How long will we continue to hold on to those who hurt us? How long will we stay bitter over something that happened years ago? Our grief may be debilitating but not defining. God challenges us to rise up and shake off the atrophy that has held us down. Are you ready to make peace with your past and walk into your graceful future? It’s time to transform the grief you’ve held on to with the oil that acts as your anointing! Go fill your horn with oil, because God isn’t through with you yet!
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we’re going to consider
first samuel chapter 16 verse 1 through
10
that we might hear what the spirit of
the lord is saying to the church
can you say amen
are you ready if you still look and say
wait a minute
well god that’s half the church
we’ve got to wait for you you’re online
find me so you can read this
i don’t want you to just watch me
minister
i want you to have a personal experience
with your bible
until it becomes familiar to you so look
for that scripture first chapter 16
1-10.
and the lord said unto samuel
wow how
long will thou mourn for
saul seeing i have rejected him
from reigning over israel
fill thine horn with all and go
i will send to jesse the bethlehemite
for i had provided me a king amongst his
sons
and samuel said how can i go
if saul hear it he will kill me
and the lord said take an effort with
thee and say
i am come to sacrifice to the lord
and call jesse to the sacrifice and i
will show thee what thou
shalt do and thou shalt anoint unto me
him whom i name unto thee
and samuel did that which the lord spake
look at that
and samuel did that see that’s where we
lose it we hear what god says
but we don’t do what god says do
samuel did that which the lord spread he
was scared but he did
that which the lord spake he was
intimidated but he did
that which the lord spake and came to
bethlehem and the elders of the town
trembled at his coming and said cometh
thou
peaceably ain’t that something when
you’re such a prophet
that a city trembles when you come
cometh down peacefully and he said
peaceably
i am come to sacrifice unto the lord
sanctify yourselves
and come with me to the sacrifice
and he sanctified jesse and his sons and
called them to the sacrifice
and it came to pass when they were come
that he looked on elite
and said surely the lord’s anointed is
before him
but the lord said unto samuel look not
on his countenance
or on the height of his stature because
i have refused him
for the lord seeth not as man said
for man looketh on the outward
appearance
but the lord looketh on the heart
then jesse called to benedab and made
him
pass before samuel and he said neither
have the lord chosen this
then jesse made shama to pass by and he
said neither have the lord
chosen this again jesse made
seven of his sons to pass before samuel
and
samuel said unto jesse the lord have not
chosen these
can you say amen go back to the first
verse
and the lord said unto samuel
how long will thou mourn
let’s just let that sink in how long
will thou
mourn for saul
i have rejected him
fill thine horn with all and go
that’s all i need i want to talk about a
heart full of grief
and a horn full of oil
a heart full of grief
and a horn full of oil
a heart full of grief
and a horn full of oil let’s pray spirit
of the living god
fall fresh on us today
anoint us with oil
purge us with hyssop and we shall be
clean washers
and we should be whiter than snow thank
you for the opportunity for those online
and
in the building to embrace your word
we come in covenant with your word today
total agreement contractually with your
word today
that it might be strength that it might
be me that it might be guidance
that it might be direction that it might
be nourishment for our souls
in jesus name we pray with all the wind
you can muster
shout amen you may be seated in the
presence of the lord
i need to i need to
tip up on this text very gently
i don’t want to disturb anything because
this is not
a congregational conversation
this is a private conversation
between god and his prophet
only the holy spirit has allowed us to
eavesdrop
on this conversation
i can’t believe it
samuel is
in tears
he is weeping profusely
he is sobbing intensely
his heart has been riveted
his countenance has fallen not samuel
samuel is a prophet of god
born out of the dead womb of hannah
designed by god in a deal that he made
with a barren woman that if he would
give her a child
she would give it to him and samuel
belongs to god
and god has known him all of his life
and god has raised him all of his life
and service to god is all that he knows
samuel has pronounced judgment on entire
nations and they were destroyed he is
not a wimp
he is not broken he is not shattered he
is not
easily deterred samuel is a strong
prophet in my opinion he is one of the
strongest if not the
strongest prophets of the old testament
he is powerful i give him such high
ratings
because he prophesies through life and
he prophesies even through death
samuel was used of god from the very
onset
as an embryo to his death and beyond the
grave
he is god’s man
full of faith and power and to see him
like this
is utterly staggering
it is amazing because just a moment ago
he was standing before saul the first
king
of israel and pronounced judgment on him
with some fierceness and a courageous
audacity
that is staggering imagine if god
were to send you to the king or the
president or the premier
of a country to pronounce judgment on
him behold
your kingdom shall be rent from you he
was strong as a lion
in the face of the king now
he whimpers like a lamb
but is that not what being an adult is
all about the ability to know when to be
a lion
and when to be a lamb
he’s strong enough to execute the word
of the lord without
fear or without favor or reprisal from a
soul that could have him
killed and yet he is so
tender that he walks away
from saul and weeps like a baby
and that now i see
why god chose him because he’s strong
enough
to execute judgment and tender enough
to weep foresaw
saul saw him roar like a lion
but he never heard him whimper like a
lamb
only we are allowed to see the prophet
collapse
up under the weight of being anointed
the weight of glory that is upon us
is not necessarily physical weight like
in a gym
it’s a weight of responsibility
everybody who has a weight of
responsibility
understands that it’s heavy to be in
charge
heavy is the head of he that wears the
crown
samuel is weeping he does not execute
salt judgment on saul because he
dislikes him he executes judgment on the
tall
because god said do it
and then he weeps
and he weeps and he weeps
because it was saul that anointed
it was samuel that anointed saul to be
king in the first place
he is invested in saul
and anytime you invest in something and
it goes wrong
it’s painful anybody can talk about you
because they don’t have no investment in
you
oh you didn’t get that and that’s too
good
anybody can talk about you when they
have no investment in you
but when you have invested and poured in
and planted
and mentored and established and
consecrated and set aside
it breaks your heart to see him
go down
and samuel for the first time in the
bible
is creep stricken
and it is not his grief
that has disturbed the lord because god
created us to have
emotions emotions are not
our enemy as long as they don’t control
our decisions
it would be different if he was so
emotional that he wouldn’t tell him what
god said
but he told him what god said emotions
are not driving
saul samuel they are not driving him
but he cannot detach himself
from how he feels so god is not angry
because he weeps god is not angry
because he is grief-stricken
god does not challenge him for feeling
the way he feels
it’s just how long
how long will you mourn
for that which i have rejected
in other words god is saying you should
have
overcome your grief by now
and now i’ve had to come down you had to
go down and talk to
saul now i have to come down and talk to
you
because you have grieved
too long i should warn those of you that
are watching
and those of you that are here this is
not a regular message
this is a prophetic word
i know it is a prophetic word
i’m carrying it in the womb of my spirit
like it is a prophetic word
how long will you weep
how long will you be bitter how long
will you be
angry how long will you be destitute
how long will you sob and mourn
and walk around enraged
i have made my decision
it is what it is
it is what it is
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grief no one escapes it
no one escapes it not the rich
not the poor not the famous not the
infamous
how no one escapes grief in life
so i asked myself what is grief what
what is grief listen let’s define grief
grief is a natural response to loss
okay it’s the emotional suffering you
feel
when something or someone
you love is taken away from you
often the pain of loss can feel
overwhelming
you may have all kinds of unexpected
emotions from shock
to anger you wouldn’t think that anger
would be a part of grief but it is
you can be angry you can have disbelief
you can have guilt
you can have profound sadness all of
that is just a part
of grieving now
grief does not reserve itself for the
mourning of the dead now don’t just
think that
don’t you don’t have to roll a casket in
front of the room
for you to know grief we all
know that grief hangs out with death
but they are not married
it is a mistake to compartment
to compartmentalize get my tongue
straight
compartmentalize grief
with graves
there isn’t a person listening to me in
the building or online today
who hasn’t encountered grief
you’ve lost somebody you’ve been through
some things you’ve
endured some things you’ve you you maybe
it was the loss of an opportunity
and you grieve over it
so maybe you were planning to be in the
olympics and andy and you were denied
and you grieve over it maybe you were
promised any
uh a promotion and you didn’t get it if
you grieved over it maybe you lost a job
and you didn’t get it you grieved over
maybe you lost your house
and and you grieved maybe a flood came
in and washed away
all your artifacts and you’re in a state
of grief
and anger and disbelief and you have all
kinds of emotions
maybe it was a slow agonizing
disintegration of a relationship
that was once a source of love and now
it is a source
of pain there is not a person in this
room
that hasn’t had this feeling
there is no injection for grief
no medication for grief you can’t go to
the physician
and then prescribe you something for
grief
you you can’t get a treatment or therapy
or a massage
and get rid of grief your heart aches
the pain is real and intense the agony
of having a child or parent
living in prison is grief
no tear ducts will go unused in this
life
god did not waste his creative capacity
when he created tear ducts
he knew you would cry the moment the
doctor
slapped your bottom you came out of your
mama cried
they knew you were alive
because you cried
there is no way around it it doesn’t
matter how intellectual you might be
how attractive how wealthy or even or
even
or even or even or even how spiritual
you may be
you can’t just pray in the spirit and
dismiss grief
it has to run a course it has to run a
path
you can’t just quote scriptures and
drive it away you can’t just wear holy
clothes
and drive it away you can’t just talk in
tongues and drive it away
grief without discrimination comes to
everybody
don’t let these deep people deceive you
that they are so spiritual they don’t
know what it is to have
grief they do know what it is to have
grief
i know when this clip is played there’s
going to be people on there
if you walk in the spirit you won’t have
grief i don’t feel grief the joy of the
lord is my strength
they are liars every last one of them
are
absolute liars they are liars they’re a
liar
la la la pants on fire
you
it gets on my nerves it bothers me these
people who walk around acting like they
don’t feel anything they don’t go
through anything
they don’t have any fluctuations they
don’t have any upheavals they don’t
it bothers me to hear them lie and to
lie
in the name of the lord
isaiah 53 3 said he is despised talking
about jesus
and rejected of men a man of
sorrows they talking about jesus
a man of sorrow they’re talking about
the god
man a man of sorrow they’re talking
about god
incarnate in flesh a man of sorrow
we’re talking about the divine and the
human tied and fused together in an
unexplainable way and still he is a man
of sorrows
and he is acquainted
with grief
jesus and grief
had a relationship
and we hid as it were our faces from him
we did esteem him smitten of god
he was despised
and we esteemed him not he knew
what it was like to have grief
he goes into the garden of gethsemane to
pray
and he prays and cries out to the father
until his sweat glands open up and
secretes
blood he is acquainted
with grief when the masses left him he
turned
to his innermost quarter disciples and
said will thou leave me also
because when you start losing stuff you
think you’re gonna lose everything
you’re you’re not just upset over what
you lost you start looking at what you
got like
you could be next if jesus wasn’t
acquainted with grief we deceive
ourselves if we try to project the
impression
that it has not come by to visit all of
our lives
often it comes unannounced it doesn’t
warn
it wasn’t invited you didn’t plan for it
you didn’t expect it
you just walk into it the phone rings
the text comes
you get something in the mail and oops
there it is
while grief is common to all of us
prolonged grief
can be physically spiritually
and emotionally debilitating
prolonged grief can affect your health
can affect your mind
it can throw off course your other
relationships
until mommy isn’t there for the rest of
the kids
because of the kids you lost
it can affect the next relationship you
have
because you really haven’t gotten over
your past relationship
my wife and i were counseling a couple
that were we’re just
forgive this term hell bent on getting a
divorce
so angry and so upset we’re i’m going to
divorce and i’m going to walk away
and so and so and so and so and so and
so and they kept talking
and one of them kept saying to the other
and accusing them and attacking them
and attacking them and attacking them i
said if you are going to get divorced
and i’m not counseling you to
and i don’t want you to but if you are
gonna get a divorce
a divorce is like a wedding nobody gets
married to be miserable
and nobody gets divorced to be miserable
what good is it getting a divorce if
you’re still going to be mad
if you’re still going to be angry if
you’re still going to be writing notes
and sending messages and wondering did
you see him
and who was he with and what was going
on you are not divorced i don’t care
what the paper said
you are still married
[Applause]
you’re still married how long
god says in our text we’re listening and
god challenging the lingering grief
of one of the greatest prophets of the
old testament
in our text we’re listening at god
not only challenging the lingering grief
of a great prophet but he asked him
how long will you mourn
over a door i have closed
and a king i have rejected how long
will you mourn over a marriage that’s
over
a job that’s gone
a house that’s been removed
a girlfriend that left a boyfriend that
left
how long
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how long will you be angry and
guilty and frustrated and bitter
and build your whole life around
something that is dead
[Applause]
i love how david grieved he grieved over
the
death of his child with bathsheba
as long as the child lived he prayed
and prayed and prayed and when they told
him the child was dead
he got up he washed his face he changed
his clothes
and he went on with his life there are
some times
in your life that you got to get up wash
your face
change your clothes go on with your life
life is too short for you to hang around
the cemetery
grieving over who didn’t want you who
left you
who denied you the job you didn’t get
the business you lost
the house that you didn’t close on you
cannot spend
the rest of your life hello
[Music]
[Applause]
you would be shocked at the people who
get up every morning with a heart full
of grief
if you talk to them very long you will
hear it
for out of the mouth flows
the issues of the heart and it comes out
in their speech
and it comes out in their language and
it comes out in that snappy way
they confront you and how they handle
you and how they deal with you
and you think they’re mean they’re not
really mean they’re still
grieving how long
if you can’t say amen say ouch
[Applause]
how long does it take to get over a
person
a place a thing how long
will you put your future on hold mulling
over your past
how long will you lay here on this
ground samuel don’t you understand who
you
are i did not create you for you to get
stuck
i came to get somebody unstuck
i came to get somebody free i came to
get somebody back
up on their feet you cannot spend your
rest of your life
grieving over who didn’t love you who
didn’t raise you
who wasn’t there for you who gave you
away
who gave you up for adoption you can’t
spend it
you’re 40 years old you can’t spend
how long
samuel you’re stuck
and no matter who stretched you joy and
who you here preach
and where you go and how much you passed
god did not create you to be stuck
with a heart full of grief
[Applause]
i call it atrophy
i call it atrophy when you
stay in a position too long
and you don’t move if i stay like this
long enough
when i get ready to straighten up i
won’t be able to straighten up
because my spine will develop atrophy
[Applause]
atrophy is a body tissue or an organ
it wastes away especially as a result of
degeneration of cells or it becomes
vegetative and fails to evolve
without exercise the muscles deteriorate
and what started out as a decision
becomes a paralysis i got a word for
somebody
who has got atrophy you are paralyzed
you’ve been stuck
you’ve been stuck not for weeks not for
months but for years
you’ve been stuck you shout about great
things coming
but you can’t receive great things
coming because you still got
atrophy over old things that you can’t
get rid of
and you have lost your ability to
straighten yourself
up you have got spiritual atrophy
who am i talking to make some noise in
this place
because god is getting ready to shake
you he’s getting ready to put you in
therapy
he’s getting ready to open up a door
he’s getting ready to open up a door
he’s getting ready to open the door
until you get flexible
until you can move again until you can
function again
you have atrophy
that’s why you can’t fall in love it’s
not that there’s nobody to love
is that you haven’t gotten over who you
used to love
[Applause]
and you pray for god to send help and
you pray for god to send opportunities
and you pray for god to send increase
but you can’t receive it when it comes
because you have developed
atrophy and the gospel is saying luke
chapter 13 there is a woman
who was bowed over and bent out of shape
and couldn’t no wise lift up herself
because she stayed in this position
too long
how long will you be angry
how long will your blood
boil every time you see their image
how long will you keep checking their
facebook page
[Applause]
how long will you keep investigating
somebody who’s not even thinking about
you anymore
and you are undercover agent trying to
see where they’re going
and who they’re talking to and who they
took a picture with
it wasn’t you
how long will you mourn around the tomb
of what didn’t work
out
i was doing a uh uh uh what he called
interview with devon franklin and he was
asking me about when i did the talk show
he said when i didn’t get renewed for
the second term he said were you upset i
said absolutely
he said were you disappointed i said
completely he said
how do you manage things that don’t work
out
i said i moved on
because i know god and i know that if
god would have meant for that to work
for 10 years
he would have made it work for 10 years
and i have enough confidence in him
to know that if he wanted it to work it
would work
and if he didn’t work i got up i washed
my face
and i kept on going and i said thank you
lord
for the opportunity i had the experience
i got to learn things i would have never
learned i got to meet people i would
have never met
and i was the first clergy to be on
daytime
television on mainstream network and
somebody’s gonna come behind me
and they’re gonna do it longer and
bigger and better
but i was the first and i’m happy to
have been there first
you gotta change the way you talk to
yourself
about what happened in your life or you
will get
stuck
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
i don’t know who i’m preaching to but
the lord sent me here
to cause you to get a relief the lord
sent me here to be your spiritual
therapist
to get you back on course again you are
not yourself
you were not created for this you were
not created to feel like this
you were not created to be stuck like
this god didn’t bring you out of your
mother’s womb
to get to this point in your life and
develop atrophy
god wants your nerves and cells and
tissues and blood
and bone and muscles to move somebody
shall
move somebody shall
move somebody shall move
that’s what you ought to say to grief
that’s what you ought to say to fear
that’s what you ought to say to anger
that’s what you’re going to say to
disbelieve
move i will not spend the rest of my
life
hanging around the cemetery of what
could have been
what should have been what ought to be
why
seek ye the living amongst the dead he
has risen
he is risen
he has risen he has risen
and in my my angelou voice and
still i rise
[Applause]
[Laughter]
somebody practices and say and still
arise
you ought to clap your hands and praise
your god
and begin to celebrate look at what
you’ve been through
and still i rise look at what you would
and still i rise look at what you
overcame
and still i ride look at what left and
still i ride
look at what happened to you and still i
ride
i was adopted but still i rise i was
wounded but still i ride
grandma raised me and still i
i’m living i’m leaving 60 seconds for
old-fashioned hand clapping foot
[Applause]
stopping
[Applause]
okay
look at everybody around you i know you
can’t touch them but look at them
and say get up get up get up get up
get up get up get up get up pipe it on
the line get up get up get up get up
pipe it on the line get up get up get up
get up say it to yourself get up get up
get up get up
get up while you can get up while you
can
get up while you can move get up while
you can move
get up while you can move get up get up
get up
[Applause]
jesus said to the woman who was bowed
over he didn’t even heal
her he just talked to her he said
woman thou art loose from thine
infirmity
he didn’t say you’re gonna be loose he
didn’t say i
lose you she was already loose she had
atrophy
she been bent over so long that it had
become
normal how long
[Music]
[Applause]
will your mourn oversaw
[Applause]
until it has become normal
to be angry and normal
to be bitter and when you
are stuck you draw people
that are stuck so that they can stick
with you
because once you get stuck you want
stuck to be
normal anybody happy you push them away
you start fraternities of stuck people
when you look around you and all of your
friends are talking about their
ex-husbands
there’s something wrong with your circle
it’s time for you to get up
it’s time for you to change if everybody
you know
has lost their job you’re in the wrong
circle
if everybody you know has had a nervous
breakdown
you’re in the wrong circle if i had a
nervous breakdown
i don’t want to hang around other people
that had a nervous breakdown
put me in a room full of people who are
mentally sound
so i can see what normal looks like
how long
[Applause]
glory to god i feel a breakthrough
coming in this place
i don’t know who it’s for i don’t know
who i’m talking to
but god is not going to leave you in the
state you have been in
[Applause]
because
the pain is starting to be your norm
the bitterness is starting to be your
norm the anger
is starting to be your norm and that’s
too much power to let anybody
or anything have over you
i will not lose my mind over a show
over a job over a house over a position
i will rock and steal our
eyes
and still arrive say it again
and still i arrived
there are literally people in this room
who are still
stuck with spiritual atrophy over
things that people did who are dead
they did and you was hurt at the funeral
you mad at the funeral
rolling your eyes at a casket
[Applause]
they’re dead you get to live
and you’re not gonna live and act like
you’re dead
if you’re not gonna live you get in the
box and let them get up and live
if they had a chance to live they
wouldn’t be rolling their eyes at you
let me tell you what i figured out a
long time if you can make it without me
oh you didn’t hear what i said if you
can make it
without me and let me tell you i might
be dying
and crying and broke all the pieces but
as soon as i see you going on
if you can make you got the same
memories i do
if you can make it without me i
can make it without you
i’ll get another job i’ll get another
house
i’ll get another life i’ll get another
career
i’ll make another choice but you will
not find me for 20 years
bowled over 18 years and i the devil
is alive how long were you born
over what i have rejected
note to self make peace
with your past
[Applause]
i could have i could have processed it
like
oprah did her show for 30 years and look
at me
i only got one hand and it was over
i could have turned on the tv setting
every time it talks about come on
i could have started crying
[Applause]
or i could have said look at what i got
to do
look at what i got to experience look at
what i got to have
look at what i got an opportunity to do
that’s why i don’t understand how people
preach about peter
walking on the water all they talk about
is him sinking
[Applause]
get out of my face peter got to walk on
the water
he’s the only disciple in the whole
bible that got to walk on the water with
jesus
and all y’all can do is talk about he
began to sing
he didn’t even finish thinking he just
began to sing
let me tell you something nobody not
paul not thomas not by following you
not james not john not none of them
could say
that they’d ever walked on the water but
peter got to step
off the boat and walk on the water i’m
glad i had the experience
i’m glad i had the opportunity i’m glad
[Applause]
i’m glad i got to know such love
i’m glad i had a mother to miss
some people never met their mother some
people had a bad mother
some people hated their mother i was
blessed with something to lose
healing begins when you change
the way you tell yourself your story
[Applause]
so god comes down from heaven
and said i guess i’m gonna have to come
get you
what are you doing
have you ever had god come down and look
at you and say
what are you doing
[Applause]
i have i’ve had the lord come down and
speak to me and say why are you acting
crazy
[Applause]
why are you crying most of the time god
asks why it’s over how we handle our
emotions
god’s okay and why is that countenance
fallen
the king told nehemiah why is your
countenance falling
the angels told mary why seek ye the
living amongst the dead
god walked through the garden adam where
are there what are you doing
samuel how long
how long you weeping over
uh saul longer than the children of
israel weeped over
moses they gave moses 30 days
they said all right i’m going to eat ice
cream
for 30 days ice cream and oreo cookies
for 30 days
i’m gonna cry till i run out of tears
for 30 days
after that god said to to spoke to
joshua
as i was with moses so shall i be with
you
and they got up and they went on into
the prophecy
you got a promised land waiting on you
you got a promised land waiting on you
can i go deeper
[Applause]
grief lives in the past
[Applause]
grief lives in the past
it breathes old memories
that’s its oxygen it breathes
old memories grief
lives in the past but grace
grace looks forward to the future
that means grace and grief
are fighting in you
for you
grief is trying to keep you
tied to the millstone of what happened
and grace is down there with this
welding equipment
trying to cut the chain
[Applause]
grace liberates grief
incarcerates
grief so incarcerates that you can get
married again and you’re not married
again
because the first time he say something
remind you of your ex-husband
you flip absolutely out
i just asked you what time dinner was
and you threw a butcher knife at me over
that
he don’t know you’re not throwing at him
you throwing at your ex
you’re a polygamist
[Applause]
you’re a polygamist i don’t care what
the paper says
you’re polygamous you are still married
to your past
your old job your old life your old
parents
your all this your older your old house
everything i used to live over on white
rock lake
and when i moved out of that house i
think it was about
at least six years before i ever even
drove past it again
somebody said all in memories and all
those years you lived in the house
don’t you ever go by there and drive
past it i said no
why would i go back there i sold it
it’s gone i made a good profit off of
that house
i profited too much off that house
to go back and visit it as a place of
defeat
what did you profit out of what you’ve
been through
god will never use what you lost
he will always use what you have left oh
god
god i’m preaching to somebody who am i
preaching to
hit me up say something to me if i’m
preaching to you
make some noise if the holy spirit is
yeah
yeah give me something give me some give
me some
give me some
but that’s only half of the message
that’s a heart full of grief
what got him up was a horn full of oil
[Applause]
and the lord said unto samuel how long
will i mourn for saul
saying i have rejected him from reigning
over israel
fill thine horn with oil and go
fill the horn god said
i want your horn to be as full of oil
as your heart has been full of grief
feel thin horn with all lift your hands
for a moment
just for a moment lift your hands in his
presence and just start worshiping him
right out of your mouth right now
oh we bless you we honor you we adore
you
we adore you we honor you if you are we
exalt you
we glorify you we magnify your name
how excellent is that name in all the
earth
how excellent how excellent he
[Music]
how excellent is how excellent is thy
name i lift my horn up
fill my cup lord
[Music]
i lift it up long
come and quench
the thrusting in my soul
[Music]
bread of heaven
feed me to you i want no more
[Music]
here’s my cup fill it up
[Music]
and make me
[Applause]
quench i’ve been so
thirsty disgusting in my
soul bread of heaven
feed him
glory here’s my cup
fill it up and make me
go go fill
your horn with oil say it with me
go fill your horn
with the say it again go fill
your horn with us say it again go
fill your horn with oil you
cannot make decisions with a heart full
of grief
you need a horn full of oil
you got to be more intentional about
your worship life
you got to be more intentional about it
i don’t mean you
feel like worshipping you may not feel
like worshipping but you got to get in
the routine
of worshiping as an exercise
a therapy of releasing you from the
atrophy
of being stuck in your life let me tell
you when you start worshiping god
the spirit of god will come in and
release
you and heal you and renew you
and god said to samuel the only way
you’re going to get
up from here is to fill your horn with
all
i told you last week go get your own oil
this is continuing the conversation
about how do i get my own
oil how do i get my
own oil when you can only get it from
god
the oil that matters only god secretes
they say the best way to get over your
exes get up
well don’t don’t quote him right
i’ma sleep out of the church
pray for me innocent he might
intercessor permit
i forgot for a minute i had it just for
a minute just for a minute it came to me
i forgot how it ended i started it i
forgot how to end it and then when i
thought about it
i did it i thought you said you
shouldn’t use that
but but that’s what they said that don’t
work
i lost them on that one jesus help me
get it back
that that does not work
all you do is bring your trouble with
you
all you do is bring your trouble into
the next
relationship so you have to go to the
shock absorber
jesus is a shock absorber and you have
to say feel
my cupboard i lift
it up lord come and quench
the fasting of my soul
[Music]
heaven feed me to you
i’m tired of wanting lord i’m tired of
wanting lord
i’m tired of wanting lord here’s my
cup fill it up
and make me
you go to church but you don’t worship
in your house you don’t worship in your
car
you don’t worship in your spirit you
have to fill your horn
with oil can i go deeper
the oil is what the church is lacking
we got great buildings we got great
preachers
we got great pastors we got more degrees
than a
thermometer we have no oil
we have no oil we’ve forgotten how to
get lost
in the presence of god we’ve forgotten
to allow the anointing
to overwhelm us we have lost our oil
and that’s why we’re stuck with atrophy
and bitterness
and anger you need oil you need oil
you need oil you need fresh oil you need
the anointing of the holy spirit
to overshadow you you need oil you need
oil
you need to he said the only way you’re
gonna get up
is to fill your horn with oil the only
way
you’re gonna get up from here is to fill
your horn
with oil fill your horn with oil shout
it
fill your horn with oil shout it again
shout it again
shout it again
i’m gonna show you this and then i’m
going to close there is a revelation
in the horn and the oil
the horn was taken from an animal
so in order to have a horn
you had to shed blood
and without the shedding of blood
there is no remission of sin
the horn that god is talking about is
literally
an animal’s horn
that had to be cut away
that sacrifice
in order to be anointed there must be
sacrifice
come on here did you really
think that you were gonna be an anointed
vessel for god
and the devil not attacked you at all
did you think you was just gonna go
skipping through the tulips
the rest of your life and not run into
anything
to overthrow you then you didn’t believe
in your own mission
if you believed in what god gave you you
would understand
this attack is a part of the warfare
[Applause]
and sometimes there has to be sacrifice
to be anointed
[Applause]
so god said don’t fill a glass with oil
here he says fill a horn with oil you
could fill
a glass with oil and not cut anything
but in order to get a corn
there has to be bleeding i want to talk
to bleeding people
i want to talk to bleeding people are
you listening at me i want to talk to
bleeding people
you that are on facebook you that are
following me on youtube
you that are following me on the app i’m
talking to you
i’m talking about the way you’ve been
bleeding i’m talking about the way
you’ve been stuck
i’m talking about the way you’ve had
atrophy i’m talking about how things are
not moving forward in your life
and you become comfortable to be bent
over
and stuck you’ve been stuck so long
that god has come down to ask you how
long
are you going to live your life back
there
[Applause]
there has to be sacrifice
for where you are going
he said watch watch fill your horn with
all
and go the association between the blood
and the oil continues through the whole
bible first blood then oil
first blood then oil there will always
be first blood
then oil first blood then all
once you have accepted christ as your
savior that’s blood
you now receive the presence of the holy
spirit
that’s oil it’s divine order
the oil won’t flow where there is no
sacrifice
i’m almost i’m almost finished i’m
almost finished the oil won’t flow
in your comfort zone the oil won’t
i want to be anointed i want a double
portion i want i want i want to
shut up because
the all will not flow where there is
no blood that’s why the book of hebrews
said ye have not yet resisted
unto blood
fill your horn with oil and
go
i will not speak to you about this
again samuel
you didn’t even exist your
birth is a miracle
i created you according to my own
good pleasure and now i am not pleased
with you being stuck
because i am not through with you yet
your story doesn’t
end because you and saul
have separated
[Applause]
i know you’re hurt i get it i created
the feelings
that you’re stuck in i know you’re
grieving
i know you’re angry i know you’re bitter
i know you thought that he was going to
continue to be king
but he is not fill
your horn with all i got a plan man
i can’t work my plan if you’re
in love with what was
watching our clothes i already got necks
waiting on you
i could never accomplish my purpose
in the earth as long as saul is king
because saul doesn’t have the bloodline
through which
jesus will come
[Applause]
i have a long-term strategy you have a
temporary pain
in order for the son of david
who is jesus to come david must
come to reign on the throne i
moved to saul for a reason
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fill your horn with oil and go if i
would have meant for you to stay on that
job
you would have still had it if i would
have meant for that business to work
it would have still worked learn what
you can learn from it
and fill your horn with oil
and gold fill your horn
with oil and go feel
your horn with oil and gold
fill your horn with oil
and go fill your horn
with oil and go fill
your horn with oil and gold
said fill your horn with oil
and go sit again fill your horn
with oil and go which when was the last
time
you filled your horn with oil wait wait
wait until you got
lost in the presence of god till you
forgot about what you had on
until you messed up your makeup until
you shook down your hair
until you got lost in the presence of
god and you really got immersed in the
holy spirit
and god really cleaned you out
really cleaned you out cleaned you out
cathartic the bible says none but the
pure in heart
shall see god the word pure is where we
get catheter
where god cleans you out where he cleans
you
out when was the last time you had a
gully washing
soul quenching thirst renewing power of
the holy spirit
to gush through you and you were more
than somebody
who goes to church on sunday
fill your horn with oil
and gold fill your horn
with oil and go say it again fill
your horn with oil and go set again
fill your horn with oil
and gold this is why i’m preaching this
and i’m going to close
some people get so stuck in dysfunction
that it appears to be normal
and you lose who you were created to be
because of who you’ve had to be
you’ve lost your personality your giving
spirit
your loving spirit your laughing spirit
your curious spirit your inquisitive
spirit
you’re careful you’re worried
you’re paralyzed you’re stuck
the joy has gone out of your eyes
the gleam and brightness has come out of
your face
and you are god’s man and god’s woman
and you are stuck in spiritual
atrophy and to all of that god is saying
you have had a heart full of grief and
you need a horn
full of oil
sit with me let me have a ministry
moment with you as best i can
brothers let me hear you
can i be honest with you nobody gets
stuck like we do
nobody gets stuck like we do
we get stuck because we internalize
everything
and the only emotion we’re given
permission to feel is anger
at least women get theirs out they open
up they cry they vent they get on the
phone they talk to each other
they do stuff we do nothing but hold it
in and develop
dysfunctions
we have not given ourselves permission
to feel hurt
so we immediately converted to anger
we internalize the anger
and really we’re just grieving we’re
grieving over
fathers
who never paid us any attention
or never raised us or never acknowledged
us
or mothers who were overbearing
or overwhelming or treated us as
substitute husbands
[Applause]
and i’m gonna try to help you because
these women make the mistake of marrying
angry men because women always think
they can fix you
and they want to be your oil but they
can’t and we go to church
but we don’t really worship
because we don’t we think it’s not
masculine
to really worship so we sit
and we wonder why we’re not being
transformed
it’s because our horn has no oil in it
we’re bitter about what happened to us
as boys we’re bitter
about what happened to us in life on
jobs where we were not treated fairly
we’re bitter about aging
we’re bitter about all kinds of things
that are happening to our lives
to our bodies to our families to our
finances
we’re bitter because we don’t feel
appreciated we’re bitter because we
don’t feel acknowledged
we’re bitter because we gave ourselves
to people who never gave themselves back
to us
we’re bitter because we have a love
language
that the people we love don’t understand
am i coming down your street
and we go to church but church is not
coming to us
this is not just a feminine issue
there are grieving men in this room who
have little boy
issues fatherhood issues
there are grieving men in this room who
are grieving about sons we lost
that we thought they would grow up and
love us and they don’t
there are grieving men in this room who
feel rejected
not by the woman who left but by the
woman you
got
and you’re only staying in the house
you ain’t married you just stay there
but while you’re staying there you’re
grieving and you are self-medicating
your own problems and when i start
talking about feel your horn with all
the woman bowled out of shape and all
that kind of stuff
it goes right over your head because you
don’t think i’m talking to you i’m
talking right to you
now both the women and the men hear me
good if this
message spoke to you
and you know you got some work to do
just you
just you stand to your feet
okay you know what we need oh that’s
almost everybody
i can almost see the people on the
internet standing up
somebody got their laptop on like this
you know what the church needs
universally
we need oil
we need the oil of the holy spirit
to really come into our life in a
vibrant and functional way
what does that mean bishop do i stop my
kroger
and get some oil no
silly the oil
i’m talking about is the oil of the holy
spirit
now nobody can put all on you you have
to seek it
you have to seek god for
a greater expression of his glory
to fall in your life i’m not gonna take
long i’m gonna pray for you
i’m gonna ask both the men and the women
and the children
to open up your heart and you online
since you have chosen to be online this
has got to be real to you you can’t just
watch it like it’s a tv show
this ministry moment has to get in your
living room it has to come on your couch
it has to be at your kitchen table stop
cooking it has to get you
right where you are put your coffee down
and listen up i’m talking to you
[Music]
you’re oilless and you’re stuck
and before atrophy completely sets in
and you end up dying a bitter old man
or a bitter old woman
hear ye the word of the lord
the reason we have you to raise your
hands
is not because you’re under arrest
that was a joke you missed it don’t
laugh later it’s too late
you messed it up when the hands are
open you are defenseless
when the hands are open it is symbolic
of my heart is exposed
when the hands are open you are in the
position
of receiving and everyone who cared
enough about your soul
to stand up i want you to lift your
hands
and to the best of your ability that you
know it’s rusty
atrophy set in to the best of your
ability
open up your heart and allow the holy
spirit
to have its way
inside of you this is gonna get inside
of you
this is this is gonna this is gonna be
a moment of cleansing and purification
as the indwelling of the holy spirit
comes in
inside of you you are not alone
the spirit of god is here
and god wants you to be filled not just
in church
not just running down the aisle but in
your car in your life
because you don’t feel fulfilled you
make good money but you don’t feel
fulfilled
you got a nice carpet you don’t feel
fulfilled
you buy people’s stuff but you don’t
feel fulfilled you’re miserable in your
own skin and you’re stuck
and god wants you to open your heart and
talk to him
open your mouth and talk to your father
talk to your father even if it’s awkward
even if it feels weird
even if you have no point of reference
open your mouth
because god is trying to fill your horn
with oil got it edible god is trying to
fill
your horn with oil god is trying to fill
your horn with oil god is trying to fill
you
every empty crevice in your soul god is
trying to fill
your horn with all now i can’t make this
happen you have to open it up and let it
happen
you have to as an act of your will seek
the lord while he may be found
call ye upon him while he’s yet near
lift your hands and open your mouth to
him i can’t hear you
and open your mouth to god and let him
come into this room
and let it come into this place come
into this place
come in and dwell with me and sit with
me
come into my living room come in and sit
on me
come into my anger come into my
frustration
and fill my horn with oil i open my
heart
i don’t care if you’re listening in the
sound world i don’t care if you’re
listening backstage
if the holy spirit is dealing with you
lift your hands and let the
holy spirit come in he came in like a
mighty
rushing wind he came in like a mighty
rushing wind
and he began to flow
[Music]
he began to flow he began to flow he
began to flow
he began to flow he’s flowing right now
i can feel it
i can feel it doors are creaking open
doors are creeping open hearts are
opening up
hearts are opening up oh my god
oh my god i feel the presence of god
coming down in this place
rest on us lord rest on us lord
rest on us lord rest on us lord
rest on us lord rest on us lord
hallelujah hallelujah
welcome into
this place
[Music]
you desire
[Music]
my
come on welcome him welcome him
[Music]
[Applause]
welcome into my brokenness come on
into this broken vessel
this rogue vessel you desire
to about
and we live
father
[Music]
there’s a flow of spirit in this place
there’s a flow of spirit in this place
there’s a flow of spirit and healing
and restoration in this place there are
so many people in this room that need
this word for different reasons some of
them are grief-stricken over loved ones
some of them are grief-stricken
over relationships some of them are
grief-stricken over failures and
disappointments and
family members and there’s so many
different kinds of grief in this room
but there’s only one oil lord let that
oil
flow in and saturate not just till the
service is over
but in the car in the restaurant in the
house
in the hotel room wherever this word is
seen
let the oil flow now giving praise all
over this building
[Music]
into this place
welcome into this broadcast
into this
[Music]
you desire
[Music]
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everybody in this room whatever
expression of praise
or worship that you have that comes
sincerely from your heart
let it out right now
[Applause]
[Music]
let it flow right now
let it flow right now let it flow right
[Music]
now
[Music]
[Music]
as we come to a close i’m gonna bring
you to a close in just a moment of our
sunday morning service
i want you to get back to sacrifice
and away from convenience
i want you to make a special effort to
be here wednesday night
some of you used to be
midweek worshippers
[Music]
it’s time to make the sacrifice
sacrifice is not just giving the times
and offering sacrifices giving time
and energy and prioritizing the things
of the spirit
you got a everyday devil and you got a
once a week god
[Applause]
you can’t just do it on sunday
for where you are right now
you can’t get therapy once a week
glory
[Applause]
[Music]
right
we got to get prayer in your house
we got to get prayer in your house maybe
i wouldn’t argue so much if we had
a little bit more prayer a little bit
more humility a little bit more love a
little bit more peace
in your house
[Music]
in just a moment we’re going to give you
an opportunity all of you that had
envelopes
to leave them on your way out all of you
that are online and the holy spirit did
a work
in your life today and you know it
and you know it and you know it
it’s a great moment to sow
i miss so much us
hugging and gathering around the altar
but soon
i have in my heart i love to run uh
old-fashioned three-day
holy ghost revival
i really wanted to
[Applause]
[Music]
if i had three straight days like a
wednesday thursday friday night with you
like we used to
[Music]
it would be absolutely amazing
what we could get done i’m tired of this
once a week feeding
we need a breakthrough for the kinds of
devils that we’re fighting right now
we need a gully washing come as you are
laying out all over the church pray
prostrate
in the presence of the lord let god fill
god keeps talking to us about oil he
keeps talking to us about oil
he keeps talking there’s something that
god wants to break in this place
is starting to crack but when it breaks
people are going to be healed when it
breaks people are going to be set free
when it breaks somebody’s going to take
off and go to running
when it breaks souls are going to be at
the altar when it breaks
your children are going to be saved when
it breaks
your house is going to get a
breakthrough when it breaks
i’m gonna ride this thing till i break
it i’m gonna ride it till i break it
i’m gonna ride it until i bring it if i
have to kick my shoes off
and come in barefoot i’m gonna break
this spirit
hallelujah what’s wrong with the world
right now
is that we need to be baptized in the
holy spirit
we would stop all this fighting and all
this bickering
and all this dissension if we had more
oil
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
uh
i can feel god taking us somewhere can
you feel god taking it somewhere
can you feel god taking us somewhere god
is getting ready to take us somewhere
and i want you to be in on it
every week i’m going to keep working on
this and working on this
and working on this until yokes are
broken
until chains pop until prison doors fly
open
until you escape until your joy comes
back
and your peace and your sense of
gratification
and fulfillment is full there are some
things god wants to do in you
there’s some plans that god has in you
god doesn’t want you to get stuck
where you are god’s got a new thing he
wants to do in your life
god wants a fresh thing a fresh oil and
a fresh anointing
to come upon you from the crown of your
head to the soles of your feet
i sense the holy spirit he misses you
he misses the way you glorify him he
misses your worship
your praise he misses that deeper gully
washing
thirst quenching thing that he’s done
inside of you
and i feel the power of the holy ghost
god has not forgotten you god has not
forgotten you
god has not forgotten god has not
forgotten you
god has not forgotten you god has not
forgotten you
[Music]
somebody shout revival
[Music]
that’s what america needs revival
that’s what texas needs revival
that’s what the church needs revival
[Applause]
[Music]
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glory
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whew
hallelujah
say it again do what you want to do god
[Applause]
say it again do what you want to do god
[Applause]
do what you want to do god
throw your head up and say do what you
want to do now
[Applause]
[Music]
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wow
do what you want to do
do what you want to do
do what you want to do
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
do what you want to do
[Music]
god
[Music]
do what you want to do
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what you want to do
[Music]
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[Applause]
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you