God Speed

So if you have your Bibles, let's turn our attention to the book of Amos chapter nine and we're gonna begin at verse number 13. Amos chapter nine, verse number 13. My wife and I have had the pleasure of getting to be at a lot of youth camps this summer and I'm so thankful to see what God is doing in the next generation. Man, God's church is not in trouble. I was talking to a friend of mine, Brother Drew Galloway. I know he's spoken here a few times and he was in agreement with me as he has traveled into different districts and so on that there's just a unique hunger in this generation right now and watching their response in the altar and their intensity in worship. It's not just noise and emotion. They're tapping into something and I thank God for what he's doing in the next generation.

God's church has never been in trouble and it's sure not in trouble now. Amen. Amos chapter nine, verse number 13, just one verse tonight. The Bible says, behold, the days come sayeth the Lord that the plowmen shall overtake the reaper and the shredder of grapes, him that soweth seed and the mountains shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt. Now, I know that this is the prophet referring to the end times here. However, I wanna focus on some things in here that are very relevant to us tonight and I wanna talk to you on this thought, God's speed. I think that God, when he gets ready to do a work, that it's not according to man's time but that God can speed it up and I wanna try to convey that thought here tonight and so if you're excited for the word of the Lord

and pray that God won't anoint me to deliver it correctly, would you just set your Bibles down now? Would you just lift your hands and would you pray that God would minister to you tonight? Lord, I love you, I thank you for your word. Thank you, God, for the spirit of prayer that is here tonight and the stirring that is here tonight. Pray, God, that you would use me as your vessel. Anoint me for the glory of your kingdom. I pray, God, that you would right now loose the gifts of the spirit into this atmosphere and that you would confirm this word with signs following. We take dominion over anything that would be a hindrance. Bless your word, God, to go forward and find good ground to produce fruit in its kingdom. In the name of Jesus, we pray, amen, let everybody say in Jesus' name,

turn to your neighbor before you're seated and say, you look better than I do. The honest with you, the only reason I do that still is because my wife really doesn't like it. I think if you live for God at any time at all and I think that there's some folks here that's been doing this a long time and maybe some people here, I matter of fact, I know some that are here that are newer to this, that you will find that this life living for the Lord is the greatest life. However, it does sometimes come with trials. And I think as the longer you do this, the more that you find out that living for God does not exclude you from a trial, but it teaches you how to handle them in a different way. And I think the book of Proverbs teaches us

a very special principle in Proverbs 17 and three on one of the reasons why God allows us to go through things. And it says, the refining pot is for silver and the furnace is for gold, but the Lord tryeth hearts. So it teaches us that what God does is, is the reason that he refines us like silver and he puts us in the furnace like gold is to try our motive to purify our intentions in living for him. Job put it this way in Job 23 and 10, he said, but he knoweth the way that I take. When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Now as much as I would like to think that one day my flesh will turn into gold, I just don't think that's what Job was talking about. But he was using an imagery that in that day,

especially they would understand as they would refine gold in a hot furnace, he was saying that's kind of what God likes to do with his people. He wants to get the impurities out of us. He wants to get the us out of us. I was recently reading a book by John Mark Comer and it was entitled Practicing the Way and he said, this whole living for God is a lot less about him getting us into heaven and a whole lot more about getting heaven into us. And so what God's trying to do is, is bring a piece of the heavenly and show the world that you can live this way on the earth. David said it like this in Psalms 26 and two, he said, examine me, oh Lord. He said, and prove me, try the reigns and my heart. He said, God, as you steer a horse with reigns,

that's what controls it. He said, I want you to look in my heart and I want you to see what is moving me, what is controlling me, what is directing me. And I think that that's what trials are really for. I've noticed this in fasting often times, when you get on a fast, it amplifies the stuff you need to take care of. If you've ever gone on a day fast or a few days in fasting, you'll find out real quick that stuff that won't annoy you when your flesh isn't really dying but when you're no longer eating that food, that thing that doesn't send you over the edge out of nowhere, you're just like, I will hurt you. And what God is doing is he's showing you that those are the things in you that need to die. And that's really what fasting is all about.

And I think that that's also what trials are about. And Peter said in 1 Peter 1, he says, wherein ye greatly rejoice that now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations. Notice what it says, if need be. Sometimes we need to go through things. We don't like that, but sometimes it need be. And he says that the trial of your faith being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. James said it like this in James chapter one. He said, my brethren, count it all joy when you fall in diverse temptations knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Nobody likes patience. I can remember listening to Brother Stoneking saying one time, don't pray for patience

because if you pray for patience, God's gonna try you. And nobody likes the trial that produces patience. But Paul told the church in Rome and when you put this in the context of what the church in Rome was going through for being Christian, they were covering them in tar and literally setting them on fire and using them as torches in the night. You start thinking about these things that they're going through and then you read that he says, and not only so, but we glory in these tribulations also. Knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience worketh hope. Hope. And I find that interesting because when you talk to somebody like Bishop Myers, he's just hopeful. You know what I'm talking about? Somebody like Dr. Myers, you just talk to him and they just, they kind of see what you're going through and they're like, you're gonna make it

because they've had some things that have been tried in them and that trial worked patience and that patience gave them some experience in this and that experience gives them hope. Not just for me, but for them. They're saying, I don't just have hope for me, but let me tell you, I'm on this side of the trial and I can tell you, you're gonna be all right. You're gonna make it. And so you need to allow this work that works in us and it works in all of us to produce patience and then experience and then hope. And if you'll allow it to work these things, it is the purpose of the trial. It is the purpose of the struggle, this nature of life and this walk with God that all of us are in is the reality is, is that it's a struggle sometimes. It's hardship sometimes.

Even in the best of times, you can look back and there's just situations that we go through from the Old Testament to the New Testament. You find that there was struggle in all of them and everybody and some of life's struggles are just because of life. It's not because you sinned. It's not because you've made a mistake. It's not because you've done anything, but Solomon in studying the righteous and the unrighteous, he gave his life to look at these things. He said, you know what I've learned in the study of the righteous and the unrighteous? Everybody goes through stuff. Everybody. Because some things is just that we're living, we're human. He says in Ecclesiastes chapter three, he says, things happen. There's a time to be born. There's a time to die. That's life. There's a time to weep. There's a time to have joy. That's life.

He gives us this general thing of just circumstances that happen because we're living. It rains on the just and on the unjust. It just happens. But then there are things that happen to those that are choosing to walk a path for his name's sake. And this decision that is birthed out of a call, that call that came from Moses, out of a burning bush, Moses, Moses, and it causes him to turn. And it changes the entire trajectory of his life. Everything was pushing him towards this moment. He didn't know everything he was gonna have to go through. He didn't know all of the things that was going to happen by answering the call. But there was just something about the call. He says, I'm destined for more. And when you get this call from God, and rather it's a call to preach or it's a call to be an usher

or it's a call to be a Sunday school teacher, I think everybody has a call from God on their life. Now, not all calls look the same. Not all ministries look the same. In my opinion, whether you're from the pulpit or not, all ministry is equal. I don't think there's any above the other. I think ministry is many, ministry, we are many members, but we're one body, amen. And so we see that these things that begin to produce the trials, sometimes it's just because you've chosen to walk in a life that causes you to be different. Jacob at any point could have left Laban and said, this isn't worth it, I'm done with this. And he could have bypassed being the father of the 12 tribes of Israel at any moment. Joseph could have stopped at any moment when he's in the pit, when he's in Potiphar's house.

He could have given in at any moment and just thrown in the calling. Gideon at any moment could have said, my insecurities and my inferiority is outweigh my calling. I'm throwing in the towel, I give up, it's not worth it, I'm done. At any moment Esther could have very simply said, you know what, I know what you're telling me, but this is just not for me, I'm out. I've got it good here in the palace. I don't need to go through all this junk that you're telling me I gotta go through. Nevertheless, there's this reality of what I think what Mordecai said to Esther that doesn't just apply to her, but I think it applies to every notable character in the Bible when he says, if thou hold your peace at this time, then shall their enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place.

But don't you know that thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed? Oh and by the way, knoweth not that you're come to the kingdom for such a time as this. And I have often pondered because I've heard of the might of the previous generations and I've often pondered why don't you have Paul here now? Why don't you have JTPU here now? Why don't you have the legends of old here now? And I feel like God's saying to the church because I wanted you here right now. I didn't want them in the kingdom for such a time as this. I chose you for such a time as this. God knew who was gonna be alive when we were alive. He's not caught off guard and so God knows. This is what I have destined for this moment. God chose you and I know we get in these trials

and we get in situations and circumstances and trouble happens and some of it is just because we're human and some of it is because we have chosen to walk the life that we have chosen to walk. But that's why Paul said to the church at Galatia, he says, and let us not be weary in well doing. For in due season we shall reap if you faint not. That's why the apostle said to the Hebrews in Hebrews chapter 12 verses one through three, he says, wherefore seeing we are also compassed with so great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which is so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Looking unto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame

and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God for consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. I wanna read that last verse in the amplified version. He says, just consider and meditate on him who endured from sinners such bitter hostility against himself. Consider it all in comparison with your trials so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. He said, when it starts getting hard, sit down and just think about everything Jesus went through for you. And when you begin to ponder all that Jesus went through, he said, it relieves your mind of the weariness because if you're not careful, you can get weary in well doing. If you're not careful, your mind can get weary and the apostle knew that. That's why he said, let me tell you

how you overcome a weary mindset in this walk. You just start remembering he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of my peace was upon him. He was led as a lamb before the shearers for slaughter. I think I can go one more day. I think I can press one more day. I think I can keep running and not only do we have Jesus to encourage us, we've got a whole cloud of witnesses that are saying, I know I was there, it hurt. I know we, things were said, things were done and they're just standing up there going, come on Dylan, you can do it. Come on brother Richie, you can do it. Come on brother Blackman, you can do it. Come on, we can run this race. And so we must consider these things and while we don't like our trials, I want you to know that these ones

that aren't just life trials, that aren't just seasons as Solomon put it, they do have an appointed end. And I love when I read in Genesis 17 and 21 it says, but my covenant will I establish with Isaac which Sarah shall bear unto thee. Everybody say at the set time. In the next year he says, I've already measured how much you can handle. He said, and I put an end to it. You just gotta get to the end. I measured out, I know, I know, I know you think, I know you think you can't handle much more, but if you can just keep going, I know how much you can handle. And I have put the end, there's a date to this. There's a moment to this when it's over. And so that set time somewhere between Genesis 17 and 21, you find that the Bible says that he visits them.

I think it's in chapter 18 and he comes to them and he tells Abraham, he says, hey, he says your wife's about to get pregnant and she hears it on the other side of the tent and she starts laughing. Don't you know how old I am? I'm past that age. There's no way for me to have a kid. The time clock is gone, the time is up, the alarm went off, it's over. And he looked at her, he says, is anything too hard for the Lord? I think that's one of my favorite verses right there. Is anything too hard for the Lord? Sometimes you need to ask yourself that question. Some of y 'all need to make that your screensaver. And every time something happens, you just open your phone. Is anything too hard for the Lord? And it says, at the appointed time, I will return unto thee according to the time of life.

According to the time of life. He says, I will return to you. Now, when you look at that, when you look at that word return, if you study it out in the original, it's literally saying I will reverse the clock. I will turn back time. I will do what you cannot do in the natural, but I'll do it in the supernatural. You're in time, but I'm not in time. He said, I'll take the clock and I'll just wind it back. And here's what's so amazing about this is that I think it's in Genesis 20, a king of the land who could have any woman he wants chooses to take Sarah from Abraham. So I don't think it was just that he rewound the maternal time clock so that she could conceive. I think he restored all of the youth and the vigor unto her. He didn't just reverse the clock internally.

He said, I'm not just gonna do an internal work. I'm gonna make you beautiful and youthful again. And he rewound the clock on Sarah, so much so that a king lays eyes on her when she's coming to the city and he goes, whoa, hubba, hubba, I'm in trouble. I'm in the book. It might be Morgan's translation, but that's what it says. It says in Genesis chapter 21. Now watch, and the Lord visited Sarah as he had said. And the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken for Sarah conceived and bear Abraham a son in his old age, everybody say, at the set time of which God had spoken to him, just like he said he was going to do. Now, God allows trials to work in time. Trials happen in chronological time, but when God gets ready to give back, he no longer works in time.

That's when he starts working, and this hit me Sunday afternoon praying in God's speed, because we don't have the ability to turn back time or to speed things up, but when God gets ready to do something, he's not bound to the hour, nor the minute, nor the second, nor the month, nor the year. God says, watch me step outside of time. Watch me reach back however many years, let's say he reached back 40, 50 years for Sarah, and grabbed the Sarah that was 20 years old or 30 years old, he picked her up and brought her back into time and said, you're gonna have that Sarah once again. Because God doesn't work in our time when it comes to restoration. The trial feels like sometimes it's never gonna end, but when it does, the restoration at the end of the work does not work in time.

God speeds up time, God fasts forward time, God rewinds time. Now notice in Amos chapter nine in verse number 13, now he's talking about when he begins to restore Israel. This is what he says. He says, I'm going to restore you. He says, and the restoration that I'm bringing, he says, it's gonna be so great that the plowmen shall overtake the reaper. Now that means that the harvest came and he sends the harvester out in the field. Now a quick study on this taught me that it was six months from the point of harvest before the field was ready to be plowed again. And so that means that there was so much harvest in that field when God got ready to give back, that I don't think it was one year's harvest or two years harvest or three years harvest. I think it was such great restoration

that God reached forward and backwards and brought it into the same time. And it was so much for them to gather. They were six months into the harvest, still harvesting and the plowmen said, I can't wait another day before I start plowing the field. But when God gets ready to give back, he doesn't give back according to our time. He works in God's speed and it's more and it's faster and it's with more intensity than you could ever realize in time. Now, we read about the story of Job. We've all heard about Job and it's such an interesting story how literally the sons of God are standing before the court of heaven and they're all presenting their cases and I don't know where Satan shows up in the story and God says, hey, what you doing up here? He says, oh, I'm towing and froing like I like to do,

looking for somebody to mess with. I just wish he, you know, get a job. But you have to understand even the work of Satan is for a time. I can't get in all of that. That's a little out of my pay grade, but there's an appointed time where he's gonna be bound and no longer can he do the work that he wants to do. And so he's out there to and froing and God says, I got somebody you should look at. It's my servant, Job. Well, I touch him, but you got a hedge over him, over his livestock, over his wealth, over his health, everything's protected by you. He says, all right. He says, you can inflict all of his riches, just don't touch him. So he lifts the hedge, devil goes in and you know the story while one servant's knocking at the door and he opens

and here's the bad news about his kids, about his wealth, about his barns, about his animals. There's just another, just another knock at the door. I quit opening the door. Let's just be honest, anybody ever felt like that? I'm not, I'm not, I don't want another word, thank you. Seems like every word I get is about a new trial I'm about to enter into. I'm like, you know what, I'm good with your prophecies. You can keep those, thank you very much. And so there's another knock at the door and at the end of chapter one it says, but Job was still righteous and sin not. Chapter two, here comes the devil again to the court of heaven. Hey, I told you God said he wouldn't, he wouldn't fall down, he wouldn't make the mistake and you touched all of his wealth and Satan goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, but you know,

you wouldn't let me touch his health. If you just let me touch his health, his flesh and his bones, then he'll surely forsake you. God says, all right, but don't kill him. Just, you can inflict him, just don't kill him. And next thing you know, Job's sitting there scraping boils with a putty knife. It gets so bad, his wife's like, you still haven't forsaken God, his friends show up, you've clearly sinned, you've clearly made a mistake here, those trials we're talking about, but then you fast forward to the end of Job's life. Job 42, and it says God gave him double, double, everything he had in the beginning had all just doubled. Now this is my personal opinion, I don't think it took Job as long as it did for him to get the first portion built up, as it did for God to bless Job's latter end of his life.

As a matter of a fact, I think it came so quickly and I think if God can call the animals to come to Noah with the snap of a finger and board a boat, I think out of nowhere, Job woke up and he just started looking and all of a sudden the sheep was back and the camels were back and the donkeys were back. I think it happened in God's speed. God said, you were faithful, you went through the trial, you went through the struggle and you made it to the appointed end and now God just says, I'm gonna work quicker than you thought I could ever work to give it all back. Can anybody testify, have you ever been through something and on the other side, it was just like boom and it was just like God gave it all back overnight? Because when God gets ready to restore,

he does not restore in time, he does it in God's speed. God's speed, God gets ready to end a famine. You gotta think about this. Now, you have a prophet that has prayed for it not to rain, he speaks the prophecy, it's not gonna rain. A famine is so sore, it's so bad that King Ahab is sending people into all of these other lands just to water and feed his animals so that he doesn't lose all of them. Evidently, he's already lost a lot and he's just trying to hold on to the few that he has left and out of nowhere, the prophet shows up, he says, hey, go tell Ahab, I'm ready to talk to him and he's standing there and he says, meet me at Mount Carmel, they meet at the Mount and they have this great showdown and God sends fire from heaven,

he slays all the prophets and Elijah looks at Ahab, he says, get thee up, eat and drink for there is a sound of an abundance of rain. Not a cloud in the sky. You know the story, he goes up the Mount, sends his servant out seven times and he says, I see a cloud the size of a man's hand and he looks at his servant, he says, get on the chariot and you go tell Ahab right now, he says, don't let the rain stop you before you get to the city. But notice something, he doesn't get to ride the chariot. This is what the Bible says, Elijah guards his loins, he gets ready to run quickly. He puts himself in a battle formation and out of nowhere he outruns a chariot and he's standing at the entrance of the gate where there's arms folded, waiting on a wicked king to roll up on a chariot.

How does he outrun a chariot? God speed, because God was not gonna let the king get there, a wicked unrighteous king get there with the testimony of his fulfillment before a righteous prophet could get there. And so the prophet runs in God's speed and he's standing at the gate saying, I told you it was gonna rain and it's not because of you, it's because of the great I am that this famine is over. Because when God gets ready to end a famine, he does it in God's speed. When God gets ready to give back, he speeds up time, he hurries up time, he doesn't do it in our chronological time, he does it in God's speed. You all know the story of Hezekiah, he's on his deathbed laying there, he's literally dying and here comes the prophet Isaiah. Like I said, some, I'm just, he's prophets, man.

He shows up and he goes, hey, just once you know this sickness is under death, what a delightful thing for you to tell me tonight. That's exactly what I was hoping you were gonna say. So he leaves and Hezekiah, the Bible says he turns to the wall. I don't know what wall, but it just says he turns to the wall and he starts praying. God, I've been a faithful servant. I have served you with all of my heart. I have never, Lord, I've given you my life in serving you. Sounds like some of our prayers here tonight. Tears streaming down his face. Think about it. That's what it says. The Bible says he wept sore. I mean that type of cry where they're snot running down your face where the tissues just can't come quick enough. There's a puddle on the floor from your tears

and he gets up, he's laying there sobbing and the Bible says the prophet is in the middle of the court. He couldn't even make it out of the house. He's in the middle of the court and God says turn around and he walks back into Hezekiah. He says the Lord's changed his mind. He's gonna give you 15 more years. He said just put some figs on the wound and you'll be all right. Winks at him and he says you'll be in the temple before long and Hezekiah says how do I know? How do I know that this is the word of the Lord? And Isaiah says I'll tell you how you know this is what I want you to do. He says do you want the clock or the sundial to move forward 10 or backwards 10? How do you want me to handle time here?

He says it moves forward on its own. He says so why don't you turn the sundial back 10 hours? And out of nowhere while he's laying on the bed looking at the sundial, maybe it was out on the terrace, I don't know wherever it was, he's looking at a sundial and out of nowhere he watched God work in God's speed and he turns back the clock. He turns back the clock and in the turning back of the clock Hezekiah immediately gets 15 more years of life, why? Because God is not confined to our realms of time and our ability to work but when God gets ready to work he does it in his speed. He told Joel in the middle of all the things that are being eaten by the canker worm and the pommel worm. All of these things that are happening. He tells him in Joel 2, 23, he says be glad then

ye children of Zion and rejoice in the Lord your God for he hath given you the former reign moderately and will cause to come down for you the reign, the former reign and the latter reign in the first month and the floor shall be full of weed and the that shall overflow with wine and oil and I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten and the canker worm and the caterpillar and the pommel worm. My great army which I sent among you, this is what he says, are you ready? He says when I get ready to give back he said I don't just reach forward to grab something. He said I'll reach into the future and I'll reach into the past and I'll pull them both right now into the present. He said and I will pour out such a blessing upon you

that there is not room to receive it. He said the storehouses will start bursting with what I took from the past and what I took from the future because when God gives ready to give back he doesn't just reach forward but he can reach to your past and he can reach to your future and he can pull them both into the present. I hear tonight to tell somebody your failure does not disqualify you. God will reach past your failure and he'll give you what you thought you could never have. Come on, it works in God's speed. I'm telling somebody you feel like your ministry is hopeless, your life is over, things are, it's too far gone, it'll never be, you're two or out in a moment and in the twinkling of an eye. God can snap his finger and he can grab restoration from your youth

and he can grab the prophetic word from your future and grab them both and pull them into the, because God does not work in our time, he works in God's speed. My, my, my, your ministry is not over, your calling is not over. God can work at a time that we cannot work. I feel the Holy Ghost in this house. Peter is in a prison. I don't mean to just keep telling stories, I told you all, I'm excited about this one. He's in a prison, he's bound, he's got chains on, he's three wards deep. He's all the way tucked in there. He's in, and an angel of the Lord because the church started praying. You gotta understand that when the church prays, it moves things in the spirit realm. And while in the natural, we might be bound by the flesh and time. When you pray, you pray outside of time.

I said, you pray outside of time because prayer is not momentary, it's supernatural, it's outside, it moves in God's speed. Prayer works in God's speed. And so while you're praying, God can reach backwards and God can reach forward. You see, the Lord taught me something about faith a few weeks ago. Faith, coming by hearing, hearing by the, we walk by faith and not by, for faith is the substance of things, even though the evidence of that thing is not. So this is how faith works. You speak it, you believe it, and you pray for it. And if you have faith, if you have faith, you see hope is believing that God can. Faith is believing God has. Watch, faith is the substance of things hoped for. If you're hoping for it, that means it hasn't happened yet. But if you're faithing for it, that means though it is not in the natural, watch,

it is the substance. It's already been substantiated in the supernatural. So you're here praying in faith and in the supernatural outside of time. I believe this is how it works. God has manifested it and put substance to it. Now, it may not be for right now. Watch, but faith says it's already done in heaven. Now watch, you just keep walking and know that it's done because faith has already put substance to what you've been hoping for. And this is what happens. While you're faithing for it, one or two things happens. You either keep believing and having faith until you intersect with the time where it steps out of the supernatural and manifests in the natural. Or you know it's already happened in heaven and I may not have it in this life, but in the life to come. Now I'm gonna try to be nice with what I'm about to say,

but if other religions can believe that if I take an act of personal sacrifice to get things outside of this life, 70 virgins waiting on me in an afterlife, come on, and they will take their own life because of that, I just am foolish enough to believe I may not get healed in this life, but in the heavenly, there's a whole dealin' and it may not ever happen in Chronos time, but in heaven time, it's been manifested. And now watch, sometimes, sometimes it just happens, what happens? I don't know, I'm not God, I'm not sovereign, I don't know how he thinks, I don't know how he works, as his ways are higher, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are his ways higher than ours, I don't know, but I know this, whether it happens or not, it's already done in the heavenly.

I just keep goin' and I keep faithin' and I keep faithin' and I keep faithin' and I keep faithin' and I keep faithin' until one or two things happen, I intersect into the moment where it steps out of the supernatural and into the natural or I just keep believing until I'm made whole on the other side of this life. My little brother, I may have told this before, my little brother has a spinal tumor and sorry, I was makin' sure I wasn't over time and I'll never forget he was in prayer one time in an altar with my dad and my dad was prayin' and God healed him, God healed him, God healed him, God healed him and my dad's a man of faith. I mean, I can't tell you the stories that I have growin' up in the home that I grew up in

between my father and my grandfather and the miracles that I've seen. I can't remember us not havin' enough money to make, just take care of bills and I'll never forget standing in the garage. My dad opened an envelope and when he did, he literally fell to his knees weeping. I said, dad, what happened? He said, this is a random check down to the penny. Not to the dollar, to the penny, how much we've needed. I can't tell you how many stories I have like that where faith brought us through. So my dad's a man of faith, he's a man of faith but I also remember him in that altar praying God touched my son and my little brother looked at him and said, dad, if I have to go to heaven lame and halt it but it gets me to heaven, I'd rather go to heaven with a handicap sticker

on my car than God healed me. I don't know, I don't know how God works and in what ways God works. I don't know, I can't think like God thinks but I can faith and I'm telling you when God gets ready to do something, the former in the latter, Peter's in prison three wards deep and the church is praying and the angel of the Lord just hits him and the chains fall off. He picks him up and he carries him. One ward, two ward, three wards outside of the city. I don't know if he just dropped Peter, I don't know what happened but Peter said I got outside of the city gates and I came to myself and I realized I'm not dreaming. This is real. How did I get out of here? Godspeed, because when God gets ready to do something, I don't care if your three iron fences deep in a prison,

I don't care if there's iron shackles on your hands and on your feet. I don't care if the greatest superpower of the time has decided you're gonna stay in that prison until they kill you the next day. When God gets ready to do something, he works in Godspeed. I'm here to build somebody's faith tonight. I have come to elevate somebody's faith with the word of the Lord. Your trial is not your end. Your situation is not your end. When God gets ready to do it, I don't care what the circumstance is, what the situation is, young or old, rich or poor, educated or uneducated. When God gets ready to do it, Godspeed, Godspeed, Godspeed. I feel the Holy Ghost right now. Let's just entertain the presence of God. I'm done. Would you stand with me all over this house? Hallelujah. If you're here tonight and you're struggling with your faith,

I think we can take the next three minutes right now and we can just worship the Lord. Would you lift your voices all over this house? I'm done. And would you just entertain the divine presence of the Lord that has stepped into this house? Let God elevate your faith right now. Let God elevate you right now. Hallelujah, Jesus. Hallelujah, Jesus. Hallelujah. Lord, I'm reaching for the weary tonight. I'm reaching for the struggling tonight. I'm reaching for those God that are fighting the good fight. I'm reaching God for the elder here tonight that's struggling to hang on God. I'm reaching for the young men tonight that's struggling to believe God because they don't have the evidence, they don't have the experience that others have. And I'm telling them tonight, you are able to do exceeding abundantly and above all that we could ask or think according to the power that worketh in us.

Lord, that the trial of our faith God would work something in us that is more pure than the riches of this world. That the trial of our faith God would work something in us that is more pure God and more divine than anything this world can offer. Lord, I pray right now that there would be a set time in this house, God. Speak to somebody, God. Encourage somebody right now, Lord. Fight the good fight, finish the race. Hear the words, well done, thou good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of the Lord. Lord, for we fight not against flesh and blood, but we are fighting against principalities, powers, and rulers of darkness, for we wrestle not against the elements of this earth. But the wrestling of our life, God is against spiritual forces. And while we might be in the fight, God, we know you have our back.

And in the moment and in the twinkling of an eye, you can work in God's speed. You can get your church out of here. You can restore our finances. You can restore our health. You can restore our health. You can restore our minds. You can restore our families. You can do it all. And you can do it in God's speed. You can do it faster than the twinkling of an eye. You can do it faster than the speed of light. You can do it faster than the fastest elements in our world, God. Why? Because you are not bound by the limitations of the clock. You are not bound by the limitations of the flesh. You are the Alpha and the Omega. You are the beginning and the ending. You are the first and the last. You are the else that die. You are all in all God.

So we put not our faith in government. We put not our faith in man. We put not our faith in economy. Our faith is in you. While some might trust in horses. Some might trust in chariots. We will trust in the name of the Lord. For we are God. Not by our might and not by our power. But it is by your spirit sayeth the Lord God. So I pray by the spirit of the living God. Strengthen your body tonight. Encourage your body tonight. Lift us up with your word. And send us in God's speed. Send us in God's speed. Give us back the strength. Give us back the strength and the vigor that we need to finish this race, oh God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. We seal it with a praise. We seal it with a praise, mighty God. We thank you God for doing what you're doing.

We thank you God for moving how you moved. We thank you God for your spirit being what it is to us. We thank you for restoration. We thank you for impartation of strength. We thank you for the impartation and the encouragement that we need to keep going, oh God. We worship you in spirit and in truth. For you are the all in all God. Amen. Oh we worship you, Lord. We worship you, Lord. Oh thank you, Jesus. Somebody just thank him for a few moments. You can be done whenever you're done. I'm gonna lay this microphone down. Let's just worship him for a few moments for what he's doing in this church right now.