Conversations With God
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 5/17/2023Exodus 33:11
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez explores the art of 'Conversations with God,' challenging believers to move beyond religious routines and social media distractions to find a private 'meeting place' with the Father. By mastering the art of listening and comprehending God's voice, we can break generational dysfunctions and move from wandering in the wilderness to possessing our promised abundance.
Key points
- •Effective communication is the cornerstone of successful relationships and requires three specific acts: listening first, comprehending second, and speaking only after the first two are complete.
- •Many people treat God like an ATM, only approaching Him with requests; true conversation with God involves gratitude and being 'real' about one's frustrations and weaknesses.
- •A life marked by the 'Glory Cloud' comes from consistent, private meetings with God (a 'tent of meeting'), which changes how others perceive you and your leadership.
- •Stubbornness and toxic communication styles (driven by past brokenness) act as weights that delay the arrival at your 'Promised Land' and inhibit the creation of wealth and happiness.
- •God is not interested in holding past mistakes over your head; he invites you to strip away pride and ornaments to re-enter his presence and find your way back to your destiny.
Scripture
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Spiritual Growth
Discipleship
Purpose
Restoration
Life application
This week, set up your own 'tent of meeting' by carving out 15 minutes of uninterrupted, private time to be honest with God. Practice listening more than you speak, and before responding to a difficult person in your life, pause to ensure you have truly comprehended their perspective.
Reflection questions
- When was the last time you sat in a room alone just to talk to God without a list of demands?
- Are you currently 'going in circles' in an area of your life because you are refusing to listen to God's instructions or change your communication style?
- What 'ornaments' or weights (pride, malice, social media obsession) do you need to strip away to better experience God's glory?
- In your prayer life, are you being 'confident' like a leader but failing to be a 'wimp' (vulnerable and honest) before God?
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Full transcript
0:00we are living in a world
0:05where everybody is fighting for
0:08attention
0:11please be seated
0:15we're fighting for attention
0:19who we're fighting for voices to be
0:21heard
0:26and I submit to you sometimes I honestly
0:28believe that we're just talking to the
0:30wrong people
0:33because information is very powerful
0:38the information you receive or the
0:41persons you're talking to
0:43can either make you or break you
0:48so I firmly believe that the Lord sent
0:51me here this morning
0:55to bring you into his private chamber
1:01so that you could
1:04have a conversation with him
1:07notice where God has taken you this
1:09morning it's not a place where you can
1:12lean to your friends
1:15the ones
1:17you have to completely
1:19rely
1:22on The Invisible Presence of God
1:29I think our modern day church today have
1:32lost it because
1:35we don't know what it is to live in the
1:38glory of God
1:41let me take you to Exodus 33 verse 11.
1:47an amazing
1:49experienced Moses went through that blew
1:52my mind and I think this is what we're
1:54lacking today
1:57Exodus 33 verse 11 the Bible says the
2:01Lord
2:02would speak to Moses face
2:06to face
2:09as one speaks
2:13to a friend
2:15God would speak to Moses
2:20face to face
2:22as one
2:23who speaks to a friend
2:26so
2:28I want to bring to your attention this
2:30morning the subject
2:32conversations with God
2:37when was the last time you spoke to God
2:42I really mean one-on-one
2:46talking to God is not coming to church
2:50and being involved in praise and worship
2:53or even in listening to a sermon that's
2:55not talking to God
2:58when was the last time you found
3:00yourself
3:04in a room
3:06in an environment
3:08where it was just you
3:10and God
3:13you see our society today has become so
3:17obsessed
3:18with social media and our ability to
3:22communicate with the world
3:25obsessed we are
3:27possessed with it if you will we are
3:30so thirsty and hungry
3:34that
3:35we want to communicate with the world
3:37and our cravings for communication have
3:40led us to create multiple ways of
3:44interacting with each other
3:47multiple ways
3:49yet with all the tools for communication
3:53at our disposal
3:55we are unsuccessful and we fail when it
3:58comes to communicating effectively
4:02with our spouses our children our
4:06friends our co-workers employees and
4:10people in the marketplace
4:12regardless of all the tools we have in
4:15our possession
4:16we fail miserably
4:19at communicating
4:21with people
4:23there are people streaming right now
4:24people in this room your marriage is a
4:27total wreck not that you don't love each
4:29other you just don't know how to
4:31communicate
4:33you don't
4:35you yell at each other
4:38you're selfish with your motives
4:41you don't even know how to communicate
4:43with your kids not knowing that your
4:45kids are not your age they don't live in
4:47your dispensation
4:49and while you probably grew up the way I
4:52grew up where you know
4:54it's back in the 70s and 80s these kids
4:59today have no clue about
5:03your training
5:05and what you had to come up under during
5:08your time
5:10so as a parent you don't listen to your
5:12children
5:13and your children are heard in
5:17because
5:18you have no idea
5:21that you're not communicating properly
5:23with them
5:25you're losing opportunities to be
5:27promoted on the job because you don't
5:30know how to articulate and communicate
5:32your skills to your boss
5:35so therefore you're passed up with many
5:38are passed by I should say with many
5:40opportunities
5:41simply because you don't know how to
5:43communicate
5:45you simply don't know
5:47it has been said that there are
5:49approximately
5:515.1 million apps
5:54in Google Play and Apple Store if you
5:57will
5:58alone
6:001.5 million amps
6:04and these apps are connecting us daily
6:07if you will and given us information
6:10that allows us to communicate with
6:13people
6:15I can't tell you how many apps I've got
6:16on my phone and you too got the same and
6:19we're trying to communicate
6:21and yet still somehow with all these
6:25features
6:26many still find themselves lonely
6:30ignored and misinformed
6:34why is that so
6:36you see successful communication is not
6:39about the amount of twos I should say
6:43successful communication is not about
6:45the amount of tools we have at our
6:48disposal
6:49instead it is about using those tools
6:52properly to communicate
6:55are you communicating properly
6:58when it comes to God are you
7:00communicating with God properly
7:04how do you talk to him
7:06do you just go to him when you want
7:07stuff
7:09or do you come to him God give me give
7:11me give me is that the proper way to
7:13talk to him think about it if all your
7:15kids would do every day come to you Mom
7:17I want this Dad I want this after a
7:20while you're going to say hey wait a
7:21minute can't you just stop for a moment
7:23and be grateful for what you already
7:24have
7:27I mean can't you just come in my room
7:28one day and say Dad Mom I thank you that
7:32you put food on my table
7:35thank you that you clothed me thank you
7:37that I have a roof over my head it's the
7:40same thing with God I mean you just you
7:42need to go to God first of all and and
7:44just thank him that you're alive
7:47oh come on I wish I get a witness here
7:50thank him that you are a live
7:54so when God created you he gave you a
7:57brain two ears a mouth and these tools
8:01are an essential part
8:04of effective communication gave your
8:07brain don't forget this now I'm going
8:09somewhere with this give your brain
8:12he gave you
8:14two years and he gave you a mouth
8:17because effective communication requires
8:20three things and I want you to write
8:21these things down maybe take a
8:23screenshot of the what you'll see come
8:25up on the screen because these three
8:27things are important for effective
8:29communication I promise you it will
8:31probably help your marriage that's
8:33failing
8:34it'll probably help you better
8:36communicate with your children maybe you
8:39own a business and you've got people
8:40working for you it'll probably help you
8:42better communicate with them number one
8:45effective communication requires
8:48listening
8:50listening
8:52some of you just talk too much
8:58listen
9:01hear your spouse out
9:04hmm
9:07person you're dating
9:10hear them
9:13just hear them out first
9:15hear your parents listen
9:19that's the number one most effective art
9:22of communication is to listen I'm going
9:25to walk you through scriptures in just a
9:27minute how Moses was successful
9:31adhering God because he knew how to
9:35communicate with God
9:37gotta learn to listen
9:40you can't be talking talking talking
9:41talking talking talking
9:43all the time
9:45and not listen number two comprehending
9:50if you keep talking and don't listen you
9:53won't understand
9:56I just had a meeting with my staff this
9:58week and I was telling my staff
10:01please
10:03when I'm speaking at times allow me to
10:06finish what I'm saying before you
10:08interrupt me because a lot of times the
10:12stuff you say when you interrupt me have
10:15nothing to do with the question I'm
10:17asking
10:19but you assume
10:22you know where I'm going with the
10:23question
10:24and rather than waiting for me to finish
10:28asking the question
10:30you shoot out an answer
10:32which is irrelevant
10:34to what I'm talking
10:37relevant to what I'm talking about
10:40could it be that you're shooting out
10:43responses
10:45all because you don't know how to
10:47comprehend
10:50things in a conversation
10:52that maybe if you just hear your spouse
10:54out
10:56okay I won't say any okay tell me what
10:58you how you feel
11:00go ahead lay it out
11:03okay
11:04son daughter okay I won't interrupt
11:09tell me how you feel
11:11in the marketplace even in church
11:15okay
11:16even with God
11:18you cannot consume your life run into
11:21God every time give me give me give me
11:24give me give me give me
11:27and don't know what God is saying
11:31because then you will begin to use God
11:33as an ATM machine
11:36only to find out one day you're going to
11:39have what is called something on the
11:42screen that says insufficient funds
11:47you're going to try to withdraw from God
11:49one day and come up empty
11:54so you gotta comprehend
11:57your life will change a whole lot if you
12:00just learn to comprehend listen
12:04try to understand what God is saying and
12:08what people are saying don't assume that
12:12what people are saying is to hurt you
12:17if you don't understand then you'll
12:21assume and finally
12:23effective communicating has to do with
12:26speaking you listen first you comprehend
12:30then you're in a better position to
12:33respond
12:38think about that
12:40somebody's walking out of here canceling
12:42their divorce this morning Praise Jesus
12:50healing takes place
12:53when you listen comprehend
12:56and then you respond so our ability to
12:59master these three simple Acts of
13:02effective communication have caused uh
13:06us huge damages when it comes to our
13:09relationships that otherwise had the
13:12potential of producing three things
13:15happiness self improvement and great
13:19wealth
13:22let's go back to those three things hmm
13:26that your inability
13:28to communicate effectively
13:31have caused you
13:34not having the ability if you will to be
13:38happy
13:40you cannot be happy constantly being
13:43toxic
13:47you will never be happy
13:49when
13:51as a Believer when you don't even know
13:53what God is saying
13:57and it's probably because you're not
14:00with God
14:02you're with your feelings
14:06and you're with all the pain and the
14:09hurt
14:10that you've experienced over the years
14:13some of you the reason why you can't
14:16communicate with God I prove this you
14:19can communicate with God is until you
14:22forgive your brother and sister
14:26you really don't have clear
14:28communication with God
14:31you forget all that stuff speaking in
14:34tongues are shouting Glory Hallelujah if
14:37you've got malice in your heart if
14:39you've got people up in your heart you
14:41need to stop that Madness and you need
14:43to go and speak properly to people laid
14:48all out hear what they're saying then
14:50you can come to God and have good
14:52communication with God
14:54oh this is good
15:00when you can listen
15:03comprehend and speak it also improve
15:08who you are you become your best self
15:10Moses became a great leader because he
15:13had the ability to communicate with God
15:16I'll show it to you in just a minute in
15:18Exodus chapter 33 you will never become
15:21your best self when you're self-centered
15:25and you don't learn
15:27to listen to God
15:30comprehend what he's saying
15:33and then speak when
15:36he gives you permission to speak
15:39the third thing is create wealth
15:44do you know how many marriages in this
15:46room and watching by streaming
15:50that the reason why you're struggling
15:52financially
15:54struggling
15:55your bills ain't paid you're miserable
15:57in the marriage all kinds of crazy stuff
16:00in the relationship no sex nothing
16:04you're beating on the kids you're
16:06beating on the dog every everybody in
16:07the house is toxic
16:10let me tell you the reason why
16:12you don't know how to communicate and
16:14you are hurting your greatness when it
16:17comes to creating wealth and an Empire
16:21because you fail to communicate properly
16:24with each other
16:27in your house
16:29Two Is Better Than One
16:36if you if you can Master the art of
16:40knowing what God is saying about your
16:42relationship even with your children
16:44when it comes to the person you're
16:46dating if you can communicate properly
16:48because maybe maybe it is God's will for
16:50you to marry that person
16:53and with all of the dysfunction that's
16:55in the relationship maybe it's God's
16:57will that you marry that person but the
16:59problem is
17:01nobody's communicating properly
17:04and because you're not communicating
17:06properly you're selfish self-centered
17:09and now you can't create wealth for
17:12yourself
17:15you may make the mistake and leave that
17:17person and say I'm I'm not marrying this
17:19person
17:20and you go marry somebody else
17:24only to find watch this
17:26you marrying the wrong person
17:30and some of you know very well in this
17:32room one of the most painful thing in
17:35your life
17:36is to end up marrying the wrong person
17:43it is
17:45horrible
17:47when you walk down the aisle
17:50and two months later three months later
17:52five years later discover
17:55I'm living
18:01let me see what she just said I was
18:03going to say that
18:04I'm living in hell
18:08that's what she said
18:12we're hurting our destiny
18:17communicate
18:20bought
18:22funds could have been saved up
18:26retirements could have been planned for
18:29but we are angry at each other
18:32we're mad churches could have been
18:35greater
18:37Visions could have been accomplished but
18:39we don't know how to communicate
18:43and recall sermons like these bore in
18:48because what we want are preachers to
18:50come and excite us and we run around
18:53this place and we scream and we're
18:55emotional yet we're dysfunctional people
19:01[Music]
19:03tell your neighbor it's time to change
19:05that come on tell them it's time to
19:06change that man
19:08most of our Communications
19:10are toxic
19:12and driven by our own Brokenness and
19:16generational dysfunctions
19:20let's listen to how we talk
19:23we're talking out of our Brokenness
19:25we're talking out of our pain and we
19:28miss the glory of God
19:30we miss the presence of God in our lives
19:33we miss the presence of God in our
19:36families and so we're so busy hustling
19:39trying to earn money just to pay bills
19:43watch this instead of earning money to
19:46create wealth there's a difference
19:48[Music]
19:51if you're here or watching and all you
19:54do is to earn money to pay bills you
19:58will never create wealth
20:01you will live for the rest of your life
20:03just paying bills the day you switch
20:06your thinking to
20:08I want to make money
20:11to make money
20:12to make money to make money and for
20:15those of you who are so religious and
20:17that's why I don't like to come to these
20:18churches you know they talk about money
20:20and people getting well and we're not
20:22supposed to worry about money all we're
20:23supposed to do is worry about going to
20:25heaven and wait for Jesus return all
20:28right you go on you wait for Jesus I'm
20:31waiting for Jesus but I'm going to
20:32occupy until he comes I'm going to do
20:35what he tells me to do on the Earth
20:41so we rise every
20:44God
20:45find love keep love
20:49to acquire things and happiness yet we
20:52fall short
20:56this could be because we fail miserably
20:59at
21:00properly communicating
21:02what our intentions are and when it
21:05comes to what we want out of life and
21:07maybe this is also the reason we fail at
21:12communicating with God
21:15many of you
21:17have been angry with God
21:20and you're disappointed to the point
21:22where you've withdrawn your commitment
21:25to God
21:27some of you are watching
21:29you don't pray anymore
21:31you know read your Bible anymore
21:33you don't go to church anymore
21:36let's face it we're in a crisis in the
21:39church today
21:41while restaurants are packed
21:44clubs are packed a capacity
21:49people are even calling themselves
21:52Christians are up in nightclubs
21:56party and having fun
22:00paying a lot of money for drinks
22:03[Music]
22:08and no conscience
22:11to give God one day
22:18none
22:20it don't even come under their radar
22:24they don't go to church faithful anymore
22:26yet still they're doing everything else
22:30we're committed
22:33we're on social media and we're talking
22:35to everybody else
22:39we're not talking to God anymore because
22:43we didn't get what we want from him
22:47so we get angry at him
22:49and we get mad
22:51at him
22:54but I want to say that even though
22:56you're disappointed at God
22:59all because you feel that he's not
23:01hearing you because you didn't get what
23:03you prayed for
23:05some of you are quick to say that
23:08you talk to God but he's not listening
23:10to you
23:12God sent me here this morning to tell
23:14you that's not true
23:18he's always there ready to hear you
23:22problem is
23:24he can't communicate with you
23:27because you're not speaking his language
23:37I was
23:39on a flight
23:41one day
23:44and I took the flight from
23:47JFK
23:50I was heading to South Africa to preach
23:54and we got connected into Dubai
23:58and in Dubai we were sitting in the
24:01the the lounge Emirates Lounge
24:07and it was packed
24:11and I sat down and another gentleman not
24:14too far from me sat down
24:17and he's talking he's talking to me
24:23he's saying something to me
24:27obviously it's from a different country
24:30and whatever he's saying
24:32never made sense to me
24:34I don't speak that language
24:37and he looked a little frustrated
24:40because he's I don't know what is I
24:43could tell he's angry
24:46I could tell and I think I can only
24:47assume that maybe because he's trying to
24:50find a seed or I don't know what his
24:51problem was but he would just speaking
24:53speaking speaking speaking and I'm
24:55looking at him and I'm in my mind I
24:57didn't tell him this but I'm like dude I
24:59can't help you I don't know what you're
25:00saying what is your problem or whatever
25:02could it be that when you're sitting in
25:06your frustration talking to God
25:10and God is looking at you and I know God
25:12don't talk like this but God's looking
25:14at you like dude
25:18I don't understand what you're saying
25:21because what you're saying
25:23doesn't connect with
25:25my word
25:35it doesn't connect with my word see my
25:38brothers and sisters what you're gonna
25:39have to understand here is that
25:44Moses
25:46had a conversation and multiple
25:49conversations I would say with God
25:53according to Exodus we find Exodus 33 we
25:58find here the Bible telling us that
26:01Moses
26:02had
26:04a communication with God
26:06according to the verse
26:08here's brother Moses the children of
26:11Israel was leaving
26:13Egypt
26:15they're on their way the Bible says God
26:17made a promise to them
26:20to give them the promised land read it a
26:23land where milk and honey was flowing in
26:25other words the promise was I'm going to
26:27bless you with abundance
26:30you think God doesn't want to bless you
26:32with abundance yes he does
26:35he said to Moses I want you to leave
26:39Where You Are
26:41very important here I want you to catch
26:44this
26:45in order for God to lead Moses and the
26:50Israelites the first instruction he gave
26:53of Moses I want you to gather the
26:57Israelites
26:58and yourself and I want you to leave
27:01Where You Are
27:04in order for you to get to the promised
27:08land in order for you to get to
27:11abundance you cannot remain stagnant
27:16you have to change your location
27:19you got to keep it moving tap your
27:22neighbor and say you got to keep it
27:23moving
27:25he said you got to keep moving gather
27:28the Israelites
27:30and I want to take you to this place
27:33this place filled with abundance so in
27:37Exodus 33 God had a conversation with
27:40Moses and instructed him to leave his
27:43current location like I said before and
27:46he was to tell the Israelites to go with
27:48him to this land that he promised them
27:51there's a promise that God has for us
27:53you see this was a conversation that
27:56took place with watch this Moses alone
28:00God will give you instructions when you
28:04communicate with them properly not only
28:07for yourself but he'll give it to you
28:10for your generation
28:13Moses received it not only for himself
28:15but for a generation God says gather the
28:18Israelites this is Moses and God
28:22and I want you to go to this place that
28:26I promise you
28:28the conversation with Moses included
28:32watch this included instructions that
28:35got him to keep moving
28:37while he was moving the Bible says the
28:40Israelites would set up camp everywhere
28:42they go so let's say they travel for
28:45half a day a couple of Miles they'll
28:48pitch tents
28:50but here's what Moses did ah
28:54in the middle of the camp
28:57Moses would pitch a tent watch this ill
29:02pitch a tent
29:03that's different from the other tents
29:05they're sleeping in
29:07the Bible says in that tent
29:10Moses
29:12would go in
29:15and talk with God
29:17in fact the Bible says that place was
29:21called the place of meeting
29:26picture this man
29:28Moses in the middle of the camp
29:31would have a place
29:33where he would go in a particular tent
29:37and he would sit down
29:39and talk to God
29:42she said not only Moses but the children
29:45of Israel would have the opportunity to
29:47also talk to God and he's sitting there
29:50and he's talking
29:52but
29:56when was the last time
29:59you got into a place where
30:02it's just you and God with all of the
30:05chaos around you
30:07with all of the other things your
30:09children your spouse people your
30:11business the lack of finances
30:14that in the midst of your life
30:17there's a safe place
30:19call your prayer room
30:22where you can go in and you can have a
30:24conversation with God and you can be
30:27real with God and you can be honest by
30:30saying that God as a leader watch this
30:32Moses was leading a bunch read the Bible
30:36a
30:37stubborn stiff necked people that's what
30:41the Bible called
30:43and Moses was smart enough that he
30:46didn't curse them out
30:49he didn't go while he was addressing the
30:51Israelite you bunch of stiff-necked
30:54people I hate you are I'm so sick and
30:56tired of trying to lead you and you
30:58don't even want to go where I want to go
31:00I'm trying to lead you to the promised
31:02land and you're complaining about what
31:04you don't have Moses didn't do that
31:07that's why for those of you who are
31:09leaders be careful how God is entrusted
31:12in you the ability to lead people and
31:14you don't leave them properly you cannot
31:16lead people with frustration
31:21Moses didn't do that he went into the
31:25tent and that's where he would
31:28talk to God
31:32Lord you see that one over there in that
31:34fifth row
31:36that Victory right over there one two
31:38three four five
31:40about halfway in the middle of the sea
31:44now that one that's a difficult one that
31:47one is trying me that one is testing me
31:49fast forward it God
31:51I want to talk to you
31:54I want to talk to you God because I'm
31:55single
31:58I've been waiting
32:00I've been trusting you
32:03and I believe that you want me to do it
32:05right but God I'm anxious
32:08I'm panicking
32:10I don't I'm frustrated
32:13because everybody I'm dating they're not
32:15the one
32:20[Applause]
32:35having that conversation with god
32:41and listening to what God has to say
32:44it's not just you God God God God
32:48this is how I'm feeling
32:50God you know look God I have a good job
32:54but Lord It's one income or it's two
32:57income it's not working God
32:59it's not working I don't have the money
33:02I've got five thousand dollars to pay
33:04out every month I only bring in four
33:07thousand and then that little Fernandez
33:09up there at the Faith Center be up there
33:11every Sunday they talk about I'm
33:13supposed to give 10 percent of that God
33:15I can't do that
33:18see when you when you are honest to God
33:23work with me here man
33:27[Music]
33:29because I'm about to show you
33:32what brought what God brought into Moses
33:36life
33:37that most of you are missing
33:39because you don't know how to have a
33:41conversation with god
33:43being real with God
33:46I'm not talking people
33:48because sometimes people are
33:50unreasonable you can't communicate with
33:51them but when you start communicating
33:54with God your feelings Moses as the
33:57leader was true to God he was saying God
34:00first of all you told me to leave where
34:02I was and I'm trying to lead these
34:05people and it's been a long journey and
34:07we don't see the promised land yet
34:10and then on top of that God they're
34:12complaining
34:15they're inconsistent they're complaining
34:17and I don't know what to do
34:20and when Moses would go out there as a
34:22leader he would stand up like a
34:24confident leader but when he's in the
34:26room with god he's a wimp okay
34:29[Applause]
34:32that's how you ought to be as a
34:33Christian
34:35when you go out into the world you walk
34:38out in confidence and you let them know
34:40I can do all things through Christ who
34:44gives me the strength I have the power
34:47and the ability to succeed you do that
34:50every day but oh when you get into your
34:52prayer room with God God
34:54[Applause]
34:56if you don't help me right now I am
35:00about to lose my mind I'm about to slap
35:04that husband of mine I'm about to slap
35:08that white God come get your boy cause
35:12I'm about to kill my children God I'm
35:16about to rob a bank I don't know what
35:19I'm gonna do but God help me
35:23do I have some real people up in here
35:26today help me God has anybody been in
35:30their prayer room said God if you don't
35:32help me today I'm not gonna make it
35:35tomorrow
35:36[Applause]
35:40and when you finish crying and when you
35:43finish hollowing and balling before God
35:45here comes you put on your clothes go to
35:47work good morning hallelujah praise
35:50Jesus Hallelujah they don't know that
35:53you've been crying your heart out
35:56oh somebody ought to give God a praise
35:58in this place today
36:03tap your neighbor and say never let them
36:05see you sweat never never let your
36:07enemies see you sweat you go out there
36:10like a woman and like a man and square
36:12your shoulders and conquer the world but
36:15when you get into the presence of God
36:17God I surrender all to you I don't know
36:21how I'm gonna get through tomorrow but
36:24my trust is in you
36:28[Applause]
36:32so Moses had this conversation
36:36and I close with this man this is the
36:39part that got me read it man
36:43the Bible says one day
36:46Moses left
36:48the people
36:50watch this
36:53and I don't know what conversation he
36:55was about to have with God
36:57but this one must be deep
37:02if you ever get real with God
37:05God will get real with you
37:09[Applause]
37:10[Music]
37:13so Moses left the children of Israel
37:17and the Bible says he walked up
37:20to the tent
37:22and he got
37:25in the tent
37:28and he sat down
37:31perhaps God was on the other side
37:35I don't know what he was talking to God
37:37about
37:38and maybe the reason why the Bible
37:40didn't give us specifics on the
37:44conversations
37:46it is because
37:48we must later in the 21st century fill
37:51in the blanks
37:53[Music]
37:55whatever they were talking about read it
37:59the Bible says
38:01the children of Israel
38:04saw a pillar of clouds
38:07[Music]
38:09consume the entrance of the tent
38:13the glory of God was with Moses so much
38:17whatever conversation he was having with
38:21God the power of God was so evident that
38:26when they look they saw the glory cloud
38:31and it marveled it baffled the people
38:34the children of Israel and I'm just here
38:37today to tell you you want to get into
38:39the presence of God where you have a
38:41conversation with god with the glory of
38:44God will consume your life where people
38:46will look at you and say I don't know
38:49what she has done I don't know where he
38:51has been but I sense that God is with
38:54him I sense that God is with her the
38:57presence and power of God has consumed
39:00their lives
39:04that's the kind of conversation you want
39:08with God
39:11that in the midst of the tent
39:14or the campground I should say
39:16Israelites were all over the place
39:19but in the midst of it
39:22there was this tent
39:24and it was a meeting place
39:28where not only Moses
39:32but the people of God
39:35could go and have a conversation
39:38and in the midst of the conversation
39:40[Music]
39:45the glory
39:48would show up
39:50the glory would show up
39:52in such a way
39:53[Music]
39:55that whatever is bothering Moses
40:01whatever the children of Israel are
40:03struggling with picture this there in
40:05the camp
40:07they got a promise what's the promise
40:10you're going to
40:12the land that I promise you
40:14but God the journey is too long
40:17it doesn't make sense I don't understand
40:19what's happening
40:21the Bible said
40:23the people
40:25after they saw
40:32this is in there
40:34I guess he's talking to God
40:37all of a sudden and I love this
40:40when they saw that
40:42they knew
40:44that they're complaining
40:47their stubbornness
40:49was prohibiting them
40:52from experience in God
40:55and read it the first thing they did
41:00was to take off all the ornaments
41:06all of it
41:09they literally was stripping down
41:13all of the excess
41:16things the pride the things they
41:20consider valuable
41:22and they laid aside listen to me listen
41:25to me
41:26whenever you have an encounter with God
41:30your house don't matter anymore your car
41:34don't matter anymore I don't care how
41:36much money you have in the bank I don't
41:38care how much you got behind your name
41:41you will strip yourself and come before
41:45God naked and said God I Surrender it
41:49all to you had it not been for you on my
41:52side I would not be here today it is not
41:55what I possess that makes me who I am
41:58not without you I am nothing
42:03nothing
42:06nothing they
42:08strip
42:10themselves
42:12the presence was so
42:14powerful
42:17that they said
42:19we got too much stuff on us
42:23take it off
42:25lay aside every weight
42:28and sin
42:30that is keeping us back
42:33from experience in the glory about your
42:35heads with me everybody
42:39I don't know who God sent this message
42:40for
42:42but I want to close with this
42:45if you felt
42:47that somehow
42:50you've walked out of the presence of God
42:54or somehow you have not built a prayer
42:57life
42:59and you have missed years of the glory
43:03Cloud to be present in your life
43:06and you feel that God brought this
43:08message
43:09to bring you to a place where you can
43:12feel this presence wherever you are I do
43:15not want you to wait on anybody else I
43:17don't want you to think about anybody
43:19else I want you to rise from your seat
43:21and I want you to get down here and I
43:24want you to get back into the presence
43:26of God I want you to listen your your
43:29destiny hangs on this very moment listen
43:32to me your destiny hangs on this very
43:34moment start communicating with God
43:37wherever you are wherever you are you're
43:40online identify yourself and say me too
43:44Pastor I want to be a part of that I
43:47want to give it all to God I want to be
43:49like Moses I want to enter into his
43:52presence I need his glory to be evident
43:56in my life I want to see my co-workers
43:59notice it I want my family to notice it
44:02I want my enemies to notice it I want to
44:05stand in the presence of God I want his
44:08presence to consume life
44:11Wherever You Are
44:13this is your moment
44:16this is your moment you just give it all
44:18to Jesus and as you're standing here
44:20come on lift both hands lift both hands
44:23and begin to release it unto him release
44:25it unto him everybody in the building
44:27would you stand as we do this together
44:29we do this together
44:30foreign
44:30[Music]
44:32we want to know him we want to know him
44:34come on come on sing it sing it sing I
44:39Surrender
44:40come on let's give it all to
44:42let's give it all to you
44:44[Music]
44:56[Music]
45:09do you want to know him do you want to
45:11know him
45:23[Music]
45:27I want I Wanna Know
45:30you
45:35know Hallelujah
45:39[Music]
45:50Hallelujah
45:52[Music]
45:58[Music]
46:06sing it sing it
46:10Song
46:16again
46:25Yes Lord yes Lord yes no yes Lord yes
46:30Lord
46:31yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
46:38yeah yeah
46:42yeah yeah yeah
46:43yes yes yes yes
47:06thank you Jesus thank the Lord
47:09yes Lord yes Lord yes Lord yes Lord yes
47:15Lord yes yes yes
47:18Lord have you went Lord have your way
47:23have you wait have your way have your
47:26way have your way have your way half
47:30your way have your way Jesus
47:36hide your way Jesus
47:45hallelujah thank you Jesus thank God
47:49thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you
47:52Lord
47:55thank you Jesus in the name of Jesus
48:01in the name of Jesus in the name of
48:05Jesus
48:07in the name of Jesus in the name of
48:10Jesus
48:13in the name of Jesus in the name of
48:17Jesus Christ
48:19[Music]
48:22in the name of Jesus Hallelujah
48:29[Applause]
48:41Lord have
48:45a happy place
48:47[Music]
49:12in Jesus name in Jesus Christ
49:21in Jesus name
49:25foreign
49:37[Music]
49:58yes
50:04Frozen yes
50:20I probably
50:31[Applause]
51:08I suggestions
51:28here's the Amazing Story
51:32about Exodus 33.
51:37as you read it
51:39though the people
51:42stubborn
51:45and it was their stubbornness
51:49that delayed their blessing
51:54that in spite of it as you read it
51:58they were able to Humble themselves
52:01ask God for forgiveness
52:05and watch this
52:07had once again the ability
52:10to go into the place called the meeting
52:13place
52:15to have conversations with God
52:19[Music]
52:21doesn't hold grudges
52:31if you keep telling yourself oh I
52:35screwed up oh I missed the bud
52:37you will never feel forgiven
52:41God's not in the business of holding
52:44your mess over your head
52:46[Music]
52:48these people
52:50[Music]
52:52messed up real bad
52:55but their leader
52:57Moses walked into a place that he
53:01prepared as the meeting place with God
53:04and because they saw the glory
53:08they decided
53:11to repent
53:14and they had an opportunity
53:17to receive the promise listen to me
53:20every one of you stand in there every
53:22one of you streaming
53:23you still have a chance
53:26at claiming the promise
53:29[Applause]
53:31nothing you have done
53:33has caused you to cancel it do not
53:36listen
53:37the devil
53:38[Applause]
53:40get in the room
53:43where you can have dialogue with God
53:46and you can be honest to him
53:51and be yourself and if you do that I
53:55promise you
53:57you will get to the promised land
53:59do not let the story end where
54:03these people
54:04who are going through the prom the
54:07wilderness
54:08unfortunately watch this
54:12their stubbornness
54:16calls them
54:18to go around in a circle
54:21ended up back at the same place every
54:23year
54:24making New Year's resolutions only to
54:27find that every year they're back at the
54:30same place
54:32how in the world
54:36you've been going around 40 long years
54:41trying to find your way
54:44that the Bible says should only take you
54:4711 days
54:50[Music]
54:53that means your promise is in proximity
54:57of where you are
55:0211 days
55:05that's not too far
55:09but because
55:11they want to do it their way now you can
55:13keep doing it your way
55:15you can keep talking to the people you
55:17want to talk to
55:18you can keep opening your mouth keep
55:20talking talking talking talking talking
55:21and don't listen
55:24you can cancel me I listen this crazy
55:27preacher
55:29honestly this black man preaching to you
55:31all y'all stupid you all stupid you come
55:33to this church and and yeah I'll give
55:35you money people are talking
55:39and they're telling you all kinds of
55:40crap
55:42don't listen to church people don't
55:45listen to these churches and you keep
55:47doing it
55:48all you're going to find yourself
55:51every year
55:53no progress in your life no change
55:57you talking about people
55:59and you're always in people's business
56:01and you have no business of your own you
56:03keep doing that
56:06but the day
56:08you decide
56:11no more wondering
56:13where you lead me God I will follow you
56:16will see progress in your life
56:19left hands everybody everybody wherever
56:21you're streaming and I'll let you go
56:23father
56:24I've done my best
56:26to share with them the importance of
56:29them having a conversation with you and
56:31how you desperately want to show up
56:36in the midst of your conversation with
56:38them
56:39but they've got to listen
56:42they've got to comprehend
56:44and they have to respond accordingly
56:48I pray that these your people will
56:50experience the glory
56:52that they'll begin to take off anything
56:56that is weighing them down anything
56:58that's robbing them from being in your
57:00presence
57:02help them never to get so consumed with
57:04this culture
57:06that's canceling God out of everything
57:10that's embracing all kinds of
57:13unrighteousness
57:14but not your word
57:17and the sad part about it many are
57:20comfortable with it
57:23what help them to understand
57:25you don't want them to take 40 years
57:29to get to something that should take
57:31them this year
57:34something they they should accomplish
57:36and achieve this year
57:38for the Israelites it's only 11 days
57:4011 days how in the world can somebody
57:45miss their way for 40 years
57:50and nobody had the sense enough to say
57:53we're going the wrong way we keep ending
57:57up back at the same place let's do
57:59something different
58:02that's what we're saying to you we want
58:03to do something different
58:05bless your people now I pray I release
58:08them
58:09to walk in your grace
58:11and to prosper this week I release them
58:15to develop their own prayer room their
58:18own prayer space and time
58:21to have fellowship with you may you
58:23bless them on campus those who are
58:26streaming and father I believe as we
58:29declare it every week it shall manifest
58:32in our lives that Faith In Our God will
58:37always move mountains out of our lives
58:40in Jesus name amen God bless you have a
58:43wonderful week
58:45and you go in the grace of God love you
58:48all God bless you amen