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god has been so good and gracious how
many people brought your bibles or your
ipads or your
phones whatever you use for uh for your
the scripture
i still use the old bible i just kind of
like that book you know what i’m saying
nothing wrong with it
believe in technology and uh uh and but
god is so good and gracious
so we thank you today if you’ve got your
bibles i’d like you to turn with me to
the book of matthew
chapter six we preached the other day i
think it was last week on matthew 6 33
on who’s on first or who is first
i want to continue in this chapter
and i felt love of the lord the lord
gave me something
and i want you to write this down this
is a statement
being undisturbed is helpful to
concentration of thought excuse me
being undisturbed is helpful
to concentration of thought
see and you’ve heard me say it many
times preaching should never
supersede thought it should make you
think
so being undisturbed is helpful
to concentration of thought so that you
have your faculties in every area of
your life
jesus is talking here in matthew chapter
six i think i’m gonna start with verse
one
and then i’m gonna read on down to verse
six jesus said take heed that you do not
your arms
before men to be seen of them
otherwise you have no reward of your
father which is in
heaven therefore when thou doest thy
arms do not sound a trumpet before thee
as the hypocrites do in the synagogues
and in the streets
that they may have glory of men verily i
say unto you
they have their reward verse 3
but when thou doest arm let not thy left
hand no with thy right hand do it that
doesn’t mean you can’t tell people what
you’ve given
this is all about this is helping the
poor here
see a lot of people want recognition
you know i do a lot of things and they
said man you ought to you ought to tell
people no
i’m not doing that because the
description doesn’t mean you can’t tell
people that you
what you’re giving see what i’m saying
but when you’re dealing with the poor
you should protect their dignity
you see what i’m trying to say so if i
give to a food bank you’ll never know
about it
think about that a lot of people do that
if i give the missionaries
you’re not going to know about it i’m
just going to do what god told me to do
see what i’m saying why i keep reading
with it
verse 4 that that thine arms may be in
secret and thy father which seeth in
secret himself
shall reward thee openly so in other
words god is watching you
amen verse 5 when thou pressed
now he goes from arm giving to prayer
when thy press thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites
are for they love to pray standing in
the synagogues and in the
corners of the street that they may be
seen of men
verily i say unto you they have their
reward
verse 6 but thou when thy prayers enter
into thy closet
or secret place and when thou has shut
the door
pray to the father which is in secret or
in the secret place
and thy father which seeth in secret
shall reward thee
openly i want to talk this morning about
the secret place
everyone should have one now i’m not
talking about getting so literal
but you can have a a closet
but i’m talking about the secret place
god has a secret place he said i will
hide you in the secret place of my
pavilion
i believe that’s in the book of psalms
every one of you should have that place
where you undisturbed and that the
concentration of thought
you will hear yourself think all right
you’ll hear the spirit of god so nothing
will distract you
someplace somewhere it could be in your
house jesus did it on top of mountains
now what i love about jesus there’s a
lot of things about jesus we don’t know
about
he left no memorabilia
think about that none but wouldn’t you
like to know what his mother was like as
he she was raising him when did he
become aware
of the message and the calling
that he was the son of god even though
he said he was the son of man
we’d like to know those things some
people
some people write biographies about
themselves which is great
some won’t do that so other people do it
so you can know some things there’s a
lot of things
that jesus kept very secret yet you
could open up his heart real quick a
child could open up his heart
someone that repented would open up his
heart and he would speak
things about himself and about what god
his father would do
he was very susceptible to people
who loved him and reached out to him and
we opened up secret things
i want to talk about the secret place
enter in so write this down the secret
place
is made to close off the spirit
from all distractions
the secret place is made or the closet
call it would you want
to close off the spirit from all
distractions so you can
feel alone with god
there’s a reason for that jesus honored
that
the bible said well he said i only say
what my father says
and i only do what my father says to do
now how did he know that
because he’d go to the secret place even
though he was totally tired in his body
preach all day and then he would tell
the disciples y’all go ahead and get a
place and he’d send the multitude home
and instead of going to his disciples
he’d go up the mountain and pray
he might pray all night to the secret
place it could be under the tree
it could have been a chapel in his house
it could be whatever
and even though he prayed all night and
preached all day before he would be at
the synagogue the next morning
because he was a churchgoer now the
reason for that is just what i said the
secret place is made to close the spirit
from all this crossfit off from all
distraction
so you feel along with god because then
it’s just you and god
two of you agree you begin to hear the
voice of the lord
because you see he will speak through
your spirit through a renewed mind
which which is the soul of man mind will
and emotion
to a crucified body everyone should have
it
i have a chapel in my home i find a lot
of times
people buy these big huge homes in
england and in france and everything
and they start uh refurbishing them and
i’ve heard people say this this used to
be a chapel
i’m changing it into a sitting room
that was someone’s secret place where
they could go
before god without any distraction talk
spirit to spirit because god is spirit
your worship
in spirit and in truth write this down
in the secret place we become aware
of the valley of things which we often
overlooked
see when you go in and talk with god’s
spirit to spirit you become aware so the
sickest places were made for awareness
you and god in the second place we
become aware
of the value of things which we often
overlook
even in this secret place you can become
aware of just how beautiful this planet
is
how beautiful flowers are because you
become aware
see and it can be spiritual physical and
financial like when we have a guest
speaker
we say as we therefore have opportunity
let us do good to all especially
to those or of the household of faith
why because we’ve become aware
that god has sent someone to speak a
word to us
so it’s more than a church thing it’s a
closing off
of distraction to your spirit so god can
speak to you
and sometimes he just want to talk
he may not give you any direction he
knows you’re going to be guided by the
spirit of truth anyway
he just wants to kind of hang out with
you for lack of a better way to say it
so in the secret place we become aware
of the value of things which we often
overlook it’s amazing how many things
he’s created that we overlook
flowers if you ever seen some of these
rose petals some of these flowers under
a microscope
you’d be amazed the workmanship
of god’s hands but we overlook some of
those things
see because we haven’t closed ourselves
off so the world we’re being we’re
absorbing the world around us yet
we’re overlooking really the best things
that are around us
write this down in the secret place you
find out what you should be grateful for
in the secret place you find out what
you should be grateful for
your message is shaped in your mind when
you find out what you’re grateful for
what are you grateful about
you know when i was building this
building i was so honored that god would
choose me to build a building
why would you choose me i know i can’t
even nail a nail
straight i’m not mechanical i can’t fix
that kathy’s way more mechanical than i
am
sometimes i used to tell her i’d give
her a screwdriver go fix my harley
you know she could figure it out that is
amazing to me
if something went wrong jesse don’t put
your hand on it you’re gonna break it
more let me have it
and she could do it i was grateful that
she was a mechanic
see what i’m saying you find out just
how valuable someone is
and sad to say some people don’t know
what they have till they lose it
well you don’t wanna you don’t want to
learn about it after you lost it so in
the secret place you find out
what you should be grateful for your
message is shaped in your mind which is
in the soulless room
it’s because the spirit says it to the
soul it’s shaped in your mind then
you’re able to
implement what god has spoken to you
that’s why a lot of people don’t
understand the things of god because
they never go to the secret place to
talk to one-on-one
they’re so distracted by all the other
things i’m not distracted about this
hurricanes i don’t deny them i’m not
stupid i don’t deny them
but i what am i attracted to the
bloodline
pleading of blood and like i i was
telling kevin in the back walker
i’ve had people say well dad suppose all
this place was destroyed what would you
do
rebuild it i bill it again that ain’t
this no i don’t like to pay for the same
real estate twice
and i certainly ain’t believing for it
i’m not gonna do what they tell me
you know prepare for one stronger your
mama
i ain’t doing that that’s craziness
it’s kind of like prepare yourself
for uh you you got to abscess but
prepare yourself for cancer
no no i’m not going to do that
you see what i’m saying you’d be
surprised how that stuff gets around you
and gets in you
which is my next point beware of
the cares that try to absorb you
they try to absorb you so you you can’t
hardly think any other way that
is what’s happened with this pandemic
we’ve become so absorbed
that sometimes we ain’t thinking
straight
how can you expect someone to complete
their business and only have 25
business when they need every dollar
that’s coming into that business
which affects people and the people tell
you that they’re not
they’re getting their money so it’s easy
for them to say it
i’m not being critical here i’m just
being truthful you become so absorbed
with the problem that you cannot see the
answer
why because you hadn’t been in this
secret place where’s your closet
because i’m going to tell you something
about god he’s in your closet
so let me go over these points again
real quickly the secret place is made to
close off the spirit from all
destruction
so you feel along with god it’s good to
be alone with god
it means more than uh uh i didn’t read
them and read that one in a minute
in the secret place we become aware of
the value of things which we often
overlook
see so the secret that’s what jesus was
saying when you pray go and say so
awareness begins to take place that
you’re a spirit housing a soul and
clothing a body and god wants to talk to
you
i said to you in the secret place you
find out what you should be grateful for
your message is shaped in your mind
spirit soul and body then i said beware
of the cares
that try to absorb you see people think
for some re
reason or another that if you go to the
secret place that’s
mental seclusion no no
it means more when you go into the
second place it means more than mental
seclusion it’s the spirit’s place for
communion with god
you say that’s what jesus he would have
communion with god is more than mental
seclusion
so when that happens you know what is
brought into you stability
you become stable people things that are
unstable are dangerous
so it’s more than mental seclusion just
trying to go in a room somewhere
no no it’s going to bring stability in
your life
the spirit place is where you commune
with god that’s why we when we take
the the last supper we call it communion
we’re communing it with his death burial
and resurrection
it’s more than just a thing you do
that’s why jesus said this do this in
remembrance
of me not remembrance of the thing
not in remembrance but of him making
sure that when you
eat that host you know that his body
broke and when you drink that juice
that’s his blood being shed now the way
to know those things is done through
communion
now the reason why i know the devil
couldn’t kill me because
god said i shall live and i die and i’ve
been down in three airplane
crashes which will make you speak in
tongues make a baptist speak in tongues
in a second
nobody fights each other on a plane when
he’s going down
and i’ve never heard anybody say buddha
muhammad i might be critical here you
know what i heard jesus
because he’s alive and well
how do i know that communion with him
the secret place
so i don’t let the things that around me
becoming
absorbed the cares of this world absorb
be for me some are the deceitfulness of
riches
well in other words as god gives me way
more money i mean i don’t get deceitful
about it because you see i’m not
absorbing that
see when you’re full of the holy ghost
you can’t put no more in you
and nothing else can get in there
neither that’s why god said when you
cast the devil out get rid of them
because
they’ll go to and fro on earth and if
they can’t find someone again they come
back but if
that person is filled with the spirit of
god they got to go on
so let me say it again beware of the
cares that try to absorb you
so it’s wonderful to be grateful how
many times have i said lord
did i say thank you enough he said you
did i said i’m gonna say it one more
time
i love my conversations my conversations
come with god when i’m in my
secret place
and sometime i go and he says what jesse
i said i don’t know i just come to say
hi
i just come to say hello hey how you
doing that sounds odd i know it’s not
hard
when you know each other instead of just
believe each other
when you know in whom you have believed
and you’re persuaded
that he’s able to keep what you commit
to him so what are you committing to him
do you see what you understand what i’m
saying see that’s the secret place
let me say it again being undisturbed is
helpful to concentration of thought
because now the only voice i’m going to
hear is
his write this down in the secret place
we get a sense of perspective so in
other words number one you get a sense
of awareness
number two you get a sense of
perspective and the second place we get
a
sense of perspective what is perspective
what does it do
perspective helps you to see your life
in true proportions
how many times you put on
clothes you go
that don’t look like me no that’s you
or you hear yourself on tape somewhere
that’s not that don’t sound like me
yes it is everybody else says it is
see perspective causes you to see your
life in true proportions
let me say it again perspective helps
you
see your life in true proportion so i
know in whom i have believed
i’m persuaded i know what i’m going to
do i know when i’m
gonna get there see most people don’t
know where they’re going so when they
get there
they pass it some people get so
disturbed by
cares that they get so worried and we’ll
do it they faint
he said let us not be weary and well do
it
why because you’re going to faint
but you don’t want to faint you want to
be there when the thing shows up and
shows out
so to get true proportions you have to
have perspective
kathy asked me about that this morning
she put on that navy blue blob
what do you like this she was asking
from my perspective
i said yeah i like that it’s really nice
i think i’m gonna put a gray
something what’d you call that thing
shawl another shawl a scarf with it i
said
fine well she wasn’t finished yet
she wanted more of my perspective
and here’s the next thing does it make
me look heavy i did not answer that
and neither should you if you want to
live long
then she put on some jewelry what about
this what about that put on a piece of
hair
yeah i said yeah i i like that it’s not
perspective
awareness she did it in her secret in
her closet
kathy dresses in her closet it’s big
enough
she likes to be in there well that’s
good so in the secret place we get a
sense of
perspective and the church which is this
is your home
away from you get a sense of perspective
that’s why you don’t like people sitting
in your pew
i’m going how many of y’all know what
i’m talking about lift your hand up
you know that your butt feels better in
your pew
than in this social destiny am i correct
why perspective awareness
what you’re doing is taking ownership
which is a wonderful thing
you see that’s why it’s it’s it’s
wonderful write this down
never brood over small misfortunes
or disappointments why they darken your
surroundings
never brood over small misfortunes
sometimes things blow up
or disappointment sometimes we have some
disappointments you don’t brood over
them you don’t deny them you know
they darken your surroundings see you
got to push the light you’ve heard me
say that
if you push the light darkness won’t
have a place to manifest
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have you ever heard me anybody watching
me all over the world
here said we don’t know what we’re going
to do
i know exactly what i’m going to do i’m
not bragging about that why
been in the secret place been in the
closet now there’s been some times i say
lord i need to question some things
and he didn’t wasn’t disturbed about it
because sometimes you need to more than
believe you need to know you got to get
beyond belief
see so per perspective helps you
your life you see your life in true
proportions and when you see your life
in true proportions
you do not brood over small misfortunes
or disappointments
simply because they darken your
surroundings yeah but jesse look at this
i don’t want to look at that i have the
power to look at what i want to look at
that’s right this all has to do with
what i want to do it all has to do what
you want to do
like kathy the other day she said listen
jesse i want to go home she said
i i ordered something i’m going to go
get it now i said well can we can we
we’re going to go out this afternoon
late
and we’re going to grab up my team and
get no i want to go now
so she gave me a prophecy take a nap
which i’d received
so i went to one of my favorite chairs
and i did
she went get whatever she was whatever
she ordered i don’t know
i didn’t know it turned out to be some
glasses i think i think the ones he has
on
wait so i said she said you like these
glasses
looking for perspective awareness i said
yeah
i said their prescription right yeah i
said she said there are designer frames
is that what you say
some kind of frame thing which means
there’s more money than i thought
but i don’t need to worry about it
because she takes care of that
you see so i’m not going to brood over
my misfortune
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i ain’t going to tell you how much
but why because she’ll darken my
surroundings
i know how to preach a point ladies and
gentlemen you understand i know how to
get your attention
the other day we went eat at pf change
with kevin and cathy said i did great
friends
spiritual sons and daughters got great
ministry you know
we’ve been on diets really watching
ourselves and kevin he ordered some
combination fried rice
with extra white onions and broccoli he
got it you got to make it different
and he’s sitting there eating i said
lord tell him to give me a piece of that
meat
he did not obey but i did not brood over
my misfortune
i disappointed but i thought i said he
went oh yeah but take what you want
actually i didn’t need to ask it
it’s saying well i got just take what
you want
so i just i don’t ask kathy i just reach
over with my fork and get
and she says i was going to eat that
i said well don’t brood over your
misfortune
i’ll order you another order oh then i’m
gonna eat too much
i said man you can’t you can’t win for
losing here
so but so many people brood over those
things that’s right
and it darkens the surroundings
write this down your life must be
reviewed under the light of god
that takes time and patience
your life must be reviewed under
the light of god that takes time and
patience that’s why you go to this
secret place
he said when you get in your closet what
god see you gotta remember god’s in
there
waiting on to talk to you yes
see why why does god do why because he
don’t want distractions
he wants to hear 100 of what you got to
say
isn’t that wonderful he’s so interested
in you
because you’re his child think about
that see it so it’s more than just
praying
it’s more than just relationship it’s
fellowship now you’re doing something
god i’m cutting out that’s what fasting
is all about
it’s not just so you can starve you just
shut down the natural generator and turn
on the spiritual generator
even the apostle paul talked about uh
physical things
you know and married life in other words
sometimes you have to separate yourself
from your wife or your husband
you know so y’all don’t get together and
fast and pray in other words he wants
your
undivided attention kathy wants my
undivided attention sometimes
see what she doesn’t know i hear
everything she says and a lot of time
while she’s
talking i’m thinking she said are you
listening to me yes you want me to
repeat it that makes me mad
now i said i can repeat it word for bird
i heard it all
well look at me when well sometime when
if you ever know small people they start
thinking about something they’ll do this
she don’t like that
my mind gets to thinking so you know
i’ll look off somewhere
she wants that undivided attention your
life must be reviewed
under the light of god this takes time
and patience
now who don’t want it yesterday
everybody wants it yesterday
my god we’re americans we like fast food
we like it all fast
we we actually save slow and spin fast
we like it fast that burn it all
that was one thing i always did when i
went on vacations was spin all i brought
i wasn’t going to save it to pay a bill
i used to go with my brother-in-law
deborah jewels these are when the kids
were little and that would be little
jewels and
ryan and julie and of course jody they
were that little girl
a little kid you know and they loved
they said we want to go with uncle jesse
cause as soon as we got in that van like
we might go to destin
i turned around i said okay what are we
going to stop and eat at
well it’s not ready it it we ain’t ready
for lunch
i said no i’m talking ice cream and cake
and candy
oh they say pull over
by the time i got them the destiny they
won sugar highs
and it might be the last day and i said
i got 100 left let’s burn it
i don’t want to go home i worked all
year long for that vacation
i worked hard you see what i’m saying
save money so i could have a good time
i’m not gonna go home
he said well i’m gonna try to say no no
no no
no well sometimes i i love raw onions
you know the kind that’s what they call
them things in my
shallots you know they long but the
problem
i have when i eat those things they make
me burp
and they went in the back of the bed
kill them man
i eat a whole shower they go oh
but they get so mad
and sometimes i had a van and those they
didn’t have no seats in the back
and no windows so i’d say well get some
lawn chairs y’all just sit back then
they can
the kids can play on the carpet but i’d
do it on purpose
and they go fly up against the wall it
was all carpeted
hanging on and i just enjoyed myself
my shallots
sometimes it got so bad they said let’s
stop and have an ice cream
so they could get away from that onion
smell i like onions i always have like
onions
you see and but when i got home
i could give you good memories of my
vacation
you know if i flew out i said i want
enough money to get my call out the
parking lot
and they said how was your vacation it
was wonderful
now the reason why i did that i reviewed
that vacation before i went on it
i put it under the light
so i knew what i was going to do i knew
i was going to have a good time
and it takes time and patience to do
those things
so remember this you’re going to get it
it’s kind of like when you’re growing up
you just can’t wait to be 18.
oh god you know it takes 35 years to
become 18.
i mean yeah young people god ha well but
when you pass 25 you begin to speed up
don’t you
yeah all of a sudden you’re 50. you said
lord put the slow down no
why your mindset changes see
so the secret place produces awareness
and produces perspective
and it gives you concentration of
thought that you now hear god
i love these points coming up ready for
this
in quietness god speaks
if we listen patiently and
honestly in the quietness
and quietness god speaks even when
there’s a holy ghost meeting going on
like
people shouting screaming it’s that
still small voice
that grabs that attention
and quietness he speaks that’s why jesus
that’s what jesus was saying
get to your closet get to your secret
place
because i got some wonderful things to
talk about
and he’ll tell you your whole future if
we listen
patiently and honestly
that’s a wonderful thing right this time
in quiet times
well let me go back up to the other
point then i’ll come to this so you
write it down in quietness god speaks
if we listen patiently and honestly what
is he saying
now this other point in quiet times the
convictions
of our faith strengthens
its hold on us
in quiet times the conviction of our
faith
strengthens its whole on us
my god now faith is the substance of
things hopeful
evidence of things not seen so i don’t
care how long it takes because my faith
is in the now
that faith is strengthened that
conviction is strength and it takes
hold of you that all you can think about
is that faith that thread of the fabric
of god clothes
that clothes you it strengthens i love
that
it’s hold on you i’ve had people say boy
but jesse
you’re so strong on it whatev i’ve been
in the quiet times
i’ve been in the quiet places and what
it did
it strengthened my conviction boy and it
it holds me more
so when i see something uh that i don’t
want to see like
hurricanes and stuff like that instead
of going oh my god oh my god
and i mean i mean it’s terrible what’s
happening in lake charles things that
did but i remember
in uh when hurricane audrey hit cameron
anybody remember that
over 400 people died
yeah oh it was terrible i remember
hurricane betsy in 1965 coming up the
mouth of the mississippi
hurricane camille 1969 these things are
emblazoned in my mind when it hit a
biloxi in
those areas it was terrible but you know
you go to blux it still looks pretty
good
they rebuilt it now some people left
can’t handle it
and that’s okay you can you can move
that’s not the issue you got to go away
you feel god wants you to go where you
feel
peace at but if you run it from trouble
it’s going to follow you
it’ll show up in portland oregon
it’ll show up in a craziest place you
ever thought see but if you defeat it
haven’t done all the stand stand
therefore
it’ll get away from you instead of
getting close to you
so in the second place god
has an opportunity
or in the secret place god has an
opportunity to become
real to us think about that
so there you have awareness
perspective opportunity
in the secret place god has an
opportunity to become
real to us is god real to you or is your
religion real i’m baptist i’m methodist
i’m episcopalian
i’m presbyterian i’m pentecostal
whoo i’m charismatic where is it god and
all this stuff
has god become real to you you know how
you know when he’s real
when everything’s going wrong not when
everything’s going right
anybody can talk faith when you got a
pocket full of money
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this man oh my god how are we going to
do this
in the second place god has an
opportunity
to become real to us why because in
quietness he speaks
if we listen patiently and honestly in
quiet times
the convictions of our faith strengthens
his hold on us i got to stay on that for
a minute
see i know so much about it that i have
a hard time getting sick
when you saw me sick betty you’ve been
knowing me a long time huh
since we kids what 13 14 maybe even
earlier than that i guess i don’t know
what jesus
is it’s because i’m better than you no
it’s just that what happened is
in those secret place that faith man
those convictions of it strengthens and
holds me more
i mean i don’t like disappointments i
don’t like misfortunes i’ve had some but
i don’t brood over them
you ever notice a lot of preachers
always preach the bad stuff that
happened to him you ever heard of
testimonies
anybody got a government yeah the debt
been beating my brains i’d always shut
up i don’t want to hear all that
then right at the end but the lord
so you gave satan all his glory then
finally you said and god
i remember one time i went preaching
jennings louisiana
me and kathy and meredith no meredith my
granddad jody jody was little what uh
five six something like that
when i got there
i said uh do you all have evangelistic
quarters yes
oh i said because we thought we’re going
to get a hotel the evangelist the
quarters
was a sunday school room
he said you and sister kathy your
daughter can sleep on the floor
am i right i’ve slept on the floor
before
me and my brother we slept in eight foot
wide 32-foot trailer
on the floor i turned out all right
i looked at that and if you want to go
to the bathroom
you have to walk down the hall
so me and kathy we did not blink you
know why
our faith has strengthened its hold on
us
so we slept on the floor i slept with
one eye and one eye
one eye closed one eye open watching
them roaches
so they wouldn’t bite cave or by jodi
oh they didn’t care you know what was
their reason
scriptural thou has to endure hardness
as a good soldier of christ i don’t have
to go through hard times to be a good
soldier
good soldiers have good character when
it’s hard times or good times
but it’s the truth yet i didn’t get mad
about it
i said well they just missed an
opportunity for the blessing of god in
their life
but we never said nothing
now today they try to do that i’ll say
that’s fine i’ll take care of my own
uh arrangements
i told one preacher one time in alabama
i said i’ll take care of my own hotel
foods all that kind of stuff
he said well good that’s great i
appreciate that big church
2000 there
kevin there so he invites out about 10
people
to eat at this hotel that we’re staying
at
and he says just put it on your own bill
he ain’t paying for it remember that i
got it just put it on your own bill
i said sure i didn’t know i was going to
buy for 12 people that day
he’s not much of men she’s so sick and
messed up because he said he loved to
take advantage of people
that’s sad and i heard through the vine
man everything that man justin plans
touch prospers you know why
i’m generous i said i’ll buy you dinner
fine
i won’t mention the preachers but
there’s two preachers one time in hawaii
and you know when you go to those
high-class hotels they have breakfast
and they start off at about 65 70 for
the buffet
and they sit there eating and one of the
preachers says you know if we go to
denny’s we can get this same breakfast
for 7.95 and the other priest said go
trying to save money only vacation when
there’s nothing wrong with that
my god you worked all why don’t you just
enjoy what the lord has placed in your
hand
amen
you see the
i think what it is he didn’t know for
sure if god could bless him that strong
and you don’t know that till the test
comes anyway
but it doesn’t make any difference if
you’re not moved by what you see you
move by what you believe in
that’s what i do i’m not moved by what i
see i don’t deny it
because you see because i’ve been in the
secret place
i’ve had my ministry in my life under
the light of god
who lord and i i’ve
i i i’ve paid the price for patience
yeah i did i paid it but i said let
patients have his perfect work
and i paid the price of time it’s not
that i didn’t want it yesterday
that’s not the issue but i still got it
let me say this here i want to close
with this your heart
was not meant this is a point your heart
was not meant to be a thoroughfare to
traffic
in business it is meant
to be a temple where god dwells
but a lot of people their heart is uh
it’s become uh what’s the word a
thoroughfare
to trafficking business i had a great
preacher someone knew what he’d say
uh you need to learn to play golf i
don’t like golf i mean gossip like game
you know but i i they say it relaxing
not me
they don’t um in fact i don’t speak in
english there’s other words i say
i said this game will send me to hell i
gotta i can’t play this game
but his his reason was jesse people love
you i said well thank you
you need to learn to play golf man you
can you can get a lot of partners
playing
i don’t want to get around people to for
me just to try to get their money
but see you become so callous to that
that uh it’ll help the ministry ah
so you use a little deception you’re not
there to enjoy that person
you’re there to say well maybe
not you know that would you like that
no you would it would hurt your feelings
wouldn’t it at least man my god man were
you trying to get a ramen just so i can
give you something
come on i don’t mind giving you
something that’s not the issue but the
point it would be wrong
see that person’s heart is at that on
this particular thing
became a thoroughfare to traffic in
business
my partners come because god speaks to
them
and i tell people where moneys are going
i i’m very open about those kind of
things
and uh i don’t ask people to do
something i don’t do myself
if i ask you to give i give myself
i’ve had people say you don’t need to do
that brother jesse you’ve given your
life we’ve all given our lives to the
lord for god’s sake
all right touch not god’s anointing and
do his prophet no harm but we’re all
anointed if you’re born again
come on talk to me jesus yeah
that doesn’t mean you special could be
in the executive branch of god’s
government the apostle the prophet the
evangelist the pastor teacher but what
you should be if you’re in that five
four minutes
is be more of a servant be more of a
blessing
instead of so you know acting like the
mafia kiss my ring
you know what i’m saying let me say it
again your heart
was not meant to be a thoroughfare to
trafficking business
and i i’m a businessman i believe in
business i misunderstand it this is when
i’m going into the secret place the
closet
it is meant to be a temple where god
dwells
ah how can i say this i’ve had god get
excited because i was going to the
closet
what i got my boy is coming
well how many times man my grandmother
when they were alive both of them they’d
be standing outside
on the steps waiting for us the
grandkids to come
just waiting to see us my grandpas
wouldn’t
but the grandmas were
they just we wait for meredith and
jody to get around it we just
we enjoy that they they sense it and
know it
what’s the same way with god when i go
to the i went to the secret place this
morning i just walked
i need my voice here and i began to hear
the oracle of god i began to hear
things in heaven as well as things on
the earth
i began to hear angel wings physical
from my physical ears
and how many times god said what you
think he likes to know what i think
there’s been some times i say you know
let’s reason together here
if you really knew this person you
wouldn’t love them
don’t look at me weird i’ve said that to
god let me tell you i know this guy
this guy’s a devil from hell
sin in the hell nobody else
think different of it he said i get no
enjoyment out someone going to hell
it had dawned on me i would enjoy that
boy going to hell
because he was the most aggravating
person i’ve seen in my life
but yet jesus died for him he said now
jesse you got to get past that this was
years ago
so i asked the lord to forgive me
and then i said i’m i’mma crucify my
flesh
he said what you gonna do jesse i said
i’m inviting him to dinner
all right all right you’re going up
you’re going to fight me i said i’m up
i’m about i ain’t talking mcdonald’s
nothing wrong with mcdonald’s i just
said i’m gonna crucify
me i learned to do those things
and i found all that in the secret place
because god speaks when it’s quiet
the still small voice
see what i’m saying how many times
when someone shared something and i’m
about ready to receive an offer
and the lord would just kind of pass by
like i’m
passing by y’all on the front row and
says
you could do that
just a very small you could do that
i said well if i did then no one else
would get the blast he said no that
would be the overflow
yes sir i’m yours to command jesus i
didn’t go tell anybody something like
that
took care of it now they had extra so
they could do other things they never
thought they would
would run into you know you know i think
so then there’s been times i went i’m
generous i got a generous heart i walk
up so i’m going to be a blessing the
lord said
don’t do that if you do jesse you’re
stopping my discipline
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now that really struck me when the lord
said that discipline
because that’s the only way i can get
that guy’s attention
i heard brother hagin say and i i asked
kevin kevin with the rhema i didn’t go
that god kept telling brother hagin rest
tell me if i’m correct kevin i think
it’s right
and he just went so he wound up breaking
his arm well god didn’t break the man’s
arm
but he said no you’re listening to me
you should have rested yourself
i never forget one time brother hagin
was 82 83
and one of his board members passed away
or brother kennedy what a wonderful man
how catholic hoga ralph kennedy
did not get any better one of the
greatest men god ever put in shoe
leather
his wonderful wife margaret uh martha
not margaret martha
but i’m telling you what i just love
being around him well he passed so
uh martha was so kind to allow me to be
one of the speakers at the funeral but
the main
speaker would be brother hagin this is
one of the best things i’ve ever done in
my life
one of the best well you know we had
three other speakers beside brother
hagin you know we said a few things had
about 10 minutes a piece something i got
maybe five minutes something well the
place was jam-packed
and so then uh the pastor of the place
said uh brother hagin come on up and
give the main
message here so brother hagin gets up
now he’s 83 84 you know
and he’s walking now brother i i
like this is the pew and i’m standing
like this
and and and this well let me do it over
here so you can see it
okay i’m standing right here pews right
up against the
and there’s the steps here come brother
hagin
okay now he’s 83. see he gained a little
weight
who cares at 83. he does this
and i’ve seen his le he goes
so what i did nobody noticed it i just
got behind him
up and i put my hand his arms were like
this and i put my hand
under his uh elbow and i pushed up
anyway it stabilized him
he he looked at me went thank you
i said you’re welcome it’s one of the
best things i ever did in my life it
felt so great
just held him he got him preached a
marvelous
message when he came down he looked at
me and i knew what to do
i just got a little close as he come
down you know like and as he came down
kevin i kind of kind of he you know his
forward motion was coming
and i just did this held him back a
little bit you know
he goes thank you i’ll never forget that
long as i believe i did it with rw
schambach
because the praise and worship leader
kept singing and singing everybody been
standing up for an hour and that brother
shamba
and he was 80 and i saw it so i just
got behind and took this hand oh i had
pain in my shoulder
and i took my hand under his elbow and i
pushed up he goes
he just look at me thank you i said my
god
lord strike that worship leader dumb
stop stop the music because my arm is
my soul i held him man
i i’ll never forget that long as i ever
lived i got to be a blessing to the man
of god
now why why because i was sensitive
to their need i had been in the secret
place
and i closed with this statement now
this is gonna blow your socks off
you’re gonna have to be real spiritual
understand what i’m about ready to say
there’s been times
for lack of a better way to say it
everybody look at me everybody look at
me that i’m standing by god
god god
oh i’m getting somebody met god he
starts to do this
spiritual speaking i put my hand on his
elbow and a push-up
and he looks at me says thank you
because his capacity to hurt
is far greater than yours
and his capacity to love is far greater
than yours
so don’t hurt him amen come on
amen how many you’ve heard me say that
andrew womack said that’s one of the
greatest stories he tells
every time i’m with him we got preachers
jesse tell them that when i and i’ve
told it here before
you let the lord say it again i went in
to do my morning devotion boy and i’ll
tell you what
kevin i i i had it on me then the only
way because the anointed oil i was
greased up i was ready for old lord
jesus i got in there and got and
something was wrong
i sensed it as soon as i walked into my
secret place he was there
but something was wrong brother and it
wasn’t with me
oh i won’t make you mad huh say if
you’ve been in a secret place you’ll
understand what i’m talking about one
with me and i said cause he wasn’t
acting the way he normally acts
i know god i can tell when something’s
wrong with kathy
i know her i’ve been married of over 50
years
you know when something’s wrong with
your children they may not have said
that you just know it
especially mamas and i realized
something was wrong
and it was it with me oh lord look at
people they get
oh oh he thinks he’s so spiritual i am
spiritual
amen i’ve been in the secret place
and i stopped and ricky i said this lord
something’s wrong did somebody hurt you
today
and the lord in that quiet steal some
over he said
my children have disobeyed me it hurts
me
i sensed it i knew it i said lord
not that he’s god he can do anything you
know i said lord i’m gonna cancel all my
appointments today and i had a bunch of
them ricky i had a bunch of them that
day
i said i’m gonna stay in this my secret
place
i said i don’t know how to say this to
god everything
but best way i can say it in my mind is
so for like
like a better way of saying it so you
feel better till you feel better
now that that didn’t even come up to
what i was talking about the only way i
could think you know
and man i prayed and i worshiped the
lord and i stayed there and it must have
been maybe 10 minutes
all of a sudden i heard the lord go
thank you jesse
you refreshed me
that’s the secret place that’s what you
find out
that’s when jesus said when you go in
your closet
in other words don’t give his time away
all right because the most important
thing you can do
is spend time with him and allow god
to be the god he truly is
you see what i’m saying did you
understand the analogy
because his capacity to love is far
greater than
mine but then the other side of that
coin
god’s capacity to hurt is far greater
can you hear some of his some of his
statements in the old testament he said
israel went a in that’s the word
he used
when a and with other gods have
you have you had
one of your spouses your spouse commit
adultery on you how that hurts drive a
knife right through you
god said that a whoring
whoo that’s hard but people don’t think
oh that’s god
no his ability to love
his f he’s agape i mean so far beyond
that
but his ability to hurt is the same
thing also
he’s a god of great feeling
but you won’t know much about that
until you get in the secret place
how many are you going to form your
secret place hold your hand up come on
do that do that at times find your way
don’t get too literal on the
the place you can but spend that time
and watch god do unbelievable
impossible things simply because it’s
doable
and maybe one day you’ll hear this
you refreshed me
you enjoyed it today give jesus a hand
clap for it
the secrets oh i like that