Your Future Starts With Today’s Beliefs
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 8/7/2023Hebrews 6:13-14
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez encourages believers to align their speech with God's Word, teaching that future success is birthed through today's bold confessions and acts of faith.
Key points
- •Your words frame your world; what you confess today determines the reality of your future.
- •God is a promise-keeper who has sworn by His own name to bless His people and their descendants.
- •Faith requires 'doing' and 'setting up' for the promise even when it feels foolish or looks stupid to others.
- •Believers should search the scriptures to discover their specific promises rather than relying on superstition or horoscopes.
- •God often uses tests of faith and obedience in the past to qualify you for the breakthroughs in your future.
Scripture
Faith
Purpose
Blessing
Covenant
Obedience
Life application
Identify one promise God has spoken to you and take a physical step of faith this week to 'set it up' (like buying an item for a future business or nursery) to show God you believe Him.
Reflection questions
- What negative words or feelings have you been allowing to drown out the promises of God in your life?
- Are there any areas where you have retreated because you were afraid of looking foolish to others?
- What 'drums' or 'blue baby clothes' is God asking you to set up today in anticipation of a future miracle?
- How can you shift from just 'attending church' to truly living by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God?
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0:00crazy
0:00[Music]
0:02[Applause]
0:04it's been seated
0:08I promise I won't be long
0:12so we'll have a chance to be in the
0:14lobby
0:15to fellowship with our brothers and
0:17sisters before we leave even if you're
0:19not going to eat
0:21I think it's important that you take
0:24time out to know the people that you
0:26fellowship with so important
0:29it's like on Wednesday the same thing
0:31we're doing we ask that you be here by 6
0:3330 we'll have complimentary food
0:37for you to eat and for you to fellowship
0:41before we get into the center where I I
0:44sense that this is going to be an
0:46amazing night
0:48but I want to leave you with this
0:50thought
0:51your future starts with today's beliefs
0:59your future starts
1:02with today's
1:04beliefs
1:06what you believe today
1:09is actually frame in your future
1:14frame in your future
1:17I want to leave you
1:21or I want to leave you
1:26walking away from today's service
1:30being reminded that God is
1:35a promise keeper
1:40he's a promise keeper
1:44for 32 years I've lived my life in
1:47Ministry
1:48trust in the promises of God
1:53because I believe that in all 66 books
1:56of the Bible you will find God's
1:59promises
2:01listen you won't find them in your
2:02feelings
2:04you won't find the promises of God
2:07with the negative voices you're here in
2:10or challenging you about what you heard
2:13God told you
2:17in all six or six books of the Bible all
2:20of those promises are guaranteed based
2:24on the Declaration of your own words
2:31so when you go into the word of God in
2:34the Bible study it find out what are the
2:38promises of God for your life it pushes
2:42you then to speak those promises
2:45and I have to submit to you for those of
2:48us who speak the word not our feelings
2:50not not what's trending for those of us
2:54who will speak the word of God at times
2:56in fact most of the times we will sound
2:59foolish and look stupid
3:04I can't tell you how many of you
3:07people have looked at you because you
3:09spoke what God told you and you looked
3:12foolish
3:13and sometimes you too would look foolish
3:16now the rest of you many of you you're
3:18not declaring what the word of God says
3:20because you don't even know it and if
3:22you do know it you declare it and
3:25because of how people whether it's
3:27family friends Associates people that
3:30you're that you're connected to
3:32intimately and so forth because they
3:35don't believe what you're confessing
3:38it has caused you to retreat
3:41it has caused you to step back and you
3:44saying I'm not going to do that
3:47why because it looks stupid
3:51I'm standing in
3:542023 looking back at 1991.
4:00and saying In This Moment
4:04I am so glad
4:07I took that step of faith
4:10[Applause]
4:13so glad
4:14I took that step of faith
4:17though it was challenging though I
4:20didn't understand what God was doing in
4:22my life
4:23I spoke the words back then in 1991 and
4:2932 years later I'm standing in the
4:32promises of God
4:34I just want to know for those of you
4:38streaming and in the building today
4:42what are some of the regrets you have
4:44had in your life
4:46Looking Back Now
4:49don't you wish 10 years ago 15 years ago
4:5320 years ago when God presented the
4:56opportunity before you
4:58that you had the faith the tenacity
5:02to say I heard God and therefore I'm
5:07going to do it you see we must declare
5:10the promises of God and believe that
5:13every one of them will manifest in our
5:16lives we've got to believe that man
5:19why
5:21why leave the pleasures of your own mind
5:25and your feelings and come to God
5:30and not do
5:32what is required to get you the blessing
5:37let me put it this way
5:39if you're going to be in the Kingdom or
5:43Church
5:44then For Heaven's Sake be the church
5:50if you're going to follow God then
5:53follow him why would you follow him and
5:56not benefit from His blessings Hebrews 6
6:0113 and 14 it actually says when God made
6:05his promise to Abraham I don't want you
6:08to miss this now when God made his
6:10promise to Abraham since there was no
6:14one greater for him to swear by he swore
6:17by himself saying I will surely bless
6:21you and give you many descendants
6:28when God was blessing Abraham
6:32he blessed him and he just said to him
6:36you know what there's no other person
6:39greater for me to swear by so I swear by
6:42my own name I'm not only going to bless
6:44you but I'm going to bless your
6:45descendants
6:47have you ever had a conversation with
6:49someone
6:50and say I swear by my mother's grave
6:55right I swear by my daddy's grave I
6:58swear on the life of my children and so
7:01forth God took an oath
7:04to the almighty himself
7:08and say I swear I'm going to bless you
7:11and if that's truth that's the word of
7:14God I just read it to you it's in the
7:16Bible go look it up
7:18if that's true
7:20why did you allow the devil
7:23and his angels and the voices
7:26to tell you that you're not blessed
7:31why did you allow circumstances in life
7:34to cheat you out of the promises of God
7:37because God told Abraham that he would
7:40bless him and his descendants and that
7:43promise is still alive today
7:47it's still alive today God's no
7:50respecter of persons
7:52the blessings that he spoke in the word
7:54of God it's whosoever will believe
7:57he didn't say you have to you know meet
8:00a certain requirements for the promises
8:02to be on your life all he wants you to
8:05do is to believe his word and to trust
8:07in his word you need to know that the
8:09promises of God are watch this
8:11irreversible unchangeable and
8:13Unstoppable
8:15you cannot reverse it you cannot change
8:18it and you cannot stop it
8:21I submit to you today even though you
8:24don't feel like you're blessed and even
8:26though the manifestation of the blessing
8:28is not yet in your life that doesn't
8:30change the fact that they're still
8:32available because he's spoken in his
8:34word
8:35you see the Bible that you're reading
8:37all of those promises are true and every
8:40one of them can come to pass in your
8:42life even though you don't see it yet in
8:44your life it does your circumstances and
8:47the way you feel and the economy and
8:49what the world is doing cannot nullify
8:52what God has already spoken
8:57are you hearing me and the moment you
9:00begin to believe
9:02believe that God spoke to you
9:05that these are the promises whatever
9:07they are when you read them that's the
9:09moment man it will change your life
9:12forever now one of the reasons
9:14people are not making progress in their
9:17lives it's simply because they are kept
9:20in the dark about what's available to
9:22them
9:24they're kept in the dark
9:27and I submit to you many of you are
9:29watching right now you're here on campus
9:31you're kept in the dark about the
9:35promises of God
9:37trust me when I tell you you are better
9:40greater and more prosperous than you are
9:45and the problem is when you hear people
9:47like me come and we're trying to tell
9:49you and Empower you each and every week
9:51and we're trying to tell you you know
9:53that God has much more for you and you
9:55can be your best self you are you are
9:57better than you currently look right now
9:59you you challenge the words you're
10:01hearing from us because you're thinking
10:04that we're just here to excite you we're
10:06just here to work on your emotions but
10:08here's the thing you will never know
10:10what we're telling you is true if you
10:13don't go in search of it
10:15the Bible says the truth you know
10:19will set you free
10:21and the way to know the truth is to go
10:23where the truth is
10:25get into the word of God and the word of
10:27God will show you exactly what God wants
10:30you to hear get out of the dark
10:32get out of the darkness get into The
10:35Marvelous Light of the word of God and
10:38figure out what God is saying concern in
10:41every area of your life let me tell you
10:43something my brothers and sisters it's
10:45not enough just to say you are a
10:47Christian it's not enough just to go to
10:49church it's not enough just to go and
10:52and go through the rituals and want
10:54Miracles and and want to speak in
10:56tongues and shout and I get I believe in
10:59all of those things that's not what you
11:02a Christian
11:07see for years we have used that we have
11:10used this emotion
11:13to make people think that's what makes
11:15you a Christian what makes you a
11:17Christian is when you go to God and you
11:20say God I Surrender my life to you I'm
11:22totally depend upon your word and you
11:25read his word and you walk out his word
11:27every day that's why the Bible says
11:29adjust
11:31should live not by going to church
11:35not by going through the rituals that's
11:37not how you live and many of you are
11:40living beneath your privileges because
11:43you don't know the word
11:48if you don't know the word and you're
11:49delaying your blessings
11:51so you need to understand that the word
11:53of God is available to you if you don't
11:56spend time reading the Bible and finding
11:58out what those promises are
12:01then you will live your life not
12:04maximizing your full potential
12:09if you don't go in search watch this and
12:12I don't know who I'm talking to
12:14if you do not go in search
12:17of finding out what are the promises of
12:20God for your life not the preacher not
12:24your neighbor not even your spouse not
12:27even the person you're dating
12:28if you don't pursue God
12:32for him to reveal himself
12:36to you
12:39I promise you
12:41you're going to live another five years
12:45of unproductivity
12:48you're going to live another 10 years
12:50of going around a circle
12:55ending up at the same place
12:58and sadly
13:01We will bury some of you
13:05and place you in a
13:07casket
13:10with your potential
13:13locked up in a body that's going to
13:15rotten
13:18all because
13:20you're not in search watch this of the
13:23truth
13:24you're not in search of finding out why
13:27that God made me a woman
13:30and for what reason
13:33why did he Place me on the planet as a
13:35female why did he Place me on the planet
13:38as a male
13:40why did he give me the skills
13:44that he gave me
13:46why did he have allow me to be born
13:49in this particular location or at this
13:52particular location why did he allow me
13:55to be born to the family that I was born
13:58in God strategically does things he
14:01never makes a mistake
14:03therefore it is your responsibility to
14:07find out why are you here
14:10why are you in Florida why are you in
14:12New York why are you in L.A why are you
14:14in DC why are you in Atlanta why are you
14:16in the Caribbean you've got to find out
14:19why and it's all in the Bible
14:25it's all there
14:27but you will never know your purpose in
14:30life
14:31because you have yet to speak the word
14:34today
14:36some of you are seeking for your future
14:38you want to find out you know or you
14:40want to be in your future I want to be
14:42this I I just want to get this I want to
14:44experience this
14:46but the things you're saying today
14:48doesn't align itself up
14:52well what's your dream in
14:55right it's because the things you're
14:57doing the things that you're saying
15:00well I'm going to be great
15:02I'm going to be a good person I'm going
15:04to open a business I'm going to get
15:06married one day and I'm going to have a
15:08lot of money and and I know I'm not
15:10going to spend the rest of my life being
15:11broke but but but related wait a minute
15:14let's start listening to what you were
15:16saying you're going to be great but yet
15:19still child I don't know
15:21all right now I just don't feel uh you
15:24know I'm struggling things are just so
15:27difficult and it's hard and and I don't
15:30know and I don't know if I'm gonna make
15:31it you can't be speaking
15:34those words
15:37expecting to receive a positive
15:40outcome
15:43are you hearing me the Bible says life
15:46and death are in the power
15:48of your tongue so be careful of what
15:51you're saying because the moment you
15:52align yourself up with the word of God
15:55and what he has for your life and seek
15:57to know his voice
16:00that's the moment you begin to live your
16:02life based on Divine promise
16:07versus
16:09superstitious or good luck or human
16:13reasoning
16:16some of you are more lean into
16:18superstition
16:21you know you believe in some of you and
16:24I'm not trying to knock your life down
16:25whatever but you believe in all of these
16:28astrologies and these signs
16:32probably got up this morning you got
16:34your phone let me see
16:36let me just see what today is for me oh
16:39I'm Tara so let me see what it says
16:42about the bull
16:45you keep listening to that bowl and you
16:47see what's going to happen
16:56you find answers in the book
17:00not in the birth signs
17:02[Applause]
17:06because the truth is if I was to look at
17:08my birth sign Taurus if I was to look at
17:10it man I can guarantee there some days
17:13it's going to tell me some crazy stuff
17:14and so forth I don't live by that
17:18I don't live by that I don't live by
17:21some stone or some sign or some color or
17:24some picture of some animal I live by
17:26the word of God
17:28by his word
17:32and if God says you're blessed you're
17:34already blessed so you will only get to
17:36know the promises of God when you go in
17:38search of them
17:40so when you and that's the moment you
17:43can distinctively recognize his voice
17:45because when you get into the word of
17:47God he then starts speaking to you it
17:50then pushes you to pray and pray
17:52accurately when you know what the
17:55promises of God are for your life it
17:57becomes less and less complicated
18:02when it comes to you living your life
18:07I believe some of you are at a pivotal
18:10point in your life right now I think
18:12recently I preached a message
18:14about how to be at a Crossroad in your
18:20life
18:21and use that
18:23to make you or cause you to evolve
18:26into your next great season
18:31that you have to begin to
18:34speak
18:36the word of God into your now
18:40and see the future by faith now Faith is
18:48now Faith is the substance
18:53of things
18:56hoped for
18:58so your faith should be now everybody
19:01say now
19:03right now regardless of what you're
19:07going through
19:08your beliefs today
19:11must represent where you're going
19:19wherever you're going
19:21this ministry is here today because 32
19:26years ago I wrote The Vision I made it
19:29plain we were not there yet
19:32but I wrote it down
19:35and I took some crazy
19:38Giant Steps of Faith
19:40to declare where we are going
19:43and I look at it today
19:46and I can honestly confess to you it
19:50works
19:52it works
19:55change the way you're speaking and
20:00change the way you're acting
20:04let me say it again change the way
20:06you're speaking and change the way
20:09you're acting
20:12where do you see yourself 10 years from
20:14now
20:15does it align itself up with God's will
20:17for your life
20:19is that what God wants for you
20:22are you hearing his voice
20:24is he telling you this is what I need
20:27you to do are you pursuing things you
20:29have no business pursuing
20:32but when you know God has spoken to you
20:36and he has told you
20:39what you need to do
20:42put your life on the line
20:46for it
20:49you will thank yourself
20:52later in the future
20:57let me take you back just for a moment
21:01into
21:03July 6th
21:061991 a day before the church started
21:13I knew God told me
21:15start this church
21:17that I feel qualified absolutely not
21:21did I have the resources absolutely not
21:26was I petrified yes
21:31yes but I heard him
21:34I did not seek this
21:38I heard him
21:40what are you hearing God say to you
21:45what is he telling you
21:48but Pastor I'm scared it's okay
21:53that's a sure sign
21:56that he's telling you to do something
21:58because I have discovered in all my
22:02years of following God
22:04where he leads you
22:06is not comfortable places
22:09[Music]
22:11God will stretch you beyond your human
22:15capacity
22:16[Music]
22:18beyond what you think you can do on your
22:20own
22:22so he
22:23stretching me
22:25July 6 1991
22:30after I followed him
22:32and he said go you're going to start
22:34this church
22:36you're going to start this church
22:39I have nobody
22:41I have no money
22:42it's gonna bless you
22:46and I did something that Saturday
22:50that I will never forget for the rest of
22:52my life
22:53I spoke the word I spoke where I'm going
22:56I believe God that he told me to start
22:59the church but here's where most of you
23:01fail
23:03it's the doing
23:06you can hear
23:08but are you willing to do because in
23:12doing
23:12he'll make you look stupid
23:19I took
23:21my own money which by the way
23:25if you're not willing to invest
23:29in your own destiny don't expect anybody
23:33to invest in helping you get there
23:37[Applause]
23:38I took my own money
23:41and I bought a drum set
23:46story
23:47I bought a drum set
23:49I don't play drums
23:52but I bought a drum set
23:55and I put it into my car the trunk and
23:58the back seat
23:59and I came to this cool cafeteria
24:02we haven't started the church yet I have
24:06no musician I have no members
24:10but I said God I know you've called me
24:13to do this
24:15therefore we need musicians we need
24:19equipments
24:21the reason why I didn't buy the keyboard
24:23and the guitar and so forth I didn't
24:25have the money
24:28all I had was enough for a drum set
24:31and I bought it
24:32and I drove to the school cafeteria
24:36watch this and I set it up
24:41set it up
24:44first day of service the next day the
24:46seventh there was nobody there to play
24:48it
24:51who God is talking to
24:53that all he wants from you is to believe
24:56and set it up
24:59[Music]
25:03[Applause]
25:04[Music]
25:05take
25:08an object
25:11that is connected to your destiny
25:14and set it up
25:16[Music]
25:20put it on display
25:23and for weeks
25:27I would set it up every week because I
25:29could not leave it in the school room
25:32every Saturday we'll set it up and pull
25:35it down Sunday afternoon it looks stupid
25:41but I set it up
25:42[Music]
25:45and I believe it was my faith
25:49keep preaching
25:51finally
25:52young man a young man came in and saw it
25:56and said I'd like to play it was
25:58actually the first Minister music we had
26:00his son started playing the drum
26:04and 32 years later look what we got
26:08what we got
26:10well watch this
26:13this is why I brought this story up
26:15because many of you don't even realize
26:18the reason why you can't make progress
26:20in life
26:22is because there was a test
26:26in the past that you should have
26:29sat and passed
26:33you are now in your future but you are
26:37not qualified to handle it
26:39because you have no experience
26:42some of the very things that God's been
26:45telling you to
26:48do you're sitting
26:53you're cynical and God done everything
26:55when God was challenging you what did I
26:59tell you to do and what object are you
27:02willing to put in your life to paint the
27:05vision and write it so that anybody who
27:09sees it will believe in it had I not put
27:13that drum set on stage
27:17that young man would have walked in and
27:20wouldn't have connected with his gifts
27:22he had a gift of plan and he saw nobody
27:26was playing it
27:28and therefore
27:30he said that's my call-in
27:33had I not passed that test watch this
27:36this is going to bless you
27:37little did I no
27:42that me putting up that drum set and
27:44watching it for weeks upon weeks
27:47looking stupid and ain't nobody going
27:50there it looks crazy it didn't make any
27:52sense
27:54I have no idea
27:56that years later
28:00when I started believing God for
28:02children
28:04and doctor said it's not possible
28:06you need to adopt it's never going to
28:09happen but I heard God told me
28:12if he had not told me
28:15definitively that I would have children
28:18of my own I would have quickly adopted
28:21but I heard him
28:24and when I heard him I said
28:27I'm gonna go back into my past
28:31I'm going back into my past
28:34and I am going to remember
28:37the faith step that I took
28:41and I'm going to bring it into my future
28:47and I am going to activate it again so
28:51here's what I did I know it sounds
28:54stupid I know it sounds crazy but
28:57because I heard God said you will have
28:59kids and when I place the drum set out
29:02somebody started playing it and now we
29:04got plenty of musicians I went to Babies
29:07R Us
29:09I know I know I know it sounds crazy
29:14I went to Babies R Us Carol and I and I
29:17said we're gonna buy some stuff here
29:20and I tell you what
29:21we we were not we were not pregnant
29:24I said we're gonna have a boy
29:27so let's buy blue stuff you know stuff
29:29with the color blue
29:31and we bought a whole lot of stuff
29:34crazy
29:36and when we bought them we got into the
29:39kids room
29:41and we decorated the boys room oh thank
29:45you God we decorated his room had
29:49everything that if the boy was to be
29:52born a month later
29:55everything was there
29:57everything was there and I know it
30:00sounds stupid
30:02but it worked back then
30:06it'll work again today
30:09and
30:12this is where you're not going to
30:14celebrate with me now
30:17I decorated the room
30:21and it stayed decorated
30:25for seven long years
30:31[Music]
30:33four seven long years
30:37we decorated a room
30:41to look like our vision to look like our
30:44purpose to look like our destiny to look
30:48like our promise and for seven years
30:51nothing was happening but how many of
30:54you know the number seven says it is
30:58done it is complete there's a number
31:01eight coming a year of new beginnings
31:04God knows how to show up in your life
31:09yeah and after seven years
31:15I didn't change it
31:17I didn't get depressed
31:19and get rid
31:21of the image that I've created that's
31:23why never get rid of the confession that
31:27you're making never let people or your
31:30feelings change your mind from believing
31:33God
31:34and we left it there
31:36[Music]
31:38and on the eighth year
31:41boom
31:42boom
31:44[Applause]
31:44[Music]
31:47[Applause]
31:49Boom the eighth year
31:51[Music]
31:52we found out that we were now pregnant
31:55watch this now
31:57found out
31:59and this is it now this is our clothes
32:02man
32:03when we found out that we were pregnant
32:04we were so excited
32:06excited because now we know
32:08it's working it's working
32:11it's working y'all can laugh at me all
32:13you want ain't nothing wrong with me
32:16nothing wrong with me
32:19some of you the Lord told me to tell you
32:21ain't nothing wrong with you it's just
32:24his timing
32:26ah it's just about his timing When God
32:30says it's time nobody can change that
32:34nobody can block that nobody can stop it
32:38when he says it's time he'll sour you
32:42down with blessings
32:45foreign
32:46[Music]
32:48[Applause]
32:50it was just time
32:53so when the baby was born I was excited
32:56excited and said God you know because
32:58you have to remember my first child I
33:01was uh 37.
33:03I had my first child I never wanted uh
33:06to have my first child at 37 I wanted to
33:09have my last child at 37 I thought I was
33:13just getting too old and whatever
33:1537 and then I said okay because The
33:18Floodgate was now open
33:21what
33:22what
33:23The Floodgate was not open God proved to
33:27me that when he speaks a word it will
33:30come to pass I said to my wife we're
33:33going to try again honey we got to have
33:35it 16 months later 16 years we waited
33:38for the first kid sick
33:40sick later she was back in the hospital
33:46pregnant again to the point this is
33:48funny to the point that the moment we
33:50had the second child Elijah he's
33:52backstage now in the control room
33:54working I mean when Elijah was born we
33:57had to say God stop now shut that down
33:59no more
34:01how would you like a blessing from the
34:03Lord that you have to tell God
34:06that's enough
34:08that's too much
34:11you've been too good God I I get it
34:14there's somebody else but that's enough
34:21[Applause]
34:23what are you willing to speak into your
34:26today
34:29so that your future
34:31will represent what your confession is
34:34today
34:36I don't know who is watching your
34:38streaming or in this room
34:40and you say pastor
34:42what I'm saying what I'm believing I can
34:46honestly say is not in alignment
34:49but today
34:51I want to paint a picture
34:54of what God says about my life
34:58and I want the world to see it man
35:02if there's ever time I'm serious to do
35:04something stupid and ridiculous to get
35:07my breakthrough today on this church
35:09anniversary day you're in the Faith
35:12Center
35:12having a faith experience I want to make
35:16to to let the world know
35:19I'm not playing with my life this time
35:23before I die I must be a true
35:27representation of God's will for my life
35:30if that's you serve that's you ma'am and
35:33you feel that God spoke to you through
35:35this sermon
35:36quickly get down to this front I want to
35:39close this service
35:42by praying for you
35:46all are not lost
35:50there's still more room
35:54and there's still an opportunity
35:57for you to step into your greatness
35:59Wherever You Are
36:01squeeze your way in
36:04squeeze your way in squeeze your way in
36:07squeeze your way in those of you are
36:11streaming
36:12just go ahead
36:14and post your comments and tell us
36:16please pray for me give your first name
36:19if you want to I want to pray for you I
36:22believe today is going to be the
36:25birthing of something new in your life
36:27but are you willing to step out in faith
36:31and do what others would think it is
36:34absolutely crazy it's absolutely crazy
36:38now in the back row we can still get
36:41some I just want as many people out of
36:43the aisle as much as possible I wish
36:46those of you are streaming could have
36:48been here
36:49but I am telling you
36:51if you walk away with this sermon today
36:53or this little word of encouragement
36:55that I just gave you if you walk away
36:58believe in it
37:00and don't just live on Bishop's
37:03testimony that's me
37:05I live that
37:07it's for you
37:10to act upon what you believe in God for
37:13so that one day you too can have a stage
37:17to share your own testimony
37:20the people that I'm looking at right now
37:22the man that I'm looking at the woman
37:24that I'm looking at right now I'm
37:25telling you I feel it deep in my spirit
37:31you are Your Own Worst Enemy
37:35it's not people
37:37it's not your circumstances
37:40the fact is you do not believe
37:44you say kind of
37:47like you believe but you really don't
37:48believe why because your actions don't
37:52match what you believe
37:55and if you
37:57do the test today and say God I believe
37:59you
38:00I have nothing to lose today
38:03I trust you
38:05you told me certain things I'm just
38:07going ahead go ahead and do it you told
38:09me to turn my life over to you God I'm
38:11just going to do it I know I'm dependent
38:13on this I'm dependent on that but you
38:15know what God I'm just going to trust
38:17you watch what he'll do in your life God
38:19you told me to start this business God
38:21you told me to go ahead and buy the
38:22house and whatever it is and so forth so
38:25like this lady one of the three things
38:27God told me
38:29one of the three things God told me and
38:31I wrote it down here I want to find it
38:33quickly one of the three things God told
38:35me here it is
38:37about this season he told me to declare
38:40three things I said it a couple of
38:42Sundays ago
38:43he said declare this over this house
38:45number one he said you will have a
38:48spiritual Revival
38:51that's what's happening to you right now
38:54you're having a spiritual Revival
38:57somehow
38:59you're experiencing God in a different
39:01way
39:03you're sitting and you're in worship and
39:05you're hearing the preached word of God
39:08and something is working on the inside
39:10of you
39:12some of you
39:13it's just tell the truth man since you
39:16show up at campus the moment you enter
39:19the building it's like you're just
39:21crying
39:22tears on the inside and physical tears
39:25on the outside why the presence of God
39:28is strong in the building
39:31and it has consumed you that's a
39:34spiritual Revival a spiritual Revival is
39:37not clapping and a lot of singing and
39:38music no
39:40it is a spiritual encounter
39:44and that's what's happening number two
39:46and this is for the young lady who spoke
39:48to me this morning God told me to
39:50declare Supernatural Acquisitions over
39:54this house
39:55simply means in spite of what's
39:58happening if you dare to believe him
40:02watch how you are going to acquire real
40:06estates
40:08watch how you're going to get homes
40:11watch out you purchase lands because I
40:15know
40:16getting into some of you maybe you're
40:18thinking I'm going to church and the
40:21pastor is telling me that I'm going to
40:23acquire a house in real estate here's
40:26what the enemy will make you to believe
40:28that's why I don't like these churches
40:30because it's all vanity it's all
40:33materialism
40:35and if you're not careful you believe it
40:38because you think coming to church is
40:41just
40:42Lord we thank you Lord we praise you
40:46Lord we honor you and watch this and to
40:49serve God and to be ready that if you
40:52die today and the Rapture takes place
40:54you're making it into heaven so
40:57therefore your mind should only be
40:59centered on getting to heaven and ignore
41:05your Earthly assignment
41:08when God took the children of Israel out
41:12of Egypt after they've worked for over
41:15400 plus years
41:17and everything they worked for was
41:21stolen from them
41:23foreign stolen
41:27history has repeated itself today
41:30the God's people the children of Israel
41:34400 years they they were enslaved
41:39by Taskmaster
41:41I'm about to say something that's going
41:43to shock the world
41:45I may not live to see it I may not live
41:49to see it
41:50but I promise you
41:53what was done to blacks
41:57and have enslaved us I promise you this
42:02Earth got to repay it back it's history
42:06I'm telling you 400 years God living
42:13but watch this when he liberated them
42:16they were leaving Egypt doing Church
42:20tambourines celebrated we're delivered
42:24now we're getting out of here read your
42:25Bible God had to stop them because it's
42:28not about church
42:30music and getting high God said to them
42:34wait wait wait wait wait
42:36what are you doing
42:39oh well you know we just celebrating our
42:41freedom okay
42:43here's what I need you to do
42:46I need you to go back
42:48to the place that enslaved you
42:52every penny you earn
42:55go and get it
43:00go and get it and they did but here's
43:04the point that I'm making when God told
43:06them
43:08he's going to give them a promise
43:10it was not a Heavenly promise
43:15when he said I'm going to send you to a
43:17Promised Land the children of Israel
43:19were not sent on a journey to get to
43:22heaven
43:24they were sent to acquire a piece of
43:27Real Estate
43:29isn't it strange that up to this day
43:34men are still fighting over that little
43:37piece of Real Estate
43:41when God makes you a promise
43:43you better go and get it
43:46you better go get it this is a season so
43:50young lady you spoke to me this morning
43:52you need to do your part
43:55you go find your realtor
43:58you you start don't worry about money
44:00don't worry about credit I can tell you
44:02I told you before I was certified broke
44:06I had a PhD in being broke
44:10seriously certified AAA broke
44:17but I worked the word
44:20don't tell me
44:22that you being a Christian
44:25should not want a piece of God's Earth
44:31because he promised you that
44:33[Music]
44:34finally
44:36he says uncommon
44:38unexpected resources are going to come
44:42in your life
44:42[Music]
44:45while you're sitting there worried about
44:47where the money is going to come from
44:48yeah God's got some people
44:52who he has already assigned watch this
44:56maybe he's just waiting for you to cast
44:58a vision
45:00you know why we're in this building
45:03for about 22 years now or 21 22. you
45:06know why we're in here
45:08because one day God told me
45:10it's time to leave a Lauderhill
45:12did we have the money no
45:16did we have the people to fill this
45:18place out no
45:20but God told me it's time to move
45:23and he interrupted my plans watch this
45:26and he told me one Sunday after I
45:28preached he says get in your car and I
45:31want you to drive West that's why it's
45:33so important to hear God I got in my car
45:36I drove West he said turn down 95th here
45:39and I said
45:41I know this is sunrise musical theater
45:43you couldn't even see it because the
45:44trees there was nothing out from from I
45:47think it's his um Pine Island West there
45:49was nothing out here
45:51and the Lord said
45:52when I drove up he said now that's your
45:54building I said
45:56what what's this
46:01he made a promise
46:03I shall build him
46:05he may be telling you that's your house
46:07but your attitude I can't afford it
46:10if he tells you
46:13it's yours do not worry where the
46:16money's come from so I was crazy enough
46:19to say Okay God I believe you all right
46:21this is ours and so forth watch this
46:24God always got a ram clock
46:28in the thicket
46:29always got somebody assigned to you and
46:33I didn't know where the money was coming
46:34from I'm not I'm gonna put a disclaimer
46:37here
46:37do not do this if God did not speak to
46:40you
46:41put a disclaimer out there what I'm
46:43about to tell you do not do it if God
46:45never told you to do it
46:47but you see I've got crazy faith I
46:50called up the people who own this and so
46:52forth and the Lord told me certain
46:54instructions one he said do not ever let
46:58them see you until the day of closing
47:01the day of closing I knew why
47:04because when we went to closing
47:07there was one white man apart from their
47:11lawyers
47:12everybody else on their side were white
47:14lawyers and there was one white guy on
47:18my side
47:19who was the guy who loaned us the money
47:22so when they were saying Bishop
47:24Fernandez
47:25we want you to sign the paper
47:28guess who they turned the file over to
47:30the white man
47:33God told me
47:35don't let them see you until the day of
47:39closing when I turned the file over when
47:41Robert turned the file back from himself
47:44to me and said Bishop Fernandez now you
47:47sign true story they left the room
47:53they left the room because we outsmarted
47:58them
48:01they left the roof I'm telling you
48:07but it was
48:09when I signed the contract and it says
48:11okay I'm believing God
48:15that old white man he's in heaven now
48:20that whole white man on a Wednesday with
48:23his wife
48:24I mean you look at them they look poor I
48:27learned this one thing rich people do
48:30not flaunt their wealth
48:35[Applause]
48:39I looked at them two people and I says
48:43God
48:45and they said I want to speak to Henry
48:48I met them that Wednesday
48:51and he said I heard you're trying to buy
48:54a building
48:56I'd like to go see it
48:58I said I can arrange that
49:00we call Sunrise musical theater and I
49:03said can we see the building
49:06and they did open up
49:08that Monday excuse me Thursday
49:14I walked in this building and I started
49:16telling Robert everything that I'm going
49:18to do started speaking
49:20broke no money
49:23I started sharing with him what I
49:25believe the Lord told me to do and when
49:28we got on the stage here in the
49:31auditorium it wasn't as nice as this
49:33because we spent millions of dollars
49:35since we have acquired it to get it to
49:37where it is today and I remember walking
49:39on this stage didn't own it
49:42and I kept saying God told me I'm going
49:45to be speaking to the world
49:48and little did I know
49:51an old white man
49:55took us Carol and I in the lobby
49:59and then finally he said let's pray
50:01Henry
50:02because he was my angel
50:05and he said
50:06Lord
50:08if this building
50:11belongs to Henry and Carol
50:14Let It Be amen
50:16that was it
50:19we didn't we didn't grease no chairs we
50:22didn't oil no table we didn't all down
50:24no door he just said if it's theirs and
50:27you know what he did
50:28he just said here's my number
50:31I'll call I'll call you the next day
50:35true story
50:36I'm trying to build somebody's Faith
50:38there's something I believe in God for
50:40on this anniversary
50:42I'm telling you God's guided all worked
50:46out
50:48when the man called me the next day he
50:52said how much they want for the building
50:55I said well it's 7.7 million dollars
51:00we were able to acquire about a half a
51:03million dollars we put down on it
51:06and he said so how much do you have left
51:10I said we have nothing left sir
51:13if you know the story I gave away 120
51:15000 ten thousand dollars each to some
51:17Churches
51:18and the man said these words to me he
51:21was my angel
51:23who's your angel
51:25maybe there's somebody already assigned
51:27to ask you the same question
51:29he said
51:31what is your account number
51:36he asked me a question
51:38what is your account number
51:41it's kind of like what God was saying to
51:43me
51:45where's your faith
51:47and for some of you I'm like that too
51:50the first thing when he asked me for my
51:52account number
51:53I kind of was like whoa wait a minute
51:57no because that's private
52:00that's personal no one would give their
52:03account number out to people
52:07but I heard God said to me and this is
52:10how me and God talks so you may disagree
52:11with me fool
52:13there is no money in it
52:18sometimes we try to hold on to things
52:20that have no what value
52:25God says there ain't no money in it
52:28I took a step of faith
52:31read my account number
52:33the uh what you call it the routing
52:35number
52:36I guess you're all getting transfers to
52:39gave it to him
52:41and in 48 hours
52:47six point whatever one million dollars
52:51was wired to this church account
52:5448 hours
53:01man never asked me for my social
53:03security number nothing
53:05[Music]
53:06six point something million dollars
53:10given to the church just like that don't
53:13tell me God don't have your connections
53:18so do me a favor
53:21everybody in the building would you
53:22please stand those of you are streaming
53:24and lift your hands towards heaven now
53:26come on this is it this is it
53:29I wanted to challenge you I know I went
53:32overtime today
53:34but it's anniversary
53:36you needed to hear this word
53:39you needed to receive this impartation
53:40so as you lift your antennas towards
53:43heaven father
53:44we thank you
53:46that our words are going to frame our
53:49world
53:50the things we're about to say we're
53:53speaking life
53:55into our future
53:56[Music]
53:57we speak into our tomorrow
54:00telling it it will align itself up to
54:02your word every promise that you've made
54:05to us
54:06all of us in this room all of us who are
54:09streaming in the mighty name of Jesus we
54:11declare it shall manifest
54:15so father we thank you for the spiritual
54:18Revival that's taken place in the lives
54:21of your people we thank you Father for
54:24men and women daughters and sons and
54:26husbands and fathers God that they are
54:29returning to you that they are
54:31surrendering their lives to you that
54:33they are yielding their selves and their
54:35spirit and their will
54:37to your will and purpose for their lives
54:42but God I believe every Earthly promise
54:44that you made to them
54:49God for what is rightfully theirs and
54:52that's a piece of real estate this is
54:54the year father for your people to
54:56acquire their own property so that they
54:58can create their own wealth father in
55:01the name of Jesus we rebuke poverty over
55:05our people in the name of Jesus we break
55:09that generation of curse in the name of
55:12Jesus we will leave an inheritance for
55:16our children
55:18we rebuke it now in the name of Jesus we
55:22thank you that you've assigned people in
55:24their lives
55:26to get them to the next level
55:28we thank you for the approval that Satan
55:30says no to in the name of Jesus I see
55:33the approval I see the open doors God I
55:36see The Uncommon favor and resources
55:40coming in their lives and father we give
55:42you praise honor and Glory that one day
55:45every human being in this building and
55:49who's streaming today will have their
55:51own testimony of your faithfulness of
55:54your goodness it shall
55:56in the mighty name of Jesus we declare
55:59it and we receive it now and we speak
56:02the blessing we speak the blessing we
56:05speak the blessing we speak the Blessed
56:08we speak the blessing over your people
56:11now
56:12in the name of Jesus
56:15before I release you
56:18on our 32nd anniversary
56:22to go
56:24and believe God
56:26in spite of all Arts believe God for the
56:31great things walk in faith open your
56:35mouth and declare what God promised you
56:38never walk in doubt believe step out in
56:43faith start that business step out in
56:46faith start the process for that
56:48application step out in faith go back to
56:52school step out in faith reclaim
56:55everything that the devil stole from you
56:59this is your season this is your season
57:03this is your moment this is your moment
57:06seize it
57:08season season
57:12because your faith in your God will move
57:17mountains out of your life God bless you
57:21go in faith go in faith
57:24go in faith go in faith go in faith God
57:30bless you have a great week enjoy the
57:33fellowship in the lobby thank you for
57:35streaming God bless you