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anybody ready for the word let’s do it

all right

just had to get all that out of me now

I’m ready let’s go for week none of a

series we’re calling help me and this

message today I’m already telling you I

already got part two no question about

it why am i pacing because this house

some of y’all gonna be walking after

this message

cuz today I want us to go a step further

in this series that will help bring

balance to this entire message

everybody say balance uh-huh see because

we’ve been in a series called crazy

faith and crazy faith if you haven’t

written down the definition yet I want

you to take this down crazy faith are

only thoughts and actions they lack

reason but it’s trusting fully and what

we cannot explicitly prove like there

are people in here that are stepping out

in faith to do things that nobody in

their family has ever done nobody has

told them this is what you’re supposed

to do they’re trusting what God has said

and placed on the inside of them and

they somehow stepping out sometimes not

being sure but that’s what faith really

is it’s stepping out on a word of God

not being able to prove that it’s

actually going to happen what you need

to do is exhibit as examine exhibit a

what you’re sitting in right now is a

product of everybody say faith nobody

thought this was possible but God did

and he was looking for somebody who

would everybody say believe and so this

series has set off a chain of events in

people’s lives and people are out here

doing a lot of crazy faith stuff now the

thing about crazy faith stuff is if it

doesn’t come from God it’s just crazy

the thing about crazy faith is if it

does not come from God

it’s just crazy and there’s too many

people out here saying crazy faith but

they haven’t spent time in the presence

of God and you’re putting God’s name on

something that he did not

cosign and and today I need to bring

balance to this because I think some of

us are moving in a in a rhythm that is

more ambitious than anointed it’s more

of us yeah I knew I was supposed to be

great so I’m about to take out this loan

and I’m about to move my kids here and

I’m about to divorce my wife that no

that’s not crazy faith that’s just and

today I’m gonna help you delineate

between what’s crazy faith and what’s

just crazy because because the line is

kind of blurry if you’re not spending

time in the presence of God the line

kind of gets like I don’t even know

where this is well let’s just try he

said 51% faith so I’m just out here I

don’t know no stop because you need to

know that your life is more valuable

than making flippant decisions that your

children can be affected by you just

doing things without the wisdom of God

and so today I want to look at a story

in 1st Samuel chapter 13 verse 5 now

we’ve come to church today and and the

book that we read is called the Bible

the bibl II yes that’s the book for me I

stand upon the Word of God help me

finish the bi being all those people

been in church for a long time they

taught us that in children’s church it

didn’t really help us ok here we go

go to 1st Samuel chapter 13 and the

reason I say that is because I’m gonna

read a large portion of Scripture and I

want to do something today I want to

call this interactive Bible reading time

okay and and so we’re gonna try

something new today could y’all just

stand up for the reading of the word

today just like just stand up right now

I just want you cuz it’s you know a lot

of people say a lot of things right here

is to honor the word and all this this

just a lot of Scripture I don’t want you

fall asleep okay that’s my actual eat

reason and what I’m gonna have you do is

I’m gonna have a few portions of

Scripture underlined and I want you to

say those out loud with me

okay can y’all help me with that First

Samuel chapter 13 verse 5 it says now

let me help somebody cuz I know this is

some people’s first time in church in

this story I’m about to give you I go

into my Holy imagination there’s two

characters there’s a guy named Saul

which is our main character and in my

mind saw looks something like this um

he’s kind of like a handsome man a man

that um actually you know what I’m

saying it looks the part of a king and

is able to to to make um a statement

with what he’s doing if you have that

picture of Saul could you put it up on

the screen for me right now and then

there’s another a guy named Samuel and

Samuel is a prophet Samuel is a prophet

that that um here’s the word of the Lord

that that’s all in my mind right now

kind of a Brad Pitt like he looks the

part he’s the king okay and then then

there’s um Samuel and Samuel I need

somebody kind of old and somebody who’s

like wise and looks like very um stately

y’all know Morgan Freeman be old for 90

years life and in my mind these are our

two main characters they’re saw who

who’s the king and they’re Samuel who

appointed him to be King and I like to

do this just so people can get an

understanding now let’s read the

scripture with with Saul and Samuel in

mind okay it’s at verse 5 then the

Philistines mustered up a mighty army of

three thousand chariots six thousand

charioteers and as many warriors as the

grains of sand on the seashore they

camped at mcmaster feast of Beth even

the men of Israel saw help me what a

tight spot they were in has anybody in

this room ever been in a tight spot okay

kukuku and because they were help me

hard pressed by the enemy they tried to

hide in caves thickets rocks holes and

sister

some of them crossed the Jordan River

and escaped into the land of dad and

Gillian meanwhile saw Brad Pitt stayed

at Gabe Gilgal and his men were

trembling with remember what the

opposite of faith is it’s fear

they were trembling with fear Saul

waited there for seven days for Samuel

as Samuel had instructed him earlier so

he got instructions of what he was

supposed to do and he waited but Samuel

still didn’t come so saw Brad Pitt

realized that his troops were rapidly

slipping away it’s crazy how you

probably shouldn’t make decisions when

you’re in a season of loss because it

can impair your judgment he said he saw

the people slipping away so he demanded

bring me the burnt offering and the

peace offering and Saul sacrificed the

burnt offering himself look just as Saul

was finished with the burnt offering

then Morgan Freeman arrived Saul went

out to meet him and he said hey what’s

up and Samuel said what is this you have

done so I’ll reply I saw my men

scattering for me and you didn’t arrive

when you said you would and the

Philistines are at mcmaster ready to

battle so I said to the Philistines and

the Philistines are ready to march

against us at Gilgal and I haven’t even

asked for the Lord’s help so I felt

compelled to offer the burnt offering

myself before you came how many things

have you done before God came how many

relationships did you get in before God

came how many houses have you taken out

loans on before God came I mean your

business right how many cards did y’all

drive up here today and you called it a

blessing in one season but it was

actually a curse because you couldn’t

pay the payments and it was before God

came how foolish samuel exclaimed you

have not come and capped the commands of

the Lord your God gave you had you have

kept it

you have waited on God have you would

have had just a little more patience the

Lord would establish would have

established your kingdom over Israel

forever but now your kingdom must end

for the Lord has sought out a man after

his own heart the Lord has already

appointed him to be the leader of his

people walks in David because you have

not kept the Lord’s command I want you

to turn to for people and tell them the

title of my message

hasty faith yeah just tell them hasty

faith hasty faith and you can be seated

in this building now some here like

hasty faith what is that like I felt

that it was important for me to bring

balance to this entire series because

some of y’all have heard baby faith and

maybe faith and all these other phases

and what you’re doing is you’re moving

too quick y’all out here just doing

stuff and and people are moving at a

pace that God’s not moving at and so I

want to give you the definition of hasty

right now hasty means acting too quickly

overly eager or impatient and what I

found out is that some of our faith is

not lazy some of our faith is hasty if

we think God says something if we think

that’s our husband

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uh-huh if we think that’s our house and

what happens when you are at a starting

line and they haven’t said go yet and

you crossed the line before its time how

many runners do I have in the building

okay when you get down in the blocks and

it’s about two you’re going to run

you’re gonna go but when you’re down

there and there has not been clearance

to move yet and you begin to run full

force you have a false start and you get

this quad and I want to help some people

in this room who are trying to figure

out with all the energy you have in

faith why nothing is working it’s

because the race hasn’t started yet and

you’re running on the track God has not

told you this is the time or the season

for this thing but you heard a word from

God and so now you gonna make it happen

and I just came to tell you maybe you’re

being too hasty maybe you’re being too

quick in the things that God has said

it’s gonna happen he appointed Saul as

the first king of Israel he was gonna

rule he was gonna win the victory but he

moved too fast right down point number

one hasty faith can cost you forever

like you moving too fast can cost you

forever

I feel like squints on the Sandlot for

ever for ever some of y’all will get it

later

but um it literally can cost you forever

look at it first Samuel 1313 he said had

you have kept the commands of the Lord

you would have established your kingdom

over Israel I want to leave you with

this this this thought if the enemy

can’t get in front of you and stop you

he’ll get behind you and push you

and there’s people in this room that

you’ve been waiting for God so long that

you need to have your faith sparked but

there’s so many other people in here who

are ready to do something in the enemies

like yeah go ahead start that business

go ahead take that second job go ahead

do that thing because he know you’ll

never be able to have the time to enjoy

the blessing to be who God’s created you

to be

to develop on yourself if you’re so busy

that you cannot be able to allow God to

speak to you in the midst of everything

that’s going on

some of y’all hasty and I know that

hasn’t been something that somebody’s

described you have you know that Sally

she’s just so hasty but your pastor is

coming to you today and telling some

people maybe it’s too quick maybe you

haven’t been patient enough maybe you

have not allowed God to say go at the

moment you heard the word you just

started running and I think about this

because if Saul would have kept this one

piece of patience in his life he would

have been the king and an heir forever

now I think some of y’all miss would

actually happen

Samuel Morgan Freeman tow saw wait here

for me for seven days we’re gonna come

offer a sacrifice to God together and

then you’re gonna win every victory from

here on out the seventh day came and at

the moment the seventh day came he saw

people leaving he saw what people were

saying he saw people walking away from

him and so he didn’t want to wait

anymore let me give you a tip right now

just because people are leaving does not

mean that you need to start moving some

of us are such people pleasers in this

room at the time people start going away

from us and saying he different now or

they’ve changed then we try to start

getting active to help people understand

no no no no no no no but I’m telling you

if Saul would have just stayed put the

Bible tells us that right after Saul

finished offering up the sacrifice

Samuel came

he couldn’t wait ten minutes and it cost

him his entire it cost him his entire

legacy because of ten minutes of

impatience can I help you with something

else that there were 22 more Kings that

would rule in Israel that were not

connected to Saul because of this one

mistake let me read some of their names

because Saul messed up we get David

Solomon Rehoboam a Beija ASA Jos a Joe

Jehoshaphat Jehovah this names could you

please put on the screen all 22 of the

people who God had defined because one

man didn’t wait who else is God gonna

have to find cuz you wouldn’t wait not

one of these people are a descendent of

Saul because he wanted to do it

everybody say himself he was hasty he

wouldn’t get advice he wouldn’t be

submitted he wouldn’t ask anybody he

want to say would you pray with me about

this he wouldn’t submit it to anybody in

authority and what he did was he

forfeited everything that God had for

him because he was too hasty when I look

at this entire movement that God is

allowing us to really bring forth in

this moment I don’t want anybody to lose

anything because they’ve been frivolous

with their faith you’ve just been

believing for things that God said that

ain’t that ain’t me I know we’re in it

you want that I want this you won’t feel

I won’t you

you want it I have all you need and the

haste to begin to go for promotions the

reason you didn’t get the promotion is

because that’s not even your job but the

way that you’re supposed to go is

backwards and it doesn’t look right

but God has something over here for you

but you’re so hasty

to get into stuff so much and the

enemy’s plans for you to get so deep

that you don’t see how you can get out

of it and this is how many people live

their life stuck stuck in between what

they know God has told them to do and

then trying to make it happen themselves

God told Saul I would win this victory

for you I would have done this but you

gotta everybody say wait on me okay so

let me help you I found out the reason

why I saw felt like this and we find it

in verse six I want you to go back up

because so many of us are committed to

our preference and we’re not committed

to God’s purpose and until we become

committed to God’s purpose we will move

trying to make what God says will happen

in one season will move too fast trying

to make it happen but this is what

happened to them in verse 6 it says the

men of Israel saw what a tight spot they

were in can we be honest if you’ve been

in a tight spot at any moment in this

year raise your hand right now a tight

spot financially in your marriage at

your job okay that’s almost everybody

that’s watching okay and it says and

because they were hard pressed by the

enemy they tried to do things their own

way let me help you the enemy only has

one play in your life I’m about to

expose him right now write this down

he tries too hard press you when you’re

already in a tight spot this is his only

play like your marriage is in a tight

spot and that’s when the enemy comes in

with suggestion and the girlfriend from

high school that you ain’t talked to in

22 years she hits you with the DM your

marriage is struggling that’s the tight

spot but then the

girlfriend that comes that you ain’t

never talked to ever before and she hits

you with the damn how you been Billy

that’s when the enemy comes to hard

press when you’re in a tight spot

your money’s already funny and you that

that’s the tight spot but then your best

friend has his bachelor party in Las

Vegas and you have a gambling problem so

you’ve already been in a tight spot but

then the enemy comes to hard press you

and put you into a scenario that you

can’t win win in it’s like some man in

this room right now tight spot just

trying to live pure clean clean just

trying to keep it together not trying to

sew all my Wild Oats and be fruitful and

multiply

do you hear I’m just trying to live pure

and then the enemy come in and hard

press you and then they pass a law in

Oklahoma that women God’s beautiful

creation can walk around with all this

stuff just sound he hard press it some

man gonna be walking around like Stevie

Wonder’s just like I don’t seem that now

I don’t know what’s happening even

though house Alice I don’t know what I’m

telling you is this is the enemy’s only

play to when you’re in a tight spot he

wants to hard press you when you already

got a negative duk-soo report then the

tire goes bad when you already got a kid

that you’re trying to work through the

other one gets addicted to some type of

drug it’s when you’re in a tight spot he

comes to hard pressure and what happens

is that pressure makes people be hasty

it make people move too quickly this is

what happened to him they were in a

tight spot and they were hard pressed

and so they started just making

decisions that did not consult the plan

of God and I’m telling you that there

are people in here that I’m not gonna

get many a man’s today but you are

literally in the situation you’re in

right now because it started getting

hard and then the enemy came in to throw

a little extra pressure on that thing

and then you just start doing stuff some

of y’all are in contracts right now at

houses and apartments that you knew you

weren’t even supposed to be living in

that place another six months but then

it start coming down to the deadline and

you

got in a tight spot and the enemy

hard-pressed you and you just start

doing things some of y’all right now are

married to people that when you saw that

you turn 30 and you didn’t have nobody

that you were in a tight um I’m in your

business right now you were in a tight

spot and then the enemy tried too hard

press you on your birthday that ain’t

nobody ever gonna launch you after this

you won’t be able to have no kids

and so you stepped into a relationship

get pieces of yourself away that nobody

was supposed to experience except that

person that God had actually had for you

but you started doing things because you

were in a tight spot and you listened to

the suggestion of the enemy when he

tried to press hard and I know it

because I can see it on your face a lot

of us don’t talk about our hasty

decisions because we hope they just all

work out we start quoting Romans 8 with

all things I’ll do the work and they all

working look at it they are working for

the good of those that look I love you

but a lot of times we would never have

to quote that scripture if we consulted

with God before we did let me stop if we

would consult with him and make sure was

him before it happened we wouldn’t have

to quote that somebody say hasty faith

all I’m telling you right now point

number two write it down hasty faith is

provoked by pressure you start moving

out of character you start moving into

things you’re not supposed to when you

feel pressure and the crazy thing about

life is you always as long as you are on

this earth will feel pressure like

there’s no segment of life that’s

pressure free that literally tells us

that in this world you’re gonna have

trouble but take heart

I’ve already overcome don’t worry so how

do you respond in times of pressure see

you either respond in hasty faith by

prematurely moving or you respond in

crazy faith by believing what God said

waiting on him

and stepping out at the right time and

so many of us right now are sitting here

trying to figure out our life trying to

figure out our scenario trying to figure

out our relationships just like salt and

even Jesus had to see Jesus was was not

exempt from the enemy same pressure to

when he was in a tight spot the enemy

came to add pressure you don’t believe

me turn with me to Matthew chapter 4

verse 1 it says this right after he got

baptized right after the Holy Spirit

came and descended on him like a dove

right after it was like this is my son

and whom I’m well pleased after God

literally cracks the sky and talks to

you in front of people you would think

like it’s easier but look at what

happens right after that it says Dean

Jesus was led by the spirit who is he

led by this about to mess some of your

theology right here he was led by the

spirit into the wilderness you thought

your wilderness was the devil but what

happens when the Holy Spirit leads you

into a wilderness and he says why did he

lead him there to spend more time in to

get him filled up and and to be able to

allow his face to shine upon him look

what he said that’s what I would have

thought if I wrote the Bible it said

that that he was led by the spirit into

the wilderness to be tempted there by

the devil what

why would God let me be led by him into

a wilderness season to be tempted by the

devil why would God let me get into

college not to graduate and then have to

work this junk where they don’t even

care about Who I am and then he say I’m

marked why would God let me try to have

children and be infertile for so many

years that my spouse left me because

they really wanted kids and then told me

that I was still worth it see these are

the same situations because a lot of

times when we’re following God we get

led into wildernesses where it seems

like he’s deserted us

but he’s not put you in isolation he’s

put you in separation see the process of

being anointed the process of being

different cannot happen in front of

everybody who does not want to go

through that same process and what we’re

trying to do is hold on to everybody and

everything while God’s trying to make us

and so many times before we walk into

the Promised Land

he takes us to the wilderness you’ll see

how quiet it is in here today I may help

you and what he does is he takes Jesus

into the wilderness a tight spot

everybody say tight spot okay so it

would be enough if he was just in there

by himself but here come the devil to

add pressure to it he was fasting for 40

days and 40 nights that’s a tight spot

when yo lips is a she wouldn’t wind you

when you ain’t ate nothing and sand is

looking good you hear what I’m saying he

he was fasting and he became very hungry

during that time why couldn’t it happen

when I was eating why couldn’t it happen

while my money was right

what couldn’t have happened in a

different come on has anybody ever asked

why is this happening now like already

I’m in a tight spot why is it happening

now he said when he was already in a

tight spot the devil came and said to

him if you’re the Son of God tell these

stones to become loaves of bread

remember he was hungry and what he was

trying to do is get him to perform

miracles hastily stay with me he had the

power to do it this is the same God

that’s gonna take two fish and five

loaves and feed 25,000 people that

ability was in him now but it was not

yet time and so what the enemy tried to

do was tempt him with his own ability

like some of y’all have the ability to

go get in a relationship but it’s not

yet time you have the ability to go

ahead y’all don’t hear me and to start

that thing but it’s not yet time and the

first thing he said to Jesus’s aren’t

you hungry don’t you want to be

successful you don’t want to stay lonely

do you shouldn’t people know your name

and he tried to get him to move out of

his spot – and look how Jesus responded

it is written that’s why if you’re going

to stay in the place that God has for

you you have to be in the word that even

when you have to wait you have to tell

yourself stuff like this naw i’m

beautifully and wonderfully made my God

has a plan for me before I was formed in

my mother’s womb he knew me he had a

plan for me

plans to prosper me and not to harm me

today I am the righteousness of God His

grace in His mercy are new every morning

I may be in this situation but I will

not move prematurely it

you believe that in the room will you

give God some praise so if the enemy

tried to pressure Jesus who you think

you are come on let’s be real so so

you’re gonna have pressure in your life

but what is your pressure producing see

for Jesus pressure would produce purpose

do y’all know right after he defeats

this temptation of 40 days is when he

goes out and starts performing all the

miracles it was almost as if God said

I’ve put the potential in you but I have

to take you through this period period

so you can purify yourself and and know

where this is coming from and right

after that then he starts performing

miracles blind eyes all this other stuff

but it came after this waiting period

but for Saul the pressure produced panic

and some of y’all when y’all get into

pressure you start panicking when

pressure comes to your life you just

start doing stuff tests I’m like why are

you going so hard on this right now

because I don’t want anybody in this

room to forfeit your forever because you

felt pressure and you started panicking

well they don’t gave me a foreclosure

notice I need to go back to selling

drugs why the worst they can do is take

that house

that’s the worst they can do and at the

end of the day maybe that’s the thing

that needs to happen so that you can get

back to the place of humility because

you only been putting on for the Joneses

anyway you’re you don’t even like the

house or the boat or anything else but

you think that you are identified by

what people think you have and so you

wearing and doing and all this other

stuff and maybe God’s trying to bring us

back to a place of humility because we

started moving in hasty faith calling it

God but doing it too quickly yeah I know

I love it too

look what the panic produced for these

guys first Samuel 13 verse 6 it said

because they started panicking because

they were in a tight spot and they were

hard pressed look it’s they tried to

hide in caves thickets rocks holes and

cisterns what does your fear have you

hiding it that doesn’t have the ability

to cover you write this point down cuz

some of y’all don’t even understand it

yet what you think is protecting your

fears is exposing your faith what you

think is protecting your fear is

exposing your faith get this picture

it’s a whole army of people who are in a

tight spot and hard press so they look

around and say what can we do what can

we do what can we do they start

panicking and one dude stands up and

says I know I have an idea let’s go as a

whole army and hide behind bushes let’s

hide behind a thing that can’t cover us

the same way many of you are hiding

behind your success at business and so

you’re dealing with fear but you say as

long as I’m successful nobody will be

able to see it and you look dumb because

everybody can see you but you think that

success is hiding the fear that you have

to actually trust God I’m in your

business right now and this is what you

walk around life looking like praise the

Lord glory to God glory to God oh I’m so

face field God’s doing miracles in my

life and I’m still you know I’m just

trusting God every step of the way we

see you we see your inconsistencies we

see

we see all of that but for some reason

you start trying to hide but think

behind things that can’t cover you this

is what hasty faith will do God just

said wait on me but you hide behind

money wait on me but oh oh yeah see some

of y’all like that doesn’t make sense

ok thickets bushes there’s only one of

these things that made sense it said

they tried to hide in caves ok go hide

in a cave I think that would be okay it

still wasn’t really protecting them it

just gave them safety but but what but

when you were standing in a place that

you’re not supposed to be and you get

hard press you start looking at

everything as a source of protection for

you and so he said no I got an idea

let’s hide in rocks how do you hide in a

rock come on let’s be let’s be honest

how do you hide in a rock I imagine this

whole army goes behind this and maybe

this could be titled relationships and

what you do instead of walking in faith

is you hide behind the relationships

you’re in uh-huh and what you think is

that nobody can see you we see you we

see that you don’t actually trust God

but you connect and you make your ways

into rooms and do networking so that you

can say it’s God at the end of it but it

was actually you trying to make it

happen we see you know you don’t

we still see you your heart may not be

exposed right now but we can see your

feet out here dangling in places they

were never meant to be and you’re

standing in places that were never

supposed to be where you are it’s

because we don’t trust that if we wait

on God he’ll take care of us so I need

y’all to understand why this all

happened is because God was a few

minutes later than what they expected

there are so many of us in this room

that are moving in haste and trying to

hide but to hide behind things that are

never supposed to carry us because God

did not come when we told him to can I

talk real most of us are living our

lives and it breaks my heart because I

hear the stories of people and they’re

dealing with the consequences of not

waiting on God they’ve been hasty

they’ve been trying to do things their

own way and today I don’t want you to be

solved I don’t want you to forfeit

everything that God already has planned

for you because you could not wait just

a few minutes for God to stand up strong

and be your defender for God to stand up

strong and be your protector but you

would rather hide behind things try to

make people’s not see you and then it

said they would did in cisterns and many

of you don’t know what cisterns are but

it’s just a hole

I’m not safe

but a lot of people in this Christian

walk would rather think they’re safe

than actually be safe think they’re safe

in a career that you chose and I have a

degree for and I’ve got this and I’ve

got that and God said that wasn’t me you

didn’t even consult me about none of

that

so you got more degrees than a

thermometer not working in purpose right

now and now you’re sitting here thinking

that your education is hiding you but

you’re so exposed your faith has been

exposed right now um guys I’m stuck like

realtalk I can’t get out of here you got

me there and what ends up happening

is what we’ve been living in watch this

no no don’t take off me yet what we’ve

been living in we start carrying around

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because I wouldn’t trust God y’all don’t

hear me it’s stuck to me my past where

I’ve been sitting has now become a part

of my character because I moved too fast

now I’ve gotten new instructions and God

says it’s time to go I can’t even move

properly because my past is still house

still has still got me here

and all I’m saying to you today while I

look a plum fool it’s maybe it’s time to

stop hiding in things that can’t cover

you maybe it’s time for you to wait on

God somebody say I’m gonna wait on God

say it again say I’m gonna wait on God

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that’s I’m like why are you saying that

because some of you are hiding an

Instagram for identity you’re hiding in

money for security you’re hiding in

drugs for peace you’re hiding in

relationships for love you’re hiding in

your children for significance oh you

didn’t think I was coming for you soccer

mom

well Little Billy has soccer and then

Sarah she has valet and tap because you

know she gets it from her mom and men

and then little tray he was a wild card

tray he’s on the math team and and what

you’re doing is you’re forfeiting the

purpose God put in you cuz you only feel

significance when you’re doing all of

that for them let me know I don’t know

what you’re hiding behind right now but

a lot of us are hiding because we won’t

wait on God we’re moving in a haste and

some of you are hiding an education for

wisdom and hiding in your business

instead of just being who God created

you to be if the business folded if the

children left you if the money was gone

if the church closed down who would you

be I must say it again if your friends

left you if you no longer had the

degrees if the house was foreclosed on

who would you be and the sad answer for

most of us is because we moved in hasty

faith to do things we would feel like

nothing even though he called us

everything I’m teaching today I don’t I

don’t want you to walk out of here and

say I got crazy faith and then you just

start moving and doing dumb stuff cuz

like saw it can cost you forever

okay Pastor Mike what are you really

trying to say what I need to know my

main encouragement is that pressure was

not meant to crush you the pressure

you’re feeling was not meant to crushed

you it was meant to make you let me give

you a scripture scripture 2nd

Corinthians chapter 4 verse 8 look at

this this pressure that Saul felt was

just supposed to reinforce his trust in

God it was not supposed to make him

start making hasty decisions he was just

supposed to be like well there’s more

enemies coming people are leaving that

means God is about to show up and do

some ain’t never been done before some

of y’all are facing situation when the

bad reports are coming when things are

happening you’re supposed to stand

flat-footed

say you know what this means that my god

is shall supply all of my needs this

means that the giant is big but my God

is bigger it means that this situation

will not take me out but my God will

take it out so the pressure is not

supposed to make you fold and that’s why

I look at this scripture in 2nd

Corinthians chapter 4 and it says we are

pressed on every side by trouble

pressures coming but we are not

everybody say crushed you’re not crushed

you’re still here

we are perplexed I don’t understand it

but I’m not driven to despair I’m not

going I’m not gonna go down that rabbit

hole of thinking that God has left me

and I need to stay in this place it says

we are hunted down but never abandoned

by God we get knocked down but we are

not destroyed

I came to give somebody an infusion

today that when you wait on God and

things seem like they’re moving past you

and it seems like the pressures trying

to force you to make a decision and

you’re already in a tight spot you need

to be reminded of this scripture that I

can be pressed but I will not be crushed

the same pressure can come to two

different objects and one if I use

pressure will be crushed and the other

if I use pressure will produce

many time God puts you in situations of

pressure to get what he put in you are

you in depending on how you look at the

divorce depending on how you look at the

layoff is the same pressure but one

pressure crushes the exterior but the

other pressure starts producing

something that others are supposed to be

nourished by see the reason pressures

because there was gonna be all that came

out of it the reason that the reason

that you were pressured is cuz it was

supposed to give somebody else

nourishment to believe this produce

nothing but this produced everything the

pressure that Saul felt was supposed to

deepen his trust in God which would have

required him to have an anointing to

stay in that place and the pressure

would have produced more oil in his life

but instead we remember Saul like this

something that was crushed under the

pressure thrown away and hopefully

recycled to be used again in a better

form so what happens when God’s looking

at your kids and saying they can’t use

them no more hopefully the seeds of

their kids won’t fold under the pressure

maybe they won’t move hasty and get

crushed under the pressure but maybe

they’ll wait on me and they will produce

something what are you saying Pastor

Mike that it’s time for everybody to

realize that the only thing that comes

out of you and pressure is what was

already put in you

now watch the whole children of Israel’s

army they were moving in everybody say

fear and you like won’t pass the mic if

if that was a fool coke bottle when you

crushed it stuff woulda came out of it

yeah artificial things y’all don’t want

me to treat sit here things that were

put in this by somebody who didn’t care

about how it affected others but there

was also seeds put in this that if this

stock put in the pressure and

accidentally a seed popped on the ground

and it failed in the right soil that

this wouldn’t just produced one great

two plates three grapes but we would get

a whole orchard out of the sea that was

pressed and crushed for all of us

somebody just needs to give God praise

right here that this pressure this

pressure no no come of this pressure

that you’ve been in it’s about to

produce for you it’s about to give

somebody else nourishment it’s about to

produce hasty faith will forfeit what

God wants you to have for it forever so

I’m gonna give you my last point cuz

some of y’all feel like this look how

ugly this is look look look how broken

in Tanner this looks but look how much

nourishment and look how much

quenching has happened because God could

put you in a situation with pressure and

you would stay until he came Saul had

just a few more minutes to wait on God

just a few and I don’t know what the

timetable is for you but something y’all

just have one more year at that job just

one

some of y’all only have one more month

in that situation that’s broken some of

you only have one more day I’m declaring

but this time tomorrow that there’s some

of y’all situations and on somebody

nobody got faced to believe me like the

some of y’all’s situation is turning

around tomorrow but I will not move in

haste because the pressure is on what

are you saying Pastor Mike if you don’t

understand anything else I say remember

this hasty faith is just faith too fast

hasty faith is faith too fast it’s still

faith like to get off the starting line

it still takes faith to run the race it

still takes faith Saul still had to have

faith that when he offered the burnt

offering himself that maybe God was

gonna take it he just did the right

thing in the wrong time just say

wouldn’t say the right thing at the

wrong time is a curse and many of you

get so hung up on be like oh I did what

God said at the wrong time I did I did

what he told me at the wrong time and

the right thing for Saul was to offer

the burnt offering but he was supposed

to do it with Samuel and the Bible says

over and over he did it him self

a clear sign that you’re being hasty is

that you’re doing it yourself I’m coming

for you that’s why we started be groups

it’s because it’s hard to be hasty when

you have to take people with you like

when you’re the only one who knows what

you and God made a deal about you can

break that promise at any time and the

only person you feel like you you know

my heart you know more Lord come on but

when you get in community and and you

say I really feel like God’s told me I’m

not supposed to date this entire year

and so I just need y’all to hold me

accountable for that and then it’s

January I’m like I know he from God God

has blessed me he has blessed me with

him look at him he’s an angel a chatroom

and then one of your friends says but

hey remember in October when you say

you’re not supposed to date anybody but

I think God answered my prayer I think

he no no that was pressure all that was

was pressure to see to see what you was

gonna do was you gonna crush and be

hasty how are you gonna stay in wait and

I don’t know what your situation is but

I want to encourage you that if you’ve

been moving in hasty faith take take

heart it’s still faith so you have the

raw ingredients to do the things that

will please God the problem is you’re

just doing it in the wrong time and I

don’t know who this message is for today

and I don’t know who it will apply for

tomorrow cuz some of y’all sitting here

right now be like why is passing life

going so hard on this and tomorrow

you’re gonna be given an opportunity

and so maybe this is this is this is

preemptive for some of you maybe for

some of you this is this is a Ford caste

so that you can know how to handle when

the pressure comes to tell you a real

story when I was about 24 years old many

of you know that my background is in

music production and this major record

company I’ll leave them nameless they

flew me up to New York for two weeks to

do showcases for bad boy and Diddy and

Universal Records and all this other

stuff at 23 or 24 years old I was twenty

ninth floor in Times Square Madison

Square Garden everything was paid for I

was producing I was living the dream

they loved all the music they loved

everything that I was doing I flew back

home and they offered me a six-figure

contract at 24 years old to come to New

York move to New York and produce for

them for one year I could have taken the

perspective business god but I had the

presence of mind to pray and when I went

to prayer this is exactly what the Holy

Spirit told me he said if you go you

will be successful but I’ll take my hand

off of what you’re doing now listen he

wasn’t trying to scare me he was trying

to warn me cuz he saw this he wasn’t

trying to scare me he just had a plan

that was better than the money he had a

plan that was better than my dream being

fulfilled he had a plan that would

produce food

for somebody else so I didn’t even tell

him that at the time we was about to get

married she would have had her dream

dream wedding so I didn’t even tell ha

ha sorry babe

but I knew watch this depending on who

you tell in what timing that’ll give you

more pressure so in that moment I knew

that I had to just say no to something

that I had no guarantee on the other

side if you would have told me people

around the world would know who I was

and it wasn’t for music I would have

told you you were lying but God he’s the

author and the finisher he’s the Alpha

and the Omega that means when he started

it he already saw the finish for you so

when he’s telling you to wait somebody

needs to hear me when he’s telling you

not to move in haste because he sees

what’s up ahead today if you’re in this

room and you know you’ve made any moves

in haste in the past let’s just go in

the past year I want you to stand and I

want you to lift your hands all over

this place I want to pray for you I

believe there is an anointing in this

place yeah

it’s not for everybody it’s for those of

you who feel like this this is a

repenting moment right now if you’ve

done anything said anything gone in

haste not waiting on God but trying to

make it happen for yourself could you

just lift your hands this is a sign that

says I surrender in your house right now

in your not in your car just keep your

hands on the wheel in the car but

wherever you are come on lift your hands

I want to pray for you father I thank

you that here we are and we’re saying we

repent forgive us for the Sall Spirit in

us that won’t wait on you forgive us for

being hasty and moving father God out of

the timing that you have for us today we

make a fresh commitment come on you say

it out of your mouth I make a fresh

commitment to you God to wait on you

father I thank you that those who have

decisions to make even today

even tomorrow even text message and

emails waiting for them right now god I

thank you Father that they would not

move by the pressure and being in a

tight spot but I thank you that they

would stand flat-footed and know that

the God of the universe is fighting

their battles and is on their side and

god I thank you that we would move in

crazy faith but it takes the same amount

of faith to wait that it does father God

to move without you

so father I’m thanking you that we will

hear your voice and a stranger we will

not listen to your words said my sheep

know my voice and a stranger we will not

listen to father I thank you that this

church will become ones who listen and

obey

in the timing that you have for us in

Jesus name hey lift you right there with

your eyes still closed and your heads

still bowed if you’re in this room and

you’ve never accepted Jesus Christ as

your personal Lord and Savior this is

the moment the Bible says today is the

day of salvation and what better moment

than in this thing where everybody’s

here for the same reason to see Jesus

lifted up that you would make a decision

that’s gonna take crazy faith that’s not

that’s not going to happen because of

everybody else doing it but this is a

decision that you’re making you’re

saying I’m taking my trust out of me and

I’m putting it back in you it’s the

greatest decision I ever made

it took me from being a liar addicted to

pornography a bad person on the inside

of my heart not to a perfect man put a

progressing man and I want that for you

I want that for your family

and I want that for everybody that’s

connected to you on the count of three

we’re gonna raise our hand if that’s you

cuz we’re about to pray for you and if

you’re in this womb I see hands going up

in the back right now if that’s you and

you’re saying pastor include me in that

prayer I just want you to raise your

hand right now one two

three if that’s you I see you sir I see

you ma’am I see you I see you I see you

and more importantly God sees you online

God sees you come on we’re a family at

transformations hurts right now so with

everybody just bow your head and close

your eyes and say this with me because

nobody prays alone here

it’s a family say God thank you for

sending Jesus just for me today

I put crazy faith in you I believe you

lived you died and you rose again just

for me

so today take over change me renew me

transform me I’m yours in Jesus name

Amen

can we celebrate with the Dozen oh come

on

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