Is your love stronger than your memory?
In Genesis 45, Joseph’s dream is finally realized. He went from the prison to the palace, but it didn’t come through a straight line. Yet after years of betrayal, hardship, and loneliness, Joseph held on to his stubborn love for family. You see, he was the lover God was counting on. Even when his brothers did him wrong, Joseph only knew how to respond with a radical love offering. He kept his better angels at his side throughout the journey. But what about you? When you finally get the upper hand, will it be revenge or reconciliation you reach for?
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i’m going to the book of genesis chapter
number 45.
i will read extensively out of chapter
number 45 of the book of genesis verse
15
through 28
when you have it it’s our custom to
stand for the reading of the word of god
if you would respect that we would
appreciate it
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yeah we have the lord said to me we have
got to get used to
these services where anything can happen
because we can’t put the glory in a box
you got to be able to release what god
placed down inside of you
anything can happen in here shout amen
somebody
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i have a task before me i solicit your
prayers
as i delve into this text i do it from a
place of great humility
to discuss with you what he has
discussed with me
and to hopefully contemplate with you
the ideas that he has shared with me
that the church might be edified by that
which every joint supply
to the thousands and thousands of people
that connect with us
through cyberspace this is a word
from the lord that i am heavy with
today uh because it
is a prophetic word for
somebody regarding how things
are going to play out over the next
few years in your life
and i want you to hear what the spirit
of the lord
is saying to the church to the best of
my ability
beginning at verse number 15.
moreover it’s talking about joseph here
he kissed
all his brethren and wept upon them
and after that his brethren talked with
him
and the fame thereof was heard in
pharaoh’s house
saying joseph’s brother that i come and
he pleased pharaoh well
and his servants and pharaoh said unto
joseph
say unto thy brother this do ye laid
your beast
and go get you unto the land of canaan
and take your father and your households
and come unto me and i will give you the
good
of the land of egypt and ye shall
eat the fat of the land
now thou art commanded this do ye
take your wagons out of the land of
egypt for your little ones and for your
wives and bring your father and
come also regard not your stuff
for the good of all the land of egypt is
yours
and the children of israel did so
and joseph gave them wagons according to
the commandment of pharaoh and gave them
provisions
for the way to all of them he gave
each man changes of rain but to benjamin
he gave
300 pieces of silver and
five changes of rain
and to his father he said after this
manner
ten assets laden with the good things of
egypt and
ten she assets laden with corn and bread
and meat for his father by the way
so he sent his brethren away and they
departed
and he said unto them see that ye
fall not out by the way
and they went up out of egypt and came
into the land of canaan
unto jacob their father and told him
saying joseph is yet a lie
good god of mercy joseph
is yet alive and he is
the governor over all the land of egypt
and jacob’s heart fainted for he
believed them not
and they told him all the words of
joseph which he had said unto them
and when he saw the wagons which joseph
had sent to carry him the spirit of
jacob
their father revived
and israel said it is enough
joseph my son
is yet alive i
will go and see him before i die
can you say man go back to the first
verse for me there
verse 15. moreover
joseph kissed all his brethren
and wept upon them and after that his
brethren
talked with him i want i want to entitle
the message
joseph’s tears
joseph’s tears
spirit of the living god
help me
without you i can do nothing but with
you all things become possible
take me and use me any way you want to
use me
for the highest kingdom and the power
and the glory forever and ever and ever
my soul says amen
you may be seated in the presence of god
yeah let’s go to work
it is odd that there is so little
preaching done
about this part of joseph’s life
because this is the harvest
of the faithfulness that came through
the
suffering of his life
and yet we preach more about the
suffering
and the sacrifice then we do the harvest
we preach about how he was abandoned
and abused mistreated and ostracized
but we don’t teach people that he came
to an
end of suffering
that not only did he survive but he
thrived
and that his latter day was greater
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than his former day
that in spite of a rough start
and a raggedy middle ultimately in the
end
everything that god promised him
came to pass
he took him around about way to get
there
but he got them there this text
which is seldom discussed it evokes
a myriad of emotions because
having gotten there and been sustained
and is now the prince of egypt he is a
hebrew boy the prince
of egypt god doesn’t have to raise you
up amongst your own people
god will take you out of your element
because sometimes when you’re around
your own people
they don’t appreciate who you really are
god will take you
out of your element and take you to a
place where your gifts can be
seen and utilized and he raised him up
there
this text also shows us our god working
through a dysfunctional family
to accomplish his own divine purpose
jacob’s family was as the young people
says tore up from the floor up
the story stars in the treacherous
deceit of joseph’s brothers
and the plot that caused his father’s
head to gradually
age prematurely broken-hearted and
fragmented
raising children that don’t love each
other is a stressful thing
it picks up here toward the end with the
kind of promiscuous grace
that redeems the guilty and creates a
stage
for the purpose joseph was chosen
to be made manifest
it this it exploits before us the
magnitude
and the majesty of the breadth of the
kind of
person joseph was
it was not merely his coat
it was his character
they could take his coat but they
couldn’t take his character
he had the kind of magnanimous ability
the voluminous capacity to be able
to have the kind of love that was tough
enough
to withstand the obstacles of his times
it’s going to be challenging because
it’s not easy
to jump up and say yeah i got it like
that
until you’ve had it tested like that the
family had been badly disjointed
the reconciliation brings joseph to
tears joseph who has a chariot behind
pharaoh who commands the authority
over the finances for the entire nation
of egypt who is revered
amongst the egyptians burst
out in tears in the face of his brethren
in spite of being unjustly treated by
them
in spite of the way they ostracized him
and humiliated him
in spite of the way they set out to
murder him
literally murder him and decided
instead to throw him in a pit
to be divided by animals or taken
captive
as a slave they didn’t care which they
stood back to watch him die
have you ever had people that stood
up y’all don’t understand i’m gonna talk
to this say
have you ever had anybody that stood
by to watch you die set you up
and just waited for you to fall and fold
in the
arms of course you had you can’t live in
this world
and not attract enemies and haters and
naysayers
and people who despise you that’s a part
of this world
out of 8 billion people on the planet
everybody is not going to like you
we understand that but it’s not just
that they hated him it was that they
were also his
brethren
it is not just what they did
it is who they were
and yet joseph
when he is on top and he has
the power to be vindictive
he has the power to get even
he has the power to seek revenge
he has the power to annihilate them
he has the power to destroy their lives
he has the power to cut them completely
off
he has the power to cut off their food
supply
and watch them die
instead
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he burst into tears
joseph’s tears are amazing
they threw him in the pit and he didn’t
cry
they stripped him of his clothes and he
didn’t cry
they ripped his coat of many colors and
he didn’t cry
they separated him from the love of his
father
and he didn’t cry they sold him
into captivity to the midianites
and he didn’t cry for joseph to cry here
he didn’t cry in the house of potiphar
when potiphar’s wife lied on him and he
was
he had to leave there under a lie
and was falsely arrested and he didn’t
cry
he went to jail
and he didn’t cry he was forgotten by
the butler and the banker and he didn’t
cry
joseph is not a whip he’s not easy to
give way
to his but what is it about this
situation
that has brought him to tears
this is all the time that we readily
recall
joseph tears
i would have cried when they threw me in
the pit
i might have cried when they took my
coat
i definitely would have cried when i
lost my good job
at potiphar’s house and if they took me
to jail i would have been in tears
but he stood up to all of that
and didn’t shed a tear
and now when these haters
out of one period in his life come
back to him at another period in his
life
he sees them and they are
desperate and they’re in trouble
and a famine is coming into the land
and they need him and
either the evil in him will rise up
and get revenge or his
better angels will rise up in him
and he will respond correctly have you
ever
had to wrestle
you had two different ways you could
react you know the way
you should react but when you think
about what they did
and how you suffered is there anybody in
here
that had trouble reacting the way you
were supposed to lie
he is torn in his thinking
it is human to remember
how can he forget
what they did to him he said i know you
did it and you didn’t do it by accident
you meant it for evil
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oh i’m not a child or a novice i
understand everybody’s not gonna wish me
well
but it’s not what they did it’s
who it to route
you betrayed me too
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do you have the strength
to allow good to come out of you
when evil has been done to you
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anybody can be good to people that are
good to them
but the challenge of life is to be good
to somebody
that you don’t owe them no kind of good
i don’t owe
you enough i don’t owe you nothing i
don’t know you didn’t raise me
you didn’t love me you were there for me
now you and i don’t
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[Music]
somebody in here knows what i’m talking
about
time has passed and now you need me
time has passed and now you call on me
time has passed and now your hearts have
softened
you need me now
and the challenge becomes given
the favor that he’s been given does he
have
the capacity in his person
to allow the phrase better angels i’m
going to talk about that in a minute
to rise up out of him and to guide him
so that the best part of him is leading
him
and not the worst part of him
the plan of god depends on joseph
finding
his better angels
abraham lincoln who used the phrase
better angels so beautifully in his
first inaugural
address on march the 4th of 1861
was was a time when our country was on
the eve
of the civil war initially
those lines were not in there he added
them
he says i am loved to close
we are not enemies but friends
we must not be enemies though passions
may have strained
it must not break our bonds of affection
the mystic chords of memory
stretching from every battlefield and
patriot grave
to every living heart and hearthstone
all over the broad land will yet swell
the course of the union when again
touched
as surely they will be
by the better angels of our nature
the better angels of our nature
abraham lincoln says as he is leading
the nation
through the most turbulent one of the
most turbulent periods
in the history of this country he calls
for the better angels
and says that ultimately when all is
said and done
we will recognize that we are one people
that we are
brethren though our relationship has
been strained
indeed it had it had been greatly
strained
and his writer one of his writers who
served as
lincoln secretary of state wanted to
change the land
and wanted to write in fact did write
guardian angels
but guardian angels implied something
from the outside
what lincoln was counting on is that in
the worst of us
there there is a better of us that is on
the inside that if we will allow it
it will rise up and take us through the
turbulence
of the times we face are you hearing
what i’m saying to you
not the piotistic term of the guardian
of angels no
but the better angels would arise and
protect them now give me give me a
moment i will get i’m gonna get you
where you’re trying to go
abraham lincoln didn’t come up with that
by himself
he is quoting from william shakespeare
when william
shakespeare writes in othello
in the 1600th century he writes about
a play called othello and in othello
he writes about the better angels
fighting down the evil that was done to
him abraham reached his back
abraham lincoln reaches back to william
shakespeare’s speech
in 1603 and adopts this language
better angels better angels
it is hard to live a life
that exemplifies your better angels
when you’ve had bad times
it’s hard to have better angels when
you’ve
been around bad people it’s hard to have
better angels
when you’ve got bad memories
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all of us have to fight every day to get
our better
angels to stand up inside of us
it’s not enough for me to talk about
joseph or or
even talk about abraham lincoln or
william shakespeare the character and
othello
let me bring this on down to paul paul
said when i would do good
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evil is present with me he said there’s
a war
going on in my members i could react a
lot of different kinds of ways i don’t
even know
how to respond to the moment that which
i would do i do not that which i would
not do i do
oh wretched man that i am who shall
deliver me
from the complexity of my life
there’s not a person in this room who
has a life
that has no complexity
we smile for people and we deal with the
complexity
by ourselves we show up as if everything
is seamless
but down on the inside we know we got
some complicated
it’s some complicated folks up in here
there’s some complicated
people watching me online you’ve been
through some complicated situations
complicated situations is when your mind
and your emotions
get into a fight and both of them are
right
i present you and i love you
i love you and i’m mad at you i’m
sick of you but i’m going to stand by
you oh yeah
i want to talk to some people that know
what it is
to have some complicated
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yeah yeah
oh god oh god
when i think about in my own life
there’s been times that i had to
struggle to find
my better angels i remember years ago
when i was driving on capitol street
we were back in west virginia and the
man cut me off and i was in a hairy
and this was a simple thing but he was
he he took my parking space
i had pulled up
to park and while i was pulling into
park
he shot in in front of me and took my
parking space
and bumped my car
and my two boys who are grown now 40
they were little boys
i locked them in the car because i
didn’t want them to get in the fight
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i walked over to his window and i
reached in the wind and said what’s it
going to take for you to get
off of my bumper whatever it is
i got it i was
fully prepared to snatch it it was only
that much crack in the window i was
fully prepared to snatch his body
through that window
and beat him like a runaway slave over
a parkings
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i’m just talking about me i know you
never had no moments of conflict
where your better angels went to bed and
your bad angel said i’d go
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the wise part about it ed is i i went in
the dry cleaners he backed up off my
bumper
once you know that and i went into the
dry cleaners to get my dry cleaning
and one of the things that was being dry
cleaned was a robe
a preaching robe
and the man looked at me and i looked at
him i said yeah that’s right
threw my robe over my shoulder and
walked out the door
i was embarrassed but i tried to hide it
i was ashamed but i tried to hide it
i got in the car and god said look at
you
i can’t turn my head up in it
there you are a young preacher just
getting started and you gonna fight the
man
over a parking space
while you rush to get your robe so you
can preach
i’m the only one conflicted i’m the only
one complicated
i’m the only one that struggles with two
different voices
i i’m telling you that it is natural to
have
this fight
the text that i read to you it’s kind of
unfair because i bring you
into the story at the end of the movie
it’s a spoiler alert because because at
the time i bring you into the movie
you have to begin to recognize certain
things about what is going on
joseph’s brothers tried to kill him they
tried to destroy him
they conspired to murder him they
ultimately left him in the pit
he was traumatized god knows how long
and naked and hungry and alone
and afraid trauma
bishop vastly mckenzie said something
that i love trouble don’t last
always but trauma will stay a while
the trouble will end but the trauma
is still there they said one to another
let’s stand to the side and see what
will come
of this dreamer behold the dreamer
cometh and let’s see what will become
of the dreamer what happens to your
dream
when trouble comes
what happens to your dream when delays
come
what happens to your dreams when
betrayers come
what happens to your dreams when the
money doesn’t come
when the support isn’t there when people
sabotage you
what happened see the enemy wants to
kill
your dream
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none of it would have happened if it
wasn’t for these brothers
who were his brothers
and his killers
at the same time
every person in this room had situations
in their family
that’s hard to explain
i love you but you get on my
nerves
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come on over for dinner but i can’t
forget what you said about me
on the phone and joseph has this ability
to be able to deal with this huge
situation
with the grace that it’s difficult to
explain
and it is here that we come to
understand
that with with the bombarding of
emotions coming at him
from all levels his
love is stronger than his memory
you see when i look at this text i
realize
that they are both in a family
that his brethren have been in a famine
for food
but joseph has been in a famine for
family
they were starving for stuff
but he was starving for them
and suddenly when i realized what made
him
cry i realized i have never really done
a good job of preaching him
because i am distracted by what he went
through
but what he went through in the pit in
potiphar’s house
in the prison doesn’t compare
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with why he went through it
it is not the what that kills us
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it ain’t the what i’m strong enough to
make it through the what
it is so why
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suddenly i realized that it was not
his body plummeting head first down
through the rocks
to the bottom of the well that was the
most painful
it was not the lacerations on his skin
or the beatings on his back
or being sold for 20 pieces of silver
that hurt him it was not that part of
his wife lying on him
that gave him the most grief
it was that his dream was tied to his
family
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and how can the dream come to pass
when the people i love don’t
i can’t reap love back i sow love to you
i can’t get love back from you
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i want to talk to some people who are
partially successful
you got it going on in this part of your
life but in this part of your life
all hell is breaking loose you got it
going on over here
and you’re the envy of everybody but
over here you go home
and you deal with something completely
oh you ain’t in here today you didn’t
come to church today
it must be somebody online well come out
come out wherever you are
come out come out wherever you are on
one hand it is the best of times
and on the other hand
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[Applause]
it is the worst of time on one hand
you’re at the top of your game
on the other hand there is this nagging
haunting aching feeling that will not
leave your heart
it will not go away what do you do
when your love won’t go
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away and your common sense says
leave them alone
leave them alone is there anybody in
here that’s got stubborn love
tenacious love relentless love is there
anybody in here
that has ever told yourself i’m not
gonna do nothing
i’m not gonna say nothing i’m not gonna
help
i’m not gonna open my mouth and all the
while you’re saying it
you fixing dinner talking about come on
in and get something
is there anybody in here that’s ever
been mad at yourself
for being too nice come on talk to me
somebody
i can’t be the only one in here that got
mad at myself
and told myself you stupid you’re just
stupid
you let people run all over you
never really realizing that what i hate
about myself
is what god loved
never really realizing that the whole
basis
of god’s favor on my life
is because i have stubborn love
you see it hurts to have
stubborn love it hurts
to keep on caring even when you’re not
treated fairly
but there’s something down inside of you
they cannot render
evil for evil
enhance
it hurts to say i’m sorry when you know
you wasn’t wrong
it hurts
to hold your peace when you know you
write about
somebody talk to me somewhere if i’m
talking to you make some noise
say something to me if you understand me
i don’t hope to get everybody i know
this ain’t for everybody
cause some of y’all too evil they even
understand what i’m talking about
but there’s somebody watching me right
now that knows what it is
to argue with yourself all night long
and say what you ain’t gonna do and get
up in the morning
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and do it anyway
because you got stubborn love
and now i see why god chose him
god chose him
because god couldn’t trust any of the
other brothers to have the radical kind
of love
they could look beyond what was done to
them
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god needed a lover somebody who would
love anyhow
so that he could work out his purpose
and his will
he could not work out his purpose
through somebody who was vindictive
and spiteful and hateful
and could not find their better angels
god said this is a moment that will
require
your better angels
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in order to get what god has for you
right now it will require that you
summons
your better angels and that you stop
calling it weak
who am i talking to
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i got a couple of things that i want you
to get out of this
i want you to get out of this how do you
handle
advantage
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because how you handle advantage
determines whether god
will trust you with power
some people can’t handle power because
they’re so vengeful
that if they ever get the upper hand
they’re gonna go for revenge
rather than reconciliation
and you’ve been praying for power and
you’ve been praying for
promotion but god can’t trust you with
promotion
because your heart is not big enough
to have the power that you’re asking for
and the kind of favor that god wants to
give you
it’s going to come to somebody whose
heart
is bigger than their head
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oh i’m losing i’m on this jesus this is
going to be number two
i want you to understand that love
never fails
it may take a long time it may look like
it’s
been knocked out it may get blooded it
may get bruised
it may even require stitches but when
the fight is over
love will always prevail
can your love survive or fall
joseph had taken a fall in a pit
but his love survived the fall
you can’t raise children if your love
can’t take a fall
you can’t have a relationship if your
love
can’t take a fall you can’t run a
business
if your love can’t take a fall you can’t
have a dream
if your love cannot withstand a fall
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have you ever dreamed you were fallen
you remember that powerless feeling
of falling and how frightening it is
when you wake up
because you’re falling and it feels like
things are out of control
there are going to be some moments in
your life that it feels like
everything is out of control joseph has
gone through a long period
of bad getting worse
and the only thing consistent
is that he was still in love
with his brothers and his father
man there are some people you have to
love at a distance
there are some people who are so unsafe
to love that that you have to love them
at a distance because
because who they are at this stage is
not who they’re going to become
at that stage but for right now i have
to love you
give me 50 feet i love you but give me
50 feet
you you crazy give me 50 feet you’re
going through some changes
give me 50. oh come on is there anybody
in here
got somebody you love but you got to
give them some
the third thing i want to ask you is do
you have the grace
to accommodate people changing
or are you still angry over something
that’s 20 years old
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[Music]
do you have the kind of grace to
accommodate
that i might look like the same person
but i’m not the same
person at this stage in my life
that i was at that stage in my life so
much time had passed
that they didn’t even recognize joseph
some of you have been holding a grudge
so long
that you can’t even remember the details
you just remember the hanger and you’re
still
mad
and god wants your better angels so that
you can walk in the favor that he has
for you
it’s going to require that your better
angels arise
and you stop trying to be your own
defense
[Applause]
because anger often is the camouflage
that love wears to keep from being
exposed
oh god
and and in order for god to deal with
you number four
you gotta have emotional honesty
even if it makes you feel vulnerable
to be emotionally honest joseph is
emotionally
honest he cannot help the fact that he
loves it
he cannot control their behavior
he can only control his
number five it brings him because of
that he can
bless them they cursed him
i had a pastor called me the other day
said this young man leaving in my church
and
he said he’s taking some of my members
and he’s
going away and uh and i gave him stage i
gave him a platform he betrayed me
and he took some of my memories at 11
and said what should i do
i said give him a love offering
i said give him a love offering he said
a love offering why would i give him a
love offer
i said because you are too big to have
unnecessary enemies
he gonna have enough to fight without
you
you don’t have to fight him life is
gonna fight him
life is gonna change him don’t add your
name to the list
you take the high road as michelle said
when they go low we go
oh y’all ain’t talking to me talk to me
somebody talk to me somebody
this family has been ripped apart
and they are a part of god’s divine
purpose this family is important because
god is going to use
this family to start the nation of
israel
and they have been ripped apart for
years
and the thing about a rip whenever
something is torn both sides get damaged
i don’t know who i’m talking to whenever
something is ripped
both sides get damaged you go home
bleeding but you think you’re the only
one bleeding
you go home and cry you think you’re the
only one crying but if it’s a rip
both sides are gonna cry both sides are
gonna suffer they may not show you
but there’s no clean way to have a rip
you don’t have a straight side and a rip
side when something rips
it rips on both sides
joseph colt was ripped from him
and his family was ripped from him and
both sides were filled
with pain god was getting ready
to do something so amazing that he was
looking for somebody
who was big enough to do it through
joseph understood something that god had
brought
him into favor to be a channel
to bless them
that the only reason god put him in the
power is so that his power would be used
for the posterity and the continuation
of the legacy of god if god can get it
through you
he can give it to you if god can trust
you
that your flesh won’t get in the way i’m
talking to somebody
who’s been talking to god about what
he’s about to do in your life
if god can trust you that the higher he
takes you
you’ll still reach low and pull up
somebody else
if god can trust you that as he opens up
doors
you’ll reach back and open up a door for
somebody else
if god can touch you
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look at somebody a type on the line
something is about to happen
god wouldn’t be talking to me like this
if something wasn’t about to happen
if something wasn’t about to shift if
god was about to raise me up
in some kind of egypt if some kind of
promotion
wasn’t coming in my life and god has
given me this test
so that i’ll be ready to handle what
he’s about to do next
in my life there’s a reason i’m
listening at this message today
god is about to raise me up from the
prison to the palace
who am i preaching to get ready for a
switch
get ready for a turn get ready for a
change
get ready for a move get ready for a
switch right now
holla at somebody something is about to
happen
something is about to happen something
is about to happen
something is about to happen something
is about to happen something is about to
happen
something is about to happen something
is about to happen something is about to
happen
something’s about to happen something is
about to happen
something’s about to happen god wouldn’t
be counseling me
about power if i was going to stay weak
there’s something that’s about to switch
in my
life that i’ve got to be ready
to receive give him 60 seconds
of crazy holy ghost
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so
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what i want you to see
is that all of a sudden the wealth
of egypt was transferred
to the house of jacob and the bible said
that pharaoh told joseph give him the
best of the land
load up the assets and the camels i’m
going to send him
so much blessing that before he ever
even
gets to me
and the lord said to me to tell you
if you can get the right attitude god is
about to do a switch
in your life until the wealth of the
unjust is going to be laid up
for the just if i’m preaching to you
give god a praise right now
i don’t care where you are sitting on
the couch
sitting at the dining room table or in
this building
i want you to just turn around in a
circle and say
god is about to turn it around
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god is about to turn it around he’s
about to turn it
he’s about to turn it he’s about to turn
it
he’s about to turn it the lord is about
to
the lord is about to turn it the lord is
about to turn it
the lord is about to turn it the lord is
about to turn it
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somebody south it will change
will change it will change
the pandemic couldn’t take it the race
rides couldn’t take it
what god has for you is for you
i rebuke every devil every
foul spirit that tries to cancel
out your blessing god said it will
change
it will come to pass if i’m preaching to
you
shout about it if i’m preaching to you
shout about it
[Applause]
if i’m preaching to you shout about it
[Applause]
[Applause]
if you’ve been in a battle shout about
it
if you had a hard time shout about it
if you thought the enemy was gonna kill
you
shout about it god didn’t keep you alive
without a purpose the reason you’re
still
here god’s about to fill your camel
with blessings your ass have not seen
[Applause]
[Music]
type on the line my story’s about to
change
you saw me in the pits you saw me in
potiphar’s house
you saw me in the prison but you’re
about to see me in the palace
my entire life is going in
better than it started if you had a bad
start
give god a good praise
[Music]
we pray
[Applause]
y’all are playing with me i said if
you had a bad spot give
god a good praise
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
these are not
tears of sorrow
these tears joseph had are happy tears
how can you say they’re happy tears
because the bible said he kissed him
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see once you know that what they did
didn’t stop you
[Applause]
once you know that what they said
didn’t kill you once you find out
that god can get you there anyway
[Applause]
you see joseph was
the love child of jacob and rachel
family meant everything
and god said
i am going to restore
listen to this jacob
thought joseph was dead he was
sure he was dead he said joseph is dead
and simeon is gone and now they want
benjamin
he had accepted
that joseph was dead
when his sons came back with their
camels loaded
down with blessings
joseph couldn’t hardly believe
that what he had given up on
could still happen
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[Applause]
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so joseph
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he got his own legs up
and he stood straight up and he said i
gotta go
to my son joseph and connect with him
before i die god said i’m not gonna let
you
leave this world until you see what i
promise you
come to pass in your life i don’t care
what the doctor said
god said i will keep you alive
until i show you
until i show you that what you dreamed
was not a joke it
shall come to
pass it shall
come to pass
[Music]
[Applause]
say it again
say it again
say it again
that’s why joseph oh yeah
that’s why joseph was crying
because the scene i read
was the scene he saw when he was a boy
[Applause]
what started the whole fight was he had
had a dream
[Applause]
where his brothers would bow
and worship him
and when he walked in the room as the
prince of egypt
and they bowed before him
god said
[Applause]
they laughed at your dream
but it happened they laughed
at what you believed but it happened
[Applause]
and i kept your father alive
because he’s part of the dream
he brought joseph’s father
and his brothers
into the fulfillment of what god is
predestined
hear me right now you’re watching me
right now i want you to focus on me
right now
i want you to focus on me right now
there have been a lot of setbacks
there have been a lot of betrayals there
have been lies told
there has been pain inflicted there’s
been times you’ve been handcuffed
there’s been times you’ve been tried
there’s been
times you’ve been in situations where
you were locked up and you couldn’t get
out
in spite of all of that what
god spoke to you shall
surely come
to pass
it will come it will come
it will come it will come it will come
it will come you weren’t ready for it
when you saw it
[Music]
you weren’t ready for it when you saw it
you had to go through more things to
grow into it
but you’re coming into a season now
the things you saw long time ago
are going to come to pass and it’s going
to be the kind of joy
that brings you to tears
because there were times you thought you
were crazy and there were times you
thought you lost your mind
and there were times you thought you
were a fool and there were times you
couldn’t hardly believe in your own
dream
but every bit of it every jot every
tittle
every word every sentence every
paragraph
every promise everything god told you
when you were a child
when you were a little girl everything
god showed you when you were a little
boy playing in a sandbar
everything that god gave you god said he
gave you glimpses
glimpses you didn’t have details you had
glimpses
whoever i’m talking to you had glimpses
you had glimpses
you had glimpses and you’ve been looking
at your life and say
my life doesn’t look like what i saw god
said that’s because it’s not over yet
god’s gonna bring you into a place where
everything that you glimpsed
is gonna materialize in your life and
the praise that’s gonna be in your mouth
is unspeakable i want somebody that
feels a witness
to what i’m saying to open your mouth
and
flood this place flood your house
flood your kitchen flood your car
flood your place with
[Music]
here it comes your season
[Music]
here it comes your
season if it wasn’t gonna be your season
the virus wouldn’t have come
the plagues wouldn’t have been loose the
jobs wouldn’t have shaken
the trials wouldn’t have come the storms
would have attacked you
the divorce wouldn’t attack you the
sickness wouldn’t attack you
the only reason the enemy is attacking
you is because you’re on the verge
of coming into a press down
shaken together running over
supernatural
miracle in the lord i don’t need nobody
to praise him
that i’m not talking to i don’t need
nobody to praise him
who don’t understand it i only want
people to praise him
that god they got something leaving in
your body
that’s got something shouting in your
soul i
i don’t care if it’s 10 people if this
is a witness
that the word of god is true in your
life
in your ministry in your preaching
in your family in your body
in your finances open your
[Applause]
mouth
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
yeah yeah that’s what i’m talking about
that’s what i’m talking about right
there yeah that’s what god wants
somebody who believes it somebody who
believes it
somebody who’s been praying about
something and praying about something
and you can’t shake the way you feel and
you feel like you’re trapped
and the thing is complicated and it’s
complex
and it’s difficult and it’s been tough
and it hadn’t been a straight line
and there’s been dark days and there’s
been lonely nights
and there’s been times you wanted to
quit and there’s been times you wanted
to collapse
but god kept speaking to you
[Applause]
foreign
[Music]
so joseph joseph runs up
he runs up
and he kisses his brothers
because they’re coming as a sign
that the time is now
and he starts weeping
and he loved him and he missed him
but the thing that tipped him over is
that the dream was not alive
though the visionary
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
wait for it in the end
it should speak and not lie who am i
talking to
it’s been a long time coming
[Music]
but a change has got to come
it’s been a long time coming
[Music]
[Music]
the change the change
the change you felt like a fool sometime
but the change was coming you loved
even when you was mistreated but the
change was coming
god said stop despising the way you care
it is the way you care that made him
bless you
in the first place he blessed you
because he could trust you
he blessed you because of the way he
designed your heart
[Applause]
[Music]
don’t you start being nobody else
lord have mercy i feel the holy ghost
don’t you start walking in nobody else’s
shoes
because your gift is the crazy way
that you can take a licking and keep on
ticking it’s a crazy way
that you can love people that other
people don’t even like
that you cannot like what they do and
still find a way to love them
it’s the crazy way that god has put you
in a position
of power to bring about change
with people who your mind says don’t
even deserve it
but god is going to use
lift your hands up in total surrender
like you’re under arrest
lord i surrender
to your providential will to your
purpose for my life
[Music]
you have created me like you created me
for reasons
and i know my girlfriend says if if i
was you i would take
you not me i’m i’m me
i can’t be you i gotta be me because if
i stay me
god is gonna bless me lift your hands
and open your mouth
and thank god for working it out in your
life
everything is going to work together
for the good of them that love the lord
[Music]
he’s talking to you he’s talking to you
right now
he’s talking to you
[Music]
is
[Music]
he will he will oh
[Music]
is
[Music]
i receive it i believe it will do just
what he says
[Music]
[Applause]
what
[Music]
god’s gonna change
[Applause]
[Music]
yes it is
he will
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be
[Music]
[Music]
now bring your hands with me
don’t let a trace of bitterness
don’t let a trace of bitterness
destroy the word of the lord that’s been
spoken over you
[Music]
not a trace of hatred or anger
get rid of your victim mentality
it’s gonna take all of this to get to
that
[Music]
everything is going to fall into place
he’s moving pieces around
he’s moving you from place to place to
place for such a time as this
so that what he said long time ago
it’s going to come to pass
[Music]
the word of god is true
and your joy is gonna be so full
that your face is gonna flood with tears
thank you lord
you didn’t let me live and die without
getting what i needed
you had to move some pieces around but
you placed me in a place
for me to receive
and i will not let any devil trick me
into anything less
than my better self
hold it just a second lord while other
people are saying make me
bigger our prayer is make me
better
while others are seeking status
and stage
we are just asking you to make us better
people
because now we realize that if you trust
us
you can bless us
[Music]
i pray for divine favor
favor so strong that it’s generational
i pray for the kind of favor that
reproduces
on our offspring and their offspring
and their offspring
the changes we make now
will change the trajectory
for generations to come
for generations to come will be changed
because of the adjustments
that we are making right now
the adjustments that we’re making right
now are going to affect our
grandchildren
and great grandchildren
because something just shifted
in my soul
i will never be the same again
lord while we’re praying is there
somebody watching me
viewing me streaming me in this room who
doesn’t know jesus
i pray that they would come to know him
in the free pardon of their sins
that they would stop wrestling with god
over the hateful things that happened in
their life
and trust in the fact that god has a
plan
and that everything is going to fall
into place
even the things that bruise them
and hurt them and lacerated their heart
and that right now they will give their
life to you
in this moment
the prayer number is up on the screen
for you to give your life to christ if
you’re in this room and the holy spirit
touched you
and you’ve decided to give your life to
christ
hold your hand up i’m giving my life to
christ hold it up
hold it up hold it up bless you
hold it up high bless you
hold it up high if you’re in this room
and you’re backslidden
[Music]
and this year and this storm has
made you act out
if you’ve been going through the period
like i was and you ready to snatch
people
through windows and you have not been
the person
that you really are supposed to be and
you know you needed to get back to
church because you
you you’re turning into somebody else
and you need to renew your covenant with
christ right now
hold your hand up high i want to pray
for you
everybody who didn’t raise your hand be
seated
nobody standing but those who raise your
hand in either category
and i want to pray with you father right
now
i thank you for this harvest this is the
harvest
that matters this is the harvest that
counts
the harvest of souls and hearts
and lives that are changed by the power
of god we stand in your house lord and
we confess
our failures our flaws our humanities
our weaknesses and yes our sins we
repent
get us together
get us right in the center of your wheel
so you can finish what you started in
our lives
we’ve been delayed but we have not been
denied
and right now in the name of jesus
restore the joy
of our salvation i plead the blood over
every sinner that your life would be
changed
by the power of the blood of jesus
christ
to those of you that online the same
anointing
that’s in this room is reaching out to
you right now
you will never be the same again
and we thank you for the change
it’s not a feeling it’s not an emotion
it doesn’t mean that i’m quaking or
shaking but i receive
the change in my spirit and in my life
that today forward i’m back
yes i and max
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the bible said when the lord turned
again our captivity
we were like them that dream
then was our heart mouth filled with
laughter
and our hearts with singing
turn again our captivity oh god
it is by saying they that soul in tears
[Music]
shall reap in joy
[Music]
god said to love radically
to love
radically
to love even when you look like a fool
that when it’s all over
your dream even now
will come to pass
if you got blessed today give him a
praise
[Applause]
[Music]
you
I am truly blessed listening to bishop Jake’s sermons every day I must listening to sometimes 3 or more in one day, I can’t get enough I am so happy to have God’s word feeding on, God bless you sir your reward is awaiting you keep preaching. ?