Often, we look to God and think: “God if you love us, why would you put us in adverse conditions?” Unfortunately, we can’t GROW if we don’t continue to GO. Some of us don’t want to go because we appreciate images more than reality. Fear not only affects our body and mind it causes us to reject fruitful collaborations and opportunities to advance. Triggers of heartbreak, disappointment, and lost opportunity can cause fear to set in; however, what God has planned will only work if we keep it moving. We must use the tools God has equipped us with and MOVE. The miracle is in our movement!

I want you to get your Bibles and go to

the book of Exodus chapter number 4 is

14 verse 4 through 9 and then we’re

gonna skip down to 13 through 18 the

book of Exodus chapter number 14 verse 4

through 9 and then we’re gonna go to 9

through 13 but before we read it I want

you to if you can in your mind and your

heart and your spirit in order to feel

the impact of the text once you have it

step to your feet for the reading of the

word and after this you can sit the rest

of the time and I didn’t tell you to

wear them shoes don’t blame me looking

cute is expensive amen amen

I want you to go back in your mind I

want you I want to put the text in

context these are the people of God but

they haven’t really been the people of

God for a long time they have been in

captivity for 400 years in Egypt they

have been in Egypt 430 years but the

last 400 years they have been enslaved

now we consider the fact that 40 years

is typically in scriptures a generation

10 generations are living off of the

memory of God there is some memory of

God left because he they they knew

enough about him after 10 generations to

steal call on him but their their their

faith in their theology and their

understanding of God is diluted by time

and polluted by association with the

Egyptians this is proven because later

when they get in the wilderness and they

try to build an image of God they build

the image of the Egyptians God because

who you hang out with does affect you

and yet with just a little bit of faith

that they had left enough to call on God

by by reason of the intense bondage that

was placed on them they cried unto God

and God heard them I’m so glad that you

don’t have to be perfect or have

everything right for God to hear you you

don’t earn the right to be heard God

heard them they were struggling but God

heard them they were broken but God

heard them they didn’t even have full

understanding of who he was but God

heard them and sent Moses to deliver

them now Moses was somebody they should

have known but Moses has been on the

backside of the desert for 40 years so

whereas the old people might have

remembered him the young people didn’t

even know who he was and Moses has a

responsibility of leading a people that

he has kin to but not familiar with okay

now he is leading them out of bondage

and away from favor and they have Pro

favor let my people go that they may

worship me in the wilderness and as they

began to leave Pharaoh changed his

manner oh is right and as they’re trying

to escape and they’re trying to flee

favor now sets out to take them back at

least maybe kill them this is not a

democracy there are no court systems

there will be no litigation they can’t

file charges whatever favor decides to

do to them is done so as they are

fleeing and they sense favor coming who

knows what is going to happen so as you

step into this text I want you to step

into it ask them

and then it will be my responsibility to

make it relative to you but you can’t

appreciate what the text means until you

go back to the utter fear of leaving

everything that is familiar and being on

the run the vulnerability of not being

protected having neither socio or

economic power or political status or a

voice to fight back and here comes a

bigger force coming against you than

you’ve ever had on 600 chosen chariots

and you walk in you can hear the

hoofprints of the chariots of your past

about to overtake you and there on a

horseback and you got on a pair of Nikes

that’s what’s going on in this text now

put the text on the screen let’s take a

look at it and God says and I will

harden Pharaoh’s heart and he will

pursue them but I will gain glory for

myself through favor and all his army

and the Egyptians were alone that I am

the Lord so the Israelites did this when

the king of Egypt was told that the

people had fled Pharaoh and his

officials changed their minds about them

and said what have we done we have let

the Israelites go and have lost their

services so he had his chariots made

ready and took his army with him he took

six hundred of the best chariots along

with all the other chariots of Egypt

with officers over all of them the law

and hardened the heart of Pharaoh king

of Egypt the Lord women them

the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh

king of Egypt so that he pursued the

Israelites who were marching out boldly

the same God who told them to go

hardened the heart of the one who’s

chasing them

the Egyptians all Pharaoh’s horses and

chariots horsemen and troops pursued the

Israelites and overtook them as they

can’t by the sea of pie ha ha

oh let me tried ha ha of opposite Bale

Zafar that ha ha rocks with our sniffing

along a few hours of sleep Moses

answered the people do not be afraid

stand firm and you will see the

deliverance the Lord will bring you

today the Egyptians that you see today

you will never see again oh I can stop

right there you could go home right

there the Egyptians that you see today

you will never see them again

come on the Lord will fight for you what

you need only be steel then the Lord

said to Moses why are you crying out to

me tell the Israelites

[Applause]

tell the Israelites to move on come on

give me the rest of it

raise your staff and stretch out your

hand over the sea to divide the water so

that the Israelites can go through the

sea on dry ground

I will harden the heart of the Egyptians

so that they will go in after them and I

will gain glory through favor and all

his army through his chariots and his

horsemen the Egyptians would know they

will know that I am the Lord when I gain

glory through Pharaoh his chariots and

his horsemen somebody say man I want to

use for something remain standing for

just a few more minutes I want to use

for a subject keep it moving

because the Lord said tell Israel to

move on but I’m scared lowered move on

but I don’t know what’s going to happen

move on but I’m in danger Lord move on

but I’m feeling vulnerable Lord move on

how do you keep it moving when all hell

is breaking loose in your life how can

can God set this situation up and put me

if you love me how could you put me in a

situation like this and you know I’m

human and you know I’m scared and yet

you still say move on

look at your neighbor on your left and

your right and say keep it moving

I know the conditions are not everything

that you want them to be I know all the

circumstances are not the way you would

like for them to be I know that there

are impending dangers that threaten your

progress I know that you don’t have the

insurance of an outcome and when you

don’t have insurance it is difficult to

have assurance all you have is God’s

command in your life that God said keep

it moving let’s pray about this and then

we’re going to talk about it father in

the name of Jesus we approach our throne

of God and we honor you and we bless

your name because you are God if you

didn’t do anything we still honor you

just because you are God and beside you

there is no other open up the volume of

the book and speak to us in such a way

Lord that we understand more clearly

your word the profundity of your word

the relevance of your word the power of

your word but most importantly the

spirit of your word for what shall it

profit us to understand the letter of

your word and then fail to understand

the spirit and the intent in which it is

derived speak out of the volume of the

book o God speak to us in such a way

that we will have strength for the weak

we call it done in Jesus name somebody

shout a man all right you can sit down

you don’t have to get up till tomorrow

so I’m in the airport the other day and

I ran into a fellow clergyman a pastor

here in the city and we were exchanging

the pleasantries how you doing hi how

are you so forth and so on

and he said I want to ask you a question

I said okay he said how do you keep it

fresh

he said you always seem excited you

always got a fresh word you’re always

going for it he said how do you keep it

fresh and I kind of didn’t exactly know

how to answer that cuz I hadn’t really

thought about it like that it’s not like

I was trying to be fresh my friends

it’s not like I get up in the morning

and pray lord help me to keep it fresh

and then my daughter texted me and she

said one of the things that I admire

about you is that you’re never afraid to

be a sophomore again you know she has a

way of saying stuff that takes you into

deep thought a sophomore game that

you’re not afraid to recreate yourself

that you’re not afraid to be adventurous

that you’re not afraid to be back at one

again like one two three four five six

seven eight nine ten eleven is one again

on the next level twenty-one is one

again on the next level 31 is one again

on the next level 41 is one again on the

next level 51 is one again on the next

level 61 is one again on the next level

and some people don’t grow because

they’re not willing to give up the ten

to be one again and if you’re not

willing to give up the ten you’ll stay

where you are for the prestige of having

reached ten and not willing to go back

to warm again you fail to grow to what

your capacity was meant to be because

you don’t want to be a sophomore once

you better senior you don’t want to say

I don’t know again you know you don’t

want to do anything that’s out of your

comfort zone again you you don’t want to

go into the unfamiliar again and you

stop growing because you stopped going

in order to keep brewing you have to

keep going

are you following what I’m saying and

you cannot love the prestige of ten to

the degree that you fail to come to

eleven eleven put you in a room with 20

and some people can’t stand to be in a

room with 20’s once they have reached 10

they’d rather be a big fish in a small

pond then to swim into a bigger stream

and be surrounded by whales and sharks

and dolphins and all that kind of stuff

they like image more than reality

speaking of fish you know I was I was I

was reading this thing about right now

salmon and they were talking about how

the polar bears are starving because

we’re eating up all their food salmon

has become so popular all over the world

that now when the polar bears get ready

to fish for food and go eat they can’t

eat the salmon that they normally eat

because it’s on all of our restaurant

menus and it’s all over the world and I

don’t mean to make you feel guilty if

you eat the salmon because I know you

tried to lose weight and all that kind

of stuff

yeah I get it but we’re eating up the

polar bears food and they were talking

about salmon

but before salmon was so popular he used

to be Cod and everybody was eaten caught

and Cod was on the East Coast don’t

worry this doesn’t sound like I had

nothing to do with it but it will in a

minute Cod was on the East Coast and

people in the East Coast were all eaten

Cod and and back then in order to get

into the West Coast cuz the West Coast

started warning dishes that were made

from Cod they had to put it on train and

it took a long time to get it from the

east coast to the west coast

so what they did they started putting

the car on ice but by the time they got

it to the west coast and tried to cook

it it had lost his taste and its texture

and it wasn’t fresh so they said I tell

you what we’ll do we won’t put it on ice

will lead them alive and we’ll put them

in big fish tanks and we’ll send them on

the train and they’ll travel by train

and then when they get them there

they’ll be fresh and they did that and

when

got there and they got ready to cook the

car it still didn’t taste right and the

texture wasn’t right they couldn’t find

a way to ship it and get it to me fresh

now I can understand why it wasn’t fresh

once it was frozen but to be alive and

not be fresh was confusing yeah how can

you be alive and not be fresh traveling

and not be fresh swimming there and not

be fresh and raising a family have not

be fresh look fresh but not be fresh

dress fresh but not be fresh smell fresh

but not be fresh when they tasted it it

wasn’t fresh so in a last-ditch effort

to try to fix the problem they decided

to put some fat fish in the tank

now catfish are natural predators to God

and putting a few catfish in the tank

meant that all the while they were

traveling the car had to be on the run

[Applause]

and when they finally got them there

this time now they were still fresh

because in order for the card to be

fresh it had to be in an environment of

catfish the Lord knows exactly what kind

of catfish to put in your life to keep

you fresh and even though fresh means

being uncomfortable and even fresh means

being on the run and being fresh means

that you’re being chased I know you’ve

been praying for a tank with no catfish

but God uses the catfish to keep you

fresh and if you think about it in your

life all your life you’ve had something

chasing you you don’t really pray right

until something is after you

[Applause]

you don’t really seek his face until

something is out – you really call on

his name until something is out to you

you don’t really reach your potential of

greatness until something it’s behind

you saying you’ve got to go all the way

you got to finish the class you got a

graduate you got to get your degree you

got to open up that business you’ve got

to make this marriage work you got to

get themselves together it’s not because

you’re always so happy with things but

it’s embed gum catfish

shake heaven somebody said what are your

catfish

[Applause]

yeah put in here what are you

[Applause]

what are your aquarium catfish Pharaoh

was Israel’s catfish and God hardened

his heart so that they could see his

glory and he created the situation to

put them in a predicament that they

couldn’t get out of so that they would

know that it’s not by might nor by power

but by my spirit saith the Lord that

brings you out of every dungeon every

tribe everything device that the enemy

comes up against you if you didn’t have

opposition if you didn’t have opposition

you would think you got there by

yourself but thank God for the catfish

that lets you know can you imagine the

other terror of having a two-year-old in

one hand and a newborn baby in your arms

and being a slave on the run from a

payroll who doesn’t just come after you

but he gets his best chariots see some

of you are crying out in distress but

you have to understand other people look

at you and say you’re whining but they

don’t understand you’re not running from

horses you running from 600 chosen

chariots

Satan has shot his last shot trying to

take you

you’re not in trouble because you’re

weak you’re not in trouble because

you’re not consistent you’re in trouble

because the enemy has loosed assassins

to utterly annihilate you and you are in

a fearful atmosphere and you’re moving

forward but you’re under attack the

train is still rolling but the catfish

is still nipping at you you can you can

see where you’re gaining ground but you

people looking back because you know

that that you’ve got to keep moving

because you’ve got some chasing you

somebody in this room has got to double

the fight I know the churches are some

people come because they got a nice

dress to wear and some people come

because they’re looking for a girlfriend

and some people come because they want

to do business but some of us are here

because of the catfish

some people here because they’re curious

but other people are here because you’ve

got catfish chasing you and you’re

saying give us this day our daily bread

and forgive us our trespasses that we

gave it though the transmat lead if not

as in today sir

and by the way Lord please deliver us

from evil

these people are fleeing from oppression

and they’re going where they’ve never

been to do something that they have

never done with someone leading them

that they have never met I’ve been here

10 years I’d never shifts your hand

Moses has been gone 40 years it’s not

like he’s been hanging out at Starbucks

with these people and they are under his

leadership and he has led them to a

scary place I would like to submit for

your consideration that you are not

living until you have been living in a

scary place

you don’t know who you are until you’ve

been in a scary place you don’t know

what God can do until you’ve been in a

scary place you don’t know what faith is

until you’ve been in a scary place you

don’t know how powerful your God is

until you’ve been in a scary place other

up until then it’s just religion and

doctrine and theology and it says ‘women

Sunday and the mean Sunday and the cat

fries Sunday but when you’re in a scary

place it changes what church feels like

to you because of the catfish which

brings me to this whole fear that they

had and what’s funny

here is the cohabitation of faith and

fear they had enough faith to go so we

can’t say they didn’t have faith they

packed up everything they had and left

in the middle of the nights at the

dictates of the Holy Spirit to go

someplace they’d never been that took

faith it took faith to go and God

brought them out the death angel had

passed through that night and the Bible

says that every house that didn’t have

blood on it the Death Angel had stepped

in and taken a son out of the house of

saud out of the house that’s quite an

offering I might give you a chicken or

something but but they had the faith to

believe God to go and they were doing

real good until they ran into the fear

fracture in President Obama’s book The

Audacity of Hope

he wrote a line that stays with me all

the time the presence of faith is not

the absence of doubt you have to think

about that I mean the presence of faith

it’s not the absolute

of doubt that doubt and faith can live

in the same space I believe you but I’m

worried I trust you but I’m nervous

I know it’s gonna be alright but I’m

still up at two o’clock in the morning

now this message is for the real people

church people are not going to own up to

the fact that there are some things that

can happen to you I don’t care how many

scriptures you know I don’t care how

long you’ve been in church I don’t care

if you can quote the entire New

Testament there are some things that can

happen in your life that makes your

heart start beating in your chest until

it looks like your dress is jumping and

you do like Peter and you say Terris a

lot that we perish we like to think that

people are good or evil and right and

wrong or up and down the believers or

unbelievers but the truth of the battery

is believers have doubt and then get

scared sometime maybe we’re not supposed

to but when you hear the hoofprints of

something that she dreaded that you had

had 400 years of trauma with and you

finally thought you got away and all of

a sudden you hear the footprints of

something trying to overtake you that

you have dedicated and risked everything

in your life to escape it’s hard to be

cool and scared you can look cool

there are some people that can look like

nothing bothers them and you say Lord I

wish I was more like them stop praying

prayers where you wish you were more

like people cuz you can’t tell what’s

going on inside of me by looking at my

place the truth of the matter is I can

look cool and still be frightened out of

my wits flavor had absolute power he had

no Congress he had no City he had no

Supreme Court he had nobody to check him

he could kill him and absolute power

produces absolute terror if I know I’m

totally at your mercy and I don’t know

how things are gonna end up it’s

terrifying I want to speak to your worry

I want to speak to your fear I want to

speak to your anxiety I want to speak to

the thing that speaks to you when church

is over

I want to speak to the thing that’s got

you up at 2 o’clock in the morning I

want to speak to you about the thing

that you can’t speak to other people

about because it’s too personal and it’s

too scary and it’s too dangerous and you

don’t even want to talk about it but

it’s chasing you around your tank it’s

chasing you around your your take fear

I’ve done about real fear I was in South

Africa I’m gonna get back to in a minute

having to talk to you I was in South

Africa and one of the brothers hit was

in South Africa it’s scared of monkeys

and and the monkeys are all over the

place in South Africa you know so if you

eaten breakfast out on the terrace or

something like that

the monkey is waiting on you to move

because they will come in and take your

roll while before you can put butter on

it they’re come and take your roll and

laugh at you

I thought the monkeys was killed he was

having a spasm and he said I’m scared

a monkey it didn’t really bother me like

that cuz I figured I’m bigger than the

monkey and if it came down to it and we

had to knuckle

I know it might not be Christian but I

will fight a monkey

especially about hungry

I will flat-out punch a monkey or the

animal rights displayed here

pray for my friends and lord if you’re

not paying for that breakfast put my

roll down that’s where I was about

attitude

you know y’all would have been reading

about me in the South African telegram

where your pastor punch down a monkey

over a roll so I wasn’t scared of the

monkey I thought they would kill me but

[Applause]

I am scared of some things and just

because I’m not scared of what you’re

scared of doesn’t mean that your fear is

not real because everybody’s scared of

something I look like a hero in that

moment as I’ll protect you outside that

the book the monkey wouldn’t let that be

it wasn’t like it was a gorilla I’m not

like that that would have changed I

would have took this out of the sermon I

would think

[Applause]

fear does stuff to the body living under

constant fear though it is an emotion

it actually takes toll on the body it

affects your physical health it even

weakens your immune system affects your

digestive tract does damage to you

cardiovascular system fear does stuff

that doctors can detect in the body that

you have no reason to be sick and yet

your body is responding to something

that the doctor cannot detect they’re

just seeing the effects of fear of the

body irritable bowel syndrome all kinds

of stuff happen to you decrease

fertility because you’re afraid because

your body has taken all of your blood

and directing it toward fight or flight

increasing your site so you can see and

your legs so you can run the blood that

normally feeds your body and your

functions is fleeing because you are in

fight-or-flight mode so fear takes a

toll on you because our primal instinct

is to flee or fight but fear don’t just

take a toll on your body it also takes a

toll on your mind they call it a Migdal

or hijack it affects your mind it has

that’s everything your brain perceives

everything differently when you’re

afraid you can’t trust your judgment

when you’re afraid you see everything

that’s negative when you’re afraid it

affects it affects everything about your

decisions when your friend we we used to

call it paranoia you

you just paranoid is there anybody in

here that’s ever just been paranoid the

polymer rings in your job or you just

feel like something’s about to happen

my wife describes it as they’re feeling

like a balloon is about as full of water

it’s about the bus up under you over

your head and you don’t know who’s got

the pin anxiety it affects you

everything and if you’re up under it

long enough it causes the brain now

hijacked to remember certain things like

how something smelt or a sight or sound

will take you right back to that spot so

you end up with post-traumatic stress

disorder it’s over

but it’s not over for you and there are

triggers that can take you right back to

that space and you will react off a

trigger though the problem is gone I

want you to think about that because I

think what I’m teaching right now has

destroyed more marriages and more

ministries than anything we could talk

about it’s not what’s going on is that

what is going on it’s triggered

something that went on nobody ever got

destroyed by hoofbeats but the sound of

the hoofbeats is a trigger and reminds

him of the abuse of 400 years and

Pharaoh has actually hurt nobody but

they heard him coming and they were

struck with terror you have to be

careful we were singing of it as though

the devil is a liar and he is but but

but the lie can be a trigger and when he

brings up what could happen and you

remember something that did happen it’s

almost as if it is hop

oh and all of a sudden you overreacted

in this situation and people who haven’t

been through what you’ve been through

don’t understand why you are flipping

out over this situation but it’s a

trigger and you’re horrified and it

doesn’t always have to be a horse coming

it could be a heartbreak it can be a

disappointment

it can be a lost job it can be a lost

opportunity and all of a sudden instead

of being rational and saying well I have

to find me another job you want to kill

yourself oh god my life is over

I’m curse let go right Jim I got this

and you just pass them out and flavor

help me touch you you just heard

hoofprints and your life your joy your

peace your amygdala has hijacked the

opportunity you have to be happy right

now because it keeps dragging you back

into something that you are actually out

of oh y’all miss that y’all miss it see

the end of the Bible says the enemy

comes to kill steal and destroy and one

of the things he will do is steal the

Peace of where you are with the threat

of where you been and all of a sudden

when you hear the hoofprints cover it’s

not like he got you but it reminds you

that he used to have you and all of a

sudden it’s as if you’re already been

now they’re crashing where they’re at

and wishing for where they’ve been and

said why didn’t you leave us in Egypt

why didn’t you leave us where we just

got to praying to get out of

because if you’re not careful

fear will cause you to be stuck at ten

rather than risk going to eleven Oh God

who am I talking to I’m talking to

somebody I don’t know who I’m talking to

somebody’s getting ready to step into

the next dimension and God is getting

you ready for something and he needed

you to hear this message no Geneva said

don’t get stuck

because fear can paralyze you fear can

shut you down

fear can immobilize you fear to make you

run everybody away even people who are

gonna help you but the fear that you

might get hard again I’ll just get out

just pack your stuff and get out of here

just like my daddy go get out I’m going

to get it and fear can make you drive

away people who are trying to help you

and so they’re the Israelites are mad at

Moses because your perception of who’s

with you and who’s against you can be

disrupted by fear fear rejection fear of

disappointment fear of failure can make

you not try fear of falling can make you

not climb feel a big fear being defeated

can make you not fight there are a lot

of you you’re not as passive as

everybody thinks you are and you’re not

as a pathetical as they define me to be

it’s just that you’re a bridge you fall

so maybe I shouldn’t climb if I don’t

climb I don’t fall in front of God won’t

have to go back if I’m a slave I

wouldn’t have to deal with this take me

back and all of a sudden the sights the

sounds the smells become triggers that

make us forfeit what God has in front of

us and yet in spite of all of this in

spite of what fears done to the mind in

spite of what fear does to the body in

spite of all of these circumstances the

Bible says that God is going to get some

glory out of this

now I want you to say that with me God

is gonna get some glory out of this it’s

about to sink in let’s do it again God

is gonna get some glory out of this I

want you to think about whatever your

this here’s whatever your catfish are

whatever your favor here whatever that

thing that kept you up at night

say it again God is gonna get some glory

out of this now give me 30 seconds of

crazy praise

[Applause]

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

[Applause]

yes

yes

yes yes

yes

see the reason I got you praising him

and trying to break their paralysis and

trying to break their paralysis there’s

got you stuck in the same spot buffering

buffering buffering buffering buffering

worry and worry and worrying upset upset

upset mood swings mood swings both way

if you crazy you break that paralysis

[Applause]

and don’t praise him till I get my

family back I’m afraid until I get my

courage back and I’m appraised until I

get my strength back

i’ma praise him until I get my fight

back and to praise him till I get a

sense of direction back and the praise

until I get up off the floor and the

praise until I stand up and start

walking somebody that did praise

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that’s three people that are being

blessed around here and say keep it

moving keep it moving keep it moving

keep it moving

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when you don’t know what to do

when you don’t know where to go when you

worried about what might happen when the

enemy is threatening your future with

your past is trying to overtake you oh

my god I feel you preacher the medians

border I feel you preacher to me this

world I don’t know what I’m preaching

than you are you’re preaching to me Oh

baby where are these sharpening I

sharpening

[Applause]

so Moses it said I’m just talked to I’ll

tell you didn’t have to get up Moses

[Applause]

Moses is talking to God because

sometimes you’ll have nobody else to

talk to

he can’t talk to favor fragrance chasing

him and he can’t talk to Israel cuz

they’re mad at him and sometimes in the

fearful place the worst part of the fear

is that there’s nobody to talk to and

maybe I wouldn’t be so afraid if I could

just talk about it and Moses has nobody

to talk to so he cries out to God the

best prayer means come out of the worst

situations you don’t have a great prayer

meeting cousins Wednesday you have a

great prayer meeting cuz all hell is

breaking loose

you have a great prayer because the

catfish are in your tab you have a great

prayer meeting because flavor after your

hon is it will make you different I know

how you’re conservative and you’re quiet

and you’re just not that kind of person

and you know but if you get in enough

trouble if you get a lot trouble born

after you trouble will make you act like

you Pentecostal whether you are or not

have you running around your house

I was ahead of witness in this place

[Applause]

and looking up the Goblin I didn’t sign

up for this have you had it sign up for

this I didn’t ask for this stuff is

happening in my life right now

[Applause]

do tell I will go get his cool by pairs

of go give him divorce

I did sign up for the edge you didn’t

tell me my husband was gonna cheat on me

I didn’t sign up for this

you didn’t tell me my baby was gonna be

born deformed

what do you do when you find yourself in

something that you didn’t sign up for

cuz you knows what my found out about

God God is weak on details

[Applause]

he don’t tell you all the details just

go down and tell Pharaoh to let my

people go

[Applause]

he didn’t mention he’s gonna try to kill

you when you do it big blue detail kind

of help a brother out I would kind of

like to know if you gonna sign six

hundred hit men to come kill me before I

get started I didn’t sign up for this

[Applause]

and he looks up to God and says what am

I supposed to do the people you sent me

there they don’t even like me

the people I’m trying to help don’t like

me my child don’t like me my mama don’t

like me my dad the people was supposed

to be on my team to fight the Devils but

the people wanted me to come home what

do you do with the bad people that

you’re trying to help don’t even

appreciate you I don’t fight my enemies

behind it is my dad to fight you too

[Applause]

and then godsister strangers in him he

calls on God to help and God does

absolutely nothing

now preachers don’t preach about that

they preach determines where you called

on the Lord and the Lord moved I really

need you to tell me what to do when I

call on the Lord and the Lord moves I

need somebody to tell me what to do when

I call on the Lord

I want to take series on that what do

you do when you ask him to heal and he

does it and you’re asking for prosperity

and they take your car what do you do

when things aren’t turning out the way

you had in mind I’ll tell you what you

do keep it moving Oh y’all hear what I’m

saying you don’t hear the power of what

I’m saying

you don’t understand that some of the

release of the power of God can only be

released if you yeah if you don’t keep

it moving it’s not gonna work the enemy

is trying to shut you down

and leave you paralyzed but the Lord

said I don’t care what triggers you here

I don’t care what sound you heard

[Applause]

so God says to Moses tell the people to

keep it moving and God said to me to

tell you keep it moving

I know you’re scared but keep it moving

I know the enemy is playing your

triggers but keep it moving

I know you don’t know the outcome of

this situation but keep it moving

I know you wish I would clear to take

all the catfish but keep it moving

I’m God and I know what you need and I

know what it takes to keep you fresh

then I know what it takes to get the

glory out of your life and it’s my job

to be God and it’s your job

I made it all the way I started

preaching when I was 19 and they said I

wouldn’t last two weeks and I made it

all the way to 62

I’m chasing here I got there yet but I’m

I’m on your heels buddy I’m coming out

here because you can’t go ahead if you

don’t keep it moving so I kept it moving

when I was broke and I kept it moving

when I had some money and I kept it

moving when things were going right and

I kept it moving when things were going

bad and I kept it moving when I had the

faith and I kept it moving when I was

scared out of my mind to all of it I

just I know you scared but keep it

moving keep it moving what I got playing

will only work if you

see I got I got something set up down

the road that’s gonna fix this whole

problem but you’ve got to be in the

right place in order for my plan to

activate if you stop right here I can’t

get no glory out of your life but if you

just keep it moving right down the road

I got a setup for everything that’s

trying to attack you right now

poor evaporates into

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[Music]

you see what I’m trying to get you to

understand is that if they would have

stopped right there Pharaoh would

overtook him he would have destroyed him

the miracle was in the movement the

miracle was in the movements the miracle

was in the movement the miracle was in

the movement the miracle is in the

movement and there’s somebody this

morning that the enemy is trying to

paralyze you with fear and he’s called

it all your triggers devolve and the

Lord said if you just keep it moving you

will walk right into the power of God

and God’s gonna get the glory see we

always preach about what happened at the

Red Sea but you got to get to the Red

Sea in order for that to happen and the

enemy doesn’t even want you to make it

to the Red Sea

[Applause]

another thing the other reason God

didn’t say anything he said he wanted

Moses to discover what was in his hand

[Applause]

God didn’t need to do anything else

because he had already equipped Moses

for where he was at this stage in his

life I don’t know who I’m preaching to

but God has already equips you and His

grace is sufficient somebody talk to me

this morning

His grace I know it’s painful but His

grace is sufficient I know you cried all

night long but His grace is sufficient I

already put enough stuff in your head

then if you learn to use what I gave you

no weapon formed against you

she’ll be able to prosper in fact I set

this up so you could see what you got

[Applause]

Martin his heart so you could see what

you got

I made him chase you so you could see

what you got

I sent him after you so you would stay

fresh

what I’m trying to say is that favor is

joke catch this and God put him in to

take the devil didn’t put him in the

table

the Bible doesn’t say that the devil

said Fredro he said the Lord hardened

Pharaoh’s heart you’ll never know what

you got until God puts a catfish in the

attack you’ll never know what you got

until Pharaoh comes after you and

everything in your head told you you

don’t think right when you’re scared

says go back to something that you

trying to get out of because it don’t

seem like this church thing is working

this this Jesus thing ain’t working out

for me right now

the loss of my house had to move back in

with my mama this Jesus thing it don’t

see this type of thing it ain’t working

for me this this praying thing this

living for Jesus stuff my husband left

me cuz I was living for Jesus seemed

like the people in the world were nicer

than the people

[Applause]

and so all God says to Moses is to tell

the people to keep it moving

and use what you got if you use what I

gave you you will find that it is more

than what you thought you thought I gave

you the stick so when you got tired you

can lean on it but there are tricks in

your stick

[Applause]

surprise surprise surprise surprise

surprise surprise and disguise my power

in ordinary things so that in the time

of trouble the enemy won’t even know

what hit him but if you stretch for what

suit touch your baby’s hair I got

something I know I don’t look like much

but I got something I know it don’t look

dangerous but I got something if you

won’t count up your chariots at least

let me brag about my stick I got

something that God gave me that will

have last

[Applause]

slappy babysitter’s tricks in you stick

don’t give it up don’t throw it away

don’t cast it aside don’t count it out

don’t give it up is trivial because God

will put tricks in your stick if it want

to look like a weapon the enemy wouldn’t

ugh it

[Applause]

[Applause]

I started reading the Bible and almost

every miracle in the Bible came out of

something that they already had a

handful of meal a pile of oil two fish

and five loaves of bread a rag in fact

it is favorite chasing you that

activates the tricks in history now keep

it moving and when you get to the right

spot stretch out what I did

and the Bible said that with Moses

stretched out his rod that the ratsy got

up and started walking Heather and

dinner took hold it exactly

God’s in a strong way to blow back the

Red Sea so the children of Israel could

walk across and not only let him go

through it

[Applause]

that they walk through drag ride whoever

I’m preaching to through it

[Applause]

Wow

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[Music]

and you would never in trouble anyway

because if you read the text the closer

they got to the Red Sea the Bible says

that God sent an angel to get behind

them so pray roll put the got them

anyway because God’s already got you

covered

[Applause]

slap your neighbors hair got whacked up

[Applause]

ba-ba-ba-ba

[Applause]

[Applause]

so my brothers and my sisters Potter’s

House family when the winds came and

blew back the Red Sea and they stepped

down into the seabed walking on dry

ground they were walking in between two

walls of water now picture that with me

God has made a way but even the way he

made it scary because I got my baby in

this water I got my mama in this world I

got my grandmama in this water I got my

children in this water and there the

wall on this side and the wall on that

side and if they crash here they’re

gonna kill me

so whatever beat I gotta keep it movin

slap your neighbor and say keep it

bullet

[Applause]

this is what I want you to see it I’m

almost finished even when God makes away

it’s scary even with God performs a

miracle the miracle is now when we read

about it and we preach about it we shout

about it but if you were walking through

with your children through two walls of

water so high you can’t see over them

and you don’t see nothing holding it up

but you make it I want to talk to

somebody that’s going through something

right now you don’t see nothing holding

it up your finances don’t work out on

paper and don’t like no sense since

you’re still here

but shopton is holding it up

[Applause]

and the Lord told Moses tell the people

keep it moving and the wind held up the

water to the last Israelite

had crossed over later in the New

Testament Paul when he preaches a

Corinth we’ll call it baptism said they

were baptized unto Moses in the cloud

and in the sea

that means they went in one way and they

came out another they stepped in slaves

but they came out sons they stepped in

as Runaways but they came out as a

nation you who were not a people became

a people nanny says to Moses close it up

and the same rod this is the dual nature

of God the same God that opens doors

[Applause]

closes doors the funny thing about it

was when he opened the way they didn’t

shout

[Applause]

see we always shout when God makes away

but the Bible said that they didn’t

shout until God shut the door I need to

take a moment and thank him for the

doors he shut

yeah

yes

I want to thank him but the doors he

suck

for the job didn’t did

for the business that didn’t work out

but the girl I didn’t marry

thank you

the door you shot

if I doubted it wouldn’t kill me shut

shut shut shut the door

[Music]

when God shut the door the enemy that

was chasing them drowned in the Red Sea

but not only did he drown the enemy he

drowned

any potential to enemy had to pursue

them any further so the Bible said the

enemies that you see today

you shall see them

[Applause]

stop your head to fight with that God

said you shall see them

[Applause]

[Applause]

was it a fool after where you are that

seven people in say the far

[Applause]

keep it low

you Sofia you shall fight it no more

yousa have it before

[Applause]

Zippy’s a colleague overview

[Applause]

Freeman kind of sanctified

[Applause]

so Miriam grabbed the Panther II and

began to beat that thing to the glory of

God for payroll head of his army got

drowned in the Red Sea somebody put your

hands together and give God some praise

[Applause]

[Music]

[Music]

good

no more no more get it in your spirit

get it in your mind get it in your mouth

get it in your hot dog ball

[Applause]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

I play if the enemy has been up to you

and you been up under attack I dare you

to take just a minute and play God like

he drown in it in the Red Sea

I bear you the brown enterprise

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

give him a play

I said give him a place

if you know how to play did not apply

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

oh just a lot of play

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

whoo I hear the sound of victory in the

house

some people think that praising God like

that is a denominational thing maybe

it’s a Pentecostal thing maybe it’s an

ethnic thing but the Bible said that the

children of Israel got tambourines and

start beating them at the Red Sea and

they started dancing in the presence of

God and while they were dancing their

Devils were drowning

[Applause]

so there are three reasons I’ll say they

said I’m out there are three reasons

that he calls the Red Sea

one was to drown the present danger two

was to drown the potential of the danger

continuing but the third one to me is

the most important one when he closed

the Red Sea he drowned any potential

they had of ever going back

no matter whatever they had to deal with

the rest of the journey going back was

off the table because God has shut down

[Music]

the Red Sea joined hands with somebody

leave no one untouched span the house

leave no one untouched except somebody

who don’t want to be touched leave them

alone

[Music]

[Applause]

my wife and I been married 38 years we

had good days and bad days we had happy

days in crying days we had nervous days

and scared days we didn’t eat it up in

years we ate it up in days the trick to

being married 38 years is to keep it

moving you look around and it’s 38 years

you look around and you’ve been married

50 years you look around if you just

keep it moving squeeze that hand because

the person you’re touching is got some

things they’re scared of

and God sent this message to them today

because they’ve been in positions where

they didn’t know what to do the triggers

that upset them they can smell them or

see them or hear them approaching and

this is a prophetic word in their life

that all you have to do to get the

victory is keep it moving squeeze that

hand God is going to drown any potential

you had of going back to being who you

were

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

you will never be that again you will

never go through that again you might

have to fight something else but you

will never have to fight that again

[Applause]

Lord this Sunday morning I speak to

trauma

this Sunday morning I speak to triggers

there are some traumas that we have been

through and some we might be going

through that were meant to paralyze us

but we will not be paralyzed there are

some triggers that when they come up we

react in predictable ways because of the

traumas but this day I pronounced those

triggers are defeated

and I thank you Lord because you allowed

these things to happen to keep my prayer

life fresh

not only will I be delivered but I’ll be

fresh when I get there

[Applause]

most of all we thank you Lord because

you shut the door on any possibility of

me going back to who or what or how I

used to be

and so as I stand in this church this

morning

I rebuke the terror

the tears we don’t talk about I review

the tears we don’t tell about that the

terrorists that threaten us is

discombobulated us and make us hard to

get along with because we’re it looks

like we’re evil but really we’re scared

squeeze that hand I pray that every

believer in this room would know that

they are not alone that God sent an

angel in between you and what you’re

afraid of glory

[Applause]

[Music]

this is what science would call a

controlled experiment that God has not

lost control of your situation in spite

of the hoofprints in spite of the sound

in spite of how you feel that your

feelings cannot be trusted

your feelings are reacting to pass

trauma regardless to how you feel more I

pray that they would just keep it moving

that the victory is in the movement the

miracle is in the movement the provision

is in the movement the grace is in the

movement hallelujah the answer is in the

movement the new Dora is in the movement

the promised land is in the movement the

prophecy is in the movement I thank you

lord I’m not gonna have to spend the

rest of my life looking back over my

shoulder cuz you gonna settle these

chariots right here how you gonna fix

these horses right now you gonna shut

down this situation you will shut it

down I’m not gonna be up every night

[Applause]

the person you’re touching right now God

is shutting down things he’s gonna drown

them til you see him drown the Bible

says the dead bodies were all up on the

side of the bay and Miriam start dancing

over top of them because she saw the

enemy destroyed and I rebuked the spirit

of fear

I rebuke the paralysis I rebuke the

anxiety I rebuke the physical

manifestations of your stress the rashes

the disease’s the dysfunctions the

disorder in your body in your bowels in

your stomach in your heart in your

cardiovascular system in your behavior

in your sleep patterns

I rebuke it now how I rebuke it now

I rebuke it now I rebuke it now you

cognitive functions your brain your

memory your emotions

I rebuke it now years of being in stress

in a means really controlling I rebuke

it now physical infirmities emotionally

forbid permitting I rebuke it now now

Lord restored us the joys of our

salvation and we give you praise for it

in Jesus name

give him all the praise you got

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