Shadows People - Bishop T.D. Jakes

[Applause] I want you to get your Bibles while you say don't sit back down cuz you know how your knees are you got them oneway knees I thought I would start with a Bible class rather than a Sunday morning and just ease into teaching and sharing something with you the Lord has said something to me that I think is very important and you're going to have to be focused and really committed to getting this word because God gave me this word and it's that in my soul and I can't get it out come on come

on somebody come on somebody I'm going to talk a little bit about Shadow People shadow people go to Psalms 23:4 Shadow People it is a very familiar scripture but the fact that it has often been quoted doesn't mean it has often been understood in fact the more familiar we become the less attention we pay to a text because we assume so much about the text that we do not realize the power of the frequency of the text itself it is written by the psalmist David at a particular time in his life that he comes to

know God through the experience of his own life he begins the chapter saying the Lord is my shepherd He says that because he can relate to the job of a Shepherd because he is a Shepherd boy and so metaphorically he Compares his experience with god with his experience with the sheep and he says because the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want he maketh me to lie down in Green Pastures he leadth me beside Still Waters he restoreth my soul my cup runneth over surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of

my life and he goes all through this scenario of wonderfulness I shall not want Green Pastures Steel Waters it's just wonderful just wonderful it's just wonderful until he gets to this one verse in the fourth verse where we get to see the the other side the the ying and yang of it all in spite of the Lord being my shepherd and I shall not want in spite of the favor that's on my life in spite of the gift that's on my life he just almost Whispers and says ye though I walk through the valley of

the shadow of death I will fearing no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me what what is what is he doing what he just got through saying the Lord was his Shepherd and he shall not want but then he whispers and lets us know the dichotomous relationship with God does not prude us from having Shadows you would think that if God was your Shepherd there would be no Shadows but we are looking at the dichotomous relationship between the Shadow and the Shepherd that the reality of the matter that

it doesn't matter how gifted you are how talented you are are how blessed you are how many people like you or don't like you or what they think about you that the presence of the shepherd does not negate the reality of the Shadow and for every person in this room who has the shepherd you also have a shadow so I preach tonight I teach tonight I teach preach tonight I preach teach preach teach reach reach teach preach each tonight uhhuh about shadow people people who are anointed and gifted and appointed and they and they have

God as their Shepherd and we admire them and we esteem them and we exalt them and they're always ready to pray for us and already ready to lift us up and we we see the Shepherd in them but we do not see the shadow so tonight if only for tonight if only for tonight we're going to move away from just being engrossed with the power and the presence and the preeminence and the preexistent glory of the shepherd himself who ha exalted himself above every living creature who stepped out on nothing and let there be something

and it became whatever he said the omnipotent omnipresent omniscent God he which is and was and is to come the first the last forever more that God God that God does not preclude the fact that we have shadows for every person in this room there is a shadow and you got to walk through it you you got you got to walk through the valley of the shadow of death most of the time they preach at their funerals but but it's not the death you got to worry about it's the shadow nobody ever got beat up

by a shadow So you you're going to you're going to make it through it you're going to you're going to survive it nobody ever got punched in the mouth by a shadow but but the shadow must have some ramifications that challenge our existence because I have to walk through bless you baby the valley the valley the valley sheep don't graze in valleys right sheep graze on mountain peaks but I can't be fruitful all the time because every now and then the same Shepherd that takes me to the mountaintops where the Green Pastures are where the

Sun is bright and the grass is preeminent he also leads me into the Shadows sir and so tonight we talk about shadow people thank you Jesus I am one of them touch somebody say I'm one of them I have shadows I have shadows I can't talk to you about I have shadows that I can't explain to you I have shadows that I just wave my hand about and keep on going and I have Shadows that my haters don't realize they my haters hate me cuz they see my shepherd but but but if they saw my

shadow they would pray for me they would pray for me because sometimes I can't see my own Shepherd for seeing my Shadows is there anybody who understands let me pray so you can get off your father God if there's a shadow person in this house if there's a shadow person online if there's a shadow person watching tonight let this be the most transformative moment in their life that they have ever seen in the name of Jesus we pray somebody shout amen you may be seated most of us want to see our way clear we we

want to see our way clear before we get married we want to set our way clear before we have a child we want to plan it out and make sure sure that we can afford to have a child they talk about having a child like like they talking about having a car like it's a decision that right we want to see our way clear before we take the position we want to see our way clear before we buy the house we want to see our way clear but the Bible does not teach us to see

our way clear we we we we want to be led in a plain path we want God to answer all our questions you know you get in your car with your wife and and you say we're going on a ride she wants to know where we're going she wants to know how far away is it how much gas do we have did we pack everything we need we want to see our way clear we ask God questions like that God show me clearly I want I want to know what I'm but God doesn't talk clearly

God will stand out in the middle of a stormy night walking on water and you're on a boat and he'll tell you come come and he won't tell you how to come and he won't tell you your feet are going to get wet and the wind is going to be boisterous and the people behind you are going to be talking about you while you're walking but all he said was come because God doesn't tell you much about conditions he doesn't tell you about the conditions you got to walk through but you got to walk through

a lot of stuff and the only thing you know for sure you don't know how you don't know the velocity of the wind you don't know the depth of the ocean you don't know the turbulence of the storm you don't know how many meters you are away you don't know how far you got to go all you know is that he said come oh is there anybody in here that's ever been called and God just said come and he didn't tell you how you were going to come and he didn't show you where the money

was going to come from and he didn't show you the people that were going to come he just said come and you got to walk through the V of the Shadows of death because just because you have a Shepherd doesn't mean you don't have a shadow to see every so often we go through things we want our discernment to be impeccable and whenever you get into trouble people say if you to use discernment you wouldn't have got in trouble but whenever people say that to you don't be wounded by their statement understand that they're saying

that because they're in a de different season I don't care how much discernment you have there are seasons of life that you go through that you never saw it coming you couldn't see it coming you couldn't see it coming because people changed in in in January they were one way and in June they were another way and by the time you got to a October you wonder did you ever even know him in the first place come on talk to me it wasn't that you didn't date them long enough it wasn't that you didn't ask

enough questions it wasn't that you didn't meet their family but in another season they have a way of showing up in your life that makes you doubt your own discernment and doubt your own decision is there any real people in this place that understand what no matter how anointed you may be no matter how bright your future may be you may even be anointed to be king and still have shadows you you may be a bear killer you may be a lion killer but you still have valleys that come even to you though you are

Valiant I don't care how Valiant you are I don't care how many jiujitsu classes you took I don't care how much you can fight I don't care if you're the Karate Kid you still go through valleys in your life life they come even to Value people and we find ourselves walking through shadows and the worst part about walking through Shadows is everybody wants to walk through the sunshine with you but when you get in a shadow people will walk off and leave you by yourself can I get a witness in this place can I get

a witness in this place as long as they perceive that you're going up on the mountain and you're walking in light they'll get right behind you and try to walk with you glory to God but when they perceive that you're headed for the Shadows Mary Magdalene want to touch Jesus as he was ascending but I don't see her trying to touch him as he was being crucified everybody wants to go everybody wants to touch you when you're on your way up but when you're on your way down and you're going through Shadows you have to

go through it by yourself and most of us when we are dealing with a shadow we deal with the Silence of the shadow now a shadow is not a thing it is the result of a [Applause] obstruction see see a shadow indicates that there is an obstruction between you and the light you you you can't measure the shadow you can't put the shadow in a jar you can't wrap it up in a box you can't put it in a shell the shadow is just an indication that the light is being blocked by an obstruction and

it's one thing when you can see the obstruction and the obstruction is tangible but it's another thing when the obstruction is invisible there are things that are invisible that ex obstruct you from seeing the light you could be in the presence of light but some has happened in your life that has become an obstruction and now you're dealing with a shadow and people don't understand cuz they tell you you ought to be happy you ought to be satisfied you ought to be full but you don't see what's obstructing me from seeing the light you don't

know who you are you don't see yourself no I can't see myself cuz I'm walking through the shadows I'm walking through the shadows I'm walking through the Shadows because something happened and somebody said said something or somebody did something that obstructed the light that he was shining in my life and the shadow is a sign that behind this Shadow there is light so if I can just keep on walking a little while longer if I can keep on standing eventually I'm going get through the shadow cuz there wouldn't be a shadow if there wasn't a

light behind it that was somebody's word right there and you missed it you've been going through months and months of Shadows but the shadow is only a sign that there's light behind it and if there wasen no light there wouldn't be no Shadow y'all don't hear what I'm saying God's got something for you that you haven't experienced yet none of David's gifts or his talents or his prophecies or even being chosen by God stopped him from having periods of dark dismal lonely silent Shadows because the truth of the matter is the truth of the matter

is God Place hide and go [Applause] seek seeking him from a dark [Applause] place I'm trying to find Lord I'm trying to find you Lord I didn't come to church to show off my dress I didn't come to show my red bottom shoes I'm trying to find you Lord and it's not much light but I'm walking through Shadows right now I I might not be as polite as you want me to be but I'm walking through a shadow right now I'm killing bears in a shadow I'm fighting lions in a shadow I attack Giants in

a shadow I threw my rock and knocked him down and cut his head off but that does not mean that I'm not walking in a shadow I know I'm in a shadow and the enemy knows I'm in a shadow because he sent something to obstruct the light because he knew if I Saw The Light I'd be even more deadly than I am right now I don't know who I'm talking to I don't know if anybody understands what I'm talking about I don't know if anybody want oh I don't know if anybody watching online understands what

it's like to walk through a shadow and the enemy sent the Shadow and thought you would stop walking cuz it was so dark but the Devil is a Lie you kept right on walking you couldn't see your way clear you had to walk by faith and not by sight you didn't know how long the shadow was going to last but you knew that as soon as the shadow was over God was going to give you some light Make Some Noise if I'm preaching to you already I'm seeking him from a dark place I'm praising him

from a dark place I'm dancing from a dark place I'm crying from a dark place you can walk and sometimes you find yourself stumbling while you're walking and you're groping after God and you're reaching after God and you're trying to touch God and you're trying to lay hands on God I didn't come to church to kind of want to meet you I didn't come to church so we could have a rendevu I came here cuz I'm I'm I'm groping after Jesus I need I need Jesus I got so much I got so many shadows in

my life as long as Jesus comes to church I'll be there I want to be wherever Jesus is I want to be wherever Jesus is I want to be wherever Jesus is wherever Jesus here if the bishop ain't here it's all right if the elders ain't here it's all right if the pastor J ain't here it's all right but as long as Jesus is here because Jesus is the light he's the light of the world and he's ever shining in my soul and I know he's here cuz I couldn't have this kind of Shadow if

there was no Li so somewhere in this hell house there's got to be a Jesus somewhere in this witch's Den there's got to be a Jes Jesus somewhere in this crack house there's got to be a Jesus somewhere in this depression uh there's got to be a Jesus uh somewhere in this Affliction there's got to be a Jesus uh somewhere in this pain I'm looking for Jesus uh and if I had to walk through it uh if I have to crawl through it if I have to go on a walker I won't stop stop I

won't dble I won't complain I might stumble but I'm going keep on going till I find the light somebody who knows what I'm talking about Give the Lord a [Music] praise give him a praise don't make him take it give him a praise don't make him wait on it give him a praise don't make him ask for give him a praise come on somebody and give God a praise God often plays hide and seek down I'm just getting started that's why I started early cuz I got something to tell you God often plays hide and

go seek we we often cannot tell people we can't tell them that we are unsure cuz it doesn't sound good for believers to say I'm not sure but if you walk with God long enough you'll walk through a place of uncertainty which way do I go who can I trust who can I talk to I can tell them about my light I can tell them about my shepherd but who can I tell about my shadows I'm walking through the valley I'm going to the valley Allison I'm in the Valley of the Shad everybody likes me

when they see the light but don't nobody call you when you're in a shadow do you hear what I'm talking about I wish I had some shadow people when I say that God likes to play hide and go seek take your Bibles and go to acts 17 26-27 and I want to show you a couple of things and I'm I'm I'm halfway there I'mma preach it baby ain't no doubt about it that's why hell don't like me cuz I'm a preacher that's why demons tremble cuz I'm a preacher yeah [Applause] sh Luke is writing in

the book of Acts and for you Bible scholars I might remind you that there is there is no difference between the gospel of St Luke and the book of Acts it is really one book divided into two parts written by one man you must understand that the book of Acts does not start with a greeting because it is not really a new book it is a continuation of the Gospel of Luke so it starts out the former treaties have I made o theophus of all that Jesus began to do and to teach sir it doesn't

start a unto the Saints at Ephesus I write unto the Saints at lead deia I write no because it is a continuation that's right you turn the page but not the chapter P not chap it is a continuation of Luke who is known for his ability to be a scribe and most of the life of the Apostle Paul would never be written if it were not for the Scribe that traveled with him for the Scribe records the plight of the Apostle yes sir he brings it to life for us and I want you to further

understand that we are dealing with the first century church and I want you to understand that the first century church had no Bible yeah they they they had no Bible it had not been written yet we are reading the scribblings of a scribe that had not yet been canonized for a new testament oh they had the pent Tu they had the Old Testament they had the Mishra yeah they had some understanding of who Jehovah was but this man Jesus this man I feel like preaching y' with me this man Jesus they they they had no

ability to understand him so he starts out by saying the former treaties have I made oh theophilis I'm in Acts 1 and one uh the former treaties have I made on theopus of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach the word I want you to pay attention to is he began but he didn't finish I know you're going to tell me he said it is finished on the cross but that it is finished is about Redemption he finished Redemption on the cross but he brought us to a church that was undefined he

brought us to a church that had no deacons he brought us to a church that had no choir that's right he brought us to a church that had no praise team that's right he brought us to a church that had no pull pit he brought us to a church that had no building there wer no buildings there were synagogues there were no churches yeah and he told them to go out to Jerusalem till you be endued with power from on high and on the day of Pentecost the church was born yeah it was born but

it wasn't finished he left no directions wow he left no details he left no information he just birthed it and left wow so you see the disciples are walking through a shadow they were living with uncertainty the systems were shaking they were being killed and beheaded and murdered and shot down and hated that's right and they had to walk while being slain yay though I walked through the valley of The Shadow of death we're living in a time now like that time a time of uncertainty I hate to turn on the news in the morning

I have to get a cup of coffee in me to to to to to cuz I wake up every morning wondering what shook today the weather is unpredictable last week I was pulling out shorts and about to go swimming this week I'm pulling out coats and about to get pneumonia you hear me coughing it's cuz cuz the weather is unpredictable everything is unpredictable people are unstable uh the economy is in a conundrum eggs are jumping up in price all hell is breaking loose everywhere people are grabbing eggs like they were grabbing toilet paper they're getting

into fights in the mall over cartons of eggs I I don't understand what's going on I don't know what to eat right now there's something wrong with everything if if you eat vegetables there's something wrong with vegetables I'm in the store with W with an app trying to see if the vegetable is healthy it used to be if you ate vegetables you knew you were safe now you got to wash your vegetables cuz if vegetables got poison all over them I don't know what to eat I don't know whe don't eat no pork don't now

they say Don't eat no chicken don't eat no chicken so I can't eat pork and I can't eat chicken and I can't eat beef cuz it's going to clog my veins so I thought I'd get me some vegetables that say you can't eat vegetables cuz they've been sprayed with poison and you can't eat hot dogs cuz they've been processed and you can't eat sausage cuz it's been processed and you can't eat bread cuz it got flour and as I scratch everything down off the list I ain't got nothing left to live because I'm finding myself

in a situation that I got to walk through it yeah [Music] yeah I got to walk through uncertainty not to mention the uncertainty of people the people you thought were friends and find out they were enemies the people that you trusted and they got behind your back and tried to destroy you not to mention the people that you work with and they couldn't wait for you to leave the break room so they could have you for dinner not to mention the trouble that's going on in your own house people you pushed out your own body

don't stand beside you people you went through hell for and worked double time and worked overshift and did jobs for cuss you out like you was a stranger in the street and you still got to you got to walk through it touch somebody say I'm going to walk through it Christ did not finish his work the disciples were leading through uncertainty had been with Jesus they had been filled with the Holy Spirit but the church itself was undefined go to acts 43237 let me show you a little bit more all the Believers were one in

heart and mind no one claimed that any of their possessions was their own but they shared everything that they had with great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus I want to stop there for a minute I want you to understand they're setting up a government you cannot have a government without an economy they have decided to put all of their possessions their worldly Goods together because they thought they were going to set up a government like the Old Testament Church yeah the Old Testament Ecclesia called out ones became

a government they thought they were going to set up a government so they were setting up a economic system to sustain the government and so everybody was going to put all of their money together and put it together and then they found out they needed somebody to distribute it so that's how we got deacons because they needed deacons to take care of the widows and the deacons were going to take care of the widows and they were putting a system in place and they were building it but they were doing it in the shadows for

now we see through a glass Darkly but then face to face there are some times that you're working for God and you're anointed by God and you're called of God but you're doing it in the shadows you you're building in the shadows and when you build in the shadows sometimes you build stuff that God doesn't even [Applause] want this is why what you read in Acts does in in Acts chapter 4 does not last into Acts chapter 6 because they were building something that God didn't want with great power the apostles continued to testify the

resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ they preaching right building wrong and God's grace was so powerfully at work in them all come on that there was no needy persons among them yeah it they had all things in common almost like almost like what you call communism wow wow can I teach tonight for from time to time those who own land or houses sold them and brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles feet and it was distributed to anyone who had need right Joseph A levite from Cyprus whom the apostles called

Barnabas which means son of encouragement sold a field he owned and brought brought the money and put it at the apostles feet yeah when he brought it and put it at their feet everybody started giving everything but they were doing it in the Shadows 2 Corinthians 5:6 and 7 says therefore we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord verse 7 is what I really want for we walk by faith not by sight so we grow a little bit and we grasp a little bit

and we grow a little bit we grope a little bit we grasp a little bit and we grow a little bit in stages we progress from Faith to Faith and from glory to glory can I preach on let's go forward you must understand that the groping and the grasping and the growing all work together that The Stumbling is a part of walking yeah no baby just jumped up out the crib and start walking he he he he has to grope and fall and stumble and and reach and try to hold on and Gras whatever he

can hold on to I'm preaching a whole lot of word tonight some of it's going over your head head some of it you're groping after some of it you're grasping and some of you are growing depending on the level you're on oh y'all don't hear what I'm saying you're groping like like Abraham like Abraham who took his son take now thy only son and and go to a place I will show you and he's groping he's groping trying to find his way I I I don't know where we're going son I got the servants with

me I got the animals with me but I'm groping I'm in the shadows I can't give it he gave me no address he didn't tell me about no trees no rocks no ridges he God God is playing hide and go seek with me I I got to seek him in the shadows I have to reach for him in the shadows and and and I I didn't grasp it until I was three days off and when I was three days off I grasp that's the place right there do you all hear what I'm saying and once

I grasp I start growing that's why the devil will do anything to get your attention because as long as he can get you distracted you don't grasp it and if you don't grasp it you don't grow he'll let anybody text you he'll let you get on the phone he'll let you text him back because the devil knows that the power of the word is in the grasping of the word when you grasp the word you grow from the word while you sitting there winking at somebody somebody else is trying to grasp so they can grow

from the word of God and you ain't got time for no games don't inbox me don't call me later don't send me no notes don't wink at me cuz I didn't come to church to meet you I came to grasp something from God I'm looking for something from God who am I preaching to I want something from my soul I want to grasp it I need to grasp it cuz if I don't grasp it I'm going go home and do something crazy if I don't grasp it I'm going to take somebody out if I don't

gra you wouldn't like me if I don't grasp this word I need to grasp this word I need a dose of this word don't play with me about the word I need some word I need some word I need some word so I can grow I got to I got to go so I can stop groping so I can grasp the word of God and when I grasp the word of God I'll start growing and when I start growing I can deal with the Shadow and the shadow don't stop me no more cuz I learn

how to make it to the top of the mountain and I'm moving to the place that God has for me do you hear what I'm saying I need you to hear what I'm saying I may start groping then I start grasping then I start growing talk to me somebody are there is there anybody in here that's growing I said is there anybody in here that's growing you're starting to grow because the things you used to do you don't do no more and the places you used to go you don't go no more and the way

you used to live you don't live no more and the way you used to go off on people and flip out and go crazy and tear up your own stuff you don't do it no more cuz you're starting to grow up cuz now you realize you tore it and now you got to buy it back again so you stopped acting a fool cuz you're getting enough word that you're starting to grow I don't know who I'm talking to but I'm talking to somebody and whoever I'm talking to this is your time to grow and God

brought you out here you said I'm going Wednesday night I I made up my mind I'm going to be in that house cuz God's got a word for me cuz I can't stay on the same level I was in 2024 in 2025 I got to grow into another level of living I refuse to be the same person that I was in 2023 the Devil is a Lie I'm going do some growing in here somebody leap straight up in the air I'm I'm going to grow if I got to jump into it I'm going grow into

it if I got to yell into it I'm going grow into it if I got to scream into it I'm going grow into it if I have to have a fit in Here Come on talk to me somebody I got to grow into it so here I am I feel something in this place I feel I feel something in this place I feel I feel something in this place the problem here the this couple ananas and Safara come to Peter they saw everybody else laying money at his feet they came to Peter and said they

had sold all of their possessions in Cyprus because it mentions that he was a levite that's right the fact that it mentions that he was a levite causes you to understand that he is used to walking in another realm of Faith because the Levites inheritance was the house of God so in his background there is an attitude of Faith yeah and he comes in there and he lays down every everything because he was a levite but when ananas and Safar came along they tried to act like him come on y'all don't hear what I'm talking

about see people will see you do stuff and they'll try to act like you yeah yeah but you can't act like me cuz ain't nobody me but me ain't nobody me but me you can get my sup but you can't get me you can get my tie but you can't get me you can wear my shoes but you can't get me there ain't never going to be another there ain't never going to there never has been and there never ever will be another you you in a class all by yourself and as soon as you

figure out who you are and stop worried about them Shadows you'll know you have no competition because you're in a class all by yourself I don't know who needed to know that but take a minute and give God some praise give God some Praise In This Place give God some praise praise in this place with your unique self with your gifted self with your anointed self you might be in a bad situation but you still got your anointing you might have made some mistakes but you still got an anointing you might be going through some

Shadows but you still got some power I feel something about to turn over in this room I don't know who it is but I feel something about to get loose in this place right now I feel demons starting to tremble i h starting to get nervous I I I I God is about to do something in here tonight touch three people and tell them God is about to do something in here he's going to do it with Shadow People he's going to do it with people who've been in the shadows he's going to do it

with people that's been left out he's going to do it with people that's been in the storm he's going to do it with people that's been through hell and high water he's going to do it with people who had to stumble he's going to do it with people who had to crawl he's going to do it with people who had to crawl to the pool and dip their face in the water I don't know who they are but somebody in here about to get a word from God this word is going to break a yoke

this word is going to tear down a barrier this word is going to move a mountain this word is going to change a situation this word this word this word is going to shrink tumors it's Drive cancers it's going to stop leukemia it's going to heal somebody's mind this word this word this word this word somebody say this word this word this word this word this word is real it'll work in the light it'll work in the dark it'll work in the shadows it'll work in the storm somebody give him 30 seconds of Crazy [Applause]

Praise you got 20 seconds to stop being cute and give him a praise you got 15 seconds to give God a praise you got 15 seconds uh to give God a praise uh you got 12 seconds uh to give God a praise uh you got eight seconds seconds uh to give God a praise uh if you didn't have a 5 seconds left uh how would you praise him down to your last five uh down to your last dollar down to your last time uh somebody help me praise him say yes say yes say yes say

yes shout yes so Anan of an and SAA came in there trying to act like they had given it all but they were not like justice they had not given it all they relied on Peter and Peter looked at him and said why has Satan filled your heart and caused you to lie to the Holy Ghost and the man fell Dead come on now watch this the man fell dead and They Carried him out on now and then his wife came in sir and told the same lie and she fell dead right and They carried

her out look at how it switched from Genesis in Genesis it was the woman first and then the man but oh in Acts it started with the man oh y'all better [Applause] get God's about to reverse things the last shall be first the first shall be last he said the same way I took out your husband you going to go out the same door I don't know who I'm preaching to but God is about to turn it around for you somebody give him a praise uh praise him in the back Praise Him in the front

uh praise him online uh Praise Him in the T X Praise Him in your living room Praise Him in your car let everything that have breath praise ye the Lord if you breathing praise him if you walking praise him if you survive and praise him if you feel him praise Him somebody give him a praise nobody else his praise don't fake the praise don't plagiarize the praise open your mouth and that open your mouth and open your mouth and give God I feeling anointing coming in this room glory to God shout yes shout yes shout

yes I dare you to shout yes I dare you to shout yes [Applause] so this is what brought me to the text why has Satan filled your heart and caus you to lie to the Holy Ghost and both of them fell dead yes sir God killed both of them yes sir for lying to the Holy Ghost even though what Peter was building God didn't even want come on come on I could see it if God wanted it yeah he didn't even want it yeah what he wanted was there Integrity what he wanted was their honesty

what he wanted was their reality yes sir he never wanted them to have all things in common because if you read on over the Bible said that it worked with 3,000 but as the crowd grew right they found out it was too difficult to maintain and they had to cut it off wait a minute I feel a point right there what works for you at one stage won't work for you at another that's why the Bible said forgetting those things which are behind me and reaching to those things which are before I press toward the

mark of the prize of the High Calling uh just cuz it worked on Monday don't mean it'll work on Tuesday Lord give me new bread Lord give me new revelation Lord give me new power and they [Applause] all fell dead sir even though Peter was B building in the shadows something that God didn't want even though his perception was off and his judgment wasn't pure he was still anointed and until you respect the [Applause] anointed I'mma say I'm going say it for the people in the back until you receive expect the anointing you will never

Prosper it wasn't that Peter's decision was right his decision was wrong but his anointing was right I want to talk to some people that got it wrong sometime but you're still anointed and God's going to deal with your enemies because you're still anointed I don't know what I'm preaching to but God said I still got my anointing on you and if they lie to you they lie to the Holy Ghost cuz I put my spirit down inside of you no weapon formed against you shall be able y'all got to stop now cuz I feel like

I feel I feel I feel like going to old school on you I know y'all new school but I feel a little old school falling on me in here some somebody the battle is not yours it belongs to God and God will take them out before he'll let you lose if I'm preaching to you open your mouth and just holler [Applause] [Applause] slap three people and tell them I got the Holy Ghost I got it in my hands I got it in my feet I got it in my soul I got it in my spirit

I might be a shadow person but I still got the Holy Ghost and nothing you try to do to me is going to stop me it'll backfire on you because if God before you who can be against you who am I preaching to I feel somebody growing right now how at your boy right [Applause] [Music] now why has Satan f you your heart and cost you to lie to you thought you did it to me you didn't do it to me you did it to the Holy [Music] Ghost you did it to the Holy Ghost

you did it to the Holy Ghost and because you lied to the Holy Ghost yeah the same men that took your your husband out you out they're going to carry you out people don't preach about this because we don't have no fear of God anymore we don't have no fear of God anymore we don't have no fear of God anymore we do anything any kind of way because we have no fear of God anymore we'll say anything we'll get on the chat and fight uh you'll get on my chat line and start you a Bible

class uh trying to steal my crowd and draw your own attention cuz we don't have no fear God but you're not fighting me you're fighting the Holy Ghost you'll say anything about anybody but you're not fighting me cuz I don't care you fighting the Holy Ghost and if God before you he's more than the world against you I got to stop because I feel something pushing me in the back somebody's praying for me in this place right now somebody's pulling on me in this place right now something's going to happen in this place right now

God is going to move in this place right now I wish I had some Praises uh some oldfashioned Praises uh some Holy Ghost prais us uh that would take a minute and praise him uh to the holy ho ghost hit this place uh open your mouth I dare you to open your I double dare you to open your mouth and give God a [Applause] [Music] [Applause] was they were shadow people and what you got to [Applause] understand nothing reveals a fraud like money don't pay no attention to the dancing yeah cuz the devil can dance

don't pay no attention to the noise cuz the devil can make noise but nothing will reveal a demon like money Wow money will do it every time you say that that Pharaoh left Egypt trying to get the slaves back but you wrong about that Pharaoh was not after the slaves he was after the money because the Bible said that they borrowed all the gold and broken up the GDP for the whole nation of Egypt why would Pharaoh use 600 horses yeah to get back a bunch of slaves when he could get slaves from anywhere but

the slaves had the money yeah and nothing will reveal a devil wow that's excellent you don't know people till you start dealing with them about money when you start dealing with them about money you find out who they really are money will reveal the sentiments of your heart that's why the Lord asked us to bring all the tithes and offerings into the storehouse it's not that God needs the money that's right he needs you to prove what is in your heart I'mma wrap this up and sit down but I heard Genesis 22 hit me in

the face take now thy son thy only son and offer him up on the Mountaintop and it seems like God is schizophrenic because Abraham did what he told him to do and then when he got ready to do it God said Abraham Abraham stay your hand he said now I know that you're really with me because you wouldn't withhold your offering from me all God wanted he didn't need Isaac Isaac was a shadow for Jesus he was just using Isaac as a substitute but he said if you're faithful over a few things uh I'll make

you a ruler over many and sometimes I'm going challenge you because nothing will reveal what's in your heart like how you handle money if I work for the FBI if I work for the service if I work for the CIA the first thing I would investigate is your money because what you do with your money yeah tells me what you value yeah yeah yeah yeah word if I follow your money to the strip club Wow Come on sir it shows me what you value that's right come on now if I follow you to the mall

it shows me what's your value ain't nothing wrong with them allall yeah till you spend your rent money in it on come on Sir ain't nothing wrong with a nice car to you pull a nice car up to a Shabby ragy place to stay yes sir and your values are in the wrong place because money is about what you value yeah yeah it proves what you value W it proves what you value it proves what you value I don't care whether you got a whole lot or a little bit it'll still do the same thing

it proves what you value so when God asks you for something the reason giving is worship it because is because it proves what you value hallu why has Satan fill your heart and caus you to lie wow Hallelujah to the the Holy Ghost why why did you try to pretend like all of it was mine when you are so narcissistic and selfish that I cannot receive your worship because you only worship me when you want something some of you wouldn't be here tonight if you didn't want something wow and that's why the Bible said to

him that have not will I take away that which he Seth to have because when your priorities are not in the right place one of the quickest ways to tell it is not in the worship service cuz everybody who can sing will sing in the worship Serv it's not by the beat of the drum cuz everybody who got Rhythm they can they can they can they can they can follow the drum into a beat but when it comes to the offering the Reon the church gets [Applause] quiet what I wanted you to see is simple

and I say this I'm through it took Peter a long time to get it right they had all kinds of problems they tried to stay in the Jerusalem they ran them out of Jerusalem sir they got into fights at Antioch almost to blows in Antioch cuz they they were seeing through a glass Darkly it wasn't that they were perfect but they were filled yeah y and when you are filled with the Holy Ghost yes God will always make a way for you he will always no no no he will always it may be a long

time coming yeah yeah yes sir you may have to walk 40 years but God will always yes sir make a way sir for you I want to talk as I close to Shadow People you use the metric of what's going on around you to prove what's going on in you when what was going on around Peter wasn't even the will of God right but what was going on in Peter it was absolutely the will of God for while man looks on the outward appearance God looks on the heart and he said why Satan fill your

heart and cause you to lie to the Holy Ghost you want to go to the next level you can't buy it the gift of God is not for sale but if you want to see God move mightily in your life trust him in the area of your giving because I'm going to tell you something right now and don't you ever forget this if you give God what you got God will give you what he's got if you trust him with what you got God will trust you with what he's got he just needs to know

that he can trust you in the shadows when you when you can't see good when you're groping and grabbling and growing all at the same time he will bless you when you become man enough to admit I'm scared absolutely I'm not sure that I'm building this right I don't have no instructions I don't have no manual yeah but you got to be humble enough yeah to admit I'm trying but I don't know everything and some of the stuff I build I'm might have to tear it back down again because it was all right for Monday

yeah but it's not all right for Tuesday bow your heads with me we're in this place right now and oh God what a place are we in I'm not talking about the the building I'm not talking about the ZIP code I'm talking about the season of life we're in talking about what's going on in this world but I realize while preaching this that nothing going on around me is more important than what's going on inside of me if if I get it all wrong but inside I'm right you will refer to me as the Holy

Ghost because while man looks on the outward appearance you look on the heart truth is I'm not nearly as sure as I act like I am truth is I argue with people about stuff and fall out with them and then Wonder am I Really Right truth is I'm facing certain things for which there are no scriptures and I'm groping after you and I'm waiting on you to shine through the clouds so I can see see what to do at this stage at this season in my life I need your direction I need your touch I

need your touch more than anything more than people more than friends I need to know that you are in me as I cast my bread upon this water as I as I lay myself out before you I want you to know there's nothing I got you can't have absolutely no Talent no skill no finances nothing I own you can't use because without your favor I am nothing at all now here it is Lord I'm through arguing with people about stuff I'm not sure about I'm through trying to tell people off about stuff that's just what

I heard or what I read or what I heard somebody say and I humbled myself before you as I offer up this sacrifice welcome into this place welcome into this broken vessel I lift my hands up to you I want to offer up this praise if you would accept it I would lift it up I would lift it up as a covenant between me and you that I'm through kicking myself around because maybe I built some you don't even care about but I still got the Holy Ghost wrong turns right turns no turns I bring

it all to you through this seed and I know if I plant it somebody's going to water it and you're going to give the increase because I'm standing on Holy Ground And this is good [Applause] soil I have put my money in the hands of people who ripped me off [Music] I've given myself to people who were just opportunists trying to tear me down but here I am I'm back to you and all that I have and all that I own I lay it at your feet in Jesus name amen