Bishop T.D. Jakes - Divine Strategies (AZUSA '97)

To your feet all over the auditorium tonight surely the presence of the Lord is in this place we have come for no other reason but to hear him the glory of the Lord is all over this room if we were to take advantage of the anointing that's in this room Miracles would just break out SP taneously without Coercion without anybody laying hands on you just instantly yolks and strongholds broken destroyed by the power of God the glory of the Lord is in this place we have long since passed the days of just getting together to

get together to have singathon And preaching contests style shows have gone out of [Applause] style now we just want a word from God I want you to just take a few moments and slip both hands up and just get alone with God and open up your reservo reach way down into your innermost being and just let rivers of Living Water just flood out of your mouth praise and adoration up out of your spirit if you Love him at all open your mouth and tell him now there's anything down inside of you that just yearns for

God tell him now k hallelujah hallelujah you don't have to hold your peace just release it if you know he's the only one that brought you through open your mouth and thank you if he's been faithful if he's been faithful when you were Fearful give him praise and glory Hallelujah Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory thank you Jes now clap your hands and thank him all over the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Build how many of you came to get a blessing and how many of you came to be a

blessing touch somebody close by you and tell them you going to get blessed just sitting beside me tonight you get anywhere around me I'm going to overflow all over your life if you get near me you going to have to get wet tonight cuz I'm going to overflow I'm going to overflow I'm going to spill out all over you I'm going to spill out I'm going to LEAP all over you If you don't want no power you better move away from me tonight is my night and I'm going for broke tonight come on I'm going

for come on come on I'm selling out tonight fill me up let me overflow let me leap let me spill over let me boil over tonight oh yes Lord in the name of Jesus you may be seated I'm excited and honored and privileged and blessed my toes are tingling my hair follicles are standing on the edge my gums are are jerking my Knees are twitching my eye is flipping something is going to happen in here tonight I can feel it down in my Sanctified Soul not just a mere excitement enthusiasm not just Pentecostal exercise but

I sense for divine release coming from the presence of God now I don't know whether you sense it or not though the cost gets higher here every day I'm finding that God is opening up new windows and new doors and New ways to bless his people when you really get spiritual it doesn't take a whole lot to bless you cuz you want to be blessed caral people come in in a contest saying Lord I'm going see if you can bless me but when you really get a hunger and a thirst for God he can speak

to you through a commercial on television oh y'all don't know nothing about bet you can be sitting on the bus and two people not even talking to you but God will let you hear something that Got your name on it how many of you got your ears open to hear from the Lord tonight I'm excited about it I certainly want to greet our television audience and those that are watching via satellite there's wonderful thing about the anointing of the Holy Ghost who knows absolutely no distance No Boundaries no limitations it can go right through the

screen and reach you and you can get healed and blessed and delivered and you know what the devil Was foolish for letting you sit down and watch this tonight he should have kept you at home while he had the chance something is going to happen in this place come on let's thank God all over in the churches all across this nation see you can't hold an anointing in just for you and your posy you've got to release it and let it touch everybody everybody's going to be blessed through this tremendous Mee Ministry let's thank the

Lord once more and just appreciate Him for his grace how many of you have been getting a witness in your spirit this is your year Touch Somebody and tell them this is my year this is my year I might share it with you but this is my year some of you don't realize exactly what God is doing but you're going to see why the enemy fought you so hard last year when God gets through working out his word in your life it's going to blow Your mind some of you been in the fight but you

didn't know what the fight was about but you're about to see you're about to see what the fight is about put your hands together and thank God if you believe it I won't weary your patience again I want you to go to the Book of Judges going to do a considerable amount of reading but don't be a Frid I'll get you out here before morning I want to convey my respects to All of these precious men of God and pastors and Bishops and Elders some of the greatest voices of our time are seated on the

Rost room and on the floor and I'm so honored to be here with you tonight uh just to Fellowship I mean that sincerely from my heart sometimes it's just good to be in the presence of God's people even if we don't get to go out and eat chicken wings just just to look at each other just to experience the glory it's good if you think you're Going to make it to Heaven by yourself I got news for you you're going to need somebody else sometime can you say amen and I'm honored I'm honored to be

on the team if if I don't uh hit a home run I'm just glad to wear the uniform if I don't get up to bat I'm just glad to to let the devil know whose side I'm on if I don't catch the ball I'm just glad I got on the mid talk to me somebody you can't appreciate that unless you've been delivered and set free and just so glad To be saved when you get glad to be saved a whole lot of things don't bother you you're just so glad to be saved people don't even

get on your nerves when you're glad to be saved your feet don't hurt when you're glad to be saved oh y'all don't hear what I'm saying a lot of things that I see people all upset about when you think about where God brought you from and how good God has been to you you are not let anything get on your nerves you ought to just Start thanking God that the blood has washed your sins away and delivered you by the power of God somebody shout glory in here somebody shout Glory again ain't nobody nervous shout

Glory yes yes yes yes good stand with me judges chapter 6 verse 12-16 and then we're going to go to the 7th chapter and read 9-16 out of the word of the Lord I'm going to read verse 12 and 16 and you're hearing and the angel of the Lord Appeared unto him and said unto him the Lord is with thee thou Mighty Man of Valor and Gideon said unto him oh my Lord if the Lord be with us why then is all this befalling us and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us

of saying did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt but now the Lord ha forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the midianites and the Lord looked upon him and said go in this thy might and thou shall save Israel from The hand of the midianites have not I sent thee and he said unto him oh my Lord wherewith shall I I save Israel behold my family is poor in manessa and I am the least in my father's house the Lord said unto him surely I will be with thee and thou shalt

Smite the midianites as one man somebody say amen amen flip over to the seventh chapter and the ninth verse and let's read verses 9- 16 out of the word together I may drop out but you continue Judges 7 9-16 when you Have it shout amen amen let's read and it came to pass the same night that the Lord said unto him arise get thee down unto the host for I have delivered it into thine hand [Applause] continue [Applause] [Applause] hand [Applause] is [Applause] [Applause] and he divided the 300 men into three companies and he put

a trumpet in every man's hand with empty pictures and lamps within the pictures can you say Amen look at the last verse and he divided the 300 men into three companies and he put a trumpet in every man's hand with empty pictures and lamps within the pictures can you say amen amen I want you to remain standing we're going to Pray but for the next few moments I want to talk to you from the subject Divine strategies Divine strategies say that with me Divine strategies say it again Divine stry let's pray together Spirit of the

Living God we thank you for this opportunity that you've afforded us to gather in this house tonight we have to believe that it is by Your Divine will and Providence that we are here tonight thank you Lord not for a logos but for arama somebody has come in this room tonight seeking a specific word a word that is tailored to the continuity of their circumstance they need to go back with an answer specific specifically decisions are to be made after this meeting God I thank you for sending your word Tonight in a definite way now

holy spirit take over this house flap the angel's wings in this house blow your breath in this house heal in this house deliver in this house loose the Bound in this house encourage the discourage that one that's secretly discourage send your word right now I thank you for arresting the spirit of depression the spirit of suicide I thank you for arresting the spirit of rebellion I thank you for overcoming Silent frustration I thank you because your word is true and your word is power and your word is life speak words of life tonight in the

name of Jesus Amen give God the best praise you got come on come on come on come on your best friend Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory come on I feel some about to Break loose come on you may be seated Glory I believe with all of my heart that nothing that happens surprises God and that it does not surprise people who are in tune with God that if we walk in the spirit that the spirit will reveal to us things that will come to pass ahead of time that if we walk in the

spirit just being in the presence of God God's Anointing will heal in US Brokenness and areas of insecurity that it would bring us to the Forefront of our destiny that we could look face to face and eye to eye with what God had in mind when he called us what epitomizes success is when you recognize your purpose and become what God have intended for you to be in order to do that you must overcome spirits of manipulation spirits of frustration and low self-esteem and people who have Their own agendas and want to shape you into

replicas of what they think you ought to be finally exasperated with with trying to please flesh you come to a place in your life that you singly focus your mind and say God if I can please you I will be satisfied sincec cannot be measured by Finance or by Talent OR by skill and certainly not by notoriety there are many people who have Notoriety but have not pleased God there are many people who have great Ministries and have done great works and healed the sick and raised the dead but have not pleased God there are

many people who are doing things because they can do it but not because they've been called to do it and there is an internal frustration that will eat at the fibers of your guts and produce frustration and envy and an evil Sinister attitude anytime you fail To become what God wants you to be a sa spirit will take over your life a sa spirit is the kind of spirit that erupts in a man who's had an opportunity and failed to accomplish his Divine Purpose he then will attack any David that comes along out of his

own frustration because he has not fulfilled his own destiny it's something about fulfilling your own destiny that makes you at peace with other people fulfilling theirs it's something about satisfying in your own Heart the fact that you have done what God has called you to do that causes you to have such a contentment that you're not afraid to encourage somebody else or you don't hear what I'm saying to you it's something about finding your place in him that gives you such a peace that you no longer compete or imitate other people and what God has

given them you begin to celebrate your own uniqueness and appreciate what God has given you and begin to understand that there is a Reason that you were tailored like you were tailored cut like you were cut shaped like you were shaped and even broken where you were broken that God had a specific role for you to play and nobody else can play that role but you you are alone without any competition or contenders what God has for you nobody else can do it nobody else will do it nobody else is equipped to do it you

are a unique original design created into Christ Jesus for good works and you Alone can fulfill what God has predestined for you to do and that is why the the enemy would release the very forces of Hell against you because he knows that you were created to perform a specific function in the body and if he can hinder you from performing that function then there will be an area and a degree of crippling and dysfunction in the body for the lack of you consequently we have to become concerned about our brothers being Healed we have

to to be concerned about our brothers reaching the hope of their calling because the body of Christ is to be edified by that which every joint supply of not some joints not prestigious joints not affluent joints it's every joint we have to lay hands on one another we have to encourage one another we have to pray for one another because there is a degree of Glory in you that is not in me there is a degree of Glory in me that is not in you and God has so fixed it that we only release that

anointing when we come together in harmony and in fellowship and in Covenant relationship and I cannot see you get discouraged and depressed and fall by the wayside and say it doesn't matter because we need what God has put in you tou somebody and say I need you I need you tell them I need you to be healed I need you to be I need you to be free I need you to be free I need you to realize your purpose I need you toe I Need you to release the glory I need you to relase

that is shut up inside of you shut up my healing my healing my Deliverance my Deliverance my next Direction my next Direction may be shut up in you shut up in and I command you I command you right now right now in the name of Jesus to rise and be healed rise and be heal from the crown of your head from the crown to The Souls of your feet let's go further I command every devil I command Every devil I command every hex I I command every spell I command to be broken off of you

and I release you I relas you right now right now into your destiny into your Destin in Jesus name in Jesus give God a praise if you meant what you said and you said what you meant [Applause] Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory some of you have not understood Why you were going through what you were going through now this might sound strange but I came to be strange I I didn't come to fit I I I I feel a radical Spirit on me tonight I hope I hope you can handle

this but there is a level in God that you can become that you learn through your trials and your tests and your enemies and your frustrations help to teach you who you are in God if you were not going through what you were going through you would Not know that you are significant some of you have not allowed your struggles to work for you you have got to start reasoning and understanding that the attacks that come against you do not fit where you are there is no way that the enemy could afford to invest that

much fight into you over where you are he is not concerned about where you are he is not intimidated by what you have done the reason that he has loosed his fortresses Against you is not over what you have done to this point the enemy has signed a warrant for your arrest because he knows what God is about to do in your life and if you begin to understand that the Warfare that you've been up against is a crazy Warfare It's a ridiculous Warfare It's a Warfare that defies human reasoning suddenly you begin to ask

yourself well who am I that I would go through what I'm going through Nobody brings in bulldozers and trucks and heavy equipment to build a chicken [Applause] coup when you see Heavy Equipment pulling up on the property it means it's going to be massive construction by the same token if you're going to tear up a chicken Coupe you don't try to you can come in and kick it down but if you're going to tear down a skyscraper You have to release explosives and dynamites and force don't you understand that the attack that God allowed the

enemy to sin against you is actually meant to tip you off to who you really are and when you understand it you will say it is good for me that I have been afflicted if I hadn't been Afflicted I would have thought I was insignificant I didn't understand why You counted me worthy to go through the fight that I'm going through I must be somebody you must have something planned for me I mean something that eyes have not seen and ears haven't heard and hasn't entered into your heart but I'm trying to gracefully tell you

is that many times the enemy is more aware of who you are than you are Gideon was God's man he didn't even know It he was preoccupied with his depression his weaknesses his struggles his trials he was hiding in the bottom of a wine press threshing wheat when God stopped by and spoke to him and called him a mighty man of Valor a mighty man of Valor he called him that while he was in hiding he called him a mighty man of Valor which means you are a man of war But he called a man

and said you're a man of war while he was trembling in the bottom of a wine press terrified of his enemies you should have somewhere in your life a prophecy that makes absolutely no sense somewhere if you are really chosen of God there should be something that God has spoken to to you that you can't hardly find anybody to tell it to a ridiculous Word an oxymoron something that doesn't even fit your circumstance or situation something that is so crazy that there's no way in the world that God could be calling you a mighty man

of Valor and saying I'm going to use you to overthrow the kingdom of the en and God is calling you to overthrow something you afraid of see this is the problem in the church many many times we have released the Wrong men into Ministry we have a tendency of releasing people in the ministry who feel qualified and as long as you feel qualified you'll never be ready to do what God has called you to do do God will use somebody when he calls you you ought to feel horrified you ought to feel intimidated nobody will

have to fight arrogance out of you if you recognize that the calling is greater than the Person that he called and down on the inside you begin to say Lord this journey is too great for me if God has said something to you and you don't see how you're going to do it and you don't see you don't feel qualified to do it and you don't have the strength or the resources to do it and you're afraid to tell anybody that God told you to do it you're the one for the job cutch somebody and

tell him he's talking to you [Applause] tonight there ought to be something down in your spirit that you're attracted to and afraid of all at the same time when God speaks it to you there ought to be something in you that wants to hear it and something that wants to run from it something in you ought to say yes while something in you is saying no something in you ought to be saying Lord I'll go while something in you ought to saying Lord I'm not able to go Something in you ought to be saying Lord

I will and something in you ought to be saying Lord I don't know how to do it when it's really God God challenges you to go beyond your abilities and your competency so that when it happens there will be no doubt that if it had not that's how you know that God has really called you to do it when you're not competent or capable or resourceful enough to do it and yet it gets done Then you know that it is not by might nor by power but by my spirit sayth the Lord if you feel

qualified you are exempt God will never use you just because you were successful in business and you were an entrepreneur and you were on the board of directors of the ACL ywq committee does not mean that you are ready to do the work of God just because you have more degrees than a thermometer doesn't mean that you are the real sign of being anointed is When God can take less and do more with it something in you ought to shudder when you recognize what God has called you to now hear this one of the things

that the Lord told me to be sure that I speak to you tonight just as sure as Gideon was hiding down in the bottom of the wine press God said this is a night that I am going to call forth hidden anointings there are some anointings in this house that have been hidden they've been thrown down in the bottom of the Wine press they've been terrified by circumstances and situations some have even been oppressed by dominance and forces that have been set out against you but God said he has hidden the anointing that's going to

be released in this last hour like he hid the waters the Bible said that when Noah be to speak about the flood that God broke up the ssts of the deep it wasn't just that rain came down from heaven but it was that rain came up out water came up from Out of the earth cuz God had hidden sisters of water that begin to flood and I'm telling you right now some of you have been hidden sisters of water you didn't even understand who you were or what God was going to do in your life

you don't even understand why you've been attacked like you've been attacked you you don't even understand why you were raised like you were raed you don't even understand why you've been broken like you've been broken you don't even Understand why the enemy attacked you like he's attacked you but the enemy knew that God had a reservoir and a deposit that was hidden down in you and While others were being applauded and established you were wondering Lord who in the world am I but the Lord sent me here to tell you he's about to call forth

hidden anointed unexpected unheard of people people that weren't playing politics weren't playing games and weren't playing kissy kissy but God It t some man say come forth God begin to speak to get in a word a mighty word a word said I'm calling you forth you're terrified but I'm calling you forth you don't feel capable but I'm calling you forth you don't feel competent but I'm calling you forth you don't even know it but you're a mighty man of Valor you cannot look at your circumstances and situations and get a clue as to who You

really are you have to let God establish and identify you and stop allowing people to identify you quit asking people who do you say and what do you think about me who am I to you and what do I look like to you and what did God show you about me away with that foolishness away with some of us have turned the church into a 900 [Applause] number see the old folks had altars in the churches and they put you on altar They didn't do all of this counseling that we do when you had a

problem they didn't counsel you they drug you to the Altar and said start calling on Jesus till you get a breakthrough cuz they wanted you to have a personal relationship where you could get in touch with God for yourself some of you haven't got a direct touch from God for years all of your touches is coming through something somebody preached something somebody saying somebody laid Their hands on you somebody slap you in the face with a tie but you got to get down on your knees and say Lord speak to my heart show me who

I am show me what you call me to do show me how high I can Le show me how far I can show [Applause] me your anointing is about to come out of hiding like a child that's gone through the third trimester it cannot be hidden a birthing process is about to be Released in your life and you're going to see hidden Glory hidden Glory coming forth out of you mighty man of Valor Mighty Man he's trembling in the bottom of a wine press hiding some wheat God says you're mighty and you don't even do

it you got to recognize your own strength if you don't know it you can't use It you can't operate in it so the enemy loves to hit you with low self-esteem some of you have faith for everybody body else but you you're a great encourager you're a great exhorter you're there for everybody else but you're not there for yourself you've been a cheerleader in the church for years and years and years and you didn't understand that you were actually supposed to grab the ball and run [Applause] yourself Mighty Man a Valor and the first thing

that Gideon says to him I can't do it my family is too poor and I am the least of my brethren I do not see how I can respond to the magnitude of this opportunity for when I check my resources Lord I am incompetent to perform what you have requested I am Willing but I am not able I want to please pleas you but I don't know how to perform what I will to do I hear you I am drawn to you I am attracted to you but when I look at my resources I am

so handicapped and dysfunctional and so crippled that I do not see how I can step into my destiny seeing as I have no more to work with than what I have and yet God has called those things that are not [Applause] As though they were because he knew that he had the power to make it become what he said it would be because God wants to raise up some people in this last hour that he can trust with success God wants to raise up some people who have been so broken and so wounded that when

you do get up you dare not be arrogant all you've got to do is look back over your shoulder and see your yourself hiding down in that wine press trembling and scared to death God Wants to bless some people who can walk in a room and say Lord I thank you because I remember a time in my life that I was stuck down in a well and about to die if you hadn't called me out I'd have lost my mouth I know you're all dressed up but I'm talking about when you was about to have

a [Applause] n [Applause] yes throw your hands up and say if you Bless me I'll praise you bless I'll pra I want use the glory to belittle other people if you bless me I'll thank you if you bless me I will clap my hands oh yeah I will I will do it I will do it God I don't know how in the world to do it you're not supposed to know how you're not supposed to know God doesn't need anything that you Know God's not going to use anything that you are proud of anything that

you polished up and you think youve got it ready and you think that this is meat for the Master's you God doesn't want that God never uses impressive weapons he uses foolish things he uses ridiculous things he uses things that look like there's no he uses jawbones of an ass he uses a little boy's Lunch y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you God uses stuff that just say Lord how in the world can I do this with pain I hope you're ready for a ridiculous Miracle cuz my assignment is to tell you tonight that

God is about to do something totally ridiculous in your life something that makes absolutely no sense something that defies all human reasoning something that has nothing to do with your resource has nothing to do With your family nothing to do with your finances nothing to do with anything that you have polished up and got ready God's not going to use any of that at all God's going to set you in a situation where you do not know how in the world you are going to do it you do not need money and you don't need

more people and you don't need to be popular God's not going to use anything That makes sense to you to bless you people don't have to change their mind about you and they don't have to like you because if people do it for you you going to owe them the the rest of your [Applause] life they're supposed to reject you yes sir they're supposed to shut doors in your faith they're supposed to walk away and desert you and leave you alone with God every great man of God every great woman of God throughout the Bible

if you Study their life at one point or another they went through a time of aloneness you've got to go through it I don't care how many members you got I don't care how many's on your board I don't care how goodlooking you are are I don't care how affluent you are I don't care how many people say that they're with you you have got to go through a time of total aloneness locked out of situations you have got to be rejected you've got to be locked out of God Didn't intend for you to get

in the click you're not supposed to be in the click you're not supposed to be in the CL for what God is going to do in your life you're not going to need an Entourage God wants your undivided attention he's called you to a place of aloneness and he'll speak to you in a place called Pinel he'll speak to you in a whale he'll speak to you in the bottom of a wine press he'll talk to you in a cave he'll speak to you up Under a juniper tree the richest anointing comes when you are

alone as much as we appreciate this corporate anointing the greatest anointings you will ever experience are locked up in your room alone with God at 2: and 3:00 in the morning when you have nobody to talk to but him and you go to him because he's the only one who understands what in the world you're groaning about when you look at your Resources and what he's called you to do and look at your family and look at your resources look at your generations and look at your cousin and your uncle Richard and Aunt Maybelline and

cousin flipjack and you say Lord how in the world can I come from all of this and still do I'm not talking about your nice little public prayers that you pray when everybody oh th great oh th R of the universe we come auspicious one Embarking upon the throne of prayer because we know by your divine grace and preeminence that you are well able and Ed oh I'm not talking about that foolishness I'm talking about your real prayer when the tear crosses across a bridge of your nose and say Lord if you don't help me

I can't stand the storm if you don't help me I'm going to flip out I don't know how in the world I'm going to make it another week I need your spirit I need your anointing I'm not Talking about a nice little cute cross over sh I need a word from you show me what you got locked up in me I'm going through a fight and I don't even see my own treasure show me I don't feel like a mighty man show me who I really [Applause] am [Applause] God called him out touch your neighbor

Tell him God is calling you out this is not a sermon it's a prophecy I didn't come to preach a sermon I'm tired of preaching sermons I didn't come to live up to an expectation I don't care what you expect I came to drop off a package fresh from God God is calling you out look at somebody say come out come out wherever you are I don't know what kind of pit you're in I don't know what kind of rut you're In some of you have been locked up in a wh of depression and discouragement

but God said come out come out wherever you are I'm going to use you I'm going to raise you up I'm going to bless you come out come out come out of that come out of it come out of it quit walking around depressed come out of it quit feeling sorry for yourself come out of that lonely Spirit come out of that death Spirit come out of it come out of it come out of It can I go deeper in the word what he's going to give you what he always gives is to somebody that

he's going to move mightily in their life what he's going to give you that you've got to have to perform his will is a strategy when the call is greater than the person that's been called when the vision is greater than the provision when God has called you to do Something that seems impossible for you to do you don't need wealth fair you don't need hand me- down anointings you don't need nobody to pass a blessing or shake your hand with a $100 bill in it because for where you're going they're not going to shake

your hand often [Applause] enough where God is calling you to is so great nobody's going to be able to Finance your vision but God and what he is going to give you is a strategy God told Moses he said Moses come up here come up here come up here come up here I want to talk to you I want to talk to you Moses I got something I want you to do I want you to build a tabernacle you're up here with God God are you going to give me the Tabernacle no are you going

to give me the wood no Are you going to give me the gold no are you going to give me the silver no I didn't call you up here to give you the wood the gold or the silver I call you up here to give you the strategy when I get through talking to you all you going to have is a plan but that's all you're going to need when you come back walking down off of this mountain you're going to face those people with a strategy with a strategy with the Scrat I'm going to

show you how To take what you got I'm going to show you how to use what you had laying around in your tip I'm going to show you how much I had your resources around you all the time but you'll never be able to work it until you talk to me I got to strategy for every problem in this room there is a strategy for every dilemma in this room there is a strategy for every broken marriage in this room there is a strategy for every Problem Child in this room there is a strategy and

quit Praying about the problem and ask God for the plan ask God give me a plan for my daughter give me a plan for my son show me how to hold my marriage together show me how to take this check and pay these bills give me the strategy so I can use what I got to get what you're call [Applause] thank you for a strategy he says to Moes build according to pattern don't build Anything that I haven't given you a strategy for if you don't have a strategy for it don't touch it I only

will anoint you to build where I have given you a strategy if I gave you the strategy that's the Divine permission to build whatever I've give you don't hear what I'm saying look at this look at this can can we get into some word tonight look at Psalms uh 127 127 division of Psalms verse one or Two somewhere about in there oh bless his name glory to God if I was the devil I wouldn't have let you come in here [Applause] tonight I wouldn't if I had to break one of your tires I wouldn't have

let you get in here tonight yeah touch somebody say it's too [Applause] Late I believe it says except the Lord that build the house all right now they that labor labor but in vain to build it what do you mean God except the Lord build the house sounds like God is going to build it except the Lord build a house next phrase they that labor labor in vain to build it why do I have laborers if God is going to build a house it says if God doesn't build it except the Lord build the House

then why do we even need labors except the Lord build the house they that labor labor but in vain to build it I don't understand that if God is the Builder why do I have Labor and yet God through his word tells us that we can only labor to build what God has built but that don't make any sense because why would I labor to build what God has built if God has built it and if I labor to build something That God hadn't built the Bible says I can't build it so I can only

labor to build what God has built but my question is is if God has built it why do I labor to build it to me this is a dilemma because you tell me the battle is not mine it belongs to the Lord and yet you tell me faith without works is dead being alone and so I am in A tither I don't know whether to build or to wait I don't know whether to just go before God and say God build it or whether to roll up my sleev and take my hammer and run to

the streets and go for myself and the text suggests except God build a house and they that labor labor but in vain to build it something about they rise up early and lay down late at night it's vain to eat The bread of Sorrows he giveth his beloved sleep he says don't even worry about it don't stress Don't rise up early don't stay up late he said the only criteria that I tell you in building is that you can only build what God has built but if God has built it why should I build it

at all I didn't understand this text when I first started reading it because I never built anything of Consequence I built a little room on the back of the house and I built a closet in our bedroom I didn't understand it but when I started building something of consequence suddenly I understood because when you build something of consequence you don't start out with hammers and Nails you start out with Architects and Designs suddenly I understood something about the carpenter Son the carpenter son is not a carpenter he's an architect he builds by Design he sketches

out the plan and ascribes the weight load determines how much pressure it can take determines what kind of stuff has to be put in it for it to withstand the impact of what has been designed to [Applause] do he determines the material and how it is to be fastened together and when he Gets through building it on paper he hands it to me and says now you can only build on Earth what I have designed in heaven if if if I have designed it in heaven you can build it on Earth if I gave you

a blueprint that's my Divine permission to do what you couldn't do before if I woke you up at 3:00 in the morning and start sketching in your head that is divine permission to go and do some of you didn't even know it but God's been writing in your head for months he's been sketching in your head he's been sketching you got plans you got blueprint you don't even understand I the where you going to do it but God is giv you plans and you say Lord I don't understand it but God is giving you a

strategy how to overcome the [Applause] enemy oh you just talking to the preacher no honey oh no I'm not just talking to the Preachers I'm talking to the businessman I'm talking to the executive I'm talking to the person who just signed bankruptcy papers I'm talking to the mama who's got a daughter that's disrespecting her oh yeah I'm talking to the Papa whose son is on drugs I'm talking to the couple who argued all the way to church [Applause] tonight I'm telling you for every attack in your Life there is a strategy how many of you

need a strategy tonight how many of you recognize everything that you built that God didn't design came to nothing how many of you are tired of being manipulated by people going to people what do you think I ought to do what do you think I ought to do what do you think I ought to do I need to talk to you can I talk to you What do you think I need to do I want to see you what do you think I need to do I'm going through something I need counseling what do you

think I do well what did you do when you went through oh okay what did you do what did you do when you went through what what do you think what this is not a poll you're not running for office when you get tired of collecting opinion you need to get on your knees close the blinds shut the door cut off the TV set and say hey God Give me a strategy for this mess Hell House are barking and the devil is after my children give me a strategy to rebuke the devil before he kills

my daughter [Applause] give somebody shout Rama that's what God wants to give you a Divine strategy carefully calculated to the specificity of your crisis a plan it's going to be in your head yes it won't be in your checkbook all right It's going to be in your head people won't understand it friends won't understand it family won't understand it you'll pick up the phone to tell somebody have to hang up the phone cuz you say I can't tell that one then you'll D no I better not tell them then you go oh no they'll think

I'm crazy no I can't tell them they'll think I lost Touch Somebody and tell them I'm pregnant with a strategy I'm prant with A strategy I'm getting up all in the middle of the night I'm walking the floor I can't rest good my food won't digest well there's something in my head God's been writing in my head at 3:00 in the morning driving down the road God's writing in my head on my job God's writing on my head I got plans don't have resources I got plans don't know how I'm going do it I got

plans people think I'm crazy I got all these plans I got these goals I'm getting these vises But I don't understand what God he's faxing me plans he's emailing me plans he's speaking oh tell three people and tell them something's about to happen something's about to happen something's about to happen God wouldn't be giving you all those plans if he wasn't going to do something in your life God's not going waste no blueprints on you if God's giving you blueprints you're about to go under construction now Get Ready Get Ready Get Ready Get Ready Get

Ready Get Ready Get Ready touch your neighbor by the hand quickly just join hand and squeeze your hand squeeze it just right where they are you don't even have to get up I don't care if you get up sit down or lay on the floor just get them by the hand and squeeze your hand tell them God is writing in your head God is writing in your head what he Has written what he has written he has written he has written and it shall surely and it shall surely come to pass come to pass squeeze

your hand say neighbor neighbor no more stress no more stress no more anxiety no more anxiety he's going to give you rest going give you rest this is going to be easy this is going to be easy the Lord is with you the Lord is with you he's given you a strategy give you a strategy no weapon no weapon formed against you formed Against you shall be able be a to prosper give him any kind of Praise You Got in any any any time make up a praise create a praise give him a praise a

praise a shout a support [Applause] a sit down sit down I don't have time to talk about the priest garments God never does garments without design he's a designer he's a designer he designed Clothes he designed Tabernacles he designed building he designs Men He designs Ministry he designs gift he designs your destiny he put predestined you he forew you he's already got a design he's already shaped out your future God's already set your course God's already determined your time you got an appointment with Destiny he's determined your weight loow he wouldn't put no more on

you than what you're able to Bear you're built for the pressure you're built for it God wouldn't have let it happen to you if you weren't built for it anybody else have gone through what you went through they'd have had an nervous breakdown but God he equ [Applause] oh I'm in [Applause] oh sit down I got to get through this I got to get through This now here is the [Applause] challenge the next thing the Lord told me to tell you where you going you can't take everybody with you you may not be able to

get your little py to go into this your little buddies your little friends the little folk you golf with may not be ready for where God is about to you you may lose half your Board and the committee may run uhoh he sent me to tell you your friends are getting ready to change Gideon was trying to get 32,000 folks to go where God was calling him to go but God has said when I get through with you you going to March like one man you can't get everybody to be synchronized with what God has

given you and you can't spend the rest of your life training people who will not be Trained you're going to lose your anointing you're going to lose your an you're going to die in discouragement trying to take somebody with you Abraham that God told you to leave behind cing people I don't mean stop loving them I don't mean stop caring for them I mean stop compelling people to go where they cannot see they don't see what you see they don't have what you have and they can't do what you Do so he called 32,000 men

together and God said the first group you got to get rid of is folks that are scared out of 32,000 he said I want you to get rid of everything that's scared cuz fear is contagious some of you are in trouble right now because your counselors are speaking out of fear I don't think you better do that You got to use common sense you got to be careful you get to a certain age now you better watch out now you better watch out for such and such I don't think y ought to do that right

now it don't look good right now look have you seen the numbers have you seen the books have you seen have you seen have you seen have you seen when the Bible says the just shall live by faith not by sight all them people who keep trying to show you something other than what God Has shown you get rid of them get rid of them get rid of them get rid of them get get rid of them get rid of them get rid of them get rid of them they going going sap your strength they

going to saap your anointing anytime they're trying to show you something if it's not in the blueprint if it's not on the specs if it's not designed by the architect get rid of it because you're only anointed to build what God has designed for you to build you can't fight in Another Man's armor get rid of [Music] it that got rid of 22,000 22,000 people walking in fear I'm with you man I got your back if you can't count on nobody else you can count on me I'll be there if everybody else leave [Applause] I'm

I ain't going to be there and they're not supposed to be there and Don't argue when they leave and don't cry when they gone trust the architect trust the architect are you hearing what I'm saying yes sir so it's down to 10,000 you know the story and God said oh no no you got too many because in order to do this I'm going to teach you not to count on flesh if you got too much help God won't help You in order to be eligible for divine benefits you can't have tooo much help you can't

have too much going for you it'll nullify your rights to receive Divine assistance and don't let everybody help [Applause] you when some folk try to help you you ought to say no say thank you but that's all right I'm going to wait on the lordless you say you have made me Rich I'm a wait I'm a wait some deals you ought to let go past you I used to just praise God for opening doors but now I'm praising him for shutting doors I'm thanking him for shutting doors I'm so glad for some doors he shut

I didn't have enough strength to go into everything he shut some doors so that I could focus on what he has called me to do you need to quit crying over doors he shut and start dancing and saying Lord I Thank you I didn't get in I thank you That rejected me I than you they sh it up I'm glad I lost a job now I can do now so he's down the 10,000 men he said take them God said I'mma prove you he said you got to let me pick your friends I'm getting ready

to get in your business thank you I want to pick your friends this is how I want you to pick your friends take them down to the creek take them down to the creek and watch how they deal with their passions because how you satisfy your Passions determines whether you are ready to go further with God we all got them but we can't satisfy them the same way he said every man that sticks his face down in the water crouches on the knees and has his whole Vision in his own need you can't walk with

him every every person who's in your support staff and your group and your ministry and on your board and every girlfriend calls you on The phone and all your buddies that you go toat with our church watch them if if if they stick their face down and the only thing they can see is what they can get out of it leave them alone because that means that their thirst is more important than their calling and anytime a person's thirst is more important than their calling they're dangerous they will betray you they will be a Judas

to you he said I don't want You to tie up with anybody other than those who take their hands and dip it in the water and lap it looking up I don't want you to get tied up with anybody who got a downward Vision I want you to get tied up with somebody who can do more than one thing at the same time I oh y'all don't hear what I'm saying I want you to be started with somebody who can do what they got to do and still keep their mind on what they've been called

to do I want you to get somebody Whose focus is set and they won't let nothing separate them and won't let anything move them because I'm not going to use many people to bless you it's just going to be a few people tou somebody and say a few people the next thing is I want you to get somebody who knows how to get down and lap like a dog don't get anybody too high too Arrogant get somebody who's still looking ahead and humbled and submitted and ready to serve those are the only ones I want

you to take that that wasn't but 300 God says now I'm ready to bless you now listen listen I want to explain something to you some of you have seen a setback and you said it was the devil But you was [Applause] wrong God was pruning your bush if he hadn't given you a cut back you wouldn't have been able to move from fruit to more fruit to much fruit can I walk down [Applause] here that stuff you lost was dead weight he didn't cut nothing off you but the suckers and he sent me here

to tell you Quit crying over suckers people that was bleeding you for what they could what [Applause] they God said because of the anointing that's on your life he's going to do more with less when you're really anointed you can do more with less 300 men God says to him listen to this can I take you a little further God says to him all right I'm getting ready to take you tonight go down there and overthrow the midianites but it's something strange an addendum he put on it he said if you're not afraid he said

if you are afraid don't overthrow them Go down to the enemy's camp and just listen now the first thing that shocked me is that Gideon was afraid I said Lord how come you sent away 22,000 people for being a Fred when the head guy was afraid I asked God a lot of questions cuz I don't know much and the Lord told me there's a difference in the kind of fear for the 22,000 when he said are you afraid they said yes and went Back he said but when I really anointed you you can be afraid

and still keep going some of you you've been still going people don't even know you're afraid you roar like a lion but when you get home at night you be oh God if you don't help me Lord I don't know what in the world I'm doing Lord I need your strength to take me through this Lord Lord I got so much to fight and so much to deal with but Lord Lord I feel so vulnerable Lord I'm so scared but in the Morning you dry your face and say all right devil Here We Go Again

F to start and God didn't let your enemies know that you were fighting scared if you know what I'm talking about tell somebody and say I've been terrified Teri but I'm still going I'm still going I've been nervous but I'm still going I didn't know what I was doing but I'm still going I cried all night but I Fought in the morning baby I'm still going go down to the enemy's Camp God said if you're AF Fred go down there and listen I'm going to use your opposition to encourage so he went down there with

a guy named fura his servant he said now just hide over in the Rock and listen are y'all ready for this he said Listen at what your enemy is saying about you he said let me break it down he said listen at the gossip if you ever need to be encouraged listen at the gospel because sometimes what they say about you is greater than how you see [Applause] Yourself and if you ever start feeling like a nothing and a nobody listen at the gossip so he went down yeah yes he did he went down in

the camp and start listening and God had given his enemies a dream said I dreamed and I saw a loaf of barley fall down on the midianite Camp and pulverized and the other guy in the camp said that ain't no loaf of bread that's Gideon and the sword of the Lord now what that told me is that the enemy knew Gideon strength better than he did you need to listen at the folk who are jealous of you their jealousy is a class for your spiritual enrichment and edification don't nobody get jealous of Somebody who don't

have nothing if you didn't have something they wouldn't be jealous of you y'all don't hear what I'm saying you ought to be glad you ought to be glad be glad yeah ain't nobody jealous of a bag lady cuz she ain't got nothing if somebody's jealous of you you got to understand that's a sign that God has put something in you that you might not even see Yourself say yes that's why I thank God for my enemy more than I do my friend sometime my friend hinder me from the will of God trying to help me

out but thank God for my enemies they push me on my knees they make me call on the [Applause] law Bishop I got to have some enemies I need some Enemies if I don't have some enemies I can't get my blessing because the book said he prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies if they didn't hate me he couldn't bless me I want somebody who's got some enemies to go in the Holy Ghost praise right now you praising where you are wherever you are you just begin to praise God no matter

what you're going through just Keep praising God if he allows you to have an enemy just Rejoice because he's Sting the table he's got a plate a fork a knife a spoon a clup a glass a punch ball Get Ready Get Ready Get Ready Get Ready Get Ready Get Ready Get Ready Get Ready Get Ready Give the Lord a PR [Applause] yeah