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Mark chapter four verse 18 through 19 when you haven't say amen. This is a rare opportunity we
will move into the intersection of an ongoing discussion of a long text that includes and
incorporates a parable where Jesus begins to talk about through a parabolic metaphorical example
of what the kingdom is like a declaration of a sore went forth sewing seed.
And some fell on good ground. You remember that text and some fell in rocky places.
And he begins to describe these various conditions as circumstances that happen in the kingdom.
I won't exhaust the text. I won't even try but there is an excerpt in the middle of the text.
For which the Holy Spirit drew my attention first as a devotional in my own life. Anybody do devotional?
And you're a long time with God. Don't wait for church on Sunday.
Have your own little devotional. It keeps things from overwhelming you.
And then he directed me to share it with you. Gospel St. Mark chapter four verse 18-19 is in the
middle of an ongoing discussion where Jesus exegies his own story in a very profound way. It's the
only time that I can recall that Jesus gives a story and then explains the story after the story
so important that he doesn't want us to get off track from the true meaning of this text.
And he says in verse 18 and these are they which are shown amongst thorns
such as hear the word and he cares of this and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of
riches and the lust of other things entering in choke the word and it become of unfruitful.
I've been teaching you about destiny. I started the year out teaching about destiny. I wrote a
book on destiny. We're coming to the end of the year and I'm still talking about destiny
because you must understand you can reach no further than what you have been destined to reach.
Your future is now controlled by your ego, your neighbors, your ambition, you want to be living your
life on purpose. Are you hearing what I'm saying? I church is well taught on destiny so you
already get it. If you haven't gotten the material, you should get the material and start living
on purpose. You'd be surprised what you can cut off out of your busy schedule. If you focus only
on the things that are relative to your destiny, stay out of my business, your destiny and your
purpose. The reason I bring this destiny into this text, no soar soles a seed without hope of a
harvest. I listen to this brother Oliver and then we're singing about the rain and how the rain
is coming down and they say we sowed and now Lord sit in the rain. The rain is coming to water
what has been sold to the intent that we might have a harvest but in this particular case the seed is
sold. The blade springs up but because of the thorns and thistles the harvest is aborted and the
last word of the text says that it was unfruitful. These are they who ended up unfruitful. I want to
talk to you this morning warn you if you please to the fact that destiny has a stalker.
Destiny has a stalker. Destiny has a stalker. Spirit of the living God.
Move in this place. There's not a person in this room that doesn't need you. Without you we can do
nothing. We do not want to be busy without purpose. We don't want to work Lord and labor and
toil and have nothing to show for at the end of the day. Life is too tough to get to the end of it
and have no fruit for the time that we've been here. If there's a stalker to our destiny reveal it
attack it and destroy it because we want to see the harvest. If you're going to sit in the rain
I want to see the harvest. Have your way in this place in Jesus name somebody shall amen. You
may be seated in the presence of God. When I say to you that destiny has a stalker it might not
immediately hit you what that means unless you have ever been stalked. Some person who says they
admire you or becomes infatuated with you becomes so engrossed that at first you think they're just
being friendly or I just ran into them at the store or they just sent me a compliment or they
just helped me put the groceries in the car and then it's funny I ran into you again
over at the mall last Saturday and then you notice that you're loading the kids toys in the car
and there they are again and then you start to feel a little uncomfortable because if you are
person of instinct when you meet people instinct will kind of give you a little intuition that something
isn't right and after why are you a stalk now now I know what this is like because I have been
stalked I know what it is to be stalked I know what it is to be driving forward and looking in the
rear view mirror just to make sure that I'm not being followed I know what it is to get close to my
house and bypass my house and have to go another direction and throw somebody else to send I know
what it is to have to call somebody and say look this this car has been following me I know
what it is to be stalked I don't care how tough you are I don't care how prayerful you are I don't
care how how armed you are it's an it's an uncomfortable feeling to be stalked it's an invasion
of privacy hasn't touched you hasn't hurt you just looming around you stalking you unwanted
attention unwanted aggression destiny has a stalker I want to interject something that that Jesus
said to to Peter he says he says Simon Simon Satan has desired to have you that he might sift
you as we but I pray for you that your faith failed on I always know that Satan has desired
Satan has desired it's creepy to me that that Satan has desired desired.
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he he set you up he's got a plan he has desired to what he wants to have you
he stalking you that he might sift you cut you off stop you from reaching the place that I have
but I prayed for you good god of money I prayed for you that your faith failed you not
and what I love about the verses he then says when
not if see if if you win when now are converted strengthen up Jesus said I prayed for you
that your faith wouldn't fail and I don't doubt my prayer he didn't say I prayed for you
that your faith wouldn't fail and if now are converted because if means I don't know how this is
going to turn out he says when now are converted strengthen our brother it's fighting the fact
you're being stalked by an enemy that desires to hand you I prayed to stop his plan for you
when thou art converted strengthen thy brother the one thing we can know for sure is that there are
a lot of things that can happen on the road to destiny try to get from here to there can be tough
the Lord gave me grace as a father to raise five children and I think successfully so
I don't want to do that again that was enough for me I had grace for five not for six or seven
if I'd had grace for six or seven he'd give me six or seven I had grace for five
it's it's easy when they're little oh boy oh boy look at me I grabbed my teeth
but they don't stay there getting them to adulthood getting them to all diseases and crisis and
car rinks and storms this teacher and that teacher and this principal this fight and this school
incident that incident and this outbreak of disease in malaria and and and and Facebook's and
Twitter's and Instagram and what's that and what account in whose name and where's it uh
uh getting them to the destination is tough everything that starts then finish well
destiny speaks to the end of a thing anything can start good oh you ought to see how good these
wedding start all they start so good they can't even wait to kiss the bride can I kiss an
half talk to them 20 years from now they waving at each other see oh it starts so wonderful
beginning it to the destiny it's the thing that's what makes the apostle Paul's message so
profound when he tells Timothy I finish my course I finish it's not did you start it did you
finish now the night a plane started out started out for a destination a Russian plane hit the
news other day 224 people on board got on a plane feeling sure they would reach their destiny
didn't make it I was listening at the news it was really interesting they were trying to
figure out because the terrorists wanted to take credit for and they said no it wasn't that they
were trying to take credit for something that they didn't do they're trying to figure out what
stopped the destiny and then they brought an expert on the news and she said she said it is very
rare for a storm to be that high and that's strong and she said according to all the records that
we can determine there was no turbulence that high that should have caused that the magnitude of a
tragedy on a piece of equipment that is this modern we can rule out external circumstances so
it must be something that happened internally or human failure two things we have to consider
either your destiny is aborned by something on the inside
or something on the outside if it's not if the black box says nothing happened internally
then there has to be something that happened externally in my text today this destination was
aborted too but it was aborted not by something on the inside because the sword knows that the seed
is good you don't get me in a minute the sword knows that the seed is good he knows that the ground
is good but he is warning us about the external conditions in which destiny has to operate
look at your life look at how much easier it would have been for you if your external circumstances
had been better I'm not even going to work on the inside right now when you look at when you look
at see for me let me talk about me when you look at me I tell myself this I might have done better
in a better external circumstances but if I told you the environment I came from
you would say my god how did you how did you become fruitful in the elements you were in
it's the elements it's the elements this is why I can't compare myself with you because we didn't
grow up in the same elements this is why you have no right to judge me tell it wait now tell
me what you would do because you didn't come up in the elements come on with somebody I wish I
had a witness I need somebody who came up in bad weather when a bad weather my storm my hurricane
surviving tornado surviving tsunami surviving been through hell and high water but some kind of way I
made it over people how much you boy if you in here you have to learn how to celebrate small
successes because what is normal for other people is a victory for you because in your circumstances
you should have had a nervous breakdown you should have lost your mind you should be locked up
in San Quentin you should be a drug dealer right now but the grace of God was so strong in your life
that in spite of the circumstances talk to me anyway I want everybody who came up to hell and
how water to just take 10 seconds and give God some kind of thank you
yeah yeah yeah yeah I know they don't understand why you praise the God
I know they don't understand why you sound
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they don't have no big house they've been through crisis they've lost children they've lost jobs
and they just jumping up and down and clapping and you sitting up there with your fine self
said how in the world is she up there clapping but if you have been through what she had been through
y'all are gonna talk to me you would praise him too because success is relative to where you came from
to what you've been through to what you've been doing
tell somebody say these are they these are they these are they that were sold in environments
that should have choked you
at that shit of choked you you went through something that should have
have choked you you you you were racing a community that should have choked you you still don't
know who your father is and it should have choked you but in spite of it all you sprung up
anyway to god be the glory
oh tell somebody tell them I didn't let it choke me
I cried but I didn't let it choke me I got depressed but I didn't let it choke my destiny
I couldn't die but I didn't let it choke my future I didn't let it terminate my assignment
I had to raise it myself but I didn't let it choke me I had to get a part-time job but I didn't let it
choke me glory to god I couldn't get a cable TV but I didn't let it
because if the stalker gets you he will choke you choke you choke off your whim
it's a terrible thing Jesus says these there are three things that choked this category of people
when you choke somebody you cut off the win when you cut off the win you cut off the source
for which they breathe these are the things that will choke you you then asphyxiate and die
because you can't get the most essential thing you need to survive
that essential thing in this text is your covenant with god
I gotta have it I gotta have it I don't have to show it I don't have to flash it I don't have
to have an act to show my car I don't have to have a cross around my neck back when I first
started preaching I just had all these big crosses big old cross cross so I ain't more than I did
needed a neck brace to hold across a big old cross I was young you know I wanted everybody
no I was called to the ministry I got a big old cross jewels all over it put it on my chest
to be clear to shirt on my neck was hurting trying to hold across it I don't have to have that
I found out that the real evidence of being a preacher wasn't in what I wore
it wasn't in what I put around my neck it wasn't in wearing a robe or a clergy collar
that the real stuff is on the inside I have to have my relationship with god I can preach without
my cross I can preach without my Bible I can preach without my notes I can preach without my
Bible because I worried about hitting my heart that I might not say the gives me
but there are some things that threaten to choke the thing that makes you able to do what you do
these are they who started good and crashed and failed and faltered and in the text the Bible says
they were choked by three things I will give them to you and I'll be done they were choked by the
cares of this world they were choked by the cares of this world they cared too much about the
things around the cares of this world choked off what they needed they put their passion into
something that might be important but was not as important as the thing that it choked from them
I'm not saying you shouldn't be concerned about the conditions of the world but the cares of this
world can choke the couple that I talked about earlier when they first get married they're in love
because love their relationship is romantic it's it's not it's not administrative
she's fine oh she's so fine and the way she laughs it just sounds like tinkling glass
when she laughs oh yeah and then little twinkles you get a little different works up on that side
you know that little one different just on the side right there in the middle it's so cute
he don't know that she don't pay her bills
he knows she can cook but she don't clean the kitchen see when you get down to the business
of marriage the external things about marriage that's where the trouble begins all girl he finds
you ain't never say he's fine girl he's fine lord hammeres he's fine don't know he
don't know he's mean as a junkyard dog got a temper like a drunk gorilla
but when you get down to the the peripheral things the peripheral things
caring too much about this world
will choke your destiny I told my sister one day she called me and she was going on and all
about what was in the news and this happened and that happened and this one happened and that
was happening this one and this one and this one happening oh it happened again and this is
again have you seen the news have you seen I said cut off that TV cut off that TV that TV is
going to drive you crazy 24 hours of bad news you were not designed to absorb 24 hours of tragedy
and made him you were not designed to sit up and constantly have these images bombarded upon
your mind your mind needs to break your mind needs laughter your mind needs joy your mind
needs food your mind needs fun your mind needs rest you can't just sit up and look at troubles for
24 hours and it's not it'll choke you you worry and people who keep worrying about this and all
the kids and all the kids and all Mary and I speaking to Brandon speak to Jimmy Jimmy call me last
night about Willie stop as an F all they gonna be crazy when you did go to bed take a break take a
break put them on a shift I'm open from three to six I'm getting a bath from six to eight come on
somebody because the cares of this world will choke you you will die they will still be arguing
I'm not saying you shouldn't care but when you care to the point that it shakes off your source of life
there is a stalker chasing you right now looking for an opportunity to choke you to death with the
cares of this world the cares of this world you were not designed to handle the cares of this why
do you think Jesus said cast your cares upon me he know he built you he said I know you are not
designed for the weight load you are under doing only I can I can handle it I can handle it I can
stand up to it but no you're gonna be super hero then you wonder why you can't sleep you wonder
why your food doesn't digest you wonder why you don't have no peace you wonder why you don't
have any joy you wonder why you feel with anxiety you wonder why you're having mood swings and
temperate tantrums you're stressed out Paul said it this way he said I was pressed above measure
and beyond strength you and I Jesus didn't come to bring you the bad news he came to bring you the
good news he said I got good news good kindness good news to the poor good news to the oppressed good
news good news good news I'm talking about balance I'm talking about balance the cares of this
world you surround yourself with people that need you and you have more people who need you
than you do who feeds you and you wonder why you are chelts you can't get air you're a good person
you've got a good heart you want to be there for everybody but over a period of time you get
chelts by the cares of this world and let me tell you what they're doing they're all dumping
their stuff on you and they go to bed and you send them like this
you want to help people to manage their life you don't want to carry their life
and if you do the stalker will choke you your counsel other people's marriages and lose your own
you'll help them with their kids and can't get yours back come on talk to me somebody
and you won't reach your destination because you were not designed for the weight load
that you carry what do you do
y'all missed it you just shake it off you just shake it off you learn to say call me back
not right now call me on Tuesday Monday's my day I'm taking me a bath call me labor I'm going
what I need to do to keep afloat so that I can keep my altitude not crash and burn and fall short
on my destination what I'm saying to you in short is are you caring about things that are beyond
you are you caring about things you cannot fix are you loaded down with the weights of this
world because if you are it it is because the stalker is trying to destroy your destiny
I want you to say this with me as loud as you can
if you are spiritual you felt something just break in that phrase that felt so good
it felt so liberating to set boundaries to say this is enough this is enough this is enough
this is enough I it's not the general important it's not that I won't help it's not that I won't do
but I cannot carry more than I can carry somebody shout
somebody way over there just got a break through off of that word right there
you have followed me long enough you've chased me long enough you showed up in places you weren't
supposed to be long enough you've got in my marriage you've got in my joy you've got in my peace
you've robbed me of my prayer life you've taken a smile off of my face somebody holla it off
I feel like I don't know who it is but somebody's gonna get a breakthrough in here today
somebody that the enemy has set up to crash and burn is gonna regain your altitude and finish your
course and all you need to do is to be able to say if you don't get anything else out of what I
preached today if you can only remember one word out of what I said today that one word is
so when you go home and everybody's going crazy and everybody's calling you and how come you
didn't move me and when are you gonna change this and you need to do this and you need to do the
do what you can and when you've done enough just holla
saying enough maybe the difference between you finishing your course or ending in a body bag
and they'd be talking about what a good person you were she was always there for me
that's the problem I was always there for you I was never there for me and by the way I
noticed you weren't there for me because yeah ain't that something I was always there for you that
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number two this is the second stalker the deceitfulness of riches and I want to work this
thing the deceitfulness of riches now the way the church likes to teach it is that God hates the
riches but God does not hate the riches for the Bible saying it is God that gives us the power
to get wealth so if God hated riches all they have to do is not give it to you
but it is the deceitfulness of riches riches are deceitful riches are deceitful
if you're taking notes we should write down how riches are deceitful
now there's a lot of deceit here and I want to spend some time and I really want to work on this
in Malachi he says 13 bringing all the times and offerings into the storehouse and there might
be meat in my house and prove me now here with if I will not open them to you the windows of heaven
and God says I will pour you out abundance a blessing that you will not have room enough to
receive I will give you more blessings and you can handle okay bring you all the times and
offerings in storehouses there might be meat in my house and prove me now here with if I will not
open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing you will not have room enough to receive
now so to the person who does not have the blessing and they are paying ties to get the blessing
they won't have room enough to receive and God gives them the blessing they won't have room enough
to receive then once I get it then why would they continue to tie
if the object is just to get it and you got it wouldn't it be over
if if he poured you out of blessing you will have room enough to receive and you sit in good
and if riches were the destination then the transaction is finished the real deceitfulness
of riches begins not with people who have it but with people who don't
because why would riches seduce who it has
think with me now think with me think with me now think with me now think with me why would you
seduce what you already have the seduction is to the person who doesn't have it the deceitfulness
if you get me if you just get me you're going to be good let me show you how good I am
let me show you how happy you would be if you could get this car you get this house you're
going to have joy notice how they sell it to you on TV they don't show you nobody in the big house
looking sad but I can take you in all kinds of neighborhoods and show you people living in big
houses that are miserable but on the commercial everybody who's got a private pool is playing in it
and they jump in it we we I'm coming up with the burgers in the minute and everybody's just
smiling the deceitfulness of riches associates joy with stuff that the reason you don't have joy
is because you don't have stuff that the reason people don't respect you is because you don't have
stuff that if you get enough stuff you're going to be important hear me good particularly young
people hear me real real good do not think that the things that you own define who you are
the deceitfulness of riches is that it promises more than it can deliver
it says that if you get a certain thing or you wear a certain thing or you drive a certain thing
or you live in a certain place then that will fix whatever else is crazy about you that's wrong
you're just going to be crazy in a big house you're going to be crazy driving a big car if you
was mean in the shack you're going to be mean in the mansion don't buy into the commercial
that what matters begins with zeros the deceitfulness of riches the deceitfulness of riches I'm
going to show you why the person who doesn't have gifts to get the promise they give to get the
promise bringing all the times in our friends in the storehouse that there might be meat in my house
pruning out here with if I will not open unto you the windows of hell I didn't say God said
God promises he said I will pull you out of blessing you and I have room enough to receive
if you need a blessing he tells you how to get it so that when you tie the when you sew and when
you do all the answering things that go along with that God says I will give you the blessing the
person who doesn't have it doesn't that they might get the blessing the person who has the
blessing gives so that the blessing doesn't have them okay I don't I don't know what I'm
rich enough because I have just enough money to enter into a room where money is and it
redefines riches relative I could take there are some people in this room that that our middle class
and lower middle class I could take you into some third world countries where by their standards
you be rich the definition of rich depends on who's looking at it when I was a little boy
anybody who had a doorbell was rich I'm serious if you had air conditioning oh my god they got air
conditioning in more than one room not hanging out the window they got great they got flowers in
the yard and stuff they rich is relative to perspective okay and that's why if you're trying to
go up you're going to be miserable because as soon as you get up you're going to be in a bigger
room where they got even more money and then a bigger room where they got even more money and then
a bigger room where they got even more money and if your self awareness is dependent upon how
your peers see you all your riches is going to do is bring you into a bigger room where you pour
again somebody out of class the deceitfulness of riches is that it keeps moving it keeps moving chase
me come on chase me come on chase me come on chase me come on chase me oh you're not there yet
if you only had this oh you're million now you need to be a billionaire now you're the
world millionaire if you're the world of billionaires you pour if you're a millionaire and you will
chase it all of your life deceitful so the person who is seeing the blessing of God gives
not that they might get more they are not giving to get the blessing they are giving so that the
blessing doesn't get them you are giving to say Lord nothing that you gave me is more important to
me than you nothing that you put on me is more important than you nothing that you did for me is
more important than you I will not worship what you gave me I will worship you I will cast my
crowns at your feet you can trust me with the blessing because I will always prefer the
blesser over the blessing and I lead at your feet to say I will have no other God be so y'all
don't hear me y'all don't hear me the more God blesses you the more generous you have to be
to maintain the blessing because if you don't become more generous then the blessings got you you know
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because if you have something that you prefer over the god who gave it to you it has become your god
the deceitfulness of riches here is the deceit I want you riches are saying I want you to choose me
over the one who gave it to you the reason you bring your time and your offerings and you are
generous is because say him who much is given much is required god didn't require much
from somebody he gave little he requires little from somebody he gave little
he requires much from somebody he gave much because when you give it you are saying I have it
it doesn't have me the prodigal son got the blessing and left the blesser and the blessing
shocked him by making him think that if you have your father's stuff you don't need your father
can y'all hear what I'm saying to you I'm making sense to you I'm sorry this isn't I can't
demonstrate for you I told you I'm just recovering I can't demonstrate so if you don't listen
and you don't get it you won't get it god is saying to somebody I will take you as high as I can trust you
I will take you as high as I can trust you and the way you keep god's trust is every time
he gives you something you keep casting it down you keep casting it down I want to have the blessing
I never want the blessing to have me I'm going to go through this again the person who doesn't have it
is showing that they might get it the person who hasn't is showing so that it doesn't get them
is it thinking it is it thinking it so every time god takes you higher you have to
enlarge your capacity to be generous now can I go you understand what I'm saying now what happens
to most people you take a small minded person and you put them in a bigger situation you are in a
bigger situation but your mentality is still where you came from so instead of becoming a giver
you become a hoarder and it's not because you're a bad person you haven't rested in what god has
given you to the point that you feel free enough to be generous therefore you don't have the
faith to keep it and you end up losing it because you don't you don't flow in the cycle
I don't know I feel like I'm training somebody somebody's about to step into another dimension
of grace who am I preaching to this boy
say hey listen my tell me it's my destiny to be blessed
I'm taking notes I'm writing this down I'm getting ready I'm learning how they think I'm
learning how they function it's my destiny to be blessed I don't want to be in a situation
that is bigger than me sit down let me give you some more
I was sitting in church one day and I was sitting maybe a couple of rows from some renowned singers
and we went worship service and the renowned singer was just singing you know just a little bit
and there was this other girl on the other side I didn't know who she was and she was just
she's going up down the stair and here this person is who's a recording artist I couldn't even hear
her singing at all the one to be
is hidden 10,000 notes the one who already has been discovered is holding her stuff
and the other girl is exploring her stuff when you know who you are and you know what you've got
and you know what God did in your life you don't have to try to impress anybody
come on somebody come on somebody what you want is good success
if the Bible says I will make your way prosperous just one chapter one I will make your way
prosperous and God said I will give you good success if there is good success there is also bad
success the deceitfulness of riches is the enemy trying to trick you in the bad success
can I go a little bit deeper just a little bit I really have to learn this because God
began to bless me and as God began to bless me I had to change my mentality and I had to change
my expectation I had to change my mentality because I had to learn that it was safe to be generous
it was important to be generous and while I don't let anybody use me and tell me who to be charitable too
let me say that so don't write me yeah I choose my own charities but I make sure that I choose
them because it is out of the charitable heart that God pours in the blessing here's the other
thing I had to learn when you are more blessed in any area I'm not just talking about money
education wisdom intellect whatever it is political influence whatever it is I'm making never any
area that you are exceptional do not look for reciprocity when you are the one that is blessed
don't expect your brothers to be fair if you do you're going to be wounded because the truth of
the matter is they don't have what you have on the level that you have it to give back to you
so you can't look for fair like you did when you were both on the same level you to him who much
is given much is required you have to learn how to expect to be the more giving one and understand
that God will make it up to you and not them let let me paint this for you and I'm almost
where it needs to be these are the thorns that choke you that choke your growth that stop you from
being what God wanted you to be that abort your destiny I've given you two of them let me give you
the third one the third one is very interesting because it is quite for vague Jesus said and lust
for other things and lust this is the third stalker this is the third thorn this is the thing that
would choke your destiny lust for the thing not our society when we hear the word lust we always
think about says but that's not necessarily what he's talking about here lust for other things I
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podcast or ever you get your podcasts the third thing that will choke you is that nothing is ever
enough for you for you it is the nebulous in the script need for other things
whatever is other it is the spirit of covetousness
i want whatever is not mine i want it you remember the old testament how the Bible talks about
that's not covered by neighbors ox that's not coming by neighbors white that's not coming
coming coming coming coming coming coming coming coming it's other things your lust
for things you don't have will choke you
you watch this your lust to be somewhere else someone else can be just as simple as your desire
to be married becoming so big that it chokes your destiny because you can't maximize where you are
for lusting let me let me show it to you i'm going to show it to you let me show you why it's a
spirit the single person not all of them but some lust to be married while the married people
you can't laugh don't laugh don't laugh
see it isn't it isn't married or single it's just something other than where i am
then people wish i could put on weight big people wish i could take weight off
the lust for other things it is the seduction of the enemy who always makes other people's lives
look better than yours that somehow you are missing out on something that drives you over the
edge to say i wish i wish i wish i wish i wish here's what i'm trying to tell you the enemy couldn't
take away what god gave you he just devalues it in your eyes until you don't appreciate being you
it is the lust for other things it is the lust for other things yeah you're nice looking but
your nose looks funny oh you got pretty eyes but your lips are too thin it is always something
wrong with you you've never been happy to be you it is the lust for other things that's why
didn't define it it's nebulous it's infinite it can change at different stages and ages in your
life it's just other anything other than me anything other than where i am the kids how do you
i'm eight and a half i'm nine and a half i'm ten and a half they can't wait to get to the next year
then when you get old have you noticed you know you're here you're here anybody said i'm 40 and a
half i'm 42 and a half i'm eight and a half no no no we cut that half right off it is the lust
come on talk to me somebody it is the lust let me show you how dangerous this is you will never be
happy never be happy because whatever you get it will always be the other whoever you marry
you'll always want the other i see people how fish i had a marriage like you how you know what my
marriage is if i could just find a wife like first you don't even know first lady you know what
it's killing you other things other things other things and the Bible said do not comment other things
stop warning what other people got you don't know what's going on in that house you don't know
what's going on in that life shut your mouth and thank god for what he gave you
somebody how to heat up we get ready to drive that stoker right out of your life
we get ready to drive it right out of your spirit out of your mind god wants you to appreciate
what he gave you like he gave you how he made you where he placed you what he put inside of you
god wants you to say lord i thank you for how you made me for where i am for my age for my state
for my house for my apartment for these shoes for my kids for my husband lord i thank you
for what you gave this is the day that the lord
somebody help me praise him right now
shout enough
stand on your feet i'm going to call for this
hear this when Jesus teaches on this when Jesus teaches this
he calls them thorns
that he said i was so good seed in thorny places
be careful that you don't let life's thorns choke you
i'm going to tell you something about what i preached today
it is really about balance
it's really about temperance it's really about perspective and it's really hard
because i've seen some days that i had the blessing and i've seen some days that the blessing
had me my sister and i were joking around and i i got more house now that the kids ago
than i need i got big old pots so we got skillets biggest me
me and you could jump in the skill and go swimming
and we got big old skillets and all kinds of stuff and my sister said how
i love you keep this stuff i don't know i said right now it's working for me
i said the day i start working for you
the day i'm working for the thing instead of the thing working for me
it's the day i will let the thing go
if you are working for something that's not working for you
you need to reevaluate do i really need that
it's not working for me i'm working for it
who god is time to make a change go a little deeper yes Lord
with every promotion every door god opens every time god gives you increase
you have to be more generous you have to be more generous because if you don't the thing he gave
you will choke your relationship with him and you'll find yourself in the whole pin
really realizing that the giver is always better than the gift
see what i'm saying
it's a weird thing it's a weird thing it's a weird thing that the lord had me share this with you
it's a weird thing to me and this is why it's weird in my private devotion this was between me
and him and he told me to share it with you this is not normally congregational food
this is preparational food
this is a kind of food you feed the people who are on the verge of something
who are who are about to step into another dimension who are getting ready to move into another
arena who are getting ready to get another level of anointing another level of gifted another
level of influence another level of power another level of finances do not know some of you have
an anointing that's so strong that god needs to be able to trust you with that gift he's getting ready
to stir that gift to another level he's getting ready to take that gift to another dimension he's
getting ready to move you into another level of influence there's another level of glory that's
about to follow your life and god needs to be able to trust you with what he's about to release
into your life there is a glory coming from the throne i feel the presence of god in this place
right now i don't know who you are you might be in the balcony you might be in the back row
you might be visiting from another country but the glory of the lord lift your hands and get ready
to receive from god right now
yes lord the lord told me to stir up the gifts that lie within you raise your hands
i decree into clear that the learning of the lord will overwhelm you in ways
beyond your human imagination i decree and declare a spirit of prosperity will fall in your life
like you have never seen before i decree and declare that god is about to open new doors for you
press down shaken together and running over i decree and declare that you will finish your course
on time i decree and declare that another level of grace is coming upon you now
if you have the capacity to believe it if you have the capacity to receive it lift your hands and
open your mouth take over this room and bless your daddy give god the praise
so i told him i said lord when i got through reading the text i said lord all of these storms
they scare me don't ever get where you can't be scared because you think you can't fall
anytime you think you can't fall in and get you i said lord you mean i got to walk in between
all of these storms the deceitfulness of riches the cares of this world and all the lust for other
things you mean i have to deal with this and that and the other and all these storms and i got
to grow in the middle of prickly things and hateful things and being stalked by all kinds of haters
and imitators and all of these thorns growing all around me this could get me and that could get me
and that that other could get me and lord i don't want to be one of those people that you sold
good seed and i got choked and i got depressed and i gave out and i gave in and got weary and well
doing i don't get tired but i don't want to quit and then he told me don't you remember
when i was going to the cross i said yes lord i remember when you were going to the cross
he said you remember how they how they beat me with the cat and nine tails yes lord i remember
how they beat you with the cat and nine tails and he said you remember how they stripped me of my
garments i remember i stripped you of your garments he said you remember how they cast lots for it
and my friend say yes lord you remember how they pierced me inside yes lord i remember that
they nailed me to the tree yes lord i remember that he said you remember what i had on my head
i said yes lord he said oh my head i had a crown of thorns and he said tell my people
that i have already carried your thorns i already put them on my head
i wore them on my head so that they don't have to stop you from going where i want you to go
i want the worshipers in this room
to lift your hands and praise and adoration to god
and place those thorns back on his head and out of your life
i will not be deceived i will not be delayed i will not be denied
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