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and I’m so excited God’s riding a
special story at this church y’all and
some of you know that last week I was at
had the opportunity in the honor to
speak at elevation Church and I think
the coolest thing about it was that I
got to share it with you like when they
sent me video back of like everybody’s
hollering and screaming and clapping and
and everything I said that’s my family
like those are the people who believed
when we when there was nothing there and
they’re still faithful and serving y’all
do y’all realize we opened a third
service when the pastor was out of town
where that happened at and 300 people
showed up late yo yo yo yo yo yo
there are some churches that don’t have
300 people that come and we were over to
open up another that I’m just letting
you know that God’s up to something
you’re not part of just the church
you’re part of a move of God and I just
want to thank you as your pastor for
serving and giving and showing up and
telling people and sharing videos and
and if that wasn’t enough what God did
last week cuz some of y’all know the
testimony go back and watch the sermon
did we do this somebody made a video as
I say yeah that was like say see y’all
see me like what if you don’t know what
you’re talking about just go find it
it’s great but but it allowed people who
didn’t even know what we’re doing and
this is the thing I guess it means so
much to me cuz we’re doing our vision
we’re able to represent to the
lost-and-found
so the end goal can be transformation in
Christ can we thank God because he’s
doing something oh come on y’all he’s
doing something special
and we get to be a part of it and so I’m
excited y’all I’m about to preach this
pink suit off today because as I was out
I was coming home I felt like oh okay
I got the message out marked it was good
everything’s all right
all right on to gray cycle flood cuz
that series is gonna change everybody’s
life like I was so excited to preach
that
and God said we’re not done yet I said
what you mean we’re not done yet
I don’t I don’t have nothing else to
preach and on the way back from from
North Carolina as I’m sitting on the
plane God started downloading to me what
needed to happen on today and see this
is what the advantage of being a spirit
lead church is is that you can make a
plan but my plan is always plan B if God
wants to come in and do something
different I’m like Oh doggies freaking
messed up my plan like that’s not what
I’m doing
like I’m like okay guys you can do
whatever you want to do cuz obviously
you want to say something to your people
and so today I want you to sit up on
your seat and I want you to take notes
because I believe this is Rhema word or
a fresh word from God something that you
need for today and God told me this was
the the statement he said he said
Michael I want to revive my children’s
faith in me I want to revive their faith
and I’m beginning to look up that word
revive and it means to bring life back
to and there’s a lot of people this was
the influence that I got is that
people’s faith is not dead it’s just
discouraged like I believed before and
it didn’t work out or I tried and it
didn’t happen like he said it’s not dead
but maybe you’re just disappointed and
so you stopped believing for God to work
in that situation and I’m 40 Lord and
I’m not married so I guess maybe I’m
supposed to be single so I’m not gonna
keep believing for that or I don’t want
to look dumb anymore so I’m not I’m not
gonna do that and I came to encourage
somebody who’s been on life support I’m
here and I’m saying
Oh God is about to revive somebody’s
faith in the building today because what
I’ve noticed I’m already preaching if
you didn’t know you might want a kitchen
uh-huh see this thing is not going to be
something it’s so in me right now that I
feel like like like cuz I see somebody
about to take their last breath in an
area you’re about to give up you’re
maybe I’m not a business owner me maybe
I’m not supposed to complete school
maybe my child won’t be saved and God
saying before you take that last breath
I’ve interrupted the plan of this entire
church media was done graphic stuff was
printed stop it all cuz one of my
children needs to be revived and today
what I’m encouraging you to know is that
your faith is the ingredient that is
going to produce what you don’t even
feel is possible right now see the Bible
tells us and I want you to look at this
in Hebrews 11:6 Hebrews 11:6 the Bible
tells us that it’s impossible to please
God without this one ingredient and you
know if I was not a Bible reading person
the ingredient I would think right here
would be something different like I
would think like it’s impossible to
please God without purity like I got I
got to be pure and I’m gonna please God
he’s like well it’s impossible to please
God without knowing a lot of Scripture
nah well I mean those are all the
religious churchy things that people
would tell me that I have to do to
please God he said it’s impossible to
please me can I correct it for you
without faith the Bible says I search
the whole world and and I’m looking for
this one thing I’m not looking for
perfect people are not looking for
people who have it all together I’m
looking for somebody who has everybody
say faith and see the problem is when
our faith gets weak we stop going to God
for things
so when our faith gets weak we don’t
look to God as provider we look to our
job as provider come on let’s be honest
some of us haven’t had a raise in years
and we don’t believe it can happen and
we’re just stuck in this same place and
we’ve looked at this situation well god
I guess this is zero I’m just gonna what
God was never bound to that tool that he
uses to get you finances and that’s just
one tool see God is trying to break the
limits off of what you have been
thinking saying believing about your
marriage about your finances about your
your heart situation God’s saying I am
trying to let you know that you need
this one ingredient and it can change
everything somebody shout faith see many
of us aren’t even aren’t even excited to
say it because I tried that before I
believe before you’re I’m saying I have
faith that one time and look how it
turned out so I’m not gonna do this no
more and I came to tell you give it
another chance because God wants to
revive the dreams the visions the plan
matter of fact he wants to give you new
visions he wants you to see something
different than you’ve ever seen before
so it says without faith it is
impossible to please God
anyone who comes to him must believe
that God exists and that he is a
rewarder of those who sincerely seek Him
okay Pastor Mike I want to sincerely say
come I’m gonna give him one more chance
for God to revive me clear boom like I’m
I’m I’m gonna let him do it
but see this is the thing many times we
don’t understand how to get faith and so
I’m so proud of everybody who’s here or
who’s watching online right now because
you’re in the place to get faith look
what Romans 10:17 says it gives us a
formula if you’re ever low on faith this
is how you get faith it says so then
faith comes by uh oh that’s a problem
for most of us because faith is not just
hearing good things faith comes by
hearing anything and what happens is is
so crazy that we want God to do amazing
things in our life but all we’re hearing
is things that are speaking to the doubt
in our lives and I’m not even talking
about people I’m talking about the music
you listen to
oh yeah I’m coming for you today I’m
talking about the series that your
Netflix binging and it’s like oh my god
is just so crazy and they’re all in
sexual fin and all of us well after each
other and it’s a doctor’s theories and
all that other stuff and you wonder why
none of your relationships work cuz your
faith is built in something that’s
perverted and so you get in okay
somebody just looked at me and I was
like I hate that we came here but all
I’m trying to tell you is you’re
watching the news all day and looking at
the state of everything and and so it
makes you cynical about everybody
somebody’s actually trying to do
something nice for you but your faith is
built on lies because of what you’ve
been hearing I’m coming for you today
because God says when I ask you to step
out in faith to do that business your
faith will be built in something that
cannot sustain you it’ll be built on
what popular culture is saying and what
the banking system told you and what you
your faith is built this is what I’m
saying to you faith in facts go together
I need you to understand facts is what
it is faith is what can happen God is
not asking you to ignore facts he’s
asking you to apply faith to facts they
give you a bad doctor’s report I receive
that you say that I have that note see
y’all don’t see I receive that you say
that I have cancer but cancer is a name
in the name of Jesus is higher than
cancer and at that name we just sang it
do you believe what you’re saying what a
powerful name it is at that name every
knee will bow and every tongue will
confess so I’ll go through chemo for
this miracle you can see right now that
we’re gonna have to do some life support
on some people because your faith is
built on what it said not on who said it
what did God say about you you’re
standing at the brink of divorce right
now but you stood and you said ask for
me in my house we will serve the Lord
are you just gonna take it’s over are
you gonna stand up and say I’m gonna
have faith to believe and see
what happens is some of us are so
faithful to hearing things that don’t
feed our future like some of y’all have
been faithful to the Ministry of cardi B
this month oh did I say it yep and you
can talk about living your best life but
we’ll be living your worst life because
what’s being fed into you is something
that cannot hold you through the storm
but-but-but this is the beautiful thing
about this Roman scripture is that it
gives you the place where you should
hear and get your faith from faith comes
by hearing and hearing by the word of
what do you say a pastime like all I’m
supposed to do is listen to the Bible
this is my equation you should be taking
in more Bible than you’re taking in
anything else no no hear me I’m not
saying you can’t ever let this is my jam
okay I got jams too but what is my
consumption coz what goes in so when God
asks you to step out doubt comes out why
it’s cuz of what you’ve been putting in
when purity when you want purity lust
comes out why because of what you’ve
been putting in all I’m telling you is
that it’s time for us to get what the
Word of God says in us so much that no
matter what comes no matter who says it
no matter what they think I will be able
to stand anchored to the Word of God my
faith is not moved by a circumstance my
circumstance has to move because of my
faith that’s why the Bible tells us if
you have the faith the size of a mustard
seed you can speak to a mountain and
tell it to be moved you can speak to a
job situation that’s negative and tell
it to turn around you can speak to a
family that is dysfunctional and full of
secrets and tell it to come to life but
if the enemy can mess what you’re
thinking then he can mess with your
declaration and then he can get you not
to say anything that is the truth
you only rehearse the facts and today I
came to revive somebody’s faith that God
was to do something in your life that
allows his power to be seen and shown
because he
gonna work a miracle somebody shot at me
revive shout it against a revive so if
faith comes by hearing hearing the word
of God let’s go to the Word of God
there’s a story in 2nd Kings chapter 4
that that really hit me in a new way as
God said I want to revive my children’s
faith today I want them to know that I
can do a whole bunch with just a little
bit of their cooperation and there’s
this woman that we find in second kings
and I’m just gonna read on verse 6 just
so you can see and I’ll go back and tell
her story it says now it came to pass
that when the vessels were fooled that
she said to her son bring me another
vessel somebody say bring me another
vessel and he said to her there is not
another vessel so the oil ceased or the
oil stopped flowing the title of today’s
message is bring me another vessel
because as I begin to think about what
God wanted to do in our lives
this story jumped out at me because this
whole woman is like a lot of our
situations she starts off in a
discouraged situation if you read the
whole thing her husband just died so she
just is going through loss and you may
not going through a loss of your loved
one but there’s a loss of something loss
of a business loss of a relationship a
loss of the dream you thought was gonna
happen she’s going through loss so she’s
grieving a loss and then what happens is
she has damaged a lot of y’all do and
excuse me a lot of us do
and so there’s debt there’s financial
pressure she’s going through a loss and
now she has people coming after her for
her two sons see when you back in this
day if you had debt and you couldn’t pay
it they took your kids and some of y’all
like I would say do that again take her
jr. back like Jen said but but back in
this day that was taking away her
security protection and her work force
so literally her life could be in
shambles
because of the situation and then she
comes in contact with the man of God
named Elijah and something you got to
know about Bible study is all the
Old Testament Scriptures point back to
Jesus some way and it’s they call it
types and shadows and what ends up
happening is all the Old Testament
stories have have New Testament truths
and so in this story the woman is us and
then Elijah is Jesus in the story okay
so you kind of get a picture
so let’s paint this you losing something
you don’t have enough life looks bad you
come in contact with Jesus and like most
of us sometimes when I go to God I just
want him to feel sorry for me I don’t
know if you’ve ever now now I’m being
hot up here but sometimes I want like
God they don’t listen and my money is
funny in why did you send me through
this horrible situation and it’s almost
like you want kind of you know did that
happen to you oh we’re there yet out
kiddo
like you don’t even say you want any
okay am I the only one there’s anybody
else sometimes what God to just be like
no but what I found in the story of
Elijah as many times this is where our
faith stops because we get stuck in what
happened and this woman she meets the
man of God and she just tells him
everything that happened but I found
that God really didn’t want to talk much
about what had happened he wanted to
talk about what was happening and what
he could do what do you say a pastor
Mike some of us have to let go of what
has happened if your faith is gonna be
revived what has happened has happened
and what we keep doing is we keep going
back to replay and rewind and go back
what they hurt me and I was molested and
I was abused and I didn’t get into the
college and I didn’t and God says I know
I was there and now I’m here and what I
want you to do is I want you to give
that away I’m sorry that it happened I
have I have a plan of how I’m gonna
redeem all of that but we are paralyzed
here until you let it go and so what
ends up happening is this woman she
comes to Elisha with all of her issues
and then Elijah asked her to questions
that flip me out he didn’t ask her how
are you feelin cuz honestly feelings
don’t matter when you really need a
faith miracle many times we’re we’re
referencing our feelings well I don’t
feel like the Gaza I don’t your feelings
are not the barometer by which I’m about
to do this miracle it’s gonna be my face
somebody say my faith a lot of us have a
lot of feelings but we don’t have a lot
of faith and God wants to enact your
faith and so she comes to this man of
God and she tells him all the problems
and look what Elijah says in verse 2 he
says what can I do for you
like like what can I do for you now this
question is almost rhetorical and almost
a little insulting after I just told you
everything that’s going on my husband
dead my kids are about to be taken I
don’t have nothing my husband served you
what you think I want you to do for me I
want you to give me some money you know
I’m saying like you see the situation
but this is not a question of of even
referencing what she just said it’s a
question that God will ask all of us
when we want our faith to be revived and
God wants to move us forward he’s going
to ask you two questions the first
question is what do you want and that’s
a question of vision and most people
can’t answer this question see we’ve
been so discouraged that we won’t even
dream again we won’t get vision again
and so when God comes in and say what do
you want you don’t even have an answer
for it what is that thing that God has
placed in you that you see when your
eyes are closed that thing that person
that that that that that vision that God
is giving you that you see when your
eyes are closed and I’m talking to some
of you because some of you are thinking
like yeah I forgot about that or I put
that on the back burner and today God
wants to revive the vision because the
first thing God is asking you is what
you want right now if God sent somebody
into your life to pay off all your debt
you wouldn’t know the exact cent that
you would need you feel like I mean
something like 25,000 64,000 no no what
you
to do is get the vision of your stuff
being paid off you need sap need
sixty-two thousand three hundred and
sixty eight dollars and ninety two
percent why are you saying that Pastor
Mike because I got a vision of what God
can do in my life
see many of us just want the next thing
to happen my God if you could just do
better and God says I’m looking for
somebody to get a vision of what they
want what do you want I want to be
married I want to be successful I want
to stand in this place I want to go and
do overseas missions I want to work in
full-time ministry you have given all of
that up why cuz you haven’t written it
down it’s in your head and it’s not on
tablet but the word tells us in her
Becca to – if it’s a real vision you
write the vision down and you make it
plain so that people can read it on the
run what does that mean there are people
coming to run with me you don’t even
believe it there are people coming to
run with me there are people coming to
fund what God is going to do there are
people that are gonna say what do you
need but if the vision is not right
written down and if it’s not made plain
God never gives provision where there is
no vision
you sitting there brokers cuz you ain’t
got nothing to fund you’re sitting there
in this and I want you to see that God
in His grace and mercy is so good cuz
this woman didn’t have an answer how do
you know cuz Elijah just went to the
next question look at it he says what do
you want and she founds like most of us
wouldn’t well um and he said never mind
and then he asked her the next question
what do you have see God’s gonna ask you
what do you want first and then he’s
gonna ask you what do you have the thing
that I have to bring up is that God
never asked you what do you have first
because it’s not a matter of resource to
get God to do anything and most of us
are getting vision after we look at our
resource
what we do is we say what do we have
okay so since only I only have this then
this is all I can do God always ask you
for vision first he always asks you for
what you see when your eyes are closed
to see beyond your bank account to see
beyond tall sub to see beyond the north
north what is this North America no I’m
trying to tell you some of y’all are so
stuck right here and God says that my
plan for you is worldwide but you’re
looking at your resources you’re looking
at the fact that nobody in your family
has ever traveled out of Oklahoma or
Texas oh that’s real for people somebody
said that’s me here what I’m saying to
you what God is saying he never asked
you for resource before he asked you for
vision so stop putting a limit on your
vision because of what resource you have
right now so what he said he said okay
what do you want I don’t even know okay
what do you have and that’s the question
of inventory like like take an inventory
of what do you have what gifts do you
have what what skills do you have what
things that other people count out what
what are those things that God’s put in
your hand and this woman almost missed
her opportunity for her miracle because
she does like a lot of us she discounts
what we have look what she says he says
tell me what do you have in your house
and she said your maidservant has
nothing I just told you my husband’s
dead
these life circumstances I have nothing
well except a small jar of oil like I
got nothing but and God stopped me right
there and he said Michael what you’re
counting out is what I’m counting on
I want your nothing but see cuz a lot of
us are sitting here and God’s saying
don’t forget you’re nothing but like
like like like like don’t forget that
thing that everybody else has counted
out but it’s the little thing that you
have that I can use and see I see some
of us right now like I really don’t even
have any great like great features about
me I can’t do anything like I really
don’t have nothing but this ability to
organize and I don’t even know what God
would do with that I don’t have anything
but the ability to clean or I don’t have
anything but this little singing gift or
and God saying that’s all I need all I
need is all you have that’s all I need
see see I could have said the same thing
about me because when God called me to
Pastor this church and to run this
business to be the CEO of a million-plus
dollar company I had never been to
business school I have never been in
boardrooms and board meetings or
anything like that so when God called me
to do this we had this conversation I
said god I can’t do this because I have
nothing but the ability to tell stories
and God said all you have is all I need
I came to encourage somebody right now
who’s looking at your nothing but and
you’re saying god this is not enough and
God says what’s your counting out I’m
counting on what you what’s your what
your family told you was nothing is the
thing that’s going to bring the
breakthrough for your food for your
whole household that thing that
everybody has said was funny and not
really that good God says that’s what
I’m gonna use the Bible tells us he uses
the foolish things to confound the wise
your nothing but is going to create a
miracle but show nothing but like I’m
trying to tell you because somebody came
in here discouraged that all I have is
nothing but the ability to do hair and
God says I can use that if you’ll give
it to me and when this person started to
understand this small concept that God
told me he
said little is much in the Masters hands
like like what you realize my
storytelling ability that I said was
nothing but God said when you give it to
me I can make it into something that you
can reach the entire world with like do
y’all understand what I’m saying right
now when I go to sleep at 2:00 a.m. I’m
preaching somewhere around the world
through them the miracle of Technology
well because God took my little my
nothing but and I gave it back to him
and so this is the key when you when you
identify what you have in your house see
some of y’all you need to go back and
things that you have buried stuff that
you have stopped working on you got so
consumed with the career that you
stopped working on your gift and now
your gift is rusty and God is saying
pull that gift back up it’s time to
sharpen it’s time to work on it it’s
time to do something different than
you’ve done because you will live your
life for a paycheck instead of living
your life in purpose and when God says I
came that you might have life and life
to the fool he didn’t mean for you to
just exist but he’s looking for faith
and so I’m coming to revive somebody’s
faith today because it’s gonna take you
having to listen to the Word of God and
be able to get out and say what do I
want write the vision make it plain and
then take an inventory of what is in
your house and then God because this is
the thing y’all think that this is new
for you but God’s been doing a lot with
a little for a long time do I remember
the story of the fish into loaves where
they were like how we gonna feed all
this people and one of the disciples
came up and said we have nothing but a
Long John Silver’s snack pack that is
not gonna feed 25,000 people and God
says give it to me and he blessed
they’re nothing but and broke they’re
nothing but and provided for they
nothing but and they ate plenty because
they turned and gave what was little to
the master I’m asking you to have the
faith today to give
you almost counted out I want you to
give it to God somebody say revive so
look she takes her little bit of oil and
then she listens to what the man of God
says and looked at verse three he says
go which I have to stop here because
that means faith is an action word so
like if I’m just sitting here waiting
for God to do something he’s sitting
there waiting for me to do something my
god you just told me to wait on you you
can at least pray consistently every day
for 10 minutes 20 minutes an hour you
can be faithful there’s an action that
has to go with your faith and a lot of
us are sitting and waiting for God to do
something but he’s waiting for you to
enact the miracle on your behalf if you
read through the scriptures a lot of
times when it says according to your
faith be it unto you according to your
faith what is saying is whatever you got
the faith to believe the woman who was
healed with the issue of blood the only
reason she was healed is because she had
the faith that when she reached out and
touched to him of his garment that she
was gonna be healed somebody could have
seen that same miracle and tried to do
it but not have the faith see this is
the thing you can replicate what
somebody does but if you don’t have the
faith that they had the miracle still
won’t happen and so what what you see is
a lot of people doing things that people
did but they don’t have the faith to
believe that God can do it and so you
got to go and look what he told her to
do he said I want you to go verse 3 I
want you to borrow vessels from
everywhere from all your neighbors empty
vessels and do not gather just a few
point number two you need to borrow some
vessels and and this is the the fun
point for me because it freed me because
for some reason I don’t know where I got
this from but I felt like if God was
gonna do something special in my life
it had to be exclusive like nobody else
could have experienced this or gone
through it before but the beautiful
thing about this is a lot of us don’t
know where to start when it comes to
doing what God has called us to do a lot
of us don’t have the things that we need
to see the miracles
what this man of God said is you can go
out and you can borrow vessels to be
able to do and get ready for the miracle
that I’m about to do what does this
practically mean you don’t have some of
the education that you need for the
miracle that God is going to do so you
can go borrow a vessel borrow an idea
borrow a thought process borrow somebody
else’s way that they did it you do not
have to originate what God is going to
have to do you got to try it on and see
if it fits
and if it doesn’t fit you can try
something else on and see if it fits and
if it doesn’t fit you can try something
what are you saying Pastor Mike you can
have a borrowed vessel but you got to
use your own oil see a lot of people are
out here and they’re like well I just
don’t know what to do if you saw a
business plan that worked and you feel
like this is what God is calling you to
do and you go have a meeting with those
people and you get some ideas come back
home pray on for that thing and ask God
God I borrowed this vessel of how to do
this god I think you that as I pour my
own oil into this you’re gonna create a
miracle in my life some of us are so
stuck up and prideful that we won’t ask
anybody for help
we won’t borrow no vessels and God begin
to talk to me he said Michael for what
I’m about to do in your life I gave
three qualifications I need you to
borrow different vessels different than
you have in your home the thing that the
Bible doesn’t say but you have to assume
is that she already had some vessels in
her house like she probably had some
things already in her house but the
strict instruction was you need to go
borrow vessels from everywhere borrow
some stuff that you don’t have different
sized vessels different shaped vessels
things that didn’t originate in your
home things that you didn’t already get
go borrow some vessels bone from your
neighbors but all from people that you
don’t know borrow ideas and thoughts and
and different things for people and I
want you to bring them into your house
and pour your oil into what are you
saying to me past my this week god
challenged me he said Michael I’m about
to do something in your finances start
preparing your vessels I said what that
mean he said I need you to go borrow
some thoughts from people that don’t
think like you
so I said no that’s rich see y’all
missed it I got a part I wasn’t raised
in affluence I wasn’t right
I have poverty mindsets that are still
on some of the things that I do and you
so prideful that no I have it all you
broke and God is trying to deliver you
from mindsets and generational habits
but you won’t borrow no vessels and so I
went I had the number of a bank
president in my phone so I just text him
out of blowing talk to him in months I
was like hey um this is random uh would
you have 15 minutes to spend with me I
just want to ask you some questions and
I walked into this man’s office he said
what do you need I see it I need wisdom
I need to borrow some vessels I need to
borrow some some thought processes so I
can set myself up for what God’s about
to do and he looked at me he said you
just want to ask me question you don’t
need any money I said no no no I don’t
need your money
God’s got that I need I need how you’re
thinking if is what I said to him I said
if I was your son what would you advise
me to do with what I’m standing here and
y’all I went and borrow some vessels
this man we were supposed to have a
15-minute meeting can I give can I give
some instruction to young people don’t
ask people to be your mentors go in with
good questions that 15-minute meeting
turned into hour hour and a half that
this man cancelled other things to
continue to give me vessels to set up
when you think about real estate think
about this when you think about just
sector and God God said Michael now you
take those vessels and set them out
before me he said but he can’t pour his
oil into these vessels you’re gonna have
to pour your oil and so what I’m telling
you is it’s time for you to borrow some
different vessels it’s time to you to
read some stuff that you ain’t read
before and get God to give you some
different trains of thought your whole
family angry you need to book read a
book on peace don’t mad y’all all mad
y’all all angry everybody it’s hard no
it’s y’all it’s everybody in your family
maybe you need to you’re so busy maybe
you need to read something you need to
get another thought process and when you
borrow these vessels when you borrow
these things then God says I’m not
limited to your current current
situation cuz I want you to do something
different I’m not limited and this is a
funny thing the the type of vessel that
you have to borrow is it says you need
an empty one and the funny thing about
this is so many times we have things and
ideas and dreams that we’ve put hurt and
unforgiveness and fear of failure and
all that and God says I need you to turn
those vessels over an empty amount cuz
this new thing I’m about to do is not
relegated to the past and what has
happened I need empty vessels
well I joined a church before and they
took advantage of me and so that’s why I
come here I sit on the backroom and I
don’t want to do anything empty a vessel
because you’ll never get to see the
miracle that God wants to do in your
life if you’re still holding something
in it and then it said borrow a lot of
vessels like I want y’all to read this
is that don’t borrow a few and so many
of us are just believing that God would
make our job better and our marriage
happy and God says is that all you want
is that it because whatever you have the
faith to prepare for is what I’m about
to fill up whatever you have the faith
that’s what I’m trying to revive your
faith whatever you have the faith to set
out and say God there is nothing here
and I got nothing but this but God says
if you would believe me and set it out
in faith I’m the only one that can take
your nothing but your little bit of oil
and when you start pouring it turn it
into a miracle God is about to revive
you and your family he’s gonna revive
your dreams I don’t care if you caught a
case God says your latter days will be
greater than your former see this is the
problem of God blesses what you prepare
for so when you have an expectation
without preparation you get frustration
see a lot of us want God to do something
but we won’t prepare for it so we get
frustrated and all I’m asking you to do
is go open the bank account
ain’t got no money in it right now but
go open it prepare for God to fill it
cuz I’m like that sounds dumb
that’s not trying to make sense he’s
trying to make a miracle but it’s gonna
take do you think that Noah it made
sense for everyday for him to get out
there and build an ark for 50 plus years
do you don’t you think that people were
laughing at him and they was laughing
all the way til they started drowning
did you understand what I’m saying to
you it may look stupid until it works
that’s why you don’t need everybody
co-signing what you’re doing in this
season that’s why you don’t need
committee approval that’s why you need
to obey God stay in his face get faith
and do what he tells you to do so this
woman had enough faith look at verse 4
it says and when you have come in and
you shall shut the door behind you and
your sons then pour into all those
vessels and set aside the fool ones so
she went from him and shut the door
behind her and her sons who brought the
vessels to her and she poured it out
point number three shut the door and
pour see what I’m telling you right now
is God is trying to do something in you
that is going to be a miracle and every
time that you look at what you have and
what God is asking you to do it’s not
gonna make sense but he said pour it out
see that was the thing that she had to
have the faith to do is pour it out God
said I gave you that idea to do
something with paper and little rubber
bands and I want you to put it on it see
and I want you to sell it for five
dollars and your family’s gonna be like
that’s stupid
don’t do that don’t ask them shut the
door and pour this is this is not about
everybody God told you to go back to
school and you don’t have the financial
aid and all this other stuff and then
you want to go ask your friends do you
really think fancy going to school it’s
just been so much shut the door and pool
because everybody’s not gonna have the
faith for the miracle God’s gonna do in
your life you cannot broadcast and do
this thing in the public square you
cannot be in front of everybody because
they
poke holes in your faith and tell you
why it can’t happen and why it won’t
happen and what you can’t do you know
when I told people we were gonna have a
multi-ethnic Church in north Tulsa they
told me it could not happen but back
then they didn’t want me now I’m hot
they all say is that what I’m saying
people are calling to figure out how do
you have white people and black people
and old people and young people it’s
stupid until it works like like but
listen if I would have called all my
pastor friends together who have not
been able to do this to ask them is this
a good idea this would have never
happened
shut the door and pour I came to
encourage somebody who’s God’s giving a
brand-new fresh idea to he’s going to
ask you to do something that doesn’t
make sense
and I’m telling you it’s time for you to
shut the door and pour pesum like that’s
lonely
cuz nobody’s gonna clap for me God says
I’m done cheering you on the whole way
I’m on yo do you remember if God be for
you who can be do you know who I am I’m
the god of the living yo listen hear me
come hear me what God told me the other
day as he said Michael your plan with me
backing it is better than your plan with
any man backing it
living witness that what God wants to do
in your life it can’t be a public
spectacle spectacle you might have to
shut the door
and pour this woman shuts the door with
her son’s they go out and borrow vessels
and this is a beautiful thing they
borrowed as many they had as many
vessels as they had faith for him he
never told him how many to borrow so if
they only had the faith for three that’s
what he filled up but if they had the
faith for 300 that’s what he filled up
what are you saying Pastor Mike I want
you to bring God another vessel it’s my
last point today it’s time to bring him
another vessel because some of us have
stopped having faith to go and say God
well could you could you really heal my
son I mean he’s been out there doing all
kind of stuff but could you ever really
heal him so he could live the abundant
life you called him to her father could
you ever really heal our family cuz
we’re dead we’re jacked up we met we
messed the hell up like we are
I don’t even look forward to Christmas
or Thanksgiving just because we’ve so
much heard in secrets dark things and
people don’t know who their father is
and we don’t come on
but God should I even have the faith to
believe you for this vessel to be filled
up and God you know I I’ve always since
I was young wanted to travel the world
but I’ve never been on a plane before
I’m 27 and I see Rome and I see Italy
but all I see is cahuita and Tahlequah
steel water no come on y’all I’m talking
about real stuff should I set the vessel
out that I’m gonna travel the world and
declare and God says whatever you have
faith just set out is what I can feel
look look at it verse 6 now it came to
pass and I believe that’s what God wants
you to be able to say as you set your
faith out there one day you’re gonna be
saying and it came to pass I even filled
by the spirit there’s somebody that’s
been trying to have kids and you’ve try
very every fertilization treatment and
you’ve done all this stuff and you just
say okay well maybe maybe I’m not
supposed and I’m just challenging you
set the vessel out against it set it out
again with the renewed faith that you
know what if God doesn’t is okay but he
can’t do it if I don’t give him the
ingredient of faith see so many of us
are worried about God not doing it he
can’t do it if you don’t give faith so
imma set my part out there God do what
you will I’m gonna put my faith on it do
what you will and so I’m gonna put my
faith out there and when the vessels
were full I just think about the story
like if I was there in the moment and
one of the sons like the little that she
had the nothing but she probably the
first time she had said all the vessels
out didn’t even look when she started to
pour it out she first like this is God
we’re gonna pour it what Yahoo it’s full
okay okay okay don’t drip yet cuz that’s
just one time that God came through
let’s see if they’ll do it again I’m
gonna kind of started tithing in the
wait till I get my money right series
and I’m just gonna try it one more time
y’all it was so nice he did it twice and
I bet what ended up happening is there
was a confidence that begin to build on
her and she turned over what she had it
wasn’t that the oil was growing in the
bottle it was it just kept coming as she
poured it out and see a lot of us are
trying to see God fill it up so then it
makes sense that we pour it out fill it
up but it’s just as I try it as I do it
as I tipped it over as I keep serving as
all y’all better hear me as I play as I
give as it it just keeps filling it up
and I bet she got confident I got way
along tap what do you mean she just kept
going because the same God that did it
back here it’s the same Oh y’all better
help me that did it here the same guy
that got me to college it’s the same guy
that’s gonna bring me through it it’s
the same guy that’s gonna pay off this
debt somebody shot it’s the same guy
your face better be revived at the same
God that got you out of that broken
relationship it’s the same God
who’s they’ll bring you into your
perfect it’s the same guy now look it’s
because she shut the door
and pores and she sees a miracle
happening but the saddest thing happens
in the six verse she tells her son bring
me another vessel and her son had to say
to her there is not another vessel can I
say it another way we didn’t have the
faith to prepare for anything else
we didn’t we stopped setting out our
dreams in the book we stopped setting
out our own business in the website we
stopped setting out that our father
would be saved and our girlfriend would
be changed and we stopped setting out
the vessels and and look what happened
when they found out there was no more
vegetable vessels they said so the oil
stopped flowing its ceased what did this
tell you if you prepare for God to fill
it up
he won’t stop pouring and filling them
up until you stop having the faith to
set them out at the moment you settle
that’s the moment that the vessels will
stop being filled I’m telling you take
the limits off of what God can do
through you you want to see a business
come out of you and you’re 60 years old
but God has placed some money in so set
the vessel out and begin to you want to
go back to school and get your master’s
degree set the vest write the vision
down make it plain you want to work in
ministry and be full-time and that set
the vessel out and obey God and shut the
door and pour well you will see it’s
what I think God’s saying to all of us
just bring me another vessel yo I’m the
same God that kept doing oh you doubt me
oh you don’t think I’ll do it for you
see people have a problem because
especially church people they don’t have
a problem believing that God can they
just have a problem believing that he
might do it for them and today I wanted
to come to revive your faith
bring out another vessel
bring them your marriage bring them your
career yeah no it didn’t work last time
I could have been we didn’t really have
the faith to believe but today if you
were here last week you know you’re
marked by God and now you got to put
some action I’m gonna bring out another
vessel I’m gonna bring in my attitude
you know what my attitude is bad yes it
is I’ve got a revelation I mean
because you have to be self-aware I am a
mean person yes I got it
I come rightfully okay I’m gonna I’m
gonna set out this vessel and ask God to
change my character fill me with the
fruits of the spirit
love Jordan come on set it out I am I
meet I got to lose some weight
I there’s some clothes I want to wear
Hey I felt the Lord that my midsection
does not agree with but even more than
that God’s putting another demand on my
voice and I gotta travel I preached four
times in two days last week and um I was
good the whole time
and Monday it felt like I got hit by a
truck and God said I only can bless you
– what you prepared for y’all I started
all kind of stuff this week I’m doing
Herbalife walking I’m doing I’m no no no
cuz I won’t be the reason that God can’t
use you
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so I set out the vessel god I need to be
healthy I need to be able to get off the
road freezing five times and then have
the energy to go to the park with my
kids because I don’t want them to be I
don’t want to be a public success and a
private failure I got a big job here I’m
saying set out the vessels I don’t know
what it is for you set it out cuz
Ephesians 3:20 says now unto Him who’s
able to do exceedingly abundantly above
all you can ask think or imagine it
never is about God’s ability like this
woman it’s about hour of fail ability
will you have faith to set out the
vessel somebody say revived