What to do in the wilderness | Pastor Keion Henderson

Summary

Pastor Keion Henderson delivers an inspiring sermon, exploring what it means to be in a wilderness phase of life, drawing lessons from Exodus 16. He emphasizes the importance of adopting a positive mindset even during challenging times and warns against the contagious nature of complaining. Pastor Henderson urges individuals to develop a "conqueror's dialect" and maintain faith amidst adversity. Through biblical examples, he highlights God's continued provision even when circumstances seem dire, encouraging listeners to recognize the blessings in their lives and to cultivate gratitude.

Highlights

• Pastor Keion emphasizes the dangers of complaining and its contagious nature. 🙊
• He encourages adopting a 'conqueror's dialect' to maintain positivity. 😊
• Pastor Henderson illustrates God's provision with the story of manna from heaven. 🌤️
• A focus on gratitude as a fundamental way to alter one's wilderness experience. 🙏
• Comparisons to past situations may distort perceptions of present circumstances. ⚖️

Key Takeaways

• Complaining is contagious; be aware of its influence on your mindset. 🙉
• Develop a conqueror's dialect by speaking positively, even in tough times. 💪
• Remember that God provides even in the wilderness of life, offering daily bread (or metaphorical sustenance). 🥖
• Your wilderness experience isn't just a challenge, but an opportunity to grow in faith and character. 🌱
• Gratitude transforms perspective; appreciate even the small things. 🌟

Overview

In his sermon, Pastor Keion Henderson draws on Exodus 16 to explore how individuals can navigate their personal wilderness phases—those challenging times rife with uncertainty and discomfort. He warns against the pervasive influence of complaining, illustrating how it can quickly spread and influence communities. Instead, Pastor Henderson urges listeners to speak positively and cultivate a 'conqueror's dialect.'

Pastor Henderson further captivates his audience by drawing from the biblical story of manna from heaven, emphasizing that even in desolate conditions, God's provision never falters. He encourages his congregation to recognize their daily blessings, no matter how small, and see them as evidence of divine attention and care.

The sermon underscores the transformative power of gratitude and mindset. By appreciating what they have and trusting in the process, individuals can move through their wilderness times with greater fortitude. Pastor Henderson invites his listeners to transform their narratives, turning complaints into recognition of growth and opportunity, reinforcing that the wilderness itself is a fertile ground for spiritual and personal development.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 03:00: Introduction and Context The chapter titled 'Introduction and Context' discusses a scenario involving the Israelites as narrated in Exodus 16 from the Bible. A specific verse, Exodus 16:2, is highlighted, which states that the entire congregation of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. The chapter seems to reflect on the significance of understanding how to handle new situations as referenced in the context of receiving something, possibly symbolizing guidance or provision, drawing a parallel to the biblical text.
• 03:00 - 10:00: Lessons from Exodus The chapter discusses a moment in the wilderness where the Israelites express frustration at being brought out of their comfort zone. They confront their leaders, essentially saying they should have been left in their original situation, as they feel threatened and uncomfortable in their new circumstances. It reflects a common human experience of resistance to change and discomfort with the unknown.
• 10:00 - 20:00: Israel's Complaints and Consequences The chapter discusses a time when the Israelites complained about hunger, accusing Moses of trying to starve them. In response, God promised to provide them with bread from heaven to test their obedience to His law.
• 20:00 - 31:00: Developing a Conqueror's Dialect This chapter, titled "Developing a Conqueror's Dialect," emphasizes the importance of strategic thinking and communication. Using the metaphor of bread distribution, the speaker explains that providing resources in smaller, daily amounts encourages regular interaction and community building. Rather than overwhelming someone with too much at once, which could lead to a lack of appreciation or prolonged absence, a controlled, mindful distribution fosters dependency and maintains ongoing relationships. The speaker advocates for a mindset shift in how we perceive and manage resources to cultivate influence and continuity in relationships.
• 31:00 - 44:00: God's Provision and Instructions This chapter discusses the theme of divine provision and instruction, as conveyed through a narrative or sermon. It highlights the notion of God's intentional testing and provision, emphasizing the idea that if one is capable, God will provide what they need. However, if people are complainers, God ensures that they must rely on divine provision daily to prevent them from becoming 'prodigal sons.' The speaker suggests the importance of embracing this daily reliance and proposes that the audience may currently be experiencing a test of faith orchestrated by God.
• 44:00 - 54:00: Reflection and Call to Action In the chapter titled 'Reflection and Call to Action,' the speaker addresses the topic of dealing with challenging periods, metaphorically referred to as the 'wilderness.' The speaker plans to offer two actionable steps that could be beneficial for anyone facing such times in their life. The introduction is set in a motivational and spiritual tone, encouraging camaraderie and support among attendees as they prepare to gain insights on handling difficult situations effectively.

What to do in the wilderness | Pastor Keion Henderson Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 fighted about receiving them but that's your neighbor this what are you gonna do when you get it you gotta know what to do when you get it today I'm coming from exodus 16 I'm gonna look at verse number 2 Bible says in Exodus 16 verse number 2 the Bible says that the entire company of Israel the whole congregation of Israel the Bible says that they murmured against who Moses and Aaron and where
• 00:30 - 01:00 did they do it in the wilderness let's look at verse number 3 and here's what the word of the Lord says the Israelites said to them watch this he says basically and I want to paraphrase that so you all understand what's happening he said yeah should have left us where we were but y'all messed up our comfort and y'all brought us out here and which I'll try to do you ever seen somebody when you trying to kill me ain't you you ever said that somebody say y'all y'all
• 01:00 - 01:30 y'all trying to kill us and your weapon of choice is hunger you're trying to starve us to death look at verse number 4 are y'all with me so far then the Lord said unto Moses behold I will rain bread from heaven for WHO and the people shall go and gather a certain rate every day that I may prove them whether they will make the law or not in other words it's saying everyday you go out there and you
• 01:30 - 02:00 get the bread daily daily bread are you with me so far yes this is I'm not giving you a loaf you're not loaf worthy I give you too much bread I won't see you for a while so what we're gonna do is I'm a create a situation where we have to commune amen now anybody who can give you bread every day has enough bread to give you enough bread for the week but the way your mind
• 02:00 - 02:30 set up you got a brain and a mind and you can't you can't handle a loaf he'll give you a loaf if you can but they because they were complainers God says I'm tell you what I'm gonna make sure you got to come back every day otherwise I will have created my own prodigal sons are y'all with me so far all right what I want to talk about is something that will help you I believe and I only have two points how many of you all think that you're in a situation right now where God is testing you
• 02:30 - 03:00 before you come out so yes that's Tuesday we talked about how to work your miracle today we're going to talk about what to do in the wilderness if you are in the wilderness right now I have two things that I'm going to give you and I think if you do those these two things that it will help you in your wilderness give your neighbor high-five on your way to your seat and say what to do in the wilderness you may be seated in the presence of the Lord I don't have to get
• 03:00 - 03:30 into the entire background of what's going on but basically what's happening here with the children of Israel is that they have rebelled against God now notice that Aaron and Moses are the leaders but if you read the scripture carefully it doesn't say that they rebelled against Aaron and Moses it says specifically that they rebelled against God because anytime you rebelled against
• 03:30 - 04:00 the person God put over you you are rebelling against God anytime you rebelled against authority that God puts over you you may think that it's directed at the person but in actuality God subscribes the rebellion as a rebellion against his choice and
• 04:00 - 04:30 his system and its description ought to show you that you won't always agree with the direction of your errand and your Moses but your disagreement with that direction doesn't give you the ability to be rebellious he says God is basically saying to them they know where they are taking you because I told them where to take you and you've got to get in line Israel because you and I have had a continuous problem every time you
• 04:30 - 05:00 don't like what I have to say you do what you want to do every time you don't like my system you want to go back and create your past y'all gonna have to follow this you see most people when they don't like the present as opposed to finding out what the future holds they go back to what they know no matter
• 05:00 - 05:30 how painful it was are you praying with me so far Exodus 16 begins by saying that the whole congregation somebody say the whole congregation now this text is not about the church only it's it's something that you're supposed to be able to adopt for your life so the text says the whole congregation one translation says the whole company but you may want to say the whole family right or the whole office or the whole
• 05:30 - 06:00 whatever it is that that you are in where you have shared responsibility and shared space this is applicable the whole of the thing the whole congregation for this particular congestion of the Israelites were murmuring everybody say murmuring they were murmuring against Aaron Moses in the wilderness and and and I understand it because just about a month ago prior to this just a few weeks
• 06:00 - 06:30 earlier they were dealing with the shortage of water today and and and you'll remember that God did several things with water with them number one he turned bitter water sweet you remember the bitter waters of Morrow and and the other thing that God did is he brought water out of Iraq and and they were complaining and what Moses does and I want to warn you against this because you can mess up your blessing what Moses does is the first time he strikes a rock
• 06:30 - 07:00 and water comes out of it but because he got caught up in them complaining when God told him to speak to the rock he went watch this like I just say it back to his past and he struck a rock and then God prevented him from getting into the Promised Land and let me tell you something you will always be prevented from entering the promised land when you allow people to enter into you when you allow people's
• 07:00 - 07:30 negative perspectives to enter your mind you have rendered yourself useless for the next level because God says how can I bless you to go to a new place under the auspices of your old self I brought you this far because you were a leader I brought you this far because you were faithful I brought you this far because I thought I saw a renewed perspective happening but the first time your husband says something you didn't like now you go back to being the person that
• 07:30 - 08:00 you said that you were not anymore and you've set back your whole process because you've proven to me that you have not changed you were just a chameleon God says I'm not going to bless your colors I'm going to bless your change I'm not going to bless who you pretending to be in the circumstance I'm going to bless who you genuinely are on the inside and the best way to find out what's on the inside of you is to put you inside of something you don't agree with to put you inside of
• 08:00 - 08:30 something you don't like to put you in a wilderness and I want to see how you act in the wilderness know what you're gonna do in Canaan I know what you're gonna do when the land is flowing with milk and honey and I know what you're going to I saw what happened with men ax fell from heaven but I want to know what you do when ain't no water coming so they are thirsty several weeks passed by and now they don't have the thirst problem now they have the hunger problem now they have water but they have no bread now watch this when they had no water they
• 08:30 - 09:00 complained when they didn't have any bread they complained and so God and Aaron and Moses found out oh I understand that it is not about bread it's not about water it's that whatever happens to you you have a habit it's called complaining y'all gonna get with me today I want to talk to people who don't recognize that no matter what the situation is you have the same response that whether you have no water you complain whether you have
• 09:00 - 09:30 no bread you complain whether you have no husband you complain whether you have no money you complain and you keep saying is that I don't have anybody and you keep saying it's that I'm lonely and you keep saying it's because I'm not being paid enough what my question is is why do you have the same reaction to every situation did y'all come to say man because I think you think that miracles are easy to get but what you must understand about a miracle is God
• 09:30 - 10:00 always requires something out of the receiver of the miracle before he releases the miracle yes he did turn the water to wine not until he told him y'all go carried him water pots and bring him to me yes he did make a man be able to see again but not until he told him to go and dip in the pool and wash his eyes there is always something required from you before God will give you the miracle every situation Israel went through they had the same reaction
• 10:00 - 10:30 I want to see if anybody be honest because I want to know if this sermon is for you I'll do I just need to go ahead and call it a day that no matter what happens to you anger is your response that no matter what happens to you shutting down is your response that no matter what happens to you silent treatment is your reaction now everybody here don't have the same reaction that every time you get upset you want to punch somebody in the face why because
• 10:30 - 11:00 it's not about what just happened to you what the situation has done is revealed to you what's wrong with you I need I need about five people to say I determined hurting but it's gonna help come on just touching them say I don't feel good right now but this thing gonna help me I promise you if y'all stay with me for the next moment or two I'm going to show you how to get out of your wilderness just like God got them out of this but there has to be a confrontation between you and I
• 11:00 - 11:30 in the scripture because if you don't admit what your issue is in the wilderness then you won't be able to recognize what your strength is in the Promised Land two separate issues jenkins same response is it amazing how many have people always blaming other people for if it wasn't for them I wouldn't in and they know it's you baby
• 11:30 - 12:00 did you you got an attitude and that's it and it don't matter if you hungry you got attitude it don't matter if you got to wake up early you got an attitude it don't matter if somebody waking you up you got an attitude it don't matter somebody too loud you got an attitude it don't matter somebody sitting in the seat in church that you ain't pay for but you think it's yours you got attitude somebody speak to you at the mall you asking God for a man but you got attitude you got a headache you
• 12:00 - 12:30 got a attitude you need your nails done you got attitude all of these different situations and what most people are not able to admit is that they have a habit of complaining not only is complaining a habit but it's also contagious because the Bible said the whole congregation
• 12:30 - 13:00 now you know that it wasn't them all centered at the same time somebody started and then it caught on yeah you're right you right they didn't brought us out here for nothing you're right you're right you're right you're right let me call sister songs oh girl let me tell you they done brought us out here to die you sho enough right you sho enough right we ought to get to concern members committee to go up to Aaron and Moses and let them know that we ain't having it neither by complaining not
• 13:00 - 13:30 everybody's murmuring because not only is complaining a habit it's also contagious and the Bible says in verse 2 that they all were complaining they said y'all brought us out here to die let me tell you how I know complaining is it's contagious do you remember when when Jesus and the disciples went to the woman's house who have two alabaster box of oil and the Bible says that she broke it and anointed the feet of Jesus and
• 13:30 - 14:00 Judas said why in the world did you waste all of that all on him and then all of the other disciples start to say yeah God yeah yeah yeah yeah that's that's that's that's a whole year's worth to savers that she's wasted at your feet look at how we just took one betrayer to spark the conversation and everybody starts complaining and I want to warn you that your life is not your problem your circle is your problem your
• 14:00 - 14:30 life is not your problem the people in your life our problem because what I have learned is that some of y'all will adopt the problems of the people in your life and then infuse them into your own circumstance and now everybody's complaining they're all complaining Judas should have had something to say about the oil because he was the treasurer it was his job to balance the checkbook but the other guys
• 14:30 - 15:00 didn't have their responsibility but because Judas says something complaining is contagious hallelujah if somebody on your role right now be some true church as long you blog yeah it is long recognize it was there long but it is getting a little bit bit longer than I thought it was gonna be they were hungry
• 15:00 - 15:30 and everybody in here has a hunger oh you got food in your refrigerator I ain't talking about that oh but if I dig deep enough I can find out where you starving you might not be hungry for bread but some of y'all hungry for attention and if you got attention you're hungry for materialism if you got materialism you're hungry for attention I you aint gotta say man but everybody in here is starving somewhere and what I have learned is there
• 15:30 - 16:00 growling stomachs equating to grumbling lips that wherever your stomach is growling it will come out of your mouth and you don't have to wait long and you just watch I guarantee you that every person in this place is complaining in the area of their hunger wherever you don't have enough is where you have a problem lord help me in this church says they nobody gonna be honest but the five people who've been saying Amen all day and this old sweet sister that's coming
• 16:00 - 16:30 up here right now god bless your sister probably with most of us you want to act like your hunger oh I'm fine I'm not insecure I don't need anybody you to worse out all of us the one that's walking around talking about they don't need nobody and they don't care what nobody care what nobody think you care what everybody think what you're trying to do is convince yourself you don't care I don't care who you are you care what somebody thinks stop walking around here tell me I don't care what nobody think that's a lot you might not care what I think but there's
• 16:30 - 17:00 somebody in your life where you care growling stomachs lead to grumbling lips and everybody in this whole room and those of you who are watching me on the internet I guarantee you you are complaining where you're most hungry the idea that God brought them all the way out there to starve is preposterous nonsensical he has proven to them on a
• 17:00 - 17:30 multiplicity of times that he is invested in their survival you remember that when Pharaoh had them in Egypt he sent ten plagues to get him out turn water the blood sitting locusts and nets to eat up all of the the produce he has done so many things sent hail and rain and all kinds of stuff to get he sent so much trouble on Pharaoh until Pharaoh said can y'all please leave can y'all go
• 17:30 - 18:00 we don't want the free labor we rather hire contractors than to keep going through what we're going through can you all leave when they got to the Red Sea God parted it proved that he was with him turn bitter water sweet mate water come out of the rock had manna come down from heaven a pillar of fire by day and another a cloud by night a fire by night in a cloud by day he has shown them a million times that he's vested in their
• 18:00 - 18:30 survival but pain will always make you remember the past and would always mix and this is why you have to be careful in your wilderness because your wilderness will over exaggerate your pain and make you undervalue your blessing Lord help me in this place they have forgotten that God has just got them out of slavery and they are complaining and freedom Lord help me in this place they have been in slavery for
• 18:30 - 19:00 400 years and now they are free and here's what they say we should just go back where we were Moses you should have just left us where we were we were fine here's what the scripture says we were sitting by the fleshpots and we had plenty of bread to eat in other words they were saying we had enough meat to eat and we had enough food to eat are they crazy your pay will make you overvalue your history there is
• 19:00 - 19:30 nowhere in the world they thought that Egypt was better than the wilderness they have to throw their babies and kill their babies they have to have a brick quota and when they did not meet it they were hit on the back and be how in the world was Egypt better than the wilderness I'll tell you what was better because even though it was a small amount of food it was given and in the wilderness they had to earn it and let me tell you something people always like you when you're giving them stuff but when you make them earn it
• 19:30 - 20:00 y'all they gonna say man as long as you giving them attention but then when you wake up and say hey I've been giving you attention and you ain't giving me none now you got to earn it out of a sudden the Lord said something we got to the problem with most of your relationships is you have built them on a false premise and then when you get tired and then you want to make it right both people are struggling the first thing I
• 20:00 - 20:30 want you to learn in your wilderness is that you must everybody say you must I want you to get this and I want you to write it down you must develop a conquerors dialect how you speak in your wilderness will have everything to do with how you operate in it and if you're walking around your wilderness talking about you should've left us in Egypt man
• 20:30 - 21:00 we ain't got no water and we ain't got no bread and we don't have this and we don't have that you didn't even have that where you were but when you're trying to prove a point in your presence you will always over exaggerate your experience see it's called manipulation it's called manipulation see some of y'all have a boyfriend or girlfriend 9 what you telling to me is a dis
• 21:00 - 21:30 relationship ain't gonna work cuz in my old relationship I ain't never have to argue like this you're lying you argue just like that in your last relationship but what you're trying to do is make the person think that there's a problem now you don't have to say man you don't have to say man you can sit there and look stupid like you're looking and keep that deer in a headlight look but everybody in here knows you tried to manipulate somebody and make them think that your past situation was better than the one you're in and that is not true it was just like this but what you're trying to
• 21:30 - 22:00 do is make them change so you can stay the same not only people who clapping is the ones who are honest and they say oh that's the trick that's what's been going on the rest I'm sitting there like oh my god he doesn't found me out and I gotta find a whole new strategy your password let's just sit wasn't better than the one you're in question if it was why you ain't in it if your past was so good why did you leave if it was so
• 22:00 - 22:30 great why don't you still have it [Music] do me a favor touching them say get over it I've been preaching 20 minutes some of y'all still wearing if you're gonna say man and I say something I'm tired of y'all ain't got all day now I just heard this service almost over when you gonna get with me
• 22:30 - 23:00 we sat by the fleshpots lives we had a good the good old days I remember I remember one day my father was sitting down we were talking about life that he told me he said boy I don't know I'm glad I didn't wake up and yo grew up in your day he said boy the good old days it's good boy I said I said he said the good old days you could leave your front door open in the good old days you could
• 23:00 - 23:30 leave your front door open and where nobody come to steal nothing I said daddy had enough for them still didn't nobody have time to get seven people to come and take a Curtis Mathes all right y'all ready come on put your back in it let's go OOP I got all that time you ain't had no computer yeah no flatscreen the whole
• 23:30 - 24:00 thing in the old house thirty years ago only thing you had we're still in was you what nothing in there but a mattress a dresser a TV and when the Lord bless you you got a tablecloth and put it on that TV and put another TV on top of that some of y'all grandmama right now I got a Curtis Mathes and then and then she got another TV that got click click click click click what right now with two bunny rabbit ear antennas on right now no cable
• 24:00 - 24:30 I remember my granddaddy had a telephone the cord was so long we could walk around the whole house with it I remember him doing washing dishes he went outside to cut the grass was still on the phone you have to change how you talk in your
• 24:30 - 25:00 situation brought us out here to die no he didn't bring you out here to die he brought you out here to live but because of how you speak that's how you feel are y'all with me so far because they're Exodus did not meet their expectation they exaggerated it and that's what people do when it doesn't meet their expectation they exaggerate they put stuff in it that ain't there and say stuff about it that's not happening why because when things don't meet your expectations you have a tendency to exaggerate you never
• 25:00 - 25:30 say you love me what how many brothers in here heard your wife or your girlfriend he'll never tell me I'm special what was yesterday you don't never take me nowhere did we just come from somewhere last week fellas holler back at me if I'm telling the truth sister Henderson I'm preaching this ain't got nothing to do with you I'm talking pop damn that's you
• 25:30 - 26:00 women y'all good for talking about you'll never sisters raise your hands I'm telling the truth all right now for the rest of you sisters the Bible says all Liars shall have their part in the lake of fire I'm gonna tell you right now everybody had no you line a woman tell you in a minute you know what you don't never say nothing nice to me you don't never buy me nothing and brothers
• 26:00 - 26:30 just be like never ever write this down pain will make you devalue your
• 26:30 - 27:00 advantages and magnify your disadvantages pain will make you devalue your advantages and magnify your disadvantages can I tell you it ain't really that bad it's just not what you expect it everybody got problems in their relationship so yours ain't no worse I mean some of y'all got something
• 27:00 - 27:30 that's worse but by-and-large I wasn't trying to be funny what's wrong with y'all today it ain't really that bad it's normal people get out of twos that's normal that means I got that point across moving on I want to go back who I came
• 27:30 - 28:00 from let's go back I would rather be beat than Stars I wonder how many of you all settle for abuse over starvation I know I know that it ain't perfect but at
• 28:00 - 28:30 least I ain't by myself he hit me but it wasn't his fault most people will settle for abuse then starvation let's go back let's go back
• 28:30 - 29:00 you want to go back to what you were complaining about let me tell you cuss complaining his returners language okay let me let me see if I can unpack that a little bit complaining is returning language and the destination is always to pass whenever you see somebody complaining they're always thinking backwards tell me how you can complain
• 29:00 - 29:30 futuristically I can't I can't stand I'm about to make more money I'm mad at God cuz I'm gonna lose my job in five years you can't complain forward everything you complained about is behind you complainers can't move forward the
• 29:30 - 30:00 children of Israel stayed in the wilderness for 40 years not because the journey was long but because they couldn't stop complaining and if you want your situation to end stop complaining death in life is in the power of the tongue and you either see death or life
• 30:00 - 30:30 based on what's on your tongue complaining is a returners language how many of you ought to be honest and say I'll be tripping I'll be complaining let me see no not this I don't want to I don't want to see this I said raise your hand not your finger no put it up here
• 30:30 - 31:00 down again yes let's just be honest I'll be complaining don't even care I catch myself after I'm doing I'm about time my friends complained out and call three people tell my child let me tell you I got some tea and what's worse is you complaining about something
• 31:00 - 31:30 ain't got none to do with you now you got enough in your own life to complain about I wouldn't adopt nothing off TV I listen when I hear people talking about what you think about what happened on love hit what are you out of your mind so you're gonna waste your time talking about what happened on Love & Hip Hop and try to find out if somebody was really this'll really are you crazy you got your own real life story so what's
• 31:30 - 32:00 the point number one develop a conquerors dialect that's the first thing you have to do in the wilderness is you got to learn to talk positive I can do all things through Christ no weapon formed against me you understand what I'm telling you does anybody understand what I'm telling you you have to speak those things that are not as though they are and I don't care
• 32:00 - 32:30 what your situation is your life will follow your conversation some of you all have been taught to be negative you were raised at the breast of a negative woman you were raised by the hand of a negative man your whole house was negative nothing positive was ever said it was as much a yelling and complaining and cussing all the time and God did not
• 32:30 - 33:00 call you to repeat that he called you to break that curse break that curse touch three people to say break that curse in fact I bind it in the name of Jesus and I release the supernatural power of the Holy Ghost that habits that have been hard to break God's about to send a wind to break that habit God's about to sin and anointing to break that habit God's about to send you a spouse that's going to help to encourage you everybody in his say work
• 33:00 - 33:30 your wilderness can I say something else before I move on please whatever you do don't let what's happening to you make yourself fish because this is this is what will happen if you're not careful when you have been afflicted by somebody you'll start to do the first law of nature self-preservation you and it's
• 33:30 - 34:00 natural you will start to figure out how to survive and whenever you are trying to figure out how to survive you become selfish and the problem with becoming selfish as you become enclosed and when you close yourself off can nothing can get out and nothing can get in and anybody want right now that's a spirit that needs to be broken I can I can look in this audience and I see it all over this room you not me you're you're
• 34:00 - 34:30 you're frustrated people keep calling you mean they're meant miss diagnosing the problem you're not mean you're frustrated you have closed your heart because you're tired of hurting you've closed off because you're tired of letting people in you are tired of going around this mountain due to Romney chapter three you've been in this valley you've been in this mountain long enough you want to go forward but you are tired of allowing people in that don't have pure motives so I understand but you've
• 34:30 - 35:00 got to be careful not to become selfish because you're hurt don't become don't become mean because somebody else used you you gonna miss a good thing because of your experience and the only thing that you don't recognize about your experience as you was in all of them people do you like you let them do you you spend your whole
• 35:00 - 35:30 lifetime out how people do you is somebody next to you that if they tried to do them the way they did you they be doing dead so it ain't about them it's about what you allow some of you are letting we let a man hit you and you pray for him let him hit one of these other sisters and I'm telling you right now I'm gonna be up hits on my earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust don't let the dog bite you hit something
• 35:30 - 36:00 hit some of these sisters in here see what happened may are not some of these sisters will get on you like a barracuda and beat you down to the ground you'll be telling buddy it was five of her maybe like know was one sister she got so much anger up inside her she been waiting to beat somebody up for five years she been walking around let somebody say something let I don't care who did it some of y'all looking to beat somebody up I pray for you Lord catch
• 36:00 - 36:30 them holy oil water bless them Jesus let them hit me hit me if you want you I had brothers I grew up in the hood hit me I bet you they won't hit me [Applause] hey when they do that brother u-kiss imma gonna stay at my brother house this weekend from fall asleep and won't wake
• 36:30 - 37:00 up becoming 4:12 he's trying to find out what happened and women won't kill you fast they'll kill you slow you're like woo this leg and stop working what happened she's gonna inject in some healed hamstring Oh Lord let me finish this sermon I ain't got no sense all right I got ten minutes y'all need to rest develop a conquerors dialect everybody
• 37:00 - 37:30 say speak well even if it's not well speak well if it's not going well speak well if you don't feel well speak well I'm trying to show you that it is not about what's happening to you that should determine how you converse no matter what's happening you have to have a language that says come what may I am more than an overcomer I am a survivor and what the devil meant for evil God is
• 37:30 - 38:00 going to turn it around for my good and watch God come in your situation and make that situation bow down to what you said it lies just say the rain in the rain came down there was no rain in the forecast but there was rain in this conversation it doesn't have to be in the forecast for God to give it to you you can be in your conversation and you can speak at and make it so oh man I'm
• 38:00 - 38:30 trying to get to the second point y'all got 9 minutes and 50 seconds so look at what God does for the complainers he still says the men are the men who comes down from heaven now I wish and we'll probably have it working up I had a picture of Menna because I don't think that a lot of people know what men oh thank you so much this is manna did so I think I used to do this
• 38:30 - 39:00 when I was younger too when I thought about bread coming from heaven I thought about the bread that I eat how many I'll be honest come on now when I said I said man Lord was sending Wonder Bread from up there I seen holos just falling no okay it's just me okay I just because I don't want to feel stupid who else who else saw Wonder Bread and Twinkies and all that kind of stuff falling from them okay dangerous me but you have to read the
• 39:00 - 39:30 text it says it says men are the size of hoarfrost h o AR help them pass them all right right so when it says hoarfrost it's talking about have you ever seen frost on like a leaf of something little balls so in other words the manor was the size of a pea so this little little
• 39:30 - 40:00 balls of bread fell from the sky so it was raining bread bread of heaven bread of heaven feed me until I want no more and and and and and evidently it wasn't a kind of bread that we eat because if you read the text said the bread tastes like honey so I want you to think about that bread that we used to put in the in the oven you know where you get a slice
• 40:00 - 40:30 of Brennan and put that that butter right in the middle of it and then sprinkle that sugar and that cinnamon on top of a hallelujah to the lamb of God the bread was sweet and God says I want you to go out and collect the bread as soon as it falls so here's the second
• 40:30 - 41:00 point when you're in your wilderness develop a conquerors dialect number two whatever you do don't delay he says as soon as it comes down go get it and the Bible says some of them did not go get it immediately and it began to stink in fact the Bible says stank sta enk it began to stank I like that word better because let me
• 41:00 - 41:30 tell you what happens whatever area of your life that you complain and delay its strength when you won't change your attitude it stank whatever area you are hesitating in it has an odor because he says I want you to do it everybody say
• 41:30 - 42:00 now the manor was the size of a pea which means that it doesn't have to be big for it to be a blessing be thou faithful the word of the Lord is for you is that God says it'll get bigger when you're thankful for the size that it is God helped me in this church today I need about five people it's just to say God forgive me for how I have been
• 42:00 - 42:30 acting based on what you have given me iData just start just thanking God no matter what size the apartment is no matter what size the car is no matter what size the child will bless the Lord at all times in his praises she'll come to and I'm not going wait until it gets beer to bless them I'm a blessing right now at the current size so that the manor will grow slap somebody say I am grateful it doesn't have to be big for it to be a blessing you don't need a
• 42:30 - 43:00 million dollars to be blessed is it better to get paid 1 million dollars a year or is it better to be paid $100,000 a month it doesn't always have to be big for it
• 43:00 - 43:30 to be a blessing God says I can't give you everything at one time because you don't have the conversation for it but when your dialect changes then your blessing will increase and watch what he says you can gather it immediately and every day except for the Sabbath because
• 43:30 - 44:00 the law is in order and you cannot go out of your house on the Sabbath it's the day of rest it's the day when Jesus said God says let there be let there be light and the Bible says and on the seventh day he rested so in there when they were given the law by Moses they had to have a day of rest every week that was called the Sabbath and he says I don't want you gathering bread on the Sabbath and the reason why I don't want you gathering bread on the Sabbath because I need you to always know that
• 44:00 - 44:30 worship is more important than the bread if I let you gather bread every day you will skip worship to go get bread and the reason why some of us don't have enough bread is because we will skip worship to go get some bread you skip worship to go get a job you're scared and you don't understand that you can work seven days a week and you still won't have more than those of us oh god I'm gonna say this you will never have more than those of us we can work six
• 44:30 - 45:00 days and have more bread than a person who worked seven days why because God gives seed to the soil and God allow you to do more with those six days there's somebody who has seven days why because the worship must always come before the bread some of y'all skip Bible studies trying to go get bread uh-oh I gotta say no that's it you'll be tired from getting
• 45:00 - 45:30 your bread and you'll skip worship and wonder why you don't have enough bread there are people in here right now they didn't have the money that they needed but when they wouldn't got that job they said I don't think I need to know his mission I'm all for Sundays and Tuesdays now you can have me work any other day all I need to be out of here by a certain time let me tell you something when you go in with that kind of attitude you'll be surprised what God will do for you but will you go in as a harlot how I work wherever you want me to however you want me to I come in
• 45:30 - 46:00 whenever she needs me to I also be good if you let me Lord is serving so good I wish I have so much time I got so much more to tell y'all I ain't got no time to do it but I'll tell you one more
• 46:00 - 46:30 thing it is important to note that when God instructed them about what to put in the Ark of the Covenant it is important to know okay put the law in there that's the tablets put Aaron's rod that budded in there but make sure that you have the pot of manna so they had to have manna in the Ark of the Covenant that didn't spoil wait a minute now it just finished falling it just finished falling every
• 46:30 - 47:00 day when it hit the ground it was four they had to go get it and now that it's in the presence of God it won't rot man I wish I had a church when the when the bread was in their house is spoiled but when that same bread got in the presence of God it lasted why because whatever you have when you put it in God's hand he increases the shelf life
• 47:00 - 47:30 on it and I'm telling somebody that if you'll just take what you have and put it in the head of God he'll do something miraculous in your life let me tell you what they did I'm gonna let you go I'm gonna tell you what they did I'm gonna let you go cuz this is this is important don't you miss what I'm getting ready to tell you the Bible says and I need you to study this for yourself this is absolutely the truth nobody no matter
• 47:30 - 48:00 what anybody tells you when David had the Ark of the Covenant had the law in it it had Aaron's rod and it had the manna but when you find out that David couldn't build the temple and Solomon his son had to finish are y'all with me so far when they had the tent the only light source in the tent was the Shekinah glory okay other than the Shekinah glory the only light source
• 48:00 - 48:30 they ever had was the golden lampstand hammered out of one piece of gold seven branches the Shekinah glory would light up behind the Holies of Holies and when Solomon built the temple they put windows in it the reason why they put windows in it is because they let in an alternative light source
• 48:30 - 49:00 and I don't care how dark it gets in your wilderness don't you ever accept an alternative source I don't care how broke you get how frustrated you get how lonely you get how angry you get how hungry you are don't you settle for another light I'm a jealous God and I will have no other God before me
• 49:00 - 49:30 some of y'all in the wilderness right now I've been oh thank you Holy Ghost man okay let's go I got to go but if if I could let you go on anything that would encourage you mean how weird can I show you something about your god
• 49:30 - 50:00 can I show you something about sir God can I show you how much he loves you can I show you how much he cares he gave them Meno while they were complaining read your Bible in the wilderness of sin God loves you so much then he will provide for you in your sin I that ain't for everybody some of y'all
• 50:00 - 50:30 perfect some of y'all holdin some of y'all mind don't ever get off-track some of y'all don't ever see something that you want and do something to get it and recognize you made a mistake afterwards but for the rest of you all I came to tell you gotta give you water in a dry place he'll give you bread in a barren land and some of you are who are in sin right now let me tell you something about your God he still has your back when you don't have his front somebody ought to spend about 15 seconds right now thinking God then I don't know why he
• 50:30 - 51:00 loves me I don't know why he cares but I come to pay God [Applause] no matter how far down you have fallen his lover is swayed he'll reach way down and pick you up again he knew you wasn't
• 51:00 - 51:30 perfect that was the purpose of the cross the only person who surprised by your behavior is you God ain't shot Jeremiah before you were formed watch this I knew you and I still called you I knew what you were going to do I knew how you were gonna act I knew what you were going to say but I still called you
• 51:30 - 52:00 oh man you just said that just made the hell mind he said it's unconditional love it made the hair on my neck stand up unconditional love even that while we were yet sinners he commended his love towards us see we didn't have to get right for him to love us he loved us before we were ever wrong in your
• 52:00 - 52:30 wilderness make sure you have a positive conversation make sure that you don't allow your situation to make yourself ich and whatever you do keep pressing toward that mark don't delay don't quit just
• 52:30 - 53:00 push and press press and push standing all over this place I gotta let you go I have more Surma but I don't have more time if you're in this place today and you've not accepted Jesus Christ or perhaps you're in your valley you and your wilderness and you need God's help sometimes you just need to get around a different congregation maybe where you
• 53:00 - 53:30 were the people you're around all they do is complain but I'm gonna tell you something about this house we have a victorious language if you're looking to be around people who can help you to speak well when you don't feel well I just want you to come real quick you got two minutes wherever you are you can find these people with the sign and say you know what I want to go back with you can come shake my hand or you can go right out of that door to my right but wherever you are this is your moment we've got two minutes we've got two minutes just come over you
• 53:30 - 54:00 off come on lighthouse make it a big deal [Music]