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Who’s ready for the Word of the Lord this morning? I said, who’s ready for the Word of the Lord this morning? Dave, turn me up in these monitors if you would, sir. I’m going to ask one more time, and then that’s the last time I’m going to ask. From here to the balcony to all over the world, who’s ready for the Word of the Lord this morning? I’m getting ready to share a scripture with you. I need everyone to stand in honor of the reading of the Word of the Lord. I need you to look around, and I need you to hear me. This might be the most important message I’ve ever preached in my life. I’m going to say that one more time. I don’t have time to repeat myself today; this may be the most important message I’ve ever preached in my life because of what God told me to say to His people. I’m so excited for what’s about to get unlocked in this place, and you ought to be excited that you were invited by the Holy Spirit to be here for this moment.
So let me just say this: I want you to look around, look down by your feet, and look on your row because what you see is about to change. I was in an airport for 12 hours trying to get home because of one global software issue. One software update disrupted everything, shutting down television networks and banks. I know y’all was like, «I know that direct deposit better be there on Friday. I don’t care nothing about no IT. Nothing! Play with me if you want to; I’ll be up there at Wells Fargo! I' ma tear this whole place down!»
Isn’t it funny what one switch is? You’re just one flip of a switch away from everything shutting down. But if that’s the case, then you must be one flip of a switch away from everything turning in your favor. I know you’ve been offended, but what if you switched it to forgiveness? What if instead of cursing each other out, you washed some feet? What if that broke the devil in half?
Okay, okay, okay. Second Kings, Chapter 6. Pastors Cromar, I’m glad you got your Jordans on because you may have to take off running. I just need about six to seven dedicated runners, designated runners. There’s one! I see you, my guy. You know I look out for you because I feel like we are family; like you are my brother in the spirit. If it goes down, you’ll worship with me, but if somebody acts up in here, they will catch these hands! You understand? That’s squad, gang gang!
I only have one designated runner. Are there a couple of other designated runners? Yeah, over there? Okay, all right, all right. Are there any twisters, turners? You’ll just turn, and you’ll see you’re a turner. Who’s a quickener? Who’s that? Oh, who are my self -huggers? Who are the self -huggers and quickeners? No? Come on, you’re a combo! You’re lemon pepper, extra, extra wet with a side of garlic sauce.
Listen, Second Kings- stop playing because you said 100 minutes or less, but you’re playing, messing me up. Second Kings 6, start at the 24th verse. There was a famine in the land. Oh, help me. Syria besieges Samaria in famine. So check this out: it happened after this that Ben Hadad, king of Syria, gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria. There was a great famine in Samaria, and indeed they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for 80 shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cob of dove’s droppings for five shekels of silver.
Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, «Help, my Lord, O King!» And he said, «If the Lord does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress? There’s nothing! I have nothing!»
Then the king said to her, «What is troubling you?» And she answered, «This is how bad the famine got, y’all. This woman said to me, 'Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.' So we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son that we may eat him.' But she has hidden her son.» Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes, and as he passed by on the wall, the people looked, and underneath he had sackcloth on his body.
Then he said, «God do so to me and more also if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today.» But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. I wonder where my elders are today. Looking for the elders and pastors and leaders; I wonder if they will stand with the man of God at the release of this Word?
And the king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, «Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?»
And while he was still talking with them, this is how fast the prophetic word is about to come to pass. While he was still talking with them, there was the messenger coming down to him. Then the king said, «Surely this calamity is from the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?»
Then Elisha said, «Hear the Word of the Lord! Thus says the Lord: tomorrow, about this time-» I thought Pastor Alicia, it was for last Sunday, but it was a wake-up, a reckoning. «Tomorrow,» somebody say, «tomorrow!» Tomorrow, about this time, a sea of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seeds of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria. Watch this!
So a hater-excuse me, an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, «Look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?» And he said, «In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.»
There are some people who doubt what’s coming for you. They’re going to see God do it, and they won’t be able to touch it because they didn’t have the faith to believe when the Word was released. So don’t come to my house after you see the Lord fulfill His Word when you had a chance to believe when we were both struggling and we both didn’t see it. Don’t speak life after you’ve been speaking death! Don’t show up with your hand out if you didn’t have your hand up!
Tomorrow about this time-yes, sir! Everything, yes, sir, is going to change! Tomorrow, yes, sir, about this time, yes, sir, it’s going to switch! Tomorrow about this time, everything is going to switch! So I’m going to need you to prophetically do what I said.
So when I say switch, I’m going to need you to move from where you are to some other place. I know it’s uncomfortable, but look what your comfort has got you! So for the next 25 minutes, you’re going to have to move in this service. You should have put on the comfortable shoes 'cause you’re going to have to switch!
1, 2, 3, switch! Wait, freeze! Some of y’all missed it; I didn’t say take a trip. I said switch! You thought you had to go a long way, but all it took was one small switch to mess up the world this week! So all it takes is one. God’s not asking you to pick up everything; He just needs you to move one thing.
If you don’t believe one small shift can change things-if the former president hadn’t switched his position in a split second and missed a bullet! He didn’t duck; he switched!
If you’re at home and you can, I dare you to get out of whatever seat you’re in and move the chair or stand up or walk around your house because that’s how fast God’s about to turn your situation around!
You can be seated in the presence of the Lord. Now I’m going to need y’all to hear me. Some of y’all are going to take notes 'cause I’ve got some points that I need you to grab, but this is an experiential service. So I’m going to need you to have your voice ready and your feet ready. Y’all hear me? Your voice and your feet!
All right, so what am I going to need from y’all? That means have a praise ready and get ready to move! Okay, at the beginning of the year, I said on New Year’s Eve that this was going to be a year of chaos. Did your pastor say that? I don’t want no new prophets showing up; I said it on December 31st with about 12 minutes left in the year: chaos! I said political violence. You can go back and watch the sermon; I didn’t add nothing there. I said there was going to be political violence and turmoil because of where we are as a society. That’s what we’re seeing right now.
Oh, but then the Holy Spirit said, «But for my people, sir, I’m going to create, out of the chaos"-watch this-"an economy that cannot be measured by man’s calculations.» God’s about to do something so crazy with His remnant people that it will not make sense because no one will understand where it came from except worshippers.
Lord help me to speak it as you gave it! There has been, and there is right now, a group of people in this room and online who are waiting on God to turn things around. You’re not waiting anymore because the word of the Lord is about to be released right now!
I can tell you don’t know what’s about to happen because of that goofy applause that you just gave. Like, «Oh, that’s nice! Oh, look at the baby in the program. The afternoon program!» This is, no, no, no! What I just said changes everything because you’re now stepping into and are in the second half of the year. We need a momentum that shifts things in our favor, and I don’t need any faithless people around me! Over the next 20 minutes, I need crazy faithers who will speak crazy things and give God crazy praise!
Papa Pastor, you said there was a significant touch of the Holy Ghost, that something was going to break out in this service. You didn’t know what you were saying. So let me tell y’all how God is dealing with me. The Holy Spirit put on my heart to get to my hometown to see my uncle. He’s in a nursing care facility; he’s been there for two and a half years now. I had a deep unction to get home to see him, to see my mama, to see my aunt, because life is not promised, y’all. You need to get there!
So after Thursday morning prayer, I just happened to look, and there was one flight that was available to get me to Cincinnati, my hometown. I said, «Babe, can you get me to the airport?» So we’re rushing, we’re speeding to get to the airport. We saw the flight at 7:20, and the flight left at 9:20. I get to the airport in Atlanta at 8:38; it boards in 2 minutes. I’m not even in the line at security. I get to the line-the line is as long as you think it is-and I’m like, «Lord, if it’s your will, I’m going to make this flight!»
Now y’all know flights close 15 minutes prior to departure. Now isn’t it funny they can delay flights for 12 years, but the one-time you’re messing up, they leave on time! I’m in the line, there’s no way I’m going to make this plane, and I look, and it says, «Your flight has been delayed; it will not take off until 9:35.» I said, «That’s 15 minutes, God!» Okay, amen! I get through security, and then they flag my bag. I' ve got the most slow, wonderfully methodical, conscientious, professional TSA agent in the world checking every bag, every nook, and cranny. I’m just sitting there like, «I guess the Lord don’t want me to get this flight.»
I finally get to my bag; he’s checked every other bag. He gets to my bag, looks at the picture, and then just slides me my bag. He didn’t open it; he didn’t do nothing. I said, «Well, Lord, thank you! Keep his job, Lord. I don’t want nothing to happen to him!»
So I get my bags; I’m running down; I get on the train. I’m running; I’m too big to run. I’m tired, running down the terminal, and I see the sign for Cincinnati. I’m running, and all of a sudden, I still see people walking toward the gate, and I slow down. I realize people are still boarding! When I get to the gate, it’s 9:20, when the plane was supposed to take off. They closed the flight at 9:35. I got there at the last moment before they closed the flight!
I was in the line, so they had to take me. I get on the plane, I get home! I try to get home that night, and the glitch happened. I was able to get there to honor what the Lord put in my heart, and then I was delayed by something out of my control. One switch changed: Delta, United, a lot of allegiance, and Spirit, American. But the Lord saw that coming and got me on a plane before it switched. I was able to do what I needed to do, then I got stuck, but I was able to get back home so I could get this word to y’all because this is super important.
Don’t think because you’re stuck that it’s still not about to switch! [Music] I need a 5-second praise break! I need you to do it now! I said I need you to do it now! I said I need a 5-second praise break! Now, Elder, you just gave me something that I need the rest of these people to catch. You said, «Let’s go!» I love that! Because you got on a nice suit, but you shout like a hood rat! That’s angry and VI and has been through some things! But I know you’ve been through some things, but you’re not hood-' cause you’re high quality, high class, three-piece suit! But your praise sounds like a man that has history with God.
We’ve been giving God pity-pat praise, but with what God’s about to do, you’re going to need to switch your praise! So today when I say switch, I’m going to need you to act up in your worship! Switch! At any point from here on out when I say switch, your praise needs to go another step higher!
So like I was saying, [Applause] switch! When you finish your chips in the scripture, there was a famine in the land, and the people of God were suffering. My God! The king of Israel was a wicked king, but thank God there was a prophet in the land. Point number one of this message is there is a difference between prophets and politicians!
Some people were offended at what I said because I spoke something against a system that has infected the church. Politics has infected and influenced the preaching of the gospel; that is a wicked apostasy! It is heresy to preach about a political party from the holy pulpit of God! We broker in eternity and souls. We can talk about economic empowerment, job creation, and community activism, but those things are downstream from the salvation of your soul, which can only come from the blood of Jesus Christ.
The preacher is supposed to preach the blood! The preacher is supposed to preach Christ and Him crucified, the holiness of the cross, the efficacy of scripture, the inerrancy of the 66 books, the holy inspiration of the Holy Spirit to allow the writers to write the Word so that we can come to know God as He wills to be known. We need to switch the pulpit back to being holy! [Music] Switch! Elisha was a prophet! Why are you on the second row? Don’t play with me! You and your husband get on the front row! Hey, juniors, I’m not playing! You need to switch!
Here’s what the Bible says: You take the lesser seat, and then you' ll be invited up. You need to switch how you see yourself! The reason why you’ve been dealing with bootleg people in relationships is that you still see yourself based on the thing you did! But the thing you did is not the person you are! And so you need to [Music] switch!
And the moment you switch your mindset, your dating pool will change; your relationship status will change. I am the daughter of a king! Why am I dealing with this fool? I am a man of God! Why am I sitting here with the twerk champion of Greenville County? I am better than this! Switch! Elisha was a prophet! Prophets don’t bow to politicians! Jehoram was a wicked king; he was the son of Ahab and Jezebel.
Ah, he was what he came from! There are some people in this region that don’t like me, and it’s not because they know me; I don’t know them! That’s right! But when you’re around an Ahab and a Jezebel spirit, you’re going to produce Ahab and Jezebel fruit! I’m looking at your fruit! Apple tree! Don’t tell me you’re a peach tree when I’m pulling red delicious, golden apples off of your trunk! Don’t tell me you’re filled with the Holy Ghost, but every word is gossip, lies, insecurity, and hate! That’s not the fruit of the Spirit; that’s the fruit of the flesh, and I call you out-you witch! But you being a witch doesn’t change who I am!
Switch! When you’re a prophet, you speak the word of the Lord, and you don’t care what people think! I got to answer to God, not you! Talk about me all you want; say what you want, but be careful: do my prophets no harm! Touch not my anointed! They’ve been messing with the wrong one! You better go find somebody else to play with. Look for the two, 'cause I’m not the one!
Elisha, watch this, was a holy prophet called to wicked leadership and system! Watch this! The people weren’t wicked; the leadership was wicked! And the wickedness was infecting everything and hindering the blessing of God from getting to the people! I’m here to tell you all: all it takes is a word from God!
Now, check this out: a donkey’s head was sold for about $200 in American money. They were eating the meat off a donkey’s head! First of all, the donkey, if you study Levitical law, was an unclean animal. Their famine was so bad, they were eating unclean animals at inflated prices. One of the signs that wickedness has hit the land is inflation!
I’m sorry y’all didn’t know that. Y’all thought it was economic indicators and the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ. No! It’s nobody preaching the Word of God! It’s a bunch of preachers that preach for money! It’s a bunch of preachers that preach for popularity! And you got wicked politicians who run the preachers like puppet strings! But ain’t no strings on me! I’m not for sale, baby! You can’t pimp me! I belong to the Holy Ghost!
Switch! Stay right there, stay right there! No music! Switch! And move, sir! In the white button-down, five rows from the back! You sitting there with your left elbow up on the cushion! I’m going to need you to switch, sir! I’m going to need you to move, sir! I’m looking right at you, sir! The man behind you just stood up; I’m going to need you to switch, sir! I need you to move, sir!
I love, woman of God, that you looked over there while you’re chewing that gum with your hair slicked off to the left side! I' m going to need you not to sit there; I’m going to need you to switch, boo! You and your homegirl next to you, because God just sent a million dollars to that row! You might want to switch your praise!
The Bible says that Elisha said, «This son of a murderer is sending somebody to take my head!» Watch this! He could have cursed the people, but God directed Elisha to bless the people even though he was under attack from the leadership. It brings me to point number two: wicked leadership doesn’t change the prophetic destiny for God’s people!
Wicked leadership doesn’t change prophetic destiny for God’s people! Jehoram was a wicked king, a trifling, nasty, murderous king! He came from a trifling mom and a nasty, trifling, weak, wicked daddy! What the only thing worse than being a wicked man is being a weak man! Young men who are not married yet, let me tell you something: no woman wants a wicked or weak man! A weak man won’t lead his family! She wants a leader! This is how it is; this is how it’s going down!
But, baby, I don’t understand! You don’t have to understand; I’m the leader! I’m the prophet, the priest, the protector, and the provider! There are a couple of things I need you to do, but worry ain’t one of them! But you need to do the others. Ask any real woman: nothing is more of a turn-on than a man who leads like God intended for him to lead!
Bust that! Elisha said even though the leader is wicked, God still has a word for His people! Oh, there’s a terrible system in place, and it’s infecting everything, but I’m here as the man of God to declare to the remnant! She caught it! You caught it! You caught it! You caught it! God just shifted your destiny, and He’s plucking you out from under the system and its effects!
And He’s about to set you up as an example of contrast! While everything around you and everyone around you is going down, your portfolio is going up! Your money is going up! Get your money up! Your profession is going up! Your business is going up! God’s about to expand you! Everybody else is closing and contracting, and you’re just going up!
God’s about to switch! You caught it! Some of these people still said, «I said when I say switch, you lift a switch!» Rashad, I don’t know if I’m going to get through these next points! I feel the Holy Ghost! Go ahead and elbow somebody, say, «You’ll have to excuse me on this next point!» You have to excuse me! All the market indicators showed that this famine was never going to go away! It was an entrenched famine!
Elisha said, «Tomorrow, about this time.» Don’t hold me to an exact minute, but about this time! It might be a little bit before lunch! It might be on your lunch break while you’re eating your tuna sandwich and your tater chips, wavy Lays with your diet sweet tea and your mineral water! Somebody shout, «Tomorrow!» Tomorrow, about this time!
And then he starts saying stuff that doesn’t make sense to me, but he says, «You know, about this time, a sea of fine flour just, you know, shall be sold for a shekel.» Yeah, two seeds of barley for a shekel at the gate! The famine will be off your life by this time tomorrow! The system that has been over you has to come off you!
Tomorrow about this time-Lord help me! Tomorrow about this time! It will have switched in your favor! Somebody’s generosity has just been unlocked 'cause you caught what happened! See, what you don’t know is the offering you sow before you heard this is now running ahead of you into tomorrow!
That’s why I said you better get something in the ground! You got about 8 minutes to get something in the ground! Online, you better sow something; you better get something in the ground! You better get a seed in the ground! Tomorrow about this time!
But then there was one person who was like, «That’s crazy, 'cause it doesn’t make sense.» So here’s number three: your expectations must be word-based, not fact-based! The facts are there’s a famine, but the truth is there’s a word from the Lord! You’re not hearing me, Lily. Instead of talking, get this word! She didn’t hear me-so get Lily! She better get this word!
Listen to me: your expectation cannot be based on fact! But you know my 401k took a hit because of, you know, the fed, and I need them to lower the interest rate because, mortgages and the inflation and the market indicate-shut up! Because none of that is your source! God is your source! Watch this!
Your expectations must be word-based, not fact-based! Stop looking at the news and positioning your praise based on what you see on CNN because you’re about to see an end to your enemy! Oh, I like what I did there! I know there’s been some foxes in your fields, but stop letting Fox and CNN determine your posture in praise!
Watch this! There was one person that was whispering, «If God opened up the windows of heaven, could this thing be?» I mean, Elisha, come on, man! That sounds crazy! Bring meat into my house and prove me in this that I will not open up the window! I’m sorry, is that the Word?
But whoever this is was close enough to the prophet to speak opposite the Word. Be careful of people who speak against the Word over your life! Mark every wicked witch and warlock! Mark every cousin and auntie and sibling that doesn’t want to agree with the Word of God!
I love you, but I’m hanging up the phone! I love you, but I’m getting out of this family group chat! I love you, but I’m not in this chat because I’m believing God for something that is word-based, not fact-based! I don’t need you to tell me that nobody in our family’s ever been a millionaire because I’m going to be one by this time tomorrow!
I’m going to be walking in a new level of prophetic authority by this time tomorrow! I’m going to be walking in a level of business favor where I won’t need to swipe my business credit card because I’ll have enough cash on reserve to handle what I need and have payroll and have extra and sew into the homeless shelter by this time tomorrow! By tomorrow about this time, my kids' college will be handled! By this time tomorrow, the depression that I was sitting in will have to get off of me! By this time tomorrow, everything in my life will have changed!
By this time tomorrow, everything will switch! I need some people who are up front to run to the back, change your position and your posture of vision! And I need some folks in the back to come to the front! Don’t ask no questions! Get up and get moving! Move! Move! Hurry!
And don’t try to sneak out! You can sneak out; that’s just you not getting the whole Word! I need you-watch this! I need you to go to the back for a reason! Hurry, move! It doesn’t have to make sense! Go around people, climb over the pews if you have to! Watch this!
So somebody whispered, «If God would open up a window, could this thing be?» The prophet said, «You will see it, but you will not partake of it!» I need you to hear me! What the enemy whispers, God hears out loud!
All right, freeze where you are 'cause it takes y’all too long! This is my problem with the Saints! God wants to get something to you; you’re like, «Hold on, let me get my pocketbook! Hold on!» I didn’t say you were going to be where you’re going to be forever! I just need you to switch for a moment!
See, here’s the thing: you want to get blessed so you can leave your family and leave some of these people? No! God’s going to bless you in the midst of them! Just because He switches you doesn’t mean you get to leave where you came from! You’ve got to go back as an example so they can say, «If God did it for her, He could do it!» I need y’all to switch! That’s a praise!
All right, hold on, stay where you are! I asked the people in the front to go to the back, and the people in the back to start coming to the front because the last shall be-watch this! And in order for the people who were already up front to not be the first, the last shall be last! I sent you to the back 'cause you were already positioned, but then you went to the back last, but you’re still going to be first.
So the first shall be last because I asked you to switch! And you moved! The blessing is still on you because don’t worry about what’s coming after or who’s going to get what! It doesn’t matter! God asked you to switch! There’s something with your name on it when you switch! When you believe the Word of the Lord!
Right here, this couple is celebrating five years married-the number of grace! I saw them on an elevator yesterday, and she said something to me that I’m going to ask her to say to you. I literally-we didn’t have to be on the same elevator; there was no way God orchestrated that! She said, «You prophesied to me in 2015!»
«Tell them your name!»
«Hello everybody, I’m Danielle Tanner, and this is my husband, Dwayne Tanner.»
" I came here, and I brought the actual journal, so you can look at it, see. He prophesied over me. I had just started my school, my business. I literally wiped out my life savings. I had like maybe $3,000 or $4,000 to my name, but God told me to step out and open up my school to help out the community, and I was like, 'God, I don’t know where this money is going to come from! I don’t know what I’m going to do! ' So I came to service. When I came to service, you pointed at me directly, and you said, 'You are a multi-millionaire! ' And I was like, 'Okay, God, I don’t know what you doing! I’m not sure what’s going on! '
And you spoke over me in increments. You said, 'You will get your second level of funding in 60 days. You’ll get this amount in 90 days; you’ll get this amount! ' And then on top of that, everything that you spoke came to pass! Every single thing! I got my second level of funding for my business! I actually bought my building and the land surrounding the school! My school is thriving! You actually spoke over me. You had no idea that I had gone through a terrible divorce, and you spoke over my heart, and I found my husband! Found me one year later! You called me a multi-millionaire, and I lie to you not: you can look in that book, the net amount that you said to the scent-that is how much I’m worth right now!»
Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Even DJ, he’s on the keyboard, he can’t play! Because when it hits you, you can’t do what you’ve been doing! If you feel that, you don’t have to play! You can just worship! Switch! She’s a millionaire because I said it! I spoke it because I heard it! But she believed the prophet, and it came to pass! Her net worth, which I will not speak, is what she has written on 8/5/18. Eight: new beginnings. Five: grace!
I’m sorry; you just stepped into grace for your new beginning! Switch! No, no wait! Stop! Your praise didn’t go up! You just gave the same level of praise! The Word! You’re looking at the Word manifest! If that doesn’t convince you to sow into this moment, there’s nothing that will! Thank y’all, and happy anniversary!
And I’m so excited because now it’s time for expansion! You need to be looking for your next properties and locations! And I hope that your curriculum is copyrighted so that you can, uh, um, um, what’s the word? Franchise it and give it to other educators and entrepreneurs in other cities, and you oversee that because now I see $20 million coming to you! For the next level of-no, excuse me, $26 million!
And I see that, and I see five schools! $26 million is either funding or revenue, which either one, it doesn’t matter, but it’s coming to you, and it will be under your control. So now God says, «Breathe on your expansion vision!» So if you have it written down or you’re believing God for expansion, God says, «Whatever paper it’s written on, go home and breathe on it!» Just, and you should start seeing movement in that direction in the next seven days! Go on now, go on now, go on now! You already got $30 million! You keep playing with me; it’s going up!
'Cause that kind of faith, God rewards when you switch! Okay, all right, watch this! Everybody get back to your seat as quick as you can! I' ma preach while you get there! Get back to your original seat! Move quick! Push people out of the way! No, don’t do that! Don’t be ugly!
Check this out! Tomorrow about this time! I’m sorry, what time? Tomorrow about this time! Some of y’all are looking at the clock! I know! I know! But this is a switch! By the way, does anybody remember when your grandmama said, «Go get me a switch!» Why? Why is a branch off a tree called a switch? Because the correction is designed to switch your behavior.
Some of the discipline God was using to switch you from what you were to what you need to be! The correction wasn’t anger; it was discipline and love! You need to thank God that He switched some things! You need to thank God that He ended the relationship! You need to thank God that He brought you out of that thing! You were going to die! You don’t have a clue that if you had just gone down that road one more time, you were going to catch a disease you couldn’t get rid of! But God stopped you!
You don’t know what God kept you from! You don’t know what HIV He kept you from! You don’t know what God is healing in your body right now! You don’t know what God’s about to do! You don’t know how fast God will switch! All right! I’m going need y’all to trust me on faith!
Balcony people! Everybody here! Everybody online! Do not ask no questions! You have exactly 30 seconds to give God a praise break however you feel He deserves it! Go! [Music] Brandon, you shouldn’t mess with me today! Now y’all just lifted up a praise! Watch this! Elder, this elder-watch this! You’re going to have to elbow him in his premium biceps! Watch this!
'Cause it’s about to be crazy! I want those-by the way, we’re going to the gym! All right! Y’all just gave God a praise! A praise to God is noise to the enemy! James, watch what I’m about to say! 2 Kings 7:3. «Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said to one another, 'If we in a famine, why sit here until we die? If we say we will enter the city, the famine is there, and we’ll die there. If we sit here, we’re going to die too! Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live, and if they kill us, we’re only going to die! We’re going to die anyway! '»
And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians, and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise, no one was there! For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses, the noise of a great army! So they said to one another, «Look! The king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!»
Therefore, they arose and fled at twilight and left the camp intact, their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, and they fled for their lives! The army of the enemy heard a noise — a sound that made them leave everything that they had where it was! I ask you to give God a 30-second praise break because there is a sound that makes your enemy leave what belongs to you where it is!
Now you want to go up? I’m going to give you a chance to lift up a praise to God that’s noise to your enemy! No, somebody needs to get aggressive! Something just broke off your family! You need to get aggressive! Something just broke off your spine; something just left your body! Something just left your womb! Endometriosis just left your body; your tumor just shrunk! Healing has just hit your house! Favor has just hit your house! There’s a sound!
Watch this! The lepers were also labeled unclean, and they said, «This is crazy! We need to go tell God’s people that the army is gone!» Now they’ve rejected us, and they don’t like us because of our condition, but far be it from us to be wicked and try to keep all this to ourselves! I bet you there were some people who didn’t want to hear from a leper that God had given victory!
My last point is don’t despise the method by which God delivers the message! You walk past that homeless person without acknowledging their humanity at your own peril! Be careful how you treat people you don’t think you need! Did you hear what I said? You better treat everybody with some daggone respect! Who do you think you are? You think you’re better than somebody? God will send a leper and see if you treat them right!
'Cause there’s a word in their mouth! God, some of y’all are, «Pastor, will you pray for me?» «Pastor John P?» «John P, what about the Elder?» No, I want the pastor! Don’t despise the anointing on the leaders trying to be up in my face! Because the same God that hears my prayers hears their prayers too! And the same God that hears their prayers hears your prayers too! And if you can’t get to a leader, you can still get to God!
I don’t know who this is for! This might be where you run! It seemed like the enemy had surrounded your dream, your hope, your resources, your money, your stuff! But while you were praising, as you were crying out to God, «Though he slay me, yet will I trust!» While you were trying to figure out how God was going to make it work! While you were lifting up your praise, it translated as a sound to your enemy that they better move and get out the way now! And they left everything where it was!
Not only all your stuff, all their stuff too! Uh -oh! Seven-second praise break for the double switch! Your double switch is your money and your emotions! Double switch is your job and your business 'cause they’re not the same! 'Cause where you work today, a year from now, you’ll have more money! You’ll own the business! You won’t work for it; you’ll be franchising! You won’t be an employee; you’ll be the head and not the tail, above and not beneath! Double switch!
Your enemy that has so much to say is going to leave! You ain’t even going to have to fight! God just needed to know could you worship while you were surrounded! Oh, no! Oh God, you’re going to have to help me! Somebody, Charles, be ready to get the mic! I’m about to leave out of here! Can you worship when you’re surrounded? Bad news after bad news after more drama! More hell at the house! Kids acting a darn fool! Dag on!
One supervisor hating on me, coworkers can’t see me! Barely enough money! I just got paid! Dad gone! Direct deposit hit Friday morning! By Saturday afternoon, I don’t know if I got enough for food for the next nine days! But I’m still going to tithe, and I’m still going to lift my hands, and I’m still going to believe God, and I’m still going to bless His name, and I’m still going to worship! And I’m not going to stop!
And what you don’t know is that while you were worshiping, God was removing your enemy in the name of Jesus! Hey! I’mma say it seven times! You take it how you want! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch!
I love my team; they put on the monitor, «Preach, pastor!» and I am! Does anybody believe the Word of the Lord? God knows what you’ve been walking through, sweet girl! He’s turning it! Hear me, Elder! He just switched it! Everything in your life just changed!
God sent a couple! I spoke to the penny, and I saw the number! And she said, «That’s what’s in my account!» I think they had to go! I hope they tithe! What I’m saying is this: they’re still here! I was just playing! Let you going to do it!
Let me tell you something! I just heard the Holy Ghost say something! He said there’s a switch seed! There’s a seed of obedience! Then there’s something that says no-it’s something on this word! I gotta do something! If that was for you, then you sow whatever the Lord tells you to do! If you’re an online giver, I mean electronic, sow a switch seed! If you got a dollar, bring it to the altar! If you got 50 million, bring it to the altar! Whatever you want to do, it don’t matter!
But we’re raising up trillionaires! Did anybody hear what I said? That’s what this house raises up! You can bring it right there! Yeah, you can put it at the altar! You can do whatever you throw it at the altar! I don’t care what you do! Whatever you want to do, but listen to me! Now I’m going to need y’all to hear me! This is for the six runners; I don’t know where you are!
This message is over, but I have an announcement to make! Let me back up! What God is about to do for you is what He had promised your grandmother, you would-she would see great grandparents! What He promised them, you’re literally getting ready to walk into it this week!
I’ve never seen, Laura, more demons stop oil from coming out from the ground. Hear me by the power of the Lord! Ain’t going to be no drilling! They’re going to walk, and there will be oil on their boots! Give her some space! She’s going to have to get this one out!
I saw in the spirit just now that somebody who works for you will walk the land, and under their feet, they’ll think it’s mud but it’ll be oil! And God says that’s where you’ll drill! You need to start thinking as the billionaire you are! There’s oil under your feet! Switch! Right there! No, no! Bring it right here! Your words are creating an economy for you!
Your words are creating an economy for you! What you write in poetry and in prose and in songs will be sung by the world! I don’t-the of Tupac but submitted to the anointing! There are seven business owners in this part of the church! If you own a business, I see you right there! First row of the balcony! Who else? Right here-the seven business owners.
God says if you have the faith to sow a seed right now, I don’t care what the amount is. That’s between you and God! If you have faith to sow a seed, God will have already breathed on your business by this time tomorrow!
Somebody has a pending eight- figure contract! Who are you? Eight-figure pending contract! That’s $10 million plus! Who is that? Who’s been believing for $10 million plus? Where are those people? Who is that? You? That’s-I saw you sow earlier! What you don’t know is you sowed, and God saw! So you, your wife, and all them kids! 'Cause you need all that $10 million for as many kids as y’all don’t have! Netflix! I’m going to get you a subscription!
Hear me! Your children’s grandchildren will eat from the seed you sow today! And you said, «Lord, I don’t have much, but what I have, I give!» And I need you to know that God saw it! Congratulations! It has switched in your favor! There’s oil under your feet!
As I bring this moment to a prophetic close, Pastor Alicia, the Lord spoke to me during, uh, as I was driving to the church today! He said, «Call her Pastor!» So I’m calling you Pastor Alicia! Pastor Alicia! Pastor Alicia! Pastor Alicia! Pastor Alicia! Pastor Alicia! Pastor Alicia!
Because you are so uncomfortable with being called a shepherd because you feel-You don’t feel adequate or worthy of the title! And God says, «I didn’t ask you what you thought about you! I am going to declare what you are before you occupy it fully so that the world knows that’s how I see you; so that’s the way they better receive you!»
And then the Lord said, «Tell her about David! I anointed him when he was 13; he didn’t get the throne until he was 30! But he was still the king in process! The oil that’s on you is not just for where you are but for what you’re about to occupy! Pastor, and you cannot be disqualified by previous acts! God ain’t looking at what you’re looking at! Pastor, so embrace everything that comes with being a shepherd of the sound and the heart of God! Pastor, and embrace it!
And every devil that whispers that you are not has to let you go now! Pastor Yolanda, it just broke! Particularly the prayers you had for your daughter. That you were secret prayers that were just between you and God! Things you ask for specifically for your baby! And God says that has just broken! It just broke right now!
He said that was the one that was between Me and you! You didn’t even tell your husband because it was that close to your spirit! God says, „I heard it, and the answer is yes!“
I just broke it in your favor! It’s done! Everyone is standing! Everyone is standing! Everyone is standing! Is it-y’all still believing? Though you don’t know, you’re trusting God! Wouldn’t that be funny? Your best-laid plans-He just upends them with another miracle! Wouldn’t that be crazy?
Oh Lord, I can’t do it! It’s not about you! He wants to get something to the next generation! He needs Godly seed in the earth! Wouldn’t that be something? That’s all I’m going to say! I' m going to leave it there because your wife’s like, „No, sir, please don’t prophesy to me! I don’t want no kids!“
Switch! Switch again! Switch again! He just took the generations on the Daniel side and the Cotton side of your family, and every curse that was on both sides of that family just fell off of you and your children! God says stop worrying about your son! God says, „I got him!“
He said it’s about to turn! You’re going to see your son shift! Listen, in the next 60 days, the prayers that you’ve been praying to God about your boy are going to come to pass! I prophesy to you as if I don’t know you or your seed; but I declare that your son will walk in the best oil of his grandfather’s father! Your daughter will be a beacon of holiness in the world! I’m putting her on television and in movies!
I’m going to give her a global platform! And God says, and I haven’t forgotten about your dreams either! God says, „Finish the book! I’m going to breathe on it myself!“ Come close and bring somebody else with you! Come on, Pastor Cromar! You pray; you believe for everybody else! You’ve been wounded and hurt! The lies, the pain, the tears! But today God says-I’m tearing all of it off!
You’re going to be able to sleep in peace in your mind and in your soul! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Switch! Come down, bro! I need boys in the hood down here! This is for all the young men who were told you were not worthy or you were beneath the blood of Jesus because you were either caught up in the game or you smoked or you were in the system! You were incarcerated!
You’ve been going through some stuff! It feels like the world’s against you! It just switched in your favor! All the young men who felt marginalized, unwelcome in the presence of God, didn’t feel worthy, I need you to come to the altar! It just switched for you! I need all the ballers, all the bangers! I need all the weed smokers, all the weed sellers! I need all the guys in this church that know what it’s like to be in them streets! Get to the altar 'cause God just switched it!
He’s changing your business acumen! Switch! Switch! For every blunt you hit, a new idea! Switch! Y’all need to know this is the move of God! Switch! Switch! All the men of God who I’m talking to-switch! Come here, young king with the cast! Come here! Up here! Up here!
Switch! This is for the young men who the world want to throw away! Bring them over here! Bring them over here! Bring them over here! Come here! What happened to your hand? I said, „What happened to your hand?“ He said, „I was shot.“
Come here! You were shot! The bullet was meant for your heart and your head, but it caught your hand because God’s got a plan for your life! And you’re going to live and not die! The reason why I have this cast and you have that cast is because God needed you to see where He’s taking you next! This is where you are; this is where you’re going! And one day I' mgoing to hand you this mic, and you’re going to tell these people your testimony! And it’s going to be some young men that you can reach that I won’t be able to reach!
You know God saved your life! You know your grandma was praying! You know that! You know that! That’s why you alive! No weapon formed against you will prosper! This is only for the real dudes! Come here!
Elder, Pastor Mike, Elder Linton, come on! I want y’all to stay with my guy! I want y’all to surround him! Put some oil on his head! 'Cause even with the shrapnel from the gunshot, he’s still anointed! He still walks in power! He still walks in favor!
Switch! Switch! Switch! If you got a joint in your pocket but you don’t want to be addicted to it no more, throw it on the altar! Switch to the women that’s been caught up in abusive relationships, and you stayed with him because you didn’t have enough money to pay bills!
I dare you to come to this altar and release the fear of provision! Don’t you give no man your body for no money! You don’t need to be tricking for no bill money! God’s about to take care of you! Switch!
There is a young mother in here, and you drove here, and you had the fuel light on in your car! Where are you? Where are you? The young lady who drove to church this morning, and your orange fuel light was on! Where are you? Where is she? Y’all can take him back down with his brothers; he don’t have to stay up there! But I just need you to know the bullet was supposed to kill him, but all it did was hit his hand, and he can still!
She’s in the balcony! Where she at? Is that you? No! Leave the kids there! You come here! Hurry up! Leave the kids there! Stay with your grandma, boy! Ma’am, you need to walk like I got something to give to you quickly! I would run if I were you- just because I see what I’m in!
Come here! Yeah! I’d be crying too! Do it! Man, do it! Do it! Young lady, while you’re wiping tears, somebody’s trying to get something in your hands! You didn’t even see it! You came here on faith this morning, didn’t you? You needed God to move! How many kids do you have? You got one! Your orange light is on! The Lord told me!
I need you to know! And I need this! I need this! The Lord said sew it into the mother that only had a little bit of gas! But God’s about to hit you with overflow! As you walk back to your seat, you will have more than enough for what you thought was impossible! As you walk, you won’t even be able to get up the aisle, but it’s already broken in your favor!
You’re not going to have to beg anybody for anything! It just switched! Y’all don’t hear! Y’all don’t see what’s happening! A single mother came in here with the orange light on, and she needed God to move! And God just did it! Because God switches things in a moment for those who have been thrown away by church because of how you identify in your sexuality!
I need you to know that there is love for where you are in your journey today! Hear me! You are loved for where you are in your journey! I’m not going to ask you to come to the altar 'cause people are nosy and trifling, and everybody’s not spiritual!
But wherever you are, whether you’re here or watching, you are loved! And you are loved on your journey! The journey of freedom and truth, the journey of the full revelation of who Jesus Christ is takes time! No matter who you are and what you’re walking through, may this church be a place where you receive the unadulterated Word of God as you battle with the places of identity and purpose and destiny that are found in the Word of God and the person of Jesus Christ!
Lay down your sword! Every church doesn’t hate you, and certainly God loves you enough to let His Son die for your sins and mine, and you are worthy of the blood! If you’ll just fall to the feet of Jesus and lift your hands to the cross! If you’re here today and you want this to be your church, meet me on this platform!
If this is the place that you want to be your church, you’ve not been a member, or you’ve never given your life to Jesus, meet me on this platform! Walk up these steps and stand behind me! I believe if you continue to clap, they’ll come stand right behind me!
Either I am; you are! Whenever I need you, the I am! You are! You are! Welcome home! Welcome home! Elder Young, I am; you are! You are, pastor! Did your brother just join? Oh, you just coming up? You was already here? Is there anybody else?
Anybody else? Anybody else? Here she comes! Welcome home! I need a couple more elders up here. Everybody that’s on this platform, repeat after me! Repeat after me! Lord Jesus, it’s me! I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that Jesus is Lord! Thank you for the blood that was shed for me!
I receive the free gift of salvation, not through my works but the finished work of the cross! The blood is enough to pay for all my sins! Now Holy Spirit, come live inside and teach me how to be more like Jesus each and every day! You are my Savior and my Lord! In Jesus' name, amen! Amen! And amen! I need everybody to celebrate! I need you to walk them this way! Y’all going this way! Y’all need to clap for your new family! Walk with them!
Celebrate them now while they’re walking! Don’t leave 'cause I’m about to pronounce blessing! But before we go, give God a switch praise! That’s the new baby! Tomorrow about this time! Tomorrow about this time! I tomorrow about this time! Hands lifted!
Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before His presence with exceeding joy! To the only wise God be glory, majesty, dominion, and power, both now and forevermore! Amen! Amen! And amen!