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You're listening to the Miracle Word Podcast. We believe that the Word of God gives you the power to experience never-ending increase in every area. If you're ready for revelation that will take you to the next level, you're in the right place. Here's your host, evangelist, author, and founder of Miracle Word University, 10 Shuttlesworth Jr.

Every night God does something different. We never try to tell Him what to do. He tells us what to do. And we're led by the Holy Spirit.

Can you say amen? And, you know, I stopped years ago preparing messages because I'd prepare. I thought it was a great message. I thought it was really wonderful.

And I'd stand up to preach it and I'd hear the Holy Spirit say, Don't preach that, preach this. I said, Lord, I prepared this. If you saw how wonderful. My points are so detailed.

I mean, God, I did the research. Hallelujah. I'm an entry-level scholar, Lord. If you could see some of my research.

He said, don't preach that, preach this. And after a number of years of just continuing having the Lord throw me a curveball by the time I stood in the pulpit, I started to realize that, you know, I'm going to stop making plans and let Him make plans. You know, I believe it was I have to go back and check my research on this one, Martin Luther, who said that he didn't even begin to create what sermon he was going to preach until he heard the church bell toll. And one of the things that he said, I want to look over God's people and let the Lord show me what they need.

And it's very interesting to know that the Lord knows how to lead us perfectly. And that's the powerful thing about, as the Bible says in Romans 8, those that are led by the Spirit of God, they're the sons of God. It's funny how the Holy Spirit works. He can take one message and then you have people come up to you after that.

Man, you were preaching just to me tonight. That was for me. But you have like six people tell you that and you're like, It couldn't have been just for you if five other people felt the same way. And it's funny because I have got to come up to a time.

I don't know how the Lord speaks to people through messages. I've got to come up to me and say, man, when you said that whole thing about this and this, I didn't say anything but anything he said. There wasn't one thing in my message about anything. He just said, when you preach on that one, I don't know who he was listening to preach.

We said, man, that bless me. I mean, that turned my life around. I was like, well, praise God, brother, whatever, whatever you got from it. As long as it changed, you'd help you.

But see, when we yield to the Holy Spirit, he knows how to deposit into us everything we need to receive to go to the next level. Can you say amen to that? And tonight I want to give you something that's in my spirit. And this is something that I believe is going to be extremely vital for every member of the body of Christ as we're standing in this new year to do the work God's called us to do.

I want you to go with me to Romans 14 real quick. And as you're turning there, I want to say I'm very, very thankful and excited that we have our administrator with her family here tonight, Ms. Jenna Joyner. He's in the house on the front row.

And she jumped on three different plates. They tried to keep her from getting here. They canceled her first one, brought her back to the gate and the second one, people fighting on the plane and fist fighting. We got a situation where we're taking people off.

And I said, Jenna, stop hitting people like that. But she said, I'm coming. I don't care. And so we're so happy to have her and the girls here this week.

I love being able to have our team with us on the road when we travel. It makes a big difference to me. And I like to have our team just getting into Holy Ghost, Revival services. Amen.

It's important to be in the anointing of God, changes you for the better. Romans 14 is where I want to start tonight. And this is a word that's going to strengthen your faith, but it's also going to position you for what the Lord is going to use you to do in this new year. I want to encourage you every one of you in this place tonight.

God has a purpose for your life. Don't ever let the enemy lie to you and tell you that your life is not important, that you personally are not vital to the kingdom of God. That's one of the biggest lies that the enemy tells. Oh, you're insignificant.

You're not important. No, no, no. In the same way, there's parts of your body. You might think that they don't mean anything, but the rest of your body will tell you different.

I tell you, but if you think there's an insignificant part of your body, when you get home tonight, grab some needle-nose pliers and go to work on that pinky toenail and say, I'm ripping this thing off and your whole body will tell you we need it. Leave it where it is. He's like, I ain't that big of a deal. It's a pinky toenail.

Yeah, when you go to take it, the whole body will disagree with you. Yeah, I'm going to take this tack hammer and just smash that pinky toe. No, the whole body. Well, I can walk with that a pinky toe.

You can, but the whole body will tell you, don't do it. That's because every part of you has been formed and fashioned by God. You're made in his likeness. You are made in his image.

Oh, man, I feel like preaching this tonight. See, and this has to be something that somebody needs because, see, that's how the Holy Spirit leads. But one of the things you've got to understand when the enemy tries to convince you that you're worthless and that God doesn't have a powerful purpose on your life is it's impossible for you to be worthless. And I'm going to show you why from the scripture.

Number one, how do you know the value of anything? The value of anything is determined by what people are willing to pay for it. You know what blows my mind? Art.

I still don't understand. It's like somebody just bought that and I especially don't understand modern art at all. It's like it looks like someone just threw paint at a canvas. It's like that would be $3 million.

I'm like, dude, my daughter, my son, who's eight could have done a better job than that piece of mind. I don't even understand why someone just bought that at auction for $3 million. And then I went back. I took a walk.

I was in France. I walked through the Louvre and I came to the Mona Lisa and I looked at it and it's so small. I thought it was a much bigger painting, very small. I'm sitting there looking at that thing knowing that insurance companies are ensuring that painting and it's worth so many millions of dollars and all this.

And it's the Lord hit me with something. He said, look at that painting and I looked closely at it. He said, you realize the value of that painting has nothing to do with the contents of that painting. He said, look at it again.

He said, you're not paying for the canvas. You're not paying for the paint. You're not even paying for the skill of the drawing. See, you know why?

You know, I know that because you can go to the gift shop and buy a replica painting for $19.99. So you're not buying for the skill of the painting. There's tons of painters in this world right now that can paint an exact replica of that painting and it won't cost you millions of dollars to get it. So you're not paying for the canvas.

You're not paying for the paint and you're not paying for the skill of the drawing. So what gives that painting so much value? What gives it value is based on the one who touched it because that's the only one he touched and because he touched it because his hands were on it. It now gives it value because people say, yeah, you can buy a replica.

You can buy a fake, but that's the real thing. That's the one he created. And see, that's what I'm telling you about yourself. The thing that gives you your value, the thing that gives you your worth is the one who touched you.

See, because the Bible says Paul said this, there is no good thing in the flesh. There's no good thing. Before I had Jesus, I was worthless. I was dead.

I was on my way to hell. But then Jesus shed. Hallelujah is precious blood for me and for you. And you know, I've given this illustration before, but here it again, if you would, you know, it's like when you go to the store, let's say you went to TJ Maxx, you bought a shirt and the shirt was 1499, but you decided you didn't want the shirt.

So you took it back and when you got to customer service, what's the first question I'm asking you? Do you have the receipt? And so you know what I lost the receipt, but I paid 1499, you can see it on the tag. And then they look back at you and say, sorry, this thing went on sale.

It's only 999. If you don't have the receipt, all we can give you back is the sale price. And you're sitting there trying to argue about the value of a t-shirt that you bought two weeks ago. And the only reason that there's an argument about its value is because you don't have the receipt.

And when the devil tells you that you're worthless and that you have no value, you just tell him, maybe we could argue about it, except for the fact that I've got the receipt tonight. I know how much was paid for me. I know how much was paid for you. And when the devil tells you you're nothing, why don't you just flip this Bible open to the gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ?

And say, if I'm not worth anything devil, then why did Jesus take his priceless precious, sinless blood and shed it on Calvary's cross to buy me back out of sin? So what are you saying? It's the blood of Jesus Christ that was paid for you. And because he was willing to spend it, that's what you're worth.

He spent something priceless to buy something worthless. But when he did, that value of his blood was transferred to you. And you went from in one moment, from worthless to priceless. And now can I tell you this, there's not another you on the planet.

You don't have a clone somewhere waiting to start jumping into your shoes if you decide to quit your purpose. See, that's why we have to understand how vital what we're called to do is. Because some people think, well, you know, if I don't do it, God will raise up somebody. No, the whole reason he gave it to you is because he's called you specifically to do that thing.

You know, if I called a landscaping company and said, hey, I'd like you to come do my yard and the bushes and everything. They said, yeah, we're looking at the books. We can get out there in about three years. You better believe.

I'm not going to say, well, you know, I do need it, but we're going to wait on you. We're going to wait those three years. No, no, no, what's the first thing I'm going to do? Say, thanks.

I'll check somewhere else and call another landscaping company. Why? Because what I'm doing is not about the company. It's the fact I have a task.

I need to get done. And I need to get it done quickly. So I'm looking for people that will do it quickly. I had a guy was at a church and he said to me, he said, would you pray for me, brother Ted?

I said, how can I pray? He said, well, the Lord called me into the ministry 20 years ago. And I'm just believing he'll bring that to pass. I said, let me get this story straight.

He called you 20 years ago and you're still not doing it. He said, no, I've not had the open doors yet. I'm still waiting. I said, I'm not going to pray, brother.

I'm sure he called somebody else by now. But the sad truth about it is that God gives every one of us a circle of influence. See, isn't it interesting? God didn't call me to Roswell, Georgia.

He called pastors, Mirac and Linda Houghton to Roswell, Georgia. And if they didn't answer his call, God had a different purpose for me. God's not going to say, well, yeah, quick the thing I told you to do and move up to Roswell. No, no, no, no.

We're all here tonight because there were people who were faithful to step out by faith and do what God called him to do. You've got people in your life that God has given you influence with those people. You might be the only gospel they ever hear. You might be the only Jesus they ever see.

So we can't look at it and say, well, it's not that big of a deal. Maybe somebody else will talk to him. No, God, I know it's you to be right there. Your pastor doesn't know him.

The deacons don't know him. But you see him on a daily basis. One of the most chilling stories I've ever heard was a story of a preacher that my grandfather knew, my grandfather, pastored for 62 years. And this preacher that was his friend later in his life, he pastored in Texas.

But this preacher would travel around the churches and he'd preach this message that was his and he would just tell the people, don't fail God like I did. That was his message. Don't fail God like I did. And it was a chilling reminder that when you're led by the Holy Spirit and you're called for a purpose, you can't lay back and say, well, I'm not able.

I don't have the resources. You got to walk by faith. The Lord spoke to this man at the early part of his ministry and said, go to Vietnam and start to hold crusade revivals. And he said, Lord, I don't know anyone in Vietnam.

He said, I don't know anybody there. He said, I can't do that. Nobody knows me. I don't have any connections, no contacts.

And the Lord came back to him again and spoke to his spirit and said, go to Vietnam. Now, this was before the Vietnam War. He said, go to Vietnam and hold crusades and win the lost. He said, Lord, I don't have the money to go to Vietnam.

I don't have the resources to hold crusades like that. Lord, you know what I've got? You know, I don't have that. And time after time, he told God, no.

He told God, no. He told God, no. And then of course, the Vietnam War took place. And when the Vietnam War come to an end years later, he made his first trip to Vietnam.

And this is a supernatural story that when he landed and was walking through it, one of the cities there in that nation, a lady saw him from across the street and came running to him and said, where have you been? And he said, oh, I'm sorry, you've got the wrong person. You don't know me. She said, oh, I know you.

Where have you been? He said, no, man, this is my first time in this nation. She said, I know who you are. You're a preacher.

She said, we've been praying and praying. She said, years ago in our prayer group, the Lord showed you to us in a vision. We saw your face. We saw what you sound like when you preach.

She said, he said, he told us in prayer. You were coming to hold revival crusades in Vietnam. So we raised all the money for the crusades and you never came. And you never came.

And you never came. And conviction hit his spirit. And from that point, he traveled around and preached this message. Don't fail God like I did.

See, he told God I don't have the money, but God was about to provide the money. I don't have the connections, but God was getting the connections ready. I don't have open doors, but God was opening up the doors. And what I'm telling you is, you're much bigger than you think you are.

You're much more impactful than you think you are. God's got a calling and a purpose that's on your life. Somebody shout him in. People are dying and going to hell.

And we've got to get him before it's too late. Jesus is coming soon. Trumpets going to sound very soon. There's an angel.

I can't even imagine being this angel, but there's a Bible says there's an angel in heaven who holds what the Bible calls the trumpet of God. It's one trumpet that's been fashioned to be blown only one time. He's got the honor of holding it in his hands. And he's just waiting for God's signal to blow this trumpet.

And when this angel raises that trumpet to his lips and blows it, everything's about to change. I've seen kids get sat and time out before and they finally get tired of sitting and time out. Time out is the luxury we did not have when we were children. We had to pick our own switch from the backyard.

That's a whole different life. I was praying to God for time out. I said, Lord, I was shot while I was getting the spanked. Time out.

Time out. And this angel is there in heaven. I can only imagine. I've seen kids and they're finally so tired of sitting there.

They're looking at their parents like, can I get up yet? Can I get up yet? Is this time out over yet? Can I get up?

And I can only imagine an angel who's so ready to blow that trumpet and to have that honor to announce the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. I can only imagine he's looking at the throne and wondering to God, is it time yet? Can I get up yet? Can I blow this thing yet?

And God's saying, not yet. Give him a little bit more time. There are souls that are ready to come into the kingdom. And I'm not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

I'm not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. The only thing that's holding back the return of our Lord Jesus Christ is the grace and mercy of God who's willing that none should perish. Do you know that there are no prophecies that need to be fulfilled before Jesus can come? They've all been fulfilled.

All the things we're seeing happen now. They are signs of the second coming of Christ. And what I'm telling you is, we're in a grace period right now. That's why I'm encouraging you if you're here in this service tonight.

And you say, well, I just, I'm not living for God like I should be. Please don't leave tonight without knowing that your life is right with God. Don't leave this room without knowing that your name is written in the Lamb's book of life, that when you stand before God, see every person will stand before God, but every person won't be stand before the same personality, if you will. Some people will stand before a father, but other people will stand before a judge.

And the Bible declares, those who stand before the judge will hear, I never knew you. Apart from me, you worker of iniquity, but those who stand before a father will hear well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of the Lord. The difference is a judge pronounces a sentence, but a father pronounces a blessing.

And when I get to heaven and stand before the Lord, I want to receive a blessing and not a sentence. And it all depends on what we do with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And if I hear that gospel and I respond, the Bible says he or whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Hallelujah.

I can encourage somebody tonight if the devil lied to you and told you you were worthless and your life was pointless. Let me encourage your spirit tonight. You're priceless because of the blood of Jesus Christ and your best days. You've not even seen him yet.

So get ready for the goodness of God. Oh, yes. As we continue with our reading, Paul's letter to the Romans, chapter 14, I'll read the odd number versus you read the even Romans 14 verse 17, Paul is giving us a breakdown of the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is a three-legged stool.

And you know if you've ever sat in a three-legged stool, you need all three legs. A four-legged stool, if one goes out, you can still stay sitting with three legs. A three-legged stool, though, one goes, you're going. But the kingdom of God is a three-legged stool.

It's built on three pillars. And Paul listed here in the 17th verse, he says, for the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of what? Righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Three things the Apostle Paul tells us that the kingdom of God is made up of.

Righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Righteousness is given to you as a free gift as you receive Jesus. Isn't it interesting and wonderful?

You don't have to earn your righteousness. I love it. I don't have to go out and try to earn. How can you earn being placed in a right standing with God?

There's no amount of good works I could do. I don't care how big of a philanthropist I've become. There's not enough charities I can give to. There's not enough ladies, groceries I can carry across the street to earn my own righteousness.

In fact, in the Old Testament, the prophet Isaiah said, your righteousness is like filthy rags. I don't have time and it's too gross to break down with that really means, but study the context for yourself. He said, your righteousness is like filthy rags. He said, however, see, when you get into the New Testament, there's a righteousness that is just given to you.

It wasn't yours to start with. But when you by grace through faith receive Jesus. Hallelujah, you were placed into a new kingdom and righteousness was just given to you. And tonight, if you're a child of God, you're standing in a place you couldn't have gotten on your own.

It's a place where Jesus took you and sets you. Hallelujah. And you partake of heaven's righteousness tonight. But that's only one leg of the stool.

What about peace and joy in the Holy Ghost? The number one thing plaguing our nation right now is people who are battling in their minds. People, they tell us now one out of every three people in the United States is taking some form of an anti-depressant. We have people that are depressed.

They've got heaviness on their shoulders. They're battling anxiety attacks, panic attacks, suicidal thoughts. There are people that are on the edge and they try to hide it. They come to church and smile at everybody.

They know how to interact socially. But when they get behind closed doors, say, that's why I don't just believe everybody's smile. Because the book of Proverbs says, there are those who smile, but there are those who laugh, but their laughter conceals a heavy heart. There are people laughing right now.

But the laugh is not the proof that they've got supernatural joy. But I came to encourage you tonight that God has given us the joy of the Holy Ghost. He's given us the peace of God that passes all understanding. See, what do you mean by that?

Peace that's so big that people look at you and wonder if you're half insane? Because how come they're not panicked with what they're going through? I know what they're dealing with. How come they're not suicidal?

How come they're not panicked? Why aren't they freaking out? Because I've got a peace that doesn't make any sense. I've got a joy that overflows.

I've got a joy that's so strong. See, when you get this revelation about the word, joy is not an emotion. Joy isn't anointing. I said joy isn't an anointing from God.

You know how I know? Because speaking about Jesus, the writer of Hebrews, who I believe was Luke writing down Paul's theology, Luke said, and I believe it was him because his grammar matches his other writings. But if you look at that Hebrews chapter 1, the Bible is speaking about Jesus there. And it says because it's a quotation from Psalms, because you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.

Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your brethren, the oil of gladness. I said, it's the oil of gladness. It's the oil of gladness. It's not an emotion.

It's not a feeling. That's fleeting. That's waiting on an event to make you happy. That's waiting on a gift to make you happy.

That's waiting on a relationship to make you happy. I'm not looking for temporary happiness tonight. I'm looking for the anointing of joy to rest upon my life so that no matter what the devil throws my way, I'm laughing my way to breakthroughs. I'm laughing my way to turn around because I've got an anointing called joy and the holy goes that's overtaken my life.

Somebody shout out amen. It's the joy of the Holy Ghost. The oil of gladness. Let me tell you, that hits you.

It's a different level. The oil of gladness. I had somebody write on my Instagram. I had a comment on there.

I said, you know, people get, I was preaching to my church. I said, I understand this. People catch the joy of the Lord. They get happy.

And people get mad at them. I act like that in church. This is church. Yes.

The very place you should be happy. Somebody commented and they said, well, I don't mind laughter, but it's one thing to laugh. It's another thing to act like an absolute lunatic. I'm being the good and in-depth theological pastor that I am.

I responded with three eye rolling emojis. Here's my theological response. L-O-L-Send. What do you want?

The Bible says, no, let me get this in your spirit. This is a command from the Apostle Paul. A command. If you believe as I do that the entire word of God is inspired by the Holy Spirit.

No man wrote these things out of their own thought process. In fact, the Bible says that. If you study it out in 2 Peter chapter 1, it says, no prophecy of Scripture was written by the will of a man. But all these men wrote as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit, 2 Peter 1 chapter 1 verses 21.

That's what he's saying. Paul wrote to Timothy, 2 Timothy 3. All scriptures breathed out by God. All scripture.

That's why I love these. You know what I love? One thing I think destroyed the church, the theological thinking of the church probably more than any other thing done by publishers. Red letter Bibles.

Red letter Bibles. You got pastors. I just preached from the Red letters, brother. What did Jesus say?

He said all of it. Genesis to Revelation came out of Jesus mouth. In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God.

And the Word was God. Everything in that book was breathed out of God's mouth. All of it's Jesus. All of it's Jesus.

Hallelujah. All of it. Well, brother, we're doing a series called the Red letters. Wonderful.

Read the whole thing. It'll help you. This is the kind of stuff. I mean, I'm giving this a side note here, but this will help you with your joy, too.

Today it's a side note, but people get up, well, you know, Jesus' words are greater than Paul's. No, they're not. Because they're all Jesus' words. Paul didn't just write stuff that he was like, what in his diary?

What's up, Romans? Chilling an Ephesus. You should try the Euros here. They're amazing.

I'll be bouncing to Corinth next month. Check out my vlog. These letters weren't Paul's diary. He was being inspired by the Holy Spirit to write God's word to the churches that were being founded all over the world.

And do you know something? They all knew that this was God's word. It's not something people recognized hundreds of years later in some diet somewhere. That's what we used to call the gatherings in the historical church, the Diode of Worms.

No, it's just they came together. They weren't all fascinating. They were meeting about the Word of God. And they said, it wasn't hundreds of years later.

Some people say, well, you know, the Bible didn't exist until some man chose to put all those books. No, the early church knew that these were the words of God. Do you know how I know that? When Peter said regarding Paul's letters, he said, sometimes the things that Paul writes to you from the Lord are hard to understand as they are with the other scriptures.

He's talking about Paul's writings as scriptures as early as the first century. These churches knew they were getting the Word of God, which is why they copied it so fast and passed it around the world. And now in 2025, the Christian New Testament blows every other document of antiquity out of the water. We have 6,000 manuscripts and fragments of some historical record.

I'm telling you God kept his word to preserve his word. And today we've got a sore word of prophecy in this book right here. This is not man's word, it's God's word. And Paul, this is the point I was getting to 20 minutes ago, Paul commanded the church, rejoice in the Lord always.

And again, I say, rejoice to what? Rejoice. What does it mean to rejoice? It means to show the joy that you have on the inside of you.

I can be joyful inside. But when I show it, I'm rejoicing. What are you doing? I've got joy.

Rejoice. Hallelujah. We give you the glory, Lord. It's sad to me that people will rejoice more for things that are secular than things that are spiritual.

It's mind-blowing to me. There's stuff that'll go on. People get all happy. You see people getting wild.

People dancing. People shouting, singing songs. I went to, you know, I've been to Europe. And I see, you know, when you go to Europe, football, what we call soccer, they call it football, is like a religion.

I hope there's no Europeans watching, but I'm an Arsenal fan. I like Arsenal. You watch these games. You know what's crazy?

Every football team, every soccer team, historically goes back. They have songs that they will sing in the stadiums and all of the fans know the songs. They'll come in on Sundays. Many of the football games are on Sundays.

They'll come in. And 65,000 people are singing the hymns of Arsenal. You can hear it echoing through London. The hymns are going up as they worship and the churches historically that were emptying out because people walked away from the power of the Holy Ghost.

So there were historical revivals all throughout Europe. And it's begun again. Hallelujah. I said, then it's begun again.

Now God is shaking the UK. God is shaking Northern Ireland. Hallelujah. God is shaking these Eastern European nations.

Russia shall be saved. I said, Russia shall be saved. Russia shall be saved. Russia shall be saved.

I came to encourage you. There's revivals are going to hit Prague and revivals are going to hit the Czech Republic. You're going to see the power of the Holy Ghost sweep through Northern Ireland. You're going to see it hit Scotland and Wales and Great Britain.

You're going to see the power of God sweep through Italy. It's going to sweep through Spain. It's going to sweep through Norway. It's going to sweep through Sweden.

We're going to see it in Greenland. I can't do encourage you tonight. God's not done with the nations of the world. God's not done with the nations of the world.

Let there be one goal in soccer. One goal, the celebrations. You don't have to encourage anybody to rejoice. There's nobody.

He just scored a goal. Wonderful, wonderful goal. Wonderful goal. No.

That's why when I watch, sometimes I watch. I like to watch all the replays on the Spanish channel. I watch, because those dudes are in it. They're all the way in it.

It's almost like the British recaps are like Orthodox Church and then you watch the Spanish channels. It's like going to a Spanish Pentecostal Church. The joy, the exuberance. It could even be something easy.

The goal was even open. Go keep it wasn't even there. Somebody just headed it in. That guy's been waiting a whole broadcast.

He's just been waiting. He's just been waiting. You talk about people going wild. People going crazy.

They're just pumping, piss pumping. People dancing all over the place. People doing all that. Why?

They got their faces painted. People got their shirts all freaking out. They're all drunk on the front line. Why?

They got excited because somebody kicked a little white and black ball into a net. I just want to tell you tonight, I'm not letting some soccer fan who's talking about something that's temporary. I'm more joy than what I've got for Jesus Christ, my Savior, my Lord. I tend to encourage you.

God is moving. God is moving. I'm going to tell you, I think Pastor Oscar, he needs to get out with the Lord. He's just a soul winning team.

And every time there's one who comes into the kingdom, he says, soul. And people start shouting. People start dancing because all of heaven rejoices when even one comes in to the kingdom of God. So somebody shout one soul.

All of heaven's rejoicing. I'm just mirroring what they're doing in heaven. Ain't no sad angels. There's no sad member of the Trinity.

There's no sad saints in heaven. He's an enter into the joy of the Lord. The moment I step through pearly gates, there's no sadness. There's no depression.

So why wait till you get up there? Why wait? Why wait? Why wait?

I'm not waiting for pearly gates. I got joy right now. I said, I got joy right now. I got more joy.

He said, have for a second. I got more joy. We're just talking. I got more joy.

Ain't nobody that drinks. That's got more joy than me. There is nobody that can do any drug. You do all the cocaine you want.

You'll never have more joy than me. None. I went out one time. We finished the Holy Ghost service.

My cousin, Jonathan and I, and the pastor of the church, Pastor Brian Tombs, we went out because the only thing open when you're done with Holy Ghost service, you got to find somebody else. Something like that. For us, we found a Buffalo Wild Wings was still open. So we went into Wild Wings.

And we sat down and they had games on our thing. But we're just sitting there still buzzing from that Holy Ghost meeting and talking to each other about what God did, the people who were saved, the people that were healed. And we're just full of joy. I mean, we're laughing and carrying on and just, I mean, we're having a great time.

And the manager came out and grabbed our waiter and pulled him to the side and said, don't you serve that table? One more drink. And the manager was just looking confused. He said, I haven't served him one yet.

And the manager looked at him and I'm confused. He said, you haven't served him any alcohol? He said, no, they're not ordering alcohol. He's so confused.

He didn't know what else to say. I was telling you, they were cut off. These guys got to drive home tonight. I said, no, no.

That's called the joy of the Holy Ghost. There ain't no amount of alcohol that can make you feel like this. Ain't no amount of drugs that can make you feel like this. There's no amount of relationships you can have.

Make you feel like this. But when you get into the power of the Holy Ghost, heaviness has to go. Anxiety has to go. Fear has to go.

And joy, weeping may endure for one night. But joy comes in the morning. I said, joy comes in the morning. Whatever plagues you for longer than one night has overstated, it's welcoming.

Joy comes in the morning. I said, joy comes in the morning. I would tell you, joy that's overflowing. The Bible said, it's a joy that's unspeakable and full of glory.

I got joy unspeakable and full of glory, full of glory, full of glory. I've got joy unspeakable and full of glory. And I have, has never yet been told. That's also.

Joy unspeakable. What does that mean? It means I got joy that nobody can explain. That if I wouldn't say they'd probably put me in a padded room.

Sometimes I'll laugh when you don't even feel like laughing your laugh. Devil attacks in your laugh. Devil lies to you about what's going on your laugh anyway. So why are you laughing for?

I'm laughing because I'm mirroring what I hear in heaven. For the Bible said wicked men make plans in the earth. But God laughs in the heavens. For he knows their day of judgment is coming.

I can only imagine God's laugh echoing off of those pearly gates and the walls of heaven, the new Jerusalem. That laugh is bouncing off golden streets at angels. They can't, let me ask you a question. You think God's laughing and the angels are allowed to stand there very somber.

They're not allowed. If the boss is laughing, you better be laughing too. And every angel's laughing and God's laughing and the saints in heaven are laughing. Because victory's not coming.

Victory's already here. We've got joy, unspeakable and full of glory. I'll tell you tonight, if anything was plaguing you, is leaving tonight in Jesus' name. Goodbye heaviness, goodbye depression, goodbye anxiety attacks, goodbye panic attacks, goodbye every attack of the devil.

Because after tonight we're walking out of here in total freedom in Jesus' mighty name. Hey, hallelujah. Joy. Joy.

You often wonder why does the devil try so hard? Just steal your joy. And it's because, me and Maya told us in the eighth chapter in the 10th verse, the joy of the Lord is your strength. The devil wants to fight against a weakened church.

So he comes for the fuel. Because I don't care if you have a Lamborghini. If you don't have gas in the tank, it's a paperweight. Just sits in your driveway looking nice.

But even though it's got one of the fastest engines coming out of the factory, it ain't going nowhere because there's no fuel in the tank. And every Christian is built for speed. Every Christian, you are built for speed. I said you're built for speed.

I said you're the most aerodynamic being in all of the universe. God built you for speed. He said, I'm major in my likeness. I'm major in my image.

You're built for speed. And I came to encourage you. It's the joy of the Holy Ghost. That's the fuel in my tank.

I'm not a paperweight baby. I'm getting ready to run like you've never seen me run in 2025. So my son, I'm built for speed. Oh, you're built for speed.

Oh, yeah. Glory to God. You know, in the industry, in the industry, you got to usually choose. You usually have to choose.

Built for speed or built for comfort. Usually it's not in the same package. Built for speed, built for comfort. When it comes to private aircraft, they got aircraft that are built for speed, leer jets.

Leer jets are so fast, they'll get you a point A to point B, quick. But those cockpits are tight, very small because they're built for speed. But then you got the luxury jets that are built for comfort. They're much bigger, much nicer inside.

And normally you got to choose between one or the other. Do I want something that's built for speed or do I want something that's built for comfort? But you know what you find out? When you come into the kingdom, you got both.

Because see, joy has your built for speed. But peace has your built for comfort. So I can actually run at a pace that blows the natural mind. He's going to burn out.

Watch that preacher. He's going to burn out. He's running all over the country. He's holding all these.

We did 270 nights last year. 270 nights. He's going to burn out. He's going to fight.

No, no, no. I'm not just built for speed. I already got the aerodynamic haircut. I'm just waiting on it.

I want that hair holding me back. I joke people south, I said, look down here, south, floor this hair. My hair's all, this humidity's got my hair so frizzy today. I don't know what they're doing.

You can be built for speed and comfort. Because see, the joy of the Lord is your strength. It's the fuel with which you run. Peace on the other hand is like Heaven's GPS.

It guides you which way to go. I'm not just running randomly. I'm running with purpose. I know where I'm headed because Heaven's got a GPS that's taken me.

Where I'm supposed to go. The greatest scripture you can see that bring this out for you, Isaiah 5512. Are you able to put it on the monitor? Isaiah 5512.

Are we technological? Technological. Look at this. Look at this.

For you shall go out in joy. So see that? Joy is pushing you. But you'll be led forth in peace.

So joy is pushing you. Peace is pulling you. Joy is pushing you. Peace is pulling you.

Joy is pushing you. Peace is pulling you. See, if I don't have the joy, I can't go out. I'm going out in joy.

I'm getting ready to run. That's my fuel. That's what's shooting me forward. But not randomly.

I've got a direction I'm supposed to go. Why do I know which direction I'm supposed to go? I'm led by peace. There's people that override what they feel in their spirits.

I'm going to do it anyway. And then all of a sudden they find themselves in turmoil because they stepped out into something they had no peace about. And all of a sudden it's not working like it should. Yeah, you got to be led by peace.

Even if I got three things in front of me, I could do. Four things I could do. There's times I'll just pray in the Holy Spirit and just meditate as I'm praying. I say, Lord, and then I'll just even think about those things.

Yeah, I don't feel any peace on that. I don't feel any peace on that at all. I feel even if I think about going that direction, I feel turmoil on that. I don't feel any peace in that direction.

You've been there pastor. And then you'll find once I, oh, hold on. This, every time I think about doing this, everything I might imagine myself doing it as I'm praying in the presence of God, I feel total peace. Now it looks crazy.

I'm not talking about it in your flesh because your flesh will fight like, I don't you do that. How are you going to make that work? How's that going to happen? You'll be like, shut up.

I got peace. That means you don't plan. It doesn't mean you don't use wisdom. But sometimes God will ask you to do something that to your natural mind doesn't make any sense.

So how do you make the decision? I'm led by peace. I don't do anything in my spirit if I don't have peace about it. If I'm up, it's keeping me up at night and I'm sitting around thinking about it and worried about it and wondering about it.