The Theology of Quietness - Bishop T.D. Jakes

[Music] go to your Bibles the gospel of St Matthew chap 27 11-14 there you will find the word of the Lord and we're jumping right into the middle of all hell breaking loose Jesus the Messiah of Jerusalem has fallen into the hands of a Roman governor who is about to make a decision about his life kingdoms are colliding with kingdoms disciples are running people are scattering nobody is sure they have interpreted the scriptures expecting God to do one thing only to realize that even the scriptures did not fully articulate the method that God was going

to move they had seen the Messiah and the prophets had prophesied it but no prophesies no prophecies came through about the cross and now Jesus is HED for the cross and you know how people scatter when you become [Music] controversial they with you when when you going up but but but if you become controvers if there's too much talk at the kitchen table in the family reunion at Barber Shop people start getting away they just they just leave so they C the 5,000 were gone the woman with the issue of blood is gone all of

the people the 10 lepers are gone everybody's gone their own way and Jesus is standing trial before a governor Matthew 27 And1 and Jesus stood before the governor oh I love him stood straight up stood right in front of me and the governor asked him saying are Thou King of the Jews and Jesus said unto him thou sayest Jesus don't tell me that Jesus didn't get smart Jesus got smart in handcuffs thou says and when he was accused of the chief priest and the elders he answered nothing and said hear thou not how many things

they witness against thee and he answered him never a word and he answered him never a word in so much that the governor scratched his head he's not trying to get out of it he's not trying to get away from it he's not trying to defend himself the governor marveled greatly because Jesus says nothing at all and the governor marveled greatly not at the wisdom but at the silence can you hear what I'm saying to you I want to use a subject today the Theology of quietness the the theology the Theos God Qui the Theology

of quietness or if I were to use a subtopic The Silence of the Lamb Spirit of the Living God Falls fresh on us today as we Embark upon your word help me to complete my assignment effectively and skillfully that I might be seen doing what you called me to do in this last and evil day I thank you Lord for what you shared with me and what you're going to do in Jesus name we pray amen you may be seated in the presence of God it reads like you made me laugh it it reads like

two men are having a discussion but that is very superficial the veneer of the text looks like there is a controversy between two men two Powers two authorities it looks like one has dominated the the other but that is just the veneer of the text most people when they read the Bible preach from the veneer of the text without going down to the solidarity of the wood Beneath The Carpenter's son has worked his way up from obscurity to notoriety and notoriety always cost you something y'all don't hear what I'm saying people don't talk about who

they don't notice give it up for Michael call you God bless you good to see you in the house yeah if I can't pull this message you get up and tell some jokes we going to be okay he he has the responsibility of standing hand Head and Shoulders above other men in what he was able to do unlike Saul it's not that Jesus is tall his work is tall it is impactful and it's doing something and it's stirring up something and it has created a problem a multipronged problem he is not fully accepted by the

religious leaders of his time in fact they hated him religion always hates Revelation so if you're going to be a preacher and move in faith and you have not gotten healed from your need to be lacked run don't walk run because if you are not disliked you are unnoticed while some are running to you some are going to be running from you that's the nature of the job it happened to Jesus it's going to happen to you you can't tiptoe around it and try to be so nice that you don't make no waves because you

were called to make waves you you were called to stir up stuff you were called to get on people's nerves don't take it personally because it is not really two men bantering over an issue it is two kingdoms the kingdoms are in conflict in the text it is the kingdom of darkness and the Kingdom of Light that is working in the underpinning of The Story You're praying about your story but you don't understand there's a Warfare going on Beneath Your Story You're praying about the details I'm talking about the strategy you you you're talking you're

talking to God about the inconvenience but you're not getting to the under fact that Satan has a plot against you that has a plot against you and the kingdoms are in Conflict not only are the kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness in Conflict you have the Roman Sovereign Co colonialization that was done then and still being done now to take over new territories and we have before us a pallet who is a governor of a colony whereby Rome is spreading and taking authority over Jerusalem yeah taking Authority taking Authority it is not Rome

but it's under Rome you you are not the enemies but you can be under the enemy's Attack under the enemy's control the there was a little boy in the airport and he was on his father's shoulders and he had him by the ears and he said Daddy go left and the daddy went left and he turned his ears said Daddy go right and the daddy went right the boy had not possessed him but he was on him and had oppressed him it is not so much that Satan Is possessing you but he's trying to control

you control your peace and control your reactions and control how you respond and control how you feel and this is a battle for control power against Power leader against leader Magistrate against magistrate and we have a governor questioning a [Music] king what kind of Madness is that that the governor representing Rome which means he wasn't a very great Governor because Rome had sent him to a detail that was not highly respected and thrown him down in Jerusalem and there little people always try to be big oh I'm preaching way better than y'all shall little people

you give a little person a title and you got hell to pay and Herod has a little title and he's standing up here questioning the King of Kings and the Lord of lords he's questioning the Ancient of Days the Creator is being test Ed by the creation and he's questioning him under duress because his wife on one hand women thank you for being sensitive and intuitive has had a dream and told him you got to be careful about this Jesus thing cuz it's not what it appears to be I had a dream in the night

and it's going to cause you some trouble I'm tell you something I cannot prove it by the Bible but there's something in women I don't know whether it's a chip I don't know whether it's device but there is something in women I won't say y'all always right I ain't going to give you that much but there you all do have a metal detector and herod's wife had told him this is not what it appears to be there's something working up under this and you got to be careful how you handle this Jesus thing which led

to Herod washing his hands with water because he didn't want the blood of Jesus on his hands because his wife had kind of shook him up telling him you don't want to get in this mess there are some messes you don't take on you don't get in every fight you don't get in every storm you don't get in every test you don't you don't get in every situation and and so you got that Dynamic going on and there he is testing the King of Kings and the Lord of lords and the Mighty God and the

Everlasting father and the Prince of Peace he is talking to the ey I am like he ain't he is talking to his creator as if he has power over his creator he is talking to him like Jesus is subservient he is talking to him like he has power over Jesus future and then shocked because Jesus does not answer a word and it is hard for you to conceive it because there are three things that the enemy is after I want you to get these down they're very important the reason he is doing what he's doing

to you is because he's after your power he's after your power until you until you don't know who you are he wouldn't be fighting you if you didn't have power he's after your power he's after your purpose and he's after your press your abilities your talents your skill the way you do what you do and the way that you do it he hates the way you can get it done he hates the way how people are influenced by you he does not want your power he does not want your purpose and he does not want

your proess so anything he can do to D destroy your press he will do it if it's keep you up at night if it make you walk the floor in the middle of the night if it's oppressed your mind if it's break your heart if it's break relationships if it's worrying you to death about situation you cannot control anything he can do to incarcerate you he's doing it because of your power he's doing it because of your purpose and he's doing it because of your proess because over time he wants you to lose your proest

where where where you don't have that thing that thing that nebulous thing that that proest that makes you do what you do like you do it the way you think the way you function the way you drive the way you move he's after your press he wants to beat you down till you're only a shadow of what you could be he's after your press that's why you were molested that's why you were raped that's why you were rejected that's why you were ostracized the enemy would never let you go through whatever you went through if

it were not for your power your purpose and your proest he wants you to be crippled he wants you to be needy he wants you to be shattered he wants you to be independent or codependent he wants you to be at your wits in he wants you to have no confidence in yourself because he's after your power he's after your purpose he's after your press he's after your what what what say it again uh-huh uh-huh that's see that's the sum total of what you need to get through this world you going to need some power

you going to need some purpose you going to need some proess press is what sets you apart from other every other man in the room press is what makes you unique and nobody can duplicate you they can imitate you but they can't duplicate you because your press is as unique as your DNA your pro the way you do what you do when you do it like you do it that's your press and he wants to take it away from you and he wants to break you down and he wants to make you subservient and he

wants to make you submit and he wants to make you answer to him and he wants to make you obey him because in so doing if you answer him you also acknowledge Him as being the greater power and there are some things you don't answer to I don't care how many times they say it when you know you're not that don't answer to it if your name is Susie and I'm calling you Mary Keep On Walking there's some stuff you don't respond to because you know who you are you know your power you know your

purpose and you know your pro keep your press you might lose your job but keep your press you might have to move in with your mama but keep your press you might go through a storm but keep your press because that's what gots you up in the first place if you lose your power if you lose your purpose if you lose your proess you have lost everything power is your decision making uh ability to act on the decisions you make purpose is what guides you as to what not to fight because once you understand your

purpose you stop swinging at stuff that doesn't have anything to do with your Divine Purpose there are some things that the enemy sends to distract you who am I I preaching to in this place and so pilot is having this discussion with Jesus and he's consulted the religious leaders because he doesn't want to be guilty of making a Roman decision against the king of the Jews he wants the Jews to reject him and he needs to be rejected oh I wish I had time he needs to be rejected by because the Bible said he came

unto his own and his own received him not and so that the scriptures might be fulfilled there are seasons of rejection you're not being rejected because you're not good enough it's part of the plan of God that you be rejected you only praise God when he opens doors but I praise God when he shuts him you only praise God when you're comfortable but I'm learning to praise God when I'm Afflicted because the more they Afflicted them the Bible said the more they grew glory to God this going to be a tough one today but I'm

going preach it till I get where I'm trying to go and in the middle of the Affliction keep your power keep your purpose keep your press yeah you broke but yeah you down but yeah you're [Music] uncertain but keep your press cuz that's what the fight is about the fight is about your power the fight is about your purpose that means he's not fighting you over where you are he's fighting you over where you're going purpose speaks to Destiny purpose speaks to how things end up and because you're worried about where you are you think

the fight is about now no the fight is about tomorrow the fight is about a stone being rolled away the fight is about you ascending in a cloud the fight is above you reaching the throne and putting the Blood On The Mercy Seat and so he's after his purpose the end of all things eschatology his purpose my destination my I have arrived you know how you driving your GPS and you get to a certain point and all of a sudden it stops giving you Direction cuz it says you have arrived at your destination some of

you the enemy doesn't want you to arrive at your destination but hell is a liar because God is about to do something in your life shout hallelujah in this place now we know that Jesus does not want to go to the cross it is proven In The Garden of Gethsemane that Jesus has an aversion to the Cross we know that he didn't want to go to the Cross we know that he didn't enjoy being betrayed by a disciple he picked by a disciple he fed by a disciple he traveled with that's not fun we know

that he despised The Shame of the Cross but for the joy that was set before him he endured it so we're talking about endurance we're talking about enduring things without murmuring we're talking about enduring things without complaining we're talking about enduring things without disrupting your attitude what we're talking about is not easy so the Jesus Who Cried Out to the father who cried out to the father if it be thy will pass this bitter cup from me gets before pilot and says nothing you know why he doesn't say anything cuz pilot don't have no real

power if I'm going to empty out how I feel about it I'm going to empty out that emptied out before the Holy Spirit who is my comforter who is my counselor who is my therapist but I'm not going to empty it out in front of somebody that has no power to change my circumstances how many times have we said the right thing to the wrong person we know that he's the captain of the host and that he could have called 10,000 angels we know that he has the power of God in him we know that

the word of God is the sword of the spirit and if he had wanted to he could have stopped all of it at will just by opening his mouth there was so much power in his mouth that when they came to arrest him and said are you Jesus he said I that speak am he and they fell back for dead the power in his mouth was so powerful that we understand that if Jesus opened his mouth Court would be closed y'all didn't hear that if Jesus opens his mouth cancer would disappear if Jesus opens his

mouth the gun wouldn't go off even if it was loaded if Jesus opens his mouth they how you going to fire me if Jesus opens his mouth and the real question of the text is does is is it better to fight this fight as the lion of the tribe of Judah or the Lamb of God because Jesus has duality and so do you there are two sides and you don't know which one to throw do do I come in on a horse and my sword drawn ready to kill or do I come in as a

lamb because both things are true about all of us all of us have a lion and all of us have a lamb but not all of us have direction as to which one you need for the fight that you're in and sometimes you're roaring when you ought to be quiet and sometimes you're quiet when you ought to be roaring Jesus has decided that in order to accomplish his purpose he can't Roar through this Isaiah 30:15 says for thus sayith the Lord God the Holy One of is Israel in returning and rest shall ye be saved

in returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength so this is what strength looks like strength looks like quiet in other words be still and know that I am God oh in other words hold your peace and the Lord will fight your battle I feel like I'm prophesying to somebody and I don't know who it is it's not that you can't think of nothing to say it's just that this is not the time for the lion to Roar this is the time that you got to

come as a lamb you got to be wise as a Serpent and harmless as a dog and you got to know when to lose I told a friend of mine was getting ready to play a golf game and he's getting ready to play a golf game against a client and I said listen don't let your ego get the best of you lose the game because sometime what good is winning the game if you lose the deal your ego is stroke but we lost the deal sometimes the strongest thing is to let them win so Jesus

could have stopped it all he could have swallowed pilot up but he held his peace oh my God oh my God are you with me this morning I say are you with me this morning he did not open his mouth because even on the cross with his back beaten and his inals hanging out as long as he kept talking he couldn't die because in his hands are the words of eternal life because he doesn't need anything to make something out of nothing because if he opens his mouth and says Let There Be it'll be whatever

he says so death couldn't take him as long as he was talking if it's true about you the power of life and death is in the tongue how much more is it true about Jesus that death could not take Jesus as long as he was talking and if you in here right now you ought to open your mouth and say something let hell know you're not dead give me some power on this monitor let hell know you're not dead let the sickness know it ain't working let the enemies know that they can't curse you let

the witch know that she can't stop you if you just wiggle your toe the whole building might have caved in on you but if you open your mouth power of life and death is in your [Applause] mouth slap somebody and say the power is in the word healing is in the word direction is in the word Deliverance is in the word breakthroughs are in the word oh y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you look at somebody say it's in the word it's in the word it's in the word it's in the word it's in

the word it's in the word the problem with us is we don't understand the difference between the scriptures and the word this is the word of God the Bible is the word of God but it is not all of the [Music] word let me prove it to you John 1:1 says in the beginning what's the word what no pens in the beginning what no typewriters in the beginning was no printing press in the beginning was no Bible in the beginning and yet in the beginning was the word it doesn't have to be the written word

to be the word of God when God said let there be there was nobody there to write it down but it still happened because the word stands outside of the scriptures y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you you don't hear what I'm saying the word was made flesh and the Bible had not been completed so the Bible couldn't be made flesh the word transcends the scriptures before there were scriptures there was the word of God standing out there on absolutely nothing word all by itself the word is so powerful oh I feel like preaching

that the Bible said speak the word only and my servant will be healed there was no new testament but the word spoken the spoken word man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God and the Bible wasn't being finished written and yet the word existed the word said speak to the dry bones not the scriptures the scriptures are written in retrospect to the incident but the word pre-existed what happened in the Valley of the D so I prophesied and I was commanded and there was a

noise and a shaking somebody say the word the word the word in the beginning was word there is there is translated in Greek the very fact that it's translated in Greek means that it is written after the fact Paul has not yet been to Mars Hill the gree the Greek had not yet been converted therefore the Bible had not yet been completed it was completed in Greek which comes later after the cross sir in the beginning was logos and logos was God and logos was with God and traditional understanding of the word logos means not

just word but thought principle or speech nothing about logos means [Music] ridden there was no Bible in the creation that's right Nineveh had no Bible and yet they repented oldest book of the Bible is the Book of Job the pentat Genesis Exodus Leviticus Deuteronomy and numbers is written by Moses that's thousands of years after the creation this comes later this is the written word of God but God is Not subject to penmanship John 21:25 let me prove it and there were also many other things which Jesus did the which if they should be ridden if

it were written what Jesus did if it were written what Jesus did everyone I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written but these written that you might believe so what you have is just a [Applause] syllabus y'all don't want to play with me this morning this is just a syllabus this is just a compacted concentrated representative of the wholeness of what God has to say sometimes what God has to say you don't have a scripture for it but God said it God said it in your belly God

said it in your spirit God said it to your Grandmama God said it in your soul shall [Applause] yes the sword of the spirit is the word of God if Jesus would have spoke he'd have stabbed Herod with a word because the sword of the spirit is the word of God no Bible the Bible is always written in retrospect yeah is after the fact the word is present tense by the time Moses wrote let there be light the creation was over yeah never confuse the word with the Bible the Bible is the written word of

God and these scriptures were written that you might believe it is not the full hystero of all that God is and all that God can do and all that God will do oh let me get out of here cuz I'm I'm into something I'm into something Have You Ever Had God speak something to you tell you don't go tonight don't go on Friday you ain't got no Bible for it but you got a word from the Lord don't get married you got a word from the Lord there is no verse that says don't get married

but you got a word from God touch somebody say the word the word the word the word the word the word the word the word the word sit down I'm just talking to you but I feel like something's going to happen in here this morning I feel glory in this room I feel anointing in this room I feel power in this room I feel yoke breaking in this room I feel Deliverance in this room you got a word in your belly you got a word in your spirit you got a word in your soul you

got a word to tell you get on the highway you got a word to tell you take the exit ramp you ain't got no verse four but God gave you a word you don't know why you did it but you got off the highway because God leads his children by the power of His word slap somebody say I got a word I got a word that will protect my power I got a word that will protect my purpose I got a word that will protect my Prest you can have my coat but you can't have

my dignity ask Joseph take my coat but I'm still covered with the favor of God you can take my coat and dip it in Blood and low me and say I'm dead but it won't stop the favor of God because the favor didn't come through the coat the favor came through the word God said it Scriptures said I am [Applause] better sit down sit down down I feel something so I I I I got to thinking about it I said Lord I want to understand this Lamb of God and so which brought me to is

there a difference between Lambs in Palestine and Lambs in the rest of the world so I started studying Lambs the lamb that we're talking about in Palestine is called an a SE lamb it is a unique brand of lamb that is designed to withstand the climate in the Middle East you just thought a lamb is a lamb is a lamb but an our sea lamb has a different nature it has the ability to survive the hot climate the Sandy Dooms to eat less food and hold on to it for longer periods of time it tends

to have a dark face because the melanin protects it from the heat of the Sun put my picture up of the Lamb it looks a little different yeah it has a little different demeanor this is what an our SE lamb has the ability to withstand adversity it is adaptable it is flexible if you want to be like the Lamb of God you've got to be adaptable you got to be flexible you got to serve God in season and out of season you got to preach when you feel like it preach when you don't feel like

it you got to praise when you're happy you got to praise when you're blue cuz an our sea lamb is able to withstand whatever it produces more wool it produces more Dairy it has more ability it yields 58 to 77 lers of milk during a 150-day lactation so the a SE lamb has a different value because the amount of milk that it is able to produce the amount of wool it is able to produce put it in a unique category it is an our SE lamb an our SE lamb has a different personality it has

a temperament of adaptability I don't care where you put it it will adapt to wherever it is I'm talking about some of you you I don't care where we put you you will find a way to survive because you got that lamb likee nature down inside of you whereas your girlfriend is rigid and stubborn and won't listen and you can't tell her nothing but I don't care where we put you you will find a way to shine because you have the nature not just of a lamb but an ay lamb is confined to the to

the Middle East are you hearing what I'm saying to you in summary in the Aly L is a kind of sheep that are not only hearty but also valuable for milk and meat production in the region they're calm temperament watch this their calm temperament and adaptability contribute to their uh their popularity in the Middle East they were loved because they were quiet under attack Jesus acts like the lamb that David raised the kind of lamb that goes to the slaughter and doesn't say a thing in the garden he was talking but the closer he got

to the cross the less he had to say because he had to be an ay lamb and a ay lamb is just as calm going to the slaughter as it is going to the grass field yeah so he humbled himself and he never said a mumbling word because it is the nature and the temperament of an ay lamb to shut up this is the Theology of quietness that sometimes God says nothing go to a land I will show you you and says nothing else you shall come forth as pure gold and says nothing else if

you destroy the temple I'll raise it up again no details it says nothing else and our see Lamb just goes whether it is to the shearers or the slaughterhouse or the feeding it just goes Jesus power is proven in his submission to the purpose and because pallet had nothing to do with the purpose he got no answer anybody that doesn't have nothing to do with your purpose does not do deserve an answer if you argue with them and you win what do you get so stop responding to everything they say on Twitter and Instagram because

there is no Prize or reward you get let them I don't like your hair so do you think I'm going to change my hair cuz some stranger wrote a line that says you don't like my glasses on me these are the tactics of the enemy to distract you from your purpose and Jesus doesn't answer him because you can win the battle and lose the war oh God I'm talking to somebody I don't know who it is stop letting the enemy distract you with every battle sometimes you just don't say nothing it is the Theology of

quietness there were times God said nothing at all what we historians call the 400 years of Silence God said nothing at all it mirrors the 400 years that Abraham's seed was down in Egypt for 400 years God said nothing at all but just because God ain't saying nothing that mean that God ain't doing nothing he's always doing something even when he ain't saying nothing though he slay me yet shall I trust him I I if he lay me down he'll raise me up again if he puts me in it he'll bring me out of it

if he puts me in the Lion's dead he'll raise me from the Lion's dead if he puts me in the jail house he'll shake the jail housee I feel like doing the Jail House Rock because somebody's About to Rock their way out of a jail everybody laughing at you but you're coming out I don't know who I'm talking to but thus say the word of the Lord they think they going to kill you in the morning but before they get to your cell I'm going to send a breakthrough in your life and all you got

to do is go to sleep like a good osy lamb and know that he that have began a good work in you shall perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ somebody give me my sleepy [Applause] praise a resting praise a praise that releases your anxiety a praise that Comforts your mind a praise that renews your spirit you ain't got to say nothing be still and know I'm God I got this the battle is not yours it belongs to me give them to me can I go a little bit deeper I want to make a

difference between superficial strength and internal fortitude we spent we spent six billion dollars a year on weightlifting equipment gym memberships personal trainers and related fitness Services all so that we can look strong and buff and it's good it's good for your health I'm not speaking against it I'm just making a point but when you get in a spiritual battle biceps can't help you trips can't help you it's nice to have abs I guess I got some down in here somewhere but let me tell you something ABS won't help you when your soul is up under

attack just cuz somebody looks strong doesn't mean that they are strong just because they talk strong doesn't mean that they are strong we confuse strength with anger so we think that because a person is angry they're strong and then they get cancer and you find out they're cussing cancer out does not drive it out you talk a good fight but what is under attack is your inner strength your inner ability your fight back on the inside that I will arise still I arise spit on me Still I Rise beat me Still I Rise nail me

to the tree Still I Rise put me in the Tomb still I ride somebody shout still I ride you ought to be shout right now when you look at all the hell you've been through and you still sitting here today you know you ought to be praising God you know they tried to take you out you know you couldn't defend yourself you had to hold your peace and still you r i want 30 seconds of Crazy Praise I want a praise a praise a praise a praise a praise a praise a praise a praise a

praise I feel a praise I feel a praise coming in the house I feel a praise coming in the house let it come in let it come in this house still I ride I thought I would have a nervous breakdown but still I ride I thought I would lose my mind but still I ride I thought everything was over but still I ride I don't know who I'm talking to but you're still here you need to blow your put on a hat and blow your whistle and throw yourself a party stop waiting on anybody to

throw you a party but celebrate the fact that you're still here it's not by might it's not by power it's by my spirit say the Lord you may have to crawl like the woman with is your blood but you still touch the hym of His Garment Shout [Applause] yes we spend 1.6 billion dollars getting facelifts the cost of a face and a necklift varies depending on what region you is but $1.6 billion is old numbers it's probably about 2 billion now but when you you get in grief looking younger when your daughter get through cussing

you out when you find your mama with her needle in her arms this kind of strength don't even matter you beautiful sister come in looking beautiful but it don't help if we in the emergency room the strength you need is a wasi strength the strength on the inside the strength to hold your peace the strength to be still the strength to intercede the strength to survive grief stricken heartbroken mind confused don't know where tomorrow is coming from but still there's something inside of you that has the ability to survive am I talking to the right

people I'm going give you just a few points can can I go a little bit deeper Inner Strength evolves from exposure to the holy spirit because it's not enough for me to tell you you need inner strength and not tell you where to get it Inner Strength evolves from the Holy Spirit Spirit the Spirit Led Jesus in the wilderness to be tempted are you hearing what I'm saying the spirit led him the spirit doesn't just lead you to the car lot to get a special price on the car the spirit doesn't just lead you to

a house or gold or silver the spirit leads you to trouble that strengthens you inwardly oh ain't nobody shouting now cuz when they anointing come on you you think the anointing just comes for you to come in and take over sometimes the anointing comes in for you to suffer so that you can develop Inner Strength that's why you're confused you think how can I be so anointed and still be unhappy because you think the anointing job is to make you happy the anointing job is to strengthen you [Music] inwardly and God wants you to stop

murmuring because when you murmur you turn a three days journey into a 40-year trip because of your mouth when you murmur and complain you make it elongate whereas if you just hold your peace and follow the Theology of quietness it will soon be over endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ it's not just enduring it it's how you endure it you got to be able to endure it and not change your attitude and not get bitter and not get smart and not try to straighten people out and that's not easy to do but

God said in order to get through this battle you're in right now you going to have to shut up it is the silence of the Lamb the a lamb in Jude 1:20 I want you to have this this is very important I've been knowing this scripture for almost 50 years it is very important but ye beloved building up yourselves on your Most Holy Faith praying in the Holy Ghost when I get up under attack I start praying in the spirit I start praying in tongues cuz I got to bypass my soulish man man I don't

want my feelings to start directing the prayer cuz if my feelings direct the prayer I'm going to start praying crazy stuff like kill them kill all of them kill all of them may they drop dead and fall over in the floor and may maggots eat them before the EMTs get there that's what my my so I can't trust my mind to pray because my mind has been affected by what my flesh is going through but the spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings and moanings that cannot but be uttered for he that knoweth the

will of God searches the heart and the man it's the catheter it cleans me out it sanctifies me it gets me right he gets my head on straight so if you want to strengthen your inner man you got to start praying more in the Holy Ghost you got to start walking through the house talking about and you say what good does that do I don't understand you don't need to understand that's why we're doing it we don't want you to understand we want you to obey we want you to submit we want you to say

yes and we want a prayer that has not been polluted by your opinion this you can do at home you don't need no equipment you don't need no trainer you don't need no device you can start walking around in your hotel room I feel it getting to me I feel it getting to me if I'm going shut my mouth I got to be strong enough in the spirit to pray in the Holy Ghost I feel something about to hit this place I feel something about to rock this place every witch needs to get out the

door cuz the Holy Ghost is about to hit the house if the Holy Ghost hit the house every yoke is going to break every warlock needs to run I feel the presence of God coming in this place somebody give me my praise I just need a praise I just need a praise I need a praise I need a praise I need a praise I need a praise I just need anybody anybody that don't care what you got on don't care what you look like don't care what you built like don't care how long your hair

is give him a praise like you lost your mind give him a praise out of your belly out of your spirit out of your isness out of your the depths of your being I feel something about to break loose I feel something about to break loose I feel the spirit of God about to take over this place hell is nervous demons are trembling Satan is upset cuz you're getting strength in your inner man out of your belly shall flow rivers of Living Water I feel water coming into your dry places if you open your mouth

and give God the glory you're going to build yourself up build yourself up you don't need a new man you don't need a new woman you don't need a new job you need to build yourself up up up up I set up I set up I feel something about to happen in this place but number two I want you to get this number two you got to understand that inner strength comes from strong associations you can't run with weak people and get stronger you got to run with people that are strong pick out strong people

not mean people not hateful people strong people pick your friends by how they took a licking and they kept on ticking pick your friends that been through hell and H water and still they got up do you hear what I'm saying stop being drawn only to people who need you for this next year we're going through you need people that feed you that pour into you that challenge you that make you read that make you study that make you pray cuz you getting ready to go higher slap your neighbor and say I'm getting ready for

higher I'm getting ready for higher I'm training for the Olympics I'm training for what's next I'm training for what God is about to do I'm training for my purpose I'm training for my prophecy I'm training for my proess I'm training for my power I might not look like I got power I may only be 3 feet tall and weigh 85 lbs but man looks on the outward appearance God looks at the heart I'm stronger than I look like I'm tougher than I look like cuz I've been through enough hell that I've been exercising the power

of God in my life so I want to draw people that got Inner Strength so that my associations will reflect where I'm going to can I go just a little bit deeper I got two more two more little quick points I'm going to give them real quick and I'll be out the way inner strength comes from prayer and we have raised the church that stop praying they praise but they don't pray they dance but they don't pray you don't see any churches anymore that have prayer meetings what nobody speaking was no big name singing the

star of the show was prayer we came in praying we had a quick devotion and everybody hit their knees and said Satan you're Li you're coming against my house but you can't have my house I plead the blood the blood of the Lamb the blood of Jesus Holy Ghost take over me don't let me say what I want to say but help me to hold my peace the battle is not mine it belongs to you father I Stretch My Hands To Thee no other help know I'm not looking to you for help I'm not looking

to you for help I'm not trying to manipulate you to get help cuz you ain't my God so I ain't got to talk to you pilot you didn't get me in this and you can't get me out now under him that is able [Applause] oh there's something happening in the balcony there's something happening in the backr there's something happened in the CER section somebody over there got a breakthrough somebody over there got a breakthrough if you got a breakthrough over there open your mouth and give God some praise [Music] [Applause] [Music] my fourth and final

point of how to strengthen yourself is simply this inner strength comes from healthy Soul Talk what are you saying to yourself you are making yourself sick feeding your self the poison that gives you pain rehearsing it over and over again envisioning it over and over again and you can't be strong eating weak food it ain't what they said about you it's what you said to yourself it's not what they did to you is what you did to yourself you need healthy Soul talk I'm the man for the job I know I can do it I

know the favor of God is with me I know that God is for me I know I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me a thousand may fall at my right side 10,000 may fall at my left side but it shall not come n me cuz I know in whom I have believed you got to start talking to yourself better cuz if you don't talk to yourself better you'll start dating anybody that talks good to to you because there's such a deficit for some positivity that I can trick you just by being nice

to you you haven't had no niceness in so long that you're so thirsty that any con man can come out along and say something that you ought to be saying to yourself I date myself I take myself out to dinner I buy myself some flour I get myself some for the birth every year I have a birthday I buy myself a present in case everybody else forget me I don't forget myself I feel the power of the Holy Ghost about to shake this place down it's about to shake this place down touch your neighbor and

tell them I'm about to shake this place down if you're nervous you might better move if you're upset you might better get out the way if you got a hearing problem you might better move uh cuz I feel the power of the Holy Ghost about to break loose in this place lift your voice and give God a praise I said a praise I said a praise a 30 second praise praise him till you start talking right praise him till you started thinking right pra them till you feel the power of the Holy Ghost in your

soul praise him till you become your own best friend praise him till you feel a renew down in your belly praise [Music] him praise him till you stop needing the validation of pallet praise him until you Astound them over what you said nothing about you never even let on it was an issue and the Bible says pallet was astonished because of the silence of the Lambs Jesus could be silent because he knew his purpose was not with pallet his purpose was with the resurrection he just had to go through pallet so he didn't respond to

pallet because pallet was a part of the process Judas was a part of part of the process Jesus knew what he was going to do before he did it but he didn't stop him because he wasn't part of the process after Judas did it he regretted it and tried to give the money back they wouldn't take the money back because it was too late he was fulfilling the process and when you're going through the process you got to shut up shut up yeah you got to go shut up this is the Theology of quietness this

is what makes you a peculiar people that's What Makes You peculiar not dressing weird and acting weird and saying strange stuff and Kroger no the ability to just be still until you bring all parts of yourself into subjection and you accept it is what it is it's going to do what it's going to do it's going to be what it's going to be when we get through talking I still got to go through the cross when we get through negotiating I still got to go through the cross when we get through but but I'm not

worried about the cross because I know that I might die on Friday evening but I know it ain't over on Friday even I might look gone all day Saturday but I know it ain't over based on Saturday but if you happen to get up early Sunday morning go down to the Grave side and see how got over I didn't say anything over here because actions speak louder than words and the Lord told me to tell you you can show them better than you can tell them I don't know who I'm talking to but the Lord

said you can show them better than you can tell them don't say nothing about it just be about it you've been in a Friday night experience uh but Sunday is coming uh and if you hold your peace a little while longer everybody's going to see God is about to roll the stone who am I preaching to if this is your word Make some noise in this place if this is your word Make some noise in this place if this is your word let the Lord know you heard him speak to you right [Applause] [Music] [Music]

now so I Repent I'm closing I Repent from my suffering from my murmuring and my complaining I Repent cuz I've been verbal about stuff that don't matter I Repent because I've been hanging around people that made me respond Petty because they were Petty but I refuse to sink down into the Quagmire and the abyss of who you are and give up being Who I Am the gravitational pull of our relationship has caused me to step back because you're about to make me say something when I'm being graded on my silence the Theology of quietness Elijah

in the cave lightning god ain't in it thunder God ain't in it all kinds of Power earthquake God is not in it but then a still Small Voice spoke and say get out of here what doest thou here and the Lord said something and I'm finish what are you doing in that cave you a mighty man of Valor you a mighty man of Valor at work you a Mighty Man man of Valor to your friends you're a mighty man of Valor to everybody else but at 3:00 in the morning you live in a cave you

caveman you caveman you caveman you cut yourself in the tombs and God said I did not anoint you for you to hate yourself I did not anoint you for you to cut yourself you stopped the other people who were cutting you because you are better at cutting yourself than they were in fact you only drew them because they reflected how you saw yourself wow you had the power to push them back but then you took their job what do thou here that you have lowered yourself to debate somebody who has less rank Authority power purpose

and proess then you they don't deserve your answer [Music]