God lives in eternity and we reside in time. The latter is a matrix that God created within eternity; however, He is not subject to it. To this end, God speaks to our existence in eternity to transform our reality. When He calls us, we recognize that we don’t fit in because He set us apart. Whenever God thrusts us into uncomfortable situations, He’s shifting us. During this transition, our feelings cannot be trusted as our self-worth isn’t predicated upon how we feel. Therefore, remain steadfast. We’re one decision away from a supernatural release!
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I’m gonna go right into the word of God
we can pick up dog from God and I’m just
I’m ready to unload this thing I’m ready
I’m load this city kind of heavy I want
to get it out
hey man how many people came to get a
word from the Lord your God has been
dealing with me about this message all
week and I’m excited to be able to share
it with you
I believe God’s got to do great things
go to Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 4 through
5 yeah yeah and then go to judges 6 to
11 I’m gonna read judges 6 to 11 judges
6 to 11 first in 6 to 11 through 11
through 16 60 eleventh verse to 16 and
then i’ma pick up eighteenth verse just
for some extra it’s our custom to stand
for the reading of the word that’s why
people are standing all around you
they’re not leaving I don’t guess
hey man somebody when you get to judges
6 11 will read down to the 16th verse
and then we’ll read the 18th verse and
we’re going to go further when you
haven’t say man
the angel of the Lord came and sat down
under the oak in oak fra that belonged
to Joyce they are bars right where his
son Gideon was threshing wheat in a wide
press to keep it from the Midianites
watch that closely
he was threshing wheat in a wine press
to keep it from the Midianites now
really zoom in on this when the angel of
the Lord appeared to Gideon he said the
Lord is with you mighty warrior pardon
me my lord get him replied but if the
Lord is with us why is all this happened
to us that all the time if the Lord is
with us why has all this happened to us
where are all his wonders that our
ancestors told us about when they said
did not the Lord bring us up out of
Egypt but now the Lord has abandoned us
and given us into the hand of Midian see
this is gonna be real good for all of
those people going through something
right now and you feel abandoned and you
wonder is the Lord with you the Lord
turned to him and said go in the
strength you have if I good
see I have preached to you so long I
have produced a church full of preaches
I don’t even have to get to the point
you picking my points out for me go in
the strength you have and save Israel
out of the millions hand am I not
sending you pardon me my lord or say
what giddy replies but how can I save
Israel my clan is the weakest in Vanessa
and I am the least in my family the Lord
answered and said I will be with you and
you will strike down all the Midianites
leaving none alive oh my god getting it
so move that he said today wait wait
wait wait wait please do not go away
until I come back and bring my offering
and set it before you and the Lord said
I will wait till you return that’s good
hit them that’s good innit now remain
standing I’m gonna pray with you and
then I’m gonna preach and this is the
subject preach teach whatever it is we
got a little bit of drainage so don’t
let it distract you
this is my subject this morning I didn’t
know I was me
I didn’t know I was me I would have done
it differently but I
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I didn’t know I was leaving I would have
paid more attention but I didn’t know I
was late I would have been more careful
but I didn’t know I was me I would have
resisted the enemy better but I didn’t
know I was me am I in the right house
let’s pray while we’re standing Spirit
of the Living God we stand here right
now in need of you there is no other
attraction there is no star there is no
vanguard there is no attraction here but
you anybody cannot come but you we need
you
you are the centerpiece of all that is
set at the table and I want you to
manifest yourself in this place that we
that we get more than we expected that
we receive more I want us to receive so
much that we eat off it all week yeah I
want to receive so much in our spirit
Lord that we walk out of here stronger
than when we came in I want you to touch
us in a supernatural way inform us
inspire us educate us impart to us
invigorate us motivate us liberate us
saturate us great God that you are I
believe you for stuff I don’t even have
the intellect to articulate
I’m asking you for things I can’t even
express I’m asking you to answer the
question that comes out as a groan the
pain that comes out as a sigh the
question that falls like a tear I want
you to read the sign language of my pain
get in the DNA of my spirit and move in
a supernatural way I thank you in
advance for what you’re going to do I
don’t even need to see you do it I
praise you now you can do it later in
Jesus name
come on father’s house do what you do
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you may be seated
let’s go to work
I’m gonna spend the first five or ten
minutes getting into some fairly heavy
stuff which is the framework through
which I’m going to put the picture of
Gideon’s experiencee if you miss the the
opulence of the frame you will not be
able to appreciate the details of the
picture for the frame dignifies the
picture with context and what good is a
text below you back in the house
stand up bro I appreciate you’ve been
praying for you give God praise for this
brother
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devil thought he had him but he got away
he’ll they’ve brought it back in the
service of God welcome back
what good is a tax without context what
a good is music without score
what good is dance without feet
what good is rhythm without music
so putting the Texican context requires
that I begin this discussion from an
unusual place I want to begin it with
God with God God hips have got that the
notion of God not Church not religion
God the one who rules and super rules
and reigns it has absolute control the
auspicious one there are militant one
they aren’t in the present one they’re
all sufficient one the else have died
the consolation of Israel the mighty God
the Prince of Peace
God not appointed not elected God nobody
put him in nobody can take him out God
with all power the sovereign one nobody
can impeach him God the one who sits on
the circle of the earth that habit is
Easterlin earth is his footstool God who
gives you oxygen and movement and
freedom and liberty and life and
activity who kept your heart beating
while you were sleep
you know you didn’t do it but it was
beeping while you are it was still
beaten because god regulated your
temperature your blood pressure the
rhythm of the way the blood runs through
your cells was God orchestrate long
things up under his power I call him the
puppet master because he manages all the
artifacts on the stage of my life where
does God live what is a dress where can
I get to God where do I find him God
lives in eternity eternity doesn’t deal
with geographical locations or addresses
God lives in eternity and we live in
time hey I’m seeing all kind of folks
that know as I pray we live in time I
don’t know whether preaching eat chicken
wings God lives in eternity let’s think
about that God lives in eternity which
transcends time time is a matrix inside
of eternity think of time being
something that God created not subject
to in the beginning there was God before
there was the first day so God existed
before there was a calendar before there
were the watch before there was a tick
or talk there was God before there was a
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Saturday Sunday there was God before
them for the evening or morning there
was God before the Sun roles were set
there was God before the moon glistened
against a dark sky there was God before
the first earthquake trim it in the
ocean there was God there was God before
there was an angel there was God before
there was the choir there was God before
there was anybody there to acknowledge
him as God God is God God alone is God
and beside him
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God lives in eternity if you don’t get
that into your spirit then your prayer
life is going to go kaput because you’re
never going to understand being a
creature of time with things like
birthdays
you won’t understand God God didn’t have
to get in to get in a hurry because God
didn’t get old
God doesn’t get old because he’s not
subject to time anything subject to time
gets old
anything born out of time is ageless as
part of being eternal so when you start
talking about being eternal eternity
supersedes time time is a child of
eternity and offspring of eternity
eternity created time the celestial
created the terrestrial the divine
created the human the supernatural
created the natural in the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth and
the earth was without form and void and
darkness covered the face of the deep
but God was there to create it before
there wasn’t it to create are you
following me david says about God from
everlasting to everlasting thou art God
you are God before there was aware of
when or this or that you were God you
were God before there was anybody there
to tell you were God you were God God
alone God all by himself god of the
universe God of the world that’s why I
don’t pray to the universe because he
created the universe
why should I pray to what he created
when I could pray to the one who created
it this is good from everlasting to
everlasting thou art God from as far
back as I can see there was God and as
far ahead as I can see there was God God
is eternal so when you read the Bible
the Bible says all kinds of things that
don’t make sense if you don’t understand
that for instance it says that the lamb
was slain from the foundations of the
world in other words talking about Jesus
he was crucified before Adam and Eve
were born that means that God had the
answer in eternity before time produced
the question so whatever you’re asking
God to do in eternity it’s already done
it’s already settled let me prove job
said my witnesses in heaven my record is
on high and eternity it’s already done
it’s already finished and eternity
I’m already healed in eternity I’m
already blessed and eternity I’m already
loose and eternity I’m already set free
in eternity there are no wheelchairs and
eternity there are no broken limbs and
eternity there is no sadness and
eternity there is no ability God lives
in eternity he created time so I would
have an address so I would have a
concept so I would have appreciation
today’s teach me the number of my days
so I may know how frail I am he created
time so I wouldn’t take life for granted
he created time so I would appreciate my
life and your life he who created time
so I would get the courage to say things
to you that I wouldn’t say because I’m
running out of time
if I was an eternal being I would think
about it longer maybe not say it ever
because I have the eternity to even
think about it
but since we’re running out of time the
older I get the older I get the sharper
I get the quicker I’ll tell you when I
was thirty I might not would tell you
but at sixty I will let you have it I
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will let you have it and not look back
to see how you felt about it because I’m
running out of time running out of time
and should get to the point running out
of time makes you say what needs to be
said God lives in eternity we live in
time so God is neither coming or going
he is always here remember when Moses
said who shall I say sent me and God
said I am that I am not our wars or will
be I am because he’s always present he
is the same yesterday today and forever
more I am in today I can’t go back to
yesterday I’m waiting on tomorrow but
God is in tomorrow while I’m in today
that’s why we God gives me a word today
he can heal something that broke
yesterday because he’s not subject to
dates he can say something now that
heals something that happened 20 years
ago
he gets weeks up now that changes the
outcome of something that happens thirty
years from now because God lives in
eternity I live in town
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I wanna I have to go deeper sadly if I
get on this I gotta go deeper if you
read the the creation story in the book
of Genesis over and over again you will
see the word read he restored he
replenished
he redeemed we is to do over again okay
he did it over again he did it over get
has been done before
oh wow it’s been done before somebody
said before see the problem is I can’t
remember what was before because I am
here present now but I can’t remember
what was before when the Bible says that
God redeemed us or restored us or
redelivery us or redeemed us from the
curse of the law from sin or death
it suggests that there was something
between me and him before before what
before time
okay I’m a Jeremiah’s gonna help me out
I got myself in trouble but Jeremiah’s
gonna put me out Jeremiah one four five
one chapter one chapter verse four and
five
Jeremiah check this out he’s still in
frame I haven’t got to the picture the
word of the Lord came unto me saying
before before before before before
before before before before before
before before before before before
before before your momma’s ankles swole
before her belly got big before her face
broke out of the ration before she threw
up the first mornin and told her husband
baby I’m saying before I formed you in
the womb I knew you before before I
formed you before you had your first
birthday before you were one week old
before you were one day old before your
mama was pregnant I knew you before you
were born before you were born before
you were born I set you apart I set you
apart I lived for you to be different
before you ever even got here I live for
you to be different and you spent the
first 20 years of your life trying to
fit in but the reason you never fit in
and said I set you apart before you ever
even got here you didn’t even fit in
with your neighbors you didn’t fit in
with your friends oh you don’t even fit
in your family
you’re the one you’re the only one in
your family who thinks like you think
because I said you apart before I formed
you in the belly I’ve lived for you to
be different so don’t be upset over the
people who didn’t like you who thought
you thought you were cute who didn’t
like your hair I don’t care how you
changed your hair
change your walk change your talk I
meant for you to be an outcast rejected
ostracized
I lived for you to be different before I
formed you in the belly I knew you I
would date you I set you apart oh my god
this is good so he knew me in eternity
past okay this is eternity eternity past
is an oxymoron eternity past is an
oxymoron it is it is two things that
totally disagree with each other
eternity can’t have a pass but the
Eternity is my only way of describing
God and past is my human attempt to
express an anthropomorphic reality an
anthropomorphic reality anthro is human
is a human attempt to describe something
that is divine
so eternity past present and future past
present and future are human terms
eternity is God terms eternity past
before I was born
he knew me he knew me he formed me
because he knew me I had a relationship
with him before I had a relationship
with him before I met my mother
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that’s why when he called me I
recognized his voice he said my sheep
know my voice Oh stranger they will not
follow that’s why you go to church and
get blessed and the person you went with
did get nothing maybe they didn’t
recognize the voice I knew the voice
before I read the Bible you know the
word but I know the voice you don’t hear
what I’m saying a lot of people don’t
scripture but they don’t know the boy he
said my sheep know my voice a stranger
they will not follow and some kind of
way his voice resonated with me because
I knew him before he said before I
formed thee in the belly when you were
just a spirit and I was just a spirit we
mill each other on a spiritual level we
connected we hooked up we got together I
agreed to send you in the time but
here’s the deal if you go in the time
you’re gonna forget what we had in
eternity that’s what being lost is about
big the reason I’m lost
I can’t be first of all I can’t be lost
if I don’t belong to said ladder and I
can’t be lost if there’s not a place for
me so the whole notion of being lost
isn’t it it’s not just about sinful
activity it’s about not remembering so
so he he chose me in him before the
foundation of the world that’s what the
Bible said he chose me in him he picked
me out and then sent me at the time now
Thomas I’m a sitting at the time when I
send you at the time you will walk in
the time and the moment you come out of
your mother’s home you won’t remember
that she literally before but I set you
apart
I won’t lose track of you I set you
apart and when I get ready for you I’m
going to call you and when I call you
you’re gonna recognize my voice though
you don’t remember what we had before
I will prove this can I prove this to
you okay go to Romans 8:29 in 30 look at
this right way it’s just a frame it’s
not the picture for those God foreknew
he also predestined to be to be oh this
is so good for those God we’ve gone
backwards for new for those God before
new those are people that God before new
that’s what for new leads before new he
also this is future predestined okay
because I do you before I predestined
you to be conformed to the image of his
dear son did god imagine then he might
be the firstborn among many brethren
come on and those he predestined he also
called when they go back to 29 again for
those God foreknew he also predestined
to be conformed to the image of his son
that he might be the firstborn among
many brother all of that he did without
me knowing it I can’t remember it come
on and those he predestined he he also
he also this is when I found out he also
he also he also he also he also he also
he also he also that’s when I found out
I was his when he called me that’s when
I realized that I wasn’t what they
called me
I wasn’t what he called me I wasn’t what
she called me I was what are you hearing
what I’m saying so when he called me
were having probable one that’s great
but when he called me that’s what I
realized that’s him that’s him and
because he told me that’s when I became
aware of who I was before and it doesn’t
matter what I was in when he called me
he called me I could have been at a
strip club but he called me I could have
been in a gay bar that he called me I
did a bit of howl and crack but he
called me and all of a sudden what used
to make me happy that made me happy
anymore
and what you should give me joy that
give me joy any boy because God has a
way of disrupting your life because he
called you when he called you did I like
any faces I didn’t give you the
description jermeir but I like the
scripture aphasia for denying having
made known unto us the mystery of his
will that’s that’s what called is is to
make you know the mystery of his will
you are more than what you’re doing he
made known unto me the mystery of his
will I meant for you to be raised the
way you were raised I meant for you to
go through the pain you went through I
meant for you to be rejected I know it’s
a mystery but all things are gonna work
together for your good
I’m gonna make know there’s a purpose in
your pain you’re not just having pain to
have pain I’m birthing something in you
I’m birthing something out of you this
is not just arbitrary pain this is
playing for a reason I’m bringing
something out of you I’m gonna show you
who you really are
because who you really are is a mystery
who you really are
is a mystery you work with people who
don’t really know you you live around
people who don’t really get you you may
have married somebody who didn’t get you
oh we go get off there cuz you sitting
beside him you won’t say nothing so just
keep looking at him look confused
I got a lot of energy doing something
that I really wasn’t predestined to do
maybe I did it because you wanted it
from me maybe I did it because my
parents wanted it from me maybe I did it
because my wife wanted it from me maybe
I did it because it was easy for me
maybe I did it because I had some talent
in it but it doesn’t give me fulfillment
because it is not it
you got me now to Mattacks
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when we step into this case we step into
utter chaos I want to paint it for you
the Amalekites were more massive than
the Israelites they were more dominant
they were brutal warriors their
Malachi’s were brutal and how they kill
they preyed on women and children they
killed off those that were weaker
physically first they would do anything
to get advantage of a nation they were
cruel and worse still they had hooked up
with the Midianites people who don’t
even like each other will get together
they hate you in another class I call
them comrades comrades are people who
the only thing they have in common is
what they’re against constituents of
people who the only thing they have in
common is where they are going and
confidence the only thing they have in
common is you so you have confidants who
are for you you have constituents who
are for where you’re going
the only thing about constituents if
they see somebody getting there quicker
they’ll leap out of your car into their
car because they never liked you they
liked where you were going and comrades
the only reason they are together it’s
the only thing they have in common is
their hatred of you or something so the
Amalekites and the Mennonites were
comrades against Israel and it was
working it hit be destroyed on top all
Israel has given up everything and
they’re now hiding in case the people
God delivered in last Sunday’s message
the people that God set free last Sunday
and we were shouting all over the place
the people who danced on the dead bones
of Pharaoh these are their children’s
children’s children and they’re in
trouble again and now they’re back in
trouble again and the Lord is using
their enemies to teach that should have
rung home and that didn’t ring home your
Bell is broke God uses your enemies to
teach he doesn’t use your enemies
because they’re stronger than you he
uses your enemies to teach so God is
using the Amalekites of the Midianites
to teach Israel you have gotten out of
control you have left the teachings of
your fathers you have started
worshipping idol gods and I’m gonna
allow you to be defeated until I get
your attention because you’re so
impressed with yourself I’m gonna break
your heart till I bring you to your
knees so you will discover me
you were too successful you were too
powerful you were winning on every front
and I had to show you something to
Humble you to make you submit so God is
using the Amalekites and the Midianites
he’s not using the israelites even
though the israelites are his people God
uses your enemies if he won’t hear his
word that means your carnal then he had
to speak to your circumstance then he
uses your circumstance because you
ignored his word and God uses your
enemies to bring you in line
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Israel’s beat up bad famine is in the
land
every time they grow up crop the
Amalekites of Midianites come out and
kill and destroy it and now we come into
a text for Gideon is hiding his harvest
I’m gonna get back to y’all have y’all
ever hid your harvest has God ever
blessed you but you didn’t want to show
it
they phony imma talk to y’all has God
ever done something for you giving you a
blessing he was afraid to wear it he was
afraid to drive it cuz you know how they
are and they can’t handle what he did
when when you step into the text Gideon
is hiding his harvest in the wild press
he is the Bible says he is threshing
wheat in the winepress for fear of the
Midianites because if they find out that
they got any kind of harvest they’re
gonna take that too
it’s a hard thing to live around haters
is it uncomfortable reality when you
have to dumb down how bright you are so
because you’re around somebody so
insecure that they can’t handle the
brilliancy of your intellectual capacity
and so you got a going to hood talk yo
you the border about yo
because if you appear too bright often
the person who hired you
how could you pick me and then want me
to be stupid but the person who picked
you after the patron or the people
around you they were after his harvest
and so he’s trying to cultivate his
harvest and he’s down in the winepress
threshing weed now and I could stay
there all day I can’t tell you how many
times I had to put my wheat in the
winepress I’ve been aware that I better
not drive there I better not say that
Beverly see where we gonna eat though
let’s not meet at the house we don’t
meet it papa dose victim because if if I
press my wheat in the open where my
blessed people holler at your boy
volatile
you got a new house but you can’t tell
your cousin Joe so you act like you
listen I’m talking about dressing your
weed into a dress and there he is
threshing his suite in the land
president because Gideon sees himself as
a farmer he’s very sweet he has a
harvest he thinks that’s who he is and
he’s down in the winepress harvesting
but fussing now look at this here’s his
strength a he’s women but his people are
losing and inequity in your associate in
your sociological environment creates a
painful experience because the people
who love you to love what you got and
the people who love what you got
don’t love you
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Oh
and now you got a little bit of wheat
but you got to get down in the winepress
and he’s stretching in Sweden in the
winepress he understands himself to be a
farmer and and he’s angry he’s angry
because he never met the god of the Red
Sea I preached about last week but he
heard about it his grandmama in Madeira
and then they told him about the God
that delivered the children of Israel
across the Red Sea and brought them
through on dry ground and delivered them
up safely on the other side but he sees
no millenials he sees no relationship
with traditional religion and where he
is in his life and he’s mad about it
since where it’s a God of our fathers
and through what that stuff it don’t
work if it worked like Grandma Underhill
said it worked how come they’re
malachite see the Midianites
are killing our people so I have
concluded ain’t nothing to this if God
was this good why aren’t you helping me
about every 100th comment I get on
social media is some version of this
that’s nice what you’re saying rare but
if God was all of that why am i holy
it’s let me tell you let me stop and
answer the question so you don’t have to
write this this week I made December
God will not overrule your choices
it is easier for you to be angry at God
than to take responsibility for the
mistakes you made that brought you into
the situation that you were in and by
the way you never asked him before you
made the choices that you made but now
he gets the punishment for the choice
you made and you’re never gonna get out
until you take responsibility or I will
get some mail on that God heal you just
in time I believe a lawyer
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and he doesn’t know that while he’s
complaining about neither delivers of
where is God and he is looking for God
that God is looking for you and the
Bible says that the angel of the Lord
sat down by the winepress now we got the
angel of the Lord sitting down by the
winepress
we got Gideon who thinks he’s a farmer
in the winepress Thresh’s week I need to
underscore that the wine place is the
winepress is the place of transition I
need to underscore that the Lord has you
here this morning because you’re in the
middle of a transition
and anytime you’re in transition
every emotion in the world comes out of
you anger and sadness and frustration
and fear and doubt and strife and in
everything comes out of you because
you’re in an unstable environment you’ve
heard me talk about being with a weight
trainer being on a ball I hate them
balls I hate them bouncing domani
they’re from the devil they’re from the
pits of hell give me a give me a
put me on something solid and I
can bear to wait but they put you on the
ball in an unstable environment because
unstable environments make you activate
core strength now you’re in the
threshing-floor it’s an unstable
environment and and he’s having to
activate core strength and everything is
coming out of it and he’s upset with God
that he’s upstairs set with the religion
he’s been taught and he said who’s gonna
come and deliver us out of this we’re
swearing he’s gonna get me out of there
this your fault God is always when all
else fails blame God just blame God the
woman now gave me remember that with
Adam I’m in this rescue gave her to me
that was a subtle way of saying it’s
your fault not I ate the fruit not I ran
out on her not I cheated not not I’d
have worked in two years no the woman’s
out gave it it’s your father ever talk
about don’t do it don’t do it
I’m doing
conviction is good for the soul it’s
gonna be alright
breathe me and breathe out breathing me
that you’re gonna make it and all of us
and he’s trying to figure out why
doesn’t God work the way I told him to
and isn’t that what most of us are
trying to figure out why doesn’t God
work the way I’d told him to the way I
expected him to the way I wanted him to
why didn’t God do what I wanted him to
do when I told him it excuse me
God the work for you God is not on your
payroll God doesn’t have to listen to
you before he God is God an angel is
just checking about the Angelus just
sitting by the whale watching this fool
I don’t guess I should have said that I
don’t know whether you can say that on
Sunday morning on well it’s out there
now he’s watching this young man
he’s watching him go through what the
wheat is going through the wheat is
being beat down to food all the chaff is
being beat away so that the wheat falls
to the ground and whenever God puts you
in an uncomfortable situation he’s
sifting you what matters what doesn’t
matter what’s real what’s not real what
counts but doesn’t count who I can’t
have who I can’t live without where my
real people at holla at you boy
you go through these periods where you
get stuck in this wine press and he
starts shaking away stuff that you
thought your head and they said
comfortable and it’s painful and it’s
brutal and his bar bag and he’s beating
me like wait in the wine dress away from
the crowd trying to get me down to my
core values trying to fix me in my roots
trying to get me together where it
matters not in my image he’s he’s not
tenting my picture for Instagram
enhancing my accessories accentuating my
positives he is beating my heart in
because he is beating the wheat in the
wine dress I’ve talked to you today
because the Lord has showed me that I
would get to talk to people today whose
wheat is being beaten
and if su and you’re here today I want
you to know that you’re not in there by
yourself I want I want you to know that
God has sent an angel
down to the winepress to help you make
sense out of this time in your life
because sometimes life doesn’t make
sense
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how could you bless the Amalekites and
the Midianites and not me where is the
God that I hear about on Sunday morning
or where is he on Monday
where is he in this unemployment line
where where where where is God in this
divorce where is God and I’m HIV
positive where is where is God and I’m
being beat any places I can’t talk about
I’m being beaten the winepress I’m down
I’m down on the in something being B and
waking up in the morning and talking
about welcome to JC Penney’s good
morning may I help you this way
anything you need oh I’m so glad I can
help you and and all the while I’m
smiling for people I’m being beating the
winepress now y’all tell me did I hear
from God this morning
the unpress ism is the place where the
grapes find out that they’re meant to be
wine the wheat is it’s being beaten so
that it may become bread and what’s
going on in the wine press with the
wheat it’s going on in the life of
gideon who understands himself to be a
farmer and the angel is sitting on the
side watching him do to the wheat what
God is doing to him
only instead of Gideon beating the wheat
God is using their Moloch Heights and
the Midianites to beat his sweet to only
his sweet is us trying to get bread out
of wheat trying to get wine out of
grapes
trying to get get in to discover who he
is
so the angel says to him I’ll finish
next Sunday god bless
he said you got jokes the angel in his
greeting and his greeting creates
disruption he says to get in hey mighty
man of Valor you’re a warrior
what I’m just surprised are my gob
trying to make a living down here and
it’s well trying to deal with some stuff
trying to get paid didn’t met him away
so I can get some money and go back feed
my hungry kids and buy some time for
stuff I’m I’m not one of them people
could it could it be possible one of us
have got to be wrong cuz I think I’m a
gardener and you think I’m a warrior why
did you call me that
I am kind of attracted to it but I mean
it would be nice but I’m I’m from the
smallest tribe and I’m the youngest in
the track this is when we build up
evidence to talk us out of dreams we
build evidence to dissuade us from going
forward
he has rationalized this is not no
immediate thought this is not like
something you cough up up the top of
your head he has given this far I belong
to the smallest tribe I’m the youngest
person don’t expect much for me
don’t experiments for me I’m a woman
don’t expect much for me I’m a minority
don’t expect too much from the I didn’t
finish school don’t expect too much from
me my mother didn’t raise me don’t
expect too much from me I didn’t have
father we build up this story to support
who we think we are and then the reasons
that make us able to cope with the
limitations and it gives us somebody to
hate that’s what I like about it that’s
why I like if I give somebody hate if he
to raise me if he’d have stayed home or
if you to love me like you were supposed
to love me I wouldn’t be like this it
gives me a license to hate you and blame
you for why I didn’t become
oh it’s good I told you they were going
like this now when we were talking about
this at the house and here comes a call
a high calling a divine call a
supernatural calling that has classified
information about me then I don’t have
on myself and the angel is speaking out
of his knowledge of how I was designed
and I’m living out of my knowledge of
what I grew up around and I have to
decide in this struggle which one of
these entities is going to win this
fight when I grew up around or what I
was created to be because one of them
are going to determine what the
trajectory of my future looks like who
am i preaching to
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you remember when me and Jules started
that wonder inside and company you
remember that I got laid off in Union
Carbide that he started the wind inside
and company and did me a favor hiring me
to come in there we was gonna do like
daddy and wished on being a family
business
and we opened up the windows inside and
company and we kept getting into trouble
and and ran out of money and I ended up
losing my car and I didn’t have no car
because I was following his vision for
my life when I put my car up to get the
business out I did it because I loved my
brother and I did it because I wanted us
to win I did it because I wanted us to
succeed but I also did it because I
didn’t know I was me
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and I known I was Legion I would have
step right over top of the windows
inside and company getting is in the
winepress because it is possible not to
know who you are who you really are and
your core and your essence what you were
created to be what your potentials are
what you can reach what you can become
what you can withstand what you can
endure how tough you really are how
strong you really are how tenacious you
really are it is possible not to Lord
because your feelings don’t always
validate your reality your you can feel
like collapsing and still be fighting
you can feel like the victim and be the
victor you can feel limited and still
haven’t exhausted all as inside of you
you cannot define yourself by how you
feel your feelings cannot be trusted
your feelings were lied to you your
feelings will deceive your feelings will
help you in the winepress your feelings
will have you down in the winepress eat
love wheat oh my god you cannot trust
how you feel
because your feelings are conglomerate
of your experiences they are built off
for your history not your destiny
they are your response to what happened
not what’s about to happen your praise
is about what’s about to happen your
praise is expectation that this is over
yet your praise is about a happy ending
on the other side of this trial your
prize
I’m not praising God konami boasts
enough have not praising God because our
religions have my praise a job because
I’m black I’m praising God because I
have an expectations of crazy
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yeah
ah
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click on about it feel the power of this
room sunny South yeah
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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah I will tear down some
steak and bacon I’m gonna get rid of
some limitations that have been imposed
upon you that are limiting you from
achieving what you will put on this
earth to do I rebuke every lying spirit
that ever spoke up in your head that is
contrasting your past
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[Music]
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everybody who’s tracking me everybody
who’s tracking this word this lorry
touch your neighbor said I think there’s
something else inside of me I think I
think I think there’s something else
inside of me I think there’s something
else inside of me I think I think
there’s something else inside of me I
think I think I got something I don’t
know what to call it yet I though
understanding yet but I I think I got
some I think there’s something else
inside of me and though I had to fool
but I think there’s certain inside of me
not been strung out on drugs but I think
there’s something else inside of me I’ve
been living with this man think of
something else inside me of the
mountains sound of the drug
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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
I feel it I feel it I feel it I’m
talking to somebody I don’t know who it
is but I’m talking to somebody can I
preach this thing shall I preach this
thing I want to preach this thing that’s
money I would appreciate do you get a
breakthrough I’m gonna preach until you
have an awakening
I wanna bridgett until you come to
yourself how about a preacher the do you
wake up out of your sleep
attention about the neighbors hand
because something else inside of me I
would have died but I think that some
else inside of me I would have lost my
man but I think there’s something else
inside of me I would have thrown in the
towel
[Applause]
I’m thinkin I think I think I think your
sentence is handed me I don’t think I’m
gonna die today cuz I think there might
be something else inside of me I don’t
think I’m gonna give up right now
because I think there’s something else
inside me I don’t think I’m gonna quit
just yet because I think there’s a
message on it I may be going through a
bad season
I may have to cry myself to sleep and
they have to rock my pill until I go to
bed at night I may have to go to work in
a raggedy car but I think there’s
something else inside of me I might be
in a bankruptcy but I’m gonna sit down
with me can I go a little bit different
I feel so about to break in this way I
feel like something is about to break
wide open in this way
I’m not gonna stop til I get it I’m not
gonna stop I’m not gonna stop til I get
it I’m not gonna stop the morrow that
the angel tells Gideon he’s a warrior he
throws him into conflict how can this be
my tribe is Vanessa it’s the smallest
tribe I’m the youngest person how can
this be
we’re at war with the Amalekites of the
Midianites and their women acted how can
I be a mighty warrior I’m at the lowest
point and I’m the youngest person in the
smallest tribe in the worst situation
and God comes as here some absolutely
light you are madam Anna batma
that’s what it’s like coming in this
church sometime because everything all
week long says give up and down and then
you come here on Sunday morning and I’m
telling you you are the head and not the
tail
you are Barbra not to me you are more
than a conqueror you can do all things
through Christ which strengthens you God
didn’t bring you this far to leave you
God didn’t take you to everything you’ve
been through for you to get here and die
in the winepress I came to tell you
something
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so I was out in Kenya two weeks ago and
I was doing an interview with the lady
and and and she said she was talking
about my different business ventures and
we dabbled in real estate and doing some
films and done all of that stuff and she
said and what do you think about all of
that since you are a preacher I said
wait a minute so let’s let’s let’s
correct something June 1957 when my mama
pushed me out she didn’t push out a
preacher just because you met me when I
started preaching those define me by how
she let me I was a person before I was a
preacher
I didn’t start living when I started
preaching on I had gifts and talents and
passions and dreams and vision from the
beginning so don’t put me in your little
cubicle of your understanding of me and
exile me to spend the rest of my life
living up to what you’re comfortable
with I’m gonna make you uncomfortable
because I’m gonna do me
I’m gonna do me all the way to the end
of the game I am going to do me there
has never been another meet there will
never be another meet my son got my name
in hearing me do what I do like I do
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did you hear what I’ve said
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you are frigid oh oh one of the time
nobody has your fingerprint nobody has
your boys friend nobody has so style
your flap no grace no creativity
[Applause]
sublime zippers are bad
which is good for the white folks
[Applause]
but my white numbers bad is good over
here except sometimes bad it’s an
African American colloquialism
but it’s good it is
nom nom seeking somebody watching
something I’m seeking I’m seeking for
somebody I’m thinking like a drone sent
on a mission
it is haunting nagging feeling it is a
disturbing Restless feeling it is it is
a feeling that you can’t get drunk over
smoke over layup over it interrupts all
of those human proclivities with the
haunting suspicion that I might be lured
and I thought I’m honing in I’m holding
any and I’m honing in on somebody who
got in the back of your mind I’m not
talking about arrogance I’m not talking
about superfluity I’m not talking about
opulence and excessive ignorance I’m
talking about this nagging angelic voice
that keeps calling you something that
you don’t see it and and it’s in the
back of your head I think I might be
more and so you try to talk yourself out
of it you say I’m too old to be anything
more if I was gonna be more I should
have been more when I was younger but if
Harland Sanders would have done that we
wouldn’t have KFC
[Applause]
who starts a business at 65 on Social
Security we tell ourselves these stories
too long our dreams to sleep to enesta
sighs the pain of becoming because we
don’t want to wrestle with who I might
be and Angel has called me something
that that does not reflect in my
situation does not reflect in my feeling
so it’s not reflecting my circumstances
I didn’t know I know just like the
father’s house
check this out I didn’t know was me
I let him beat me because I didn’t know
I was me
I became because I didn’t know I
was man I dropped out of school because
I didn’t know I was when I went to gym
because I didn’t know I didn’t know I
let you beat me cuz I didn’t know I was
me I thought I needed you cuz I didn’t
office me I thought you had more power
than you asked me to do for that I
thought your opinion wouldn’t make me a
Britney cuz I didn’t know I didn’t know
it was me I didn’t normally I didn’t
know what I was me but it haunted me it
worried me it frustrated they made me
discontent on all my jobs and wherever I
went wherever I tried to rest
the sole of my foot I found the rest
because because in the back of my mind
that was his haunting nagging feeling
that that I was born to do something
else why was it why would not be happy
to be on the ground when I think I can
fly what what is going on
you mean I see colors where everybody
else sees black and white
I see possibilities where other people
say that’s impossible and I don’t know
what you see is down inside of me what
am I supposed to do with it I’m from the
smallest tribe I’m the youngest person
I’m broke
how am I supposed to do this I’m talking
to somebody I’m the drone is getting
closer to your head sis feel I’m gonna
hit you right in the head in a minute
I didn’t know I didn’t know I was me and
so I became yours because I didn’t know
I was me and I’ll let you use me because
I didn’t know you I was made and I let
you do stuff to me there now I’m
embarrassed about me cuz I didn’t know I
didn’t know I was me don’t hold my
passing give me I didn’t know I was me I
didn’t know I didn’t know if I would
have known I was me either never met you
I’ve met you in the absence of me I met
you to fill the void of not knowing I
was leaved I didn’t know I didn’t know I
was me so when you left me I almost lost
my mind because I didn’t know it was me
when they fired me I felt like war my
brains out because I thought I was my
job and then I woke up and realized I’m
bigger than my job and I’m bigger than
my church and I’m digging in my city and
I’m bigger than my second chance and you
know what I’m bigger than you I’m bigger
than you
cuz I Know Who I am and I know where I
am and I know what I got going on and I
know what I could do and I know what I
watch this
[Applause]
[Music]
bedrooms has hit somebody in the head
how bad somebody said watch this
[Applause]
gideon dropped his wings gideon brought
this week because somebody called him a
warrior and it made him know that he was
more than what he was doing and after
wrestling with god in struggling with
God and putting fleece before God he
started weight he started living in the
middle of his life because life doesn’t
begin when your mama pushes you out
light begins when you find out who you
are
[Applause]
life begins when it hits you in the back
of your head I’m better than this I’m
bigger than my circumstances I got a
destiny and a purpose on my life God
created me for a reason he called me for
a purpose I am in this world to do
something my preacher doing here
and get him doesn’t even know that he’s
gonna be in the book of Judges he
doesn’t know that he is going to lead
the army that drives out the Midianites
renders helpless there malachite that he
is going to take less men and kill more
people with less men than we have ever
seen done in the history of the
scriptures if he can get out of this pit
and somebody in this room
you’re one pit away from supernatural
purpose and the Lord told me that if I
would preach this message this morning
it would wake somebody up to get up out
of that that they will come into another
understanding of who they were that God
would do something amazing and there
God told me if I preach this message
this Florida somebody would drop their
wheat and grab their sword and stand up
on their feet again I’m understanding
who am i preaching to this one
you got something to do in this stage of
your life that is greater than anything
you have ever done in your entire life
in fact everything in your past was
getting you ready for what you’re about
to do in your life if I’m preaching to
you make some noise in this
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[Music]
yeah
[Applause]
God pick the smallest tribe and the
youngest guy with the wash attitude to
lead a mass of people and Gideon starts
out with nine thousand and then God says
take him down to the brook and only
choose two men who like water like a dog
and when they got down to the brook hall
of the man who drank in a fancy way
we’re not chosen because you can’t have
two cute people not with you in a fight
you can’t have somebody who got to have
on the stilettos not with you in a fight
you can’t have somebody who got eglise
footprints frickin nails on not with you
in a fight they said take out 300 men
that will lack water like a dog that
will get down on their knees and start
lapping 300 men and don’t have nothing
to lose don’t care what they look this
is a season that you have to surround
yourself with people who know how to get
down
this is a feed them that God is gonna
take you who am i preaching to
[Applause]
so this is where we’re at right now
the anointing of God is in this place
the Spirit of God is here the glory of
the Lord is in this place
the Lord has you here for a reason there
is something that God is getting ready
to do in your life there’s something
that God has for you that’s important
and I’m telling you not knowing is the
problem
not knowing who you are is a real
problem
live in your life according to what
other people said about you is a real
problem
living the life based on your net worth
is a real problem the message is called
I didn’t know I was me lord have mercy I
feel like I’m supposed to preach this
today I feel like I’m talking to
somebody today I feel like the Holy
Spirit is pushing in on somebody
[Applause]
gideon would be shocked to find out he
made the babble Gideon was shocked to
find out that he could fight Gideon was
shocked to find out watch this that he
was the guy he’d been praying asking God
to sin he didn’t have he didn’t know
that he was the people he’d been waiting
oh let me bring him down he didn’t know
that he was trying to get other people
to love him because he didn’t love
himself let me bring it down to
reachable goals he didn’t know that he
was trying to find in other people what
God had placed it’s out of him he didn’t
know that he was asking God to sin what
he already was but that day in the
winepress with weed everywhere in chaff
on the ground the angel called him
something that he couldn’t see but he
became what he was called before God
formed you in your mother’s belly he
knew you
out of the millions of sperm cells your
father shot into your mother before you
ever read a Bible one sellout swam them
all the odds were against you before you
got here and when you want a cellular
level you out swam the rest that’s how
you got here that’s how you start
sometimes when you come from eternity in
the time you don’t remember who you were
before but it’s services like this where
God calls you and he makes you know
things about yourself that you didn’t
know this message is a confirmation
jail I was the last person to know I was
TD jakes I didn’t know that
the books were being translated in the
different languages I did I didn’t know
I saw it but I didn’t see the stadiums
were full people fighting outside trying
to get in I didn’t know I wasn’t
I don’t I don’t like saying him because
it makes you sound stupid I was on the
New York Times bestseller list it still
didn’t add up to me that I was me I
think sometimes grace puts blinders on
the eyes I could see all of you I
couldn’t see me but there was a nagging
voice in my head that was correcting
damaged thinking honestly and I learned
something as I got older I I didn’t know
I was me because I was a friend
winning has so much responsibility to
[Applause]
losing is easy all you had to do to lose
is just let go
nobody expects nothing from nobody
demands anything of you
sometimes you’re afraid of what God has
next for me and I’m being transferred
because I’m after something and I don’t
even know who it is
[Music]
most of people who wrote about me had
never met me and they wrote about a
person that I didn’t even understand
they wrote about how they would feel if
they were me I didn’t feel like that cuz
I didn’t know I was me I’m telling you I
was playing the piano for people loading
their cars with bags and driving them
around I didn’t know I was me that
doesn’t mean that it should have
happened any sooner because I think it
is the menial things that develop
[Applause]
I think it I think it is the blind spots
they give you focus I’m not trying to
rush the process I’m just trying to
describe a place you might be right now
all I knew I said whenever I got around
something that had my destiny in it I
was drawn to it I was attracted to me
and I would do anything to be in the
room with it and I admired it but I
didn’t think I’d ever be it cuz I didn’t
know I was I got off the track a lot of
times looking for things that were
lesser than what was already mine
I suck too low when I cut shot ha and
when I did shoot I didn’t enjoy it
because I didn’t know how it was me now
there’s no kneading coming to church if
it don’t help you this ain’t no place
you got to come and you got so many
places you got to come ain’t no need and
coming here if you don’t have to if you
ain’t getting nothing out of it I’m
trying to get you ready for a paradigm
shift
join hands with somebody for just a
moment and let’s just make an assumption
about
let’s assume that they have done some
stupid things
let’s assume that they have some secrets
let’s assume that they’re afraid
sometimes let’s assume that they’re
coming to church because something keeps
drawing them let’s assume that right now
they’re in a situation that is the
weakest of the tribes and youngest of
the group down in a pit maybe in some
area of their life something that’s not
going very well you can be able to pop
in one area and on the bottom in another
area
everybody needs ministry let’s assume
that God loves you but they don’t always
feel his love unless assume that God
sees him but they don’t always see that
God sees it and let’s assume that God is
going to help them but they don’t always
feel the help of God and then squeeze
her hand and let them know they’re not
alone
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
let’s assume that God called him to
church this morning and brought them
here because God wanted to get their
head together let’s assume that today is
your last day in the winepress
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
let’s assume that your destiny is
calling me and that God is about to do
something amazing in your life and it
might be something that you don’t even
have a background in that goes against
the grain and blows your mind but God is
going to do it squeeze that hand and you
got to be willing to go scared and go
nervous and go about feeling sufficient
and go feeling it quite inadequate but
God is Holy Spirit sweep this place if
one person in this room has an awakening
it was worth the whole message if
somebody logged online streaming right
now this has an awakening and their eyes
are open and they see that you might be
handling wheat but you’re really a
warrior
[Applause]
Lord I don’t want to at this stage of my
life I don’t want to preach stuff for
the entertainment of people I don’t want
to do things that don’t matter I feel
like I have something to impart to
someone let somebody receive this word
halle-loo
down in the depths of their being let it
let them just just really really really
really embrace what it’s being taught
right now redefine themselves
refocus refire refuel themselves I thank
you for what you’re about to do I prayed
that what you’re doing in their life
right now will last longer than the
service I pray to get in the car with
them and get in the house with them but
get in their decisions and get in their
choices and get in their situation I
pray them that every Gideon in here
would find his 300 squeeze that had God
is about to put you in a new circle of
people
[Music]
[Applause]
you’re about to find your 300 chosen men
you’re about to find the people that
will get down and lack water like a dog
and fight till you get the victory a
change is coming in your lives
[Applause]
this Sunday morning this Sunday morning
where you go fight it receive it a
change
[Applause]
a change a change you will never believe
work before change
I want you to pray for the person you’re
touching everything the Holy Spirit
gives you the pray over their life
I want you to pray for them right now
[Music]
[Music]
I
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you
I am not forsaken I am
[Music]
hi
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me
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not
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me
[Music]
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the anointing of God is in this place
the Spirit of God is sweeping across
this room right now souls are being set
free all around
don’t miss this opportunity