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there is no relationship you’re in that

if it is out of alignment with the truth

of God that the Holy Spirit himself

won’t help you to sever so that you can

walk in

Holiness every single one of us has an

assignment and the day is

coming when we’re going to have to give

an

account there is a chapter he is

crafting a manuscript he’s writing that

one day when we see him face to face

we’re going to see the story that he was

telling and every single Crown we get we

going to turn around and place it right

back at his feet and say thank you Lord

for this privilege that we had to live a

life a life in relationship with you

Jerry and I live in a fairly rural part

of Dallas Fort Worth we like it that way

close enough to the city we can get

there quick but it’s quiet and lazy we

live on a little two-lane sleepy Road

somebody’s got some horses over there

there’s some cows over there and one of

my closest friends lives across the

street that’s why we like it cuz she’s

got a pond in the front of her property

so I’ll get the boys and the two fishing

poles I bought on sale at the local

Walmart I have a tackle box too that I

got on sale there cuz and you know we

need things we need extra hooks because

the boys always lose the hooks extra

bobber thingies you know because we need

extras of those I also have gloves in

The Tackle Box because y’all know I

don’t mind going fishing but I ain’t

going to actually touch no

fish so we walk across the street with

whatever hot dog meat we’ve got left

from the week cuz you know we’re

professional fishermen so our hot dog

meat is our bait we walk across the

street we stand in this little Cove

underneath some trees and we fish just

right there most of the time just little

sun perch stuff like that we can catch

quick in an hour we can catch like 10 or

12 fish just a little quick easy little

fishing trip every now and then though

I’m feeling

adventurous what that means is is that

we will get into my friend’s little

rowboat they bought on Craigslist it’s

metal it’s not a big deal it’s just a

little it’s seaworthy it can hold us up

that’s all we need I’ll swim we’ll uh

row out into the middle and we’ll fish

from there every now and then but I

always think twice before I do it and

here’s the

reason because in order to get in it we

first have to turn it over they leave it

upside down as they should to drain

water while nobody’s using it so I got

to turn it over to get in it and what I

do know for sure is that when I turn

this thing

over something’s either going to hop out

from underneath it something’s going to

Waddle out from underneath it or worst

of all oh something’s going to

Slither out from underneath that boat

because the environment under there is

moist and damp and perfect for Critters

do you know what I’ve noticed every

single time we turn it over something

comes out and never once have I had to

write a golden sealed invitation and

send it into the brush nearby to invite

the critters to come and join us at one

o00 today you’re welcome never once have

I had to invite them because the

environment created by the upside down

boat is invitation

enough

righteousness is rightside up living

that invites the sunlight of God’s favor

and blessing upon your

life

unrighteousness is upside down behavior

that is out of alignment with the truth

of God that you’ve been sitting

underneath for the last few days it’s

behavior that is out of alignment with

the truth of God to where you don’t have

to invite the enemy and come and make

himself at home in your life you just

keep living upside down and the

environment created by upside down

behavior is invitation

enough listen to me you can pray against

the enemy till you’re blue in the face

but if you and I leave passion and we do

not walk in Holiness we do not live in a

lifestyle that is in alignment with the

truth of God we will have wasted our

breath in

prayer Paul says somebody’s got to live

right it’s flat out straight

up

Holiness it’s

Holiness it’s a word that our our

grandmothers and our grandfathers back

in the good old days when you went to

church and you sat on a wooden Pew it’s

before some Churches became so pre

Seeker sensitive I remember y’all I went

listen I’m off track listen I went to a

church and they said we are a preer

sensitive church and so we actually want

to sort of uh in a way they said dull

down the actual literal name of Jesus

just so we can get people in first then

we will we will be more direct later on

I said oh you have invited the wrong

person because there used to be a day in

time where it was just black and white

where there were fewer gray areas and

tolerance yes come as you are but don’t

stay As You

Are Holy

brothers and sisters I implore you by

the mercies of God to walk in a manner

worthy of this calling by which you have

been called that every bit of truth that

you have received this weekend to align

your lifestyle to it to not determine

that you will still dig your heels into

the ground and live immorally or speak

immorally or do the things habits and

Lifestyles and choices and relationships

that you know are outside of alignment

with the truth of God turn the boat

right side up so that you can invite the

favor of God on your life the Apostle

Paul says righteousness is your

breastplate the Roman army in the first

century they had many pieces of armor as

you know but the breastplate would have

been one of the most critical the reason

why was because it obviously protected

the most vital organ they had their

heart the heart is the lifeline for your

physical well-being all of the blood

blood flow the Vitality the energy that

you need to function in every level of

your life comes from the Vitality of

your physical heart what the physical

heart is to the physical life your

spiritual heart is to your spiritual

life all of the Vitality the energy that

you need to be who God has created you

to be to have fervency in your prayer

life to follow him with passion and with

fire to read the Bible and it not just

be ink on a page but you hear his voice

speaking to you to have clear reception

between you and the Holy Spirit you need

a vital spiritual heart that’s why if I

were your enemy more than all else I’d

be after your

heart because one shot to the spiritual

heart will wipe you out your spiritual

heart is comprised of four things your

mind the way you think your emotions the

way you feel your Ambitions what you

purpose to do and your conscience your

conscience is not the voice of God but

your conscience is like this wiring that

helps this microphone amplify my voice

the the conscience is the microphone

that the Holy Spirit uses to help you

hear the voice of God so if I were your

enemy I’d be after your heart because if

I could get to your heart that would

mean I would have automatic access to

your mind now I could Tinker with your

thinking I’d have automatic access to

your emotions I can mess with the way

you feel and make sure they’re out of

alignment with the truth of God I can

mess with your ambition to where what

you want to do is totally out of

alignment with what God wants you to do

and more than all else I’d want to make

it sure I have a shot to your heart so

that I can Short Circuit the wires

between you and the Holy Spirit now you

can’t even hear God speak to you cuz you

didn’t have a breastplate

on the Apostle Paul says Holiness is

your breastplate Holiness blocks you

from a full frontal attack of the enemy

Holiness keeps the enemy at Bay to where

when he comes looking around for some

people that he can infiltrate some

upside down environments that he can

fester in he can’t find that with me or

with you cuz we’ve chosen right side up

living aligning ourselves with the truth

of God breastplates in place securing us

against the schemes of the enemy

Holiness is your

breastplate I came to tell you to live

right I came to tell you not to just

have heard all of this to go home and

live in accordance with

it be ye

holy not by your power not by your might

but by the spirit of

God there is no relationship you’re in

that if it is out of alignment with the

truth of God that the Holy Spirit

himself won’t help you to sever so that

you can walk in Holiness there is no

lifestyle you are living that is too uh

that you’re too wound up in that you

can’t break free from no matter how you

feel in this moment you can walk in

Holiness there is no way you have been

speaking no addiction that you have no

habit that you have been festering in

your life that you have been harboring

in your life that the Holy Spirit won’t

Empower you to break free from so that

you can walk underneath the banner the

favor of Holiness in your life be ye

holy if you were a believer in Jesus

Christ you you got an

assignment and don’t let anybody tell

you that your assignment isn’t Ministry

just because it happens to be in a

corporate setting mother of small

children who’s chosen to stay home with

those kids don’t let anybody tell you

that ain’t Ministry every single time

you make that chicken for dinner and you

set it on that table and you teach those

kids a Bible verse before bedtime don’t

let anybody tell you that that a

Ministry corporate woman when you sit

around that boardroom table and you’re

the only one that has a set of ideals

that lines up with the truth of

scripture at a table with those who are

thinking and acting and planning in a

way that is left of God’s word don’t let

anybody tell you that you around that

boardroom ain’t ministry that’s

Ministry high school student college

student you’re the only student that

stands for truth when your professor

says this is the way it is and you say

no that’s not the way it is don’t let

anybody tell you as the light on that

college campus that you are not in

Ministry every single one of us has an

assignment and the day is

coming when we’re going to have to give

an

account and here’s the

thing you don’t know when that day

is the day is coming and you don’t know

the day or the

hour neither do I when we’re going to

have to stand stand before him and give

an account for how we handled what he

had entrusted to us I’m asking you

tonight how are you handling your

assignment because young women if you

think that you’re young because of your

age listen to me if you’re 20 but you

only have till 30 you’re pretty

old if you’re 50 and you’re going to

live until 100 then you’re pretty young

age is just a number my friend and you

and I cannot qualify young or old based

birth based on our our birth

date it’s based on our death date cuz

listen I don’t know about y’all but when

I see him face to face I’m looking for a

well

done I’m looking for well

done when I see him he will not ask me

how many Instagram followers I

had he will not wonder whether or not

folks liked my post he will not be

interested in whether or not my selfies

were perfectly lit he will ask ask me

did I know his

son and then I will give an

account so the disciples they come and

they give an account to Jesus I wondered

if there was a recipe for Effective

Ministry because if these guys were

willing to come and look Jesus in his

face and give an account I figured there

might be a recipe for us for Effective

Ministry I’m interested anybody

interested there are three ingredients

to the recipe Luke 9:1 it says he called

them he called them and his calling

superseded any personal ambition that

they had they laid down whatever they

were going to do because they heard the

call of God beckoning them to do

something else the beautiful thing about

that entire picture is that all of the

glory of God the Father all of the glory

of Heaven Was packaged in human flesh

Jesus wanted so much God the Father

wanted so much to make sure that he

could speak and so that Humanity could

hear that he left his throne in glory

put on flesh so that the disciples could

hear his call and in the same way he has

given us the holy spirit so that each

and every one of us have the privilege

to hear the calling of God on our

lives the conviction the unction the

pressing the fire that is shut up in

your bones

sending you in a particular direction

heed the call of God on your lives then

they were not just called I love so much

that before he skips to the third uh

ingredient in the recipe sending them I

love that before we get to the third one

there’s that second one he did not just

call but then he gave them power and

authority it means that what he was

calling them to do he was simultaneously

equipping them with Supernatural power

to be able to pull it off so it’s good

news for anybody in the room that you

feel feel like you’ve got a dream that

is way over your head you’ve been called

to do something you don’t have the money

for you don’t have the time for you

don’t have the patience for you don’t

have the gifting for you don’t have the

talent for you don’t have the

connections for the good thing and the

great thing about our God is that he

does not call people who are already

equipped he calls you and then for the

people that say yes he equips them with

what they need for the

calling

he entrusted them with power and

authority and can I tell you why this is

important this is important because in

order to accomp accomplish Supernatural

tasks you have to have Supernatural

capacity in other words you can be the

most talented person in the world but if

you go in your own strength and

power you still won’t be able to

accomplish the God calling on your life

it requires what it is that only God

himself can give to you to accomplish

the task ooh the enemy hopes you will go

in your own

power he hopes you will think you are

flashy enough and Savvy enough and

talented enough and impressive enough so

that you will no longer lean on God

instead of leaning to your own

understanding but it is not by power and

it is not by might it is by the spirit

of God and some trust in horses other

folks trust in chariots but not us we

trust in the ne name of the Lord Our

God so he called them and then he usted

them he gave them some treasure and then

he sent

them he’s the one who did the

sending resist the urge to send

yourself to do something that it is not

yet time

for because just as important as our

calling is that is equally as important

as the timing is in which that calling

is outworked in our lives and if you go

too soon you might if you if you give

birth too soon to that which God is

trying to produce through you you might

abort what it is that he’s trying to

accomplish in you the spiritual backbone

the fortification that he was trying to

establish in you so that you could

handle the spotlight when it hit you

because listen that Spotlight that you

may be craving if it hits you and you

have no character it will burn you to a

crisp so he called them he entrusted

them he sent them out and they returned

to him and gave an account they were

tired the disciples had been given it

everything they had

had and I know there are some of you in

the room and you would admit that you

haven’t done it per perfectly but man

you’ve sure been

purposeful you’ve been intentional about

this marriage you’ve been giving it

everything you’ve got you’ve been

intentional about that teenager you’ve

been given that kid everything you got

this toddler that has this specific vent

or this specific issue that you’ve been

doing everything you can going to see

every expert that you can reading

everything that you can to be the best

that you can as the mother single mother

you’ve been giving it everything that

you’ve got working the jobs that you’ve

got to work to keep food on the table

you’ve been given that business that

Ministry that endeavor everything that

you have and you the disciples are

tired the good news about Jesus is that

when the disciples come to him tired he

does not

say go away from me and get yourself

together come back and then I can use

you he said is Come

Away With

Me In other words

listen the cure for your exhaustion is

intimacy with

Jesus that’s the Cure

y’all I’m saying I agree take the

holiday take the vacation tell them you

need a little sabatical you got to step

back for just a little bit you need a

little margin in your life take the

holiday but don’t take a holiday from

Jesus don’t take the sabatical from your

relationship with the Lord Prayer

shouldn’t exit your schedule because

these are your rest days you still need

to be the deer that pants after the

water your soul has still got to be

replenished and can only be replenished

when you have intimacy with

him my husband is here as well we have

three sons um they’re 141 12 and eight

Jackson is our our oldest and then Jerry

Jr and then Jude Jude is our surprise

baby Jude that’s why I named him Jude

cuz that’s as close as I could get to

Revelation because it is finished that’s

it that’s the end of the line Jackson

Jerry Jr and Jude and Jude and I were

sitting together on an airplane and he

was seated over the wing our seats were

directly over the wing of the airplane

and so he was sort of just looking out

at the wing of the plane and there we

were suspended in mid air flying to our

destination and I could tell he was

mesmerized by this whole concept that

this tube of Steel is in the air holding

us up and that um this this Wing is

connected to the plane he was sort of

just dissecting this entire this entire

situation and as he looked over the wing

he looked back at me and said mom how do

they get that wing on this

plane and I said buddy I got to be

honest with you I have no idea I have no

idea how they get that that wing on the

plane I don’t know know how it works but

I have an idea for you Jude you have an

uncle their dad’s brother Uncle V he

works in the airline industry he

actually works in the business where

they they make all the veins and the

wiring that connects the different parts

of the aircraft so I saw this as a

teachable moment I said you should talk

to your uncle Von when we get home it’d

be a great opportunity for you to learn

something and then I said to him you

know what you can be whatever you want

to be when you grow up Jude do you know

that you can do whatever you want to do

like if you want to make airplanes like

your uncle V when you grow up you can so

totally do that if you’d like to and as

I said that to him I said buddy you can

be anything you want to be in your life

anything you want to do you can do it he

looked back at me and he said Mom I

don’t want to do what Uncle Von does

when I grow up I want to do what you do

when I grow

up you know it’s one of those moments

where you’re just thinking baby what do

you want whatever you want I’m going

give it to you

oh but wait for

it because I looked back at him and said

buddy what does mama

do now I had expectations about what his

answer was going to be at least some

framework about how he might respond

Lord I’d love to or Mom I’d love to

share the Lord with people Mom I’d like

to write Mom I would like to do a myriad

of different things maybe that he could

have said but he looked back and he he

said Mom I want to do nothing just like

you you do nothing all day every day you

do

nothing I said buddy you see how like

the clothes you’re wearing right now are

clean how do you think that they

actually get clean he said well that’s

just like washing that’s no big deal I

said but you eat every day you eat

actual food how do you think it gets

cooked and he said that’s what moms do

that’s no big deal and I said but you

know every now and then there’s a book

or there might be a Bible study there’s

even there was a little film a little

movie you remember it spent we spent

like three months maybe that that what

do you think I’m doing he’s like you’re

just sitting behind the computer all day

just doing this you’re doing

nothing I laughed and then I thought in

that moment right after the

conversation how much that is like my

relationship with the

Lord in fact there was confirmation of

that because the very next day and I

only share this with you to make this

point but the very next day after that

conversation with Jude my publisher sent

me an email they sent an email to tell

me about something that they know I

never know because I’m keeping up with

three sons they said Priscilla we just

want to let you know that fervent um a

little book that I had written we want

you to know that it’s on the New York

Times bestseller list it actually won a

few Awards they said that to me in the

email and all I could do when I looked

at it was checkle because it was just

the day before that my my son said to me

that when I was doing to him to what

looked like and amounted to nothing well

that is exactly when I was crafting

something that hopefully would be a

blessing to people’s

lives and the Holy Spirit said to me

that’s just like you and me Priscilla

cuz I’m behind the scenes orchestrating

and crafting the chapters of your story

all the while you think I’m doing

nothing you point an accusatory finger

at me wondering where I am and why I’m

not hearing your request and why I’m not

moving in the way that you would like me

to move you’re assuming that I’m sitting

back passively ignoring you where all

the while I am busy making a story out

of your life the likes of which you

can’t

imagine I came to encourage somebody

today that there’s a chapter that is

being written right now with your story

I’m talking about right now in that

difficulty right now in that Valley year

of your marriage right now in that

trouble in your your finances that

difficulty on your job that hardship

with your coworker I’m talking about

that one coworker the one that if she

says one more thing to you you going to

knock her out that

one there is a chapter he is

crafting a man script he’s writing that

one day when we see him face to

face we’re going to see the story that

he was

telling and every single Crown we get we

going to turn around and place it right

back at his feet and say thank you Lord

for this privilege that we had to live a

life a life in relationship with you and

so even with these hardships and even

with these hurts we pray and we pray in

gratitude we pray in gratefulness in

advance thanking him for the answer that

he will give us that is simultaneous to

what we’ve asked for or the answer that

is so far beyond our capacity to even

comprehend and pray that we trust him

for something that that has so so much

generational ripple effect the likes of

which we may never see in our

grandchildren and our

great-grandchildren and our great great

grandchildren I’m so glad for the

prayers of a grandmother and a great

grandmother and grandfather in my life

who prayed some stuff that y’all they

didn’t get to see the fruit of their

prayer but how glad I am that they

trusted him to do what they were asking

or something better