If you are looking for a more convenient opportunity, you will lose the one nearest to you. Join Jesse Duplantis 2020 Southwest Believers’ Convention as he shows how to recognize Spirit-led opportunities to be a blessing to others. Have you ever wondered why you are here on Earth? To do good to people!
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galatians chapter six
but before we go to it if you remember
my first sermon i preached on
or first thing on untrodden ground that
you
this year you will get to you will walk
in places you never thought you would
walk in
and that’s what god is telling joshua in
joshua
chapter one he says moses my servant’s
dead
now get up
this jordan this promised land belongs
to you
now how long are you going to allow
satan to spend your money
how long are you going to allow him to
own your house
how long are you going to allow him to
own your car
i think that’s a valid question so if
you don’t mind i’m going to do a little
teaching speaking tonight a little bit
different the lord told me that in my
hotel room
and uh because you see god
wants you to have everything he said
spiritually
physically and financially a man asked
me that they said you don’t want nothing
i said the law is my shepherd
he said what did you say i said the
lord’s my shepherd i shall not want
i said is the lord your shepherd he said
well i guess not because i shall warn a
lot of stuff
i said well you need to become you need
to let him become your shepherd
a shepherd is a person that guides you
takes you to the places where you’re
supposed to eat
takes care of things see spiritually
physically financially and let me tell
you something about prosperity it’s not
a money message
that’s just a byproduct of it you see
what i’m saying
so he wants each and every one of you to
walk in places you’ll never walk before
because you already own it
he’s already put the boundaries out
there for you to walk in it
for you to claim what is yours of course
it used the word claim and a derogatory
name it can claim it and all that blab
it and grab it back all that kind of
crazy stuff back there
and i never paid much attention to that
i just kept going on doing what god told
me to do
now before let uh i want to just give
you a little update of that
we’re going to go galatians chapter 6.
you ever asked yourself
why satan showed up in the garden
why would satan show up in the garden
what was he looking for
an opportunity
if you notice when god elohim
would come and walk in the cool of the
day
what was he looking for an
opportunity to speak to his creation
but satan too i want to minister tonight
on opportunities or not accidents
they’re maps of direction write that
down that’s the title of it
as part of this thing i’ve been flowing
with
opportunities are not accidents
you’re not here by any accident you’re
not listening by accident
they’re maps of directions
in galatians chapter 6 verse
i want to start with verse 8. excuse me
verse 6.
paul writing to the church of galatians
says let him that is taught in the word
communicate so what you are taught you
ought to be able to communicate
if you believe in healing then you ought
to walk and heal it
if you believe in prosperity then you
ought to not be broke busted and
disgusted
you ought to be able to communicate what
you know to be true
let him that is taught in the word
communicate unto him that teacheth in
all good things so we should never teach
bad things like this you never know what
god’s going to do that’s a bad thing
you read his word if you want to know
the will of god it’s so simple
the will of god for every one of you
today many you’ve heard me say before
is genesis chapter 1 and genesis chapter
2. that’s the will of god for man
and the last two chapters in the book of
revelation
between that is 1185 chapters
of killing stealing and destroying by an
arch enemy called satan
but jesus is coming back we’re going
back to genesis chapter one
genesis chapter two and the last two
chapters in the book of revelation
and we’re gonna walk in the cooler today
so like spock says
live long and prosper
you see what i’m saying when you
understand
this i’m going to communicate this
message to you tonight
let him that is taught in the word
communicate
unto him that teaching all good things
be not deceived
why why because if you deceive yourself
guess who’s gonna get all the trouble
why would you deceive yourself
i can understand trying to deceive
somebody else but why would you deceive
yourself
because you don’t want to catch the
trouble be not deceived god is not
mocked
for whatsoever a man saw it now what
does whatsoever mean to you
whatsoever right that shall he also reap
for he that sow it to his flesh shall
let the flesh reap corruption
but he that soweth to the spirit shall
of the spirit reap
life everlasting and let us not be weary
i want you to underline that
let us not be weary in well-doing
for in due season we shall reap
if we faint not you might want to put a
little a kind of a little
space there that says that verse effort
just remember the word
effort let us not be worrying well doing
for in due season we should reap if we
faint not that is talking about
effort now verse 10 is the way i want to
get to
as we have therefore opportunity
let us do good unto all now the word men
and
and the king james is italics that was
they added
to the to help the translators but it
means all people
then it says this especially to those
who are the household of faith the
reason why i love the word of faith
is because we’re special
we are honestly wonderfully we are
special we’re not better
but we’re special because we belong to
the house of faith
now you got to understand the difference
you got to know what special means
see you can be special and not be a nice
person
you can be a special gifted individual
and yet your life
may be in torment one of the greatest
men that had
one of the greatest gifts ever was a man
named george herman ruth
they called them the babe
look how long it took to break his
record he had a terrible life
growing up in ballrooms and saloons
didn’t know how to control he had
no discipline whatsoever at all in his
life
he was very passionate but he was
uncontrolled discipline that almost
destroyed him in fact did eventually
but you can’t say he wasn’t special
because when he walked to that plate he
struck out more than anybody else ever
did but he hit more home than anybody
else because
every time he swung he swung with
everything he had
that is special are you hearing what i’m
saying
even though his life was not conducive
to what you should live
but he was a special individual mickey
mantle
think about that he said he said this if
i’d have known how to live this long i’d
have taken better care of myself
but he thought he would die at 25 27
years old because all of his family did
you got to call him special he was an
alcoholic
you look at some of these sports figures
special
even though their lifestyles may not be
what they are
well i find that in the preaching
circles too
there are some people very special have
giftings yet they don’t live the way
they should live in some areas
but jesus said that the household of
faith especially those who are of the
household of faith or as we have
therefore opportunity
titled his messages opportunities are
not accidents
they’re maps of direction see when satan
walked into the garden he was looking
for an
opportunity not to just fool her
but to better himself to better his
kingdom do you see that
now we may have lost the garden but
we’ve gained to heaven
but the god’s not lost it’s still up
there god took it up
so you’re here today not by accident
but this opportunity that god is
affording you he says cross
this jordan get your promised land is a
map of direction for you write this down
life is a great opportunity
that produces an education
it also produces a duty how can it
produce an education and a duty
because it’s born with an inward
principle
in other words love in his purest form
is discipline
the problem with moses he was very
passionate he had
uncontrolled discipline that’s why he
killed that guy it was justifiable
homicide
to kill that egyptian because he was
killing that jewish man
but that was uncontrolled principle let
me say it again
life is a great opportunity that
produces an education
and produces a duty because it’s born
with an inward principle see when i got
born again i made up my mind that i was
finished
with the sin world i am finished with
the world
i don’t sin every day i don’t mean that
private i i don’t
i have a hard time sinning i got to make
myself
i got to get in the flesh to do it but
if my mind is meditating day and night
like god told joshua in one chapter one
verse eight
i don’t have time for that kind of stuff
and i ain’t the ugliest man in the world
i get hit on every once in a while can
you believe it
that to me is so insane
i’m 71 would you 71 years old you’re
going to lost your ever-loving mind
but they think i have money they’re
right
but that’s not my money that’s kathy’s
money
and she’s not giving it to no little
hussy
now she i don’t know where the hussy is
but kathy don’t like hussies
i didn’t say husky that’s a dog i’m
talking hussy
life is a great opportunity
that produces an education and a duty
because it’s born with an
inward principle now this is the problem
with a lot of people that are missing
this
write this down if you’re looking for a
more convenient opportunity
you’ll lose the nearest one to you
write that down if you’re looking for a
more convenient opportunity
you’ll lose the nearest one to you
there’s opportunity
all around you but you’re trying to say
well which one is the best they’re all
good
you see if you’re looking for a more
convenient because
opportunity is not convenient at times
see
but you’ll lose the nearest one to you
so the lord told me to say jesse
there’s more money outside the church
than there is inside the church
and the wealth of the center is later
for the just
when we don’t believe that how many
opportunities do god has to give us
that we say well if i can find a more
convenient one and you’re losing the
the nearest one to you which is a my god
a stepping stone to where you want to go
to what you want to do and see these
little things
the lord told me i’ll never forget that
he said there’s more money outside the
church than his inside
i had a friend of mine i’ll tell you
something i mean this is the crazy
my friend just went to heaven not too
long ago and every time i saw him he
laughed at me and
i and i deserved to be laughed at he
called me up me and another guy named
george
he said hey let’s go get a cup of coffee
i said okay and i happen to be home that
day
good friend of mine so we’re sitting
there and i’m not a coffee drinker so
i’m just drinking
you know some water or coke or something
like that he said listen
do y’all want to go buy a piece of
property with me
and i heard the lord said listen listen
listen i said a piece of property
yeah he said come on get my truck all of
us can fit in my truck i’m gonna show
you so he took us to a
piece of property that was the trashiest
property
i’ve ever seen in my life just
jump a squirrel wouldn’t live there
rats said oh no no we’re higher class
than that we understand that
he said they want three thousand dollars
for it
i said that’s a piece of trash george
and my friend said
ah yeah man that’s just a piece of trash
now listen i had a thousand dollars
in my pocket he said well i thought
maybe we just go together let’s buy the
thing
so i said do you know anything about
this property no
don’t know nothing i was just driving by
and i looked at it
you know he said now you hear god’s
voice more than i do jesse but something
touched me
i said to myself
i looked at this seat going by what you
see
i said i am not going to bother i’m
going to look for more convenient
opportunity so i said george you want a
buddy
charles said no he said this is trash
man
we gonna waste it he said well if you
guys don’t buy i’m gonna buy the thing
myself
we said help yourself i had a thousand
dollars
in my pocket all right he buys it
it wasn’t two months and he didn’t know
nothing about this
the state of louisiana came in and
decided to put an
overpass and a road on top of that
property and they paid him three million
dollars
i would have made a thousand fold on a
thousand i’d have made a million dollars
and every time i saw him he’d go
i said shut up man and i looked at john
john’s going can you believe this
3 million bucks and george had a
thousand on him too
why didn’t we do that because we were
looking for something
more convenient
opportunities are not accidents they’re
maps of direction that’s what god is
telling joshua
joshua across the jordan the promised
land is there
look at me man it flows with milk and
honey come on man you want out the
desert
here it is
so if you’re looking for a more
convenient opportunity you’ll lose the
nearest one to you
write this down opportunities are active
in nature
and are constant why they do not
weary in operation
let me say it again opportunities are
active in nature
and they are constant they do not weary
in operation now
i told you a while ago on verse 9 and
let us not be weary and will do and for
in due season we shall reap if we faint
not i’m going to jump ahead here
let me read this point first
opportunities are active in nature
and are constantly do not weary in
operation why because
effort is the seed that has the power
of the future effort is the seed
that has the power of the future in
other words let us not be
weary and whether that means you gotta
effort
is your ground to get what you’re
believing for
you’re not god god’s not going to send
an angel you’re laying on the ground
dropping grapes in your mouth
let me say it again these opportunities
are active in nature
and are very constant spiritually
physically financially
how many times god told you to tell
somebody something or do something you
didn’t do it
it was an opportunity that you missed
but it does not weary in operation
and god said let us not be weary and
well doing for in due season we reap why
because you see when you’re doing
something that’s producing effort and
effort is the seed that has the power
of the future are you hearing what i’m
saying here so when you understand that
you ask yourself this for what reason
am i in this world why am i here
the answer is to do good
why did god place you on this planet out
of 7.5
billion people he chose you
all you ministers we we walk in the
executive branch of god’s government the
apostle
the prophet the evangelist the pastor
the teacher
why why did god choose you so you would
do good see because
he would give you an education and a
duty to
produce the effort but if you look for
something more convenient
you miss it and that’s why so many
people never attain
what they want is because they keep
looking for something that’s easier
has nothing to do with easy it has to do
with effort
write this down again effort is the seed
that has the
power of the future so you ask yourself
for what reason am i in this world
the answer is to do good so everything i
do i must i do good
i it makes no difference what they do to
me
but it makes all the difference what i
do to them i am a very heavy tipper
i like blessing people that work hard
let me just tell you something man and
some of these waiters they work hard
you know and a lot of people stiff them
you know and that’s wrong to do that
so i like to be a blessed and i don’t
think everything 10
15 20 22 sometimes you’ll get a
a bill where it says you know uh 15
20 22 i think oh see my tips are always
bigger than the meal
all the time all the time we got locked
down ladies and gentlemen
i had to call jerry savelle we could new
orleans is known for the greatest food
you’ll ever put in your mouth
it ain’t healthy but you gonna die with
a smile on your face you understand what
i’m saying
oh lord it’s good the only thing we
could get was wendy’s
mcdonald’s i don’t go to wendy’s i don’t
go to mcdonald hall ever eat
so when we would drove up to the driver
when it because you couldn’t go in
they said would you like a large size we
thought me and kathy thought that was
the drink
so we said yeah well that meant lord’s
fries
excellent and man our toes start getting
fat
we eating all this stuff
i mean and that’s all you got so we went
out i said i said we gotta
cut back for god’s sake she said well
let’s go to chick-fil-a
that’s a godly place so how many nuggets
you want she said give me 30 of them
jesus
we bought 30 nuggets and he never made
it to the house we ate it in the truck
going dennis
plus the french fries
my belly button was getting thick
i took a shower leaned over water fell
out my belly
i said this is ridiculous so we’ve been
on diets so we could put some clothes on
at the southwest believers convention
what you laughing for you fat too
see we seize the opportunity
i got to tell them about the ice cream
cab that guy helped
but she doing good now kathy loves ice
cream
if i was a gambler man i would take
jerry savelle
and cathy duplantis and put them in an
ice cream eating contest with anybody
else
you are going to lose between them two
people
i ain’t never seen people wipe out i
mean kyle’s looking at him going mm-hmm
we got a really good idea i mean
i mean jerry can eat ice cream by the pa
kathy too
kathy actually believes that some pints
are small
i said it’s a pint kathy no it’s not
well i like to be a blessing to cathy
so i hit the mother lode at the
winn-dixie it said butter pecan
haagen-dazsy she loved it
i bought 28 pints
i didn’t tell her i went upstairs we
have a nice theater up there and all
that kind of stuff
and i put it in the refrigerator so
cathy goes uh
i mean all you could go is to the
grocery store i mean that’s it
or mcdonald’s or whatever
i said go go look and see what’s in
there she said oh my god
i said i hit the mother lode the lord
will bless you
she ate the whole 28 points
i’m sorry mama it just it’s just too
good
not in one day but 28 days later it was
gone
she sees the opportunity
and then i can hear her spoon scratching
about you i said
i said kathy there’s no more in the pot
she said this is a small
pint
jerry savelle just is bad too i mean
just wiping that ice cream out
i don’t see how they sleep
but all that sugar we all don’t die
she’s lost weight now so we all right
at least
i got to thinking when i wrote this
point for what reason am i in this world
to buy kathy ice cream
because she likes it
opportunities are not accidents
they’re maps of direction so where you
going tomorrow
what’s going to happen next week
what is set up for you
how much of the promised land you’re
going to walk in
how much of it you’re going to possess
not just confess
write this down the body of christ must
be constantly thinking
of our duties rather than our rights
see you’re going to miss opportunities
if you’re constantly thinking about your
rights
the body of christ must be constantly
thinking
of our duties rather than our rights
i want to tell the government here it’s
not your job
look at me look at me it’s not your
job to protect my life i protect my life
it’s your job to protect my rights
that’s what every governor should hear
president house of representatives
senator yates your job to protect my
life
death and life’s in the power my tongue
not yours but it’s your job
to protect my rights not my life
i’m jesse duplantis and i approve this
message
are you hearing what i’m saying you’re
supposed to protect that constitution
that we all swore by when we became
americans
so the body of christ must be constantly
thinking of our duties
rather than our rights or in other words
online they owe me that
see that may be true in one sense
see that may be true we said you’re
thinking about well i deserve this and i
no you need to be thinking about your
duty and then the opportunities will
afford you things
it’s amazing some of the things that i
have accomplished
by accepting the opportunity and i
thought
if the devil is looking for
opportunities then i’m gonna look for my
opportunities
and i have a lot of times opportunities
to talk to god that i didn’t have time
to talk
i thought you know i can just add a
little extra in here hey jesus
and have a wonderful time around this
throne
you see why because it’s my duty
as we therefore have opportunity let us
do good that’s why i bless
these th these uh waitresses ladies and
gentlemen i don’t mean to sound private
i’m gonna just tell you this okay
i didn’t want to but i mean keith told
you about the bentley so i’ll tell you
about something else
i like that bentley that was good so we
couldn’t go out and eat
we eat out twice a day kathy don’t cook
she’s been delivered from the bondage
when you hear the word cook she thinks
onions and leeks in egypt she ain’t
going there
and that’s okay that’s fine i don’t care
you know it’s just me and her anyway
so we got locked down march the second
week of march
so we started eating mcdonald’s
wendy’s cause everything shut down you
know
man and i noticed i was saving all kind
of money
i mean saving money go to wendy’s how
much i owe you
seven dollars seven dollars
that didn’t tell me that it was seven
thousand calories but it was seven
dollars
i didn’t know we didn’t know
we never eat french fries eating large
ones
so i started counting how much money i
saved in tips
from march when did they open up where
they could open up
25 fifth minute holly uh lori i remember
may 15th from march to may 5th i
saved 15 000 in tips
i thought fifteen thousand not no i give
away that much
uh-huh then i thought now i know why i
don’t have to stand in line at pf changs
now i know why i don’t have to stand in
line at the cheesecake fact i walk in
and they said it’s an hour and they go
oh reverend over this way over there
they just have to say who is he uh he
owns this place
they lot they lie they don’t care they
want that tip
50 gary 15 000
i’m not bragging about that but i
thought what a blessing
that i had the opportunity that i’m able
to be a blessing to those people that
are working very hard that i was able to
do it not showing off he said you’re
just showing up i could show off more of
that money in my pocket than in this
you see what i’m saying see there is no
problem of
evil there’s only the problem of the
human heart
there’s no evil has been done with where
our problem is
is in the human heart you have an
opportunity
to change someone’s heart and put them
on a map of direction where they’re
supposed to go
and it’s it’s amazing what god will do
when you’re able to be the blessing you
want to be
spiritually physically all financially
it doesn’t make any difference you can
do all three or just
one whatever you want do you know never
get under
condemnation or anything you just do
whatever the lord tells you to do
and when you understand that how god
will work those things
there is no problem of evil there is
only the problem with the human heart
you see when you do good let us do good
as we therefore opportunity let us do
good to all
to all to all
what does that all mean to you to me
that second corinthians nine and six
all he was so expanded he reaps off his
family he’s so bountifully reaps also
bonfire
every man and calling isaac purpose
prayed received in power so let him give
not graduating on the necessity for god
loveth that you’re forgiven and god is
able to make all grace how much grace
all great i bound towards you that you
always having all sufficiency in all
things
may abound every good work you’re
dispersed abroad you’ve given to the
poor you’re righteous it’s remaining
forever
he was managed seeds of the sower
minister’s bread for your food
multiplies your seed so
increases the fruits of your
righteousness being enriched in all
boundless
which causes you to say thank you to god
you see if it’s not in you it can’t come
out of you
see i have an opportunity every day to
study his word
i even study the genealogies
if it’s in that book i want to know
about it i have one of the greatest
libraries am i right jerry you’ve been
in my home
i mean i got a library to blow your
socks off buddy
i mean billy billy’s been billy loved my
house
i have i have to go on with the win
staircase in the foyer
i i saw the movie and i sent the video
to the architect i said
build a staircase exactly like
scarlett o’hara walked in that tank and
i’m gonna have cathy come down and i’m
gonna be rhett butler
that’s why the house is so big so i
asked billy i have an elevator in there
too i said
i said billy would you would you like to
go down the other or no
no i’m walking down this master
staircase man billy had to lean on
lord jesus it’s like going back in time
not bragging about that just did it
that’s all
so what
you see what i’m saying the lord said
bill it
and no limits i had no idea what that
meant
i said kathy
build this thing no limits
i did ask her one time how come this
place is so big
she said yes you can’t put a 12 by 12
room on the side of a 40 by 40 where you
got that staircase it
you got to keep pulling out i said
that’s fine just do it
she said okay she said well i’m gonna
put you your workout room upstairs no i
don’t want it upset
i want it downstairs you drop weights i
want it on the concrete so you don’t
hear boom
well that made the bottom floor bigger
then i said i don’t want to hear sound
people walking up there on the top
so i concreted the the second level
but i forgot the concrete the attic
and the other day cherry and carolyn was
that at my house sleeping
and i said i gotta go check some i
bought me a led flashlight
i was excited about it i’m not
mechanical but i like that led
flashlight
you can move it like that i said i’m
gonna go check the attic out
but i forgot and i was trying to walk
and
jerry actually heard me up this he said
somebody’s up there
i said y’all hear me i got to think now
how can i concrete that attitude
again if you walk up there i don’t know
why i i just going to visit
he said what are you doing i said i just
checking out my led
flashlight cause it’s dark
you can laugh all you want son that was
a big thing for me
when he says as you therefore have
doing good must have intention and
exertion in it
which produces effort
remember to effort is to see that has
the power of the future
if you want your future to be bright
spiritually physical financial
it has to be developed in effort be not
we’re in well doing let me say it again
doing good
must have intention and exercise which
produces effort
in other words what you believe in
you’re producing all at the same time
and it doesn’t take long to do it
it doesn’t it’s actually shorter than
you think
you know you can lose weight quicker
than you can gain it
look how many years it took you to get
as big as you are
don’t look around here i ain’t telling
you to look at nobody
but you can knock it out in 90 days
you might backslide 100 time but you can
knock it out in 90 days
right you just got to get serious with
it
doing good must have intention and
exertion which produces
effort so people said why do you work so
much
well i’m not wearing well doing
everything i’m doing i’m doing good
as we never have opportunity i mean i
was with jerry savelle just the other
day
i mean here at the convention some
little beautiful young little girl she
must be i don’t know 10 years old
i mean and i think jerry knew her he
says hey sweetheart how are you doing
and i’m standing right by jerry i don’t
know this kid from adam i never seen
this kid before in my life
beautiful little girl but this tall
he said i heard your birthday but when
he took i think it was a hundred dollars
he said happy birthday i thought
i have an opportunity so she turned
around i said excuse me honey come here
i said give me a hug she gave me her i
said here’s 100
you can see in her face i love these men
i love them well jerry
because of his kindness afforded me
bill an opportunity to be a blessing to
a child i did not know
he wasn’t saying i’ll wait for a more
better opportunity
you see what i’m saying that child will
never forget that that’s right
it was such i said go buy you something
nice okay thank you
i said you’re welcome so i was so glad
that i was there watching
someone do a something good that i could
be a part of myself
see effort is the seed that has the
power of the future
now i gave that child a hundred dollars
was that yesterday
i got eleven hundred and something
dollars give to me today
go ahead apart i know it’s freaky
the reason why you see you’re nervous
about that what are you going to do when
you get to heaven
and you see gold streets oh jesus i’m
not worthy
i’m not worthy you have a trailer no i
ain’t got no trailer
because in my father’s house see you’re
afraid of that
that’s fear but what people might think
you don’t anything make no difference
what they think
you do what god tells you to do you give
what god tells you to give you receive
what god tells you to receive
and let the chips fall where they live
effort is the seed i love that that has
the power of the future
so my god keith what i’m going to do
tomorrow to produce my future
what opportunity will god give me now
you don’t walk up to people and say
you know brother i’m believing god for a
watch
just like this one let the lord lead you
my brother you know what i’m saying
that’s a lot that’s a that’s a con
artist
that’s no effort to be be a beggar
i had a mentor he said i don’t sign
anybody that can can become debt free
i said the homeless is debt-free
well your light just came on didn’t it
the homeless
is debt free
see not only should you be out of debt
but the amount of money that you were in
debt
have that in liquid in some financial
institution
now you believe in god for something so
if you’re a hundred thousand dollars in
debt
how come you can’t have a hundred
thousand dollars in a bank or if your
house let’s say you bought a beautiful
home a million dollar home or whatever
how come you can’t have the house and
the million dollars because no one ever
told you that you could
but there’s opportunities around you
every day of your life that god is
opening
but you have to not be weary and well do
it you have to put effort to work
because it’s the sea that has the power
of the future right this time
great work done by many hands
is better than just philanthropy by one
individual
great work done by many hands is better
than just
philanthropy done by one
individual do you know that jesus was a
philanthropist
kathy showed me that in the scripture i
believe it was acts 10 38
she was studying one day she said jesse
come look at this how god anointed jesus
the christ of nazareth who went about
doing good how god the lord jesus christ
tonight with the holy ghost and power
who went about doing good if you look at
the word good there it means
philanthropy
jesus not only healed the sick he
blessed people
that’s why i follow him financially
because she had no financial deficit
and in 44 years gary i’ve never had a
financial deficit and i never will i
don’t mean that pridefully
why are you there for imitators of god
as dear children i’m gonna follow him
that’s what he said to do that’s what
i’m gonna do i don’t have the supposed
don’t work syndrome
no no so great work is done by many
hands
is better than just philanthropy by one
individual that was everybody coming
together and getting something done
quickly that’s one thing i love about
the jehovah witness you ever seen in
people
you ever seen them build a church
they’ll build a church in three days
nothing out there they got that thing
down to a science boy
they got the concrete coming in they got
the plumbers coming i’ve watched it
i wanted to know something about the
jehovah witness i like the word jehovah
i like the name so i said let me study
the doctrine
i mean i i studied a lot of things
sweetheart that i don’t even believe but
i mean it’s good to be able to talk
intelligently about somebody when they
come up to you
and bought a jehovah witness was in the
neighborhood
so here they come three ladies there was
a man that was helping him he said now
you’ll go to that house
so they knocked on the door i opened up
the door i said yes
we’re jehovah witnesses that so am i
coming in the house
they went what i said if anybody witness
for jehovah i do
come on in here i started talking to him
about the lord they quit talking and
started listening
i’m changing their theology i had an
opportunity the man come up he said
i got to get you away from this man this
man is changing you and i said if you
hang around here long enough i’m going
to change you too
i said you wanted jehovah witness i’m
walking down the street
hey i ain’t got no problem with that
they hadn’t been back
now kathy’s a little bit different than
when she witnessed
i tried to be nice kathy’s pretty blunt
we y’all only said 144 000
uh going to heaven well that’s right
what’s your number
and the lady where she said don’t you
think there’s at least 144 000
that’s already done done it man you
ain’t got a chance i said
back off kathy for god’s sake man go eat
a pint of ice cream you got to calm
yourself down here
she just eat that lunch
you ain’t in the number i said she’s my
wife
she just needs some ice cream she should
be here
well why do you want to be a
philanthropist moral dignity
write this down philanthropy produces
moral dignity
because it produces kindness
i love that to work miracles
and to move mountains philanthropy
produces
moral dignity because it produces
kindness
to work miracles and to move mountains
i have a couple in our church i don’t
know how many homes i’ve paid off i
don’t mean this pridefully
i mean a bunch of churches good god i
don’t know how many i’m talking about
some
major i don’t talk much about that but i
felt a little of the lord to do that you
kind of changed something into that
keyword
captain told me about the bitly thing i
said you know maybe i need to say some
of these things
well i went to church and i was going to
preach at kathy’s church
she’s the pastor of the church i say
okay
and the lord said you’re gonna pay
somebody’s house off today
i said fine i didn’t know who
i didn’t know how much but evidently he
knew i could handle it
because he told me you’re gonna pay up
somebody’s house today
i said fine so i wound up preaching
went through the whole service
got to the end of the service
and i said you know god
and i tell this to cover the church all
the time god wants your debt free
and you’re going to have to start
believing god you got to go from owen to
owning
now watch this there was a man he’s a
fireman
he’s leaning up against the back wall of
the church
and he says this i don’t hear him i’m
way in the front
lord i want my house paid off this year
lord i want my house paid off this year
and then he changed it he went no god
forgive me i want my house
paid off today and i say travis
and he went i said come here
i didn’t know he was praying that i said
travis how much money are you in your
house
what’s his wife’s name angie right they
don’t mind me say that
i said i’m paying your house off i said
cathy do you have a check she said i
always got to check
i said pay the house off the place went
crazy
and that was well my bragging rights
well it do because he got already
figured that out
well i don’t know what uh
four months later
i’m in the cheesecake factory i got some
cheesecake factory stores buddy
now i’m eating lunch with these people
and they hand me a red envelope
they said this is for you bread jesse i
said no i have everything i i
thought no no this is for you the great
opening
i never seen a red envelope you know it
was a beautiful open up
and she said when we sat down to eat the
man gave me a money clip with five
hundred dollars in it
that’s pretty good you get a money clip
of five hundred dollars and he gave
cathy a beautiful purse his wife
i said no no i got to give another
please no no you know
but they did so anyway they said oh we
want to give you this
go ahead open it up so open it up and i
look at it and it’s a check for a
hundred thousand dollars
i thought they said this is for you
you’ve blessed us so much this will go
do what you want when it’s yours
well in the car cathy looks at me and
says you know jesse
you’ve been so kind to me all our lives
why don’t you take that hundred thousand
dollars just spin it on yourself
i said well kathy i don’t want nothing
i i don’t want nothing but see this was
an opportunity here
so i said well why not find out what i
want
i’ll do it that was january the 15th
february march april
may june july
august september october november
december i hadn’t spent one dime at that
hundred thousand dollars
it’s now december
i hadn’t spent one nickel of it kathy
said are you ever gonna buy yourself
something
i said well i don’t know when i figure
out what i want or something i guess
kathy said jesse this is the last day of
the year
you’re very seldom at the church would
you preach at the church i said no i
don’t want you
to i’m trying to i need a day off i want
a day off you ever heard of that
a day off so you’re the head of this
ministry i said
oh you just figured that out
i said all right this is new year’s eve
so i finished preaching i’m about ready
to turn it over kathy likes me to turn
it over
do the announcements whatever kind of
stuff all of a sudden i hear myself say
mary mary’s my executive secretary
okay she’s been listening to terri
savelle foy
on this vision board stuff okay
i don’t know what it is but i’m just a
vision board i didn’t know
and her husband is at our book and tape
table his name is roy i want the big
beard that’s him
you can ask now she’s my executive
secretary i said mary
now and she always run to the back and
get me some water or throat losses or
something like that
she comes running and i’m like mary how
much money you owe in your house she
said what
i said how much money you owe in your
house married and now everybody’s real
quiet like they’re going
and i can hear people say you’re gonna
do it again he gonna do it again lord
it’s an opportunity it’s a map of
direction
it’s not an accident i said mary how
much
money do you owe in your house they had
been believing god to pay that house off
that day and i believe that i might be
wrong there but i believe mary said
jesus this is the last day
of the year she said
we owe about a hundred and seven
thousand dollars i said kathy
you know that a hundred thousand dollars
i said add seven thousand give it to me
and pay the house off
they went slap crazy
now you don’t need a problem please
please no no please it hasn’t it was
just obedience
i don’t want anybody to get excited over
obedience
yeah but it was on i realized that the
hundred thousand
wasn’t for me god knew that i
he could trust me he would i would do
something with that
do you follow what i’m saying see
philanthropy
produces moral dignity because it
produces kindness
to work miracles and to move mountains
and immediately man they just went to
shout and blessing god
and they were able to bless other people
you know and roy and mary just
really great givers to the work of the
lord as well as blessing people
and man he’s giving away motorcycles i
mean it’s just amazing see
we teach people these things don’t wait
for a more convenient opportunity
and watch where you sow because the
soil’s got to be right
now let me say this opportunity write
this down is the seed bed
of the future effort is the seed that
has the power of the future
but opportunity is the seed bed of the
future
you see it’s the seedbed how many you
want your churches paid off
come on be honest you want your church
paid off stand up
if you go to church you owe some money
on they’re not not not being embarrassed
about you want it paid off
you can believe god that you’ve done
this year talk to me
you believe it how many want your houses
paid off stand up
yeah come on let’s
seize this opportunity
and if you think that’s going to break
god you’re living in a dream world
how many do you want say i want my house
paid off
i want my church paid off
i want to pay off my grandmother’s house
as well as my house i want to have
enough money
after i paid off to have the same amount
of money in the bank
so i can do it again give the lord a
shout for that
bulk
now sit down let me finish opportunity
is the seedbed of the future as we
therefore opportunity let us do good to
all
now that we are here in this world
what are we going to make of ourselves
what are we going to do with ourselves
i prayed that this morning lord what
without having me to do today
now that we’re in this world what are we
going to make of ourselves
what are we going to do with ourselves
i pray every day for money to give away
now when you say stuff like that people
try to
you know i don’t let people take
advantage of me bill i don’t i don’t
believe in that you know what i’m saying
but i mean i i told my staff i said
leave with me for 200 million dollars
and i’ll double your salaries
i told all my whole staff and my foreign
offices
and in australia and england and the
board of directors in england the board
of directors in australia i said i’m
taking all y’all in hawaii
and i’m gonna put you in the hotels i
stay and i’m gonna pay for it myself
they said i said huh huh i said this is
not your vacation
i’m gonna still pay you like as if
you’re working i said i can’t shut the
ministry down
so i got to take 50 of you for a week
i’m gonna get you back for a day or two
and then i’m gonna take the other 50
oh i’ll take the next day they were
wearing hawaiian ladies at the office
i didn’t tell them when was a few months
later it was christmas and i said okay
we’re going this year they they had a
wonderful time
it cost me quite a bit of money
personally and the lord said because
thou
has done this i said lord don’t worry
about you’ve been so kind to me
he said i got a surprise for you boy
well i took the whole both sta well the
one staff but
i got them back they were telling
everything they did and then i brought
the other half and i mean i i have been
hawaii
a hundred and five hundred five hundred
six times i get
preaching most of the time and i i i i
can be a god we’re walking
we’re walking we’re walking this way
we’re walking i can just do that
you know i mean any island you name it i
can do it
been on all them preached on all of them
except one near
robertson island you have to be i think
an original hawaiian
and it doesn’t have electricity so i
plan on going myself because
like a little air conditioner you know
and you you have to be invited
but to make a long story short i flew
everybody home
and as i was flying home the lord said
jesse just said jesse
i said what he said i got a surprise for
you
i said what is it he said well if i told
you you wouldn’t be a surprise with it
so i got in about 10 o’clock sunday
night i went to the office on monday
about 4 30 in the afternoon that monday
i had all the money back plus
and the lord said what you think about
that i said that’s good
i said that’s kindness he said you know
what i like about you and i close with
this
you even do it to people that treat you
wrong
you have an opportunity to be a blessing
to those that even hate you and speak
evil of you
well they were trying to kill me with
abc cb y’all seen all that years ago
i mean i got attacked by inside edition
at the southwest believers convention
how many over there when that happened
y’all am i telling the truth they come
at me with everything they had
this is my point let us let us do let
our doing be beautiful
even when we’re dealing with unlovely
people
yes sir it’s just me oh okay
and i thought it was god talking in my
left ear jesus
i just sound like brother copeland
forgive me jesse you know i would never
interrupt you
sure um
without the word of the lord coming to
me
and this began well
that’s the reason i came out here and
said all of us
started with nothing right it began
right then
and it’s just been building and building
and building and building and knowing
amen
there are those who have said
they just talk about all their money
and all they give to people what about
giving to the poor
we did that first yes sir
that’s right and you need to really
really be careful about that
i mean i’m not talking about being
careful about giving to the poor
i’m talking about moving over into that
mindset because you’re quoting judas
hallelujah you’re thinking
after judah’s thoughts
and the bible very plainly says he
didn’t care anything about the poor he’s
a thief
well that donald trump just makes me
sick
flying a big old airliner
this serious business yes it is
why has the lord instructed us
to deal with the money problem so much
because there are many more many many
more
people that can’t accomplish their
ministry because they don’t have the
money
than they do because they’re sick that’s
right that’s right
i agree that’s the truth
and that just it just kept coming up and
just kept coming up
and just kept coming up until i could no
longer
ignore it it’s very very
dangerous
very dangerous jesus himself said
you always have the poor with you
but now you go back to the book of
deuteronomy
here was god’s viewpoint oh gloria
and he said you should have no
poor among you that’s right that’s the
around
15 yes it is you should have no
poor among you that’s right why
because he has given us
his heavenly economics
jesus so that you and so that i
and all of those like us praise god can
get together and
do something about amen
and we’re doing it we’re doing it yes it
is we’re doing it
this this this little restaurant that
that
gloria and i would go to and uh we just
kept going to the savior’s little
apparently applebee’s
it turned into a ministry um
and these little these little kids no
way little waitresses
we would we’d come in and they’d just
all come sit in our booth
that’s right and
and they wanted us to tell them stories
about what happened in the miracles
and i brought a whole sack full of many
books down there one day
a whole sack full of them and to give
them to this one little girl
and they they wouldn’t they said no
where’s mine
oh i wears my many books amen that’s the
lord
but one little girl bad
stuff at home wound up without a car
a really bad husband
and we led her to the lord she said
what am i gonna do we said well first of
all we’re going to pray
and i just sit there and i thought well
that’s not enough yeah that’s not an i
said
and so i said well how much money will
it take to get
oh i don’t know brother copeland had you
know maybe
2 500 likes you can’t get anything for
2500
you know that
so we just bought her a car you see i
learned this from you
but you see what i see that she’s poor
she can’t
do anything right i mean she was
helpless
we didn’t buy her a new car we bought
her a good car amen
hallelujah glory to god
and then
a man that
so good in that restaurant
it’s a great waiter
and we we’ve
he he he knew the lord but he didn’t
know anything about him
he didn’t have anything working in you
know applebee’s for tips so
but he started kind of getting sick and
and he kept getting sick and we prayed
for him and
gloria and i prayed for him and well he
can he
felt a little bit man he was losing
weight
make a long story short he died of brain
cancer
his little nine-year-old daughter
bad situation at home
the mother was gone little nine-year-old
daughter
so so timid she just wouldn’t hardly
say anything and so he brought her
over to her booth and i gave her
a hundred dollar bill
and she’d come over and say hello
and she went to school and and
the teacher called her dad
and said you need to do something about
her she lies
what do you mean she lies she says she
knows kenneth copeland he said
she does know kenneth copeland he is a
very good friend of hers
really
that’s the poor yeah that’s right
and when he’d
when he died
his mother is going to have to raise
that baby
he had bought an almost new truck
and they didn’t have the money to pay
for it
they didn’t have the money for a funeral
we’ve paid off the truck and paid for
the funeral
amen amen now that’s the poor
yeah right
i like the fella said i’m just eat up
with this
it’s such a blessing that’s that’s the
reason
our
there are
callings
i didn’t understand this for a long time
uh
the lord called glory in me
oral roberts my father in the faith
and then just days later
kenneth e hagin came into my life
and we became faith specialists praise
the lord that’s what we do
that’s it that’s it bill johnson
is a praise and worship specialist
hallelujah and he’s good at his job
and that’s the reason the glory falls
hallelujah that’s the reason yes sir
he’s a glory specialist hallelujah this
is one of the reasons i was so
interested in his being a part
of what we’re doing here amen i need to
hear this man
amen i need to hear his specialty amen
well i got something wrong with my car
i’m not i’m not going to applebee’s
right right
no no i go to a specialist that’s right
and i don’t want a lumberjack operating
on my
on my back
we’re glory specialists faith
specialists
and god has had a center up on heavenly
economics that’s right how it works and
it works by
certain laws of prosperity that’s it
to prosper money’s the least that’s it
that’s so true
it’s paper yeah yeah that’s real that’s
all it is
but to prosper yourself
is to prosper in your space
then prosper in your soul
and then prosper in your body
that’s right
and then you begin to prosper
to that place where a
prosperous person is one
who knows how amen
to get other people
prosperous in their spirit
and in their soul their mind their will
that’s their emotions
you remember that time me and you and
jerry when we were preaching together
there in honolulu and
you were walking down the street and
jerry was behind you and i was behind
you
and you just stopped and jerry run into
you and i run into jerry
and you said we got to go in that
restaurant
i got to go give somebody some money you
walked down and everything i mean
yeah i mean we actually bought against
it no
so he brother copeland turned around and
started walking said jerry said i’m
following him
i’m following you let’s go and we all
walked in and you blessed that preacher
and he was about ready to give up he was
just finished and everything and i don’t
believe you knew the man
and you gave him some money and he was
working as a waiter in that restaurant
and and he he couldn’t he was a broke
preacher yeah
and you blessed him and jerry says well
i’m blessing him too and i said i’m
blessing him too
i mean the man could have quit the job
we just blessed him
and what you and the reason why you’re
so sensitive
in your spirit so sensitive in your soul
and so sensitive in your body that you
don’t have to be in church service
you’re just walking somewhere and that
opportunity affords it
and you all automatically comes out of
your spirit into a renewed mind
into a physical body and you cause the
blessing to take place
you know and i had a deal happen jesse
you all don’t mind if we visit here a
little bit
how are we doing it’s still it’s still
still dark man
they don’t they don’t even realize that
me and you played the same nightclub you
know i thought about that this afternoon
i thought
i’m not going to bring that up it was at
a different time
yes we wasn’t saying
a place called the top hat
jerry and i were together
and we walked out this restaurant
and this young this this this young
young black kid
and i when i saw him i just
some just rose up on the inside i fell
in love with that young man
the moment i saw him and he
he caught me when i walked out the door
there he said uh
uh
you see this diamond ring
i’m gonna let you have it for 20.
i said really
i said i don’t believe i want that ring
oh i said i’ll tell you what i’ll do
um here’s 20.
anyway jerry said wait a minute i got
20.
here’s 20. that’s right huh and and
and he you know and i just held on to
his hand
i said if you ever have has there ever
been a time when you um
made jesus lord he loved that hand’s
trying to i said no no
i said now’s your time brother he tells
your time i wouldn’t let him
go so if i hadn’t had 20 bucks i’d lost
him that’s right
a man went to heaven over twenty dollars
yeah
he missed that get this
sometime later i don’t know
months later
gloria and i came home we’d been on the
road for
several days actually several weeks
and there was a yellow mercedes
convertible parked right in the middle
of my
in front of my garage and i couldn’t
get in the garage or anything before
it’s just sitting there
i thought i wonder whose car that is
and i mean this is this long time after
that incident
so i called and said there’s a there’s a
yellow 500
mercedes convertible in my in my my
driveway
they said that’s yours i said no no it’s
not mine
it’s said no it said it’s yours one of
your partners brought it to you
what now here’s the key
there are things that happen
over here the body of christ
spiritually knitted
together amen amen
and i went before the lord and i said
lord i don’t get this i
i didn’t pray over that car i never
asked you for the car
oh what what in the world is this
he said all right number one
don’t you remember in my word
where i said if you’ll hearken to my
voice
hearken hear ken he said
i like that that’s good that’s good that
gets my attention
he said and all these blessings would
come on you and overtake you
right i said yes sir he said you just
got overtook
praise the lord and i said that is not
even good english it should be overtaken
he said no you’ve been overtook him
with a yell of 500. now he said now
listen
if you hadn’t done out in front of that
restaurant because that young
man’s mother was praying for him night
and day
then i couldn’t have done what i did
with you
over that mercedes that’s right see
that’s what money to help the poor right
then the blessing of it came right
over here on this other side
it’s become a habit i tell people i said
i’m a giving addict and the lord oh yeah
finance is my habit
that’s good he just wait a minute
i perceive that somebody said well i’d
sure do that if i had it
we started this before we had it that’s
right
that’s true yes sir that’s truth
that’s true i mean the first thing that
jesse the first thing that
that came on those tips you know i just
did it like everybody else
right yeah and the lord said
you really want to be blessed
years ago i said well yeah
he said don’t ever tip anybody less than
five dollars
i said no wait a minute
any time he said
i don’t care if it’s only
then i don’t drink coffee he said i
don’t care if you just get
a cup of hot tea you don’t tip less than
five
i thought hey this is gonna get good
amen
this is gonna get good that’s right
and i noticed like jesse’s saying
when you take this back to the days when
we first see we talk about this now
like we started there no no
no no no i’m talking to you about the
abcs of it right
that’s right and that that’s back when
you know five dollars a pretty good
chunk of change man
and and i i bought something 50 cents
and left five dollars
and then it became 10. yeah and then it
became
20 and then it was just we off to the
races
but then we began to prosper more amen
and more and more rapidly
and then it turned into a ministry yeah
and then it turned into more than that
and more than that
and all the time
there was this young upstart
gary christie
and he’s a financial advisor
in those days and he couldn’t handle his
own finances
just borrowed his way to the top
and now he’s teaching
others on the victory channel
fixing the money thing
for christian people to get out of debt
hallelujah
and have the financial freedom that it
that it takes
to be a blessing on youtube hallelujah
lord
now and i i just i’ve had this on my
heart all day and i’ll
push and get up and uh
brother bill johnson was talking this
morning about being so aware and
listening to the spirit of god and just
just just wearing wearing him it’s just
those of you didn’t see it go back get
online
you can’t miss this you cannot afford to
miss the illustration that he gave about
the spirit of god
the dove coming on jesus
and he just took his pocket square and
laid it up there
it’s just still all over me
amen but he didn’t leave him
he’s a very nervous little bird
ah that’s powerful and i was thinking
about this this morning bill
i i was i was
i had a meeting in las vegas
and this is back when wayne cochran
he’s in heaven oh god i love wayne
and you old guys you old rockers
remember cc ryder
oh don’t hush it
no don’t get me off no no
and uh and wayne
he was working in the sands and he
he led the owner of the sands
to the lord hallelujah and and he said
wayne i need to do something for god
and all i’ve got this old hotel this
casino what what am i going to do
well he said i don’t know he said do you
suppose brother copeland would come
have a meeting in my hotel and that’s
something
and he said i know he would so wayne
called me i said when
now i didn’t ask
some of the local churches if i could
come
and one of them sued me
coming into his town well how come he
hadn’t been down there
yeah i’m waiting we were there
we were there a couple of weeks
and i’m waiting back behind the cotton
waiting for 7 30 you know
and it’s a it’s a stage there right in
the uh
in the casino and one of the blackjack
dealers came around
stuck his head and he said brother
copeland i wish i could i wish i could
come to the meeting tonight
but he said i’m working the blackjack
table but i can’t come
he said there’s a lot of us born again
blackjack dealers and he said we get
together he said we’re so glad you’re
here we’re so glad you’re here
that’s true yeah now
jesse
i was walking i walked out
of the casino
and and i’m and i’m dressed nice i mean
i dressed the best i had
and um this very nice looking couple
walking down i remember
i’m very conscious of him i was thinking
about this this morning and
i’m very conscious of him
but i was financially well enough off to
fit
in
and i sang well enough to fit in
this nice looking couple coming right
straight forward
toward me the lord said i want you to
speak to that couple
for me okay
and i said excuse me please i said
i’m a minister of the gospel and
i believe the lord has a word he would
like for me to speak to you may i do
that
of course and i
spoke by the spirit so i don’t have i
don’t have any remembrance of what i
said
and i got through and they said thank
you very much and just walked away
oh well maybe they’ll get it later
you know and i turned
to go to go on where i was going
i hadn’t noticed this man
he was so drunk he
looked like he was holding up the wall
you know
what i’m talking about yes sir heals
this
like this
i heard what you said
yeah you pray for me i shall pray for
you
now i had to be dressed nicely
in a casino to be there
right so he’s just
showing here so we went in the men’s
room
i’m telling you jesse he was so drunk
then he’s just stumbling around
so and when i
touched him oh dear god hold on oh i’m
telling you the anointing of god came up
in me
and and and i restored and touched him
on the head and he just went
he was cold sober
right immediately my god man
he said thank you thank you
i’m a backslidden pentecostal preacher
thank you
hallelujah jesus that’s god
because you were there you know
no one ever witnessed to me you know
have these big christian
conventions in vegas though you know we
played these places and i
they had name tags and if anybody needed
to get saved i did
that head out in the hill you know and
not one
person ever came up to me and asked me
if i’d like to meet jesus christ the
only person ever witnessed to me was
kathy
and of course my mom but i’m talking
about when i was in those clubs i often
wondered about that
why if anybody needed jesus i
did fear just yeah they just wouldn’t do
it i guarantee you there were those that
thought about it
but they’re afraid yeah that fear that’s
the reason it’s so important to have
somebody
take you out and have you demonstrate
nobody will turn you down
right yeah yeah
they need they need christ we were
having a meeting in lubbock for three
weeks
and the people stayed away by the
thousands
nobody came fed me we were there three
weeks
we got down to the end of it
middle of the summer
and i said lord what are we going to do
he said call a real estate agent and
have him take you to the poorest part of
town
so that’s what we did and
so here was our deal we knock on the
doors
don’t mention the meeting
is there anyone here that needs prayer
we’re a people that have learned some
things about praying
and we we
do you need prayer not one turned us
down
now we had women working with women and
been with me so gloria and her partner
this woman said wait wait wait wait wait
i said don’t leave don’t leave
and she ran back in and she took a quick
shower
and she changed clothes and then let
them in and that’s something
we had miracle after miracle after
miracle after miracle
after miracle after miracle that’s the
way you minister to the poor that’s
right
money won’t do it
that’s right poverty is not a money
problem it’s a spiritual
that’s right that’s the truth go ahead
all right
but ain’t that good get a little
handclap for that
and uh don’t worry about it
it’s seven six minutes to ten before you
save you’re just starting to drink right
now
and you had to go to work the next
morning too you know it not know it
stand to your feet
these are not bragging stories
we help so many people but i’ve made my
mind up
that i’m going to obey god if god told
me
to go buy bill gates a car even though
he could buy general motors and ford
whatever or bezos who owns amazon
i don’t care how much he’s got i’m just
going to obey the lord
i don’t talk much about what i do for
the poor my own board of directors get
mad about that
i like to protect the dignity of people
i just do it and uh but then god will
tell me to bring up some of these
stories
and some people misunderstand it they
think i’m just thinking about the money
is nothing
it it it’s nothing
and you know but it but but you need
money in an economic world
so i want to leave you like this
thinking preaching should never
supersede
thought it should make you think
so what opportunity
that you’re facing now that you can
grasp
it could be spiritual it could be
physical it could be financial
it could be all three it could be
getting saved
it could be healed of stage four cancer
you see as we therefore have opportunity
let us do good to all
so take the person’s next if you can’t
if you’re afraid to touch their hand
touch their shoulder whatever would you
please just do something like that
and i want to pray a prayer and i’m
going to ask god to release your spirit
soul and body
and your eyes to be open to these
maps of directions
i mean think about it joshua spent all
his life and he never got all the
promised land
you don’t want to do that he said joshua
you’re old and there’s still much land
to be possessed
that’s i guess why i work so much
i i said god we just got we got to touch
this world
me and kathy work seven days a week
almost 24 7.
i got to build her a studio because
she’s doing more
social media and i need studio time i
got to get enough
and you know and people say yeah but you
know y’all need to relax
to do what
i am relaxed i’m about the father’s
business
so would you let me just pray for you
the way i want to and you just accepted
father in jesus name
those that are watching online as well
as
victory or however they watching what
platform they’re using
and those that are here lord
starting now open their eyes to see the
opportunities that are around them
and let them walk into those
opportunities spiritually physically
financially
and always give them more than enough
lord
i don’t know lord maybe when we tell
these stories i should tell more about
when we first started out we had nothing
but you know even when we had nothing we
had you which was everything
we were just willing to obey you so
father i ask you now
if there’s someone here that doesn’t
know you here’s an opportunity for them
to get saved
there’s a person here you have a bladder
cancer the lord’s healing your body your
opportunity is now for healing
you don’t need anybody lay hands on you
just accept the opportunity
lord i ask each and every one of them
but what i would love to hear
oh god as all those that stood up but
their homes being paid off in their
churches
then when they come next year there will
be a
flood of testimony and then once before
some of them get home
you do some unbelievable miracle
their homes and churches are paid for
lord hard times
shouldn’t be for the body of christ even
though i know we go through hard times
and
and i understand that but lord
when you’re so in love with you it
doesn’t make no difference what the
world does
we’re about your business so bless each
and every one of them
and let them see their opportunities and
let them know without a shadow of a
doubt
that they will all be fulfilled this
year
in fact i’d like you to do something for
everyone listening to the sound of my
voice
that you gave a prophecy to kenneth
copeland me many years ago on his
platform
it was 1995 you said by the end of the
year everything i was believing for
would be taken you’d have to dream a new
dream
pray a new prayer i remember when
brother copeland gave me that lord i
thought he’s going to have to
god you’re going to hurry up i need a
television truck
i want to open up foreign offices i want
to do all this kind of stuff
and god come december 31st going into
january 1st 1996
i had to pray a new prayer because
everything
brother copeland said through a
prophetic word to me was done
i had to dream a new dream because
everything i believed for had come to
pass
in those months lord i ask you to do
that for all these that are standing
here
and let them always give you glory lord
never take it upon themselves but to
give you glory
and i thank you for it now would you
lift your hands up as an act of faith
and just receive that today
you should tell them the holy ghost just
sealed and sanctioned it
for those that will believe me
oh lord jesus he said jesse there’s
gonna be a very busy night for angels
it’ll be a very busy night
you’re not going to go anywhere anymore
when you see an opportunity you’re going
to think about this message
that this is a map of direction
it’ll guide you in every part of your
life
it’ll guide you into your mate if you
want to get married
the right person the right time
the right place i would have never met
i’ll say this and then uh this myth
i would have never met my wife kathy i
was raised in the streets of new orleans
kathy come from a little town south of
new orleans oklahoma
mother my dad got transferred to home of
louisiana
mama said we ain’t moving at home we’re
staying here in the west bank of new
orleans
my dad told my mom i’ll never forget if
i don’t take this job
he worked for getty oil company he said
they’ll probably let me go
i honestly believe i told that to kathy
last year that god
moved my dad to homo so that i would
meet kathy
and god saw this ministry because we
were not
leaving the west bank of new orleans and
i met kathy
at a swimming pool and the rest is all
history
and god saved her
and i became her opportunity
even when i slept she would cast devils
out i couldn’t even sleep
put her little fingers on my shoulder
and cast the devil out and i said get
your hand off me woman i’m awake
then she found out about the holy ghost
she said jesse fly me home
i flew from st louis to new orleans and
said meet me in chicago in two weeks
cost me 346 for cather to get filled
with the holy ghost
that’s right i met her two weeks later
in chicago she walked off the plane
looked at me and said
i got the power
i said you what remember you remember
that i got the
power you’re going down
and she was right she didn’t miss her
opportunity
caleb thank you lord he said they will
dream opportunities
when you sleep tonight
thank you lord he said and tell them i
would like them to keep me busy
all the days of their lives
by giving your opportunity upon
opportunity upon opportunity
it’s going to happen we don’t want to
miss tomorrow i know it’s a little late
yes lord he said just tell them this
when they go home in their hotel
wherever they are
just get a little piece of paper and
write down what you want
and before you go to bed present it as a
petition and a supplication
with thanksgiving it can be spiritual
physical financial all three
and watch what god will do for you
it’ll shock you before the end of this
believer’s convention if you just let it
you love that give jesus a hand clap
you