What's yet to be discovered?
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 11/13/2023Hebrews 4
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez encourages believers to stay focused in the final weeks of the year, shedding the weights of depression and people-pleasing to discover the untapped blessings God has prepared. Through the metaphor of a spacecraft, he illustrates that reaching new heights requires a spiritual thrust fueled by prayer, the armor of God, and an unwavering praise.
Key points
- •The year is not over; even with only eight weeks remaining, there are still significant spiritual discoveries and breakthroughs God wants to manifest.
- •Many people experience a 'gravitational pull' of discouragement, past pain, or people-pleasing that prevents them from thrusting forward into their prophetic destiny.
- •True spiritual elevation requires a change in 'garment' - putting on the full armor of God rather than trying to look 'cute' or comfortable in a battle zone.
- •Missing the 'small parts' of spiritual discipline (prayer, scripture, and assembling together) causes instability when you try to ride into your next season.
- •To reach your next discovery, you must generate a spiritual thrust system through prayer, meditation, and a praise that persists through noise, smoke, and fire.
Scripture
Purpose
Spiritual Growth
Faith
Obedience
Blessing
Life application
Identify one area where you have been a 'people-pleaser' or held back by past pain, and this week, intentionally 'flip the script' by replacing that fear with a specific prayer of confidence and a financial seed of faith to signal your trust in God's timing.
Reflection questions
- What 'missing parts' in your spiritual manual (the Bible) have you been ignoring while trying to assemble your own life?
- In what ways have you allowed the 'gravitational pull' of your current circumstances to convince you that the year is already lost?
- If you were to 'dress' for the spiritual altitude God is calling you to, what habits or attitudes would you have to change today?
- How can you turn the 'noise and smoke' of your current trials into a joyful noise that fuels your spiritual thrust?
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0:00everything that's about to happen the
0:02next eight
0:04months will breathe
0:07life into
0:10everything that you have purposed for
0:14them up to
0:202028 that's why they can't drop the ball
0:22that's why that that's why they have to
0:24function in a different way that's why
0:27they have to take on a different
0:28attitude
0:31that is why they have to get more
0:32serious and more
0:35desperate to want to know
0:40you so father I pray today that anything
0:45that the enemy had designed to distract
0:49them that they'll be so sensitive to the
0:52move of the Holy
0:54Spirit and they'll stay
0:57focused on what you're about to sh share
1:00with
1:01them the atmosphere is set there are
1:04people are
1:05streaming in fact somebody just
1:07forwarded the link to a friend because
1:09they knew and they felt it in their
1:12spirit that what's about to be delivered
1:15that friend who's been talking to them
1:18recently need to hear this I am so glad
1:22that there are people in our
1:24Lives who want us to prosper who wants
1:28us to bless and therefore they'll do
1:31anything to make sure we get in the
1:34room we get into the presence of
1:38God so bless your word today bless your
1:41people and then Lord at the conclusion
1:44of the
1:46word we're going to seal it with what
1:49you told
1:51us that as often as we do it we do it in
1:57remembrance of your sacrifice
2:02that you went all the way to
2:04Calvary you shed your
2:07blood so that we might have life to the
2:10full until it
2:13overflows so as we drink of the cup eat
2:18of the
2:20bread we once again remind oursel that
2:24it is in Christ we live
2:27move and exist
2:32and that the work is already
2:35finished we don't need to fight
2:39anymore the Battle Is
2:43Over we've already won the
2:47Victory and we declare that what you
2:50spoke over this house and your people
2:53for
2:542023 the year of strategic
2:57alignment that you have aligned us with
3:00the right
3:01people so that you can advance us into
3:06greater things I give you
3:09praise for the delivery of the word and
3:13my submission to the holy spirit this
3:16morning and give you praise in jesus'
3:20name amen could you put your hands
3:22together and thank God for what you're
3:25about to hear you may be
3:27seated in the presence of the
3:35Lord so as we come
3:38[Music]
3:40to the close of another
3:44year we have to ask ourselves an
3:47important
3:50question we really
3:53do so many things have been done so far
3:57this
3:58year and now we're
4:00faced with the
4:02reality that it's only 8 weeks left
4:07for this
4:11year and so the question this morning in
4:15the sermon
4:18is what's yet to be
4:23discovered what's
4:26yet to
4:28be discovered
4:32are there more
4:34things for you to
4:38discover are
4:43they why did you wake up this
4:48morning why is it that you are still
4:52breathing you're on that job you're
4:54streaming you're in that bed and you're
4:56laying
4:58down I wonder why God did not allow it
5:03to be
5:04so that your family members all across
5:08the world received a
5:10call that
5:13unfortunately you had
5:17passed wonder
5:20why wonder why God would
5:23have put it in his Sovereign
5:27will that on November
5:315th you would have lived to the fifth
5:34day of the 11th month of the
5:37year and it wasn't a situation where
5:41you're in the hospital perhaps on life
5:45support or again
5:49sadly your death was
5:54announced now you may think it's very
5:56weird and strange that Henry's saying
5:59that
6:00and uh why would he go there and uh
6:03that's that that's kind of like uh
6:06unrealistic because I am still
6:10young still young I'm still healthy I'm
6:15healthy because as far as I know I don't
6:18take any medication I'm not sick uh
6:21there's no medical challenges happening
6:24in my life so you assume that just
6:27because a doctor has declared that
6:31you're healthy and for some of us we've
6:34become our own
6:36doctors we have told ourselves we're
6:41healthy even though our
6:43bodies are given us
6:46signals that something is going on on
6:48the inside of
6:52it you see I've discovered that there's
6:55a lot of young people
6:58dying
7:00you see it on the
7:02news a lot of young people are
7:04dying why is that
7:07so was it their
7:10time was it that there wasn't anything
7:13else on the earth that God wanted them
7:16to
7:18discover so their time is
7:22expired or could it be that many made
7:28decisions
7:31that
7:32cancelled God's timing over their
7:37lives but make no mistake about
7:41it that whether you are old or
7:44young you have to realize that you are
7:48at a point in your
7:51life where you have to seize every
7:57moment God has given you
8:04every moment the scripture says he gives
8:06us new
8:09mercies every day every
8:13morning and the fact that you're in this
8:16room and you're
8:17streaming is a clear indication that God
8:22was
8:23merciful to all of
8:27us and so it is also a sign to us that
8:33there's more for us to discover on the
8:38earth and somehow many of us are at a
8:43place of discouragement because we can't
8:46seem to balance what God told
8:50us that he would do in our
8:53lives with what actually
8:57happened how how is it that since the
9:02beginning of
9:042023 he told us that he was going to
9:07strategically align us to receive
9:10certain things and yet we're in November
9:14and for some of us it doesn't add
9:18up it doesn't young lady you've been
9:21saying the same thing recently you've
9:24been kind of kind of politely arguing
9:27with God what what's up with
9:31this this discovery that I'm on and this
9:34journey of
9:362023 it's not really what I thought you
9:40told
9:42me sir I understand where you're at
9:46because you're trying to balance what
9:48God told you that he would do in this
9:51year to what actually happened and what
9:55has happened in your life does not not
10:00measure up to the prophetic
10:03words that he gave you through preachers
10:07that he gave you through him speaking
10:09directly to you it doesn't add
10:14up many of you are feeling
10:17like there are many missing parts to
10:21this
10:22year
10:24many many missing
10:28parts the relationship that you were
10:30hoping to have it's no longer there or
10:33it just never
10:37happened missing parts because your
10:39family was torn
10:41apart so now you are saying but that's
10:45not what you told me
10:48God
10:50so the family wholeness is
10:54missing that career that you were hoping
10:59to create and to go on this new career
11:03path never
11:04happened so it's missing in your life
11:07you're still
11:08stuck in the same job that you
11:13hate your desire based on the prophetic
11:16word since January was that God was
11:19going to increase your finances and it
11:22did not happened in fact it looked like
11:26you've made
11:27less
11:30you're struggling with God in November
11:33now wait a minute it's eight more weeks
11:35left God what are you doing I mean the
11:40discovery of this year is not
11:41encouraging God because there's a lot of
11:44missing
11:45parts to the
11:48year and there
11:50is nothing else more
11:54discouraging than having something
11:57that's supposed to function function and
12:00it may be functioning but there's a part
12:04missing there's a part
12:07missing because when there's a part
12:09missing to an object it is very
12:13unstable very
12:16unstable something is missing some of us
12:19the parts that are missing it may not be
12:22that God took it away from you or never
12:25gave it to you the parts were there
12:29but in the assembling of your life in
12:32this
12:33year instead of reading the
12:36manual the
12:38Bible to see how things fitly join
12:44together you use head
12:47knowledge to make it
12:50work and now you're in November and
12:53you're blaming God for your bad
12:56dysfunctional relationship you're
12:58blaming God for your
13:00insufficiency you're blaming God for
13:03people who have attacked
13:06you when God was trying to tell you
13:09those parts don't work in your
13:14life yet you were assembling those parts
13:17I remember one time my boys were very
13:20small little kids and I went to the
13:24store to buy them a
13:27bicycle and I bought both of them the
13:30bicycle and I got in my garage and in
13:34fact um the store asked me do you want
13:38to pay for the assembling
13:41fee and knowing me I'm
13:45cheap I said no I can do that why am I
13:47going to pay somebody to do that I let
13:49me do it by myself so anyway I got to my
13:51home and I got into the garage and I
13:53started putting the parts of the bike
13:56together I had a paper out of the box
13:59there was a paper out of the box and I
14:01placed the paper down on the floor and I
14:05remember I was I was at home in the
14:08garage and I sat down and I took out all
14:12the parts and I laid them
14:15out and one by one I started out watch
14:20this I started out looking at the bigger
14:23things the bigger things the bigger
14:26parts of the bicycle um because if in my
14:31head in my head if I could just pull the
14:35big
14:36things and try to put the big things
14:40together then it's piece of cake it's
14:42easy putting it all together so I
14:45started out well you did run well that's
14:48Paul you did run well but somewhere
14:51along the line I got a little bit
14:57overconfident that
14:59Maybe by me doing this it looks easy so
15:04my confidence level got outside of the
15:10manual so I put the manual aside and I
15:15started putting the parts together
15:18because I did not look at different size
15:21screws and everything like that so I was
15:24putting everything together and I felt
15:27so wonderful I mean like a pro man this
15:31was easy everything was ready to
15:35go and I finally got all the parts so I
15:40thought
15:41together and I was ready but I noticed I
15:45notice when I got done there was one
15:49little
15:51screw that was left on the
15:55floor and I said but the bike look like
15:59it's all put
16:02together did is it possible that the
16:06manufactor put an extra SC I'm trying to
16:10figure this out I'm just trying to
16:11figure out maybe he put an EXT extra
16:14screw in the box so but I'm like uh nah
16:17I ain't worried about that no it the
16:19bike looks okay I start pushing the bike
16:22and it was okay so I called my son I
16:25said seon come here come here get on the
16:27bike and and and my son got on the bike
16:30I didn't get on the bike it is amazing
16:33how we have dysfunctional lives we act
16:37like we are all
16:39together and how we put other people's
16:44lives at
16:50risk over our own inability to get it
16:56properly
16:57together my son went in that bike and he
17:01was riding and all of a sudden he
17:03couldn't
17:04break and the front wheel of the bike
17:09literally pulled
17:12away almost hurt my son it taught me a
17:16lesson that
17:18day that you I don't care how
17:22small a part of the process
17:27is
17:28[Applause]
17:30[Laughter]
17:33it serves a
17:36purpose and the reason why some of you
17:39are in November
17:43now and all of a sudden you were riding
17:48high and functioning it looked like
17:51everything was okay you weren't praying
17:53the way you should you weren't reading
17:56the Bible the way you should you weren't
17:58attending let me talk to some of you
17:59streamers you can go to church you can
18:02go to church you can go to church you
18:06can go to church but you have elected
18:09because of convenience let me just
18:12stream ain't nothing wrong Preacher
18:14what's your problem look I'm sending
18:17money virtually anyway what's your
18:19problem listen it ain't paying your way
18:22through your
18:26breakthrough you keep you keep doing
18:29things your
18:31way only to find out when you start
18:36riding or testing what you believe God
18:39gave you now you're wondering why in
18:42November stuff is falling
18:45apart why things ain't adding
18:49up why why is this thing missing in my
18:53life because there was a little element
18:56of your
18:57life you
18:59failed to
19:02insert in all of the progress you were
19:05making since
19:08January you fail you literally
19:12failed and so now you are confused and
19:17maybe disappointed because many of your
19:19faith
19:21confessions have not cleared Heaven's
19:26Bank youve written some checks by the
19:28confession of your
19:30mouth God I declare and I
19:34decree but it hasn't clear the bank yet
19:37it's
19:39November that has left you with a little
19:43hope of
19:44escaping the gravitational pull of the
19:49satanic forces pulling you to stay down
19:53in
19:55hopelessness and so on this fifth day
19:58of November
20:012023 I am sent by God to tell you not to
20:07allow Satan to pull you
20:10away from things yet to
20:15be
20:19discovered I have to I have to Sir in
20:22the red shirt could you come here sir
20:24come here come here come
20:27here I I have to tell you this the best
20:30way I can demonstrate it stand facing me
20:34here the best way I can demonstrate
20:41it the best way I can
20:45demonstrated is you know where you want
20:48to
20:49go there's no doubt in my mind every one
20:53of you know where you want to
20:57go you don't lack
21:01Vision you know where you want to
21:05go but you cannot
21:07deny that there's a grav a gravitational
21:13pull that tends to be restricting you
21:18from moving
21:20forward every time you make steps
21:25forward there's a force I don't know
21:28what your force is or the force that's
21:30trying to push you or to pull you back
21:35from where God wants you to be so every
21:39time you're trying to do stuff right
21:43come towards me your job is not to let
21:45me go forward oh that job yeah yes yeah
21:48that's your
21:50job so every time you are trying to go
21:54forward it's like in the game of
21:57football
21:58I'm strong I'm strong I see I'm strong
22:01I'm
22:02strong don't don't be don't forget the
22:08preacher I'm 59 but I still got
22:12[Applause]
22:13[Laughter]
22:17it so what the enemy will try to
22:21do as you're making progress in life the
22:25resistance the resistance
22:28and I'm telling you it is
22:32exhausted trying to be in this posture
22:36for 10
22:38months it's exhausting you are
22:42desperately trying and it's not that you
22:45aren't making effort you are trying but
22:49the enemy is
22:52determined to mess up your life and you
22:54are pushing and you're doing everything
22:58but I'm telling you what's about to
23:02happen it's going to change the
23:04trajectory of your life you got to do a
23:07quick one on the enemy tell somebody I'm
23:10about to do a quick spin on the enemy
23:13he's not ready for what God's about to
23:16use you to do somebody better give God
23:19some praise up in this house thank you
23:22thank
23:25you your next move move the enemy will
23:29not expect
23:31it woo glory to God somebody ought to
23:34give God a praise right there I said
23:37your next move the enemy is not going to
23:40expect
23:43it so Hebrews
23:464 verse 16 tells us therefore let
23:52us I love this with
23:56privilege approach the throne of
24:00grace that is the Throne of God's
24:04gracious
24:06favor with confidence not doubt and
24:10without fear so that we may receive what
24:14Mercy for
24:16what we screw up man
24:21often and what the word of God is saying
24:24if
24:25you understand your
24:30privilege I want to camp out there for
24:33just a little second if you understand
24:35your privilege and understand who you
24:37are it is a privilege to be in the
24:40kingdom of God it's a privilege to be
24:43called a Son of God or a daughter of God
24:46it's a privilege to have Angels
24:48surrounding you and protecting you it's
24:51a privilege to wake up on the fifth day
24:54of November 2023 it's a a privilege just
24:58to be alive and now that I'm privileged
25:02glory to God I'm going to draw near to
25:06the favor of God don't you be jealous
25:10over my status in life ah I didn't even
25:14place myself here God saw it fit that
25:18Henry would live to see this moment God
25:21saw it fit that you will be in this
25:24season of your life so even if they hate
25:27you don't don't waste time trying to
25:29explain to your haters how you got to
25:32where you are you are just
25:38privileged it's the favor of God on your
25:42life and I've discovered this that there
25:45are some people who do not like to see
25:48other people walk in
25:51favor do I have anybody in the room or
25:54streaming who've got some people who
25:56don't like to see you Pro Prosper who
25:58don't like to see you mount up with
26:00wings like Eagle they always want to see
26:03you crawl but baby fly high look at your
26:07neighbor and say fly high live high live
26:12high live high hold your head up don't
26:15you Hold Your Head Down another day hold
26:18your head up and say I am the
26:20righteousness of God I'm the Seed of
26:22Abraham I'm blessed going out I'm
26:25blessed coming in
26:33am tell your neighbor I know who I am
26:36know I am I know who I am I'm
26:39blessed and I got the favor of God
26:42that's why I'm going to draw near to the
26:44gracious favor of God and I'm going to
26:47do it with confidence you said boy you
26:50just full of yourself you're arrogant I
26:53don't care what you say your words can't
26:59change nothing on me it don't buy me no
27:03clothes it don't pay no rent it don't
27:07pay no mortgage it don't buy me no food
27:11you can say whatever you want to say I
27:14know who I
27:17[Applause]
27:20am would you just tap your neighbor and
27:22say I know who I
27:24am I got the favor of God man I got the
27:28favor of God that's why my walk is
27:30different I got the favor of God that's
27:33why I can't walk with my head down I got
27:35the favor of God that's why when I enter
27:37into a room it Shi the atmosphere in the
27:40room I ain't got nothing to do with it
27:42it's what I
27:44[Applause]
27:46carry it's what I carry it's on me I
27:50can't take it off me it's on me God gave
27:54it to
27:56me
27:58and
27:59so one of the things that I want to
28:03declare to you
28:05today is that there's so much on the
28:09other side waiting for you to
28:13discover there's so much on the other
28:16side of
28:18pain and what whatever people have put
28:22you
28:23[Music]
28:24through whatever circumstances and and
28:27struggles that you have encountered in
28:30life what's on the other side is
28:33bigger than what you can
28:37ever
28:40imagine let me talk to some of you who
28:43are sitting up in this room today and
28:45the rest of you are streaming struggling
28:48with
28:49depression look at
28:52me let me just talk to you for a
28:56moment you only only have two choices
28:58right
28:59now you can
29:01continue to sit in your
29:04depression you can continue to have a
29:07pity party on
29:09yourself you can continue to spend the
29:12next eight weeks of this year blaming
29:15people for where you are and what they
29:18have done in your life going all the way
29:22back to your
29:23childhood you can sit there and get the
29:27pray over what you don't have and what
29:30people have spoken over your life and
29:32how people treated you bad some of you
29:35are still depressed over what your daddy
29:37did to you what your mommy did to you
29:40you are still depressed over what the
29:42job did to you you're still depressed
29:45over what that church did to you some of
29:48you are still at the Faith Center but
29:50still carrying the pain of the Dow
29:52Center that you
29:54left but let me tell you something your
29:57either going to sit there and die in
30:00your depression or you're going to stand
30:03up like a man stand up like a woman and
30:07says I'm not missing God another day in
30:10my life I'm snapping out of this
30:13depression I'm snapping out of it I know
30:17who I am I'm a blessed child of God and
30:21there has to be something about my life
30:23why the devil is giving me so much hell
30:26I must be anointed I must be blessed
30:29there's got to be a favor on me why he's
30:34fighting me so
30:39hard somebody say snap out of it snap
30:42out of it you need to snap out of
30:44depression I rebuke it right now in the
30:46name of Jesus get out of it get let that
30:50thing get out of your head right now you
30:52are blessed you are highly favored of
30:55the Lord I'm don't let clothes Define
30:57who you are I don't care if you don't
30:59have brand name clothes on you're a
31:02child of
31:03God snap out of
31:06it thank God for where you are right now
31:10because there's yet things more things
31:13to be
31:15discovered you just need to
31:18believe some of
31:20you won't be
31:23waiting too
31:25long for what you want want after this
31:30sermon cuz you are about to break free
31:33from the pull of
31:36Doubt with a spiritual
31:40speed that will finally get you to where
31:43God wants you to be I'm telling you I
31:46don't know who this is for but if I'm a
31:49man of God I Promise You by December
31:5331st God's going to do some crazy
31:59unbelievable quick work in your life and
32:04that's why I want you to get ready some
32:07of you are carrying around suitcases
32:10with stuff well honey I know I know what
32:13Society tells us to do when you're
32:16traveling pack your bags and we load
32:19ourselves up watch this we load
32:22ourselves up with all these luggages and
32:25if you take spirit Airlines and if you
32:28take Jet Blue the more luggages you have
32:32is the more you pay for them
32:38baggages but where God is taking you
32:41he's saying I want you to bring the bags
32:44but watch this I don't want you to put
32:46nothing in the
32:51bag cuz where he's taking you he wants
32:54you to have new discoveries come on tell
32:57somebody I'm ready for the new discovery
33:00so lay aside every weight and sin that
33:03is going to easily be set you and run
33:06light run light run light run light
33:09don't put nothing don't put anti Sue in
33:11the bag don't put gousy and Malice in
33:14the bag don't put your cussing in the
33:16bag you come with Jesus alone because
33:19what he's getting ready to put in your
33:21life eyes have not seen ears have not
33:24Hur neither have it entered into your
33:29[Applause]
33:31heart what
33:34he has already prepared for you I'm
33:36trying to wrap this up man this is so
33:40good so
33:42sometimes we find that gravitational
33:46pull pull in
33:49US based on the challenges of life and
33:53doubts and our fears and the
33:56distractions of of the
33:58world and this can make us feel like we
34:02are we're kind of bound if you will to
34:05the
34:07principalities operating in the
34:10world because for far too long you've
34:13allowed the burdens of your
34:16circumstances to weigh you
34:19down far too long and this has caused
34:24you to miss many disc discoveries in the
34:30past you know how many things you lost
34:33this
34:36year you know how many opportunities God
34:40placed on the calendar of this
34:45year that you didn't get
34:49it you let when you were pushing and
34:53pressing through life you let the enemy
34:57me got you so
35:01distressed that you missed the
35:04opportunity to get a quick
35:07turnaround you missed
35:10it you missed a new
35:13discoveries but I've come today to help
35:16you to break free man from the
35:18limitations that are holding you
35:21back and one of the things when God gave
35:24it to me it hit me so
35:27big and I didn't want to say it because
35:32I'm like maybe this is going to offend
35:35some
35:37people but for 32 years I've been
35:39preaching the gospel the words that come
35:43out of my mouth up here I am not
35:48responsible for
35:50them you ever hear these politicians
35:52after they put on the commercial they
35:55say that this these messages are
36:00what in other words they're saying
36:02approved by
36:05me and what God told
36:08me to tell some of
36:11you the reason
36:14why you're held backed with so much
36:20limitation is because you are a people
36:25pleaser
36:28[Applause]
36:32you rather please
36:35people than your
36:41God you are scared of
36:45criticism you are scared of what people
36:48will do when you don't do what they want
36:52you to
36:53do instead of doing what God
36:57requires you to do so do not let this
37:02year
37:03end and you are not strategically
37:07aligned with the word of God that was
37:09spoken over your life do not find
37:13comfort in the
37:15rumbling the noise and the distractions
37:19of the devil that seek to uh if you will
37:25control you based on gravity anything
37:28that can hold you
37:30back that's the forces on the earth that
37:33are designed to hold you down preventing
37:35you from
37:37thrusting into your next breakthrough
37:42thrusting into your next
37:45breakthrough the demonstration that I
37:47was doing with a gentleman a while ago
37:50it was with
37:53speed and an unbelievable amount of
37:58thrusting that shocked
38:02him he had his
38:05speed and
38:07power was not that powerful to stop
38:13me he was blocking me he was resisting
38:20me he was pushing me back he was making
38:25sure I don't make
38:27progress and as long as I played his
38:31game his
38:34way as long as I stayed in the same
38:37posture as
38:39he as long as I used the same weapons he
38:43was using and force and energy he was
38:46using then we're
38:48equal but the moment I flip the script
38:51on
38:53him it changes the
38:57outcome and that's what you are going to
38:59have to do you have got to change the
39:02outcome of your life by by doing things
39:04differently and this is why the Apostle
39:06Paul told us in Ephesians 6:11 he said
39:10put on the full armor of God so that you
39:14can watch this take your stand against
39:20the
39:22devil you're at a different altitude now
39:27you're in a different world now
39:29different
39:31space and you got to be careful how
39:34you're dressed
39:38now have you ever seen the
39:42astronauts when they getting ready to
39:44board the
39:47spacecraft have you ever seen any of
39:49them with the clothes that you and I
39:51have
39:54on think about that
39:59some of us what's preventing us from
40:01getting a
40:02breakthrough every environment we go in
40:05we're trying to turn into a fashion
40:08show when you're fighting War you can't
40:11be looking
40:17cute see when you're about to fight War
40:20come on ladies you can't be having no
40:23lipstick bag
40:25chainer
40:34[Applause]
40:36Brothers when you're fighting War you
40:38can't be sitting there trying to worry
40:40about this and sucking your stomach and
40:42all that kind of a stuff
40:45no war calls for a different
40:50garment it
40:52requires space
40:55outfits and Paul is saying in order for
40:58you to fight against the enemy you have
41:00to dress
41:04differently differently it's a different
41:06kind of heat up there I have discovered
41:09this man I'm telling you there is no
41:11heat at the
41:13bottom it's ice cold at the
41:17bottom but the
41:19moment God starts elevating you to
41:24Greatness demons and
41:27devils and you'll be shocked where
41:29they're coming
41:31from the heat is
41:34on is
41:37on that's why you have to change your
41:41dressing he said put on the full armor
41:44of God not not not a Sunday morning
41:50outfit you in your church
41:52clothes that looks different from your
41:55Friday night clothes
42:00I mean if Jesus would show up Friday
42:03night how would he find
42:06you I mean just think about that think
42:09about that for a
42:25moment
42:27must not be missed by any of you so how
42:31you
42:33dressing how you preparing yourself for
42:36it what kind of garments are you
42:38wearing cuz I'm telling you my mom used
42:42to hear she always say the higher a
42:44monkey
42:46climb it's the more he's
42:51exposed let me interpret it in English
42:53for the
42:55Americans the higher you go in
42:58life is the more you're
43:02exposed to
43:05Danger the higher you
43:10go please take your eyes off things that
43:14are
43:15incapable of getting you to the next
43:18blessed
43:22season you keep listening to your
43:24friends and your co-workers and family
43:27members and and here's the other person
43:29you keep listening to is
43:32yourself and yourself is telling you
43:35well you don't take all of that well why
43:38you going to church why you streaming
43:41you know why you giv to
43:43God it's another area most of you you're
43:47wondering God why I can't get my
43:48breakthrough my finances my finances my
43:51finances my and you've been hearing all
43:55year long
43:56s honor God in your
43:59giving and yourself is telling you child
44:02don't get that P of your
44:04money because you made it a pastor
44:08thing I said you made it a pastor thing
44:11because you had a best friend who went
44:13to another church and the pastor stole
44:15the money or folks did wrong with the
44:18money so therefore based than that
44:20experience you're thinking all pastors
44:22are
44:25thieves it's amazing
44:27how you will go to a
44:30surgeon have no idea of the surgeon
44:35reputation no idea of his
44:38reputation in fact if you have ever had
44:41surgery have you ever asked the the
44:43surgeon to give you his certification
44:45you want to see
44:48it
44:50never I've had three surgeries and I
44:54have never asked those surgeries
44:58please I need to see your
45:01license
45:03never somehow because he said he's a
45:05doctor I trusted
45:07him why is it when it comes to the
45:10spiritual house I get it some of us as
45:14leaders are not acting
45:16right but why is it that we use our
45:21inability to give to
45:24God to to
45:28justify that I'm not going to give it
45:30because I got hurt
45:32before some of you are not coming to
45:34church anymore because you got hurt over
45:36church people are they a bunch of
45:39Hypocrites you got plenty of Hypocrites
45:40living up in your house right
45:44now but you still live there there's a
45:48whole bunch of Hypocrites on your job
45:50that you going to show up to in the
45:52morning but you still show up Tuesday
45:54Wednesday Thursday Friday don't let the
45:57devil lie to
45:59you grow
46:01up Don't Let The Devil tell you all kind
46:03of stupid
46:06stuff cuz he wants to block your
46:10blessings so you need to not miss your
46:14next Discovery to discover what's going
46:17to happen next in your life three things
46:19are you ready for this you have to have
46:21a clear destination in
46:24mind
46:27Jesus when he sat with his disciples
46:30that night to have the last supper with
46:33them he had a clear destination in
46:36mind finish the work he was sent to
46:41do what's your
46:44intent what is your
46:46intent is it that your intent to finish
46:502023 the way God wants you to finish
46:54it or you going to finish it
46:57empty got to have a clear destination in
47:00mind there's a few of us man I'm telling
47:03you we're
47:04determined to see new discoveries number
47:07two generate a spiritual thrust
47:11system you see in the spiritual journey
47:14that we're on we must stir up and
47:16cultivate things that energize us and
47:20give us the strength the Boost to move
47:24forward and to elevate oursel and that's
47:26done through prayer meditation humility
47:30and compassion let me say it again those
47:33things are done through prayer got to
47:36have a prayer life you got to meditate
47:38on the word of God I'm telling you
47:40Church whoever is lying to you and
47:43telling you you can just come to church
47:45on a Sunday morning and feel hyped up by
47:48the praise team and get all excited and
47:50don't read your word will let you grow
47:53spiritually they're lying to you
47:58you'll forever be a believer in the
48:01kingdom of God without
48:04power you'll forever be held
48:08down never can take your life to the
48:10next level because your spiritual
48:12journey or the success of it hangs on
48:16you number
48:18three make your praise
48:22known make your praise known
48:26I've never heard of a spaceship taken
48:30off
48:34quietly I know what some of you are
48:36saying you know some of you are saying
48:37this just not my personality that's a
48:40lie that's a lie oh that's not my
48:42personality to shout that's not my
48:44personality oh it's not my personality
48:45to scream I just saw a few moments ago
48:48when a bunch of these people running
48:49down the stage here and God bless them
48:51that's just them I am a quiet person
48:53that's a lie again
48:56and I'm going to tell you why I think
48:57it's a lie you see we select to do what
49:00we want to
49:02do honestly we do so for example oh you
49:05know I'm not that way you know I just
49:07heard somebody scream hallelujah praise
49:09the Lord no I'm more hallelujah praise
49:13the Lord thank you that's a
49:16lie because I can tell you right now if
49:19I put your finger on the table and use a
49:24hammer
49:27and hit it you ain't going to pick your
49:30finger up
49:35ouch that ain't going to happen baby oh
49:38you going to scream what are you saying
49:40pastor listen I'm telling
49:43you when the circumstances of Life hit
49:48you you got to learn to birth a praise
49:53out of every pain you got
49:59go because there are four things there
50:01are four things that will happen when a
50:03spaceship is taken off and there are
50:05four things that will happen when you're
50:07challenged in life number one noise
50:11noise there's something about noise Make
50:13a Joyful Noise the Bible didn't say just
50:16make a noise cuz some people just make a
50:17whole bunch of
50:20nonsense but Make a Joyful Noise unto
50:23the Lord so there are times your life
50:25where you got to just shout unto the
50:27Lord I'm almost there the second thing
50:30that you'll see when a spacecraft is
50:33taken off is
50:35smoke it's not fire it's
50:38smoke some of you you don't have the
50:41fire yet but you
50:45smoking man you got the smoke on you man
50:49and when people see the smoke on you
50:51they're like child she ain't anointed
50:53yet she ain't full of Holy Ghost yet
50:55she's not on fire she kind of look
50:57lukewarm but I don't mind somebody with
50:59a little smoke you know why they have
51:03potential they have potential you see I
51:06I grew up I grew up kind of like in a in
51:08a poor community and so forth and some
51:11of you young people won't understand
51:12what I'm about to show you especially if
51:14you're not from the islands but I grew
51:17up with my parents at times in the
51:19backyard we will put three stones on the
51:23ground and they'll put the wood between
51:27them and all of a sudden they'll just do
51:30a little
51:31spark and put it on the wood and they
51:34have to
51:42keep what are you saying pastor I'm
51:44saying it's only smoke ain't no fire yet
51:47smoke but if somebody keep blowing on
51:51it and perhaps what you need in your
51:53life right now it's just a few you
51:57friends who won't abandon you just
52:00because you're not on fire for God yet
52:03but if you got a little smoke tell your
52:05neighbor just keep blowing on
52:08me just keep speaking the word of God on
52:11my life just keep encouraging me just
52:15keep telling me don't you give up baby
52:17keep coming to church keep reading your
52:19word keep praying come on now don't you
52:22back away now I just need somebody to
52:24encourage me
52:26and then of course the
52:28fire you'll always see the no or hear
52:31the noise and see the smoke and see the
52:33fire and then movement and this is where
52:36it takes me as we get into
52:38communion now we have the movement the
52:42rumbling and I just feel that that's
52:45what's happening to some of us there's a
52:50shaking and we're panicking and we're
52:52saying oh God what in the world is this
52:55it's like everything in my house is
52:57shaking everything in my account is
52:59shaking everything in my body is shaking
53:02and you're saying God there's going to
53:04be an explosion but not every explosion
53:06is
53:09bad not every explosion is bad because
53:12I'm telling you what God is getting
53:14ready to do he has got to put some
53:17thrust in your life he's got to put some
53:20speed in your life because for where
53:22he's taking you come on now the average
53:25is not going to do it come on now the
53:28average is not going to do it so if you
53:31are going to discover things it's going
53:33to hang on your ability or your desire
53:37to move forward your willingness to
53:39shake things up around you your
53:41willingness to go in Full Speed Ahead
53:45your willingness to praise God in the
53:48noise in the distractions in the things
53:51that the enemy has put before for
53:56you so I leave you with the question
54:01again what's
54:05yet to be
54:12discovered I I I I I I I I don't see
54:17it it's
54:21distorted
54:23huh it's not making sense
54:30sense but as long as I
54:34stay confined to the laws of
54:40gravity to the
54:42control of what's on the
54:46earth and I failed to tap into the
54:51spiritual I'm going to miss my next
54:56and I want you to Bow your heads
55:00today because you are going to
55:03seal this
55:05month with
55:10communion and you're going to say to
55:13God there's more to be
55:18discovered you're taking me into an
55:21unknown
55:24Zone a place that literally makes me
55:29nervous it's it's scaring the heck out
55:32of me I'm dressed
55:36differently I'm using different
55:40weapons so Lord I I
55:44trust that if I can get you in me
55:48breaking of the
55:50bread the drinking of the cup if I can
55:53get you in me
55:57then what's out
56:00there will be in me
56:04too make that decision young lady sir
56:08please make that decision today to say
56:11God I'm going all the way for
56:17you the next 8
56:21weeks I'm going to praise
56:23you the next 8 weeks I'm going to trust
56:28you the next 8 weeks I'm going to make
56:33sure that I get into your word the next
56:36eight weeks I'm going to make
56:39sure that I seow my
56:43seed I do not want the year to
56:47end and the blessings that was tied to
56:50the seed of
56:532023 get pulled hold
56:56back because I was walking in fear and
57:01Disobedience father I thank
57:03you that somebody's walking away
57:07today fully understanding the hour and
57:09the season that they're
57:14in I thank
57:17you that somebody's going to trust you
57:20today to say
57:21God
57:23yes yes that
57:26question there are more things yet to be
57:30discovered in my
57:32life and I'm not going to be held back
57:36anymore I need
57:38you so therefore I Surrender everything
57:41to you I Surrender my will my
57:46everything I give you my business I give
57:49you my career I give you my family my
57:52children my
57:53spouse and certainly God I Surrender my
57:57finances to
57:59you because if I make the mistake of
58:02going into
58:052024 doing my finances the way I'm doing
58:08it God I'm setting myself up for
58:13failure I cannot afford another
58:18setback I cannot afford to miss another
58:23opportunity so father we
58:26pray that as we bless this
58:30bread it will now represent your
58:34body as we drink of this
58:39cup it is now going to remind us of the
58:42New Covenant that we
58:43have through the sacrifice of Jesus
58:47Christ and we give you
58:50praise going to ask that you pull your
58:53sacraments out and if you could just
58:56remain in your seat we're going to do
58:58the communion then receive the seed this
59:02morning those of you are streaming
59:04hopefully you have it ready what an
59:06amazing
59:08way to begin the
59:11month is to say Lord we come
59:14before you
59:16today
59:18remembering the sacrifice of Jesus
59:21Christ
59:22knowing that our confidence
59:25in our blessed future
59:28hangs on what Jesus did at
59:32Calvary we have blessed the bread as the
59:35body of Christ around the world let's
59:38eat all of
59:45it in the same manner let's take the
59:49cup it is now blessed I promise you
59:53according to the word of God God this is
59:55now the
59:56blood of
59:58Jesus let's now drink and expect our
60:03internal miracles to produce external
60:07Miracles let's
60:08[Music]
60:14drink just stay in that presence right
60:18now
60:21hallelujah thank you Jesus
60:27thank you
60:31Jesus thank you Jesus thank you
60:35Lord thank you
60:38[Music]
60:39Lord thank you
60:41Jesus what a
60:43sacrifice what
60:45[Music]
60:48a that
60:50save my life yes
60:57[Music]
61:00sing it again sing it let's just rest in
61:02those
61:05words