I know a lot of people that are doing better than me, but none of them got there without a bumpy road. The road to better is bumpy. So, if you're on a bumpy road, I'm telling you, you're headed to better.
There's some things that God created you for that you had some delays and some setbacks and some mistakes and some mishaps. And God wants you to come back to the place that there's going to be a night shift. >> Jacob has told his sons, "You will not defeat the famine looking at each other.
" >> Did you hear what I'm saying? Watch how Jacob handles the famine. Because my my first point is the famine.
And until you can deal with the famine, >> you will never get to better. Because the famine is a part of your journey. How you react to the famine determines whether you make it to the food.
>> You you you you've got to be aggressive. You can't just pray against the famine. >> You've got to do something.
Jacob says you can't just pray against it. You can't just look at each other. You can't stay in the same spot and do the same things that you've always done and expect to get a different result because we're in a famine and you've got to take action.
>> And we don't understand that today. We don't understand the human requirement in the miracles of God. >> As much as we have read about the miracles of God, we walk away with praise to God, but absolve ourselves of human responsibility.
as if God were going to act outside of human effort when God has created us to be collaborative in the miraculous. >> Oh, I'm talking already. >> He wants us to be collaborative in the miraculous.
That we have a responsibility to take action and to be aggressive about resolving issues. Just because you're spiritual doesn't mean you get to pray for a job and stay at home. [Applause] I'm just going to pray.
If the Lord wants me to have the job, he'll give me a job. I'm just going to watch TV and hit the remote control and believe God for better. You You'll never get to better if you don't get on the road.
You got to You got to You got to get on the road in the middle of famine. They're traveling in the middle of a famine. Now, it traveling is not fun anytime, but traveling in the middle of a famine is a very difficult time because the famine is so severe that Jacob says, "If you don't move, you're going to die.
" Now, I don't know who I'm talking to tonight, but there are some pressures that come so strong that if you don't move, you're going to die. How could you let me die and I'm a child of God? You didn't move.
>> I told you to move. And when God tells you to move, you got to move. And don't act like God has failed you when you have failed to move.
[Applause] When God says move, you have to take action. Whether you're the prodical son who came to himself, but he still had to go home. >> Or whether you're the woman with the issue of blood who believed that Jesus could heal her, but she still had to crawl.
Or whether you're blind bought a man standing by the highway side begging, he still had to come out of his coat and go toward Jesus. There is a human responsibility in spite of the famine. So you got to move in the middle of a famine, in the middle of a need, in the middle of a storm, in the middle of a crisis.
And he sends his voice to go from Canaan to Egypt because Jacob heard where there was food. >> Yes. >> Don't hate on people who have even when you don't have.
>> Because he he didn't hate on Egypt. He said, "I'm going to Egypt. " >> See, we sit back and hate on people as if them having is our demise.
When it's not them having that is our enemy, it's us not moving that is our enemy. And the Bible says that though they didn't have any corn, they had money. Uh yeah.
And the people don't quote it too much, but the Bible al says that money is the answer to all things. It's the answer to all things. If it's a thing, money can buy it.
There are there are some issues that cannot be resolved by things, but money answerth all things. So, Jacob told the boys, he gave them some money and said, "Go down to Egypt and don't go down there begging. We came down here to do business.
" Yeah. Yeah. We're spiritual people, but we know how to do business.
Uh we we praise Jehovah, but we still know how to do business. Oh, y'all not saying nothing to me tonight. See, you you the church has failed its parishioners because we have been real heavy on the praise and real light on the business.
So, we told them to praise your way out and dance your way out and spin around three times and you're going to come out and sew a seed and you're going to get out. But we don't tell them that you've got that that that the blessings are transactional that there's a business element required in it. And we got to go back and lay some foundation to understand that Jacob does not go down to Egypt to beg.
He goes down there to do business. And he sends his sons down there to do business. But wait a minute.
You you you have to realize as we begin to talk about the famine, we have to understand that the famine is so severe that it pushes them to Egypt. >> Now, the second thing I want you to see about the famine is that God will use a famine to move you. It doesn't have to be a famine for food.
It can be a famine for love. It could be a famine for peace. But in everybody's life listening at me, whether online or in the room, you have experienced some kind of famine.
The famine of fatherhood, the famine of family, the famine of a mother's affection, the famine of a good job, the famine of a nice house. All of us have our famines. You might not be able to see it because we might dress nice and and spray cologne over top of it, but all of us live with some level of famine in our lives.
Famine makes you pray and famine makes you seek God. And and famine makes you cry out and famine will make you move. And often times God will use famine as an instrument to force you out of your comfort zone.
It is more comfortable to stay in Canaan. But the famine will drive you out. It'll make you move.
It'll make you get outside of your comfort zone. It'll make you travel. It'll put you on the road.
Somebody say, "I'm on the road. I'm not on the road for a field trip. I'm not on the road joy riding.
I'm on the road to better. I'm on the road to better. There's something I'm after.
There's something I want to see done in my lifetime. And I'm tired of sitting around assessing the same old troubles and crying about the same old problems and going through the same old things. I'm tired of complaining one to another back and forth.
Oh, ain't it bad yet, child? It's real bad. It's so bad.
I got to move from here. Deliver me from people who will not take action in the famine. And God says action is required on you.
You got to get on the road. And that's anytime you can't rebuke it with a prayer, anytime you plead the blood and it doesn't go away, anytime you call on God and it still stays there, then God is using the famine as an instrument to move you from one place to the other. If it was the devil, I could rebuke it.
If it were demonic warfare, I could overcome it. But when God sends a famine to make you move, it is something in his providence that cannot be performed where you are. And you've got to move in order to get it.
And God knows that some of us won't move if we're too comfortable. Are y'all aren't going to talk to me tonight? >> And so God uses the famine to force them to move and they go down to Egypt to do business.
Now, it is interesting to note that though there is a famine in Canaan, there is also a famine in this family. >> So my second point deals with the family. You have to understand that this text brings out subtly, ever so subtly in the text that I want to point it out to you.
First thing that it tells us about Jacob is that Jacob sent his sons down to Egypt to buy. But then it mentions that he did not send Benjamin >> lest he fall into mischief. And this is just a hidden subtle reminder that that Jacob doesn't totally trust his own sons.
Now, where did this this distrust come up in the culture of this family? This distrust comes up into the culture of the family. And you can act like you don't know what I'm talking about, but all of us have different little things that we know about our family that that when when cousin so and so comes over, you kind of look at him out the corner of your eye cuz cuz you've been through some things where you've learned some things.
And this culture has risen up in the family that the family is not fruitful and Canaan is not fruitful. And there is not the comfortable loving environment of trust that would cause the family to be a nurturing place because Jacob remembers what happened to Joseph. >> The last time Jacob sent one of his sons out with the rest of the sons, he turned up missing.
And there's a residue of distrust in the old man with his sons that he says, "I'm going to keep Benjamin. " Now, the reason he's holding on to Benjamin, and he let the rest of them go, is that Joseph and Benjamin were born to him by Rachel. And Rachel was the love of his life.
And the reason he's holding on to Benjamin is because that's all he's got left of Rachel. And he says, "If I lose Benjamin, I'll lose all I have left of the best days in my life. " And sometimes we hold on to things because we've been through so much pain that we become possessive.
>> Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying. There's a reason you hold on to what you hold on. Whether it's money or people or things, there's a reason you hold on to.
There's a reason that certain things make you mad. There's a reason that you overreact in certain ways. There's a reason that if we hit certain pulse points, you respond differently than other people.
Because until you understand what I've been through back here, you won't understand why I'm holding on to this right here. What do you hold on to because of what you've been through? >> What do you hold on to because of what you've been through?
For Jacob, the old man is holding on to the last smell of Rachel. [Music] When he holds Benjamin, it's the last reminder of a happier moment in his life. And he is so afraid of losing Benjamin because Rachel, the barren woman, has birthed two sons unto him.
And one of them Jacob thinks is dead. And Benjamin is all he got left. Anytime you think this is all you got left, you will hold on real tight.
>> Whether it is true or not, >> you will hold on real tight. If you think that this is the last person that will ever love you, you will take stuff that you wouldn't normally take. You will go through things you wouldn't normally go through.
and your girlfriends will tell you, "If I was you, I wouldn't take that. " And your mama told you, "You need to get away from there. " But you keep holding on to it because you've been hurt before.
And anytime you've been hurt before, you hold on to something when you think you won't get anymore. I wonder tonight how many people are holding on to some sort of Benjamin in your life, holding on to it out of fear. Not out of love.
He's not clutching him out of love. He's clutching him out of fear. Be careful what fear will make you do.
And I'm looking at it. Jacob is an old man. And the older you get, the more precious everything becomes.
>> And and and Jacob is holding on to Benjamin. >> And he's saying, "Joseph is not. " >> And now Simeon is not.
>> You ain't taking my Benjamin. >> Yeah. I'm wondering what you're squeezing too tight.
>> What are you squeezing out of fear? >> See, Jacob isn't squeezing Benjamin out of faith. >> He's squeezing him out of fear.
>> He's squeezing him like it's the last thing he's gonna ever get. You you you you can't grow when you squeeze something like it's the last thing you going to ever get. Even if it's squeezing money, >> like it's the last you'll ever get.
>> Then you have prophesied against yourself. >> You have used faith in reverse. Fear is faith in reverse to have confidence that that thing that you don't want is going to happen to you.
Yeah, >> he's holding the boy out of fear. And God is manipulating all of these circumstances to bring this family back together. He is wooing them back to a place so he can heal them.
>> And wouldn't it be better to be healed than to be mad? And Jacob says to him, "If I lose Benjamin, let me quote it just like he said there. " And he said, "My son shall not go down with you >> for his brother is dead and he is left alone.
And if mischiefs befall him, by the way, see, see how Jacob is still in a place where he don't trust them. >> They're his children and he don't trust him. And he has good reason not to trust them.
>> He said, "You're not going to get him. Let's mischief him. " By the way, in the witch she go, he says, "If I go through with Benjamin what I went through with Joseph, you're my gray hairs are going to turn into sorrow and bring me to the grave.
" >> See, you get to a point in life that you've reached an age that you can't take no more pain. Come on. >> And he says, "I can't afford to live through this again.
" >> And God is really behind it all trying to pry Benjamin out of Jacob's hands. Because what Jacob doesn't understand, yes, the road's been bumpy. And yes, the road's been tough.
And yes, the road's been difficult. And yes, you've shed some tears. And yes, you've endured some pain.
But it is the bumpy road to better. >> It is the bumpy road to better. I don't I I don't I I know a lot of people that are doing better than me and have more stuff and more money and more recognition and more fame and more whatever you want to count it by than me.
But none of them that I know have got there without a bumpy road. [Applause] >> The road to better is bumpy. So if you're on a bumpy road, >> I'm telling you, you're headed to better.
[Applause] >> Do Do you hear the words that are coming out of my mouth? >> You can't get to better without bumping. >> You can't get to better without pain.
You can't get to better without tears. You can't be all buff if you don't work out. You can't lose weight if you don't push the food away.
You can't get to better without bumpy. There is no pill you can take. There is no simple solution.
It is the bumpiness of the road that leads you to better. Ultimately, Jacob will end up having to go to Egypt. And when when Joseph sees his father, [Applause] >> when when when Joseph sees his father all of these years, he's been living without the touch of his >> father.
>> And all of a sudden, he reveals himself. and he shows him who he is. >> The Bible says that one day those who rejected Jesus >> are going to look on him whom they have pierced and a nation shall be saved in a day.
This day in the life of Joseph is a prophetic prediction of what will happen between G Jesus and Israel when all of a sudden they will look on him whom they have pierced and finally recognize he was the Messiah. >> He is the lamb of God. He is the I am.
He is the true vine. He is the living bread. He is the mana that came down out of heaven.
He is It wasn't a lie. It wasn't a joke. It wasn't a fallacy.
And the family will be reunited again. And all of a sudden, they beheld him whom they had thrown away. And they fell down and said, "Oh, Joseph.
" And they now realize that Joseph, everything he went through was to position him >> to bless them. >> Are y'all hearing what I'm saying? >> The reason God doesn't bless some people because you're selfish.
The reason God doesn't bless some people is because you're only interested in you >> because you hate too long and you're too angry and you're too bitter to be trusted with that much power. >> God blesses people whose hearts are tender. And and it was only when I saw Joseph's heart >> that I understood Joseph's blessing >> because Joseph was the son that could be trusted with favor >> because he would not use his favor to get even.
>> He would not use his favor for revenge. That's good. >> He would use his favor >> to bring them into better.
>> And so, Joseph brings the family >> to better. >> The whole family dwells together in better. And not only does he bring them to better, he releases the guilt >> from the guilty.
It's one thing to absolve the innocent, but it's another thing to acquit the guilty. He He absolved the guilty >> because he was big enough >> to be blessed like that. He He was big enough to be blessed like that.
He He He was strong enough to be blessed like that. And that's why he was chosen from the very beginning that he God trusted him with trouble. God trusted him with rejection.
God trusted him with pain. God trusted him with agony because God knew his heart that when push came to shove that love would always win out over revenge. God knew his heart that there was something down inside of him that was better than that.
And if you want the favor of God in your life, you have to be prepared to ask yourself, can God trust you with favor? Can God trust you with power? Can God trust you with honor?
>> Because until that answer is a resounding yes, >> the doors of your blessing will be closed. They're closed because you are too angry and too bitter and too vindictive. And God can't give you favor because you'll use it like witchcraft to bring curses on those who hurt you.
And you'll know you're getting bigger when you start getting better. >> You've been praying to be bigger. You should have been praying to be better.
There's somebody watching me right now. There's no reason in the world that somebody as talented to you as you are shouldn't be further than you are. >> You have the talent >> to go all the way to the top.
>> But every time you try to go to the top, something blocks you. And God sent me to tell you, it's not what's on the outside that's blocking you. It's the stuff you carry on the inside that always blocks you because you're so slick.
>> And God has to keep showing you that you ain't as slick as you think you are. and your blessing has been delayed and you've wandered in the wilderness of almost getting there and never being able to get there because you've never been able to get your heart to the place that you could be trusted. >> God gives favor >> to people he can trust.
>> Hallelujah. But you are so transactional >> everything is a way for you to manipulate >> and so you never get better. >> The Bible says none but the pure in heart shall see God.
>> The word pure in the Greek is where we get the word catheter. And there is no way for you to see God until you put a catheter into your heart and get rid of the bitterness that is blocking you from your blessing. >> I'm still talking about the bumpy road.
>> Hallelujah. >> To better. As I close tonight, >> I challenge you to look at Genesis 42 >> and even go on into Genesis 43 and watch God bring Jacob and his voice >> into a state of blessings >> that does not fade away.
Samuel served under Eli. and that there was the word of the Lord was scarce and there w or rare and there was no open vision. It's it's a hint.
>> It's a preview. See, Samuel is not so much Eli's successor. You you don't use Samuel as Eli's successor like Elijah and Elijah like Paul and Timothy.
Not only are they not in the same chain, they're not of the same order. >> Eli is a priest. >> Samuel is a prophet.
Perhaps one of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament is Samuel. And what God has done, he has forced a prophet into the house of a priest. This is the beginning of the formation of the Messiah who is prophet.
>> You see? See? So, so, so, so we all we have up until now is priests.
>> But out of the barrenness of Hannah's womb doesn't come Eli's successor. It becomes Eli's prophet. >> Yeah.
And the reason the prophet had to come next is that the prophet is the one who anoints the king. >> God got an order he don't even explain to you. He does stuff for his own reason.
He's got his own methodology. He works all things according to the purpose of his own will. Say amen.
>> So we are watching the shift >> between the priest >> to the prophet. >> The prophet is under the priest. >> Before it's over, the priest is going to be under the prophets.
See can Oh God, I want to go so deep. See, see when when when we worship, when we praise, when we give offerings, we're working like priests. When I get up to preach, I'm working like a prophet.
Hallelujah. So all while you're worshiping, I'm up under you. But when I get up to preach, you're up under this anointing.
We just we just acted out what the text is all about. If the priest comes first, here comes the prophet. You provoke the word of God by how you worship.
You provoke the word of God by how you lift him up. You provoke the word of God by how you lift your hands and raise your hand. The priest comes before the prophet is released.
This is not just a succession. This is a transformation. [Applause] This is a revolution.
This is a move. And and the irony of it is they said the word of the Lord was scarce in those days and there was no open vision. And yet the prophet was growing >> in the scarcity.
Y'all can't handle this. Prosperity grows in poverty. That's why the Bible said, "Let the poor say that I'm let the weak say that I'm >> See, you can you can you can be weak on top and be strong underneath.
" Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. You can be poor on top and have prosperity growing up under you. It does not yet appear what you shall be, but it's still growing up.
That's why I use the NIV because the prophet is still a boy, but he's coming. He's coming. He's coming.
He's coming. He's coming. Your prophecy is still a boy, but it's coming.
It's coming. It's coming. It's up under your priesthood.
That's why I'm trying to get you to worship because when you worship, you're getting closer to releasing that prophetic utterance uh that exists in your life. And that's why the devil doesn't want you to worship because worship makes the water break. Uh it makes the baby give birth.
Uh it releases a prophetic utterance. Uh somebody shout yes. And then I want to point out the extreme generational change.
It is not that Samuel and Eli just represent two generations. The truth of the matter is Eli is a boy. >> I mean, Samuel is a boy when Eli is an old man.
>> Samuel is young enough to be Huffny's son. Yes sir. >> So you got this grandfather character >> who is old and the other extreme is a boy is in the house >> and it is an extreme shift.
It's gonna skip a generation. You you you don't see it where you thought you would see it. But here it comes from the place you didn't expect to see it.
From a person you didn't expect to see it from, from a woman that you thought was drunk. Here comes the change uh that God's going to bring in your life. Uh that's why you got to stop looking down your nose at people and calling people out their name.
Uh cuz sometime God will use somebody you thought was drunk uh to be the next level of blessing in your life. Somebody holler for me. I feel like hollering this morning.
I feel like screaming this morning. And then when I was praying about it, the Lord said, "I want you to tell him in the night shift the light shimmers. [Applause] In the night shift, the light shimmers.
" Night doesn't mean total blackout. It says, "And air the lamp of God went out. " Now, you all were raised with electric lights, and I was, too.
But when I went to my grandmother's house, they would have candle lights and oil lamps. And when the lamps were going out, as they start to go out, they flicker. >> Flickering.
The night has shimmering light. Moments of illumination, >> glimpses, >> shadows, >> moments of revelation, moments of insight. >> You can't see it clearly cuz it's shimmering, but you've caught glimpses.
>> You would have fainted it, >> but you caught shimmers of light. Every time the devil thought he had you, God let the light shimmer. You still in a nice season, but you got a flicker of light.
You got a flicker of light. Uh, and sometimes a flicker is all you need. Uh, if you get a flicker of light, uh, you can hold on a little while longer.
Some of y'all came out with a flicker of light. Uh, you're like the woman who said, "I don't need the loaf. If I get a crumb, I'll come out on a crumb.
I wish I had some crummy people who will come out on a crumb. If you give me a half a chance, uh, I'll scratch myself out the rest of the way. I may not have daylight, uh, but if I got shimmering light, uh, if I know two scriptures, uh, if I know one and a half scriptures, uh, if I can sing a little bit, uh, I may not be on the praise team, uh, but if I can sing while I'm doing my dishes, uh, I can break a yoke over my house.
Uh, I want to talk to some people that are standing in shimmering light. make some noise. The old man couldn't hear him.
>> Now, the Bible said he couldn't see, but it didn't say nothing about his ears. >> But he cannot hear what the young man can hear. The young man can hear God.
and he can hear God to the point that he's disruptive, anxious, irritating, disturbs his sleep, keeps getting up again. Some of you can hear God so clear and then when you try to act on what God told you to do, they send you back. And when they send you back, it plays into your rejection issues.
It plays into your abandonment issues. And you think they don't believe in you cuz they send you back. But they're sending you back because they don't hear what you hear.
All they can do is send you back because they haven't heard what you heard. Somebody holler. I hear it.
My money is not right, but I hear it. My friends are not right, but I hear it. I don't have no building for it, but I hear it.
Somebody holler. I hear it. I'm preaching to somebody online.
I hear it. It won't let me rest. It won't let me rest.
It won't let me lay down. It won't let me sleep cuz I keep hearing it. I don't know how to do it, but I hear it.
[Applause] Now watch this. This is why we can't throw either extremes away. I'm not talking about you and your parents.
I'm talking about from grandparent >> on down. >> Eli can't hear it, >> but he can't interpret it. Samuel can hear it, but he don't know what to do with it.
[Applause] So when Eli perceived that the Lord had called him, not only did he perceive that God had called him, he told him what to say. >> See, some of us, God has kept us in the earth just to tell you what to do with what you got. We're not trying to control you.
We trying to stop the vicious cycle of going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. So, we're we're going to script you. It's going to be your job, your anointing.
I'm just giving you the script. So, Eli told him, listen, Eli, Eli said, go back and lay down in your place. In other words, go back and be where God expects you to be.
>> Adam, where art thou? You're not in the meeting place. >> Moses built a tabernacle in the wilderness.
What is tabernacle? It's a >> meeting. When God sent Jesus, he sent divinity to humanity because Jesus is a meeting.
>> I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the father save me come by me. Go back to the meeting place and lay down.
And if he calls you again, >> this this is the humility of the text. I cannot assume [Music] >> that I have endless opportunities to go back and forth. >> I don't know if you're going to call me again, but if you call me again, I know what to say now [Music] >> because I have served under Eli.
>> So, there's this big argument going on in the world in some parts of the world today, generational argument >> between the former and the latter. >> And that they're arguing over who's relevant and who isn't. >> They both are.
>> The reason they both are, he called the young because they're strong. He called the old because they they know the way. >> They know the way.
Eli was old, but he knew the way. >> He couldn't run the place, but he knew the way. >> You understand what I'm talking about?
>> So, one doesn't operate independent of the other. So, so the day shift can't go home >> before the night shift comes on. The the night shift can't go home until the day shift comes back.
>> And God said, "Until you learn how to work interdependently, you will never be effective. " >> Because I can't run the plays anymore, but I know how to play the game. [Applause] The the the challenge >> of the older generation is to not be jealous of the younger generation >> to the point that you won't give them the benefit of what you learn.
The challenge of a younger generation is to understand that some old systems still work. And in your desire to be innovative, there are still some laws you can't break. And one of them is to lay down in the right place >> and wait on the Lord.
And if >> And if >> I can't make him call you, >> I can't make him call you. >> I can't make him speak. >> I can't even make you go to the place.
But if you go back to the place, >> see, see, see, see, >> I got to stop. >> No, you don't. The the powerful thing to me about watching you run around the stage and preach is I remember you as a little girl >> sitting right over there in the corner with your head down to come back full circle to the place God said, "I'm going to bless you.
" Right. Right in the place where you felt rejection. Right in the place where you felt disgraced.
Right in the place where you felt shame. Right in the place where you thought nobody would ever accept you. Right in the place where you thought you'd never be anybody.
God said, "That's still a place. And I'm going to bring you back to the place. I'm going to bring you right back to the spot.
To the spot. to the very spot. Show me where you laid him down.
Show me where you gave up. Show me where you wanted to quit. Show me where you wanted to run from.
Show me where you tried to hide from. I'm going to bring you right back to the blaze. Samuel.
[Applause] [Music] See, they shout because they see the woman preaching. I'm over here shouting because I see the little girl preaching. I see the little girl preaching who thought her life was over.
That That's what I'm shouting about. Cuz you always be my baby. So I I see you like you're still a child sitting over the corner with big belly holding Malachi in your arms.
Now what you holding. [Applause] And it ain't just for her. It's for you, too.
Some of you, God's getting ready to do something in your life. He's going to break every curse, every bondage, every shame, every struggle on your life. If I'm preaching to you, give him 60 seconds of crazy.
I mean, no, no, no, no. Crazy praise. Curse breaking praise.
Yoke breaking praise. Thirst crunching praise. Praise him like you lost your mind.
Praise him like you just heard from God. Praise him like you got another chance. Praise him like he opened up a door.
The Lord said to me, The Lord said to me, there are some people in this room that he's trying to call you back to the place of your confusion, of your chaos. >> That there's going to be a night shift. >> Wait, wait, wait.
Let me give you this prophecy. The Lord said to Samuel, "I'm going to do things through you >> that causes both ears >> of them that hear it to tingle. [Applause] >> I am going to use you like no other prophet has ever been used in the scriptures.
>> I'm going to use you in life. I'm going to use you after your life. I'm going to use you to anoint kings.
>> I'm going to bring you before princes. I'm going to bring you into positions of power. And in I don't know if you got faith enough to believe it.
>> And God said all of that when Samuel had not yet known the Lord. [Applause] No. >> Hallelujah.
[Applause] >> This is not just about churches. This is about your life, >> your business, >> your career, >> your degree, >> your entrepreneurship, whatever your calling in the earth is, whatever your call, everybody ain't called to the pullpit. Everybody's not supposed to do this.
Everybody's not created to do this. Don't be onedimensional. There are some things that God created you for that you had some delays and some setbacks and some mistakes and some mishaps >> and God wants you to come back to the place.
God said go back to the place [Music] >> where you heard my voice. Speak Lord >> for thy servant hears.
