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if you have your Bibles I’d like for you
to open them with me please to the Book
of Luke Chapter
13 and uh I have a word from the Lord
today is that all
right Luke Chapter 13 I’ll begin reading
with verse 6 he also spoke this Parable
a certain man had a fig tree planted in
his Vineyard and he came seeking fruit
on it
and found
none then he said to the keeper of his
Vineyard look for three years I have
come seeking fruit on this fig tree and
found none cut it down why does it use
up the ground but he answered and said
to him listen to these words
sir let it
alone this year also in other words give
me one more
year give me one more year let it alone
this year also until notice the two
things I dig about it and I dung
it how many of you know what dung is and
for the young people that are here it
goes with the word
bull dung chicken dung this is in the
Bible I’m preaching the Bible
he said I’m going to do two
things I’m going to dig it and I’m going
to dung it for three years this tree has
not produced it’s been in the same rut
for three years now now listen to me
carefully the owner planted the tree in
the soil that he knew that it would need
to produce greatness to produce fruit to
produce what he wanted to get out of it
you don’t choose the soul the pain the
problems the difficulties the challenges
that God plants you in but if he planted
you in that particular Soul it is only
because he knows that’s what it’s going
to require not an easy life not
luxurious sand it may require a a pain
and a problem in your life to produce
greatness that God wants to come up out
of that and and it’s not the soil is not
the problem because all the other trees
were fruitful except that one it was the
response of the tree to the soil that it
was planted in the pain and the problems
in our life cannot stop us unless we get
in a rut and we just keep and and and
the thing that got me about this story
is God kept coming the owner is God in
the story the tree is you and me and
thee tree instead of producing in the
soil that God planted it in because he
comes back and checks on it when he
plants you and allows you to go through
pain through problems circumstances
adversity he backs off and he comes back
and in this story he came back annually
he came back at the first of the year
and he he comes back and he’s not expect
he’s not expecting whining he’s not
expecting complaining he’s not expecting
a dried up tree that has become puny and
weaker and barely hanging on to faith
just the roots are alive there’s no
fruit of the spirit he’s not expecting
that he’s expecting you to to to Blossom
where he has planted you to prosper
where he has planted
you and the thing about this story that
got me is it’s been three years and God
keeps coming back at the beginning of
the year and you still have an
unfruitful marriage and last year and
the year before it’s not any better it’s
not any better that could be your family
treat it could be your family and and
the family has difficult soul that it’s
in and so the enemy wants you to accept
that but God comes back and he says this
isn’t meant to destroy you the place
that I allowed you to go through is not
meant to wipe you out other are going
through the same thing and it forced
them to a fruitful relationship with me
going through the same rejection the
same divorce the same pain the same
tragedy of losing a loved one and it
didn’t wither up their tree it actually
made them Blossom and become more
fruitful in longsuffering the fruits of
the spirit peace Joy love longsuffering
patience kindness goodness it had to
come up in the kind of soul that was
difficult not easy God doesn’t need you
to be with a lot of friends right now he
knows what it’s going to take for
greatness to come out of you we always
want a happy blessed wonderful wonderful
wonderful life and we don’t understand
it’s usually more to the story than a
beautiful tree that’s
blossoming somewhere that tree had if
it’s go if it’s going to go high it’s
going to start
low and listen to this it’s been three
years and the owner said we might as
well cut it down and throw it into the
fire and this is what I came to preach
today this is your year this is our year
and the Lord told me to tell you it
might have been three years and some of
you have been saying I might as well
quit I might as well give up I might as
well try something else because I’m
caught in this cycle of maintaining a
deferred dream I tried and here I am in
the same place that I was last year and
I tried in last year and the year before
and the year before and the enemy wants
you to settle but God is just when he
said it might be time to cut it down and
throw it into the fire upstep somebody
called the dresser of the
field and let me give you hint his name
is Jesus because I know he’s Jesus
because he put himself between an Angry
God and a fruitless puny tree and he
said leave it alone did you catch those
words leave it alone in other words he’s
saying if you’ve got Vindication if
you’ve got anger if you’ve got uh some
problem with the tree you don’t have to
talk to the tree anymore put it on me
I’ll take the tree’s place I’ll hang on
on a tree I’ll take his curse I’ll take
what he deserves I’ll take his wasted
life I’ll take the ramifications of that
and Jesus in that moment became the
middleman between the tree and notice
what Jesus begged for and I believe that
you’re listening to me at all of our
campuses and all over the nation and by
television and those of you here in this
room this morning live you’re not in
this service by accident this year is is
the year I ask God to bring only the
people who would believe what I’m saying
today this is your year of fruitfulness
this is your year it’s going to require
some things of you you can’t just go
through this year like every other year
this is the year shout this is my year
turn to somebody on your other side and
say give it one more year I know you
feel like quitting I know you feel like
it’s never going to change I know you
feel like you’re never going to get free
from that addiction I know you feel like
you’re never going to get in shape I
know you feel like your marriage is
never going to get better but I heard
the Lord this week in my spirit say the
enemy is lying to people this is the
year of breakthrough this is the year of
fruitfulness this is the year of winning
me the head and not the tail above only
and not beneath take a praise break and
give God
glory Hallelujah We Praise You Lord come
on give him a great praise if you still
believe in times in Soul like
this even in Soul like this and trouble
everywhere Division and crime everywhere
but even in Soul like
this God says that can be your year cuz
my
people I know what I’m doing in the
vineyard he said you’re going to have
have to have two things happen to you if
you’ll give me a year notice what he
said he saidou going to have to let me
dig you and you’re going to have to let
me dung
you I’m going to dig you what does that
mean I’m going to tear tear up the
environment all around you you become
hardened you become
conceited you
become you’re not soft anymore to my
spirit
I can’t get the spiritual nutrients
through till your soul you become
hardened in your
soul and so what I want to do is I want
to tear up things and a lot of us know
what it is to have God dig
deep tear up the environment all around
us what in the world is going on but one
thing it does is it softens
you it soft you to where you you you you
you begin to dig God knows and what he
intends for you to be and that’s an
overcomer but in order for that to
happen you’ve got to dig
deep I I found this and I want to I want
to give it to you what’s it going what
does that digging thing mean what what
are you talking about make room for
growth George shotgun Shuba played Seven
Seasons with the Dodgers he was the
first pitch hitter to hit a home run in
the World Series
and he knocked the home run in the World
Series and and one of the announcers
calling the game said these words his
swing is as natural as a
smile and after the after the program or
after the game every everybody was using
that quote and they asked him about it
he said I would is that what he called
it is that what you he called that just
as natural as a
smile he said no he said every day I
swing a weighted bat 44 ounces 600 times
a day and that’s 4200 times a week and
what you think was just natural and
that’s how we feel about people who are
spiritual and who who are fruitful and
are walk with god well you just
naturally no no there’s nothing natural
about it you you you you pick this book
up and you read it you get on your knees
and you pray you get up out of the bed
and you get in church and you’ll be
amazed at how natural it is to be
blessed and how natural it is to have a
faith that believes no matter what the
environment around is
doing and then lastly he said Not only
am I going to
dig but I’m going to dung
you God can use horrible
things to bring Miracle
growth the one thing that is so
obnoxious in your life that you can’t
hardly stand it is the very thing God
takes and throws on a fruitless tree to
make it come
alive without fertilizer the tree
dies and
fertilizer is not
pleasant you go through things that
stink there will always be in every
relationship sooner or later your
marriage will stink your family will
stink your job will stink your your your
finances May stink you will go through
maybe your health stinks but God says I
don’t waste that I take it and use it as
fertilizer here’s here’s why that’s good
news well this is not an encouraging
positive word
today yeah I’m telling you God’s going
to dig you and God’s going to dung you
and you can’t do nothing about it but
here’s your last option there’s only one
other option left remember he said I’m
coming back at the end of the year and
if you hadn’t let me dig you and you
haven’t let me dung you throw mess on
you and it not turn you sour it actually
makes you grow I believe it now more
than I ever believ now that they’re
coming against me I know that all things
are working together for the good I know
that that I am more than a conqueror and
I’m not discouraged that’s when your
tree begins to
Blossom but here’s the thing that we
ought to be shouting at how many of you
been how many of you feel like God’s
just digging all around your little tree
let me see your hand how many of you
feel like God’s even throwing some dung
on you just be honest just be
honest well here’s the good news this is
why you ought to
shout cuz the only thing left is to cut
you down and burn you and and since
since if
if aren’t you glad that you’re getting
dug and dung instead of cut down and
thrown away God’s not through with you
God hasn’t given up on you and he’s
giving you one more year what if this
was the last what if you knew what if
God told you this is your last year to
fix this to get real with me I’m giving
you one more year to change things and
enjoy your life like it is in the soil
that I planted you in and if I come back
and you’re still discouraged and
defeated I’m gonna let you have what you
complain about now I know this isn’t
popular preaching right now and I
understand that you came for but
sometimes you don’t just need blessing
you need blister
and I’m a preacher this is what I do for
a living I have a license and I’m up
here telling you and I’m preaching to
myself My Cry is this is my year dig me
dung me whatever you want to do now
watch this let me close with this the
Apostle Paul said in Philippians chapter
3 and verse 8 yay doubtless I count all
things all things all things all things
L for the Excellency of the knowledge of
Jesus Christ for whom I have suffered
the loss of all things listen and do do
count them but done he said you know
what he said everything I’ve been
through I have lost I have I have been
beaten with rods I have been snake bit I
have been left for dead I have been
stoned I have been falsely imprisoned I
have been lied on I have been run out of
town I have been tortured but can I just
tell you he said I count it all as
dung he said all it is is fertilizer God
took everything I’ve been through and
put it on me and I wrote half the New
Testament and I couldn’t have done it in
any other soul I had to have the mess to
bring the
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message the very things that we want to
hide when Jesus walked into the temple
and he said stretch forth your hand the
man with the withered hand could have
stretched forth his good hand that was
all manicured and perfect but he had to
reveal his weakness and the ugly part of
his
life I close with this but hear me David
said in Psalms 83 that my enemies he
said they became as dung one translation
said the very thing trying to destroy
you God will use as
fertilizer I close with this in Luke
chap
11
Jesus arrives at the tomb of Lazarus and
his sister comes out and says Lord
you’re too
late you should have come three years
ago but in this case three days ago he’s
four days dead and then she makes this
statement by
now he
stinks this is
bad this is this is
dung Jesus smiles in my mind I I could
see him smile and say you don’t
understand
girl this is just fertilizer for the
supernatural this kind of environment is
just fertilizer for
miracles I’m going to dig
it and I’m going to take the most
obnoxious things that life throws at my
people and if they will stay rooted and
they will submit to the digging and the
dunging
process and give me one more
year don’t
quit don’t give up don’t throw in the
towel give me one more
year I will bring fruit where the tree
is withered and dead I’ll turn from the
puny into the
mighty and you know who said he would do
it the dresser of the field
Jesus he said I’m the one I’ll take
their shame I’ll take their curse I’ll
take their failures and God says I’m
going to take the mess of your life the
the Wasted Years the wasted
relationships
the terrible decisions I’ll turn it into
ferti
elizer and I’ll put it on that fruitless
tree and in one year’s time I’m telling
you if you’ll give God one
year see we want the Quick Fix bam you
got it now go do your thing that’s not
how it works in the Kingdom give him
some
time let him give you some miracle
growth in your
life and he’ll take everything you been
through the tears the Brokenness the
abuse the
hurt the horrible decisions the failure
the addiction the
pain and he’ll use it as
fertilizer if you’d let him just break
you up a little
bit you would leave this place with a
faith that is beginning to grow again
and come alive again and before this
year is over you’re going to have have a
one-year turnaround in Jesus
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name right now I want to pray for you
everything in this new year is dependent
upon your relationship with Jesus Christ
say Jesus at the beginning of a new year
I Surrender my life to you wash me in
your blood I believe in you you are God
you Rose from the dead and today I am
forgiven because of your love and grace
in Jesus name amen
hallelujah oh praise the Lord you got to
tell somebody that’s why that number’s
on the screen pick up the phone and tell
somebody call your mama call your daddy
call your brothers and your sisters
welcome to the family of God and if you
haven’t started your fast yet it’s not
too late to start you can start start
your fast today you can watch our
services all month long and you can even
join us live for those services and I’ll
be praying special prayers and we’ll be
doing special things it’s just no
telling we might break out in Revival
you just don’t ever know what God’s
going to do when his people start
fasting and praying and just before I go
today this is so important it’s so very
important I want to thank every one of
you who has sewn a seed and help us
bless the nation of Israel in our latest
initiative the escal resilience Center
you can imagine the mental and
psychological Terror of being attacked
in your own home or in your own
Community that’s why we’ve committed a
$1 million gift to help the resilience
Center where
survivors will receive the much needed
psychological treatments to help restore
restore peace that they’ll recover from
PTSD even the soldiers that have fought
and so many other emotional mental
traumas that they’ve gone through
together we can be a blessing to Israel
and as we know in Genesis 12 and verse
three God says I will bless those that
bless Israel I will curse those that
curse Israel and in you all the families
of the Earth shall be blessed pray pray
and see what God would have you do early
in a new year here’s my announcer to
tell you how you can be a part of
blessing the people in the Holy
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involved our story is a story of getting
knocked down trying everything the world
had to offer and finally deciding to put
God first you know for me it started
about 27 years ago so I got to high
school and uh I was still heavily
involved in athletics and I thought you
know that’s who I am
in 10th Grade I didn’t make the
basketball team and so I really started
to look for different crowds or
different groups of people and So
eventually I found my identity in the
party
crowd I grew up in a home where I was
mentally abused physically abused
sexually abused from the age of four
until the age of eight and I just you
know I truly just felt like I was dealt
a crappy hand and I blamed God for a
long
time so when I was uh accepted to
college I had come back from school to
celebrate a a buddy’s birthday and uh we
went bar hopping I ended up rolling a a
car six times in over in and was
airlifted from the scene it got so dark
in addiction I’ve done around six years
in either a prison cell or a jail
cell I was on probation and I had failed
my first drug test and I was
incarcerated for I don’t know maybe two
weeks and then Free Chapel at the time
was coming into the jail for like the
services and there is where I I guess I
was actually saved and from there I went
to New Beginnings and spent a year there
and god Set Me
Free April 30th of 2013 I was arrested
again and I didn’t know how to pray but
I knew I needed help so I prayed a
simple prayer God help me I knew that
the urges and Cravings were instantly
delivered the moment I surrendered it
all through fasting and prayer God has
really opened some doors we met started
talking during a fast when our first
dates were uh on a fast we had our first
daughter during the fast you know
another door opened for a home so during
this fast we’ll be moving into basically
our Dream Home you know it’s everything
that we ask
for so fasting and praying and seeking
God in every circumstance is so
important but we’re not special because
what he did for us he’ll do the same for
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