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And he is always good. There is never a moment when God is less than himself. He can never
be anything but himself. God is always good, he is always powerful, he is always present,
he is always real, he is always relevant, because he can never can be less than himself.
God can never introduce himself as somebody else. He is God. It is a simple thought but
it is life changing. Because there are times when we begin to feel like God is somewhere
else, doing something else and he has somehow forgotten us. When the truth of it is, if
he speaks to you he cannot be anything other than truth, so the word has to come to pass.
If he makes you a promise he cannot be anything other than faithful, so he must stand beside
you until it manifests. If he breathes over your life, he cannot be anything less than
resurrection so everything dead has to arise. If he shows up, he cannot be anything less
than powerful so everything opposite his well has to bow in submission to the name above
all names. If we come to recognize that God is always God never less than God, never anybody
else, God never has a bad day, he never puts on a wig, he never got to get a trick identity,
he is not hiding behind the angels saying this is a bad day. God is forever God, and
since he is God, he wants us to be forever his people. Never be anything less than what
he created you to be. Never let anyone convince you to believe for less, to expect less, to
seek less, to trust for less. Never let anyone convince you to hide in a corner waiting to
die when God has already said you shall live again. Never let anyone convince you to back
up and give up on your promise when God has said it shall come to pass. What life will
do is test rather or not you believe God. What the enemy will do is try and get you
to forget about the promise. What God will do is wait to see if you believe it. So whether
or not it comes to pass fully before our eyes has nothing to do with the enemy, but he must
always be a tempter, he will always resist us, it has nothing to do with other people,
for people are never the bedrock of our existence. So whether they are faithful or unfaithful,
whether they keep their word or do not, whether they make a promise or lie, whether they try
to kill us or huge us; none of that matters. It is rather or not we believe God. Rather
or not we believe God. We rest so much faith in everything else except the one person who
says, I can make it happen. We know where our faith is by what we talk about. Aaah for
your faith will become your conversation and your conversation is a revelation of your
faith. For where you really trust and rely in God, we will determine that by the words
that come out of your mouth continually. As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. The
revelation of your heart is your action but the revelation of your conviction is your
conversation. So we know what you believe by what comes out of your lips. A man shall
eat the fruit of his own lips. A man shall live in the abundance of his own word. You
will plant a vineyard and then drink of the wine you make. Every time you speak you are
creating something you will have to live in. Oh, yeah yeah yeah. Oh listen we gonna drop
em quick we gon we gone eat properly. I got Cheetos, I got Cheetos, the man of God brought
me some Cheetos this morning I am so happy I got Cheetos I just wooo. And then I realized
as we were talking, this dear man of God over here we meet has had to have been what nine
years ago, nine years ago. I love God has a huge world but a small world in the midst
of a huge world. God is good. Now think about this, every time God speaks to us. He said
to Jeremiah, Jeremiah, what do you see? Jeremiah said, I see the rod of an almond tree. God
said, you will see. I will hasten my word to perform it. I will cause my word to speed
up on your behalf. Some of us are living in what I call prophesy on pause. You know how
you hit a pause button and in the middle of the the song, could be going and right in
the middle of the pause, Lord we wor ship, you hit pause. What has happen to many of
us is that God has spoken, we have had the dream, we have had the vision, the decree
that comes forth, we have laid hands on each other enough times we got each others finger
prints [lose our forty], we have called each other enough times that if someone hugs you
you are gonna shoot straight up in the air. We have done everything we need to do for
each other so why are not the prophecies not getting manifested? Now it is not because
God is not faithful and not because some things are gonna take forever, some things take time,
everything should not take time. Some things are taking too long because we are on pause.
We are on pause. You see the moment you cease believing that God is faithful to his word
is the moment that word stops moving toward you. So many of us are living in stages, we
are in a bubble of our own belief, and we are circling the drain waiting for something
to change and God is going, why are you sitting in a circle get out of the water. We are spinning
saying Lord, get me out this, Lord get me out of this, Lord get me out of this, Lord
get me out of this. [Lord]and the Lord is saying would you just get out, you are asking
me to pick you up, and the water let me tell you a little story em it was not that long
ago but I can make it seem like it was and I went swimming now I cannot swim but everyone
in the family said let us go swimming so I said sure I will go with you and we went to
the water park and as we were all on the slide, coming down because we had a little study
and it was fun, I, I have no fear I am not afraid of water I was just never taught to
swim and I have not had time yet so I am gonna learn, but I am on top of this slide and all
of the family is going down the slide, and everybody is going down and they can all swim,
and they hit the water shaaa and they just jumped up laughing aaahha come on uncle Mike,
come on uncle Mike, sure I am coming. I go down the slide and when I hit the bottom I
go under and I had a panic moment. I did not think God had forgotten me, I did not think
God was against me, but I did think the water knew more than I did because as the water
was overflowing me and I was um um um I am underneath the water I am thinking what is
going on and someone finally grabbed my arm aaaha, cause I thought I was drowning. And
then to my great embarrassment I stood up, and I realized that the water was right here,
and it was just to waist level and I am flapping and floating and coughing and drinking water
and then I stood up. I am underneath the circumstances dying, expecting to die, succumbing to what
is over the top of me and all I needed to do was take a stand. Some of us are drowning
in stuff we just never took a stand in, and we keep waiting for God to move it out of
our way, break this, destroy this, move this stronghold, overcome this person, break this
down, deal with that demon and God going, Having done all, just stand up. Just stand
up. Having done all. After you have swim, jumped, ran, fought devils, used your shield,
used your sword, anointed yourself with oil, turned in a circle three times, seen angels,
floated in the middle of the air, floated over the roof, talked with ancient elders
and the four faced beast after you do all that could you not just stand one minute,
just stand, stand. Stop giving up. He said to Jeremiah, Jeremiah what do you see? Jeremiah
said I see the rod of an almond tree. God said, that is well seen. I will make my word
speed up. I will hasten my word. I will put momentum on my word. Some of us are waiting
for words to manifest and God will speed them up if we will but see clearly. Just see clearly.
See clearly. We are almost there. So let us talk about seeing clearly. We are we are Joseph.
One of my favorite songs when I was growing up, I use to love this, I can see clearly
now the rain is gone. I can see all the obstacles in my way. Oh yah got good. Gone are all the
dark clouds that had me bound, it is gonna be a bright bright sunshiny day. I like you
all, you all are tracking. Now what happens is this, but not all you at one time got be
cool here what happen, you recognize that clouds are necessary for atmosphere change.
There are times when God is shifting atmospheres around you, he is changing your environment,
he is moving things out from your way. But we get focused on the fact that there are
clouds currently above us and we start to believe that the clouds will be eternal. So
we get so focused on the clouds not realizing that you need clouds because clouds are the
sign that there is enough water coming to make your harvest show up. So there have been
some cloudy moments that we got focused on that God was going, it is actually good news.
But because we did not see it correctly, we got stuck under the darkness of the cloud
rather than the expectation of the harvest. So we are now living on pause because we are
stuck watching clouds going, This is never going to get any better, saying, What are
we going to do about this? How is that going to work? Oh man what are we going to do now?
No, not again. And God is going; you are running underneath the cloud of trouble so you feel
like you are under clouds because you keep following the cloud when the truth is the
cloud was moved. Just do not follow your troubles. Some of us have gotten so use to our trouble
that we expect trouble more than we expect God. So now we are losing our faith on behalf
of the wrong thing. Now whatever a man stands, when a man stands and prays, whatever is in
your heart the Bible says you will receive what is in your heart. You do not receive
what you pray you receive what is in your heart. [Umm Oh yeah wooo, see the Bible says
when you stand praying believe and whatsoever things are in your heart you shall receive.
Some of us are praying great prayers with our lips but our hearts are crying out trouble,
trouble, redemption, problems, no money, no friends, no good stuff. Here we go again,
down in the hole again, back in trouble again, and because we got enough faith under the
anointing to expect for bad, we keep getting bad. And we are treating God like God has
somehow forgotten to deliver us and God is going, you never saw what I had for you. You
keep seeing clouds instead of harvest. You keep seeing trouble instead of triumph. You
keep seeing problems instead of my presence. So whatever you have faith for, I am going
to let you receive it for as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. If you think you are
going to live in trouble, trouble is what you all live in. If you think it is never
going to get any better it never will. If you think everybody is going to reject you,
They are fulfilling prophesy. Everybody will reject you. If you think you never gonna have
enough money you will probably be broke. If you think it is never going to work it will
never work. If you think nobody will ever stand beside you, you will always be alone
because we create an environment where we reject, without meaning too, we reject God
provision because he sends it and when we see it coming. But our own idea of what we
have to go through says to God, I do not really think I can have that yet because this looks
more attractive than that. And because we have learned to exist in pain so long, we
feel more comfortable in pain because we do not recognize what it is to live in peace.
And so, when we start living in peace it feels so strange we reject peace because being silent
makes us uncomfortable because noise is the only time we know who we are. Shoooe, is this
helping anybody? Now here is the last one just a couple more minutes. I am going to
give this myself. What happens is thisůha what happens is this. The Lord said Jeremiah,
before he said to him you have well seen, he said Jeremiah, you are a prophet. I formed
you in the belly. I knew you. Guess what; before your momma met your daddy I had a plan
for you. So I actually called the bloodline of the generations to meet just to make you.
So no one can ever again say I am just an accident, that my parents did not want me.
Your parents did not have to want you, God wanted you. God made your parent meet to create
you. God called your grandparents to stumble into each other just so the right DNA structures
would intermingle so the right histories would meet so your testimony would become what it
is. So no matter what people have said about your worth in the past, when they look at
you and say you are not worthy the right response is; You do not even know my worth, God used
you just to make me. God set up your family in nations that you do not even visit anymore.
God has people in places you have never been, to meet each other twenty generations ago,
thirty generations ago, and he had them come the right time surviving the right storms,
living in famine, warfare, surviving trouble in other nations, making it through holocaust
and wickedness of generations gone past, and he caused someone to survive just so he could
get a seed that looked like you. So God says to Jeremiah, I knew you before I formed you.
And so your destiny has nothing to do with your parents. Your destiny had nothing to
do with your ancestors, I knew you before them. I put you in that family line because
your destiny fit for what I was making them to be. And God said to Jeremiah, Jeremiah,
you are a prophet. Jeremiah said, no, no, no. I am not a prophet, I am a child.