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00:04 #S080 - “Just Start Moving” (Part 2)
00:19 Welcome to The Breath of Life 00:21 Television Ministries broadcast with Pastor Debleaire Snell. 00:26 In today's episode, Pastor Snell will continue part 00:28 two of the powerful message “Just Start Moving”. 00:33 Now let's go deeper into the word of God. 00:36 Second thing 00:38 I like about these men, 00:40 number two is that they don't 00:42 just accept their fate 00:48 like this. 00:50 They don't just go with 00:53 what the doctor says. 00:55 Oh, God. 00:57 They don't sit around with the probabilities 01:01 and say, I'm going to be one of them. 01:04 They have made it up in their mind that they in 01:07 Christ are going to be the exceptions to the rule. 01:13 Now, now, I need you to get this, 01:15 because these men literally carry 01:19 around in their body a death sentence 01:24 like that, real talk whenever they look 01:27 at this, this disorder progressing on their skin. 01:31 And to be clear, leprosy is not a disorder of the skin. 01:34 It is. 01:35 And a trap 01:36 attack on the nerve trucks that shows up on the skin. 01:40 But every time 01:41 they see this disorder progressing, it is a remind 01:45 that death is imminent and certain for them. 01:49 And see, I understand that different cultures 01:53 had different ways that they dealt with leprosy. 01:55 It's crazy because in the Jewish culture 01:58 they essentially put you on the outskirts of town 02:01 and they made you socially distanced 02:03 and you literally 02:04 had to announce to everybody that you were unclean. 02:09 But see, the thing about leprosy is that it had no vaccine 02:12 and it had no cure. 02:15 And leprosy had a ring of permanence to it. 02:19 In other words, until Jesus, it was all the way back 02:23 to naming the Serian that anybody got healed 02:27 of leprosy and see because nobody ever came back from it 02:33 and informed how the cultures dealt with it. 02:37 Do you realize that there 02:38 are certain cultures, 02:39 not just not necessarily the Jewish culture, 02:43 but some of the ancient cultures have made this permanent way 02:46 of dealing with folks who are dealing with leprosy. 02:49 So that what would happen is crazy that if you were 02:51 caught, are deemed as one full of leprosy. 02:56 Not only would they send you into a leper colony 02:59 before you went. 03:01 They would make you dig your own grave. 03:05 They would allow you to receive 03:07 the equivalent of last rites while you're still alive. 03:12 And while you're still alive. 03:14 What they would do is they will eulogize you. 03:18 Your family would give reflections about you. 03:22 And what would happen is you would experience 03:24 your own funeral 03:27 while you were still alive. 03:30 In other words, because nobody came back 03:34 from leprosy, they treated you like you were dead 03:38 even while you still had breath. 03:41 And can I suggest today that emotionally and spiritually, 03:46 this is where some of us are with some of the circumstances 03:49 that we are in, 03:50 because some of us have come to the conclusion 03:53 that there ain't no coming back. 03:54 From what I mean, 03:57 there are some of us that have a lepers mentality 04:00 and that we are burying things 04:05 that still have life in it. 04:08 You are digging a grave for things 04:11 that still have the possibility to resume. 04:15 And can I suggest that maybe somebody is burying 04:17 a marriage 04:20 that still has life in it? 04:23 Maybe somebody is burying an academic career 04:27 because you've got bad grades to this point 04:30 and maybe it's still got some life in it. 04:33 Maybe there is somebody who's gone so far 04:35 spiritually that you think I can never return. 04:39 And I can never get back from where I've come from. 04:43 Maybe there is somebody that has done so much wrong 04:46 that you feel like there is ultimately no hope for you 04:49 in God. 04:50 And the word that I need somebody to know today is that 04:54 you should never just accept your fate. 05:00 Now, I want to be clear. 05:01 I'm not turning around everybody up. 05:02 But the truth is, there are some of us. 05:04 And there going to be times 05:06 where you have to accept certain things as God's will, 05:10 and you got to pray for grace to endure it. 05:13 But there are certain things 05:14 that are not necessarily God's will. 05:18 They're just temporary situations or passing 05:22 predicaments that to be accepted as permanent. 05:27 Okay, God, Lord, give me the language. 05:31 I need somebody to know there are some things that are 05:34 passing by because it passes slowly. 05:38 You've assumed it was. 05:39 Oh, you're not here me today. 05:41 I need you to know 05:42 there are certain things that did not come to stay. 05:47 There are some things that have come to pass, 05:50 but you cannot accept certain things as permanence. 05:56 In other words, if God didn't see the thing 05:58 I like about these lepers 06:00 is they understand what the doctors have said. 06:03 But what they've 06:04 simply concluded is that Jehovah has the final say. 06:08 And let me be clear that I'm not anti medicine or doctor. 06:12 They are great people that simply assess 06:14 what the instruments tell us. 06:15 In fact, sometimes they can assess 06:18 and predict things with a a haunting accuracy. 06:22 But I need you to understand that no matter how bad 06:25 your predicament, I need somebody to 06:29 understand that it's not over 06:36 until God says it's over. 06:40 I'm trying to wake up the dead in this room today. 06:44 I need somebody to know that the final say 06:48 done rests with your naysayers, with your haters, 06:53 with your friends, with the comments section. 06:56 God has the final say 06:59 over everything that happens in your life. 07:03 I mean, real taught me I'm recently I was just in in 07:06 the country of Panama preaching. 07:07 And I was talking to a brother 07:09 who was dealing with some sickness there. 07:11 He had a very particular type of cancer. 07:14 And it's crazy because the doctors told him 07:17 that without chemotherapy, he would only have about six 07:20 months to live. 07:20 And if he took treatment, 07:22 he would live 07:23 maybe up to two or three years if everything went well. 07:27 I need you to know that that brother got down on his knees. 07:31 That brother did his therapy in treatment. 07:34 He began to take his health very seriously. 07:37 And I need you to know that brother is still here. 07:39 That diagnosis was 15 years ago, 07:42 but he is still here 07:45 because God has the final say. 07:49 You are? Hear me today, Church. 07:51 I see the problem. 07:52 I want to say with somebody is you need to stop doing more. 07:58 You should do less statistics and probabilities 08:02 and more standing on the promises of God. 08:05 Because if you're going to be the exception to the rule, 08:09 you've got to leave room for the divine 08:10 and the miraculous to occur in your life. 08:14 Listen, I'm going to say it until you hear it. 08:17 You've got to leave room 08:19 for the miraculous to occur. 08:21 You've got to leave space for the divine to break forth. 08:27 You've got to make room in your imagination for God to show up. 08:33 And I want to suggest do less statistics, probabilities. 08:37 And if you're going to do math, do algebra. 08:41 Okay. 08:43 In other words, you don't want to do arithmetic. 08:46 You want to do algebra because algebra goes something 08:49 like this, x plus three equals six. 08:54 And so in algebra, you know what the answer is. 08:57 You just got to find out what X is. 09:00 And if you know what X is, X is what gets you to the answer. 09:05 And can I suggest today that Jesus is the X factor? 09:10 And if you put Jesus in the slot, 09:13 he'll get you what you need. 09:15 So if you need hope, Jesus will get you there. 09:20 If you need strength, Jesus will get to that. 09:24 If you need prevision, Jesus will get you there. 09:28 If you need healing, Jesus will get you there. 09:33 If you need deliverance, Jesus will get to the end 09:37 because Jesus is the X factor 09:42 that pushes you to the answer. 09:45 That's who stand in need of. 09:48 The third thing 09:51 I like about these lepers 09:53 is that they make their requests 09:57 known to Jesus Christ. 10:00 Now, I know this is not high theology, right? 10:04 But the one good thing I like about these brothers 10:06 is they say, man, we got to get this matter 10:10 before the Lord who is in control of everything. 10:13 They make their request known to him. 10:16 They kill Jesus all about the problem 10:20 and see what they have come to understand is that you 10:22 can't get divine aid from 10:26 a human construct. 10:29 They've come 10:31 to this important conclusion 10:35 that their life will only be 10:37 as miraculous as their prayerful ness. 10:42 Okay, y'all, y'all didn't get it. 10:45 No, no, no. 10:45 Your life will only be as miraculous 10:49 as your prayer fulness. 10:51 Now, the problem with us, the reason y'all, 10:53 you grit your teeth when I say that, 10:54 is because we are this self-sufficient, independent, 10:59 educated, autonomous from God behaving people 11:03 that lean on our own logic and our human devices. 11:06 And the problem is, we got too much hustle 11:08 and we got too many schemes 11:10 and we've got 11:11 too many contingency plans for if God doesn't come through. 11:16 But I need somebody to be clear that your life will 11:17 only be as miraculous as your prayer fullness. 11:23 So the Lord gave me this revelation this week. 11:26 He told me that we're going to respond 11:27 just like y'all are responding now. 11:29 And what God showed me is that what you're thinking is 11:32 the reason, like they could take it to Jesus with 11:35 because Jesus was right there on earth. 11:40 In other words, 11:41 I tell Jesus if he was still walking around here, too. 11:45 But this is my question today 11:48 is the Jesus 11:50 who sits at the right hand of God 11:54 less powerful 11:56 than the Jesus that walked the dusty roads of Galilee? 12:01 Oh, your God is the one who ever lives 12:06 to make intercede destined for us, less powerful 12:10 than the one who declared so yourselves to the priest 12:15 and say, we trippin because we think that those 12:18 that saw him in person had an advantage over us. 12:23 No. What did Jesus say in John 14 and 15? 12:26 He says, It's good for you that I go. 12:30 He says, It is for your benefit that I go for. 12:33 He says, If I do not go, then 12:36 the comforter and the counselor and the holy. 12:42 Oh, God, he says. 12:44 It's better for me to go. 12:46 So the Holy Ghost can come. 12:48 And when I need somebody 12:49 to wake up and understand, is that we've got more access. 12:54 And the Holy Ghost 12:58 than they had when Jesus walked the Earth. 13:01 Okay. All right. So you also added brand new. 13:03 See, the reason we have the advantage 13:06 is because even if you were alive 13:09 when Jesus walked the face of the earth, 13:11 you know, Jesus never went 13:12 really more than 30 miles outside of where he lived. 13:16 And so even if you were able to get somewhere near Jerusalem, 13:19 you would have to fight the woman 13:20 with the issue of blood. 13:22 You have to fight the blind by the mayor's. 13:26 You would have to fight the man with the withered hand. 13:28 You would have to fight the woman. 13:30 Well, by the whale, you would have to fight all kind of folk 13:35 in order to get Jesus. 13:38 But how many of us know that because of the Holy Ghost, 13:44 I'm never second in line? 13:46 I don't have to wait my turn. 13:50 I don't have to wait for Jesus to get free. 13:52 I've got 24 hour a day, 13:56 seven day a week access 13:59 to the King of Kings and the Lord of Love as 14:04 somebody always needs an emergency hotline. 14:07 You don't need a one 800 number four on your face 14:11 and down one 800. 14:14 He has to ask, are you are 14:18 hear me today? 14:21 So it's funny. 14:22 So you got to be a certain age 14:24 to join with me in this phrase I'm about to share. 14:27 Anybody old enough to remember the days of landlines? 14:32 Come on and tell yourself, Amy, we know who you are. 14:35 And it's crazy, man, because so much has changed. 14:37 Like my kids, they don't even know what a landline it's right. 14:41 But I remember those old school landlines 14:44 where, especially before the days of call waiting, 14:47 when you called in, somebody is on the phone, 14:49 you got a busy signal. 14:50 Come on and say, Hey, man. 14:52 And then, like back in the old school houses, 14:55 there was a hierarchy 14:57 about who had access to the phone. 15:00 So your parents had first dibs on the phone. 15:04 Your older siblings had second dates on the phone. 15:08 And because it was only one line you had to get it 15:11 where you fit in. 15:12 But the good news is, in my house, 15:14 we've got a family plan, 15:16 so nobody's waiting on one single line. 15:20 I've got a line. 15:21 My wife's got a line. 15:23 My son has a line. 15:25 So nobody's ever waiting to get access. 15:28 Everybody's got a direct. 15:30 Oh, yeah, you didn't hear it today. 15:32 Jesus on Earth was the landline. 15:36 Jesus, the Holy Ghost is the family plan. 15:40 So you ain't got to wait in line. 15:42 You're not next in line. 15:44 You've got daily access because Jesus is always available. 15:49 But all I hear in this today Church 15:55 and see, we got to stay prayerful 15:57 and we got to stay connected. 15:59 Can I repeat something I've shared with you before? 16:02 I need somebody to know this in a dark space today 16:05 that whatever you worry about the most is usually the thing 16:08 you pray about. 16:09 The least. 16:13 You can be offended, but I'm going to stand on it 16:14 right here in your face and say it to you again. 16:16 Like using whatever you worried about the most 16:20 is the thing that you're praying about the least. 16:22 And see, this is how I need you to know, 16:24 because the word literally promises it. 16:27 Philippians says, Be anxious 16:32 about nothing 16:34 but pray about everything. 16:38 And when you do it with Thanksgiving, 16:41 the Bible says the peace 16:44 which passes. 16:47 Oh, not most of it 16:50 all. Understanding 16:52 will guard your heart and your mind through Christ Jesus. 16:57 And see this thing I've learned, you can't be praying about it 16:59 and tripping about it at the same time. 17:02 Because I need to know before prayer 17:04 changes the situation, it changes your disposition, 17:08 it settles you. 17:10 It allows you become settled in the confidence 17:13 and in the assurance that your God 17:16 does all things well. 17:19 I hear what I'm saying in church. 17:20 So, so let's do it. Let me do a great exercise. 17:23 Take stock of your week. 17:24 I mean, the truth is, there are some of us today 17:27 that have spent hours this week worrying about the marriage, 17:32 but we've only spent seconds praying about the marriage. 17:34 There are some of us that have spent 17:36 all kinds of time being anxious about financially clearing, 17:39 but we have not prayed about financially clearing. 17:43 I see the crazy thing is that 17:44 we've taken the issue to our cousin. 17:45 We've taken it to our parents. 17:47 Some of us have taken the issue to the bottle. 17:49 Some of us have taken it to our congressmen. 17:51 We've taken it to everybody but Jesus. 17:56 And I just want to just kind of resurrect the belief to know 18:00 that when you pray there is power 18:05 and see, the problem is we just want God 18:08 to intervene in the midst of our ruminating and stress. 18:12 But your victory is not just intervene in an intervention. 18:14 It is when you make your request. 18:16 Known to God 18:19 is guys who my kids will look smaller. 18:20 They would do this weird thing. 18:21 So you know, 18:22 when they were afraid to ask about something, 18:23 when they thought I would say no, they wouldn't 18:26 ask it outright. 18:27 They would just insinuate what they wanted in my presence. 18:31 So. So if a turkey cheese commercial came on, 18:35 they'd be like, Man, Daddy, didn't we have fun the last time 18:37 we went to Chucky Cheese? 18:41 And I'm like, Yeah, we had a good time 18:43 sandwich, man. I had the time of my life. 18:45 Let me show you the pictures 18:46 from the on our phone last time we went, 18:48 oh, if we pass by Domino's, they'd be like, man, 18:52 you know, wouldn't it be nice 18:53 if we went to Domino's and got something to eat 18:57 or if they, you know, kind of saw something, 19:00 you know, they would be like, yours are certain shoes, my son. 19:02 Like, 19:02 you know, 19:03 Daddy, don't you want to get yourself a pair of shoes? 19:06 Because he assumes 19:07 if I get myself a pair that I'm going get him a pair. 19:11 And when they would 19:12 insinuate in my presence, I would not respond. 19:17 And the reason I wouldn't respond to their insinuation 19:21 is I wanted them to teach them that if you have a need, 19:26 don't just stress about it, insinuate it, say it. 19:29 In my presence, you've got to ask for what you stand. 19:33 Need up and see. 19:35 Jesus made this farmers ask and it shall be given seek 19:40 and it shall be found knock and the door will be opened 19:44 until you are you are here me today church. 19:48 And so the word serious here in verse 14. 19:50 So when he saw them he said unto them, This is it, 19:53 church, go show yourselves to the praise. 19:58 I know. Look in the Bible 20:01 and the Bible says and this is the miracle. 20:04 And so it was that 20:07 as they went, 20:16 as they moved, 20:20 they were clans. 20:22 Can I just say somebody real quick? 20:24 You can't have high miracles with low obedience. 20:29 Okay. 20:29 All right. 20:31 When you read your scripture, do not most miracles requires 20:36 some type of act of faith or obedience 20:39 as a validation of your faith 20:41 so that Jesus would tell the cripple man, rise, 20:45 take up your bed and walk, 20:48 or Jesus would tell Peter, come, 20:51 step out of the boat and then you will walk on the water. 20:56 Jesus, God told you like three lies to the widow it was once 21:00 he gathered all of the vessels that the oil began to flow. 21:06 It was once Israel put their feet in the water 21:09 that the water actually began to part. 21:13 It is why he told them to eat the Passover meal, ending up 21:17 with your bag in your hand and your shoes on your feet 21:20 because you got to get ready to go where I'm taking you 21:25 and see, this is the custom of the time 21:27 that if perhaps 21:29 and really what it was, it wasn't really believed that 21:31 you could be healed of leprosy. 21:33 The belief was that you could get like psoriasis 21:38 or that you could get misdiagnosed of leprosy. 21:40 And if you are misdiagnosed, you would go to the priest 21:45 who would judge and examine you. 21:48 And if he deemed you clean, you would get into back 21:51 into the culture, our society. 21:54 And this is the word saints. 21:56 I need you to get this. 21:58 They have a death sentence. 22:02 They have been to their own funeral. 22:05 They have been left without hope. 22:08 They don't even have a point of reference 22:11 that they can point to hardly in their lifetime. 22:13 To say this, somebody came back 22:16 from the very thing that I am going through, but 22:18 Jesus didn't even say, you know, he didn't say you're clean. 22:24 He didn't pronounce them feeling better. 22:27 He just gave them an instruction. 22:31 The Bible says that he declared to them, Go 22:35 show yourself to the priest. 22:39 And did you know this church that the Bible says 22:43 that they weren't healed based on the word? 22:47 They were 22:48 healed based upon their movement. 22:51 The Bible says that as they went, they got restored. 22:56 As they moved, they got healed as they obeyed, they were made. 23:01 Well, 23:02 in other words, there were some that got better after 50 yards. 23:06 Some got that deliverance after a hundred yards, 23:09 some got their deliverance at the half mile mark, 23:13 which says that when you go in obedience, 23:16 don't look at when they get blessed. 23:18 Don't look at when the others get blessed. 23:21 You've just got to walk in obedience 23:25 until your change comes. 23:27 So. So why is this important? 23:30 Because to many of us, we want a passive miracle. 23:35 We want blessings to just fall from the sky while we sit down 23:40 watching television and playing Fortnite all night long. 23:45 But notice Jesus 23:46 rarely just went to somebody his house 23:50 and knocked on their door and said, Here is your deliverance. 23:54 Know it. 23:54 Follow an action of faith 23:57 like the woman with the issue of blood, 24:00 or the two blind men that stayed by the roadside begging 24:03 and who refused to pipe down. 24:04 Are you all hear what I'm saying is a church and see the word 24:07 somebody today is don't wait for it to come to you. 24:13 You just need to start moving in faith. 24:17 There's somebody 24:18 that just needs to start moving and applying for Grant School. 24:22 There is somebody that just needs to start moving 24:25 and putting in the application for the House. 24:27 There is somebody that needs to simply start moving 24:30 and getting in the recovery program. 24:33 Don't just wait for sobriety to come to you. 24:36 You've got to start moving and adapting and operating in faith. 24:40 Are y'all hear me today? Church 24:42 is crazy. 24:43 I remember one day I was going over here to to Ross 24:47 and and I think 24:50 on this weekday it opened around 9 a.m.. 24:53 Louis So I get there probably about 855. 24:56 I had left my belt at home and I need to grab a belt 24:59 in order to go into some meetings. 25:00 And it's funny 25:01 because when I get there about 855, 25:03 I see somebody get out of their car, 25:05 they go by the door and because it's not time yet, 25:07 they just stand in front of the door 25:09 and they're down about 857. 25:10 I see somebody else get out of the car 25:12 and they see the other person standing outside. 25:15 And what they do is they just stand outside of the door. 25:18 And so 9:00 comes 25:20 when it's supposed to open, somebody else comes 25:23 and they see other people standing 25:24 and they just stand on the side of the door. 25:27 About 903i get out of the car 25:30 and because I see other folk just standing around, 25:32 I just stand at the side of the door. 25:33 So. Malcolm About 906 25:36 there 25:37 is this lady who gets out of her car and I 25:39 see is walking at the door. 25:40 She looks at her clock, she is looking at us crazy 25:44 and wondering why we're standing outside of the door. 25:47 And the reason we're standing outside of the door. 25:50 We're waiting on somebody to come and open up the door. 25:53 But I guess what 25:54 we didn't realize is that the doors were automatic doors, 25:59 and otherwise 26:00 these doors don't have a person that opens it. 26:04 It has a sensor that operates 26:06 it, and the sensor doesn't open the door 26:10 until it recognizes the presence of motion or activity. 26:15 And so 26:16 because we just standing there waiting, the door doesn't open. 26:20 But the lady, 26:21 she just keeps moving and she doesn't break stride. 26:25 And because she's moving 26:28 the doors just open. 26:32 And what I'm saying to somebody 26:34 is that the doors won't open 26:37 until you start moving, 26:39 as long as just standing there praying 26:42 and wishing and watching and the word to somebody 26:47 is, you've just got to start moving it in the Lord Jesus 26:52 Christ, are you hearing me , church? what's good family. 26:56 I am declaring 2025 a leap year. 27:00 I want to encourage you to join us 27:01 as we launch our new teaching series under the theme Leap 27:05 Year. 27:06 Every Saturday at 11 and every Wednesday at seven. 27:09 In the month of January, 27:11 we're going to be walking through the Word of God 27:13 and giving you the tools to be able to make great leaps 27:17 in every single area of your life 27:20 and make sure you join us for our 21 days of prayer 27:23 from January the fifth through the 26th at 6 a.m. 27:27 on our Brother Life and University Church YouTube page, 27:30 we're going to encourage one another, 27:32 pray with one another, and lift one another 27:36 so that we can have big strides and breakthroughs in 2025 27:40 and make sure you don't forget to get the book Leap Year 27:43 at our Breath of life page in our store. 27:45 Or you can get it from Amazon.com. 27:48 This is not a year of stagnation. 27:50 It's not a year to be steel. 27:52 It is a year of motion. 27:54 And I encourage you to join us as we make the leap |
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