of heaven to saturate your soul romans chapter 8 verse 18 says for i reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 15 he says for all things are for your sakes he didn't say some things he said all things are for your sakes that the abundant grace might through the Thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God to which cause we faint not but through but though rather our outward man perish yet the
inward man is renewed day by day for our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at things which is seen but at things which are not seen for the things which is seen a temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal I want you to look at somebody like you're angry with them and tell them it's got to get better amen touch somebody else a it's only going to get better feel the presence of the Lord the
question is asked as debated with many young men the the shift or the paradigm shift in theological presentations and I regard the shift from going philosophically in a presentation to going psychologically in the theological presentation and the question the young men asked as I would discuss this after church in many locations they would ask well how do you do that and the answer is going from what he says to asking why is he saying it it's a critical difference because most of us have been trained for years and years to present the Bible in a
manner that expresses what he says when I do the electical syntactical break down and and deal with the word studies and the systematic theological presentations I'm searching to find out what he said but if I just shifted a little bit and asked myself why is he saying this to me because immediately when I begin to ask why I now begin to look to see what are the deficiencies that I have where are the potential pitfalls and how does this word help me he says something that relates to the present and he tosses us into the
future and he's literally saying in both of these texts he's literally saying to us that there is something that is going to happen that is going to completely negate what you're dealing with right now and in order for you to grasp the power of what's going to happen you have to be able to get through what you're dealing with right now so he takes my present and he gives me a vision of something that he is a working Island and he then says to me that what you're going through right now is a part of
the process of getting you to where I want you to go if that is so then he has taken me psychologically and he has identified me with what he is getting ready to do and I'm to take that bit of medicine and massage my mind to deal with what I'm dealing with in front of me knowing that what I'm dealing with in front of me is not the way it will be it's a critical thing because when you understand faith then as I've been trying to project the psychological disposition of theology that faith now is
bonded up in self identity and the power then ascribes and prescribes a certain behavior if I'm a child of God I cannot deal with things in the same sense as full who don't know God because my identity with God brings with it an expression that is based on the impression that I have because I trust the word of God kirkegaard is interesting he says that the condition of despair is sin whenever I'm at the point where I feel like I can't go another step or whenever I feel as if my circumstances are too big for
me I feel as if I cannot overcome the present circumstance and I feel as if I gotta be different from Who I am because of what I got to face well kirkegaard suggest that that is sin he says that the sin of unbelief is literally bordered or grounded in hopelessness because whenever I get to the place where I cannot project anything marvelous into my future whenever I get to the place where I'm just looking for more trouble and I'm looking for more Hardy whenever I get to the place where I cannot think myself above what
I'm going through and still remain calm and the same person and as I don't have to be changed by circumstance I I don't have to become ugly because what is around me is ugly I don't have to become nervous because I'm not so sure how it's coming out I can still be Who I am because I identify with the power of the Living law in a sense original sin was was regarded as man wanting to be like God but there's another side to sin the other side to pride is hopelessness it's it's it's resignation it's
inertia its melancholy and and and so what happens is because of my circumstance I'm sitting here and I'm sort of decaying in frustration it's like a sweet decaying thoughts where I'm wondering why do I live and what is my life about and I and I wish I didn't have these circumstances and situations and and remember he said without a vision the people perish we have taken it to make the preacher the one with the vision and the people perish if he doesn't have a vision I've got news for you if you don't have a vision
for your life I feel like something's pushing me today if you don't have one for your life you sit there and allow your circumstance to swallow you and completely distort and twist you into something you are not I refuse to be different than I am because of circumstance if there's going to be any changes it's got to be gob changes not circumstance changes uh I'm gonna talk to somebody in here because if you can just get through this and not lose your mind things are only going to get better oh I feel something helping me
here it is critical because we understand that at anytime you know yourself you have to know yourself in light of who you identify with and this is the why of what he is saying to us why are you telling me this I'm telling you this because you have a proclivity to lose hold of your focus when things around you aren't going the way you want I was talking just a few minutes ago and I could just hear it and in the voice when when people are frustrated the first thing they want to do is quit
that's it when you get frustrated you just throw your hands up and you're done and and frustration has a way of setting your energy and taking your purpose from you and if you have this proclivity to look at your circumstances instead of keeping your eyes on the prize what Satan will do is make a whole lot of things get in your way and have you fighting the things around you instead of focusing on where you need to go when you decide in your spirit I don't care how rough it is I'll roll my sleeves up
because at the end of the day I will achieve what God has purposed me to achieve and you've got to get adamant with it you've got to get just there Bowl with it and you got to talk not only do you talk to God every now and then you got to tell that devil son you got to tell them get out of my face I'm on my way and I won't be back no more I feel it here we we have this sweet frustration in the decaying thoughts and sometimes we're dying slowly in a euphoric
state of discouragement and it's something about this coverage men sometimes when it hits you can't put your hands on what it is that's got you feeling the way you feel it there are times when I get that I have to check to the root I have to find because there are times when you're depressed and you're sitting around with pain and depression should only come when you are helpless did you hear me that's the only time when you can't do anything about it and you can always do something about everything because when you can't do
anything because you don't have the power you do know someone who does and I'm not gonna just sit here and just fall apart if I got to cry I'm gonna cry before the Lord because whenever he sees my tears I'm telling you somebody getting ready to move because when God sees his children going through anything he'll roll off his throne in heaven and oh I can feel it in the atmosphere God told me to tell you I'm getting ready to move I'm getting ready to move it's a it's a state of mind this discouragement where
God is never pleased he is not pleased when his children move into discouragement because it gives the devil praise anytime you are not praising God you're praising the devil and complaining praises the devil what he wants to come from my lips is another complaint what he wants to come from my lips is another sadness is another statement that is on the bottom what he wants to come out of my lips is something evil and something cold and insensitive but any time Satan hits you and if out of your lips comes a praise I wish I
could preach it my box are lost yesterday my my box are lost yesterday and and as I was watching I said now I wish he had a counterpunch that means every time Klitschko would hit him I wish he'd come over the jab and smack him in his head like he did the time before that's just boxing don't worry about it and and and and I thought about that as I was meditating on this message and I thought that any time Satan hits and God counters and and goes over his blow he thinks he's knocking you
out and and every time he hits you you got a praise and every time he something happens in your life you got a dance and and pretty soon he gets discouraged from attacking you because if you attack me I'm going to lift up the name of my god if you attack me I'm not gonna sit around here with a pity party and suspend my life because you over here attacking me no I'm going to lift up the name of my God and set an atmosphere in the house that weeping may endure for a night but
it's morning time I feel the power of God it's critical to understand this because one writer says temptation then consists not so much of the Titanic desire to be as God but temptation exists in weakness in timidity in weariness not wanting to be what God requires of us God didn't give you the ability to create praise and the ability to open your mouth and lift him up because the animals can't do it there huh a dog can only bark a cat can only meow a donkey can only brave but you as a human being you
can sit and create a praise you can call him the lily of the valley the bright and Morning Star you can make up names you don't even know and and and praise him and glorify him why because that's what he put us here to do to give him the praise and so he's still looking for his praise when the devil's attacking you he's still looking for his praise when you lose your job he's still looking for his praise when things are happening in the family that hurts and when you praise Him he opens up another
door and he moves things out of your way and he shows Satan you're not by yourself I got the Lord with me I feel like giving God some glory I feel just take a minute out and just just just just hollow every now and then and make me wanna holla throw up both my hands I feel the Holy Ghost here I got a little more work to do I'm not gonna keep you all day long faithlyn is the self constituted by God and it's constituted by God relating it to the self and what he's done
in this text is he's taking you out of your present and I'm telling you here if you don't have the ability to dream then you don't have the ability to have hope because hope is dreaming anytime you're a dreamer and you can see yourself in another place I don't care how rough it is right now this ain't the place I'm lending I'm dreaming I see something else yeah I'm riding around in a Pinto thank God but I see a Mercedes Benz yeah by myself right now but I see a honeymoon I see a big house
I see stuff changing yeah they got me fired and trying to hurt me but I see I wish I could talk to you huh because if you can imagine yourself it starts in your mind and if you keep the devil out of your mind let him have your pocketbook get some more money later but I got to have my mind oh I feel like dancing in here I'm gonna tell you touch a neighbor after a while when I got relates to the soul and and the normative definition of pain its identity it coincides faith and
identity when I see you I ought to identify you with praise I ought to identify you with happiness I don't nobody want folk around them with a lips hanging down all the time who you hanging out with why you so sad if you were hanging out with Jesus I feel it in here if you're hanging out with the Lord it don't matter what folk do to you as long as I got God on my side it don't matter how funny the money is it ain't nothing but a test to see do I still have my
integrity to see can I still lift him up and give him the glory I got to get ugly because things are ugly I'm still the same person I feel like preaching here give somebody a high five and say it's got to get better and that God plans for it to get better in fact the same money but a situation for a revelation of how powerful God is and when I identify with God it makes the devil mad when you identify with God because the devil is a spoiler I wish I could talk to you about
that he likes to spoil what he can't control do you know some folk like that if I can't have y'all well the devil you're a liar but you can't kill what God is in control and as long as God has his hand on you let him I'm being too scientific another time I remember the story of the three little pigs and the three little pigs who remembers a story fresh pig built his house he built his house out of straw and when he built his house out of the straw here comes the big bad wolf
well the devil is a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour touch your neighbor said that that was checking you out and when he checks you out you gotta check your house out ah that's all it's about it ain't none Meletus for you to check out how much holy ghost ship got it ain't nothing but a test to check out how much character you have how much joy you have how much anointing you have how much wisdom you have I feel like preaching all of a sudden and all of a sudden here comes a big
bad wolf and he came to the house of straw and he said I'm gonna host I'm gonna and I'm gonna blow your house down well and he blew the straw down I'm so glad they had another brother they ran over to his house and he built this house out of wood but I heard I'm on blow your house down and that house fell down but there is some money who said upon this rock the gates of hell and one brother and my house down [Music] it can only get because what God's plan for your life
it can only get better and while you're on the waiting list praise and while you wait get ready turn the line around can I get some help praises and get through it don't be bitter get through it don't be angry it's just another thing that God has arranged to take you to the next level touch somebody say I'm going man gods get ready when a fresh anointing anointing that will drip with all the weight of your house I feel like preaching the doors are open it's time to step it up shake somebody's hand say you
ain't got to watch my back the only thing behind me is goodness better Church better money better friends [Applause] [Music] [Applause] what faith is identity achievement and identity diffusion where gods get ready to taking everything about you can go [Applause] and all you going through is just to drop the stuff off that don't belong with you over there don't look at what's dropping off look at what's coming because whatever's coming is gonna make up I have heard I reckon that the sufferings of this present time whatever you're going through don't allow it to change your
psychological disposition I have seen the lives of people right in this house go through all kinds of ups and downs but at the end of the day they were up and not down oh I'm closing I'm closing it is when your back is against the wall when everything around you has crashed that's when we know the caliber of person you are it's when you can justifiably do something evil when you can just fit fine you'll be crooked when you can justifiably steal something or lie about cuz your backs against the wall and when you can
stand in that position still maintain your God identity now that shows me who you are and when you maintain that identity you swoop in with the power of his angels whoa I feel it here he'll swoop in with the power of his might and he'll stretch you into another level person and he'll place you on another level Oh things can only get better I want that person in this house that is not born again I need you to rise up out of your seat or just just touch the person beside you'd say come go with
me come on and give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ come on come on we invite you to Jesus we open our arms to you one to be saved young man young lady don't die in despair and outside but open your heart to him now yes yes a wonderful change come up come on yes has come on me come on come on come on yes yes bring the family that's it yes wonderful change hands come on let's it come on come on yes we're happy about we're happy about we're praising God for you don't
let him walk alone a wonderful change wonderful chair I'm vinegar come on young lady that's right come on young man join us Jesus come on has come I feel an anointing in this house a wonderful change Eskimo yes come on three
