Lord we realize God that you realize Lord it's Wednesday night But we know you're not through with your work, God. Lord, we pray tonight, God, to be a breakthrough night. God, we pray tonight to be the night, God. She carries the places, Lord, we've never been before. God, we pray for every part of the service tonight, God. Lord, we pray for Brother Jason, Lord, he'll lead the singing. God, let us give you praise tonight through song. God, don't let a rock or tree have to take my place tonight, God. I know where I was when you found me, God. I know what you've done when you saved me, Lord. God, I thank you, God, for where you've brought us from, where you've brought us to. God, let our praise be that tonight, God, that calls you to quiet heaven down. Say, listen to my children down there making much of me. God, I pray, Lord, God, that You'd move, Lord, through Your men tonight. God, we pray for a fresh touch, God, that fresh oil. God, let them be those vessels of honor tonight, Lord. God, set them to a place they've never been before. God, use them for Your glory. God, touch their minds, touch their mouths, God. Give them wisdom, God. Give them words, Lord. You preach through them tonight, God. We pray Your Word, God, to meet every one of us right where we're at. God, do the work that only it can do. God, we thank You for the one saved last night, God. That soul, Lord, that You reached down, God, did that work in His heart. God, we pray for great and mighty things in that young man's life. God, use him, God, for Your glory. God, we pray You'd bind the devil now. God, capture our minds tonight, God, so Your Word might do a work in our hearts. God, we're going to give you praise and honor and glory. God, I thank you, Lord, and I didn't love you. You loved me. God, I thank you, Lord. When I wasn't thinking about you, God, you was thinking about me. Lord, I thank you, God, for looking for me, for finding me, God, for getting down where I was, Lord. And God, we thank you, Lord. We can sit around your table one more time. God, let us go to church now. Lord, we pray it in Jesus' name. Amen. It's a big good night for hell to get robbed again. Amen. Let's sing, brother Jay. Glory to God. Love lights the way. I've left the old paths I've traveled so long I'm happy, redeemed, and free Of Jesus the Lord I sing a sweet song His love lights the way for me His love lights the way ♪ My sadness is past ♪ My sadness is past ♪ I'm happy at last ♪ I'm happy at last ♪ His love lights the way for me ♪ And the pleasures of sin no more I desire ♪ No good in them now I see ♪ The Spirit has saved me I've traveled today, and I'm shouting the victory. My sadness is past, I'm happy at last. ♪ For me ♪ For me ♪ And each trial overcome ♪ And strength to my soul ♪ And faithful I'll ever be ♪ Come on church ♪ The billows of praise ♪ Oh yes ♪ Over me roll him ♪ Love lights the way for me My sadness is past I'm happy at last His love lights the way for me And send the light, the blessed gospel In the light, the blessed gospel light, let it shine forevermore. I saw the light, amen. What a day that was, church, amen. No more in darkness, no more in night. And now I'm so happy, no sorrow inside. Praise the Lord, I saw the light. Oh, and it's still light of mine. Y'all know this, I'm gonna let it shine. I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine And here's a love like the way I travel today ♪ My sadness is past ♪ My sadness is past ♪ I'm happy at last ♪ I'm happy at last ♪ His love lights a way for me ♪ I saw the light ♪ I saw the light ♪ No more in darkness ♪ No more in night and you remember the day you got saved, amen? Oh, and I saw the light. I saw the light. No more in darkness. No more at night. And now I'm so happy. No sorrow inside. Praise the Lord. I saw the light. Thank God we're out of the mud hole, Bro Steve. We got some dirt dobber stew. Hey, man, ain't that good? Hit that, I saw the light again. We need to do that at least one more time. Man, glory to God. You got that in there, Ridge? These old people been raising their hand, they might know it. Saw the light, I saw the light. No more in darkness, no more in night. And now I'm so happy, no sorrow in sight. Praise the Lord, I saw the light. If say... I saw the light No more in darkness No more in night Now I'm so happy No sorrow inside Praise the Lord I saw the light And just like a bird I wandered alone Worries and fears I claimed for my Lord Praise the Lord! Some of y'all better remember the day. Amen. I don't know where you was, but the Holy Ghost, the God, lit up the light in your life. And you said, I'm a sinner on my way to hell. And you called on the name of Jesus. And you saw the light. Amen. Praise the Lord. I saw the light. And I was a fool to wander astray Straight is the gate and narrow the way And now I have traded the wrong for the right Praise the Lord, I saw the light Oh, and I saw the light, I saw the light. No more in darkness, no more in night. Now I'm so happy, no sorrow inside. Praise the Lord, I saw the light. I think there's a little more juice to be squeezed out of that. Pick out a verse there. I want y'all to sing as loud as you can. I'll sing as loud as you can. Ain't nobody listening to you. One or so long. When you don't realize the fool you are, you get saved. Thank God, I ain't a fool no more. Preacher Lockett told me one time, he seen a sign down in Texas, said, I'm a fool for Jesus. Who you fool for? Amen. Take out one of them verses and lead us. my dear Savior in. And then Jesus came like a stranger. Come on, loud as you can. He said, praise the Lord. I saw the light. Oh, and I saw the light. I saw the light. No more in darkness, no more in night. Hallelujah. And y'all doing good. God, I love them words, don't y'all? Say the words are so I wanna read a little something here right quick. Brother Johnny Talbert, come up here. Hallelujah. Brother Tyler Hudson, come up here. Praise our God. You gonna see something here tonight. You ain't gonna believe. You ain't gonna believe this stuff still happens. Amen. Let's see if there's a wireless over there. Should be one over there. Let's just right here. Now we're all here tonight to get help. And we got what, Brother Brian Dula here? Brother Brent Dula here? Got Brother Ethan Green here, right? Is your daddy here? Got any other pastor brought some people? So, I'm gonna take advantage of this and try to get these pastors some help. They need prayer help. They need prayer help. You never get where you don't need prayer help. You gotta have some men or women or young people that their life's praying for you. That you're their ministry. So the man of God goes and prays and he lives right in his studies. And when it comes to church, he needs some people. They ain't gotta study for a message. They ain't gotta preach. They ain't got all that pressure on them to preach. So they can pray. That's their part. That can be their ministry. So that's what we need. Y'all believe that? Say amen. Now, I'll be studying the life of Moses. I just want to read a little bit something here. When you read through the scriptures, the Lord is more concerned about the workers than the work. Oh yeah. Oh, he thinks about some work. He thinks about the worker. That's God's heart. That work was no problem. It took God 80 years to get Moses ready for the work. He was the worker. Until the Lord prepares a man, the work can't go forward. Israel didn't move one inch out of Egypt till the deacons showed up. Then you showed up. how the Lord favors the man. God favors the man. Oh, Lord God. Man, that makes me wanna crawl under this pulpit. How God favors the man. Thank God he favors the man. How shall they hear without a preacher? And God chose the foolishest of preachers to save them that believe. Listen to this, brother Steve. We're constantly on a stretch, if not a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, and new organizations to advance the church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. The trend of the day is a tendency to lose sight of the man or to sink the man in the plan of organization. God's plans to make much of the man far more than anything else. Men are God's methods. The church is looking for better methods. God's are looking for better men. Amen. You say you'll not be exalting flesh. I ain't exalting nothing more than God did. Hey, forget about the methods. Get to praying for the man. He needs prayer. If I was the devil, I'd let you take down the man you got to church. Amen. But we need to get back believing this stuff. Oh, we think, oh, anybody show up, anybody will do. Yeah, you're a fool. Ain't more than man will do. That's who God chose. He said, that's what we're seeing in our day. The church is looking for better methods. We don't need dancing, we need preaching. We don't need praise bands, we need to sing the old time hymns of God. Amen. You believe that, don't you? Come here, Brother Johnny. Brother Johnny is working totally out of how many years? 18. He was over the rice production department. Was that white rice or brown rice? Yellow rice. And so he calls me up, he talks to me. And I knew one thing, he is either One of, I mean, he is doing something that everybody is shouting about, or he fixed to make the biggest blunder in his life. Cause he's one of the two. And he quit his job. And he's got a precious wife. She is for you doing God's will, wasn't she? And went on the road to pray for him. You ever heard such? And then them Toyota boys been working out long, they make some money. Give that up, go pray. How old are you, brother Tyler? 22 year old man? You ever heard such a thing? Man, this is so touched me this week. Brother, Steve, we need to honor the right kind of people. This is unheard of. Let me find you something here right quick. So, brother Tyler back here, is one of the, if he stays right, he lives clean. I really got confidence in him. Don't you let me down now. I mean, I got confidence in him. I believe God's gonna really use him. I mean that. Big time. And I'll tell you why I believe that, because of what he did. What he did. And God set somebody apart to pray for a preacher, and most church members in there pray for their pastor one time all week. Oh, get up there and bless us if you can. No, I can't. But when you pray, you got an investment in it. You got something in it. You can get something out of it. Lord, God, ain't I saying what the Lord, man, I feel this tonight. Listen to this right here. Brother, churches. 7,000 miles in an old car that's burning four quarts of oil every thousand miles. Pull her in, fill her up and check the gas. That's the way it used to be. People's getting converted under him. Oh yeah, real conversions. God's put his hand on him, and that's a big part of it right there. Amen. Boy, that'll do something for you. That's sold out. You don't do this stuff and not be sold out. Amen. Oh, preaching 13 different states, including Texas and Kansas. And what about West Virginia? 42 meetings booked next year. Count single days like Sunday. He had 270,000 miles on the oil drinker. No heat, no air condition. And brother Jason put down there a piece of junk. Amen. So he found him a Subaru. Amen. And he's got 60,000 miles. Okay. Got it for $14,000. And as pastors, you might need to go back to your church, take it all. Well, you go spend $500 and scream your head off at a ball game. Huh? We better get our priorities right. What is I love it too much. This man's carrying the gospel. Amen. You might ought to get his address and send him something. We don't take offerings up around here in these meetings or these plates up here. Amen. So if you want to give him something tonight, just come up here and put in this pan. And brother Keith, watch for thieves. Amen. They too died on the cross with Jesus, but one of them never got saved. He probably got some offspring, amen. Boy, I feel like God with honors tonight. Oh, God raised that preacher, he just did. We're gonna hear him preaching in a minute. And I'm embarrassing him to death doing this. Amen, brother. Hallelujah. You need to write out a check. It's Tyler Hudson. Is that right? Tyler Hudson. Amen. T-Y-L-E-R-H-U-D-S-O-N. Amen. Let's bow our heads so there won't be no pressure on nobody. Let's just obey the Lord. Just obey the Lord. Thank God for Jesus. Thank God for Jesus. Thank God for Jesus. Oh, Lord, bless my buddy here. Oh, God. Will Johnny come pray? Father, you just keep it. It's all right, you keep coming down here while he's praying. You just pray a little bit. Oh, God, we love you, Father God. God, we thank you for this day that you've given us, dear Lord God. This opportunity, Lord God, to gather back in your house, Father God. Glory! God, we thank you, God, for being so good to us, Father God. God, we thank you, Lord God, for loving us the way that you do, dear Father God. Dirt dear father God God's brother Steve said you would come down to us where we were father God that you would come and get us dear father God Yes, father. God. I thank you dear Lord God God. Thank you for the church God. Thank you for your people God I thank you for their hearts God. I thank you for the heart of this church and their pastor dear Lord God For God across this country, they'll never know it dear Lord God God till one day we get to heaven father God God, I thank you dear Lord God God was anything we've done dear father God we we keep ourselves humble before you father God God we give you all the praise the honor and glory for everything that's done father God yes father God because we're nothing God we couldn't do it without you father God, we need your strength, God. We need your power, God. God, we can't even walk, dear Lord God, without you holding our hands, dear Father God. God, there's times, dear Father God, we get so down, God. God, you have to pick down and reach down. Yes, Father God, we love you, God. We thank you, Lord God. Yes, Father. I pray that you just bless this ministry that you've given me, dear Lord God. Bless Brother Tyler, God. God, as we travel all across this country, God, to proclaim the name of Jesus, Father God. Yes, Father God. Oh, dear Lord God. God, I thank you, dear Lord God. Yes, Father God. Oh, Father God. God, they say it takes a village to raise your family, God. God, I may not have much of a start, God, but I thank you, God, I got to choose my village, God. God, I get to choose my church, God, my pastor, God. No, Father, God. I thank you, God. Now they pray for us. I thank you for a pastor's wife, dear Lord, God. Oh, my wife. Dear Lord God. Yes, Father God. God, I thank you for all that you've done, God. God, thank you for how you spoke to us this week so far, God. God, I'm looking forward to what you're going to do, Father God. We just want to thank you on credit, God. God, we want to thank you for things unseen, dear Lord God. Yes, Father God. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord God. And I pray, God, if there's one Dear Father, God, remove those blinders, God. Oh, Father, God, You'd make Yourself so real to them, dear Lord, God. God, You'd show them their sin, dear Lord, God. Show them how wicked they are, Father. Oh, Father, God, but You'd save them from a devil's hell tonight, God. God, You'd pull them up out of that muck in the mire, dear Lord, God. God, You'd stand them on that solid rock, dear Lord, God. God, You'd save them from a devil's hell, dear Lord, God. Continue to speak to our hearts, Father God. In Jesus' name we do pray, amen. Thank you, Brother Johnny Talbert. Brother Parrish, these men all across this country, if you ain't got something to give them, they ain't got nothing to do with you. They takers and they ain't givers. This illustration, self-sacrifice. You know why I want him to pray? Because he loves you. You can pray for somebody you love. from the heart. Amen. Praise God. Sister Macy, stand up. Amen. If you can't tell now which one's the oldest, I can't help you. So Sister Amy's brother Johnny's wife, Sister Macy's gonna be his wife. He just give her a ring. And that is one precious, these ladies are precious. Macy there, Lord God, you got good taste. She's a holy woman. I love it, don't y'all? Amen, brother, you preach. God, the Holy Ghost loves this stuff. If you go with me to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter number three, Deuteronomy, chapter three, and when you get there, you can stand, let you stretch your legs for just a minute. And I preach, I really don't even know what to say. outside of thank you. And all that stuff he just read, that has absolutely nothing to do with me. And I know I'm 22, and you probably, everybody thinks every young preacher, Brother Joe's full of pride and arrogance, but I want you to know it ain't got nothing to do with me. And it's because of men like Brother Johnny and my dad. Dad's been faithful for all those years preaching and praying for me. There ain't no amount of sermons or outlines These men that prayed for me almost all my life. My grandpa back here, I'm not even his blood grandson. Yet he accepted me into his family, loved me like I was his own kid. Prayed for me. The first person that ever told me the Gospel was my grandma. It wasn't even blood related. That's why I'm here today. Because a bunch of people that loved me when I was unlovable and good for nothing. She's 18, didn't even know what Bethlehem was, more or less the story of Christ. I'm here today because people love me enough to pray for me, love me enough to fast for me, and love me enough to support me and love me about you, but that's why all of us are where we're at. Not because of ourselves, but because of other people. I want to say thank you to every person that came tonight, every person that's prayed for me. And if you're in Deuteronomy chapter three, would you say amen? Amen. And Preacher Daniel, thank you so much for the opportunity for me if you wouldn't mind Deuteronomy chapter number three And verse number 23, if you would look with me. It says, And I besought the Lord at that time, saying, O Lord God, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness in thy mighty hand. For what God is there in heaven or in earth that can do according to thy works and according to thy might? And I pray thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain in Lebanon. But the Lord was wroth with me for your sake. Speak no more unto me of this matter. Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes, for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him, for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see. So we abode in the valley over against Bethphor. I want to ask my dad, if he would, to pray for me for our preach. Thank you for this, Lord. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. We trust you, God. We believe you, Lord, in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you may be seated We find here that I'll burn through the context because I think most of us know where we're at We find ourselves that nearing the end brother J of brother of Moses his life Moses fixing to leave this world and finally enter into the city that he's been waiting to get to all of his life We find that at the end of his life. Did you notice what he is doing? Look at me in verse 25 Moses has seen the Red Sea parted. He has literally followed a pillar of cloud and fired by day and by night. He has seen all the plagues of Egypt. He's seen God do so many great things, and yet, after all that Moses has seen, brother Heath, notice what he does. He said, I pray thee, Moses knew exactly where his strength was coming from tonight. Moses understood that it was not his rod that parted the sea, but it was the God that he served. Moses understood that there was no path came from the Lord that was above and he knew that power stemmed from that four-letter word pray tonight he was praying and noticed by way of introduction some attributes of the one he's praying to first notice the superiority of the one he's praying to look at me in verse number 23 and I besought the capital L capital O capital R Capital D, LORD, tonight. Say we find that when he bows his knee, Moses' brother Joe knew exactly who he was praying to. You know what you find in the Word of God when you see LORD in all caps? It is directly referencing all three parts of the Godhead. And Moses is praying to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. And Moses understood. that the one that he was praying to was the one that was above all. Moses had seen people pray to golden calves. He'd seen people pray to idols. But Moses knew that there is one God. One God that is above all. And he says, I'm calling out to the one that is above all. The one that's worthy of all glory. The one that's worthy of all praise. The one that formed the heavens and the earth. The One that created man out of the dust of the ground. Moses said, that's the One I'm praying to tonight. Say, isn't it wonderful to know that no other religion even has one God that listens to them. But we've got three parts of the same God that when I bow my knee listens and inclines their ear when I pray tonight. Say, we see the superiority of the One He's praying to, but then secondly notice by way of introduction we see the strength of the One He's praying to. Look at me in verse number 24. It says, O Lord God, Thou hast begun to show Thy servant Thy greatness and Thy mighty hand. For what God is there in heaven or in earth that can do according to Thy works and according to Thy might. Moses says, I'll go a step farther. Not only am I praying to the One that is above all, but I'm praying to the One that is greater than all, that is stronger than all. And notice he says, I'm crying out for the Lord's mighty hand tonight. God just stopped there and said, I sure am glad that the God that I'm praying to is not some weak punk that is just scared to death of everybody, Brother Daniel. But isn't it wonderful to know that we are still praying to the God that is omnipotent. He has all power. I'm glad that He is the Lord. book he touched lives and I thank God brother Joe that I'm praying to the most strong and powerful being there has ever been notice what he's talking about he says thy mighty hand you ever thought about the hand of God heard one preacher say like this brother Daniel God's hand is big enough to hold the world but it's small enough to reach down and touch me so I sure am glad that that hand is able to hold the universe in his span but I'm glad that on that night of May 15th Son of a drunk on the left side of that altar I bowed down on an old bill of hay for their Heath under an old-fashioned tent up at Campbell's Creek in Point Lake Park And I felt the hand of God reach down and touch my life and nothing's ever been the same since I'm glad I still Look at me tonight. I'm glad that the one we're praying to be encouraged tonight. He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think tonight. He is the most powerful being that has ever lived. We see the superiority of the one He's praying to. We see the strength of the one He's praying to. But then lastly, by way of introduction, notice the statement of the one He's praying to. Look at me in verse number 26. But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me. And the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee, speak no more unto me of this matter. We find that at this time, Moses, all of us probably know the prayer that he's praying. He is asking the Lord to let him enter into the promised land. Brother Rick, he is saying, God, I know I've done some things wrong, but would you please go back on what you told me and let me enter into this Canaan's land, to the promised land. I've been putting up with these Israelites for all these years. The least you could do for me is let me go into the promised land. Did you notice what the Lord said to him? He said, speak no more to me of this matter anymore. You know what you find is I got to study and I read and found that up to this point, that have been recorded. He prayed a lot more than that, I'm sure. But there's 14-plus major prayers, brother Isaiah, he's recorded so far. Everything Moses has asked God up to this point. Everything that Moses has prayed about, God has looked at him and said yes to every one of them except this one. God has told him yes every time that he's bowed his knee in Scripture, but he comes to ask for something for himself. He says, will you let me go in? And God simply says, no, tonight. Say, I'm sure all of us can agree there are times where God just says, no. There are times where God's statement, though Moses knew who he was, he was stronger than all, and he was able to God's will for Moses to do what he had been asking God to do. to hear our prayers. He said, I believe in Psalms 27, the righteous cry, and the Lord heareth tonight. He is obligated to hear our prayers, but He is not obligated to answer everything we ask Him for tonight. He is obligated, bound by His Word. He hath magnified His Word even above His own name. He is bound by that to hear us when we pray. And He's bound by that to answer according to His will, not according to my will. Tonight I remember about two years ago many of y'all probably heard the story But I was studying to preach just before I stepped in to full-time evangelism. It was a Saturday night But then I was studying I was down there working on a message in my I call it my study. So I sound fancy It's a desk in my bedroom down there studying and I felt a pain in my back out of nowhere It started hurting I broke my back when I was 16 and back pains normal, but there's something bro J I think you might have even been there. There was something different and And I felt something, I felt I was struggling to breathe, and I had a crippling pain in my back, and I remember I went up and talked to Dad. Dad said, just try and sleep it off, it'll probably go away. And I remember I laid down. Was already dead. I said Lord don't let this be anything. That's what I asked God to do I woke up the next morning and it was still there Went off and I taught Sunday school and I was supposed to preach that night and Macy mom kind of forced man Made me go to the hospital I got in there and they put me in one of them CT scan machines and they were taking some pictures of different stuff and out of nowhere I was sitting there waiting thinking about what I was preaching. I was still hurting but I didn't feel as bad I remember they look at me still when I talk about it, I feel the feeling I felt that day. Whenever them surgeons came in, they asked me how I was feeling. I told them what was wrong. They said, well, sir, we got to get you into the operating room. You've got an 80% collapsed lung and we've got to take you to immediate surgery. There could be air pressure that builds up and the heart could explode. says we've got to get you in there quick and I remember dad got on that Myrtle chat I had just been to Myrtle for the first time dad sent a big old text says pray for my son that this would all go well God would heal him God would touch him and I thank you for every one of you that prayed for me I remember I got in there and I'm allergic to pain medication in that first chest tube is about the size of a drum fine and they put me in the ambulance they drove me up and I remember praying God let everything just settle out and let it just be one day brother Joe I remember I woke up the next morning and the nurses came in and said somehow your lungs got worse we've got you hooked up to suction we've got all this stuff going on and somehow it's shrank even more than what it was and I Remember, I thought well God didn't answer today, but they know but he'll answer tomorrow I got up on Tuesday and we prayed the same prayer I remember I went for about five days until that Friday about five or six days and finally my face started to dwindle I'm sorry if that's not spiritual for a preacher to say but just being honest with you. I was by myself And told that God answers when we pray Satan get inside of my mind. Remember, I'm sitting there and on Saturday they came in and said we've got to go big or go home. We're going to pull this tube and put in one about the size of a garden hose. I remember I was awake, no pain medication, a little bit of numbing. They put that thing in there and they pushed too far and stabbed my lung and I had a little bit of a hole and blood clot about that long. and caused scarring and damage on my lung. Long story short, before the end of my hospital time that I spent there, I spent a total of 13 days. Five of those days were on the ICU. They were worried that my heart would explode and I'd die. I had three total chest tubes put in, lost 25-some pounds. I remember I had church after church. Brother Daniel texted me saying, we're praying. God's got this all under control. You'll be out in no time. But 13 days didn't feel like no time to me. I remember they would sit there. that if all these people are really praying, why is God not answering and healing me in the way that I want to be healed tonight? I got out of that, and a couple months later, I stepped out into full-time evangelism, and due to all that stuff I had happen, I had a lot of anxiety and different issues that I... One doctor said it was like a PTSD. I had three different times that surgeons came to me in the middle of the night, and they're saying, we've got to cut you open, or you're going to die, and you can imagine what that would do to your mind. I was struggling with all this stuff. Now, I stepped out in full-time evangelism and began to fight a crippling stomach type. About a year and a half ago, a man got around me and prayed over me right there after Dad had preached that message on suffering. I remember for that whole year, I sat there and struggled. When I say stomach issues, I'm talking I was eating about once a week. Lost about 20-some pounds. Every time I'd eat, I'd get so sick, I literally almost couldn't stand up. 30-minute trips down the road were taking nearly two hours. Brother Daniel, I had all these different issues, and here I am as a first-year evangelist supposed to be honoring and accepting and being excited about every appointment that I get. Remember, they prayed over me here. Brother Calvin's church had special prayer for me. Brother Dahl's, several men had prayed for me everywhere I went. They'd pray over me. My church, and every time they would pray, that week would be one of the hardest weeks I ever had with it. Brother Heath, when you brought me up here and y'all prayed over me right here, the week after that was probably the worst week I ever had with my sickness that I was struggling with. And I watched as church after church prayed for God to heal me, and God said no. Watched as preachers that I love, that I look up to, Brother Daniel prayed over me, men that I know can pray, and I know God hears them when they pray, and I know they live holy, and God looked at them and said no, and I begged God to change everything that was going on, but God just said no tonight. and you bet all of us. Some of you said, God, grow my church. I want to be as big as the church down the road. And God said no. Some of you have prayed, God, heal me of this disease. Heal my wife. Heal my husband. God, bring my wayward children back. God, do this and that. And God said no tonight. And if you aren't careful, the devil will do the same thing to you he did to me. And you'll sit here and think, well, if God says no, that means he ain't faithful tonight. The truth is you better be ready for when God says no. If you pray for any man, I'm going to preach on that thought for just a few minutes and I'll get out of the way. When God says no, you say, preacher, what did Moses do when God said no? Can I show you three attributes in Moses' life that we see he took and he had when God said, no, I'll give them to you quick and I'll be done. First, I want you to notice, we see the rejection for Moses' sin tonight. I won't read it for the sake of time, but Numbers chapter 20 tells us of the sin that Moses committed that forbid him from being able to enter in to the promised land. We know that when they were out there in the wilderness that Moses went and had to smack a rock. What a perfect picture of Jesus Christ tonight. But the next time that they were thirsty, God told Moses not to hit the rock. He said to speak to the rock. He said, you don't smite the rock twice, just speak to it. If you want water, speak to the rock. And we find Moses goes over there and he gets so mad about all the people running their mouth in the crowd. And we find that Moses grabs that rod and smacks the rock. And that sin is what forbid him from ever getting to go in. to the promised land tonight. Can I just stop there for a minute and say I'm glad that Jesus Christ was smoked once so that I could drink from the water of life freely. But every time I ever need Him, I ain't got to throw Him back on the cross again and again. I ain't got to get saved over and over and over again. but I'm glad He was smoked once, I got saved once, and now all I gotta do for every need I've got is just speak to the rock. I'm glad that now I can come boldly unto the throne of grace and attain mercy and help in a time of need. Tonight, I'm glad I can just speak to the rock, brother Luke. We find that Moses is His sin wasn't a sin of witchcraft or even rebellion. It was a simple sin of disobedience to him. I think sometimes in our church mindset we get a little holy. I don't drink. I don't cuss. I don't smoke I don't watch filth. I don't do this. I don't do that But then we'll disobey God when he tells us to do something on a Sunday God tells you to go witness to somebody you disobey him You're just as much guilty as every other man tonight Say you sit there God tells you put this in the plate God tells you to go to the altar and pray with your family or lead them in devotion Maybe that's why God said no tonight. God told Moses no, because he had a sin of disobedience. He disobeyed God's will for him. God just say this, the truth is tonight, that God could care less how many hours we pray, how many trips we take to Myrtle, how much you fast, or how much money you put in the plate, if you aren't going to do what the book says to do tonight. Say you can drive to Myrtle, Mississippi twice a month if you want to, but if you ain't going to live how that book says to live, then it will do nothing for you tonight. You could put a hundred grand in the plan of God to do for you tonight. We expect that we can buy off God like He's some type of credit card we just swipe. That's not how God works tonight. But we must do the right thing, but also do it the right way. We've got to live holy and live clean if we ever want God to hear our prayers tonight. Isaiah 59 is the first message I ever preached. It says in verse number one, Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, nor is ear heavy that it cannot hear, but it is your iniquities that have separated you and your God tonight. It is sin that jams the line of communication between God and I. We see the rejection for Moses' sin, but then secondly, notice, and I'm trying to move quickly, we see the reaction in Moses' spirit tonight. We see the reaction in Moses' spirit. Look at me in verse number 29 if you would really the verse I'd like to read is between verse 28 and 29 but there ain't one I got to reading and I found that God tells him no in 28 and in 29 he gets up and does what God told him to do he didn't take four days that God didn't It's time to give a rebuttal to God. But we find God says no, and Moses picks himself up and goes on doing what he's told to do tonight. Notice a couple of reactions in his spirit. Notice he wasn't mad about it. My favorite part. His mouth froze down and his face gets red and he shakes his fist at God and says, how dare you not do what I said? he was now and where he used to be. Moses is probably sitting there thinking if Moses was here he'd probably tell you how could I get ...mad that God didn't let me go into the Promised Land. Look how far I've came. I used to be a nobody on the back side of the field somewhere, walking with a bunch of sheep, and nobody knew me. Nobody knew my name. I dare to say Moses didn't get mad, because he knew everything he had came from God tonight. Say, we've got a problem in our churches today, where every time God doesn't do exactly what we ask Him to do, we walk into church with our head down, dragging our feet, and we plop ourselves down with our arms folded, and they'll get up and sing, I've been blessed, and it does nothing for us, because we're looking at one thing God didn't do instead of everything else God did do tonight. magnitude of God's mercies and God's blessings tonight. If you're focused on what God's already gave you, you won't be mad on the things He doesn't give you tonight. Notice He wasn't mad about it, but then notice He also moved beyond it. Moses... in the valley of Bethphor. He gets up, and you know what Moses did? Moses didn't change how he lived. But you want to know what I believe Moses did, Dad? put his clothes on, and said it's time to go walk with God. And he walked out there talking with God, leading the Israelites, because he would not allow himself to get hung up on the fact that God said no. I wonder if we could see with some spiritual eyes tonight how many of us have been stuck in the same prayer for so many years, and we've never gained ground, never advanced any farther, and we're stuck, and we won't move beyond God's no tonight. say when God says no that doesn't mean wait that doesn't mean maybe later that means no to you move on say some of us have gotten so bitter and mad at God You asked for he hasn't touched your body hasn't healed that person He let that person die when you prayed that they would live and we've got all these different reasons on why we're stuck in a place Why don't you just try moving beyond it tonight? Yes, sir Paul said forgetting those things which are behind I pressed towards the mark of the prize of the high calling of Christ Jesus and Paul said and Moses would say and I'm telling to somewhere greater in your life, you must learn to move beyond God's no. You've got to learn to move beyond it. Then notice also he ministered because of it. We find that Moses didn't take time to whine and cry to Joshua, but instead of telling Joshua about everything God didn't do, for now and then maybe a no for you means God will give a yes to somebody else, say he ministered because of it but then lastly and this is where I wanted to get and I'm done I'm taking my seat brother Daniel I promise I got nine minutes left notice he said take 15 praise God but notice lastly we see the rest of Moses's story we see the rest of Moses's story if you would go with me to Deuteronomy chapter number 34 Deuteronomy chapter number 34 are you still with me would you say amen to my We find ourselves here at the end of the book of Deuteronomy. And look at me in verse number 1, if you would. Deuteronomy 34 and verse 1. It says, And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo to the top of Pisgah. That is over against Jericho. And the Lord showed him all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and all the land of Judah unto the upmost sea trees unto Zor and the Lord said unto him this is the land which I swear unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob saying I will give it unto thy seed I've caused thee to see it with thine own eyes but the fact that God said no ever again in his life that it's recorded God in his life that he said I ain't gonna bring it back up and yet The answer was still no at the end of his life. Still, God, he's... You still ain't going in, it's still a no. The answer's still no. Look in verse number five. So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab according to the word of the Lord. And he, meaning the Lord, buried him in a valley in the land of Moab over against Bethphor, but no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day. And skip down with me to verse number 10. and there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses." I love this. Whom the Lord knew face to face tonight. Say we look at Moses' life, and Moses has got to know, but if you compare his life to Joshua, Joshua got to stand with God up on the mountain. Joshua got to go and see the walls of Jericho fall. All that's good and all, but Moses got to see or got buried by man. I think I'd rather have God's no, brother Heath, than to have whatever else might be in store. Because God is infinite in His wisdom. God is infinite in His mercy. And God knows far better than we could ever imagine tonight. I think Moses got the better end of the deal. Don't you agree? But notice, I believe this, this is what I came to say. Because of how Moses reacted in his spirit. Because Moses, when God told him no, he didn't huff and puff and throw his arms down. Because of how he reacted. Do you know the last time Moses is just about ever mentioned in the Word of God is in Matthew chapter number 17. And verse number one, when it says, And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John, and his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And behold, there appeared unto them Moses tonight. I say Moses might not have went to Canaan's land with Joshua and Caleb, but the first time he ever stepped into the Promised Land, the first time his foot ever touched that ground, he was not with Joshua, he was not with Caleb, but he was with the Son of Man. And up in the waymen, right as snow, with fire of eyes, and we find that the first time Moses ever got to be there was with the Son of God. Now let me ask you, Brother Alston, which would you rather have? Would you rather walk over and see the walls of Jericho fall and walk around with Joshua and Caleb, or would you rather see In His glory, I'd rather be on the mountain with God's Noah than to be in the promised land with God's Jez. I'd rather get to be where Moses was than wherever Joshua got to go tonight. Moses' no led to a greater yes because of how he responded. Because of how he reacted in his spirit. Some of y'all have got a lot of prayers that you think God ain't answered. And you've been mad and bitter at God. I know it's church and we don't want to be real. But the truth is, all of us got one of those prayers we roll our mind back to. And we say, why didn't God ever answer that? But if you would react the right way, maybe there's something greater waiting down the road tonight. Say, God, do you agree that God is sovereign in all of His ways? Do you agree that God's will is higher than mine and yours? Then why would we not trust when He says no? Why would we not trust when He doesn't do what I ask? I'm glad that His thoughts that He fakes towards me are not of evil, but of good. And I'd rather be seeing Christ in a greater way than to get to have God answer every prayer I ever asked Him to answer to my life. Sometimes when God tells you no, you'll see Christ like you've never seen him before. I'll give you this and I'm done. Lauren, you're coming. I'm finished. I'll give you this last thought and I'm done. With my lung and with my stomach and all of that, I remember I remember, Brother Heath, I'm sure you remember too, there was a night I was in my church and I texted you. I remember that night was the lowest. Felt like I was losing my mind. I know that might sound weak to some of you men. I'm just telling you how I feel. I felt like I was losing my mind because every time I sat down at a dinner table, I would be scared to death to even take a bite because it would literally cripple me for days. I was walking around, I thought, God, I'm preaching. God, I'm praying. God, I'm studying. God, I'm living holy. God, I'm fasting. God, I'm doing everything you told me to do. It does not make sense why you won't just heal my body tonight. See, God, wouldn't you rather have a fully effective Tyler preaching that doesn't have to cancel appointments? There could have been lost people with that. I was arguing with God one night and I got to a point where I literally felt like I was losing it. I texted Brother Heath and told him to pray for me. He sent me back a word of encouragement. My church prayed over me the next day. I remember I sat there and I was struggling. I came about two weeks later here to Camp Victory. Dad preached that message on suffering and they all got around me and prayed over me. I told you that that week after was the worst week I ever had. I was preaching revival down in Pembroke, North Carolina. It was an extended meeting. God was doing great stuff. People were getting saved. The Lord was letting me preach. I had liberty. But yet I was miserable, depressed, and mad because God wouldn't just give me a yes. Remember, I was thinking it was about a Tuesday night. Oh, God, thank you. I remember it was about a Tuesday night, I looked down on my phone in that church service. I got a text from Brother Johnny Talbert that said, when you get home, we need to talk. I didn't think nothing of it, and I remember I just swiped it off, texted him, said alright, and I got home that next week. I remember I walked in, I think it was on a Monday, Brother Johnny, we walked in, we sat down. Johnny and I were sitting there, and we were talking, just small talking for a little bit. Brother Johnny, if you're in here somewhere, come up here. I remember we were sitting there talking. Finally, he looked at me in tears, started running down his face, Brother Price, and he said, have you been praying anything specific about me? And I remember I told him, I said, Brother Johnny, I pray for you all the time. Since he came to my church, we've always been close, like a second father, somebody I've looked up to that I love. I remember we started talking, and he began to weep, and he told me everything Brother Daniel just told you. He said, because of all the health troubles you're going through and all this stuff going on, He said, God's told me that my job and my calling as a preacher is to quit a six-figure job, come on the road with a 20-year-old preacher at the time, and to pray for you full-time while you preach. He didn't quit a job to come and be in the limelight. He didn't quit a job to get paid and don't take a penny from nobody. But he came to stick in a room somewhere where nobody sees him and nobody knows him and nobody thanks him. And he doesn't get the handshakes or the pictures or the autographs or the pats on the back. But he said, that's what God told me to do because of everything you're going through. I watched brother Daniel's brother Johnny, a man that's twice my age, gets in the car with me every day. I ain't married. I ain't got kids. It don't take much for me to leave the house. Watch as he leaves a sick wife and four kids that he's got at the house that he loves more than anything. Comes out with that suitcase, puts it in the back of that car, gets in. There we go for seven, eight, nine weeks at a time. He don't see his family. He don't get to have dinner with his family. Misses all them different moments. I tell you this tonight, that a thousand collapsed lungs are worth one Johnny Talbert. All those stomach issues are worth one yes. And God's no always leads to a greater yes tonight. Say, like, going through everything I went through was miserable, Brother Joe, but I'd take it all again. Say, since then, I've seen God do more things in His life. I've found that I want more people to pray for Him than I do for me. Hey, Brother John, He's closer than any brother I've ever had. I love Him with everything in my life. I care about Him more than anybody. But God knew exactly what He was doing when He told me no. When, God, I was depressed, I was anxious, losing my mind, then Johnny came. And since then, I hardly had a single issue tonight. If that's not something God does, I don't know what He does. I say I don't know about you, but don't you think that it's time to move beyond no? Don't you think it's time to get past no and say, God, I'll react the right way? Because there's probably something greater waiting down the road tonight. Say, how long are you going to sit there and be mad and bitter because God didn't save that person? God didn't let them live. God didn't heal your sickness. God didn't bring your wayward kids back. God didn't give you the money that you needed. How long are you going to sit there and be stuck in no? Why not just move beyond it tonight? Is God not good enough to move beyond no? There's something greater waiting around the corner tonight. Daniel, you come. Lauren, you go ahead. Head's bowed, eyes closed. I'll tell you what he said that really touched me big time. Brother Michael Green, when God said no to him, he invested in Joshua. Joshua got the yes. Moses couldn't have took him in no way. I mean, he could have went in there. Joshua was a man, most of his work was over. He just wanted to go in there and say it. God let him say it. Before he buried him, God let him say it. And then, 1500 years later, he walked in there. And, I believe in the great tribulation. He's gonna be one of them two prophets that the devil can't kill. And when God lets him die, he gonna get resurrected right in front of all of them. Oh yeah! Praise God! Aren't you glad? Thank you, brother. All them yeses. Y'all look up here just a minute. Please don't get in no hurry, because this is important stuff. What you've heard tonight, you'll never probably ever hear nothing like this again. I mean the illustration of Johnny. Don't you go out here and try to do that. You've got to obey God. But did you notice what he said? God never healed him until he started running with Johnny. You know why? Because God had to confirm to him and Brother Johnny both that what he was doing was right. God saved his healing for Brother Johnny. And that act of such faith, all these churches couldn't pray it through. But instead of God healing him, he raised up Brother Johnny. And when he did, he let him see the victory. when you die to your stinking self and you live for other people. That's what Brother Tyler's doing, going down the road, throwing his guts up every mile, cutting him hard to stand up. He has given his life for the cause. He may never get sick again the rest of his life. He may outlive everybody his age. God had a man and God had an illustration that you can see tonight. Listen, get to praying for your preacher. Give your life for other people. That's what this is all about, it's about others. Joy, Jesus, others, then yourself. You gotta cross the barrier. Let's bow our heads just a minute. I know Brother Heath Williams, he ain't gonna do one thing God don't want him to do. I believe that's everything in me. You say, I don't like sermons like that. Well, you just about as carnal as corn shucks, ain't you? That's some of the greatest truth I've ever heard in my life. See, I heard him preach that at Greenbrier. And I said, brother, you got to preach that at the church. Because we've got people sitting there that's got no's in their life. But no doesn't always mean no. And when God turns that no into yes, you hear what he said? where he is with God and where God's gonna take him and he's not gone through that and he knows that. You will not have redemption had Christ not suffered on our behalf. Oh, thank you, Lord. Where's brother Tim Bowden? Brother Tim, you got a touch of cancer, didn't you? Come up here a minute. We need to get the juice out of this thing. Ha! I want you to tell a little bit God give that prior life. Start right, your daddy died when he was how old? Four months old. He was four months old. Your daddy old time Holy Ghost Baptist preacher. Lester Roloff preached at daddy's funeral. They're big buddies. But Tim never got to know him. God bless him, got a business, doing real good. Pulling for Tennessee Volunteers. That life was going on. Him, Sister Shannon, and Tim, and Paul, life was going on. Something happened to you that didn't give you a wake-up call? Yes, sir. Like Brother Daniel said, which I'm thankful for my heritage. And I had a mother that would pray for me, that prayed for me. And I was saved at an early age, but I went. There was a time in my life that I went down the wrong road. But Brother Jason, didn't matter how far it ran, but I just had to take it once and just stop. When I turned around, he was there waiting on me. And I've been thankful for my wife, been married to her. We've been married 35 years. I thank God for this church and what you ladies have done for my wife. I was diagnosed with cancer and I had a brother that passed away. He was one of my heroes. He passed away. with the same disease that I was diagnosed with. You know, when that doctor, you know, when he looks you in the eye and tells you, you know, it's different. But God, Brother Daniel, I can't tell you how, you know, that how things, you know, had taken how they healed, how I was healed, and it was the prayers of people. I was cancer free for about a year and eight months. And they gonna check me, I get checked every six months, and I will the rest of my life. But that cancer reappeared after a year and eight months had come. But God put me around some of these men, Brother Heath and Brother Daniel. I never in my life had dreamed that I would ever go to Israel, but God and these men and Brother Daniel, and I came. I know this man right here, he don't want no credit at all. It's all God. Every bit of it's God. But we went to Israel. The Lord really opened my eyes, Brother Daniel. He's down there on those cobblestones. I'll never forget it. I mean, God changed my life. And Brother Heath had asked me to go to, Brother Daniel, I just got to say one more time, you know. But he'd asked me to go to Myrtle. And, well, I'd heard of Percy Gray, you know, being around my My family, my brother, my dad had even been to Camp Zion, come to find out, you know, he'd been down there. But that Saturday, I found out, the Saturday before we were leaving to go on Sunday, and it was a bunch of preachers. Well, I told my wife, I said, I've got to call Heath. I said, you know, I'm not a preacher. You know, why? Why is God, I mean, why am I, Heath invited me to go. to Myrtle, Mississippi with a bunch of preachers. But that night, all the way down, we drove in that van, me and Brother Eddie Smith. And the whole way down there, I was thinking, Lord, why am I going? But we put on them grounds that night about midnight. I don't know, Brother Daniel, I knew that then, I was supposed to be there for whatever reason, but prayer, the prayers of people, and how God has changed my life with these men and how they've used, how God has used these men and this man. Church, I've said it, don't take for granted what you got right here. Pray, pray for these, pray for your men. Pray for Tyler. Man, these young men, I thank God. I mean, I don't want to call, I mean, like Joe and John. I mean, he's just like a son. I mean, and Jay, I look at Jay Taylor. God's calling up these young men. And I'm thankful, brother. I look back at brother Austin and pray to God how you've helped me and Steve, all you men. I mean, I don't want to call names because I love all of you. I mean, I pull for you. I thank God for you. But as of right now, brother Daniel, praise God. I don't know if there's such a thing as cancer free. I don't like using that because I don't know if there is such a thing. But I'll go ahead and say it. I'd rather thank God I'm cancer free right now. Thank God. Hey, I'm going to tell you something. God set him aside like he did Johnny Talbert, pray. Oh God, we done already done it. Tell right quick about your heart attack. How the God, Lord have mercy. You ain't supposed to be here. Two years ago, we were at Oasis. And I'd been having, prior to Oasis, Brother Daniel, I'd had 39 radiation treatments just months before this. ended up with COVID. About just right after I had those treatments ended up with COVID. Me and my wife both ended up with COVID. And so I was having trouble not realizing what it was and having pains. And I just thought it was part of that COVID and the treatments. We was up at Oasis and having dinner and was Thank both of them, two of them right here, two ladies. Well, it was me and my wife and Brother Heath and Brother Terry and Brother Eddie. Well, God, there was four ladies, us men and our wives. Thank God the two of them was nurses that was there. And one of them ended up working on the heart floor. But I was just It's just providence of God, all that. I don't have time to tell you, I mean, but, you know, it's all the little, there's little things that add up to the big things. And, uh, but it ended up, uh, I got in the car with Heath and Tammy and Shannon, and, uh, I just asked to go back to the hotel, brother Rick. I just want to go sleep it off. But, you know, He said, oh, no, you're not going to the hotel. You're going to the hospital. Thank God for that. But I ended up getting in there and had a blockage that was 99% of my heart, artery block, 99% block. And I was laying there on that operating table. And I was awake during all of it. Brother Tyler, I was awake, just like you were talking about being awake. And I could hear what was going on. And I knew there was something really going on when the doctors all went into kind of a panic. But that artery collapsed. But I was laying right there on the table when it collapsed and ended up putting two stents in. And gosh, just like Brother Daniel said, God had me in the right place, had the right people around me, the right surgeon. The surgeon was, he was the top five heart doctor in the country. God had me sitting right there with him. If you hadn't been laying there when that happened, you'd have been gone. Well, the doctor told me, he said, well, I heard you didn't want to come to the hospital. He said, it's a good thing you did or you wouldn't be here. Your wife wouldn't be, she'd be taking But God is, I'm so thankful for these men and this church and the prayers that y'all prayed and what God has done. I mean, I love, I love y'all. Love you. I'm so thankful for you. Ronnie Barnes, you back there somewhere? Where you at, Ronnie? Why don't you come here and sit on this front seat? Brother Tim, why don't you pray over here? Amen. Lord God, I want God to heal him. I need him. I need him bad. He's went out in the dark and the rain for me so many times to help me. Yes, go down and pray over him. Yeah, sit down there, brother. Come here, Tyler. Folks, we need to just get real. Hey, there's something You ain't gonna have 30 minutes to repent. You better be prayed up. And when you invest in other people, God'll have somebody invest in you. Let's just close our eyes. Amen. Randy Patton, you back there, come on down here. Here's a man, Lord God. Lord God. Unless you come with him. Oh God, I need my people. that you give me, and I need them to be well. This man suffered. God, you might let him suffer for this night. Great God, you're the healer. Holy Ghost, touch him. Put your hand on him, Lord. Let's y'all sit over on that bench. Here's what I want you to do. I want you to pray. lead don't move. If you really feel led to come pray for Brother Randy, don't you come really feel lead. Yes, God. Yes, God. Say the word. God, let him have a healing with a feeling. Oh, Lord. We don't need a healing line. We need the healer. God did not do it. Lord, there'd be enough God in this place to heal everybody. God, somebody need your touch physically. God, if they want to serve you, I want you to heal them if they're going to serve you. If they're going to keep living like the devil, then that's up to you. But God, if they'll really serve you, extend their life, because the church needs them. Oh, Lord. Oh, Lord. Oh, Lord. God, we plead the blood of Christ. Thy will be done. Thy will be done, Lord. Thank God, thy will be done. Here's my listening, Randy, we pray. God, we prayed and prayed and prayed. God, this might be the night. Oh, Lord. Let the medicine work. God, you heal people. Sometimes you don't have the Holy Ghost touch people, you send an angel by. So God, that will be done. God, give them some help, some relief. God, we need them. God, we need them. Lord, these ain't men, they're faithful to you. They're faithful to you. God, do it. God, do it. God do it. God do it. You said to prayer of faith and raise the sick. God gives somebody that prayer of faith. If you're gonna heal them, you're gonna give somebody that prayer of faith. God, say the word. Say the word. Command thy will to be done, Lord. Oh yes, God. Mm. Mm. Hear him, God. Hear him, God. Hallelujah. Mm. Mm. Ain't that something, 22-year-old man preach that kind of truth? Ain't that something? People got some depth to them. Praise the Lord. Brother Tyler, how long you gonna be here this week? All the way. Okay. Okay, Brother Heath. I got total confidence in Him. I mean that. I mean that. So He'll know what to do. Or if He don't know what to do, I need God to tell Him what to do. Just obey the Lord, son. Just obey the Lord. I appreciate the Lord being around here tonight. And I appreciate what God's doing. And the Lord had really just directed my heart just a few moments ago before he even asked me to come. So I thank the Lord for that. And I believe there's some folks here we need to talk to God tonight. He's around here and he's wanting to talk to you. And if you'll talk to him, he'll talk back. He will if we will. He's real power in what Brother Tyler said. It's all about the reaction. You can't control things that happen to you. They're going to happen either way. So hiding from God and quitting on God or backing up on God in the middle, but if we respond right. I never forget. Brother Tim wouldn't tell you this. He's too humble for it. But boy, when God gave him that cancer He went through all that, and he went to Israel. He was in the middle. He'd just come off those treatments, I believe, if I got it right. God had lined all that up, and he was over there still in the middle of what seemed like a no, and didn't know exactly how it was all going to line out. And I never forget, in the old city, you could go down. History is always down in layers. all them empires built on top of one another but if you go down far enough one of the greatest things a lot of things in Israel are approximate brother John knows this we love this one of our favorite parts you will literally walk on the same cobblestones that Jesus Christ walked carrying that cross for you and me and I never forget if you know brother Tim you know he gonna say a hundred And when it settled in, I don't remember it happened so quick, but the next thing I knew there's people that sort of was just loving on the Lord, but God and Tim had a whole different conversation. And right in the middle of his no, Brother Tyler, he worshipped. He responded right. And I never forget as he, he didn't bow to his knees, he just crumbled to his knees. And I watched as he crawled all over them old cobblestones and kissed them one by one and said, thank you Lord for this step. Thank you Lord for this step. Thank you, Lord, for this step. The more stones he kissed, them old cobblestones, there's a little old shouting lady that loves the Lord at my home church, she got to worshiping God. Then a whole bunch of others got to worshiping God just the way the Lord has them to worship. Some were crying, some were praying, some were shouting, some were down on the ground with him. God fell down there. If you went a hundred times, you wouldn't get more than ten minutes in that low part of the city. Everybody goes. Listen to me, we was there an hour. Never seen this before. I talked to Winston about it. All them trips he's done, never seen it before. We was there an hour and nobody came. Nobody pushed us on. God knows how to set you up. And for some of us, He done set you up tonight. He's got some cobblestones. He's ready for you to kiss You don't know what I've been through you ain't been through more than Jesus Preacher I don't like where I'm at. I don't like what God's done. I'm not here tonight to tell you it's easy But if he loved you enough to die for you then you've got to use your heart and use your mind and realize if God could love unlovable people like us enough to die for us, bankrupt heaven and give His Son, He loves us enough to do what's best in our life. Even when you can't feel it or see it. When you can't track God, you've got to trust Him. But because He responded right, them cobblestones led to that myrtle trip. And when He got that cancer the second time, And he may get that cancer again. I know what he's saying. There's no guarantees in life. We're all going to die eventually. But he's cancer free right now. And I can tell you with all the assurance of heaven, I know when it happened, I was there. But because he responded right in Israel, God had a night picked out in that old church in Mississippi. And he poured his heart out and said, it's back. And I'm broken over it, man. And I'll never forget the night when God hooked in some men, and we could feel the prayers of heaven were answered. God touched his body. Say, I don't know about that one, and you better quit your Bible, because James 5 is still in there. Prayers of faith can still heal the sick. Maybe if we kissed the cobblestones, we could see more James 5. We gotta do our part. Look, I know you're hurting tonight. I know some of you, you've been to graves you haven't got over. I mean, Lord God, our best friends, Brother John, they staring at one right now. I can't even put my mind around it like Brother Steve said. I ain't got no answers for that tonight. Makes no sense to me that God said His ways would not be our ways. His thoughts wouldn't be our thoughts. He never said we'd understand it all. But as Brother Daniel so well put in that text message, you gotta trust an infinite God who loves us. If you ain't gonna go to God, where are you going? If you quit, then what's gonna happen? If Brother Tim would have quit, he'd have been in a grave and we'd all been saying, where's God, what'd he do? I'm glad we got a different story tonight. I'm glad we got a different story tonight. He got a brother, Johnny. He got a new life, him and his wife. They got that testimony of what the Lord's give them and things they got promises from God that's still gonna happen. What I'm just trying to tell you tonight is you gotta do the hard thing. Everybody wants to end like these men are testifying about tonight. But you can't get that ending if you don't do the hard part. And that is you gotta kiss the cobblestones while you still here and know. That's faith. Faith is not kissing the cobblestones and worshiping Jesus when he gives it to you just like he wants and fixes it all. God didn't fix his car, make everything easy just because he went to the hospital. He still got back in the same raggedy car and went to the same meetings and was still sick. Say, well, I don't know if I like a God like that. He didn't ask us. He's not voting. We're not voting on Him. He's not running for election. It's not easy tonight. It's easy preaching and hard living. I'm not belittling you tonight. I believe the Lord's trying to help us. The back end God has never sold anybody short. He will always repay more than you pay in. He's a generous God and you ain't going to out give God tonight. Nobody can accuse the Lord of not being faithful or rewarding. But if you want your part to end like theirs, then you've got to do what? The hard part. Ms. Lauren's going to sing. I believe we just need to take time tonight to kiss some cobblestones in the middle of our note. Praise God. Thank God ahead of time. Say, God, if it never changes, them Hebrew boys, but if not, you're still God. And I'm still going to serve you and I'm still going to love you. She's going to sing, you just mind the Lord tonight. He's here. He's here. God, I know you have a reason for this pain I feel. Because you are sovereign and you do all things well. You're the only one who can mend a love that shattered. And God, I sure could use your help. You have given grace instead of healing. But maybe this is what it takes to feel So if I'm better broken, I have peace in knowing that I am living in the wisdom of God. And if I'm better hurting, you are more than worthy. of the praise that I can give from a broken heart. And if my story's for your glory, then I know it's for my good. And if I'm better broken, I'll be broken free. And I have heard, but now I see your body hate. You are working wonders beyond what I can understand. And you alone are worthy of my praise, whether you or take away. I am just a man I know that I am dust And if you want me in pieces Still I will trust That if I'm bad or broken I have peace of knowing that I am living in the wisdom of God. And if I'm bad or hurting, you are more than worthy of the praise that I can give from a broken heart. And if my story's for your glory, then I know it's for my good. And if I'm better broken, I'll be broken.