God's Algorithm | Student Pastor Zach Hammond

God is so so good. So great to be in the house of the Lord. What a wonderful crowd to gather in on a Sunday night, Father's Day. May I say happy father's day to all of the fathers in each and every one of you that are that are playing that role in many others lives that maybe you're not a biological father to someone but you have stepped in to be that and God has empowered you to do so in someone else's life and I thank God I thank God for everyone in this church been asked few times in my time here at FAC. And the question is, what makes FAC different? You can point out a lot of things that many people look at on the surface, but one thing that resonates with me as I travel and look is the amount of men, the amount of men that pray, the amount of men that worship, the amount of men that lead in worship. We're we're we don't have men that are sitting in the back and fellowshipping in the lobby or not going to the prayer room. We have men that are running the aisles. We have men that are leading their families in worship. There's a loud low manly rumble coming from that prayer room tonight. Amen. I believe that's what separates separates many that are struggling because I believe it is God's ordained order in the family. So, I thank God for the men of FAC and I pray God bless you. God bless you this week. I honor my father-in-law and my father today on Father's Day. I told my dad this morning that I believe that uh to whom much is given, much is required. And to have a father and a father-in-law like I have, I realize that I will stand before God and give account for such a blessing. I honor them today. I love you, pastor. Honor them today. Romans chapter 8 and verse number 28. I've come just to encourage you tonight if that's okay. I'm not going to be very long, but I believe there's victory in the house tonight. You believe there's victory in the house tonight? Anybody come want to just just get over something? Huh? Anybody come just kind of sick and tired of being sick and tired? Huh? I believe that tonight there's a little bit of of a a breakthrough from some for somebody. It's it, you know, it it might just be something that you've done a hundred times, but tonight when you do it, I believe God might just do something different. >> And and I I know I know it's I know it's simple, but time and time again, I'm going to show you in scripture tonight where people just do the same thing. >> And often times you I've even preached it. Won't you do something different? I got to reading today and I saw where they just did the same thing and it was just a different day. Same place, just a different day. Same God, just a different day. It's just another Sunday night. Yeah, but it could be the Sunday night that God changes your situation, that God heals your body, that God elevates this. Romans 8:28 says, "And we know that all things," somebody say, "All." >> All things work together, for the good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose. Verse 37 says, "Nay." Somebody shout, "Nay." >> Sound like a bunch of horses. Nay. In all these things, Paul said, in all things, >> the good, the bad, the ugly, the tough days, the bad seasons, all things work together. But then he says in 37 37, he says, "Nay, in all things we are more, not just conquerors, brother or we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded tonight." That's why I'm here. That neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, or things to come, no matter where you've been, where you at, or where you're going. I'm here to tell you tonight, there is a God who's here, ready and able to take care of your past, your present, and your future tonight. all things nor height nor depth nor any other creature. God knows there's some creatures nowadays. Any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I want to preach to you for just a few moments. I promise you I could show you my word count. I'm not going to be long tonight. And you can interrupt me at any moment cuz if God tells you to do something tonight, even if you've done it a thousand times, >> I believe God wants somebody to do it one more time. >> My my title tonight is God's algorithm. God's algorithm. Lay your Bibles down, lift your hands to heaven, and let's pray that God would speak to us tonight. Lord, you're willing, ready, and able to work in this place tonight. God, I come boldly before the throne of grace, asking you, God, to rain down in this room tonight. Lord, I ask you to answer prayers that's been prayed, Lord, maybe a thousand times tonight, Lord. That I pray that our faith would increase, Lord, and you would move in this room as only you can. that this church would be a vessel, God, that you could pour into tonight and allow it to overflow with your glory, your anointing, and your power that it would minister to this community. But we've come tonight believing in Jesus mighty name we pray. Come on, if you believe it tonight, go ahead and give him a praise. Come on, somebody shout amen. Somebody shout amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. And you may you may be seated tonight. An algorithm is a precise stepbystep process of instructions designed to solve a problem, process information, or to produce specific outcomes. Tech companies today spend billions of dollars perfecting algorithms so that your phone can predict the video that you'll watch next, the photo and the post that you'll see next. what product you'll buy that you probably don't need. What news that you will see that will keep you in a sense of anxiousness. The news that we'll see that you'll see that more than likely probably is not true. often before you even realize what is going on. Your phone knows you better than your best friend in under an hour. According to recent statistics, Tik Tok's algorithm can build a highly accurate profile of your interest and likes in just 30 to 60 minutes of watching. you use your phone, like perhaps a comment, how long you pause between posts, how fast you swipe, your rewatch patterns, and even the angle in which you hold your phone. YouTube's recommendation engine drives over se 70% of all watch times on all platforms today. Most people think they're just searching, just searching for something, but the algorithm is quietly deciding what your next move will be. Often keeping you on an app 20 to 20 to 40 minutes longer than you ever planned to be. Anybody want to just be honest and say, "I've been there." Amen. >> Didn't intend to sit here looking at the phone, sitting in the car, got things to do, but here we are 30 minutes later. I don't know where the time went. Sure. Right. It's happened to all of us. Maybe the algorithms track hundreds of invisible signals beyond what you and I can even factor in. From battery level to time of day, location, speed of scrolling, what you do and do not click on, what you watch with the sound on, what you watch with the sound off, where you are at, how your face reacts. For all of you that haven't turned your camera off across your apps, the average person each day checks their phone between 144 to 186 times per day as of this past month's statistics. And algorithms are the optimization that makes each one of your unlocking screens more and more addictive each and every single day. Many of us use our cell phones three to five plus hours a day and the algorithm within each app is what is working in the background to either train us or lead us or produce a specific outcome, lead us to the next purchase. Negative or emotionally charged content spreads faster. Algorithms often prioritize posts that trigger strong emotions, anger and fear and envy, because they keep people engaged longer statistically. If it can engage your emotion, which is why that this this term doom scrolling feels so hard to stop at times because they're feeding your emotions with certain things. That's why a lot of things you read is not necessarily true. They're just trying to engage your emotions because every second that you stay still and you don't scroll is paying somebody who uploaded that content. That's why my wife is asking many times since we share the same platform and everything is linked together, why she keeps getting these advertisements about, you know, golf stuff. like, "Why is this on my feed?" I'm like, "I don't know. No idea." Just walk by her phone, Brother Snitz, and just whisper to it. You know what do you want for your birthday? Just go by your wife's phone. Just start talking to that thing. Put it in her feed. You know, you and your wife are frustrated because you get up a bad night's rest and you we need a new mattress. Give it five seconds. Every mattress store in the county is in your feed. Not just at the mention of something, perhaps just your location. You stood for a few moments outside of the sporting goods store and all of a sudden that advertisement for big sporting goods starts popping up because of geo mapping and this and that and advertising. The algorithm is trained to help map your next step out. You may just find yourself spending time in certain places and certain situations and you never really intended to be here and you ask yourself, it's a lot like sin. How did I get here? I never intended for my life to be where I'm at now, whether good or bad. If you're just honest with yourself, none of us could have done it by oursel. >> We all end up being influenced by our whether it's your desires or your location, they can play a role in what is being placed in front of you. So, I read the other day and and this this intrigued me and kind of put me on on this thought as I'm studying a few of these things and writing, but a man asked another man a question. happened to be a pastor, a large church. He said, "Does the devil know your inward thoughts? Does the can the devil does he does can he hear your inward dialogue? Can he see or hear your thoughts?" And the man's response took me back. And he his response was this. And again, this is one of those things where maybe somebody smarter than me can answer the question, but his response I thought was pretty pretty witty. and he says they don't necess don't I don't necessarily know if they can or they can't but he said they don't have to. I thought well that's interesting. So I kept reading the algorithms he said on Instagram and Tik Tok can read your mind. You all of a sudden want something you didn't need. And he kind of goes through the same thing we just read as the definition of an algorithm. He said I'll tell you this. Demons are way smarter than Tik Tok and Instagram. He said why? Because they've been studying way beyond you. They've been watching your family. They've been watching your grandparents. They've been watching generations of human beings. And they see the struggle of what grandma and grandpa struggled with. Therefore, that DNA is in you. And they try to get you to fall in the same hole. And he starts down this. The devil has studied us for so long. He he knows if it's lust or maybe it's self-esteem and if it's this or if it's that. And because the devil is seeking to destroy us and he is here to tempt us in our weakest moments and even tonight he will try his best to keep us sidetracked and distracted and and unmotivated and to feel like that we are just going through the mundane and it's just another Sunday night. >> He's crept into each and every one of us. Maybe even fault some of you from coming tonight. It's just a thought. It's just a interaction. And I'm I'm here just to encourage you tonight and kind of bring to the forefront a little bit of what we are facing and what we're seeing in a modern culture that we live in. That no matter what generated algorithm is doing, it is doing its best. Even the adversary, the devil is doing its best to guess your next move. No matter how much they want to tell you that they've got you figured out, you have a choice. >> That algorithm in your phone, no matter how many billions of dollars they spend, cannot override the decision of a human being. >> That's right. >> Nothing will and nothing can. The devil isn't going to do it. Cannot do it. The algorithm can't do it. Apple can't do it. NOBODY'S GOING TO DO IT. And God is a just God and he's not going to do it. >> SO YOU HAVE A CHOICE tonight >> to walk in God's algorithm. >> You have an opportunity tonight to WALK WITH A GOD that's not playing a guessing game. You have an opportunity tonight to walk in the order and the perfect will of God that nothing has ever and nothing will ever catch him offguard. He's not playing a guessing game tonight. He's not trying to figure it out. There's no election. There's no virus. There's nothing that's ever come to your life or ever will that will catch him in a place of surprise. Why? Because God has always had a plan. He said all things for the day. All things. You say, "How did I get here?" You are specifically placed in this place tonight for such a time as this. It is a choice that got you here. But God has positioned you. Genesis 50:20. Let me just read a few verses of scripture. I know you know these verses. Again, I I just bringing you a simple thought tonight. But as for you, you thought evil against me, >> but God had an algorithm. You thought evil against me, but God meant it unto you, unto good to bring it to pass and it as it is to this day to save much people alive. Pastor talked about it this morning. I don't know about you, but when you hear of people, especially people close to you, that's gone through something that could have took their life where we could all be >> one decision, >> one swerving car, >> one situation, >> one death, one disease, one this OR ONE ONE FACTOR OF LIFE. But the things that the devil brought against me, God meant it unto good. God has a plan for you. I'm just here just here to remind you tonight. Jeremiah 29:1, "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, sayeth the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end." I don't know about you, but that sounds really, really good to me. I I don't know about you, but that sounds really, really good to me. And I'm thankful. I I know it's not something we want to think about. And and again, I know I'm just kind of pulling from pastor tonight, but but there there is a heaven to gain and there is a hell to shun. There is a literal heaven and there is a lit literal hell. And I don't know about you, but I want God's expected end. >> >> I I know I've mentioned this before, but there there's something there's something and I I can't I I'm going to do my best tonight. I'll do my best tonight to behave and preach an encouraging word. >> But I am avidly, brother Sullivan, against the whole idea within our movement. I have tested it. I'm running my own statistics. I feel like over the past few weeks, I've been from sea to shining sea. I don't know how many more messages I could hear in a month span. >> I'm tired of hearing myself for sure, but I've heard some other people preach. And what irks me is when somebody gets up and starts preaching about the goodness of God. But then we get up and we preach against something >> and I mean they're swinging from the rafters. >> They'll kick the pews over >> talking about the condition of the world. >> I'm not here >> to celebrate a lost and dying world. >> I'm not here to celebrate how good I am and how bad they are. I'm here to look at the fact that God brought If there's anything I'm gonna get excited about. It's the fact that God kept me when he didn't have to. He He purchased the church before the church was ever his mercy met me before I was ever IN. I'M TELLING SOMEBODY TONIGHT, GOD HAS his hand on you. He's had his hand on you and RIGHT NOW IN THIS MOMENT wants to work in your life. God's got a plan for you. >> I want that expected end. >> I want that expect. I DON'T HAVE to live in uncertainty. I don't have to live in anxiety. I don't have to live in worry. >> THERE'S AN EXPECTED END. I I'M JUST HERE TO ENCOURAGE you tonight. SOME OF YOU, YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE JUST BOUND UP IN question marks. >> This and that and this and that. And I'm just telling you tonight, can I just take you through a few stories? A man named Abraham who received a promise named Isaac. Let let me just just walk you through a few stories. God already sent a ram up the other side of the mountain before Abraham ever raised the knife. We read the story as if it's playing out and poof, there's a ram. >> No. Could I encourage somebody tonight? There's an algorithm in God's way that knows the test before you face the mountain. God told Abraham to offer Isaac, but he already had a ram that was walking up the other side of the mountain. You tell me that test was real. But the provision was never a question. >> It was a real test. Your current trial is not catching God off guard. >> It was already factored in his plan. And there's a ram. I'm here to encourage somebody right now as you're climbing that mountain that seems frustrating and seems like it's never going to be over. I want to tell you tonight, there's provision. There's a promise. There's an answer on the other side of the mountain that's walking the same steps you are. THE SAME MOUNTAIN YOU'RE CLIMBING, THERE'S PROVISION on the other side. I can't see it. I can't see it. God's algorithm positions provision in advance. I'm here to preach to somebody tonight. It's already done. There's already a ram. There's already a ram. I'm not going to get all into it tonight, but whatever it is you're facing, Jesus Christ has already come up the other side of that mountain. >> He's already got his head caught in the crown of thorns. He's already placed himself in a sacrificial space. He's already caught himself up and sacrificed his life so that you could walk up the other side and say, "Hey, I'm going to give my life to God tonight. I'm going to repent at an altar. I'm going to be baptized in his name. Why? Because he's already come up the other side. >> Faith doesn't create the provision. >> Faith doesn't create the the the the solution. It doesn't create the the promise. Faith is something that it simply unlocks >> what the AL algorithms already prepared. >> That's right. That's right. I that ram could have that ram could have been walking around just waiting. I I'm here to explain to you tonight God already has He said before the foundation of the world >> That's right. >> There was already a ram on the other side of the mountain. Before Adam and Eve would ever eat, there was a ram on the other side of the mountain. There was a solution. There was the keys of the kingdom. Long before there was something that needed to be unlocked, there was a set of keys. Long before you and I ever had an issue, the same God tonight who provided for Abraham is running your algorithm tonight. >> God, >> so be encouraged. >> Be encouraged. There's a ram on the other side of your struggle. You know, something something gets me. We kind of got into that New Testament age and we, you know, we we sing about uh and and sister Lord sings it so well. Our God is a mountain mover. >> Huh? We want to move mountains. But it seems like Caleb and those guys in the Old Testament, they wanted a mountain. >> Yeah. Caleb. Caleb. That's what he said. He said, "Give me this mountain." You know why he said, "Give me this mountain?" Because he looked back and he said, "Abraham had a mountain." Moses had a mountain. Everybody that's done anything that's in the history books that gets talked about around the campfire that's a hero in this thing all had a mountain. >> So perhaps you ought to look at your problem and your mountain and stop trying to cast it into the sea and op trying to get and get a little bit of that Caleb mentality and say God I know if you want me to climb this thing that there's something coming up the other side of the mountain. I'm maybe you can't get rid of it but I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW you say I I don't know what to do God. And I you keep walking. You keep coming to church. You keep going to the prayer room. You keep coming to the altar. You keep stepping with faith. Why? Because I'm the there's a RAM ON THE OTHER SIDE. GOD'S GOT A SOLUTION THAT'S ALREADY THERE. >> There four lepers. Second Kings 7. God had already routed the enemy. >> Before anyone moved, while the city starved and the lepers sit in despair, God had already caused an entire Syrian army to hear the sounds of chariots, hear the sounds horses, and they would run in terror accord according to verses six and seven. So again, let me just and I I just we could do this all night, but the the victory is executed in advance and lepers sit there and can anybody tell me I know it's like Sunday school. Can anybody tell me what they said? >> Why sit here till we die? Some of us physically and spiritually have adapted to our condition. >> We become comfortable. This is just where we're at. >> I'm just going to sit here till I die. >> God, I'm just going to be here. >> When he's saying, "Hey, there's already dinner on the table over here. >> There there's already tables prepared. There's food of pl the prophet had already the the food was on the table waiting on them to get there. Dinner's already been fixed for somebody. God's already prepared a table before you in the presence of wherever. >> Why? That's God's algorithm. >> It's the way God works. We need to stop trying to move the enemy and move the mountain and just become settled in with our condition. God, I rebuke tonight the spirit of infirmity. >> I come against the spirit of infirmity. Everybody in YOUR HOUSE BEING SICK. GOD FOR THAT'S NOT THE WILL OF GOD. TAKE >> IT'S NOT THE WILL OF GOD. >> We just just going to sit here till we die. >> I understand sickness comes, sickness goes. >> We're all going to die. >> But me looking for something, >> it's letting that spirit just sit on us. Oh, you are an overcomer. >> By the blood of the lamb, >> by his stripes, we are God is still a healer. God is still a deliverer. God is still a chain breaker. God is still the God of Abraham, Isaac, and J. He's still the same God that caused the sound to hit that Syrian army's ear. He's still the same God that delivered them. The prophecy was fulfilled exactly as Elisha spoke it. He said the food would be plentiful and cheap tomorrow. But what if they had never got up? What if they just sat in their comfort? What if they just stayed where they were? We can't go walking up in there. We can't go limping up in there. We can't go dragging our our our lepous selves up in there thinking we're going to have any kind of victory. It had already been done. God is working and he wants to do a new thing if we will just walk in obedience, continue steadfastly in the apostles doctrine. Oh, we see that time and time and time again, God is working. These lepers, the discovery made it happen ON SCHEDULE BECAUSE GOD'S algorithm keeps perfect prophetic time. Yes, sir. >> The unlikely messengers delivered the good news. These outcasts and lepers became the heralds of God. He He often uses the overlooked to announce what he's already accomplished. All right. >> He often used the overlooked. I know nobody likes to hear it, but God used the woman to deliver the gospel the first time. >> He often used the man with a stuttering problem. He often used the people and he he takes these lepers and he he's establishing not only what has been prophesied, but he establishes something that he had already accomplished. And I'm just asking somebody to stop sitting at the gate in despair. >> Don't just sit here and say, "God, I've served you, God, and God's not done with you." If you're still breathing, God's still got a plan for you. It's already been cleared by God. The table's already been set. The abundance is waiting. Will you go and just check out tonight and see what's on the other side of our obedience? God's algorithm has already scheduled your victory. >> Your victory's been scheduled. I just want to encourage somebody tonight. So, I feel like I've just been struggling. I'm struggling. I'm struggling. I'm fighting. I'm fighting. Your victory is right on time. >> It's It's already been It's already been scheduled. You said, "Well, I wish he'd put it on my calendar." >> Don't we all? >> God's algorithm. He wants to challenge somebody tonight. >> That's right. >> He wants to encourage somebody tonight. The spirit of God says, "Hey, maybe you stop scrolling and start stepping a little bit. >> Huh? Maybe you stop scrolling and start speaking a little bit. May maybe you stop parrowsing Facebook and start praying a little bit." It would do you some good if you start focusing on God's. Well, how would I do that? Maybe pray about it. >> Huh? Maybe worship about it. Maybe praise him like it's already done. Maybe just do what God has called US TO DO. WHY? BECAUSE his ways are PERFECT AND ALL [screaming and groaning] THINGS WORK together for the good of those who love him. He says, "Nay, I say in these things." All these things. >> All. Somebody shout all. >> ALL. >> SOMEBODY SHOUT ALL. >> ALL. >> This is why I am the way that I am. I can't do anything about it. I've prayed about it. I'm not a half church person. I'm an all church person. I go to youth camp and them kids, they hate me. But the youth workers keep bringing me back. Why? Because I don't like it if I don't have everybody participating. Why? Because the book's not for half the congregation. The book's not for half the youth group. The book's not for half the folks in the county. The book's FOR ALL PEOPLE, ALL THINGS. EVERYTHING, every person in this room's got a plan, GOT A PURPOSE, GOT A CALLING, GOT A WAY THAT GOD WANTS to work through your mountain to reveal his glory. >> Somebody say, "He's talking to me tonight." >> God's trying to encourage all of us. >> An ark was built before the first raindrop fell. >> Joseph was betrayed, but there was a butler and a baker in the prison. >> Mana is still falling while you're sleeping. >> I'm just here to tell you, God's algorithm is perfect, Moses. There's a basket that'll save you. There's a burning bush that's going to speak to you. There's a rod that's going to show himself through. There's water that's waiting to part. There's a mountain with an experience for you. No one knew when they built the walls of Jericho, they were built to fall. God has already given you victory. >> It's a book full of preconceived, already planned, >> scheduled >> victories. Elijah, there's a widow waiting on you. She's got her last bill of me, bit of meal, and oh, waiting on it to be multiplied. Ruth, you didn't just stumble into another field. Your steps were ordered by the Lord >> to break a family curse, to bring a woman out of Moabitete, God's wash pot, >> into the lineage of a redeemer. She had no idea when she walked into that field that she was being positioned by God. That she was just stepping right into. >> She's stepping right into a place where her name would be read. David, I know you're just running your daily door dash. Huh? is taking some bread and cheese to your brothers. But see, there's this there's this giant in the valley. I got these I got these stones I got these stones down in the brook that I've been I've been just kind of smoothing for decades. Water's been washing over these stones. I've prepared them. I've prepared these stones. I've smoothed this. I've taken out all the rough edges so that they would pierce the head and change the trajectory of an entire nation. Every single step, every small piece of history, our book is all about accomplishing something. It's God's algorithm. I'll finish again. Again, I just making a point. We could we could go all the way through, right? There's a fiery furnace. Nobody wants that. There's a lion's den. Nobody wants that. Just let you know that when you feel the fire, you hear the roar. God's always up to something. God is always up to something. >> Yes, sir. >> Mary, God is about to overshadow you. Peter, Andrew, James, and John, you need to put your nets down. It's time to stop being a tax collector. It's time to start following. There's just a slight change in the path of people. There's a little boy who brought his lunch to a gathering, but becomes the main character in the multiplication of five loaves and two fishes. Mary, don't worry. You're going to embomb a man that is not there. For the stone that you are discussing has already been rolled away. In each and every one of our lives, there's been moment after moment after moment that I worried about something that God had already taken care of. So I speak to every person tonight, >> every concern >> in the name of Jesus over every sickness, >> over everything that binds your mind, that troubles you. Maybe it's a little bit of division in a marriage. Maybe it's an addiction. Maybe it's something that nobody knows about. I've come to speak to you tonight. God knows. God sees. You're not hiding it from him. It's time to go up to the mountain and make a sacrifice. It's time to get back in God's algorithm. It's 120 that would gather. And I know you've been waiting. I could just see the I could just see the anticipation that the day of Pentecost has fully come and heaven's Pentecostal algorithm is about to pour out with Holy Ghost and fire. It's a lame man at a gate called beautiful and he looks up and it's not someone who's tossing a coin, but it's somebody that's about to change his life. It was just another day at the same gate. It was another night at the same old 6:00 p. p.m. Sunday night service, brother Jeter. But this day, this night was going to be like no other night. I don't have anything to put in the cup, but I've got a solution. In the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk. Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? This risen savior has intercepted you on this road to Damascus. The greatest calling is about to be born out of your greatest mistakes. Why? Because God's algorithm is perfect. As we referenced before, I want to take you to Joshua 6. I'm not going to be very much longer. Joshua 6:3-5. You know the story. He says, "And you shall compass the city, all you men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do this six days." Everybody say, "Six days." >> And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of ram's horn. And the seventh day you shall compass the city seven times, and the priest shall blow with the trumpets. And it shall come to pass when they make a long blast with a ram's horn. And when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend upon every man straight before him. That is the commandment. That is what's going to happen. And then if you go to verses 13- 16, you can read it. You can read it later on in in the week. You could read verses really 13 all the way down to 21 and we see exactly what they were asked to do play out. It's the Sunday school story. I'm not telling you anything you haven't heard before. We we we got little nursery songs about it, right? Everybody knows they they marched around the walls six times and on the seventh day all the students we see that a lot in scripture. Maybe there is something to that little thing that you all did for a while there. I'm not going to say it. You all know what I'm saying talking about. Anybody? No. You guys not with me? You aren't paying any attention. Huh? He marched six times and on the seventh. So, it was No. Okay. I can't help but think that it becomes monotonous. It becomes questionable in the fact that they just say, "We're going to march around the walls six times." And you want us to do this in silence, but in on the seventh day, you want us to shout with victory. And and so, just like God does, he gives this plan of action, and it is it's it's painted out. And and again, we could have went to any story tonight. go and dip seven times. Go and do this multiple times. It's not just go do it one time. He said, "I want you to go look and see if you see any sign of rain." He says, "Go." He went six times and all of a sudden the seventh time he saw a cloud the size of a man's hand. Again, I'm telling you that 67 things all in there. But the but there's there's he said, "I want you to do this multiple times." It's like I asked myself, would I be willing to go the fifth time? >> Would I be willing to keep marching? >> Would would I be willing to just continue? I mean, listen, I've dipped in that same pool. We have marched and we have marched. It's for the folks, you know, when they push the the second and third article like my we gonna do this again. That's when the preacher says in closing the fourth time, you're saying, "Oh, sure." You know, the fourth time again. Like, let's just be honest. in our natural flesh, would we be willing to go >> another time? >> Here, here's the here's the thing that I I fear that we miss because we're willing to maybe do it once >> and we're willing to maybe even do it twice, but once we start getting into three, four, fifth, it starts to fizzle out because nothing's happened. >> Nothing's changed. The wall hadn't even like kind of crackled, you know, walking by the walls as I can imagine thinking, you know, exactly how's this going to happen? Is it going to fall on us? Is it going to fall in? Is it going to fall? You know, you got all your logistical people trying to figure out how God's going to do it. You know, it's it's a thing where I I just wonder in my in my flesh, could I do what I had done before again knowing there was an expected end. >> So, that sounds pretty easy, brother Hammond. I mean, if he told you seven times, you should be eagerly anticipating the seventh day. Well, I mean he told us in this entire book that we win but yet we get weary in welloing. >> So I take you back to somewhat how we open. If heaven is God God's expected end, >> why is it that we can't continue steadfastly? Why is it that we can't continue to have faith? Why is it that uncertainty and weariness? Can you march in obedience even when heaven seems silent for six days? No shout, no progress, every silent step of obedience seems monotonous. But I'm here to preach to you tonight that every step is feeding the algorithm. Every aspect of everything you do, Could we jump back to your phone? Everything you do, the tilt of your phone, the pause, don't even have to like or comment. It determines whether or not you have the sound on or sound off. It has this factor where you located. Every step is playing a part in getting you where it wants you to go. Every step in God's plan is a part of getting you where God has prepared for you tonight. So the shout of faith once again active hates a pre-planned premed we could say it that way already accomplished miracle already prophesied already put in place on the seventh day after the seventh march they shout the walls fell flat you know the story. But the shout isn't necessarily what created the victory. The shout is it didn't necessarily create the victory. It released what the plan and the purpose of God had already set in order. >> If you could see this, God has prepared it. Your praise, your declaration of faith, your faithfilled shout can trigger what heaven has already got encoded into your life. >> WHAT HE ALREADY HAS PLANNED FOR YOU. THAT EXPECTED END THAT we read about that that ordained from the your mother's womb. THERE'S THINGS THAT GOD WANTS TO DO THROUGH YOUR LIFE TONIGHT. Question is, will we keep walking? Will we keep walking in what God has for us? Would you stand to your feet tonight? Whether it seems ordinary or it seems radical, obedience, obedience is the key. Obedience is the key. >> You say, I don't, brother Hammond, I have tried that. We we man, I I I've run around this place before. I have I have shouted before. I have danced before. I'm here to tell you tonight, could you try one more time? >> Could you worship him one more time? >> Could you pray for a breakthrough one more time? You say, "My addiction is so strong. I have a God who is able." He says, "You are more than a conqueror." You say, "Well, I'm I'm just overwhelmed with depression. I'm just asking you. Would you worship him?" One more time. You say, "My finances are struggling tonight. I wonder if you could bring it to God one more time. My relationship is struggling. Could you bring it to him just one more time?" I I I know tonight there's many different situations. There's many different struggles. But I'm asking you tonight, there's a God who's got a plan. The same God that brought them out of the land of Egypt. The same God that turned oh the mountain into this ram and this promise. The walls already have an expiration date. God has planned tonight for the victory in somebody's life. I know many of you are gathering around the front, but I wish you'd push forward as far as you can so that everybody that wants to can come around this front. Before they sing, before they play tonight, I believe there's a shout of victory that's going to ring out in this place tonight. That just as they did on that seventh day. This is going to be the seventh day for somebody in this room tonight. It's going to be the seventh day for somebody in this place tonight. There's a breakthrough. Come on. Will you believe it tonight? Will you march tonight? Will you shout tonight? God has already WON THE VICTORY. GOD HAS ALREADY WON THE VICTORY. GOD HAS ALREADY GOT A PLAN. GOD HAS ALREADY GOT AN EXPECTED END. Come on. That's it. Bring your addiction. Bring your sickness. Bring that trouble. Bring that prodal. Bring that problem tonight. God's got an answer. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Come on. That's it. Let's get in one mind and one accord. Come on. Get in one mind and one accord for a moment. Lord, WE GOT FAITH, LORD, KNOWING that you're more than able. You're more than able, GOD. YOU'RE MORE than able. You're more than able, God. Come on. I know some of you the devil's fighting you. I prayed that prayer before. I prayed that prayer before. Don't listen to him right now. There's victory. There's victory. There's victory in the house tonight. >> >> Oh hallelujah. Oh hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on. God hears you. Come on. God hears you. Oh, there's a breakthrough in this place tonight. There's a breakthrough in this place tonight. >> [bell] >> In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Church, if you listen to me for just a moment, if you'll listen to me for just a moment, I believe God's about to do something great in this house tonight. Do you believe God's able? You believe God's able? Would you just wave your hand at me? You believe God's able to do anything? You believe God's able to do anything in this house tonight? I know there's needs. I know there's problems. Your mind is filled with them. They scroll across the screen. Some of them you don't even nobody knows about. But if we believe the God I just preached about, we believe this word, right? I know it's simple. This is not about revelation. This is about increasing our faith tonight. Are you with me? We're going to increase our faith. We believe everything that I just preached. Everything, all things work together for the good. All things tonight. All things. We are overcomers. We are victorious. God wants to do it in this place tonight. And so I want to in the name of Jesus, if you believe it tonight, I want to on the count of three, just as they blew the trumpets, they're going to play. Just as they shouted on that seventh day, as they marched around the walls of Jericho, I want you to lift up a shout on the count of three in just a moment. And when you shout, if God drops, if God drops something in your spirit, I want you to obey him. If God tells you to dance, you ought to dance one more time. If God tells you to leap, you ought to leap one more time. If God tells you to fall on your face and repent, you ought to repent one more time in the name of Jesus. 1 2 3. Lift up a shout. Jesus, we believe it. There's a victory in the house of the Lord tonight. There's a victory in the house of the Lord. Come on. Every promise, every promise is unto you and to your children. Every promise. Be healed in the name of Jesus. Be healed in the name of Jesus. Get victory in the name of Jesus. Come on, that's it. >> Come on, yoke up with somebody in the name of Jesus. The power of Jesus in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. >> >> Come on. HE'S ALREADY DONE IT. There's a ram on the other side. There's a ram on the other side. He did it. He did it. He did it. The world say he did it. Oh, he did it. Oh, my God did it. Oh, he did it. Oh, he did it. Oh, he did it. Oh, he did it. Oh, he did it. >> >> And so I will dance like he did. It sound like he did. And like he did. It sound like he did. I praise my bra around you. I will. >> >> And that's like he did it. It sound like he did it. And like he did it. It sound like he did it. Say, "Oh, I will I will I will I will praise you. Praise. Praise. Praise. And roll back Jordan and Red Sea and fall down Jericho. You can't stop me. And roll back and fall. You can't stop me. Oh my god. You can't stop me. me. You can't stop me. You can't stop me. In the name of Jesus tonight, I come before you not I've not come to get on to you, but I've come tonight just a little bit stirred up, Brother Perry. And I'm here to tell the devil tonight, you're not going to stop us. Moses didn't walk up in Pharaoh's court to negotiate. >> He come and told him said, "Let him go." Some of you, I get there's a few of you. I get there's a few of you that feel like God has either done it for you or God's going to do it. But I believe every person in this place tonight, if you could just get a little bit of a little bit of faith in that mind that wants to try to figure everything out and wants to figure out what's the next move. I'm here to tell you, God's already got the table set. God's already got the ram TAKING THE STRIDES UP THE OTHER SIDE of the mountain. He said, "Everywhere that your foot steps is yours." I wish tonight in the spiritual that you just pick them up and put them down and say, "Devil, you're not going to stop me. You're not GOING TO STOP MY FAMILY. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO STOP THIS CHURCH. YOU CAN'T STOP ME. You can't stop me. You can't stop me. You can't stop me. You can't stop me. You can't stop me. You can't stop me. I'll keep on praising. I'll keep on dancing. I'll keep on shouting. I'll keep on singing. You can't stop me. You can't stop me. You can't stop me. You can't stop me. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. That's it. Get a hold of somebody and say, "YOU'RE NOT GOING TO STOP US. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO STOP US. THIS CITY IS OURS. THIS CITY IS OURS." In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. And like he did it. It sound like he did it. And just like he did and sound like he did sound like he praise my praise and praise my praise I will I will pray. Let me just build your faith for just a moment. We just build your faith for just a moment. Just a couple Sunday nights ago, we were preaching about the body of Christ and the body will heal itself. The body will take care of itself. We came around and we prayed in unity. Brother Nichols, elder brother Nichols told me he'd been walking with a cane for quite some time. Since Sunday night, somebody in the body, not brother Hammond, not brother Carpenter, somebody in the body laid hands on him. He's been without a cane ever since. He's the same God. He's the same God. Brother Kenny French, God can heal you tonight. I BELIEVE IT. GOD CAN HEAL YOU tonight in the name. IF YOU'VE GOT A SICKNESS IN YOUR BODY, WOULD YOU just I you say, "Oh, here we go again." NO. IS HE A GOD WHO HEALS OR IS HE NOT? IS HE A GOD WHO DELIVERS OR IS HE NOT? I wish you'd lift your hands. If you've got sickness in your body, wave your hand right now. And every person that's got their hand up, I wish somebody would grab a hold of that hand right now. We will not be a movement that stops seeing the miracles and the signs and THE WONDERS. WE ARE the people OF GOD. WE ARE HEALED. WE ARE DELIVERED. WE ARE OVERCOMERS BY THE BLOOD THAT FLOWED FROM HIS SIDE. I believe tonight in the name of Jesus. Come on, let's it. Come on. That's it. Young folks, young folks, praise him. PRAISE HIM LIKE HE'S ALREADY DONE IT. PRAISE HIM LIKE HE'S ALREADY DONE IT. PRAISE HIM LIKE HE'S ALREADY COME ON, STROKE TOWER STUDENTS. PRAISE HIM like he's already done. Come on, kids quest. Praise him like he's already done.