Abel is the first shepherd. Later, David will say the Lord is my shepherd. Abel, his occupation validates his shadow that he is the first shepherd. He is the good shepherd.
When anxiety attacks, you are anxious because you have forgotten that your steps have been ordered. The Bible teaches that he cannot curse what God has blessed. He can't stop you from being blessed.
Your future is not in your peelings, your future is not in your fruit, your future is in your core. You are going to be transformed by your core. You cannot transform the peelings.
Whatever it is, if you keep saying it, it happens. Speak the Word only and thy servant shall be healed. Speaking the Word releases the power of God to operate in your life.
Get out of Gethsemane means you need to understand it costs what it costs, and it's not going on sale. You got to do what you got to do. And there is no escaping it, and there is no out clause
What they were praying for had been answered before they knew it. Peter was out before he knew it. Their prayers were answered before they knew it. Rhoda tried to tell them. They wouldn't hear it.
The message is called: It Works for Me. Some people don't understand why it works for you, they criticize and they don't get it. They don't understand that your faith, your walk with God.
There is a way to live with uncertainty and still be rooted and be grounded and be strengthened. And I want to share with you how, for the next few moments, living with uncertainty.
You're remembering what happened. He's saying: Remember what I said. When they walked up on the tomb, the stone had been rolled way, and what they had seen had made them forget what they had heard
And if you find your towel, you'll be dressed for what's next. When God sees your towel, ain't no grave can hold your body down. When God sees your service. Tonight, I have nothing to offer you.
Jesus knew that there were many, many people who do not have the capacity to receive, yea, even good things in their lives. They are self-saboteurs. They sabotage their own successes.
There are no shortcuts to success. There are no shortcuts. You gotta go through what you gotta go through. You gotta move like you gotta move. If you don't study, it won't happen.
I didn't come down here to talk to you about sheeps, and goats, and tents, and where you're gonna live, I came to talk to you about generations. There's something inside of you that I'm gonna use.
When I have an instinctive idea it will die in the crib if I don't bring a team around it that has similar instincts to increase but diverse perspectives of influence and contribution.
In today's message, Bishop will show us that if we look at our situation with the correct set of eyes, things may not be as bad as they appear. Take a look at this message.
If you're going through something right now that seems insurmountable, if you got a little bit of faith, he's the God of a little bit. You don't have to have a mountain of faith for a mountain of problems.
You will not find your wings until you go to your scary place. That is a place where you'll find your wings... not theirs, yours. You will only fulfill your purpose when you find yours.
And if you find your towel, you'll be dressed for what's next. When God sees your towel, ain't no grave can hold your body down. When God sees your service. Tonight, I have nothing to offer you.
You don't partner with people who are good at what you're good at, you don't partner with people to duplicate your success, you partner with people to accessorize your limitations.