October 18, 2024 • 56 mins
What does it mean to wait on the Lord?
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Ah, God, bless you, God, bless you, God, bless you.
And I do mean the blessing of the Lord God
upon you. And when I say God, I mean the
true Living God. And you, I mean you person of excellence.
And that's you, whether or not you know it or not,
that you are a person of excellence. And I don't
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mean that everybody's a person of excellence. In the scripture,
God points out different people who have an excellency about
them that He ordained and that they move in. Now
there's others that have excellency about them that He ordained
that they do not move in. That's costly, very costly.
And oh, I didn't introduce myself. I'm Reverend doctor Karen E. Holmes.
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I can't believe I just gave my first name. I
don't ever give out my first name. Can't say that
anymore because it just now did it. Can't say not ever.
There's a whole story behind that, So don't think. Don't
pick it up and think you caught something. Okay, I'm
going to look at weight on the Lord and I'm
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not sure which place I want to land on. I'm
a theologian and can help, But I was a theologian
before I even studied and found out that theology is
my thing. However, I went to Blueletterbible dot org and
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told her to look up the phrase weight on the Lord,
and it gave me Psalm twenty seven fourteen. And I
hope you're writing this down Psalm thirty seven thirty four,
Proverbs twenty twenty two, Chronicles twenty three twenty eight, and
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I know me. I'm going to share some information that
you might have known you might not know about wait
on the Lord. But the first thing I want to
do is look up the first place that we have this,
and that the Psalm twenty seven. I want to look
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up the STRONGS definition. And I'm almost sorry to look
up the Strongs definition. Let me back up twenty seven fourteen,
because I started out with the Strongs in nineteen sixty eight,
and I don't know how old the Strongs was at
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that time. I mean I did know right now, I'm
not recalling, and I used to it and used it,
and when I went to college, I used it, and
all through college I used it. And oh I didn't
turn my phone off. One of the things that I
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have noticed about things being available online. And I love
them being available online. But I've noticed that it's changed.
The originals of things are not what the originals were.
And I don't just mean authorized updated editions. I'm fine
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with that. I think that's a good thing. Ah took
me out of my weight on the Lord, Oh no,
I didn't. I want to look at this. I want
to look at this definition of weight. And I have
a strong concordance over here. Didn't open the first page
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to see what'd I say? Fourteen? Get down there? Wait
on the Lord be of good courage, and he shall
strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. Now,
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I'm going to read it again, and I'm going to
read it the way it is in my Bible. Names
of God's Study Bible, it's homes names of God's Study Bible.
Wait on, Yahweh, be of good courage, and he shall
strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say on, Yahweh. Now. One
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of the reasons why I put Yahweh is because we're
so used to saying Lord, Lord, Lord, that we don't
take again all of what that is, or even a
lot of what that is. It's a term kind of
like when we came on, I said, God, bless you.
We're so used to saying God bless you that we
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don't even think of all the blessings that we're looking
at or looking for or would like today or for
this moment or for this hour. We use it as
an expression. And that's why I let you know. I
mean the blessings of the True and Living God upon
you and upon you in particular. So I want to
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look up this weight on the Lord. However, this is
reminding me of James, and I'll probably go to it
of count it all joy. I'm not going to finish it.
You can look it up. I'm going to look at
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the tools on this wait on the Lord, and it
gives it as strongs sixty nine sixty covah. I like
to I like to give the uh. It's a part,
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it's a verb. Okay. There. It is a primitive route
to bind together, perhaps by twisting, like I had something
that I was twisting to close it tighter and make
it stay together. I that is, or I E I
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dot E dot means that is or in other words,
collect figuratively, to expect to gather together. And here's the
part that we tend to make it the whole word
what it means look patiently, doesn't say look patiently, to
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look to patiently, to tarry, to wait. And here it
puts in parenthesis for or on And one of the
things that God taught me about waiting on the Lord.
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And I'm letting you know God taught this to me.
It doesn't have to be you, you might want to stay with.
It means being patient. It means being still or looking
into what you're looking into, and keeping your eye on
what you're keeping in your eye on. And those are
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all good things to do. Yes. However, what God taught
me was to wait is to wait on him the
same way that the waitress does in the restaurant. And
in those days I used to go to Linton's Diner
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a lot in Philadelphia, and he showed me. He was
showing me that the waitress finds out what you want
waiting on me, waiting on the table, the waitress finds
out what everybody wants. Now, if you're waiting on the Lord,
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find out what he wants. And not only that, but
then the waitress waits on you finding out how you
want it. If you wanted eggs, do you want them
over easy? Do you you know how do you want them?
Do you want your beef? You want it well done?
You want it rare? How do you want it? What
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do you want? How do you want it? Now? Think
about waiting on the Lord finding out what he wants
concerning this situation, not just waiting for him to do
whatever it is he's going to do about your situation.
Find out what do you want in this Lord, Especially
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when you're going through trials and we're living in a
time that you probably know, but you might not know
because when it's you going through, it's different things that
you're familiar with for everybody, it's different when it's you
and we're in a time cycle and a generational cycle.
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Both they're two separate things. And we're going through a
time cycle and a generation cycle where trials are strong,
they're deep, and they're all so long, they're count it
all joy. When you fall into divers temptations, Yeah, it's
one thing after another and after another and after another,
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and each thing seems to be worse than the last thing,
and then the other things that normally you would count
them as a little thing just because they keep coming.
Then they keep coming in between things. When you're going
through that wait on the Lord. It doesn't mean just
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huff and puff and and wait and not get all
upset because you're going to wait for God to straighten
this out. And wait for God now, don't. I'm not
saying don't not wait for Him to straighten this out.
I'm sharing with you what God showed me about what
waiting on him is. So right now a lot of
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people are going through financial struggles more than usual. You know,
Jesus said, the poor you always have with you, so
there's always financial struggles. However, right now banks are having
financial struggles. I hope you're aware of that, so that
if God begins to quicken your heart about things to
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do or not do with your banking or becoming a
bank some of you, God's saying that to you, and
you're thinking, what, yeah, God is saying it. Yes he is.
I'd like to go to Ecclesiastes to show it to you. Anyway,
wait on the Lord again the way God showed it
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to me, and he gave it to me that way,
I think because it was simple with me going to
Linton's restaurant a few times a week. He showed me
that the waitress waits on you comes to you to
find out what you want. She's waiting on you, that's
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waiting on So you go to him and you find
out what do you want in this situation? Lord, because
all this stuff is going on, and I can wait
for you to be faithful and true. I know that
you are. I can wait for your peace because I
know that you're King of peace and I know that
your Prince of peace. And some of us only know
one of those things. You want to remember both of them.
And right now I'll stop and tell you. One thing
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about king is he's got all the authority and all
the keys. Uh huh. However, a king usually will give
the key off to someone to get something done. He
often doesn't unlock the door himself. Oh he can, and
he will. However, he has the keys on a wrap
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on his shoulder, and he'll hand the key to someone
and say open this door, open that door. You see
that in the Old Covenant, you'll see it in Revelation.
He's also prince of peace. So if you're waiting on
him because you know he's King of peace and you're
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waiting for him to bring some peace to this situation. King,
he's got all the authority and he's got all the keys,
and he's got everything that pertains to everything. Now the
prince that has to do with relationships. I often tell
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you in the Book of Proverbs when I let you
know to read a chapter a day, and I suggest
reading a chapter that coincides with the day of the month.
The first part of Proverbs is to a son. The
son learns the rules. The son learns who he is,
and the son learns the rules. The next part is
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to the prince. The prince learns relationships his own relationship
to his own parents and his own family, but he
learns relationships with friends. And then he also learns relationships
of the wicked or the hormonger, especially if you're going
through Proverbs, because that strange woman comes up a lot
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in Proverbs. And then the last part is two kings,
and it's not equally one third, one third one third.
The son needs more time and more things to learn.
A prince needs more aspects because you need to learn
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your good friend and your false friend. You need to
learn yourself, not just your relation your parents. You need
to learn your legacy. So the prince learns relationship wise,
and then a king moves into authority See, as a prince,
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you're learning the relationship of the authority that you have
that you're going to inherit so that when you do it,
when you do inherit, you're well, okay. So waiting on
the Lord, waiting on him, find out what he wants,
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and then you not only find out what he wants,
you find out how he wants it. What do you
want me to do? And Father, how do you want
me to do it? Jesus, you're the prince of peace.
What do you want me to do to bring peace
to this situation? What do I have to do with it? See,
we're usually looking for waiting on him. We're looking for
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him to do something for us. We're not looking to
wait on him. And I love that God taught it
to me first this way that wait on the Lord.
And I was saved during a revival. I wasn't saved
in the revival. Someone brought me to the Lord the
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night the revival was going on at the church that
they were going to. But we were talking and he
brought me to the Lord, and then he invited me
to come to the church the next day. I was
raised different. I didn't know what a revival was. Much
less Pentecostal. And those people were Pentecostal. I'd never heard
of it, didn't know what it was. And I thought
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they were nuts because I knew Neil sid pray, I
knew giving a reverence to God, and they were hollering
and all that, raising their hands and anyway, Oh, God
taught me. He began to He taught me actually the
very night that I was saved, and it was teaching
me things. And one of the things that he taught
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me was wait on him, because that was preached in
the revival, wait on the Lord. And I didn't realize
it back in those days. I thought I understood that
we're a family of God. And I thought, well, one
thing one person knows in the family, everybody knows the
same thing. We know the same things. We're one family.
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And so the Father would talk to me and he
would tell me things, and I didn't know he didn't
tell everybody the same thing he told me. So I'm
this weight on the Lord. And when we all went
to the restaurant after church, and I'm talking about I
want to wait on the Lord and find out what
he wants, and they're like, no, you just sit back
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and you keep faith, and you keep believing him, and
you keep trusting him. And he'd already taught me go
to him and find out what he wants, the same
way the waitress comes to us, finds out what we want.
She's waiting on us. Then when we have our orders,
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she finds out how we want it, how do you
want that? And bringing it to us, brings it to
us with graciousness, not hollering and carrying on, like I
love that church, and I was ordained out of that church,
by the way, license and ordained out of that church,
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so I don't have anything to say against. However, it
was quite unusual to me, and I want us to
know that when I bring us to this scripture about
wait on the Lord, wait on yahweh, and that means
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no one who he is. And you've heard me share
it before, so I will try not to go through
the whole thing right now. But when God introduces his names,
and we might want to call them titles, he starts
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out Eloheim. Then the next title he interrupts himself as
a matter of fact, to give us Ruach Eloheim, spirit
of God. And I know we like to say father, son,
holy ghost. Okay, I understand that that's tradition and all that,
and you can also find that in the Word. However,
when God first introduced himself and introduced his name names
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or named titles, he introduced first Aloheim God. I think
in most of our Bibles it's all caps, capital G.
Pardon me, not all caps. Lord is all caps, but
capital G and rua Eloheim, spirit of God. And he
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hadn't explained yet what spirit is. I thought I was
going to do the broadcast the difference between spirit and
soul today. However, God with a capital G eloheim, and
then in he says something, and then he says and
the Spirit of God in verse two Genesis one. In
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the beginning God verse two, then the earth was without
form and void, and darkness was upon the face of
the deep, and the Spirit of God Elohim moved upon
the face of the waters. I can't pass this up
right now, even though I'm talking about wait on the Lord,
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this thing that we seem to have forgotten, even though
it's the first thing that God introduced about Elohim. When
we speak of the Spirit of the Lord, we want
him to manifest, and we want to dance, and we
want to the goosebumps and all of that wonderful, wonderful.
Remember that he's the one who raised up Jesus from
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the dead. Okay, he moves in a power that most
of us need to move in resurrection power. However, watch this.
We forget this, especially nowadays all psychological stuff is going
on and interruption's going on. We need to we need
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to know this. The first things that God reveals are
the things that are there about that every time you
see it, even when he's revealing more and revealing other
the very first thing. It's in college and Bible studies.
It's called the rule of first mention. So the first
time he mentions the spirit of God, he says, and
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the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Now look at this. In the beginning, God created the
heaven and earth, that's verse one, verse two. And the
earth was without form and void and darkness was upon
the face of the deep. Now later we understand the
deep is under the sea, in the sea and all that. Okay, however,
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learn this and know this about the Holy Spirit. And
we're living in times when we need to pay attention
to this fact. The first fact about the Holy Spirit.
Oh and He didn't say holy here. By the way,
I'm saying holy Spirit. He didn't reveal that about him
just yet. Spirit that realm, that realm like like the wind.
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You don't see, but you certainly know it's there, and
you certainly know its power fulk watch this spirit of Elohem.
He moved, Okay, we know he moves upon the face here.
I'm a do sign language upon the face of the waters.
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He didn't get all down and involved in. The earth
was without form and void and darkness was upon the
face of the deep. The spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters. And if you look up
that word move, it's it's it's the kind of movement
that a hen does when when she's hatching her eggs,
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when she's sitting on her eggs. But he didn't get
all down in. He's moving on the face of We
need to understand that because while we have instruction on
how to handle things and how to deal with things,
go to your brother. When when you have your gift
at the altar, and and you think your brother has
aught against you, or you have aught against your brother,
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leave your gift there. Don't forget, leave your gift there.
Don't don't not give your gift and think I'm gonna
do it later. No, no, leave your gift there, go
to your brother. Yeah. The scripture tells us that, however,
the first understanding about the spirit of God, he moved
on the face of the waters. He didn't get all
down in the waters. He didn't get all down in
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the darkness. While Elohem, God said, let there be light,
and there was like God saw, God said, He says, Elohem,
Now thirty four times God said, God saw Okay. And
then he introduces and I will remind you that the
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chapter divisions were first in the twelfth century. God didn't
give them all that way. Some he did, like in
the Psalms. However, the chapter divisions are the twelfth century
and the verse divisions are fourteenth century. And it's mostly Europe.
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And I would like to say what countries, but I'm
not right. Now gets to chapter two, he introduces a
third name and he uses it twelve times. Now, by now,
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we haven't already learned that twelve is the number of governments.
We're going to learn that later. I'm letting you know now.
Because the law of God, the Word of God, the
way of God, it was that before he ever revealed
it to us. Okay, So it's significant to know that
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when he introduces Lord, he introduces a compound name or title. Okay.
And in verse two verse of chapter two, pardon me,
verse four, these are the generations of the heavens and
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of the earth. Now if you have I hadn't noticed
all while God's doing creating, it's heaven and earth, Heaven
and earth, Heaven and earth when they were created. These
are the generations of heavens and Earth, all that he
explained up to now. And then he says, in the
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day that the Lord God made the earth and heavens,
and Lord has all caps to it, it's Yahweh. Now
we had gotten tricked into using Jehovah, and that took
almost one hundred years before we found out it was
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a trick. So if you like to say Jehovah rather
than Yahweh, that's fine. Yahweh yloheen, Yahweh eloheen. And watch this.
There's a switch here, and these are the generations of
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the heavens and of the earth when they were created
in the day that Yahweh Eloheim made Earth and heaven.
Now there's a reason for that switch. And I usually
let you know that switch has to do with when
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he's dealing with man, because that's our realm of rule.
Now watch how he comes up on this Yahweh Eloheim,
Lord God. And every plant of the field before it
was in the earth, and every herb of the field
before it grew, you know, answering that question which came
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first a chicken or the egg or Yahweh Eloheim had
not caused it to rain upon the earth, not a
man to till the ground. But there went up a
mist from the earth and watered the whole face of
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the ground. And Yahweh Elohem formed man out of the
dust of the ground and breathe into his nostrils the
breath of life, and man became a living soul. That
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says so much. I told you I wanted to do
the difference between soul and spirit. Today Yahweh Eloheim, Lord God.
He's introduced that third third title or name title Lord God,
having to do with man. And it switches from heaven
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and earth Eloheen made Elohem made to Lord God. Yahweith Eloheen,
And it's earth and heaven, Earth and heaven, Earth and heaven.
And he's showing us. How he set up the earth
for us to rule, set up the earth for our realm,
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set up the earth. Now what does that got to
do with waiting on the Lord? First of all, you
want to know who you're waiting on. You're not just
waiting on Alohem, because that verse particularly says wait on Yahweh.
And that's why I don't want us to be so
busy saying wait on, oh, oh, oh place. I don't
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want us to be so busy saying wait on the Lord,
like wait on Jesus, wait on God. You know, wait, wait,
wait that we don't recognize what God introduced in the
first place. And one of the things twelve times number
of governments, And again we don't learn that till later. However,
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Yahweh Eloheem, Lord God, Yahweh ratifies covenant. He's a covenant keeper.
He keeps the covenant. So when you're waiting on the
one who keeps the covenant, you're more than just trusting
him to do what he said. You're more than just
trusting him to bring you out of the message you're in.
You're more than that. You are doing like the waitress.
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You're coming to the one who created you you're coming
to the one who made you. You're coming to the
one who formed you. You're coming to the one who
breathed into you the breath of life. I'm gonna pause
right here and hope I don't take too long given
a testimony. But I've gone do something. And I'm a
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person that went through a lot of things, trial after
trial after trial after trial. And after a while, I
began to realize everybody doesn't go through all the time
like that, and I began to ask God about it.
And I also he taught me to look up the
scripture every time a preacher was preaching it, and that
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wasn't to take the place of me reading my own scripture.
And I started out. Some people haven't liked this when
I share this over the years, but I started out
tithing my time twenty four hours in a day, so
I would give two hours and forty minutes exclusively to
the Lord. And what I would do is I would
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exclusively read the Word. And one of the things that
I had learned in the Pentituke was that there's more
than one tithe. There's actually three different tithes in the Pentituke.
And I had known that because I translated the Pentituke
before I ever got saved. Didn't know that that's what
I was doing. And I came to love this God,
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and I used to I hadn't believed in God when
I was translating it. I wasn't religious, and I thought
God is what and religion is what man makes up
to rule over other men. And I thought I had
studied every religion and all that to prove this, because
I was a good debater. And I came across these
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sacred scriptures that I hadn't come across before and went
to translate them. Sorry, I'm lost, I went too far
into anyway. He taught me that he he waiting on him.
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He's the one that breathed into us breath of life
and all of that. In Genesis One is God showing
us how to live in his image. How because we're
told he made us in his image. But he's the
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same way children see their parents do things and they
learn how to do things. And we know that Jesus said,
I only do what I saw the seid the Father do.
I only say what I heard the Father say. And
so I had understood that principle. And I'm hesitating because
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I don't like to give my testimonies. But and I'll
stop hesitating because it takes too much time on a
broadcast that only is a certain amount of minutes. But
he taught me wait on him. He's one that gave
the breath. He's the one that gave me anything that
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I've got. And now that I'm saved and he saved me,
I mean that he redeemed me, that he changed me
because I when I accepted him, I knew that I
deserve to die. I hadn't believed in God and all that,
but I knew that, and I wasn't. I wasn't a
bad girl. I mean I was, but not in comparison
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to what was considered a bad girl in those days.
I knew I was a bad girl, and not because
I did what the so called bad kids did. For
totally other reasons that I knew things that weren't right
that I did. One of them was I was always
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listening to my mother's phone calls and this was not
there were no this is in the late sixties, okay,
there were no no not phones like we have now.
And I knew it was wrong, and I did it
all the time, and I got so good at it.
And my mother was a genius. You hear me. I
mean she was a genius. She was awarded by President
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Eisenhower for being a genius. And uh huh. And my
big brother, my older brother, three years older than me,
and when you're young, that's a whole lot of years.
He's a genius. And he used to teach me the stuff.
So I I understood some things. And the one who
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made me, the one who changed me, the one who
and he didn't just straighten me out. He changed me
because I was used to family that will straighten you out,
ye make sure, And I don't mean just give you
a whipping, because they liked to whip you. I mean
I thought so back then. But because they wanted you
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to be correct. They understood the scriptures. You know that
if you beat him he will not die. You know,
to discipline your child, you know, you'll save his soul
from help. And I was a girl, and so they
weren't quick to whip me because there weren't other girls
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in the family. There were a whole lot of males,
and I was the youngest, so you know, treated me
a little bit better. I didn't know it. I didn't
think so because I was sickly and I was always
getting poked and pinched and all that kind of stuff. Anyway,
to wait on God, I understood it very differently than
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just sit back and do what we call faith and
do what we call believe. I understood that He said
our ways are not His ways. I remember the preacher
preached that. I looked it up and yeah, he said it.
God said it. It was a lady preacher at the time.
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Her name at the time was in Cleveland. She wasn't
married yet. Now she's known Earnest in Cleveland Reams. And
she was preaching at Deliverancey Evangelistic Church in Philadelphia. I mean,
and as a matter of fact, this was an extended
preaching time. She showed that. And God was just getting
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it across to me. Not just did I owe him that?
And I very was acquiesce to that thought that felt that,
but He showed me that waiting on Him isn't just
sitting back waiting for the manifestation of what I think
should be or what I think his promises is. And
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I hadn't learned yet something that I learned. I actually
learned it that year because as I read through the scripture.
I saw that God wins every single battle, and he
doesn't do any one of them the same way twice.
I saw that as I'm reading it, because I was
I was from a military family, and I'm used to
hearing the military men talk about different battles and how
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you could do this in the same way we did
on that, you know. And I noticed in the scripture
that God won every single battle, however he never did
it the same way twice. The crossing of the Red
Sea magnificent, fabulous, crossing of the Jordan, similar, but not
the same way, not the same way, and waiting on him.
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It may not be the same thing the same way.
That you don't order the same thing every time you
go to the restaurant. I think I do. I think
I always order the seafood clatter. However, sometimes I want
it with this and sometimes I want it with that.
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Wait on him, find out what he wants. Because what
you're thinking is not what he's thinking. And he's not
saying that what you're thinking is wrong. That we are
made in his image, we're not made him. And don't
automatically think you're wrong. I mean, we usually are, but
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don't automatically think that you're wrong, because God's not about
shame or blame. Waiting on him. Find out what he
wants and find out how he wants it, and find
out what he wants of you. In the restaurant, you
don't have two and three waitresses coming over to you
to do the same thing. You might have one helping another,
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the same way that yahweh Loheim will do things that
Eloheim the Father ordained or wanted, or that the Spirit
of God made way for. So wait on the Lord. Now,
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that's just what the command is. Understand, that's not a suggestion,
that's a command. That's word. Okay, be of good courage.
Now he's telling you that in situations that can make
you discouraged. I was reading this morning of David in
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the three D's. Those they were men of excellence, they
were men of honor. However, the scripture I call it
the three D's because they were in debt, they were
discouraged and discontented, and yet the word goes on to
talk about him as men of excellence. I called you
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men of excellence. I called you person of excellence when
we came on here. Because everybody isn't Oh, there's average
and there's greater than and greater than and greater than,
and that's in God's word. I don't want to go
through that right now. Be of good courage. It's not
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that you don't understand what's going on. It's not that
it's not as bad as it is. I'd like to
refer to the great storm when Jesus said peace be still.
The scripture says it was a great storm, and these
were professional fishermen. They weren't like me, like if the
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boat's rocking too much, I'm scared, scared, scared, scared. No, No,
these are professionals. They knew a great storm, and Jesus
told them, don't be afraid. And I want you to know.
You look it up in your Bible. Whenever God says
don't be afraid, it's something that could kill you, it's
something that could capsley. And he's still saying, don't be afraid.
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So in the terrible situation, in the awful, awful, awful situation,
one thing on top of the other diverse temptations, or
the great storm that you're dealing with in your life
right now or with your family right now, wait on
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the Lord, find out what he wants and find out
how he wants it be of good courage, not crazy courage,
good courage. The thing of it is when you're of
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good courage, when you have waited on him and found
out what he wants, you might do something that looks
downright crazy. You might go somewhere that looks like you
had no business going there, and yet when you found
out what he wanted, it's what he wanted you to do.
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I just recently had shared with someone a testimony of
when God had told me to go to a specific
college where the Holmes family, our family had sung at
several times, and go to the specific place in that college.
You know, colleges have several buildings and stuff, and when
I went there, it was something going on there, and
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I had an indignation, and it was good courage. Looking back,
I have often said I don't have good sense cause
I didn't stop to think about it. Had I stopped
to think about it, I don't think I would have
done what I did. But I stopped what was going on,
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and that took good courage. That was because I had
waited on the Lord to find out what he wanted,
and then I'm to find out how he wanted it.
And so when I showed up to this place where
this secret mess was going on, I mean diabolical, I
showed up and I only know it looking back because
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I didn't know it was going to be what it was.
But the be of good courage and he shall strengthen
thine heart. Oh yeah, and then again, wait, I say
on the Lord. We don't always realize I love some
one oh seven, because we go through a whole lot
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of things in life and we don't always realize that
he's He's he? Who is he? Who was? He? Who
is to come in the situation This sum starts out
a psalm of David. The Lord is my Light, my salvation.
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See very personal, because he is light and he's the
light of the world. However, when it's you going through
this is real personal. This is very very very personal.
The Lord is my Light, my salvation. Whom shall I fear?
Because there's a lot of stuff out there to be
afraid of right now, there's false doctrines going around, and
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you need to be wary of, not afraid wary of.
You need to know what Elohem wants you to do.
You need to know what Yahweh wants you to do.
About it. You want you, you want to know what
he wants you to do and how he wants you
to serve it up when the wicked, even mine enemies,
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my foes, So he's talking about you in your trial.
That all that message going on concerning you and around
you and with you and in your life and in
your church. When mine enemies and my foes came upon
me to eat up my flesh. Oh they didn't come
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to play. They didn't come to just bully eat up
my flesh. They stumbled and fell. See when you wait
on the Lord, when you find out what it is
he wants and how it is he wants it, oh
h you cause his majesty and his honor to just
magnify on your behalf, because he is who he is,
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He is honor, he is glory. However, on your behalf,
oh my, when you find out what he wants and
when you find out how he wants it, you get
to move in all of that. You're walking word now anyway.
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Verse three. Though a house shouldn't camp against me. See
you're facing so much junk and so much stuff right now,
and it's insane. It's crazy, Yeah, it is. That was
going on, right here, my heart shall not fear. You see,
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when you concentrate on how bad things are, you're going
to go into what Hebrews calls an evil heart of unbelief.
That's the children of Israel in the wilderness. They weren't
just they weren't just complaining. They were complaining. They were
identifying all the things that were wrong. When they were thirsty,
they were very, very very thirsty, and they were dehydrated, dehydrating. Okay,
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they weren't just thirsty like right now, I could have
a swig of that water over there. No, it was serious.
And when you're constantly recounting and rehearsing all of the
serious things going on, you are not waiting on the Lord.
You are moving in yourself into fear outside of faith.
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You're not rehearsing his promises. You are not glorifying him,
and you are dishonoring him. And in Hebrews God calls
it an evil heart of unbelief. And you think, oh,
I'm just telling it like it is. Well, you want
to stop. You want to tell it like he is,
like he is. Wait, I say, on the Lord, now,
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I want to go to one of those other scriptures.
I was going to go through this whole twenty seven well,
twenty seven four, twenty seven, three and four. Though in
hoe should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear,
though war should rise against me in this will I
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be confident? One thing have I desired of Yahweh? That
will I seek after. I'm not going to keep all
my attention in my eyes on everything. It's not that
I don't know what's going on. It's that I do
know what's going on. And one thing have I desired
of Yahweh? And that will I seek after? Doesn't say?
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And that will I seek after? That I may dwell
in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to inquire in
his temple. For in the time of trouble verse five,
he shall hide me in his pavilion, in the secret
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of his tabernacle. Shall he hide me? He shall set
me upon a rock. He now the word lets us
know he is the rock. He is the rock. Okay.
I want to look at some of these other verses
on weight on the Lord Psalm thirty seven. Wait on
the Lord and keep his way again waiting. It's the
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way the waitress the way the waiter waits on you
and finds out what it is you want and how
you want it, and finds out do you want Do
you want to go to the salad bar first? Or
shall I wait and bring your order? Now? Do you
want dessert? Now? Do you want it? When? Not? Just
what you want, how you want it, and when you
want it? Wait on the Lord and keep his way.
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And you have to know his way. You have to
be in his word and know what it is, and
he shall exalt thee to inherit the land. I want
to go through the whole chapter, but we don't have time. Now,
when the wicked a cut off, thou shalt see it,
you'll see it. And that's versus like this are part
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of where we get some of this from is wait
because we have time to wait out. And then proverbs
say not I will recompense evil, but wait on the
Lord and he shall save you. You don't get revenge.
And then I love this one. Well, I'm not going
to go to it because they're tired. Well, let's see
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first Chronicles twenty three twenty eight. Because their office was
to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service
of the House of Yahweh, in the courts and in
the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things,
the work of the service of the House of God.
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All those different things on there are have to do
with waiting on Yahweh. He doesn't just want anything, and
he just doesn't want anyway. As a matter of fact,
he doesn't just want any praise. When he talks about
praising him, he tells you how, he tells us how.
He doesn't just he said, Oh, I praise you Lord,
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I thank you Lord. I was listening to some seven
and I was doing it was something that I know
neurologically causes things to take place, doing it with a
certain breathing, the way baby breeds. You breathe in and
then you breathe out, and you breathe all the way
in so that it goes all through your body. And
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I know that neurologically. Here again things God taught me.
Right brain, left brain. One is all about relationship and
neurologically not just psychology, and the other is all about
all the things and all the pieces that go into
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bringing that up. And when you look on that first
Chronicles one, there's several aspects that bring that up. It's
not just one thing like waiting on the Lord. It's
not just scrambled eggs. It's not just do you want
cheese with it or not cheese with it. It's some
very specific things. And God is specific for specific reason.
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Certain things do certain things, and we're in a time
where we're to learn these things. And most of the
trials are to take our attention away from the things
that He would teach us. There are things that he
would show us. We're in a time to learn things
for a new generation and for a new heaven and
a new earth. Remember where to judge angels, new Heaven,
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new Earth. We're to be practicing now how to move
an authority. That's why he made us kings and priests,
kings with authority, priests with anointing to get things done
and to bring wholeness and health. We today we make
it that the doctors did that. It was a priest
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that God had that in his word, not that there
weren't doctors. But the priests are the ones that said,
how long is something and infection? And how long is
it to be quarnty? Because God gave the understanding find
out how he wants it. When he wants you to
cleanse something. Does he need the sun to shine and
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kill the germs? Or does he need the washing to
wash away? Ah? But did we even learn that from
the Word, or we're so busy throwing away the old
Covenant that we don't even know what he's talking about
when he said it in the New Covenant, so that
we haven't learned how. And when you go to the
Book of Revelation, all those things are happened. We have
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learned how to move in this and how to do this.
And was listening to the book of Zachariah and the
Angel has showing him some things and showing him some
other things about the two that are supposed to walk
the earth, and showed him one thing and he says, ye, well,
he told him, well, this is what that is. Showed
him another thing and he says, well what is that?
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You don't know what that is? There are some things
that we're to know what they are. And in waiting
on the Lord, you get to know. You get to
know what he wants, you get to know how he
wants it, you get to know the order that he
wants it, and you get to know how he's going
to manifest that you remember how the scripture tells us
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that he will do exceeding exceedingly abundantly beyond and look
it up, because I don't know if the lee is
on there exceed I think he says exceeding abundant beyond
what we can ask or think, think our imagination. Okay,
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he'll do exceeding abundant beyond. And the next verse says,
according to the power that works in us, he's going
to do it through you. Oh he's going to do
it in you. But he's going to do it through you.
Manifest his glory, manifest his honor, manifest himself. He has
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no problem with who he is. And when you wait
on him on either wait on the Lord, wait on
Yahweh
Ah, God, bless you, God, bless you, God, bless you.
And I do mean the blessing of the Lord God
upon you. And when I say God, I mean the
true Living God. And you, I mean you person of excellence.
And that's you, whether or not you know it or not,
that you are a person of excellence. And I don't
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mean that everybody's a person of excellence. In the scripture,
God points out different people who have an excellency about
them that He ordained and that they move in. Now
there's others that have excellency about them that He ordained
that they do not move in. That's costly, very costly.
And oh, I didn't introduce myself. I'm Reverend doctor Karen E. Holmes.
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I can't believe I just gave my first name. I
don't ever give out my first name. Can't say that
anymore because it just now did it. Can't say not ever.
There's a whole story behind that, So don't think. Don't
pick it up and think you caught something. Okay, I'm
going to look at weight on the Lord and I'm
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not sure which place I want to land on. I'm
a theologian and can help, But I was a theologian
before I even studied and found out that theology is
my thing. However, I went to Blueletterbible dot org and
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told her to look up the phrase weight on the Lord,
and it gave me Psalm twenty seven fourteen. And I
hope you're writing this down Psalm thirty seven thirty four,
Proverbs twenty twenty two, Chronicles twenty three twenty eight, and
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I know me. I'm going to share some information that
you might have known you might not know about wait
on the Lord. But the first thing I want to
do is look up the first place that we have this,
and that the Psalm twenty seven. I want to look
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up the STRONGS definition. And I'm almost sorry to look
up the Strongs definition. Let me back up twenty seven fourteen,
because I started out with the Strongs in nineteen sixty eight,
and I don't know how old the Strongs was at
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that time. I mean I did know right now, I'm
not recalling, and I used to it and used it,
and when I went to college, I used it, and
all through college I used it. And oh I didn't
turn my phone off. One of the things that I
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have noticed about things being available online. And I love
them being available online. But I've noticed that it's changed.
The originals of things are not what the originals were.
And I don't just mean authorized updated editions. I'm fine
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with that. I think that's a good thing. Ah took
me out of my weight on the Lord, Oh no,
I didn't. I want to look at this. I want
to look at this definition of weight. And I have
a strong concordance over here. Didn't open the first page
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to see what'd I say? Fourteen? Get down there? Wait
on the Lord be of good courage, and he shall
strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. Now,
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I'm going to read it again, and I'm going to
read it the way it is in my Bible. Names
of God's Study Bible, it's homes names of God's Study Bible.
Wait on, Yahweh, be of good courage, and he shall
strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say on, Yahweh. Now. One
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of the reasons why I put Yahweh is because we're
so used to saying Lord, Lord, Lord, that we don't
take again all of what that is, or even a
lot of what that is. It's a term kind of
like when we came on, I said, God, bless you.
We're so used to saying God bless you that we
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don't even think of all the blessings that we're looking
at or looking for or would like today or for
this moment or for this hour. We use it as
an expression. And that's why I let you know. I
mean the blessings of the True and Living God upon
you and upon you in particular. So I want to
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look up this weight on the Lord. However, this is
reminding me of James, and I'll probably go to it
of count it all joy. I'm not going to finish it.
You can look it up. I'm going to look at
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the tools on this wait on the Lord, and it
gives it as strongs sixty nine sixty covah. I like
to I like to give the uh. It's a part,
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it's a verb. Okay. There. It is a primitive route
to bind together, perhaps by twisting, like I had something
that I was twisting to close it tighter and make
it stay together. I that is, or I E I
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dot E dot means that is or in other words,
collect figuratively, to expect to gather together. And here's the
part that we tend to make it the whole word
what it means look patiently, doesn't say look patiently, to
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look to patiently, to tarry, to wait. And here it
puts in parenthesis for or on And one of the
things that God taught me about waiting on the Lord.
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And I'm letting you know God taught this to me.
It doesn't have to be you, you might want to stay with.
It means being patient. It means being still or looking
into what you're looking into, and keeping your eye on
what you're keeping in your eye on. And those are
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all good things to do. Yes. However, what God taught
me was to wait is to wait on him the
same way that the waitress does in the restaurant. And
in those days I used to go to Linton's Diner
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a lot in Philadelphia, and he showed me. He was
showing me that the waitress finds out what you want
waiting on me, waiting on the table, the waitress finds
out what everybody wants. Now, if you're waiting on the Lord,
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find out what he wants. And not only that, but
then the waitress waits on you finding out how you
want it. If you wanted eggs, do you want them
over easy? Do you you know how do you want them?
Do you want your beef? You want it well done?
You want it rare? How do you want it? What
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do you want? How do you want it? Now? Think
about waiting on the Lord finding out what he wants
concerning this situation, not just waiting for him to do
whatever it is he's going to do about your situation.
Find out what do you want in this Lord, Especially
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when you're going through trials and we're living in a
time that you probably know, but you might not know
because when it's you going through, it's different things that
you're familiar with for everybody, it's different when it's you
and we're in a time cycle and a generational cycle.
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Both they're two separate things. And we're going through a
time cycle and a generation cycle where trials are strong,
they're deep, and they're all so long, they're count it
all joy. When you fall into divers temptations, Yeah, it's
one thing after another and after another and after another,
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and each thing seems to be worse than the last thing,
and then the other things that normally you would count
them as a little thing just because they keep coming.
Then they keep coming in between things. When you're going
through that wait on the Lord. It doesn't mean just
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huff and puff and and wait and not get all
upset because you're going to wait for God to straighten
this out. And wait for God now, don't. I'm not
saying don't not wait for Him to straighten this out.
I'm sharing with you what God showed me about what
waiting on him is. So right now a lot of
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people are going through financial struggles more than usual. You know,
Jesus said, the poor you always have with you, so
there's always financial struggles. However, right now banks are having
financial struggles. I hope you're aware of that, so that
if God begins to quicken your heart about things to
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do or not do with your banking or becoming a
bank some of you, God's saying that to you, and
you're thinking, what, yeah, God is saying it. Yes he is.
I'd like to go to Ecclesiastes to show it to you. Anyway,
wait on the Lord again the way God showed it
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to me, and he gave it to me that way,
I think because it was simple with me going to
Linton's restaurant a few times a week. He showed me
that the waitress waits on you comes to you to
find out what you want. She's waiting on you, that's
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waiting on So you go to him and you find
out what do you want in this situation? Lord, because
all this stuff is going on, and I can wait
for you to be faithful and true. I know that
you are. I can wait for your peace because I
know that you're King of peace and I know that
your Prince of peace. And some of us only know
one of those things. You want to remember both of them.
And right now I'll stop and tell you. One thing
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about king is he's got all the authority and all
the keys. Uh huh. However, a king usually will give
the key off to someone to get something done. He
often doesn't unlock the door himself. Oh he can, and
he will. However, he has the keys on a wrap
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on his shoulder, and he'll hand the key to someone
and say open this door, open that door. You see
that in the Old Covenant, you'll see it in Revelation.
He's also prince of peace. So if you're waiting on
him because you know he's King of peace and you're
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waiting for him to bring some peace to this situation. King,
he's got all the authority and he's got all the keys,
and he's got everything that pertains to everything. Now the
prince that has to do with relationships. I often tell
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you in the Book of Proverbs when I let you
know to read a chapter a day, and I suggest
reading a chapter that coincides with the day of the month.
The first part of Proverbs is to a son. The
son learns the rules. The son learns who he is,
and the son learns the rules. The next part is
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to the prince. The prince learns relationships his own relationship
to his own parents and his own family, but he
learns relationships with friends. And then he also learns relationships
of the wicked or the hormonger, especially if you're going
through Proverbs, because that strange woman comes up a lot
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in Proverbs. And then the last part is two kings,
and it's not equally one third, one third one third.
The son needs more time and more things to learn.
A prince needs more aspects because you need to learn
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your good friend and your false friend. You need to
learn yourself, not just your relation your parents. You need
to learn your legacy. So the prince learns relationship wise,
and then a king moves into authority See, as a prince,
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you're learning the relationship of the authority that you have
that you're going to inherit so that when you do it,
when you do inherit, you're well, okay. So waiting on
the Lord, waiting on him, find out what he wants,
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and then you not only find out what he wants,
you find out how he wants it. What do you
want me to do? And Father, how do you want
me to do it? Jesus, you're the prince of peace.
What do you want me to do to bring peace
to this situation? What do I have to do with it? See,
we're usually looking for waiting on him. We're looking for
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him to do something for us. We're not looking to
wait on him. And I love that God taught it
to me first this way that wait on the Lord.
And I was saved during a revival. I wasn't saved
in the revival. Someone brought me to the Lord the
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night the revival was going on at the church that
they were going to. But we were talking and he
brought me to the Lord, and then he invited me
to come to the church the next day. I was
raised different. I didn't know what a revival was. Much
less Pentecostal. And those people were Pentecostal. I'd never heard
of it, didn't know what it was. And I thought
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they were nuts because I knew Neil sid pray, I
knew giving a reverence to God, and they were hollering
and all that, raising their hands and anyway, Oh, God
taught me. He began to He taught me actually the
very night that I was saved, and it was teaching
me things. And one of the things that he taught
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me was wait on him, because that was preached in
the revival, wait on the Lord. And I didn't realize
it back in those days. I thought I understood that
we're a family of God. And I thought, well, one
thing one person knows in the family, everybody knows the
same thing. We know the same things. We're one family.
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And so the Father would talk to me and he
would tell me things, and I didn't know he didn't
tell everybody the same thing he told me. So I'm
this weight on the Lord. And when we all went
to the restaurant after church, and I'm talking about I
want to wait on the Lord and find out what
he wants, and they're like, no, you just sit back
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and you keep faith, and you keep believing him, and
you keep trusting him. And he'd already taught me go
to him and find out what he wants, the same
way the waitress comes to us, finds out what we want.
She's waiting on us. Then when we have our orders,
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she finds out how we want it, how do you
want that? And bringing it to us, brings it to
us with graciousness, not hollering and carrying on, like I
love that church, and I was ordained out of that church,
by the way, license and ordained out of that church,
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so I don't have anything to say against. However, it
was quite unusual to me, and I want us to
know that when I bring us to this scripture about
wait on the Lord, wait on yahweh, and that means
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no one who he is. And you've heard me share
it before, so I will try not to go through
the whole thing right now. But when God introduces his names,
and we might want to call them titles, he starts
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out Eloheim. Then the next title he interrupts himself as
a matter of fact, to give us Ruach Eloheim, spirit
of God. And I know we like to say father, son,
holy ghost. Okay, I understand that that's tradition and all that,
and you can also find that in the Word. However,
when God first introduced himself and introduced his name names
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or named titles, he introduced first Aloheim God. I think
in most of our Bibles it's all caps, capital G.
Pardon me, not all caps. Lord is all caps, but
capital G and rua Eloheim, spirit of God. And he
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hadn't explained yet what spirit is. I thought I was
going to do the broadcast the difference between spirit and
soul today. However, God with a capital G eloheim, and
then in he says something, and then he says and
the Spirit of God in verse two Genesis one. In
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the beginning God verse two, then the earth was without
form and void, and darkness was upon the face of
the deep, and the Spirit of God Elohim moved upon
the face of the waters. I can't pass this up
right now, even though I'm talking about wait on the Lord,
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this thing that we seem to have forgotten, even though
it's the first thing that God introduced about Elohim. When
we speak of the Spirit of the Lord, we want
him to manifest, and we want to dance, and we
want to the goosebumps and all of that wonderful, wonderful.
Remember that he's the one who raised up Jesus from
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the dead. Okay, he moves in a power that most
of us need to move in resurrection power. However, watch this.
We forget this, especially nowadays all psychological stuff is going
on and interruption's going on. We need to we need
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to know this. The first things that God reveals are
the things that are there about that every time you
see it, even when he's revealing more and revealing other
the very first thing. It's in college and Bible studies.
It's called the rule of first mention. So the first
time he mentions the spirit of God, he says, and
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the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Now look at this. In the beginning, God created the
heaven and earth, that's verse one, verse two. And the
earth was without form and void and darkness was upon
the face of the deep. Now later we understand the
deep is under the sea, in the sea and all that. Okay, however,
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learn this and know this about the Holy Spirit. And
we're living in times when we need to pay attention
to this fact. The first fact about the Holy Spirit.
Oh and He didn't say holy here. By the way,
I'm saying holy Spirit. He didn't reveal that about him
just yet. Spirit that realm, that realm like like the wind.
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You don't see, but you certainly know it's there, and
you certainly know its power fulk watch this spirit of Elohem.
He moved, Okay, we know he moves upon the face here.
I'm a do sign language upon the face of the waters.
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He didn't get all down and involved in. The earth
was without form and void and darkness was upon the
face of the deep. The spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters. And if you look up
that word move, it's it's it's the kind of movement
that a hen does when when she's hatching her eggs,
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when she's sitting on her eggs. But he didn't get
all down in. He's moving on the face of We
need to understand that because while we have instruction on
how to handle things and how to deal with things,
go to your brother. When when you have your gift
at the altar, and and you think your brother has
aught against you, or you have aught against your brother,
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leave your gift there. Don't forget, leave your gift there.
Don't don't not give your gift and think I'm gonna
do it later. No, no, leave your gift there, go
to your brother. Yeah. The scripture tells us that, however,
the first understanding about the spirit of God, he moved
on the face of the waters. He didn't get all
down in the waters. He didn't get all down in
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the darkness. While Elohem, God said, let there be light,
and there was like God saw, God said, He says, Elohem,
Now thirty four times God said, God saw Okay. And
then he introduces and I will remind you that the
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chapter divisions were first in the twelfth century. God didn't
give them all that way. Some he did, like in
the Psalms. However, the chapter divisions are the twelfth century
and the verse divisions are fourteenth century. And it's mostly Europe.
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And I would like to say what countries, but I'm
not right. Now gets to chapter two, he introduces a
third name and he uses it twelve times. Now, by now,
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we haven't already learned that twelve is the number of governments.
We're going to learn that later. I'm letting you know now.
Because the law of God, the Word of God, the
way of God, it was that before he ever revealed
it to us. Okay, So it's significant to know that
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when he introduces Lord, he introduces a compound name or title. Okay.
And in verse two verse of chapter two, pardon me,
verse four, these are the generations of the heavens and
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of the earth. Now if you have I hadn't noticed
all while God's doing creating, it's heaven and earth, Heaven
and earth, Heaven and earth when they were created. These
are the generations of heavens and Earth, all that he
explained up to now. And then he says, in the
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day that the Lord God made the earth and heavens,
and Lord has all caps to it, it's Yahweh. Now
we had gotten tricked into using Jehovah, and that took
almost one hundred years before we found out it was
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a trick. So if you like to say Jehovah rather
than Yahweh, that's fine. Yahweh yloheen, Yahweh eloheen. And watch this.
There's a switch here, and these are the generations of
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the heavens and of the earth when they were created
in the day that Yahweh Eloheim made Earth and heaven.
Now there's a reason for that switch. And I usually
let you know that switch has to do with when
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he's dealing with man, because that's our realm of rule.
Now watch how he comes up on this Yahweh Eloheim,
Lord God. And every plant of the field before it
was in the earth, and every herb of the field
before it grew, you know, answering that question which came
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first a chicken or the egg or Yahweh Eloheim had
not caused it to rain upon the earth, not a
man to till the ground. But there went up a
mist from the earth and watered the whole face of
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the ground. And Yahweh Elohem formed man out of the
dust of the ground and breathe into his nostrils the
breath of life, and man became a living soul. That
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says so much. I told you I wanted to do
the difference between soul and spirit. Today Yahweh Eloheim, Lord God.
He's introduced that third third title or name title Lord God,
having to do with man. And it switches from heaven
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and earth Eloheen made Elohem made to Lord God. Yahweith Eloheen,
And it's earth and heaven, Earth and heaven, Earth and heaven.
And he's showing us. How he set up the earth
for us to rule, set up the earth for our realm,
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set up the earth. Now what does that got to
do with waiting on the Lord? First of all, you
want to know who you're waiting on. You're not just
waiting on Alohem, because that verse particularly says wait on Yahweh.
And that's why I don't want us to be so
busy saying wait on, oh, oh, oh place. I don't
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want us to be so busy saying wait on the Lord,
like wait on Jesus, wait on God. You know, wait, wait,
wait that we don't recognize what God introduced in the
first place. And one of the things twelve times number
of governments, And again we don't learn that till later. However,
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Yahweh Eloheem, Lord God, Yahweh ratifies covenant. He's a covenant keeper.
He keeps the covenant. So when you're waiting on the
one who keeps the covenant, you're more than just trusting
him to do what he said. You're more than just
trusting him to bring you out of the message you're in.
You're more than that. You are doing like the waitress.
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You're coming to the one who created you you're coming
to the one who made you. You're coming to the
one who formed you. You're coming to the one who
breathed into you the breath of life. I'm gonna pause
right here and hope I don't take too long given
a testimony. But I've gone do something. And I'm a
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person that went through a lot of things, trial after
trial after trial after trial. And after a while, I
began to realize everybody doesn't go through all the time
like that, and I began to ask God about it.
And I also he taught me to look up the
scripture every time a preacher was preaching it, and that
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wasn't to take the place of me reading my own scripture.
And I started out. Some people haven't liked this when
I share this over the years, but I started out
tithing my time twenty four hours in a day, so
I would give two hours and forty minutes exclusively to
the Lord. And what I would do is I would
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exclusively read the Word. And one of the things that
I had learned in the Pentituke was that there's more
than one tithe. There's actually three different tithes in the Pentituke.
And I had known that because I translated the Pentituke
before I ever got saved. Didn't know that that's what
I was doing. And I came to love this God,
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and I used to I hadn't believed in God when
I was translating it. I wasn't religious, and I thought
God is what and religion is what man makes up
to rule over other men. And I thought I had
studied every religion and all that to prove this, because
I was a good debater. And I came across these
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sacred scriptures that I hadn't come across before and went
to translate them. Sorry, I'm lost, I went too far
into anyway. He taught me that he he waiting on him.
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He's the one that breathed into us breath of life
and all of that. In Genesis One is God showing
us how to live in his image. How because we're
told he made us in his image. But he's the
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same way children see their parents do things and they
learn how to do things. And we know that Jesus said,
I only do what I saw the seid the Father do.
I only say what I heard the Father say. And
so I had understood that principle. And I'm hesitating because
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I don't like to give my testimonies. But and I'll
stop hesitating because it takes too much time on a
broadcast that only is a certain amount of minutes. But
he taught me wait on him. He's one that gave
the breath. He's the one that gave me anything that
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I've got. And now that I'm saved and he saved me,
I mean that he redeemed me, that he changed me
because I when I accepted him, I knew that I
deserve to die. I hadn't believed in God and all that,
but I knew that, and I wasn't. I wasn't a
bad girl. I mean I was, but not in comparison
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to what was considered a bad girl in those days.
I knew I was a bad girl, and not because
I did what the so called bad kids did. For
totally other reasons that I knew things that weren't right
that I did. One of them was I was always
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listening to my mother's phone calls and this was not
there were no this is in the late sixties, okay,
there were no no not phones like we have now.
And I knew it was wrong, and I did it
all the time, and I got so good at it.
And my mother was a genius. You hear me. I
mean she was a genius. She was awarded by President
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Eisenhower for being a genius. And uh huh. And my
big brother, my older brother, three years older than me,
and when you're young, that's a whole lot of years.
He's a genius. And he used to teach me the stuff.
So I I understood some things. And the one who
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made me, the one who changed me, the one who
and he didn't just straighten me out. He changed me
because I was used to family that will straighten you out,
ye make sure, And I don't mean just give you
a whipping, because they liked to whip you. I mean
I thought so back then. But because they wanted you
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to be correct. They understood the scriptures. You know that
if you beat him he will not die. You know,
to discipline your child, you know, you'll save his soul
from help. And I was a girl, and so they
weren't quick to whip me because there weren't other girls
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in the family. There were a whole lot of males,
and I was the youngest, so you know, treated me
a little bit better. I didn't know it. I didn't
think so because I was sickly and I was always
getting poked and pinched and all that kind of stuff. Anyway,
to wait on God, I understood it very differently than
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just sit back and do what we call faith and
do what we call believe. I understood that He said
our ways are not His ways. I remember the preacher
preached that. I looked it up and yeah, he said it.
God said it. It was a lady preacher at the time.
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Her name at the time was in Cleveland. She wasn't
married yet. Now she's known Earnest in Cleveland Reams. And
she was preaching at Deliverancey Evangelistic Church in Philadelphia. I mean,
and as a matter of fact, this was an extended
preaching time. She showed that. And God was just getting
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it across to me. Not just did I owe him that?
And I very was acquiesce to that thought that felt that,
but He showed me that waiting on Him isn't just
sitting back waiting for the manifestation of what I think
should be or what I think his promises is. And
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I hadn't learned yet something that I learned. I actually
learned it that year because as I read through the scripture.
I saw that God wins every single battle, and he
doesn't do any one of them the same way twice.
I saw that as I'm reading it, because I was
I was from a military family, and I'm used to
hearing the military men talk about different battles and how
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you could do this in the same way we did
on that, you know. And I noticed in the scripture
that God won every single battle, however he never did
it the same way twice. The crossing of the Red
Sea magnificent, fabulous, crossing of the Jordan, similar, but not
the same way, not the same way, and waiting on him.
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It may not be the same thing the same way.
That you don't order the same thing every time you
go to the restaurant. I think I do. I think
I always order the seafood clatter. However, sometimes I want
it with this and sometimes I want it with that.
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Wait on him, find out what he wants. Because what
you're thinking is not what he's thinking. And he's not
saying that what you're thinking is wrong. That we are
made in his image, we're not made him. And don't
automatically think you're wrong. I mean, we usually are, but
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don't automatically think that you're wrong, because God's not about
shame or blame. Waiting on him. Find out what he
wants and find out how he wants it, and find
out what he wants of you. In the restaurant, you
don't have two and three waitresses coming over to you
to do the same thing. You might have one helping another,
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the same way that yahweh Loheim will do things that
Eloheim the Father ordained or wanted, or that the Spirit
of God made way for. So wait on the Lord. Now,
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that's just what the command is. Understand, that's not a suggestion,
that's a command. That's word. Okay, be of good courage.
Now he's telling you that in situations that can make
you discouraged. I was reading this morning of David in
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the three D's. Those they were men of excellence, they
were men of honor. However, the scripture I call it
the three D's because they were in debt, they were
discouraged and discontented, and yet the word goes on to
talk about him as men of excellence. I called you
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men of excellence. I called you person of excellence when
we came on here. Because everybody isn't Oh, there's average
and there's greater than and greater than and greater than,
and that's in God's word. I don't want to go
through that right now. Be of good courage. It's not
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that you don't understand what's going on. It's not that
it's not as bad as it is. I'd like to
refer to the great storm when Jesus said peace be still.
The scripture says it was a great storm, and these
were professional fishermen. They weren't like me, like if the
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boat's rocking too much, I'm scared, scared, scared, scared. No, No,
these are professionals. They knew a great storm, and Jesus
told them, don't be afraid. And I want you to know.
You look it up in your Bible. Whenever God says
don't be afraid, it's something that could kill you, it's
something that could capsley. And he's still saying, don't be afraid.
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So in the terrible situation, in the awful, awful, awful situation,
one thing on top of the other diverse temptations, or
the great storm that you're dealing with in your life
right now or with your family right now, wait on
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the Lord, find out what he wants and find out
how he wants it be of good courage, not crazy courage,
good courage. The thing of it is when you're of
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good courage, when you have waited on him and found
out what he wants, you might do something that looks
downright crazy. You might go somewhere that looks like you
had no business going there, and yet when you found
out what he wanted, it's what he wanted you to do.
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I just recently had shared with someone a testimony of
when God had told me to go to a specific
college where the Holmes family, our family had sung at
several times, and go to the specific place in that college.
You know, colleges have several buildings and stuff, and when
I went there, it was something going on there, and
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I had an indignation, and it was good courage. Looking back,
I have often said I don't have good sense cause
I didn't stop to think about it. Had I stopped
to think about it, I don't think I would have
done what I did. But I stopped what was going on,
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and that took good courage. That was because I had
waited on the Lord to find out what he wanted,
and then I'm to find out how he wanted it.
And so when I showed up to this place where
this secret mess was going on, I mean diabolical, I
showed up and I only know it looking back because
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I didn't know it was going to be what it was.
But the be of good courage and he shall strengthen
thine heart. Oh yeah, and then again, wait, I say
on the Lord. We don't always realize I love some
one oh seven, because we go through a whole lot
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of things in life and we don't always realize that
he's He's he? Who is he? Who was? He? Who
is to come in the situation This sum starts out
a psalm of David. The Lord is my Light, my salvation.
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See very personal, because he is light and he's the
light of the world. However, when it's you going through
this is real personal. This is very very very personal.
The Lord is my Light, my salvation. Whom shall I fear?
Because there's a lot of stuff out there to be
afraid of right now, there's false doctrines going around, and
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you need to be wary of, not afraid wary of.
You need to know what Elohem wants you to do.
You need to know what Yahweh wants you to do.
About it. You want you, you want to know what
he wants you to do and how he wants you
to serve it up when the wicked, even mine enemies,
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my foes, So he's talking about you in your trial.
That all that message going on concerning you and around
you and with you and in your life and in
your church. When mine enemies and my foes came upon
me to eat up my flesh. Oh they didn't come
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to play. They didn't come to just bully eat up
my flesh. They stumbled and fell. See when you wait
on the Lord, when you find out what it is
he wants and how it is he wants it, oh
h you cause his majesty and his honor to just
magnify on your behalf, because he is who he is,
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He is honor, he is glory. However, on your behalf,
oh my, when you find out what he wants and
when you find out how he wants it, you get
to move in all of that. You're walking word now anyway.
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Verse three. Though a house shouldn't camp against me. See
you're facing so much junk and so much stuff right now,
and it's insane. It's crazy, Yeah, it is. That was
going on, right here, my heart shall not fear. You see,
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when you concentrate on how bad things are, you're going
to go into what Hebrews calls an evil heart of unbelief.
That's the children of Israel in the wilderness. They weren't
just they weren't just complaining. They were complaining. They were
identifying all the things that were wrong. When they were thirsty,
they were very, very very thirsty, and they were dehydrated, dehydrating. Okay,
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they weren't just thirsty like right now, I could have
a swig of that water over there. No, it was serious.
And when you're constantly recounting and rehearsing all of the
serious things going on, you are not waiting on the Lord.
You are moving in yourself into fear outside of faith.
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You're not rehearsing his promises. You are not glorifying him,
and you are dishonoring him. And in Hebrews God calls
it an evil heart of unbelief. And you think, oh,
I'm just telling it like it is. Well, you want
to stop. You want to tell it like he is,
like he is. Wait, I say, on the Lord, now,
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I want to go to one of those other scriptures.
I was going to go through this whole twenty seven well,
twenty seven four, twenty seven, three and four. Though in
hoe should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear,
though war should rise against me in this will I
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be confident? One thing have I desired of Yahweh? That
will I seek after. I'm not going to keep all
my attention in my eyes on everything. It's not that
I don't know what's going on. It's that I do
know what's going on. And one thing have I desired
of Yahweh? And that will I seek after? Doesn't say?
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And that will I seek after? That I may dwell
in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to inquire in
his temple. For in the time of trouble verse five,
he shall hide me in his pavilion, in the secret
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of his tabernacle. Shall he hide me? He shall set
me upon a rock. He now the word lets us
know he is the rock. He is the rock. Okay.
I want to look at some of these other verses
on weight on the Lord Psalm thirty seven. Wait on
the Lord and keep his way again waiting. It's the
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way the waitress the way the waiter waits on you
and finds out what it is you want and how
you want it, and finds out do you want Do
you want to go to the salad bar first? Or
shall I wait and bring your order? Now? Do you
want dessert? Now? Do you want it? When? Not? Just
what you want, how you want it, and when you
want it? Wait on the Lord and keep his way.
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And you have to know his way. You have to
be in his word and know what it is, and
he shall exalt thee to inherit the land. I want
to go through the whole chapter, but we don't have time. Now,
when the wicked a cut off, thou shalt see it,
you'll see it. And that's versus like this are part
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of where we get some of this from is wait
because we have time to wait out. And then proverbs
say not I will recompense evil, but wait on the
Lord and he shall save you. You don't get revenge.
And then I love this one. Well, I'm not going
to go to it because they're tired. Well, let's see
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first Chronicles twenty three twenty eight. Because their office was
to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service
of the House of Yahweh, in the courts and in
the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things,
the work of the service of the House of God.
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All those different things on there are have to do
with waiting on Yahweh. He doesn't just want anything, and
he just doesn't want anyway. As a matter of fact,
he doesn't just want any praise. When he talks about
praising him, he tells you how, he tells us how.
He doesn't just he said, Oh, I praise you Lord,
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I thank you Lord. I was listening to some seven
and I was doing it was something that I know
neurologically causes things to take place, doing it with a
certain breathing, the way baby breeds. You breathe in and
then you breathe out, and you breathe all the way
in so that it goes all through your body. And
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I know that neurologically. Here again things God taught me.
Right brain, left brain. One is all about relationship and
neurologically not just psychology, and the other is all about
all the things and all the pieces that go into
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bringing that up. And when you look on that first
Chronicles one, there's several aspects that bring that up. It's
not just one thing like waiting on the Lord. It's
not just scrambled eggs. It's not just do you want
cheese with it or not cheese with it. It's some
very specific things. And God is specific for specific reason.
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Certain things do certain things, and we're in a time
where we're to learn these things. And most of the
trials are to take our attention away from the things
that He would teach us. There are things that he
would show us. We're in a time to learn things
for a new generation and for a new heaven and
a new earth. Remember where to judge angels, new Heaven,
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new Earth. We're to be practicing now how to move
an authority. That's why he made us kings and priests,
kings with authority, priests with anointing to get things done
and to bring wholeness and health. We today we make
it that the doctors did that. It was a priest
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that God had that in his word, not that there
weren't doctors. But the priests are the ones that said,
how long is something and infection? And how long is
it to be quarnty? Because God gave the understanding find
out how he wants it. When he wants you to
cleanse something. Does he need the sun to shine and
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kill the germs? Or does he need the washing to
wash away? Ah? But did we even learn that from
the Word, or we're so busy throwing away the old
Covenant that we don't even know what he's talking about
when he said it in the New Covenant, so that
we haven't learned how. And when you go to the
Book of Revelation, all those things are happened. We have
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learned how to move in this and how to do this.
And was listening to the book of Zachariah and the
Angel has showing him some things and showing him some
other things about the two that are supposed to walk
the earth, and showed him one thing and he says, ye, well,
he told him, well, this is what that is. Showed
him another thing and he says, well what is that?
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You don't know what that is? There are some things
that we're to know what they are. And in waiting
on the Lord, you get to know. You get to
know what he wants, you get to know how he
wants it, you get to know the order that he
wants it, and you get to know how he's going
to manifest that you remember how the scripture tells us
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that he will do exceeding exceedingly abundantly beyond and look
it up, because I don't know if the lee is
on there exceed I think he says exceeding abundant beyond
what we can ask or think, think our imagination. Okay,
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he'll do exceeding abundant beyond. And the next verse says,
according to the power that works in us, he's going
to do it through you. Oh he's going to do
it in you. But he's going to do it through you.
Manifest his glory, manifest his honor, manifest himself. He has
(56:00):
no problem with who he is. And when you wait
on him on either wait on the Lord, wait on
Yahweh
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