Often, we look to God and think: “God if you love us, why would you put us in adverse conditions?” Unfortunately, we can’t GROW if we don’t continue to GO. Some of us don’t want to go because we appreciate images more than reality. Fear not only affects our body and mind it causes us to reject fruitful collaborations and opportunities to advance. Triggers of heartbreak, disappointment, and lost opportunity can cause fear to set in; however, what God has planned will only work if we keep it moving. We must use the tools God has equipped us with and MOVE. The miracle is in our movement!

coming up on the Potters touch did you

know your blessing is already ready that

is that it’s already in place that God

isn’t fixing it up right now it’s

already done

that the work doesn’t have to be applied

to where you’re going the work has to be

applied to you so that when you get

where you’re going you can handle what

you got a handle and so God help me

preach the steps the steps the steps

touch three people say the steps the

steps the steps he sees the greetings in

the name of Jesus Christ our King I am

so blessed to have the opportunity to

share the word of the Lord with you the

message that I’m going to share with you

today I believe will strengthen you

fortify you bless you even help your

friends you ought to call text tell

everybody

he’s on get ready for this word the

message is stay on track say neighbor

God said stay on track

don’t deviate don’t procrastinate

don’t become frustrated all you have to

do to win this battle is stay on track

there are a moments that try the human

soul so violently and so perplexing that

if the truth were told all of us have

had moments that we wanted to throw up

our hands and walk away

discouragement can creep in secretly

hide behind clothes makeup hairdos

discouragement is so bold that it will

even hide behind a smile it will always

ride to work with you

and if it doesn’t catch a ride going to

work

it’ll catch a ride on the way back home

discouragement will go into a tent into

a garage apartment

it’ll going to subsidize living it will

walk right into a section-8 neighborhood

it will come in but but but don’t think

that it stops there

discouragement will walk right into a

middle-class house and sit down at the

dining room table and have a cup of

coffee early in the morning it won’t

just stop there it’ll go in a mansion

and sit on the side of the jacuzzi stick

his feet in the hot tub and tell you

life is not worth living if you listen

at discouragement it will cause you to

make bad decisions it will cause you to

think that life is not worth living and

secretly behind the facade of a smile

and a good morning and a praise the Lord

and how are you you will wonder if

you’re ever going to get out of what

you’re into particularly painful is

discouragement and the life of the

believer because as we travel from

season to season it is not just the

perils that we face but it is seeing the

wicked go forward

while the righteous are held back I

don’t know him I don’t know if you’ve

ever thought like that but sometimes I

see people succeeding who didn’t pray

nearly as hard work nearly as long have

not been faithful at all and it seems

like they seemingly have moments of

victory placed in close proximity so I

could see it their victories are

flaunted in my face not while I am

having a similar experience but while

all hell has broken loose in my life and

I am going through agony and tragedy

seemingly they are having victory and

triumph and if you are not careful the

very sight of their prosperity becomes

you’re a guinea and seeing them go

forward will be a source of such

continued frustration that it is not

your test that baffles you but their

success agonizingly displayed before you

makes you despair of life until David

says and 37 and one fret not thyself

over evildoers how they prosper in their

own way they shall soon be cut off

he says in other words don’t make a

permanent decision over a temporary

circumstance he says don’t allow a

moment of agony to make you draw a

conclusion about life prematurely

because if you just keep on walking with

God God has a way of making everything

all right but he warns us and declares

to us that the steps of a good man are

ordered by the Lord steps somebody steps

now this the term steps implies process

means it’s gonna take a while

means that you can’t get to the

destination just because you want it

just because you saw it just because you

like it just because you need it in fact

we are often tormented by vision mm-hmm

yeah we are tormented by vision it’s a

painful thing to be a visionary because

the visionary sees what shall be and

wakes up to deal with what is

sometimes the visionary cries out on the

inside and says God don’t even show me

what she’ll do because every time I

shout and dance over what you showed me

I go home to a harsh and painful bleak

dark reality and the fact that I am torn

between what shall be and what is

creates agony in my life the Bible said

Hope deferred makes the heart sick there

are moments that I’d rather not know

that I’m going to be king if you’re

going to send me back out into the field

to take care of sheep why didn’t you

just hide that I was going to be king

so I could be satisfied taking care of

sheep but because you told me you had

more for me I wanted to hasten the

process to get to my destiny now now I’m

not happy doing what I used to be happy

doing because I’m tormented by what

shall be I want to hasten my process so

that I can get to an expected end but

that cannot be done because a blessing

given too soon is not a blessing at all

I could give my son the car keys now and

tell him to go to the store but had I

given it to him when he was 5 it would

not have been a blessing at all same car

same Sun giving too soon he can’t handle

it

the car can handle it the road can

handle it I can give it to him but he

can’t handle it so would I be a good

father if I gave him a good thing too

soon

sometimes my goodness is proven by my

ability to say not yet

the younger brother of the prodigal son

teaches us in fact eclis that if we get

what is ours too soon we cannot handle

it that the same thing that should make

us praise the father will drive us away

from the father if we get it too soon

the Bible said he said give me the

portion of goods that falleth to me

the father gave in and gave it to him

and the blessing drove him over the edge

my prayer has always been Lord don’t

give me more than I can handle you know

when to bless me you know how to bless

me you know when I’m ready to be blessed

teach me patience with the process go

through the process

God has ordered steps that the thing

that I’m thankful for is to know that

God orders the steps it helps me to

understand that I am NOT wandering

aimlessly that I’m not just moving on my

own that there is a course for me to

take and that I can’t graduate till I

take it that there is the path for me to

trot that God isn’t making this thing up

as he goes I thought he was making it up

as he went that’s why I prayed so he

could make it up my way I prayed to

abort the process I prayed to speed it

up I prayed to get out of things that he

wanted me to stay into I prayed that I

wouldn’t have to endure some things that

he wanted me to endure I was working on

the destination but he was working on me

and and sometimes he made me wait he he

made me slow down said no you skipped

that step go back go back and do that

again if you skipped it with Jimmy I’m

gonna send it back with Freddie

if you skipped it with Willie you gonna

have to go do it with Roger if you

skipped it with Sally you won’t go

through it with Suzy because all of

these are tools that I’m using the work

on you I’m not preparing the blessing

for you I’m preparing you for the

blessing the blessing is already

prepared oh my god the blessing is

already prepared eyes have not seen ears

have not heard neither has entered into

the heart of man the things that God

have prepared for them the love it did

you know your blessing is already ready

that is that it’s already in place that

God isn’t fixing it up right now it’s

already done that the work doesn’t have

to be applied to where you’re going the

work has to be applied to you so that

when you get where you’re going you can

handle what you got a handle and so God

help me preach the steps the steps the

steps touch three people say the steps

the steps the steps you wanted a good

husband but you wasn’t a good wife

you wanted children but your wasn’t a

good parent

you wanted that wife but you wasn’t a

good man and anytime you get anything

too soon you will trip on the steps so

God puts us in process and order steps

still to come on the Potters touch press

toward the back on the prize of the high

calling slap your David televised press

press press over depressin aggressive of

rejection and press over fear i press

over loneliness devil you thought you

had me but every time you tried i press

before I died in a cage I want to run in

the wild we can do what it is without

limit without being boxed in a cage

without being hindered I want to run in

the wild of my destiny I want to run in

the wild of my purpose telling us to

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just about taking it to the next level

and just thinking outside of the four

walls I got to get out of this cage God

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steps a good man are ordered by the Lord

even Jesus had steps they tried to crown

him too soon and he disappeared

because they were trying to make him

skip the steps she said no no you can’t

crown me before you cross me

it is my cross that makes my crowd

it is my agony that makes my ecstasy it

is my sickness that makes my healing it

is my poverty that illuminates my

prosperity makes me appreciate where I

am oh god help me makes me appreciate

where I am right now you don’t know this

good help till you’ve been sick you

don’t even notice it you don’t even

understand the words that are coming out

of my mouth until you have been sick you

will never thank God for feeling good

until you felt bad you’ll never paint

God for your back for your neck for your

hand so you kick this for your lip up

until it’s been Charlie but after a

while you start taking on some crazy

stuff thank you come back and sheet is

loaded ha ha ha yeah yeah yeah yeah the

truth of the matter is it’s a whole lot

of folk in here that are thankful for

stuff that they can’t testify about

because people wouldn’t understand your

testimony

I mean dumb stuff like Lord I think yeah

I can’t afford to get my hair done

Oh y’all are the say let me talk to

these people over here lord I thank you

I got the book money to send the kids to

school I know that ain’t a big testimony

but when you been to hell and back

you can face

God for little stuff the steps of a good

man are ordered by the Lord and I don’t

have to be on the stage to be grateful I

can praise Him on the step because every

time I make a step touch the neighbors

had praise him on the steps don’t wait

til you get to the stage don’t wait til

you get finished

don’t wait till everything is in order

but every now and then you ought to stop

right in the middle of the step and say

Lord I take it I’m not where I’m gonna

be but I’m glad I’m not where I used to

be lord I thank you is there anybody in

here

that’s praising God on the steps look at

your neighbors how I’m not there yet I’m

not finished yet

I haven’t arrived yet but when you see

me praising God I’m praising him on the

steps somebody praying on the steps

the devil hates step praise

I said the devil hates their praise

Satan hates step praise praise the stops

in the middle of the step as they like

hell not myself to have apprehended but

this one thing I do forgetting that

which is Muhammad and reach into that

which is before me

aah crash aah

press I press I was a handsome

determined bogan here I press toward the

mark on the prize of the high calling

slap your name and televised press and

press and press over depressive

oppressive of rejection I press over

fear and press from a loneliness devil

you thought you had me but every time

you tried I press

you

look at the neighbors and know I’m not

perfect I am not perfect

but one day I do I’ll crash every

morning I get out the bed every day I

get in my car I don’t care what they say

I don’t care what they do

you better not go to sleep on the steps

you better not start crying on the steps

you better not give up on the steps

you cannot collapse on the steps they

will find you on the steps if you lay

down there run on the top of you on the

steps I don’t care whether there’s

sunshine or rain players your pain when

you get up in the morning put your pants

on and crash slap your name in

holographs

I measure the value of a man by how hard

he presses and how you can determine who

you fight me about how hard they press

how hard you press tells me how hard you

hit uh-huh you can be all big and

muscle-bound and still not have no force

behind your punch uh-huh force kinetic

energy energy in motion you can’t have

energy sitting energy is measured by

motion that’s why the devil wants you to

sit sit down and shut up and feel sorry

for yourself but your honor brother

Devils – Lord

oh you are a bloated Elmas – not it just

what do you think he got you down you

are the Sultan and crash I feel a

prescient spirit in here this morning I

feel a determination in Hill this

morning I feel a fighting it is longing

look at the neighbors say get on up them

steps get on up get up get on up get up

get on up get on up them steps get on

get on get on up them steps get on up

them steps get get get on up them steps

get on up get on up them steps

get on up them steps get on up them

steps get on up themselves don’t you get

40 and you’re tired don’t you get 50 and

get tired don’t you get 60 and get tired

don’t you get 70 and you’re tired don’t

you get 80 and get high jail not just

the steps of a good man I’m not talking

about a bad man I’m talking about a good

man don’t you sit there with your good

self and say oh that won’t happen to me

cuz I’m good no it’s gonna happen to you

because you’re good the steps of a good

man order ordered by the Lord not

offered ordered he ordered you to go up

the steps he wouldn’t let you bypass

your process all those people who

offered you quick deals

the reason the deal went down is because

God ordered you to go up the steps he

didn’t intend for you to go up the

elevator he knew if he got there –

fashion was gonna be ready for it she

slowed down your process he let the deal

go down it wasn’t time yet when it’s

time it’s gonna happen

ha ha ha when it’s time

is gonna come to pass when it’s time

you’re coming out of trouble when it’s

time ain’t no grave hold your body down

when it’s time God is gonna resurrect

you when it’s time Oh y’all don’t hear

what I’m saying

Oh hallelujah so what I do what do i do

what do I do in the meantime

in the meantime while our weeks to reach

my destination the only thing I have to

worry about is Lord let me stay on track

they met brother Joe one day they said

Joe your children are dead your cattle

are dead your wife has despised you your

name has gone down he said that’s all

right I’m right on track the Lord knows

the way that I take and when he has

tried me I shall come forth as pure gold

I don’t know who God wanted me to preach

to this morning but the Lord sent me to

tell you you’re right old tribes having

an older stand stand there for anyway

and whatever happens just love I take

you you ordered this step I won’t murmur

in it I won’t complain in it I won’t be

fearful I won’t be frightened in it I’m

right on track

high five somebody said I’m right on

track

got a clothes there it’s been a real joy

to have this opportunity to share the

word of the Lord with you I trusted

something that’s been said or done

throughout this message has reverberated

in your soul and will bring forth fruit

in your life I believe that the best is

yet to come this is no time to be weary

in will knowing you must stay on track

god bless you and may heaven smile

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you’ve got to untangle all of the things

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I did God say put on the whole armor the

helmet of salvation the breastplate of

righteousness feet shod with the

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shield of faith why did he have me put

on all that stuff and then tell me stand

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