Don't You Come Out Until God Is Finished With You
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 8/31/2023Ephesians 4:22-24, 1 Samuel 23:14-18
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez encourages those feeling stuck in a 'wilderness' season to remain patient, explaining that God uses periods of isolation and difficulty to transform the 'old self' and prepare believers for future leadership and promotion. Just as David stayed in the desert before becoming king, we must stay where God has planted us until His internal work is finished.
Key points
- •God often uses periods of isolation or 'wilderness' seasons to prepare believers for their future assignments and promotion.
- •True transformation involves putting off the 'old self' of former lifestyles and attitudes to put on a 'new self' created in righteousness and holiness.
- •Public promotion requires private preparation; if God elevates you without proper training in the dry places, you are likely to fail in the high places.
- •Your current difficult situation is temporary and purposeful; do not try to rush out of it before God has completed His work of refining your character.
- •Others may judge or dismiss you based on your current appearance or struggle, but God sees the 'kingly' potential hidden beneath the surface.
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Life application
This week, identify one area of your life where you feel stuck or isolated and, instead of praying for an immediate exit, ask God: 'What are You trying to teach me or refine in me while I am here?' Focus on internal growth rather than external appearance.
Reflection questions
- In what ways are you currently in a 'wilderness' or 'Horesh' season, and how has your attitude been toward that isolation?
- David remained in the desert even after receiving an encouraging word from Jonathan. How do you handle the gap between God's promise and the actual fulfillment?
- Are there habits or 'old self' attitudes from Ephesians 4 that you are struggling to put off while in your current season?
- Who are the 'Jonathans' in your life who encourage you, and are you discerning enough to recognize God's voice through them?
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Full transcript
0:00I'm going to ask if you don't mind
0:02standing as I read two
0:05passages of scripture
0:07as the foundation
0:10of our
0:12message this morning
0:18the first scripture is taken from
0:20Ephesians chapter 4.
0:24beginning at verse 22 to verse 24.
0:29the Apostle Paul
0:32is right in a very important message to
0:36the church
0:38and he's reminding us of something
0:41that's important
0:43that sometimes we have a tendency to
0:46forget Who We Are
0:48and where we've come from
0:52so Paul wrote
0:55you were taught
0:57pay attention to that
1:00you were taught
1:02with regard to the former way of life
1:06to put off the old self which has been
1:10corrupted by its deceitful desires
1:15to be made
1:18new in the attitude of your minds
1:23and to put on the new self created to be
1:27like God in true righteousness
1:32and holiness
1:35my second passage of scripture is taken
1:37from first Samuel
1:4023 beginning at verse 14 to verse 18.
1:46it says David
1:48stayed in the wilderness
1:51strongholds and in the hills of the
1:54desert of zith
1:56day after day
2:00how long
2:03come on work with me here how long
2:07the Bible says David stayed in the
2:11wilderness strongholds and in the hills
2:14of the desert of zeth
2:17[Music]
2:20today
2:23Saul searched for him
2:27this guy was in
2:31a difficult spot hiding out
2:36and he stayed there day after day
2:40because the Bible says day after day
2:45Saul searched
2:48for him
2:50why was Saul searching for him
2:53trying to kill him
2:55but notice what the verse says but God
2:59give David
3:01David into the hands
3:03of Saul
3:06I don't care who's trying to kill you
3:12[Music]
3:13when God's Got His Hands around you
3:20[Applause]
3:23verse 15 says while David was at horesh
3:27in the desert of zeth he learned that
3:31Saul had come out to take his life and
3:35then Saul's son Jonathan now this this
3:38you know this is another story I love
3:40man it's amazing and Saul's son Jonathan
3:44went to David at horesh and helped him
3:48find strength
3:50in God
3:53a son of your enemy
3:58and encouraged you
4:01to find strength in God
4:03don't be afraid he said my father Saul
4:06will not lay hands on you
4:11you will be king over Israel but wait a
4:14minute you'll be king over Israel but
4:16where are you
4:17in the desert
4:19you'll be king over Israel you don't
4:21look like what has been prophesied over
4:24you
4:26but you'll be king over Israel
4:28and then he said and I will be second to
4:32you you see if if people around you will
4:35be smart
4:37they need to understand that their
4:39position hangs on your position
4:42some of you will get that later
4:45because Jonathan said you gonna be king
4:49and I'm gonna be second so I got to be
4:52careful how I treat you
4:54[Music]
4:57hey bishop
4:59even my father Saul knows this
5:04now Verse 18 is what really gets me
5:07verse 18.
5:10reading it I really didn't like it
5:14I didn't like the events of Verse 18 and
5:17this is why I believe that the Lord sent
5:19me here this morning to talk to those of
5:21you who are in the house and those of
5:23you are streaming the Bible says the two
5:26of them Jonathan and David
5:28made a covenant
5:31before the Lord that's good that's great
5:33love that love people making Covenant in
5:37agreement with you here is where the
5:40story went downhill
5:43then Jonathan went home
5:49but
5:51David
5:54remain
5:56at horesh
5:59he didn't get to leave
6:03I want to talk to some people who feel
6:06like you are left in a desert
6:10you've been hearing God speak to you
6:13through sermons upon sermons and you've
6:15been reading your Bible
6:17and you feel as if you had a visitation
6:19every now and then from God but it seems
6:22as if after you get your good word and
6:24your encouragement
6:26you are left
6:28in the wilderness
6:32so this morning I want to talk to you
6:34about a simple topic
6:36and I need you to help me preach it this
6:38morning so would you look at one person
6:40that is standing next to you and I want
6:42you to say the sermon to them said don't
6:45you come out
6:46[Music]
6:47until God is finished with you
6:52come out
6:55don't you come out
6:59until God is finished
7:01with you father thank you for this word
7:03today
7:05may you bless your people who are here
7:08those who are streaming in Jesus name
7:11amen give him praise
7:18come out
7:20until God is finished
7:25with you
7:27the two of them made a covenant before
7:31the Lord
7:33then Jonathan went home but David
7:38remained at horesh
7:42I'm really intrigued with the apostles
7:45Paul's opening statement in verse 2 of
7:50Ephesians chapter 4.
7:53I am because he opened up
7:56with you were taught
8:01in other words
8:03you know better
8:05you've been informed
8:09he said you've been taught regarding
8:13your life for regarding the the former
8:17way of life the way you used to live
8:19your life
8:22you're coming out of a system that held
8:25you bound
8:27you've been enslaved by sin and enslaved
8:33by
8:34the memory of your the memories of your
8:38past
8:40so then he said you've been taught
8:43so let's talk about this for a moment as
8:45the Apostle Paul is reminding us that
8:48the issues of our old self habits the
8:53ugliness of Who We Are
8:56the former lifestyle that that we have
9:00walked through life for years with have
9:05been dealt with when it comes to the
9:08word of God
9:09we've got a Bible it's our road map it's
9:12it's our Compass it it teaches us how to
9:15find our way through life
9:18so that we live a life that is pleasing
9:21to God let me once again remind you he
9:24said you were taught
9:28and for those of you who are people of
9:30faith
9:31once again Paul is reminding us you've
9:34been taught
9:36you're not a novice to this
9:39we know right from wrong
9:42we know what it is
9:44to recognize when we are in the will of
9:48God versus not in the will of God
9:52that we walk by faith and not by sight
9:55so even when people look at us
9:59and we may not be that attractive we may
10:02not be you know
10:05um invited and and they may not approve
10:08of our image
10:10once God is pleased with who we are
10:13that's enough
10:16we're not ignorant to what is required
10:19of us when it comes to our former life
10:22and our current Life as a Believer so
10:26Paul is telling us that we have been
10:28taught by the word of God therefore we
10:31should have the evidence of
10:34transformation in every area of Our
10:38Lives here's what Romans 6 verse 6 tells
10:43us
10:43it says for we know that our old self
10:48old self was crucified with him so that
10:53the body ruled by sin
10:57might be done away with
11:00that we should no longer be slaves to
11:05sin
11:06that if any man be in Christ he's a new
11:09creature the old is gone and he has
11:12invited the new in his life
11:16you see failure to change our ways
11:20and begin to walk the right path that
11:23God has for us
11:25will push us more to embrace the corrupt
11:29deceitful desires of this world
11:35when we when we fail
11:38to detach ourselves from what the world
11:42thinks
11:43is
11:45beauty or
11:47ugly when we when we fail to say I'm not
11:51watching what the world calls ugly or
11:54unproductive or not inviting God I know
11:59you're a God that works with the
12:01internal I'm going to focus a lot of my
12:04attention on not just beautifying the
12:07external because if if I take care of
12:09the internal once the internal is right
12:12with God the the presence and power of
12:15God will glow through me are you with me
12:19here
12:20so Paul is encouraging us here that we
12:26must move from Grace to Grace and walk
12:29in the beauty of God and if you are
12:31looking to make progress in your life
12:34and if you're looking to maximize your
12:37full potential
12:39you must focus on how to achieve Godly
12:42principles
12:44and most importantly you have to commit
12:48to live in those Godly principles
12:51so living by Godly principles will make
12:55your life I really believe go to the
12:57next level
13:00I want to talk to a few of you this
13:02morning who absolutely
13:04know that your life needs to go to the
13:09next level
13:11you're tired of living an average life
13:14you're tired of just being ordinary
13:17that if you stay in the will of God yes
13:20your life
13:22can go to the next level this is why you
13:25cannot allow yourself to be pulled back
13:29into Satan's trap all because you find
13:34yourself in a dry and difficult Place
13:39difficult place
13:41all over this room and people around the
13:43world who are watching I know you may
13:46find yourself in a difficult spot you're
13:48feeling that God has abandoned you God
13:51where are you why am I fighting so many
13:53battles
13:54why am I fighting uh my you know my
13:58self-worth why am I feeling insecure why
14:02am I feeling as if that I can never make
14:05progress in my finances why do I feel as
14:09if I can't find true love why do I feel
14:13that I can't hold on to a job why do I
14:15feel that my family's so toxic why do I
14:19feel that I'm all alone in this world by
14:24myself
14:25some of you are asking for God to pull
14:28you out of what you are dealing with
14:33and I hate to disappoint you
14:35he won't
14:37oh I know you didn't want to hear that
14:40I know you didn't want to hear that I I
14:42I know you're at a place like horash
14:46where it is a place where you're hiding
14:49because your life has been threatened
14:52now by the circumstances around you and
14:56you're saying God okay you're sending
14:58this guy Fernandez to me this morning
15:00and you're you're encouraging me I thank
15:02you for that but God I want to leave
15:05harash I want to leave this place why do
15:09I get stuck
15:11constantly at a place
15:14where I don't like
15:17why
15:19I know that's how you're feeling this
15:21morning
15:22but God won't pull you out of it
15:25there's a reason why
15:27there's a reason why you have to stay in
15:31the wilderness there's a reason why you
15:34have to stay at the dry places don't you
15:37understand that God sees beyond your
15:40eyesight that he sees your future and
15:44the only way you can maximize your full
15:46potential when you get to your next
15:49season is that he's got to do a work in
15:52you while you're in the difficult
15:55situation
15:55[Applause]
15:58he won't pull you out of it
16:00because he's preparing you for the next
16:04level of your life and believe me your
16:08next season and your next level in God
16:10is the biggest makeover you will ever
16:15experience in your life
16:18I don't know who this is for
16:21but your next season will be the biggest
16:26makeover you will ever experience in
16:31your life
16:32so let your enemies take a good look at
16:35you now
16:36because what God is going to do in your
16:40life
16:41Oh Glory to God I wish somebody would
16:43praise him right there
16:45what God is getting ready to do in your
16:48life
16:50will blow your mind
16:53he's going to take you places
16:56and I don't care how you are currently
16:58looking or feeling
17:00let God continue his work in you let God
17:04continue his work in you let God
17:08continue his work in you because when
17:11God is finished working on you nobody is
17:16going to really recognize you
17:23you see the assignment that God has for
17:26your life it's not an ordinary
17:29assignment that's why you can't come out
17:31of the situation that you're in because
17:33God is about to put you in a position of
17:38kingship rulership and you have to be
17:42properly trained because if God promotes
17:45you and you don't go through the
17:47training you're going to mess up when he
17:50elevates you
17:53oh somebody ought to work with me here
17:57isn't it funny how we spend a lot of
18:00time and effort and money in proven the
18:03external man the external man and we
18:07spend very little time dealing with the
18:10internal man so you show up to work
18:13every day you show up to school every
18:16day and you just look ordinary you just
18:20look ordinary you just look ordinary the
18:22ordinary people I don't care if you're a
18:24young person an old person I don't care
18:27what
18:28situation you come out of what life
18:31situation you're in when people look at
18:34you they don't see much
18:37they don't see much isn't it funny how
18:40people wake up every day to assess you
18:48assess you when you show up at work
18:51to assess whether or not you're
18:53struggling
18:56to assess whether or not your
18:58relationship is intact to assess you
19:01whether or not you got money to assess
19:03it people love to assess you
19:06they have no clue love to assess you I
19:10I'm telling you I I learned not to
19:12assess people I can't tell you how many
19:14times my assumption of people is totally
19:17wrong see our problem is when we look at
19:20people the external part of people we
19:23assume that they are not blessed we
19:26assume that they don't have money we
19:28assume that God's not with them but can
19:31I tell you I have discovered rich people
19:33don't dress to impress
19:39most of the times the folk you see that
19:42is dressed up broke
19:47you may be sitting to a dress uh broke
19:51person
19:53because we assume just because of the
19:57external look of a person
20:00they don't have much
20:03and therefore
20:04we assume in life
20:07that when we have a bad hair day
20:12we don't have the clothes that other
20:15people are wearing
20:17the gods you have left me at harass
20:20you have left me in the wilderness
20:23you have left me at a place where I just
20:27don't look good for society
20:30now God's got you at the right place
20:33he's got you seated at the right place
20:36you are uncomfortable with Where You Are
20:39you don't like it
20:41and here it is God is sending to
20:43Jonathan
20:45in the name of Henry Fernandez this
20:47morning to you
20:49to tell you the enemy is trying to
20:51destroy you
20:53but God told me to tell you he cannot
20:55touch you
21:00he can't touch you
21:03stop watching how you look stop watching
21:06what you're going through stop watching
21:09how you feel isolated and you feel like
21:12nobody cares and you feel like God has
21:14abandoned you stay where God has planted
21:17you
21:19look at your neighbor and say stay where
21:21God has planted you
21:24don't you come out until God is finished
21:26with you
21:27don't you come out trying to impress
21:30people stay where God has planted you
21:33he's preparing you for something great
21:35he's preparing you to be a princess he's
21:39preparing you to be a queen he's
21:41preparing you to be a king he's
21:44preparing you to be a prince
21:47so you got to stay where God has planted
21:50you
21:51and I know many of you this morning
21:54you're asking some serious questions
21:58streaming and you're asking God some
22:00serious questions you're saying
22:03God
22:05am I really satisfied with my life
22:10some of you are saying that this morning
22:13am I really satisfied with my life
22:17struggling in so many different areas
22:21I'm young I'm a teenager
22:23and I feel like I don't have my parents
22:26support or whatever it may be
22:30I just feel like this this whole issue
22:33in life is difficult God
22:36and then here's another question that
22:38you have to ask yourself that is am I
22:42functioning
22:44at my best
22:47and my best
22:49who told you just because of your
22:51external look
22:53that that can stop you from maximizing
22:57your full potential
22:59do you not know
23:02that it is in difficult season God
23:05perfects you
23:06[Applause]
23:10that it is
23:11when your back is against the wall
23:13somehow when you're at your worst God
23:16allows you to be at your best
23:19some of you asking questions like
23:22have I taken the steps
23:25to mature in my faith Journey
23:29have I allowed my current
23:32temporary situation
23:35to cause me not to mature
23:39where I live my life complaining about
23:41God ignoring him thinking he doesn't
23:44love me because of what I'm going
23:46through because we get caught up with
23:50societies
23:51definition of what beauty is
23:57that we gotta do all the external thing
24:01went deep on the inside of us we've been
24:04ripped apart
24:06we have no word in US
24:09no word in us some of you are looking so
24:12beautiful man so handsome I love your
24:16makeup I love your hair I love the shoes
24:20and the dress but I wish to God your
24:24inside was as beautiful
24:26as you're outside
24:31because if your inside was as beautiful
24:33as you're outside your family wouldn't
24:36be so messed up
24:38your love life wouldn't be so messed up
24:42and toxic
24:45your finances wouldn't be the way it is
24:48because you're you're paying attention
24:51you're worried as David was worried
24:54about
24:56what was happening and the story behind
24:59it his he just fought an army of people
25:04and took their possession because God
25:07told him go get it because they stole it
25:10from his people
25:12they were mad and Saul was angry
25:16Saul said I am going to come
25:19and I'm going to take this young man out
25:25and some of you can admit that you
25:28need to take your life to the next level
25:32and that's really what God sent me here
25:34today to talk to you about you need to
25:37take your life to the next level man but
25:40it's going to require certain things you
25:42got to take your life to the next level
25:44where you get an upgrade in your life
25:47an upgrade perhaps you need to get to a
25:49higher place in your faith Walk In Your
25:52Love walk
25:53maybe you just need to tap into your
25:55god-given abilities to become a better
25:57version of yourself Ephesians 4 24 says
26:01and to be put in the new self the new
26:04self somebody say new self
26:07created to be like God in true
26:11righteousness and holiness
26:14so let me suggest to you for a moment
26:17that this kind of upgrade that you
26:20desperately need will require isolation
26:23from the noise and the Clutter
26:28God have a tendency watch this don't
26:32miss this
26:33listen to me young lady
26:36God is a tendency to
26:39he will take your current situation
26:43and put you at a place called horash
26:48where
26:50the public
26:52have their last
26:55perception of Who You Are
26:58she don't look so good
27:01she don't look so promising
27:04and God will let your enemies
27:07take a picture
27:09of how you look
27:11and then take you
27:13and bring you in isolation
27:22man and she ugly
27:26she looked jacked up
27:28she don't look like ain't nothing good
27:31going on in her life God of a tendency
27:34to take some of us as men
27:37in our Brokenness
27:39and let the world look at us
27:42and come up with their assumptions and
27:45determine that ain't nothing good can
27:48come out of that man's life
27:50and God then will take us into isolation
27:55the wilderness
27:57and all the world remember
28:02is your last look
28:04[Applause]
28:09glory to God
28:10[Applause]
28:12for this morning but baby you ought to
28:15take a good look at me right now
28:17cause the man you're about to see in the
28:20future
28:22looks a whole lot better than he looked
28:25right now
28:26ah you ought to tell your haters take a
28:29good look at me now because when God is
28:33through with me
28:35do I have a weakness in the house today
28:38when God is through with me
28:43he's going to show the world
28:46that I'm fearfully and I'm wonderfully
28:48made
28:51you see you have to spend time with God
28:54privately
28:55so that he can better present you
28:58publicly
29:00as his disciple
29:03some of you have no clue about the fact
29:06that God is currently hiding you for a
29:09reason
29:10and he's waiting for specific time to
29:14present you to the world
29:17to better present you
29:20to your family
29:22to your fiance the person you're dating
29:25your spouse your children your parents
29:29co-workers even your employers the
29:33ministry and your community please hear
29:36me
29:38some of you who this gonna be tough
29:41you need to stay at home rash
29:45you don't need to be dating right now
29:49no do not do not don't date nobody now
29:56leave that woman alone
30:00leave that man alone
30:03[Applause]
30:05thank you
30:19you don't need to be dating now
30:23leave them alone
30:26stay where God has planted you let him
30:30take care
30:31let him get on the inside of you and
30:34clean up all your hurts and clean up all
30:38your negativity and clean you up
30:41so that he can better prepare you for
30:44the man and the woman you are pursuing
30:47tap your name and say leave that person
30:50alone leave them
30:55leave them don't call them another night
30:59do just delete their number out to your
31:03phone don't call them anymore man
31:07you're not ready
31:10don't you come out
31:12[Applause]
31:14until God is finished with you
31:18you're better prepared
31:21for a relationship
31:23you need to stay where God has planted
31:25you stay in the environment long enough
31:29so that he can give you beauty
31:32fascists
31:33[Applause]
31:35according to Isaiah 61 verse 3. he'll
31:39give you Beauty for Ashes
31:42some of you
31:44your life is like ashes
31:48you have burnt all the love the faith
31:55the family the finances
31:58the career the whatever it is
32:02your life is like ashes
32:06and you're wondering God kick in at my
32:09age
32:10and based on the circumstances of my
32:13life
32:15do I stand a chance
32:18of coming out of this good
32:21do I stand a chance of having a bright
32:25future
32:26do I stand the chance of knowing your
32:30perfect will and falling in love with
32:32you
32:33like when I did years ago can can my
32:36faith Journey mean more to me than than
32:41what I think about people and money and
32:43and the pledges of the world
32:46because right now God I just feel like
32:48my life is like ashes but the Bible says
32:51he'll give you beauty
32:54he'll take the ashes of your life
33:00and he'll make something beautiful out
33:02of it that is why those of you who are
33:06church people religious people be
33:08careful how you throw away
33:11the ashes
33:14be careful of how you're quick to throw
33:16away people who have screwed up their
33:19lives who have messed up their life I
33:21know your love to judge I'm know you
33:24love to point fingers I know you're the
33:26only righteous one left on the planet
33:28with your crazy self I
33:31know you 'd like you are only God
33:35careful of how you try to throw away
33:38ashes because God will take the ashes
33:43and make something beautiful
33:47somebody ought to give him praise right
33:49there
33:50that's what he'll do man I don't care
33:53how you messed up
33:55that's why young people you need to hear
33:57me this morning I don't care how you
33:59messed up I don't care all of the
34:01craziest stuff that you have done know
34:05that God will never reject you
34:08people will
34:09and I have to apologize to you on the
34:12behalf of some of us who are seniors
34:16we make it look like you guys are so
34:19full of the devil and you are heathens
34:22and you are so bad but we forgot
34:25what we used to do
34:28when we were their age
34:33that's why you never give up on your
34:34children you never give up on your
34:36family you never give up on people
34:38because when you think nothing good can
34:41come out of them is there anything good
34:43that can come out of Nazareth the son of
34:46the Living God came out of Nazareth and
34:48I'm telling you God will give you beauty
34:51for ashes
34:54will take our messed up lives and make
34:57something good out of it so a few things
35:00I would like to point out
35:03to you from first Samuel 23 beginning of
35:07verse 14.
35:09first we need to understand here
35:12that the Bible says that David
35:15was living between a rock and a hard
35:19place what do I mean by that
35:23he was staying in the wilderness
35:27and in a desert
35:32try to figure this out man
35:35I don't understand this
35:37it's nothing to live in a
35:38wilderness
35:41right where there's no life there
35:45I mean
35:47it's barren
35:49and then
35:52you're dealing with a drought
35:55this is the kind of experience David was
35:59enduring
36:01I mean I don't mind being in the
36:04wilderness but For Heaven's Sake give me
36:06some water give me some streams give me
36:08some River give me something to quench
36:11my thirst or some food A wilderness
36:13there's no birds flying there's there's
36:15nothing for me to eat I'm not catching
36:18my breath I don't know who this is for
36:20you're not catching your breath it seems
36:23as if one dilemma after the next it
36:25seems as if you're not getting a break
36:27you're between a rock and a hard place
36:32nothing seems to be going in your favor
36:36so David was living this difficult life
36:40because here it is he was following the
36:43instructions of God
36:45God was the one who told him to go fight
36:50those people
36:52and he won
36:54because God would never send you to
36:57battle
36:58and not give you the victory
37:02but here it is
37:03he did exactly what God told them to do
37:07and he now has to be running for his
37:09life is there anybody has ever followed
37:12God
37:13it's not that you did wrong
37:16you did what the Bible told you to do
37:18and now you're in the will of God but
37:21now you've got to be running for your
37:22life
37:24he had to be running because Saul was
37:26now out to kill him
37:28because Saul hated him because he took
37:33from Saul's Kingdom what Saul took from
37:37the Israelites number two David was
37:41hiding because Saul's intention watch
37:45this was not to have a conversation with
37:47him I don't want you to miss this I'm
37:49almost through with this man David was
37:52hiding not because Saul wanted to have a
37:54conversation with him God
37:58hit him
38:00and allowed him to be in the wilderness
38:03and in a desert at the same time and the
38:06reason why God wanted him to stay there
38:08because Saul was out to destroy his life
38:11David couldn't understand but David was
38:14so eager fatigued I got to get out man I
38:18don't like where I'm at and God was
38:20trying to say fool stay where you're at
38:22the man's gonna kill you
38:26you want a word from me you want me to
38:29comfort you you want me to remind you
38:31that I said I'm going to point you as
38:33king you don't need to hear from nobody
38:36you don't need to go out there and prove
38:37to anybody that you're bad you just
38:39fought some battles so you can handle
38:41Saul
38:42stay where I planted you stay in the
38:46uncomfortable places where I planted you
38:49stay right there I'll send the word
38:51there
38:52you don't need to come out
38:55you don't need to come out and get ahead
38:57of me stay there David
39:02stayed there
39:04and while he was there number three
39:07David found out not only Saul was out to
39:11kill him
39:13but then the son of Saul
39:17the son
39:20of his hater
39:24God God is good
39:27man
39:29God
39:30touched the heart of Jonathan
39:33Saul's son
39:36and said watch this nobody listen to me
39:39nobody knew where David was hiding
39:45not even Saul
39:48but God
39:49called his son Jonathan and said come
39:52here
39:54assignment for you
39:57I'll take you to David
40:00the man your dad is trying to kill
40:04and I want you to go and encourage him
40:07wait a minute now a couple of things you
40:09need to understand here that you've got
40:12to ask God for the spirit of discernment
40:15because sometimes what God will do thank
40:18you Lord
40:19it will have you in a difficult spot and
40:22sometimes he'll reveal your haters to
40:24you watch this now but you've got to
40:27discern because sometimes God would let
40:30people close us to your haters
40:33not be haters but be your blesser
40:37you got to know the difference you
40:40cannot hate everybody who's around your
40:43hater
40:46every but some of you you're mad just
40:49because that person is a friend of your
40:52hater I ain't talking to her I'm
40:54speaking to her fool you need to
40:56understand this God will use some of
40:58your closest friends
41:01to bless you who will befriend your
41:04haters you got to learn to separate them
41:08my goodness mate you're not ready for
41:10this today
41:11God took Jonathan
41:14Saul's son
41:16and say I want you to go to David and I
41:19want you to give him a word and I want
41:21you to encourage him and then I want you
41:23to tell him
41:24I want you to cut Covenant with this
41:26young man I want you to cut Covenant I
41:28want you to but but he's he's the son of
41:31my hater
41:32no I want him to cut Covenant with you
41:34David but his father's got to kill me I
41:38wonder what if what if Jonathan is out
41:41to kill me too but you see what David
41:43needs to understand is that wait a
41:45minute nobody knew where you were hiding
41:48so for God to send Jonathan to come talk
41:53to you
41:55is a sign that God's not sending anybody
41:57to kill you
41:59God is sending a word a fresh word to
42:03encourage you while you're there and the
42:06Bible says that Jonathan came to David
42:09and spoke to David and said wait a
42:13minute
42:13one day you're going to be king
42:17listen to me young lady one day you're
42:19gonna come out of that situation
42:22sir one day God's gonna pull you out of
42:26that you're going to be in such high
42:30position you're going to be frueler
42:35you're not going to be in the situation
42:36you're in now God is training you so
42:40that when he puts you in high places you
42:43won't forget where you came from
42:46and you'll have compassion on people
42:50so I am sending Jonathan to tell you
42:56just because you're at a difficult place
43:00and you don't look good
43:03doesn't mean that you're not elevated
43:06doesn't mean that you're not anointed
43:08doesn't mean that God's assignment over
43:11your life will never come to pass
43:13while David was hiding out at horesh
43:18he was still anointed he was still going
43:21to be Future King
43:23and God sent Jonathan to remind him and
43:26here is where I said previously for me
43:31the story for a moment did not make
43:34sense
43:36kind of like your life right now
43:39here is where I know your life don't
43:41make sense
43:45I know it
43:46you read your Bible
43:48you come to church
43:50every now and then you hear nice
43:52inspirational words of encouragement
43:56and you're feeling good like some of you
43:58you're going to log off today and you're
44:00feeling mighty good and you're feeling
44:01that word was for me and so forth but
44:05what if I tell you after such amazing
44:09word today and revelation of these two
44:12passages of scripture
44:15what if I tell you
44:17God's going to leave you right where
44:19you're at
44:22what if I tell you
44:24you're not coming out of that situation
44:26now will you come out absolutely you
44:29will
44:31will you come out yes you will you're
44:32going to come out of it
44:35you will come out of it but not now
44:41are you willing to sit where he planted
44:45you
44:46until it's time
44:49the worst thing you can ever do is to
44:52come out of your house
44:54when your makeup is not completely done
45:03come on ladies don't be hating on me now
45:07ladies can can you be honest with me
45:10the most scary thing is to see an
45:15unfinished
45:16makeup
45:19okay okay
45:21see you're not with me this morning
45:26maybe we're Russian
45:28maybe we're Russian
45:30but what if what if like David
45:34the Bible says after
45:36Jonathan gave him the word
45:42Jonathan
45:44laughed
45:47went home
45:50but David
45:52stayed
45:57I'm closing
45:59David stayed
46:05are you willing to stay where God
46:06planted you
46:11David stayed
46:15and it was a long wait
46:21nothing good
46:24was happening
46:26he couldn't come out publicly
46:29because Saul
46:32was determined to kill him even after he
46:36received his word
46:41he even after he received his word
46:43Mickey I need you
46:45even after he received his word
46:49[Music]
46:50Saul
46:52was still trying to kill him
46:55and he stayed
46:58right where
47:00God planted him
47:02I'm closing
47:06I know you may not like this
47:09you don't like the sermon today
47:13Henry was preaching good
47:17he was preaching good
47:22until he got to this part of the sermon
47:28you don't want to hear that
47:32because when you study the Bible
47:37it wasn't the next day that David came
47:40out
47:41and took over
47:44rulership
47:45over Israel
47:50hiding for a long time
47:53hiding for a long time
47:57know
48:00I don't know who this word is for this
48:02morning
48:04but I promise you
48:06if you stay
48:09in the room
48:11are at the place
48:14that God has prepared for you
48:18I promise you
48:20the picture that people had of you
48:24of your past
48:27the very people who were out to kill you
48:30the systems and things that was out to
48:33destroy you
48:34I promise you watch this
48:38if you stay in the room and don't come
48:41out before it's your time and your
48:43assignment
48:45that when you make your grand entrance
48:49when you make your grand entrance
48:51folk ain't gonna recognize you
48:56okay don't recognize you
49:01when you're seated in your next season
49:05they're not going to recognize you
49:09I said they're not going to recognize
49:11What the Lord Has Done in your life
49:15because when God gives you a makeover
49:19he turns
49:22your ass is into Beauty
49:27that's what he does
49:31he'll fix your life up
49:34young lady
49:37he'll bring you before the world
49:40and you can testify young man to the
49:43world I've been there done that
49:46I've been to Hell and back
49:49now Look What the Lord Has Done would
49:53you high-five somebody and tell them
49:55Look What the Lord Has Done
49:59I can't wait to see what God's going to
50:01do in your life I can't wait to see what
50:04God's going to do in your life
50:06are you hearing me this morning I can't
50:09wait to see what God is going to do in
50:13your life oh he's about to turn your
50:16life around I said he's about to turn
50:19your life around
50:23stand on your feet everybody stand on
50:25your feet
50:27stand on your feet
50:30let this demonstration this morning
50:33be a reminder to you
50:36the last image of who they thought you
50:40were
50:42when God pulls you out of whatever
50:45situation you're in
50:47baby when God is through with you honey
50:51they're gonna wish they could take a
50:53picture next to you I
50:56might yeah
51:00what a transformation somebody shouted
51:03what a transformation
51:06[Music]
51:09I want to pray for a few people this
51:11morning before I close
51:13I don't know what situation you find
51:16yourself in this morning
51:18but if you feel that God
51:20would have you in a hiding place
51:24and you needed this word this morning
51:26and you want to be encouraged whoever
51:28you are
51:29I want you to come on down whoever you
51:31are whoever you are come on down come on
51:34down whoever you are come on down come
51:36on down
51:37whoever you are come on down
51:40come on down
51:42come on down I need a transformation
51:44come on work with me musicians work with
51:47me
51:49come on down wherever you are I want
51:52these two young people come stand next
51:54to me you're part of my sermon this
51:55morning
51:58your demonstration is going to bring
52:00hope
52:00[Music]
52:02it has brought hope
52:05to these precious people you're
52:07streaming I wish you were in the room
52:09this morning to be a part of this
52:12but you're not maybe you can identify
52:13yourself in the chat room
52:16but listen to me this morning
52:18I could go on and on
52:21trying to explain to you how God
52:26divinely orchestrated
52:29David's life
52:31[Music]
52:33to bring him
52:34[Music]
52:35to be a king
52:40a lot of us we want to jump from where
52:42we are to be kings and queens it doesn't
52:46work that way can I be honest with you
52:49if God wants to give you what you're
52:51asking for right now
52:54you will mess it up
52:57you'll mess it up
52:59David had to learn watch this
53:02to stay at an uncomfortable difficult
53:05place
53:07even when people knew that he was hiding
53:11do you understand the word that was out
53:13in the community or that boy David
53:15talked about God spoke to him and he
53:18fought all those people and won and look
53:20at this weak person he out there hiding
53:23he can't even face Saul
53:27because people love to talk
53:30people always like to sum up your life
53:33and tell you when you're weak when
53:35you're strong
53:36what you can and what you cannot do
53:39and sometimes I know you want to respond
53:43I can't tell you how many times I wanted
53:45to open my mouth and
53:47and people out
53:50I'm saved I'm a bishop I'm a chancellor
53:55with these mouths
53:57or this these lips I should say
54:01sometimes I wanna I don't wanna I don't
54:03want to tell you bless you
54:06am I the only one
54:09can we just get some real Christians to
54:11just
54:12sometimes I don't want to tell you God
54:15bless you I want to tell you something
54:18else
54:18[Applause]
54:20that's between me and God
54:25can you imagine how David felt
54:27you want to come out and cuss these
54:29people out
54:29[Music]
54:32but God had him
54:35in hiding
54:37while they are talking while I was
54:39preaching
54:41they were in the makeup room
54:45and God was working
54:47on them
54:49because many of you
54:52who was fussing about this young lady's
54:54hair I said God why should look like
54:56that
54:57look at her now
55:01this is what God's about to do in your
55:03life
55:06I'm quite sure but look at that young
55:08man
55:09look at his hair
55:11look at him now look at his smile come
55:15on now God's gonna make you smile man
55:18when God gets through with you he's
55:23gonna make you smile
55:25[Music]
55:27don't you come out
55:29of that room
55:32that environment
55:34that place that God will have you now
55:37don't come out
55:39until God is finished with you because
55:41you want to come out ready
55:45you want to come out blessed you want to
55:48come out as God saying I approve
55:52I love how you look now I can handle you
55:56young man
55:57now I don't have to worry if you're
55:59going to Fumble the ball
56:01now I don't have to worry if you're not
56:03going to get a touchdown no I don't have
56:05to worry if you're not going to get the
56:07ball in the basket I don't have to worry
56:09anymore if you're going to take the
56:11position where I'm going to place you
56:13and drop the ball because you were not
56:16prepared
56:18do you hear me sir
56:21wherever God has placed you right now
56:25as uncomfortable as it may be
56:29you stay there and you don't complain
56:33let people talk
56:38you let people talk
56:41because when you come out of it
56:43when you come out of it
56:46God's going to show you off to the world
56:49lift your hands everybody all over this
56:51building and for those of you are
56:52streaming father I thank you for this
56:54word today
56:57thank you for the demonstration thank
56:59you
57:00but you have all of us in a holding
57:02pattern
57:04got us
57:05in an environment
57:07where sometimes we don't understand
57:09you're doing
57:11we don't understand and quite honestly
57:12God is uncomfortable
57:14but we raise our hands this morning to
57:17you and say we surrender
57:20we surrender it all to you Jesus
57:24we know that you're working
57:26in our lives and all things are working
57:30for our good
57:33you are an intentional God there's a
57:36reason why you're doing what you're
57:37doing we don't understand it now
57:40but it's gonna work out for our good we
57:44know that when it's our time God you're
57:47going to
57:49this man you're going to do incredible
57:51things
57:52you're going to show us off to the world
57:54bless your people today as they receive
57:57this word I pray God that they'll never
58:00forget it and they'll remind themselves
58:03that though they may feel like David
58:06that God everything
58:09is working together for their good I
58:11bless them today
58:13I ask that you will strengthen them
58:16give them a very productive week
58:19I pray this morning for those who don't
58:21know you as Lord and Savior that they'll
58:24come to know you as their savior that
58:27they'll try this Faith Journey that they
58:30will surrender to you and make you Lord
58:33of their lives and when they do that
58:36they'll go to church they'll read their
58:38Bible
58:39they'll even become a member of the
58:43local church just like today immediately
58:45after service
58:47we're going to give your people an
58:49opportunity to join this church if they
58:51choose to
58:52because God being a part of a church is
58:55so important it's how they grow
58:58spiritually
58:59that's how they allow themselves to be
59:03accountable
59:04so I pray this morning people are
59:06streaming who choose to become an
59:08e-member will make that decision this
59:10morning those who are here on campus
59:13will find that room where we are going
59:16to orientate people to become a member
59:19of this church so that they can be in a
59:21part of the army of God's people that
59:24God is preparing for something bigger
59:27and greater in the future I thank you
59:31for doing it now now quickly if you
59:33don't know the Lord as your personal
59:35savior in other words you're not a
59:37Christian you know it
59:38you haven't surrendered to him
59:41and you'd like to do so today the Bible
59:43says you confess with your mouth and you
59:45believe in your heart and like I said go
59:47to church read your Bible
59:49and live this Faith Life if you're ready
59:51to do that I'd like to lead you in a
59:54special prayer that all of us had to
59:57pray those of us who are believers we
59:59had to pray this prayer it's biblical I
60:01want you to repeat after me say Lord
60:03Jesus
60:05I'm a sinner
60:06I Repent of my sins
60:09and I embrace the free gift of salvation
60:13and today I'm born again
60:15in Jesus name amen
60:19come on let's give the Lord hand the
60:20praise for that
60:23amen