Why Me? | Rev. Shine Doughty

will praise the Lord every one god bless you it's great to be in the house of the Lord and my was was that an incredible tonight just all the singing and those songs and wife had to tell me the words are up on the screen the words are Isaac you could be seated for just a moment god bless you I want to say a big thank you to first Apostolic Church Maribel an incredible Church is good for our people to come and see and and you know if you're going to change your world and you're a preacher you have a preacher here you have more than one you got a whole host family of preachers Jack house who boasted to have the biggest Sunday school said if you're going to change your world you've got to do three things you said the first thing you've got to do is build a model church and I don't know if you know it but all across this nation people are watching you as a model the second thing is you got to preach to preachers you got to pass through the does that and then lastly I'll said you gotta write books so get your pen ready get your pen ready there's the hand of God that's in this house and I'm thankful to be here with my friends you know so many of you can I just I really want to do what the Lord needs to do tonight and and you know I know we've been a little shell-shocked these last eight to ten weeks or whatever everything that's going on all the different stuff look I'm not going to reoccur regurgitate all that I I'm just gonna say it's time for the church to be the church if we ever needed to stand up and shine we ever needed to be you God called us to be go ahead go ahead and clap that once you put your voice with that Oh I'm a soldier in the army of the Lord Allah marching praise God thank you brother Nixon praise God man I I just I feel the Holy Ghost doing the work right now Alleluia praise God all right all right numbers the 13th chapter this is this is look you know the Bible is the Bible and and sometimes we read the same text and would you just bear with me just a moment I know this is probably a little familiar to you but I want to give you what the Lord gave me and the Lord spake unto Moses saying send our men that they may search the land of Canaan which I give which I give which I give which I give to the children of Israel of every tribe their fathers shall you send a man everyone a ruler among them verse 17 and Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said unto them get you up this way southward and go into the mountain see the land what it is and the people that dwell in there and whether they be strong or weak few or many and what land is that landed that where they dwell and whether it be good or bad and whether they dwell in them whether they dwell in tents or strongholds whether it's fat or lean whether there's wood or there's not would be of good courage and bring the fruit of the land and so they went and they came back and this is what they did said after 40 days we came into the land whether thou sent us and surely a floweth with milk and honey this is the fruit of it nevertheless the people would be strong that dwell in the land the cities are walled and very great moreover we saw the children of a neck there the Amalekites dwell in the land of the south and the Hittites and the judgy bites and the hammerites dwell in the mountains and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coasts of Jordan I want to just read one more verse verse 33 we saw the Giants of the son of a knocking which were come of giants and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers so we were in their sight and so we were in their sight I would I just want to preach for just a just a few moments I know it's been a big weekend I'm sure you're tired but if I preach fast will you listen fast can we get some tide out and tide in going on the anointing works together we want anointed preacher and we wanted to know any congregation we want to mix faith with the word preached I want to preach for just a few moments on this subject why me why me why me Lord Jesus we love you love Jen are you serving to speak on house or sea Lord we need you we love you Lord we exalt surely help us you I pray in the name of Jesus and we give you all the glory and everyone said amen man god bless you you can be seated why me oh why me I mean you know the story Moses's parents are under orders to throw their newborn son into the river but instead they defy the king's order they build a little arc and put him in the bulrushes and three months they've kept them and now they set him afloat in the Nile and of course you know Pharaoh's daughter finds him and raises this Hebrew child as her own he grows and God makes away and has his hand on the life of Moses and it isn't long until he begins to see the unfair treatment of the Hebrew children he slays the man and now he's on the run the first 40 years of his life he lives as a miracle but the next forty years we find him in a little different situation notice when God found him first of all he was keeping a flock of sheep that weren't even his they were his father-in-law's he have not been super successful as 40 years all he was doing his watch his father lost sheep the scripture said that he was on the backside of the desert now I know the deserts bad but I don't think I've ever been to the back side of the desert I don't I don't think there's a new subdivision they're called the backside of the backside in the background in the extremity in Horeb as the mountain of God you know what the exciting thing is I looked at what horrid means Horeb means dry up lie and waste to be destroyed Antonia Moses was a mess but God called him and said I've got you right well I can use you right well I need you I don't know what you've been going through but I'm gonna tell you something you're the right person at the right time for the kingdom God has his hand on you God has his hand on your family and God has his hand on this shape well thank you all 10 of you god bless you and notice what he says I mean he sees the burning bush gods there's take it off his shoes and this is what he says Who am I or in other words why me why am I to go to Pharaoh why am i to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt why am i to take them to a land that flows with milk and honey everyone in every age asked this question Abraham had asked many times why me Esther stood there and said why me I've come to the kingdom for many for such a time as this David why me why am i running from Saul I don't know your situation but you man said Who am I why why me I just rather stay in the background on the backside of the desert I'd rather just dry up and lie and waste don't you know God's got a plan for you don't you know you're not here by accident don't you know that God's working on you don't you know in this service God's got a plan for you it's not Who am I God said why me God said it's not Who am I is Who I am who shall I say shoot me the I am that I am it's not who you are into I am it's not what you can do I choose to work with you that are the gal that holds the power I'm the God that does the calling I'm the God that sets up for greatness come on somebody help me you know what he's saying I am the God that help your parents conceived you I am the God that encouraged them behind you for three months I am the God that had them build a little heart and put it in the river I am the God that comes out a little out the drunk drift into Pharaoh's daughters you and she washed herself I am the God that calls Miriam to follow you and when Pharaoh's daughter a sister no sir God brought you Jack about your own mother than her I am that God I don't know your story I want you to know he is that God for you why me I don't know why it's our beautiful family there's five of us I want you to know on my mom's side I'm fortunate raisin about my dad he's first-generation 15 year old kid having to be walking by a house and it was a woman that he was friendly with and she had got down to pray and he walked by she was she was on her knees and she said oh god save Darrell I want you to know it did something to the heart of that fifteen-year-old he was a no papi but God said I'm the I am I'm the one that can cause someone to play when you're hungry you know I was harvest tender cuz he lost his four-year-old baby brother God's timing had set everything up his daddy went to nine different high schools because his father followed construction but everywhere he went Darrell's not who you are it's Who I am I've got my hand on it you can't get away from me now I'm done there God hasn't forgotten about you he set everything in motion so they do it be here tonight hearing this preacher praise God's got his hand on you you may say why me you don't know my pastor I won't tell you don't know my god he was a chemical engineer at LSU straight A's God put a call on his life why me so he goes and he's a B student in Bible School and God works on his life and then all of a sudden he starts evangelizing and now he's preaching and he he starts following this young evangelist named Judy Mulvaney never cats eyes on her but he just said maybe say uh brother down because you gotta meet sister Judy and they tell sister Judy sister Judy you got to meet brother down here my dad was head of General Conference in Memphis and he was running with a friend and he said I he said when you see Judy dowdy or Judy Mulvaney point her out to me and he said okay goes well in fact there she is across the street dad took one look and told his buddy I'm gonna marry her and went right over there and asked her out and five kids later they were still in love to the moment she took her last breath why me God's got his hand on you everybody in here has got a story and I don't know about your story but I'm gonna put a dance on mine cuz I got a dad that made a decision one day to serve God i'ma tell you something you're gonna make a decision tonight if the Lord tarries is gonna generations he's the I am you just don't know who you are yet you don't know God's plan God's design all of God's purpose say what wasn't it well planned out for you not really I just walked by faith and not by sight and if you wonder what I'm doing I'm just waiting a little bit right here on the Lord because there's something in my spirit right now that I think that what I preached before I can move on and I may not get it back but there needs to be a worship there needs to be a praise there needs to be a dance that God has his hand on your life hi hello hallelujah you know I've always been amazed without Scripture where the Bible says that David was in a cashless court and the Bible says that he found himself there now realize all the story with David ah I mean I just I can't even begin to fathom people like Joseph or David who God found and gave vision and dreams and promises and yet all the things that they went through look at Oh David one day he's slaying a giant everybody's praising him he's the king son-in-law the next thing he knows he's having javelins thrown out and Pete priests are being slain in the wake of his visit until he finds himself in a Justice Court that old Philistine King you know you know the one I'm talking about those riders and translators they put in there that David didn't save himself mad you know we always act like well David acted like he's nuts have you ever met those people one person that pastored a really small church he told me one time I went to a priest trying to help but he said you know what people are nuts I said well if you think about that then I said probably why you don't have any people cuz I said we're all little money so he goes and you know we we preached about it hundreds of times her people he acted crazy like he's tricking that Philistine King but when you look at that fainted to be mad it's halal in the Hebrew give me Psalm 150 people behind the black glass I feel like I'm playing Deal or No Deal this was the ultimate banker said I picked the right box the Halal when he same ed is the same hello when he said hello oh praise ye the Lord praise God in His sanctuary praise Him in the firmament of his power praising first mighty acts now I know you don't get it yet but I'm going to tell you you know what David was - they thought he was man but God said that's ha ha ha that's clamorously hi I'm gonna tell you something I don't think God wants our price so pretty every once in a while you gotta get low quality you know why cause the two years I don't know about you but I know where he brought me from I know what it is for me come on sis come on my brother come on through come out through come on through why me cuz come coach you to be a worshiper the clamor foolishly where's the last time you didn't care what anybody thought around you why do we have all these Pentecostal protocols you know I remember ninth Street now ninth Street ain't gonna mean anything to you folks I'm done I didn't get to my text 9th Street owe me anything to you people you you you probably have a 9th Street somewhere in your history but 9th Street was a little 40 by 70 building that we crammed a bunch of folks in to hear me apostolic center at you you could pick two of those auditoriums on our platform just flip it over and that's where God brought us from and we were always always asking God for big things in a new building all that he gave him that giving us let me tell you what we've walked into that building and 17 years later we still lost some of our halal we've got sophisticated we've got well-dressed now God has blessed us we don't sound like we used to shout we don't carry like we used to carry but I want you to know God's gonna do something in that tune I'll tell you what God wants to do something here tonight God make us again if you have to bring your sin to covet caused all kinds of distress hi everybody hear what I'm saying come on when's the last time you shouted your hair down when's the last time you walked out of here soaked from head to toe cuz you gave God a praise David said I'll do it till I'm foaming the mouth I'll do it until I can't do it any longer come on over go how you feel what I'm feeling come on come on shout with the boys that's what I'm talking about I worried about that God's doing the work where's the last time you got drunk in the Holy Ghost when's the last time you were the last one to leave the altar come on down in this row come on come on come on we got more room now come on we're now I'm Achilles Street we got more room now you know why we forgot where God brought us from I remember why I called you hello you feel that break in the atmosphere that's trout's purpose that's God's plan why me call mrs. Han come on come on come on Oh let me tell you something there are those that are getting Liberty and I don't want to stop that cuz we're fixin to sing and praise him but there's the scripture of the book of Jude that talks about the angels leaving their first habitation you know what that was that was worship they were to be worshipers in heaven but the third of them decided along with Lucifer you know what we want to be worshipped instead of worshipping and God cast them out of the light in the darkness you know why God calls you out of the darkness into the light so that you enjoyed your that's what I'm talking about I gotta pose I want you to look at somebody and I'm gonna turn it over but I want you to look at somebody and say what qualifies you to praise the Lord look at him hafstrom why you what qualifies you to praise the Lord somebody come breathe for me Victoria shot mr. freeze mr. freeze the boys trial shall get the boys to play with the boys trying victory the boys boy hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh praise ye the Lord praise the Lord praise the Lord praise the Lord praise the Lord hallelujah to the lamb of God hallelujah to the lamb of God praise the Lord Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus thank the Lord thank the Lord would you rejoice with me tonight one of our sons hear the church come and got a good touch brother Nick Helms praise God Nick we love you Nick we love you good to see you thank you Jesus oh thank God thank God thank God well this is that this is that somebody said something about this not being that and I told her this is not that I'm willing to take this til that comes but I'm glad that this is that folks we can never lose this brother brother daddy I don't know where he went what was that 9th Street 9th Street Knight Street ours is McKinley Street where we didn't run the aisles we ran the aisles singular I'll never forget one night that was about eight or nine inches deep and there was glass doors walked right out to the sidewalk and I had noticed sitting on the platform little boys who drive their bicycles up to the glass doors and set and looking at little neighborhood kids they did it their last time when one night brother Dotson took off running down that aisle and I've never seen him boys get out of that and by singing no faster man can't you hear them now that man was coming after us we got our McKinley Street where when folks would get to shout and we had a baby grand piano because everybody we had 100 percent Leafers at the McKinley Street Church brother brother brother dowdy everybody leaked suddenly because they chose to leave and others what happened the old floor will begin to rock like this right here and suddenly because they wanted to and some leapt out of whiplash they just kind of got to but we'd have to go over sister Jeter to be playing the piano I'd go over and hold the piano so the song would book wouldn't fall down this is that we can never lose this you'll never get to educated for this to it in the late 1900s the European countries became very interested that this rather young country the United States was flourishing our fields were flourishing our inventions were flourishing and our nations was flourishing European countries sent people over here to find out our success and they went back and they said it's not their fertile soil nor is it their mountains that are rich with minerals well what is it then they said it's their churches what do you mean their churches they said their churches are unlike our churches what do you mean they're on fire they're on fire what do you mean on fire said the preacher preaches many of them described them this way said they preached like they're fighting a pack of Yellowjackets when they're fighting when they're preaching said in their members will shout with joy and resemble drunken people and said that's what makes that country really I listen I listen to WH Criswell he was the past president of the Southern Baptist Convention he was over he pastored First Baptist of Dallas Texas he was over 90 years old when he told this story and I listened to him he said as a little boy in Dallas he would go downtown on Sunday night and said the Baptist Church was on one corner the Methodist Church was on another corner and the Presbyterian Church was on another corner and said their services all ended about the same time said the Baptist's would dance out of their church into the middle of the street and the Methodists would join them and the Presbyterians would join them and said that dance and shout unto the Lord in the middle of the street folks let's never let that be our story because he said used to used to I don't know about you but I'll probably sing off-key and that won't be nothing new but I'm gonna tell you what he inspired me tonight would you give me that old time yes