In The Beginning God - Bishop T.D. Jakes

[Music] three well this is a very special night indeed it is an opportunity for those of us who respect god as the giver of life and strength to worship him to praise him to celebrate where we've been and to anticipate where we are about to go and what better way to do that than to Get in the word of god i invite you your prayerful consideration to the book of beginnings and if you don't recognize that name the book of genesis which literally is the book of beginnings and we are beginning again so let's go

back to the book of genesis chapter 1 verse 1 and 2 and hear ye the word of the lord i thank you for logging in tonight i Thank you for being a part of this service i thank you for your commitment and your diligence all year long i thank you for the great things that you've enabled us to do because you stayed with us and stuck with us and sowed into us and prayed for us most importantly we were able to work under hardship and adversity and still function and do what god has called us

To do and whatever the future holds i know who holds the future and i'm looking to him so that we can begin again the book of beginnings genesis chapter 1 verse number 1 and 2. if you were here i'd have you to stand but since you're out there do what you will the word of the lord is still the word of the lord and it reads In the beginning god created the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of

god moved upon the face of the waters i actually read more than i needed because i really want the first four words in the beginning god that's what i'm going to talk about Tonight in the beginning god that's all in the beginning god let's pray spirit of the living god fall fresh on us tonight as we delve into your word let it be made flesh in us in a supernatural way that we might extract from this word those truths that are relevant not only to the historical context and the continuity of scripture itself but specifically

to the rhema like word That we need for the times that we are in right now i thank you for being god enough and good enough if you were god enough and not good enough we still couldn't have it but because you're god and a good god we believe you for things that are absolutely amazing beyond human comprehension staggering for us to understand and yet comforting for us to believe Now drop us down into the depths of your word and baptize us in the revelation of your spirit and let us rise up walking in the

newness of life in a new year with a new walk and a new talk and a new attitude we are going back to the beginning again in jesus sweet and righteous name we pray amen you shout a man to type a man put someone on their emoji if they got an Emoji for a man a hallelujah but say something to say let it be so in the beginning god we are in the book of genesis which is part of the pentatonic which was written by moses for the most part given to him by revelation of

god as moses represents that generation of people who have been in egypt for 400 years actually 430 years Moses has spent most of his life in egypt and and many of his years in exile away from egypt because he has taken things in his own hands and tried to bring about justice in his own way and ended up exiled and having to stay in jethro's house until the burning bush appears unto him and god shows himself to moses and god shows himself and says i am the God of abraham isaac and jacob moses has not

met abraham he has not met isaac he has not met jacob but he has met their god and god is the embodiment of all that they did but they represent his ancestry his history and moses represents a generation who has not experienced abraham isaac or jacob for hundreds of years and now he writes to us out of the revelation that he got from god because God said other prophets have i spoke to through dreams and visions but of my servant moses will i speak face to face moses has had face-to-face relationship with god and god

allows him to see his history what the old testament calls his hindu parts and moses writes the pentatonic and he writes about a time that he did not see For moses was not in the beginning and adam was not in the beginning and enos was not in the beginning and methuselah was not in the beginning and not even noah was in the beginning and there were no choirs and there was no entourage and there were no apostles no disciples no prophets no sages of the ages in the beginning as far back as moses takes us

is not the beginning of god but the beginning of us for when he goes all the way back to the Beginning he bumps into a stone wall from eternity in the beginning god god was not created god was there when the beginning started god was the author of the first day the architect of the creation in the beginning god he does not explain god he does not explore god he doesn't spend a great deal of time talking about elohim he just announces god because god is God just is he's not becoming he's not was he

just is he is before there was a where or when or this or that god was before there was anybody there to tell him he was god he was still god before there was anybody there to praise him as god he was god before the angels flap their wings he was god before the cherubim said holy holy holy is the lord god of course the Whole earth is full of his glory before they flap their fire wings god was god before there was anybody nobody nobody elected him nobody appointed him nobody placed him into position

he is an absolute and the bible will later tell us in hebrews he that cometh to god must first believe that he is so god announces himself in the discovery of our beginning as preceding Our beginning david makes it clear when he says from everlasting to everlasting thou art god everlasting speaks to eternity so god has lived in eternity and created time you have to understand that time is just a sliver of eternity if eternity is a pie time is just a tiny slice The beginning and the end of days it's just a slice and

god created time for man to dwell in but our god is eternal he is everlasting he is immutable he's unchangeable he is sovereign he is absolute he is yahweh he is god all by himself he said i look for god beside me and i found no god but me I alone am god and beside me there is no other in the beginning god and if you stumble over this then close the book because the rest of the book will mean nothing to you except you embrace the fact that god transcends clocks and calendars and times

and datelines and centuries and errors and millennials before there was any way of any metric system that would be able to chronicle Time god stood outside of time so when he goes all the way back to the beginning there was god and when he gets all the way to the end they'll still be gone for god encapsulates time time is a matrix inside the universe of eternity all things were made by him in the beginning was the word john 1 1 in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word

was god john 1 2 All things were made by him all things all materials were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made i'm talking about your god your god is not buddha your god is not confucius your god is not something you carry in a bag or put in your purse your god is god he is god of all gods he is king of all kings he is lord of all lords in the beginning as far back as moses could go god was still there As far as he backed

up to the beginning of time itself while the earth was covered with mud and there was no light to be seen and no stars to be cast and there was no sun to shine and not the shimmering light of a falling star god was still god before the earth took his first spin or took its first rotation god was god before the sun of the morning angels sang before god god was god they didn't make him god they didn't appoint him as god they just Acknowledged that he always was and he always will be and

until you can believe that you will stumble over everything else because in the beginning god in the beginning god now let's be clear as we go into this word this word is not sent to prove the creation this word is not sent to explain the creation this word is not sent to validate the authenticity of god god does not have to prove himself Because no man can take him to court this is not given to explain or to analyze god god just yes he just yes type it on the line god just hears yeah when

when moses would later ask who shall i say send me god said i am that i am i just am i just have i'm just i'm not trying to be i'm not fixing to be i'm not wanting to be i'm not wishing to be i Just am so in the beginning god great god of mercy sitting all by himself standing on absolutely nothing god and then if the bible says in the beginning god it all starts with god and this bible is given to us to explain god's revelation for man's redemption and Man's plan to

salvation it is not given to chronicle or explain the authenticity of god as if he had a competitor he's just god alone he's just god alone and when we believe that we can come to him and until we believe that we are locked outside of the whole conversation so if you're standing outside waiting for god to prove himself to be god to you who are you that god would have to prove himself to You as he told job which the book of job was written before the book of genesis when he talks to job he

says where were you when i cast the stars into the sky and made the moon to shine where were you i don't have to explain myself to anybody i just am when you know who you are you don't have to explain nothing you just are in the beginning thought somebody said god when you say god demons tremble and hell gets nervous When you say god which is flee and satan backs up when you say god every enemy and every adversity has to stagger at the concept that we are not here by ourselves that we came

and descended out of the mind of god the thoughts of god the logos of god that god taught us up and stepped out of nothing and create it he created the word created in hebrew is bhara is to make without the aid of pre-existing substance he had no recipe he had no materials he Had no matter he had no materials to work with he created without the aid of pre-existing substance means he stepped out on nothing and said let there be something and it became what he said because he's god he didn't need anything behind

him or with him or around him to create he just created because he is a creator when you are the creator it is no problem to be creative And so god causes us to understand that i am able to be creative because i am the creator and what did he create he created time itself we when we go to the cemetery and we we we go in the graveyard and we see uh the birth date and the death date it talks about how long we experience time before we go back into eternity we came from

eternity we go back into eternity can you prove that yes go to jeremiah god told jeremiah before i formed thee In the belly i knew thee knew me where how could you know me before my birthday because in eternity you were mine i knew the i ordained thee and i sanctified thee to be a prophet unto the nations before i formed you in the belly before you had the first date on the tombstone i knew you in eternity pass and then the second date on the tomb which we call the death date is still just

like the first date it's just Another kind of birth date the second date on the tombstone just marks the date that i leave the matrix of time and step back into the eternity that pre-existed or jesus said it this way glorify me with the glory that i had with you before the foundations of the world in other words jesus had a glory with god before the foundations of the world and in genesis chapter 1 we are down at the foundations ground level zero of the foundations of The world and jesus said i had a relationship

with you before all of that take me back and glorify me with the glory i had with you before the foundations of the world and we are so worried about what's going on in the world and god is so comfortable because he dwells in eternity and this is just a dress rehearsal for something way bigger than life itself Life is but a fleeting favor man rises up like a flower and soon he withers away and it's gone and god is still god and eternity is still eternity and in the beginning god you can't have a

beginning without god because god is the architect of everything that happens after those four words in the beginning god god becomes the architect for everything that Precedes out of that and everything that will be after that and everything that will happen after that is a result of the architectural design of god what a mighty god we said that he would have a mind without a pencil or a pad or a paper or a computer or a laptop and design the universe and the planets and the galaxies and the stars and the hemispheres and the stratosphere

and the atmosphere all of it to rotate without him ever having to Get up and do it again he did it once and for all he settled it he's gone whenever he does the thing it is done whenever he finishes the thing it is finished whenever he commands a thing it is commanded because the bible said in hebrews chapter 1 that he upholds all things all materials by the word of his power if you talk to the scientists they will Tell you that the atoms and the molecules are joined together by something that it does

not even exist they cannot explain what holds them together but the book of colossians says by him all things consist in other words god is holding your chair together god is holding your house together god is standing in between the molecules he is that invisible force it causes one molecule to connect with the other there is god and by him all things consist There wouldn't be anything without him and there wouldn't be anything after him or before him he is god and he is the architect and he's putting his name on the creation when he

says in the beginning god it would be like an artist signing the canvas before he draws the painting god said this is mine this is my business everything that happens after in the beginning god is my business I am in charge i am sovereign i am absolute now let's go just a little bit deeper because in order to have a beginning everything begins with god and if it doesn't begin with god it won't last one one man said if it be of god it will stand if it be a man it will come to not

everything that begins with a man will fall apart but everything that begins with god will stand it starts with god He said i am alpha and omega i am the beginning and the end i am the first and the last if i started it i'll finish it i alone am god i'm called all by himself when you praise god don't get god confused with church god is not church god is not denominations god is not organizations god is not affiliation god is god all these other things have a birth date and eventually they'll have an

end date it was founded in 1992 it was founded in 1836 anytime you can trace it back to a date it's man-made but god has no birth date the bible says he has no beginning or end of days he has no birth date he has no death date he cannot be destroyed he cannot be shot he cannot be killed he cannot be cursed because he has no beginning or end he's a circle he's a wheel in the middle of a wheel the reason god is seen as a wheel in the middle of a wheel if

he were seen as a line he would have a beginning and an End and like the tombstone he would have a birth date and an end date and he'd have a metric whereby he could be measured but god is a circle a wheel in the middle of a wheel and because he is a circle of wheel in the middle of the wheel everything he spoke came out in circles that's why the earth is in a circle that's why all the galaxies move in a circle everything god created came out in the same dna as god

moving in circles your cells are circles god is a Circle you can't find the beginning of him and you can't find the end of him you just stumble into him if you go far back as you can go all you could do is bump into god you can't bump into the governor the president the bear the internal revenue you can't bump into angels or seraphim's a chair finn and you can't bump into the 24 elders you can't bump into the bishops board in the council and the internal revenue if you keep going back further and

further and Further and further you run back into ruach the breath of the god the breath of a god who is breathing and moving he is wind he is rua he is pneuma he is god he is god alone breathing all by himself life all by himself wind all by himself force all by himself in the beginning god why are we talking about this i'm going to show you in a minute just hanging there i'm going somewhere in the beginning god created And what the bible wants us to know is that god is creative he

is creative he doesn't need things to be working in his direction he doesn't need things at all god can step into absolutely nothing and start something god can step into a family where there's never been a preacher and start something god can step into a family where there's never been an entrepreneur and start something god can step into a city that's never regarded god and start Something because god doesn't need our help to help him get the wheel done ask sarah god doesn't need our help he doesn't need our ishmaels he doesn't need our ideas

he doesn't need our creativity and he sure doesn't need our talent because whatever talent we got he gave it to us so why would god need what god had and god had to have it to give it to you god is god the all-sufficient one the elves should die confident within Himself complete within himself lacking nothing of himself immutable all by himself god is god god god when you praise god you're praising something the problem with the church today is that we're not praising god we're praising singers we're praising preachers we're praising organizations we're praising

churches but if we ever start praising god hell will have to flee in the beginning god everything that god starts he will Finish and what i want you to do is purpose into your heart that i'm not going to do anything in 2022 that doesn't have god in the beginning i'm tired of doing stuff and then asking god to bless it i'm tired of building stuff and then asking god to move on i'm tired of marrying people and then inviting god into the mary no in the beginning god god said if you don't remember me

in the beginning there is no guarantee that it's going to turn out right you can't Bring me in and then ask me to take over your mess in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth and the bible then goes on to tell us that the earth was without form and void and darkness covered the face of the deep many people call it the preadomite world some people call it the gap theory it is a theological term that says that the earth was chaotic chaotic to be k what does chaotic mean without form or

without void let's take A look at the definition of chaotic and put it up there on the screen so that we can begin to understand that when we start talking about chaos that god operates in the midst of chaos he does not need everything to be fine and neat and nice and complete in order to work god is operating in genesis chapter one in the midst of chaos no let's go deeper god is creative in chaos god is creative in chaos god is creative In chaos nobody else likes to work in chaos i don't like

to cook in a messy kitchen no builder wants to build in a junky room but god said i can step into a mess of muddy dark chaotic mess where the waters have mixed with the earth and they are indistinguishable one from the other it was into this chaos that god comes and the earth was without form it had no form it had no shape and it was void meaning it was empty and still god did it Oh you need to know that because some of you have had a year of absolute chaos and you say

as soon as i straighten this out god is going to come no you can't straighten it out god is going to come while it's still chaos because the creativity of god is stronger than the chaos of men i'm going to say that again the creativity of god is stronger than the chaos of men oh i've never seen such chaos as we're Seeing today there's chaos in government there's chaos in academics there's chaos in the church there's chaos in various countries there's chaos all over the world people's hearts are failing them for fear drama is everywhere

trauma is everywhere confusion is everywhere people are killing people and don't even know why they did it breaking into places and shooting everybody in there and have no explanation as to why chaos is coming from every direction it used To be when i came up little boys were scared of grown men standing on the corner but now grown men are scared a little boy standing on the corner because the world has turned into chaos but god knows how to operate in the middle of chaos he is not intimidated by the chaos you're in right now

you're watching me right now and 2002 2020 was crazy it was chaotic 2021 was chaotic you went through hell all kinds of drama you said where is god god Gets in the middle of the chaos and will be creative because god doesn't need anything in the chaos to straighten it out god steps into the chaos in fact he said my strength is made perfect in weakness i look the best in a mess i walk right up into a mess and stand up and show you i'm gone i'll wait till you're too old to have a

baby and then i'll cause you to be pregnant I'll pick a woman who's never known a man and give her a child i like to work in chaos i will move in the middle of chaos i will move in the middle of cancer i will move in the middle of trouble i will move in the middle of trauma i will move in the middle of adversity i will move in the middle of down syndrome i will move in the middle of autism i will move in the middle of heart attacks i will move in the

middle of kovid i will move in the middle of Things that are impossible with men so that i am distinguishable as god i will step into the chaos and sit down and be creative and draw up some plans and design and call order order in the court genesis is about god calling order and calling order means setting boundaries he set boundaries to the sea pushed it back and said here and no further he said boundaries to the land masses and cause him to stand in one solid place he Said boundaries to the heavens the firmaments

above the waters and the firmaments beneath the waters that god just starts separating things i believe that 2022 is going to be your year that god is going to set some boundaries in your life that god is gonna set some order in your life that god is gonna set some structure in your life that god is gonna begin to stop things from flooding over into this and to that and what's going on in the marriage is acting out In your house and what's going on in your house is acting out on your job and what's

going on in your job you're coming home with it and it's bleeding over into your house and your life is in chaos because your mind is confused your body is confused and your blood pressure is up and your moods are all over the place and it's chaos because one thing is bleeding over into the next thing into the next thing into the next thing but i came to tell you in the beginning God and when god sets down into chaos he will move by his power and by his so i was head again when god

steps down into chaos he will call things to order when god steps down into confusion he will call things into order when god steps down into chaos he will begin to push things back and say here and no further and you go stand over there and you go twinkle in the sky and sun you blaze in the daytime and the bible said when god stepped down into chaos he said Let there be light and darkness started backing up and running darkness started fleeing from the face of him because when god steps into a situation all

darkness has to recede all darkness has to go back all darkness has to move all darkness has to flee some of you have to cut me off because i got too much light on me i got too much glory on me i got too much anointing on me that's why every now and then the witches will start screaming because when god steps Into a situation darkness has always got to back up back up darkness here comes god back up kobe and here comes god back up depression here comes god back up disease here comes god

back up mood swings here comes god back up anxiety here comes god back up trouble here comes god back up 20 21 here comes god god didn't keep me alive to do a repeat performance of last year god kept me alive because he said i will do A new thing in you and i came to tell you tonight to get ready for a new thing i said get ready for a new thing you may have to move some old people to get ready for a new thing you may have to put some people in their

place and say here and no further because when god starts calling order into your life you start setting boundaries for people your life has been out of control because you have no boundaries no time To get up no time to lay down anybody can access you anybody can get to you anybody can get on your nerves anybody can upset you no wonder no wonder no wonder you don't have no peace how can you have peace when you don't have boundaries but whenever you set some boundaries you set the groundwork for peace And god opened his

mouth and cleared his throat and said let there be light let there be light means whatever is opposing light turn it loose whatever has got light tied up turn it loose whatever has got your joy tied up turn it loose whatever has got your creativity tied up turn it loose holy ghost just said to me you were writing a book and you got Writer's block and the enemy is trying to tie up your thinking but god said let there be light he's going to loose some things that have been restricted that have been on locked

down that have been tied up that have been ended and you felt like a dog on a leash you could go so far and then it would pull you back again you could move forward a little bit and then it would pull you back again you could Dance in church but then it would pull you back again but i heard god open his mouth and clear his throat and say let there be light somebody in this room is being illuminated by the power of god illumination is coming into your spirit illumination is coming into your

heart illumination is coming into your mind you've been restricted You've been on lockdown you've been tied up you've been hindered look like everything you go to do it's a fight everything you go to move it's a struggle everything you want to do for god it's a fight because the forces of this world have had you tied up but i just got a word from the lord And the lord said let there be light i don't know who you are i don't know who i'm talking to but 2021 has been a year of struggle it's been

a year of struggle of pulling and tugging a warring of wrestling and fighting but i declare you loose [Music] [Applause] can i say it for the people in the back i declare you loose i declare you're loosed you're loose from the chains that held you you're loose from restrictions you're loose from public opinion you have stopped because of what people said but i declare you loose and you're not gonna run from darkness darkness is gonna run from you If i'm talking to you i want you to give him 20 seconds of crazy praise right now

[Music] [Applause] [Music] you got 10 seconds left to give him some kind of praise any kind of praise any kind of praise you got open up your mouth and give god a praise right now Praise him until hell gets nervous praise him until demons tremble praise him till your hair begins to grow back praise him till you get revelation knowledge praise him till you get a commitment from god praise him till you get a vision of the impossible Praise him into the road is clear praise him until the door is open praise him until the

way is made you got five seconds left to give god some praise i dare you to praise him i dare you to praise him i dare you to praise him i dare you to praise it I dare you to praise him i dare you to praise him you got to know that god kept you alive for a reason you got to know that god sustained you for a reason you got to know that the sickness didn't kill you for a reason you got to know that god held your mind together for a reason And it's

time for you to let there be light get over it whatever hell did get over it whatever they said about you get over it whatever they did to you get over it because this is about to be a new beginning if it's not a new beginning it's a continuation of an old life you can't say it's a new year If you're still mad about last year you can't have a new year if you don't have a new mind you can't say it's a new year if you're still in your old ways and ain't nobody worth

it nothing they did is worth it nothing they said it's worth it nothing they want to do is worth it who am i talking to i'm talking to somebody out there i'm talking to somebody sitting on the Couch i'm talking to somebody sitting on the side of the bed i'm talking to somebody sitting at the kitchen table this is your breakthrough year this is your year to shake 20 21 take it off shake it all off shake it all off because god wants to do something new in your life he wants to do something new

In your life he wants to do something powerful in your life you need to get a t-shirt and have them put on it in the beginning god so when you ran in the demons they'll understand that this is god's business and if god started it god will finish it god is my alpha god is my beginning he is the author and the finisher of our Faith all y'all that messed around now and made me feel like preaching i feel like preaching because i'm a designer's original i've been created in christ jesus i belong to god

from the crown of my head to the souls of my feet i belong to god my whole body belongs to god my kidneys and liver Belong to god my lungs and heart belong to god my windpipe and lips belong to god my knees and ankles belong to god my toes and fingers belong to god satan take your hands off darkness flee let there be light in my body let there be light in my finances let there be light in my mind Let there be light in my heart let there be light in my family let

there be my light in my emotions let there be light in my head i will get over this i will i will i will i will survive i will survive i will survive i will survive grab your kids and pack your bags and tell them we gotta go We gotta survive we gotta survive the plague we gotta survive the chaos we got to survive the confusion we got to survive the turmoil and we got to survive the trauma this text starts out with trauma and then the trauma breaks out the trauma doesn't understand that you're

messing with god's stuff and whenever you're messing with god's stuff You got to take your hands off of god's property if you're god's property type on the line i am god's property type it right now i am god's property my children are god's property my house is god's property my business is god's property and then start praising him like you lost your mind until every devil knows that i belong to god [Applause] [Music] i belong to god i belong to god my future belongs to god my january february and march belong to god my april

may and june belong to god my august september and october belong to god my november and december belong to god I just gave god all of 2022 so it ain't no need to be staying up worrying about 2022 because i just gave it to god i turned it over to jesus i turned it over to jesus i love you but i'm turning you over to jesus here little children i love you but i'm turning it over to jesus if jesus can't straighten you out daddy can't straighten you out either if Jesus can't straighten you out

mama can't straighten you out either mama gotta have some peace i'm turning you over to the lord somebody help me praise him just a little while [Music] now let's go into this word when we look at the book of genesis the genesis has a testament it has a companion word called the gospel of saint john they both start out The same way in genesis said it says in the beginning god created in john it says in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god and all things [Laughter]

all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made It's talking about god created by the power of his word and the reason that you are here tonight and not in joe's strip club is because you need god's word to create a way to create a piece to create a deliverance to create an open door and you can't get it in the pub you can't get it from the fireworks you can't get it in the streets You can't get it in the alice in the beginning god if it starts

with god it will end with god are you with me somebody you will remember how nicodemus came to jesus by night nicodemus was a part of the sanhedrin court and he slips away because it was absolutely forbidden for one of the sanhedrins to seek counsel from jesus Who was so unorthodox and nicodemus comes to jesus and says good master teacher i perceive that thou art sent from god the very fact that he perceived that he was sent from god meant that he had got the key that unlocked the god unlocked the door he that cometh

to god must first believe that he is so nicodemus comes to jesus and said i perceive that thou art sent from god when he says that to him Jesus says verily verily i say unto you ye must be not can be you must be born again because this level of revelation opens up a door for you to be born again nicodemus is thinking in the colonel jesus is talking in the spiritual nicodemus says how can i be born again shall i enter into my mother's womb and come back out i'm too big i can't go

back where i came from good god almighty there's some of you right now trying to Figure out how to have a second start and you can't go back where you came from you can't fix what you did you can't change who you robbed you can't fix who you hurt you can't go back in your mother's womb and start time rolling backwards and do it over again but that's not necessary because it is not in the beginning your mother it is in the beginning what god All you got to do is go back to god you

got to be born on the water and of the spirit when you're born of the spirit you won't need your mama for this you won't need your baby daddy for this you won't need your ex-lover for this you don't have to go back to them you got to go back to god because if god gets in the beginning he will change everything in your life Glory to god you got the wrong goal you think your goal is to change people's minds people going to think whatever they want to think let them think whatever they want

to think let them say whatever they want to say you can't go back to your mother's womb nicodemus you must be born of the water and of the spirit because everything about your future Must begin with god it's got to start with god your business plan has got to start with god your relationship has got to start with god your ministry has got to start with god that house you're going to build it's got to start with god you gotta punch your mind from every evil work that would hinder you from flowing in the direction

that god has for you can i go a little bit deeper The bible said seek ye first the kingdom of god in its righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you so when you seek god first then everything else shall be added unto you everything else is going to come out of putting god first if you get god in the beginning everything else is going to follow after you David say surely goodness and mercy are following me all the days of my life when you put god first surely surely somebody shot silence goodness

and blessing shall follow me all the days of my life It'll follow me through my 20s it'll follow me through my 30s it'll follow me through my 40s it'll follow me through my 50s it'll follow me into my 60s it'll follow me into my 70s it'll follow me into my 80s i'm 90 years old and it'll still be following me solid goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life somebody say yes Somebody say yes again somebody say yes somebody say yes again now now now now let me slow down here because

i'm getting kind of happy and i got something to tell you and i want you to get it i don't want you to get excited and not get it because a lot of people are trying to figure out how do i put god First how do i know that what i'm trying to do is god first help us or is it me and i don't want to leave you in the euphoric ideology of a principle that has no pragmatism i want to give you the kind of theology that is practical enough that you can apply

it starting j one i want you to be able to test your vision to see whether it be of god And i am going to give you some simple principles that will help you to test whether your vision is of god or not are you ready for this number one is your dream or goal designed to bless others beyond yourself if your vision and your dream doesn't bless nobody but you god is not in it Because whenever god gets anything god is to be to only serve you god is not in your life to serve

you you're in god's life to serve him and if your vision only serves you then it is selfish and not [Music] godish so i want you to test whatever you've been dreaming about whatever You've been thinking about whatever you've been writing down whatever you've been planning on i want you to ask yourself who else does this bless because if it doesn't bless anybody else it is not of god it has got to be a vision that is inclusive and not exclusive it is a statistical fact for example that people who go into business to make

Money go out of business more readily than people who go into business to provide a service to others in other words god doesn't bless selfish agendas so you may be trying to drag god into something that you were in the beginning of the text can't read in the beginning roger and then five chapters later you're Trying to pray god into roger's vision if it's only done because of something you want it is not what god wants jesus in the garden against him and he said father if it be thy will pass this bitter cup from

me in other words it's not what i want nevertheless not my will but thine be done if i have it my way it's not going down all right but if i do it your way it might be tough but when it's all over it's gonna Turn out all right so the first test is to see does this serve some higher purpose than you [Music] or is it all about you boo if it's all about you then none of it is about him so these are how we are going to test our dreams for 2021. is

it all about you or how does it serve other people Because if it serves other people it will always be open for example the hospital will always be open the funeral home will always be open health care for the elderly will always be open anything that you build to serve other People other than you will always have a customer but if all it does is serve your hidden agenda it will never be successful that goes for marriage [Music] i just want to get married that ain't gonna work that goes for ministry i just want to

preach no no that ain't gonna work if it doesn't serve a higher purpose It can be a right thing and have a wrong motive oh y'all don't hear what i'm saying to you oh you were shouting real good when i was hooping you was shouting real good but when i started breaking down what it costs to get to in the beginning god you're getting kind of quiet now but i want you to get these four points because they're important five points for you to receive number two are there proclivities or preparations In your past that

preview where you're trying to go are there proclivities or preparations in your past that preview where you're trying to go there ought to be some clues in your history that validate your destiny your history ought to have some hint of your destiny Inside of it if you are trying to do something that now that was never you [Music] you may have difficulty getting it to work because if it be of god god has been giving you glimpses of it all of your life and you ought to be able to see some little breadcrumbs Some little

clues all of your life that lend itself to where you're trying to go right now you cannot sell what's not in your warehouse [Music] you can't fulfill orders if if it's not in your inventory there ought to be some some sign of it in your childhood some sign of it ought to be in your life you might have been using it in the wrong way you might Have been using it to sell drugs you might have been using it in the street you may be you may have perverted your talent but there ought to be

some indication of talent we we may have to turn it in the right direction but there ought to be something i want to read this again because i want you to get this i think this is important are there proclivities or preparations in your past That preview where you're trying to go if they're not maybe you're supposed to support somebody who has the pass to match the promise see we got everybody trying to do when there are some people that need to support others that are called to do but the need to be seen and

be important and get credit causes you to say in the Beginning fred in the beginning mary that which is born of the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption if it if it starts in the flesh it's going to corrupt if it starts in the spirit it's going to of the spirit reap life everlasting oh i'm in the word of god y'all don't hear what i'm saying number three are your motives pure Not ground in spite ego or evil are you doing it from a pure place or you are you doing it to prove something

to your sister are you doing it to prove something to your ex-husband if your motives are not pure you can't say in the beginning god you got to say in the beginning anger [Music] In the beginning jealousy in the beginning frustration in the beginning envy in the beginning strife and if god is not in the beginning of it there ain't no goodness and mercy to follow you if your motives are not pure now this is gonna be hard cause you're gonna have to be honest and it's hard to get people to Be honest about motives

you can do the right thing for the wrong reason because your motives are not pure and if you don't fix it this year this year it's going to look like last year oh y'all don't hear what i'm saying i don't care how much you change the calendar if you don't change your motives you won't change your outcome can i go a little bit deeper with this Number four do you sense god being the architect of your dream or are you a schemer [Music] jacob are you always scheming manipulating moving things around when god is the

architect of your dream you'll be shocked how things fall into place You'll be shocked how god will send people that you need when you need them to help you but when you are the architect you have to manipulate trick and scheme to make it work out hire people and not pay them borrow money and never give it back use them and abuse them and then call them haters when they want what's this [Music] Y'all don't want to get with me y'all don't want to get with me it's too late for this y'all can't handle this

y'all can't handle it only the real people can handle it you have to be a real person to challenge your own dream [Applause] can i say that again you have to be a real person to challenge your own dream to confront your motives I'm not talking about your actions i'm talking about your motives why your why not your what why you fix your what but your why is sick and if your why is sick your what won't work oh it's quiet oh it's quiet Because out of the heart flows the issues of life the heart

is where the motives are your intentions what causes you to do it well i've starred in the church yeah but you're trying to spite the pastor down the street and you want god to bless it to prove to him that you really are more anointed than he acknowledged your motives are not right [Laughter] oh i lost some of y'all on that you see you might want to click me off because i'ma say it again your motives are not right anytime you're trying to prove something to flesh your motives are not right this has to be

in the beginning god or it will not work in the beginning god Oh it will not work in the beginning god or it will not work i don't care how many times you get married in the beginning god or it will not work you can't get married to show your ex that you are still marketable and then ask god to bless your marriage how can god bless your marriage when you won't let god fix your motive Oh god can i go deeper number five are you willing to endure the process or are you just attracted

to the promise [Music] everybody wants to go to chicago but don't nobody want to drive everybody want to go to heaven don't nobody want to die everybody wants to be successful don't Nobody want to work everybody wants to be a millionaire but don't nobody want to do the labor everybody wants to get a reward but nobody wants to make an investment everybody wants a return but nobody wants to plant a seed everybody wants a harvest but nobody wants to put nothing in the ground are you in love with the promise more than the process you

cannot embrace promises without process The process is a part of it somebody give me 30 seconds of praise [Music] [Applause] [Music] we're not we're not praising him for the promise we're praising him for the process we're praising him for the struggle we're praising him for the correction we're praising him for the judgment we're praising him for time out We're praising him for correction we're praising him for spankings we're praising him for putting us in quiet time we're praising him for putting us on hold because the more he corrected us the more we knew he was

with us i know i belong to him because he corrects me i'm so glad you correct me as long as you're correcting me you're not deserting me Can i get god can i get y'all to give god a praise i know you're with me i know you're with me i know you got something planned for me i know you're gonna do something in my life i know you got something for me to do because when i get it wrong you make me get it right you make me get it together you make me apologize you

make me say i'm sorry you make me go back and fix it That means i'm your child because whom the lord loveth he chasing it that's how i know i'm not illegitimate because he chastens me somebody ought to praise him for chasing in you you ought to praise him for correcting you [Music] i praise him i praise him For every bit of trouble we went through i praise him for every bit of trial we went through i praise him for how long it took us i praise him for every church we pastored that wouldn't grow

i praise him for preaching to 20 people i praise him for preaching in empty buildings i praise him for putting my paycheck in the offering to keep the doors open i praise him For everybody who lied on me i praise him for everybody who walked out i praise him for everybody who quit i praise him for the sister that stopped paying tithes and her times were almost all we had because when she stopped paying him god start paying him and i found out i didn't need her like i thought i did i praise him for

experience I praise him for challenges i praise him for struggles that's why i can preach in an empty building because i started in an empty building and if you start in an empty building the devil can't threaten you i will not be threatened not by any demon not by any power because i've been there done that [Music] t-shirt i've been there done that got a t-shirt i've been there done that got a t-shirt somebody say yes lord i got one more point to make and then i'll be through everything god created John said it was

a word genesis says it was god john says the word was god all things were made by him and was not anything made that was made y'all thought i lost myself but i know exactly where i am john and genesis are saying the same thing they're describing the creation in two different ways god said let there be And it became what he said let there be light and there was light let the firmaments above the waters be separated from the firmaments beneath the waters and it was good let the lower lights rule the night and

the greater light ruled the day and it was good god spoke to the sea And said bring forth and the fish began to swim he spoke to the air and the birds began to fly he spoke to the ground and the grass began to grow everything he spoke to something came out of it if god speaks to you something will come out of you if god speaks to you something will swim in you If god speaks to you something will fly in you somebody say speak to me lord speak to me lord speak to me

lord speak to my heart speak to my mind speak to my spirit i got a word from somebody right now god is getting ready to speak in your life And nothing anybody else said is going to stop you from getting your year nothing anybody did it's gonna stop you from getting your blessing nothing anybody else did it's gonna stop the door that god's about to open in your life everything god spoke through it brought forth everything god spoke to it brought forth everything god spoke to it brought forth But when it came down to man

that's the only time god deviated he didn't just speak to man the bible said he formed him the hebrew word is panna it means he shaped him it means he got him together it means he touched him the lord said i'm not only going to speak to you i'm going to touch you I'm going to shape you i'm going to develop you i'm going to make you and then i'm going to set you in a prepared place whoever i'm preaching to 2022 is already prepared god has a place for you and he's going to set

you in it somebody needs to step in it god's gonna set you in a place Of blessings right now whoever i'm talking to praise him like i'm talking to you right now praise it praise him praise him praise him praise him praise him praise him devil this is my word Devil this is my word i'm getting ready to cross over into another year and as i cross over into another year you think i'm gonna praise him for the doors he opens but what i'm gonna do is praise him for the doors he closed thank you

lord for the doors you closed thank you for the places You didn't let me go thank you for the people that won't cross with me thank you lord for the breakthrough i got in my life somebody type on the line thank you lord just i thank you lord thank you lord just i thank you lord somebody just type thank you lord somebody type thank you lord somebody Say thank you lord thank you lord thank you thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you for who's not going thank you for who i left behind thank you

for where i can't stay thank you lord for the yoke that broke thank you lord for the change that failed Thank you lord for the water part i left thank you lord for the coat i came out of thank you lord for the bag i left behind thank you for the lunch i gave you thank you for who walked off and left me thank you for the doors you closed thank you lord it hurt me but i thank you lord i cried But i thank you lord i crawled but i thank you lord i crawled

out of it i crawled out of it i crawled out of it because i knew god had something for me as i closed tonight i closed the door on what's been tormenting you i closed the door what's not [Applause] shut the available i shut the door i shut the door i shut the door i shut the door it shut the door i gotta shut it i gotta shut it before twelve i gotta set it before midnight i gotta shut it i gotta shut it it's 11 59. i gotta shut the door somebody run and shut

the door Praise him like you're going into 2022. praise him like the devil can't go with you in the name of jesus from going into 22 you got to stay in last year this is my year type it on the line type it on the line this is my year i'm crossing over I'm crossing over with the praise i'm crossing over with the praise i'm crossing over with the hallelujah i'm crossing over with joy [Applause] 2021 i'm gone see you later i'm out of here i mean i'm stepping over into 2022 the devil didn't want

me to make it but i'm crossing over Into a brand new year somebody say happy new year happy new year happy new life happy new peace happy new power happy new deliverance happy new visit happy new understanding open your mouth and praise him with a brand new place i will bless the lord At all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth i can't hear you god we praise you god [Applause] [Music]