the thing that is tormenting about
failure the thing that makes failure so
devastating is that failure if often
associated with the feeling that you’re
almost there and those of you who fail
know what I’m talking about and you’ll
be thinking you know but I’m so close
and if I just had a little bit more time
if I had a little bit more resources
rather only done this and and it is a
terrible feeling because down in your
gut down in your gut you know is some
fish down there somewhere oh can I talk
to the real keeper you’ve given
everybody else laughs that you’ll say
well it’s your fault you don’t know what
you’re doing maybe it’s not meant for
you but in the back of your mind you
said even though it’s not worth it I
just got a feeling
Christians today would help you think
that if you have faith you have no
confusion no opposition you always know
what father’s doing you’re not afraid of
anything
you’re never intimidated you’re cool as
a cucumber
come pose with your bad self and always
confident that you have a private as
lying to God that you can get it intact
but the reality of the matter is God
doesn’t show you everything your going
to go through and just when you think
you understand right he’ll throw you a
curve ball blow your mind leave you on
your knees tears running down your face
say Lord I don’t know what in the world
is going on with my life I wish a head
witness
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they were up under grave encompassing
pressure and stress
Jesus had gone to the cross not to the
crown he’d been buried like a thief laid
in a borrowed tomb the crowds had
dissipated the miracles had ceased the
controversy had gone down to just
murmurings and yes there were a few
rumors said he’d got none but they had
not been proven or substantiated and it
was no longer popular to be one of his
disciples these men were on the hit list
and they were in trouble and there
wasn’t no Kingdom and see there was
feeling power and Pilate was still in
control and it looked like sobbing God
wasn’t working I know you’ve never gone
through anything that made you wonder if
serving God works but these weak
disciples they’re not quite as strong in
the faith as you are worth trembling and
hiding in rooms for fear of the Jews
they healed like scared women behind
closed doors murmuring amongst
themselves trying to decide what are we
going to do now are we going to do now
what are we going to do now just like
some of you do when you face opposition
you say well my lord I didn’t know when
we’re gonna go through this what are we
going to do man what are we gonna do
we’re being evicted what are we going to
do now they took the car what are we
going to do now there’s a scandal broke
out what are we going to do now people
are hating us what are we going to do
now we’ve lost our mortgage what are we
going to do now I just got fired what
are we going to do now my husband just
left me what are we going to do now my
wife just had an affair why don’t we go
I know you don’t know but the person
next to you knows what it’s like to hit
a bump in the road and say what are we
going
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Peter exemplifies what most of us do
when life called us out of our comfort
zone and makes our faith look foolish we
have a tendency to want to go back to
something familiar something safe
something we feel like we do well
something we can handle Peter says I
don’t know what the rest of you chumps
are gonna do but I go efficient now you
must understand then he wasn’t going
fishing like you go fishing you you go
fishing because it’s a stress reliever
it’s a vacation it takes your mind off
of things and it’s quiet it’s calm and
it’s natural and you hook up with nature
and you go fishing to compose your
thoughts and become one with the
elements Peter wasn’t interested in
becoming one with the elements fishing
was what he had done before it was what
he had exceeded here it wasn’t just that
he was a fisherman he was a businessman
he was a successful businessman he
wasn’t affluent businessman he not only
own one ship he had multiple ships he
had all kinds of people working for him
he went back to what he was doing before
faith had messed up his life
I go efficient means I’m going back to
something I know that I know that I know
that I know I can do well and that’s
what all of us do when we’re threatened
and intimidated we run back to our
comfort zone and we try to go back into
doing something that we feel that we do
successfully because nobody is attracted
to doing something that you fail an oh I
wish you were here with me this morning
so Peter said I’ll tell you what this is
getting crazy
this Jesus stuff is getting out of hand
I go fish
even in his frustration his fear and his
confusion
he’s still a leader he’s so much a
leader that these other disciples said
I’d tell you what I’m going with you now
I understand why Peter would go fishing
but Matthew was a tax collector look
what the physician because leaders even
when you’re confused
your leadership ability is still there
and people will follow you down or up
depending upon which way you go oh I
wish I had some leaders in this house
that’s why the enemy has you on the hit
list because he knows that you have an
influence leadership is all about
influence and if he can make you throw
up your hair and walk away
it’s gonna follow you and walk away to
[Applause]
go another fella says hey man we’re with
you let’s get out here on the boat check
things out
be cool be cool it’ll come to us what to
do we lost everything
fooling with this Jesus and he did what
in the world are we gonna do and Peter
says I’m good at this and get all y’all
a job everything’s gonna be all right
come on man
I know this works but what do you do
when something you know works
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I got a word for somebody to dick I got
a word for somebody today see we often
talk about the God who opens doors we
brag about how he sets before you an
open door and the Lord shower you get on
the phone
shower Lord just open the door for me I
want you to pray for me I need God to
open up a door oh girl I need you to
shout with me God just open up a door he
opened up a door I got a check in the
mail I got the job I got the opportunity
I got the lead contract with God open up
in the way Oh God you are talking and
God yeah he may be but he also shuts
doors he’s a God that closes doors and I
believe that often he closes more doors
than he opens because when God opens the
door you don’t need him to open but one
but when God closes the door he has to
pull the whole out of doors for you to
see which one you are to go in or y’all
are here what I’m saying to you God will
slam a door in your face shut the door
and say you can’t go back in that’s why
you have to be careful about being a
Christian because once you commit your
way unto the Lord
there are some things that you can never
go back to being again because God shut
the door
slap somebody tell him he’s gonna shut
some doors when God shuts the door you
can’t go back now he’ll be good you can
cry you can worry you can fret you can
agonize but you can’t go back once you
know that you know that you know who
Jesus is and what he’s able to do and
how able to change their life even go
walking with him got you in trouble
you can’t go back to being who you were
before because once God breaks you out
of stuff he breaks the mold you came
and you’ll never fit back in the slot my
god
Who am I preach until the day but the
whole life look like the fool going back
to Vandalia elementary school and it’s
going in my first grade class where miss
deals was teaching me how to write and
trying to sit my big Haim in in that
little bitty chair it used to fit but it
don’t fit anymore there are some places
that you used to fit that you can’t fit
anymore and if you’re trying to get back
in them you’re gonna find out that God
shut the door shut the door shut the
door shut the door it says I got it man
I know what I’m doing if I don’t learn
it is none else doc I know how to fish I
feel so good when Jesus met me he told
me if you follow me I’ll make you
fishers of men I fish so good jeez want
to borrow my boat I’m bad I don’t know
about this kingdoms and crosses and
millennial reigns and Majesties and
lower than one thing I do know about
some bass and some catfish and some
trout and a little stamp they up in here
I can do this I can do this
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and they got out there and start fishing
the one is net out
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that went pulling it back here
wet every net tuggin pullin
pull it
nothing
so without the wider
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[Applause]
[Music]
I’m good at it could you just see that
Mitch
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bet six down in the water waits longer
it’s surely by now surely but now I see
it may not be a lot but I should have
caught something it may not be the kind
of fish I’d like to catch but by now I
should have caught some by now I should
have got a job
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[Applause]
excuse me when the 30 surely by now
should have caught a husband
I’ll just sit there imma get you in a
minute I’m kidding I’m kidding come on
the kid coming
[Applause]
surely about now we should have got a
house and the Bible says that they
caught nothing though they toiled all
night it wasn’t for lack of effort they
were out there all night
Peter had fish so he’d come out of his
clothes he was stark naked throwing
about they’re still trying to get just
stubborn I’m agin it I’m not coming back
till I get some fish Peter didn’t know
the job had shut the door and when God
shuts a door I don’t care what you know
I don’t care how cute you are
I don’t tell what school you went to
when God shuts a door
oh I know you don’t know what I’m
talking about that the person sitting
next to you knows what I’m talking about
you can’t catch anything I know you can
do it before but you can’t do it now
because God has put you in a place where
you must realize until you figure out
that you’re not smart enough to figure
anything out without God until you
figure out that Jesus is not anyway he
is
ziwei until you figure out that God has
the key to your next opportunity and
nobody else has it call it your friend
Slover being cute and Sassanian won’t
work going out resumes won’t work going
cheap business deals won’t work you just
got to wait on the Lord to open up the
door
you’re gonna catch nothing
[Applause]
see I want you to get this point I
didn’t really get a chance to get in
this today because I want you get this
point see before Peter was fishing he
was on his own now Peter belongs to God
and once you belong to God you don’t get
success where other people get success
because if you could get it without God
you work worship how you got it and not
worship God and so every nine being God
will put you in a situation purge your
motives
clean out your head tune up your Pistons
so that you can figure out that is not
by might nor by power but by my spirit
saith the Lord he will humble your fine
self down did you get down on your knees
and say Lord without you I can’t do it I
can’t get up I can’t trust myself I
can’t help myself I need you like I
learned
but meeting anybody before somebody
shout hands boy am i preaching to I feel
like a creature than somebody will hem
you in and shut you down and bite you in
a corner and it generally in general if
they see you don’t notice the first few
hours because the first few hours of the
night you say well it’s the bay at night
but something’s wrong something’s going
something’s gonna break in a minute but
you keep reeling in empty Nets full of
nothing and the whole night in pairs and
somebody in this room has had a long
hard night
and you’ve been working like a dog
no results not getting anywhere tried it
your way not accomplishing anything a
long hard night an embarrassing night
because you supposed to be good at this
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[Applause]
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cut nothing
stuff you know how to do it not working
things you are skilled in not coming
together you’ve been in this place a
thousand times before scratch your way
out of it but not this time
ain’t it amazing how God will let you
fish all night and catch nothing till
you’re humble yourself till you come to
yourself to your family recognize that
you are but with the price and not your
own and that you have to come to him for
everything see I know you got a problem
with that because you really think
you’re good at this and that’s why God
is letting you have failure at this so
you can humble yourself you just know
you know how to be a good wife
you didn’t know your good husbands you
didn’t know you’re a great parent and
you keep pulling in nothing
and it’s daybreak
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still nothing
long hard night great effort expended
still working harder than you ever
worked before less to show for it than
you’ve ever seen before
still nothing
we won out a stranger came walking out
on the banks of the sea of tiberias
looked out across the water and saw
Peeta and all of his ships out there
Peter hadn’t caught nothing
and none of his friends had caught
nothing they were all around the sea of
tiberias in their little boats carton
nothing stranger holo across the water
so children happy enemy now watch out
when this stranger asks you questions
because the stranger I’m talking about
has no need to be educated by any man
he knows absolutely everything and if
you think you can educate him it’s only
because you’re arrogant enough or
foolish enough to deceive yourself in
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[Applause]
the guard of the question is the god of
the answers chairman have the enemy this
is a moment for introspection and this
is a moment that people often miss
because people are so busy evaluating
what’s going on in your boat
[Music]
[Applause]
people got all kind of advice about what
you ought to do in your boat they have a
master’s degree in telling you how to
run your business in your boat but God
and the trouble break out in your own
boat so you will admit you know what
there are some time that nothing you do
seems to work and it will make you shut
up
life will shut your mouth life or your
own here now I’m about to get happy I’ll
go home preacher Lord I think I’m about
my old tape
[Applause]
[Music]
I’ve always been careful about judging
other people I’m just real careful about
it I’m not known for criticizing other
ministry the other ministers and none of
that idea had never didn’t do that I
never did do that and there’s some
preachers are known by fighting other
preachers so they get a radio
broadcaster on there talking about
something I’ve never done it in all of
my life yeah have to be careful about
throwing rocks I don’t care you can be
as right as you want to be but you have
to be careful about throwing rocks cause
life ain’t over yet when your kids got
in trouble I never made them come up in
front of the church cuz life ain’t over
yet see you are not start stuff cause
you don’t know what do you all have to
go
come on baby
see you gotta be careful about making
these rules while you have one place in
life cuz you not do living yet you don’t
all in marriage seminars now cuz you and
Henry got it goin on but you need to
live in yet don’t don’t be critical
about somebody didn’t make it
[Applause]
life will shut your mouth didn’t say
what’s another gospel he said had you
thought anything which made them look in
their own boat touch with you said look
in your own boat
[Applause]
yeah yeah and you know what they had to
admit I said
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No
not one fish where I’m cutting on one
fish of any kind all night nothing is
working
watch out for abnormal failure
[Music]
when you have abnormal failure there’s a
spiritual principle that works in your
life God has just shut this thing down
and you can’t open it to save your life
and you know that you’ve never seen a
night like this before
God is trying to tell you something
anytime you go through a period you say
I never seen anything like this before
I’m doing everything that I know how to
do it look like it’s not giving anywhere
and God is shutting doors then maybe you
need to turn your face to the wall and
move into a spiritual dimension because
maybe you’re not fighting against
Christian against flesh and blood but
against principalities and powers and
spiritual wickedness in high places
Peter said I know I should’ve hotshot
[Applause]
[Music]
that should ever do and with God shuts a
door no man can open up you can call
everybody you know and they can’t help
you what I’m saying
do your best resume it won’t do any good
put on your cutest dress can’t get a
date to go to the fish market
I know you got to act like you don’t
know what I’m talking about but just sit
there with your dignified self I know
you know what a has shut the door
[Applause]
why’d you let him eat it says no one
writer when he talks about this he says
that Peter says he says Laurie we’ve
told all night and caught nothing then
he says nevertheless at thy word I will
drop my net again let me tell you
something
in spite of past failure God is going to
bless people who have a nevertheless
attitude
everything’s gone bad nevertheless you
got you you you you you you’ve got to
learn how to say nevertheless you gotta
be willing to look all the evidence in
the face everything looks bad and you
got to have crazy radical faith and
stand there and say nevertheless I’m out
of money I’m out of friends I’m out of
time it looks like it’s too late I
should have done this 10 years ago
nevertheless
because if you’re not careful the enemy
will accuse you it’ll bring up your path
talk about you miss your season it’s too
late for you you can’t do anything now
it’s too late in the day but all of that
you got to stand fat put it stripping
your shoulders all your head up straight
somebody Holland
so I tell you all the time when I paid
my tax
I don’t always worry God about giving it
back to me and money I’m not worried
about months spending this I’ve seen
people have money and be miserable I’m
not worried about getting it back in
cash but I take the promise acknowledge
him in all that ways and he will direct
my paths I’d rather have one word of
direction than a check for a million
dollars if you get somebody a million
dollars and they have no direction
they gonna lose a whole million but Lord
if you give me direction I can be broke
and walk into a million if you can just
speak to me you don’t grab my blessing
here you know where my miracle
oh whoa I feel something y’all gonna
give
[Applause]
now look at this this morning Tesla
might say this morning this morning for
the type of fishing that Peter daily it
would be time now to be washing your
nets counting your fish and going to
market and he has nothing and at a time
that he’s ready to throw in the towel
and wash his nets and say nothing is
going to happen just like some of you
have finally decided maybe it’s not
meant for me maybe I’ll never be happy
maybe I’ll never get a breakthrough
maybe I’m just meant to have this
trouble in my life all my life and in
the middle of that the stranger said
cast your net on the other side not a
movement not a new lake not a new boat
but the same boat save that save Lake
just change sides
Wow
[Applause]
you mean Lord the problem is not minute
no it’s not you live the problem is not
my boat it’s not my boat the problem is
not my technique it’s not in the
technique father is not my bait it’s not
my baby he said no I want you to know
that in order to get success in the
kingdom you have to obey me I’m going to
give you a word of direction I’m gonna
direct your path you will not be
successful without me God says when you
finally get there you won’t worry about
how skills you are by the time you get
there you will have failed so much on
your own that you’re telling if it had
not been for the Lord that was on my
side
that’s swallowed up
[Applause]
somebody who’s getting this word you’ve
got a praise right now I feel something
now watch it watch it Sarah said I said
I said I watching the Archie jump it up
if you’re funny the thing that is
tormenting about failure the thing that
makes failure so devastating is that
failure is often associated with the
feeling that you’re almost there and
those of you who fail know what I’m
talking about
and you’ll be taking you know but I’m so
close and if I just had a little bit
more time if I had a little bit more
resources rather only done this and and
it is a terrible feeling because down in
your gut down in your gut you know it’s
some fish down there somewhere
oh can I talk to the real keeper given
everybody else laughs that you’ll say
well it’s your fault you don’t know what
you’re doing maybe it’s not meant for
you but in the back of your mind you
said even though it’s not working I just
got a feeling that I will devise a great
tool I came the priests or somebody
that’s on the fly
[Applause]
what your faith is needed to do is don’t
move this and I said don’t move don’t
wash your nets
don’t go back to shore but haven’t done
all the stand stand therefore with your
knives got about the truth slap
somebody’s a slide
well I’m running out of money preachers
Stein I’m running out of time preacher
stop there they are student who am i
preaching to good God
and the stranger said to them cuz they
didn’t even know that it was Jesus if
the stranger the stranger sits on the
bank
Harlan Adams say drop your nets on the
other side
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to run this
one more time and this this is where
your faith is really tested when you
have been doing the same thing that
didn’t work in the same place that it
didn’t work dealing with the same
circumstances that it didn’t work you
have a tendency to fall prey to
discouragement and it becomes difficult
to do it that one more time see it’s not
just how many times you do it but it’s
doing it with God’s permission versus
doing it on your say I want to break
this down because I want you to get this
real good she said he said I’ll tell you
what I get that word
I’ll do it again I know it’s too late
it’s past season I’m tired I’m not at my
best all the situations are against me
but I tell you what I’m going to do it
like you said do it he said drop it on
the other side couldn’t God now wait a
minute y’all look looking at y’all the
boat couldn’t be any wider than this
aisle they’ve been dropping it all night
over here and caught nothing just on the
other side of the boat there are masses
of fish
I have to stop a minute and praising
myself can I begin to think about how
God will hold up your blessing and it’ll
look like it’s too late and it’ll look
like you’ll never go get it and the
devil will be laughing at you and your
enemies will be making fun of you but
God said I’ll hold your blessing until
you come to your senses and not one
thing that I have for you will get away
as a look look look look look at the
opiate of their failing experience look
at how pulse they were to their greatest
victory when you have experienced your
greatest failure that’s when you are
closest to your greatest victory good
God cannot preach this kind of preach
this do something funny because you got
to help set the stage just test them and
say just on the other side just on the
other side yeah just on the other side
yeah yeah just on the other side I know
you’re tired but just on the other side
I know you feel like quitting but just
on the other side I know you’re
embarrassed but just on the other side
just on the other side if you can get
over death
I want to preach to somebody that’s
gotta get all of this if you can get all
of them you can get all the best one
let me show you the Bible said that when
he cast his men on the other side he
took in a great multitude of the Kings a
terrific fishes yeah I’m great fishes if
not good English by contemporary
definitions but looking for my
selfishness you just expected a little
bit of fish PAGASA gonna be fish yes
it’s gonna be pressed down it’s gonna be
shaken together it’s gonna be running
older you don’t see why you had to go
through everything you had to go through
to get to this next blessing looking for
my selfishness look at somebody say
how’s this look at somebody say
properties look at somebody say
buildings look at somebody say
businesses look at to myself hundredfold
in fact if Peter would have done right
he would have dropped his nets in ETS
like the Lord said and not his any teeth
[Applause]
I got a stop I’m only halfway through
but but but but but before I stop
testing man tell them it’s gonna be
bigger than you think it is
we’ll be right back after this when you
reel something in you are in your
element and the fish is in his element
and both of you are fighting to stay in
your element but when you reel it in it
means that your blessing is in another
dimension you will not find
I like to run with people who will not
take no for an answer I like to run with
people who refuse to settle or less than
the best for what God have in your life
there are some places in God that wants
to go through them you can never go back
to being who you were before what you
need to do is reach over into another
dimension and stand flat-footed and reel
it in
I’ve got to go brothers and sisters I
know no one – but I got to I pray the
gods strengthen you I pray that when I
am gone the word remains for it is the
engrafted word of God that is able to
save your soul not the one that went
over your head not the one that you
forgot but the word that sticks with you
if the word the changes your life made
this word stick with you and bring forth
abundantly hear from you hit me up on
Twitter on Facebook or Instagram I’m out
of there floating waiting on you ever
bless you
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you
failure the thing that makes failure so
devastating is that failure if often
associated with the feeling that you’re
almost there and those of you who fail
know what I’m talking about and you’ll
be thinking you know but I’m so close
and if I just had a little bit more time
if I had a little bit more resources
rather only done this and and it is a
terrible feeling because down in your
gut down in your gut you know is some
fish down there somewhere oh can I talk
to the real keeper you’ve given
everybody else laughs that you’ll say
well it’s your fault you don’t know what
you’re doing maybe it’s not meant for
you but in the back of your mind you
said even though it’s not worth it I
just got a feeling
Christians today would help you think
that if you have faith you have no
confusion no opposition you always know
what father’s doing you’re not afraid of
anything
you’re never intimidated you’re cool as
a cucumber
come pose with your bad self and always
confident that you have a private as
lying to God that you can get it intact
but the reality of the matter is God
doesn’t show you everything your going
to go through and just when you think
you understand right he’ll throw you a
curve ball blow your mind leave you on
your knees tears running down your face
say Lord I don’t know what in the world
is going on with my life I wish a head
witness
[Applause]
they were up under grave encompassing
pressure and stress
Jesus had gone to the cross not to the
crown he’d been buried like a thief laid
in a borrowed tomb the crowds had
dissipated the miracles had ceased the
controversy had gone down to just
murmurings and yes there were a few
rumors said he’d got none but they had
not been proven or substantiated and it
was no longer popular to be one of his
disciples these men were on the hit list
and they were in trouble and there
wasn’t no Kingdom and see there was
feeling power and Pilate was still in
control and it looked like sobbing God
wasn’t working I know you’ve never gone
through anything that made you wonder if
serving God works but these weak
disciples they’re not quite as strong in
the faith as you are worth trembling and
hiding in rooms for fear of the Jews
they healed like scared women behind
closed doors murmuring amongst
themselves trying to decide what are we
going to do now are we going to do now
what are we going to do now just like
some of you do when you face opposition
you say well my lord I didn’t know when
we’re gonna go through this what are we
going to do man what are we gonna do
we’re being evicted what are we going to
do now they took the car what are we
going to do now there’s a scandal broke
out what are we going to do now people
are hating us what are we going to do
now we’ve lost our mortgage what are we
going to do now I just got fired what
are we going to do now my husband just
left me what are we going to do now my
wife just had an affair why don’t we go
I know you don’t know but the person
next to you knows what it’s like to hit
a bump in the road and say what are we
going
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Peter exemplifies what most of us do
when life called us out of our comfort
zone and makes our faith look foolish we
have a tendency to want to go back to
something familiar something safe
something we feel like we do well
something we can handle Peter says I
don’t know what the rest of you chumps
are gonna do but I go efficient now you
must understand then he wasn’t going
fishing like you go fishing you you go
fishing because it’s a stress reliever
it’s a vacation it takes your mind off
of things and it’s quiet it’s calm and
it’s natural and you hook up with nature
and you go fishing to compose your
thoughts and become one with the
elements Peter wasn’t interested in
becoming one with the elements fishing
was what he had done before it was what
he had exceeded here it wasn’t just that
he was a fisherman he was a businessman
he was a successful businessman he
wasn’t affluent businessman he not only
own one ship he had multiple ships he
had all kinds of people working for him
he went back to what he was doing before
faith had messed up his life
I go efficient means I’m going back to
something I know that I know that I know
that I know I can do well and that’s
what all of us do when we’re threatened
and intimidated we run back to our
comfort zone and we try to go back into
doing something that we feel that we do
successfully because nobody is attracted
to doing something that you fail an oh I
wish you were here with me this morning
so Peter said I’ll tell you what this is
getting crazy
this Jesus stuff is getting out of hand
I go fish
even in his frustration his fear and his
confusion
he’s still a leader he’s so much a
leader that these other disciples said
I’d tell you what I’m going with you now
I understand why Peter would go fishing
but Matthew was a tax collector look
what the physician because leaders even
when you’re confused
your leadership ability is still there
and people will follow you down or up
depending upon which way you go oh I
wish I had some leaders in this house
that’s why the enemy has you on the hit
list because he knows that you have an
influence leadership is all about
influence and if he can make you throw
up your hair and walk away
it’s gonna follow you and walk away to
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go another fella says hey man we’re with
you let’s get out here on the boat check
things out
be cool be cool it’ll come to us what to
do we lost everything
fooling with this Jesus and he did what
in the world are we gonna do and Peter
says I’m good at this and get all y’all
a job everything’s gonna be all right
come on man
I know this works but what do you do
when something you know works
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I got a word for somebody to dick I got
a word for somebody today see we often
talk about the God who opens doors we
brag about how he sets before you an
open door and the Lord shower you get on
the phone
shower Lord just open the door for me I
want you to pray for me I need God to
open up a door oh girl I need you to
shout with me God just open up a door he
opened up a door I got a check in the
mail I got the job I got the opportunity
I got the lead contract with God open up
in the way Oh God you are talking and
God yeah he may be but he also shuts
doors he’s a God that closes doors and I
believe that often he closes more doors
than he opens because when God opens the
door you don’t need him to open but one
but when God closes the door he has to
pull the whole out of doors for you to
see which one you are to go in or y’all
are here what I’m saying to you God will
slam a door in your face shut the door
and say you can’t go back in that’s why
you have to be careful about being a
Christian because once you commit your
way unto the Lord
there are some things that you can never
go back to being again because God shut
the door
slap somebody tell him he’s gonna shut
some doors when God shuts the door you
can’t go back now he’ll be good you can
cry you can worry you can fret you can
agonize but you can’t go back once you
know that you know that you know who
Jesus is and what he’s able to do and
how able to change their life even go
walking with him got you in trouble
you can’t go back to being who you were
before because once God breaks you out
of stuff he breaks the mold you came
and you’ll never fit back in the slot my
god
Who am I preach until the day but the
whole life look like the fool going back
to Vandalia elementary school and it’s
going in my first grade class where miss
deals was teaching me how to write and
trying to sit my big Haim in in that
little bitty chair it used to fit but it
don’t fit anymore there are some places
that you used to fit that you can’t fit
anymore and if you’re trying to get back
in them you’re gonna find out that God
shut the door shut the door shut the
door shut the door it says I got it man
I know what I’m doing if I don’t learn
it is none else doc I know how to fish I
feel so good when Jesus met me he told
me if you follow me I’ll make you
fishers of men I fish so good jeez want
to borrow my boat I’m bad I don’t know
about this kingdoms and crosses and
millennial reigns and Majesties and
lower than one thing I do know about
some bass and some catfish and some
trout and a little stamp they up in here
I can do this I can do this
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and they got out there and start fishing
the one is net out
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that went pulling it back here
wet every net tuggin pullin
pull it
nothing
so without the wider
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I’m good at it could you just see that
Mitch
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bet six down in the water waits longer
it’s surely by now surely but now I see
it may not be a lot but I should have
caught something it may not be the kind
of fish I’d like to catch but by now I
should have caught some by now I should
have got a job
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[Applause]
excuse me when the 30 surely by now
should have caught a husband
I’ll just sit there imma get you in a
minute I’m kidding I’m kidding come on
the kid coming
[Applause]
surely about now we should have got a
house and the Bible says that they
caught nothing though they toiled all
night it wasn’t for lack of effort they
were out there all night
Peter had fish so he’d come out of his
clothes he was stark naked throwing
about they’re still trying to get just
stubborn I’m agin it I’m not coming back
till I get some fish Peter didn’t know
the job had shut the door and when God
shuts a door I don’t care what you know
I don’t care how cute you are
I don’t tell what school you went to
when God shuts a door
oh I know you don’t know what I’m
talking about that the person sitting
next to you knows what I’m talking about
you can’t catch anything I know you can
do it before but you can’t do it now
because God has put you in a place where
you must realize until you figure out
that you’re not smart enough to figure
anything out without God until you
figure out that Jesus is not anyway he
is
ziwei until you figure out that God has
the key to your next opportunity and
nobody else has it call it your friend
Slover being cute and Sassanian won’t
work going out resumes won’t work going
cheap business deals won’t work you just
got to wait on the Lord to open up the
door
you’re gonna catch nothing
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see I want you to get this point I
didn’t really get a chance to get in
this today because I want you get this
point see before Peter was fishing he
was on his own now Peter belongs to God
and once you belong to God you don’t get
success where other people get success
because if you could get it without God
you work worship how you got it and not
worship God and so every nine being God
will put you in a situation purge your
motives
clean out your head tune up your Pistons
so that you can figure out that is not
by might nor by power but by my spirit
saith the Lord he will humble your fine
self down did you get down on your knees
and say Lord without you I can’t do it I
can’t get up I can’t trust myself I
can’t help myself I need you like I
learned
but meeting anybody before somebody
shout hands boy am i preaching to I feel
like a creature than somebody will hem
you in and shut you down and bite you in
a corner and it generally in general if
they see you don’t notice the first few
hours because the first few hours of the
night you say well it’s the bay at night
but something’s wrong something’s going
something’s gonna break in a minute but
you keep reeling in empty Nets full of
nothing and the whole night in pairs and
somebody in this room has had a long
hard night
and you’ve been working like a dog
no results not getting anywhere tried it
your way not accomplishing anything a
long hard night an embarrassing night
because you supposed to be good at this
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cut nothing
stuff you know how to do it not working
things you are skilled in not coming
together you’ve been in this place a
thousand times before scratch your way
out of it but not this time
ain’t it amazing how God will let you
fish all night and catch nothing till
you’re humble yourself till you come to
yourself to your family recognize that
you are but with the price and not your
own and that you have to come to him for
everything see I know you got a problem
with that because you really think
you’re good at this and that’s why God
is letting you have failure at this so
you can humble yourself you just know
you know how to be a good wife
you didn’t know your good husbands you
didn’t know you’re a great parent and
you keep pulling in nothing
and it’s daybreak
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still nothing
long hard night great effort expended
still working harder than you ever
worked before less to show for it than
you’ve ever seen before
still nothing
we won out a stranger came walking out
on the banks of the sea of tiberias
looked out across the water and saw
Peeta and all of his ships out there
Peter hadn’t caught nothing
and none of his friends had caught
nothing they were all around the sea of
tiberias in their little boats carton
nothing stranger holo across the water
so children happy enemy now watch out
when this stranger asks you questions
because the stranger I’m talking about
has no need to be educated by any man
he knows absolutely everything and if
you think you can educate him it’s only
because you’re arrogant enough or
foolish enough to deceive yourself in
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[Applause]
the guard of the question is the god of
the answers chairman have the enemy this
is a moment for introspection and this
is a moment that people often miss
because people are so busy evaluating
what’s going on in your boat
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[Applause]
people got all kind of advice about what
you ought to do in your boat they have a
master’s degree in telling you how to
run your business in your boat but God
and the trouble break out in your own
boat so you will admit you know what
there are some time that nothing you do
seems to work and it will make you shut
up
life will shut your mouth life or your
own here now I’m about to get happy I’ll
go home preacher Lord I think I’m about
my old tape
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I’ve always been careful about judging
other people I’m just real careful about
it I’m not known for criticizing other
ministry the other ministers and none of
that idea had never didn’t do that I
never did do that and there’s some
preachers are known by fighting other
preachers so they get a radio
broadcaster on there talking about
something I’ve never done it in all of
my life yeah have to be careful about
throwing rocks I don’t care you can be
as right as you want to be but you have
to be careful about throwing rocks cause
life ain’t over yet when your kids got
in trouble I never made them come up in
front of the church cuz life ain’t over
yet see you are not start stuff cause
you don’t know what do you all have to
go
come on baby
see you gotta be careful about making
these rules while you have one place in
life cuz you not do living yet you don’t
all in marriage seminars now cuz you and
Henry got it goin on but you need to
live in yet don’t don’t be critical
about somebody didn’t make it
[Applause]
life will shut your mouth didn’t say
what’s another gospel he said had you
thought anything which made them look in
their own boat touch with you said look
in your own boat
[Applause]
yeah yeah and you know what they had to
admit I said
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No
not one fish where I’m cutting on one
fish of any kind all night nothing is
working
watch out for abnormal failure
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when you have abnormal failure there’s a
spiritual principle that works in your
life God has just shut this thing down
and you can’t open it to save your life
and you know that you’ve never seen a
night like this before
God is trying to tell you something
anytime you go through a period you say
I never seen anything like this before
I’m doing everything that I know how to
do it look like it’s not giving anywhere
and God is shutting doors then maybe you
need to turn your face to the wall and
move into a spiritual dimension because
maybe you’re not fighting against
Christian against flesh and blood but
against principalities and powers and
spiritual wickedness in high places
Peter said I know I should’ve hotshot
[Applause]
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that should ever do and with God shuts a
door no man can open up you can call
everybody you know and they can’t help
you what I’m saying
do your best resume it won’t do any good
put on your cutest dress can’t get a
date to go to the fish market
I know you got to act like you don’t
know what I’m talking about but just sit
there with your dignified self I know
you know what a has shut the door
[Applause]
why’d you let him eat it says no one
writer when he talks about this he says
that Peter says he says Laurie we’ve
told all night and caught nothing then
he says nevertheless at thy word I will
drop my net again let me tell you
something
in spite of past failure God is going to
bless people who have a nevertheless
attitude
everything’s gone bad nevertheless you
got you you you you you you’ve got to
learn how to say nevertheless you gotta
be willing to look all the evidence in
the face everything looks bad and you
got to have crazy radical faith and
stand there and say nevertheless I’m out
of money I’m out of friends I’m out of
time it looks like it’s too late I
should have done this 10 years ago
nevertheless
because if you’re not careful the enemy
will accuse you it’ll bring up your path
talk about you miss your season it’s too
late for you you can’t do anything now
it’s too late in the day but all of that
you got to stand fat put it stripping
your shoulders all your head up straight
somebody Holland
so I tell you all the time when I paid
my tax
I don’t always worry God about giving it
back to me and money I’m not worried
about months spending this I’ve seen
people have money and be miserable I’m
not worried about getting it back in
cash but I take the promise acknowledge
him in all that ways and he will direct
my paths I’d rather have one word of
direction than a check for a million
dollars if you get somebody a million
dollars and they have no direction
they gonna lose a whole million but Lord
if you give me direction I can be broke
and walk into a million if you can just
speak to me you don’t grab my blessing
here you know where my miracle
oh whoa I feel something y’all gonna
give
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now look at this this morning Tesla
might say this morning this morning for
the type of fishing that Peter daily it
would be time now to be washing your
nets counting your fish and going to
market and he has nothing and at a time
that he’s ready to throw in the towel
and wash his nets and say nothing is
going to happen just like some of you
have finally decided maybe it’s not
meant for me maybe I’ll never be happy
maybe I’ll never get a breakthrough
maybe I’m just meant to have this
trouble in my life all my life and in
the middle of that the stranger said
cast your net on the other side not a
movement not a new lake not a new boat
but the same boat save that save Lake
just change sides
Wow
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you mean Lord the problem is not minute
no it’s not you live the problem is not
my boat it’s not my boat the problem is
not my technique it’s not in the
technique father is not my bait it’s not
my baby he said no I want you to know
that in order to get success in the
kingdom you have to obey me I’m going to
give you a word of direction I’m gonna
direct your path you will not be
successful without me God says when you
finally get there you won’t worry about
how skills you are by the time you get
there you will have failed so much on
your own that you’re telling if it had
not been for the Lord that was on my
side
that’s swallowed up
[Applause]
somebody who’s getting this word you’ve
got a praise right now I feel something
now watch it watch it Sarah said I said
I said I watching the Archie jump it up
if you’re funny the thing that is
tormenting about failure the thing that
makes failure so devastating is that
failure is often associated with the
feeling that you’re almost there and
those of you who fail know what I’m
talking about
and you’ll be taking you know but I’m so
close and if I just had a little bit
more time if I had a little bit more
resources rather only done this and and
it is a terrible feeling because down in
your gut down in your gut you know it’s
some fish down there somewhere
oh can I talk to the real keeper given
everybody else laughs that you’ll say
well it’s your fault you don’t know what
you’re doing maybe it’s not meant for
you but in the back of your mind you
said even though it’s not working I just
got a feeling that I will devise a great
tool I came the priests or somebody
that’s on the fly
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what your faith is needed to do is don’t
move this and I said don’t move don’t
wash your nets
don’t go back to shore but haven’t done
all the stand stand therefore with your
knives got about the truth slap
somebody’s a slide
well I’m running out of money preachers
Stein I’m running out of time preacher
stop there they are student who am i
preaching to good God
and the stranger said to them cuz they
didn’t even know that it was Jesus if
the stranger the stranger sits on the
bank
Harlan Adams say drop your nets on the
other side
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to run this
one more time and this this is where
your faith is really tested when you
have been doing the same thing that
didn’t work in the same place that it
didn’t work dealing with the same
circumstances that it didn’t work you
have a tendency to fall prey to
discouragement and it becomes difficult
to do it that one more time see it’s not
just how many times you do it but it’s
doing it with God’s permission versus
doing it on your say I want to break
this down because I want you to get this
real good she said he said I’ll tell you
what I get that word
I’ll do it again I know it’s too late
it’s past season I’m tired I’m not at my
best all the situations are against me
but I tell you what I’m going to do it
like you said do it he said drop it on
the other side couldn’t God now wait a
minute y’all look looking at y’all the
boat couldn’t be any wider than this
aisle they’ve been dropping it all night
over here and caught nothing just on the
other side of the boat there are masses
of fish
I have to stop a minute and praising
myself can I begin to think about how
God will hold up your blessing and it’ll
look like it’s too late and it’ll look
like you’ll never go get it and the
devil will be laughing at you and your
enemies will be making fun of you but
God said I’ll hold your blessing until
you come to your senses and not one
thing that I have for you will get away
as a look look look look look at the
opiate of their failing experience look
at how pulse they were to their greatest
victory when you have experienced your
greatest failure that’s when you are
closest to your greatest victory good
God cannot preach this kind of preach
this do something funny because you got
to help set the stage just test them and
say just on the other side just on the
other side yeah just on the other side
yeah yeah just on the other side I know
you’re tired but just on the other side
I know you feel like quitting but just
on the other side I know you’re
embarrassed but just on the other side
just on the other side if you can get
over death
I want to preach to somebody that’s
gotta get all of this if you can get all
of them you can get all the best one
let me show you the Bible said that when
he cast his men on the other side he
took in a great multitude of the Kings a
terrific fishes yeah I’m great fishes if
not good English by contemporary
definitions but looking for my
selfishness you just expected a little
bit of fish PAGASA gonna be fish yes
it’s gonna be pressed down it’s gonna be
shaken together it’s gonna be running
older you don’t see why you had to go
through everything you had to go through
to get to this next blessing looking for
my selfishness look at somebody say
how’s this look at somebody say
properties look at somebody say
buildings look at somebody say
businesses look at to myself hundredfold
in fact if Peter would have done right
he would have dropped his nets in ETS
like the Lord said and not his any teeth
[Applause]
I got a stop I’m only halfway through
but but but but but before I stop
testing man tell them it’s gonna be
bigger than you think it is
we’ll be right back after this when you
reel something in you are in your
element and the fish is in his element
and both of you are fighting to stay in
your element but when you reel it in it
means that your blessing is in another
dimension you will not find
I like to run with people who will not
take no for an answer I like to run with
people who refuse to settle or less than
the best for what God have in your life
there are some places in God that wants
to go through them you can never go back
to being who you were before what you
need to do is reach over into another
dimension and stand flat-footed and reel
it in
I’ve got to go brothers and sisters I
know no one – but I got to I pray the
gods strengthen you I pray that when I
am gone the word remains for it is the
engrafted word of God that is able to
save your soul not the one that went
over your head not the one that you
forgot but the word that sticks with you
if the word the changes your life made
this word stick with you and bring forth
abundantly hear from you hit me up on
Twitter on Facebook or Instagram I’m out
of there floating waiting on you ever
bless you
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you
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