Wilt thou be made whole? Jesus wants you to overcome every hurdle to achieve wholeness. You were never meant to get comfortable on the porch of temporary recovery; jump the hurdle of the haven. You were never meant to be paralyzed by another person; jump the hurdle of blame. You were never meant to drown in self-doubt; jump the hurdle of faulty belief systems. Hurdles only hurt when you run into them. Are you jumping high enough to be healed? Wholeness is all in the bounce. Stop making your bed in the house of grace — leap off that porch and land into purpose!
[Music]
thank you
this morning by the grace of God I want
to talk to you about hurdles to
wholeness
hurdles
to wholeness I want you to grab your
bible and go to John 5 1-12
and when we start talking about hurdles
to wholeness hurdles were made to be
leaped over
hurdles were made to be overcome
hurdles were made so that you can
catapult yourself into the next
dimension
come on hear me somebody
hurdles to wholeness
and I want you to understand and I want
you to recognize that I want you to
realize that nobody grows up wanting to
be defeated
and nobody wants to be flawed nobody
wants to fail and nobody grows up and
says I want to be in prison and nobody
grows up says when I grow up I want to
be a chronic depressed person and nobody
grows up in this world as a little child
and says I want to be a failure or I
want to go down I want to go out and yet
it happens in life but you can make a
comeback in Jesus name
I said you can make the comeback in
Jesus name
two things I’m going to do the pmts I
forgot for the people that are in the
audience pays your offering to the left
pays your offering to the left
to the left to the left to the left to
the left
and now I ain’t got nothing left to the
left to the left to the left Beyonce
needs your heart out to the left to the
left to the left and and we’re go we’re
going to pray we’re going to pray a
two-fold prayer we’re going to pray over
the seeds of our audience and our
viewing audience and we’re going to pray
over the word before we go into it and
we’re going to do it together okay and I
want your seed represented in this time
of prayer and you you might say well you
all pray over everything you better pray
over everything
the way things are looking right now you
got to pray over everything
amen amen I want to slip in a prayer for
Haiti too
I want to slip in a prayer can I slip in
a prayer for Haiti
father as we stand here in our
sanctuaries in our homes and our living
rooms and our kitchens and our bedrooms
or wherever we might be viewing today we
are so cognizant of our Haitian brothers
who have been victims of this earthquake
whose houses has been ramsacked
buildings have crumbled and they’re
pulling out dead bodies
they need your touch and your grace and
your mercy and your love and your
provision Haiti has already been up
under attack Haiti has already been
tempestuous it’s already been in chaos
and I pray in the name of Jesus that you
would stabilize that country I even
asked you Lord to avert the storm that’s
supposed to be coming toward Haiti and
just you wrap your loving arms around it
and shield that nation in the name of
Jesus and Lord as we stand here in as we
sow and we plan into the kingdom of God
it is a very trouble that’s going on in
Haiti that reminds us of your hand over
our lives and your mercy and your grace
and we’re thankful not only because
we’re going to get a harvest but if you
didn’t do anything else for us but keep
our house standing and keep our children
alive and keep us from danger and
turmoil and no fire in our neighbor
hoods and no pestilence under our feet
if you don’t do anything but sustain us
I want to advance but if you don’t do
anything but sustain us I’ll be I’ll be
happy just to know that I can wake up in
my own bed in my own mind in my own
clothes it with my own thoughts I thank
you right now in the name of Jesus bless
every seed that’s sown bless every sword
that sows bless every individual that
plans bless every bless every person
that’s watching online in a supernatural
way and as we dive into your word like a
swimmer into a pool immerse us into
truth that Revelation knowledge and we
thank you for what you’re going to do in
the name of Jesus I want the biggest
amen I’ve heard all morning
foreign
glory to God that’s good that’s good
that’s good
glory to God it’s not good for me to
watch in the news because when I watch
the news I see all the things that’s
going on all over the world and
sometimes it troubles me and sometimes
it upsets me and sometimes I just pray
over people I don’t even know in places
I’ve never been I’ve been praying over
in Afghanistan and and all of that and
then I have to remind myself that that I
can’t fix everything
do you ever have to remind yourself if
you can’t fix everything and you can’t
fix everybody but I can pray over
everything I can pray over everything I
can’t negotiate peace and send it on a
world peace but I can pray over
everything it’s our customer stand for
the reading of the word of God if you
would respect that we would appreciate
it we’re going to be in the gospel of
Saint John chapter 5 verse 1 through 12
and I promise you you can sit and sleep
and do whatever you need to do the rest
of the time
the gospel of Saint John
stands in a category all by itself
uniquely set apart from the synoptic
Gospels
it brings before us
almost in short stories Parables of
Truth and word and information and
historical content of the life of Jesus
in a way that we can compartmentalize
one incident from another
and on this particular occasion the
fifth chapter starts out not so much a
continuation of a discussion of the
previous chapter but says after this
there was a feast of the Jews
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem
now there is at Jerusalem by the Sheep
Market a pool which is called in the
Hebrew tongue Bethesda
having five porches
in these lay a great multitude of
impotent folk of blind halt withered
waiting for the moving of the water
for an angel went down at a certain
season into the pool and troubled the
water whosoever then first after the
troubling of the water stepped in was
made whole of whatsoever disease he had
and a certain man was there which had an
infirmity 30 and eight years
when Jesus saw him lie and knew that he
had been now a long time in that case he
saith unto him
listen and then closely he’s saith unto
him
wilt thou be made the whole
they have been a man answered him sir I
have no man when the water is troubled
to put me into the pool
but wow I am coming another step of down
before me
Jesus says unto him rise take up thy bed
and walk
[Laughter]
and immediately the man was made whole
and took up his bed and walked on that
same day was the Sabbath
the Jews therefore said unto him that
was cured in it is the Sabbath day
it is not lawful for thee to carry thy
bid
he answered them he that made me whole
the same sin unto me take up thy bed and
walk
then I say him what man is that which
said unto thee take up thy bed and walk
and we’re going to stop right there from
now hurdles to wholeness you may be
seated in the presence of the Lord go to
work
yeah
let’s do it
one of the things that the text brings
before us it brings before us a Jesus
that is not a conformance in fact he is
anything but a conformist a lot of times
when you see Jesus depicted today in
modern depictions of Jesus he’s passive
and tranquil and he flows through the
air and he’s kind of quiet and and
almost almost tranquil in the way in
which he moves but don’t you believe
that
Jesus was Radical
Jesus was rambunctious Jesus had a way
of upsetting things most of his ministry
occurs beyond the parameters of Orthodox
religious ideologies he was wild Church
vote didn’t always like Jesus because
Jesus would upset said this is the Jesus
who broke the rules
who turned over tables in the sanctuary
it’s not the convenient quiet polite
Jesus this is a radical Jesus who
ignored the sanctimonious disapproval of
the scribes didn’t conform to the
Pharisees nor did he acquiesce to the
Sadducees he was in a class all by
himself
and wherever he went he disrupted things
think about how Jesus would upset a city
or a village or a town and come into a
city and and and disrupt things if he
got into a house so many people would
come into a house until the house was
filled and nobody could get in one man
had to cut the roof open and be lowered
down through the roof to get a chance to
get into the presence of Jesus if he got
into a city he would turn a city upside
down and most of his arguments were not
with prostitutes or pimps or drug
dealers or alcoholics most of his
arguments were with religious people
Pharisees and Sadducees and scribes of
the day because they could not stand the
fact that Jesus would not conform to
that their ideas nor twist himself
around their logic nor submit himself to
their hierarchy and their political
Advantage Jesus had a way of upsetting
things he was a rock he was a rock
strong as a rock he was as unstabling as
a tree that stoned into bitter Waters
and there’d be ripples everywhere he
went if Jesus got in it there would be
ripples if Jesus got in there would be
Ripple if Jesus gets in your house
there will be ripples if Jesus gets in
your finances there will be ripples if
you want to keep everything nice and
calm keep Jesus out of it because if
Jesus gets in he will break some rules
and upset some things and turn some
tables over and bless people you didn’t
want to be blessed and raise them up
from the background to the Forefront
Jesus was a Rebel Rouser Jesus was
Radical glory to God that’s where I get
it from
Jesus would make noise Jesus will get in
your faith Jesus Will confront you Jesus
Will confront a problem he wouldn’t
avoid it he said show me where you laid
him now roll the stone away I’m getting
ready to mess things up I’ma turn this
graveyard out he wouldn’t go down and
lay hands on a casket and tell a dead
boy to get up Jesus was Radical
oh
do you hear what I’m saying
now it is the time of the feast and by
all right he should be going into the
celebration and instead of going into
the feast he was stopped by a place that
most reputable leaders
would they didn’t want to
they didn’t want to it was a smelly
place
it was a diseased place it was an
infectious place it was a place where
people hung out who had little hope they
were Afflicted and there were no
hospitals that could cure them no
medication that could rectify it and
they were all complicated around this
particular area so that people could go
to and fro without having to run into
them
because people love you until there’s
something wrong with you
[Applause]
y’all ain’t gonna talk to me today they
really love you until something’s wrong
with you they really love you until it
becomes inconvenient to love you they
really love you until you become
difficult to deal with they really love
you as long as you got on your cologne
but when you start smelling a little bad
people don’t want to deal with you they
want to put you off at a corner all by
yourself so that they don’t have to
confront you when you’re misfigured in
some way they don’t want to look at you
they don’t stare at you they act like
they don’t notice you you become
invisible can you can I get a witness if
they’re homeless they they look straight
ahead in the car they don’t look at you
they want to act like they don’t see
what they see this is a place where the
people dwell that nobody wanted to deal
with
he is seen here with sick people
overhaul people
broken people
Afflicted people people who had dilemmas
and crisis that were unfixable in the
time in which he was living
he does not
just associate with the elite
on a high and mighty
or the pious
or the holy
or the righteous Jesus wasn’t afraid to
get his hands dirty Jesus wasn’t afraid
to go into places where other people
wouldn’t go Jesus wasn’t afraid to talk
to the outcasts
he brings his power
to those who need it oh you ought to be
shouting by now because you need it he
brings his power to those who need it
you ought to be dancing right now
because you you need it he brings his
power to those that are in trouble he
doesn’t bring his power to those who
deserve his power he brings his power to
those who are afflicted and if that were
not true you wouldn’t be here and I
wouldn’t be here and you would be
watching online right now you would be
where you are right now if Jesus wasn’t
able to get to you when you couldn’t get
to him most of these people couldn’t get
to Jesus but Jesus could get to him
thank you Lord for traveling the
distance to reach me when I couldn’t
reach you he came where I was and he sat
well I sat
[Applause]
and he was touched by the feeling of my
infirmity
and he wasn’t afraid to talk to somebody
who didn’t have any mouthwash and didn’t
have a toothbrush and had been sick for
a long time had been Afflicted and Jesus
had a conversation with a bad breath bad
disease infected temperatures come too
terrible frustrated man and Jesus comes
and talks to him he is not a lawyer he’s
not a physician he’s not a doctor he’s
not a potentator he’s not a person of
Life he’s not a person of political
influence he’s just a sick man who’ve
been sick a long time a nameless man a
man of no pedigree or background but
Jesus came and talked to him so I
rebuked every devil that’s telling you
you’re not important enough for Jesus to
come and talk to you the devil is alive
if Jesus could come and talk to a man
that is sick and Afflicted and disease
surely he can come and talk to you
[Applause]
everybody
this man had no offering
this man could offer Jesus nothing
and yet Jesus comes
well he is
in the middle of a free
zes comes to
Bethesda
that’s what they called it Bethesda
Bethesda is located near the temple but
it’s not in the temple over and over and
over and over again do you see how Jesus
does something his best work outside the
temple
glory to God
he does some of his best work outside of
the temple he heals the most people
outside of the temple he’s sending you a
message that God has come outside of
Orthodoxy that God has come outside of
normal religious ideas he sends you in
Mercy that he is not going to conform to
the traditions of his day and the
thoughts of his era that he came to
change things he’s a RAB arouser he’s a
leader he makes some noise leaders don’t
just follow the pack they leave the band
oh y’all don’t hear what I’m saying to
you I feel like preaching this morning I
wish you felt like having church because
if we got together something would
happen in here this morning anybody
coming here to praise uh God this
morning
[Applause]
yeah
one of the first places I went to see
when I got to Jerusalem is what is the
area where Bethesda is Bethesda is
called
the House of Mercy or the House of Grace
it was the place where they infirmed
hung out together
it was a place where they came together
to comfort one another and it was a
place where they were able to live on
five different
porches
of Mercy
or a house
Grace
my God I’m thinking about changing my
name
to Bethesda
Bethesda Jakes
that don’t sound too bad oh BJ
oh BJ that’s pretty cool but that’s the
Jets yeah you know why because I’m a
house
of Mercy Our House of Grace I want to
change my name because I’m standing here
by the grace of God y’all don’t hear
what I’m saying I’m standing here by the
mercy of God
[Applause]
what they meant for disgrace God Called
It Grace they put all the disgraced
people all in a pack together and yet it
is the House of Grace and it is a House
of Mercy because Grace hangs out with
disgrace
foreign
[Applause]
Grace hangs out with disgrace Grace
hangs out with shame Grace hangs out
with Affliction Grace hangs out with
Sinners Grace hangs out with trouble
Grace hangs out with sick people Grace
hangs out with infirmity Grace doesn’t
go to the country club Grace doesn’t
stay in the yard Grace goes down in the
ditches of the bucket of the bar and
somebody slipping up under a bridge
Grace hangs out where the stink is and
the stench is now the fever is and the
blind man is falling and the lame man
can’t move and the paralyzed man is
rolling over Grace says I’m coming over
here to hang out oh Bethesda Bethesda
Bethesda Bethesda somebody is a witness
to Bethesda Grace comes
[Applause]
Grace comes out
these porches are a shelter from the
elements
five Fortress
they’re saved from
from the Palestinian Heat
it gives them some comfort while they
wait for the miracle moment to happen
which only happens annually
once a year
up until then they’re sustained in these
protocols that that protect them from
the elements there were five porches
somebody say five portions
play close attention to these porticoles
because they had to be able to fit
within five portions no matter what was
wrong with you whether you were blind or
paralyzed you had to be able to fit
within those point of course some folks
can get along with nobody but when
you’re in trouble you got to humble
yourself and learn how to get along with
people you got to learn how to get along
with people you got to learn how to get
along with there were five porches
and when I read about the five porches I
remembered that God created the Earth in
five days
and somebody else would say he created
in seven days but that’s not really
accurate he created the Earth and
recreated the Earth within a five-day
period on the sixth day he created man
and brought him into the finished work
of the fifth day and all of a sudden man
enters into a Grace where he did not
create it he did not build it he did not
labor it five is the number of Grace
have you ever had God bring you into
something that you didn’t have nothing
to do with but God by his mercy and by
his grace did the work that then brought
you into it have you ever had God do the
work and then bring you into it have you
ever had god build a house and then move
you into it have you ever had God make
the way and then set you on the path God
waited till the Earth was created and
then on the sixth day he’s scooped mad
about the Earth and brought him in and
said let me show you what I did for you
before you got here it’s Grace because
you couldn’t have earned it you wasn’t
here yet I did it without you but I did
it for you so that you might receive it
you are saved by the grace of God you
are living the grace of God you are
breathing the grace of God if I had a
witness in here we’d have some church in
here maybe there’s a witness online God
is bringing you into stuff that he
already fixed before you got here
[Applause]
look at somebody in Holland ain’t
nothing but Grace
[Applause]
and what shall we say of Aaron when God
started the priesthood with Nathan and
Ellie Hazard and about who and isabar
and His Four Sons the four sons and
Aaron make five and God said one
anointing on them so that they could
operate in the priesthood because five
one two three four five is the number of
Grace
foreign
that was built with walls five cubits
High
to cover
because five
is the number of Grace
oh what about the five piercings
in the body of Jesus Christ
his left hand his right hand his feet
two feet but one nail his crown of
thorns in the piercing of his side one
two three four five
it’s the number
[Music]
five is the number of Grace oh what
about the fivefold ministry Apostles
prophets pastors teachers evangelists
all for the perfecting of the Saints and
the work of the ministry one two three
four five is the number of Grace
there is no accident here that there are
five porches
because God always brings you into Grace
do the number five
somebody shout Grace
oh y’all don’t want none of that
somebody shout Grace
Oh Amazing Grace how sweet the sound
that saved the rich like me I once was
lost but now I’m proud was blind but now
I see somebody’s out Grace
see as opposed to you thinking that you
earned it and that you’re entitled to it
you need to come humbly before the
throne of grace that you might obtain
mercy and find what Grace Grace to help
in the time of need anybody got a need
God’s got a Grace anybody got a problem
God’s got a Grace anybody’s got a crisis
God’s got a Grace glory to God don’t be
walking around like God owes you
something and your shoulders all
stretched out and your chest all out
like you’re doing God a favor to come to
church or listen to the word no shout
Grace
[Applause]
Grace let you be able to hear
[Applause]
somebody says well how can you call it
the House of Grace
or the House of Mercy
when the sick were not all healed
yeah but they were all covered
[Applause]
in their five protocols they were
covered because the truth of the matter
is everybody in here ain’t healed
foreign
enough you will shout when I say that
because we like to act like we got it
all together and we like to act like
we’re perfect and we have to act like we
just got off off the foot of the cross
but the truth of the matter everybody in
here got a little something something
that’s in the five particles that you’re
asking God to help you with and God is
covering you while he’s healing you and
God is protecting you while he’s healing
you and God is helping you while he’s
healing you and God is teaching you
while he’s healing you and don’t you act
like it’s just the people out there that
have these five torches it’s a little
bit of Grace going on up in that balcony
there’s a little Grace going up into the
pulpit it’s a little Grace on the Usher
boy somebody talk to me it’s Grace on
the line this morning it’s Grace on
YouTube this morning his grace on
Facebook this morning his grace on that
this morning oh they got a little Grace
Make Some Noise clap your hands holla
out scream do it this I live
in the grace of God
Grace fed them
they weren’t all healed but Grace fed
them every day they would have died you
came here 38 years without food Grace
fed them sick but I’m fed ah y’all don’t
hear what I’m saying grace fed them
every day grace let them breathe Grace
gave them a beard to lie in
Grace kept them alive
though sick
[Applause]
addicted but alive
[Applause]
the more you said The more I want to dig
down into you yeah in trouble but alive
some of you are living right now in the
very grace of God you know you know you
know come on don’t make me prophesy you
know you don’t deserve to have what you
have and come as far as you’ve come is
by his grace that you are where you are
and while other people might be praising
God because of the stuff they own you’re
praising God for the grace of God is
Grace that got you it’s Grace that
Sturgill is Grace that broke your chain
it’s Grace then open up the door it’s
Grace that gave you a second chance in
fact if half the people knew who you
really were they wouldn’t want to touch
you but Grace covered you and put you on
the porch and gave you a shelter
a shelter to sing in to preach in to
work in to marry it to stand in
my God
my God can it take about five minutes
and just Praise Him for Grace can I Just
Praise Him for Grace
anybody been kept by the grace of God
anyone eating by the grace of God anyone
sheltered by the grace of God make some
noise in this place
[Applause]
foreign
I feel a praise coming Lord I feel a
praise coming on I feel a Hallelujah
coming on I feel and thank you Jesus
coming on I feel a glory to God coming
on
[Applause]
foreign
yeah
yeah look at this
this is Grace
this coat is Grace
these shoes are Grace that dress you got
on that’s Grace you wearing Grace right
now you drove up in the parking lot in
Grace what you’re driving is Grace you
thought it was a forward it ain’t afford
it’s Grace you thought it was a Bentley
it ain’t a Bentley it’s Grace oh you
thought it wasn’t Cadillac it ain’t a
Cadillac it’s Bethesda it’s the house of
great you’re driving in the grace of God
thank you
[Applause]
this man’s problem was not that he was
not a recipient of God’s grace
he had been living in God’s grace for 38
years oh five different portions
expressions of Grace there is nothing to
doubt about the fact that he is alive by
the grace of God
his problem is
is that he has been in a state of grace
too long
can you overstay your welcome
[Applause]
with Grace
can Grace
that was sent to cover you
start to your development
can you use Grace as a cloak
for maliciousness
can you stay in Grace so long
that you become
familiar
can you stay in Grace
so long
that what was a covering becomes a king
[Applause]
28
and now we meet him at a turning point
the Bible says that he had an infirmity
for 38 years and when Jesus comes to the
House of Grace
he comes
to remove him
from the house
comes to kick him out the hospital
he comes to get him out of his
wheelchair
he comes to remove his Cane
see some folk get stuck
in help
ah some folk is stuck in Mercy
this is the turning point in the text it
is the moment in which the God begins to
challenge him
what is a House of Grace can become a
harbor
for pain
if we stay too long
look at Romans six and one for a minute
just Romans 6 and 1 verse 1 and 2 for
just a moment and Paul is talking about
what I’m talking about when he’s talking
about what he’s talking about in Romans
6 1-2 he says what shall we say then
shall we continue in sin
that Grace May abound
God forbid how can we that are dead to
sin live any longer than in other words
God will eventually kick you out and say
it’s time for you to stand up on your
own two feet of time for you to grow up
it’s time for you to recover it’s time
for you to be stronger
don’t get stuck on the porch
just because God provided it doesn’t
mean that you ought to stay there God
provided Egypt when there was famine
going on in the promised land and all of
Joseph’s brothers found provision in
Egypt for a while but if you stay too
long then you you become a slave
[Applause]
how many of you have overstayed your
welcome man
you know what it’s like then for
something that God sent to be a blessing
and it is a being a burden because you
start taking it for granted and you stay
there longer than you’re supposed to
stay and it’s time for you to take up
your bed and walk but you’ve gotten
comfortable laying in your bed of
Affliction I came to Rattle some change
I came to make some noise I came to
dislodge some people I came to get
somebody loose this morning that just
because God covered you that mean he
like what you did just because God
covered you that means he is happy with
the state you’re in just because God
Made A Way doesn’t mean for you to stay
in a state of dependency on something
that was meant to be scaffolding
and you turn the scaffolding into a
patio
God gave it to you so you could grow
[Applause]
and now the man has been in the House of
Grace
for 38 years
nobody builds a porch to be a house
how long
will you be angry
[Applause]
how long
will you be weak
how long will you creep
how long will you sneak
just because Grace covered you how long
will you delay your recovery to make
room for your dysfunction how long will
you accept what God has rejected how
long will you say this is just how I am
this is how my parents were I got that
from my daddy I’m like that because my
mama loves like that how oh
how will God have to cover up for you
[Applause]
God is trying to bring you into recovery
and Jesus comes by to ask this man a
Paramount question
well thou
wilt thou be made whole sounds like a
crazy question
you will thou be made all I’ve been sick
38 years
and yet Jesus asked him the question not
is it my will for you to be made a whole
he asked him is it your will do you
really want to get better or do you just
want to act a fool do you really want to
overcome or do you really just want to
play Kane do you really want to be a
real Christian or you just want to
Belong To The Potter’s House do you
really well thou be made how or you just
want to build a bigger board will thou
be made all or you just want to sing
[Applause]
thank you
[Applause]
see the first hurdle you have to
overcome is the hurdle of a Haven
the hurdle of a Haven is where you have
become comfortable on a porch
the pooches that we build
can become a deterrent
to be to being better
oh we got quiet Jesus
it can become a deterrent to getting
better
because we always make excuses for you
we give permission to you
38 years
of us understanding you
has created codependent
relationship
that has enabled you
not to get well
and I came to serve an eviction notice
[Applause]
I came to serve an eviction notice I
stopped by the house of Grace to tell
you you got to get out of here your time
is up you got to make room for somebody
else somebody else needs that spot on
that porch you’ve got to go
the purchase we build can become a
deterrent to better that’s one thing you
got to think about what porches are
there in your life that have given you
permission not to grow up
just because I let you talk to me like
that
[Applause]
[Music]
does it mean for you to keep on talking
to me like that because one day I’m
gonna snap on them
I’m gonna snap on you I put up with it
because I understand you’re going
through something but don’t go crazy let
me break it down into ebonics where you
can get it don’t go crazy off my
kindness cause one day I’m gonna flip
totally out and turn into somebody you
don’t even recognize
shall we continue in sin that Grace May
abound God says don’t take my kindness
for weakness God forbid eventually
you’ve got to get better
[Applause]
somebody shout better
somebody shout better
see that’s a hard word to sell in the
time we’re living in now because nobody
is praying Lord Make Me Better
everybody’s praying Lord Make Me bigger
I just want to be bigger I don’t care
nothing about being better but I want to
raise up a generation of people who are
laying on their face before God crying
out Lord make me better I’m not
satisfied to stay up on this porch of
Affliction I realize you blessed me I
realize you’re fed me but I’m not happy
to live like this I want better for my
life I want better for my wife I want
better for my body I want better for my
children Lord make me better but today
all they’re praying about is Lord Make
Me bigger and when you get bigger and
you don’t get better you end up
exploding
[Applause]
oh I’m preaching good this morning Lord
have mercy I’m preaching good let me
stop and just praise God for the word he
gave me this morning he gave me some
good word this morning he gave me some
disruptive word he gave me some radical
word he gave me some words to stir up
some he gave me some table knocking over
word some Rebel rousing word God said
it’s over it’s over it’s over it’s over
well thou be made whole
[Applause]
I feel something coming up in here I
feel a glory coming up in here I feel an
anointing coming up in here I feel a
truth coming up in here yeah enough is
enough enough is enough enough is enough
God said I’m washing my hands on it and
before I weaked at it but I’m tired of
weaken at your foolishness you’re in the
strip club on Saturday you’re at the
choir stand on Sunday God said I’m tired
I’m tired I’m getting tired now I put up
with it for a long time but I’m getting
tired I’m getting tired I’m getting
tired
my grace is starting to enable your
dysfunction
so when Jesus confronts him with his
will do you really want to get better
because some folk like being sick
because then they get attention when
they say oh y’all don’t hear what I’m
saying they get money when they get sick
they get cash outs where they get sick
they like it because they can get
GoFundMe pray some people need it but
other people are there because they’re
used to it and it becomes a racket and
you ain’t trying to get a job you ain’t
trying to get better you’re just trying
to be slick
so
when Jesus confronts his willingness
to get better
the man rather than to jump over the
hurdle makes an excuse
he says Lord
oh
while I am coming
another one jumps in front of me
thank you
and whenever they jump in front of me
that’s my reason
and in fact Lord I have no one to help
me
oh I’m messing with somebody today
if if if if my mama would have raised me
if my sister would help me with these
kids if so and so would have done such
and such if my husband would have stayed
if my wife would have been a better
woman if it hadn’t been for that I
wouldn’t have cheated but she was bad I
wouldn’t have cheated but he was bad I
wouldn’t have done this we we always
point at a person to enable and Empower
us to remain sick
Lord I tell you they were gonna shout if
I preached this
and my question is I can understand he
says while he’s coming another one steps
in but the thing that confused me is so
why did you go back to the porch
because missing your turn doesn’t mean
you got to go back to where you began
in 38 years if you would have just come
as far as you could and waited for the
next time and then going a little
further in 38 years you could have got
yourself there but every time he missed
his turn he went back to his porch what
do you go back to
if you can’t say Amen say ouch
now the porch has become the problem
because it he said while I’m coming
somebody gets in front of me if you
could make it back to the porch you
could make it down to the pool
I I just want to know because at first I
thought you were so paralyzed you
couldn’t move but when you said while I
am coming
and you were coming without anybody
helping you
and all you had to do was hold fast to
that what you have and let nobody take
away I may not be where I’m gonna be I
may not be where I ought to be but thank
God I ain’t where I used to be thank you
for getting me off of that porch I’m a
little bit closer today than I was
yesterday who am I preaching to in this
place every step you take is a little
bit closer to the miracle that God has
for you if I’m talking to you shall yes
and maybe I’m not where you are but I
refuse to go back where I was because
I’ve come too far to allow any devil in
hell to drive me back to where I used to
be I may not be in the pool but I will
not die on the porch I’ll stand right
here till I can take another step
[Applause]
I’m talking about the celebration of
progress
the celebration of progress I had to
learn this in my own life I don’t
celebrate my progress enough I’m so
goal-oriented that I delay the party
until I reach the goal but I’m learning
how to throw up many parties along the
way and say Lord I Thank you for
bringing me this far I may not be there
yet but I thank you that I made it to
right here some of you don’t celebrate
small steps away from your porch maybe
you haven’t made it to the pool but
you’re not on the porch and you need to
stop in the middle of the road and light
you some candles and blow you a horn and
put a hat on your head and say Lord I
Thank you
Lord I Thank You Lord I thank you I’m
going to praise you right where I am
they don’t understand it but when I look
back over my shoulder I used to be stuck
on that porch
London
my God
[Applause]
[Music]
I’m getting better
look at somebody else and say I’m
getting better
it don’t neither one of them shout shout
for yourself shout for yourself throw
yourself a party play your drums make
the noise beats the symbols grab your
tambourine throw your own body
thank you
foreign
he could have been in the pool in 38
years he could have been down in the
water he could have been in the water
when the angel came
in 38 years but his problem is is he is
number two the hurdle of blame
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the hurdle of blame
will stop you from wholeness
the hurdle of blame gives you a license
to be dysfunctional
in other words he’s saying to Jesus it’s
not my fault
it’s their fault
it’s the folks who cut in front of me
it’s their fault he never takes
responsibility
for his own progress
and most of us are stuck at the hurdle
of blame but we’re gonna jump that
sucker today we’re gonna jump in today
we’re gonna jump in today because when
you make me the excuse
you turn your destiny into my hands
if your ex-husband can stop you from
getting there that means you can’t get
there till he change his mind the Devil
is a Lie you got to make up in your mind
oh y’all ain’t gonna help me somebody in
the balcony helped me the folks on the
floor don’t get it you got to make them
in your mind I’m not blaming my mother
I’m not blaming my father I’m not
blaming my uncle I’m not blaming my
friend some of the folks who blame it
are dead you’ll always be on the porch
if you’ve got to wait on them to help
you the devil is alive if you don’t help
me I’ll help myself
foreign
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
died when I was 16 years old
he’d been sick since I was 10. he died
when I was 16. I loved him then I love
him now but after he died I started
looking for another Daddy I said because
everything I didn’t get to ask him I’m
going to ask somebody else because I got
to make it I got to make it if I wasn’t
meant to make it I’d have died when he
died if God let me live he’s got
something else for me to do and I can’t
hang around the grave and cry the rest
of my life over who left me I will
arrived and go for myself look at your
neighbor and say get up
foreign
[Music]
[Applause]
but it may be incentivize you
to go forward I’m not saying it didn’t
hurt
I’m not saying that it didn’t slow you
down
I’m not saying that you don’t miss them
I’m not saying that they treated you
fair I’m not saying that it was right
that they fired you but you can’t spend
the rest of your life
grieving over what happened to you you
have to get over that hurdle somebody
take a little jump
this is the morning I’m gonna jump over
that hurdle I’m gonna jump over that
hurdle I’m gonna jump over that hurdle
I’m gonna jump over that hurdle and the
Lord told me to tell you and I don’t
know who this is for it may be somebody
online but the Lord said if you jump
your hurdle your children will jump
theirs
[Applause]
yes yes
yes yes
I don’t know who that was for I don’t
know who that was for I don’t know who
that was for you’ve told them everything
you knew how to tell them but it’s not
what you say is what you do the Lord
said if you jump your hurdle your
children will jump theirs and I dare you
to take a minute and give God a crazy
prey in the middle of the job I’m gonna
pray in him in the job I’m a sound in
the jump I believe in the job
at the house
yeah
yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah
[Applause]
yeah yeah yeah
if you jump they’ll jump if you jump
they’ll jump jump if you jump they’ll
jump if you jump they’ll jump up
somebody help me praise him I feel a
generational curse break it up in here
right now
[Applause]
I’m not gonna let it be about people
because whenever you tell God about
people it suggests that the people are
greater than God and ain’t nobody
stronger than God in fact no weapon
formed against me shall be able to
prosper and every tongue that rises
against me God will condemn imma jump
over it somebody said I’m gonna jump
over it somebody type on the line I’m
gonna jump over it I’m gonna jump over
every hurdle I had hurdles all my life I
had to fight all of my life I had to
struggle all my life but if I jumped
over that I’ll jump over this if I
jumped over that so I’ll jump over that
too I’m gonna get over every hurdle and
get the wholeness will thou be made
whole
jump will thou be made home jump will
thou be made
will thou be the top without his job
with that job
[Music]
good
[Music]
Ness
[Music]
foreign
[Applause]
foreign
I want to give you my third hurdle and
this is important and I want you to get
this
[Applause]
I feel glory in this place oh my God I
don’t know who it is but somebody ain’t
playing somebody is jumping these
hurdles somebody’s made up in the mind I
got to get the whole I got to get whole
I’ve been through too much I got to get
to a hole I can feel it in my spirit I
can tell when The Virtue is going out
somebody is pulling on that anointing
down inside of me I got to get whatever
I got to jump whoever I got to jump over
whatever I got to change I’m getting
ready to jump type it on the line jump
jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump
jump jump jump
I will jump I got to jump I gotta jump
from my daughter I gotta jump from a sun
I gotta jump from my grandchildren I
gotta jump so they can see Grandpa
Grandma a joke Grandpa can jump and go
jump
[Applause]
let me hear this other point I gotta
calm down y’all get me exaggerated
[Applause]
that ain’t a word but it’ll work today
[Applause]
yes
I feel like something about to happen in
here
I feel like something about to happen up
in here I feel like somebody’s about to
get loose up here I feel like somebody’s
about to get their miracle in here
somebody’s about to pick up their bed
and start to walk in here
number three
[Applause]
and it’s a big one
this is important
you got to get this because it’s a big
one the hurdle of a faulty belief system
the hurdle of a faulty
belief system
it will mess you up every time
it’s just as important what you believe
as it is
that you believe
now watch that I didn’t say what you say
because sometimes you can say right
and still believe wrong
a belief system
a belief system is formulated over time
in your life it becomes your core
Philosophy from which you work from is
not just an orthodox idea it is a belief
system you are where you are as a result
of your belief
system
you talk a good game
I’m God’s woman I’m a Nubian queen I’m
here not to tell but beneath all of that
there’s a belief system oh
if there’s a belief system up under all
of that talk that says
I can’t do it I don’t deserve it I’m not
worthy of it I can’t handle it that’s
what we got to get to your core belief
system has that’s the hurdle that has to
be jumped over and the core belief
system is set up by the voices that
spoke to you the people who taught you
the people who said you ain’t never
gonna be nothing you’re just like your
daddy you’re stupid you’re dumb you’re
not gonna you’re ugly all of those
things develop belief systems down
inside of you that determine what you go
after
that determine how you go after it that
determines whether you make it to the
pool or wait on an angel
the hurdle of a faulty belief system
fits this text because the idea that the
angel comes every year is a faulty
belief system
it was folklore
it was folklore
it is not a Biblical truth
it was a customary idea it was a
tradition and he built his whole life
around a faulty belief system
he built his whole life waiting on
something to happen that wasn’t going to
happen
if I if I open my open open my heart
about this I swear I would cry
because the thing that I see most often
holding our community back
is a faulty
belief system I’m not blaming us for it
there’s a whole lot of things that
contribute to developing a system
a system not not just a belief but a
belief system
what you’ve seen what you’ve been
exposed to what’s been said what support
all of that plays into your belief
system
but you still gotta jump it
if if we don’t jump it
I don’t care how much money I give you
you’ll lose it
I don’t care how many degrees you have
on your wall you’ll still sabotage your
success because you have a faulty belief
system
I hate to tell you this ain’t no Angels
coming
you waiting on somebody to come trouble
the water that ain’t coming
but they and the them of your belief
system is killing your progress
[Applause]
man was in front of more than his entire
belief system
Jesus was more than everything the man
had based his belief system on
and Jesus showed up
in his life
but he had to get over his belief system
he wasn’t expecting to be healed
because it wasn’t no angel
and there was no pool water and it
wasn’t the right day and it wasn’t the
right time and who was this stranger
talking to him if he didn’t jump over
that belief system he was not going to
get healed
some of you have burned in your head how
God is going to do it
and if God doesn’t do it how you think
he’s going to do it you reject it
because you have a faulty belief system
it’s going to happen this way I’m gonna
meet him here they’re gonna look like
this it’s gonna happen like that the
faulty belief system will cause you to
be stuck 38 years waiting on what you
have imagined waiting on what they told
you about we know what you heard waiting
on God to do it like he used to do it do
it like he did it for your Grandmama God
didn’t promise to do it the way he did
it for your grandmother of faulty belief
system stops you from progress
foreign
just so you can belong in a group
you will develop a faulty belief system
to fit in on a porch
oh God
I’m preaching
we’re looking at it right now in America
you got people who don’t even believe
what the sign they carry it but because
they get to sit on the porch
they were tied to a faulty belief system
for the sense of belonging
just so I can say I’m one of them
a faulty belief system will stop you
from people and things and opportunities
that you were supposed to have if you
don’t jump over it
I’m talking about subconscious belief
systems
there aren’t often uttered
but they can either be strengthening
or create struggles
and I must give you a sure sign to test
your belief system
you are attracted to people
who reinforce that belief system
you show me who you draw I’ll show you
how you think
why do I keep drawing drugs cause you
bark
cause you bark because they they sense
that you’re a dog lover
you say you want a progressive
oh y’all don’t want me metal you you you
you say you want to go forward
but watch what you draw
watch what you draw
watch what you draw
I was at a leadership conference they
were teaching about leadership they said
if you take somebody who has the ability
to Pastor a thousand people and give
them a hundred they’ll gain 900.
if you pick somebody who has the
capacity capacity capacity to lead 100
people give them a thousand they’ll lose
900.
belief systems
you won’t be satisfied till you run 900
people away
because you have not given yourself
permission
to be more
than where you came from
this text
is a war between two different belief
systems
one belief system is the belief system
of Jesus
and the other one is the belief system
of folklore
and Jesus comes to shatter the myth
the folklore says it can only happen on
this day it can only happen this way it
can only happen in this spot it can only
happen at this time and Jesus comes on
the wrong day stands in the wrong spot
Yanks one man up and does it and breaks
all the rules of the ideas that form his
belief system and the Lord told me let
me come down here I’ma come a little bit
closer I want to get down here where I
can see you the Lord said I’m going to
shatter your negative belief systems
that have always held you back
[Applause]
you you talk forward but you think
backwards and as long as you think
backwards no matter how much you talk no
matter how much you apply no matter how
much you try you will only rise to the
level of your belief system how can you
prove that yes I can as a man thinketh
in his heart so is he it is what you
think about you it ain’t what I think
about you it is not what I think about
you I stop trying to change the minds of
my critics years ago as soon as I found
out that my growth was not predicated on
their opinion I let them think whatever
they want to think about me because it
is not their belief system that causes
me to prosper is what I think about me
is what God thinks about me it’s what
God’s word says about me who am I
talking to if I’m talking to you right
now you’re fighting the wrong own battle
you’re fighting trying to change the
mind of somebody whose words don’t even
matter God ain’t listening to your
haters God is listening to you wilt thou
be made whole I didn’t ask you about the
other people on the porch I didn’t ask
Peter about the other people on the boat
I didn’t ask the little boy about who
else had lunch money I want to know what
are you going to do or what I gave you
thank you
[Applause]
the man has a faulty belief system and
all the religious people he had been
exposed to had a faulty belief system
it’s proven because when Jesus shatters
his belief system
and heals him
on the Sabbath day Jesus purposely
says take up your bed and walk to expose
the faulty belief system come on the
faulty belief system around him here
come brother naysay and Deacon Sugarfoot
and they come running up to him and
talking about
it’s unlawful for you to carry your bed
on the Sabbath day they couldn’t find
nothing else to criticize you can see it
on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook
they’ll find something to criticize I
just don’t think y’all to wear a pocket
square while you’re preaching you
overlooked everything I was preaching
and you focus in on the pocket square
because of a faulty belief system You’ll
Always Find a reason to be a hater
you’re gonna always find a way to be
what you are if it’s not my Square it’s
my shoe if it’s not my shoe I should
grow my hair back why did you shave your
face but how could you miss all this
message and focus on my beard it’s
because of a faulty belief system they
bypass the man who had been sick for 38
years and the man was healed by the
power of God and they’re complaining
about him carrying a pot on the Sabbath
day
get away from people with faulty belief
systems you’re not ready to help them
you’re not ready to handle them you’re
not ready to minister to them get around
people with strong belief systems
[Applause]
as I close
I want you to understand something
that Jesus was willing to break the
rules
to bless him
and Jesus is willing to break the rules
to bless you lift your hands where you
are for a minute
Jesus is willing
Jesus is willing
to break all protocol
and bless you this morning
he wants you to overcome every hurdle to
wholeness that stands in your way
so that you can finally start to realize
I don’t care how much you put on you
it’s what you put in you that’s going to
make you arise out of their ashes
he’s going to show you where to put your
Energies
for such a time as this
and right now as you raise your hands
and open your mouth to worship Him He is
canceling out the things that were
canceling you out
oh we bless you Lord
oh we
we bless you love
me with my mind
help me with the way I think
help me with the way I process
help me with the way I think about
things and help my mind said
help my mind said of my mind to evolve
if you can get it in my head you can get
it in my body if you can get it in my
head my paralysis will be over I’m sick
of being paralyzed I’m sick of being
stuck I’m sick of being in the same spot
and as I worship you this morning
I’m gonna leap over every hurdle
I’m gonna leap over every hurdle
I got to make it to wholeness if I can’t
leap over it I’ll climb under it I’ll be
like the woman with the issue of blood
as long as I get the hole anyway you
bless me love
I will I will I will be satisfied
[Music]
and not read this message
I will not hear this message and not see
this message I will not hear this
message and not walk in this message I
will hurdle I will climb over every
hurdle and get to wholeness get to
wholeness somebody said with me get to
hold us get to wholeness get the
wholeness get the wholeness get the
wholeness get the wholeness get the
wholeness get the wholeness
Hallelujah
[Music]
one more thing
the Bible said and I didn’t in all the
times that I’ve looked at this text I
never really paid the 12th through the
15th verse any attention because the
12th through the 15th verse explains how
It All Happened One the man didn’t even
know who Jesus was
so when they asked him who told you to
take up your bed and walked he couldn’t
tell him who it was because Jesus had
disappeared out of his midst he didn’t
even know who Jesus was
okay when he later runs into Jesus
Jesus speaks a word to him
and said go thy way
let me let me let me put it up on the on
the screen
yeah he asked it what man is that which
said unto me take up thy bed and walk
and he that was healed said was not who
it was for Jesus had conveyed himself
away a multitude being in that place
come on after with Jesus finding him in
the temple and said unto him behold
Thou Art made whole
[Applause]
sin no more
lest the worst thing
come unto thee
I’ve never paid no attention to that
before
Jesus said you know why you like that
you stop acting like this is a mystery
you know why you’re like that
he said go thy way
and sin no more
lest the far worse thing
come upon you
[Music]
not as his person
Jesus got him off to himself
I said don’t you do that no more
unless the far worse thing come upon you
he said I’m gonna get you out of this
but I expect for you to get changed
I expect
for you to change
and it may not be when we go to sin we
always go to certain types of sins
and we let the other sins get by
and so we think in terms of of sexual
sins or or stealing or something like it
might be that might be that I ain’t
letting that off the hook
but it could be other types of sins
negativity
the way you talk to people
the way you respond in crisis
the way you treat people
don’t you think that don’t come back on
you
the way you treat people will make you
sick
go that way unless the far worse thing
come upon you
buy your hits with me
you’re streaming online by your hits
with me
[Music]
this message came to speak to you
[Music]
there’s some hurdles in your life God
wants you to leap over
God wants to get you off the porch
and into your purpose
and into your destiny
[Music]
and it’s not about them and it’s not
about they and it’s not about what
happened and it’s not about where you’ve
been and it’s not about what happened to
you and it’s not about your haters and
it’s not about the people who talked
about you and it’s not about the people
who disappointed you and all of that may
be legitimate I’m not being hard I know
what it is to be crushed by people God
knows I do I know what it is to be
wounded and bleeding and hurting I get
it I get it I get it but you can’t spend
38 years
in a state of paralysis
over a person
and then get in the presence of Jesus
and saying I’m no further because nobody
helped me
for 38 years
whatever the thing is that keeps you
from leaping over your hurdles
whatever the belief system
that you’ve bought into
that makes you keep attracting the same
experiences over and over again
this is a leaping Sunday we’ll share
Tire
[Music]
this is a leap in Sunday
and I don’t just mean leap in your body
I mean leap in your mind I mean leap in
your mind over top of everything that
does beset you lest a far greater thing
come upon you
father right now in Jesus name
[Music]
I pray for every son and daughter in
this room
I pray for all five porches in this room
I pray for massive change
and healing and restoration and renewal
I pray for us to stop making excuses and
start leaping over hurdles
[Music]
I pray for us to model in front of our
children the kind of leaping over
hurdles that will make them leapers too
give us the courage
to make the leap
I believe you for change right now
in the name of Jesus
while your head’s about it your eyes are
closed I’m going to challenge you
to make a covenant with God right now
then I’m going to do some leaping
I’m gonna do some leaping I’m gonna do
some Progressive Movement forward in my
life I may not get to my goal but I’m
not gonna stay on my porch
it may take me twice as long
I may have to work twice as hard
but I will not stay on a porch that God
has provided for my temporary recovery
and make it a lifestyle
for the rest of my life I will not
accept this that my life is stuck
on this porch
I believe you for change and I coveted
it with you right now not for bigger but
for better
not for longer but for further I
Covenant with you right now that I will
not just come to church and still be who
I was
a covenant with you right now that I’m
not satisfied with my paralysis
wherever I’m paralyzed in my finances
and my business in my relationships in
my life in my body wherever I am
paralyzed
I believe you for movement and change
and miracles right now in the name of
Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name
of Jesus in the name of Jesus
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I’m gonna move
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I have been preaching to you out of the
Gospel of Saint John
chapter number five
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about the five porches
I have been preaching to you
about the hurdles to wholeness
and I challenge you right now
if you made up your mind that you’re
gonna do some leaping
and there’s some areas you’re gonna leap
in
I want to touch and agree with you
for you to leave right now
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give me I want to touch and agree with
you
for you to leave right now
if you’re watching and you’re not saved
I want you to follow the prompting on
the screen
and call one of our counselors and give
your life to Jesus Christ
if you’re in this building and you don’t
know Jesus raise your hand I want to
pray for you right where you are that
you might come to know Jesus I don’t
care if you’re in the top balcony
I don’t care wherever you are if you’re
here and you’re backslidden and you need
Jesus hold your hand up I won’t
embarrass you hold your hand up this is
serious business you want change in your
life I want to pray for you I want God
bless you I see you I want to pray for
you God bless you I see you I want to
pray for you God bless you I see you
that you might have change in your life
father God right now I pray that they
would experience Jesus from the crown of
their heads to The Souls of their feet
that as they yield their lives to you
that they would never be the same again
I thank you Lord for climbing over every
hurdle and ministering to the needs of
those that I can’t see and those that I
can’t see I pray that their blood would
worship whiter than snow and that you
would cleanse them in Jesus name I want
every Blood Bought Spirit-filled
believer in this room to give God praise
for these Souls right now I
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like
it
right now right now right now right now
right now right now right now right now
that was a big leap they just took that
was a big leap
that was a big leap over a hurdles
to wholeness
somebody shall make me whole
somebody shall make me whole somebody
shall make me whole
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with you this morning our covenant with
you for wholeness in your life I want
everybody in here that’s got 55 dollars
gospel and Saint John chapter 5 5
portraits everybody that has 55 whether
you’re online whether you’re in the
building whether you could text to give
it I want everybody that can to show 55
into this text not only that I want you
to go home and make this a part of your
devotional this week
don’t just give the money if you’re not
gonna make it a part of your devotional
I want you to make it a part of your
devotional this week
a lot of you make the excuse I don’t
understand the word of God when I read
it I was your commentary I just broke it
down to you you can’t use that as an
excuse leap over that excuse and make
this your devotional for this week and
read it and I want you to purpose in
your heart what hurdles you need to leap
over to behold this week
how many of you will do that how many of
you will do that how many of you will do
that all online I want to see Hands I
want to commit commitments from you
I saw this seed to remember
not to get stuck on the porch
55 the fifth chapter of the Gospel of
Saint John the five porches I might be
there but I won’t stay there I sow right
now the information is on your screen
you want to join us in Covenant we’re
going to Covenant with that we’re going
to read that this week we’re going to
pray over this week and not only that
we’re going to do some leaping this week
how many folks are going to do some
leaping this week
I’m going to do some leaping this week
I’m going to do some leaping this week
you got some leaping to do yeah I got
some leaping to do just I’m no different
from you I got some leaping to do
I got some hurdles to my wholeness and I
want it right now
and I believe God for right now
and I believe God for it right now pmps
have out envelopes for people that want
envelopes
hold your hand up high this won’t take
but a minute
I’m not gonna go with no trance
I’m not going to call out your mama’s
name pay your phone number
if you don’t know your phone number I
can’t help you
I just want people who are going to
activate on the word of God
quickly quickly quickly
and we’re getting ready to go home how
many people are glad you came to church
today
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