While in isolation, have you opened your home for a visitation from God? Like the disciples, we are undergoing a paradoxical season of seclusion. Do not get discouraged. When you follow greatness, you may stumble upon places of tension. However, if you are patient and prepare for the anointing of God, the trajectory of your situations will improve. Be persistent to God’s voice — and you’ll discover unspeakable joy is on its way!
I wanna turn our attention to the Word
of God but I will said that the flower
fades and the grass shall wither but the
word of the Lord shall stand forever
glory to God
kingdoms come and kingdoms go leaders
come and leaders go sickness comes in
sickness goes but the word of the Lord
will stand forever if you’re looking for
something stable then I want to invite
you to get into the Word of God go to
the book of Acts chapter 1 verse 1
through 8 and there we’re going to
consider and contemplate the word of the
Lord that we might have a different and
a deeper understanding into the truth
thereof when you find it shout amen
okay the former treaties have are made
oh Theophilus of all that Jesus began
both to do and to teach until the day in
which he was taken up after that he
through the Holy Ghost had given
Commandments unto the Apostles whom he
had chosen to whom also he showed
himself watch this closely to whom also
he showed himself alive after his
passion by many infallible proofs being
seen of them being seen of them for
forty days and speaking of the things
pertaining to the kingdom of God and
being assembled together with them
commanded them that they should not
depart from Jerusalem but wait for the
promise of the father wait for the
promise of the Father which said he ye
have heard of me for John truly baptized
with water but ye shall be baptized with
the Holy Ghost not many days hence when
they therefore were come together they
asked of him saying Lord will Dow at
this time restore again the kingdom to
Israel and he said unto them it is not
for you to know the times or the seasons
which the father had put in his own
power
but he shall receive power after that
the Holy Ghost is come upon you and he
shall be witnesses unto me both in
Jerusalem and in all Judea and in
Samaria and unto the uttermost parts of
the earth
can you say Amen I want to spend a few
minutes from the subject wait on it
somebody shall wait on it let’s pray
father thank you thank you for this day
thank you for this moment thank you for
our strength thank you for the activity
of our limbs thank you for our right
mind thank you for the revelation of who
you are thank you for the Peace in the
power that we have in you thank you for
the revelation of the scriptures
thank you for peace in the midst of the
storm thank you for the healing of all
manner of diseases thank you for being
Jehovah Jireh thank you for supplying
all of our needs according to your
riches and glory now I believe you to
take over the service do whatever you
want to do throw your weight around show
the devil who’s boss we believe me of
her miracles and we thank you for it in
Jesus name
somebody shout Amen you may be seated
well yesterday I decided to go to CVS
and because we’ve been in lockdown I got
completely dressed to drive to three
blocks from my house to go through the
drive-through window at CVS I said you
know you’ve been in a house a long time
when going through the drive-through
window
requires you getting dressed and if you
like me you’ve been shut in so long you
have looked at all four walls in your
room you’ve seen the curtains and the
drinks and the floor and everything else
and and there’s a deep deep desire to
get out and get involved and get going
and do all kinds of stuff and yet we
and the wisdom then it takes for certain
areas of Steel shut in and we understand
what that means and what that takes and
during that time it’s a it’s it’s a
great time for introspection
introspection I had several weeks of
introspection yeah several weeks the
information I introspected everything a
man I said another seven weeks I don’t
know if I have anything else is left to
introspect but I thought about where I
was where I’m going where I want to be
how I want to get there all that’s a
part of the process I say that because
there’s some things that happen in
isolation they cannot happen in a crowd
you have to go through a period of being
left alone with your own thoughts
without distraction from other people to
really evaluate where you are I say that
because I want you to understand where
I’m going with this text I want you to
realize that this text comes in at a
moment of great transition and I want
you to understand the transition and the
trauma associated with this text these
are men who have given up everything to
follow Jesus their livelihood their
reputations their careers their family
relations here marital relations have
all been stunted by following Jesus
following Jesus meant going wherever
Jesus went however Jesus went whenever
Jesus went on boats on seas hiking
through deserts to dry places through
doubts for three years they’ve been with
Jesus you can’t run a business three
years away from your business so
everything they had suffered so that
they could be with Jesus and in part
because they thought that Jesus was
going to establish his kingdom which the
text brings out they kept waiting for
him to overthrow Caesars influence over
Jerusalem and they said he’s gonna set
up his kingdom and we’re gonna be his
cabinet you know and then answer we’re
getting closer to the end and it doesn’t
go the way they thought it was going to
go now discipleship is really being
tested because discipleship which is
rooted and discipline is tested when
things don’t go the way you thought they
were going to go
it’s not hard to be a disciple when you
get what you thought you were going to
get but it’s difficult to be a disciple
when you thought that what was in it for
you is no longer there and then trying
to figure out what’s going on because
they wanted him to be their king and
they wanted him to be their ruler and
they saw the king but they didn’t see
the cross and you can’t be a king
without a cross those things are
interchangeable and inextricably
connected in such a way that every King
has a cross you might not see it but
they have a cross every person who’s
anything that you want to be has a cross
to go along with it there’s always
something hanging off a crown it’s a
cross people always see it it’s always
in public but every crown is paid for by
a cross the disciples did not understand
that there that every development of
leadership or prosperity the notoriety
or degrees or accomplishment have
crosses with it that’s why everybody
doesn’t have a degree because there’s a
cross with it that’s why everybody
doesn’t have a masters it has a cross
with it that’s why everybody doesn’t
make it to notoriety because there’s a
cross ones and some people would rather
have the peace and the power is it’s a
decision if you go up it’s gonna cost
you something they didn’t know how much
it was going to cross Jesus and all of a
sudden when Jesus got ready to pay the
bill on the next increment of power and
authority which was the cross it cost
great trauma it caused confusion not
only was it traumatic to see a leader
that they had been with for years and
years and dedicated their lives and
resources and finances stripped naked
and beaten like a thief till his
entrails were hanging out hung high
stretched wide nailed to a tree dying in
the hot Jerusalem heat in naked in front
of everybody and the humiliation and the
degradation of his beard plucked from
his face and a crown of Florence placed
upon his head and his leather riffing on
a cross speaking words while bleeding
pus coming out of him dying
in open Sun it was humiliating it was
scary it was devastating it was
emotional yes think about it if it were
your pastor think about it if it were
your leader think about if it was
somebody you care about it there you had
to watch them die
the powerful now seems powerless the
mighty seems mundane the overcomer looks
like he has been overcome and all of a
sudden the enemy begins to place all
kinds of doubts and most people focus on
the fact they’re dead Thomas doubted and
there Peter started cursing and that
Judas hung himself but they do not
recognize the kind of power and pressure
these boys were under these boys were
under pressure because if you follow
greatness you’re gonna come to places of
pressure that’s how you know who’s with
you by how they handle the places of
pressure
anybody can with you and be with you and
your exhortation but it takes a special
person to stand with you in your
aggravation and when things got
aggravated there was a great great
discontentment and there was wrestling
and there were turmoil and not only was
the heat turned up on Jesus and he was
crucified and humiliated like he was a
dog like he was an animal
and died in between two thieves with no
reprieve ‘el and no recognition then no
voice speaking from heaven and no angels
to rescue him he died like the rest of
them he died like an ordinary man he
died in such a humiliating way that no
wonder there was doubt and fear and
disarray and controversy but that is not
the real problem of the test the real
problem of the text is now that Jesus
was dead the heat was now on those who
were with him now Peter says here they
said Peter were you with him at all I
wasn’t with him no I wasn’t without know
about it were you involved no he was
very bad
and a nanny Peter went accosted we were
de cousin if he he’d was old then less
you know that the heat is not disowned
Jesus
the heat is on them and because of the
pressure to destroy anything associated
with Jesus they entered into isolation
yeah and the Bible says that the
disciples were locked up behind closed
doors for fear of the Jews I don’t know
how long they were in isolation but they
were in total isolation like we have
been in isolation and isolation does all
kinds of stuff to you they were they
were isolated they were isolated and in
trouble and because right outside the
door was death right outside the door
was death they dare not go to the market
they dare not go to the store they dare
not leave their houses and be seen in
public places because they didn’t have
Kobe at nineteen to fight but they were
they were on the hit lists of hell they
had to stay safe by hiding like a bunch
of schoolgirls in Cannes they were
hiding for fear of their lives because
if they got out into public while they
were cleaning out this infestation of
Christianity they would have killed the
disciples killed and so they were in
isolation trying to preserve their life
not like us now we’re not in isolation
cuz we like our house
we’re in isolation because death is
outside the door and we can’t see where
it is and we don’t know what it’s going
to do and so we feel safe in our house
and we rather be born and safe then
excited and dead those are the choices
and if you lay those two choices in
front of me I’ll be bored for the next
six weeks I’ll be born in the next year
I’ll stay about three years I’d rather
be bored in my house for three years
then be excited in the streets and dead
if those are the choices those were the
choices for the disciples either get out
and have fellowship and be killed or
stay in the road and they were locked up
in the road by themselves and Jesus was
crucified and there were little rumors
of all kind of rumors some had said that
they’d stolen his body the body was
missing the body had turned up missing
they came down then the stone was rolled
away the place where Jesus lay he there
was no body there and some said that
they had heard from angels and others
said it was a trick and a prank and they
were all kind of rumors and they were
sharp and in the midst of that isolation
and there’s a seclusion that comes a
seclusion and Jesus comes into their
seclusion now I want you to see this
isolation and seclusion are two
different things
let me look at this a minute isolation
and seclusion are two different things
to be isolated they’re isolated so that
they might be insulated from the
possibility of anything happening in
their life but the isolation gradually
turns into seclusion so that Jesus can
come into their seclusion because Jesus
desired to have a private moment with
him he has given up on public displays
so even when Jesus rose from the dead he
did not seek the crowds he only sought
those that knew him he only sought those
that knew him because the Bible said the
secret of the Lord is with them that
fear him and he shall show them his
covenant now you remember at the Last
Supper he said that the New Testament
was in his blood so he’s not going to
show his covenant to the world because
he has come unto his own and his own has
received him not
he’s already wept over them remember all
Jerusalem
how off would I have gathered you as a
hen together no cheese and you would not
okay I’m through with that he’s turned
his back and he’s only showing himself
to the believers as it was then
so is it now there are certain things
that God will only show people that
really serve him yeah he won’t just show
you just because you’re curious he will
just show you because you’re fascinated
and interesting he won’t just show you
because you’re taking a class in
religious studies he will show you
because you think you’re an intellectual
and you want to understand some there
are some things that God will only
reveal to people who believe in him and
so the God who walked amongst him every
day has now started showing up in visits
and so for the next 40 days he visits
him and I thought I’d take a moment and
thank God for his visits because I must
I must admit it’s not that he talks to
me every day you know it’s not that he
talks to me every day it’s not that I
feel anointed every day it’s not that I
feel his presence every day it’s not
less
then I speak in tongues every day it’s
not that I feel his power every day but
I don’t want to thank him because he
visits a village from God can change
your trajectory a visit from God can
change how you see your life a visit
from God can change how you deal with
your children a visit from God can
change your attitude and your whole
disposition I know there’s a lot of you
watching me that you say that you have
breakfast with him every morning but the
truth of the matter is every time then
God stops my visits he visited Abraham
every so many years God would visit him
and it would change the trajectory of
his life he visited Moses God has a way
of visiting you and his visits made a
different he visited the two disciples
on the road to Emmaus and the visit
changed a whole conversation they were
having a conversation until Jesus
and walked up from behind them and they
included him in their conversation and
then he included them in his and the
Bible said for the next seven miles he
unfolded himself through the scriptures
and when the seven mile trip was over he
made as if he would go on and they
invited him into the room because they
wanted to visit to continue the only
thing about Jesus visiting you is you
never want him to leave if you’ve ever
had a visitation of the Holy Ghost you
don’t want it to be over if you remember
I mean a real man I talked about just
goose pimples and children but I mean a
real visit from God
makes you want him to linger abide with
us and if I invited him in and I say
broke bread the Bible say if they saw
him in the order of the breaking of
bread some of you don’t know don’t have
a clue what I’m talking about because
all you’ve ever visited with church and
you’ve never have visited Jesus but then
there are moments in your life that
Jesus will visit you and it doesn’t have
to be in church he’ll come in your house
and visit you he’ll come in a jail cell
and visit you you can be driving the
work with tears running down your face
and he’ll visit you here you wake you up
at three o’clock in the morning and give
you a visitation that changes how you
see everything in your life you have to
be a real question to know what I’m
talking about but every now and then God
visits us and when he visits us he turns
our fear removes our doubt and all of a
sudden we go into a different state of
existence we’re not in isolation just
because we’re in seclusion yeah yeah
it’s a different tenor to the word we
may be in seclusion waiting on a time to
come but we’re not in isolation so the
disciples that we meet who are locked up
behind the doors for fear of the Jews
are in isolation the disciples that end
up in the upper room are not in the
upper room out of fear they’re in
seclusion yeah they’re in seclusion
there’s still nobody else in the room
but they’re not in isolation
then the
the reason for them being behind closed
doors is no longer the fear of the Jews
but they’re not waiting for the Holy
Ghost to the outward man they’re still
behind closed doors the situation is
still the same the only thing that
changed was attitude when we see them at
first they are behind closed doors for
fear what the world might do but when we
see them in the end they’re behind
closed doors waiting to see what God is
going to do and in between these two
polarities all the change the narrative
was he visited them if he ever visits
you the situation may still look the
same but it won’t be the same because
because the visit change its attitude
under stay over and all of a sudden you
might be in isolation well at one moment
but then you go into seclusion because
you’re there for a different reason same
hospital they’re different reason living
in the same house but it’s a different
reason going to the same job but this is
a different reason married to the same
person but it’s a different reason
driving the same carpet is a different
reason hi Lillian why man looks on the
outward appearance and says it’s all the
same thing you know it’s not the same
thing because you have a different
expectation before I was locked up in
here because of what I was afraid of but
now me here here because of what I’m
waiting on something else is going to
happen if I stand here a little while
longer something is going to happen and
the Bible said that he he led them out
in the Book of Luke 24 verse 47 that he
led them out as far as Bethany and he
blessed him and it is a hard thing in
the world because can you imagine what
it is to be in love with Jesus to the
point that John has laid his head on his
breast to the point that they’ve given
up everything to serve him to the point
that they spent the last three years
serving him to the point that they’ve
put their lives at risk to serve it and
they loved him and they loved him and
now he’s leaving the visitation period
is over there’s 40 days of visitation
and then it’s over and they know that
they will not see him anymore until they
see him in clouds of glory
it’s like taking a loved one down to the
airport and you know that they’re going
away and it’s one thing for you to be
gone a couple of weeks but when you know
that I may not ever see you again in
this life that’s a whole different kind
of feeling it’s the kind of feeling you
get when you close the casket on
somebody love now if you haven’t done
that you don’t know what I’m talking
about but if you’ve ever done that the
closing of that cabinet is a coffin
there’s a finality to it dinner there’s
a pain to it there’s a ate to it because
you know that you won’t see him anymore
on this side and I can remember wanting
to bend my head down and peek in for one
final lock it was at this point that
Jesus leads him out as far as Bethany
and lays hands on him and blesses him
and gave them joy at a time that they
should have had on a pain how can God
give us joy at a time we ought to have
other pain it’s a place of separation
this is the circumcision of the
disciples it is a cutting away it is the
separation is the cutting loose and yet
he had Nestor sighs her pain with John
had God give you joy and a painful place
have you ever had God give you joy with
your head every right to be bleeding but
he gave you joy unspeakable joy that’s
what we’re looking at in our text and
there is no difference between Luke and
acts they’re written by the same people
Luke were Luke but he also wrote ax so
ax is just a continuation of the
conversation of Luke so Luke 24:47 when
he lived him out as far as Bethany and
laid hands on them and bless him and
told them to go on to Jerusalem when he
picks up in Acts chapter 1 it’s the same
writer writing about the same group of
people and since the former treaties
have I made out the awfulness of all
that Jesus began both to do and to teach
he’s still talking he just changed
things but he’s still talking like he
turned the page and named the chapter
something different but it’s the same
guy talking these
have left the presence of Jesus with
great joy they seen him go up in
chariots of glory they’ve seen him come
and be escorted on a cloud service and
he spent standing up in the air gazing
at him an angel said Ye men of Galilee
why stand ye here gazing at him this
same Jesus that you see us in shall be
said in like manner and what ever
happened to them feel them with such joy
that they didn’t have time to ache over
what they lost because they were so
excited about what was about to happen
will you stop focusing on what you lost
and get excited about what is about to
happen everything will change your life
well how do I change my attitude
preacher I tried to change my attitude I
tried to speak differently about it I
tried to feel good about it but every
time I try to feel good about it I keep
thinking about what I lost the only
reason the only way that you can survive
what you lost and started getting
excited about what you’re about to
receive is that you need visitation
there’s some things I lost I would have
lost my mind but when I was about to
lose my mind
he visited me God will come visit you
that’s the size your pain and give you
joy that made me make sense here to make
your relatives look at you like you’re
crazy and they’ll get mad cuz you don’t
react the way they had but you would not
like them because yes higher he visited
you but he visited me I would have blown
my brains out but he visited me I would
have shot you but he visited me I would
have crossed you out but he visited me I
would have drove the car off the cliff
but he visited me I would have lost my
mind but he visited me understand what
it’s like
to have a visit just a visit just a
visit from Jesus trace midnight into
morning cherish darkness into down tears
hopelessness into hope just despair into
destiny just a visit from Jesus trans
mourning into dancing just a visit from
Jesus their sorrow into the garment of
praise just to visit from Jesus
Tarrance despair into revelation just a
visit from Jesus can stop the tears that
are falling down your face just a visit
from Jesus you don’t need any money just
a visit from Jesus you don’t need a
husband just a visit from Jesus you
don’t need a wife yes sir visit from
Jesus you don’t need to do Church you
just need a visit from Jesus you don’t
need to move to another city you just
need a visit from jesus a visit just a
visit just visit right there in your
apartment it’s a visit just a visit from
Jay won’t visit from Jesus and the
swelling tissues will go down in the
lump in your breast won’t visit from
Jesus and the hypertension will recede
out of your corpuscles and cells just a
visit from Jesus and and the mass of
cancer will begin the stream just a
visit from Jesus and the IV will be here
just a visit from Jesus and all the
debts will begin to dissipate just a
visit from Jesus and you get a
revelation on your money just a visit
from Jesus and he’ll bring you out of
debt in the prosperity disability from
Jesus and you could go from Rhenish your
ownership just a visit from Jesus and
you get your focus back in your life
just a dinner from Jesus and the wayward
child will come back home just a visit
from Jesus and you and your sister get
back together just just a visit from
Jesus my god have mercy have you ever
been visited by have you ever had him
stopped by your house why are you
running your sweeper and he just come in
the house with you and you started
looking kind of crazy to the kid’s
cousin Xing you know you’re rocking your
head and tears are rolling down your
face and they come in the house and say
mama what’s wrong with you
and they don’t know you got company they
didn’t hear the door but they didn’t
hear the door closed nobody heard the
doorbell ring but there’s a visitor in
the house good God Almighty I’m the time
in the driveway and I didn’t see a car
anywhere but there’s a visitor in the
house I don’t see an extra placement at
the dinner table but there’s a visitor
in the house I want to talk to somebody
that knows what it’s like to get a visit
from Jesus you were gonna quit your job
but all the nights you got a visit from
Jesus you were gonna leave your husband
but overnight you got a visit from Jesus
let’s be real for a minute without here
because we’re so good but every time we
got ready to quit we got a visit from
Jesus we got a visit from Jesus and so
my brothers and sisters huh huh
the text says the former trainees have I
made all the awfulness of all that Jesus
began both to do entities notice the
word began whenever it says he began
both to do it to teach it means he ain’t
finished yet
write yourself alone and tell yourself
he ain’t finished yet tweet your
neighbors and tell him he finish it
take a picture yo house and put it on
Instagram and write up on her – he ain’t
finished yet
take a picture yourself and say he ain’t
finished yet good God Almighty he just
began to teacher God is not through with
me take a picture in your church he
really said go out in the garage to take
a picture that raggedy car and write a
note to yourself and say he ain’t
finished he said all that Jesus began
both to do and to teach I’m happy
because I know he ain’t finished yet
he’s still working on me he’s still
building me
up he still getting me ready he’s still
sanding me down he’s still nailing me
together he’s still varnishing me out
he’s doing some finished work on me
have you had God put some finished work
on you oh oh you should have seen me
before you think I’m a mess now
you should have seen me before I came a
long ways to be where I am right now
somebody’s child yes somebody shall yes
somebody shout yeah somebody shout yes
somebody shout yes again put your hands
together and give the Lord some praise
now we must understand something these
are particularly and there are 11 men
left one of them has committed suicide
his entrails have spilt out in the
potter’s field his name is Judas the
unity has been broken by suicide so
their Lord has been crucified their
comrade has committed suicide
they’re trying to hold the reins
together in the absence of the physical
presence of Jesus they’re trying to
figure out who’s going to replace Judas
they start casting Lots because men will
do men things trying to fix God problems
but men things won’t fix God problems in
order to fix a gaurd problem you need a
god thing you can’t do a man thing and
fix a god problem you gotta turn it over
to God while they were casting Lots for
a boy named Matthias God was looking for
a guy named Saul
they picked Matthias and God picks all
good God Almighty
I don’t want who you pick I want who God
picks that’s what’s wrong with your life
now you’ve been picking who you pick but
the next one who comes in your life you
wanted to be who God
ah now I wanna admit to my Mathias look
like a better deal Mathias had been
around Mathias was on the right side of
the track and the guy that God picked
had been on the enemy of the church it
didn’t look like a good deal it didn’t
look like a good decision but when God
makes up his mind he’ll take wrong and
make it right
he’ll take down and make it up he’ll
take loose and make it strong he’ll pick
weak and give it power some of you are
in this room because God picture nobody
else would’ve thought you two ever been
where you are right now but God picked
you out if you app and God pick you out
it’ll put a running in your feet and
carpet in your hands they pick Mathias
God pick Paul Paul wrote more than New
Testament then my thighs was ever heard
of we had never hear of him again
historian said he built the church
somewhere but he didn’t write an epistle
not one book was that it had not one
miracle was written not one revelation
was given that not one dead man was
raised not one sick man was healed but
the stone that the builders rejected was
the one that the miracles came through
the doors were opened blind eyes were
open the lame begin to walk never
despise being God’s man I’d rather be
God’s man than to be your man I’d rather
be on God’s side then to be on your side
somebody who’s been rejected give God a
little bit of praise right now
[Applause]
so now they’re trying to figure out what
to do
the last thing they’ve said in the texts
with Jesus even after all of his visits
and all of his speaking and all of his
revelation they still were not clear of
his direction so they asked him when are
you gonna set up your kingdom because
once people get something in their head
no matter how they shall no matter how
they dance is still in the back of their
mind I’ve counseled people till my
tongue turn blue and once people get
something in their mind it’s still in
their mind all the way down to the end
they was asking him oh yeah that’s good
thank you we gonna have the Holy Ghost
thank you for the dead you raised thank
you for the sick you heal thank you for
turning water into wine thank you for
cleansing the lepers set the captives
free but when are you all set up your
kingdom when you’re gonna set up your
kingdom the reason they wanted the
kingdom is as if Jesus set up the
kingdom they were gonna be on the board
lord have mercy
everybody has a reason why they follow
you but Jesus kept on walking and said
it’s not given to you to know when the
kingdom is going to be set up but ye
shall be witnesses unto me here both in
Judea and Samaria and the uttermost
parts of the earth good God Almighty I
said to myself they shall be witnesses
to you were they not already witnesses
to you they were there on that night
when the wind was whispered through the
air and the lightning was flashing and
you were walking on water they saw you
walk on water like a ghost they will
when the storm began to rise and you
were sleeping in the bottom of the boat
you wife’s leap out of your I arrested
her the winds and commanded the ways to
be steal they were there when you
stopped the widow Mane’s funeral ran
down and touched the casket and the boy
got out the casket and started walking
all around they were there when you
stopped by the blind man and spat in his
eye and he washed in the pool of siloam
and he came out seeing they were there
when Lazarus was down in the tomb and
you didn’t even go in the tomb you stood
outside at the door stood on the front
porch and said Lazarus come forth and
the dead man came walking out of the
tomb
they were there they were there they
were there with a woman with this your
blood touch the hem of His garment and
she was made whole they were there when
the crowd sought you and you disappeared
out of their myths they were there with
you to two fish and five loaves of bread
and fed 5,000 people huh they were there
when they cut a hole in the roof and a
lay man came down and you healed him and
he picked up his bed and begin to walk
they were there when they took you from
judgement Hall the judgment hall they
were there when they you ha and stretch
you Ana they were there when the stone
was rolled away and you stood up again
they were there when you walked through
a solid door ghost enough to walk
through the door but man enough to eat
fish
when you got on the inside they were
there how could they not be witnesses
since they were there
he said all in all Jake’s that ain’t the
witness I’m talking about everything you
talking about is on earth but in order
to be a witness under me you had to be
there when I was in the portals of glory
and I rolled up my divinity and threw it
from eternity down into time wrapped up
in the dressing room of a womb calm area
and came walking out in the flesh you
had to be there when I said let there be
light and there was light and it was
good you had to be there when I wrestled
Jacob in the middle of the night you had
to be there when I appeared in the fiery
furnace you had to be there you shall be
witnesses
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you’re not a witness yet you got a good
memory but you’re not a witness yet
you’re not a witness till the witness
comes you’re not a witness to the
witness comes you’re not a witness to
the witness comes you know the witness
to the witness comes I said how could
that be I saw some stuff he said yeah
you saw some stuff I said I got evidence
he said yeah you got evidence but you’re
not a witness till the witness comes and
witness witness who is the witness
witness witness who is the witness the
Holy Ghost is the witness and that’s why
I said you shall be witnesses unto me
when the Holy Ghost has come upon you he
can witness things that you never got to
see and that you never got to do he said
go to Jerusalem ma what the young people
say wait for it wait for it you got to
wait in Jerusalem not till you be endued
with power that comes from on a hand I
feel most school stuff kicking in right
now the problem with the church today is
that what everything instant they want
it quick but I remember the old school
where you have to get around the altar
and wait for it good God Almighty if you
waited around the altar
you didn’t let nobody talk you out of
that huh if you tear it around the altar
you didn’t let nobody get you drunk out
of that that’s something about waiting
on it when you get it you appreciated
what you need to do is wait till you get
an encounter with God a real encounter
with God I’m not asking you to give God
your heart
it’s not in the presence of God there is
a power that comes from the Holy Ghost
of the power from the Holy Ghost out of
prison doors a power that the which
there is a power that’ll break every
curse over your life what’s your
grandmama did huh what’s your granddaddy
did there’s a power that a loose shoe
and set you free
wait for it there is a power that a
bring you off a ventilator there’s a
power better bring kohli it out of your
system
there’s a power that will set the
captive free somebody somewhere give God
a praise right now
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wait wait wait wait
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is coming in your house wait wait wait
for leukemia wait for lupus wait for he
says you shall be endued with power from
on high after that the Holy Ghost has
come upon you ye shall be witnesses unto
me both in Judea and Samaria and the
other parts of the earth the challenge
today is that we don’t want to wait for
word we don’t want to wait God is ready
to do it
we don’t want to wait for it we want to
grow up overnight we want to be a bishop
in 30 minutes we want to be a pastor in
two weeks we want to be an apostle in a
year and the reason the church is in
trouble today is that we don’t want to
wait for it but Jesus is teaching us
clearly and succinctly the great things
come to those that wait they that wait
upon the Lord shall renew their strength
they surmount up a winds like Eagles
they serve Ron and not be weary they
shall walk and not faint if you don’t
learn anything else this Sunday morning
I challenge you to learn how to wait for
it God’s already told you some things
he’s gonna do in your life some great
and mighty things and the prophecies are
true but just because it doesn’t come
speedily doesn’t mean it’s not gonna
happen you gotta have faith enough to
wait for it you don’t raise a good child
overnight you don’t get out of debt in
three days you don’t lose that you don’t
lose weight in a week you don’t have a
strong marriage in three years
you gotta wait
you got a cry for it and crawl forward
and work forward and set your mouth
forward cry out forward in dear Ford
suffer Ford he told him to go on to
Jerusalem and wait
wait for it I’m gonna send it there’s no
question am I gonna send it the question
is are you willing to wait there’s no
question am I gonna bring you out but
are you willing to wait there’s no
question I’ll answer your prayer I’ll
speak to your questions I remove your
anxiety but you gotta show me that
you’re willing to wait for it
slip your hands up in a sign of total
surrender submission to God not my will
but thine be done not my time but yours
not my plan but yours not my way but
yours I sell out I surrender
I wait
I waited on this alright let the tears
come open your mouth up to God I know
you embrace it and you’re used to
throwing tantrums and getting your way
and having fits and manipulating
everybody and getting things done and
being frustrated and you grew up where
when you hollered somebody responded but
God is not your Grandmamma he’s not
gonna spoil you he said wait for it what
you gon do you ain’t got no choice if
you could do it it would already be done
but you got to go and sit yourself down
in Jerusalem and when the day of
Pentecost was fully come and they were
in one place with one Accord suddenly
there came a sound from heaven like a
mighty rushing we’re here suddenly
suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly
suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly
suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly
there came a sound from heaven
after 50 days like a battery rushing
with cloven tongues appeared and sat
upon each of them they were all filled
with the Holy Ghost we’re getting close
to Pentecost Sunday and we’re gonna have
to go back to the old time way for the
kind of demons that are coming out of
Hell now you will have to get you some
consecration or
y’all don’t even know what I’m talking
about and start annoying yourself with
all and pleading the blood why you doing
all the things at the Surgeon General
everybody else said to do let me give
you some spiritual weapons you I have to
start anointing yourself with the law
yes pleading the blood over your house
anointing your doorposts anointing your
exited entryways and tell no demon you
can’t come any here the Bible said when
the enemy comes in like a flood the
Spirit of the Lord will lift up a
standard against his shondo bow shine is
hallelujah and it’s time to get their
anointing oil out most of you believe
you don’t even have no consecrate at all
you don’t even know what I’m talking
about but the Bible says any sick among
you let him call for the elders in the
church anointing them with all and the
prayer of faith shall save the sick and
the Lord shall raise him up we gotta get
our oil out for these demons is coming
out now you gonna have to get your
grandmama stuff out and start walking
through your house of knowing in your
house and pleading the blood and let
your living room be your sanctuary yeah
I want to see your knowing and coming
into your house I want to see the power
of God covering you I want to see you
anointing yourself with all while you
washing your hands and doing all that
other stuff and taking your vitamins
that got on your mask you got on your
gloves I want you to put some all on
your
and plead the blood over yourself and
over your children annoy them with home
I say back up devil you can’t come in
this house you shall receive power after
that the Holy Ghost is come upon you
power over coffee at night power over
depression and suicide power over
domestic violence you have to get off
the phone and stop talking to everybody
and get on your knees and wait for word
to show up in your life you had too much
like your worldly friends get out on
your knees and wait for it
God said he’s got something to give you
but he’s waiting on you to wait for it
mister TD jakes is senior pastor of the
potter’s house
I came to leave this word with you the
promises of God are right at your
doorstep but you gotta let it in you
gotta let it happen
wait for it stop right now everybody
nervous right now Lord Thomas is down
peter is cussing Judas has committed
suicide but as for me I’m a weight
forward sooner or later everything God
promised me it’s gonna come to pass in
my life so I light of my family’s gonna
come together sooner or later my
children go get off drugs
sooner or later God’s gonna save them
from saying sooner or later it’s gonna
show what I put inside of you
sooner or later God’s gonna bring me the
happiness sooner or later gospel give me
some joy
I came to encourage somebody he may not
come when you
on him haha buddies right old time you
settle yourself down and wait for it
a Samaritan pass is better why does
Jesus tell us that the third guy was a
Samaritan that’s what I want to talk
about today a sociological construct is
an idea that has been created and
accepted by the people in a society it’s
not a god idea what happens that’s
really frightening to people is when
somebody shakes the cage of your country
our God is the Caged shaker this is a
preparatory Bible class getting you
ready for God to use somebody that you
didn’t expect God will raise up somebody
that is least likely and do the Almighty
through them to bless you if you’re not
afraid to allow the Samaritan to become
good
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