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- **Welcome and the feeding of the multitude.** Arnold opens by honouring the house and the ministry family, jokes about the late hour and a young boy who had preached that night, and turns to the feeding of the multitude. He reads the account from the fifth verse on: Jesus asks Philip where bread can be bought, Philip counts the cost and finds it not sufficient, Andrew finds a lad with five loaves and two fish, and Jesus gives thanks and distributes until everyone is filled and the fragments fill twelve baskets. The point lands early: what looks like not enough becomes overflow in Jesus' hands, because the one doing the distributing is never diminished by what he gives away.
- **The cup read out in full.** He goes back and finishes reading his second text entire — the shepherd and his table, the rod and the staff, the head anointed with oil — and announces his subject out of it as the conference goes home: my cup runneth over. Whatever level the cup sits at, half full or three quarters full or sloshing, it keeps running over; goodness and mercy are not rationed, and they follow a man all the days of his life into the house of the Lord.
- **Obstacles and the long obedience.** Jacob's twenty years carry this movement: he went out with nothing but a promise and a future he could not see, served under an uncle who cheated him as the two of them scammed each other, and came back with family, herds, and substance — the cup filled across two decades of struggle and wrestling. Grace in this sermon is exceeding abundant toward people who have blown it; the enemy sets obstacles, but an obstacle is not the end of the story for a man whose cup God keeps filling.
- **Honey in the lion.** Samson's riddle becomes the pattern of the whole message: out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness — God brings sweetness out of the carcass of a struggle. Arnold works the congregation through the testimony that if it had not been for the Lord on their side, they would have lost their minds and their way when they broke vows and broke promises; blessings outweigh burdens, and there is grace apportioned for whatever struggle a saint is standing in.
- **Daily benefits.** Faith and fear both arrive the same way — by what a man sees, hears, and thinks on — and the sermon turns to the God who daily loads his people with benefits: extras, bounties, favours nobody earned or worked for. Arnold reads the blessing psalm aloud himself, pressing the congregation to bless the Lord with everything inside them and forget not all his benefits: forgiveness for every iniquity, healing for every disease, and benefits loaded on his people daily.
- **Fountains and rivers.** God names himself a fountain, and his people have forsaken the fountain of living waters for cisterns and bottled water that hold nothing — two dollars' worth of religion that runs out. Against that stands the well springing up inside the believer and rivers of living water flowing out of his belly. Arnold has a reader stand and read for him, stopping him and starting him again until the words land on the house: the Lord is good, he is ready to forgive, and he is plenteous — measureless, limitless — in mercy to all them that call upon him. Ask, and ye shall receive; God is standing on the balcony of glory hoping somebody will ask.
- **The pause between promise and performance.** Abraham's blessing started with a look across the land and a seed promised numerous as the dust of the earth; then came ten years of silence, a promise conceived and not yet born. The Lord comes to Abraham in a vision — I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward — and Abraham finally says out loud what fear has been saying in his heart: behold, thou hast given me no seed, and the steward of his house stands to inherit everything. Sometimes between the promise and the performance is the pause, and the pause belongs to God; delay must not be allowed to defeat faith in the original promise.
- **Seeing yourself through.** Whatever gets in the mind and stays there gets in the heart, and whatever gets in the heart comes out of the mouth — life and death are in the power of the tongue. Job said the thing he greatly feared had come upon him; David talked himself toward perishing one day at the hand of Saul, though Saul could never have killed a man with David's destiny. The congregation is walked through replacing the fear image with the faith image: picturing themselves healed, delivered, and kept, saying with their own mouths that they shall not die but live.
- **The certainty of God's goodness.** He closes on the foundation of God that standeth sure and a church the gates of hell shall not prevail against, jokes with the choir, and declares himself done — then lands the sermon's refrain one last time: surely goodness and mercy have followed, surely he is coming back for his people, and we are going to be with him.
Scriptures: John 6:5-13; Psalm 23:1-6; Psalm 103:1-3; Jeremiah 2:13; Psalm 86:5; Psalm 86:15; Genesis 13; Genesis 15:1-5; Job 3:25; 1 Samuel 27:1
Scripture index: John 6:5-13; Psalm 23:1-6; Psalm 103:1-3; Jeremiah 2:13; Psalm 86:5; Psalm 86:15; Genesis 13; Genesis 15:1-5; Job 3:25; 1 Samuel 27:1.
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thank you praise the Lord everybody thank you for letting me be a part of this once again and it's it's an honor to be here and as soon as I finish it's over thank you brother Anthony and the wonderful church here and people that invite me to speak all the speakers I earnestly prayed for every one of you and the Lord has not disappointed me praise God it has just been phenomenal I looked at that young boy preaching tonight when I was that young I still couldn't do that I watched him jump around I felt like brother Teddy's thing I'm one of those little serials in the bottom of the bowl trying to suck up some milk wow that was just phenomenal I appreciate it very very much and if I could I'd like to I'd like to direct your attention to I know I told the the scripture people something but I'm kind of out there I'd like to just go to the Gospel of John chapter 6 and then I'll come back to my other Scripture if I could and crowds do not make me nervous I make myself nervous there's only one thing worse than a preacher not having a message is having four or five and every one of powerful I wish brother huntys here brother hunk they had to go I you know I listen to all this lineage stuff and all this heritage stuff and I listened to magnificent message that brother Anthony brought to us about that rope and standard and and stretching and measuring and and then I listened to brother brother Wayne Huntley just do that marvelous masterpiece and about you know all the kids and the family and all that and I stood back there during that thing and while I enjoyed the message I felt like I was the Lone Ranger I have no mother I have no father all my family's dead I have the rest of my relatives all think I'm out of my mind and I thought that and when he finally came up with that wonderful scripture in Proverbs it made me feel like I belonged to the family and I thank God for that and I thank God for you I've had so many fingerprints on me if I don't preach good tonight this something wrong well I mean I've had people prophesied over me praying for me sending me stuff calling me and like wow they must be worried about me okay that's enough let's go John chapter six that I want to read beginning with verse five when Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw a great multitude company a great company come unto Him he saith unto Philip whence shall we buy bread that these may eat and this he said to prove him for he himself knew what he would do Philip answered him two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them now watch this Pentecostal concept that everyone might take a little were the original inventors of minimal daily requirements and then he has more faith you know Andrew says there's a kid over here he's got some five loaves and two fish watch this faith but what are they among so many you ain't gonna be able to fix this one not with my calculator and watch this and and Jesus and verse 11 and him first and ten he said sit down and and then he said he took the loaves and when he had given thanks he distributed to the disciples and disciples to them that were set down that means if you don't obey you don't eat because he told everybody sit down and folks who said no I'm a stand up religion he said what you can stand up and starve to death because I'm gonna go feed everybody sitting down
now watch this given thanks distributed disciples disciples to them that were set down now watch this and likewise of the fishes as much as they would and when they were oh there's that f-word filled I can tell where your minds are quite a far from you from the spirit to the carnal is it needed turn off your video huh and when they were filled he saith to his disciples gather up the fragments that remained that nothing be lost and they gathered them together and they filled twelve baskets of fragments of five barley loaves which remained over and above now let's get the picture if everybody can take a little take all you want man get yourself full on Jesus the maximum man forget about those crazy apostolic Sioux the minimum people take all you on pig-out and then pick up the crumbs and the scraps and they took the twelve baskets full correct I got a feeling coming back from you people right now that you think you know what I'm gonna say I hate it when I get ready to preach to people my own church they go oh I've heard that I want to just jump up and say yeah I hear you're dumb choir sing the same stuff every week but I act like I like it and so I'll finish with the rest of it and the Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want and he maketh me to lie down in green pastures and he leadeth me beside still waters and he restoreth my soul he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me now prepares the table before me in the presence of mine enemies watch this thou anointest my head with oil my cup my cup runneth over surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I'll dwell in the house of the Lord forever I want to talk to you on the subject as we go home from this conference my cup runneth over hi Ella Adama high-heel of Kalamata my cup runneth over father bless the Ministry of the word and please help me to be a blessing to your sweet people help me not to belabor this point but to just do everything that you want me to do in a few moments that I have in Jesus name I pray and everybody said amen god bless you maybe see I didn't bring my watch what time is I can't see it 8:35 everybody check your watches 8:35 ha ha my cup runneth over I'm gonna make you preach with me my cup runneth over hell's gonna try to tell you when you get home your cup is empty but you got a cup that runneth over help me throw some blocks and your way in some stumbling blocks but he ain't in charge of your cup you got a God that's in charge of your cup and your cup is gonna run over and hell can't do anything about it cuz he's not in charge of the water supply my cup runneth over before we leave tonight we need to understand that God is not a grudging God he's not stingy he's not minimal he's not crunching with his
goodness Norris gifts nor his blessings he gets a gift and a blessing you he enjoys blessing you the Bible said he himself is measureless therefore one of his attributes which his goodness is also measureless one writer says so great is his mercy that he delights in mercy he is rich in mercy as the heavens are high above the earth so is his mercy towards them that feel I can't get a witness in nowhere yet yeah all right now if you can charge me I'll fix your carpet later my my my my cup my cup I'm going through a bunch of hell yeah but my cup just keeps running over I'm running I'm running out of money but I'm not running out of town my cup runneth over I may be a little low on cash but I'm not low on the love of God I'm not low on the mercy of God I'm not low on the goodness of God my god you don't hear me if your cup runs over your hands get wet your feet get wet have you checked lately how wet your table is shout at me I got some trouble but the cop it just keeps running over and over and over and over my cup runs over you and sit down I didn't mean to wake you all up at once you're not getting it yet yeah you get them and I wrote the notes I know how good it is just just just stay with me what watch it you got to stop looking at God while you leave here because like I told roll the keys you can't just just pick this up and take it home in your church and go and it takes care of everything it won't work like that you'll get home and they'll be divorces and there be messes and there be problems and there be devils been doing push ups to stay in shape waiting for you to get back home and then your walk is hey where's the feeling I don't need to feel in let me tell you what I brought back my cup runneth over I'm full of goodness I'm full of his kindness I'll follow his fur say I'm full of his faithfulness maca is running over you sit down what's what Paul said rather he too writes his epistle and Timothy and he says the grace of God towards me was watch this I know you don't want this word abundant not enough to fix it enough to fix it and carry until we finished the race god help you holy rollers that just want enough to get through your chaos and through your trouble I want to trail a load of it I want it I want a dump truck oven because I don't know what I'm going to have an accident I don't know what I'm gonna fail god I don't know what I'm gonna get discouraged went on my way down my cap steel ronzo well you're not hearing me you see if your cup runs over then your praise runs over you know don't let the devil tell you your cup is dry just cause you said they said you got cancer you got leukemia you got this you got this you got this you got this hey I'll come to your cup and the boss owns the waterworks and he said I watch what the cup says I'll never leave here and I'll never forsake you and I'll never put on you more than you
can bear but with every test and every trial I will mates away grace was exceeding abundant you sit down I'm all right I wrote the notes I know what I'm doing I'd like to help someone laughs I watched this tremendous thing that sister god bless sister Mickey did that phenomenal deal and I watched all these hurting people up here you know it's amazing how we can talk in tongues and shake and quake and throw down and do our moves and then all these bleeding people and all these wounded people and all these hurting people listen to me if you don't remember anything else I say listen to this so good here we go it's gonna be revelatory Lehman once in a while jump out of your seat if you don't mind you ready there good here it goes outweighs the bad you got more blessings than you got burdens you got more sunshine than you got darkness and you've got me for me it doesn't matter who a1 is against me because my cap over before you're seated turn around imaginary cup toast somebody wait a minute no no no don't do that silly pentecostal no spill it on you want to come out of your church service looking like you're all wet what's happened I'll tell you what happened the cop that the Lord is putting me is overflowing its blessing its unending one writer said there is a river that make glad the City of God do you instead hell just for second just bear with me just for a second the good outweighs the bad yes it does consider Abraham alot God the cup in their life was so fabulous they had so much stuff they couldn't eat the same place they had to separate that was too simple for you alright let me try it but one of your criminal relatives maybe you'll relate to him you know your criminal relative Jacob you don't think his cup run over now for 20 years that look like he's cut and dry my Bible tells me you can't find a record least I can't find it that he was on layman's farm that's the funniest picture in the whole Bible God must have looked at the angel said watch the two crooks on the same farm one's a liar and the others a real liar two cheats trying to scam each other and my Bible says for 20 years you cannot find a record a record where Jacob prayed he left pregnant with promises and didn't pray for 20 years him and his uncle scammed each other cheated each other for nagels each other watch this and at the end of 20 years what looked like a dry cup all of a sudden the Lord showed up hey Jacob hey Jake hey Jake yeah time to go home come on you and your cups run it over now you see you're laughing because you think I'm doing something with water ain't gonna hurt this dumb carpet you're not kidding yeah you can go on a long time where God seemingly has not talked to you and the only one that's talked to you is the devil who said you've run out of it you've got an inverted you got a dry but I own a cup that my master said anytime I want to make you spill over I'll give you a fresh future I'll change your pants I'll turn your tomorrow around let me try to get my cup runneth over now I'm not gonna let you sit down I want you people that say you believe your cup run over to give God some thanks right now you got help you got strength you got sound and survive you got more money than you ever had you got the peace of God you haven't you haven't had a nervous breakdown the devil hasn't been able to take you out why you got a cup that runs over
you're gonna sit Hans a second listen to me I thank God for this cup you see watch this shirt your relative Jacob what's what he said the cup has been running over in my life so much 20 years ago when I left I was a fugitive and a vagabond with no direction in my life watching and all I had was a staff when God finished with my cup 20 years ago I had two bands of cattle and oxen and sheep I had a family I had children and I had a future oh I'm gonna get rude right now why don't you stop sipping your cup and start slurping some of us Pentecostals think God is going bankrupt ain't nobody found the end of God ain't nobody found the bottom of God ain't nobody ever found out how much he's willing to give us there is go into his goodness there is no end to his mercy there is no end to his fate for this there is no end to his generosity are you ready and he's on your side well I still I've got about 35 of you let me try the rest of them see if I can get anything the living dead over here let me try it right here are you ready see if this helps you if it had been for the Lord let me try I guess the mic wasn't on let me turn your hearing aid up number seven are you ready if it hadn't been for the Lord who was on my side if it had been for God when I thought I was gonna lose my mind if it had been for the Lord who forgave me when I broke vows and I broke promises and I did dumb stop usin L okay you know can't you muck up Samson lion roars on that's a picture what's going to happen so you leave I love the way Samson does that what's mine with you fool he didn't put him down he tore him apart he ripped his Joran too so he couldn't hurt nobody else now you're not kidding say oh yeah that moment in because of the times when we just shouted in Boogaloo Dan jammed and threw to him ha we ripped that line apart what we're gonna do but after the lion comes to honey's let me try it again after your last victory you need to go back to it because it might become a honey hive it might become a place that you can get some fresh encouragement you get some fresh strength you can reap is there nobody in the house that has any dead lions in your life don't you have some past victories don't you have some things that you can look back over your shoulder and shout even had not been from the Lord who is on my side the wonder the writer says oh you see here's what he says out of the eater came forth me out of the strong came forth sweet God can take your last trial that you think you barely got by and turned into a Pentecostal condo that you can go back and visit once in a while listen don't you get what hell's playing is tonight it's like the it's like the Garden of Eden he wants you to focus on what you don't have I don't have this yet you didn't get I don't have this yet
I don't have this yet but my cup is running over mop he's the Lord of the harvest and my compass running over now I told our church this and I want to apologize to you upfront because I prayed about this now you don't think I did but I did know I know I just my lingo is not sweet like yours I'm on the street I'm a street bum so I cleaned this up and I told the Lord that when he gave me this I wrote it down and I said no Lord if I say crap they're going to get upset now you think I'm lying I'm not I asked my dad I said now craps a good word for me I've used it all my life but for you edited people dirty poopin you gotta stop trying to save your image all the time your image can't get anybody healed your image taken anybody to limit your image can't help nobody so so brother Eli when I asked the Lord and said the Lord really if I say crap they're gonna get upset so I don't want to say crap I need a cleaner word so so he I felt like that you might think he's not telling me but I felt like he said well just use crud because cruds not as offensive is crap I feel like running over this whole grilling crap back fat crap crap crap crap crap I got a cut from the crap I got a cup for the cut I got a cup for the sickness my cops running over I don't care what kind of trash you gotta face I don't care what kind of Devils you got to deal with I don't care I don't care what kind of disappointment you gotta face if your cup is running older you're more than a conqueror through him who loved you and gave himself for you please forgive me the things that come over this pulpit are not necessarily endorsed by the pastor the following announcements did not reflect the network here's what I'm trying to tell you stop focusing on the crowd and stop slurping at the cop if you'll enjoy the cop the chunk the trash the mess will not destroy you it will not defeat you as long as your cup keeps running over you are more than a conqueror because of you'll sit from the overflow you can overcome anything that comes against Hagan sit down Superintendent man your that's as dirty as it gets you see I'm not lying look look stare at the crud never rejoice over the cup don't you realize that you get to live at the level of an overflowing cup you don't hear me when you live at the level of an overflowing cup it immediately frees you from people fear it sets us free from intimidation and people's opinions and water it lets us know that frustration will not destroy me it frees us from people who are faith killers sometimes you don't need to get your prayer partner on the phone you don't
need your text message somebody you don't need the ailment my Cubs run lower has your cup dude every time I start from the top I'm more than a conqueror every time I slurp from the cup greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world every time I slept from the cup no weapon formed against me shall prosper every time I slug from the cup nothing can separate me from the love of God let me try it again I'm making you look good enough you ready stand up just a second ready the cash goes the cup stays the friends go the cop stays the feeling freeze the count stay opinions leave his opinion in the cup state we are not an experiment we are precious in His sight we are his people we are his body we are his ambassadors and your cup is overflowing I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings am i doing ok ok what the problem with Pentecostal zippers is zippers sit and stare slippers shout and praise the reason why some of you don't praise is cause satisfied folks never praise proud people never praise but but thirsty people I have been living for the Lord a few years and I can in before God and His angels I can tell you without a lie God has never failed me God has never abandoned me God well you're not hearing me yet I'll tell you what I thank God brother tell me about the cup when I had the cup overflowing my failures will not destroy me my mistakes will not put me up for adoption because the cup keeps flowing you're not hearing me we serve an abundant God he is abundant in goodness he is abundant in kindness I wish I could get a witness anybody besides me has never failed God since you've been saying you promised not to in your did you promise to and you didn't guess what when the devil say it's all over God handed you the cup brother Jones and said watch it's overflowing it's hope you're not here my cup runneth over and as long as my cup runneth over nothing's gonna run over me you sit down a few minutes didn't mean to bother you just stay with me just a second God delights in a cup that runs over you maybe low on cash your life is overflowing with mercy you may not have any special position thank God for that your your life is overflowing with pardon you may have failed I realized when Allah say that Pentecost because nobody's failed ya keyaki aqus the only difference we in the backslide or the failures the failure stays in the church that's not bad that's good and you failed God this the place to be you get yourself in trouble this the place to be you don't want to quit the church just cuz you made a mistake that devil is a liar let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to the Lord here it is for he will abundantly pardon they'll be an overflow they'll be running over he's not going to give you just a minimum I don't want it's tough just to get by I want stuff to get going ok Reverend Mike you ready listen to me just before he reads his scripture you and I may have to drink from disaster
we may have to experience some stuff we dislike we may have to deal with stuff that's exasperated but the cup keeps running over you may feel like you're friendless but you have a friend in the cup that loveth at all times you have a God that understands you and cares for you and loves watch what run right one writer said bless the Lord O my soul watch who daily oh you bunch of wussies who daily I can't hear you he didn't load that be singular possessive low death continues too low when's the last time you got loaded when I used to go to bars and whorehouse and honky tonks I went in and get loaded once you get loaded you don't care about nobody's opinion you don't care about nobody's attitude you don't care whether you dancing step you don't care whether you sing in tune some of you ain't got loaded lately Bible said bless the Lord who daily loaded us willed benefits a benefit is an extra a bounty a favor something not earned something not worked for it's a freebie I'm round ready right now Stephen you ready Freddy's coming up for a free never see you ever see people that got palsy and the shakes and all that stuff when they go to drink that's what I do about the things of God your kid you don't matter to me why do I care you can't catch no Devils out anywhere let's try it one more time time to toast down to toast ready watch out it's coming your way Jones I'm just about ready my cup runneth over surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and over running cup gives you confidence and faith for you tomorrow you may not know what's coming on tomorrow but you got a call who is ain't tomorrow who'll never leave you and he'll take you into your tomorrow in sit down I'm almost there almost being the key word bless the Lord O my soul and what did you say oh I want to ask you Holy Roller folks you got any stuff inside you can't bless God feel like I'm preaching morals of the Democratic convention I'm gonna try it again come on you have you in the human helping me bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me if you've got something sign unit can't bless the God of heaven then ask forgiveness get it out apologize repent do whatever you gotta do because God wants everything inside of us to bless him bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits who healeth all thy diseases who forgiveth all thine iniquities who restores your health you didn't you didn't earn another salvation those are benefits I'd serve God right now just for the benefits some of yous are certain just for your cash I'll take the benefits what what does peace when you put your head down tonight in the bed and you know that you haven't been vile you haven't been wicked and if you have been God still offered you mercy and forgiveness
there is a river the streams thereof make glad the sinful hey bro Jones little listen what this sense God refers three times to himself in these scriptures in 2:13 of Jeremiah he said they have forsaken me uh-uh no no no not a $2.00 bottle of water a fountain fountains flow you guys are digging out cisterns trying to hold your jump I'm not fountain many turns around tells that babe shacking up with that guy in John 4 he said you know if you'd asked me I to give you the drink watch and what I gave you would be a well watch this not that you got to go down and try to pump three ounces how springing up into if you got the Holy Ghost you got a well inside you that wants to spring up into everlasting life in the last day the great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried aloud say any man thirst but I'm coming through your drink here it is he that believeth on me out of his belly shall flow rivers plural rivers rivers rivers rivers rivers of living water and have you got the Holy Ghost you got rivers in you give me just a few more minutes and I'll stop okay you ready to read for me River Mike 86 5 86 15 for thou Lord art that he's going to read in English mucho Taco Bell Oh inspect is he dirty one of those three cuatro Sinko in Glacia when you hear the English yeah you do something cuz this is the overflowing and the running over Cup alright I won't interrupt you now Mike read eighty six and five for the our Lord art good that's enough I said mother pectin he's a good god he's a good god isn't he's a good god he's not stingy he's not selfish you ain't gotta pay him all you gotta do is ask him only now there is crazy hoarding outdoors believe him my he keeps running over with what the goodness of the Lord let never mind all these Cowboys on TV goodness to damage the Mercedes four hundred thousand two million dollar mansion stuff things toys trinkets what a shame to think that that God will be limited to a few stupid little toys I'm going I'm going through a bunch of hell yeah but the goodness of the Lord I'm going through some doubts and fears but the goodness of the Lord keep keep going Reverend Mike you sit down now are good and ready to forgive what part already are you struggling with I'm losing yourself I know it's been a long conference and you want to go home me too I just happen to be working you are you getting it you get that and he's ready it's like God is standing on the balcony of glory going I sure hope that in he asked me for some help I sure hope he just confesses he made a mistake he watched some he shouldn't have watched he read something to read he said something he should have said he imagined something shouldn't have you ain't got a baby brother Steve he's standing there on ready if you'll ask me ask and you shall receive seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened for every one that asks but please continue revenue wonderful go ahead he's good he's ready to forgive forgive and he's plenteous in mercy to all them that call upon that word plenteous one of the interpretations is measureless limitless he's plenty not plenty like good and plenty know plenty yes God's trying to
show you how how neat and fantastic years and how mesh this is he said I'm plenty and he just stretches plenty for one end to the other end of the universe and it just keeps on going and he's plenteous in mercy let me ask you something when your cup runs over you have the privilege of him talking to you I have someone sitting here I saw him in the auditorium before I did something yesterday was very stupid and I thought it was cool but it was stupid han was one of my friends and I just walked up to him because his hair was kind of hanging on back of his shoulder and I said what are you doing growing a sweater and and I thought it was funny and he kind of laughed and I just kidded with him and I left 5:15 this morning the Lord makes me up says I won't talk to you I said oh I give me one of them stem-winder messages already he said I'm very unhappy with you I said why he said you show disrespect to an elder and you thought it was funny and I didn't think it was funny and I started weeping and sobbing and apologized and I said you let me see that guy today and I will go right up to his face and I will apologize and say I was stupid and you're fine and just please forgive me now you're looking at me saying what's that got to do with that Cup oh if my cup wasn't overflowing I would not be able to feel that conviction when I do something stupid if my cup wasn't overflowed by the keys I wouldn't have the propensity inside of me I just do like the rest of just ride it off don't worry about no big deal it's a big deal when God talks to me and turns around says I have not happy with the way you handle that situation did you do any damage according to him I must have done some damage I apologize to this man he said ain't no problem I feel good right now but pardon me I got I gotta take a trip don't you understand the reason God was so wonderful of bless Abraham so he had all these stuff and the guy said God has blessed my master greatly knees got cattle and herds and children I mean all kinds of stupid stuff watch how it started with Abraham brother Morgan watch how it started your faith man here's how it started Genesis 13 still this lot separated from Abraham the Lord turned around and said now lift up your eyes and look at all the land now notice this was a selective lift up and look it wasn't perpendicular it was horizontal he said look at all the land that I'm gonna give you and your seed what he said and your seed shall be as the dust of the earth if a man can count that much so shall thy seed be please hear me I got a word from God right now if you don't think nothing else was I got one for you right now when I was in the motel getting ready here God gave me a thought I have never preached ever in my life he said tell my people that sometimes between the promise and the performance is the pause God said I'll make your seed like the dust of the of the land he said great he was 75 when he got that promise he was 85 and it hadn't happened yet see you have conception just stays but we Pentecostals want conception birth now what I'm not finished yet if you read Genesis 15 the Bible says that the Lord shows up in Abraham's life I got it right here and the scripture says he gives him a vision now watch he hadn't done nothing with him for all these years 10 years he's lived with an unfulfilled promise pregnant with a promise but it ain't come out yet and the Bible says and the Lord appeared unto Abraham in a vision why would you do that Lord because my servant is getting fear images you see I'm a healthier Martin don't don't get upset I know what I'm talking about faith and fear both come to you by what
you see what you hear what you think now watch if you read the first five verses of Genesis 15 says the Lord said I am not exceeding Ward and I am their shield what he just had that war with those five kings he's scared to death he said listen your fear images is keeping me from protecting you I'll go a little further you're sitting this there and that'd be fine watch what he turns around he says come on let's go take a walk now I know Barbara it was at nighttime because he asked him to look at the stars now he's had 10 years of a promise that ain't happened yet and the promises is seed now what's what Abraham betrays he shows God that his heart is full of fear and unbelief he said behold Lord thou has given me no child and this eally age of my steward he's gonna inherit all my stuff he revealed to God what was in his heart he wasn't believing God yet because time had ripped away from him his confidence faith in the original promise don't let delay defeat your faith in God the pause belongs to him I'll go there myself I'm sorry I'm interrupting this with a commercial what's this behold Lord verse three behold that means see look stare at scrutinize thou has given no seed unto me and one born in my house is mine heir and the word the Lord came and said this shall not be 9 air but he that cometh out of thy bowels shall be thine here and he brought it forth abroad and said look now towards the heavens watch this God gave him a promise and for 10 years he studying the sand God says man you still don't believe it lift your head up now and start counting the stars now this poor guy I don't want to be rude he's doing everything he can to believe God for one kid and God says they're all yours it is easy for God to give you a two hundred soul revival as it is for God to save one person and give them the baptism in the Holy Ghost he owns the sand he owns the Stars he's the lord of the harvest don't let your Delaine steal your promise am I making sense yet I'm almost done I understand now this now this may be my revelation only okay you may not be able to prove it by your your books what's this and he brought him forth abroad and said look now toward heaven and tell the Stars watch if you're able to number them : you ready Jerry you got it you're the thinker ready we always read this and miss it watch what he said go count the stars if you're able to number them and as a conjunction joining two thoughts together and and so shall thy seed be God took a breath look down to the stars and count them if you are able to end of sense and then I don't know how long it was till God said and so shall thy seed me you may get a direct promise from God you may get a vision or a dream but you may not know how long the pause is keep believing God keep having faith keep praying keep stretching your hand because God is in charge and a pause I'm more close see
Joe had the same problem whatever gets in your mind and stays long enough will eventually get in your heart and whatever gets your heart will come out of your mouth and your destiny is ruined by your mouth life and death is in the power of the tongue job said the thing which I greatly feared has come upon you but one translation says the thing which I saw in my mind has come to pass you see God he's not troubled with our level of faith he's troubled with our negative fear images because words and thoughts and visual things produce mental pictures and what you hold in your head will impact your life that's why I'm careful not to sit excuse my I'm sorry superintendent man I've got another nasty one coming up here I'm sorry I don't spend my time sitting next to nincompoops I'm not gonna sit next to some playing on their iPod text messaging checking on the football game who won the NBA I'm not interested in that junk I got Devils to fight I got my spirit to crucify I got situations to believe God for I ain't got time to sit next to some faith killer somebody's gonna say well I don't think that's possible I don't give a flip what you think I got a promise from God and the cup is running all that okay I don't know how long I've smoked how long did I speak my it does it makes a lot of difference because I I I'm my favorite preacher okay just give me a few more minutes then I'll stop ready to read for me Mike I'll stop I'm stuff you ever say job said what I saw in my mind and what brother brother keys while I was walking around tonight I already had six pages of notes and it needed more help the Lord stopped me in the middle of walking around in that place I had keep turning the light on he said tell my people those that need healing that need deliverance that they have to first see themselves healed I'm sorry did I ruin your day gotta see yourself oh I hope he heals never happen the woman with the issue of blood she saw herself well before she got well the leper saw himself being healed before he ever got healed the syrophoenician woman saw her daughter being delivered before she ever got a prom the problem ain't your preacher the problem ain't his church the problem is you got to dig up some courage and start seeing yourself without your diabetes without your leukemia without your crippled ribs without your empty bank account you're waiting for somebody to lay hands on you my god that's magic mama said when bartimaeus heard now watch remember you get faith pictures and fear pictures by words when he heard it was Jesus he got a picture in his mind be healed in a minute you people we come down here and start praying for you you're wearing a slap out you're hoping some guy who's got a gift from God can override your dumbness when you leave that seat you gotta come out of that scene said where you going I'm going to get healed I'll be back in a minute I seen myself well you can't even get the Holy Ghost without seeing yourself getting the Holy Ghost you ain't gonna go home and pill some great Church when I'll see in that church happenin you gotta have a fine picture you gotta have a faith picture you gotta cast out that fear image and replace it with a faith image I'm sorry I got a divided house on my hands right now you think I'm Kenya you don't think you get an image when you see or something cancer leukemia inoperable and with
words comes an image that's what Abraham said I see myself childless well I gotta fix that I gotta get the fear image out of your head and put a faith image in you it's not enough to cast out the negative you gotta replace it with a positive remain standing I don't need a priest or I'm not I'm not doing so good it's fine huh when you sip from the cup you can say right in the face of your adversary I shall not die but I shall live and declare the goodness and the mercies and the grace of God just stay with me a minute I've been standing a long time you think I'm kidding you David watch what he says my remember I have a bunsen heart the mouth speaketh I shall one day perish at the hand of Saul that dirtbag couldn't kill you if he had an m16 you have a destiny that's gonna outdo that you're the only giant killer days really running away from a jerk who's throwing spears how what caused you to do that I saw a fear image I'm gonna die of this God you're not hearing me yet I'm not doing any good for you I'm so sorry watch the Bible said he had a dust image for ten years here's the scriptorium but the corner scripture says and he lived in Canaan ten years when when the Hagar issue came up remember that one right but but what he only did that because he had a Dust Bowl image that was now being replaced by a fear image so God had to give him back a faith image so he takes the fear image out of his head and he says so shall thy seed be you ready for this according to my Bible he counted for 15 years 7465 892 million seven hundred seven five thousand six hundred forty-two at nighttime when fear would try to grab ahold of him and excuse my term rape and molest him of this promise he just throw his head to the heavens ago two million seven hundred fifty three thousand five those are all my kids up there eight thousand six hundred forty two during the daytime when he was struggling and walking in the wilderness he couldn't see the stars God said that's okay I'll give you some sand during the day count the sand eight million 265 thousand nine hundred forty three to two thousand nine six five eight trillion hi no tsuita or it's sunset two million five hundred sixty three Salva sometimes all you can do is walk and count walk and cap walk and count walk and count and when the fullness of time comes the promise is gonna happen now I am taking five minutes and that's it when you believe that your cup runneth over then and only then does it bird the word surely sip surely surely can be related relied on absolutely true beyond dispute trustworthy he'll let me do it Brooklyn ways ain't no doubt about it when the he wrote he didn't turn around Jim and say it could be it might be well just maybe he said oh no I've been slurping on that overrun and come so long I'll stand right foot in the face of everything is saying surely surely the foundation of God standeth sure god knows them that it is surely I'll build my church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it if you've got a surely your unbeatable
uh-huh Oh from my apologies Shirley Shirley what Mike Shirley Shirley goodness wait a minute surely goodness goodness is for your stops mercy is for your stumbles goodness is for your provision mercy is for your pardon let me tell you something Hil can't attack you from the front you're moving towards God he's got to come up behind you and before he can get to you he's got these two hound dogs from another world walking behind you and every time you walk and you feel like ain't got nothing just look over your shoulders at hole yes goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life not just that because of the times all the days of my life surely goodness and mercy surely God's gonna see us through surely God's gonna answer our prayer surely God's gonna make a way we've got a pope date that is pursuing us now it's time for one last toast come on everybody ready spill it around a little my cup runneth over here we go Shirley Shirley Shirley what I'm coming out of this this ain't going to destroy me this is not going to steal my i'ma try it again if you've got it surely you're unbeatable have you got it surely you're unstoppable and we have a sure god and his word is sure and his prophecies are sure and his promises are sure even when we are faithless he is surely faithful now clap your hands I've done if he brought you out he's gonna take you through enemy takes you through surely he's coming back for us and we're gonna be with him
Scripture references as spoken: John 6:5-13; Psalm 23:1-6; Psalm 103:1-3; Jeremiah 2:13; Psalm 86:5; Psalm 86:15; Genesis 13; Genesis 15:1-5; Job 3:25; 1 Samuel 27:1.