The Revelation Of Thy

Amen, amen. Let's just give God praise right now. Why don't we praise God? Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Blessed be Your name, Jesus. Blessed be Your name.

It's always a privilege to be here. I've often said it's a privilege and a pressure, and that's kind of the way that is, but it is, and it is an honor to be able to stand before all of you. I give honor to our general board, and Brother Cox, and our district board, and Pastor and the Mangun family. And I'm very, very thankful. This is not the mutual admiration committee between the two of us, but that message last night was a message from God. I thank God for that message. Thank God for it. Very, very thankful always to be around Melanie and my family, and especially today my niece Brianna. Would you just wave your hand a little bit higher so they can see? There — that's better. A lot of you prayed for her. Last Wednesday we were in Little Rock, and she was having brain surgery, and for her to be standing right here and waving at us right now — we are very, very thankful. Thank God.

I do feel, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that there is a kingdom call that is upon us. And I think really, at the time that it is — I'm hearing something here; do I need to change mics? No, I'm good. The time that we have right now — it's almost like the kingdom call is becoming a kingdom scream. It really is. And I have a recurring thought, and it is this: it's time to get this kingdom thing right. It's time to get it right. I know it's easy to say, every year that goes by, we're closer to the coming of the Lord; undoubtedly we are. But at the same time, there is a call going forth, and there will be people who will answer that call. And I know that the power of God wants to speak to us.

Amen, amen. Let's turn to Matthew, chapter 6, and the ninth and tenth verses. Matthew 6:9 and 10: "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." Thy name. Thy kingdom. Thy will. And I want to preach to you this morning on a revelation of Thy. A revelation of Thy. I feel we definitely need a revelation of Thy, and I feel that the Spirit is here to give it to whoever will open up and allow that to speak into your spirit. So can we close our eyes right now, lift our hands to heaven, and pray that God will speak that revelation to us? In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, let it be done, in Jesus' name. Can somebody say amen? Amen. God bless you, and you may be seated.

A revelation of Thy: Thy name, Thy kingdom, Thy will. I guess the first thing that we must do is state the obvious, and that is that Thy does not mean my. The first part of the Lord's Prayer turns the attention immediately beyond us, to Him. We were born with an inborn revelation of my. We see it in children; it's exactly how we all were. It's my bottle, and it's my pacifier, and it's my toy. And for the most part we have to be taught to share, because sharing is unnatural. My is natural, and Thy is not. Sadly, with many adults, the only thing that really changes with age is the object, because it's no longer my bottle or my pacifier or my toy. It's now my friends, and my family, and my vehicle, and my house, and my money, and my time, and my future. And in the ministry it can easily become my position, and my church, and my ministry, and my life. And if the church has a team of leaders, it can easily become my staff, my assistant, my minister of music, my student pastor. And the truth of the matter is, too many hold it all very, very tight, and say to God and everyone else, "My." This is why we need a revelation of Thy.

Let's consider Thy name. When it says, "Hallowed be thy name" — names are very important, and we know this. Names identify us. Names are so very important that we must consider well our thoughts, and the direction of our feet, the touch of our hands, and the words of our mouth, because it can all negatively affect our name. What we think, what we say, where we go, what we do — it affects our name. Proverbs 22:1: "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold." Our name is very, very important. We need to consider our names. It's very, very important that we live in a way that we can have a good name, because if we do not have a good name, our influence cannot be what it could be. You hear somebody's name mentioned, and immediately when you hear their name, your thought either goes up or down. If you don't know them, it may kind of stay on the 50-yard line, just based on the sound of their name, because that reminds us of the kind of person that they are.

Matthew 6:9: "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name." Holy. Sanctified. Clean and pure. "Hallowed be thy name" means that we hold the name in reverence, and holy. That's what it means. Back many, many, many years ago, the Jewish scribes would take extraordinary precautions when even writing His name. I won't go now into the history of Yahweh and Adonai and all that — you know that. But they would never dip their pen in the ink in the middle of writing His name. Even if the king spoke to them while writing the name, the scribe would ignore the king, because they hallowed that name. And to think today how casual His name is used, and how vain His name is used, and how degrading His name is used. It's "Oh God," it's "Oh my God, can you believe that?" It's "Good God Almighty, I can't believe that happened," or "OMG," or typing "OMG," or "Jeez," or these kind of things just have become common. And they should not once be named among any of us, if we're really going to hallow His name.

His name is hallowed. It's the name of Jesus. It's all-powerful. It's never failing. It brings hope to the hopeless — that name does. It brings help to the helpless. It brings peace in storms. It brings light in darkness. And it's hallowed be His name. That name brings presence to our loneliness. It brings His power to our weakness. It brings strength to our weariness. His name, called in baptism, brings remission of sin. It's His name. It's that name that is above all names. Simply spoken, it brings His presence. And it is about His name. It's not about my name.

Colossians 3:17: "And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him." And this is much more than just a baptism Scripture, because word or deed sounds like life to me. And so what it's really saying is, my life is to be done in His name, for His name, and not my name. But many times such is not the case. It is more about my than it is Thy.

Let me first say that the Bible is clear that we should give honor where honor is due, and I'm not saying that people should not be recognized and thanked and publicly honored for service to the kingdom and service to us. However, we must be very careful, lest we find ourselves praising man more than God in the house of God. There's just a lot of self-praise going on these days. There's just a lot of bragging. There's just a lot of one-upping people. And the truth of the matter is, it's hard not to do, because the more I think about—

—it, the more I'm reminded of how many times I've done it. Somebody will be in conversation and they'll talk about two getting the Holy Ghost, and my mind will go to where we had three or more. Or somebody will talk about five getting baptized, and my mind will go to where we had six or seven or eight. Or somebody will share — one of my preacher friends may share some great thought that they've had — my mind immediately goes to a message I preached on that particular verse. And so I'm working very, very hard to keep my mouth shut and quit trying to always do it just a little bit better. "God got it. I've got to let them know that, you know, that's good what happened to you, but just as soon as you'll take a breath, let me tell you the real deal." That's exactly what happens, because it's more about my than it is Thy.

Herod set himself up, and he set himself up to be worshiped. And he really had it together one day, and they started worshiping him, and he allowed them to. And the worms ate him. And the truth of the matter is, the worms are still eating today; it's just God, in His mercy, letting them eat just a little bit slower. And the truth of the matter is, we better deal with the worms that are eating inside of us, because it's not really Thy; it's a whole lot about my. Thy name or my name?

I'll be very careful here, because we are identified by our name, and some ministries include personal names, and that's not a problem. That's not a problem at all. However, self-promotion to get our name out can be a slippery slope, and social media has taken this to a new level. Now, those that will just ignore social media or whatever — you know, I wish we could. I'm not on Facebook. If you're on Facebook, that's fine. There is more that walks to my office that I cannot even handle than to have to know what all is going on that I can't even get to, so y'all have a good time on Facebook. Twitter is just about all I can handle. But I thought this would be a good time right now to let everybody know that last year, when I preached at Because of the Times, Brother Gleason said I did a great job. He did. Brother Gleason said I did a great job. Keith, I remember saying — I just want everybody to know that he said I did a great job. Kent — Kent said Pastor even said I did a great job. I had, matter of fact, I had a lot of people tell me that I did a great job, and I just thought I ought to stop right now and let everybody know that last year I did a great job at Because of the Times. You say, "That's not right for you to say." Well, so why is it right for anybody to retweet a compliment that they receive? Why is that right? Why is it right for somebody to see something on social media that somebody bragged — I'm talking about his name or yours; let's get real here in 2015. So why don't I retweet that they said I did a good job? But here's a good one: even when you reply — some people reply and say, "Thanks be to God." And then some reply and say, "Thanks, but I'm undeserving." And then here's the next-to-the-big one. The big one — the next to the big one is "Humbled." "Humbled." Now, here's the one that's laughable: "Humbled how God used me." It's just the truth.

As Brother Barnes once said, humility is not thinking less of ourselves; it's thinking of ourselves less. It's not somebody saying, "You did a great job." No, no, no, no — it's not that. It's not that at all. God wants to use us, and we are supposed to be the answer, and we're supposed to walk in authority, and we're supposed to have power. And we don't duck our head. We are the gift to the world, and we should realize that we are. But it's how we go about it. Self-promotion by false humility really smells up the place. And there are many good people hurting their testimony and hurting their influence with such nonsense, and somebody with a relationship with them needs to tell them. Now, if you don't have a relationship with them, don't tell them. There are a lot of people that I know need to be told a lot, but I don't have the relationship with them to tell them. If I had the relationship with them, I would tell them. And if you have a relationship with them, and they know that you love them, and they know they look up to you, and you know that you can speak into their life, then when we see this nonsense, and when we see something happen in the life of a brother that is affecting their influence, that is keeping them back, that is making people around them think — somebody's got to tell them. If you have a relationship, you need to tell them. You need to tell them. The Bible says, "Speaking the truth in love" — and then it goes into how we grow up. And so the truth spoken in love precedes maturity. And God knows that we need maturity. Now, there's a lot of truth that can be spoken that is not in love. If it's not in love, then don't speak it. But if you have a relationship with somebody and they know that you love them and you're concerned about them, then you need to speak the truth in love in order that they can grow up.

We need a strong revelation of Thy. Mary speaks to us today regarding this revelation. So intense was Mary's revelation of Thy that she was willing for her name to be trashed for the sake of His name. Mary teaches us how putting His name above ours can be very troubling. Mary shows us how walking in the perfect will of God can even be dangerous. Can you imagine her life? Can you imagine the conversations about her? Can you imagine, as she started to show, what people were saying behind her back? "Her and the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost did that." I didn't know that they nicknamed Joseph "the Holy Ghost." I didn't know that we'd call him "Holy Joe." That's what we need to call him now — "Holy Joe" — 'cause the Holy Ghost, right? Right. That's exactly what happened. And so Mary found herself in a first-class mess, bearing His name. And what had happened was, God had accomplished something in her that was so absolutely impossible to explain that she just had to survive it until God proved it. And the truth of the matter is, God will speak things into our spirit that we will just have to survive until God provides it and proves it. And the sooner that we come to grips with the fact that the will of God cannot always be easily explained — and it's for sure not always nice and clean and acceptable and predictable and controllable — Mary clearly shows us how we can be mightily highly favored by God and wrongfully accused by man at the same time. God will say things to us that only godly, kingdom-minded people will understand, or will at least have enough godly fear to reserve judgment until time has declared it. And yes, we might as well settle in our minds and our hearts right now that we will at times look stupid bearing His name above ours, because His ultimate concern is not how we look. His concern is how His name will be presented to this world. That's His concern. His concern is His testimony, not our testimony. Does my life prove that I am more concerned about His name than my name? And so I say we need a revelation of Thy name, not my name. Enough of living predominantly for our name and our reputation. It's hallowed be Thy name, not my name.

We need a revelation of Thy. It's time that it could be said of every—

—one of us, like it was of Paul in Romans 1:1: "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ." In Titus 1:1: "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ." James, in James 1:1: "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ." Peter, in Second Peter 1:1: "Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ." It's His name. It's hallowed be Thy name. It's about His name, and His name must be glorified above ours.

We move from His name, from that revelation, to a revelation of Thy kingdom. Thy kingdom represents power and kingship and dominion and rule. We heard last night: it's hard for us to imagine a king and kingdom where the king rules and whatever he says automatically goes. A king could call the shots and never consult anyone. He has the final word. His word is supreme. What he says goes. If he wants you to live, you live. If he wants you dead, you're dead. If he wants you dead, he can say how he wants you killed, because that is the king. There is a saying that says heads are going to roll, and that's kind of used now in boardrooms, or if somebody's going to get fired or whatever. But it meant a whole lot more. If you're reading through the Bible today — did anybody read in your reading today about John the Baptist? His head rolled. You know why his head rolled? His head rolled because the king said, "Bring his head on a charger." That's the reason why. That's what kings do. And as we heard last night, it's very hard for those of us raised in a democracy to grasp the mindset of kingdom. And so what we must be very careful of is that we must not fall into the mental trap of westernizing God. And that is very predominant in the church today. And the westernization of God sounds something like this: "I just don't think that a loving God would…" blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The westernization of God sounds something like this: "I just can't serve a God that would—" and then they say whatever it is that they just could not serve a God that would do. And to those people I say, "Well, don't. Don't serve Him. Just don't. There's a lot of us that are. And so don't." If you've got that plan — that the king can only say what pleases you — you know, it's kind of like, "Agree with me before you speak with me." All of these kind of things. No, that's just not the way that it works in the kingdom of God. And so if you can't serve a God that would do this, this, or that, then don't serve Him. Because the only way to truly serve Him is to say, "It's not about my kingdom; it is about Your kingdom."

This concept of westernizing God is very, very serious. People are so locked in on God being a storm calmer that they forget that He's also a storm causer. He doesn't just calm storms; He causes some storms. He's the calmer; He's the causer. Because He looks at it eternally, and it's whatever is for our eternal good, not just what is for our temporal good. God is not just the calmer of storms. And we struggle to make God fair. And God's not fair. God is right. And submission to the King of the kingdom — it's not optional, if we're going to be mightily used by the King. It is required. Things like submission — learn to embrace that word; it's a kingdom word. Things like bow — that is a kingdom word. Things like obey — that is a kingdom word. Things like deny yourself — that is a kingdom word. Things like "by the Spirit mortify the deeds of the flesh" — that is a kingdom word. "Well, I'm not real comfortable with that." You won't be comfortable walking in the power of the kingdom either. There is a submission. There is a bowing. There is a making sure, by our life, not just by what we say, that we are submitted to that King and kingdom.

There's a spirit of apology that seems to be gaining momentum — apologizing for what we were, or apologizing for who we are — and it's weakening us, just like it's weakening the United States of America. Superpowers are not supposed to apologize. Where did that come from, that we're going to apologize because we're a superpower? This kingdom is a superpower, and we don't apologize for the kingdom, for the principles of the kingdom, for how the kingdom is run. No apology. No apology at all. We must understand: it is impossible to be apologetically strong. We cannot be apologetically strong. Now, we must not be rude and arrogant and obnoxious and oblivious. But we also must not be apologetic. We are a part of the kingdom of God. It's the greatest kingdom ever. There will never be another kingdom like this kingdom. It doesn't get any more powerful than this kingdom. And it's about us understanding that it is His kingdom. We're part of the kingdom of God, and we don't apologize for anything of it. And we'd best get off the throne and shut down our own personal kingdoms.

What can I point to in my life that proves I am not on the throne of my life? You know, it's a very common courtesy: if I go into someone's house and I am their guest — I was blessed to be in Brother House's house a couple years ago, and whenever I walked in and we went into the seating area, the first question I'm going to ask is, "Where does Brother House sit?" I didn't want to go over — "Where's Brother House at?" Well, he says, "Right here." "Good, that's where I'll sit." Go in the Manguns' house: "Where's Pastor sitting?" "Well, that's his chair." "Good, I think I'll sit there." Let's not get caught sitting on His throne. Let's not get caught sitting there. What can I point to that proves that the scepter is in His hand and not mine? What actual action — not mere words — what consistent action can I point to that proves I am seeking His kingdom first and His righteousness?

I'm quite frankly amazed at how little I hear kingdom talk, and I am guilty. "What would be good for the kingdom?" should be a normal question of our lives and conversation. And I'll tell you how we prove our kingdom focus: we prove it by how we spend our time and our money. Time and money clearly reveals what king and kingdom we serve. It's amazing how some are fine paying tithes until it reaches a certain amount; then it becomes too much. And so there is a new prayer that we need to start praying in the apostolic church, and that prayer is that God will bless people down to the level that they can be trusted to honor Him. That's the prayer we need to be praying. We need to be praying that God will bless people down to the level that they can honor Him and be saved. It's ludicrous what we call blessings. It is. It's sickening what we call blessings. People in our church — and maybe some of us in this sanctuary today — are calling things blessings that are distracting us from the kingdom. And there is no way you can call it a blessing if it's pulling you away from the kingdom. It doesn't matter who gave it to you. It doesn't matter what it is. "Oh, God blessed me with this. Oh, God blessed me with that. Oh, I'm blessed with this. Now I don't have time for the kingdom, now, and I've got to spend all my money maintaining this God-blessing." Somebody needs to get a life and realize that's a trick of the enemy. And that is not a — it may be a blessing, but it did not come from God. It's a blessing from the other side. So the issue is trust. And can God trust us with His kingdom? And kingdom-minded people realize it's His kingdom, not ours. Kingdom-minded people understand that we're stewards in His kingdom. Kingdom-minded people understand it's about what we give, not what we get.

There are some lethal enemies of kingdom-mindedness, and two of them I will name. They seem to be leading enemies, and they are entertainment and entitlement. And the ally of kingdom-mindedness is equipping and service. So we see now the toll in the United States of America, what entertainment and entitlement is causing in this country. I can tell you what entertainment and entitlement is costing the United States of America: it's costing us our soul. That's what it's costing us. And the truth of the matter is, entertainment and entitlement is taking a toll on the church, because somehow the expectation of the ministry seems to be continuing down a very dangerous road, and that road is, "What's in it for me?" And how has the church become so much about what pleases us and what we can get out of it? People look to the ministry now for what it can do for them, instead of what the ministry can develop in them and bring out of them for the kingdom. And I want everybody in this sanctuary to hear this word: this is wearing the ministry out. We have frazzled people in the ministry because we do not understand, and we're not practicing, what Jesus did. After a very tiring day of ministry, Jesus said, "I have food to eat that you know not of. My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work." And we are frazzled because we are doing the will of the people while attempting to finish their work. The ministry is frazzled. The ministry is worn out, because we are not equipping people; we're entertaining them to a point of entitlement. And it is absolutely sucking the life out of leaders in the church. I am not saying be mean. I am not saying be rude. I am not saying we don't need to be there for the people when they're in their time of trouble. I'm not saying any of that. But the entertainment level and the entitlement level in our churches is unbelievable. In the churches, we have got to teach people: we are here not to entertain you. We want good services — don't make me qualify everything that I have to say. We want you to enjoy the service, sure. But it's not about entertaining. It's not about entitlement. Entitlement is wrecking the church. Wrecking the church.

Well, everybody knows what a preacher and his wife is supposed to do: they're supposed to do anything that anybody ever needs, at any time. That's what it is. There are many, many people in our lives that will look at us and say, "Jesus loves you, and I have a plan for your life." I had someone tell me they were not going to a particular function because they didn't get anything out of it. I kept a good face. I even said this lovingly, which would surprise some people. But I asked them after they said that, I said, "Have you ever thought about adding something to it?" "I'm not going to go to that because I don't get anything out of it." "Well, have you ever thought about adding something to it? Have you ever thought that maybe there could be something that you could give?" "I don't feel a sectional conference because I don't get anything out of it. I don't fool with district conference because I don't get anything out of it. I don't fool with camp meeting because I don't get anything out of it. I don't fool with General—" If you can't afford to go to General Conference, I totally understand that. What in the world are we doing? "I don't go there because I don't get anything out of it." You've got to be kidding. You'll never be mightily used by God until you walk saying, "I don't have to get anything out of it. I will go add to it. I'll add to it. I don't have to get anything out of it. I don't have to get anything out of it."

Now, I know good and well that we're not supposed to forsake the assembling of ourselves together, and I got all that, right? And I hope this is not totally misunderstood. I love preaching. I love to hear preaching. But I promise you, I'm in the Word of God enough by myself, and I am praying enough by myself, and I am worshiping enough by myself, that I don't just have to limp in to church again saying, "Please, please, please, give me—" No. David got to the place where he said he encouraged himself in the Lord. He encouraged himself. He encouraged himself. That's what he did. He encouraged himself. And we're going to have to get to that point in this end time where we're going to have to encourage ourselves. I don't want to re-preach a lot of things I've preached the last couple years, but let me tell you: don't be expecting people to praise you, and don't be expecting people to keep you propped up, and don't be expecting people to appreciate everything that you do. And you better do it, and do it as unto the Lord, and know that it is between you and God. And He is the one that we're trying to please. And then we won't get messed up on everybody's moves, everybody's moods. "Well, they just didn't treat me right." Well, get used to it. I want to tell you: whenever somebody encourages you, you need to appreciate it. I promise you, when somebody encourages you, you need to appreciate it. But don't go walking into your churches expecting people to keep us propped up. We are the leaders.

Melanie was reading George Bush's book the other day — and I don't even remember, George Senior. Some of you probably read it. He was talking about another leader that wasn't really a leader but thought he was a leader. And that other leader that George Senior was talking about — he goes, "There go the people. I am their leader. I must catch them." Thy kingdom. Thy kingdom, not my kingdom. It's not my. It's Thy. And as I have said many times, we're all kingdom-minded. It's just a question of whose. And the kingdom — don't ever forget that the kingdom of me is a very dangerous place to be. And we need a revelation of Thy kingdom, not my.

But it all starts in this last point. It starts in our will. "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." Thy will. Thy active volition. Thy wish. Thy good pleasure. Thy eternal purpose. Thy counsel. Thy, not my. A revelation of Thy will is what we need. My limits us, and ultimately leads us where we were never intended to be, dealing with what we are not built to handle. Lot gives us this picture clearly. He chose his will, and it looked best, and the price was everything that he had, including some of his family. And living for the will of God brings us into spiritual maturity. And maturity is when our decisions today are made in light of eternity, and how will it affect us and others tomorrow. And good decisions, not age, proves maturity. It's Thy will, not my will. A heart and mind where we seek and trust the will of God instead of telling God what His will should be. I wonder how our prayer time would change if we would not view it as twisting God's arm, or seeking to twist God's arm, but if we would spend more time submitting to His will. And the big question is: will we subject our will to His?

Now, I am a father. I'm 54 years old. I have a 24-year-old daughter and an 18-year-old son that I love very, very much. And I'm very fortunate that when there are big decisions to be made, we have family meetings and we all sit and discuss those issues. And when it's all said and done, we have good talks, and I thank God for that. But when it's all said and done, and I hear their perspective and we go back and forth, in the end I expect them to trust my experience and to trust my perspective.

As they get older — and they are — there will be decisions that they will make, you know, whether I'm in agreement or not. But right now, I expect them to trust my experience and to trust my perspective. And I expect this — there's a reason why I expect this — and it's because I expect that out of them based on my track record with them. I have been a loving father. I've had to make serious adjustments along the way. I've had some very, very eye-opening experiences that have been very heartbreaking to me personally, and I've had to make adjustments. But I've tried my best to make those. And I have been loving. I have tried to be kind. I've definitely been consistent. And so even when they don't understand, I expect them to trust me, because of my proven record. And so I simply ask a question that's very powerful: What more does God have to do in our lives for us to trust Him? What else does God have to do? What else does God have to do in our lives for us to be able to say, "Not my will, but Thine"? Seeking for, and submitting to, God's plan for our lives is without question the absolute best plan for our lives.

We've got people that are just absolutely a nervous wreck. We've got kids in their 20s that are so distracted because they're so afraid they're not going to be able to find the right person, or this. And then we got people that are married; they're so distracted because they're worried to death over their children. And on and on and on and on we go. And I'll say something right now that will probably get — I'll look like Swiss cheese by the time I get through getting shot for this one. But I just believe that the reason why there are a lot of people about to have a nervous breakdown is: we counsel people and tell them to trust God, and we don't. And we don't.

There was a preacher — he's in this audience, a great, great friend of mine. There was a situation we were talking about one time, and he asked me, he said, "What would you do in this situation?" I said, "You're probably not going to like what I'm going to say, but this is what I would do, because this is what I have done. I said, go back in your office, and don't sit behind your desk. Go sit on the other side of your desk, where all those other people have sat, and then sit there and think what you told them whenever their life was upside down and when they had a major decision to make. And just listen to what you said. And there will be your answer."

And the truth of the matter is, it is that. And the great thing is, we have the opportunity of sitting down with God and talking to God about it. And He says, "Cast your care on me." And He says, "Be careful [anxious] for nothing." He says all of these things. Easier said than done, I know. But the way I process, and the way my emotions are, does not change one word in that Bible. And God's will guide us. We need to upgrade our questions. And I move quickly: instead of asking, "What is your life and ministry dream? What is your plan for your church?" we should be asking, "What is God saying? What do you feel the will of God is for your life? What do you feel the will of God is for your church? What is God saying to your church?" Not, "You ought to try this because it's working for us," but, "What is God saying to you?" Our future must be submitted to the will of God. Our future must be all about His will.

A few days ago I had a couple of men on my mind. One of them was Brother Jerry Staton, and I texted him. I said, "How old were you whenever you left your established church and went to D.C.?" And he texted back, "57." Fifty-seven years old. That doesn't make a lot of sense. Not at all. And we see all through this Word that there's just a lot that doesn't make sense. I read and read and read, and just about every day that I read, something does not make sense in this book. And on this side, this is not ever going to make a whole lot of sense to us. Brother Jack Younce — he passed away a few weeks ago, and it was amazing what he did. He took a great, great leap at 65, or after 65, and it was a Thy-name, Thy-kingdom, Thy-will leap. And he goes to Chicago and starts — pulls out his Bible chart and starts another church in his house. He passed away, and I hear that the church is worth three million dollars and paid off, 400 people, and they're looking for a place now to build a larger one. Jack — Brother Jack Johnson — well, what about him? Well, he was just — it was about Thy name, Thy kingdom, Thy will. Jack Johnson, Jerry Staton, and many, many in this building right now — what about them? What distinguished them? They had a revelation of Thy. They had a revelation of Thy, not my. Thy. Thy.

I'm a very, very practical person. And there is something — I was praying the other day, and I was praying, "Okay, Lord, this is what I feel You've given me. Now, You know, how should it end?" And I saw this, and I just saw me standing here with a for-sale sign. For-sale sign. I got to thinking about that. Got thinking about that. What do I need to get rid of, to be able to say, "Thy name, Thy kingdom, Thy will"? Now, I believe — right there, whenever I said that — that God has already spoken some things to some people right now. I believe it. If God — if something already came to you — I'm talking, see, we can hear messages, but until something is practically acted on, until something is done, then it does not come in; it does not change us. Brother [Cawthorne], like you were talking about: it's a behavior that is going to enhance that value. You can't — you got it. So if God spoke to you whenever I said that, if God spoke to you about a particular thing that you need a sign like this to put on, to take that step into it being Thy name, Thy kingdom, Thy will — you stand. Stand. Mark, can you help me just hand those out? John can help you too. I don't nearly have enough for all of you standing, but get those to as many people standing as you can. And just keep standing. God's speaking. There has to be a step. There has been— I don't know what all this represents. I don't know how it might tie in later to missions. I have no earthly idea. That's not even where I'm going right now. That's not even the point. The point is, we have to have a revelation of Thy — that it has to be Thy name, and Thy kingdom, and Thy will. Thy name, Thy kingdom, and Thy will. If you're standing right now, would you just lift your hands? Those of you that did not get one, just stop as soon as you can at your house or in your town and buy one. Put it on your desk. Put it on whatever it is. Now I want us to pray right now. I want us to pray right now that the Spirit of God will help us. The Spirit of God will help us. Whatever it is that is enhancing the my in our lives, that it would be torn down. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. In Your name, Jesus. In Your name, Jesus. Feel free to stand, if you want to stand. If you want to stay seated, that's okay. We're going to sing this old song, "I Will Give You All." I will give You all. I want us to sing it. I want us to mean it. I'm asking: sing it, mean it.

I really feel that the Spirit wants to speak very, very strong right now. It's a moment of kingdom change. It's a moment of dethroning ourselves and enthroning Him.