Joy In the Tears
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 8/2/2023Psalm 126
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez encourages believers that despite past failures or current 'dry seasons,' God is a restorer who brings joy out of tears. By turning back to God, maintaining a vision through dreaming, and practicing praise in the desert, believers can experience supernatural breakthrough in the second half of the year.
Key points
- •Zion (God's people) lost her fortunes through self-sabotage and getting out of alignment with God's will, yet remained God's eternal resting place.
- •God does not turn His back on us; rather, we turn our backs on Him by focusing on distractions and circumstances. Restoration begins with turning back to Him.
- •Even in 'dry places' (seasons of drought and failure), God is able to provide supernatural streams of blessing and provision.
- •True restoration requires four things: dreaming again, laughing in spite of the situation, shouting for joy, and sowing tears to reap a harvest.
- •Failure is often a prerequisite for a greater miracle; God may ask you to 'do it again' after a setback to demonstrate His power.
Scripture
Restoration
Faith
Joy
Purpose
Blessing
Life application
Identify one area where you have allowed failure or fear to stop you from dreaming. This week, consciously replace complaints with shouts of joy and prayerful expectation, trusting that God is already moving in your dry season.
Reflection questions
- In what ways have I potentially turned my back on God's presence while assuming He was the one who left me?
- What are the 'distractions' or 'voices' currently keeping me from seeing the streams in my desert?
- Is there something God is prompting me to 'do again' even though it failed the first time?
- How can I practically 'sow in tears' this week to prepare for a harvest of joy?
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0:00thank
0:01you
0:03amen remain standing if you can and
0:06would you do me a favor I know Pastor
0:08Brian asked you to go around and greet
0:12people and some of you I was watching
0:15while I was walking around some of you
0:17just sat in your seat I ain't doing
0:21nothing
0:22amen but you know what you you ought to
0:25just think for a moment I want you to
0:27pause for a moment those of you are
0:28streaming and think about it today is
0:33the last
0:34Sunday in the first half of
0:392023 think about it the last Sunday in
0:44other words you were
0:46privileged to live out the first half of
0:50this year look at you you're
0:54healthy look at you you got a roof over
0:57your head look at you you've been eating
1:00a lot come on
1:02now in other words God has blessed you
1:06can we give him a praise and a thank
1:10you
1:12Hallelujah come on let's thank him for
1:14what he has
1:16done he has done
1:19enough can the church give him
1:22praise can the people of God give him
1:25praise can somebody just give him praise
1:30he is
1:31worthy I said he is
1:34worthy nobody could have done it but
1:38God he did
1:42it and I
1:44believe that the best is yet to
1:49come you got to believe that you got to
1:53believe that since the Lord has brought
1:55you thus far he's not through with you
1:58yet you wome woke up this
2:01morning the devil is
2:03nervous and therefore you must step up
2:06to the plate and do what God has
2:09ordained you and empowered you to do the
2:12next half of this year somebody give God
2:21praise I know God is in this service
2:25because when the worship team was
2:27singing the song Firm Foundation
2:29[Music]
2:31and they sang a part of it you're going
2:33to make it I wrote it down on my
2:37program and then to hear Pastor Brian
2:39come up here and referred to it that's
2:42stuck with me I don't know who this is
2:46for I don't know who's in the building
2:49who's watching and you're hearing voices
2:53telling you you're not going to make it
2:56you're hearing voices saying I got your
2:59back against the the wall now what you
3:01going to do with this problem that you
3:03woke up with what you going to do with
3:05the situation you're faced with I've
3:08come to tell somebody you prophesy out
3:11of your mouth I am going to make it I
3:17don't care what's going to happen in my
3:19life I am going to make it tell yourself
3:23I'm going to make it come on prophesy to
3:27yourself I am going to make it
3:32it I'm going to make it now before
3:35you're seated I want you to do me one
3:38more favor and I'm going to really ask
3:41you to jump into this because there is a
3:43move of God in this room this morning
3:47and do not miss God if there's ever a
3:50moment you need to step into the move of
3:53God it is now somebody in your roow
3:57needs to hear this prophetic word that
4:00they're going to make it maybe it's not
4:02you maybe you've convinced yourself that
4:04you're going to make it and you believe
4:06it but there's a woman in your R she's
4:09dressed up there's a man in your row
4:12he's looking fine but deep on the inside
4:16they are worried I need some people who
4:20believe in the power of your words I
4:23need you to prophesy to that person and
4:27I want you to tell them you are going to
4:30make it move around and tell at least
4:33seven people you going to make it you
4:36going to make it in the name of Jesus
4:40you going to make it prophesy to
4:43somebody as you're watching you going to
4:45make it you going to make it the Devil
4:48is a liive you going to make it yes you
4:52will yes you will yes you will yes you
4:57will yes you will
5:00yes you will yes you will yes you will I
5:05don't care what you are going through
5:07yes you will yes you will yes you will
5:12yes somebody shout yes somebody shout
5:18yes somebody shout yes
5:22yes
5:24yes yes I will yes I will now give him a
5:30praise in the house give him a praise in
5:33the
5:35house I
5:37will I
5:41will be seated if you can I'm going to
5:45make
5:46it I'm going to make
5:49it I woke up this
5:52morning I got through the
5:54week I'm going to make it I said I'm
5:58going to make it
6:00you going to make
6:02it
6:04yeah
6:07yeah oh I feel God in this church this
6:10morning
6:14yeah they said I wouldn't go to make it
6:18they said I wasn't going to make it but
6:21God has his hands on my
6:24life
6:27yeah God has his hand on your
6:31life oh oh
6:36oh
6:38oh oh I feel something in this room this
6:42morning
6:44yeah
6:46yeah glory to God glory glory glory
6:57glory yeah
7:01yeah
7:03yeah
7:06yeah
7:13yeah Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory
7:55hallelujah hallelujah
8:11hallelujah oh
8:19hallelujah thank you Lord thank you Lord
8:26[Applause]
8:32woo be seated if you
8:35can be seated if you
8:42can I walked in the
8:46[Music]
8:49building the Lord began to
8:52download something in
8:56me and I got my phone
8:59thank you and I immediately texted it to
9:02my staff I don't know if they they got
9:05it yet and they can put it
9:08up this ain't for
9:11everybody look at somebody down your
9:13road said this is not for
9:23everybody this is what the Holy Spirit
9:26gave
9:27me and I'm going to read it first and I
9:31don't know if they have
9:32it and if they have it they're going to
9:35put it
9:36up but I want you to make a confession
9:39this
9:41morning I sat the moment I hit my seat I
9:44grabbed my phone and I texted three
9:47people who work backstage you you have
9:50no idea the awesome work my staff is
9:54doing backstage to get the service
9:57going thank you
10:01and for those of you who are privileged
10:03to
10:04stream you're able to partake of the
10:07service because of the people who are
10:09not
10:10seen um they work behind the scene they
10:13don't get to be in the service at
10:16all I'm quite sure when the spirit of
10:19God is moving like he's moving now they
10:22got to
10:24multitask still have the anointing but
10:26they got to still Focus
10:30and um I was just blessed by this word
10:35cuz again it's confirmation when the
10:38choir the worship team did the song
10:41Firm
10:46Foundation Grandma used to sing a song
10:48on Christ the
10:50solid rock I I don't know where you're
10:54standing I don't know whose Foundation
10:57you're building your life on but when
10:59you build your life on the
11:02word you going to be all right
11:05man the part of the lyrics of the song
11:07says you are going to make
11:10it somebody streaming this morning
11:13somebody got to church because God
11:15wanted you to hear
11:18this so this is what the Lord told me to
11:20declare over my
11:23life and for you to declare it over your
11:25life I'm going to read it first it says
11:27I declare blessings over my life
11:30for the next half of
11:332023 now here's the best part I walk in
11:37Divine Healing Hallelujah wealth and
11:42strong
11:44faith did they have it up there oh it's
11:48oh it's right there boy they fast oh my
11:51goodness I sent this around 10
11:541027 and they got it already give it up
11:57for the staff please give it up give it
12:00up now I want you to make it personal I
12:03want you to put your hands by your
12:06heart and I want you to make it personal
12:08I want everybody
12:10streaming everybody in the building I
12:14want you to believe it
12:16man stop all fear
12:19now I rebuke it in the name of
12:24Jesus ah glory to God and I want you to
12:27release your faith
12:30and to believe that your words have
12:32creative
12:33power that when you decree a thing you
12:36establish it it shall be so and I want
12:39you to say it out loud as you can after
12:42three 1 2 3 let's go I declare blessings
12:46over my life for the next half of
12:502023 I walk in Divine Healing wealth and
12:55strong faith come on one more time I
12:57declare blessings over for my life for
13:00the next half of
13:022023 I walk in Divine Healing wealth and
13:06strong can we do it one more time I
13:09declare blessings over my life for the
13:12next half of
13:142023 I will walk in Divine Healing
13:17wealth and strong faith do you believe
13:21[Applause]
13:27that thank you Lord
13:29hallelujah thank you Lord
13:33Hall thank you
13:36Lord we receive it this
13:39morning we will
13:42walk in Divine
13:45Healing anybody who's got any type of
13:48sickness in your
13:49body whatever it is right now lift your
13:53hands and I decree it in the name of
13:56Jesus that what seems to be impossible
14:00and what you have accepted as the
14:03norm God is now doing something
14:07Supernatural he's healing you right
14:10now he's healing you right now nothing
14:14is
14:15impossible with God he's healing you
14:18right now come on receive that receive
14:20your healing now receive your healing
14:23now woman of God believe it believe it
14:27believe it man of God believe that your
14:29healing is
14:31now I decree that over your life I
14:34declare it over your life now and for
14:37those of you are believing God to do
14:39something Supernatural with your
14:41finances come on lift your hands don't
14:43be embarrassed about it just lift your
14:45hands whatever that may be I decree it
14:48right now that by the confession of your
14:51mouth and based on the Promises of the
14:54word of God that Supernatural increase
14:58will take over your life the next half
15:01of
15:022023 we decree it right now we decree
15:06second Kings chapter 4 blessings over
15:09your life you will live after the
15:13remains of what God has blessed you with
15:17in the name of Jesus you will have
15:19sufficient you will have more than
15:20enough to do what God is ordained for
15:24you to do on the earth I call for the
15:26resources from the East the West the
15:29North and the South to come into your
15:31life in the name of Jesus it will happen
15:35supernaturally come on it will happen
15:38supernaturally in the name of Jesus
15:41Hallelujah and for those of you you
15:43honestly can say Pastor my faith is not
15:46that strong it's really not that strong
15:48anymore it has been weakened by whatever
15:50circumstances of life I want you to lift
15:52your hands right now in the name of
15:55Jesus father this ministry you've named
15:58this church the Faith Center this is
16:00where faith is developed and in the
16:03mighty name of Jesus the anointing that
16:06is on this ministry I pray for every
16:08person in the building every person
16:10streaming right now will receive an
16:13incredible amount of strong faith that
16:16they will get into your word and develop
16:18faith and the Bible says faith comes by
16:21hearing and hearing the word of God so
16:23as they develop Faith by reading the
16:26word of God I pray nothing will be
16:29impossible for them that they would look
16:31at the Giant and they'll tell the giant
16:33you got to come down you got to come
16:36down you got to removed out of my life
16:38they'll speak to mountains in the name
16:40of Jesus and they'll believe that even
16:42in the dry places that God there will be
16:45streams in the dry places that there'll
16:47be a fountain in the dry places that
16:50there will be water in the dry places
16:53father in Jesus name I pray that our
16:56faith as a ministry will go to the next
16:59level this is it we believe you we
17:02believe you we believe you for healing
17:04we believe you for Prosperity we believe
17:07you that you're going to shift things
17:09the next 6 months that's going to blow
17:11our minds we're expecting supernal
17:15miracles to take place in this room and
17:19in our lives wherever we go we receive
17:22it now and father the greatest
17:25miracle that can ever take place in our
17:27lives is when we totally surrender to
17:31you is when we say yes to your will yes
17:35to your ways is when we totally
17:38surrender Hallelujah to your teachings
17:42your word so father I pray for those
17:44this morning who don't know you as their
17:47personal
17:49savior who are not following
17:52you who really have not yet become a
17:55disciple a follower of Christ I pray
17:58pray that they will sense that there is
18:00a call this
18:02morning there is a prompting of the Holy
18:07Spirit to say come on
18:10home you belong
18:12home you belong here you belong to the
18:17kingdom of God I pray this morning that
18:21they'll say yes to you they'll say yes
18:24to your will and yes to your way they
18:27will totally surrender they will give it
18:30up
18:31today no more resistance no more holding
18:34back no more procrastinating but they
18:38will turn their will over to your will
18:43and let you be Lord over their lives as
18:47you're streaming as you're in this room
18:49and you don't know the Lord as your
18:50personal
18:52savior I want to give you an
18:54invitation to say yes to him this
18:56morning
18:59I mean really
19:00really to just give him your life to
19:04just say God that's it I will not go
19:08into the second half of this
19:10year not knowing you not not allowing
19:15you to truly see me as your
19:19disciple I want to say yes to you Lord
19:22if that's you wherever you are all over
19:24this Auditorium those of you are
19:27streaming if that's you you do me a
19:29favor I'm just going to ask you to stand
19:32right where you are right where you are
19:34you say Pastor I need Christ in my life
19:37it doesn't make any difference it
19:38doesn't make any uh difference whether I
19:41I'm feeling secure or feeling like I got
19:44it all together I I just I just want to
19:47give him my life
19:49man I just want to give him my
19:53life I it's not enough just to go to
19:56church it's not enough just to say I I
19:59you know I believe in God but if you
20:01believe in God is he your
20:04lord and is he your
20:08savior and I promise you if you ever
20:12give him your life the next six months
20:16of this year will be incredibly
20:20great I'm telling you cuz now he's in
20:24control don't you see that you've been
20:26doing things your way and just like the
20:29children of Israel you're just going
20:31around a circle in the back of the same
20:33empty unfulfilled
20:35place you can change that by just saying
20:39yes to him and I know it takes a lot of
20:42boldness for you to stand wherever you
20:44are today and to give your life over to
20:46him but I'm going to ask you to do one
20:49more thing today the woman with the
20:52issue of blood when she got tired of not
20:55seeing change in her life she turned to
20:58Jesus
20:59and the Bible says she went and she
21:01pursued him to Touch the Hem of His
21:04Garment he's not physically here Jesus
21:07for you to physically touch him he's a
21:10spirit he's not human but when he was on
21:13the earth he was human so this woman
21:16went out and she pressed through the
21:19crowd and people were trying to you know
21:22block her even the very disciples
21:26religious people Church people but the
21:29woman pushed her way through the crowd
21:32and she touched the Hem of His Garment
21:34could you by faith this morning
21:37spiritually stop looking at all these
21:40people stop worrying about all of us cuz
21:43some of them were seated should be
21:45standing you make God your priority this
21:50morning and would you come down to this
21:52Altar and I'll be more than happy as a
21:55pastor to pray you
21:59and to pray you through so that you can
22:01enter the kingdom of God can we
22:04celebrate these people as they're coming
22:07down come on say yes to
22:11him thank you God bless you God bless
22:16you come on I'll say yes
22:23Lord bless you bless you Lord bless you
22:29I'll say yes I'll
22:34say I will trust you I will trust you
22:39and when your spirit when your spirit
22:44speak to me my whole heart with my whole
22:48heart I and I'll say yes and my answer
22:54will be yes come on let's do one more
22:58time
22:59I'll say everybody let's sing it I'll
23:01say yes I'll say
23:06yes thank your
23:10will I'll
23:12say I'll say
23:16yes I will I will trust you
23:22and your spirit speaks to me Hallelujah
23:28in my whole heart I love and my answer
23:33and my answer
23:38[Applause]
23:41will listen you have
23:43made the best decision of your
23:47life trust me the best
23:52decision is to say yes to him the truth
23:56is you've been saying yes to everybody
23:58else
23:59think about
24:03it to him and I will tell you I have
24:08been a Christian since I was I think I
24:12was around 11
24:1412 I'm 59
24:17now I made a whole lot of mistakes from
24:211112 to
24:2359 I'm not a perfect man nobody's ever
24:27perfect
24:28but let me tell you
24:30something I have walked with Jesus all
24:33these
24:35years and I will tell you without a
24:39doubt he will not fail
24:45you he'll not fail you
24:48man he'll not fail you all he's asking
24:52you to do is to trust his will his way
24:55for your life stop doing life your
24:58way you're going to come up empty
25:02frustrated and
25:04disappointed but when you turn to him by
25:07saying a simple prayer the Bible says
25:10you believe in your heart you confess
25:12with your mouth you believe that you're
25:14a sinner that you're not smart enough to
25:16run your own life and once you do that
25:20then there's other steps you have to
25:22take you have to read your Bible every
25:24day you can't focus on social media more
25:27than the word you can't be on the
25:30telephone talking to a whole lot of
25:31people more than you talk to God through
25:34his word you have to put the time
25:37in it's not magic don't depend on just
25:41coming to church every Sunday to hear
25:44what the pastors
25:45say I know it's our job to give you the
25:49word I get
25:51that but how you going to know what
25:53we're telling you is
25:55true if you don't know it
26:00just because we standing on the stage
26:01don't mean we preaching the
26:03word you got to know God for yourself
26:06and not know God through the
26:09pastor know him for yourself
26:13man that's what I've been preaching all
26:15these 32 years being pastor of this
26:17church know him for
26:19yourself and once you read your word man
26:23you go to church don't don't follow
26:25these people today tell you church is
26:27not important then if like that trust me
26:30something is going to happen to this
26:32world I promise you this is a this is a
26:35prophecy something there's an event
26:38that's going to happen
26:41globally that's going to make people run
26:43back to the house of God I promise
26:47you I promise
26:49you going to make people run back to God
26:53you can run but you cannot hide from God
26:58he has a unique way of knocking our
27:01knees till we
27:04bow so don't ever forget put him first
27:08would you bow your heads and those of
27:10you are streaming those of you want to
27:12be a part of this say these words with
27:15me it's a sinner's prayer say Lord Jesus
27:17Lord Jesus I am a sinner I Repent of my
27:21sins I embrace the free gift of
27:25Salvation And I declare today
27:29that I am born again in Jesus name amen
27:34welcome to the family of
27:36God welcome come on let's celebrate them
27:40let's celebrate those who are
27:42online now here's what I want you to
27:45do if you go to the church's website
27:48that's the faith
27:50center.org it's very important the Faith
27:53Center in.org those of you are streaming
27:56also if you click on the Salvation link
28:00salvation link just give us your
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28:07it's called beginning your walk with
28:08Christ it's there to help you as a young
28:11believer to walk this journey out
28:15successfully I congratulate you I'm so
28:18proud of you it's the best life ever you
28:21may return to your seat come on let's
28:22celebrate them let's celebrate them
28:25let's celebrate them let's celebrate
28:27them let's celebrate them come on we
28:29could do much better than
28:33that
28:35amen God bless you God bless you
28:39amen praise God let's let's switch
28:43something here thank you Singers Let's
28:44thank you let's go back to it thank you
28:48amen
28:58if you have your
29:00Bible I want to go into
29:03this I feel God wants me to do this
29:09now Psalm
29:11126 Psalm
29:13[Music]
29:16126 want you to hear what the the word
29:19of the Lord will share with you this
29:24morning I think there people not only in
29:28this room but those of you are
29:31streaming you're in a dry
29:34place you're in a dry
29:37place and you're
29:40wondering will you have the opportunity
29:43to have your thirst
29:48quenched um will you ever come out of
29:52this dry
29:55season who am I talking to
30:00you're in this dry
30:02season just like the writer of Psalm
30:0826 it says when the Lord
30:12restored the fortunes of
30:18Zion let me read that
30:21again when the Lord restored
30:29The
30:30Fortunes of
30:33Zion no I have to read it
30:38again I have to read it
30:42again when the Lord
30:46[Music]
30:47restored the
30:50fortunes of
30:53Zion we were like those who dreamed
30:59then our mouth was filled with
31:02laughter and our tongue with shouts of
31:08Joy then they said among the
31:12Nations the Lord has done great
31:18things for
31:20them the Lord has done great things for
31:25us we are
31:29glad restore our fortunes oh
31:33Lord like the streams of
31:36NG restore our fortunes oh Lord it says
31:41like the
31:42streams of
31:45neb those who so in
31:49tears
31:51reap with
31:53shouts of
31:56Joy he who goes out
32:00weeping bearing the seeds for
32:03sewing shall come
32:06home shall come
32:09home he who
32:12goes
32:14out
32:16weeping bearing the
32:19seed for
32:22sewing shall come
32:24home with shouts of joy
32:29bringing
32:31his
32:34sheeps with
32:39him father bless this
32:46word you told me that somebody was going
32:49to get their Joy
32:54back that somebody was going to be
32:57restored
33:00word and I can see it by
33:03faith because they believe by
33:09faith let this word Minister Grace unto
33:13your people in Jesus name we
33:16pray and somebody shout amen
33:20amen the
33:23entire chapter of Psalm 126
33:28is focused on the restoration of Zion's
33:35fortunes the
33:37whole six
33:40verses is focusing on Zion's
33:47fortunes if you read it you will
33:50see that it is suggested that Zion once
33:55had her
33:56fortunes but but something happened in
34:01her past that caused her to lose
34:05it you will never develop the passion to
34:09reclaim your inheritance if you're not
34:12willing to admit that your own actions
34:17have cost
34:18you what you've
34:22lost there's so many of
34:25us we know that we are better than who
34:28we are currently
34:31portraying we know that there's more to
34:34our lives than what we are
34:37living we know that the god that we
34:40serve and the promises that he's made to
34:42us is more than what we're experiencing
34:46yet for some reason we're not having the
34:50promises of God manifest in our lives
34:53and like Zion back in those days
34:56referring to the people of
34:58God the children of God they lost their
35:04fortunes the
35:06blessings and it wasn't because God was
35:09mean God was punishing them it was
35:12simply because they did things on their
35:16own that cost them their
35:20fortunes could it be that there people
35:22streaming and in this room this
35:25morning the losses you have it's not
35:28that the devil was after you and the
35:31devilish fighting you it was self
35:37sabotage what self- sabotage you knew
35:41better yet you walked out of the will of
35:44God and now you're paying the price for
35:48it so my dear brothers and sisters what
35:51we find here is Zion in Psalm 126 is
35:55referring to as God speaking people the
35:58people who were
36:00chosen by God the people who became
36:04God's resting place when I read that it
36:09blew my
36:10mind God's resting place if you go to
36:13Psalm
36:14132 uh two verses verse 13 and 14 it
36:18tells us for the Lord has chosen
36:22Zion he has desired it to be his
36:25Dwelling Place
36:29you want to know why many of us are not
36:32receiving and walking in the promises of
36:35God it is simply because God's not
36:39resting in us how can he rest in us when
36:44we're not
36:46settled amen a person who is not settled
36:51have a tendency to move a lot and to
36:54shift a lot and can get much done how
36:57many many times God will come into your
36:59life in a moment to give you a God
37:01moment a God moment is a moment where
37:04God is saying I'm about to do something
37:07Supernatural and when God wants to come
37:09in and he's about to come in now and he
37:12wants to rest in your life he wants to
37:15dwell in you permanently all of a sudden
37:18instead of you Embrace him you quickly
37:22move out of that position and you
37:24started doing things that the
37:26distractions of this this world is
37:28pulling you to
37:30do but that uh word from Psalm 132 for
37:35the Lord has chosen Zion he has desired
37:39it for his Dwelling Place verse 14 this
37:43is my resting place
37:47forever God doesn't want to rent space
37:52from
37:55you listen to me
37:58God doesn't want to Ren space from
38:03you if he has to Ren from you he doesn't
38:06own
38:11you he wants to dwell with you
38:16forever and when you become his forever
38:19rest in place you do not have to worry
38:23if you're going to make it
38:27but when he watch this is renting from
38:32you the attitude you have as you live
38:35every day is you check him in on Sunday
38:39mornings but you check him out at a
38:42certain time by 12
38:4612:30 it's like a
38:49hotel come on
38:51now I have been to so many hotels in my
38:54entire life still going B and how I
38:58travel and when you go to these hotels
39:01they will tell you that check-in time is
39:04a certain
39:06time you can't just pull up at a hotel
39:09at 10:00 in the morning and says I want
39:12my room they're going to say well unless
39:14you paid for it the night
39:16before they'll tell you most of the
39:18hotels will tell you checkin time is at
39:203:00 in the afternoon and they'll be
39:23quick to tell you check out time is what
39:26time you've been to a couple of
39:30hotels 11: in the morning you cannot
39:34treat God the way you check into a
39:39hotel and expect him to give you all the
39:42benefits of his
39:44word you can't say to him well I'll
39:46check in at a certain time God I'll
39:49check you in you can come into my life
39:51okay Sunday morning I feel religious
39:53this morning so okay fine you can check
39:55in about you know say 9:45 that's when
39:59the pre-show is so you can check in and
40:01then by service dismiss you know let's
40:05let's check you out cuz I don't want you
40:07to follow me
40:12home I I I don't want you to be on my
40:15job
40:17tomorrow I don't want you to go the
40:20place I plan to go after
40:23church cuz you're not you you can't fit
40:26in there God
40:29H he says this is my resting place
40:36forever forever somebody say forever
40:39forever here I will dwell for I have
40:45desired it
40:50a the
40:53desire to want him in your life
40:57and his desire to want in you to have
41:01him is an incredible
41:04opportunity most of us are passing
41:09up you know what will happen in your
41:13life if you just once for a moment in
41:17your life quit playing God and desire
41:24him he's not waiting
41:27watch this for you to desire him first
41:30before he desires you he's saying I
41:33desire to have you now for the Bible his
41:37word to work you have to desire me so
41:42that you benefit from the
41:47promises you can't just have it because
41:50I said
41:52it you have to work it you have to work
41:56your faith
41:57so please pay close attention to the
42:00part that says this is my resting place
42:04forever the question
42:06today is God resting in your life
42:12forever or is it just for a
42:16season but why would God say that
42:20Zion is his res in place
42:24forever when Zion lost her
42:28fortunes
42:30why to show you ain't nothing you can do
42:35to take God
42:38off where he turned his back on
42:42you somebody better hear this this
42:45morning there's nothing you can do where
42:49God will turn his back on
42:52you you need to hear
42:55this God is Not turning his back on
42:59you I need somebody here please um
43:03please Pastor Brian come here
43:06please I'm going to show you your
43:08perspective is
43:14off the thing is stand right here turn
43:17to me turn to me the thing is you're
43:21crying and you're begging God pay
43:24attention to me God pay attention God
43:27God pay attention I need I need I need I
43:30need you don't you don't know what's
43:31happening in my life you why am I going
43:33through all of these things God and and
43:35and you're trying to seek God's
43:39attention and you're thinking God turned
43:41his back on
43:43you so you're looking and you're trying
43:46to pay attention and you're somehow
43:49thinking that you're back that God's
43:53back is
43:55turned in front of you he's still
44:00here watch this now thank you Holy
44:04Spirit he's still in front of you
44:07waiting for you to get your act
44:13together cuz he said in his
44:16word you're are my resting place forever
44:20I want to
44:21rest with you
44:24forever you want to know why you think
44:26God God's back has turned to
44:29you and this is
44:31deep he's still in
44:34position he's still watching over you
44:37the problem is picture this God is still
44:39standing
44:41there God didn't
44:44move you
44:47turned watch this you
44:51turned he's still
44:53here but the reason why you can't canot
44:57identify that you've shifted your
45:00position on him is because you rather
45:03see the people you rather see the
45:07circumstances you rather see the
45:11distraction talking to the distraction
45:14wishing God will see you what makes you
45:19think that God's going to lower
45:22himself to turn in your favor
45:28who is
45:30God who is
45:32God is he God or is it you who should do
45:38the Turning are you telling me that God
45:40sinned and God is so imperfect that in
45:44order for him to bless your life he's
45:48got to
45:54turn he's forever in position
45:59you can change
46:00him even with your bad
46:04Deeds reason why you think his back is
46:08turned to you is that your back is
46:11turned to
46:17him that's why the scripture says if my
46:19people who are called by my name would
46:21humble thems and what
46:25turn just turn from your wicked
46:28ways all you got to do is I want God to
46:31turn in my favor no no no no no no no no
46:35you need to
46:38turn to him so that favor can be upon
46:43your life thank you Pastor Brian come on
46:45give the Lord a hand of
46:49praise you see this is why I absolutely
46:52love the god of the Bible and not the
46:55god of religion
46:58you see the god of the Bible is forever
47:01loving and watch this he's forever
47:05forgiven and he wants from us
47:10obedience he wants from us our
47:12willingness to do life his way so that
47:15we can enjoy life the way he has
47:18designed it for us the reason why Zion's
47:22fortunes were restored was simply Zion
47:26returned to God watch this by aligning
47:28thems up to his
47:32will by aligning thems up to his
47:38will ladies and gentlemen we're either
47:41going to believe the
47:42Bible and really launch our faith into
47:45it and do what it requires of us to do
47:49or we just just don't read it at all
47:51don't don't even go to church don't even
47:53why why are you practicing the Bible if
47:56you're not going to believe believe in
47:57it do you have that much time to
48:01waste why would you give up and I know
48:04many people are not going to like this
48:05why would you give up the pledges of the
48:07world because don't let nobody fool you
48:09I don't know how long you've been saved
48:11don't let nobody fool you that there
48:13ain't no pledges out in the world you
48:15ask the person who just came out of the
48:17nightclub sitting right next to you and
48:19they will tell you there's a whole lot
48:22of
48:23Pleasures you ask that person in your
48:26row and ask them the stuff they did this
48:29week that nobody knows
48:32about to live an ungodly life their
48:35Pleasures in doing that but what would
48:38it
48:39profit a
48:41man to lose his soul and and gain the
48:45pledges of the
48:46world there are pledges out there but
48:49you need to understand that that that
48:52that when you align yourself to the word
48:55of God that's what the church did Zion
48:58did they got in alignment with God and
49:01stuff start happening and I believe
49:05there are people in this room God's
49:07trying to tell you he wants 2023 to end
49:11well for you but you got to turn not
49:14[Music]
49:16him you've got to be the one to
49:20turn and do what he tells you to do so
49:23that you can reap the benefits of
49:28walking out the
49:30word Zion is referring to the church
49:32like I told you the bride of Christ
49:35God's people because the church got out
49:38of alignment her path became crooked and
49:41she lost her fortunes her values her
49:44wealth and her passion to dream
49:51big why have you lost your
49:54dream why did you stop dreaming
49:59who dropped
50:01you who broke
50:04you who robbed you of your
50:10passion to
50:12dream what event took place in your
50:17life that caused you to now live a
50:20passive
50:21life where you no longer
50:24dream you no longer dream
50:27uh of of being a successful blessed
50:31woman you no longer dream of being a
50:35mighty man of Valor a great man a king
50:41you're no longer dreaming to be a queen
50:44a princess a prince you have lost it you
50:48no longer dream of seeing your life
50:52being elevated to a greater level what
50:55event happened in your life that caused
50:58you to no longer
51:01dream that all you do is wake up every
51:04day hoping something will just happen
51:07not
51:09believing that something good is going
51:12to happen in your life many of you are
51:14in a season right now where youve lost a
51:18lot and you are wondering if you will
51:21ever be restored first of all let me say
51:24to you that God is a God of
51:30restoration listen to me and I'm telling
51:33you I don't know who this is for the
51:36next six months of this year if you ever
51:39turn to God I'm telling you it will blow
51:42your mind with what God can do in your
51:45life I don't care what you have done I
51:48don't care how you've turned your back
51:49on him God is a god of restoration he
51:53can restore you I'm telling you he can
51:55restore everything that you've lost but
51:58you've got to turn to him this could be
52:02your best and greatest year but are you
52:05willing to
52:07turn you must understand that many of
52:10you are in a difficult place you got to
52:13understand that you got to embrace that
52:14you're at a difficult place in your life
52:16and I get that you're unhappy and you
52:20have no drive you have no fire and and
52:23you have no will to believe that God can
52:25restore you but that is alive from Satan
52:28himself you can be restored somebody say
52:32I can be restored let's even make it
52:35personal I will be
52:37restored come on say it again I will be
52:40restored will Resto yes you can be
52:43restored to your best to be your best to
52:47be what God has called you to be to do
52:50what God has called you to do I don't
52:53care what mistakes you have made I don't
52:55care what the devil has blocking in your
52:56life I don't care how he has shut things
52:59down I don't care how you are
53:01insufficient I don't care how money is
53:03lacking in your life I am telling you
53:05today you ask many of us who have proven
53:09God I'm telling you he is a miraculous
53:12God he can change your bad into good if
53:15you trust
53:18him I'm telling you if there's ever a
53:21time you need to put God to the test it
53:24is now I wonder if there's any anybody
53:27out there who is hungry enough who is
53:29thirsty enough to say God I'm going to
53:32prove you in the next season of my life
53:35and if you believe it give him a praise
53:38this
53:43morning God told me to tell you your
53:47best season is in the next six months of
53:49this
53:50year no you didn't hear it you didn't
53:53hear it your response is is is very
53:56important man God told me to tell you
53:59that that your best season is in the
54:01next 6 months of
54:062023 you got to believe it you got to
54:09get up every day and say I receive my
54:12word this is my blessed season this is
54:16my blessed season when you get into the
54:18parking lot in your car get in your car
54:21this is my blessed season when you get
54:24home this is myess blessed season those
54:27of you are watching from home stand up
54:29in that room this is my blessed season
54:33get to the job tomorrow the place of
54:35business and you prophesy into the
54:38atmosphere and you tell that atmosphere
54:41this is my blessed
54:45season speak
54:49it you speak
54:52it that this is my blessed SE
54:57season you got to prophesy it into the
55:00atmosphere so I'm encouraging you I'm
55:03encouraging you this morning to stop
55:05delaying your
55:06blessings stop
55:09it God has so much for you stop delaying
55:13your
55:14blessings you delaying your
55:17blessings uh uh will only cause you to
55:20be more passive if you will and cause
55:23you to
55:25procrastinate why are you
55:27procrastinating do you like where you're
55:29at where's your procrastination gotten
55:33you where has your delayed gotten you
55:37your
55:38passiveness have you made
55:41progress by procrastinating I put it off
55:44God on the being
55:48suspicious and being negative where has
55:52that gotten
55:54you if you're a negative
55:57passive person I want you to shout and
56:06scream I want you to celebrate your
56:11victories I mean if if if you're living
56:14your
56:14life being uh fearful I don't know if I
56:18should try that I if I should do this I
56:21don't know if that's going to work I
56:23don't know I know but I tried it in 5
56:26years years ago I tried it two years ago
56:28well I've been hurt this way and and
56:30where has that gotten
56:33you have you made progress well For
56:36Heaven's Sake try Jesus today try the
56:40word of God and I'm telling you it will
56:43work in your
56:46life try the
56:48word verse four of Psalm
56:51126 it says and I love it restore our
56:54fortunes rest restore our fortunes I
56:58don't know who this word is for ReStore
57:01our
57:02fortunes restore our wealth God is
57:06saying your cry this morning should you
57:09should be Lord restore my fortune
57:12restore my wealth restore what belongs
57:16to me and then it says oh Lord like a
57:20streams or like streams in
57:24neb neb
57:28neab I looked it up neab is a desert
57:34region of the southern part of
57:39Judea Judea
57:41Israel a
57:44desert in the southern part of the
57:48country why would God say and the
57:53psalmist cry out I should say
57:57restore our
57:59fortunes restore it like the
58:04streams of
58:06neb but
58:09neb is a desert
58:13Place God H H how you going to restore
58:16stuff in my life I'm I'm
58:19divorced how you going to restore stuff
58:22in my life I ain't got no woman in my
58:24life no man in my life I got one one
58:26income how you going to restore when I
58:29got this issue and I got this there's a
58:30drought don't you see there's a drought
58:32in my life ain't nothing good H how why
58:36should I pray Henry and ask God to
58:39restore me and to bless me and to give
58:43me back my fortune when I'm living in a
58:48drought
58:50neab huh but you just don't know my
58:54God you just don't know my
58:57God you think your location troubles my
59:02God you think your location intimidate
59:06my God no right in the middle of neb are
59:13streams y'all didn't get that man right
59:17in the middle of the desert there are
59:20streams of water how in the world God
59:24would put streams of water in dry places
59:27that is to tell you and me it doesn't
59:30matter what you are going through God
59:35will flow His blessings and his power
59:38through your dry condition somebody
59:41ought to give God
59:46praise don't
59:49let your dry
59:52situation stop you from believing that
59:55God can bless you there are streams that
59:58can come out of your bad situation so
60:00most people would not expect a stream of
60:03water to be in a
60:05desert because that is considered dry
60:08places but every one of us will find
60:11ourselves in a dry
60:14place I don't know who this word is for
60:17but you're probably in a dry place and
60:20this is what you got to be careful of
60:22now be careful of the
60:24distractions what voices are you
60:27hearing talk to me here now woman of God
60:31man of God what voices are you hearing
60:34what are they saying to you well you
60:36know this not going to
60:39work you you know you tried this
60:42before you you you know you've been in
60:44church all this time and all these
60:47messages you're hearing hasn't change
60:50your life well you know what your father
60:53was that way your mother was that way
60:57that's the kind of family you came out
60:59of well this is you made some mistakes
61:03you know this is what's going to happen
61:05you make some mistakes and you're never
61:07going to see your blessing because youve
61:11made too many mistakes you can't redeem
61:13yourself from whose voice are you
61:15listening
61:16to because those voices will rob you of
61:21your
61:22blessing because to you your in a dry
61:27place that many of you God told me to
61:30tell you
61:31today he's not going to move you out of
61:34the dry
61:35Place
61:37H and I know you've been praying get me
61:41out of here
61:42God
61:44what are you did you really send Henry
61:47Fernandez to tell me that this morning
61:49he was preaching good up until he just
61:52said what he said that ain't from God
61:55he's a f false prophet God would not
61:57tell you to tell me that I don't want to
62:00hear that cuz I want to get out of
62:03here I'm in this dry place too long and
62:07you coming up here today on this Sunday
62:09morning last Sunday of June and you
62:11going to tell me God don't want me to
62:13get out of here that's a
62:19lie you're not going to get out of
62:23there he going to keep you there
62:29but if you turn your back on the
62:32distractions and Turn Your Eyes Upon
62:36Jesus and look into his wonderful place
62:39uh face then everything else will grow
62:43dim you won't see the distraction if you
62:46look to him the author and the finisher
62:49of your
62:50faith you will then begin to see the
62:53streams
62:56of Living
62:58Water the strings of Living Water for
63:02yay though I walk through the
63:05valley the shadow of death I will fear
63:10no evil why do I have to walk through
63:12the shadow of Deb can can I just avoid
63:16that
63:17Highway can we take another route why
63:20you got to take me through the valley of
63:22the shadow of death the reason why you
63:24got to go through it it ain't about you
63:27God sometimes allows us to go through
63:30the desert so that when you come out of
63:33the
63:34desert cuz you coming out slap somebody
63:36and tell them you're coming out you
63:38coming out of that dry place when you
63:41come out of it you going to turn around
63:44and you going to say Look What the Lord
63:46Has Done look where he brought me from
63:49all of your enemies and your haters will
63:52see that the Lord was with you all this
64:00time glory to God the dry places is not
64:04about you it is about the glory of God
64:07somebody give him praise in this
64:14place so I'm telling you
64:17today God can restore your
64:21fortunes he
64:23can if you turn to him
64:26and listen to his voice and not the
64:29nagging
64:30voices so your back is against the wall
64:33now you don't know what you're going to
64:35do you're streaming this morning and you
64:38needed a word well here's the
64:41word stand in the dry
64:44place but while you're standing in the
64:46dry Place stop complaining I don't know
64:49what I'm going to do I what I'm going to
64:51do I know I'm going to get through this
64:53and
64:55stop
64:58it when you're in that dry
65:01place I'm going show it to you there's a
65:04couple of things you got to do ah ah
65:08glory to God I felt that there's a
65:11couple of things you got to do when
65:13you're in the dry place the first thing
65:15I want you to do according to the text
65:17is
65:20dream keep on
65:22dreaming keep on dreaming dream that
65:26though you're in a dry Place dream that
65:29you're in a blessed
65:32Place ah somebody ought to get their
65:35dream back the ability to dream keep on
65:38dreaming there's a couple of women in
65:40this room and we streaming God told me
65:42to tell you you got to keep on dreaming
65:45don't let the enemy cause you to stop
65:48dreaming keep on dreaming Keep On
65:51Believing you got to believe that better
65:54is on its way you got to believe that
65:57your best days are ahead of you you got
65:59to believe that you look a whole lot
66:01better in the future than you look right
66:04now you got to believe that God's going
66:07to make a way somehow you don't know how
66:10you don't know when but he's going to
66:12deliver you he's going to deliver you
66:15you got to keep on
66:19dreaming got to keep on
66:22dreaming then the next thing you ought
66:24to do man
66:26it's not only
66:28dream to get your fortune back to get
66:31your blessings back but you got to laugh
66:35while you're in the
66:38desert Lord they ain't ready for this
66:40yet they ain't ready for this year you
66:42got to laugh while you're in the dry
66:46places because the Bible says in in
66:48Psalm 126 laughter it speaks about
66:51laughter verse two then our mouth was
66:54filled with laughter and our tongue with
66:58shouts of Joy the problem with some of
67:02you is your tongue is
67:06[Applause]
67:10poisonous so life and death are in the
67:14power so you want to know why you can't
67:17see streams and dry places your
67:21tongue H the tongue
67:26ah the stuff you
67:29say the things you're saying is killing
67:32the seeds of
67:38Faith you got to speak life over your
67:41situation you got to shout for
67:44Joy I don't care what you're going
67:47through you get up every day and you
67:50shout this is the day that the Lord has
67:53made I will rejoice
67:56and be glad in it praise the Lord
67:59hallelujah I'm going to work today I'm
68:02happy broke ain't got much money car gas
68:05on E or whatever the needle is on E and
68:08I don't know how I'm going to make it
68:10and I don't have much money to pay bills
68:12but God I thank you I I woke up this
68:15morning and because I woke up you going
68:17to help me you shall supply all of I'm
68:22not going to live under a bridge God you
68:24going to make a way for
68:29me and laugh your way through
68:32it glory to God you get home and you get
68:36something in the mail and ain't good H
68:39thank you
68:40Jesus glory to
68:43God the doctor gives you the report you
68:46look at
68:47it now this your report God now you can
68:51fix this God they're talking about you
68:54they're setting traps for you H glory to
68:57God I wish somebody just laugh for a
69:01moment some of you hadn't laugh in a
69:04long time you've allowed the situations
69:07of life to get you so depressed but I'm
69:10telling you the Bible says laughter is
69:12like what medicine come on take your
69:14medicine
69:17H glory to
69:21hey take your medicine man
69:27so you
69:30dream and learn to shout for
69:35joy and Learn To
69:38Laugh In order to restore your
69:42confidence then according to the verse
69:46verse 4 uh the according to the verse
69:49I'm I'm sorry not verse four let me read
69:51it here cuz I want to get it into your
69:54spirit man man and that blessed me man
69:58when I read it it says here where's
70:01where's verse 4 let me just find it here
70:05oh here it is uh the entire for verse
70:09one to verse 6 no verse 5 sorry it says
70:13Those Who sow in
70:22tears now that hit me
70:26because what the Bible is suggesting
70:28is in order to reap
70:35Joy tears has to be
70:40sown as long as the Earth remain there
70:42will be seed time and
70:46harvest how are you going to get
70:49joy if you didn't have a moment of
70:52sadness
70:59the ability to overcome sadness is what
71:03produces
71:06Joy so the fact that you don't want to
71:11embrace the dry season you're
71:16in is it's prohibiting you from reaping
71:22Joy cuz if you don't sew it
71:26you can't reap
71:30it so wait a minute now some of you may
71:33not like this so if you ain't going
71:37through
71:39nothing you don't know what dry places
71:43are you have never experienced it
71:47everything is perfectly fine with you
71:50you've never had to struggle in life I
71:52mean everything is perfect with you
71:58how you going to get
72:01joy work with me here
72:03now most people who have joy will tell
72:08you they got delivered out of
72:11something that was
72:18bad look here if you look if you have
72:24always had the ability to pay your
72:27bills always you're not going to get a
72:30oh praise the Lord I paid my bills
72:34no but you let six months of struggling
72:38Jesus you've been trying to pay your
72:41bills and all of a sudden somebody just
72:44said here's a million
72:48dollars you get up one morning and you
72:51open your bank account or you go in
72:53online and you check your bank account
72:55$1 million was
72:57deposited to your checking
73:02account I want to
73:05see which one of you going to get up off
73:07the
73:09bed and you going to go like this okay
73:12let me check my
73:14account oh $1
73:16million oh thank you
73:21Lord thank you for that $1
73:23million Hallelujah anyway I got to go to
73:30work now let me tell you how I would
73:36[Applause]
73:40act
73:44one what
73:48what
73:49what Lord thank you
73:53God what
73:59that's just me I don't know about you
74:02that's just how I would
74:06react cuz I'm coming out of a dry
74:17place you're here at the Faith
74:21Center so much Faith as I close is in
74:25this room and I don't want anybody to
74:28move right
74:29now there's so much Faith while you're
74:34streaming and I am here today to tell
74:37you you can find
74:40joy in dry
74:43places you can find joy out of the
74:48tears you've been
74:51crying but you have got to do your part
74:55part are you hearing
74:57me you have got to do your
75:03part you've got to what will be the next
75:066 months of 2023 be like for
75:11you
75:13healthwise
75:15financially and what will it be like
75:18when it comes to your
75:20faith will you be challenged absolutely
75:25will you feel like you are being
75:28squeezed
75:30absolutely but it is in the dry
75:34places God brings a
75:37stream a
75:40stream there are a few people in this
75:42room
75:45streaming you stepped out in faith and
75:47you did
75:48something and it didn't
75:51work and you don't see
75:55the
75:58evidence of what you were believing God
76:02for but I dare you this
76:05morning in that dry Place woman of God
76:09man of
76:10God I dare you to believe that God can
76:14multiply you a thousand times greater
76:17than you
76:18are in the book of second Kings chapter
76:234 there's a woman
76:26the Bible says she was in a dry
76:28Place lost
76:32everything didn't know what to
76:34do but a man of God spoke to her were
76:39they false prophets in those days
76:42absolutely she could have said I I don't
76:45care what this man of God says I Ain
76:47listening to him and so forth cuz she
76:49could have gotten caught up my husband
76:51is
76:53dead I don't have no other income no
76:56other support what am I going to do I
77:00the last person I want to hear from is a
77:03preacher many of you don't realize that
77:06God will send
77:07voices several voices and to speak to
77:11you but you're rejecting the
77:14voices let's see how far that will get
77:18you keep listening to the
77:21buzzers who comes to steal
77:24the prophetic word of
77:27God that woman believed what the man of
77:29God told her to do he says go and borrow
77:32not a few but go and get some empty
77:35vessels go get them I want you to go get
77:39them and as you read it go read
77:43it the Bible says the man of God told
77:46her get into your house shut the
77:52door this is between you and God
77:56now and take all of those empty
77:59vessels and I want you to
78:02pour poor poor by the way this was a
78:05woman who was in a drought lost
78:09everything didn't have
78:11much and plus he told her to go
78:16borrow she brought it and poured and
78:18poured then he said to her which blew my
78:23mind after you pour in fact no let me
78:26correct myself after she did it she went
78:29back to the man of God was so excited
78:31she told the man of God everything you
78:33said came through watch this the vessels
78:36the containers are completely filled
78:39with oil and when I got to the last
78:42container the oil
78:44stopped so she was thinking oh that's
78:47just enough no no no the man of God said
78:50here's what you need to do you're in
78:52debt go sell the oil gave her a
78:58strategy go sell the oil watch
79:02this and what you do pay your debts and
79:06live off the rest of
79:09it live for however long she and her
79:13boys
79:15lived that was so
79:18much that they were able to live he
79:20never said after you pay your debts go
79:23and work for the rest of of your
79:25life go and borrow he never said that he
79:29said live after the rest how would you
79:32like God to do something in your life
79:34where you live after the rest of the
79:36blessings you've
79:38received that's the kind of
79:42God I'm talking about so don't you tell
79:45me this morning as you are streaming as
79:47you're in this house that God cannot
79:50pull you out of the dry places you're in
79:55cuz his word says in Deuteronomy
79:571:1 the Lord will make you a thousand
80:00times
80:02greater than you
80:04are somebody in this room is just like
80:08Henry just like Henry a few years
80:11ago a few years ago I was in a dry
80:16place please listen to the if if if you
80:20have any spirit of
80:22discernment do not miss the next 5
80:25minutes of this
80:29service I was at a dry place a few years
80:35ago I stepped out in
80:38faith I was
80:41dreaming dreaming that God's going to do
80:43something
80:44miraculous dreaming that the word is
80:47going to empower people and I felt in my
80:50spirit that God pushed me to do
80:53something and I knew in my heart it was
80:57God even though I didn't see how I was
81:00going to make it happen but I dreamt
81:03about it and therefore I stepped
81:05out and I did
81:07it I did
81:09it in the midst of my nothingness my
81:14emptiness I did it cuz it doesn't cost
81:18you anything to
81:21dream a dream is free
81:24but it's going to cost you to step out
81:26in
81:27faith it's going to cost you to give up
81:31all of your fears and
81:34doubts I remember when God said to me
81:38while I was in a dry Place preach the
81:42word I learned this as a preacher don't
81:46get so caught up with your own personal
81:49needs Henry that you forget his
81:52assignment that's right that's right
81:56I was born to preach the
81:59gospel any other job I took on it would
82:04have
82:06failed or I would have not received any
82:08fulfillment in it isn't it
82:12strange this job that I'm doing right
82:14now I never wanted
82:16it but I'm called to do
82:19it this is what I'm called to
82:22do and he told me go
82:25preach preach the
82:27gospel he told me here's what I need you
82:30to do have a
82:32conference planned this conference he
82:35told me exactly what to do exactly what
82:38to do I lie not to you I didn't do
82:41anything I wanted to do for my ego or
82:43anything like that I did exactly what
82:45God told me to
82:49do and I came to this
82:52building and I told these people who
82:55owned
82:57it have a
82:59dream what's your dream son I have a
83:02dream that God called me to host a
83:05believer's conference here a believer's
83:09conference three days of us preaching
83:11the word of God into the womb of the
83:14building and I know God told me to do
83:18this I said okay
83:20fine they gave me a bill of $150,000
83:25this is what you're going to have to do
83:26to put the bill to put your three-day
83:29conference on I went back to God and I
83:32said God okay we have a little bit of
83:34money in the church's account what
83:36should I
83:37do he said I told you what to do don't
83:41worry about the
83:43results true
83:45story I told you what to do why are you
83:48sitting there worried about the
83:51outcome if it's your mind talking to you
83:55then don't do it but if I spoke to you
83:58about it trust my doings well I did it
84:02most of you heard the story over and
84:05over but every time I tell it it's a new
84:08re
84:10Revelation I did it here's the dry
84:14place it
84:18failed so don't tell me I don't know
84:22what failure looks like
84:25it
84:29failed less than 300 people was in this
84:34building I lost every
84:37penny and I'm just like some of you
84:40streaming may have this seat sister
84:43Angela sit over there
84:44please just like many of you streaming
84:48and in this building I was in a dry
84:51place
84:54I sat in this
84:59chair and I
85:02sat and listen
85:04to the guest speaker that night was
85:08preaching and nothing he
85:12said
85:14registered I didn't hear his
85:16sermon I didn't hear anything because I
85:19was
85:22angry I was embar
85:25embarrassed I felt like a
85:29failure what am I going to
85:33do how am I going to
85:36recover the
85:38fortune how am I going to replace to
85:41this little
85:42church
85:47$150,000 and then the devil
85:50started you know they laughing at
85:52you you know you know they mocking
85:56you you know preachers in the city
85:58laughing at you you know people just
86:01saying he turned big shock now he trying
86:05to do big things they didn't know I was
86:09dreaming and I was in a
86:13season a dry
86:16place I just wanted the conference to
86:19end like some of
86:22you you want to end your
86:25life because you failed how dare
86:30you you want to end your life because
86:33somebody walked out on your
86:38life and you're worried about what
86:40people
86:42think I know what it is come
86:45on I know what it feels
86:49like to sit in the midst of a crowd
86:55and people are waiting to see you
86:59fail to laugh and
87:03cheer but I come by to tell somebody
87:06this morning God will not stand by and
87:10watch the enemy laugh at you
87:13baby I don't know who this is for God's
87:16not going to stand by and watch the
87:19enemy laugh at you you better get ready
87:22to laugh you better get ready to shout
87:25for
87:26Joy cuz you're coming out
87:31smiling sat in that
87:34sheat as I sat in my seat glory to
87:39God oh Oh Glory Glory Glory Glory
87:45Glory
87:46ah
87:50ah I said to God like some of you I was
87:54ready to throw in the
87:57towel because I stopped
88:00dreaming I wasn't laughing
88:03anymore I was a shouting for Joy because
88:07I allowed an event to steal my
88:12dream I allowed an event to steal my
88:15ability to speak
88:19life and I concluded that
88:22day I would will
88:25never ever do this
88:28again
88:32never it you got me once you not going
88:35to get me sick of time you a to worry
88:37about me dreaming ever again I'm
88:41done and I Heard a Voice whisper to
88:46me do it
88:51again Hallelujah
88:58[Applause]
89:01do it
89:04again and I would wrestled God I don't
89:07want to do this no no no no no
89:09no God
89:11said if you do it
89:14again I blow your mind
89:24you
89:25what but I'm in a dry Place God do it
89:31again and I blow your
89:33[Applause]
89:39mind well ladies and
89:41gentlemen thank Hallelujah I did it
89:46again and my obedience in doing it again
89:51allowed the ministry to own the building
89:53I failed
89:56[Music]
89:58I've come by to tell somebody God wants
90:00to give you the stuff that the enemy
90:03stole from you but you got to step out
90:06in faith and do his will is anybody
90:10hearing me this morning
90:12[Music]