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The Divine Order of My Life Part II | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)

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No Other Name

  • There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved
  • Salvation, and order in a life, begin with the name of Jesus

Scriptures: Acts 4:12

No King in Israel

  • In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of Dan sought an inheritance to dwell in
  • The chapter tells how Dan took a priest and a city for itself instead of waiting for its God-given place
  • Jacob prophesied that Dan would be a serpent by the way, biting the horse's heels

Scriptures: Judges 18:1; Judges 18 (chapter, as spoken); Genesis 49:17

Little Foxes and the True Vine

  • The little foxes are the ones that spoil the vines
  • Jesus is the true vine and his people are the branches
  • A branch that does not abide in the vine bears no fruit and is cast forth

Scriptures: Song of Solomon 2:15; John 15:5-6

Restored and Sifted

  • The Lord turns back what the emptiers spoiled and restores the vine branches they marred
  • Satan desired to sift Simon as wheat
  • Jesus prayed that his faith would not fail, and the one who is converted strengthens his brethren

Scriptures: Nahum 2:2; Luke 22:31-32

Scripture index: Acts 4:12; Judges 18:1; Judges 18 (chapter, as spoken); Genesis 49:17; Song of Solomon 2:15; John 15:5-6; Nahum 2:2; Luke 22:31-32.

Transcript

this ain't no ordinary worship this ain't no ordinary worship and the reason it's no ordinary worship he's not an ordinary god he's the extraordinary god there's no other god like him he's able to say let there be light and there's light he's able to deliver set free and to save you may be seated tonight this ain't no ordinary worship this is not an ordinary church not the run-of-the-mill ordinary church tonight you're serving that we serve a mighty god we serve the mighty god we serve the mighty god not a mighty god we serve the mighty god it's no ordinary name it's a name that's above every name it's the only name the bible says whereby we must be saved there's salvation in no other name no other name possesses salvation but the name of jesus acts 4 and 12 neither is there salvation in any other name for there's no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved the bible said that god hath highly exalted him and given him a name that is above every name can i tell you tonight i understand father's not a name son is not a name and holy ghost is not a name they are descriptive titles of one god and the one god chose a name that is above every name that at the name of jesus every knee would bow and every tongue would confess of things in heaven that's the angels things on the earth that's us and things under the earth that's the demonic world they will confess that jesus christ you may be seated i want you to know tonight the most wicked vilest person will one day bow their knee and say jesus you're the lord the problem is they will be in heaven's courtroom of justice you better settle your case out of court i said you better settle your case out of court yeah you better take the plea bargain of the prosecuting attorney because once you stand in the court of justice mercy is no longer available but right now on the court steps is the lawyer saying i'll do a mercy plea deal with you jesus is the lord a name that is above every name he is no ordinary spirit he is the spirit of god the life-giving spirit someone once tried to convince those that received the holy ghost that it was of the devil of which the former alcoholic simply responded if the holy ghost is of the devil it's the only thing that he has that would cause a man to want to lay the bottle down want to go get a job love his wife support his family and go to the house of god this ain't no ordinary worship because this is not an ordinary god it's no ordinary baptism because there's a name on that baptism ordinary oh glory to god glory to god i want to make an apology or an explanation i say i guess i should say an explanation you know pastors normally in the prayer room pastors normally hear sometime before church starts and say before i before i get into what i'm about to tell you my wife pampers me so much when i'm sick it almost makes me want to get sick you know not that she don't pamper me any other time but she's turbo pampering i i mean that's right she she really my wife and i went and got uh the other day went and got our our vaccine and uh there are some side effects to the vaccine and one would be extreme fatigue and it seems like i got a case of that supreme fatigue and you're trying to say something to me and and um other side effects that come along um with that and had i not really felt like this morning and tonight god had given me a message and i literally wrestled with this i literally wrestled with this through the night you know one thing terrible is to be tired but can't sleep and i wrestled through the night and knowing that a phone call could could take care of the preaching for tomorrow and and i could have stayed home but i felt like god had given me a message about the divine order of the house and um although tonight and i'm not saying this for sympathy i'm saying this for explanation um i may be very tired in my physical body right now but i am doing somersaults in my spirit amen god is doing great things god is doing wonderful things sister mitz told me that on the way to church tonight she stopped by a little market and the person asked her said where you going dressed up she said i'm going to church she said well it's awful early to be going to church she said well i'm actually going to choir practice what church you go to and she told her the church he said that's that's that church that's got the yard signs out our church can be your church she said that's us said my little boy every time we pass when your yard sign says mama that's my church that's my choice i thank god i thank god for that you know as we enter into the last closing days of the church it will become so difficult for some to know what the voice of god is and what the voice of the adversary is and um i want you to always be able to know church what is the voice of god i want to continue tonight how many would like to come to a conclusion on this mica fella and the house of confusion that's what the devil if the devil can do anyone but before he can before he can defeat you he has to confuse you confusion brings irritation irritation brings arguments the devil is very much at work in our last day trying to confuse his people but i think 90 99 of the battle is when we know it's him when we know it's him when we know that this this is the devil i i believe a lot i really believe a lot of things can get healed personally in a relationship and in the church if we would just somehow realize hey this is the devil this is the devil and he's trying to confuse us he's trying to hinder us he's trying to get us off of our path that we're on the right path and i'd like to conclude tonight start where i left off this morning this mica fella that had a house of gods a house of confusion and if you'd stand with me right now thank you lord why don't you just lift up your hands and begin to worship the lord i need your lord i need thee oh lord i need thee help me sing it tonight oh i come to me i need me oh bless i come to the continuing now in the book of judges chapter 18 and verse number one in those days there was no king in israel and in those days the tribe of the danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of israel father i ask you tonight to touch your servant o god i ask you tonight to give me the ability and help the church tonight god help us to have the profound revelation of who you are and help us to have the revelation of who the enemy is in his works as much as we recognize who you are god help us to have the revelation of things that are happening in our lives right now things that are happening some are caused by our own actions and some are caused by the actions of others but lord in the name of jesus tonight help us god to identify the works of the enemy so that we can be victorious we can be an overcomer we can spoil that adversary tonight in jesus name i ask that you would strengthen me and help me god to deliver this message tonight in jesus name we pray it should be so kind to give the lord a hand to praise right now closing out chapter 17 we now come to chapter 18 and the continual culture in that day in those days there was no king no authority in israel and every man did that was was right in his own eyes it was during that time that the children the tribe of dan decided that it was time for them to go in and possess their inheritance not by coincidence the land that dan wanted was the land of the house of micah in the house of these gods i want to stop there and inject something here when god has you protected god has you protected but woe be to the person that builds their life on the sands of this world the danites came to possess the land of micah and the house of his gods doesn't matter how secure you think you are tonight it doesn't matter how comfortable you think life is tonight there ought to be two days on your calendar this day and that day there ought to be two days that occupy your mind this is the day that the lord hath made i will rejoice and be glad in that day on that day when we stand before god it was the day nights that came regardless of how well you feel secured judgment shall call for all of us on that day the children of dan are an interesting breed to study jacob while on his death bed gave a prophecy concerning the tribe of dan or his son dan he gave a prophecy and the prophecy said in genesis 49 and verse 17 now jacob is dying he prophesies of the future of dan and he says dan shall be a serpent by the way an adder in the path that biteth the horse heals so that his rider shall fall backward in other words dan is going to be an instrument that affects something small yet creates a tremendous catastrophe he's going to be the kind that bites the horse's heel now i don't know if you took pound by pound how much a hoof would weigh considered with the size of the entire animal of a horse but the size and the pound of a hoof compared to the size of the horse itself would be no comparison would you not agree but dan would have the effect that he would be able to affect the the hill but his ultimate objective was not for the horse to stumble but his ultimate objective was for the rider to fall backward from the from the horse brothers and sisters tonight good saints of god that are here i want to tell you we need to beware of the ministry of dan it's not the big things the devil knows a can of beer is not going to turn any of your heads the devil knows a syringe and a needle of heroin is not going to turn any of your heads the devil knows that that gross pornography is not going to turn any of your heads but if he can get you to look at something little i'll tell you what every heroin addicts got in common they all started with marijuana i'll tell you what every alcoholics got in common they all started drinking beer and people justifying how innocent how innocent this would be in our last day we have got to beware of the ministry of dan because he wants to bite the horse's hoof in order for the rider to fall how many times have we seen the horrible outcome of lives being shaken out of church people faithful to the house of god attached to positions in the church prayer room faithful prayer room warriors people that served god for years then they're gone and then the reports come in they were seen at this establishment and they were seen over here and did you see what they were wearing did you see what was at the table what they were drinking and then someone begins to say what in the world happened and you begin to tell about the minute small bite of dan something just didn't go their way can i tell you it's the devil that's the spirit of irritation let me say it again it's the enemy that's the spirit of irritation when you find yourself being irritated about things pray church pray pray like you've never prayed before because the enemy is trying to rub the alcohol on your heel so that he can inject you with dance well it goes on the wise man solomon wrote in songs of solomon 2 15. he said take us that's exactly what you've got to do take us little foxes it's time to get your hands on the irritants it's not time to start cohabitating with the irritants it's not time to start living with the irritants if something's bothering you when you come into the house of god don't learn how to live with it learn how to get victory over it and there's no better place to get victory than the prayer room and there's no better place to get victory than the altar there's no better place to get victory than sing i promise you if you'll occupy your mind once you're here with songs of praise and songs of worship you won't have time to let your mind meander around the room and let the irritant come take us somebody say take us come on say it again take us the little foxes take us the foxes the little fox now he says take the foxes then he says watch out for the little ones that spoil the vines for our vines have tender grapes you see an adult fox was able to stand on his hind legs and reach up and get the grapes he could reach up he was able to stand on his hind legs and reach up to get the grapes but not the little foxes the adult fox was able to reach up and get today's harvest he was able to reach up and get today's harvest but the little foxes sister patterson the little foxes was able to get tomorrow's harvest i may can live without the harvest today but i can't live without a harvest tomorrow he said this the little foxes and how they did it the little foxes wasn't tall enough they couldn't stand on their hind legs and reach the grapes but in their keen little minds they saw that brown vine coming out of the ground and something in them told if they would begin to gnaw at the vine if they would begin to gnaw at the vine they would gnaw at the vines until they had gnawed the vine in two and when they gnawed the vine in two it was a it was only a matter of set and wait and watch because when the vine has been severed there's no nutrients going to the branches and all it's going to take is simply a matter of time brothers and sisters tonight our vine is the lord jesus christ our vine is the lord jesus christ john 15 and 5 says it this way i am the vine jesus said and ye are the branches he that abideth in me and i in him shall bring the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing for without me ye can do nothing let's repeat that together for without me ye can do nothing god help us to believe it for without me ye can do nothing if a man abide it not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned do you hear that jesus is our source he is our source our nutrients he is our strength if something severes me from my vine it's only a matter of time until i wilt my vine is my prayer life my vine is just not my church prayer life my vine is my daily prayer life come on your vine is not your wednesday and i i think we're mature enough to receive this word tonight your vine is not wednesday and sunday church attendance your vine is 24 7 every day of the week that is your vine you're not going to make it out of deliverance by having a god that you interact with on wednesday and sunday things are not going to get better in your house because you come to church on sunday i heard somebody say once some people sow their wild oats six days out of the week and they come to church on sunday and pray for a crop failure it's going to take more he is your life he is not my wednesday night life he is not my sunday morning sunday night life he is my life in the morning when i get up and the pressures of the world are just as real on monday as they are on sunday i've got a source i've got nutrients i've got a vine i've got something i'm connected with hear me church he's just as real in my prayer room at my house as he is here on sunday at the church he's just as real it's the little foxes it's the little things it's the little things that begin to to know the preacher's too loud the preacher's not loud enough the preacher's too bold he's too bold he's he he's not bold enough the music's too loud it's not my style of music so-and-so's going here now this and that begins to happen can i tell you something take you the little foxes take them now take them now well i i found a church and i remember that brother david acres told of a story he he said that a person i forget where he was pastoring but he said an individual brother cincotta came to him and said but the acres we're going to to be leaving here and we have found a perfect church is what they what he said they told him we have found a perfect church and brother aker said for god's sake don't go there why not pastor you'll mess it up so let's understand something there isn't a perfect church because they're imperfect people in that church you may not like the personality of a church but you shouldn't go to a church for its personality well i like a quiet and a subdued church i like a loud and a noisy church those are the wrong reasons to choose a church you ought to go to that church because you are connected with jesus and the truth of the matter is he's just as real when i'm singing i need thee oh i need thee as he is when we're singing i'm dancing on his head i'm dancing on the barren ground i'm dancing on i he's just as real because he is our nutrients the enemy works at your vine he works at your vine in the book of nahum chapter number two in verse number two god was trying to give a picture of what the enemy would do to israel what the enemy's plans and schemes were to the children of god and he says in nahum 2 and 2 for the lord hath turned away the excellency of jacob and the excellency of israel for the emptiers the emptiers have emptied them out and marred their vine branches you know what the enemy wants to do before he'll ever destroy sister carpenter and uh my our marriage he's got to first destroy our vine before sister yates he ever gets your piece he's got to get your vine but if he can get your vine he's got your marriage he's got your children he's got your grandchildren he's got everything about your life he owns you lock stock and barrel you know what you need to fight for tonight fight for your vine fight for your vine if you're having marital trouble fight for your vine i'm not saying let me tell you what i what i'm saying tonight i'm not saying that i i'm not necessarily saying let me say this correctly if you will get that vine correct then you're going to see clearly to get the things out of your marriage the things out of your life but you can't read enough james dobson marriage books if your vine is not right you can't read enough how to heal over an abusive relationship and i'm not i'm not belittling any woman that's been in an abusive relationship or a man or whatever but i'm telling you you can't read enough beth more books you can't read enough self-help books if you could help yourself why brother fallon did we need a god to come to this earth the reason we needed a god is we cannot help ourselves and the religious world has gone crazy with self-help books go in any bible bookstore today 95 of the bookstore is self-help books where's the bible at here oh it's way over there in the corner a little bitty section that's got some bibles my god of heaven it ought to be 95 of the book store has bibles and a small portion has self-help you hear me tonight oh i feel my anointing coming on you hear me tonight you can't help yourself if you're struggling with pornography i don't care how many videos you get how many books you get how many counseling sessions you get but until you get the vine right nothing's going to happen in your life oh hallelujah hallelujah the enemy wants to mire the vine the enemy wants to mire the vine somebody worship jesus right now so somebody worship jesus right now worship like he's sitting right beside you in the pew worship like he's sitting right there with you right now oh hallelujah god you may be seated god i thank you for everything you've brought us to god i thank you for bringing us through our building program thank you for bringing us through this building program thank you god for supplying every need thank you for supplying the financial means to pay for this building thank you god for bringing us through covet now i feel the spirit of prophecy on me right now but when covet is trying to tell us you better be ready for the new normal this is the new normal i do not accept it will be the new normal. i believe that when all is said and done we will have a greater anointing upon our church we will see more conversions we're going to see more healings there's more lives that are going to be changed hey folks i'm telling you i believe i'm pastoring some people that are in the process of changing right now if i didn't believe people could change i'd throw my bible away and never preach another day in my life but i know a god that can take people don't judge a young person for a few months or a few years out of their life god's able to take them through the process of change and they become become great and mighty warriors don't write them all oh my god well we sit in this building and it was empty and we preached to him the pews and we were hearing we were preaching we were doing our best and we heard the winds of the howling demonic spirits saying you fool you've built this house and you'll never be full again you fool the new normal's going to be people are not going to come to church you fool can i tell you in the midst of your process don't listen to the devil don't listen to the devil in the midst of your process dan may have got me on the hill but i'm still riding my horse dan my oh my god i'm in the process don't judge me yet i'm in the process of change come on dotty rambo he's still working on me to make me what i ought to be it took him just a week to make the moon and the sun jupiter and mars whoa hallelujah i'm telling you i'm in the process i'm in the process do i have some flaws you better believe it but i'm in the process of change you hear me tonight don't you judge a young person based on a few years out of their life don't you judge anybody based on a season of their life we all go through seasons some of us just hide it better than others we all go through seasons brother what some of us just hide it better than others don't judge me in that season i hope you see now why i had to come tonight i hope you see now why i just had to come tonight back when times you maybe see back when punishment was very cruel there were twin boys that lived in a town their daddy was an alcoholic their mother was a saloon bar attender you write the rest of that story these two little boys grew up without any kind of guidance moral guidance at all if they were going to have anything they learned early that they had to steal to get it the two little boys soon got the reputation in town that they would steal that they would steal and so the times were very cruel then they decided to take these two boys and take a hot branding iron and iron an s on their foreheads plain for all to see s stands for steel steeler the one brother wore his brand and sad to say it drove him to a rope a noose and a hanging he couldn't take the pressure and he hung himself his brother faced the same pressure but while passing a gospel church one night in town he heard the music and he heard the singing and something drawed him inside he went to the altar that night and god changed his life he lived to be an old man in that city he did a lot of good deeds it was a conversation that was overheard at that man's casket two people were talking about the man in the casket and all the good that he had done and one of them said to the other say there what does that s stand for on his forehead of which the man replied i really don't know but i've been told that it stands for the letter saint can i tell you it will be the enemy that will coach you into sin saying that nobody will find out and the moment he has you on that site or he has you on that place or in that condition he'll be the very one that'll start telling you everybody knows and then he'll be the very one to tell you you don't even need to go to church none of them people down there believe in you well satan you are a liar and i'm going to prove you a liar tonight my soul rests on this statement there's not a man woman boy girl under the sound of my voice tonight or watching by the internet that god has given up on you or the church has given up on you you may be in the pig pen you may be in a far country you may be far away from what you were taught but you listen to me tonight god loves you and so do we you know you've got a hankering to come home you know you've got a desire to come home you know you can't get drunk enough high enough party enough you know you think about the church oh come home tonight come home tonight the church is waiting for you come home tonight i beg you i plead you the hour is late the trumpets about the sound get back in while there's time come home tonight enemy wants to mar your vines nahum two and two luke 22 31 and the lord said simon simon satan hath desired to have you that he may sip you as wheat now let me tell you what sifting the wheat is it's a process of making bread you cannot have bread without the sifting of the wheat let me tell you how powerful and wise god is god can have the devil make your bread he figured it out after it was done but our bible tells me us that had the devil known it they would not have crucified the lord of glory god is so powerful he can make the devil make your bread he says peter simon satan has desired to have you he wants you he wants to sip you like wheat it's a process but i have prayed for you that thy faith fail not and when thou art converted strengthened the brethren i'm going to tell you there's two vines that we need to work on one's our vine with the lord and another is our vine with one another how many poor anemic questionable whether they're christians or not people have been led to believe they don't need a local church to be saved well there's hypocrites in the church well absolutely if they wasn't in the church they wouldn't be hypocrites they'd be sinners but you know what i'm about to say i'd rather go to church with a few hypocrites than to go to hell with all of them even jesus had a judas i said jesus had a judas even paul had a demons if jesus had a judas and paul had edemas we've got somebody in our life but instead of allowing them to make us bitter let's let them make us better i need my church family i need my brothers and sisters i need my church family my children need your children and your children need my children and my grandchildren need your grandchildren and vice versa are you hearing me tonight we need one another i'm going to tell you one of the enemies attacking i'm going to tell you when the enemy's attacking when you're in the process of being shaken that's what sifting was it's a windy day it's a hard place it's a rock it's a pitchfork they take it and they throw the wheat up in the ground and they slam the end of the pitchfork against it and they throw the wheat up in the ground and the wheat is hard it weighs more than the chaff the wind carries the chaff away but the kernels of grain fall down around the rock when you are in the process is where the enemy wants to come in hear me now jesus said to peter but i have prayed for you that your faith fail not there's a difference in faltering and failing dan can get you on your heel but you can learn to limp until you get better you can learn to limp the danites came they came to micah's house they came there and they found some interesting things as you would read the 31 verses in chapter 18. number one they found a people that were living in a land that lacked nothing they were living in a land that lacked nothing but they were also and the bible uses this word careless careless at ease careless at ease and the bible also tells us that they had nothing to do with anybody else they were to themselves they were living in a land and i quote of no want but they were careless the first thing that came to my mind when i read that verse is why are you not protecting this a place of no want ought to be protected you know you do protect your valuables there's men in this church tonight that all over blount county is safes that have valuables most men that i know in this church they're valuable is their guns all right all right i won't say names or anything like that but it got it locked up as a matter of fact most of the cars in this parking lot tonight are locked up our homes are locked up do you know that the original declaration of independence i wish i had time to read to you the elaborate alarm system that encases the original declaration of independence everything from the right humidity to the pressure in the room because the last thing they would want is something to happen to that document can i tell you that the people in washington that put that elaborate system to protect the declaration of independence can i tell you that your local wiggles doesn't have the same system at best it's got alarms on doors and maybe some some some infrared deals inside but that's about as far as it would go i doubt very seriously if you got somehow through the roof and into the building without tripping the alarm that it's got a system in there that knows pressure in the room has changed because your body stood there so why not have the same system of the declaration of independence at weigel's it's because of what you're protecting bread milk and things that can be easily replaced but the declaration of independence can't now the analogy i want to use tonight is our precious salvation if there's something we ought to protect tonight it ought to be something that there is no want to can i testify about him tonight jesus christ since i've been the age of 8 16 and gave my life to him he has never did me nothing but good i've not been perfect since i've been 16 but i want you to know that he has been nothing but good he has been better to me than i've been to myself he has far exceeded anything that i could ask and or think he has been nothing but good to me in my teenage years he was good my 20s my 30s my 40s my 50s and now the early part of my 60s he's good he's good he's good but listen to me tonight i dare not deceive myself to believe that i just needed god during the tribulation turbulent years of my teens i dare not think i just needed god during the early years of our marriage sister carpenter i need god tonight more than i have ever needed him before in my life i know not what the future may hold brother cincotta i know not what dark cloud may be on the horizon but i know the god that rides on the waters i know the god that rides on the flood i don't know what lies ahead i don't know what funeral home i'll have to go to i don't know what dark valley may take us to but i do know this one thing yeah 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 step they comfort me oh yes surely goodness and mercy shall follow me some of the days of my life know all the days of my life and i will dwell and somebody ought to get happy tonight because we're living in the land of no one do you need healing he's your healer do you need a counselor he's the mighty god he's the everlasting father he's the wonderful counselor mighty god prince of peace come on church he's everything you need let's protect him more let's protect him more you know how you protect your salvation talk about it do you know how you protect your salvations praise god the one that gave it to you let me see it for just another moment i'm going to bring this to close micah had him a house of gods micah had him a house of gods all over blount county have a house of gods some worship the god of money they're six car garages their yachts their mansions their lake mansions mountain mansions all testify to the god the gods of many some have gods of religion some of their homes are plastered with pictures and statues they make their connect but what are you going to do when dan comes what are you going to do when something bigger than you comes we lived in a neighborhood not too many years ago we would leave for church early on sunday morning the man and his wife would be out in their yard there was more times than one i commented to my wife after church on sunday night we would see them sweeping their driveway and putting their lawn tools up appeared to me that they worked on their yard from the early morning on sunday to sunday night to say that their yard was pristine would be an understatement it was something that you would see on the picture of a magazine every blade of grass every flower every bush but word came and memory doesn't serve me well enough either the man or his wife had a cancerous tumor on the brain the outcome was death i simply want to say this tonight what do people do and where do people go when they don't know the lord where do you go when the doctor tells you six months there's a little lady watching tonight that the doctor gave her one year to live prepared her you will a year is your best that you will live if i am not mistaken tonight she's entering into her fifth year of being alive but i give god the praise because the little woman brought her report of a year into the house of god where do people go what do they do i shudder i shuddered a thing where would we go without the lord micah dan is coming and just to con condense the story dan came dan took every false god out of micah's house micah followed dan's troop like a whimpering child wanting his toys back he followed the wagon of the ephod and the seraphim like a whimpering baby the scripture says wanting his ephod back and finally dan had to tell him if you don't go home we will fall on you and hurt you micah watch your house feel like now visualize with me brother avery visualize with me micah going back to his house a house of false securities and he opens the door the levite's not there anymore the trinkets and the images are not there anymore it's an empty house i submit to you there's a lot of people that hold things in their hands tonight that at one time promised them contentment escape escape escape escape from things of this world i did this so i could escape escape the pressure but little did they know their habit would just add more complications and more pressure an empty room i'm not going to end there tonight because an empty room is an open vacant sign to god all he needs you to do tonight is throw open the windows of your heart and begin to say jesus help me jesus help me would you stand would you bow your heads i want my prayer intercessors to go to prayer right now because i believe that all over this house tonight is people that are so disappointed there are people that are so disappointed you're not you're not you're not content with your life you're not happy come on that's right pray come on pray right now create an atmosphere right now the spirit of god wants to pull people into this altar right now the spirit of god wants to pull people into this altar tonight oh there's a young person here tonight you're not ugly there's a young person here tonight you're not ugly what god wants to do with you is so beautiful hallelujah oh god you're not ugly young lady you're not ugly you're not ugly young man you're not ugly dad stop beating yourself up your wife doesn't want the gods of money she wants you to worship god come on is there an empty hearted person that would come to this altar right now that's why the bible talks about being filled with the holy ghost because of the emptiness i open this altar to you right now make a life-changing decision right now make a life-changing decision right now step out of that pew you feel the holy ghost you feel the spirit of god it's pulling at your heart it's pulling at you tonight to let it pull you to this altar right now oh come on right now step out of your seat you need to come tonight you need to you need to step out of your seat you need to give god a sign you need to take control of your life satan has been pushing you around long enough you need to take control of your life tonight come on brother put that foot out there come on sister put that foot out there right now i open my heart to you right now god i open my heart to you right now god oh god open my heart to you right now god come on pray get desperate tonight get desperate tonight pray loud enough that you can hear yourself pray come on get desperate tonight get desperate tonight the deeper your desperation the closer you are to the miraculous the deeper your desperation oh god you're in jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus oh god in the name of jesus tonight in the name of jesus the night if it would be appropriate slip your hand over on somebody's shoulder but listen to me listen man to man and woman to woman man to man and woman to woman unless your husband and wife unless your husband and wife man to man and woman to woman come on church come on church don't let dan kill you come on don't let dan kill you your family's on that horse come on your families on that horse come come on man pray like your life in the name of jesus christ in the name of the lord jesus christ by the authority of the word of god in the name of jesus

Scripture references as spoken: Acts 4:12; Judges 18:1; Judges 18 (chapter, as spoken); Genesis 49:17; Song of Solomon 2:15; John 15:5-6; Nahum 2:2; Luke 22:31-32.