During The Breaking (Message & Altar) | Rev Matt Perdue

do i am telling you we are in no hurry you might be but we're in no hurry tonight somebody to the top of your voice say preach the word could we just take a minute such a sweet presence of god here tonight and and i think we can do this responsibly but right there spin around and just let about 20 people in your section know how much you love them tell them i love you i'm so glad you're here tonight praise the lord if you would

tonight just just briefly be seated i promise you i have the clock in mind i won't be long but i want to say very quickly how thankful we are for the invitation of being here tonight as well as as well as how excited we are for fac cleveland as well as all the 17 home missionaries across america and we just believe god's going to do a tremendous work and i want to thank this church for your continued support and i'm going to move quickly i'm so

thankful my wife and two of my kids are here with me tonight my daughter's at home we miss her but she has some schooling she has to be at but i want to be is completely transparent when i say this bishop carpenter is on my mount rush more of preachers i know and i i know a lot of things are thrown his way but i'm i'm a young at 26 years old my wife and i planted a church in newcastle and i can tell you next

to my bishop my father there's not another man on this planet that i have more respect for than bishop kenneth carpenter and i want you to know that from the bottom of my heart we absolutely love you and sister carpenter so much thank you thank you thank you well i feel the holy ghost so strong in here tonight would you grab your bibles i could just weep and cry and weep and cry i'm gonna i'm gonna move quickly but i feel like it go with me

to mark 6 41 44 often times when you go out to minister you try to find something in the vein of the holy ghost that will make everything go hop and pop and so forth but all week long the lord has brought me back to this message however it does have a positive spin on it so stay with me mark 6 41 44. mark 6 41 44. i love this church i love the leadership of this church and for the sake of time i have to leave it there let's go to verse 41 when you're there say amen and when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes he looked up to heaven and blessed and break the loaves and gave them to his disciples to sit before them and the two fishes divided he among them all and they did all eat and were filled verse 43 and they took up 12

baskets full of the fragments and of the fishes verse 44 and they did and they that did eat the loaves were about 5 000 men three words i want to speak into this congregation tonight i don't think it's coincidental that we're here this evening but it's simply this during the breaking would you say this with me tonight during the breaking let's lift our hands one more time to heaven i'm going to ask you to open up your mouths let's fill this house with with one more

prayer father god this service lord we thank you jesus we love you jesus give us an ear to hear what the lord you're speaking to us tonight amen and everybody said amen clap your hands to him one more time tonight he is worthy of every bit of praise that we give him thank you for standing for the word of the lord you may be seated when i read the four gospels matthew mark luke and john it really is remarkable what jesus was able to do in

the times in the day in which he lived if you really think about it tonight in the 33 years of his life his ministry really didn't even start till he was around the age of 30. so in about three years he was able to do all that he did may i respectfully remind you that this was a day where there were no newspapers this was a day where there was no social media no blogs no digital news no live streaming his messages or having zoom meetings with his disciples not one time did jesus ever preach on television and he never had a website for you to go to and i'm not preaching for or against these things i'm just stating the fact

that it really is remarkable what he did in such a short amount of time people didn't have planes cars or modern forms of travel to get from one place to another jesus did what he did and he attracted the crowds and the masses of people in such an extraordinary way that to think people would follow him into long distances walk for days amen weeks to be around him even following him into desert places and they would sit for hours hanging on every word that he would

speak brothers and sisters jesus did not have a big name that he inherited he was known in his hometown as the carpenter's son no pun intended no pun intended jesus wasn't a part of some family that produced preacher after preacher pastor after pastor or a networking system of ministerial fellowship as we know it today so for those in this room that are brand new to the faith and you want to make a difference look no further than the ministry of jesus christ those who feel like

you're running out of time to be effective look no further because jesus turned the world around in three years may i remind every young minister or aspiring preacher that not one time did jesus ever pick up a microphone and he was still effective it's not the mic it's the man it's not the podium it's the person it's the passion it's the love for souls and the desire to go out and make a difference for the kingdom of god so we find if you would go with

me tonight we find that jesus has attracted yet again a multitude of people in luke chapter 9 says they followed him this time to the desert just outside of bethsaida and according to the gospels they had counted about 5 000 men that were in attendance that's not including women or children that were there they just counted them in so historians believe about fifteen thousand plus we probably heard this fifteen thousand plus were in attendance that day picture this jesus had been ministering and the people were

hanging on every word that he spoke and clearly some time had passed and nobody was moving and nobody was leaving but stomachs begin to growl people begin to overheat in the sun and the bible says they could faint at any time for a lack of nutrition but they remained where they were and they did not leave are you picturing this tonight so the disciples i'm sure respectfully and carefully they come to jesus and said you know jesus you're doing you're doing a great job i mean

this is this is awesome you know this word you're giving is life-changing and it's powerful and we're so enjoying this jesus but truthfully people are getting hungry i know you said have your liberty tonight but y'all i know that some point we're going to start getting hungry the stomachs will begin to growl amen they weren't leaving that they were getting hungry and the disciples came and said you know we got to do something about it and jesus looks back at them and i i could imagine

didn't miss a beat he said give you them to eat okay um all right jesus you're doing great it's awesome word i love it this this is going amazing he said give them give them something to eat and they said you want to clarify that you want us to go down and and and you want us to go buy some food you how do you want us you want us to do a dominoes what are we going to do here and and he he says no

go go see go see what you have go see what's out there go see what the people have and the bible says that when they knew in essence when the word got out that we're looking for some food they said we they come back and they say uh uh we we have five we have five loaves and we have two fish everybody say five loaves and everybody say two fish and and the reason why we have that jesus is because a young lad with his lunch

offered it to us now this brings me to my first point tonight miracles always begin with what you have with what you have it is it is vital that you have the ability to take recognition of what you do have before we ask god for what we don't have the reason for this is because you cannot multiply what you do not recognize or what you're unwilling to offer to god go ahead talk to people who've been blessed go ahead and talk to churches that have had

miracles you you all know how this works in their ministry and find out it started with a small sacrificial seed they will tell you that if you're unable to recognize the miracles in your life amen that you do have before the miracles come you'll never experience the multiplication process that only god can give you want an example peter and john said to a lame man begging for alms silver and gold have i none but such as i have i i want to give it to you

amen paul and silas said we are chained up we are beaten we're sitting in prison but i've got a little song still in my spirit i've got a little bit of prayer still in my spirit i want to go ahead and offer it up to god i'm going somewhere you may you may think you may think that your little bit doesn't make a difference but with god but with god your little bit can be turned into a whole lot miracles always begin with what you have

my second point is this god will always use a willing vessel no matter who you are this is good news tonight please notice in scripture that when they counted they counted the men they counted the men the boy was not even counted he didn't even make the list he was not seen as important enough to make the count he wasn't seen old enough or mature enough or qualified enough yet he was the only one that was willing to give what he had now i'm convinced that

that 5 000 men were hungry and i'm convinced 15 000 people when you include the women and children were about to faint due to hunger because the bible says that but i'm also convinced that the lad was not the only one with food packed that day i guarantee you right now there's a snickers bar and a purse somewhere in this room oh i bet i bet if we was to look around there's a granola bar or some fruit snack somewhere in in this in this room

amen but i'm i'm also convinced that the loud amen was not only the one with some food packed that day here's the key ladies and gentlemen he was the only one willing to offer it i've served god long enough in my life to understand this principle god is not the least bit swayed by men who can wear an expensive suit or ladies who can carry an expensive purse on sunday while the modern day church seemingly gets impressed with people who've got big personalities and attractive characteristics

let me tell you what god does god will go off the grid if he has to he'll look for anybody he'll look for somebody nobody's watching them amen nobody's paying attention to them but they're willing to give and they're willing to love and they're willing to share what they have hallelujah i'm telling you tonight don't you ever think that god doesn't see you sitting in the corner with a willing heart i want you to know tonight last night i got a call and i had somebody

in our church amen their daughter is in a alcoholic rehab center in florida and she said pastor she didn't know i was out of town she said she said she said we want my daughter has gotten permission my daughter is an alcoholic and she's gotten permission in the rehab in florida to to live stream or pull up on youtube the service is back in newcastle i said dear i'm so sorry but i'm not back you're more welcome we have a big children's service going on tomorrow

but but then i thought you know well you know what you could probably tune in to fac maryville and you could you could pull up their live stream so tonight what's happening somewhere in florida there's a bunch of ladies that's in an alcoholic rehab center that needs to hear one more time that jesus isn't giving up on them they need to know they may not been raised around this they don't know what everything's going to be like but i'm telling you right now let me speak

to you in jesus name you're not counted out you're not your life's not over with god is able to raise you up to lead one of the greatest harvesters of 2020 god can turn you into a missionary a pastor's wife a bus driver a soul winner for the kingdom of god hallelujah i'm telling you tonight you may think you're nobody but if you've got a willing heart and you love souls in the next two months god can use you to bring a harvest and a revival

right here to your local church oh hallelujah do you remember when the lord sent samuel to jesse's house to anoint the next king of israel samuel said to jesse after all his sons were seen why were they seen because jesse thought they might fit the criteria i'm going to go get my best and i'm going to walk them out in front of the prophet look boy look at him and he doesn't he look good oh look at him doesn't he's got some real good he's got

some real good bone structure to him boy he's got a good head of hair on him samuel said jesse after all the boys walked through he said is this all your boys he said no i got i got one more out there he's tending the sheep i don't know where you're at tonight but there's one more out there wherever you're at there's one more sitting on these pews maybe watching online there's one more right now you think you're nobody you think what you went through is

for nothing i'm telling you with the anointing of god on me in this house if you open your hearts if you'll lock him todd is one to use you in a mighty way jesse didn't bring him to the house because jesse didn't think he was kingly didn't count him didn't count him in on the prophet's visit to the house but god did he he's seen david out there singing he's seeing david out there writing songs of worship to my generation please hear my heart tonight god

does not need my he does not need your money if you don't want to give it he doesn't need your time if you don't want to share it he doesn't need your fake praise and your phony worship if you don't mean it he's always going to find somebody he's always going to have a church he's always going to make sure he's getting honor i want you to know one more time i'm on this platform tonight and it's an honor to serve god and it's an honor

to share the word i don't ever want to walk up here like i've got it all together and i don't need god i need god more than my next breath oh hallelujah get me some david's give me some david's we we had a man i got to share this story quickly we had a man years ago i was on the drums back in my dad's church we we i shared it today we had a man named paul paul and trinity got in church rough i mean

rough with the capital r drug rehabilitation background you name it one sunday night service started to pike up like it was tonight man people started praising and worshiping and paul's brand new ladies and gentlemen i'm talking brand new he runs to the front and he starts cranking out push-ups at the altar i'm on the drumstick and this guy's lost his mind people's running people shouting there's paul just cranking out push-ups i'm thinking to myself i go up to paul after church i said paul what in

tarnations were you doing during church he said well well he says i saw some people running for jesus and some people shouting for jesus so i just figured it'd be all right to go up there and do some push-ups for jesus amen i'm going to tell you right now give me a hundred paws over some stiff starchy man in the back corner looking down his glasses judging everybody we don't have time for that god's willing to open up the heavens and pour his spirit out give

me some davids that don't care what anybody thinks about their worship i'll dance i'll shake i'll move i'll teach bible studies whatever i gotta do i'll tell you this much if one generation doesn't want miracles he'll find a generation that does if one generation won't come to a prayer meeting in november he's to find somebody that's got a hunger to crawl in that prayer room jesus jesus said just bring me what just bring me what you find among the people just just bring me what you

find just bring me what you have there's a bunch of men there but you got a lad with a lunch willing to do it 5 000 men sitting on their backside i ain't giving up my snickers bar i ain't giving up my lunch some young boy who won't even count it he may have been a little pudgy i don't know why he had that much food on him but he brought it jesus says bring me what you have and i'm hurrying then he commanded the disciples

to make all the people sit down listen to this this is important to sit down he commanded the disciples not a request commanded them to sit down in groups in the grass by ranks by hundreds and by fifties still with me say amen this is important to note god finds value in structure and process well back in the day when i went to church we'd just show up and sing a song i'm going to tell you something about that revival can run into your church and

it can run out just as quickly as it runs in if you don't have some structure you ought to thank god in heaven every day that you attend a church that's got some structure to it that's got some process to it that not just anybody can get up here on the platform it's not open mic night this isn't nashville amateur stay amen we thank god for a pastor and a leadership team that says hey let's make sure we got some processed now the reason why i

say that and this is not me thinking positive i i too bishop carpenter i have shifted in the spirit as well i truly believe this and if if you could listen just carefully i truly believe this that our country is about to experience one of the greatest revivals that we have ever seen in the history of pentecost i believe that and what i'm going to speak to you very quickly is this ready or not they are coming ready ready or not i'm telling you i see

in the spirit people walking down the streets heading to fac marital ready or not they are coming i want to make sure i've got everything lined up i want to make sure this place is prayed up that the spirit of love and gratitude and honor fuels the house so my point is is we can't get so busy we can't get so busy feeding hungry people feeding hungry people that we bypass processes and systems the people were about to think but jesus said hold on a second

we still got to have structure we still got to have process to this hey man how many agree god used me in the systems and process you have and in my final remarks tonight i told you i'm gonna be long the bible says that after everyone was seated and their structure and everything was was ready everything was ready he he took this is going to be my bread tonight i hope i don't make a mess for sister carpenter's i really don't want to get on her

blacklist i'll clean it up if i need to five loaves two fish here they are the bible says he took he took what they they brought and and just go with my mind here i could just imagine the five loaves of two fish spread out have you ever been in a situation where what you have is not near enough to what you're facing seemingly seemingly could you imagine being in the shoes of jesus five loaves two fish and then he looks up and there's 15 000

or more people there but the scripture says he blessed it before god can ever multiply you've got to be thankful for what you do have some of us when we go home tonight listen to me married couples you walk in that home and you thank god for that roof over your head well it's it's not like the jones is yeah but but this is your home i'm thankful for the roof over my head well i'm gonna walk out to the car i have tonight boy i

i saw so and so no no no i'm thankful for the car i have being be having gratitude does not mean you're settling it just means that you're setting yourself up for greater success if you walk out there and you're just a big old eeyore about it all how how do you think god's going to bless you five loaves two fish and he still was thankful when it wasn't near enough it wasn't near enough and so he blessed it and when he got done praying i'm

almost done if the musicians want to come when he got done praying if i could get that team brother zach that that i asked you for some of those young men that they could come up here and just help me just just start up just start right down there right up on this step and just just kind of fade a line out if you would you're going to be my disciples just right here right here just off to the side over here i don't want to

make a mess i'm trying to be careful he took the bread ladies and gentlemen and he blessed it when he got done praying about it and he opened his eyes guess what was still there five loaves and two fish have you ever have you ever prayed about something and you opened your eyes and you come back to earth and your feet touch ground again and you're like man it's still here the situation's still here but one of the most powerful things i felt like the lord

helped me with coming out of covet was that the miracle didn't happen the miracle didn't happen when things were going great and all the blessings were flowing and all the good things were happening but god had to send a great trial their way but somehow as he begin to break it somewhere in the mix just go back to the end of the line and get ready to come back through because we got 15 000 just keep it in your somewhere ladies and gentlemen during the breaking

what wasn't enough became enough during the it was during the breaking it wasn't it wasn't the blessing it wasn't all the mountaintops experiences that brought the miracle but it was during the breaking somehow when he reached down it just it kept coming it kept working i don't know who's in this room right now and you you coming out of some things well i think all of us have we've coming out of some things but i want to tell you last bishop said there's a shift in

the air and god god is going to use the breaking and the pressure and the squeezing of everything you've went through for a miracle in your life would you stand with me tonight during the breaking not during the blessing was during the breaking didn't seem like there was enough but then the breaking started i don't know how it's going to happen but i'm not responsible for figuring that out i don't know how bishop carpenter 2021 is going to start it's not my job to figure that

out the next couple months i'm going to let god break me apart because the next eight weeks if i let god break me apart you won't talk about a miracle this building is a miracle and i i i stand in all tonight of this building but you know what's even more of a miracle is if i pass this bike around and i start hearing your testimonies how do you come out of alcohol and drug abuse and god put your marriages back together i know there's some

folks in this room that it it was during the breaking that god brought about a miracle in your life now would you lift your hands with me in this place we have shouted and what a beautiful presence of god has filled this room but it's during the breaking now god is about to perform a miracle i may not hit everybody with this but that's all right there's there's a pocket of people in this room that i want to pray over you if you'll run up here

right now you feel like every direction you turn something's shutting down and you feel like there's no there's no way out of it but i promise you if you get up to this holder and you'll extend those hands to heaven it's during the breaking that god is about to open his windows of heaven and perform a miracle that's it that's it come on lift those hands to jesus shut up now with your hands lifted come on let god begin to break some things off as he

breaks it miracles gonna happen as he breaks it joy's gonna return as he breaks it what doesn't seem like enough it's gonna be enough more than enough shut that up that's it come on that's it open your mouth and lift that voice up to the lord that's it that's it force that force from your belly out begin to push out some things come on i know it's been overwhelming i know the pressure has come from every side but the lord is telling this church the shift

is coming it's time to it's time to pick up everything that you've had that seems broken and realized that god is about to perform the miracle that you've been praying about i know it doesn't seem like it's enough i know when you look out it's overwhelming but god says trust me trust me bring me what you have bring me your best praise bring me your faithfulness bring me your worship he can't multiply what you're not willing to give give him your best give him all you

got give him the pieces come on that's it give him the pieces give him the days of your life your time your treasures your talents that's it just because you did prison time doesn't mean your life is over just because you have some things on your record doesn't mean you can't work for the kingdom of god i said just lift those hands a little higher right now extend those hands come on some elders in the room look what jesus did in a short amount of time

your best days do i have to be behind you god's got some things ahead for you families parents that's it god's got some amazing things so listen listen we'll share this and we'll get out of the way because i feel like god's going to minister to some people and turn it back over to about eight years ago there was a man in our church who had to go do some time i don't know why i'm on this subject but somebody here needs to hear this he

had to go do some time he made some stupid stupid mistakes how many know there's consequences with breaking the law i looked at him so many times when he was broken i said listen to me there's coming a day where god's able to use what you went through for his glory he's like man i just don't know i just don't think it can happen i said you do it he goes and does his time he's a part of a fellowship group comes out another young man

in indiana he's a coach he was all over the news started mentoring him baptized him in his dead i brother osborne james osborne let me open up the church in indianapolis and take him down to baptize the son and his and his daddy and i looked at this this son who was a basketball coach you name it was on his way to become division one coach i mean he had everything beautiful life beautiful kids he stepped out of his marriage did some stupid stuff with one

of the students at the high school and i took the man from nine years ago eight years ago by the hand i said we've got to go make a visit and i walked him into the room and set him down at the table and i just stepped back brother carpenter and i watched the guy that i told him god's gonna use you he began to minister to him tears began to flow and i said god anything that the devil truly means to destroy us it can

always be turned around for the good i would dare say 10 miles from this church and around the church there are souls just waiting to hear your testimony they're just waiting for you to go share what god has done for you you've went through it all the breaking is is happening but out of the breaking comes tremendous miracles amen would you lift your hands with me one more time sir ma'am young young person come on lift your voice to the lord amen it's simple but it's

powerful it's simple but it's truth come on that's it come on that's it as they begin to sing tonight god is going to do a tremendous work