Bishop Noel Jones - From Agony To Destiny (1999)

uh in Mark's gospel uh chapter 15, I I would that you would consider verse 37 through 39. And I I want to talk to to to some real Christians tonight. I want to talk to those [Music] who who on their way to to where God would have them to go, they identify with the reality of the struggle.

I'm going to also read a little bit from St. Mark's Gospel chapter 14 so that the parameters of the message will be covered. In 34 of 15 and at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice saying eloi eli lama sabakani which is being interpreted my god my god why hast thou forsaken me.

And some of them that stood by when they heard it said behold he calleth the liars. And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him the drink, saying, "Let alone, let us see whether Elias will come to take him down. " Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost.

And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And when the centurion which stood over against him saw that he so cried out and gave up the ghost, he said, "Truly, this man was the son of God. " There are a couple things I'll mention there after I read just in passing.

In Mark 14, we have another picture prior to his crucifixion. And what we have in 14 in verse 32 of course they came to the place which was named Gethsemane and he said to his disciples sit ye here while I shall pray. Now notice he sat nine of them thou.

And he taketh with him Peter, James and John and began to be sore amazed and to be very heavy. And the Greek there is he was terrified. Interesting.

And he saith unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death. Tarry ye here and watch. And he went forward a little.

Uh, one of the writers said he went a stones throw away just to indicate that he was still within the view of those three disciples. He wasn't trying to hide his agony. He fell on the ground.

Another text says he he was like he was rifulful. He was he was crawling around and he prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass from him. And he said, "Aba, Father, all things are possible unto thee.

Take away this cup from me. Nevertheless, not what I will, but what thou wilt. I don't want to do it, but I do it for you.

And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he said unto Peter, now he named him Peter the rock, didn't he? But now he reverts to his old name.

He says, Simon sleepst thou? Now you notice now Simon wasn't the only one sleeping but he knew what Simon would do the next couple of days. So he's saying couldest not thou watch one hour watch ye and pray lest you enter in temptation.

And then Jesus is always nice. The spirit is truly ready, but the flesh is weak. And then he went and prayed himself again, and he returned.

He said, "All right, go on to bed. " I want you to notice the the intensity of agony. And I thought for the great part that he had conquered it all and he did in Gethsemane.

But you will also notice that the vestigages of the intense battle at Gethsemane carried over to Calvary and it culminated with him questioning God. Now you told me not to question God. That's what you told me when I came up in the church.

Don't question God. But for every person who is genuine about their salvation, there are times when you just don't know what God is doing. And you got to ask him.

You got to ask him something. I didn't think it was going to be like this. I want to talk a little bit tonight from agony to destiny.

Touch somebody and say, "I'm trying to get to the other side of my cross. I'm trying to get to the other side of it. I got a feeling some wonderful things on the other side, Lord.

But help me to get to the other side. I got to get through this. The other thing I wanted to note in passing that I thought was remarkable just in passing was what does it take for folk to realize that you are a child of God?

Notice the centurion did not come to his conclusion based on the premises of Jesus's miraculous healings and walking on water and feeding 5,000. I mean, he he he wasn't evangelized by that, but he was evangelized by the way Jesus handled suffering. It would seem to me that you should have been convinced because of my omnipotent display of God's power.

that I'm a child of God. But only after the agony of his death did the centurion realize he was the son of God. I guess anybody can seem to be a child of God when everything's okay.

Oh, God. But when you got to get through it just in passing just in passing just if I approached the text I would and sometime I might be dyslexic but my approach to this text leaves me with great difficulty because when I view Jesus going to Calvary particularly with the background of Jesus being God. It is difficult for me to grasp that his divinity did not bleed over into his humanity.

See this this this philosophical uh theological difficulty because my first tendency when I deal with what I have to deal with is to push my my intellect into the way of the way I should behave and say coping out. I can understand him making it because his divinity overpowers his humanity. Now, now if if I emphasize the godness of Jesus at the expense of the humanity of Jesus, then somewhere in the remote recesses of my mind, I feel like he really didn't go through as hard a test because somewhere there His divinity augmented, embellished, enhanced, corroborated his humanity.

And so it allows me to escape from facing what I have to face because I say even though I have the Holy Spirit, I am not God in the flesh. But Jesus, he he does something to that and he he he bridges from the mystical far-flung presentation of my philosophical attitude into a more practical application of my individuality as a saint. Yes, sir.

And he does it when he says, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, pick up his cross and follow me. " Yeah. And right there, he pulled the covers off everybody in this room because he says, "No matter how wonderfully Christian you look, if we're following him, we have a cross.

" Oh, I feel God in this place. I'm talking to you. There is nobody in this room right now who can declare they are following Jesus and will not admit to having a cross.

I don't care how good-looking you are. I don't care how rich you are. I don't care how self-composed you are.

I don't care how you've mastered the jargon of Christianity. Everybody in this house has something they got to deal with in order to get to the next level. [Applause] He says, "Pick it up at once.

" I want to spend a lot of time here. Uh, "Pick it up at once. " That's what it that's the Greek.

It's an imperative command. Pick it up at once. Which means I understand your tendency to postpone.

Yes, sir. You have this proclivity to put things till tomorrow. But if you really want to get to your destiny, pick it up at once.

As something that you've been putting off these last five years that's got you going around in circles. And God says, "You got to come with me. I'm going to the mountain tonight.

" And when you pick it up, don't take it parkway and drop it. Because whatever I bring you out, I want you to stay out of. Oh, you know you're in trouble when what God delivered from delivered you from 5 years ago, you've been thinking about going back.

You know you're in trouble. He said, "When I bring you out, I want you to stay out and I want you to pick this cross up and keep following me because I have somewhere to go and I intend to bless you. " But you got to go through this.

You can't avoid it. I want to talk to some real people in here tonight. When I noted that I noted that that statement was made when Peter, who had just come through a revelatory experience with God, thought himself now so spiritually in tune that he could rebuke Jesus.

And Jesus's response was, "Get thee behind me, Satan. Thou savorest the things of men rather than the things of God. I've got to go through this because I will not allow you to pull me from my destiny.

I have too much that God wants to give me. My visions have been too prolific for me to sit here and let puny creatures and things keep me from where God wants me to go. I'm right at the point in my life now where I've got to have what God wants to give me.

And whatever I got to give up to get it, I'm willing to do it right now. Oh, can I take my time tonight? I Amen.

uh I don't have to share. He brings me and he admits to me now that that I have my own idiosyncratic cross. And so what he's saying to me now is forget having to go through the cross I had.

I just want you to deal with the cross you have. And he shows me then that the cross that I have and the cross that he has differs physically because I don't have to share the physical ramifications of his cross. But I promise you that even though I don't share the physical aspect of it, my cross renders to me an emotional and a psychological pain because it's something that I don't want to deal with.

Is there any any anything in your life that you would rather just pass over it? You know, I want God to bless me. I want God to be good to me, but Lord, just let that be right there.

Uh uh let's not deal with that. Just just, you know, let's just just let's cover this Lord. Uh you see, I don't have to share in the physical cross.

By that I mean I don't have to share the complexity of his humanity and his divinity at war within him because his was so complex at Gethsemane that his body forgot to put water out of his sweat glands and and so the complexity of his humanity and his divinity at war with what he had to do his his humanity declaring I don't want to do it and his defininity declaring, "But you've got to do it. " And and the war between what he knew he should do and what his flesh did not want to do and the weight of everybody's sin on his back sent blood through his sweat glands. Uh you don't have to share that.

I don't think you've ever bled through your sweat glands because of something you did not want to do. Cuz most of us, if it gets that tough, we just Mhm. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. And then we try to pray our way through it later. Oh yes.

I'm going there tonight. I'm talking to some real folk in here. Ah, I didn't have to share the hemohydrosis.

I I I didn't have to share the flagrum, the iron balls and cheekbones that cut into his skin and his subcutinous tissue when he was being whipped and left muscles uh bleeding like ribbons of bleeding flesh. I didn't have to share that. I I didn't share the physical crown of thorns that he had on his head.

And neither did I share the 75lb patty bullan that he had to carry up to Goltha's hill. I didn't share the 7-in spike that was put between the carpel and the radius bone and cut the medium nerve and send fire through his body. I I didn't have to share the 7in spike that went through the intermetarsal space of his foot and cut the paranormal nerve and sent fire this way.

I didn't have to share that. I thank God I didn't have to share that. And I got news for the devil.

I won't share hell with him either. Ah because Jesus had hell in his body to deliver me from hell. Oh God.

But I got an emotional pain and I do have a psychological pain because I've got a cross that I've got to deal with that is standing in the way of my blessing. And even though I want God to bless me badly, I I got to deal with this thing. And until I deal with this thing, I'm looking at some blessings that'll never come my way because I've got to get to the other side in order to receive what God has.

I'm talking to somebody who's been standing in front of your blessing for five years and let it keep going by because of something you don't want to deal with. Oh, but I remember a friend of mine says, "Can you stand to be blessed? " There comes a time in your life when you got to look the devil in the face and say, "For what God has for me, I'm willing to go through the hell you put me through in order to receive his gift.

I feel God in here. I didn't have to share anything physical, but I've cried many nights over something I knew I had to get out of my life and didn't want to touch it. Oh God, I I hope I'm talking to somebody that knows where I am.

I didn't have to share the weight of his body pulling on the arms and shoulders and and totally affecting his respiration, which ultimately led to asphixxia. I didn't share the muscle cramps, nothing physical. I didn't share the death by hypoalmic shock or exhaustive esphixxia or stress induced arhythmia or or or just congestive heart failure.

So I don't join in his physical, but I've laid up many nights in my own Gethsemane looking before God and saying to God, why me? Everybody else is living every kind of way they want to live and and they seem to be blessed. Why do I have to give up so much?

And I heard God say, "For what I want to do with you, you got to give up more than they do. " I want to talk to some real folk in here. Touch your neighbor and say, "Neighbor, do you know where God wants to take you?

I mean, do you really know what he's got for you? " Put somebody else say, "Aren't you tired of of having second rate clothes and second rate houses and second rate cars and second rate relationships? " Don't you know God's got the best for you?

But are you willing to go through the agony in order to achieve your destiny? I think somebody ought to tell the Lord, "Tonight is my night. Whatever I got to give up, I'm ready to give it up for what you got for me.

I feel it in here. I'm talking to somebody. I didn't intend to work this hard, but I guess I got to work.

Ah, he died a horrific death. Ah, that's what I want to show you tonight. That Jesus died a horrible death.

If you notice, Malach says he said he cried with a loud voice. So here is the picture then of Jesus on the cross and he's hollering with great intensity with great force. One writer said that that the word here is fiferous.

It's a it's it's a gut cry of anguish. Why am I going through this? When you consider the challenge of destiny, it starts with the vision of what God wants to do.

And it shows you what you got to go through to get it. Oh God, it's out there. Yes, it's out there.

Your blessings are right there. In fact, the kingdom of God is at hand. And if it's at hand, you ought to take it.

But between taking it and where you are, there is a Gethsemane. He was so amazed. He was terrified.

And so the question now arises, how human was he? Because without Gethsemane, you would think it was a breeze. But no, it wasn't easy.

There are some things God wants to do for you that will not be easy. You're not going to go into a spiritual anesthesia and wake up blessed. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Some things you got to fight. Ah, you got to tell the devil, you got to kill me. Let it kill me.

But I ain't giving up until I get everything that God has promised. I feel somebody breaking through here tonight. I'm not going to let you go.

Pull on. Somebody say, "You're coming through tonight. " Uh, you coming through tonight.

We ain't leaving you there. No. No.

You're not staying there tonight. You coming through tonight. Uh-uh.

You ain't going to blank it and put it out of your mind. I'll preach it every way I can tonight until you get the message. That thing that's sitting in front of your blessing, it's time for it to go.

If it tears your heart out tonight, let it wreck your heart. Because five months from now, you're going to look back over your life and say, "Lord, I thank you. I thank you.

" Somebody's saying thanks right now for something they had to walk out of 6 months ago. Take a little time. Give him a little praise.

Tell him, "Thank you. It don't hurt no more. Thank you.

I got over it now. Thank you. I got over it in great strides.

" And I want to say, "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

" You know, when you can praise God, when you can walk right by your biggest problem and it don't bother you. No. Well, the challenge is on because here is he at the crossroads of destiny.

If I go forward, I will have the victory. But flesh does not die easy. Do I have some time tonight?

I want you to see that the greatest challenge you have is really not overcoming sin. I'm not talking about sin right through here. I'm talking about dealing with God.

Because in this text before me, Jesus is not dealing with the devil. He's dealing with God. Now run with me through the temptations and and look how it seemed as if Jesus mastered the temptations without very much difficulty.

40 days hungry and Satan offers him food and he says, "Get thee behind me, Satan. It is written, man shall not live by bread alone. " Oh, what a breeze.

Didn't need anybody to pray with him for that. He just quoted the word and moved. Then Satan realized that he was going to get spiritual.

He tried to make him super spiritual. So he took him up to the temple and said, "Just jump off. They'll catch you.

" He said, "Listen. " He said, "It don't go like that. " Said, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

" And so he walked down. He didn't need anybody to pray with him for that. And then of course he shows him the kingdoms of the world and he says, "You don't have to die on the cross for this.

Just give me a quick bow. " Jesus said, "No, get thee behind me, Satan, because the only one I'm to worship is the Lord my God, and him only shall I serve. " And he just walked out full of power.

Now notice that same Jesus dealing with his destiny in the middle of agony. And now he needs three puny guys to lean on because the greatest difficulty you will have is not dealing with the devil. It's dealing with God.

Because when you deal with the devil, you have God to help you. But when you got to deal with God, who do you have? I feel God in this place tonight.

I'm just trying to take my time here. Is it all right? Cuz I feel something pushing me.

I know I do. But I'm trying. touch somebody and say, "Who do I go to when I've got to do what God wants me to do?

" And my flesh, oh, I ain't talking about the devil now. I'm talking about that thing that you think you can't live without. I'm talking about that might be a person you think you can't give up.

It might be somebody God wants you to stay with that you want to part from. in order to take you to your next level. But you've got to decide if I don't even want to do it, I'll do it because you want me to do it.

Because I have not been delivered from the not want to. I wish you'd understand me tonight. I don't care how sanctified I am.

There are some things in my life I want to do that I ain't got no business wanting to do. And there are other things in my life I ought to do that I don't want to do. And I find myself crying in the night over stuff that I want to do and that I can't do and stuff that I don't want to do that God wants me to do.

So we came to a compromise. Nevertheless, not my will but thy will be done. And then I heard him say, I'll give you double for your trouble.

I feel God in this house. I feel a little churchy in here. Touch your neighbor and say, "You better get out of the way.

Get it out of the way. Get it out of the way. You should have had that degree.

5 years ago, you should have had your own business. 7 years ago, you should have been driving a turbo Bentley. 10 years ago, but that thing that's holding you, you got to tell the devil, if you break my heart into goodbye, I got to get what God has for me.

And you know the wonderful thing about it? Everything you give up, God will give you better. Oh God, I feel you're helping me.

I feel somebody breaking through here tonight. Touch your neighbor. Say, I got to get through this.

Ah, just give me a little help. Give me a little help. When the disciples went to sleep on him, the angels came to minister because he was exceeding sorrowful even unto death.

Sometimes the thing that I won't want to give up, the thing that is so much a part of me and yet it hinders what God has for me, I don't want to let it go. Lord, how do you expect me to walk away from something that is real to me for a vision that you give me? How do I turn off my sight and pick up my faith and trust you to get me through this pain in order to get me to the other side of my cross?

That's why the Hebrew writer picked it up and said that he offered a prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death. There are two things that intensify the ugliness of Jesus's death even further. One is the martyrs.

So many martyrs died noble deaths. When I think about Socrates, he he died a wise man. He simply just drank hemlock and and and just died as a demonstration of the magnanimity of the soul.

When I think about the Zealot martyrs who who after their their successful vault against Rome were crucified and they just died looking forward to the resurrection and looking forward to the resurrection of their enemies because they said when you rise again you're going into eternal damnation. Our Rabbi Akiba, he died and he died and found his cross freedom from the earth and from the things that he longed to leave. When I look at the Stoics, they died demonstrating their inner liberty.

When I look at Dietrich Bonhofer, he said, "This is the end, and for the beginning is now new life. " Everybody seemed to handle it so easily. But Jesus died a horrific death because the martyrs didn't have a message to you and me.

Jesus had a message to you and me and that is flesh does not die easily. It fights against the destiny of God. But if you ever want to go to the next level, you've got to say to yourself, "Whoever I got to give up, whatever I got to walk away from, I'm ready for the blessings of the most high God, can I take you to the next level?

" It is not a matter of you not being saved. Because people want to say that if you're struggling at all, it's because you don't have it like you ought to. The devil is a liar.

Where God wants to take me, he has to expand me to deal with it. It's not that I'm so small. It's that his gift is so big that no matter how big I can get, he has to make me bigger to receive it.

I feel God in this place. Touch your neighbor. Say, "Neighbor, I must have a wonderful destiny cuz I'm sure going through hell to get it.

" I feel like preaching in here tonight. Give me a little more monitor sound, man. I I need some help.

Touch three people real quick and say it must be great cuz I'm going through a whole lot just to get there. Tell them it must be great. It must be wonderful.

Thank you. It must be glorious. It must be powerful.

Cuz every time I look around, here come another devil. I feel God in here. Oh, it ain't because I'm weak.

It's because I got a relationship with God. Ah, that's why Jesus when he moved, he moved in power. And the thing that makes his death so ugly is the fact that his life was so miraculous.

The fact that when he moved, he moved like no other man moved. He healed the sick. He calmed the storm.

He expressed the power of God on earth like no man expressed it. He walked on water, disappeared out of crowds. He was afraid of nothing and no man.

He withtood the money changers. Thank you. He withtood the Pharisees.

He withtood the hypocrite that left the morally crippled still crippled. He was eyes to the blind. He was feet to the lame.

He was ears to the death. He was a mouth to the dumb. Can you see him walking up to Lazarus's tomb?

A man was dead in there four days. And he said, "Roll away the stone. " Now, I want you to think about that.

If you can raise the dead, you can roll away the stone. But here's what the Lord is saying to you. I ain't rolling away the stone.

You can do that. And if you want to see a miracle in your life, you roll away the stone that's standing between you and your miracle. I feel like preaching in here.

Just touch my key. I'm going to have some church tonight, y'all. Excuse me.

That's it. You got it. Hold it.

You got to understand what God is saying. Roll your stone away. Touch your neighbor.

Say, "It's time to lean up on your stone. It's time to move it. It's time to move some of them negative folk uh that's been in your life.

It's time to move some of those folk that's trying to hold you back. It's trying to move some of those folk that's always telling you you can't be anything and you'll never mount to anything. And God never does that much for anybody.

You better roll away the stone cuz Jesus is getting ready to work a miracle in your destiny. And I don't care how I got to push. I shall have victory.

I feel the Holy Ghost in here. Can you imagine now? He walks up to a man who was dead for 4 days.

Remember this. 10 hours after Lazarus died, flies laid eggs in all of his orififices, laid eggs in his nose, in his ears, and in his eyes. About 10 hours later, maggots hatched from the eggs and began to eat the flesh that was already bloated from the gases released on the inside.

About 10 hours after that, along came millipedes that ate the maggots that ate the flesh. And about 10 hours after that came some bugs that ate the millipedes that ate my God, the maggots that ate the flesh. 4 days later, Jesus shows up and commands Lazarus to come forth.

And the bugs had to spit up the millipedes that spat up the maggots that sped up the flesh. And Lazarus come walking out of there. Touch your neighbor, say, "Roll away your stone.

" And you'll see a miracle in your life that you had never seen. I feel like preaching tonight. I feel the power of God.

Give somebody high five. Say whatever it takes. I'm going to destiny tonight.

I can't wait till tomorrow. I can't wait till next year. But I want mine in [Applause] 99.

I feel the Holy Ghost in here. Shake somebody's hand like you going to shake it off and tell him go for yours now. It's your time now.

I feel the spirit of God. When I look after death, it was almost contradictory and ambiguity at least because here is a man who was second to none. When you see folk crying sometime and hurt in the middle of the church, keep your mouth off them.

Touch somebody. Say, "Get your mouth off me. I ain't having a breakdown.

I'm having a breakthrough. I feel like preaching. " I'm getting ready to break through.

I got some things I got to deal with, but I see my destiny. I got some people I got to shake, but I see my destiny. I got a woman too close to me that ain't helping me.

And even though it hurts me, I got to say it's you I want, but it's him I need. Byebye. M I don't want nothing on this side of the cross that's keeping me from going through.

But every blessing that I want is on the other side. And touch your neighbor. Say it's worth it.

It's worth it. I feel like preaching. I'd rather live with you right than live with David.

Can I preach like I feel it? Y'all excuse me tonight. You got to realize this.

When you're with Uriah, you're number one. But when you're with David, your number maybe 1,000, I'd rather have a blessing with Uriah than a part-time situation with David. Shake somebody's hand.

Say, "I got to have it on the other side of the cross. I got to shake this. I got to leave it here cuz I got a feeling that my real blessing is when I get through this mess and hold on.

Y'all better pray with me tonight cuz I'm going to drive the devil out of here. Put your foot on him one time. I got to go devil.

I'm ready for mine. I'm ready to go to the next level. Can I take you a little higher?

It is not because he was not close to God. It was because he was why he had to go through what he's got to go through. His destiny had the whole world on his back and the formality of the cross had to be faced.

He was so messed up in the complexity of his humanity and divinity. He been to cry out to God, "Why hast thou forsaken me? " Can I tell you the last door between you and your destiny is to feel God forsaken.

Cuz I tried every way I can to get around this thing, but it's not going away. Cuz God says you got to go through it. You got to walk away from it.

And I'm not going to give you your blessing until you leave. But I want you to leave. Jordan's not going to open up till you put your foot in.

I feel like preaching in here. You got to do it. Look your neighbor in the face and say, "You got to do it.

" Aren't you tired of secondhand men and secondhand women, secondhand cars, secondhand houses? It's time for you to put down what you got to put down. Don't let folk tell you you ain't spiritual.

My blessing is so great. I got to rid myself of some of this mess. I feel like holling.

I'm getting ready to close, but I feel the joy of the Lord. Look at somebody. Say, "I'm almost through it.

I'm almost through it. " Tell somebody, "I don't feel the pain no more like I used to feel it. I'm almost through it.

I see a cloud, the size of a man's hand. It's getting ready to rain. [Applause] It's getting ready to rain.

Y'all touch me people real quick. Say, "Do you feel the sprinkle? It's getting ready to rain.

It's getting ready to rain. It's getting ready to rain. Don't doubt your salvation right now.

Don't doubt yourself right now. You are close to God. You are a child of God.

When I look at Jesus, how close he was to God, it makes it more formidable. Because here is Jesus. When you say Jesus and you say God, you're talking about the ultimate relationship.

You can be godly and feel God forsaken. You can be holy and feel God forsaken. You can be righteous and feel like everybody's blessed, but you because God is taking you through to a higher destiny.

Other folk have already got theirs, but you ain't got yours yet. Because what you got to go through is not the usual. Cuz the blessing for you is not usual.

You got to have extraordinary anguish for extraordinary miracles. You got to go through more than your neighborh cuz I got my hand on you. I'm feeling I feel the Holy Ghost touch free people.

Say God's hand is on you, baby. God's hand is on you. That's why you cry like you do.

That's why you hurt like you do. That's why folk talk about you like they do. Cuz God's hand is on you.

I heard him when he said, "I and my father are one. " He couldn't be unholy. I heard him when he said, "When you see me, you see the father.

I've come to do the will of him that sent me. " I heard God said, "This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. " They had to be close.

But when it comes to the will of God, he'll put you through whatever in order to give you what he wants you to have because all glory belongs to the Lord. Don't leave me tonight, but look and see. Stay for three days.

It looks like I'm breaking down. It looks like I'm hollering. It looks like I'm not going to make it, but stay three days.

Three days later, he exchanged agony for power. Got up out of the grave and said, "All power is in my hand. " Shake somebody's hand.

say, "I'm getting ready to exchange a whole lot of mess for a big bless. I feel like shouting here. I'm almost through.

I'm almost there. I feel the Holy Ghost. " Y'all pray for me tonight.

But I feel like dancing. Give somebody high five. Say, "I'm almost there.

I'm almost there. One more praise. " came in to make one more tear.

I have to cry. But I promise you this. If anybody's going to be blessed by my tears, it's going to be me.

If anybody's going to be blessed by me staying up all night, it's going to be me. If anybody is going to be blessed by the pain in my heart, it's going to mean me. Tell your neighbor, "I'm almost through.

I'm almost through. I need a little help. " Pull on, somebody say, "You got some help.

Come on through. Come out of your head for your destiny. Come out of your sorrow.

Help for your joy. Come on out. Come on out.

Come on [Applause] out. I feel it in here. Tell somebody, I'm coming out.

I'm coming out. I'm coming through. I see it.

I see my blessing. I see my anointing. Goodbye.

Hello. Goodbye. Hello.

Goodbye. [Applause] Hello. I feel it in here.

Three people real quick. Say, "Let it go, baby. " God just making room to give you that destiny blessing.

Let it go. Let it go. Let it go.

Let it go. Let it [Applause] go. From agony.

I feel it in here. I got to close or I'll hurt myself. But I have somebody in here that believes that you're right at the edge.

Everything the devil's thrown at you. He going to have to take it back. Cuz once I get to the other side, all power, I feel it in here.

What's my destiny? To lay hands on the sick and they recover. What's my destiny?

To speak it and it come to pass. What's my destiny? to tell the devil, "You can't bother me no more.

Cuz I already died and I ain't scared to die. I've been to hell and back. My destiny is to take the keys and open doors and tell the devil, "Get out of my way.

That's my door. That's my house. This is my job.

This is my soul. Get out of the way. [Applause] I feel it in here.

I feel it in here. Put somebody real quick. Tell them, "It's my time now.

It's my time now. I'm getting ready to cry my tears. I'm getting ready to live.

I'm getting ready to enjoy everything God gave [Music] [Applause] [Music] Praise him tonight. Come on through the gap. Come on through.

Come on through heartache. Come on through pain. Come on.

Got to get my [Applause] Hallelujah. Slip your hands up to God. Feel the other side.

Just worship him throughout this house. He's wonderful. He's glorious.

He's majestic. He's magnanimous. He's powerful.

He's mighty. I'm coming through. I'm coming through.

I'm coming through. I know what it is. I'm ready to release it cuz I'm coming through.

I want you to get one person by both hands out there. Get one person by both hands. I want you to get a prayer partner and I want you to hold on to that person.

I want you to do it right now. Oh God. Oh God.

There's a breakthrough in this house. an individual breakthrough because you know what it's been to be stymied, to be limited and restricted by things that you should have long moved out of your life and you've seen your blessings go by. God said, "Not another year.

Not another year. year. This is your time.

This is your time. But I want you to deal with this. Deal with it tonight.

Don't put it off. You put it off long enough. You know what it is that's standing between you and the next level, next level of ministry, next level of anointing, next level of gift, next level of talent, next financial level.

And God said, I want to take you there, but you've got to have the courage. You've got to have the courage to hurt for a little while, to be blessed forever. I'd rather hurt for three months than to hurt for three years.

I'd rather get through it now. Bring it on, Lord. If I got to deal with it, let me deal with it now.

Cuz I want my tomorrow to blossom into a blessed day in the name of Jesus. Squeeze one hand. I come against every doubt.

I come against every satanic depression. I come against every move of the enemy. To destroy this person I'm touching.

I come against low self-esteem. I rebuke the vestigages of the past. I release my brother from every demonic stress that Satan has placed on him from my sister.

I take every attitude that I'm not going to achieve anything. The devil is a liar. Hallelujah.

Squeeze the other hand. I loose my brother. I loose my sister.

I loose right now faith. I loose a determination to achieve your destiny. I loose an anointing that has never been felt in this life.

I loose an overcoming power that has always hindered. I loose everything that you should have had by now. It's yours.

It's yours. It's yours. It's yours.

I reckon that the suffering of this present time is nothing to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed. Praise him again. Praise him again.

Praise him again. Praise him again. Praise him again.

It's your time now. It's your time now. I feel God.

I feel him. I feel Oh, what a breakthrough. Oh, what a breakthrough.

Oh, what a breakthrough. I feel the spirit of the most high. Touch somebody real quick.

Telling it look like I'm breaking down, but I'm breaking through. If you hear me hollering, it's because I know what I got to do. If you hear me crying, I know what I got to shake off.

But I'm making room for my destiny. I feel destiny in here. I feel power in here.

I feel deliverance in here. I feel somebody has just come up out of the grave and can tell the devil, "You thought you had me, but I got away with victory. [Applause] the other side of the cross.

From agony to destiny. Somebody just made it [Applause] through. I heard the Lord say, "I'm going to redeem the time.

All those wasted years, God said, "Woo! " He says, "I'm going to multiply your blessing. I'm going to take 2 years and give you 5 years worth of blessing.

I'm going to take 10 years and give you 25 years worth of blessing. " God say, "I'm going to double up for every time that you wasted and agonized. cuz I've got something for you.

I'm getting ready to sit down. But before I sit down, I want you to do something tonight. I want you to reach.