:54a purpose I don't know what your purpose
3:56is but whatever that is when you ser
3:59serve God on the earth and live out your
4:03purpose not just waking up every day
4:06just doing life going through the motion
4:09why are you
4:12here
4:16why don't tell me that God created you
4:19and didn't have a plan and just dropped
4:22you on the
4:23planet to leave you to figure
4:26out why you're here
4:29before you were
4:31formed he knew you ordained
4:35you you're here for
4:38reason our problem is we get so busy
4:41trying to figure out other people's
4:46business trying to study other people
4:48trying to pattern Our Lives after other
4:51people trying to dress like other people
4:53act like other people own what other
4:56people possess instead of figuring out
4:59why why am I here why did he created me
5:02a male why did he created me a female
5:05why did he put that Niche or that desire
5:09and that passion for certain things why
5:12am I uniquely created God must has a
5:15plan or had a plan why he created
5:18us that's our job to figure out why are
5:23we
5:23here one of the most profound
5:27experiences in life is realizing and
5:30that you have a unique purpose on the
5:33earth tailored
5:35specifically to you among the 8 billion
5:39individuals inhabiting the
5:42planet
5:45ah for those of you who are struggling
5:48with with with with low
5:52self-esteem 8 billion plus people on the
5:58planet
6:01and
6:02nobody is like
6:05[Applause]
6:07you
6:11nobody nobody has your thumb
6:16print
6:19nobody you are one in
6:248
6:26billion nobody's like you
6:30God created you in such a unique way
6:33that if you search the entire world you
6:36cannot find a duplicate of
6:41[Applause]
6:44you that's why people need to understand
6:46this in relationship when you meet
6:49someone they need to understand it is a
6:52privilege to meet
6:56you uh it's a privilege it's a privilege
7:00that woman that you're married to or
7:02you're dating it's a privilege to meet
7:04her that man that you're dating or
7:06you're married to it's a privilege
7:08because I tell you what you cannot find
7:11another person like that woman like that
7:14that man you cannot that's why when you
7:18have a good woman when you have a good
7:19man you better treat them right because
7:23there's nobody
7:25else like them
7:30there's nobody
7:31else like
7:34you you're uniquely designed by
7:39God with no clone to re uh uh replicate
7:44you you possess an Irreplaceable role in
7:48God's Grand
7:52Design This recognition underscores the
7:55singular
7:57opportunity you have to fulfill your
7:59part in God's
8:02plan God meticulously crafted and
8:06nurtured you for this
8:09precise
8:13moment
8:15H you're here in this precise moment for
8:18a
8:18reason it was not
8:21destined for you to live watch this
8:25before the 60s or the 40s or let's go in
8:31the 18th
8:33century it's not
8:36destined it was not destined for you to
8:38be born in
8:412025 in this moment in time you're here
8:46for a
8:48reason and I want you to acknowledge
8:50that you possess the power and the
8:52resources necessary to excel as a
8:55devoted Christian and you have the power
8:58to reach your full fullest potential as
9:00a man or a woman and yes because of that
9:05you can achieve Victory God's
9:09way that's what God wants me to talk to
9:12you about this morning achieving Victory
9:15his way you want to be victorious you
9:18want to have a good life but you're in
9:21search of that good life on the wrong
9:24path and you have clothed yourself with
9:27your self-righteousness
9:29and your own human reasoning and
9:32intellect and it is actually changing
9:35the image is created you to
9:40be so yet even though you're
9:44unique you're walking among 8 billion
9:47people
9:49clothed in somebody else's
9:54garment cuz you're not even
9:57you God sent me here this morning to say
9:59he's looking at you and you don't
10:03match the
10:05image that is created you to
10:08be you're breaking his
10:11heart because You' have allowed the
10:13systems of the world and the things you
10:16go through to shape you and mold you and
10:21to making you into the woman that is
10:24appealing to society that is appealing
10:27to a man that's appealing to your
10:29relatives and your family you you you
10:31you have taken on a shape as a man that
10:34is appealing to women and it's appealing
10:36to society but God is saying when he
10:39looks at
10:41you he doesn't know
10:45you you're not looking like the person
10:49he has created you be you to be so
10:52living in alignment with God's will for
10:54your life will bring honor and glory to
10:57him pay the path to a Victorious
11:03Life achieving victory in your personal
11:07life your resources in business your
11:10career and your finances is possible
11:14it's possible it's possible only when
11:17you completely rely on God to get you
11:20there here's the problem with many of
11:24us we are living life doing our thing
11:28our thing from the
11:31workplace to the circles of influence
11:34that we're
11:35in to social
11:39media We are
11:41Becoming
11:43everything except what he wants
11:46us to
11:49be and here is the scary thing about it
11:54we no longer go after the truth
12:00we no longer want to hear the truth the
12:02moment we speak truth we get offensive
12:06the moment we hear the truth of the word
12:09of God we begin to build walls and
12:12self-righteousness but please hear me
12:15today you may think you're
12:18winning but it would be a
12:22shame and quite honest
12:25painful that if you go through life
12:29gaining all the pledges of the
12:32world only to
12:35die and not hear the father say to
12:38you well
12:41done why do you crave after men
12:45applauding you so much and not
12:49him why why do you go after
12:53women allowing them to impress you so
12:57much than you impress in the
13:00father who are you living for is it for
13:03people or is it for
13:06God you have to answer that question
13:09today so it's time you admit that you're
13:12doing life without God and if you do it
13:16without them it is impossible it's time
13:19you admit it's time you admit that you
13:22are no longer where you're supposed to
13:24be you're no longer closer to the plan
13:27of God that plan that he is designed for
13:30your life the last five to 10
13:36years you've been living the last 10
13:38years of your life and you're drifting
13:41away from the plan of God you are not
13:43there you are absolutely not
13:49there every year like the children of
13:51Israel you're living a cycle of
13:54unproductivity and you're blaming
13:55everybody else and and you're not
13:58understanding that he you have not made
14:00him worthy Revelation 4:11 worthy are
14:04you oh Lord God to receive to receive
14:08glory and honor and power because I
14:11recognize I am your creation so
14:13therefore I yield myself to you
14:17God therefore I live for you not just
14:21for people
14:23alone so whose
14:26blueprint have you been following for
14:28the last five 5 to 10 years to
14:31construct your faith
14:34Journey
14:36who is it man is it
14:40religion how close are you to
14:43God think about
14:46that how close are you to
14:51God are you closer to your boyfriend to
14:54your girlfriend to your husband your
14:56wife to your children to people to your
14:59job to money more than you are to
15:04him think about
15:06it how are you constructing your faith
15:10life what about your spending
15:15habits what about cuz you see what you
15:18don't understand is that what the enemy
15:20does if he can't stop you to go to
15:23church if he can't stop you from reading
15:25your Bible if he can't stop you from
15:27lying and doing all these other things
15:30he will let you screw up your finances
15:33because he understands the power of
15:37money he understands that and as long as
15:41he can entrap you in the spirit of greed
15:45in other words buying what you cannot
15:47afford and not having a controlled
15:50budget if he can get you to that level
15:53he can strip you of the necessities of
15:56life and therefore it will affect affect
15:59your faith
16:02Journey it
16:04will it'll cause you to be stressed
16:10out it will cause you to live in
16:14debt it will cause you to struggle and
16:17live every day just to keep up with your
16:21lifestyle and your dependency now is on
16:24what you can hustle for instead of
16:27looking to the heels from whence cometh
16:30your
16:33help so you no longer look to God who's
16:37the author and the finisher of your
16:40faith because you're constructing your
16:43finances based on what you want when you
16:48want
16:49it and not counting the
16:53cost on how you're going to build your
16:55life what about your
16:57relationships how you constructing your
17:00relationship what blueprints are you
17:02following for
17:04dating for dating you're dating what
17:07blueprints are you following who are you
17:10follow when you're looking for a man
17:12what are you following what's the
17:15pattern is it the circle of your
17:17influence or you going to the word of
17:20God as a man who are you following as a
17:23as a man what blueprint are you
17:25following to find a wife when the Bible
17:28say says he who finds watch this it
17:31never says who finds a woman just
17:33because you're a woman doesn't mean
17:34you're a wife
17:35[Applause]
17:42material it never said he who finds a
17:47woman cuz not every woman is a
17:51[Applause]
17:56wife so no wonder you end up with these
17:59crazy
18:00women now please don't get don't be mad
18:02at me now if you are not
18:04crazy then the cap doesn't
18:07fit but if you're crazy maybe you need
18:10to change your crazy
18:19ways how are you measuring your success
18:23in life are you measuring your success
18:25based on what you have achieved
18:30what you have
18:32achieved are you measuring your success
18:35and what you have
18:38achieve maybe you're running your own
18:41business maybe you're working for
18:43somebody
18:44else every day you go to your job and
18:48you're
18:49working where does God come into all of
18:54this how could you get up every single
18:58day of the week
18:59Monday to Friday and hustle and give
19:03everybody your job your company all
19:06these
19:08hours 168 hours every single
19:16week and God didn't get even a
19:26hello only to find that when you're your
19:28back is against the
19:31wall and things start falling apart now
19:34you're trying to play
19:37religious now you're looking for an
19:39intercessor now you're looking for a
19:41prayer Warrior now you're looking for
19:43all the scriptures you haven't even open
19:45your Bible all week long all month long
19:48all year long the only scripture you
19:50have read is the ones that's read in the
19:53sanctuary
20:00and then when you're
20:02desperate you're now seeking the help of
20:05God this a scripture said that God is
20:07Not
20:10mocked you cannot use
20:14him you
20:16can't you you you can't be so busy on
20:19the job hustling doing things your way
20:24and thinking you going to succeed that
20:25way there is a way that seemed right you
20:28may think you
20:30are but can I tell you life is going to
20:33hit
20:34everybody everybody is going to be hit
20:37with something and then the question is
20:40what's your point of reference who are
20:42you going to depend on who are you going
20:43to look to what about the your your
20:45circle of influence your circle of
20:47influence all the people that you
20:50surround yourself
20:52with how you building your life who is
20:55who is speaking into your ears
21:00whether it's family friends business
21:02associate who is speaking into your ears
21:05where where did you put your life you're
21:08in the center right now every person
21:10watching me now you're in the center of
21:13an a circle of influence who are those
21:15people you need to begin to take
21:17inventory are these people bringing me
21:19closer to God or are they drifting me
21:22away from God who are these people in my
21:26life are they empowering me are they
21:29sacking the strength and the energy and
21:33the hunger that I have for
21:36[Applause]
21:38God are they pushing me to God or are
21:41they pushing me away from
21:43God to examine
21:45yourself who is in your inner
21:49circle who who have you allowed to get
21:53into your space cuz you do know you
21:56don't allow anybody to come in your
22:00house that's just common sense if you go
22:04home tonight and somebody knock at your
22:06door and and and you look through the
22:09keyhole and you don't you you not if you
22:12don't recognize even when you recognize
22:15them you want them to say
22:18something voice
22:20recognition what are you saying pastor
22:23when people are coming into your life
22:25you need to sneak through the word of
22:28God God and judge their character judge
22:32their Spirit you need to know say
22:35something to me I need to know I need to
22:38test your character to see if you are
22:40good for me and if you're not good for
22:43me I am not opening up the door some
22:47doors you just need to shut some doors
22:50you need to lock some doors you need not
22:52to open for some
22:55people don't open the door
22:59I rather be by myself I rather be lonely
23:03than to have somebody in my life that's
23:07going to degrade me and suck the energy
23:09out of
23:13me just tap your neighbor and say I
23:15rather be
23:16lonely L I don't want no drama I fight
23:19through hell I've been through hell and
23:22back I've been through too much to allow
23:25people to come into my life at this
23:27stage of my life
23:29life the devil is a liar I rather be
23:33lonely by
23:36[Applause]
23:45myself how are you constructing your
23:47life with social
23:51media how much of this is in
23:54you and less of the word of God
23:59how is it consumed your life like you're
24:01in church you're not hearing what the
24:02preacher says but you're
24:04texting and you're you're all over
24:06you're just not you if it's very
24:10convenient you've got
24:12everybody's app on your phone and don't
24:16even have the Bible
24:25at I come to sleigh this morning I y'all
24:28I
24:29[Applause]
24:42can we have consumed
24:46ourselves with bad
24:49circles obsession with social
24:53media the Cravings after our hustles
24:59and we cool and we chill and we go to
25:02the
25:03movies and we hang out in the
25:06movies and we watch movies with a whole
25:09lot of curse
25:12words
25:15sexual themes and
25:20images and when we come to
25:23church we're anxious
25:30[Applause]
25:31uneasy
25:34unbothered or being bothered I should
25:37say h hurry up
25:43ref and I don't have much to
25:47give you know well look at all these
25:49people look at his suit look at how he
25:53dresses look at this look at that look
25:55at that look at that I can't do that I
25:58can't
25:59but you go to the
26:00movies and you pay a lot of
26:04money for
26:07popcorn all of that
26:09stuff and you will sit there and watch
26:13sexual
26:15scenes
26:17profanity with your
26:22children and all of that is getting into
26:25your spirit and it's training in
26:29you and here's the sad part about
26:32it it doesn't bother
26:38you let me share with you what Proverbs
26:4114:12 says he said there's a way that
26:43seems right to a man but it
26:46ends is the way of
26:50death so I fmly believe that it's time
26:53for you to make a change to improve your
26:55life and to achieve victory in every
26:58every area that you're struggling in and
27:00we can only achieve this when God
27:03becomes watch this our
27:07Pursuit you see you and I have the
27:09opportunity right now to take steps that
27:12will
27:13shatter the limitations we have put on
27:18ourselves over the last couple of
27:20years
27:22yes we can shatter those limitations
27:26when God becomes first because listen to
27:28me young lady and young man you are
27:31really not where God wanted you to be
27:34and perhaps the purpose of this message
27:36is to kind of wake you up for you to
27:38strip
27:40away all the stuff
27:43man that have caused you not to have a
27:46passion for
27:47God and I know this may be uncomfortable
27:50for some of you honestly some of you
27:52maybe this is your last day here
27:54today no seriously because some people
27:58can't handle sermons like this some
28:01people just like a preacher to go and
28:03give them four different nice little
28:05points and tell you you are so wonderful
28:07you are sweet You're great and the Lord
28:09bless you and the Lord wants all the
28:11greatness for you and you bust hell wide
28:14open at the end of your life I don't
28:17want
28:18that the purpose for church is to bring
28:25correction the purpose for the word is
28:27to to get us into the will of God to get
28:30us into the will of God and while we're
28:32on our way to the will of God of course
28:34we're going to enjoy
28:37ourselves so you need to ask yourself
28:39the question man what limitations have
28:41you put on yourself that is prohibiting
28:44you from being
28:48successful what will the next eight
28:51months of this year look like for
28:54you will they be the same as prior years
28:58or will they be years you have made
29:01progress in your relationship with God
29:04people and even with your
29:06resources what will be the you got eight
29:09more months that's it I want you to look
29:11on the screen eight more
29:14months think about
29:17this you got eight months eight is the
29:23number of new beginnings you can begin
29:26today by changing the
29:29direction of this year for a better
29:32outcome you have 8 months and every
29:37month starting in May you can do it your
29:42way this message May mean absolutely
29:45nothing to you go ahead I'm doing it my
29:48way living my way thinking my way
29:52functioning my way you can do it all the
29:54way up to December nobody's going to
29:56force you ain't no light coming from
29:58Heaven striking you dead you can do it
30:01your
30:03way but I want to introduce to you a
30:05different way the next eight months can
30:07be done God's
30:09way you can change you can still do
30:14nobody's faith without works is De keep
30:19doing but how are you doing it how you
30:23pattern in your life is what matters the
30:26most you can do it your way or do it the
30:31way I'm suggesting the next eight months
30:34you can do it God's
30:36way and I declare to you that in this
30:40year of significant
30:42opportunities that God will literally
30:45bless your
30:48life but it will be very unfortunate if
30:51you allow anything to cause
30:54you from living a blessed life the next
30:58eight months or cause you to live the
31:02repeated life of failure you see the
31:05most productive step you and I can take
31:07this moment is to seek God for
31:09assistance in moving watch this now as
31:12the song strip away every distraction
31:15every unhealthy habits every obstacle
31:19that is hindering us from bringing him
31:22glory so that we can become a better
31:26version of ourselves
31:28eles this is this is really the fun part
31:32of the
31:33sermon we have an
31:37opportunity you don't have to finish
31:412024 doing things your
31:45way right now right now right now you
31:49can say God I change the people who have
31:53got around me I know it it's hurtful I I
31:58know some of these people have been in
31:59your life a long time man I know here's
32:05the big part about it I get it some of
32:07them are even
32:09your
32:13family I know they're your family
32:17members I know I know here's another
32:20part some of them have may may have even
32:23helped you in the past
32:28but you're at a stage in your
32:31life it's not about what people did for
32:35you it's not about who connected to you
32:37by
32:38Blood it's not about how long you've
32:41been my
32:42friend it's survival time right
32:46now woo I don't know who that's
32:49for ah I don't know who that is
32:53for I want to survive man
32:58it's time you strip
33:00away all the negative things of social
33:03media now listen if you're a Christian
33:05if you are a Christian it is not the
33:09character of God for you to be posting
33:12negative
33:14[Music]
33:16things it's not the character of God so
33:19I know you you you you jump into every
33:21little thing you
33:22see and you giv your little
33:26opinions for a christ
33:28it's not the character of God for you to
33:32use social media to degrade people or to
33:36to to spread lies or even if it's
33:39true it's not your
33:41job clean up the pictures you're
33:45posting if you're a
33:48Christian if you're a Christian be
33:51careful now now now if you got one foot
33:54in the church one foot in the world then
33:56you you know you can flipflop any way
33:58you want it you know Sundays you clean
34:00it up then then you know you know I get
34:02it I get it but if if both feet are in
34:07the body of
34:10[Music]
34:13Christ and you got to fix this right and
34:18then strip away all the bad connection
34:20watch this the
34:23hustling spirit that is upon
34:26you that you're working so hard you
34:29don't have time to
34:32sleep right you you you when God created
34:35you created your body where you need
34:38rest the hustling where you know you be
34:42careful how you treat people on the
34:44job watch this now be careful of the
34:47stuff that you're doing if you're
34:49working in sales don't work the books to
34:53earn a
34:55living don't do crooked
34:58things don't cheat
35:01people just to pay your bills
35:10[Applause]
35:26[Applause]
35:34I'm skipping over a lot of
35:37stuff let me show you this and then I
35:41close we talked
35:44about there's a need for us to remove
35:46watch this
35:48personal desires I'm
35:53closing you can no longer live the next
35:56eight months of this
35:58year going where you want to
36:02go let me tell you who tried it Jonah
36:061 verses 1 to3 now the word of the Lord
36:09came to Jonah the son of
36:13amiah saying arise go to
36:17Nineveh that great City and cry out
36:20against it for their wickedness has come
36:24up before
36:25me but Jonah Rose from flee to tarses
36:29from the presence of the Lord he went
36:32down to japa and found a ship going to
36:34tarses so he paid the
36:38fair and went down into it to go with
36:42them to tares from the presence of the
36:44Lord watch this God is sending him like
36:48he's sending you down a
36:50path this is the
36:52way I need you to go to a city and I
36:56want you to tell them
36:58that their deeds are before me and I'm I
37:00don't like it it's
37:02wrong most of the times we don't like we
37:05don't like that do you do you think I
37:07like what I'm
37:09doing I'm taking a risk right
37:12now cuz I want everybody to like
37:15me I want you to love
37:18me I want you to come to my birthday
37:23party no seriously I want you to like me
37:29and here comes God giving me a sermon
37:31like
37:33this who wants to preach something who
37:36wants to preach this when you sit in
37:38your seat you're like oh get off my back
37:42Pastor God was sending Jonah to go
37:45preach to a city that had lost their way
37:49and he was scared he said no I'm not
37:52going to go watch this God was going to
37:55pay the way all God said to him go Jonah
37:59God never said let me see go figure out
38:02how you going to pay your fair how you
38:03going to get there how you going to eat
38:05how you going to survive there just go
38:08because where he leads you he will
38:10sustain
38:13you but the Bible says Jonah decided I'm
38:18not going to go to
38:21Nineveh I want to go to Tes I wonder how
38:24many of you are heading to Nineveh not t
38:28uh n excuse me and into tarus and not
38:31Nineveh where God sent
38:33you where are you heading where God is
38:36saying that's not where I sent you and
38:38here's the sad thing about it the Bible
38:40says so he paid his
38:44fear how many of you are paying your way
38:46out of the will of
38:49God he paid his
38:51fear and verse four says but the Lord
38:54sent a great wind on the the
38:58sea and a mighty Tempest on the
39:02sea so that the ship watch this is about
39:07to break
39:08up it's going to be broken
39:12up could it be that God is sending a
39:14warning today cuz you watch this you're
39:17on your
39:19way to
39:21tarus out of the will of God and God
39:24said I'm going to break up your boat
39:27I'm going to break up your
39:30boat see if you think you can fight
39:33against God he'll humble
39:36you he'll break up your boat he let a
39:39big fish a big
39:42problem a big problem he let the big
39:46problem get you so tied
39:50up he'll put he'll make you get into a
39:53stinky situation
39:57come on now he'll get you in a situation
40:01that is not going to be
40:02pleasant so get rid get rid of your own
40:08Pursuit number two eliminate
40:10mismanagement of your
40:13resources Luke 14:28 says to verse 30 it
40:18says is there anyone here who planning
40:23to build a house doesn't first sit down
40:27and and figure out the cost so that he
40:29will know if he can complete it if you
40:31are only getting the foundation laid and
40:34then run out of money you're going to
40:36look pity or pretty
40:40foolish everyone passing by will poke
40:44fun at you you started something you
40:47couldn't
40:48finish in other words don't get yourself
40:52in financial
40:54debt that you can't pay for
40:57yeah stop buying stuff and doing stuff
41:01that you that that takes you out of the
41:03will of God that stresses your
41:07family that make you look rich now but
41:10live poor when you're
41:13old that's the word of God Luke 12:15
41:17and he said to them take heed and beware
41:21coitous for the one's life does not
41:24consist in the abundance of things he
41:26possessed
41:30don't get so caught up with the
41:31possession of
41:33things the obsession of having things
41:37because coitious I see her with that I
41:39see him with that so I want it and I'm
41:41going to get
41:44it Malachi 3:8 and many of you going to
41:47walk out
41:49now cuz this is the part we don't like
41:52will a man rob
41:54God yet you have robbed me
41:58but you say in what way have we robbed
42:01you you said then ties an offering verse
42:0410 it says bring all the tithe into the
42:07storehouse that there may be meat or
42:09food for my
42:11house and try me in this try
42:15me says the Lord if I will not open to
42:19you the windows of heaven and pour you
42:22out such blessing you won't have enough
42:25room to contain it what God is saying
42:28here Luke says words of Jesus take heed
42:34get rid of coitious live within your
42:36means don't start something don't engage
42:40in spending that you cannot
42:43maintain he's talking to the people of
42:45God and then he says here now don't rob
42:49me this is a huge issue in
42:53church it's a huge cuz I know all the
42:57Church wants is your money all the
42:58preacher wants is your money D not
43:00knowing if Satan can get the people of
43:03God to ask God for stuff he's blessing
43:07them and they keep it from the
43:09storehouse keep it from the Temple of
43:12course the temple is not able to do what
43:13God has called it to do and therefore
43:16Satan
43:18strategically comes in does his thing
43:23cuz we're not
43:24equipped to do his will
43:29he says if you try
43:31me try
43:34me try
43:36him that we get excited we're not
43:39excited I should say to come to the
43:40house of God here's my tithe there's my
43:42offering God you've blessed me you've
43:44been truly faithful to
43:47me and I trust you that you're going to
43:50sustain me because you
43:52said you will pour out such
43:55blessing that I will will not have room
43:58enough to to to receive it it's either
44:00he lied this Bible is not true or maybe
44:05we're not doing something
44:08right God is saying strip away that
44:14mindset of telling yourself that doesn't
44:17relate to you when it comes to
44:20giving how can you spend all that money
44:22in the grocery store all that money in
44:24the the the mall all that money
44:27I mean and you're taking chances and and
44:30and all of that you're doing even when
44:32you're not doing to God is it
44:35helping there's an easier way put the
44:39burden on God okay God if you want me to
44:41do this I'm going to do it I'm not going
44:44to steal I'm not going to beg so
44:46therefore I trust you I'm holding your
44:48cter but to your word you cannot be mad
44:50at God if you have not tested
44:54him that's it you got to Str trip away
44:57your idea of how to gain
45:01wealth I know you want to hit it big I
45:04know you want to hit it big in sales and
45:06you come up with all these things no
45:08wonder I said earlier on that's why you
45:11got to be careful that you're not doing
45:13sneaky illegal stuff to be
45:18rich your wealth comes from the
45:21Lord not cooking the books
45:27you put it on
45:29him the Lord is my shepherd I shall not
45:33want you are my
45:36shepherd you will take care of
45:39me so I'm not going to look to the
45:42world I'm not going to try to hit the
45:47lottery I'm going to get a billion
45:50dollars so every week you give $10 to
45:54the
45:55lottery and you've been doing the for 5
45:57years you haven't even won a scratch
46:10off I know you ain't coming back next
46:12week I could tell you're like I'm done
46:15with this dude this dude is crazy he
46:17must have drank something last night
46:20he's off the chain today he's rude he's
46:23blunt
46:28get rid of
46:29harmful
46:31habits and negative attitudes towards
46:35people Ephesians 4:32 says Be Kind one
46:38to another tender-hearted forgiven one
46:41another even as God forgave you Romans
46:4512:10 says love one another with
46:47brotherly affection outdo one another in
46:49showing in honor Proverbs 24:17 it says
46:53do not rejoice when your enemy
46:57Falls and let not your heart be glad
47:01when he stumbles Philippians 2:4 Let
47:05each of you look not only to his own
47:08interest but also to the interest of
47:11others Matthew 19:19 honor your father
47:14and your mother listen to me those of
47:16you got parents that you're
47:18disrespecting
47:21them disrespecting your mother and your
47:24father
47:26you tell them any kind of
47:30words literally disrespect
47:33them he says here honor your father and
47:39your
47:40mother you shall love your neighbor as
47:45yourself Ephesians 4:2 with all humility
47:48and gentleness with patience forbearing
47:51one another in love Ephesians 5:33 and I
47:54promise that's it now
47:58however Let each one of
48:01you love his
48:04wife as
48:06himself and let the wife see that she
48:11respects her
48:14husband so strip away all of this
48:17bitterness and this anger that we have
48:20towards one another and family member
48:22and the person you're dating and the
48:24person you're married to because tells
48:27you how to love each other and then it
48:29says let us love one another and it says
48:33husbands love your wife as you love
48:38yourself love that
48:42woman love her we've lost it in the
48:45church
48:46today we're living worse in the
48:51world where husbands don't care about
48:53wives anymore
48:58we're living now where women have no not
49:02all women now so don't attack me
49:04now where women have no respect for men
49:08anymore you say anything to the
49:11guy and you blame it on your hormones
49:27I know I did not drink
49:29[Music]
49:30[Applause]
49:35anything I heard from God and I gave it
49:38to you straight the way he gave it to
49:41[Applause]
49:44me bow your heads
49:46everybody bow your heads ushers you can
49:49put the containers out nobody moving
49:51thank you so much for your time you've
49:54given me 10 minutes over my time
49:58but I want everybody to Bow your head
49:59close your eyes this
50:04morning I'm sorry if you're mad with
50:07me I'm sorry
50:10if maybe it was uncomfortable today
50:14and and I don't want you to walk out
50:16here that I came after you this
50:19morning I don't know you I have no
50:22reason to personally attack
50:25you but one thing I will tell you this
50:28morning when I walk off this
50:31stage I've done my
50:35job I've done
50:39it it's time you strip
50:43away your
50:47self-righteousness personal
50:49[Music]
50:50desires it's time you eliminate bad
50:55attitude
50:56[Music]
50:57and it's time you eliminate the way you
50:59treat
51:00people strip away
51:03please I want you to ask God as you bow
51:06your heads everybody praying in their
51:08own way those of you are streaming do me
51:11a favor just pray in your own way God
51:14stripped me of what come on start
51:17praying
51:19quickly strip me of what what just if
51:24you say there's nothing for me to strip
51:25away all right just close your eyes and
51:27keep quiet you know the others all of us
51:29are
51:30praying just ask him take it away from
51:33you you know what it
51:37[Music]
51:38is you know what it is
51:42God you know what it
51:46is come on ask him be
51:50honest just tell him from your heart you
51:53want him to remove it
51:56and then start telling
51:59him you need his strength his
52:02wisdom maybe you need to go back and
52:04watch this message again
52:06and in your own private time
52:10and let it minister to you go on YouTube
52:13and watch it
52:14again forward it to somebody and just
52:18ask him Lord just help me to strip away
52:22cuz stripping away is not easy CU here's
52:24the thing when you're stripping away
52:26especially what God God is asking you to
52:29do then you become
52:33naked
52:35naked and then that's where we could
52:37become fearful because we're
52:41ashamed but God wants us to Let It
52:44Go strip away that false thought that we
52:49have about our
52:53money that you can't
52:57if the desire is
52:59there I'm telling you you can do
53:03it ask him this
53:06morning to give you the strength to make
53:09that bold decision to make it right with
53:11him and then in the air of your giving
53:13that today is the
53:16day that you're going to be a tither
53:20you're going to
53:21give today's the day you're going to say
53:23God remember I pledge and I promise I
53:26would give you this special
53:28seed
53:30today is the day I'm going to give that
53:33special seed to you if there's ever a
53:36time I heard you I got convicted it is
53:40today Father I thank
53:42you that your people receive the word
53:45today whether they're here or
53:49streaming we ask that you will help us
53:51not to be like
53:53Jonah and even if we've acted like Jonah
53:57that we will see that our struggles is a
54:01sign that we're off
54:03track and we need to get back to
54:07Nineveh get back to where you told us to
54:10go to
54:13be that we need to find
54:16you find
54:19you not find the stuff that our flesh is
54:22telling us to go
54:24after that God we will
54:27watch our attitude the way we think and
54:28the way we
54:30talk our Inner
54:32Circle our jobs our place of business
54:36that will also
54:38God be honest with our
54:42giv and that we will honestly Faithfully
54:45start giving to your kingdom to build
54:46your work this morning I pray for the
54:49seed that your people are going to
54:51give I believe that you're speaking to
54:54so many hearts today and your telling
54:56them this is the day I don't believe you
55:00gave me this
55:02message just to convict us and not to
55:05transform
55:06us I firmly believe there's a blessing
55:09on the other side of this message and
55:13all it requires is
55:16obedience that if we would just do what
55:18you called us to
55:20do that the next eight months of this
55:24year everything we need in order to be
55:27sustained from May to December the
55:31resources will come why because we're
55:33looking to you now and not our own
55:38strength so every person who's
55:40struggling financially or struggling
55:43physically
55:45emotionally even in their relationship
55:48we can fix that
55:50today cuz except the Lord build the
55:54house those who labor will lab labor in
55:56vain so we stop building now we want you
56:00to build for us show us the blueprint
56:03you just did we'll follow the
56:07blueprint so we thank
56:09you for the giving of your people as
56:13they will worship you
56:15now in
56:17giv in Jesus name amen stay