shaped in part through tragedies and the
weird thing about tragedies is that they
it doesn’t feel like they’re shaping you
but they are in fact shaping you the
tragedies don’t start when you need the
power from them they start early accrue
interest over time and in retrospect
when you look back over your life you
understand something that you didn’t
understand in real time speed can I get
a witness when you’re going through it
you kind of feel sorry for yourself but
after you’ve gone through it you look
back and you say eventually if you’re
mature it was good for me that I’ve been
afflicted I was about 16 years old and
my father who had been sitting for a
number of years was passing away and he
was laying in the bed and he said
something to me that really had a lot to
do with shape of my life he said by the
time I figured out what life was all
about it was time to go and you can
imagine in your impressionable years of
16 that kind of scared me to death
I saw it then as a challenge and thought
I got to figure this out quicker than he
did because I don’t like that narrative
that by the time I figured out what it
was all about it was time to go I
figured him telling me that gave me an
advantage to become sober to become
focused more readily
and to think through the process more
quickly and so I started paying
attention at everything and it was good
I learned a lot I learned a lot then a
lot of people did my age because death
teaches you to live yeah it teaches you
what matters it teaches you how to focus
it it made me a little bit more serious
it made me precocious because I was
incubated in an adverse circumstance it
prepared me for a destiny move that I
didn’t even see right then
but God’s hand was in my pain God’s hand
how many of you recognize that God’s
hand was in your pain yeah yeah God’s
hand what was in my pain and so I tried
to focus and matul quickly and it was
good because little did I know that that
just like I didn’t have a childhood
because sickness took it I didn’t have a
young adult life either because ministry
took it I started preaching at 19 I was
19 but I couldn’t think 19 I had to
think like I was older than I was even
though I was 19 started pastoring at 22
pastoring at 22 years old and almost
every member in my church was older than
me
and I thought I’ve got to figure this
out quickly because I was teaching on
things I hadn’t done like marriage or
parenting
I started pastoring without a wife
teaching about something I had never
done means you have to read you have to
study you have to research in order to
keep up in order to be able to help
people and be able to encourage people
but I learned later in life that nothing
takes the place of experience
I mean you can jumpstart it you can get
ahead you can imagine some things you
can read some things but there are
certain things about marriage you can’t
teach till you’re married and there are
certain things about parenting you can’t
teach to your parenting and depending on
what stage of parenting you’re in there
are certain things that you don’t
understand about that process until you
have endured it suffer to it cried
through it made mistakes in it had
setbacks in it almost collapsed in it
almost land from it and after you have
experienced it experience redefines your
ideologies you find out through
experience that a lot of things you
thought weren’t the way you thought they
were that’s why you ought to be careful
about speaking out about things that you
think that haven’t been proven yet
because sometimes you will damage
somebody with your thought that later in
life you don’t get to come back and say
I’m sorry because you criticize
something that you really didn’t know
what you were talking about have you
ever said something you really didn’t
know what you were talking about I have
I didn’t know that I didn’t know what I
was talking about that I didn’t know
what I was talking about I said it based
on my perspective there’s a scripture I
want to read with you and I’m headed
somewhere I’m not just rattling you know
me better than that
out of Romans 5:3 it says and not only
so but we glory in tribulation for
tribulation trouble work of patience
trouble getting them stuff you can’t get
out of and can’t fix can’t hit a button
and change can’t write a check and
repair can’t show them whatever it is
that you’re gonna your degree and get
out of here show them how pretty you are
and get out of tribulation will
teach you patience Oh hallelujah and
patience experience in the waiting for
us sometimes God just lets you wait put
you on a hold so that you have
experience Oh God anybody had an
experience experiences are important
because experience will give you hope
glory to God you’d be surprised I wish I
could do my life over again if I could
just play it all over with the
experience do you know how much better I
would have slept at night do you know
who I would have not responded to when I
look back over my life do you don’t have
anything I was all upset about that what
worked the level of energy I put into it
at the time if I could go back and tell
my young self sitting on the side of the
bed crying over what somebody said I
want to walk over to the bed simply you
go to bed the times I ran out of money
and thought I would end up homeless and
sleeping up under a bridge and the times
I wonder it was I’m man enough to have a
wife and two kids and would I be able to
hold it down if I could go back tell
myself said boy you can just because
your circumstance don’t reflect it right
now does it mean that you don’t have it
believe in yourself and get up out of
there and go do what you’ve got to do
experience gives you hope what does that
mean see I got experience now it’s not
that I don’t run up against things that
challenged me but I have a resume when
the enemy attacks me now I start telling
to how many times God
the Alpha furious gives you hope I’ve
been sick before I made it I’ve been
broke before I made it I’ve been
brokenhearted before I made it I cried
all night but I made it
I’ve been betrayed but I made it I’ve
been lied on but I’ve made it
I didn’t destitute but I’ve made it I’ve
been rejected but I’ve made it you see
how the people with experience are
nodding and clapping because they each
one of us has our own testimony that our
vindicates what we’ve been through
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hope maketh not ashamed experience gives
us hope and hope will not let you be a
shame I want to share with you along
these lines some lorem just given me a
message we want to talk about King David
a little bit people always remember and
talk about how you laid it in your king
or your you’re the president or you’re
the Pope or whoever you are but they
don’t understand what all you went
through to get there that you have to
have a certain amount of experiences to
prepare you for the next level I was
working where I did a show with
Millennials this past week it was it was
really interesting we were bright
brilliant intelligent articulate
educated Millennials and I was telling
them some things about there are some
things that you learn in the process in
the painful grumbling of climbing up to
a place rather than being zapped to a
place the things that you went through
getting there give you the tenacity to
stay there
the fight is your friend the fighting
process gives you a drive of vigilance
are a commitment to it that that you can
stand the pressure of being it because
nobody gave it to your own credit you
earned it
you scuffled for it you fought for it
and now you can hold it down most
dangerous thing in the world is to get
something you didn’t earn because the
process prepares you with the power you
need to hold your ground and another
thing when you fight for it you won’t
let nobody take it from oh yeah y’all
didn’t hear what I said when you fight
for it you won’t let nobody take it for
you the reason you quit you keep
quitting stuff is that you did learn it
if you get to strike before it you like
to walk away and quit you will say I
cried too long I suffered too much I did
without I had to crawl I had to labor
oh god I feel like get you babbles from
anyone show you some will go to second
Samuel chapter 6 verse 2 to 6 sometimes
when you’re imagining how things are
gonna go they don’t go the way you
imagined and if you’re a weak person you
will quit because it didn’t it didn’t go
the way you imagined it because when
you’re standing looking at your future
you have these ideas about how it’s
gonna be you know how your life is gonna
be it when I moved to Dallas it’s gonna
be such a such a way when I get married
it’s gonna be such a say where we have
the baby it’s gonna be such a such a way
but things are always go the way you
think I got a friend of mine wealthy
friend of mine was telling me that they
were gonna will everything to the baby
they just had a baby and said we’re
gonna will everything but everything is
a lot of you know everything is like a
lot millions of millions God said we
don’t will it to the baby I said I
wouldn’t do that if I was you he said
when I said you all know that joking yet
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you long here yet you don’t know yet I
know that’s bloody you bleedin bow to
your bowl but you ought to wait a minute
and see because I have lived long enough
to see Epsilon betrayed David I have
seen people to come right out of your
y’all don’t understand got about
experience sometimes when things don’t
turn out the way you thought and the way
you plan them and the way you had hoped
that they would go you since you are too
tough to let it kill you you’re too
tough you may be disappointed but she
refused to be dead
anybody disappointed but she refused to
be dead
you got to reroute yourself you got to
reroute yourself and I anybody ever had
to reroute yourself I’m teaching on
rerouting this morning it and I’m gonna
show you how how David had to reroute it
didn’t go like he clocks and and he had
some problems he was prepared he had a
plan he had a strategy he thought it was
going to go one way it went another way
and he had to do some rerouting and I
don’t know who this is for but you got
to do something
rerouting attention David said you got
to do some reality now let me spend a
few minutes with you in second Samuel
coz the Lord brought you here to get
this word I said the Lord brought you
here to get this word the devil wants
you to be stuck in a situation that it’s
beneath the promises of God in your life
and the Lord gave me a word to tell you
that what he promised you is not alive
you may have to reroute oh my god who am
I talking to today you you may have to
reroute a little bit but you’re gonna
get that just him and say you’re gonna
get there and David arose and went with
all the people that were with him from
bale of Judah to bring up from this the
Ark of God whose name is called by the
name of the Lord of Hosts that dwell up
the tween the cherubims and they set the
Ark of God upon a new card and brought
it out of the house of abinadab
that was in Gibeah and other and Ohio
the son of a billet dad braved the new
card they were driving the carton and
they brought it out of the house of
abinadab which was at Gibeah
accompanying the Ark of God and a owl
went before the ark and David and all
the house of Israel played before the
Lord on all the man of instruments made
a fir wood even of harps even on harms
and insulters and on timbrels and on
cornets and on cymbals and when they
came and when they came and when they
came and when they came to naked
stressing floor other put forth his hand
to the Ark of God and took hold of it
for the arts had shaken it another died
this is the thing that David didn’t see
this is the thing that happened that he
didn’t plan on this is that moment in
his life where he started
buffering have you ever been working
with your laptop of your iPad and your
phone and right when I got to the real
important part
it started buffering it’s it’s trying to
reroute because it’s not getting a
signal and in search of a signal it has
to reroute and for a while you’re not
getting any image any vision any
encouragement any results and it’s and
it’s rewrite sometimes you’ll be driving
down the road and and you’ll get to a
certain point and and and and your your
your your GPS will say rerouting and and
it’ll be rerouted and while it’s
rerouting you still standing there
you said well wait a minute I’m driving
when you get through rerouting said I’ll
be going forward said I’m taking a ride
said I’ll take the left when you’re in a
state of rerouting it’s aggravating
because you’re trying to make progress
and you’re rerouting this is an answer
to somebody right now you’re trying to
go ahead you’re trying to move you’re
trying to figure it out and you’re at a
buffering moment and God said you’re
journeying over the promise was not
alive I’m still gonna do it I might not
do it the way you imagined it this is a
moment of rerouting touch three people
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you may be seated you didn’t even I
didn’t even know you were standing you
you good rerouting the destination
destination hasn’t changed but them
gonna get you there but I’m gonna take
you another way you have slow down
you’re gonna have to risk looking like
you know what you’re doing you’ve I have
to pull over to the side of the road and
admit that you didn’t you never knew
where you were going in the first place
that you’re at the mercy of the
directions I’m giving you and you will
have to stop right in the middle of the
journey and wait on me but when I get
through spinning when I get to spinning
your whole world may be spinning but
when I get to is spinning I’m gonna
reroute you reroute the reroute to God
I’m talking to somebody
see when you’re buffering you need to
understand that we serve a God of
recycles we serve a God who does things
over again God of mercy as early as the
New Testament as early as the book of
Genesis you will see the reap refix real
did read stored read can sow God lets
you know from the beginning if you hit a
buffering spot I got a back-up plan
to get you through the crisis in your
life now I won’t say what I heard some
preachers say growing up because I’ve
seen preachers get up to say I the Lord
gave me a sermon and and he changed his
mind I’m a little bit afraid of that I
think maybe he was confused in the first
place and you had a sermon you wanted to
preach it maybe after you had got up
there with your word then God gave you
his word and it felt like God changed
his mind but in reality what you gave up
on your plan God stepped in and gave you
what he had in mind from the foundations
of the world I think that that’s just me
I might be wrong but I think that’s what
happened David was doing a good thing he
was trying to do a good thing but just
because your intentions are good doesn’t
mean you won’t buffer David was trying
to bring back the ARCA to cover put mark
up there they was trying to put up the
ark bring back the Ark of the Covenant
he was trying to do something that his
predecessor had not done his predecessor
had ruled without glory the Ark of the
Covenant had not been present for
20-some years and David makes up his
mind that he is going to bring back the
glory he has position but he wants power
he wants the glory of the Lord to go
with him in a way that his predecessor
didn’t she saw wasn’t worried about
glory he was just worried about position
some people that’s all they care about
his position they don’t care about
presence
but David esteemed the presence of God
over the positions of
I hope you don’t allow men to seduce you
into accepting positions that did not
presence you are the presence of God
more than you want the position for
without the presence of God the position
is nothing at all
somebody say give me the glory David
said it’s important that I have the
glory I’m a fighter but I still need the
glory I have defeated armies but I still
need the glory I’m an eloquent speaker
but I still need the glory
I have galvanized rejected men and
turned them into an army but I still
need the glory I’m on my way up but I
still need the glory see some people
only want the glory with their down but
even on your way up you still need the
glory somebody say bring back the glory
so he comes with the Ark of the Covenant
the Ark of the Covenant symbolizes the
glory of God it is made of wood it is
overlaid and inlaid with gold it is an
expression of Jesus Christ himself from
the Old Testament it has within its
comprise the law of Moses symbolic of
the fact that the law is fulfilled in
Jesus Christ it has the rod of Aaron
that budded to give us a hint at the
fact that God will bring life out of
death inside it also has a part of manna
to let us know that Christ is the bread
of life your father’s ate manna in the
wilderness and perish but I am the true
bread that cometh down out of heaven all
of that was in the Ark of the Covenant
the two angels on both sides are
standing pointing to a place were the
Shekinah glory what
the Shekinah glory would rest right here
and shoot up out of the tent
and out of the temple because this is
the mercy seat all of that is about
redemption restoration renewal and Davis
trying to bring it back let me tell you
how important it was whenever Israel has
the Ark of the Covenant even unbelievers
were horrified there were certain
battles that the enemy will start
running just because they were carrying
the Ark of the Covenant now to various
circumstances they had lost the Ark of
the Covenant and Davis ends up under my
leadership I’m going to bring back the
glory this is a good mission but just
because you mean good doesn’t mean that
things go right let me tell them just
because you mean good doesn’t mean that
things go right you can have great
motives and still interrupt and enter
into a miserable place it is a horrible
feeling when you know that your motives
are right and yet you’re still in up in
a miserable place because we think that
if you’re going about the right thing
you shouldn’t have bad problems but the
reality is the more you’re going about
like these the more you’re gonna have
turn insult to injury David is trying to
reconcile Judah to Israel he’s about to
enter into reigning and he’s trying to
reconcile people and he’s got 30,000
people watching him in his first move of
power to come back to Jerusalem to
reconcile the Kingdom it’s one thing for
me to be miserable by myself to make a
mess by myself to have a secret struggle
by myself it’s another thing to have a
mess
in front of everybody that’s following
me if I’m gonna have a mess
let me have a mess by myself 30,000
people are following him to Jerusalem
dancing and shouting about how smart and
how great he is and then he started
buffering he had built a new cart he had
a good plan to bring back the glory he
had built the cart and designed it to
travel it’s a 10 mile stretch he has to
go he has 30 thousand people behind him
everybody’s looking at his new car
everybody’s bragging about him bringing
back the glory all David David David
there dance and dance and dancing and
then all of a sudden they hit a pothole
in the middle of the road
have you ever hit a pothole in the
middle of the road just when you’re
about to step into your destiny just
when you’re about to finally show the
devil who’s boss just when you’re about
to see the promise of God come
pass the Ox lips depart moved the Ark of
the Covenant started sliding odds are
trying to save it
other touched it and God in front of
everybody it turned into a mess and God
the Bible says God was angry because
other touched the ark Moses was angry
because God killed other the trip
stopped and David started buffering just
when everything was going great
he started buffering
put my buffering sign up there
it’s buffering you know what I hate
about buffering it always starts when
you needed the most and you’ll be
picking shaking the phone PPP not now
not in the middle of this presentation
not in the middle of what I’m searching
for not in the middle would not now
somebody said not now I want to talk to
some people who are living through a not
now not not not not now god this is the
wrong time not now not now I’m just
about to get it not now not not in front
of her not now
loving freely here not when I need no
right now I don’t want to lose my job
not now I don’t want to have miracle but
not now I don’t want my kid to show up
not now you pregnant
not loud
and you start praying dumb stuff like
why be why’d you let it happen to me
why did let me go why god is angry why
would God be angry over the Ox slipping
in a hole in a road God made could it be
the God who ordered your slip water my
steps in your word
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does God order repossesses does does God
order heartbreaks does does God order
disappointment does God order mayhem
does God order funerals not now and as
it reaches out to fix it but when God
orders something nobody can that’s how
you know God ordered it with God orders
and God kills the one who tried to fix
what he had ordered I learned sometimes
you can’t save everybody sometimes you
got to leave people alone and let them
go through the process you can’t come in
and be the hero sometimes whatever
happens happens whatever falls falls get
out of God’s business I’m preaching to
somebody I don’t know who it is
[Applause]
other was trying to do something good
too he was trying to save the Ark of the
Covenant but that’s like trying to save
God you trying to save what’s trying to
save you
that’s the kind of stupid stuff Sarah
did bringing Hagar in trying to come up
with a plan to cover up for something
she thought God wasn’t God enough to do
see all of these man-made carts always
mess up all the stuff you do for
yourself by yourself
always goes awry because if you could be
your own God you wouldn’t need God and
sometimes God is revealed in the slip
I’d say oh there was a self spot you
listed sometimes God is revealed in the
slip you thought his greatest presence
was when everything was going right but
God’s greatest rather shall live with
all hell is breaking loose I think he
said I am a very present help in trouble
so if you don’t get in trouble you’ll
never have an experience living to you
if you never get in trouble you’ll never
have an experience with God how do you
how you will know he’s a provider if you
never get a hungry how you gonna know he
the way makeup if you never get lost
[Applause]
somebody slips but God sent me to tell
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is to set up testing people tell them
it’s a setup it’s a setup it’s a setup
it’s a setup it looks bad but it’s a
setup you’ve been up all night but it’s
a setup you’ve been worried about it but
it’s a setup you’ve been crying yourself
to sleep but it’s a setup
God knew you was going to slip he knew
the Ox was gonna slip he knew the ark
was go slide
he knew all hell will break loose keep
and everything Oh everything is
buffering buffering when things start
buffering is frozen same picture on the
screen put it up there the same old dumb
that’s not the picture I want stuck this
is not the way love is supposed to be
I’m stuck that’s when you start Franklin
CJ you don’t know you don’t know how to
be a wife shut up I’m a good arguing I’m
not one of them guys and you can’t think
of nothing to say back I can’t think of
something to say that you don’t believe
it’s trying me I can hold my own but say
something or not you still stuck fuss
yell scream cry you’re still stuck and
God starts re-routing in his life and
all of a sudden watch this
the David who was leading all the people
and all the people were singing and
dancing and everything was going good
lost confidence in himself and in his
plan said leave it at the house of
after going all of that way to get it
just leave it sometimes the thing you
my wife said to me when tell you me you
own let the devil have your son we were
and your feelings get hurt me emotions
get hurt you just you this is what we
always say I’m not sure whether white
people say this is about but this is
black people’s default setting lyin
white people do that too okay okay we
brothers he said white people do that
too you get mad you get hurt
the card slides all hell breaks loose
you don’t want the devil to know that
you are sick so you said everything
I feel ministry in this place right now
that things had been the most – you will
always hit a point where everything
starts buffering Davis said I’ll care
let obed-edom have obed-edom had no more
right to the Ark of the Covenant than a
man in the moon he was a get tight he
had no right to have the Ark of the
Covenant
but because David has lost confidence in
himself and in his mission God moves
into the house of a get tank and stars
blessing the gittite as if he were
Israelite because God will bless whoever
whoo I feel like right now and David was
just a buffering and a buffering and a
buffering and a buffering and a
buffering and while he were he buffered
for three months three months God in
saying that David in the same method
they both upset they just a buffering
see sometimes when we get mad at God we
think that if we stick out our lips and
pout long enough that we’ll have a
tantrum and God will change his mind and
God is saying I spat that little temper
in you that you got right now I’m
tougher than you are and so you got a
buffer to your brain
you got a buffer to your brain you got a
buffer to your brain
you have to buffer to your brain you
have to buffer to your brain and this is
how he broke him
he started blessing somebody else
David was saying I don’t care and they
said you know all obed-edom daughters
are pregnant all of his fields are
growing bringing in twice as much
increase look like everything obed-edom
because God says if you won’t receive
this blessing I will give it to somebody
else and I’ll let you watch me bless
somebody else with the blessing that was
meant for you I’ll do it right in your
face
our prepared table and let you be a
spectator at a meal I’m knit for you now
and he says I want to go back I do care
tell my sad Duke here stop lying about
because the priest of the anointing is
in your care you’re running from the
care cuz caring hurts but the anointing
is in the caring that’s why God is using
something you care about to make you
stop being phony to make you humble
yourself down and admit I do need
I do love I do care I am thirsty I am
broken old Lamb of God I come I’m on my
knees I fall out I collapse I break my
alabaster boss I don’t care what people
say I don’t care what they think I’m
willing to let my hair down I’m willing
to get down on my knees I do care I
don’t know who I’m preaching to but
somebody in this room stop saying you
don’t care about something you do care
about I do care and he says I want it
back somebody halt I want it back I
don’t know what your it is but I want it
back
I want it back I want it back said say
it again say it again
now why go back if you are willing to
change to keep doing the same thing the
same way expecting a different result is
lunacy
okay I’m gonna wrap this up but I want
you to get this that means you got to be
willing to be rerouted you have to be
willing to change the way you take
you’ve got to be willing to accept
responsibility that the way you did it
the first time was wrong you built a
cart God didn’t want to be on the cart
the cart wasn’t biblical in the first
place I don’t have time to teach it but
God never wanted to dwell on the back of
a cart he wanted to rest on the
shoulders of his fries you messed up
your mitt well but you did it wrong and
you have to humble yourself and say I
got it rolled and I’m willing to change
somebody hollered change so he said this
one will do let me give you this these
are the things you need to change three
things he changed he changed his plan he
changed his play he said this time when
we get it back I’m not gonna put it on a
cart I’m gonna put him on the backs of
the shoulders of the priests we’re gonna
make contact with God we’re not gonna
let anything standing between us and God
this time we’re gonna be personally
involved this time I’m gonna have the
weight of glory on my shoulder
the weight of glory it’s gonna be on my
shoulder the weight of glory is gonna be
on my shoulder I’m not gonna get up ops
to bear the weight of the glory I’m
gonna bear the weight of the glory this
time I’m not gonna take the position and
not do the job I’m gonna put the weight
on my shoulder I’ve gotta be responsible
I’m gonna stand up to it that’s why I’ll
be here I’m talking to some battle no
idiot but but you gotta accept the
weight you can’t have the glory have not
take the way
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so number one he changed his plan number
two he changed his pace for the Bible
said that when they put the Ark of the
Covenant on the shoulders of the priests
the Bible said they started pacing and
if you read it in the original Hebrew it
means big steps God said if I’m gonna do
this in you you can’t be taking these
little itty bitty steps talking about
gradually someday sooner or later
give me time it just takes me more time
I’m not ready yet
God said I’m not walking with somebody
that’s not ready yet I’m walking with
somebody who’s gonna take big paces I
don’t know who I’m preaching to today
but this is your season to take big
paces I want somebody to take a big step
somewhere
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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
and both of you have failed know what
I’m talking about in 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 it’s some fish down
there somewhere
oh can I talk to the real people you
give give give everybody else laughs
that you’ll say well it’s so far 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 God is
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 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 got
number 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 was a little
kingdom and see there was feeling power
and Pilate was still in control and it
know you’ve never gone through anything
that made you wonder if serving God
worked but these weak disciples they’re
not quite as strong in the faith as you
are
we’re 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 be are we going to do
now what are we going to do now just
like some of you do when you face our
position you say well my lord I didn’t
know when we’re gonna go through this
what are we going to do now 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
go
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Peter exemplifies what most of us do
when life calls 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 its 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 him
it was just he was a fisherman he was a
businessman he was a successful
businessman he wasn’t affluent
businessman he’s not only on 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 and oh I wish you were
here with me this morning
so Peter said I tell you work this is
getting crazy this Jesus stuff is
getting out of hand I go fishing 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 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 talk
it’s gonna follow you and walk away –
Peter said go another front said hey man
we’re with you let’s get out of here on
the boat check things out be cool be
cool it’ll come now it’s 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
alright come on man I know this works
but what do you do when something you
know works
I got a word for somebody today 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 fuck shower the Lord just opened 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
shop with me God just open up a door he
opened up a door I got the check in the
mail I got the job I got the opportunity
I got to leave the contract with God
open up and away 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 hear what I’m saying key God
will slam a door in your face shut the
door and say you can go back in that’s
why you have to be careful about being a
Christian because once you commit your
way to 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 hear me 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 though 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 take
and you’ll never fit back in the slot my
god Who am I preaching to the day but
I’d look like the fool going back to
Vandalia elementary school and throwing
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
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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 – 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 geez 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 we’ll stand
me up in here I can do this I can do
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and he got out there and started fishing
doing his net out
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that went pulling it back your hand
wet every met tuggin pullin
pullin
I’m good at it couldn’t you just see
that Mitch
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that six down in the water waits longer
say it’s surely by now surely by now I
see it may not be a lot but I should
have caught something it may not be the
kind of fish that I’d like to catch but
by now I should have caught some by now
excuse me when the Cody Shirley about
I’ll just sit there I’m gonna get you in
a minute I’m kidding I’m kidding I’m
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 it
out there still trying to get just
stubborn imma get 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
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 and did you figure out that God
has the key to your next opportunity and
nobody else has it calling your friends
won’t work
being cute inside saying it won’t work
dawn our resumes won’t work going cheap
business deals won’t work you just got
see I want you to get this point I
didn’t really get a chance to get in
this today of course oh won’t you get
this point see before Peter was fishing
he was on his own now Peter belongs to
govern 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 would 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 it’s 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
meeting anybody before somebody Xiao
boy am i preaching to I feel like a
creature than somebody will hem you in
and shut you down and back you in a
corner and it generally in general if
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
I’m strong something’s gone something’s
gonna break in a minute but you keep
reeling in empty Nets full of nothing
and the whole night that passed and
somebody in this room has had a long
no results not getting anywhere tried it
your way not accomplishing anything a
long hard night an embarrassing night
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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 it did
amazing how God and let you fish all
night and catch nothing till your humble
yourself till you come to yourself till
you finally 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
you didn’t know your good husbands you
didn’t know you a great parent and you
still nothing
long hard night great effort expended
still nothing 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
Peter 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
hollow across the water
so children happy 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 into thinking that
God needs your help
anything already the God of the question
is the God of the answers jerilyn heavy
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
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 Allah 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 y’all
don’t hear now I’m about to get happy
off Mulholland reach the Lord I think
I’m about my old tape
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 if some creatures are
known by fighting other preachers so
they get a radio brought there they own
they’re talking about something I’ve
never done it and all of my life you
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 scarred stuff cause you don’t
come on baby
so you gotta be careful about making
these rules while you had one place in
life does she not do living yet you
don’t all in marriage seminars now cuz
you and Henry got it going on but you
need to live in yet don’t don’t be
critical about somebody who didn’t make
it life will shut your mouth he didn’t
say what’s another gospel he said had no
pot anything which made them look in
their own boat touch with you said look
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yeah yeah and you know what they had to
admit I said
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not one fish where I’m cutting on one
fish of any kind all night nothing is
working
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 and you
say I’ve never seen anything like this
before
I’m doing everything that I know how to
do it look like it’s not getting
anywhere and God is shut some door 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 should ever do and
with God shuts a door man open up you
can call everybody you know and they
can’t help you don’t know what I’m
saying
do your best resume it won’t do any good
put on your cutest dress can’t get a
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 do any
meat
it says no one writer when he talks
about this he says that Peter says he
says Lord 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 craving radical faith and
stand there and say nevertheless I’m out
of money
friend 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
he’ll bring up your pan 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 to all of that you got to
stand pat put it strengthen your
say I tell you all the time when I take
my time I don’t always worry God about
giving it back to me and money I’m not
worried about money betting 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 then a check for a million
dollars because if you get somebody a
million dollars and they have no
direction they gonna lose the whole
million but Lord if you give me
direction I can be broke and walking to
a million if you can just speak to me
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now look at this this morning Tessa
might say this morning this morning for
the type of fishing that Peter Daly 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 brief – maybe I’m
just meant to have this trouble in my
life all my life and in the middle of
that the stranger said – your net on the
other side not a movement not a new lake
not a new boat but the same boat save
that save just change sides
you mean Lord the problem is not Manette
no it’s not sure yet the problem is not
my boat it’s not my boat
the problem is not my technique it’s not
my technique problems not my bait it’s
not my baby he said no I want you to
know that in order to get success in the
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 brag about how skilled you are
by the time you get there you will have
failed so much on your own
get your tell them if it had not been
for the Lord
somebody who’s getting this word you’ve
got a praise right now I feel something
now watch him what you said I said I
said I said are watching the oxy jumping
it’s a funny the thing that is
tormenting about failure the thing that
makes failure so devastating is that
failure is often associated with the
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 but I’d 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
people you give give give everybody else
laughed at you and 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
I came to preacher somebody that’s on
the flag
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what your faith is needed to do is don’t
move this and I say don’t move don’t
wash your niche don’t go back to shore
but haven’t done all the stand stand
therefore with your knives true slap
somebody’s face
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well I’m running out of money preachers
star I’m running out of time preacher
stop there they are stinging Who am I
and the stranger said to them cuz they
didn’t even know that it was Jesus if
the stranger the strain is just on the
bank
Harlan Adams said 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
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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 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 good god
now wait a minute y’all look look the
job 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
I have to stop a minute and praising
myself
come on begin to think about how God
will hold up your blessing and it’ll
look like this 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
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look at the opiate of their failing
experience look at how close 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 tell some essay 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 this you can
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 King
James were three fishes
yeah I’m great
fishes if not good English by
contemporary definitions but looking for
might say fishes you just expected a
little bit of fish but gosh they’re
gonna be fish yes it’s gonna be pressed
down it’s gonna be shaken together it’s
gonna be running over you don’t see why
you have to go to everything you have to
go through to get to this next blessing
looking for my selfishness look at
somebody say how’s this look at somebody
same 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
I got a stop I’m only halfway through
but but but but but before I stop just a
man tell him it’s gonna be bigger than
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
I like to run with people who will not
take no for hands 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 know what to 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
everybody [Music]