amen now how many of you are a happy today to get into the Word of God again to enjoy the things of the Spirit why don't you take your Bibles and go to a chapter I'm sure that many of you are very familiar with some of you maybe could even quote the chapter first Corinthians chapter 13 praise the Lord many of you know that one don't you praise God well me and my wife have been having a wonderful time with you over these last few days I'm looking forward also after the service to meeting some of the prophets and sitting down at the prophetic round table a man I figure if if what was his name King Arthur if he could have one we can have one too right see the Bible says as iron sharpens iron so does one man sharpens another praise the Lord thank you Jesus Heavenly Father we ask today that as we go into your word that your Holy Spirit would come again and quicken the scriptures that they would be alive now we thank your father God that we do understand them while we may eat bread and natural food we don't really live on that we actually live on your Living Word so we ask that today this would be a preceding word coming straight from heaven from you and we give you all the praise in the name of Jesus amen praise the Lord well now 1st Corinthians chapter 13 let's go down to the last verse in that chapter so we have a 1313 another double praise God okay and it says and now abide or now remain Faith Hope Love these three but the greatest of these is love I actually heard one minister he was a good minister but he got up and he tried to still preach why faith is greater than love I'm like look I know faith is important and this was a good word of faith preacher but I you know you still just have to go with the basics love is greater than faith because we know from what also the Apostle Paul said well I'll just read it to you you can stay here but we know from Galatians chapter 5 verse 6 that Paul also said for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything but faith working through love so really faith is the foundation that excuse me love is the foundation that faith Springs off of and if your love walk is not right then your your faith is never gonna really have the traction that you're looking for and you can confess and say I believe I've receive and you can do all that - you're blue in the face but if something's off with your love walk it's not gonna work how many of you already know that that's a good kind of basic elementary understanding in the things of God so let's go back to 1st Corinthians 13:13 and we know that the greatest of these is love this is not like a normal love like you know I love ice cream or I like you know watching you know you know football on television this is the God kind of blood so in the Greek is the word agape so this is the the selfless kind of love that lays your life down for the Lord and also you lay your life down for your brothers and your sisters and others we understand that correct okay now remain Faith Hope Love the street but the greatest of these is love now what I've noticed is that when you really want to receive a miracle from the Lord and God's even giving you a word and so you have faith for it because that's either revealed it in the scriptures that this is something that you can possess such as heating or these other types of blessings or maybe God speaks something to you more specific because there's a lot of things that aren't in the scriptures like what color carpets to get for your house right or you know you know what kind of food to put in your refrigerator or what kind of a refrigerator you might want so we have a lot of variety in these areas of things that we can believe God for but maybe God gives you a specific promise that yes I'm gonna bless you with that and you're gonna be able to have this pulled into your life through faith but it's like it's like baking a cake you could have a great recipe but if you leave one thing out something's not going to be right you'll sit down and you'll took a bite into that cake and you'd be like you know normally this is good I think I think we're missing something today somebody didn't put the baking soda or the salt or something so we've got to get it right so oftentimes the missing ingredient is hope okay so I want to talk about hope today praise the Lord thank you Lord Jesus now we have here the word hope in the Greek it's the word El peace that's how you pronounce it but let's just get past the Greek because it's just Greek to me right and let's go on to more of a everyday common-sense approach to this really what Hope is is a divine expectancy that what God told you he would do for you can come to pass watch this at any moment at any moment praise the Lord because many people are expecting their miracle maybe in the year 2030 see we all get real so funny sometimes in the prophetic circles I see God really moving in your life I see that in the Year 2032 a great miracle is going to befall your life well you know we've got a little ways to go till the end Hal but you have to be in the now zone can you say now and I know there's always the prophetic lens of God where it's like getting a pair of binoculars and you can look out there and see things I know prophet Bob Jones prophesied all the way to the year 2050 and beyond and I know that the Lord could come back and interrupt all of that which certainly wouldn't upset me at all should the Lord come sooner but I do think we need to have prospective prophetic vision but I also with your prophetic grace don't let it slip past you that faith always has to be in the now and your faith will not work if you don't have a right love law but your faith also will not take off if you don't have hope and you've got to have hope and the hope is the thing that says it's happening and you wake up in the morning and you say I'm expecting it today well now pastor Stephen you have to understand the laws of seed time and harvest that when you sow the seed it takes time for it to germinate the sprout to grow and didn't develop and then many years down then we finally reap the harvest I understand the laws and the principles of seed time harvest but also I understand Amos chapter 9 that we are now in a time where really the the sower is already over taking the trailer of grades and yet by the time you're sowing your seed the harvest is already coming in on the glass when you sold well you got another harvest or so some more but wait a minute now the other ones coming in and it's just this things like overtaking you this thing's overtaking you so you really can't wake up in the morning with the with an attitude of like you know what I believe that this thing can go down today and I'm just gonna have hope that it will praise the Lord and that that's the kind of expectancy that God wants you to be experiencing can you say yes praise the Lord now let's go over to another scripture that helps pull this out today let's go to Hebrews mmm hebrews chapter 11 and look at verse 1 many of you could probably quote this first couldn't you this is another beautiful verse in the Bible now faith is now this is interesting because a lot of scholars have said the word now is more like a conjunction kind of like the word and you know like peanut butter and jelly it's really meaning the same thing and sometimes they say the word now is really connecting the previous verse in the previous chapter to this but but think of it like this your faith won't work if it's not now faith now pastor Steven I was in faith four years ago but I've been discouraged ever since well you're out of faith you need to get back in faith because of your faith it's not now it's really not relevant and it's not going to produce for you so let's let's just say that that word now is a conjunction because some theologians they get these weird manuscripts that aren't you know the ones are them that are the pride manuscripts and they say well on this so-and-so manuscript which you know all the Liberals lean towards the word in the house not even in it well okay it let's just take the word now out it says faith is is that correct this is past tense when is is its present its present tense it's right now well you might as well pop the word right now right back in there because you're still right back into now like us faith is not not not was and not one day in the year 2040 - it will be no right now faith this so your faith has to be right now okay so it says here in the Bible that now faith is the substance of things hoped for now again you're going to have to have that hope working with your faith that hope is this supernatural expectancy that God's going to do it praise the Lord and it says in the way both New Testament translation it says now faith is a well-grounded assurance of that for which we hope and a conviction of the reality of things which we do not see praise the Lord okay so there's two kinds of Hope there's a natural hope and there's a supernatural hope that God can give you because you've got a promise you've got a scripture you've got a word from the Lord now you attach that expectancy to that but a natural hope is just is just thinking that can disappoint a lot of people there's probably a lot of people in London today that their natural hope let them down they thought they were to win the lottery last night and it didn't happen and so they're gonna go out and buy another ticket say I don't deal with systems like that because God's system is fair if you've worked God's principles in his system it'll work for anybody it's not some kind of lotto random thing or maybe just if you get it and all the others are left out of the blessing say God works on a different a different system and so the lottery disappoints people like natural hope you have no guarantee you have no word from the Lord praise the Lord so there's this natural hope you know that sometimes people get certain expectations about things but they have no guarantee they're just hoping they're just hoping maybe they'll be selected they'll hoping maybe they'll get the phone call or something like that but it doesn't happen let's say there is a hope from God that is so supernatural that he gives it to you and you not only believe God is going to do it you know he's going to do it and you're in that now moment it's going to happen today mm mines me of the pasture that that I was in a service when he shared his testimony where he was he was in faith for somebody to give him in a million dollars and people thought he was silly but they didn't think he was silly when one day his secretary called him and said our pastor I think you should come into the office today you have an envelope with the with the cheque in it he said how much is the cheque she said it's four million dollars but you know what makes it really good is when you cash the check in and goes through praise the Lord so he had a million dollars hallelujah they didn't think it was funny anymore but he had had like a hope this that somebody's gonna give my ministry million dollars and that that's faith with expectancy praise the Lord mm-hmm Lord Jesus we give you a praise today because something glorious is going to happen so there's a supernatural hope that's what God wants you to have so here's the thing you're in faith for it but if I were to ask you when's it going to happen and you just say well you tell me we're like well one day it'll happen okay so you're disconnecting from that main ingredient that you need I know you have love I can feel the love in the room hallelu yeah I know you have faith because your pastor is gonna put faith until you is gonna Minister the Word of God to you so I know you've got that too but you're gonna have to have hope and hope is often a missing ingredient it's an expectancy that not only is it going to happen but today is my day that call is coming in today that job that I need is coming through today and you don't see your brain works and says well how is that gonna happen but you don't need to try to figure it all out yeah because this thing is supernatural and it lifts you above it it's actually the same hope that God has functioning in you hmm just like Jesus said have the faith of God you can have the same faith he has now with this hope you can have this same expectancy praise the Lord and I'm telling you God will make you a miracle excuse me he'll make you a madman from memmer calls and Kelly took an unusual picture of either of the other day cuz we're getting ready to go on a trip and I needed to get my shoes shined so I go sit in the place where I get my shoe shine and I'm sitting up there and I turn next to me on the wall and there's this little bitty plaque and it said I am a magnet for miracles and I thought I can't believe they allowed anybody to hang that who's a very how can I say ungodly area of the airport you know sometimes certain cities they're very anti God well this was that kind of City but yet here is this plaque on the wall saying that very thing and I said praise Lord I said I don't even know if anybody has ever even seen that picture of that plaque but I took a picture of it hallelujah because God wants you to have that kind of expectancy that kind of hope that you are a magnet and miracles are coming your way win win in 2022 right now mmm that even while you're sitting here in the meeting angels are working behind the scenes setting things up for you and I found out that it's true that many years ago what dr. Oral Roberts said he said a miracle is either coming to you or going past you every day and I thought well known that candy that's too big of a statement you know like like a real miracle now I can't be but I found out that when I started getting real close to the Lord and also having an expectancy that it would come every day and sometimes it wouldn't be like a grand slam home run make a miracle but these these things would happen were like I'd have an unusual connection because I was prayed up and I was expecting it and then something would take place or I would lead somebody to the Lord they would get saved or something supernatural what happened but I realize these things are moving every single day mmm and you need to tie into it praise the Lord and you're going to and God's going to do some great things in your life I believe what Paul said in second Corinthians chapter 6 verse 2 is still true that today is the day of salvation not tomorrow today now save right now Lord we give you praise today because something something's going to get released in your life this time for an upgrade it's time for God to take you on to the new level now look this is where the church is in a it's kind of like you're moving towards right now some are a little slow to move with it but this is what the Lord is doing we're coming into a new King Leo 19 [Music] you're moving in the spirit and because of that some of you were even going to move into natural okay you're coming into a new kingly anointing and I have to be honest there's many in the church that don't they don't know how to behave in this anointing this is why when Israel had a king for the first time they begged God Lord ah we want a king and the Lord was like hey I'm your king you know you don't need you know they're like no no we want a king we want a king and God had a plan for them to eventually have a king they were just jumping the gun and moving too soon and so they got Saul who was a very carnal a very fleshly King but nevertheless Lords like okay you got him this is your guy and so the Lord works with Samuel and Samuel tells the people of Israel gives like a public assembly and says now you've got your king he's taller than anybody else hidden shoulders above anybody else he'll you know he's super handsome you've got your guy he's a real meathead but you got your guy okay but nevertheless now that we do have a king and we've got this governmental system he said now I need to teach you the what he would call the rules of royalty you know why they didn't know how to behave he said I need to teach you how to behave I need to teach you the behavior of royalty and it actually says that he wrote all of this out in a book and he explained it to the people now what is preaching preaching is proclaiming the gospel but what is teaching teaching is explaining the gospel why because sometimes we just don't understand it so he stands before the people and he explains to them the ways of royalty oh no - hold on Pastor Steven that's just for those over at the Buckingham Palace no no that's for you look at the person on your left and say oh he's talking to you today now look at the person on the right and say did you know that you're royalty does not your Bible your Holy Bible tell you that he's the king of kings and the Lord of lords well he's the king of kings who are the kings now that's you Wow hallelujah one more time just look to the left and say you need to start acting like a king hallelujah tell them pull yourself together see the devil the devil loves it when you get all frazzled when you get all out of your anointing and you get all you get all in the flesh and the last thing you're acting like is a king you're acting more like a dingaling you know you're just like ah I don't know you know as they say tore up from the floor up all messed up and all stressed out and in the end the enemy laughs he laughs because he knows who you really are but it's nothing because you're not you're not in character in the character of Christ trust me you'd never see Jesus all messed up confused in days I don't know where Peter you got any solutions I don't know what we're gonna do Oh Oh those Pharisees they bought wore me out whoo whoa somebody get me a scotch on the rocks and don't let him see you bring it to me they're never gonna give us a real hard time while he's a king composure composure and there's a lot of people in church they don't know how to act but I'm telling you that anointing is coming into the church and it will literally even change your behavior I was in a meeting one time in my local area and I was I was going to be the preacher I was gonna like a guest speaker but before me you know they had some praise and worship and the praising worship leader I don't know maybe he thought he was just his moment he just took over you know some guys really love to put the microphone and he just kept he kept singing his sing and then he got so happy he just kept talking and talking and then he I I don't know I I know he loved the people but but sometimes sometimes people don't know the ways of royalty he said I just love y'all so much he said I'll prove my love to you he said I take my shoes off I'll walk home barefoot who wants my shoes and he pulled off these old stinky old boots wore out nasty old butter here I don't you think had socks on when he did his boots off he took off them old dirty boots and held them up who watch these boots don't give him to y'all walk I'll show you on my man oh god I love the long walk home barefoot we all say you just walk home you keep your books you just nobody want them stinky boots we do this stuff in the church I got a phone call one day from a minister I didn't know I didn't know what well I thought it was gonna be a good day I wasn't believing God for a miracle but God's go to a miracle it just came a different way so yeah a minister calls me um brother Stephen it would you like a fine piece of furniture well well well what what is it he said it's a beautiful luxury couch I said well you know in our living room I uh I would like to swap out what I've gone I would I wouldn't mind doing that and he said I'm gonna go get some new furniture and me and my wife just looked at this piece of furniture and said you know we need to bless somebody with this and we thought about you he said can you pick it up I said yeah I'll come over at all.i at that time I had a you know nice pickup truck so I said yeah I'll come over and pick it up and now this is a Word of Faith Minister you know where to faith minister did they dress to the nines you know and I love word of faith you know I've cut my teeth on word of faith and all of that so I thought well you know you know this will be something really nice and so I go over to his place and he takes me into the living room and says there it is brother be blessed and I looked at that old busted Torah house and there was popcorn on it spilt butter and stains and grease all a hair all over the long blonde hair from his life I guess her hair was falling out of some hair all over the couch and it's so called the off guard I didn't even know what to do I just I said brother god bless you and I noted it up I was I was I was like days died I couldn't review him I didn't I didn't want to I thought Lord is he actually like trying to be cruel to me is this a joke or I've just got to go along with it I loaded it up and but he was serious this was his blessing so I loaded it up and Kelly says she saw it and she says Stephen what in the world is that piece of junk I said is what this what Reverend so-and-so gave me she said well you're not putting that in the house I said I know I said we're gonna do with it she said let's take it to the to the goodwill donation area you drop things off that that way somebody impoverished or poor can be blessed I said okay so we'll take it so at that time we lived in Long Beach California and I took it to the lowest of the lowest level of things that you can give for the poor so you know you know some of these places are nice you know the secondhand stuff is nice but I took it to of like a low low low in spine and I pulled in to the parking lot with that thing sticking out of the back of my truck and I Drive in I had my window down and out comes one of the workers he said no you know you get that thing for trash out of here I was so embarrassed he said you not bringing that trash in here we don't take trash like that I said Lord that's what the man of God gave me you know raise your expectations for great things from God okay your expectancy some of you've been a little bit down here okay you need to be up here let me tell you this you're worth it pressuring him so you need to say I'm going I'm going higher sometimes what we've called humble has actually been stupidity ignorance ignorance bump your neighbors say I'm going higher we finally set it out and in front of our house and somebody picked it up finally took it you usually stuff one can be gone in like minutes it took it like three days and it's on if somebody finally probably took it so let's take it out they took it but um thank the Lord hallelujah but see we need to we need to treat the Lord right he'll treat us right I was in Atlanta Georgia ministry one time I finished ministering and went back to my hotel room and I turned on the TV there was a Christian channel actually like this is nice I can just relax here in the room and watch a little Christian TV so it's one of these local pastors in Atlanta he was preaching and I could sure relate to him he said on he said that he had a woman one of his church members come to him and said pastor Robb I'm in a quandary I know I need to make a decision I I knew I need wisdom he said well what is it that you are looking for insight for she goes well I believe I have the answer I just want to make sure she said you know I decided to clean out my freezer and I defrost it my whole freezer and so I took all the stuff out of it all the food out of it it hadn't been cleaned out in like 32 years been plugged in for 32 years never turned out so you know it's half ice half it's just big blocks of ice and because it's just melting over and things not working very good now so um she cleaned everything out defrosted everything and she said my goodness lo and behold back in the back frozen beneath the ice she found the turkey and kind of it began to defrost a little bit she scraped the ice off of it and and read the reddit and discovered that the date the turkey was like 28 years old so in America is called the Butterball turkey that's a company so so she calls them the headquarters of butterball and says uh can I speak to one of your you know in-house chefs I want to ask him a question so she gets on the phone with the in-house chef I have out old turkey in my freezer 28 years old do you think it's any good he goes old ma'am no that thing won't be any good if you do cook it it's gonna taste like rubber it'll be dry and you have no pleasure in eating that thing he starts they just throw that thing out mm-hmm so she wouldn't told the pastor the pastor said well so what seems to be the situation she said I know what I supposed to do with it she said God told me to give it to you [Laughter] expectations you're blessed where you're at but God's got more more glory more anointing greater gifting greater strength hallelujah a greater witness thank you Lord Jesus hallelujah see that the man of God here has an excellent spirit and what's on him is coming over on you amen more and more and gotta see see when the oil comes down Psalm 133 it comes down over the head of Aaron runs down his beer maybe need to grow a beard how to lose your little stronger other side amen it's nice though that right there I mean amen and then oil this runs down and then it gets on the rest of the body on the shoulders then it comes all over the garments so as you're blessed him the blessing comes on you I know you understand that but I'm saying the oil of the anointing of the Holy Spirit's coming on you and the Lord sometimes he's gonna make you a little bit picky and there's gonna be times then something's pushed in front of you and you're gonna be like don't want to hurt your feelings but no no no no that's not the color I want that's not the whatever it might be why why the Lord is working in you and he'll teach you the ways of royalty by the Holy Spirit he will literally teach you hmm Thank You Lord Jesus this is what the Lord wants to do can you say yes so god hallelujah now one time I was at home and I was praying I had a supernatural encounter I was on my knees I'd been in prayer just worshiping the Lord out in the garage actually because it was real quiet real peaceful and I just began the worship the Lord and then another nineteen came now I've talked this over the last few days if that comes lean into it right where you at just lean forward just a little bit a few inches lean forward yeah you go just like that you lean into it and when that anointing came the worship I leaned into it and began to pour out praise and worship lord i worship You Jesus I praise you lord I praise you and I heard truth like a giant vacuum cleaner a suction swoosh and I started going up hallelujah I felt like Superman and I was being sucked up and it looked like I was in some kind of a portal and clouds first of all begin but just blazed past me and then it began to get into some kind of a white glory and I was being sucked up real high and it took I don't know maybe 30 seconds and then it stopped like an elevator had gone all the way up to the top and it just kind of popped me off on the top floor and when it popped me off my feet came down on a solid substance and it felt just like you know a house it has a concrete subfloor I was standing on solid substance and I looked up and I saw the biggest throne I've ever seen in my life this throne looked like it was 70 feet high and it really it was like a mountain but I'm trying to describe it from my human terms you understand God is so glorious he is so phenomenal that he can turn the glory up and you can't even stand up you can't even lift your eyes up but he can dial it down so that we can have relationship so he had somehow and scaled that glory back so that I can encounter him in this experience but when I stood there and look I saw the most awesome throne it looked like the armrest for maybe 70 feet up in the air and the whole Thrones was covered with a glistening white cloud I couldn't see who was on it but I knew who was on it the heavenly father and this cloud was just covering this gigantic throne I began to see colors of gold and orange remember gold always represents divinity represents God and all these gold colors begin to come towards me of orange and and yellow and gold they were started swirling around me through my legs around my neck over my shoulders they were dancing they were playing and you began to smell the fragrances of heaven and I saw a bat then I took my attention back towards that massive throne and as I looked at the throne two of the biggest hands you've ever seen in your life came out of that cloud that the hand the arm of God came out the hands came out the long white robe of God all the way down to the wrist but the hands coming I could see the road each hand was probably three times bigger than this pulpit giant hands of Abba Father coming out and grab little Steven Brooks grant this is the God that made the universe and made the planet in the oceans he he picked me up and began to pull me into that cloud mm-hmm pulled me into the cloud into the white glory and he sent me on his lap and I leaned my head against his chest mmm-hmm crazy for a moment thank you Jesus I could feel the road that white did stick like softest Swan feathers just leaning against that lush robe of God and I had my head against him and then suddenly he began to play before my mind what looked like a high resolution movie of all of the scenes of my life when things had gone wrong when expectations had turned wrong and disappointments of life all what we would call natural moments of hope natural hope how I'd been disappointed in certain things and these things began to go before me I saw the time when I was a little child in elementary school when it was candy day at the schools and everybody brings a bag of candy and all the teachers bring candy then at the end everybody every child gets a bag and so I ran up I ran up what happened I was a child I ran up to get my bag and the teacher said come back later you're too early and when I came back later all the candy was gone as a child in see I know a lot of people think America is wealthy if you visit New York California you'll get that impression but I grew up in Mississippi the poorest state in the nation and we were not as Kenneth Hagin said just at the bottom of the barrel we were beneath the barrel and we were broke and poor and suffering and I mean when we had peanut butter and jelly that was prosperity night we're living off free government cheese and free government beans and me and my brothers were always constipated praise the Lord but we got through with all the free government food because we were so poor and broke but nobody could make a living hallelujah that you know it was very very hard so I saw all of those things passed before me just all of these things going Bobby going by me and then God the Father spoke to me and said he said I love you and when he said that all of that got washed away any kind of shortcomings got healed and see I had never my natural father ever say I love you I know he did but he was also part of that older generation where you don't show your feelings you don't express love and so it was more of a hard you know he was former military so he had never said that so when God said that to me I on the inside felt like I exploded with just joy glory and joy unspeakable and I was ecstatic I was so happy and I felt so blessed by the Lord and then he picked me up and sent me back outside of that cloud outside of that throne room area people have asked me did you see the Seraphim did you see the cherubim I didn't because I was so enthralled with God that although I'm sure they were there I just that wasn't on the agenda for me to experience I just overwhelmed with God and I I stood before him I stood before that throne that now all I see is that throne with the armrest again and I see that cloud and I just didn't all of who our father really is how good he is and then I knew he's about to give me again how did I know that the Holy Spirit whew and he'll help you he'll help you know when these visitations are about to happen drop what you're doing get ready get ready get off the phone and I was on the phone one time with my wife when the Lord started coming through the wall to visit me walking into in a vision I told my wife um I have to get off the phone she goes well why we're talking I said I have to get off the phone right now she goes oh I get it let's see when that happens you had you have to respond quickly but I I somehow knew that the father had a gift for me so I just knew it's like the Holy Spirit who will instruct you in the weight in ways of royalty I knew get on your knees because you're before a sovereign you're before the Great God Jehovah and I got on my knees and the hands came out of the cloud again this time that the hand of God approached me very very slowly and the the father told me that he had a gift for me and he opened up his hand real slow and when he of course he's a giant hand but they're in in his big hand was this necklace that would fit me is the most beautiful necklace I've ever seen it had it was made up the the necklace itself was made up of blue diamonds and in the very center was a huge blue marquise diamond and it was lit up with with like a blue fire on the inside so light is just bursting out of this diamond and I said I said father I said what is this I said I've received it I said I thank you for and I said what is this he said this is the diamond of hope get ready somebody is going to get some jewelry today he said this is the diamond of Hope he said your hope is very pleasing to me and he said hope is divine expectation that what I have promised you will come to pass and you're expecting it to come pass now so see your your hope has to be in the now mode when's it happening now witness today today today was your day it's the now moment mmm thank you Lord Jesus thank you Lord Jesus and I've received that from the Lord it was put it was put over my neck and I in the spirit I still wear that today you have to have expectancy in your mind you may think I don't see how don't get into that don't try to figure it out you you're not God let God do what he does your only job is to believe and to attach your your hope to that that it's coming and today is my day praise the Lord Smith Wigglesworth from your local area of England said that every morning when he woke up the first thing he would did he would do was jump out of bed and dance and praise God with hard fast dancing for 14 minutes that well pastor see that's just not my personality you need to get a new personality how to do your personality I don't feel like doing that do it anyhow forget the feelings just do it do it Jesus I've received it I think you do and then then you'll get the feelings because I'll tell you a serious fun when it shows up sure is funny boy shows up mm I don't know why but years back I had a desire for a motorcycle a sport motorcycle maybe it's sinful for a preacher I don't know but you know the ones were the big wide tires real fast you know I just have the fire for one of those I don't know that's all I know I don't want to really endanger myself but at that time I did you know I was married and Kelly said yeah yeah you didn't go for it and so but it was a faith project but I believe God I had faith I'm walking in love yeah and but I've also got expectancy that thing's gonna show up oh is it gonna show up where you gonna put it at ooh Lord I need a spot the park attacked so I had a business so I I marked off a spot and I taped it out right by the door of my business and I I just taped off this area and I just said this is wearing with a park it right here don't have the money for it don't know how I'm gonna get it but God's gonna bless me and when I get it it's going right there then I just began to say Lord I believe I've got it I'm gonna praise you for it and I'm expecting this something's gonna happen and I'm gonna get a call or some money or something and you know what I did within just a few days and went down paid cash for it got the kind I want it and parked it right where I said I was going to and people are walking in my business to see that there that's a nice pie well must be fast yes real fast and and you know drove it for a while and then you know then that just kind of lifted I've been done with the motorcycle thing praise the Lord but I'd say you have to have expectancy you have to believe that it's going to happen and that you're in that now mode for it to pop up hmm thank you Jesus we'll just lift your hands to the Lord for a moment just say Jesus I believe I receive oh thank you lord mmm mmm something's going to happen a lot of upgrades are going to happen you need to make the Lord happy and you need to frustrate the devil the devil doesn't want you to he doesn't even want to see you acting like a team he wants to see you acting like some kind of a you know struggling struggling person but I see those days are just falling off of you and you're walking into the newness that Jesus has for you you're walking into the fullness of your inheritance let me tell you right now the devil don't want any tongue talking Pentecostal believer to be blessed he wants he especially doesn't want you but we're not going to pay any attention to him we're gonna walk into the blessing and receive can you say Amen I have a prophet friend of mine from Canada a very anointed prophet and he told me that he was believing God for a real nice vehicle and God suddenly blessed him with the money because his expectancy was there and he said I went down to the Lincoln dealer he said where's the most expensive vehicle on the whole lot they said that one right over there that black Lincoln Navigator he said I'll take it right now and he bought it and he drove it off and he said when he drove it off he looked in the rearview mirror and he's driving it off to the the parking lot of the dealership and he's already paid for it he looks in the rearview mirror and he's driving it off he sees a principality and evil principality an evil spirit standing there so frustrated and mad that a preacher got a nice vehicle that made that evil spirit so mad that a preacher a prophet watch out a prophet got a beautiful vehicle praise the Lord mmm just elbow gently the person makes you say something something's gonna happen thank you Lord Jesus something's gonna happen to you now pastor Steven you need to be you need to be more spiritual and talk about the things of God I am talking about the things of God hallelujah you want to talk about the mysteries the miracles the things of God praise the Lord you know I was uh I was in India I've been in India multiple times the minister how many of you have heard of the Prophet they called him the Prophet from the east dr. dgs dinah Karen he's in heaven now raise your hand see some of you are familiar with him maybe you're familiar with a great tragedy that befell his family when he was driving in a vehicle his daughter was in the front passenger seat dr. dinner Karen was driving I remember this is a prophet known all over the world this is this is the Prophet that that Benny Hinn was just like your stories just are amazing I mean you're going to heaven you've met the Apostle Peter you talked to Elijah you've met Enoch I mean you this man had a tremendous anointing now he had something happened to him though that was very sad and it didn't have to happen he was driving in this little car and another vehicle came at tremendous speed and hit his car it instantly killed this beautiful daughter she's 18 years old total gorgeous young girl anointed called of God she was instantly killed he suffered all kinds of injuries his other family members were in the vehicle they suffered injuries broken bones than just I mean the enemy is trying to take out the whole family well dr. Dehner Karen's heartbroken laying in the hospital in the bed you know broken bones they didn't want to tell him his daughter didn't make it but he's just devastated and like anybody any sense he said Lord why why did this happen how did the enemy get in to do this to me and the Lord said I told you I warned you three times and you did not obey me he said I told you to get him her sadie's bins because it has a steel frame that goes around the whole car and I knew the enemy was gonna launch an attack on your life and if you will evade me your family would have been spared I was in India preaching and doing television for brother Sidhu Silva wrench and arrived the first time and he has his chauffeur picked me up and this beautiful long white mercedes-benz and so he picks me up and takes me to the hotel I was kind of after MIT I was kind of enjoying it all the Indian people thought I was a Bollywood actor get out of that Mercedes and walk him through though I try to you know get a little extra strive and you know just to join the moment uh it wasn't do anything for Bollywood but uh that's they all thought I was a Bollywood actor you know that's kind of their version of Hollywood as we would say but I was there just a new television recordings at a studio and I said brothers to do what a beautiful car God's bless you with and he said yes he said I had an interesting situation he said the Lord told me to get a mercedes-benz how many of you don't want to make Jesus upset you can do some unusual things to make Jesus upset he said the Lord told me to get a mercedes-benz and he said lord I I'm a humble preacher I don't want to be seen wasting your money I don't want to be viewed by people as let me tell you this you never have to apologize what dr. Jesus tells you to do he said I did I didn't want to be viewed by my members as maybe somehow they're thinking I'm taking ministry money and going over here and living some kind of a luxury life or something like that and he said I put it off he said I put it off and then the Lord spoke to me he said you're making the same mistake as dr. dgs did you're making the same mistake he met he said Lord I'm gonna get that car today now the Lord told him ask asked this partner of yours to pay for it now this was one of his ministry partners across man who has a business in ball a business career involved in industry and building uh you know facilities and things like that the Lord says ask him he'll pay for it and brothers brother Sidhu told he admitted to me he said brother Stephen Jesus told me to ask him but I I just he's like just couldn't that I could but he's like I said brother can I borrow the money to buy a Mercedes and he was ready for the backlash so he didn't even ask for the money he just said he said brother could I borrow the money Lord wants me to have it can I borrow the money mmm and the man said let me pray about it and he came back a few days later and he said he said brother subdued the Lord told me concerning you borrow the borrowing the money you want the money the Lord said no he said I'm not to lend it to you he said I'm supposed to give it to you right I'll buy you just buy it for you he said what do you want paint patch for Damien praise the Lord and of course you know if you're buying it in India they're gonna hike the price up three times of what you could get it in for Germany or in Europe so it takes it takes extra and but that have a have a breakthrough miracle like that let me tell you it speaks something especially in India when you drive around and so many people are struggling it's just it speaks a great testimony of the goodness of God mmm thank you Lord Jesus I see I see something amazing happening in your life praise God I see the Lord lifting your expectations I think the enemy would have his eat crumbs mm-hmm see I grew up in church in rural Mississippi the poorest state in the nation and I grew up in church and our pastor his name was pastor rich that's right Ric H pastor rich and he would rate all from the pulpit God wants you to be poor and the poor we are the holier we are we all see this hey man and we kept him poor boy we kept him broke pants about wore out about split in half in the back pants off shoes all wore out he looked messed up bless his heart bless his heart preach so hardest what he was preaching hmm the boy his name was pastor rich but probably the poorest preacher you ever met in your life and he preached God doesn't want you to have none of this world's goods and he would just he'd let he let it loose and we all suffered oh then he'd really get on that tithing thing that tithing is under the Old Testament law God don't want you tithe then no more make sure you don't tithe what we didn't he was broke working three jobs trying to survive you passed an offering basket just like nickels and pennies and goofy stuff like that he he's like taking the gun shooting himself in the foot lord have mercy thank you Lord Jesus as you lift the Lord's Kingdom agenda up he's going to lift you up he's going to lift you up Oh Lord we give you a praise today oh the humility I think I think some people in the church have muddied the waters and it's left a bad taste in the mouths of many believers because maybe they saw something abused and maybe they saw something that was maybe taken too far but let me tell you what there's always a core thrust there's always a core truth mmm there was one Scandinavian country that was open to a move of God this is a true story that when when Rhema they're in Broken Arrow Oklahoma was in revival back in the 80s and God was moving in the word of faith revelation that God wants you healthy and God wants your needs met and and that revelation begin to touch people and God was blessing God was on that that anointing on that movement on that message there were some people I believe they were in Norway they were told in a prayer meeting as prophets spoke there's a move of God in America and you must go to America to receive the anointing and bring it back it was a Scandinavian country bring it back to this country so they pulled together their best leaders and they sent them to New York they got the New York and they didn't know where the revival was that they'd only heard there's revival in America they got the New York and they asked somebody at the airport where's the revival at oh they said oh it's in is in Oklahoma they're in Broken Arrow it's at Rhema God's doing a move of his spirit there you know it took or Roberts years just to break through with the message God is a good God he would have pastors Pentecostal pastors come up after the service and rebuke him for saying God is a good god I mean you know we've we've moved see we're following the anointing we're following the waves of the Spirit we got the revelation with us can't just move on catch this revelation move on move with the spirit can't you say yes so they they they go to they go to Rhema they see God movie they see the joy the laughter they see the revelation the word this being taught and they said this is what our country needs and they said we want we want you to send brother Hagin we want you to send your best leaders two of your best leaders send them from Oklahoma bring them back to Norway bring them back to our country is either Norway or Finland bring them back to our country and let a minister to our large largest church in the nation and will all receive will all receive well they sent two of their ministers and they got there and when they got there the leaders of the whole Church of the nation rejected the ministers because they said their shoes are too shiny and they missed the entire move of God they rejected it they said we can't receive it they shouldn't be wearing them shiny shoes therefore they must not be of God we reject the whole thing and they missed the whole that move of God mm-hmm and then they struggle and then you know the church begins to die out and they can't they can't figure out why one crutch because you missed your ride mm Jesus mmm true story you say I'm not missing anything God has please stand up it's time to get some jewelry you know you know Kenneth Copeland brother Copeland gave his father a Rolex and time went by he notices that wasn't wearing it so he in a very respectful way said dad um where's the Rolex I gave you he said son I'm too ashamed to wear that out in public he said oh that hurt him hmm he said well aren't you concerned about what I think what how I feel how my feelings are mm mm thank you Jesus there's an old man in Moravian falls I won't tell you his name I talked with him one time and he told me what had really happened in his life I said um I said why are you doing what you're doing he said brother Steven he said um he said I was best friends with Paul Cain how many of you heard of Paul King greatly use of God in the 50s healing revival with William Branham is William Branham couldn't get to a meeting he would send Paul Cain Paul came at that time was a young man he just passed away just recently he sat was best friends with Paul Cain and Paul Cain one day stopped and looked at me and said you're supposed to be doing the same thing I'm doing and but this man never stepped into it I said why did you never step into it he saw he said I saw the way they treated Paul Cain I didn't want anything to do with that all the persecution I saw how they treated Branham I didn't want anything to do with that and so he said I pulled back and I said I said so you didn't step into it he said no he said I'm gonna tell you this he said I had Jesus come to me in a vision I said what did he say to you Jesus he said Jesus said to me I'm offering you the ministry office of the Prophet it's my will for you to step into it do you want it and he said I drop my head and no I said you told the Lord no he said yeah now he's an old man now this is why you never yeah I wouldn't you say his name wouldn't matter you never heard of him I said what did the Lord say when you did that he said he looked at me he said are you telling me you don't want my gift he said that's true Lord that's correct and he said the look of disappointment on the Lord's face still haunts him today but he just wouldn't we wouldn't take it I'm trying to tell you God's got promotion and elevation for you maybe you think I'm not worthy you're not worthy maybe you think oh that's too high for me I used to think God could never call me in the ministry what's wrong I didn't have a kingly anointing mentality I used to think oh god good know none too good maybe somebody else then God was like hey I'm trying to get a hold of you trying to get your attention I'd sit in the meeting full of people sit on the back and the preacher would stop and say well we all know that brother Brooks back there is called by God into the ministry they all whole Church turn around look at me and I think I am but um I am Telling You God's got places for you to walk in maybe you've never even dreamed about God has destined to make an impact praise the Lord and you're blessed where you're at but you're going higher hallelujah what I'm trying to say it's not greed yes some take it into greed but we're gonna cling to the cross while we walk with the Lord while he lifts us up we're gonna we're gonna stay at the foot of the cross but I'm here to tell you today that God's got great blessing for many of you to step into all of you actually but we each have different individual paths you're gonna follow that you're gonna walk into a new dimension of the garden of God of the blessing of God for your life cars and stuff that's just that's the that's just the beginning stuff God goes way beyond that he allows you to make an impact he gives you authority he gives you a voice mmm that's what he's going to do just lift your hands to the Lord for a moment thank you Lord Jesus say Lord Jesus teach me the ways of royalty let your kingly anointing come upon me today in this anointing in this meeting that may be touched with the kingly anointing oh Jesus we praise you I went to a meeting one time and the conference host told me he said Pastor Steven we're gonna stay in this one hotel I said brother um are you sure that hotel is okay oh brother Steven it's anointed I said well that's nice but are you sure it's okay that we stay there I'm a little concerned about the area he goes no it'll be okay so we stayed there and and I had to prayed the whole time it was it was not us not a safe spot not that I'll go anywhere Lord wants me to go but I'm also not gonna endanger my life foolishly well we checked out of the hotel and and we quickly left after the meetings were all done when he checked out and walked in across the parking lot there at the hotel to go to his car a full-blown gang warfare broke out but he's walking right in the middle of it bullets flying by and one-game gang on this side I went on this side they're trying to kill each other and he's right in the middle of it he's like oh brother Steven was right this really is a dangerous area well not do any more meetings here in this area now sometimes you're in places like that for a purpose God will make you bulletproof because I've had I've had cars passed right through me before well the enemy who tried to take me out but when you're walking with the Lord there is an area of your life where you truly are invincible but you don't want to abuse that or ever attempt that oh Jesus we praise you again lift your hands to the Lord there's a I see a purple mental over this meeting today that's gonna come on you is a it's a mental of royalty and the Holy Spirit is gonna catch you in those moments I'm not going to say you're gonna have them but if you have would have a moment where you're starting to get out of character he's gonna say don't act like that you're not supposed to act like that now compose compose thank you Lord Jesus let's worship the Lord with a song of worship as we do that anointing is going to come down we thank you for the anointing of kingship Oh God father we thank you that your Holy Spirit is a teaching God he's going to be unveiling the revelation of kingship anointing to your people lift your hands father let the Royal anointing come upon your people now receive in the name of the Lord Jesus purple mantle of royalty coming on you now hallelujah I see I see heavenly jewelry and garments coming down from heaven right now heavenly items be falling somebody is getting up like a treasure chest that's been given to you others are receiving certain types of ornamental jewelry gifts and graces from God even as the prodigal son had the ring put on his finger some of you are receiving gifts being gift to you right now by the Holy Spirit the Prophet the man of God that gave the testimony my brother I'm sorry your first name again Richard I saw the Lord put a bishop staff in your hand the bishops milk hallelujah and I see that you are a shepherd the Lord says be our Shepherd over many souls and over many ministers and God's going to expand the Ministerial flock under your leadership and I see a great Authority coming out of your voice that people would just be healed you won't have time to lay hands on people just say be healed and they'll receive it and I see the Shepherds that nook and the staff in your hand I see nations being given to you governmental authority being placed upon your shoulders today as see that staff in your hand to the glory of the Lord others you're receiving gifts right now you're receiving gifts right now take it take it receive in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ say the Lord is good one more time let's sing that song to him one more time I just bless see Lord we praise you we thank you that every good and perfect gift comes down from you O God we bless you today please have your seat in the presence of the Lord Jesus you're so good you know prophets to do told me that right after that man sowed the seed to pay off that car to purchase the car the Lord turned right around and gave him a contract that completely refilled the money that he had just sent out hallelujah you could say the Lord paid for the car because in a sense he did mmm let us never be like King Saul who feared the people and behaved according to how the people would respond but would not obey the word of the Lord that came through the prophet Samuel Samuel said kill King Agag and just to wipe out the whole group and he didn't do it and when Saul died it was a it was one of those Amalekites that stuck him with the sword the very thing that he did not do was the thing that was been his be falling at the end praise the Lord Jesus we thank you today let's receive an offering today hallelujah how many of you have heard the song like I had so many times it was real popular back in the 1990's this is the day the Lord has made let us be glad and rejoice in it my brother do you know that song this is the day the Lord has made well how does that go allows that how does that go on the keyboard how does it go [Music] stay right there and hold that song do you love that song were that in the Bible psalm 118 verse 24 we sing to that one don't we and we're going to in just a minute have you ever sung to the verse right after that would have you ever sung and danced to that one can I read it to you are you happy are you happy in the house of God today psalm 118 verse 24 this is the day the Lord has made we will rejoice and be glad in it and so the songs are songs we sing and dance right did you ever sing and dance the verse 25 right after that save now I pray O Lord O Lord I pray sinned now prosperity oh now we can't sing get up well you can sing to the person why not that one o Lord said now prosperity you can just make it up singing 1/2 my heart would you be bold enough and brave enough to dance to that mmm because we dance to verse 24 can you dance to verse 25 amen now watch this watch this this is what it does not say o Lord send prosperity now it does not say that it says something very unusual in the English language as it moves over from the Hebrew it doesn't say sin prosperity right now Lord I need some money right now that's not what it says it actually says sin now prosperity what is now prosperity it's a package deal that God moves you into where you're always in prosperity because if you're in the now you're in the moment and you you're never in a lack mode you're always in a now prosperity mode whew you know what I'm believing for you as you get today that you stay in now prosperity for the rest of your life that your ministry never has a day of lack and that you never know the taste of lack or insufficiency ever again ever amen and I'll tell you this I prophesied this to you if you'll sing and dance to verse 25 and verse 24 you'll never know lack another day in your life but you got now watch this I believe I'm amongst some Pentecostals I'm amongst some people with some African roots that know how to get loose and praise the Lord amen so you got to be brave to dance to verse 25 okay I don't even know how it goes but it will try to figure it out but I believe you have to be bold and brave cause a lot of the church let's just sing verse 24 but they the devil don't want you to sing verse 25 all right I get you're getting ready we're gonna dances singing just a moment get your giving ready how many of you sent some kind of something came on you from heaven what happened to you yes you got it so in your career field rule and reign in that area Lord lifts you to the top what happened amen you've been off the whole time happy good you've been in the Golden Glory the whole time the Lord bless you are you smell yes a fragrance again you've been wrapped in a fragrance the whole time it just started swirling as soon as we started talking what happened yes Amen Lord we just think you receive okay who you sense you sense are writing the xix you want to write lift your hand I want to pray for you stand up we want to write in the nineteen this is a grace cuts put on my life so I can release this to you okay you since you have something to write every prophet used to be spending gonna give you something that right every prophet please stand there's you've got something on the I know you do I know you do okay don't worry about it published or anything like that God will hook you up he'll that's the easy part okay Heavenly Father everybody's standing Lord desiring the the silver pin the writers anointing let an angel be released and assigned to them right now to help them right father I just pray that your Holy Spirit would come and structure their life where they have the time to write and they have a place to write and the father give them that little escape that little retreat where they can go and father bless them to be able to knock out chapter one over the next thirty days they will at least get chapter one cuz I know if they do that that will be up and running and they'll complete the manuscript and complete the book so father I just released this grace over your writers now receive in the name of Jesus and take it and put it to use god bless you please take your seat amen there's gonna be some books next time hallelujah brother you got a book to write you've got a book to write so lord I just bless that I know many are standing I just released that anointing for that book they'll pop out hallelujah blessed and anointed Thank You father God in the name of Jesus father we give you praise we give you praise today are you ready to sow your seed thank you Lord Jesus let's stand up Lord we give you praise whoo there's just a lot of things still coming down from heaven right now there's a lot of things still coming down Lord we bless you this there's a lot going on in the spirit that's why I mean if not not sure which it's like a buffet in here not sure which direction to go but having fun with the Lord Lord we just give you praise hold your giving up to the Lord say Lord Jesus my expectations are high Lord Jesus you're a good god you said in Psalm 84 that you withhold no good gift from those that love you and serve you so Lord that means me now hold it to the Lord father with these seeds that are being sown these gifts of love father I just prayed that you bring back a harvest even as father jesus said the 30 60 100 fold I pray that they all hit the 100 fold which is your very best for their life and that you would bring back into their lives those things that they most need and I seeing finished books all over this room from the writers I see that the books going to be written and printed and published your covers are going to be so beautiful and not only that the main thing is God's gonna give them circulation God's gonna give your books circulation in the name of Jesus and there will be an audience yeah you may some of you may think well no no trust me there's gonna be an audience it's a big planet of over seven million people so father we thank you in the name of Jesus bless these seeds and father we're gonna dance and praise you because we believe that you are sending now prosperity in the name of Jesus shout and say amen praise God alright let's get some ushers up to the front let's bring it up to the front come on and bring it up you can dance it up if you like