The Danger of Self-Created Reality: A Theological Correction

• Vision and Destiny [00:02:21 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor identifies himself as a 'visionary specialist' and states his assignment is dealing with vision, linking it to completing one's destiny.
• Finding Your Gift [00:02:51 ▶️ 📄]
  > He argues that people fail to receive because they don't know their specific gift, which determines their qualified destiny and destination.
• King vs. Priest Roles [00:03:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > He distinguishes between those called to preach (priests) and those called to support/finance (kings), using a personal anecdote about a friend who failed by leaving his 'lane'.
• Childlike Faith [00:04:12 ▶️ 📄]
  > He instructs the congregation to approach God as a child, not an adult, because children are 'born believers' and adults are 'argumentative'.
• Immediate Possession vs. Future Confession [00:06:03 ▶️ 📄]
  > He contrasts the traditional method of 'confession' which takes time, with his upcoming teaching on 'possession' which he claims is for 'now'.
• Faithfulness vs. Perfection [00:15:27 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that God judges faithfulness rather than perfection, citing Moses and Joshua as examples of leaders who were not perfect but were faithful.
• Identity and Temptation [00:16:30 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor claims he has no temptations because he understands his identity in Christ, asserting that temptations belong to Satan and are only effective if accepted.
• Vision and Action [00:14:48 ▶️ 📄]
  > Using Joshua 1, the pastor urges the congregation to stop mourning the past (Moses' death) and take action to cross into their promised land.
• Mental Renewal and Conviction [00:20:43 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor distinguishes between transient opinions and deep convictions, urging believers to renew their minds and maintain a high level of thought through patience and anticipation.
• Solitude and Fellowship [00:21:56 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor emphasizes that individuality and solitude are essential for hearing God's voice and building deep fellowship, distinguishing it from mere relationship.
• Temptation and Spiritual Authority [00:23:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that temptations belong to the devil, not the believer, and that believers should reject them because they do not align with God's will for them.
• Revelation Knowledge and the Tongue [00:24:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts a divine encounter where he was taught that 'death and life is in the power of the tongue,' enabling believers to refuse death and maintain salvation through spoken truth.
• Discernment of Gifts vs. Sin [00:27:55 ▶️ 📄]
  > Through a story about a prostitute, the pastor illustrates the importance of discerning one's true spiritual gift versus societal labels or sinful paths, emphasizing that one should not believe lies about their identity.
• Vision, Patience, and Preparation [00:32:32 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor contrasts business projects with visionary dreams, arguing that impatience, lack of preparation, and lack of discipline hinder spiritual vision, using cultural examples like fast food and international perceptions of America.
• Faith and Divine Connection [00:46:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains the mechanism of spiritual success by 'hooking' personal faith to the faith of Jesus Christ, citing Galatians 2:20.
• Financial Provision and Discipline [00:39:40 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor discusses the necessity of discipline in life to avoid financial lack, contrasting needs with wants, and asserting his own lack of financial deficit through faith.
• Humility and Waiting on God [00:42:37 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor redefines waiting not as a negative state but as a form of humility and alignment with God's timing, illustrated by his interactions with his wife.
• Angelic Worship and the Holiness of God [00:48:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor describes a vision of seraphim and cherubim circling God's throne, explaining that they worship continuously because they perceive new aspects of God's holiness with every rotation.
• Faith and Vision [00:49:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor asserts that Christian life requires faith and encourages listeners to find their specific vision and gifts to witness miracles.
• Spiritual Jealousy and Insecurity [00:49:47 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor advises against being insecure or jealous of others' blessings, urging excitement for God's work in others rather than competition.
• Temptation and Spiritual Warfare [00:50:39 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor clarifies that temptations are not from the self but from Satan, who is described as restricted and awaiting judgment.
• Stewardship of Resources [00:51:10 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor challenges listeners to determine not just how much money they want, but what they will do with it, linking it to their God-given gift and vision.

• Sermon Illustration [00:03:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor tells a story about a friend who wanted to preach but whose gift was business; he went broke leaving his lane, then returned to become successful while still preaching a little. He also shares a personal story about his 14-year-old truck, his recent eye exam where he was diagnosed with cataracts, and his negotiation with the doctor to have both eyes done immediately rather than waiting.
• Sermon Illustration [00:10:29 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts his LASIK eye surgery experience, including negotiating to have both eyes done, the humorous interaction with nurses about wearing no underwear, his refusal to be sedated, and the vivid results afterward which led to him jokingly asking for other body parts to be 'changed'.
• Sermon Illustration [00:19:14 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a childhood story about being small for football, biting the legs of larger opponents to deter them, and covering himself in mud on the bench to appear as if he had played hard, which impressed the girls and the coach.
• Sermon Illustration [00:23:47 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor describes a recent spiritual encounter where the Lord spoke to him while he was contemplating the death of his friend Jerry Savelle, asking him to quote the scripture about life and death being in the power of the tongue.
• Sermon Illustration [00:23:47 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about his friend Jerry Savelle's death, where God instructed him to quote Proverbs 18:21 ('death and life is in the power of the tongue') repeatedly to emphasize that believers have authority over their spiritual fate and should not 'answer the phone' when death calls if they possess revelation knowledge.
• Sermon Illustration [00:27:36 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts an encounter with a prostitute who approached him for company. Instead of judging her, he engaged her, revealed her academic brilliance, and explained that her current path was not her gift, leading to her emotional response and prayer.
• Sermon Illustration [00:30:03 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references the biblical story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery to illustrate how Jesus exposed the hypocrisy of the accusers and offered truth without condemnation, paralleling his own approach to the prostitute.
• Sermon Illustration [00:31:53 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses a humorous anecdote about his wife, Kathy, calling him an 'old white-headed fool' to illustrate the importance of resolving conflict quickly ('not letting the sun go down on your wrath') and maintaining a healthy, visionary relationship.
• Sermon Illustration [00:35:23 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor tells a story about his grandmother remarrying after his grandfather's death, where he jokingly asked if she 'protected' herself to avoid having more siblings, highlighting the humor and humanity of older adults and the importance of not underestimating their lives.
• Sermon Illustration [00:36:13 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a humorous anecdote about his grandmother's reaction to his question about protecting him from having more aunts/uncles, and later jokes about his wife's cooking and their dining habits.
• Sermon Illustration [00:36:56 ▶️ 📄]
  > A story about his daughter Jody noting his prosperity, leading to his philosophy of 'creating your world and walking in it' and knowing what goes in and comes out.
• Sermon Illustration [00:38:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > A detailed story about a lunch outing where his wife, Kathy, stops him from eating pizza and tells him to give $100 to every worker in the restaurant, illustrating the power of money and generosity.
• Sermon Illustration [00:38:59 ▶️ 📄]
  > An analogy comparing himself to 'Jesse and the Jets' (a play on Elton John's 'Rocket Man'), where he buys the plane (resources) but relies on pilots (others) to fly it, illustrating delegation and resource management.
• Sermon Illustration [00:40:51 ▶️ 📄]
  > A theological illustration using Apostle Paul's tent-making versus receiving financial support, arguing that Paul initially 'shut down people's harvest' by refusing gifts, but later learned to receive to 'abound' and not frustrate God's grace.
• Sermon Illustration [00:43:02 ▶️ 📄]
  > A humorous personal story about his wife's habit of needing to use the bathroom right before leaving the house, which he uses to illustrate the concept of 'waiting' and patience in marriage.
• Sermon Illustration [00:45:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > A rhetorical question and illustration about dead people at a funeral to explain the meaning of 'I am crucified with Christ'—that a dead person cannot do anything, hence the need for Christ to live within.
• Sermon Illustration [00:48:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > A visionary description of seraphim and cherubim in heaven, describing their size, wings, and continuous worship as they circle God's throne, perceiving new sides of His holiness.
• Sermon Illustration [00:48:52 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor jokes about running out of time and taking 'Nancy's time,' then shares personal anecdotes about having held 10 million, 100 million, and 500 million to illustrate the need for a plan on how to use resources.
• Sermon Illustration [00:50:05 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor contrasts his own joy when his 'spiritual sons' surpass him with other preachers who get mad when their successors do better than they did.

• Pastoral Charge [00:01:00 ▶️ 📄]
  > First-time attendees are commanded to stand, look at the crowd, and clap to welcome them.
• Pastoral Charge [00:15:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the statement that faithfulness, not perfection, is the key to success with God.
• Pastoral Charge [00:21:56 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the instruction that individuality and solitude are beneficial for fellowship with God.
• Pastoral Charge [00:23:28 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the command to grasp God's promises with a submitted will.
• Pastoral Charge [00:23:28 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the instruction to grasp God's promises with a submitted will.
• Pastoral Charge [00:27:01 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the instruction to listen for God's voice in the cloud.
• Pastoral Charge [00:40:00 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor announces a personal commitment to fast for four days due to financial constraints, modeling reliance on God.
• Pastoral Charge [00:50:39 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor commands the congregation to meditate on the teachings regarding temptation and faith.
• Pastoral Charge [00:49:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > Identify personal spiritual gifts and vision.
• Pastoral Charge [00:49:47 ▶️ 📄]
  > Cease jealousy and insecurity; rejoice in others' blessings.
• Pastoral Charge [00:50:39 ▶️ 📄]
  > Meditate on the truth that temptations are external attacks from Satan.
• Pastoral Charge [00:51:10 ▶️ 📄]
  > Define specific financial goals and plans for stewardship based on one's gifts.

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:00:00] Give the Lord a great God bless you. Come on. Come on. You can do better than that. Come on.
[00:00:08] Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. You may be seated if you can. Did you have a good night last night?
[00:00:15] Good. What a blessing of the Lord. You enjoying the convention? I'll tell you what, it's such a blessing of the Lord. I've been doing this so many years, so long, and I said, do you ever get used
[00:00:24] to it? No. It's such a blessing because all of us are preaching. If you take what we're all saying, everywhere. You know, and of course, everybody cooks a stew different and a gumbo different and
[00:00:37] fried chicken. I love cholesterol. I don't know about y'all, but I do.
[00:00:42] Say it'll kill you. I'll die with a chicken wing in my mouth. I don't care. It don't make no difference to me. You know, but God has been so good and gracious. And I just thank you. Now,
[00:00:51] I asked this when I preach Monday night and then when I preach Tuesday, what is today? Thursday.
[00:00:56] there. Hallelujah. If this is the first time you at the believers convention, stand to your feet, look at the people, give them a hand clap. What a blessing of the Lord. Thank you. Thank you for
[00:01:10] coming. You might be seated. I don't, I think from now on you'll come and you'll be a blessing of the Lord. I had a person not long ago say, you know, I love the good, but I can't afford it.
[00:01:19] And I looked at him and I said, I didn't ask you to pay for it. He asked you to believe for it.
[00:01:25] See, whatever you can't afford, don't afford.
[00:01:30] Just believe and God can afford anything you can believe.
[00:01:33] If you just simply believe it.
[00:01:35] What I tried, don't get nothing done.
[00:01:38] Do and does.
[00:01:40] See, be ye therefore doers.
[00:01:41] I told you that.
[00:01:42] When you're a doer, they'll write books about you.
[00:01:45] If you're a trier, they don't know nothing about you.
[00:01:48] Like how many spies went out in the land?
[00:01:51] Twelve?
[00:01:53] How many came back with a good report?
[00:01:54] What were their names?
[00:01:57] How many came back with a bad report?
[00:02:00] What were their names?
[00:02:02] You know why?
[00:02:03] You don't remember losers.
[00:02:07] And you know their names are in the Bible?
[00:02:11] Ten losers.
[00:02:14] You don't remember losers.
[00:02:16] God is so good and gracious.
[00:02:17] You got your Bibles?
[00:02:18] Once again, would you turn with me to the book of Joshua?
[00:02:21] And my assignment is dealing with vision because I am a visionary specialist.
[00:02:26] And without sounding prideful or arrogant, it's just simply the truth.
[00:02:30] Everything I've ever put my faith on has come to pass. Lock, stock, and barrel. So I have to put my faith on more and more things, you see. And it's just such a blessing of the Lord so I can complete my destiny and reach my
[00:02:44] destination. I told you in the first service on Monday night was you have to find your gift.
[00:02:51] So the reason why a lot of people are not receiving, they don't know what their gift is.
[00:02:54] So they walk around, well, is it this? Is it that? No, you got to find your gift.
[00:02:58] and then from that gift will come your destiny and destination because you you're actually qualified to do something that no one else can do because God gave you that gift see and when you understand that it's just such a blessing of the Lord to flow like that so and then once you
[00:03:13] find a gift and whatever it is I had a friend of mine he wanted to preach but that was not his gift his gift was business and salesman and stuff so he left and went slap broke because he got out of
[00:03:25] his lane. See, so he watched this. Uh, finally he went back in his lane and became super successful, but he still got to preach a little bit. That's not the issue, you know, but he was not qualified.
[00:03:39] God didn't call him that he made his Kings and priests. God made him a King which supports and finances the ministry and the priests are the people that preach it. Now there are some times
[00:03:48] when you will get both of those, you'll become a King and a priest. And that has happened to me because I use everything that God has given me in my life, whether it be spiritual, physical, or financial, see?
[00:03:59] It makes no difference because I know it will come to pass.
[00:04:03] And many of my partners, they know my theme is use your faith voice.
[00:04:07] You know, you got a cussing voice and an aggravating voice.
[00:04:10] And let me just put this.
[00:04:11] You can write this down.
[00:04:12] Never go to God as an adult.
[00:04:16] Adults are argumentative.
[00:04:17] Yeah, yeah, just mad about something.
[00:04:20] go as a child, not childish, childlike. Ephesians 5 verse 1, be you therefore imitators of God as a dear child. He said, you come as a child because children are born believers till you teach them
[00:04:35] the doubt. I've never taught my daughter the doubt. So she believed, when I say something, Jody said, my daddy said, he going to do what he said. Why? Because my, oh, somebody going to get
[00:04:46] mad at him and write me another letter. My word is just as good as God's. Okay. I lost this crowd.
[00:04:52] let me go on over here. My word is just as good as God's. Why? I'm created in his image.
[00:05:01] How many of y'all want to know what God look like? I'm made in his image and his likeness.
[00:05:11] He is giving me, he's given me his character. If you don't accept it, you become a character.
[00:05:19] But if you take his character, you become what he is. I'm preaching better than y'all shouting right now. And I told you that if you refuse to be contained or restrained, you cannot be confined. There's always somebody telling you that you can't do something. They're talking
[00:05:36] about themselves. You can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth you. Now I'm going to say some things in this one because I'm going to finish out this vision thing because tomorrow night, and I'll be preaching this as the increased day. And normally I don't ever preach two nights
[00:05:52] at a believer's convention.
[00:05:54] And I thought, man, someone else can do this.
[00:05:55] They won't.
[00:05:56] No, no, no, no, what you do?
[00:05:57] I said, okay, I'm going to show you how to possess tomorrow night instead of just confess.
[00:06:03] Do you know I started out with confession, but my God, that take time.
[00:06:08] You know, I want it now.
[00:06:09] How many of y'all want it now?
[00:06:11] Well, you should want it now.
[00:06:12] Why would you put your faith in the future when it was made for the now?
[00:06:15] Yet the world puts it in the future when you can have it today.
[00:06:18] Yeah, but I'm trying.
[00:06:20] No, no, try and don't get nothing done.
[00:06:22] I didn't try to come here.
[00:06:24] I just did.
[00:06:25] So that's tomorrow night.
[00:06:26] And I want to tell you something.
[00:06:28] It's going to knock your socks off.
[00:06:30] It's so simple.
[00:06:31] I preached this sermon 30 years ago.
[00:06:34] And the Lord brought it to my mind before I came in.
[00:06:36] He said, I want you to do it.
[00:06:37] I said, well, somebody may have heard that.
[00:06:40] He said, well, how many times I told you to do something you heard?
[00:06:45] I mean, how many times you sang a song to say, I never understood worship in Protestant churches.
[00:06:50] Because, you know, we were Catholic, you know.
[00:06:52] Because they'd sing the same song.
[00:06:53] this is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made. This is the day. They just keep going over and over. I said, how many times they got to sing it till they finished. So Joshua chapter one,
[00:07:14] and I'm going to tell a few stories too. After the death of Moses, oh, did y'all notice I'm not haven't reading glasses? And if you don't think this print small, can you read that?

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:07:31] Let me tell you this story, then I'll read Joshua. I was going down to I-10 in my truck,

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:07:41] and I love this truck of mine. I said, why do you want a truck? I don't know. It's just like a truck. It's a man thing, you know? And I love it. It's 14 years old. It looks like the day I bought
[00:07:50] it. It don't have a scratch on it. Every time I go out with the thing, people want to buy it.
[00:07:55] And it's bad, boy.
[00:07:56] I took a vet the other day.
[00:07:58] Did I break the law?
[00:07:58] Yeah, but I beat that vet.
[00:08:01] I sucked him up my tailpipe.
[00:08:03] He was so depressed.
[00:08:06] Don't mess with that truck.
[00:08:07] That truck got a big engine in it.
[00:08:08] Anyway, I was doing this.
[00:08:10] Now watch me.
[00:08:10] I've been saying this, and I'm going to try to shorten it up as fast as I can.
[00:08:13] And I happened to blink my eye, and I went, well, that's a little fuzzy.
[00:08:18] And I closed that, and I said, well, that ain't fuzzy.
[00:08:20] It's not as fuzzy, but that's still a little fuzzy.
[00:08:22] So I can't tell Kathy something, because she's always trying to send me to a doctor or something.
[00:08:27] And I like doctors, I just don't like what they do.
[00:08:30] You know, they got the spirit of neckiness on them.
[00:08:33] You go to a doctor, I swear to God, my throat hurts, take your pants off.
[00:08:36] No, I don't want to take my pants off.
[00:08:39] I mean, I'm not embarrassed to take my pants off, but I can't, my throat is here, doc.
[00:08:45] And you women ought to know that because they strip you down every time you walk in there.
[00:08:51] So I told her, she said, you got to go get, you've never had an eye exam, and all this kind of stuff.
[00:08:56] You got to go to an ophthalmologist.
[00:08:58] I said, all right, so I'm going to go.
[00:08:59] So I meet this wonderful doctor younger than me. He could have been, he could be my son. I said, how are you doing? He said, I've seen you on television. I said, well, thank you.
[00:09:08] He said, uh, he said, let me check your eyes. And I didn't know you had eye pressure.
[00:09:13] I know I don't go to doctors. I know very subtle. He looks at me, said, you have cataracts.
[00:09:19] I said, what did you say? You have cataracts. I said, cataracts, you've got to be nine on cataract. He said, yes, you do. And he showed me, I said, is that normal? He said, that's normal
[00:09:31] for a man your age. I'm 77 years old. A lot of people, I said, okay, what do we do? Now, the thing that struck me is why didn't I pray for myself? See, I can get myself healed quicker than
[00:09:45] I can get you healed. Most people are the exact opposite. They can get someone else healed before they get healed. Me, I ain't got no doubt in me. I don't mean that pridefully. I get myself. Why
[00:09:55] didn't I? And I told this before, I got to say it again. Why didn't I pray for myself? Well, now I no, but at that time I didn't. So he says, um, but we can fix that. Now, you know, when you go
[00:10:06] into doc, they're all talking about money, you know, insurance. I said, listen, doc, it don't make no difference with the insurance. I can handle anything you got. I said, now I came here. What do you, you tell me? He said, well, we can give you a call the regular lenses. I didn't
[00:10:19] know what that meant. He said, we can give you these super ones. I said, doc, he said, which one you want? I said, I don't know that you tell me. That's why I came here. You tell me, are you
[00:10:29] practicing, or do you know what you're doing? I'm very smart. He said, well, I know what I'm doing. He said, you have a stigma in this and that, and they're perfect. How he said it? They're
[00:10:42] symmetrical. He said, you are a candidate for the best whatever. I said, well, good. You want to know how much it costs? No. Just do it. So they set me up, and so they brought me in. They told
[00:10:58] I'm going to wear like jogging shorts or something real comfortable in the thing that tip. And they said, I said, I want both eyes done. Oh, we don't do that. I said, doc, let me talk to you here for a second.
[00:11:10] I said, you know, I was supposed to be here at nine 30, but your office called me and said, could they move my appointment to two 30? And I agreed.
[00:11:22] I said, no doc, let me tell you something.
[00:11:24] My time is just as valuable as yours.
[00:11:26] So I'm going to make you an offer you don't refuse.
[00:11:29] I want both eyes done you understand just like that he goes uh yeah yeah now this was supposed to happen in December and Kathy said would Monday be fine that was Thursday uh yeah so I said okay
[00:11:48] so I go and so I go over there with jogging shorts on that you run and everything and you know and they said he may ask you to take your shirt off and they may not put one of them gowns on you
[00:11:58] or whatever they call him.
[00:11:59] So here comes this girl, these two nurses.
[00:12:02] Hello Reverend Doctor, I said hello.
[00:12:04] We want you to take your pants off, take your shorts off.
[00:12:08] I said, I don't have no underwear on.
[00:12:13] Well you don't run with that, look at Karen Lisabelle.
[00:12:17] Well it's the truth, you know when you run in the sweat, you don't, anybody, you know what I'm talking about with jogging, shorts on.
[00:12:24] I said, but if you want them on, oh no, leave them on.
[00:12:28] I said, all right, I can't believe you told her.
[00:12:31] I said, what if I took my shorts off, should have got a revelation. So they brought me to the back like that. And he said, now we're going to give you some drugs and you're probably going to fall asleep. And I said, that's the only
[00:12:50] amount of drugs I'm going to get what you got in that little syringe. I said, son, I'm going to remember everything. You don't understand the amount of drugs. I took trips and never left my
[00:12:57] house. And sure enough, and I got big veins, you know, boom, but they did it. So man, I'm talking to them. They're putting drops in my eyes and you can't blink because they hold them up. Did both
[00:13:08] of them. I remembered everything. It was a blessing. All right. Lights everywhere and all that kind of stuff. He said, keep your eyes down. And they put these really super dark, I call them sunglasses. It was like a case or something. Brought me back. Went into his regular
[00:13:23] office. He said, now take them off. And I took them. And when I looked up, I thought, my God, the colors were so vivid. I got 2020, 2015 vision. I said, doc, do you have any other parts I can
[00:13:37] change. Is there any other parts in this place that I can, this is great. And I shouldn't have said this to Kath. I said, Kath, I see wrinkles on you I've never seen before. She said, shut up,
[00:13:51] Jesse. But it's so wonderful. Well, now she's jealous. She said, I'm going to do mine too.
[00:13:59] I said, that's all right. I don't care. So that's why I'm, I said, when they go way out, he said, they'll last forever. Ain't that something? I may even have them when I get raptured. I don't know. So anyway, Joshua, I'm going to tell you my story. It's just so amazing
[00:14:21] to me. I can read everything. It's just wonderful. Joshua chapter one, verse one, after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua, the son of Nun,
[00:14:31] Moses, the sister saying, and notice what God does. God says this, Moses, my servant is dead.
[00:14:38] You'll not be breaking into a funeral. God don't care about no funerals. Moses, my servant is dead.
[00:14:46] Now, therefore, arise, go over this Jordan.
[00:14:48] In other words, get your butt up and cross that river.
[00:14:51] Why?
[00:14:51] Vision.
[00:14:52] There's a promised land out there.
[00:14:54] What are you waiting around for, trying to just be nice when there is your whole life right there?
[00:15:00] Get up.
[00:15:04] You understand what I'm saying?
[00:15:05] He don't care about the, you know, all them bawling and squalling.
[00:15:11] Most of my service, then I get up.
[00:15:13] You and all these people to the land which I'm giving to them, the children of Israel.
[00:15:18] Now, I'm not going to go over all the points.
[00:15:20] Many of you wrote that down, but I want you to write this down.
[00:15:21] We'll start with this.
[00:15:24] See, Moses never thought he was qualified.
[00:15:25] Most people don't.
[00:15:26] Write this down.
[00:15:27] Most people who have seen great success with God have not been perfect, but they have been faithful.
[00:15:36] And what God judges is faithful.
[00:15:38] They're not perfect.
[00:15:39] No one is perfect.
[00:15:41] You know, and I was hearing Brother Creflo speak.
[00:15:43] Can I give you the definition of grace and just cut out all the chatter?
[00:15:47] Make it so simple. You can't misunderstand it grace. This is what it means Quit trying to become What you already are That's what he's been saying. You already you already are yet you trying To get something you already have but because you don't know your gift yet
[00:16:07] But you're not developed in that You can't seem to find it. I'm gonna say something gonna be real radical. I have no temptations Zero look at y'all you would like me to explain that? You know, Luke chapter four, it's called when Satan
[00:16:30] tempted Jesus. Did you know those temptations were not Jesus's? Who were they? It was Satan's temptations. So anytime you tempted, it ain't your temptation. It is his worried about temptation.
[00:16:48] So when he puts it to try to make me accept his temptation, I said, that's not me. You're talking to the wrong man. I'm born again. I'm in Christ. I totally understand who I am, what I am,
[00:17:01] where I'm going, what I'm going to do and every which way, shape or form. So it makes no difference when Satan comes up to me with a temptation. I'm going to show you how smart he is. What he
[00:17:09] tempted Jesus with was everything that just Jesus came to the earth for. Hey, you call yourself the son of God? If it can be a very devilish word, uh, turn that stone into bread. Now Jesus simply
[00:17:22] said no, but he could turn that whole mountain into a loaf of bread with a log of butter running down the valley. He just simply said no, because he realized it wasn't his temptation. It's Satan's
[00:17:33] temptation. Now, once you accept it, it becomes yours. And yet the Bible says, take no thought saying. So don't say it. Now I'm not the ugliest man in the world, even though at 77, I still get
[00:17:46] hit on. Can you believe that? Some woman, they don't want me. They want my money. I don't have no money. Kathy got all my money and she don't like any hussy trying to get it. That's not my
[00:18:05] temptation. Did y'all get that? That's a revelation right there. That's not my, that's his. Why would you accept anything that belongs to him? Accept everything that belongs to God. The Bible said he tempts no man. Why? Because he don't handle temptation. Y'all understand what I'm saying here?
[00:18:26] no matter what it is, spiritual, physical, or financial.
[00:18:29] That's all him, the tempter.
[00:18:33] You know you've never sinned by yourself?
[00:18:36] Never, never.
[00:18:39] You had a tempter pulling you and then you took that temptation and fell.
[00:18:47] But all you got to do is get back up.
[00:18:50] Now, why would you want to fall?
[00:18:53] Most people who have seen great success with God have not been perfect, but they've been faithful.
[00:18:59] So a stumble is not a loss.
[00:19:01] It's just another opportunity to get back up and succeed You know, I wanted to play football because the cheerleaders like the football players When I was in high school, but I was little I was small and tiny
[00:19:14] They called me little jesse like they used to call jerry little jerry, you know, and jerry didn't like it I didn't like it neither and some of these guys man when they'd hit me. I mean they knocked me back 20 yards
[00:19:23] And I figured out something Let them hit me and they're all gonna pile on me and I bit them boys legs I ripped the hair off their leg.
[00:19:34] You can hear them hollering.
[00:19:36] And I look at them and said, come on, sucker.
[00:19:41] I can take the ball and run with it.
[00:19:42] They said, we ain't messing him.
[00:19:43] He'll bite us, man.
[00:19:45] You got to do what you got to do.
[00:19:48] And then I wanted the girls to know I was playing a lot.
[00:19:51] So I sit on the bench and reach down and grab mud.
[00:19:55] And as I got the mud, I pulled it up all over my jersey.
[00:19:59] And then I squirt water on it like I've been playing all four quarters.
[00:20:03] And I'd run through the line and we won the game.
[00:20:05] They love, hey, you did good.
[00:20:07] Thank you.
[00:20:09] And the coach said, I've never seen somebody get so dirty sitting on the bench.
[00:20:13] That's a true story.
[00:20:20] Now, to run a vision, and every one of you have one, we must have unity and the joy of confidence.
[00:20:33] What is that called?
[00:20:33] The attitude of expectation.
[00:20:36] You have to maintain a high level of thought.
[00:20:42] Now, here's something else.
[00:20:43] Be not conformed, but be transformed in the renewing of your mind.
[00:20:47] Why do you still have your mind when you have been given the mind of Christ?
[00:20:54] When are you going to believe this?
[00:20:56] People are always trying to give me opinion.
[00:20:58] I said, I ain't interested in your opinions.
[00:21:00] I'm interested in your convictions.
[00:21:02] Your convictions tell me who you are, not your opinions.
[00:21:05] Your opinions are transitory forms of thought.
[00:21:07] They float on the ocean of life.
[00:21:09] They change with every wave.
[00:21:11] But your convictions tell me who you really are.
[00:21:14] So when you understand that, a visionary must maintain a high level of thought. And this is done through patience and confident anticipation. Yeah. Now nobody likes time. We want it yesterday, but that's the weapon Satan
[00:21:28] uses more than anything else. Not a lack of faith or an abundance of unbelief, even though that can mess you up. It's time. Devil says, if I can delay this, they'll quit believing it. And the Bible
[00:21:42] says, let us not be weary in well-doing for in due season. Now, what time is due season?
[00:21:50] You will reap if you faint not. Well, my God, it seems like I've been by myself. Write this down.
[00:21:56] Individuality and solitude are your best friends when you're alone with God. You know, when I got born again, I formed a relationship with God, but I knew there was something deeper than that. It's called fellowship. So every day I get them go, hello, Jesus. Hey, Jesse. I like
[00:22:16] fellowship. I like conversation with my father. And there's a vast difference between the father's voice, the son's voice, and the Holy Spirit's voice. And the only way you're going to know that is not through relationship, but through fellowship. I said, if you really want to
[00:22:34] know somebody, go on vacation with them. You're going to find out who they are real quick.
[00:22:39] But when you understand that individuality and that solitude are really your best friends.
[00:22:48] Why?
[00:22:49] Because you're alone with God, you don't have distraction.
[00:22:53] You got to understand some satanic attractions.
[00:22:56] He tries to make them distractions.
[00:22:58] So I don't look at that.
[00:23:00] Let me get this again, because I don't have any temptations.
[00:23:03] That's his.
[00:23:05] I know what I have.
[00:23:07] So he's tempting me with what he has.
[00:23:09] and I don't want what he has. You see what I'm saying? Now, that's a strong statement, but you let that sink in. Every time you've messed up, it's because you listened to him.
[00:23:20] You didn't have that on your mind until he tempted you with his. Isn't that something?
[00:23:28] Write this down. I love this here. You must grasp the promises of God with a submitted will.
[00:23:36] That's not easy because he made you a free will choice. Now, I've said this before and I feel letter of the Lord to say it again. When Jerry Savelle went home to be with the Lord, and that
[00:23:47] family's right there, that bothered me. I knew that man. He called me two days before he went home to be with the Lord. We talked, I mean, constantly, all the time, you know. And then
[00:23:57] when I found out about it, I thought, wait a minute, something's not right here. So I'm sitting in my office, and I'm contemplating, and the Lord spoke to me. Now, whether you believe this or not,
[00:24:10] The Lord said, say it to every place where you can.
[00:24:13] He said, Jesse, would you quote that life and death scripture to me?
[00:24:19] And I thought, what?
[00:24:21] It kind of interrupted my thought process.
[00:24:24] So I said, well, yeah, death and life's in the power of the tongue.
[00:24:26] They that love it should eat the fruit thereof.
[00:24:28] He said, is that revelation knowledge to you?
[00:24:32] I said, yes, it is.
[00:24:33] He said, quote it again.
[00:24:37] Okay.
[00:24:38] Death and life's in the power of the tongue.
[00:24:39] They that love it should eat the fruit thereof.
[00:24:41] He said, is that revelation knowledge to you?
[00:24:43] I said, yes, it is, Lord.
[00:24:44] He said, quote it again.
[00:24:45] And I was kind of getting irritated a little bit about this.
[00:24:47] You know what I'm saying?
[00:24:48] I said, how many times do I got to quote this thing?
[00:24:50] He said, is it revelation knowledge?
[00:24:51] I said, yes, it is.
[00:24:52] Say it again.
[00:24:55] Okay.
[00:24:56] Now, see, when you have fellowship, it's okay to kind of get, the Bible said, come, let us reason together.
[00:25:04] I said, death and life's in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
[00:25:07] He said, is that revelation knowledge to you?
[00:25:10] I said, yes, Lord.
[00:25:11] He said, so I've given everybody in the world a number.
[00:25:14] He said, everybody, when he calls your number, you go home, right?
[00:25:17] He said if I call you your number and you don't want to go don't answer the phone Listen to me. I said, what did you say?
[00:25:28] He said I give everybody the number when they got to go home But if you don't want to go don't answer the phone Why because death and life's in the power of your tongue Ready not his
[00:25:40] And if you don't want to go Don't answer the phone and I said uh Okay, then he said this now that you understand revelation knowledge. I will never call you home You call me You why because you got a revelation of death and life the power of the tongue they that love it shall eat the fruit
[00:26:11] There you understand what i'm saying here He said i'll never call you you call me. So if you ever hear that I passed away I called him But I didn't know that then jerry answered the phone nothing wrong with answering the phone
[00:26:23] My god heaven's as good a place you can find He said, I'll never call you again because you have revelation knowledge.
[00:26:32] Now, let me prove it to you.
[00:26:33] How many of you are saved?
[00:26:34] Hold your hand up.
[00:26:35] Prove it.
[00:26:36] You cannot.
[00:26:38] You have no contract signed by God that if you die, you go to heaven, but nobody can talk you out of your salvation.
[00:26:43] Why is that?
[00:26:44] Because you've got revelation knowledge that you are born again.
[00:26:52] Well, what are all the trouble in life?
[00:26:56] Okay.
[00:26:57] Afflictions are the seasons for learning.
[00:27:01] Write it down.
[00:27:01] whenever a cloud rolls over you there's always a voice in the cloud just listen and listen to the voice well how do i know it's god oh god man my sheep know not believe know my voice and a stranger
[00:27:19] they will not follow when we're gonna believe that so anytime a temptation is bad i said that's the devil's why i'm gonna follow that i had a prostitute come up to me not long ago what y'all
[00:27:36] laughing at. Pretty girl. She was a pretty girl. She ain't no sweat hog. She was a pretty girl.
[00:27:43] All right. Now don't judge the woman. Why are you judging her? She's trying to make a living.
[00:27:50] Maybe she got kids in the house and a man wouldn't support her. I don't know. So she looked at me.
[00:27:55] She said, would you like to have some company for the evening? And I just smiled at her. And I said, well, I got a lot of company. I got God, the Father, God, the Son, God, the Holy Ghost.
[00:28:03] I knew that was not my temptation. Are you understanding me? I wouldn't move by that at all.
[00:28:09] it's not my temptation it's his I hope y'all get that in your mind and I looked at her I said can I ask you a question who told you this is all you could do and she just looked at me she must have
[00:28:23] been 27 28 29 years old I said who told you this is all you could do and you believed it I said I don't doubt that you are very smart individual she said I made straight A's in school I said
[00:28:40] well, this is not your gift. I said, you're brilliant, but you believe something that doesn't belong to you. Well, tears begin to swell up in her eyes. And I thought, I got it, man. I
[00:28:52] got it. You know, I said, listen, she's waiting for me to judge her. She's waiting for me to call her a whore. Well, what about the guy that's messing with her? Ain't he a whore? Did I shock
[00:29:09] you with that? No. Listen to me. I said, girl, you need to find your gift. There's not, there ain't no telling what you can do, and it's not this.
[00:29:21] Oh, she's crying by then.
[00:29:22] I said, can I pray with you?
[00:29:23] Yes, sir.
[00:29:26] I said, now, and I pray with her.
[00:29:28] Bless the man.
[00:29:28] She got touched by God.
[00:29:30] I said, can I bless you with some finance?
[00:29:32] I don't want nothing.
[00:29:34] She didn't know how to handle that, but she's so used to doing that for money.
[00:29:40] I don't know what she does with the money.
[00:29:41] Like I said, she might be feeding her kids.
[00:29:43] I have no idea.
[00:29:44] I don't know.
[00:29:45] But all I know, that was not her gift.
[00:29:49] See, she didn't know her gift.
[00:29:51] And because she believed what somebody said, she didn't have any vision.
[00:29:57] She does now.
[00:29:59] What'd you learn there from Jesus?
[00:30:03] Catches a woman in the act of adultery.
[00:30:05] Where's the man?
[00:30:07] He's in the line with a rock to hit her.
[00:30:09] So she, his wife won't know about it.
[00:30:15] Jesus said, where's your accusers?
[00:30:18] And he looked at them boys and said, he that hath no sin, let him cast the first stone.
[00:30:21] Come on, sucker.
[00:30:23] Boy, they dropped them stones and got out of there.
[00:30:24] Now, I like what he said. Neither do I condemn you. Now, he didn't reprimand her. He told her truth. Go sin no more. I looked, I said, you've been sinning. Go sin no more. And I told her
[00:30:37] that temptation. I said, that's not yours. That's the devil's. So don't do anything he says.
[00:30:44] If I really want to make Kathy mad, I just don't do anything she says.
[00:30:51] Oh, people don't like that. Well, I think you ought to do that. I don't care what you think.
[00:30:55] I am not doing that. Who do you think you are? I don't know who I am, but I'm not doing that.
[00:31:01] They're always trying to find work for me. I do enough work for God's sake, man. Do this and do that. I said, have you ever thought in your finite mind, God's telling you to do that?
[00:31:13] Now me and Kathy, we can agree to disagree without being disagreeable. She's wrong a lot.
[00:31:24] She look at it, she going, you're not going to preach tomorrow night because you're going to be dead sucker. And I said, no, you wrong a lot. And we love what iron sharpen the fire. And we both
[00:31:39] come out good. And sometime it takes me a while to hear what she's saying and vice versa, but we don't let the sun go down on our wrath. That's what the Bible said. Don't let your son go down
[00:31:53] the wrath. So if Kathy's a little mad at me, I look, I say, cat, look outside sun going down.
[00:31:57] Come on, baby.
[00:31:59] Repent.
[00:32:04] Finally, she says, I'm sorry.
[00:32:07] I said, I pardon you.
[00:32:12] And vice versa.
[00:32:13] She said, you old white-headed fool.
[00:32:14] She always calls me names.
[00:32:16] You old white-headed fool.
[00:32:17] Sun going down.
[00:32:18] Come on, boy.
[00:32:20] I said, I'm sorry.
[00:32:22] I pardon you.
[00:32:27] Brother Jesse, how do you stay so visionary?
[00:32:32] This, a business person looks at a project.
[00:32:37] A visionary looks at a dream.
[00:32:40] See, once the project's done, it's over.
[00:32:44] But a dream can continue.
[00:32:49] And there's no expiration dates in dreams.
[00:32:53] So a business person looks at a project, but a visionary looks at a dream.
[00:32:57] And when you have experience, I've been preaching 50 years, what it does, it checks impatience.
[00:33:05] It does.
[00:33:06] You see, experience will always check impatience.
[00:33:08] Now, I like something done yesterday, you know what I'm saying?
[00:33:10] We Americans, we created fast food.
[00:33:12] Have you ever been mad at McDonald's and Wendy's in the line in the car because they spent more than 30 seconds trying to get you a burger?
[00:33:23] Why? Because we're Americans.
[00:33:25] And you go overseas, they can't understand that.
[00:33:28] They don't understand how generous we are.
[00:33:30] That's what I love about the World Cup.
[00:33:32] They found out that you can get a refill on your Coke for free.
[00:33:37] And they went nuts over Texas Ranch dressing.
[00:33:42] One kid I saw me said, I bought this at Costco.
[00:33:44] It cost five bucks a whole chicken.
[00:33:47] because all them people tell everybody how bad America is.
[00:33:53] They found out, wait a minute, son.
[00:33:55] You don't see people jumping the border to go to Mexico.
[00:34:02] Not in their own Mexico, I don't know, but they'll jump and do everything to get to America.
[00:34:12] See, lack of preparation, lack of discipline, and a tendency to rush things will slow your vision, your dream to a stop.
[00:34:24] Let me say it again.
[00:34:25] Lack of preparation, you have to be prepared.
[00:34:27] lack of discipline and a tendency to rush things will slow your dream to a stop. You don't want to stop. You want to keep going. You have to prepare. You know, it's just amazing. And you
[00:34:44] know, young people don't think that older people still have a life. They don't think they kiss each other or they're too old for that. Have you ever called your mom and dad and your dad and mom
[00:35:03] said, don't come. Don't come now. Call you when we're ready for you. Why? Because the old man got to prepare himself. Okay. What's up, baby? How you doing? But they don't believe that.
[00:35:23] I married my grandmother to another man. My grandfather passed away and I found out where they were at a hotel. I couldn't help myself. And she loved me. I had the two best grandmothers any boy could ever have. I called and said, hey, grandma. Well, hey, Jesse. I said, what y'all
[00:35:46] doing? And she went, nothing, and hung up the phone. Maybe I shouldn't tell y'all this. After they got back, I said, grandma, did you protect? I don't want another uncle or an aunt. She just
[00:36:13] looked at me like this. She goes, no, I never thought about that. I thought it was funny.
[00:36:20] wasn't disrespectful why fellowship I know I knew my grandmother oh yeah I knew I knew her and she knew me and she never seemed to worry about nothing you know my experience it always checks impatience see God will always comfort you stimulate you and reprove you
[00:36:47] in every which way shape or form you know I got a new book out called create your world and walk in it just came out and I got it from telling Jody that because she always tells me dad
[00:36:56] I only have one daughter, one granddaughter.
[00:36:58] There's only five in my family.
[00:37:00] All of them are dead now.
[00:37:01] Everybody's gone.
[00:37:02] This is it right here.
[00:37:03] I'm the last new planet.
[00:37:04] That's all.
[00:37:05] That's it.
[00:37:06] And she says, dad, just seemed like everything you touched just prosperous.
[00:37:10] Just, I said, yeah.
[00:37:13] You know why?
[00:37:14] Because you got great faith.
[00:37:15] No, I create my world and I walk in it.
[00:37:17] I know what's going in.
[00:37:18] You've heard me say it before.
[00:37:19] And I know what's coming out.
[00:37:20] I know it.
[00:37:23] The only struggle we and Kathy ever have is where to eat.
[00:37:29] Well, she don't have to cook.
[00:37:30] The woman can cook.
[00:37:31] At least I think she can remember to cook.
[00:37:33] I don't know.
[00:37:34] But it's only us.
[00:37:35] So we go out for lunch and we go out for dinner.
[00:37:38] We usually go out all the time.
[00:37:39] Now, we may go to a fancy restaurant, but both of us are fast food junkies, you know, and we're still here.
[00:37:48] Y'all do what y'all want to do.
[00:37:49] I don't make a difference to me.
[00:37:50] You can do what you want to do.
[00:37:51] I'm going to eat what I want to eat.
[00:37:53] Well, you know, so it happens, especially if I'm home on a Sunday.
[00:37:58] Drives me nuts.
[00:37:59] Been going home for 56 years.
[00:38:01] I say, where do you want to eat? She said, I don't know where you want to eat. I said, I don't care.
[00:38:07] I said, no, where do you want to eat? I don't know. Where do you want to eat? And I think of a place. I say, okay. So I go to that place and she says, I don't want to eat here. So we start
[00:38:20] over. Well, where do you want to eat? One time I went to a pizza place. I'm sitting there about ready to bite down on a slice of pizza. And Kat said, Jesse, go give everybody in this place a
[00:38:33] hundred dollars. All our workers, all the cooks and everything. I said, I'm trying to eat this slice of pizza. Just do it. I couldn't eat it. Get up. So I walked into the kitchen to go,
[00:38:45] oh, you can't come in here. I said, I come to give you all a hundred dollars. Come on in.
[00:38:52] It's amazing with money. What them Benjamins will do. Benny and the Jets.
[00:38:59] You know, I've been persecuted, but just that my daughter got me a t-shirt that says Jesse and the Jets. And all they are is a tool. I don't know how to fly it. My pilots do.
[00:39:14] I know how to buy it. They don't know how to buy it. I know how to buy it. They know how to fly it.
[00:39:20] We get together, we come to the Southwest Believers' Convention. Let me say it again so you'll understand it. God will always comfort you, stimulate you, and reprove you.
[00:39:33] But you better be prepared. You got to have discipline in your life. That's why most people don't ever get what they want.
[00:39:40] They know what they need, but they don't know what they want.
[00:39:46] You tell people what they need, they'll tell you right away, oh Lord, help us right now.
[00:39:49] And you get all your needs met, but you forgot to ask for food.
[00:39:54] You ever had too much month at the end of your money?
[00:39:59] Yeah, the month.
[00:40:00] Okay, we're going to be fasting the next four days.
[00:40:03] We ain't got no money, you know.
[00:40:05] Now, thank you, Holy Ghost.
[00:40:07] And I'm going to say this, it sounds so arrogant.
[00:40:08] I will never be, never, ever, ever, ever have lack. I'm going to get some ugly letters. I'm going to let Kathy read them. Jesus never had a financial deficit. Go study it out. Apostle Paul did. Apostle John, Apostle Peter, Apostle
[00:40:35] Jude. Why? Why these men so close to the son of the living God could have need? Paul tells you in these epistles, I've said it here before. The Lord's making me say some things I've said before.
[00:40:51] So God tried to bless the apostle Paul.
[00:40:54] My God, what a, what he is, in my opinion, the greatest intellectual mind ever drawn to the realm of Christianity.
[00:41:00] Yet he throwed it away that he may know Christ.
[00:41:04] Watch this.
[00:41:06] God said, I'm going to give you an offering, Paul.
[00:41:09] I want to bless you.
[00:41:10] No, no, no, no, no.
[00:41:12] I make tents.
[00:41:14] I work with my hands.
[00:41:15] And that is so wonderful not to be lazy.
[00:41:19] What Paul did in not realizing, he shut down people's harvest.
[00:41:23] because he wouldn't receive that seed word about, I don't want people to think I'm just trying to get some money, but he changes it in the next epistle. I said this the other night, he said,
[00:41:36] I did you a disservice because I didn't receive from you. Now I have received from Ephradites the things you sent me. Watch what happens. I'm full. I have all and I abound. Well, I can say
[00:41:59] that today I'm full. I have all and I abound in every area. Why? Because I didn't want to put it into the future. I wanted to live on earth as it is in heaven, which Jesus said I could. So that's
[00:42:20] why I have no temptation. I don't take time for that because that's his temptation. Satan's not mind, just that simple. So when you understand that, I'm going to say this, waiting is not a bad
[00:42:37] word. It means you're thinking on God's time. It is humility, not humility. You already know, I didn't have to say it. Humiliation. Now, do I like to wait? Well, no, I don't like to wait,
[00:42:59] But Kathy has taught me to wait.
[00:43:02] I say, hey, you ready to go?
[00:43:04] Yeah.
[00:43:05] But then she got to go to the bathroom.
[00:43:08] She didn't have to go to the bathroom before.
[00:43:11] When I say, you ready to go?
[00:43:12] You see, they learn that when they're a kid.
[00:43:14] See, little girls.
[00:43:15] We got to go somewhere.
[00:43:15] Well, y'all better go to the bathroom.
[00:43:17] How can you go to the bathroom when you just went to the bathroom?
[00:43:20] How can that be?
[00:43:21] You just went to the bathroom.
[00:43:22] But I better go just in case.
[00:43:23] How do you do that?
[00:43:26] But you taught that.
[00:43:28] Your body automatically responds to that.
[00:43:31] And I got to go put my jacket on.
[00:43:32] Oh, it's not, it's got some wrinkles on.
[00:43:35] And so we got to, by the time we get out, man, I'm just standing there going.
[00:43:43] And I've had the Lord say, just listen to her.
[00:43:46] I said, that's easy for you to say.
[00:43:47] You ain't never been married.
[00:43:51] Oh, that shocked you?
[00:43:54] It wouldn't shock you if you had fellowship.
[00:43:59] No, I'm not being disrespectful.
[00:44:00] I would never do that.
[00:44:01] But my point is I know God and he knows me.
[00:44:04] Not believe, know in whom I have believed.
[00:44:07] Duh. Quit that duh. That belief and get to knowing. You see what I'm saying? What is prophecy but history wrote in advance?
[00:44:17] I don't care who prophesied.
[00:44:20] Just because you prophesied don't make you a prophet.
[00:44:25] You see? So when you understand these things, it's one of the most amazing things to see all this come into fruition.
[00:44:33] Now, I'm going to show you how I do it.
[00:44:35] I got 15 minutes left here.
[00:44:37] Nancy's coming in. Nancy's such a blessing.
[00:44:40] Go with me to Galatians 2.
[00:44:44] Galatians chapter two, verse 20.
[00:44:46] Now, everybody knows this verse.
[00:44:49] I think Brother Copeland, my brother Creflo talked about it.
[00:44:52] Galatians 2.20, you can put it on the screen if you like.
[00:44:54] He says, I'm crucified with Christ.
[00:44:56] Now, what does that mean to you?
[00:44:58] Oh, let me get like Jonathan.
[00:44:59] What does that mean to you?
[00:45:06] Then you'll see him walk like this.
[00:45:07] I'll tell you what.
[00:45:11] Is that Jonathan right there?
[00:45:13] How am I doing, Jonathan?
[00:45:15] Thank you, sir.
[00:45:17] I love Jonathan.
[00:45:18] and Adalas and Camilla, they're just like family to us.
[00:45:21] They're blessings of God.
[00:45:23] Now watch this.
[00:45:24] I'm crucified with Christ.
[00:45:25] Have you ever met a dead man that did something?
[00:45:29] Have you ever been to a funeral, Rod?
[00:45:31] Have you ever been to one?
[00:45:33] And when you're looking at the corpse, here you go.
[00:45:35] How you doing?
[00:45:37] You'd have ran if you didn't.
[00:45:39] So dead people can't do a thing.
[00:45:44] I'm crucified with Christ.
[00:45:47] Watch this.
[00:45:49] Now nevertheless I live, yet not I.
[00:45:53] Y'all got that up there?
[00:45:53] Yeah.
[00:45:54] Boy, that's a big one, isn't it?
[00:45:55] Yet not I, but Christ liveth within me.
[00:45:58] Now, here's a statement.
[00:46:00] And the life which I now live, that's at 10 minutes to 3, Thursday, Southwest Believers Convention, Fort Worth, Texas.
[00:46:09] The life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God.
[00:46:14] Ah.
[00:46:16] But Jesse, how come you're so successful spiritually, physically, and financially?
[00:46:20] Because I hook my faith to his faith.
[00:46:25] I live by his faith. I just hook my, and if mine drags, he just pulls me. I live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Then the next verse says, I don't frustrate
[00:46:39] the grace of God. I just connect my faith to his. So when somebody tells me I did this and I did it by faith, that's great. But I might do the same thing you did and not work because maybe your
[00:46:58] faith was stronger or less or whatever, but if I hook my faith to the son of God, his faith, which I have that ability because he said, St. John 14, verse 12, 13 and 14, ask
[00:47:12] anything in my name. Now, what does anything mean to you? Anything. I hook my faith to his faith. And all of a sudden I have what I say. And I like St. John 12, verse 49 and
[00:47:25] 50. And I'll paraphrase it. I only say what my father says and only do what my father says to do. I'll say this and close. You got to learn your age. I'm so much better today than I
[00:47:41] was at 50. I just made 77. You know what they said? Billy, you're like this. They said, how's it feel to be 77? I said, just like 67. Just like 57. Nah, ain't like 47. 47, I was a lot stronger,
[00:47:57] oh boy, oh my God, whoo, but I've learned my age.
[00:48:01] How old are you, Rodney?
[00:48:03] 57.
[00:48:04] I know what 58 feels like.
[00:48:06] I know when you get 60 what you feel like.
[00:48:08] I know what it is to be 57 because I've been there.
[00:48:12] You got to learn that, see.
[00:48:15] You want me to give you a revelation on angels?
[00:48:18] Lord just told me to do this.
[00:48:20] I'm going to stand right here.
[00:48:21] Now look at my natural body and look at this thing.
[00:48:24] When I was in heaven, those seraphims that were flying around that Jerry loved, they're taller than this. You got six wings, taller than this. Then the cherubim, ho!
[00:48:36] And every time they make a circle around that throne, they go, holy, holy!
[00:48:40] And you know why they're doing that?
[00:48:42] They've been doing it for trillions and trillions and trillions of years, because every time they make a circle, they see a side of God, Terry, they've never seen before in their life, and they go, holy,
[00:48:52] holy!
[00:48:54] You gotta go. You gotta go.
[00:48:58] How much time I got left? Did y'all add some more time to me? I don't want to take Nancy's time. Seven minutes. Okay, good. Oh, you work?
[00:49:06] Oh yeah. You work here? Supposing I take more? What you going to do? I'm just joking. I'm just joking. No, Nancy's ministry is way too important. So when you understand that life on the Christian
[00:49:33] level can only be lived by faith and in faith. Find your vision, find your gift and watch God do some of the most miraculous things you've ever seen. And you know what? You come back next year,
[00:49:47] you go, whew, I'm going to have to believe for another vision. And don't be insecure. Don't be jealous of somebody that God's blessing. Just get excited about it. I've never been like that.
[00:50:05] I don't care if my spiritual sons get bigger than I am, better than I am. I'm glad. I've seen some preachers get mad at their sons because they did better than they did. You do that. That's your
[00:50:17] blood. Do you understand what I'm saying? But people do, not me. I'm just glad, blessed God that God's using you. So when you understand, remember what I said, you're going to have to meditate on it. It's going to shock you. That's not your temptations. That's Satan's coming to
[00:50:39] you to make you fall by his. He was the original and the first tempter. So he's got a foul cabinet full of temptations, but he's restricted, rejected, and awaiting confinement. I can't wait till we
[00:50:54] see that sucker get kicked in the lake of fire. And then maybe you need to do this. Really find out how much money you want. Don't just say 10 million. What are you going to do with it? You
[00:51:10] ever had 10 million? I've had 10 million. You ever had a hundred million? I've had a hundred million.
[00:51:15] You ever had 500 million? I've had 500 million. Listen to me, find out what to do. Even if it's $5. See, and how you'll know it is the gift that God gave you and the vision that that gift will
[00:51:32] produce in your life. Did you enjoy it this, this afternoon? I got five minutes. All right.
[00:51:42] I was asked, and I'm so proud to be asked to receive an offering for Kenneth Copeland. I've been doing this so long and I love it when you give to this ministry, like Mack Hammond said in
[00:51:56] his session, we both was on the board of the record. Carolyn's on the board. Kathy's on the border. We see everything you can think of and how much good, if you're really, let me just say
[00:52:07] this. You'll never be really good until you hate evil. That's a powerful statement. See, the reason why I have no temptation is I hate evil. I hate it. And it's not mine. That's his find out what's yours. You see, and it's all your, so that's, that's what I mean by great.
[00:52:33] I live by faith through grace.
[00:52:37] I'm not struggling, you know.
[00:52:39] And I guess the reason why I have it is because I went to church, so I didn't have to unlearn some things, you know.
[00:52:45] This offering in its entirety goes to KCM to touch people literally all over the world.
[00:52:51] I've been all over this world with these people.
[00:52:54] And I've never went anywhere that someone didn't tell me, hey, Brother Jesse, tell Kenneth and Gloria I'm their partners.
[00:53:04] So ushers, get ready.
[00:53:06] And I want y'all to come and tell us how you do it.
[00:53:08] And before you do it, Oscar, I want, I don't, I've never endorsed or embraced people, but they got a couple here tonight, today.
[00:53:17] You talk about a Bible teaching woman.
[00:53:20] I'm talking about that will shuck the corn ball, the potatoes, and make a gumbo all at the same time.
[00:53:26] Really fluent.
[00:53:28] This lady right here is named Anna Donahue.
[00:53:30] She got a track record in New Orleans.
[00:53:32] I mean, I don't know how many years.
[00:53:33] I know her husband, phenomenal man.
[00:53:36] Stand up, Don.
[00:53:36] I want people to see if you ever want somebody to preach in your teaching, you're coming in. She's a little, she's embarrassed. You know, this is the girl right here. I'm telling you.
[00:53:47] And I don't, I don't do this very often. My right, Mike, you know, I don't do that. I appreciate you coming.
[00:53:51] This is her first Southwest believers convention. And I'm telling you, if you decide to have her, you're going to be glad you did. I mean, most people didn't know Nancy, you know, her husband out there.
[00:54:01] And then look, look, look up Nancy's ministry.
[00:54:03] the Maryland Hickies, Joyce Meyers. Don't tell me women can't preach and teach, but somebody got to open up a door. Terry Savelle Foy, vision board. Now, if you don't like pink, you ain't going to like Terry. The woman loved pink and I like pink myself. Take a man to wear
[00:54:32] pink. Hallelujah. So I'm going to ask you to give, come on, Tim, where you at? Come over here. Come down here for a second, maybe you don't mind. I like that. We've been doing the same joke for
[00:54:43] 36 years. His name is Tim. I'm Jesse. We always call each other. I call him Sylvester. What'd you call me? Fred. Fred. Yeah, that kind of stuff. And what I love about him, he's loyal.
[00:54:54] Every time I've been here, I've seen you working. I've seen you enhancing the vision of KCM. Yeah, give him a hand clap. It's worth it. I'm telling you, a lot of stuff going on behind these curtains,
[00:55:06] but you're, you're, you're, listen, do you understand what you give today may stop somebody from going to hell? Now, what is that person worth to you? I go every day of my life, Lord, give me another one. Help me get another one. Help me Lord. Cause the only Jesus some
[00:55:33] people may ever see is the Jesus in you and the Jesus in me. He's going to tell you how to give and give your best and give over and above.
[00:55:43] All you're going to do is get blessed.
[00:55:45] I started out with $100.
[00:55:47] No, I started out with $1, Catholic, you know.
[00:55:49] Then I went to $110,000 and $100,000 then $1,000,000 and $2,000,000.
[00:55:55] I said, Lord, Jesus, how am I going to go with this thing?
[00:55:57] He said, how much you want to do?
[00:56:00] It will work for you.
[00:56:01] So tell them how.
[00:56:02] And then the next person you'll hear is that wonderful lady and great friend of ours, Nancy.
[00:56:07] Thank you, sir.
[00:56:11] Thank you.