don’t deviate don’t procrastinate
don’t become frustrated all you have to
do to win this battle is stay on track
there are moments that try the human
soul so violently and so perplexing that
if the truth were told all of us have
had moments that we wanted to throw up
our hands and walk away
discouragement can creep in secretly
hide behind clothes make up hairdos
discouragement is so bold that it will
even hide behind a smile it will always
ride to work with you and if it doesn’t
it’ll catch a ride on the way back home
discouragement will go into a tent into
a garage apartment it is going to
subsidize living it will walk right into
a section-8 neighborhood it will come in
but but but don’t think that it stops
there
discouragement will walk right into a
middle-class house and sit down at the
dining room table and have a cup of
coffee early in the morning it won’t
just stop there it’ll go in a mansion
and sit on the side of the jacuzzi stick
his feet in the hot tub until you life
is not worth living if you listen at
discouragement it will cause you to make
bad decisions it will cause you to think
that life is not worth living and
secretly behind the facade of a smile
and a good morning and a praise the Lord
and how are you you will wonder if
you’re ever going to get out of what
you’re into particularly painful is
discouragement and the life of the
believer because as we travel from
season to season it is not just the
perils that we face but it is seeing the
while the righteous are held back I
don’t know who I don’t know if you’ve
ever talked like that but sometimes I
see people succeeding who didn’t pray
nearly as hard work nearly as long have
not been faithful at all and it seems
like they seemingly have moments of
victory placed in close proximity so I
could see it their victories are
flaunted in my face not while I am
having a similar experience but while
all hell has broken loose in my life and
I am going through agony and tragedy
seemingly they are having victory and
triumph and if you are not careful the
very sight of their prosperity becomes
your agony and seeing them go forward
will be a source of such continued
frustration that it is not your test
that baffles you but their success
agonizingly displayed before you makes
you despair of life until David says in
37 and 1 fret not thyself over evildoers
how they prosper in their own way they
so soon be cut off
he says in other words don’t make a
permanent decision over a temporary
circumstance he says don’t allow a
moment of agony to make you draw a
conclusion about life prematurely
because if you just keep on walking with
God God has a way of making everything
all right but he warns us and declares
to us that the steps of a good man are
ordered by the Lord steps somebody steps
means it’s gonna take a while
means that you can’t get to the
destination just because you want it
just because you saw it just because you
like it just because you need it in fact
we are often tormented by vision mm-hmm
yeah we are tormented by vision it’s
painful thing to be a visionary because
the visionary sees what shall be and
[Applause]
sometimes the visionary cries out on the
inside and says God don’t even show me
what shall be because every time I shout
and dance over what you showed me I go
home to a harsh and painful bleak dark
reality and the fact that I am torn
between what shall be and what he is
creates agony in my life the Bible said
Hope deferred makes the heart sick there
are moments that I’d rather not know
that I’m going to be king if you’re
going to send me back out into the field
to take care of sheep why didn’t you
just hide that I was going to be king so
I could be satisfied taking care of
sheep but because you told me you had
more for me I wanted to hasten the
process to get to my destiny now now I’m
not happy doing what I used to be happy
doing because I’m tormented by what
Shelby I want to hasten my process so
that I can get to unexpected in but that
cannot be done because the blessing
given too soon is not a blessing at all
I could give my son the car keys now and
tell him to go to the store but had I
given it to him when he was 5 it would
not have been a blessing at all same car
same son given too soon he can’t handle
it the car can handle it the road can
handle it I can give it to him but he
can’t handle it so would I be a good
father if I gave him a good thing too
soon sometimes my goodness is proven by
the younger brother the prodigal son
teaches us synthetically that if we get
what is ours too soon we cannot handle
it that the same thing that should make
us praise the father will drive us away
from the father if we get it too soon
the Bible said he said give me the
portion of goods that falleth to me the
father gave in and gave it to him and
the blessing drove him over the edge my
prayer has always been Lord don’t give
me more than I can handle you know when
to bless me you know how to bless me you
know when I’m ready to be blessed teach
me patience with the process go through
the process
God has ordered steps
the thing that I’m thankful for is to
know that God orders the steps it helps
me to understand that I am not wandering
aimlessly that I’m not just moving on my
own that there is of course for me to
take and that I can’t graduate till I
take that there is a path for me to trot
that God isn’t making this thing up as
he goes I thought he was making it up as
he went that’s why I prayed so he could
make it up my way I prayed to abort the
process I prayed to speed it up I prayed
to get out of things that he wanted me
to stay into I pray that I wouldn’t have
to endure some things that he wanted me
to endure I was working on the
destination but he was working on me and
and sometimes he made me wait he he made
me slow down said no you skipped that
go back and do that again if you skipped
it with Jimmy I’m gonna send it back
if you skipped it with Willie you will
have to go do it with Raji if you
skipped it with Sallie you will go
through it with Suzy because all of
these are tools that I’m using the work
on you I’m not preparing the blessing
for you I’m preparing you for the
blessing the blessing is already
prepared oh my god the blessing is
already prepared eyes have not seen ears
have not heard neither have entered into
the heart of man the things that God
have prepared for them to love it did
you know your blessing is already ready
that is that it’s already in place that
God any fixing it up right now it’s
already done
that the work doesn’t have to be applied
to where you’re going the work has to be
applied to you so that when you get
where you’re going you can handle what
you gotta handle and so God help me
preach the steps the steps the step
touch three people say the steps the
steps the steps you wanted a good
you wanted children but your wasn’t a
good parent you wanted and then wife but
you wasn’t a good man and anytime you
get anything too soon you will trip on
the steps so God puts us in process and
order steps
good men are wanted by the law
even Jesus had steps they tried to crowd
him too soon and he disappeared because
they were trying to make him skip the
steps said no no you can’t crown me
it is my cross that makes my craft it is
my agony that makes my ecstasy it is my
sickness that makes my healing it is my
poverty that illuminates my prosperity
makes me appreciate where I am oh god
help me makes me appreciate where I am
right now you don’t know this good help
till you’ve been sick you don’t even
notice it you don’t even understand the
words that are coming out of my mouth
until you have been sick
you will never thank God for feeling
good until you felt bad you’ll never
take God for your back for your neck for
your hand so you kick this so your lip
up and tell it then charlie but after a
while you start taking on some crazy
stuff thank you come back and see this
morning yeah yeah yeah yeah the truth of
the matter is it’s a whole lot of folk
in here that are thankful for stuff that
they can’t testify about because people
wouldn’t understand your testimony
I mean dumb stuff like lord I thank you
I can’t afford to get my hair done
Oh y’all understand let me talk to these
people over here Lord I think
I got the book money to send the kids to
school I know that I have been testimony
but when you’ve been to hell and back
you can take the little stuff the steps
of a good man are ordered by the Lord
and I don’t have to be on the stage to
be grateful I can praise Him on the step
because every time I make a step touch
the neighbors head praise him on the
steps
don’t wait till you get to the stage
don’t wait til you get finished
don’t wait till everything is in order
but every now and then you ought to stop
right in the middle of the step and say
I’m not we’re gonna be but I’m glad I’m
not where I used to be Lana thank you
is there anybody in here just praising
God on the steps look at your neighbors
how I’m not there yet I’m not finished
yet
I haven’t arrived yet but when you see
me praising God I’m praising him on the
steps somebody praying on the steps
[Music]
the devil hates step praise
I said the devil hates their praise
Satan hates step praise praise the stops
in the middle of the step until I tell
myself to have apprehended but this one
thing I do forgetting that which is
Muhammad and reach into that which is
before me press press press I was a
handsome determined vogue in here press
tour depart on the prize of the high
calling slap your neighbor televised
press press press / depressant
oppressive of rejection oppressive of
fear press / loneliness Debra you’ve got
to help me but every time you try
look at the neighbor said go I’m not
perfect
I am not perfect but one thing I do have
class every morning I get out the bed
every day I get in my car I don’t care
what they say I don’t
one day
you better not go to sleep on the steps
you better not start crying on the steps
you better not give up on the steps you
might not collapse on the steps they
will find you on the steps if you lay
down there run over the top of you or
the steps I don’t care whether there’s
sunshine or rain players are pain when
you get up in the morning put your
flap your David Holub plants
I measure the value of a man by how hard
he presses as how you can determine who
you fight about how hard they press how
huh you could be all big and
muscle-bound and still not have no force
behind your punch uh-huh force kinetic
energy energy in motion you can’t have
energy sitting energy is measured by
motion that’s why the devil wants you to
sit sit down and shut up and feel sorry
for yourself but you’re on a brother
that was mine this morning
[Applause]
you are a bloated elmo’s – Lauren just
wouldn’t think he got to laugh
you ought to suck him and class I feel a
person spirit in here this morning I
feel a determination in here this
morning I feel a fighter that is longing
listen to the neighbors say get on up
them steps get on up get on up get on
get all have them steps get on get on
get on up them steps get on up them
steps get dipped it all up them steps
get on up get on up them steps get on up
them steps get on up them steps get on
up them self don’t you get 48 you’re
tired don’t you get 50 and you’re tired
don’t you get 60 and get tired don’t you
get 78 get tired don’t you get 80 yes I
can the steps of a good man I’m not
talking about a bad man I’m talking
about a good man don’t you sit there
with your good shelter and say oh that
won’t happen to me cuz I’m good no it’s
gonna happen to you because you’re good
the steps of a good man ordered ordered
by the Lord not offered ordered he
ordered you to go of the steps it
wouldn’t let you bypass the process all
those people who offered you quick deals
the reason the deal went down is because
God ordered you to Bob the steps he
didn’t intend for you to go up the
elevator
he knew he got there too fast he was
gonna be ready for it she slowed down
your process he left the deal go down it
wasn’t time yet when it’s time it’s
gonna happens ha ha ha
is gonna come the pan when it’s time
you’re coming out of trouble when it’s
time ain’t no grave hold your body down
when it’s time God is gonna resurrect
you when it’s time
all y’all don’t hear what I’m saying so
what I do what do i do what do I do in
the meantime
in the meantime while our weeks to reach
my destination the only thing I have to
worry about it’s Lord let me stay on
track
they met brother job one day they said
Joe your children are dead your cattle
are did your wife has despised your name
has gone down he said that’s all right
I’m right on track the Lord knows the
way that I take and when he has tried me
I shall come forth as pure gold I don’t
know who God wanted me to preach to this
morning but the Lord sent me to tell you
you’re right on track having it all the
stand stand there for anyway and
whatever happens to say Lord I thank you
you ordered this step
I won’t murmur in it I will complain in
it I won’t be fearful I will be
frightened in it I’m right on track high-five somebody said right on track
don’t become frustrated all you have to
do to win this battle is stay on track
there are moments that try the human
soul so violently and so perplexing that
if the truth were told all of us have
had moments that we wanted to throw up
our hands and walk away
discouragement can creep in secretly
hide behind clothes make up hairdos
discouragement is so bold that it will
even hide behind a smile it will always
ride to work with you and if it doesn’t
it’ll catch a ride on the way back home
discouragement will go into a tent into
a garage apartment it is going to
subsidize living it will walk right into
a section-8 neighborhood it will come in
but but but don’t think that it stops
there
discouragement will walk right into a
middle-class house and sit down at the
dining room table and have a cup of
coffee early in the morning it won’t
just stop there it’ll go in a mansion
and sit on the side of the jacuzzi stick
his feet in the hot tub until you life
is not worth living if you listen at
discouragement it will cause you to make
bad decisions it will cause you to think
that life is not worth living and
secretly behind the facade of a smile
and a good morning and a praise the Lord
and how are you you will wonder if
you’re ever going to get out of what
you’re into particularly painful is
discouragement and the life of the
believer because as we travel from
season to season it is not just the
perils that we face but it is seeing the
while the righteous are held back I
don’t know who I don’t know if you’ve
ever talked like that but sometimes I
see people succeeding who didn’t pray
nearly as hard work nearly as long have
not been faithful at all and it seems
like they seemingly have moments of
victory placed in close proximity so I
could see it their victories are
flaunted in my face not while I am
having a similar experience but while
all hell has broken loose in my life and
I am going through agony and tragedy
seemingly they are having victory and
triumph and if you are not careful the
very sight of their prosperity becomes
your agony and seeing them go forward
will be a source of such continued
frustration that it is not your test
that baffles you but their success
agonizingly displayed before you makes
you despair of life until David says in
37 and 1 fret not thyself over evildoers
how they prosper in their own way they
so soon be cut off
he says in other words don’t make a
permanent decision over a temporary
circumstance he says don’t allow a
moment of agony to make you draw a
conclusion about life prematurely
because if you just keep on walking with
God God has a way of making everything
all right but he warns us and declares
to us that the steps of a good man are
ordered by the Lord steps somebody steps
means it’s gonna take a while
means that you can’t get to the
destination just because you want it
just because you saw it just because you
like it just because you need it in fact
we are often tormented by vision mm-hmm
yeah we are tormented by vision it’s
painful thing to be a visionary because
the visionary sees what shall be and
[Applause]
sometimes the visionary cries out on the
inside and says God don’t even show me
what shall be because every time I shout
and dance over what you showed me I go
home to a harsh and painful bleak dark
reality and the fact that I am torn
between what shall be and what he is
creates agony in my life the Bible said
Hope deferred makes the heart sick there
are moments that I’d rather not know
that I’m going to be king if you’re
going to send me back out into the field
to take care of sheep why didn’t you
just hide that I was going to be king so
I could be satisfied taking care of
sheep but because you told me you had
more for me I wanted to hasten the
process to get to my destiny now now I’m
not happy doing what I used to be happy
doing because I’m tormented by what
Shelby I want to hasten my process so
that I can get to unexpected in but that
cannot be done because the blessing
given too soon is not a blessing at all
I could give my son the car keys now and
tell him to go to the store but had I
given it to him when he was 5 it would
not have been a blessing at all same car
same son given too soon he can’t handle
it the car can handle it the road can
handle it I can give it to him but he
can’t handle it so would I be a good
father if I gave him a good thing too
soon sometimes my goodness is proven by
the younger brother the prodigal son
teaches us synthetically that if we get
what is ours too soon we cannot handle
it that the same thing that should make
us praise the father will drive us away
from the father if we get it too soon
the Bible said he said give me the
portion of goods that falleth to me the
father gave in and gave it to him and
the blessing drove him over the edge my
prayer has always been Lord don’t give
me more than I can handle you know when
to bless me you know how to bless me you
know when I’m ready to be blessed teach
me patience with the process go through
the process
God has ordered steps
the thing that I’m thankful for is to
know that God orders the steps it helps
me to understand that I am not wandering
aimlessly that I’m not just moving on my
own that there is of course for me to
take and that I can’t graduate till I
take that there is a path for me to trot
that God isn’t making this thing up as
he goes I thought he was making it up as
he went that’s why I prayed so he could
make it up my way I prayed to abort the
process I prayed to speed it up I prayed
to get out of things that he wanted me
to stay into I pray that I wouldn’t have
to endure some things that he wanted me
to endure I was working on the
destination but he was working on me and
and sometimes he made me wait he he made
me slow down said no you skipped that
go back and do that again if you skipped
it with Jimmy I’m gonna send it back
if you skipped it with Willie you will
have to go do it with Raji if you
skipped it with Sallie you will go
through it with Suzy because all of
these are tools that I’m using the work
on you I’m not preparing the blessing
for you I’m preparing you for the
blessing the blessing is already
prepared oh my god the blessing is
already prepared eyes have not seen ears
have not heard neither have entered into
the heart of man the things that God
have prepared for them to love it did
you know your blessing is already ready
that is that it’s already in place that
God any fixing it up right now it’s
already done
that the work doesn’t have to be applied
to where you’re going the work has to be
applied to you so that when you get
where you’re going you can handle what
you gotta handle and so God help me
preach the steps the steps the step
touch three people say the steps the
steps the steps you wanted a good
you wanted children but your wasn’t a
good parent you wanted and then wife but
you wasn’t a good man and anytime you
get anything too soon you will trip on
the steps so God puts us in process and
order steps
good men are wanted by the law
even Jesus had steps they tried to crowd
him too soon and he disappeared because
they were trying to make him skip the
steps said no no you can’t crown me
it is my cross that makes my craft it is
my agony that makes my ecstasy it is my
sickness that makes my healing it is my
poverty that illuminates my prosperity
makes me appreciate where I am oh god
help me makes me appreciate where I am
right now you don’t know this good help
till you’ve been sick you don’t even
notice it you don’t even understand the
words that are coming out of my mouth
until you have been sick
you will never thank God for feeling
good until you felt bad you’ll never
take God for your back for your neck for
your hand so you kick this so your lip
up and tell it then charlie but after a
while you start taking on some crazy
stuff thank you come back and see this
morning yeah yeah yeah yeah the truth of
the matter is it’s a whole lot of folk
in here that are thankful for stuff that
they can’t testify about because people
wouldn’t understand your testimony
I mean dumb stuff like lord I thank you
I can’t afford to get my hair done
Oh y’all understand let me talk to these
people over here Lord I think
I got the book money to send the kids to
school I know that I have been testimony
but when you’ve been to hell and back
you can take the little stuff the steps
of a good man are ordered by the Lord
and I don’t have to be on the stage to
be grateful I can praise Him on the step
because every time I make a step touch
the neighbors head praise him on the
steps
don’t wait till you get to the stage
don’t wait til you get finished
don’t wait till everything is in order
but every now and then you ought to stop
right in the middle of the step and say
I’m not we’re gonna be but I’m glad I’m
not where I used to be Lana thank you
is there anybody in here just praising
God on the steps look at your neighbors
how I’m not there yet I’m not finished
yet
I haven’t arrived yet but when you see
me praising God I’m praising him on the
steps somebody praying on the steps
[Music]
the devil hates step praise
I said the devil hates their praise
Satan hates step praise praise the stops
in the middle of the step until I tell
myself to have apprehended but this one
thing I do forgetting that which is
Muhammad and reach into that which is
before me press press press I was a
handsome determined vogue in here press
tour depart on the prize of the high
calling slap your neighbor televised
press press press / depressant
oppressive of rejection oppressive of
fear press / loneliness Debra you’ve got
to help me but every time you try
look at the neighbor said go I’m not
perfect
I am not perfect but one thing I do have
class every morning I get out the bed
every day I get in my car I don’t care
what they say I don’t
one day
you better not go to sleep on the steps
you better not start crying on the steps
you better not give up on the steps you
might not collapse on the steps they
will find you on the steps if you lay
down there run over the top of you or
the steps I don’t care whether there’s
sunshine or rain players are pain when
you get up in the morning put your
flap your David Holub plants
I measure the value of a man by how hard
he presses as how you can determine who
you fight about how hard they press how
huh you could be all big and
muscle-bound and still not have no force
behind your punch uh-huh force kinetic
energy energy in motion you can’t have
energy sitting energy is measured by
motion that’s why the devil wants you to
sit sit down and shut up and feel sorry
for yourself but you’re on a brother
that was mine this morning
[Applause]
you are a bloated elmo’s – Lauren just
wouldn’t think he got to laugh
you ought to suck him and class I feel a
person spirit in here this morning I
feel a determination in here this
morning I feel a fighter that is longing
listen to the neighbors say get on up
them steps get on up get on up get on
get all have them steps get on get on
get on up them steps get on up them
steps get dipped it all up them steps
get on up get on up them steps get on up
them steps get on up them steps get on
up them self don’t you get 48 you’re
tired don’t you get 50 and you’re tired
don’t you get 60 and get tired don’t you
get 78 get tired don’t you get 80 yes I
can the steps of a good man I’m not
talking about a bad man I’m talking
about a good man don’t you sit there
with your good shelter and say oh that
won’t happen to me cuz I’m good no it’s
gonna happen to you because you’re good
the steps of a good man ordered ordered
by the Lord not offered ordered he
ordered you to go of the steps it
wouldn’t let you bypass the process all
those people who offered you quick deals
the reason the deal went down is because
God ordered you to Bob the steps he
didn’t intend for you to go up the
elevator
he knew he got there too fast he was
gonna be ready for it she slowed down
your process he left the deal go down it
wasn’t time yet when it’s time it’s
gonna happens ha ha ha
is gonna come the pan when it’s time
you’re coming out of trouble when it’s
time ain’t no grave hold your body down
when it’s time God is gonna resurrect
you when it’s time
all y’all don’t hear what I’m saying so
what I do what do i do what do I do in
the meantime
in the meantime while our weeks to reach
my destination the only thing I have to
worry about it’s Lord let me stay on
track
they met brother job one day they said
Joe your children are dead your cattle
are did your wife has despised your name
has gone down he said that’s all right
I’m right on track the Lord knows the
way that I take and when he has tried me
I shall come forth as pure gold I don’t
know who God wanted me to preach to this
morning but the Lord sent me to tell you
you’re right on track having it all the
stand stand there for anyway and
whatever happens to say Lord I thank you
you ordered this step
I won’t murmur in it I will complain in
it I won’t be fearful I will be
frightened in it I’m right on track high-five somebody said right on track
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