Voice
by Raymond Sloan
March 15, 2026 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church (Chattanooga, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: 1 Kings 18, 1 Kings 19:9-13, Deuteronomy 4:24, Psalm 29:1-11, Psalm 141:1-2, Psalm 47:1-4

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Come on, pray with me, church. Lord, we we know that your spirit is near. We know, Jesus, that when we lift you up that you draw men to you. And right now, there is a drawing in this place. There is an uncction, Lord, right now. And for that, we are thankful. We are thankful, Lord. As we draw near to you, we come to you, Lord, to hear the word today because it is the word that is strength through our bones. It is health, dear God, to our bones, Lord. You lead us. You lead us through the word. Thank you, Lord, for your glory that breathes right now in this room. One more time I make myself available to you. Take holes from the altar, touch lips of clay. Truth and love, dear God, would be in this house. Oh, come on. Take another minute and just love him. I love you, Lord. I love you, Lord. I believe in you, Jesus. No other name. No other name. No other name. No other name. Bless the Lord. I bless you Lord. I praise you Jesus. Hallelujah. Somebody say it in Jesus name. Come on, say it. It's all in Jesus name. It's all in Jesus name. Don't it feel good in the house of the Lord today? And he's not even done. >> I welcome all of you to our guest. We have guests with us today. We are glad you're here. Those who have joined us online, we welcome you into our worship time. Amen. We're always thankful to be together. You're thankful that the family of God is rich, is pure. Huh? I know I often say this only because I've experienced it. But right now, someplace in the world, someone is receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. Things are happening and all over the globe, great things are transpiring. Hey, and you and I are a part of that. How many are glad to be alive in the church today? Come on, give the Lord a hand clap or praise. Thank you for that, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Praise God forever. Look at your neighbor and say, "Church matters." You can be seated if you feel like you have to. Thank you so much to all of our volunteers, for our singers, musicians, our parking lot guys, our coffee pot maker uppers and putter awayers, for our teachers and classes, everybody that's involved at CAC, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. It takes all of us doing our part. Amen. Somebody say amen. I welcome you into the house of the Lord today to the word of the Lord.

I feel so very strongly that the Lord is with us. >> Amen. The service is not over. You keep praying and you keep believing. Today Today is your day. >> So I I I know I often begin with questions and so I don't want to change it right now. Have you ever needed something right now? I mean, right now. Come on. No time to waste, but no time to stutter, but no playing around, but right now. How many you know what I'm talking about? I mean, right now. No time for committee. No time for people to talk about it. But I need an answer. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Men, you can identify with this. Yeah, you know, you know, man, you've been sent to the store to buy ketchup. I I don't know. I don't know which I don't know which one to get. I'm standing here and everybody's looking at me. So, you send a text. Come on. Anybody thankful for FaceTime? Baby, I got to have an answer right now. Which one do you want? Which one you want? Which Which one you want? Now, it's worse, brother. is worse in the cereal aisle. Which one you want? Which one you want? Honey, get real close to it. No, I know what that's why you got all these boxes. WHY? BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU GOT TO HAVE an answer. You got to have an answer. Now, this is what I've learned. Men, this is for you. If you don't know or if they too busy to answer the phone, buy them all, take them home, and then take back the ones that's the wrong ones. I have had I've had done I've done that before. Why? because I didn't didn't get an answer. Now, here here's another challenging one. Paper or plastic. All right. All right. All right. Men, again, I'm trying to help the men for a moment here today. Men? Men? Is it flowers or chocolate? >> Is it okay to have a half a box of chocolate delivered? I'm joking. Joke. Because the other half you eat on your way home nervous about the flowers you just Okay, LISTEN TO ME. SOMETIMES YOU GOT TO have an answer and you got to have it now. Sometimes you're looking for result. You got to have it now. You need answers and you need them in a great big old hurry up for us Southerners so that life can go on. There have been times in our lives, I am certain that we were searching for something and we wanted to know that after the choice we made, the decision that we made, we wanted to know before we made that decision if we were going to be okay after the fact.

Anybody identify? You wanted to know that. So, you acted on what your feelings were, maybe even what knowledge you had. And there has been times that you made the wrong choice. It was an incorrect choice. Good try, but you missed the mark. Not going to happen, but thank you for showing up. There's no prizes for the one that comes in last. Thank you so much for caring. I I want you to know that as humans, we understand that philosophy. I'm very certain that none of us desire to make bad choices. WE WE WANT TO MAKE the right choices. So you work hard at that. Come on. You do your research. You do your homework. You work hard. Sometimes basically all you are in need of is more information so that you can make the quick decision and you can move on from that moment. Anybody know what I'm saying? If you just had enough information. That's like kids. I'm going to help you now for a moment if you'll let me. And when you go to your parents and you ask them, "Hey, can I go do this? Is it okay? Hey, can I is it okay if I go I going to go to their house? Can I go eat with them? Can I invite them over to here? Can we? And the parents say, "Wait a minute." No, you can't. It's not that they say no. They just don't have enough information to make a decision that you like. Our daughter on deputation, we'd be in Timbukt, Brother Rob, and she'd say, "I'm going home with this person today." And then mad at me because I didn't let her go home with somebody that I didn't never never meet before. you're never going to see again. Why? Cuz I didn't have enough information. She'd understand why I was trying to protect her and keep her from harm and all diligence I was doing was for her. But no, I'm the bad guy. I'm the bad guy. The intention was not that, but without sufficient information, sometimes we make a call and and it's not always the right one, but it's the one that we are comfortable with. I need y'all to hang on to pastor for a moment. We're headed somewhere. What about in your life when all that's caving in around you and things are not acting or turning out the way you hoped that they would and you've now got a direction to choose and you make a choice but you miss CHO YOU MISS IT. YOU DON'T TAKE the right angle. you should have went there and instead you went here and all of a sudden all you were doing was simply searching and hoping for a flicker of correct thoughts and intentions and all the information TO COME TOGETHER.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN in a search for an answer in the life situations ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT THE DREAM DIES AND everything fizzles out and it wasn't the best decision for you? The longer you live, hear me, you're going to make some choices that are not going to be right. In fact, there's probably there will be times when you're going to make a decision on things and it's going to be actually very very troublesome after the fact. I do believe though that as we make our daily choices, our yearly, our our our life choices, that sometimes there's flops, sometimes there's failures, sometimes there's missed opportunities, unmet expectations, sometimes it's tough BECAUSE THE BRUTAL FACTS are the results of the decision you made were wrong. So, how do you make a decision then about life's choices when you got to make it and then settle for the response and the reaction that comes when your world is in turmoil, the walls are spinning around you and hope seems distant. Weakness shows on your face. You simply need an answer from the Lord. And so, you begin to look for him. In fact, you've searched diligently for him because you know in times past you've called on the name of Jesus and he has shown up in your life situation and and hope has been breathed into you and somehow someway you connected and you make it through that circumstance. I I do know that hope sometimes will show up at the doorstep of your life and it will be dark and dismal and you wish that that that real hard that you could see the light of day and hope is standing there in front of you, but you have no way to get past it because something is keeping you from truly believing that you can press through the dark moment and look into the face of God and see the light of salvation working in you. I know today that sometimes you simply need to breathe. You need to relax. You need to realize God is still God in your life even if you can't see him. >> Come on. The breath of God still breathes into your lungs even though you're not really sure how you've got the strength to stand there and to breathe. I I believe today with all of my heart sometimes we'll show up at the house of God and we have very little strength. We are slow to respond to God and somehow someway our challenges that have been facing us. We have a difficulty of even lifting our hands and getting to the place where we can fully comprehend the presence of God in our lives.

AND SOMETIMES THE BIBLE GIVES US REFERENCE THAT GOD YOU'RE ALWAYS THERE AND YOU NEVER LEAVE nor forsake me and no weapon formed AGAINST ME AND ALL THE BIBLE VERSES THAT WE USE. BUT SOMETIMES, SOMETIMES YOU WALK INTO the house of God and it's all you can do to get here, MUCH LESS LIFT YOUR HANDS WITH A SMILE ON YOUR face and joy and laughter in your soul. Allow me a moment to take you to an Old Testament story. The Bible in First Kings chapter 18, chapter 19. This is such a cool account. Elijah, some of you Bible scholars will will remember this. Elijah standing there looking at the prophets of Baal. The Bible says that he gave them opportunity to call on their God and to put on sacrifice on an altar and they had an opportunity to to be there and to see everything happen as it was. But as the Bible tells us in First Kings chapter 18, 19 tells us, chapter 19 tells us that fire did not come when the prophets of Baal gave homage to their God. And so Elijah simply walks up to this stack of stones and he reorganizes it. He takes his sacrifice. He puts the wood there. He puts the sacrifice. He then pours water on. It begins to pull around. But you remember this story. And lo and behold, with 60 some odd WORDS HE SPOKE. BOOM. FIRE FALLS FROM HEAVEN, CONSUMES, LICKS UP AND PULLS EVERYTHING OFF THE DIRT AND OFF THE DUST THAT WAS THERE. AND EVERYONE STANDS THERE. NO WAY TO QUESTION what just happened. They didn't HEAR A TRUMPET BLAST. THEY DIDN'T SEE A A TRIBE OF HORSES COME THROUGH AND DESTROY IT. BUT IT WAS SIMPLY FIRE FROM the Most High that fell down, consumed it, brought it up, took it away out of their sight. And now they're standing there. Listen to me. 850 prophets of Jezebel that day died because their God did not answer. But Elijah's God answered by fire. Hear what I'm saying today in this room. I I've come to declare to you that Elijah heard the voice of God. HE KNEW WHAT GOD CAN DO. BUT IN his hearing, you listen to this in chapter 19, we find out that now Elijah is running for his life. THE BIBLE EVEN DECLARES TO US, JEZEBEL sends word. YOU TELL THAT PROPHET THIS TIME TOMORROW HE'LL BE DEAD AND OUT OF THE way and a dude is RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE. HERE'S WHAT I'M SAYING TODAY. SCARY STUFF FOR ANY MAN. I don't mind saying. So first Kings chapter 19 verse number nine. And he came thither unto a cave and lodged there.

And behold the word of the Lord came to him. Listen to this. And said to him, "What doest thou here Elijah?" And he said,"I have been very jealous for the Lord God. I've been very serious about what the Lord God is doing. I've been very constant about what the Lord God of hosts is doing. For the children of Israel have forsaken THY COVENANT, THROWN DOWN THINE ALTARS, SLAIN THY PROPHETS WITH A SWORD, AND I, EVEN I ONLY am left, and they seek my life to take it away." Verse 11. And he said, "GO FORTH, STAND UPON THE MOUNT before the Lord." And behold, the Bible says, "The Lord passed by." The Lord passed by and a great and strong wind rent the mountain break in pieces the rocks before the LORD BUT THE LORD WAS NOT IN THE wind and after the wind and earthquake but the Lord was not in the earthquake after THE EARTHQUAKE A FIRE BUT the Lord was not in the fire AND AFTER THE FIRE SAY IT A STILL SMALL voice and it was so when Elijah heard it that he wrapped his face in his man and went out and stood the entering of the cave there are times in our lives lives when all THINGS ARE FALLING APART perhaps and and and we're trying to wrap our mind around where God is and we know in this particular story the magnificence of the hand of God was definitely working. LISTEN TO THIS. GOD declares to the prophet that he will be with him and he will see his hand work in his life. Notice in this writing, the Lord, the Bible says, passed by. Everybody say the Lord. The Lord passed by and a great wind rent the mountains. Hear this. And the Lord passed by with an earthquake, shook it. Listen to that. The Lord PASSED BY WITH A FIRE. BUT IN EVERY ONE OF those massive actions of God, the writer says, "But God was not in them. Sorry for us others. Hold on. Hold on. God was not in them. The account is the blowing, the shaking, the burning, all of those things. That was a supernatural act that happened. But in that moment, the declaration comes to us here in the book of Kings that it came in the still small voice of God. I'VE COME TO THIS podium today simply to tell somebody here, probably many somebodyodies and several online bodies, that sometimes there is a God that speaks to us in a still small voice beyond the shadow of any doubt. I PRAYED THIS WEEK ABOUT WHAT THE LORD WAS TELLING me to say to this beautiful congregation today.

And I'm declaring right now in this room UH THAT MANY OF YOU WILL COME INTO THE HOUSE OF the Lord uh with all of your issues and your problems and your things. And you will look for the hand of God to move in your life. YOU WILL DESPERATELY CRY OUT TO HIM. AND IN YOUR MIND, IN YOUR SPIRIT, YOU ARE listening for the still SMALL VOICE OF GOD to speak into your situation. Listen to the PREACHER RIGHT NOW. BUT I DECLARE IN 2026 that there are times that the Lord God shows up, yes, with a GENTLE NUDGE, A QUIET MOMENT, and a still small voice. BUT I'VE COME to tell SOMEBODY TODAY THAT GOD ALSO SHOWS UP IN THE EARTHQUAKE, IN THE FIRE, AND IN THE BREAKING OF THE WIND AND THE ROCKS. SOME OF YOU IN THIS ROOM TODAY, COME HELP ME, JESUS. YOU DON'T NEED A SMALL VOICE OF GOD UH SPEAKING IN YOUR SITUATION. BUT WHAT YOU NEED TODAY IS POWER AND DEMONSTRATION UH OF THE PROMISES OF GOD >> >> UH WORKING IN YOUR LIFE. UH I'VE COME TO PULL SOMEBODY UP RIGHT NOW. UH GET AWAY FROM PLUGGING YOUR EARS. UH GET AWAY FROM SIMPLY SAYING, "LORD, IF I CAN SIMPLY CRY A TEAR, IF I CAN SIMPLY SOB A SOB. IF I CAN JUST FEEL THE GOOSEBUMPS, LET IT BE ENOUGH. NO. UH, YOU BETTER GET DESPERATE ENOUGH TO SAY, UH, THE GOD THAT SPOKE TO THE ROCK TO CRUSH ITSELF, THAT'S THE GOD I NEED, UH, IN THIS MOMENT. UH, I'M LOOKING FOR THE FIRE TO COME IN AND SHAKE IT ALL UP. THAT'S THE GOD THAT I NEED IN THIS MOMENT. GOD, HELP US UH TO REACH PAST THE STILL SMALL VOICE UH AND LOOK FOR THE THUNDEROUS ROAR OF A HOLY GOD. I've watched it week after week, month after month. Many of you COME IN HERE HUNGRY FOR GOD, KNOWING THE ANSWERS IN God and because of messages and songs and kind words of people telling you listen because God is in the still small voice and we misunderstand the reasoning that God put allowed this to happen to this man Elijah. Listen, Elijah was the guy that stood by the altar and when he prayed, the fire of God fell, sucked up everything there and took it away. And you going to tell me that that man Elijah, man of God, standing there watching the wind shake the mountain, watching the earthquake move the rocks, watching the fire come down. He's first thing he's going to think is the same God that I saw at the altar standing there looking at the prophets of Baal is the same God that's moving here in this place today.

I've come to declare to somebody that sometime, listen to the preacher carefully, sometimes we as humans, uh, we can get all caught up in trying to find the voice of God in our lives. Uh, and we're trying our best to push BACK ALL THE DISTRACTIONS, ALL THE FEAR, AND ALL THE STUFF THAT'S TRYING TO PULL US down and destroy us. And we are stretching with every ounce of energy we have to hear that still small voice OF GOD. AND IT DOESN'T SPEAK. THEREFORE, YOU WEEP, YOU CRY, YOU SHAKE, YOU SHIMMER, YOU WONDER WHY GOD'S NOT SHOWING UP WHEN WHAT YOU REALLY NEED IS POWER AND DEMONSTRATION OF WHO THE GOD IS THAT YOU SERVE. UH SOME OF YOU TODAY, UH IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO DECIDE AND DECLARE, I'M GETTING UP AND I'M GOING TO LOOK FOR GOD. UH AND I'M NOT GOING TO STOP RUNNING AFTER HIM. UH I'M GOING TO DECLARE I'LL SCREAM IT TO THE MOUNTAINTOPS. UH GOD, I NEED YOU RIGHT NOW UH TO COME IN WITH A THUNDEROUS VOICE UH AND SHAKE THE WORLD IN WHICH I LIVE. >> RIGHT NOW, RIGHT NOW, >> I NEED SOMETHING TO HAPPEN. I DECLARE THAT HE IS THE GOD OF THE WHISPER, BUT HE IS ALSO THE GOD OF THE CRUMBLING ROCKS AND THE FIRE AND THE EARTHQUAKE. GOD WILL DO SOMETHING IN YOUR SITUATION IF YOU WILL REACH OUT TO HIM. UH THERE'S NO WAY THAT ELIJAH COULD HAVE SAID THERE'S NO GOD UNLESS HE SPEAKS IN A STILL VOICE. NO, IT WAS THAT ELIJAH THAT PUT THE SWORD TO THE PROPHETS OF BELLE'S NECK. >> NOW, BROTHER ROBBIE SAYING THEY KILLED ALL THE PROPHETS. Which ones? ELIJAH, YOU'RE THE one that killed the prophets of Baal. Now, what are you mad that you killed them? Stay with me. Stay with me. I will say right now, some of you need a demonstration of the power of God in your life. Some of you have reached a point to where listen to pastor that you have begun to listen to the prophets of Baal that will say any such thing to try to simply tickle your ear and fancy your fancy because that's what they were doing. That's why Elijah made fun of him. Come on. Maybe he's asleep. Wake him up. Maybe he get him up out of Yeah, maybe. That's why they're cutting themselves all that. Some Some of us are Oh, God help me stay on track. Some of us are not yet desperate enough to say, "God, if I don't see the thunder clap and the lightning fall and the fire come and move in my life, Lord, I've got to know that you are doing something in my situation." I declare today, some of us give up so quickly.

We begin to say, "Lord, apparently you only work in a still small voice and that's not it." The Bible tells us very specifically here that God was not there, not there, not there. That means in that situation where Elijah was standing in that moment, he was looking for God and God simply said, "I've already showed you my glory." He was in THE STILL SMALL VOICE. EVER WONDER WHAT THE VOICE SAID? >> "Hey Elijah, I was with you when you stood at the altar. That's who I am. I was with you just now when those rocks fell. That's who I am. I was with you when that wind blew. I was with you in that earth. I was with you in all that stuff. But I could not declare that to you. Why? Because you're hard-headed and you're hard-hearted and you're not listening. YOU'VE BEEN SITTING UP UNDER A JUNIPER tree hoping THAT YOU WOULD DIE IN YOUR LIFE. I I EVEN SENT BIRDS TO FEED YOU. I EVEN SENT WATER TO SUSTAIN YOU. NOW, I NEED YOU TO GET UP FROM WHERE YOU ARE AND DECLARE, ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES AND RECOGNIZE THAT THE NEXT TOWN YOU WALK INTO, UH, THEY'RE GOING TO DECLARE, "THIS IS ELIJAH. THIS IS THE ONE THAT CALLED FIRE FROM HEAVEN." HE DIDN'T COME IN WHISPERING A MESSAGE. BUT THIS IS THE ELIJAH THAT SIMPLY SPOKE A WORD AND THE GOD OF HEAVENS BEGAN TO MOVE AND SHAKE THE EARTH. I DECLARE THIS YEAR SOME OF YOU ARE ON THE PRECIPICE OF THE GREATEST MIRACULOUS MOVE YOU'VE EVER HAD. BUT YOU CAN'T OPEN YOUR EYES ENOUGH TO SEE GOD. UH I DON'T WANT JUST THAT VOICE. UH BUT I WANT TO SEE YOUR GLORY EXPLODE AROUND ME. ELIJAH HAD the same response we have. Oh God, look what I've done in your name and yet they're mad at me. Lord, look how I believed in you and yet I don't have peace. Oh God, look how the elements around me, Lord, have been altered. Somehow someway some way Lord it's hard to hard to accept the fact that you're working in my life. Can can I bring it a little close to you Deuteronomy? This was the the word that was given. This is explanation to the people of God 4 24. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire even a jealous God. If the Lord our God is a consuming fire, I'VE COME TO TELL SOMEBODY, HE'S NOT ABOUT to walk UP AND SACHE TO YOU WITH A LITTLE MATCH AND SIMPLY SAY, "HERE, I HOPE THIS takes here. I hope this." NO, HE'S A CONSUMING FIRE.

HE'LL LIGHT YOU UP IN THE MORNING. HE'LL CAUSE YOU TO JUMP OUT OF BED. THIS IS THE DAY GOD'S GIVEN ME. I'M GOING TO GO AND DO WHAT THE LORD'S CALLED ME TO DO. WHY? BECAUSE HE HAS CONSUMED ME. TOP OF MY HEAD. SOUL ON MY FEET. I AM SO ON FIRE FOR GOD. EVERY DEVIL IN HELL IS AFRAID. WHEN I WALK DOWN THE STREETS OF THIS CITY, WHEN I WALK INTO MY SCHOOL, WHEN I GO DOWN THE AISLE OF THE STORE, WHY? HEY, HEAR ME. UH THEY'RE NOT IGNORING YOU. UH THEY'RE NOT WALKING AWAY FROM YOU. UH BUT WHAT THEY SEE UH IS SOMETHING'S HAPPENING IN YOUR SOUL. UH THERE'S A BURNING THERE'S A CONSUMING. UH AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT. SOME OF YOU SO ARE SO HUNGRY to go into the office you work at or place of business or job that you're doing and you're so hungry to go in THERE AND SAY, "THUS SAYS THE WORD OF THE LORD, THOU SHALT ALLOW ME A MILLION DOLLAR LOAN BECAUSE IT WOULD BRING US SUCH JOY." What would it be like? COME ON, SISTER GINA SPEAKING IN TONGUES. YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE THE SHE KNOWS WHAT THE POWER OF A CONSUMING God can do. >> She bound to HER CHAIR RIGHT THERE. SHE IS. SHE'S TELLING ME, "PASTOR, ONE OF THESE DAYS, I'm going to shake loose of this thing and I'm going to be able to worship like I feel like I need TO WORSHIP." COME ON. WHY? BECAUSE HE'S A CONSUMING FIRE. HE'S NOT A GOD THAT SIMPLY PISSES AND PATTY CAKES WITH ME. BUT I KNOW HIM TO BE ONE THAT WAKES ME UP IN THE MORNING. I KNOW HIM TO BE ONE THAT PUTS ME ON MY WAY. I KNOW HIM TO BE ONE WHEN I'M ON THE PHONE. I REBUKE THAT IN THE NAME OF JESUS. THAT'S A LIE FROM HELL. YOU BETTER STRIKE UP A CONVERSATION WITH THE CREATOR AND GET RIGHT WITH HIM. I'VE COME TO TELL YOU TODAY, SOMEBODY IN THIS ROOM, UH, IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO STAND ON YOUR FEET AND DECLARE, I BELIEVE, UH, THAT THERE WILL BE THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE IN HEAVEN BECAUSE GOD IS GOING TO MOVE IN MY SITUATION. GOD IS POWERFUL. HE IS POWERFUL. HE CAN DO ANYTHING. HE CAN DO ANYTHING. HE CAN DO ANYTHING. HE CAN DO ANYTHING. >> HE CAN DO ANYTHING. COME ON. SOME OF Y'ALL NEED TO GET BESIDE YOURSELF. LET YOURSELF BE SEATED AND BEGIN TO WORSHIP THE LORD LIKE THE FIRE OF THE HOLY GHOST IS IN YOU AND DECIDE SELF. YOU SIT THERE IF YOU WANT TO, BUT I'M GOING TO WORSHIP.

WHY? BECAUSE I NEED THE VOICE OF GOD IN MY LIFE. I NEED HIM TO SHOW UP AND SHOW OUT IN MY SITUATION. YES. YES. YES. SOME OF YOU ALL RELAXED IN THE HOLY GHOST. SOME OF US ARE SITTING BACK WIPING OUR BROW BECAUSE IT'S SO LONG AND DRAWN OUT. HEY, THERE WAS A TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU GET CRAZY FOR JESUS. THERE WAS A TIME IN YOUR WALK WITH GOD, YOU'D LOSE YOUR EVER LOVING MIND WHEN YOU CAME INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD. >> >> HUH? >> All right, I got more. Hold on. PSALMIST WROTE IT LIKE THIS. 29 AND ONE. YEAH. Give unto the Lord, OH YOU MIGHTY. GIVE THE LORD GLORY AND STRENGTH. GIVE UNTO THE LORD THE GLORY. DO HIS NAME. WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS. THE VOICE OF THE LORD IS UPON THE WATERS. THE GOD OF GLORY THUNDERTH. THE LORD IS UPON MANY WATERS. THE VOICE OF THE LORD IS POWERFUL. THE VOICE OF THE LORD IS FULL OF MAJESTY. THE VOICE OF THE LORD BREAKTH THE CEDARS. YEAH. THE LORD BREAKTH THE CEDARS OF LEBANON. HE MAKETH THEM ALSO TO SKIP LIKE CATH. LEBANON ASSUM LIKE YOUNG UNICORN. THE VOICE OF THE LORD DIVIDETH THE FLAMES OF FIRE. THE VOICE OF THE LORD SHAKETH THE WILDERNESS. THE LORD SHAKETH THE WILDERNESS OF KADESH. THE VOICE OF THE LORD MAKETH A HINDS TO CALAVE AND DISCOVERETH THE FOREST, AND IN HIS TEMPLE DOTH EVERYONE SPEAK OF HIS GLORY. THE LORD SITETH UPON THE FLOOD. YAY, THE LORD SITETH KING FOREVER. THE LORD SHALL GIVE STRENGTH TO HIS PEOPLE. THE LORD WILL BLESS HIS PEOPLE WITH PEACE. WHAT I'VE COME TO DECLARE TO SOMEBODY, HE IS A THUNDERING, ROARING, LIGHTNING, POWERFUL, EVER MOVING GOD. GET HIM OUT OF THE BOX YOU PUT HIM IN. LET HIM BE GOD IN YOUR LIFE. He's powerful, mighty. HIS VOICE THUNDERS, SHAKING and moving. I declare the power and the majesty of the Lord. I PRAISE HIM ACCORDING TO HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS. YOU LIFT HIM HIGH AND HE GETS HIGHER. COME ON. YOU RUN AFTER HIM WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART AND HE KNOWS THAT YOU'RE HUNGRY FOR HIM. >> Some of you are exhausted >> in your fight >> BECAUSE YOU ARE STRAINING TO HEAR THE small voice of God. And God's saying, "This is not the moment for the stillness of my voice. This is the moment that I come in and I show you who I am." >> You see, hear the cry. That cry says, "Lord, I am so tired OF BEING RELIGIOUS. I AM SO TIRED, GOD, of things happening in my life and me not HAVING FULL VICTORY OVER THIS." Come on.

IF YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN THE APOSTLES DOCTRINE AND TEACHING, THEN YOU GOT TO KNOW SOMETHING. EVERY TIME ONE OF THE APOSTLES WALKED INTO THE ROOM THEY WALKED IN WITH SOMETHING IN THEIR HEART AND THEIR MIND THEY DIDN'T COME IN TO SAY WHO CAN I COME AND DISCUSS SOMETHING WITH TODAY AND COUNSEL THEM TO TRY TO STEP THEM BACK OFF THE EDGE. NO, THEY WALKED INTO THE ROOM AND WHEN THEY WALKED IN THERE WAS AUTHORITY AND ANOINTING AND THEY BEGIN TO SPEAK A WORD OF THE LORD. UH AND THEY BEGIN TO SPEAK A WORD OF THE LORD. UH AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD WAS UPON THEM. AND THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT EVEN THE RULERS OF THE DAY SAY, "WAIT A MINUTE. IS THIS NOT THESE WHO HAVE TURNED THEIR WORLD UPSIDE DOWN? THEY DIDN'T GET THAT BY A STILL SMALL VOICE. THEY GOT THAT BY THE THUNDER AND THE LIGHTNING OF GOD WORKING IN THEIR SITUATION, SHOWING THE WORLD THE POWER OF A CREATED GOD. CREATIVE GOD. CREATIVE GOD, >> Y'ALL. OKAY, it's 125. Man, I got all kind of time. Huh? I've been so blown away recently. This lady with the issue of blood in the scripture to my in my mind I cannot comprehend that 12 years of suffering >> spending every dime she had >> on doctors and what she really needed was virtue. Listen to pastor but not a doctor. she went to had virtue. >> They weren't bad doctors. They weren't messed up doctors. They just didn't have the answer. >> Can I Can I explain something to us? Sometimes, see, we want God to move in a situation. And the whole time, God simply saying, "Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Something's going to happen." And when this explosive reaction and response begins, guess who's going to get glory out of it? Not you. >> Lazarus is dead. AND I'M GLAD FOR YOUR SAKES I wasn't here >> because YOU WOULD HAVE SIMPLY SAID, "JESUS, IF YOU'D HAVE BEEN HERE, HE WOULD NOT HAVE DIED." JESUS SAYS, "I'M GLAD HE'S DEAD." HOW CAN YOU SAY SUCH A TERRIBLE THING? COME ON. SOME OF Y'ALL SAID THAT TO ME BEFORE. >> PASTOR, I need you to pray FOR THIS. WHY? WHY WOULD I DO THAT? WELL, WHAT do you mean? WHAT YOU WANT ME TO PRAY? HOW YOU WANT ME TO PRAY? WELL, I WANT YOU TO PRAY. NO, YOU KNOW WHAT? GOD MIGHT ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING. >> THERE WAS AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY STANDING AT THE TOMB OF LAZARUS SAYING, "HE STINKS. DON'T YOU OPEN THAT." AND GOD SAID, "OH, YOU NEED TO MOVE THE STONE OUT OF THE WAY." WHY?

BECAUSE SOMETHING ABOUT TO COME IN AND TURN THIS WORLD OVER. HEY, HEAR IT. IT WAS AFTER THIS TIME THAT JESUS IS WITH LAZARUS. AND THE BIBLE SAID THEY WANTED TO GET IN THE HOUSE. WE WANT TO SEE JESUS AND LAZARUS, THE ONE WHO WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD. IS ANYBODY HERE WILLING TO SAY, "LORD, I GIVE YOU ALL OF WHO I AM AND ALL THE MESS UPS THAT I'VE GOT. IS THERE ANY WAY THAT YOU CAN COME IN AND CHANGE MY LIFE?" I GOT A FEELING THAT THE LADY WITH ISSUE OF BLOOD, SHE HAD NOTHING TO LOSE. AND IN A MOMENT'S TIME, AS SHE REACHED OUT AND TOUCHED HIM, WHEN THAT VIRTUE LEFT HIM, SHE DECLARED, "THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR. THAT'S WHAT I NEEDED. >> Who touched me? >> Come on. The followers say, "Well, now you know Jesus got all these folk around here. Everybody touching you." No, no, no, no, no. There's something different about the heart of a person that says, "I HAVE NO OTHER OPTION. I NEED POWER AND DEMONSTRATION OF WHO JESUS IS. I WILL NOT STOP UNTIL I GET IT. HUH? >> COME ON. YOU KNOW THIS BLIND GUY, BARNAMEUS? >> WHO? WHO' you Who who' you say was coming? He He Who' you say was coming through? There's a lot of noise going on. I can't see nothing. I don't know what's happening, but son of a There's a lot of racket going on around here. Yeah, it's Jesus coming by. Who? >> It's Jesus. Hush, hush, hush. Barame, listen to this. Listen to Barnameus and say, "Lord, if you could just speak gently at me above above all the racket of this this congregation and all these folk on the street, if you could just just think toward me, right? Because your thoughts are great. That's all he Come on. Jesus could have chest that's all fool just like that. Barameus said I don't know what my hair looks like. I have no idea what my garment looks like. I know this that I was left here as a blind man. I know this that everybody that walks by me has no question of my status in life because I'm blind. That way I know because I look like a blind man. I look like somebody that needs help that needs somebody to reach out to. Barameus decide, you know what? There ain't a soul. There ain't a person in this place that's been able to give me what I've been asking for. I got two pesos from one. I got a couple bucks from one. I got a little bit from this one. That one helped me with bread.

I don't even know who they are, what they stand for. All I know is they threw it at me as they walk by. But oh, I heard of a man FROM GALILEE THAT'S WALKING BY. I WILL NOT LET THIS MOMENT. I DON'T NEED SOME KIND OF MAMBBY PAMI SOMETHING. I NEED JESUS. UH, SON OF DAVID, UH, HAVE MERCY ON ME. UH, SON OF DAVID, UH, HAVE MERCY ON ME. WHY? BECAUSE I'M NOT ALLOW ABOUT TO LET THAT MAN WALK BY ME, UH, WITHOUT HAVING SOMETHING TO DO IN ME. UH, I'M GOING TO RAISE A RUCKUS. UH, I'M GOING TO MAKE A ROAR. UH, I'M GOING TO DECLARE GOD OF GLORY. ANYBODY CAN DO IT, IT'S YOU. UH, IF ANYBODY'S GOT AN ANSWER, IT IS YOU. >> >> HOW far you want TO GO? ASK THE LEPERS. >> THEY COULDN'T EVEN GET INTO TOWN. >> BROTHER GIBSON. THEY WEREN'T EVEN ALLOWED. >> JESUS WALKS BY HERE. HEY. HEY. YO. >> >> HEY, >> come on, GUYS. MAN, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THESE lepers up here. You with me, KB? I can only imagine they OUT THERE GOING, "WOO, WOO, COME THIS WAY. RAARI, COME THIS WAY." I AIN'T ONE OF THOSE LEPERS SAID, "WELL, if you think it'd be good idea." >> Don't y'all be mad at pastor, but I rebuke the attitude of the lepers in this room right now. >> Some of you have failed TO TURN AND GIVE HIM PRAISE AND THANK HIM FOR WHAT HE'S ALREADY DONE IN YOUR LIFE THERE. OH, SOMEBODY GOT TO HEAR THE PREACHER. THEREFORE, YOU KEEP SHOWING UP AT THE HOUSE OF GOD TO SAY, "IF I CAN JUST GET IT RIGHT WITH THE LAW, I THINK I'LL BE OKAY." BUT THERE WAS ONE BROTHER VANDY THAT TURNED AROUND AND SAID, "I'M GOING BACK TO JESUS. THANK YOU, JESUS. THANK YOU, JESUS. THANK YOU, JESUS. THANK YOU, JESUS." AND JESUS EVEN SAID, "WHERE THEY'RE KNOCKED IN, WHERE ARE THE OTHERS?" AND HE SAID, "I DON'T KNOW, BUT I KNOW THIS. YOU CHANGED MY LIFE. UH I NEEDED YOUR VOICE. UH AND YOU YELLED AT ME. UH BE THOU CLEAN. >> Jesus said, "Are y'all ready, Southerners? My my MY FAITH." HALLELUJAH. >> JESUS DIDN'T STEAL SMALL VOICE THAT ONE. HEY, LISTEN. Go have to keep it down over here. >> BE WHOLE. NO. >> YOUR FAITH HAS MADE YOU WHOLE. >> GO HOME. >> YOU DON'T GOT TO GO TO THE PRIEST. YOU BYPASS THE LAW. WHY? BECAUSE YOUR ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE SAYS, "IF IT WERE NOT FOR JESUS, WHERE WOULD I BEHAVE HIM IN A STILL SMALL VOICE, BUT INSTEAD I'M CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD TO SEND FIRE INTO MY SITUATION." ASK THE BROKEN AND BUSTED.

ASK THE HOPELESS AND HURTING. ASK FOR THOSE WHO DIDN'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO. AND THE HAND OF JESUS CAME IN AND CHANGED THEIR LIVES. >> GOD HAS BEEN THERE FOR YOU IN SO MANY WAYS. >> I SAY IT ALL THE TIME. HERE WE GO AGAIN. YOU SHOULD HAVE LOST YOUR MIND BY NOW AND BEEN PLANTED IN THE GROUND. BUT TODAY YOU STAND HERE IN YOUR RIGHT MIND. UH I CHALLENGE SOMEBODY TO SAY YOU'RE A GOD OF THE FIRE. YOU ARE A CONSUMING FIRE. YOU'RE A GOD OF THE EARTHQUAKE BECAUSE THE THUNDERING OF THE WORLD SHALL MOVE UNDER YOUR VOICE. THEREFORE, I EXPECT FOR YOU TO MOVE IN MY LIFE. >> 134. Come on. Some of y'all are getting it. >> Some of y'all are getting, you know, I love you, right? >> You know I love you. Some of YOU HAVE BEEN DRAGGING AROUND ADDICTIONS AND BROKENNESS FOR SO LONG, YOU JUST CONSIDER IT PART OF WHO YOU ARE, YOUR MAKEUP, AND YOUR CHARACTER. AND YOU'RE HOLDING ON TO THAT BECAUSE IT IDENTIFIES YOU. AND YOU CAN LEAVE THIS ROOM TODAY AND PICK UP THAT IDENTITY. AND YOU CAN DECLARE WHO YOU ARE BECAUSE OF THAT MESS. I'VE COME TO TELL SOMEBODY, ARE YOU HUNGRY FOR GOD TO DELIVER YOU FROM THAT? MY GOD IS A DELIVERER. MY GOD IS A DELIVERER. MY GOD IS A DELIVERER. HE CAN BREAK THE CHAINS. UH YES, HE CAN. UH HE CAN PUSH THEM AUNDER. YES, HE WILL. HE WILL BREAK THE YOKEH THAT HAS YOU BOUND. >> UHHUH. PSALMIST WROTE LIKE THIS in 141 and1. LORD, I CRY UNTO THEE. MAKE HASTE UNTO ME. GIVE EAR UNTO MY VOICE WHEN I CRY UNTO THEE. LET MY PRAYER BE SET FORTH BEFORE THEE AS INCENSE AND THE LIFTING OF MY HANDS AS THE EVENING SACRIFICE. Y'all want to revisit it? >> Give me a minute. >> The law required THEY WOKE IN THE MORNING AND MADE SURE THE embers were right on the altar and they made a morning sacrifice that started the day. >> Incense unto the Lord, >> burning unto the Lord. >> But the Lord gave them an opportunity to sleep. Matt listened to him. He gave him opportunity to sleep. So he told him, he said, "Before you leave this place, you better make sure that fire does not go out." >> How do we do that? At the end of the day, you bring a lamb for sacrifice and you sacrifice him on that altar. And Lord, when you come back in the morning, you're going to find wood there burning, and you're going to find fire there on that altar. And you're going to be able to take now the morning sacrifice, use that fire to make it continually.

Therefore, if you do it, Dad, your children are going to do it. Children, if you do it, your children are going to do it. Why? Because it's going to continue one to the other. So, Lord, this is the way the PSALMIST SAID IT. LET THE LIFTING OF MY HANDS BE AS AN EVENING SACRIFICE THAT SAYS WHEN I GET MY HANDS HIGH AND I COMPLETELY SURRENDER TO YOU AND I RECOGNIZE THE POWER AND THE AWESOMENESS OF WHO YOU ARE, LET THAT LIFTING OF MY HANDS BE ENOUGH TO CARRY ME THROUGH THE DARK TIME AND TO GET ME UP IN THE MORNING AND KNOW GOD IS STILL WITH ME. GOD IS STILL ON MY SIDE. GOD IS STILL MAKING A WAY. THE PSALMIST SAID IT LIKE THIS. WHEN MY HANDS ARE IN THE AIR, THERE IS SOMETHING HAPPENING IN THE HEAVENS. When the children of Israel left Egypt, it was with wailing and A RUSH OF WAGONS AND PEOPLE. When the Holy Ghost was falling in the upper room, IT WAS WITH FIRE AND A RUSHING WIND. When you received the gift of the Holy Ghost in your life, IT WAS WITH SHOUTS OF EXCITEMENT AND ADORATION AND EXALTATION FOR THE NEW LIFE. GOD CAN STILL SPEAK, YES, IN A STILL SMALL VOICE, BUT HE CAN ALSO SHAKE THE EARTH AND RUMBLE THE FOUNDATION UNDER YOU AS YOU BEGIN TO LOVE AND TO MAGNIFY HIM. THE PSALMIST SAID IT LIKE THIS IN PSALM 47. COME ON, BROTHER DON. OH, CLAP YOUR HANDS ALL YE PEOPLE. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF TRIUMPH. FEAR THE LORD MOST HIGH IS TERRIBLE. HE IS A GREAT KING OVER ALL THE EARTH. HE SHALL SUBDUE THE PEOPLE UNDER US AND THE NATIONS UNDER OUR FEET. HE SHALL CHOOSE OUR INHERITANCE FOR US, THE EXCELLENCY OF JACOB WHOM HE LOVED, SILA. SO LET IT BE. SOMEBODY IN THIS ROOM, SOMEBODY WATCHING ONLINE, YOU BETTER OPEN YOUR MOUTH RIGHT NOW. AND WITH EVERY BIT OF ENERGY DOWN IN YOUR TOES, YOU BETTER BRING THEM ALL UP AND BEGIN TO EXCLAIM WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT, "JESUS, I NEED YOU NOW. >> >> BREAKTHROUGH. BREAKTHROUGH. BREAKTHROUGH. HOLY GHOST. BREAKTHROUGH. HOLY GHOST. BREAKTHROUGH. PUSH PAST IT. COME ON. NOBODY CARE ABOUT YOUR OUTFIT. DON'T NOBODY CARE ABOUT YOUR SHOES AND YOUR HAIRDO. BREAK PAST IT, GOD. I'VE GOT TO HAVE REVIVAL. I'VE GOT TO HAVE A MOVE. I'VE GOT TO HAVE DEMONSTRATION IN MY LIFE. MY FAMILY NEEDS TO SEE DADDY SHOUT. MY FAMILY NEEDS TO SEE MAMA SHOUT. MY FAMILY NEEDS TO KNOW THAT I STILL BELIEVE UH IN THE POWER OF A RISEN SAVIOR. WHY? BECAUSE WHEN THE VOICE OF GOD BEGINS TO SPEAK, IT WILL SHAKE EVERYTHING.

>> HEY. YEAH. YEAH. YEAH. YEAH. YEAH. YEAH. Come on, somebody. >> COME ON, SOMEBODY. BREAKTHROUGH. BREAKTHROUGH. BREAKTHROUGH. IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO PRAY THAT THE FIRE OF GOD WOULD FALL IN YOUR LIFE. COME ON. HE'S A CONSUMING FIRE. LET HIM CONSUME YOU RIGHT NOW. BURN UP ALL THE JUNK YOU'VE GOT IN YOUR LIFE. COME ON. SOME OF YOU NEED TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD THUNDER THROUGH YOUR BRAIN RIGHT NOW AND RATTLE YOUR CAGE TO KNOW UH GOD IS IN CONTROL. >> YES. YES. YES. THIS ALTAR IS OPEN. COME PRAY. COME AND PRAY. COME AND SHOUT. COME AND WORSHIP THE LORD GOD. THE NAME OF JESUS. >> THE NAME OF JESUS. >> COME ON. Y'ALL WERE SINGING ABOUT IT A WHILE AGO. DO YOU STILL BELIEVE IT? THERE'S SOMETHING BY THE NAME. THERE'S SOMETHING BY THE NAME. COME ON. YOU CAN SPEAK THE NAME JESUS AND EVERY DEVIL IN HELL BEGINS TO FLEE AND SHAKE AND TREMBLE. COME ON, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE NAME. THERE'S POWER IN THE NAME. YOU CAN SPEAK THE NAME JESUS IN ALL OF YOUR SITUATION. CAN SHAKE AND SHIMMER UNDER THE VOICE OF GOD SPEAKING IN YOUR LIFE. THERE'S HEALING IN THE NAME. Oh Jesus. Jesus. >> OH, THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT. PRAY. CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD GOD. >> YOU NEED HIM IN YOUR LIFE NOW MORE THAN EVER BEFORE. >> YOU NEED HIM IN YOUR SITUATION NOW MORE THAN ever before. >> Oh, come on. HE CAN BREAK EVERY ADDICTION RIGHT NOW. HE CAN BREAK EVERY HEARTACHE RIGHT NOW. HE CAN HEAL IT. >> HE CAN PUT THINGS BACK TOGETHER RIGHT NOW. THAT'S WHAT GOD DOES. >> That's who he is. >> Shout unto the Lord. >> Shout unto God. >> A voice of triumph. >> Overcomers. Overcomers. >> We're overcomers. >> Something's happening. >> Something's moving in my life. That voice can thunder right now in your circumstance. >> THAT VOICE RIGHT now can rearrange your entire world. That voice. Are you hungry for him? >> Are you ready for a change? Are you tired carrying around the hurt? There's just something about the name of Jesus.