A Reality Check
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 6/4/2023Psalm 139
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez delivers a 'reality check' to believers, outlining six truths about identity, sin, and the trials of life to help listeners stop trying to control the uncontrollable and start living in their God-given purpose.
Key points
- •You must embrace your identity as a unique creation of God, resisting the urge to fix your image or personality to satisfy societal standards or the 'lust of the eye.'
- •Accepting that all humans have sinned and fallen short of God's glory removes the weight of self-righteousness and the power of others to intimidate you.
- •Forgiveness is a reality for the believer who confesses, but grieving the Holy Spirit by rejecting His voice or speaking against His work is a serious spiritual danger.
- •Life is a journey of ups and downs, including trials like sickness and broken relationships; these are not necessarily punishments but parts of human reality that God uses to strengthen and establish you.
- •Breaking free from being a 'people pleaser' is essential for stepping into your divine purpose; you must be willing to let go of toxic attachments that suck the life out of your calling.
Scripture
Purpose
Faith
Character
Forgiveness
Trials
Life application
Identify one area where you are trying to 'fix' a person or situation beyond your control. Pray a prayer of surrender this week, telling God, 'I cannot fix this, but I have the power to handle it through You,' and consciously stop trying to manipulate the outcome.
Reflection questions
- In what ways have you allowed social media or societal expectations to define your identity rather than Psalm 139?
- Why do we find it so difficult to accept that 'ups and downs' are a normal part of the Christian walk rather than a sign of God's absence?
- Is there someone in your life you are trying to please at the expense of your own peace and God-given purpose?
- How does the reality of being fully forgiven change how you respond to people who bring up your past?
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Full transcript
0:00God bless you may be seated in the
0:02presence of the Lord
0:05let me bring to your attention a reality
0:07check for a moment
0:09a reality check
0:13with all the things
0:15that are happening in our own Circle
0:19likewise around the world
0:21it is safe to say that the Bible
0:25accurately predicted that these things
0:30what happened
0:32the Bible has given us ways or tools if
0:36you will to handle
0:37these events of Our Lives
0:40no matter what they are
0:43no matter what they are
0:46in this room there's a whole lot going
0:48on
0:50people streaming there's a whole lot
0:51going on
0:53and sometimes we act as if these things
0:57have taken God by surprise
1:01that he is not aware of what you're
1:03going through
1:05so therefore you get discouraged
1:08therefore you get to a place where
1:10you're you're not living a constant
1:13Faith Journey where your faith is ever
1:16increasing instead your faith is
1:19fluctuating
1:21one minute you believe
1:23the next minute you really don't believe
1:25God
1:27and isn't it funny how life will humble
1:29you
1:30to let you realize that some things are
1:33beyond your control
1:37that there's some things you cannot
1:39control
1:41you can't fix that sickness that came
1:45upon you you can't fix people
1:48you can't fix your children
1:51especially when they're grown
1:54you can't fix your relatives
1:57you can't fix the toxic workplace you
2:01just can't fix people
2:03and maybe you're not getting along with
2:05someone right now and and if you're not
2:07careful many of you are living your life
2:10trying watch this trying to get people
2:13to act right by you
2:17and isn't that frustrating
2:21when when you know what they're doing is
2:24wrong
2:25and yet it's beyond your reach
2:29to fix them
2:31and that is why I call this sermon today
2:35a reality check
2:39because there's only six reality checks
2:42that I consider very important that God
2:45wants you to hear this morning to help
2:48you and I get better at living life
2:53that that we've got to stop for a moment
2:56trying to do the things we have no
2:59control over
3:03first of all we're not equipped to be
3:05God to change things
3:08we have the power to accept things
3:12the moment you get to that place where
3:15you say okay I don't like what I'm going
3:19through yet I will just accept it deal
3:22with it and ask God for wisdom and how I
3:26should handle it
3:28see all the frustration that you have
3:30will go away immediately if you
3:32understand what I just said
3:35that when you understand God I can't fix
3:38that whatever that situation is only you
3:42and God know what it is when when you
3:45say God I can't fix that it's beyond to
3:48me
3:49it's beyond me I'm human
3:52I I don't know the beginning from the
3:55end but what I do know you've placed in
3:58me watch this the ability to handle it
4:02every trial that comes in my life
4:06I have the power to handle them
4:10I have the tenacity I have the strength
4:13the endurance to handle it oh some of
4:17you have missed so many blessings all
4:23because you didn't know how to hold out
4:27ah
4:30God
4:32I'm looking in this room and
4:35trying to imagine those of you are
4:36watching and I can just imagine God
4:39looking down from heaven at all of us
4:43and
4:44if he was like us humans like our
4:46parents
4:47he's looking down and he's shaking his
4:49head
4:51and he's saying
4:53why did you give up so quickly
4:58why did you walk away
5:01when your breakthrough was two days
5:03later
5:06why did you throw in the towel
5:09when I had it planned out on the
5:11calendar
5:14that you'll get your big break
5:18but you gave him
5:21why did you let him talk you out
5:23of your purpose
5:26why did you let her talk you out of your
5:29purpose
5:30why did you let people
5:32cause you to miss the mark
5:36why
5:39and somehow we find comfort
5:41in embracing watch this our failures
5:46and our insecurities
5:49that we would rather sit
5:52and just take life as it comes
5:57and not willing to fight through life
6:01who told you as a believer that you're
6:03just going to sweep through life and
6:04you're going to live happily ever after
6:08no
6:10there are six reality checks
6:13I want to bring to you this morning and
6:17hopefully
6:18that all six of them
6:20will connect with you and you will see
6:23yourself in them Embrace those reality
6:26checks and everything else man don't
6:28worry about it
6:30don't worry about it
6:32because in this next
6:34season of your life you owe it to
6:37yourself and most importantly you owe it
6:41to God
6:42to be a better version of who he has
6:45created you to be
6:47come on now are you hearing what I'm
6:49saying
6:51so I want to share with you the six
6:54reality checks number one
6:57you have to face the reality that you
6:59are God's creation
7:02you have to face the reality that you
7:05are God's creation
7:07that you are uniquely wired
7:11to look like who God has designed you to
7:15be
7:18that you should feel
7:21special
7:22not inferior to other people
7:26you are created
7:28exactly how God wants you to be that's
7:32reality check number one the moment you
7:35recognize that
7:37that you have to be who God has called
7:40you to be there are certain things are
7:42your responsibility to fix when it comes
7:46to your image however never fix your
7:50image to satisfy people
7:55oh
7:59well let's look at the scripture here
8:00let's look at Psalm 139 verse 14. I love
8:05this he says I praise you because I am
8:08fearfully and wonderfully made your
8:11works are wonderful
8:14I know that full well or I am conscious
8:19and satisfied with how you've created me
8:22I'm fearfully and wonderfully made
8:25here's the problem here's the problem
8:27and this is a reality we live in a
8:29society where image is big
8:35its image it's big
8:38it's all about Brandon
8:40it's all about how we look
8:43because it's the lust of the eye
8:47and this is where Satan has gotten a lot
8:49of us we've gotten to the place where
8:51instead of us understanding we are
8:55fearfully and we're wonderfully made let
8:57me talk to the men for a moment that as
9:00a brother you are fearfully and you're
9:03wonderfully made the way God created you
9:06as a male you just need to accept them
9:08and of course there are times where
9:10human beings we may not like certain
9:12parts of Who We Are
9:15but are you going to insult the Creator
9:21tell him you were not fearfully and
9:24wonderfully made that somehow he made a
9:26mistake
9:29that you're going to allow society and
9:32their Cravings or their loss
9:35to brainwash you to think that whether a
9:38man or a woman that somehow you were not
9:42fearfully and wonderfully made
9:45and that you're inferior
9:47to others
9:50that's why these young people are so
9:51messed up today
9:54they don't know their true identity
9:57your identity is not what social media
10:00makes it out to be
10:02your identity is not what your groups
10:07you know make it out to be you need to
10:10look at yourself and say I am who God
10:12has created in me to be
10:15enjoy who you are your sex and joy who
10:19you are the pigmentation of your skin
10:22and joy who you are it is the the the
10:25the the nature of sin that has caused us
10:30to feel that one thing should dominate
10:34the other first for example with slavery
10:38which slavery it was a group of people
10:42a group of people who consider
10:44themselves self Superior than others
10:49think about that
10:51that a man like me a black guy like me I
10:54was born black
10:56I didn't have a say with the color of my
10:59skin
11:00I Was Born This Way
11:02that a group of people could decide that
11:06as a black man I am less of a human than
11:10they are
11:12and many people have bought into that
11:14lie
11:15and for Generation you have a race of
11:18people who have been oppressed
11:22to think that somehow your color is
11:27inferior to another color
11:30thinking that you're not fearfully and
11:33you're wonderfully made in the eyes of
11:35God
11:37some men on the Earth has crafted this
11:40lie to make us think that one is better
11:43over the other even in the race of mail
11:47to female that somehow years ago men
11:51with their ego has has made it a law to
11:56think that they're Superior over women
12:00and as a result of that
12:03men think women should shut up
12:07I'm the boss
12:10that I have the right to slap you
12:14have the right to abuse you because
12:16you're less than me
12:18you don't ever say in the house and and
12:21sadly we use scripture
12:25to back it up
12:28wise
12:29love your your husband
12:33submit to your husband
12:35that's why women struggle when they do
12:38their vows
12:43[Applause]
12:47and they got smart now they're making up
12:49their own vows to escape that one
12:52I ain't saying that
12:56I'm not going to say that to him
13:00so Men We Grow Up
13:02not knowing we're fearfully wonderfully
13:05made when God made Adam from the
13:07beginning he made him he placed him as
13:10head over the home and he read the
13:14scripture prove me wrong everything God
13:17said to Adam have dominion over this the
13:22fish the birds have dominion over the
13:25vegetation rule the Earth God never gave
13:28man the permission to have dominion over
13:30the woman
13:31it's not scripture
13:35if you really want to get technical with
13:38me what God did was to give Adam a
13:43helper
13:44in other words that is suggesting the
13:47man cannot do it all by himself he needs
13:52a woman
13:57he needs a woman deciding
14:00and if I was doing a Couple's Retreat I
14:03would talk about how most men don't
14:08understand if you can find a good woman
14:14a good woman who believes in herself and
14:17is not afraid of her looks and embrace
14:20her shape Embrace who she is
14:24if you can find that woman
14:28who will stand by you
14:30and say Boo we're in this together
14:35[Applause]
14:39we're in this together man
14:43let's do life together
14:46we're going to hustle together we're
14:48going to work together we're going to
14:50live in the apartment together and
14:52graduate and get a condo together and
14:54from a condo to a beach house we're
14:56going to start the business together
14:58whatever you do I'm right behind you you
15:01just leave baby you give me a dollar I
15:04make ten dollars out of it baby I I'm in
15:08it to if you can find that kind of woman
15:14your life
15:16will go a long way
15:19but if you end up
15:29I want to start no trouble up in here
15:31this morning
15:33but if you end up with the wrong woman
15:40the scripture tells you a woman can
15:42build a house she can tear it
15:45yeah
15:48when a woman understands her position
15:52that you are his help mate to help to
15:55grow when you understand your position
15:56in the church
15:58you're placed in the kingdom of God not
16:00to destroy the kingdom of God
16:03not to dog out church people when they
16:05fail
16:07the world loves it
16:09the word loves it when they can put the
16:11church on blast this pastor failed this
16:15Deacon failed this member did this they
16:18love it
16:19because it is given them tools to
16:24discredit
16:25the work of God
16:27and if you join in because you don't
16:29know who you are
16:32you don't understand that you are in the
16:35Kingdom
16:36not of this world
16:38you're human
16:40and if you read your Bible
16:42every one of the 12 disciples
16:45had issues
16:48so I don't know for those of you
16:49streaming and those of you are in here
16:51and you're planning to leave a church
16:53and you're saying I'm sick of these
16:55Hypocrites and so forth I don't know
16:56which church you're going to go
16:59I really don't
17:01because trust me when you find the
17:04perfect Pastor the perfect church tell
17:07me I'm leaving the Faith Center
17:11tell me quickly tell me
17:15because that's the kind of church I want
17:16to join
17:18reality number two
17:21you have to face the reality that you
17:23have sinned
17:25and fall short of who you're created to
17:28be
17:29you've sinned in other words you've
17:32missed the mark
17:33Romans 3 23 says for all have sinned and
17:37fall short of the glory of God that's a
17:40reality check you you have to admit that
17:42man
17:43that all of us have sinned so for those
17:46of us who are self-righteous people
17:51right who will intimidate others and
17:53make others feel like you can't live up
17:56to their standard
17:59the reality champ you see that church
18:02person or whoever you think is dogging
18:04you out and calling you the chiefess of
18:07Sinners and so forth read that scripture
18:09to them
18:10all of us have sinned
18:13all of us fell short of who God has
18:16created us to be we're not the Perfect
18:19Image remember we're fearfully and we're
18:21wonderfully made so the day you were
18:23born and you were placed on the earth
18:25now God is saying a place to you here
18:28now find who have created you to be make
18:31decisions declare things to that would
18:34be a reflection of who have created you
18:37to be because you were born in sin and
18:40shaped in iniquity
18:44so now you have to recognize that
18:48and you have to understand that you're
18:50not above people
18:52that's a reality check
18:54you should walk around
18:56from this day forward and say to
18:58yourself I know who I am and I tell you
19:01what I don't care who it is every one of
19:04us fell short of the glory of God thank
19:07God that you have arrived thank God okay
19:09maybe you got your life straightened out
19:10that's wonderful I applaud
19:13maybe you're fasting 20 times a week and
19:15maybe you're doing wonderful maybe
19:17you're speaking in tongues and you're
19:18doing wonderful and maybe maybe you
19:20don't lie maybe you don't do certain
19:22things and that's bless your heart
19:27but I'm still working
19:31on my faith and God's still working on
19:34me you may have counted me out but God's
19:37still working on me God's still working
19:39on me because it's all about getting to
19:42Perfection reality number three you have
19:45to face the reality that you are
19:47forgiven
19:50that is a breather right there that you
19:52are forgiven first John 1 9 and 10. I
19:56love this if we confess our sins he is
20:00faithful and just and will forgive us of
20:03all of our sins and purify us from all
20:06unrighteousness verse 10 if we claim we
20:09have not sinned we've made him out to be
20:12a liar and his word is not in US
20:15so for those of us
20:17who say
20:19we have not sinned
20:21watch out
20:24the presumptuousness of some of us
20:28I saw in social media the other day I
20:31was scrolling
20:33and I saw this pastor
20:36stood before the cameras
20:39and he said
20:42if you
20:46go to hell
20:48and see me there
20:51it's not hell it's heaven
20:56it gets worse
20:58if you go to hell
21:01and see me there
21:03it's not hell
21:05it's heaven because
21:08I have done everything
21:13God has called me to do
21:18I heard that
21:22I'm telling you man
21:25I I started who should I call should I
21:29call Pastor Jordan see if she's still on
21:30the planet I need to call some
21:32Christians because maybe maybe I'm I
21:35miss the rapture
21:38some people will present themselves
21:42I so there
21:47to the point where oh sin
21:51what what sin have I committed
21:54we have to
21:55we've all sinned but here's the amazing
21:58thing we've been
22:03ah
22:05we've been forgiven and when you
22:08understand that you're forgiven there's
22:10now no condemnation
22:13that people can put on you when you know
22:16that you've asked God to forgive you of
22:19your sins if you confess your sin
22:21whatever they may be walk in the
22:24Forgiveness of God do not let people
22:26intimidate you and make you feel that
22:28you're less of a Christian
22:31it's all about surrendering and saying
22:35sorry to God and embracing the gift of
22:38forgiveness that's a reality all of us
22:40we're forgiven but how do we enact that
22:44forgiveness we have to confess
22:47Lord I'm sorry
22:49like any time you know God's talking to
22:52you whether it's the preacher maybe it's
22:54the Bible maybe you hear something and
22:56you let I want to hear that and you know
22:58one of the worst sins you can ever
23:00commit
23:01please hear me
23:03one of the worst sins you can ever
23:05commit people think it's adultery
23:06fornication stealing all kind of stuff
23:09now
23:10we are we are the ones on the earth who
23:13magnify all them sins
23:15the worst sin you can ever commit is
23:19grieving the Holy Spirit
23:22so what does that mean Pastor when the
23:24Holy Spirit speaks
23:27and you put your negative mouth on it
23:32that's why for me whenever I hear
23:34someone say God said
23:38I am very careful to quick to respond
23:45because none of us are so mighty and
23:49Powerful
23:50to go up in the face of God
23:53to challenge him
23:56do not breathe the Holy Spirit
23:59when you don't understand something zip
24:01it
24:04just zip it reality number four
24:07you have to face the reality that life
24:09is a journey of ups and downs sickness
24:13Brokenness failures singleness marital
24:16problems divorce barrenness lack and
24:19intimidation
24:21that's life
24:23it's ups and downs
24:25the moment you understand that reality
24:27you won't be this Christian like this
24:31that okay sometimes you're going to be
24:34up
24:35you're going to be strong you're gonna
24:36be strong Mighty sharing your testimony
24:39you're going to feel like you're on top
24:40of the world
24:41and maybe like this morning as you're
24:43streaming in the house you don't feel so
24:46good
24:47you don't feel so happy you don't feel
24:50so blessed the ups and downs sickness
24:54sometimes we get sick
24:57it's not that God is punishing us
24:59it's life
25:02sometimes it's all about our Brokenness
25:06that we come from broken homes
25:09broken environments
25:11we're we experience failures at times
25:14I'll be the first to tell you that
25:17I've had a lot of failures in my life
25:20sometimes you're left being single it's
25:23okay embrace the fact that you are
25:26single
25:27don't look at it as a curse
25:30is something wrong with you why you
25:33can't get anybody
25:35don't be like some of these married
25:37people who just rush to get married just
25:39to satisfy people in society's opinion
25:42about if you're not married by a certain
25:44age it's better to be single and happy
25:47than to be married and miserable
25:51or to be worse married to the wrong
25:54person
25:56so embrace the fact that you're single
26:00it's okay you don't have to answer to
26:02anybody you don't have to share nothing
26:04with anybody
26:07you don't have to worry about who you
26:08got to go home to you can turn your keys
26:11whenever you want
26:13just enjoy it
26:17enjoy the fact that as a couple you're
26:18going to have marital problems
26:21well here's the difference though
26:23you can have marital problems
26:26but are you in Oneness to solve them
26:30or is one person trying to prove a point
26:33to the other
26:34or is one person trying to discredit the
26:38other
26:40why are you going to stay in a marriage
26:43that you don't love the person anymore
26:46and you have no intention of loving them
26:48according to scripture
26:50you have no intention of working on the
26:53marriage why
26:56oh but I thought oh God but Pastor I
26:59thought
27:00we're not supposed to divorce
27:03well the scripture says
27:05that God doesn't like divorce
27:09but it also gives you reasons to divorce
27:13we don't talk about that
27:15Church don't want to talk about that
27:18because we rather leave people in
27:20relationship to suffer
27:23under the name and disguise of Jesus
27:29it's quiet I told you Lord I didn't know
27:31if I was going to say it
27:33because they got quiet
27:35now this is not a license for you to run
27:37I say hey I see the preacher said we
27:38ought to separate them
27:41that's not what I'm saying
27:43what I'm saying to you
27:46is when there's marital problems the
27:49reality is
27:51do we want to fix it
27:54or should we just say okay
27:56we're still Christians
27:59we missed the mark
28:01he hates the fact that we broke the
28:05marriage covenant
28:07but he still loves The Sinner that
28:10hopefully he or she will get it right
28:14don't stay into something that will kill
28:16you
28:20that's a reality
28:23don't stay into something because it
28:25benefits you financially
28:29that's using someone
28:31oh
28:35oh Jesus let me go on to the 50.
28:40reality number
28:43five
28:46well first Peter 5 10 let me read that
28:48for reality number four after you
28:51suffered a while the God of Grace who
28:53has called you to his eternal glory in
28:55Christ will himself restore confirm
28:59strengthen and establish you
29:01no matter what you go through in life
29:03the ups and downs if it is not restoring
29:08confirming the word of God strengthening
29:10and establishing you
29:13then why
29:16think about it
29:18think about it
29:20get help
29:23and if you refuse to get the help do not
29:26torture somebody else
29:29because of your misery
29:32um
29:34number five
29:37you have to face the reality that you
29:39can overcome your struggles and use your
29:43experiences to help others
29:45the struggles that we go through they're
29:48there to help us to encourage others so
29:51that we can say Look What the Lord Has
29:53Done in our lives and if he did it for
29:55us hey he's no respective persons he can
29:58do the same for you reality number six
30:03you have to face the reality
30:07that people won't always understand you
30:12will sometimes try to intimidate you
30:15and manipulate you
30:18the reality is
30:21everybody won't understand who you are
30:24so stop trying to be a people pleaser
30:31as long as you're doing what you're
30:34doing unto God if God is pleased
30:37don't worry about people
30:40the reality is people will intimidate
30:42you we'll put fear in you
30:45they'll do all kinds of stuff
30:47from family to the workplace
30:51to co-workers to friends and sadly in
30:55the church even with us as spiritual
30:57leaders
30:59who tend to intimidate you
31:01and manipulate you
31:04and these are some
31:05dangerous sins
31:08that will cause you watch this to lose
31:11who you were created
31:14to be
31:16so my challenge to you today
31:18are you going to use these realities
31:22to begin to examine yourself and say
31:24Lord
31:25do I need to check up on who I am
31:30am I pleased with who I am
31:33am I okay
31:35I'm I'm I really God understanding that
31:39life's ups and down is for my good it's
31:41it's going to work out for my good
31:43whatever I'm dealing with God you know
31:45whether I'm single God maybe I just need
31:48to stop being frustrated and and stop
31:51you know saying the negative things
31:53because maybe God I'm canceling out what
31:56you've got for me or God is a couple
31:58maybe what I need to do with my wife is
32:01just say you know honey I see where I've
32:04maybe I'm not the man that I ought to be
32:06to you but but but I just maybe I just
32:09need your help maybe I just need the way
32:11you respond to me the how you talk to me
32:13maybe that will help me or maybe the
32:16woman can say honey you know I I guess I
32:18don't know maybe I've been frustrating
32:19you and so forth but the reality is we
32:22cannot continue this way
32:26maybe with your children
32:28the children are frustrating you
32:31the reality is
32:33maybe you have to be like the father to
32:36the prodigal
32:38sometimes your best resolve
32:42is letting them go
32:45it's hard
32:49sometimes it's like okay you think you
32:53know better than me
32:54oh you want to go
32:56you want to be your own man your own
32:58woman
33:00go
33:04because if scripture is true
33:07the Bible says the prodigal one day
33:10he came to himself
33:15and he may come home but you may lose
33:18him or her
33:20trying to control
33:24it's a reality check
33:27let go
33:29and let God buy your heads with me
33:31please
33:34there's a few people streaming in this
33:37house this morning
33:41God just checked upon your life
33:45and some of these realities just hit you
33:48smacked between the eyes
33:52and you know
33:54you know
33:57you need
33:59Total Wellness
34:01in these areas
34:03I'm not going to keep you any longer
34:07but I just feel that God is talking to
34:09somebody
34:10streaming
34:11somebody here today
34:14if you say pastor
34:20this word helped me today to identify
34:22who I am
34:24that I'm
34:26not what my mind was telling me not what
34:28people were telling me
34:30not my past
34:33if that's you and you feel that
34:36maybe you've used the struggles of life
34:38to cause you to miss the mark
34:42and somehow God just kind of put you in
34:44check this morning
34:46and you can't do it alone
34:49you need some help
34:50you need some prayers
34:52please don't waste time with this this
34:54morning
34:55we all want to go home
34:58but I'm asking you sir ma'am Wherever
35:01You Are
35:02remove from your seat for a moment and
35:05would you come down here
35:07let me pray with you this morning
35:10let me help you overcome
35:14what seems to be eating you up on the
35:16inside for a long time
35:19Wherever You Are
35:21be bold
35:23get down here
35:25and recognize I need a reality check I
35:28can't keep living like this
35:32if I can first recognize who I'm called
35:35to be
35:38who you have called me to be I will be
35:41what you've called me to be
35:44it's a confession I'll say yes Lord I
35:48agree I may not look like it now but I
35:51agree with what you've called me to be
35:54I'll say yes
35:56come on woman of God I'll say yes
35:59wherever you are quickly quickly
36:03just make your way down
36:06just make your way down
36:09come on this is a crucial moment right
36:11now
36:13come on would you sing it when the
36:16worshipers I will be everybody
36:18Hallelujah
36:20[Music]
36:25[Applause]
36:30Lord I agree
36:36my Messiah
36:42[Music]
36:50[Music]
36:52[Applause]
36:54come on would you stand everybody let's
36:57sing it all over the building
36:59happy
37:06to me I'll say yes
37:18[Music]
37:35[Music]
37:38I believe
37:39[Music]
37:56[Music]
38:14follow me
38:16I want to pray for you
38:19but I want you to hear me
38:21just for a brief moment with everybody
38:24in the building standing
38:26you cannot change your past
38:30settle that
38:32you can't change it
38:34don't live your life going back talking
38:37about what should have been
38:40it's behind you
38:43you have to face the reality that you
38:46are where you are today
38:49broken
38:52unfulfilled
38:53made mistakes
38:57not fully aware of your purpose you have
39:00to deal with that
39:02and then you have to tell yourself
39:05I am no longer going to worry about the
39:09opinions of society
39:12that is what delivered me
39:15I was a people pleaser
39:19I was worried about what people would
39:20say
39:22when I tell you I am totally delivered
39:24from people's opinions
39:27what
39:30the moment
39:33you rid yourself of people's control
39:37that's the day you come into your
39:39purpose
39:40I'm serious that's the day you come into
39:42your purpose that's the day you
39:45recognize wait a minute
39:47the reality is
39:50I'm who God created me to be
39:53I don't need to preach like anybody else
39:57[Music]
39:58preach like this other preacher if you
40:00want that other preacher go to his
40:02church
40:02[Music]
40:05I don't need to dress like how some
40:07people want me to dress
40:10and one time I had folks telling me
40:12Pastor you ought to dress up like these
40:14other younger preachers man with jeans
40:16and all kinds of stuff now sometimes I
40:17put it on whatever I ain't 16 no more
40:22I am not 30 no more
40:25now I'll dress like a kid at times but
40:28I'm not going to dress to fit in to the
40:30crowd for people to come to my church to
40:33like me I'm going to dress the way I
40:36like
40:37because you don't come for the dressing
40:39you come for what I'm saying
40:42don't get this twisted
40:44stop living your life trying to please
40:47people
40:50and anybody who is attached to you that
40:54sucking the life out of you you've got
40:57to do surgery
41:02the question is are you bold to do it
41:05do you have got the guts to do it
41:07are you willing to die
41:11being who people want you to be
41:14are you willing to live
41:17with less people
41:19in your circle
41:20[Music]
41:24so lift your hands I'm going to pray
41:25with you this morning
41:28I'm going to believe God as you lift
41:31your spiritual antennas Wherever You Are
41:34that you in this season of your life
41:36you're going to say to God
41:38I got a reality check this morning
41:41and Lord I live up to that word
41:44I'll make sure God I'll be what you call
41:48me to be father they are men and women
41:50standing here there are hundreds of
41:52people watching online who wish they
41:55could have been here this morning
41:56standing
41:58I pray for them you know every one of
42:00them you knew before this these doors
42:03are open today that they were going to
42:05be standing in the spot that they're at
42:07this morning
42:09and so father they heard the word and as
42:11they lift their hands they're saying
42:12Lord they surrender
42:14they turn everything over to you
42:17that man has been struggling fighting
42:19trying to make sense of his life father
42:21today thank you for the word that you
42:24poured into his life thank you for the
42:26word that you poured into that woman's
42:27life today to give her a sense of
42:30purpose to let both male and female
42:31understand that you've created them in
42:34your image to live for your glory and
42:36For Your Glory only so father I pray in
42:39Jesus name that they'll accept what life
42:41presents to them they will not deny the
42:45faith that they will trust you that they
42:47will believe that their best days are
42:48ahead of them and as they have already
42:50declared that the latter part of this
42:52year will be their best part of this
42:55year that father they will stand on that
42:57word
42:58and recognize that the anointing is upon
43:00them
43:01that God the reality is no weapon formed
43:04against them shall prosper every tongue
43:06that rise up against them is already
43:08condemned that they are blessed they are
43:11actually blessed they may not feel it
43:13they may not see it but they are blessed
43:15so I pray over them today
43:19that as all of us leave this building
43:22and log off today we will know without a
43:25doubt
43:26you're with us
43:28you are with us your power is with us
43:32your anointing is with us
43:35we are your man your woman you've
43:38created us to be great
43:41therefore we will not let anything from
43:43this day forward
43:45intimidate us we give you the praise the
43:48honor and the glory that we will have an
43:50incredible week I release them into your
43:53favor and I declare that faith in their
43:56God will always move mountains out of
44:00their lives in Jesus name amen come on
44:04give them a praise everybody
44:06God bless you thank you for coming today
44:08we'll see you on Wednesday God bless you