At the 2019 Southwest Believers’ Convention, Jesse Duplantis explains the biblical principle of having “things”; to be a blessing to others. “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work” (2 Corinthians 9:8).
praise the Lord thank you phrase the
look alright if you notice I’m
hesitating here because see this is the
sermon that I wanted to preach I hid
what this is so good
spit it in for you so you know used to
preach the thing for God’s sake the Lord
begins the chain mama I said don’t do
this I don’t have notes he said within
you don’t know how to preach so and I’ve
done this before but the Lord just told
me to do this so I won’t just kind of
preach out of my spirit you may heard me
say some of these things I have learned
that anything I asked for not some
things my theme this year is your
everything is is anything and that’s st.
John chapter 14 verses 12 13 and 14
he says whatsoever you shall ask in my
name that while I do why that the father
may be glorified in the son whatsoever
you shall ask in my name see the church
world has stopped us from asking God
because they thought we might get greedy
now this is not my sermon this is just a
this is a appetizer just a quick you
know a preamble so how many you want a
new house okay now some people gonna
think that’s great no okay put your hand
up how many want a new call watch this
put your hand up you know if you don’t
ask God for that you don’t glorify him
because see it so whatsoever at st. John
chapter 14 verses 13 whatsoever you
shall ask in my name now you got to
understand that power of attorney to use
that name that well I do why that the
father may be glorified in the son and
then he said if you should ask anything
now what does anything mean to you now
see the church world would say well that
spiritual now it isn’t one sense of
spirituous physical is financial we see
they so worried about you becoming
greedy they have they want to control to
make sure they don’t really care
sometimes if you come to church as long
as you send your tithe I’ve heard
preachers say that now my god we don’t
care if you’re going on vacation but
make sure your tides here that’s kind of
a slap in the face in it
this is not my sermon but I want you to
understand what I’m saying here so I’m
very comfortable in asking God for
anything or everything because see my
everything is is anything when you
understand that I’m his child my name is
Jesse Duplantis Christ you see I’m in
the family now go with me to second
Corinthians chapter 9 and we’re gonna
start reading verse 6 where they put it
we put it up on the on the screen and I
want the old King James for it Paul
writing to the church at Corinth he says
but this I say he was so sparingly shall
reap also sparingly and he was so
powerful it shall reap also bountifully
now what part of that you don’t
understand what part of that you didn’t
get don’t look at me look at the verse
there is no faith in that verse none all
that verse is is action and reaction
this is what the Lord to me speak about
now you may have heard me say some of
this but I’ll say some newer things Paul
said if you sow sparingly you reap
sparingly if you sow bountifully you
reap bountifully action and reaction
next verse he says every man or every
person according as he purposed in his
heart notice not in his head so you
don’t need a heart bypass you need a
head bypass every man according as he
purposed in his heart watch this so let
him give now I’m gonna ask a question
how many times you went to a meeting and
you gave an offer and I want an honest
answer by lifting of a head you went to
a meeting and you gave an offer and when
you got home you thought I shouldn’t
have done that
oh you hand up why did you do that why
did you come to a realization maybe you
shouldn’t have done that
because you see you didn’t purpose in
your heart that’s done before you get to
church that’s not done why you at church
so that an emotional financial pool will
never move you to do something god don’t
want you to do now what you listen to me
every man according as he purposeth in
his heart so purpose affords you
anchorage in the times of battle when
your personal purpose you have
foundation on your feet now let me read
the verse and i’m gonna talk about their
stay on verse 8 right there
verse seven excuse me every man
according as verse verse every man
according as he purposeth in his heart
so let him give watch this not
grudgingly now look at this next three
words or necessity oh now that’s just
jacked up the whole way of understanding
how to give because God said you
shouldn’t give to need no don’t look
don’t don’t look at me
look at that look at that every man
according as he purposed in his heart so
let him get in that Greg did another
Saturday why are you giving to a need
why why would you do such a foolish
thing when he told you not to do that
that’s a waste of such spiritual energy
y’all look at me like I didn’t lost my
mind why because the Bible said here
supply how many need how many need how
many need oh let me get black with Lord
Jesus so you’ve heard me say this
thousands of times I don’t tell God what
I need I tell him what I want so then
when you do that you’re not giving
grudgingly
no I’m necessity for God loveth not like
it but he loveth a cheerful Giver now
every man according as he purposed in
his heart when you’re a person of
purpose it produces prayer in your life
so prayer and purpose gets together and
produces a baby named perception so you
can read that verse to keep the verse of
that every man according as he purposeth
he start purpose prayer and perceived
now when purpose brand perception gets
together it produces another baby called
power so you could read that verse every
man according as he purposeth Eve than
powered now everybody likes that power
but the problem is power can be very
dangerous because you must be superior
to it instead of driven by it so that’s
why politicians mess up and preaches
messed up they are driven by power
instead of being superior to power
you’ve heard me say that me say it again
Jesus was a man of great power and what
and they’re all trying to kill him I
said this they’re there I got to repeat
it they tried to push him off a cliff
Jesus had enough of that he just turn
around and I’m a prayer face you want to
dance with me you want some of this then
he said I can call more twelve legions
of angels to handle this situation
now I said I gotta say it again one
angel in the Bible knocked down 185
thousand men
so twelve legions of angels would have
showed up at the beck and call of Jesus
which he had twenty billion four hundred
million men with a bit the dust and one
lick one lick the world has not known
that kind of population but because
Jesus was superior to that power instead
of driven by that power he went it
across so you didn’t have to go got it
so you could read that verse every man
according as he purposeth even power it
so let it give not grudgingly on this
yesterday but wait what about if my
church needs that I need to present
something my church right
well isn’t that in need yes in a sense
but you see you’re not giving to the
need you’re giving to the purpose of
what the need will do once it is met so
I don’t tell God what I need I tell him
what I want so when you get them say
we’re believing God whatever you
whatever you be for your ministry
instead of a need you say and you’re not
giving to the need because the need gets
old but the purpose never does you give
it to the per I’m not spending this
listen to me you’re given to the purpose
of what that’ll do once it is met so in
other words there if you’ve done this
before you get the church and your
pastor gets upset we need to build a new
building instead of give it to a need
you go oh yes now I know why that was so
strong on me because you’re not given to
the need you give it to the purpose of
what that will do once it’s done oh
you’re getting this I want you to notice
how many times God says all always in
all these purses go to the next verse
now and I love the next verse I call
this the black verse of the Bible but it
this is black and God is able hmm I said
the Lord oh oh I said the Lord is able
are you in here maybe by walking for a
while
look at the white people look at the
back people going down with your bad
still Devon go ahead why boy
I said that God is able to make how much
grace how about your grace how much
grace God is able to make all grace
abound toward who toward who that you
what that you work notice that how many
times it says all abound to you always
having what having all what you know
what why you mad at me because I have a
jet let me get to that camera why you
mad at me because I have a jet all I’m
doing is being biblical what’s your
problem
I’m not being rude here all sufficiency
in all things if things are so bad why
is God giving you all sufficiency to get
it maybe you ladies want a real Lois
Bhutto purse or Chanel I Escada or GOG
or Christian Dior I’m talking to real
Louise but don’t eat up my winning
knockoff then when the cops come they
run around the corner I’m talking real
louis vu talk you want to see to new and
tooth to real when they sitting right
there on the floor nothing wrong with
that well my god ah ha they should have
that they could use a flower sack
that’s true but who wants a flower
second notice I said who wants it ain’t
say anything about the need of it see
God is able to make all grace abound
toward you that you always having all
sufficiency in all things now can you
understand why in 41 years of full-time
ministry I’ve never had a financial
deficit you think it was because of my
faith mm-hmm
it was because of that don’t look at me
look at the verse all sufficiency in all
things then the other part of that verse
kicks in may abound to every good work
if you have pastor let me help you
there’s a rumor going around the United
States and other countries say you
better watch that Kenneth Copeland and
that Jerry Savelle not just did a plan
us and I Keith Moore and that bill
Winston and that Kraft for $1 jr.
because bond they come to town they’ll
suck all the money out of church there’s
suck all the money out of that thing you
hurt your church now either you lion or
God’s lion I pick you why abound to
every good work pastors is you’ll work
good show it is so you don’t have to
worry about us well I lost a few you
right there see why cuz God is
el-shaddai
not el cheapo
like as if you gonna exhaust God’s
blessing on your best day you cannot
impress him with your wealth
he’s got gold streets
you got asphalt
with holes in them this big sometimes
all-sufficient don’t say so why or now
I’m gonna make somebody real man so oh I
should have said he said that
so what why should I have to suffer well
you know the first shirt yeah I know the
first Jennifer Church with the
foundation tree the most powerful weight
of this building is on the foundation
but you’re not the foundation to church
you to roof I listen to me that doesn’t
mean we don’t go through things we
understand but we go through them we
don’t stop and canonize the place what
we’re going through
though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death they said oh I’ll stop
build a house and canonize the place you
see see I’ve learned some things if you
listen to ministers and they’ll tell you
what not to do don’t do it if they tell
you listen there’s a big old sinkhole
when you walk out of this Convention
Center don’t drive you and you go drive
you’re calling that that’s foolishness
you see so they taught us what not to do
as well as taught us what to do and I’m
talking about this we would not have the
arab-israeli problem if Abraham wouldn’t
have done what he did but you know it
was tantalizing if you think about it
they’re all the Theia loans they know he
didn’t really want to do it yo mama
I mean think about it for a minute let’s
just get right down to the flesh Abraham
I can’t have a baby so I want you to go
into my into my service tent and I want
you to have intercourse with her to have
a baby
Abram says I’m gonna do this for you
Sarah any woman in the world would be
you think you done lost your ever-loving
mind
he said what’s up he go and then when
they all start going south he didn’t
know what to do you see that was a
mistake there and God kept telling him
through Sarah we’ll all the nations of
the world be blessed yeah but I I’m
getting old Sarah’s getting Oh have you
seen her lately Lord both arms when she
prays you the bottom of them do this
don’t get mad at me my lord I saw
something just keep your arms down and
praise God like this that’s all I can
tell you I don’t know I don’t know why
women worry about their arms anyway let
me help you lady one time I hugged a
woman she said oh my god I hope you
didn’t feel my back fat I said what did
you say I hope you didn’t feel my back
fat ladies let me help you here there is
no man in the world sin did you see that
woman’s back back here looking at your
back fat he’s looking at other parts he
could care less about your backpack
and if he doesn’t look at your back it’s
a lot lower
I’m getting out of town this afternoon
complication live in Kerala you see what
I’m saying so god okay let me go on and
God is able to make all grace abound
toward you that you always having all
sufficiency at all things that may
abound to every good work it is written
he is dispersed abroad he has given to
the poor now watch this his righteous
that remained it forever we had a little
conversation in the back knee and creflo
I said creflo you’re trying to explain
that grace message I said let me give it
to you in one sentence he said would
that Jessie quit trying to become what
you already are that’s the grace message
he went my god that’s it see you don’t
earn this through the Mosaic law you
know what Bob I just quit trying to
become with you already or you all would
God says you are you see what I’m saying
yeah but I don’t feel it that got made
no difference you all what God says you
are sometimes you don’t feel saved but
you say sometimes you do unsaved things
but you’re still save yes God you repent
we said Lord forgive me I did mean to
blow it like yeah but you you know it
the old Pentecost the people said if you
just slipped up once and you died you
went to hell God’s mercy and grace is
far stronger than that
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see they judging you see as it written
here is this person abroad so I have the
ability to dispersed abroad he had the
given to the poor so I should do that my
rights isn’t remaining forever so the
reason why and get angry and want to
kill somebody when they attacked me was
because my righteousness remaineth
forever I didn’t say I didn’t feel like
doing something like that but my
righteousness got ahead of my anger you
see he is dispersed abroad he has given
the tour the poor his rice has remained
it forever night next verse he was from
in their seed to the sower not to the
keeper I love to give wood anything in
my life I enjoy that more than anything
and I don’t have to know you to do it
now when you say things like that people
write me over just would you pay off my
house I know
but if God told me to that would I ain’t
going to hell over your house if he told
me to I mean trust God enough to talk to
me when you ain’t listen how do you know
why you listening
she won’t say now heed this minute her
seeds of the sword not the keeper he
says watch this both minister bred for
your food know something the time this
this is getting bigger and bigger by the
moment boast minister bread for your
food and multiply your seed soon
how can you see be sown how can it
multiply because you see I quit giving
seeds a long time ago and I’m in a new
stage of giving harvesters I like giving
harvesters and then I ask the Lord what
and your hippie said then what do you
get when you give a harvest well you
know women you saw a Harvard you get an
orchard
I’m not talking one tree I’m talking
about the whole shebang you see now he
was Missy to the so administers bread
for your food multiplies your seat sir
and here we go with the increase again
and increase the fruits of your
righteousness see god looked down and
saw two boys one named Jerry Savelle and
the other just in the plan is in a
nightclub
Jarius at the bar and I’m at I’m on the
stage let me tell you if you think I’ve
got a sense of humor me and Kenneth
Copeland played the same nightclub in
Fort Worth now we didn’t know each other
welcome sang and played at the town pump
in Fort Worth anybody ever to go to the
town for money all that old and I played
the town pump oh yeah because that was
the number one club in Fort Worth many
many many years ago in fact one was
opened in Dallas in the night he said
they called the village pump to try to
get the same thing going on at the town
pump in Fort Worth in that amazing never
think we’d ever preached together much
less be preachers becae God knows the
beginning from the end and I’m pretty
sure most people know thought that God
could never use a Kenneth Copeland when
he was singing pledge of love
or Jesse Duplantis when I was playing
all this stuff and I mean I’m talking
with the makeup and they’re all a
craziness and Wow and then you know in
that hair just a slinging like and
people screaming and hollering yet God
saw something what did he see watch this
righteousness was I doing any right
doesn’t know they see God was calling
those things that be not as though they
were before I ever knew who he was he
was setting my future up even before I
even knew I had a future do you see that
let me said it again now he’s admitted
seed to the sower ministers bread for
your food multiplies your seed sown
increases the fruits of your
righteousness next verse being enriched
not just rich being enriched in how many
things everything now what does
everything mean to you everything being
enriched in everything to what there’s
that word all again all bountifully why
do people get mad at me cuz I’m blessed
in the city blessed in the feel blessed
going in blessed going out that doesn’t
mean I don’t need partners in my
ministry but I’m just blessed but I’m
gonna say something gonna be so radical
this is so rather it’s gonna blow your
socks off I’m believing God one day that
I’ll be the partner to you instead of
you the partner to me
let me tell you something if that guy
from Amazon can make that much money
just at the planet skin – I just got to
have an idea a concept and an
understanding how to do that Sam Walton
of Walmart what a great idea he had you
know what his idea was stand outside the
store and say thank you for shopping
Walmart give him a good product at a
good price and be nice about it that was
his idea and an idea is the most
phenomenal thing anybody can use in this
life it is the most richest thing it can
produce things beyond your wildest
dreams and I did being enriched in all
bountifulness which causeth through us
Thanksgiving to God so if you notice I
never make an excuse for the blessing of
God in my life so when I’m being you
know slammed by the media me and brother
Copeland together it’s kind of nice that
me together getting hit together it two
of us agree I mean they nail him then
they Naomi and and you know this and
that and all they show us I don’t know
where to get the pictures going out to
the airport to get on the plane and all
this comes what they don’t know let me
help you people you helping me one day I
may buy your station then you are gonna
work for me I hope I like you
[Applause]
that’s impossible
somebody got on that station see
somebody got on that business why does
it always have to be somebody else and
not you because most people tell you
including the church that you can’t do
that because you might get greedy that
ain’t greedy lazy to them it could be
growth with the last time a poor man
helped you the best thing to do
best thing for the poor is not to be
poor so you be a blessing to the poor
but you don’t look down on people your
money don’t make you who you are your
ideas us what will you accomplish what
will people remember by you if you
should die and go by the way of the
grave what legacy will you leave if you
believe what I just said you everyone in
this building will leave a legacy beyond
your wildest dreams I’m talking my
spiritual physical and financial you
should you do have the ability to make
enough money to handle all three
different generations you your children
and your children’s children do you know
how much money that is do you know who
that Isaac never spent a dime of his
money yes he all he was spending
Abraham’s that’s how much Abraham he was
how rich very rich now if he is that if
he is our father of faith why did God
make him rich watch this so you can have
an inheritance
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so you could have an inheritance so why
say Isaac didn’t spend a dime of hidden
money he already had Abraham’s monka
Esau and Jacob didn’t spit in their
money they could when they finally got
the act together my god made the
anointing was on both of them even
though one didn’t regard God very much
yet he was God blessed him Wow Isaac’s
money I tell people when I give them you
don’t understand not only is this a seed
or harvest I’m giving but I’m putting in
that harvest my anointing is on that you
hang around with me you’re gonna get
debt-free you understand what I do what
I do will come upon you in every area
what you do it chemically miss it will
come upon you when you sow that seed
you’ll be walking in Australia you’ll be
walking in the Ukraine do you understand
no you don’t understand because you
think you just gave enough
you didn’t give an offering you gave a
seed and a seed is reproducing
constantly you can’t stop it there’s one
place in a man on this planet Earth and
it’s up around the Antarctica the head
and rain for three million years they
know that for a fact
so a man went down there and took a
little glass he put a seed but not there
was a seed o’rena ground he saw it been
that 3 million years so he covered it
with a glass put a candle inside of it
and watered it within three days a green
sprout grew up you can even turn bad
soil into good soil if you know what to
put in it you know there’s something
happening now because of the fertilizer
we use in the runoff it’s a cancer
causing gets all over in our rivers but
years ago they used to use cow manure I
know you might not want to mess with no
cow manure but for some crazy reason
another show made you a flower grow it
made the sweetest corn it was called
organic
do you understand what I’m trying to say
that’s why your grandma and your grandpa
could eat eggs fried and bacon grease
because the pigs were organic the pigs
were eating organic everything was
argued they had their own they grew
their own vegetables and they grew their
own chickens I remember my grandfather
you know and I live I was raised up on
the street with him and he would when
we’d go to his house he had chickens in
his Oh
so we had Fried Chicken on Sunday we
didn’t go to the store and buy a chicken
somebody was gonna die that day you need
to go out there and catch a chicken and
the chicken knew it he was speaking in
tongues and even we’d eat him that’s why
they could live 70 89 and a hundred
years eat eggs fried in bacon grease
because even the grease was organic cuz
it was all homegrown think about that
Cathy’s mother grandmother lived to 104
ate anything she want
and now with the generation we know how
to exercise yeah we got so many knee
replacements hip replacements
you never saw all that stuff 4050 years
ago I believe in exercise don’t
misunderstand me
but I mean you’re not created a deer
you’re not created a thoroughbred you
see you should exercise but you wasn’t
created to do some of the stuff that you
put your body through then we had this
thing no pain no game or now that’s not
right because the guy that said that is
cut to knee replacements
think about that for a minute excess not
exercise is not a good thing for you to
lose weight you got to run almost a mile
and a half just to get a pan off that’s
3,500 calories but if you eat less you
knock that baby out real fast but you
should exercise I believe it I exercise
all the time
I mean I am very very disciplined with
my exercise oh yeah I do that because
I’m like I don’t care how I look on the
outside
I care about what’s going on on the
inside because you see if someone else I
didn’t working that don’t affect nothing
but it’s nothing quits on the inside the
outside gonna know about it real quick
nice says all sufficiency in all things
may abound to every good work so I
decided that I would abound to every
good work now when I said that people
just saying people preacher said I know
Jesus said that but what no you don’t
know Jesus said that you don’t know
you’re trying to convince yourself that
what he said is true but when you know
in whom you have believed you’ve heard
me say before people trying to convince
them said I’m believing I believe we
don’t believe it I’m believing them
believe it I’m believing I’m blessed and
III think I’m I don’t know what I’m
doing I’m just trying to get this thing
to work and see and we get into all
these religious practice Jesus didn’t
come to create Christianity he didn’t
create Christianity he stayed Jewish all
the time he was here mankind created
Christianity Jesus would never do what
Christianity has done
Jesus would never molest a child in
church Jesus would never kill people
like the Crusades did a ball religion
will what is religion it’s a gardener
weeds it’s a theological wilderness see
I’ve had people terminal top or doctor
to premise what do you believe in I said
Jesus well we all believe in that I said
no you know you attest to it but you
don’t believe in it see we believe in
healing if he does it look up but we add
a little instead if he does it I don’t
know I don’t forget not long ago I read
an article about in a Christian magazine
when God does it heal I thought you got
to be kidding me
God heals all the time sometimes they’re
not always received you know Jesus has
already died for every person ever born
every person that be born
no one which he’ll shouldn’t have one
person in it at all
but you got to make a choice of which
what you’re gonna do with it do you
choose to be here or you hope to be
healed even God said in Deuteronomy said
choose a lot I put before you death and
life and he said just choose life sea I
choose to be blessed not so I can live
better because you know if you raised
eating fried chicken you you can get so
rich you can have a you can well I’ll
just give you an example I can eat
anywhere I want in the city in New
Orleans
God has blessed me beyond my wildest
dream so all these fine restaurants know
me all the other ones do too why because
sometime you just want a cheeseburger I
saying you got to eat it every day in
fact I was in Honolulu Hawaii or art and
kunis up over the a word of Life Church
got it’s a great Church if you ever go
don’t cut God out of your vacation go to
church go that I enjoy you say you know
enjoy yourself if you want to but so
hakuna calls and art card he said hey
but Jesse we want to take his what’s the
name at rest at Mariposa Mara it’s that
the Niemen right she said you want to go
and I said Kathy tell her I don’t want
to go to mare pools and she said why I
said it’s too healthy
it’s just too healthy I mean I can eat
grass like a cow if I want to I still
healthy
I want something my wife I want
something some flavor now I’m not
talking about doing this all the time
you know I’m saying IIIi don’t eat I
mean I like fried chicken I don’t eat it
very much but when I do I enjoy I mean
when I eat a piece of it I don’t say God
don’t kill me don’t clear up my arteries
no you know and but I believe in eating
healthy and doing right but what is
healthy because everything you eaten
today how many time they said you get
you you went to a certain place where
there’s nothing but they serve organic
food and you found out that they were
getting it anywhere they could and
charge you higher for it I’ve had people
say you know a little bit about August
organized crime and sever taste about
organized right you want organized crime
Washington DC that’s organized crime
that’s organized crime but they just
have the power not to go to jail if
you’da done with Hillary Clinton done
you two went to jail
and I’m not against Hillary I’ve never
met her I think she’s a very smart woman
I do I think she said but she brilliant
lawyer I’m an but if you’d have done
that you don’t went to jail if you’re
done with Bill did you definitely would
have went to jail that doesn’t mean he’s
not smart that doesn’t mean he’s not a
good politician I’m not saying that I’m
just saying well you know that’s my
person in private I know not when you
president when you’re president you
present it 24 hours a day you want that
job that’s 24/7 and if you’re a preacher
that’s 24/7 that’s 24/7 you shouldn’t be
messing up with the piano player you
shouldn’t be messing up no no preacher
ought to be accused of adultery what are
you doing you are Minister the gospel
24/7 God’s given you all sufficiency in
all things you should bound to have a
good way well my wife any pretty as she
used to be wouldn’t either you and
nobody is pretties they used to be
Young’s wonderful but it don’t last long
my granddaughter grab this the other day
grandfather wasn’t it I said a safe
deposit box that I keep your future in
[Applause]
now she sees that I’m a blessed man
she knows that fast she came with her
she said grandfather how much money you
got and where is it I wanna see it she’s
11
I said why are you asking me that
Meredith she said everything you said
everything you had belongs to mama and
me I said that’s right everything me and
Mimi has belongs to your mother and you
you my only ask well where is it
I said it’s here but I can’t show you
that the day there will come a time I
will I said let me tell you something
little Meredith you’re 11 years old
you’ll never have to work a day in your
life
I said but you gonna work we’re gonna
teach you to me work do you understand
and just because I left you I’ve got you
an inheritance that doesn’t mean you
better than anybody you never look down
on someone nothing you don’t do that and
I said when you go to somebody’s home I
don’t care if it’s small big whatever
you if they love it you love it
there’s not long drop the rain you know
yeah you know as I said you’re gonna
work we a generation that works we
believe in that now there’s some people
they don’t they don’t want to work what
you’re gonna somebody’s got to do
something if they took all the money of
every rich person in America
we’d only touch maybe what 3% of we got
a 22 trillion dollar deficit and they
all said it’s unfair to pay our fair
share well everybody excuse me if you
pay people to be poor they gonna stay
poor that was Ronald Reagan’s statement
now I know Jerry Savelle likes around a
rigid and you know I’m kind of I think
it’s fine I like Ronald Reagan I
wouldn’t visit the war the White House
so I went to the White House a little
bookstore not bought me Oh Washington DC
White House photo of Ronald Reagan and I
wrote on it dear Jesse
haha here Jessie I can’t thank you
enough for praying for me and fit
helping me to win this election
without your preference and financial
support I would not have become
president I can’t thank you enough
sign Ronald Reagan I’ll put it in my
board room Cathy’s mother came over
and she watched you and she liked round
she said my god Jesse you know Ronald
Reagan I said look at the picture she
ready she goes wow I didn’t know you
knew he said that I said no I bought it
myself and wrote it myself I thought it
was funny she didn’t think it was funny
at all
hey it’s my story I’m gonna write it the
way I want to write it do you see what
I’m saying
so I had preachers tell me when I first
went into the ministry and when you go
out and eat then I just leave your
wallet and let somebody pay for it I
said that’s not gonna happen do you know
and I know a lot of waiters and
waitresses because Cathy don’t cook so
we eat out twice a day that’s just the
way it is and that she can cook good but
she’s delivered from the bomb that she’s
not going back to Egypt he ain’t going
back to that the whole time she cooks it
there’s a hurricane she cooks and you
know what they tell me that the worst
tippers are preachers all of them say it
I’m not known for that I give them the
go or you could are you serious I just
went to was a couple of days ago me and
Keith and Kathy went to everything
called reata’s that right it’s a nice
restaurant here downtown forward I
really like they got the biggest onion
rings my god you could throw them play
horseshoes with it I mean things are big
have you ever in a bid to be a big good
so I um I said Keith this is my meal
Keiko’s I like it keep left I left my
wallet that’s it
I said that’s convenient
we’re just laughing talking talk about
that kind of stuff and so anyway I paid
for the meal so when the guy came I said
you like your tip he goes oh you got to
be kidding me
are you serious I said you got to make a
living don’t you I don’t know the man I
don’t have to know the man to be
generous why well how can you be
generous all sufficiency in all things
he said are you serious I wanted to tell
him you want me to take it back I was at
a PF Changs one time not long not too
long ago maybe a year ago and I didn’t
know when I’m when I sat down I didn’t
know this waitress from Adam you know
she was a good waitress was also sitting
had six of us and the Lord said I want
you to bless her
I said I’m yours to command Lord I said
okay so we you know we ordered and
everything and it had a really nice time
I said give me the bill and they gave me
the bill and so and I paid for the bill
and when she came I said there’s no tip
on that now so go I said but I’d like to
bless you because I know if I put the
tip on a credit card or charge whatever
they you have to wait until it goes I
didn’t know that I thought they’d get it
immediately but they don’t work that way
it has to go through whatever you know
that kind of said we’ve even had people
call us and say are you sure you want to
give this amount of tip you know they do
that now well yeah you know I said but
if I give him cash they have it right
away
so I gave her a chunk of cash she went
are you serious
I said yes she starts crying she says
it’s just that I’m a medical student I
said you are she said yeah and I’m
working you know pay my way through
school and you just paid for offer all
my tuition and I said well let’s just do
better than that
she went are you serious you can see off
there but wait I said oh I wish I had
that table
[Applause]
so we took care of that not bragging
about that so why said my birthday was
July tonight and I don’t know how they
found out about it did you tell him I
don’t know how to do so when we came in
me and Kathy was eating they are they
come and they had me a birthday card and
every waiter and every waitress at PF
Changs signed it that’s pretty nice
we can’t thank you enough and man we go
in sir you have a 55-minute wait me and
Kathy walked through that door wandering
way to see if they go Reverend
watch this that’s biblical everyman gift
make a way itself and we just flow with
it not trying to show off and then
there’s been times I’ve seen some people
waiting us how long you’ve been waiting
yeah you can have my table oh you said
yes go ahead that’d be fine
fact one time we win Maui Hawaii and I
had a beautiful room and to make sweet
what it was actually and we had some
friends come with us and they had a
child so I looked at Kathy and I said if
you don’t mind they had a regular room
nothing any rooms nice you know at the
Grand Wailea in Maui Hawaii
I said Kathy if you don’t mind let’s
give them our suite and we’ll just take
their room and they said oh you can’t do
that I said I can do anything when I
want with my money
I said you enjoy this suite you will
enjoy it and that way you have enough
room for your child if she wants to run
around a little bit you know and things
of that nature instead of just being in
one room with two double beds which is
nothing wrong with that don’t
misunderstand me I said it’s just me and
Kathy that’s fine what we did well she
got pregnant on that trip
[Applause]
with a set of twins that was a good room
yeah it was the twins was it yes the
twins
I just went to dinner with him Kathy the
twins are now 18 years old I just went
to look to it Amun said it was because
of me you was born
I just went to lunch with him I said
David I said would you like another room
Amun no no all sufficiency all
sufficiency so I don’t expect to be in a
financial deficit when I built just
sometimes ministers campus if you ever
seen it if you have been there if you
like plantation it’s all plantation it’s
all white cotton southern you don’t say
so white Carl I had three banks in and
Norlin says you cannot build this
debt-free you gonna need us I said no no
no no you don’t know the God that I know
I’m gonna build this thing debt-free and
under budget I even had the architect
saying you can’t do that
you got Italian marble in this place you
got very expensive you can enter in the
contract you said I’ve been doing this
40 years bridge si I don’t think I said
just give me the bill at the end of the
month see they thought I had all the
money I didn’t I had 1.2 million dollars
which I ain’t enough they really built
up their pay for one slab and I built it
on the budget actually six million
dollars under budget why cuz I watched
it see I’ve learned that other people
can spend your money quicker than you
can so the Lord I asked the Lord and he
asked me open it 3 o’clock in the
morning said I want you to go out to the
property I said I want to go out there
Lord I said make a grass that high I did
mesquite we got mosquitoes biggest
pelicans in Louisiana and I mean
mosquitoes boy
they see it they see a Cajun food at the
Bass Pro sauce yes
you know they just bite you suck honey
good will it make a long story short
what all sufficiency the Lord said how
would you like for me to pay for this it
was my choice he said I can pay this
every month but I’m Jewish I don’t like
to do that I don’t like to pay interest
I like to make interest he said all I
can knock this thing out
I said well since we talking I thought
that had God over about I said since we
talking why don’t we just knock this
puppy out and then he came back with
this then we will never discuss finances
on this whole project again now we built
for four solid years just Pillman
project after project I’m talking my
different buildings things that are net
and I want and I went look at that
building front I did not I wanted to
look at it and so Tami Mona he used to
be the financial director then she said
do you want to know what’s in there I
said no just when I changed I cut a
check out of it cut a check out but I
said don’t tell I don’t want I said me
in the Lord then had a conversation
about ok and I would come and I said no
I said Ray Ray was the contract a
wonderful man he I said uh give me a
bill at the end of the month and I’ll
pay you
he’s so ok he said my god man he said I
love this he said I don’t have to try to
get the bank and I said no no I’ll take
everything I said just let me know if
something real big is coming up so when
we poured the slab we did it in three
prior three phases we report the slab
for the church that’s the big because
the TV studio was also a part of it not
part of the church but a wing of the
church and that kind of slab yeah you
got to be able to get under it so we’d
have to pull or slab on the highest line
and then we would roll and eat there to
put all kinds of wires and you know the
hook up stuff like that you know that’s
expensive very expensive to do
especially in Louisiana because you have
to drive pilings you see it so it cost
more money for foundation Louisiana
doesn’t do in Texas you got drop pilings
man I’m a 45 foot pilings keep all the
dirt washed away went rate no difference
that piling is holding that slab see he
said okay you know so and I saw a bill
and I came before the Lord and said Lord
need to ask you something he said before
you ask me I want to tell you something
he said if anybody ask you I’ll tell you
that you building something tell them
you’re not that I am
and he looked at me and I heard him say
it he said remember that so every time
somebody comes in boy Reverend y’all
really building something nice I ain’t
building nothing
you’re not billing nothing no I said
this is God God’s building this that’s
all I said cause building this now I
always try to do is good business as I
can so I said give me at least three
bids on everything so we’ll know you
know what when we ran all the kind of
stuff well on the stucco for the
executive offices which is huge
it looks like oil John Hagee say it
looks like the pantheon there’s just
columns all around it just gorgeous
anybody ever been there it you know am i
telling the truth I mean it is it’s
beautiful if you like that kind of
flavor look so this man we had I said
give me give me three on the stucco
Porter I said get me three bids well
they found three bids in this guy that
was was he was very expensive I think
his was a hundred and but there was a
120 $8,000 bid for that particular piece
of stucco in a 130 mm and 140 41 to 43
thousand and so ray told me said I’m
gonna tell you something that guy 143
he’s good Jesse you can’t find a line I
mean you don’t even know way started
away stop that’s how perfect that is he
should but not a cop 120 it’s a good bit
see just because it’s the cheapest don’t
mean it’s the best and just because it’s
the highest don’t mean it’s the best so
you have to learn the color work that
thing out I said okay
he said you want to make a decision
which one you want I said we read you
the contract what do you think he said
well he said I’d love to have that guy
but he said I said the other people
aren’t gonna notice suggested he said
now I am as a contractor but I said okay
them and I had I had I wasn’t supposed
to go out that day to the worksite but I
just had fluid and I went out there and
guess what the man that gave the highest
bid dries up in his pickup truck walks
out he goes how you doing Reverend I
said fine he said I’m the man that he
gave me a bid on you on this thing here
I said oh yes sir I said my contractor
said you the best stucco man in the
state of Louisiana in Mississippi
he said you’re right oh he didn’t blink
son he said I’m the best you ever seen
you ever have I like a man with
confidence in his work but he’s got to
have manifestation I just talked
he said you know you keep me up at night
I said how do I do that he said my wife
likes you and I ain’t into this God
stuff but my love my wife and she likes
you and if she likes you you must be a
nice person but I’m not into the god
stuff I said well I understand that I
said tell you why thank you for watching
he’s taking you by earlier time you said
you come on 11:30 at night here yeah I
got I can’t he said man man like me
gotta get up early I said well you got
to talk to your wife about that I said
I’m not changing my time he said why I
said your wife’s watching Fannie ain’t
broke don’t fix it huh
and then he says this man are you really
building something nice here sir I ain’t
building nothing he said what I say
ain’t built in the gods building is he
said Who I said God’s building this sir
are you standing on holy ground I don’t
own this this is God’s business and I
saw when the Holy Ghost hit him he went
he said you know Reverend I want to do
this building he shouldn’t I gave you a
bid and he I think it was 142 143
thousand he said and I and I’m I’ve
already answered he said I ain’t never
done nothin for God in my life I’ll do
it for $40,000
that was less than the material way less
than it then the labor and it happened
like that on everything I didn’t ask him
for that he said I want to do this and
Ray goes that was on that now when we’ve
built the first one to production
distribution center what’s all
sufficiency in all things being enriched
I used American steel this many years
ago so when the trucks came in with the
steel I would say you gotta tell one of
the truck driver you’re going back to
the office yeah we’ll bring this check
to you’re off and they couldn’t cash it
you know it’s made out to a company
oh you serious I mean it’d be a $250,000
check so the president of the company
couldn’t get over that I’d do that
so in Phase two the steel on phase two
was three hundred and eighty nine
thousand just for the steel so I gave
the check to the one of the 80 Willard
guys well then when we started building
the church in the TV stir just the steel
was $600,000 I mean you don’t even see
that part said I’m saying so I’m in that
what I call the contractor Shack he
called it that you know and we get a
phone call from the president of the
steel company is the Reverend there and
racing yes sir
put him on the phone said but he put me
on the phone he says uh I said you got
me a he sent me an invoice for $600,000
okay at the six on a raid was about
ready to give it to him he says are you
gonna put a six hundred thousand dollar
check in that truck drivers and I said
well yeah don’t don’t you want your
money
well yes sir we want our money that’s
not the issue well you know you could
mail it it’s 30 days to pay for it I
said well I don’t doubt you don’t need
your money right away
he said well yeah we do I said no so I
said in your but about five minutes I
might have my director come over here
and she’d gonna hand me a check for your
invoice of $600,000 and I’ll give it to
your head
there was 26 18-wheeler trucks see what
I’m saying 26 of them and the head guy
you know hit the head got it
leading all that stuff but it looked
like a convoy come up with all that
steel and he says uh do you have a
factor Evan I said yeah and now and we
all speak of all I said really you got a
fax they said can I have that number he
said I want to fax you another invoice I
said oh I said man what do we need it no
he said I just want to do something he’s
saying go take long take about maybe no
no 3540 seconds for a fax but he faxed
the invoice and as it was coming up he
said Reverend I just cut a hundred
thousand dollars off of it
wait wait wait wait wait and I came and
he said it was five hundred thousand
stead of six hundred he said I ain’t
never had to write a payment like that
you have a nice day Reverend ray
Chronicles I’ve been doing this for 40
Spain and never seen nothing like this
in my life and I looked at him I said
all sufficiency ray all sufficiency in
all things so he said just tie up the
six hundred thousand so I called Tammy
she was walking across with the six on I
said Tammy turn around I said and
destroy that check why I said the man
just cut a hundred thousand and Tammy
loved that she goes she’s Baptist I
ain’t never seen nothing like this and
I’m a Baptist I’m going back and cut a
check for five rooms she’s looking back
at me and I have the ability to sign it
my signature on every signature card in
that Bank but I didn’t sign I let her
sign it because I signed a check for
seventeen dollars and they turned it
down
[Laughter]
so I call the Mike I said I am the CEO
they said would you never sign a cheque
I said what my signature card is in
where we knew it and we matched it but
this can’t be see if you even see that
it’s true you won’t believe it sometimes
but you never sign a cheque I said I
don’t have to but I have the power to do
so
so now I’ll let other people do that you
know and and thanks because if I go to
sign a cheque use I get Cathy or
something real because get this on their
check you know something like that and
because they’ll go hee-hee in sign the
cheque in 20 years but they got the
signature card and I keep them they say
how do you do that I said I don’t the
Lord does because he said God is able so
you know three major banks in New
Orleans came up to me said Reverend it
is amazing we just thought for sure you
needed us but it looks like we need you
now Jerry Savelle would call that favor
and it is the misunderstanding but what
is happening is that’s a better
testimony to them than me walking up to
them and say would you like to meet
Jesus Christ is Lord of your life they
just can’t get over that the sessions
don’t affect me in 2008 when Wall Street
went belly bust y’all remember that or
people going crazy buddy
we grew 30% I’m the only one that Chase
Bank that didn’t lose any money that’s
what they said I don’t know what they do
their financial gurus said you you you
didn’t lose money but I did what God
told me to do cuz when I have a chunk of
money comment I said what do you want me
to do with this and then I asked the
second question is this my money see he
may have given it to me to give it away
he may have given it to me to place it
in someone else he trusts me and I
appreciate that
so I said Lord what do you want me to do
with this one more quick little story
this is years and years ago one of the
secretaries came and said we have a
fifteen thousand dollar check just
coming into the ministry
what account you want to put it what do
you want to do with this and and it was
acid and I have a I was writing some
stuff I said we just put it on my desk
I’ll let y’all know in a minute I said
just give me a little time so I’m all of
a sudden the phone rings and and and
it’s our reception since that bridge se
brother Copeland’s on the line I said
okay I’ll take it I said hey brother
come we can do for he said yes mr.
Kenneth I say hey brother Copeland he
said listen man the Lord been praying
I’ve been dealing with me by buying Mac
Gober an airplane I said okay he said
you know and the Lord told me to tell
you that the Lord spoke to me said God
Jesse will help me I said the Lord told
you that Jesse would help him he said
yes I said that’s good I said well what
does the Lord want Kenneth since he said
I would help him I thought that’s pretty
nice that God would say Jesse would help
me that’s pretty nice thing he said well
he said we want to give this playing
debt-free to count to a Mac go but
ministries and things of that nature and
the Lord said you get $15,000
I said Kenneth I’m looking at a $15,000
check you said it’s mine it’s for Mac I
said it’s in the mill so I hollered I
call I said while he’s on the phone he’s
talking the girl cover that said FedEx
this to Casey yeah boy didn’t you just
cut one check out and handle all that
kind of stuff and purchasing that gold
was plain now watch this
I went home feeling so good so I said
Lord you said I would help you and he
said yes and I thought that’s a nice
thing to say he said yes it is and it’s
not I don’t say it very often I’ve had
the Lord tell me two times I’ve given
all my money away twice in my life the
first one was way more money whoo that
was the easy part
the second one was the tough one that’s
when I’d given all I used to bet I made
a lot of money in my life and I gave it
all away because I thought you had to be
poor to be a Christian so I said I’ve
raised both I’ll be poor hey that
doesn’t change who I am
you know and so I gave it away board it
took care of a lot of people in Kathy
was glad we didn’t but the second time
then I had the mortgage I had a mortgage
on the house and a finance a car note
and all that kind of sudden the Lord
said Jesse give me all your money first
thing came on my way Silas just like
this well I’m gonna pay that house note
I could hear that in my mind I won’t pay
that car note and not when I say all my
money I’m talking piggy bank I’m talking
everything I’m talking me and Kathy got
zero everything we have in a bank
everything we have on a savings guy
everything we have anyway plus change I
poured it out I said I’m yours to
command Lord he said you get ready boy
he said and he said the same thing to me
then he totally a brunette when he
offered up Isaac he said Jesse because
thou has done this and not what held one
dime one penny even from the piggy bank
you get ready today I will release
finance to you like you’ve never seen in
your life I will make what you did as a
rocker nothing compared to what I will
do for you as you my son I said I’m
yours to command Lord and you know here
comes the test we gave it all away and
somebody call and said hey I want to go
out and eat dinner you have a dime I
said are you buying
yeah I said we’re gonna eat let’s go
crazy
they said why I said just gave it all
the way your wife just gave it all the
way are you serious yeah why is that so
hard
do you believe God will meet you ah ah
that’s the key now I’m not telling you
to do that don’t do that because but
Jesse said that that has to be a
revelation knowledge to you from God
Almighty not from anybody else and today
oh Jesus compared to what and I did very
well as a rocker that don’t even compare
it’s not even in the ballpark
it’s barely a snow cone stand compared
to what the Lord has done for me today
but Yana and I don’t mean that privately
beyond my wildest dreams
and he’s still doing it and doing it and
doing it and doing it and we just
believe in God and in 41 years of
full-time mission I’ve never laid off
one person am i right first you’ve been
with me 35 not one none and I’ve set the
whole staff to Hawaii twice and their
wives some of them that had kids how
many y’all want a job with nothing it
was fun it was great I’m not bragging on
that I could brag more with that money
in my pocket yeah why but this I say he
was so sparingly shall reap also
sparingly he was so bountiful it reap
also bountifully so I’ve done both I’ve
sold fairly and I’ve sold about me every
man according I except purpose prayed
perceived empowered so let him give not
grudgingly Norma Sesa tea for God loveth
a cheerful Giver and God is able to make
all grace abound toward you that you
always having all sufficiency in all
things may abound to every good work he
is dispersed abroad he has given to the
poor his righteousness remaineth forever
so he was met as a seed to the sower
ministers bread for your food multiplies
your seed sown increases the fruits of
your righteousness being enriched and
all bountifulness which causeth
thanksgiving and triumph to God see when
you understand that you won’t have
financial trouble anymore so don’t
expect it don’t believe for what it
happens all the time
why because you believe for it just
because somebody went through something
don’t mean you have to go through it
learn from what they went through you
see what I’m saying yeah that doesn’t
mean the Devils might not try to hurt
you if you don’t pay any attention to
him he walks away he gets really
confused easily he’s the author of
confusion
oh you can make it mad as a you
disturb it just don’t pay no attention
to him that is so easy that it’s hard so
I expect to be blessed all the days of
my life
I told Cathy by the time I’m 33 years
old we will own everything I had at 33
years old buddy
I owned everything I had but I had to
put that goal in front of me when I was
18 and people thought I was stupid and
most of the preachers that told me I’ll
never make it they all retired and sick
I don’t mean that in a bad way and I’m
still running and I got to make
financial decisions that I never thought
I would have to make concerning where
what and how so when they want to attack
me for something that’s a thing I said
well they just attacked me for being
biblical how many of you get my magazine
on my bondola you talking about me
raising money for that plane did I ever
write you for any money for that
aircraft see I’m doing something I’ve
never done before he said this one will
just come one day you gonna hear me say
this mark my word I want everybody in
the world and listen one day you could
hear Jesse Duplantis aiders ladies and
gentlemen I have an emergency and if you
don’t respond today we are in major
trouble I need to hear from you today
please don’t send me no more money we
just got too much we don’t know to go
with everything we’ve got
I just cut the cheezer’s we just got so
much we don’t know what’s going on I
just need some help and I please
that sound crazy yeah sound crazy when I
built that ministry debt-free
it all sounds crazy because you’re
dealing with the soulless realm of who
you are instead of the spirit of who you
are do you see what I’m saying so I just
believe that I’ve had many opportunities
not to believe it I just don’t take any
mm-hmm I ain’t afraid to die
because I’m already dead I did that and
I got born again I mean I’ve been hit by
lightning in an airplane and he went
purple it’s my everything I saw it was
purple
I was thinking Jimi him Jimi Hendrix
Purple Haze what is this I mean
everything went purple and I just walked
up to up I said did we just get it yeah
I said Oh Lord Jesus man but that didn’t
stop me from flying I’m not gonna let
fear come in my life what if you lost
everything you had what would you do
start over
see you can’t take what’s here this all
this stuff is just stuff and I know how
to eat escargot caviar and I also know
how to eat a cheeseburger any I can go
to McDonald’s and just enjoy myself and
say one more story kid come up to me at
five years old remember that kid Kathy
at Burger King I have a beautiful home
it’s pretty big you’ve probably seen
it’s all over the Lord Jesus people come
and they drive by my house it takes a
while to drive by it is this little boy
I come up to me at the burger team and I
never go to Burger King but I believe
God want me to go to Burke I just
stopped at and this little boy look like
when he says you Jesse Duplantis I said
yes I am just at your house I said
yesterday he said that’s a big house I
said yesterday he said I’m gonna build a
house like that – his mama said shut up
boy hey cold leave that man long you
can’t do that and I looked at ice excuse
me ma’am I don’t mean to be rude you
just said something totally wrong I said
when I was five years old I was in a 8
foot wide 32 foot trail and everybody
burger he listened to me 8 foot wide 32
foot trailer watching a movie called
Gone with the Wind sitting on the floor
in a black and white television and I
saw a Scarlett O’Hara go up that stared
I turned around to my mama I was 5 I
said my mama build a house like the
movies she says shut up boy you’re
sleeping on the floor
you understand you’re nothing but a KJ
you can’t do that and I remember he kind
of hurt my finger I didn’t say nothing I
said ma’am I was 5 I looked at him I
said son you won’t build one bigger than
me he said that’s right
a little five-year-old boy God gave it
to me at five Catherine not long ago she
came back she says Jessie you done so
much for me you had this beautiful thank
you and thank the Lord from I just thank
you that’s all I can tell y’all ain’t
telling y’all no more
it was a great day I said Kelly we built
this together I even told the contract
to end the do whatever that woman tells
you to do because I don’t if I build a a
dog house that dog won’t get wet now
Cathy knows how to do that stuff my god
how she can do all that stuff and I love
it when Jerry and Carolyn come Carolyn
says do you mind if I just walk around I
said kill it do what do you think you
want and how many times people have come
and slept in at 3 o’clock in the morning
they were walking around my house and
there’s places you can sit down I have
places outside and they look around go
look at these things
oh and I say y’all y’all need Samuel and
we have a food station upstairs if you
up there you in an upstairs Suites you
know so you’d have to go down to the
kitchen we get a little food station
care that’s all that stuff and I said
ginger I said me costo su casa whatever
you want
they don’t make no difference and they
just had in Gloria came one time she
says I’m gonna stay in the black and
white room I said that’s great girl she
goes Oh Jesse Oh Jesse oh oh look at
this bathtub Wow it’s what you call like
Kathy a slipper slipper tub she said oh
I gotta take a bath and that I said
enjoy yourself let me out of here hey
it’s a beautiful girl and she just came
it makes me feel good it’s this real oh
it’s real it’s this a real that yes it
is where did you get this see that’s one
side of Justin friends nobody ever sees
for 30 years better I’ve been collecting
artwork storing it all over the world
but I don’t have anymore now stored it’s
all back now in New Orleans because I
knew I was going to do that when I
couldn’t buy a hot dog but I had the
idea and I just had to work toward that
so when I went in the ministry it was
exactly the same thing I said this is
what I’m gonna do and I don’t mind
working hard and more brother Copeland
stimulated me yes sir this is cough I
think I just found your plane it’s 1994
can you get the get here quick I’ll have
somebody to pick you up at the airport
we’re going to Canada oh man Calais
we’re gone she said we had any meat
lunch that’s it
come on woman it’s 12 o’clock we rushed
that’s when you’re gonna have to go to
go through security we rushed like crazy
because they had a flight leaving New
Orleans going to Dallas DF debit 105 we
made it better code me had these people
pick me and I mean when I got there he
was in his citation and man the engines
won’t he said we’re going I think I
found your plane Jesse this is it Jesse
well we flew the Toronto Canada did we
have fun me and Kathleen Kenneth in
glory you know and all this kind of
stuff and I thought man we landed and
met mr. Harvey Firestone jr. the
Firestone company it was his plane and
he loved it and in Kenner was so kind to
us
he brought his mechanic so they could
look over I don’t know nothing about
that stuff you know so born there
Darrell was his name they’re a really
nice man he said but but just this thing
is an exceptional shake and really and
Kenneth looked at me said if you don’t
buy it I’m going buy it I said you ain’t
buying my plane
and there’s the gentleman with a little
of cane and I said Mr Firestone it’s
mine you like it Reverend I said yes I
do I said I miss the Firestone he said
well I don’t want the money today in
this year because there’s too much taxes
on it can you pay me in 95 now this is
in November of 94 I said how about
January 6 he’s a you in a hurt I said no
I just want to claim me I’m just ready
he smiled he said it’s a good plane I
said yes it is I’m thinking I’m talking
to Harvey Firestone Johnny old man so he
looks at me like this and I said can I
give you a check at deposit to hold us
and he does this is your word you’re a
barn boy I said yes I give me a hand he
said look me and I he said that’s the
way we used to do business when I was
young I can’t stand these lawyers up
behind me right now
he said the planes yours Boston I said
yes sir and he walks like this and he
gets almost today to walk out the hangar
and there was an eagle if this was a
citation Eagle Mart it had a
modification that you carry more fuel on
which costs $250,000 he stopped his the
door he stops right here he turns around
he said hey Reverend you know that’s an
eagle ma didn’t it I said yes sir he
said hey and he’s talking to his manager
he said cut the 250,000 dollars off the
price
give him the Eagle mug is that all right
Reverend I said yes idiot
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that was in November January 6 we took
possession of it flew it straight to a
place to have the interior done it cost
$20,000 that’s nothing today but then it
cost $20,000 and it took I don’t know
eight weeks I guess to do it all and the
man said your planes ready so I drove
over there to pick up my plane so we
could fly back you know and and I said
give me a bill he said it’s already paid
for
I said who paid for it he said somebody
in England I said who he said we don’t
know they want to remain anonymous I
still don’t know till today who did that
see God was ahead of me how could you do
that all sufficiency in all things
abounding so when somebody tries to
criticize that I laugh at that I said
you have no idea what God has done for
me in what he will do what he’s done
what he’s doing in what he will do so
just let him do it how many of you will
be so blessed by next year you’ll come
back and Deborah bring a friend and pay
for everything to eat and the hotel I
mean you’d like to do that you’d like to
do that cuz next year the southwards
were believers convention it’s gonna be
a phenomenal one it will be the 40th
year
that’s the celebration in itself think
about that that you would be able to
bring a couple of friends and pay their
hotel in that room and I’m not hurting
at all just enjoy yourself and go to
reales and eat them on your ring so you
can throw them like a horseshoe I mean
anything
your blessing think about that I want to
thank each and every one of you to allow
me a portion of your time I want you to
think about this little simple message
all so when the devil says you can’t
have that God says I can have all you a
liar and God is God so I’m not gonna pay
any attention to you
in God’s will on me hello wait a second
thank you lord one more thing if you’re
caught if you’re a college student and
the Lord says this is the Holy Ghost
if you’re a college student you’ve
got college that if you’re willing to
believe me saith the Lord I will cancel
your debt by December
all you gotta do is receive that
hallelujah you shouldn’t you should
never have to start out in debt after
you’ve went to school and you know and
studied and really worked hard those
things are not easy I’m telling you if
you believe God while high is gonna do
it
that’s his business I is going to do it
but I promise you this it’ll come from a
seed you sow and a harvest you’ll grow
killing my mom our Kundalini sowcarpet
thank you Laura I’m about ready to say
this he said there will be 387 people
that’s in this congregation in this
afternoon service that will be totally
debt-free
but next year
[Applause]
hallelujah I said Lord there’s more than
300 he said why he said those are the
ones believe in me those are the ones
that are acting on it those are the ones
that have giving and they needed the
money they gave expecting to believe
expecting to receive
listen to me I’m not telling you
something just to make you jump up God
did this for me if you do it for me
he’ll do it for you he don’t love me
anymore he loves you we just believe in
obedience
now the believers convention is not over
we got tonight and they got tomorrow I
have to fly out of here in just a few
minutes and I just want to thank each
and every one again and I’m gonna say
this ladies and gentlemen come September
29th through October the second one of
the greatest things is ever going to
happen on television we’re gonna have a
victory thon do you hear what I’m saying
and it’s gonna be able to help brother
Copeland to go to every available voice
and it’s gonna happen and all the
broadcaster’s that are on it are coming
that’s never happened to start with and
we are gonna give God glory when it’s
all said and done I believe that victory
will be as big as ABC CBS NBC
MSNBC Fox
[Music]
you see what it is it’s a beginning
and what did God say in the beginning
you don’t want to miss this put it on
your calendar September the 29th October
the 2nd I’m so excited about it because
this couple Kenneth and Glory has been
so gracious in coming
the Lord just said it’ll speed up my
coming oh man it’ll speed up my coming
look at it there it is
it has speeded up when the gossip was
preached of the world the end shall come
another Colton 82 years old most people
are done retired quit went somewhere
some most of them have died not him not
Gloria hear what I’m saying maybe we
this last generation
just maybe Steven you’re the last man
they’re gonna pastor the church you
Pastor that’s up in the sky it’s a bird
it’s a plane no it’s Steven where’s he
going
think about that ladies and gentlemen I
pray for that every day
oh Jesus convoy nothing I’m afraid to
die I mean wherever that I just want to
go on that rapture I can’t wait to start
my work in eternity I will stand before
that throne I’m yours to command give me
a job Jesus let’s go there’s a universe
out there he might put me over a galaxy
where you gonna live New Jerusalem why
beam me up Scotty I’ll get that you
won’t travel by this speed of light
that’s to slow your travel by the speed
of thought you’ll think and you there
[Music]
[Applause]
thank you I’m still on the fritz again I
can’t help myself
spinning on into pleasure please please
be praying for us hallelujah thank you
hallelu
remember it’s not over the best is yet
you
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