It Was All A Dream // Missing Peace (Part 7) // Pastor Roosevelt Stewart

Pando, what's going on? It's Pastor Roosevelt. It's an honor for y'all to be here with us and watch these sermons with us. This sermon is, It Was All a Dream. And I know that some of you are right where you are, feel like all hope is lost, but I'm telling you, the devil is a liar. I wanna challenge you to get your encouragement, get your clarity, get your vision through this message. It's gonna be a blessing to you. It's called, It Was All a Dream. I hope that it blessed you and impacts you. Let's watch together, family. But we're gonna open up our Bibles today to the book of Isaiah 55 and 11. Woo, God, it's gonna be that kind of Sunday. All right, all right. Isaiah 55 and 11. As a customary, I believe that anything that God exalts above his name, we should stand for. So can we stand for the word of God today? Isaiah 55 and 11 says, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. Let's jump, because I believe God always confirms his word in the New Testament. Can we jump to Acts, the second chapter,

and we'll read from the 15th to the 17th. I'll give about two seconds for those that use your Bible. I know some of y'all got your phones, you can get it instantaneously, but I'm gonna give some time for those that's flipping through the pages real quick. Can we thank God for this worship team as well? My God, I almost forgot I had to preach today. I almost forgot, all right. Acts, the second chapter in the 15th verse says, this is Peter talking to the people that think they're crazy. He says, for these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it's only the third hour of the day. Yeah, we're supposed to be praying right now, and that's exactly what we're doing. But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. Watch this. Let's go to the next verse. It says, and it shall come to pass in the last day, says God, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will see dreams. I wanna talk to you today as a subject. It was all a dream. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was all a dream.

If you can just have a flashback of what God has promised you, and some of you, you're looking so much forward to what God is going to do in your life, but if you could just remember back when you didn't know that you would be here right now, and if you look back over the course of the path God has taken you through, and you're saying, I'm actually stepping in things that I heard from 20 years ago. It was all a dream, but God brought that thing into reality. If you could just pause and say, thank God for the one that gives the dream, and walks me through it, and presents me as a living testimony of his power. Can you just say, it was all a dream? We're gonna pray. Father, thank you for this day. It is a day that you have made, and we will always rejoice and be glad in it, God. We thank you. We don't take lightly that you show up. Some places don't know what it's like for the manifested presence of God, but here we are, lucky enough that you would show up here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and God, I'm asking that you would just continue doing what it is that you're doing. Let your weight fall in this room in a way that cannot be denied.

I've done the studying that I can do, but where I am limited, I ask that you, that you would anoint me beyond my limitations. I pray that I would have the tongue of a ready writer that would speak only the words that you have spoken through me. God, there's somebody that's looking through the glass of their life, and they feel like they're on empty. They feel like they don't have hope. They don't have a dream, and God, I'm asking you that through this word that you would breathe life back into them, that you would breathe hope back into your people, that they would know that a God who has begun the work is able, and he will complete it. We love you. We bless your name, and as I pray always, Holy Spirit, would you set me on fire so the whole world can watch me burn for you? It's in Jesus' name we pray. Everybody said? Amen. Amen, amen. Say, it was all a dream. It was all a dream. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was all a dream. I wanna give you as my main thought, so if you don't hear me say anything after this,

I want you to leave with this. This is what I want you to leave with. A dream is God giving you a memory of a future that you haven't lived yet. If I don't say anything else, I preached enough right there. A dream is God giving you a memory of a future that you haven't lived yet. It's a memory to God because he does not live in time. He does not live in time. He is not bound by time. So when he speaks a thing, it is automatically happened in eternity. But when it comes to the earth, it takes some time for that word to develop. And so the memory. that the dream that God gives you has already happened in the spirit, but the earth has gotta catch up to what he's already said. Are you following me? And so I want you to know dreams are a tool of kingdom communication. Whenever God wants to speak to a person, when he wants to warn somebody, challenge somebody, correct somebody, redirect somebody, he will oftentimes use a dream. Now, I wanna help unpack some things. God doesn't just give dreams to church folks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know sometimes we wanna coddle these things to ourselves,

but see, God chooses who he wants to give a dream to. He may give a dream to people of God. He may even give his, he may give a dream to people who are enemies of his plan. The reason why I know that is in Genesis 20 and three, he says to Abimelech, hey, you are as good as dead if you put your hands on Sarah because she has, she's playing a role in the promise that I'm gonna do through Abraham. So the first time we ever see dream, it's not God giving a vision to his people. It's giving it to somebody that's an enemy. I'll get there in a second. But I wanna talk more about 17 chapters later in Genesis 37, where he gives Joseph a dream. Yeah, he gives Joseph a dream. Now, in the first half of that, this Hebrew definition has two sides to it. The first side of the definition means a nocturnal vision, meaning it happens at night or a divine message. But then when we get to Genesis 37, when it comes to Joseph, God then expands the definition, meaning it means to become healthy. Oh, it means to recover, and it becomes to be made firm and to be made strong. Now, if I could just sum all of what I just said in this moment into one sentence, I want you to know that God's dream is for you to become the enemy's worst nightmare. Oh!

Oh! Yeah, because the thought of you having a future is a nightmare to the enemy. The thought of you recovering what you lost is a nightmare to the enemy. The thought of you being better than where you were before is a nightmare to the enemy. God is such a gangster. He will give a vision to the devil and say, hey, you remember that person you stole and killed and thought you destroyed? They still alive, and not only that, they gonna be better after this. It's a nightmare to the enemy. I just need somebody to say, I'm the devil's worst nightmare. Yeah, yeah. That's why God brought me here on the earth, not to make friends with people, not to be negotiating with the devil, but when I come in the room, it's the devil's worst nightmare, not because of me, but because who lives on the inside of me. And if you know that the devil tried to do everything that he could to stop your dream from becoming a reality, but you're still here right now, can you holler back at me and let me know that you know that you are the devil's worst nightmare? If he couldn't deal with me before, then... Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, if he thought I was dead back then, then he has no idea, because I haven't even seen yet what God's about to do in me. So if you scared of me now, then you... Okay. So God's intention of the dream is to reveal to the enemy that you are his worst nightmare. The prophecy was given in the book of Joel, and it shows up in Acts 2 and 17. It says, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. I wanna unpack the word old here, because some of my saints get on me when I be saying my old saints, but they don't like it. But I want you to know old is a blessing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Old is a blessing. And I wanna also point out in this moment, this word old doesn't just pertain to age. No, this word old means to spiritual leadership. Yeah, this word old goes to spiritual authority. Watch this, the spiritually mature. And so I gotta be honest for a second. You know me, I got the ruffles from feathers. Because that's what the word's supposed to do, it's supposed to convict us. I'm a little frustrated with the old,

with the old, with the old that the scripture's talking about because the scripture says it's been prophesied that the old shall dream dreams. And the reason why we are in the situation that we're in right now is because the church has stopped dreaming. Yeah, the reason why the government is in chaos is because the church has stopped dreaming. The reason why the communities are at war with each other is because the church has stopped dreaming. Okay, it's gonna be that kind of Sunday. It's gonna be that kind of Sunday. The reason why we see and we are blindsided by natural disasters and things happening in the earth and we're caught by surprise is because the church has. Stop dreaming. So I want to give you an opportunity to make yourself aware that up to this moment, it's been on me that I haven't spoke on behalf of the kingdom. But today is the day that I make a decision to be the mouthpiece that God has called me to be. Now, I'm not talking about, if you're talking about a dream for your new car, I'm not talking to you right now. It says spiritually mature. If you believe in God for a house, that's awesome, but I'm not talking about that dream. If you believe in God for a bae and a boo and a spouse, that's beautiful, I'm not talking to you right now.

But for those that want a dream that says, God, I want to be in alignment with what's happening in the heavenly realm. I want to see it in the earth. If that's your heart's cry, then somebody shout at me, God, give me a dream. God, I want a dream that when you speak it, it causes things to realign in my family. God, give me a dream. Give me a dream that'll save my whole bloodline. God, give me a dream. Give me a dream that will cause redemption to happen in Tulsa. God, give me. God, give me. God, give me. Can you just raise your hands in the room and say, God, give me a dream. I don't want to just come to church and thank you for blessings. I need a dream that scares the devil. I want a dream that scares me. I want a dream that says, God, are you sure you want me to do this? I want a dream that makes me scared because I got to be dependent on the one that gave me the dream. Ooh, I feel God right here. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. God says, I'm about to pour out my spirit.

If for those who want it, you can receive it. I'm about to give you a dream that scares you because it don't look like who you are right now. You think God has been done with you for the old saints. You think God has done with you, but God says you're old men and that's not men. That's also mankind shall dream dreams. God says, I'm giving you permission to dream again. Forget your disappointment. I'm giving you permission to dream again. Forget about what the bank says. We don't have the amount to cover for. I'm giving you permission to dream again. All right. Now I got to keep going. Um, I want you to understand dreams are destinations, meaning dreams are not meant to stay in your mind. Yeah. I'm about to get on some people who like to dream. I'll get there in a minute. But dreams are not meant to just stay in your mind. If a dream stays a dream in your mind, then it becomes delusion. And sometimes if I could be honest, sometimes we come to church and we live in Delulu land because we know what God has told us, but we put it on hold and we're living in what he promised us and not willing to help walk it out. And so I want you to understand any dream that remains a dream in the invisible world,

but you still acting like it's happening right now. And you haven't done the necessary actions to see it come to reality. Then I tell you it is delusion, but it don't have to stay that way. I want to give you, there's a root. There's a root to reality. Somebody say there's a root to reality. And I want to help escort you to getting out of just falling love with the dream. But I want to escort you to what is reality. That means whatever God has spoken, it is not just in the invisible realm. It's just not in the internal realm, but it's now showing up in the earthly realm. If you are looking for God to do some things that he has promised you, but you want to see it in the land of the living, holler back at me. Yeah. Cause David said, I would have fainted except I seen the goodness of the Lord while I was yet in the land of the living. I want you to know you don't have to die to see some of the promises that God has promised you. God says, I'm gonna bring heaven to you right here. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So I want to walk you through the route to reality. Number one, number one, you ready?

If you're from my note takers, the first thing you've got to do is you got to receive the dream. Somebody say receive the dream. Now I'm gonna need production to help me a little bit because when you're about to receive a dream, you got to set the right environment. So can we do that real quick? Can we just set the environment for receiving a dream? You know, you know, when you know when you're about to shut down everything and you go into night mode on your phone and things get nice and dark cause you want to prepare. You want to set the table. You want to set the environment because the environment matters when you're about to go into rest. I'm preaching, but you missing it. See some of you don't even realize God designed sleep for you to understand how he talks to you. Okay, you need help. Okay, so in the natural realm, when it comes to sleep there's four stages of sleep. Yeah, there's four stages. The first stage is called light sleep. Light sleep is the ability where you close. your eyes, basically, and you begin to start to tune out the actual world around you, but you are not deep enough in the sleep to receive a dream. You can easily be interrupted, whether it be a sound on the phone or the TV just a little bit too loud, or even you have the ability to wake yourself up. So, the first stage is a light sleep, but it's not deep enough for

a dream. The second level is a part where your heart rate and your temperature begins to go down. Typically, people spend 45% of their sleep in this area, but it's not deep enough for a dream. The third one is called stage three. Stage three is where you go into a deep slumber. Deep slumber. Now, what happens in this one, and this gets preached to me, because in this area, in stage three, the tissues that have been torn are being rebuilt. Oh, God. And the muscles that have been stretched, they are now being developed. So, you're getting stronger, and you're healing through this stage. But then, there's not enough to get a dream. You're not easily interrupted in the third, but you got to go a little bit deeper. Somebody says, go a little deeper. You got to go to what is called REM sleep. Oh, yeah. REM sleep is stage four, where you go to sleep, and your eyes begin to open from the inside, and they blink so fast that they begin to create vivid visions on their own. So, it's almost like the body is creating its own reality even though you're asleep. That's in the natural, and so it is in the spiritual. See, your body needs sleep, but your spirit needs rest. To get a dream, the body needs REM sleep, but to get a dream from the Lord, your spirit needs rest. You need rest. That's why the Scripture says, Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. The word rest in that text means spiritual refreshment. If you need spiritual refreshment, holler back at me for a moment. Let me know I'm not talking to myself. See, spiritual refreshment. Now, see, this is why the enemy tries to attack you. He ain't trying to steal your joy. He's trying to keep you busy, because he knows if you get to that level of rest where God can talk to you, then all the answers that you need are in that depth of rest. Some of you haven't received a dream because you haven't gone deep enough in rest. You haven't gotten deep enough in peace. You've got to be so deep in this thing that people talking about you can't interrupt your rest in the presence of God. You don't care about the bills. You don't care about what people have said. You don't care about your past failures or your shame, because you're so deep enough in your peace, so deep enough in your dream state, so deep enough in the peace of God that things that are around you don't bother you. I just need to prophesy to some people who've been having trouble sleeping. Yeah, the enemy has been antagonizing you with anxiety. He's been antagonizing you with worry and depression and thoughts of suicide. He's been keeping you up all night, but God says after tonight, it's going to be the best sleep you ever

had, because you're about to find that rest is in the presence of God. Rest for your soul. It's coming. Yeah. Rest for your mind. It's coming. Rest for your family. Rest for your marriage. Rest for your vision and your dream. God says, I'm about to set the table. I want you to go. Listen, listen. God says, I'm about to let you go to sleep, because when you go to sleep, it gives me permission to work. If you look throughout the Bible, a lot of times God will put the people into sleep so that he can do what he really wants to do, and so some of you trying to stay awake, you're getting in the way of the hand of God. God says, I'm not going to do this until you lay down, because I don't want it to be twisted. Who did this? God says, I want you to look at your neighbor and say, go to sleep. Go to sleep. Stop staying up. You're up more than anybody in the world, and you forgot if he dresses the lilies, then how much does he care about you? If he watches the sparrow, how much is his mind on you? And you're over here getting in the way of what God wants to do in your life, because you're trying to assist him in something you have no power in. So, in the natural, it requires you to go to sleep. In order for you to get to realm sleep, your body has to go to a passive state. You have to go to a place where you're still, where you're not moving. That's why fasting is important. You've got to get to a place where you're not moving. You've got to stay still and let God do what he's going to do. And so, some of you, you're going to go to sleep, and God's going to give you the dream, and he says when you wake up, what you went to sleep on ain't going to look the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Adam went to sleep and woke up with a wife. Now, I'm telling you, you won't. He just woke up and God was like, while you were sleeping, this is what I've been doing. I'm talking about Adam, but I'm really talking about you because you think God can't do it. And God gonna say, while you were sleeping, I got rid of that tumor. While you were sleeping, while you were sleeping, all those bills have been covered.

While you were sleeping, I was working. God is a God that slumbers no sleep. He says, I don't sleep, so you can. But I just need about 30 people who've been struggling with sleep and you feel the presence of God just beginning to rest on you. And you say, I'm gonna hand this thing over to God because the battle ain't mine. The battle is the Lord's. So he's gonna do it while you were sleeping. That's number one. Number two is you've got to speak the dream. Don't fall in love with the dream so much that you forget to wake up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to receive the dream, but that ain't it. Cause see, we shout over receiving the dream. We receive the vision God has for us. We receive the promise, the prophecy, but then we fall so in love with that about what God's gonna do. And God says, when are you gonna get up? My alarm clock done went off already. It's 2026. You're supposed to do this in 2024. When are you gonna wake up? You keep saying, yeah, God is leading me to do this. God is calling me to do this. God has been unctioning me to do this.

And here we are in another year and you're about to write the same thing down for 2027 because you haven't waken up yet. I just need you to upset your neighbor next to you and say, baby, it's time to wake up. It's time, it's time to wake up. Lives are depending on you. It's time to wake up. Time for you to wake up. Time for you to wake up. Time for you to wake up. It's time for you to wake up. Wake church, wake up. TC, wake up. It's not enough to keep prophesying what the church is. It's time to wake up. It's time to wake up. So you got to speak the dream. And when it comes to receiving the dream, if you need scripture, in Job, if you remember, there was a moment where Job was going through everything that he lost. I just wanna park and give you scripture. I don't want you to think I'm making stuff up. In Job, on the first one, if you remember in Job 33, 14 through 16, it says, for God may speak in one way or in another, yet man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men

while slumbering on their beds, then he opens their ears and seals their instruction. I just want you to know that I didn't make that up. That was actually scripture. God waits for some of y'all to go to sleep so he can tell you what he's been waiting to tell you. Y'all got it, all right. Now we gotta speak the dream. We gotta speak the dream because nothing happens until something is spoken. Yeah, yeah. I know you wish God would be your butler. I knew it, I know. I know it would be so much simpler if Jesus was Santa Claus, but he's not. And so because of that, when he gives you a dream, he expects you to speak what he said to you back to him. Because you know why? Because to say it back to him means that you are in agreement with the thing God said. You need scripture, I got you. Genesis 37 and five says, now Joseph had a dream and he told. Let's just stop right there. Joseph had a dream and he told. You don't tell unless you actually believe what you were told. Now the other part of the scripture, I gotta prepare you, I gotta prepare you. Speaking the dream causes you to now know

the individuals in your life, what role they're gonna play in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When you speak the dream, everybody ain't gonna shout about it, no. And I'm not just talking about the devil. He never shouts about it. I'm talking about people that you grew up with, that you thought would be excited, that what God spoke to you, you would be excited about. But I need you to be prepared because see, when God speaks a thing, the earth begins to obey and begins to take form. So your allies are gonna be in agreement with what God has said. But your adversaries are gonna be against you. Now this is the part that gets me happy because although they're against me, they can only be in alignment to what God has said. No, cause see, some of you think your enemies can stop the dream. Some of y'all think because of who is against you that the dream won't come to pass. I'm telling you through Scripture and the revealing of Joseph's story, it does not matter who's against you. They can't be against the promise. The best thing they can do is get in alignment to what God has said. I'm about to get ahead of myself. So even if they throw me in the pit, it's all right because it's in alignment with the path that God has set. So if you need Scripture, you know, we say this all the time, for we know that all things

work together for the good. So that means all things is inclusive of everything, exclusive of nothing. That means that the good things and the bad things work together to get me to what God has promised. I want you to visualize that there's a conference call, and on one side of the table is good, and on the other side of the table is bad. And they are figuring out what they're going to do with you, and then there's somebody at the middle of the table saying, whatever y'all do, it's got to be for the good. So your allies is on one side saying, we got to do this for them, and we got to do this for them. And then the adversaries on the other side say, well, we don't want to do that. We want to do it this way, and we want to prevent them from doing that, and I think we can hinder them here. And God is at the top of the table saying, no matter what y'all do—if you ever been in a meeting, this ought to get happy for you, because that means that God said, nothing can happen to you without God knowing it's going to work out for your good. So sometimes when you're praying, sometimes you just need to call bad on the other side and say, hey, I just want to remind you, you still work for me. Hey, I just called to let you know, I just got word from God. I know what you're planning, I know what you're plotting, I know what you're doing, but I need to remind you, at the end of this, it's got to work for my good. I just got myself happy because I remember what the haters said about me, but I just got to remind you, you still work for me. I remember the heartbreak, but I reminded it, you still work for me. I remember the pain, but I reminded it, you still work for me. Hey, oh yeah, you work for me. Somebody say, it's working for you. You crying and it's working. You frustrated and it's working. That's why I go to—nothing can stop—listen, my wife will tell you, I might be narcoleptic

because nothing get in the way of my sleep. But once I realized who God was in my life, I just fall asleep on anything. Hey, Roosevelt, I just want you to know this is going on in your body. You laughing, but I'm preaching. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You laughing, but I'm preaching. God is looking for some of y'all like he was on the boat. Do you care that we perish? I'm sleeping because I know what the end result is going to be, and I believe God that when I wake up, it won't look the same. Okay. All right. I said, I will get us out of here in the time I'm going to do it. Now we get to, oh God, somebody's got to hold on to that word. It's working for you. It's working. That lie, it's working for you. The people making fun of you, it's working for you. The job saying that they can't fund you no more, it's working for you. The job letting you go after all the years you put in, it's working for you. It's working for you. So how would you sleep knowing? I'm going to sleep like Elon Musk. It ain't my job to figure out this stuff, ain't it? Ain't that what I paid you to do? Didn't God say that this is going to end for my good? Then why am I losing sleep over something? One, I got the God, the CEO of all of this, he loves me the strongest, no sleep. So why am I trying to compete with the God that don't sleep? It's working for you.

So some of you are going to have to call some people and say, hey, you tried to cut me off, but I want to thank you. I know you thought you was going to break my heart and I thought I would never find love again, but I want to thank you. Because you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good. All right, I got to move. I got to move. So God reminds the good and the bad that they have to work for you. Number three is now we live the dream. Closing, kind of. So God gives us the promise, we're excited about it, we're so excited about it that we don't keep it on the inside, we've got to speak this thing, now it's time to live it. Now I want to go back to our key text today of Isaiah 55. If we could pull that up on the screen I want to kind of tell you and explain through illustration what this looks like. And so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth, this is God, it shall not return to be void. Let's park here. The God that you worship does not live in the same restrictions that you do. So although you're going through something that requires time, when God says it, it's already done. And he says literally God speaks a thing from eternity and automatically it shows up on the other side as done. So God gives a promise on one end and immediately what he promised on the other side of eternity is presented. So you got the God of the promise and you got the God of the presentation. The God of the promise and the God of the presentation. Now because our world can't handle every single eternal word that comes from God, he creates a process because the earth cannot handle every word from God at one time. The earth would be, I would venture to say that God could have created everything in

one day, but he had to teach us the potency of process. The God that you serve, he speaks a thing. This is why he had to even say Lazarus come forth because his word is so powerful. If he had just said come forth, probably everything in there would have came out. And so you got to understand that when God speaks, and we probably would have been running. We probably wouldn't have been on Most Christian because we all would have left, all right. But I want you to understand God is not confined to time. When he speaks a promise, it is automatically presented. So you got God of the promise and you got God of the presentation. So the moment he says a thing in eternity, it's already done. But because we live in the earth, you don't believe what I'm saying. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. That means when God says a thing from heaven, it already is. Not that what things that might happen, no, let thy kingdom come on earth as it already is. So when God speaks a thing in heaven, it is already done. But because it's got to show up on earth and the earth cannot withstand the power that is in your father's mouth, we've got to go through what's called a process. This is where we are. Now typically, if I showed you the path, when I think of the path from promise to process to presentation, you would think it's a straight line. God gives me a word. I'm going to walk down to my process. It's going to be nice and pretty, and then I'm going to end up here at presentation. I know we all wish that a promise of God looked exactly like that. But according to the story of Joseph, that's not exactly how it goes. How it goes with the story of Joseph is there's a promise. God is speaking from eternity, and it's already done in the presentation. And then Joseph's got to go through the process. I want to show you what the process looks like.

Process looks like I see the word God's promised me over there, but everything around me is just dark. And I've got to hold on to the word that God gave me, because his word is a light unto my path and a lamp unto my feet. So here we are. We're going to just kind of take this moment to show you what walking by faith really looks like. This word is a light to my path and a lamp to my feet. I remember what he promised me, and I think I'm going to follow this light to get me to the presentation. On the count of three, I'm ready. Let's go. Here we go. One, two, three, go. Wait. Wait. The presentation is over there, Holy Spirit. Can't we just go this way? Why are you going that way? Now you got a prompt, you got a decision to make, people of God. Would you rather risk walking in the dark? knowing how to get there. Although you think you know how you need to get there, or are you going to let the Word of God be a light unto your path and a limber to your feet? Step by step, I'm following the light. I don't know where this light is going to take me, but with each step I'm… Now, God, I have to be honest. I feel like I'm getting further away from the promise you gave me. Why are we going this way? Can't we just go the other way? It would be more advantageous. I've got people waiting. I posted about it. Can't we just go that way? I feel God right here. Some of you have been arguing with God, and you're saying, God, what you promised me don't look nothing like what I'm at right now. But you've got to understand God wants you to pick up some things on the way to what you're about to become.

You've got to understand God's not going to present you until he's proven you. So, he stops me here at the pit stop called Peace. The peace I receive right here is to say, I believe what God is saying, and I'm going to trust him on this path. Now, let me help you before we start moving again. The peace you have right now has got to last you for the whole journey. The peace you're receiving when he gave you the promise has got to be strong enough to carry you, because you have no idea where you're about to go. The Holy Spirit starts leading you yet again. So, here we are moving again. God, I feel like things are getting a little down. Things are moving a little slow. They're moving at a pace where I feel like I could be doing this better on my own, but I have to lean on him. I have to trust and depend on him. I have to trust in the Lord with all my heart and lean not to my own understanding. When the light is starting to move a little too fast, I have to try to catch up with the light, because the light is my only way to make it through. If I don't stay with the light, then I'm going to get lost. If I don't stay with the light, I'm going to be in the dark. If I don't stay in the light, I'm going to be lost. I have to stay with the light, and God stops me again. He stops me here because I need some faith right here. I need some faith right here, because when God spoke it, I feel like I'm nowhere near what he said. I have to have faith to fuel me to say the same God who gave me the promise is the same God. He will not let me die until I get to what he said. So, I say, God, I trust you. You are dependent. You always show up. You never let me fall. Foundation, I build my life on you. I remember you never fell. We start walking again, and the light starts leading me. I'm taking the steps, and my friends stop calling me, but I have to keep taking the steps. People are forgotten about me. I feel like I have distant relatives now. I feel like my friends have turned to enemies, but I have to keep stepping. I find myself in the middle of a pit. Oh, God, I have myself stuck right here in the middle of a pit. Some of you don't know what you need to pick up here because you find yourself at the lowest point. I'm talking about this, but I'm really preaching about my own story. When you find yourself in a pit, something you have to hold on to is your prayer. Some of you won't learn how to pray until you get to a pit. So, God, even though he gave you the promise up there, you have to trust him in the middle of this pit. Some of you didn't become the intercessor that you are right now had it not been for the pit. Some of you ought to give God glory because you learned how to pray in the pit. I learned how to praise in the pit. I learned how to worship in the pit.

You know why I'm praying in the pit? Because I know God won't let me die here. Whose word is this? I'm talking to you. God's not going to let you die in this pit. I know it's low right now, but he who has begun the work, he's able to complete it. You will live and not die. You will live and testify the goodness of the Lord while you're yet in the land of the living. So, I learned how to pray in the pit. Oh, God. God taught me how to pray. It wasn't until now I lay me down to sleep prayers. No. I learned how to pray in the Holy Ghost in the pit. Yeah. I learned how to speak a language that the devil don't understand. I learned it in the pit. I learned how to speak the word of God over my family life in the pit. I learned how to trust in God with all of my life, and I learned it in the pit. Who's right here right now? Holler at me. I said, you will not die. Because if you die, then he's a lie. He says, my word is banking on this. He says, when I give a word, it cannot return back to me void. Now, this is the thing. If the dream dies, then I will submit to you, it's not something God promised you. Cause see, I thought football was gonna be my promise. I thought making millions and playing and taking care of my family and playing every Sunday for a professional football team, I thought that was gonna be my promise. And so only in the pit, the only thing that's gonna survive is the real promise of God. So I had to have a funeral service for everything I thought was me. I had to have a eulogy for my own plans. I had to have a eulogy for my own vision.

I had to have a eulogy for my own promise that I made over myself. I know you feel like quitting, but trust him through the pit and he's gonna guide you out. And so now we're walking yet again and God's leading. It's leading God. And so what happens is now I started to feel like I'm starting to come into the proximity of the promise. I feel like I'm getting a little closer with every step. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't like the route God took me, but I now understand if it wasn't for what he took me through, I wouldn't be able to live this thing out. I would have been like a seed that was thrown on the concrete. I would have grew quickly, but I would have died when the heat came on. And he stops you again. And the next stop is you develop patience. Patience is to say, God, I'm not where you promised me, but I thank you for where you brought me. The only reason why it's okay to look back, we're in the year of four. But the only time it's okay to look back is when you're thanking God for how far he brought you from. Because I really thought I was going to die in that pit over there, but he brought me out. And so I learned how to wait on God. Wait, I say on the Lord.

They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. I learned how to wait on him at this stop. And God says, when you develop enough patience, I want you to go a little further. He takes you a little further. And you're following the light. It's still dark. You see the promise. It feels like you can almost touch it. You can almost touch the presentation. You can almost touch the thing that God says, but he's like, not yet, no, because I got to give you some more things before you get there. And so he makes you stop just a few more times, just a few more times. He takes you to where you've got to learn integrity. Yeah, a lot of people skip right here because they see the promise real close. And they say, oh, I could just skip God right here because I see the path now. And then what happens is you get to the position, but you can't stay long because you ain't got no integrity. God says, I'm taking you through this route. So when you're in the position that I anoint you for, no one can move you. Not the lives of people, not even the truth of people can move you because of the integrity I've developed on the inside of you.

And so you stay with God and he builds your character. He makes sure you're the right person on and off the platform. He makes sure that you're living a life that is holy and pleasing unto him, that you present your body as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto him, which is your reasonable service. You learn how to be integrous. And then God leads you just a little bit further. And just when you think you're about to approach the thing that God has anointed you to walk into, he stops you one more time. And you're like, Lord, why are we stopping here? Why, slow down, Holy Spirit. Slow down. It's right there. And he wants you to grab one more thing. He wants you to grab forgiveness. Because some of you are still bitter in your heart for who decided to be an adversary in your life. Some of you are mad at the people who didn't call you when you was in the pit. Some of you are gonna wanna use when God elevates you as a time to step on people that you thought forgot about you. And God says, I can't trust you with the position until I know that you will know the only reason why I'm giving you this position is to save lives. Yeah.

So to the person- To the person that hurt me, I'm not even mad at you. To the person that lied on me, I'm not even mad at you. To the person that wrote me off and said I was doing wrong and I know I wasn't doing wrong, I'm not even mad at you. The person that burnt my reputation, I'm not mad at you. Because God is using this so that he can get the glory. And if you can hold on to forgiveness, God will trust you with the presentation. The presentation is when God visibly approves of you. Ah, God. This is the moment where God says, this is my son, in whom I'm well pleased. This is my daughter, in whom I'm well pleased. So now, I'm in a place of presentation. Now, get this, you know, I got to thinking about, I kind of wanted to walk out the story of Joseph, and I got to thinking to myself, I said, Holy Spirit, do you know that we never know if the woman ever came clean about Joseph? Y'all remember, he was working at Potiphar's house, Potiphar's wife was acting crazy, I ain't going to get too much into it because I know we got some kids in here. And because of this lie, he goes to jail. And we don't ever know, at the end of the story, was Joseph ever pardoned for the lies that was told on him. I want to give you this note before I close. Vindication from God is weightier than exoneration from man. Listen, it don't matter who was wrong about you, as long as you know God was right. I don't care who was wrong about me, I don't care the rumors they said about me, I'm not even trying to defend the lies anymore. I don't care who was wrong, I know God was right. So I want to pray for you today, I kept my word, I want to pray for you today, that some of you that have been having trouble sleeping, and you've tried all the pills, all the thrills, all that stuff, and you've been living in this place of anxiety, you've been listening

to me preach, and you say, Roosevelt, it makes sense now, because I got friends over at my house, and I still feel alone, I got money in the bank, and I still feel broke, I got friends, and I still feel lonely, and I don't know what's going on, I can't sleep at night, so I'm always up scrolling on TikTok, and I just don't, I don't have peace. I want you to understand, you will not have peace unless you know Jesus. And if Jesus is enough, because I know we create this culture where it's like Jesus and sage, Jesus and zodiac, no, the scripture says that he says that I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man comes to the Father except by me, so every head bow, and every eye close. If you're in this room, and you now realize you've been living a restless life because you don't have Jesus, and you're saying, I need Jesus in my life, on the count of three, I want you to raise your hand, one, two, three, I see your hand, I see your hand, wow, I see your hand, I see your hand, I see your hand, yeah, I see your hand, I see your hand in the back. You know, the scripture says that heaven rejoices over one soul, I just saw six people raise their hands. When is the party gonna happen in the earth like it is in here? You can put your hands down, God bless you. The next person I wanna pray for is, you know Jesus, and you haven't been in a position because you've been letting work get in the way, you've been letting people get in the way, you've been letting doubt and fear get in the way, and you haven't been able to receive a dream from God, and you're saying, God, I'm ready for that dream, the dream that's bigger than me, I'm ready for that dream. If that's your heart's cry, I want you to raise your hands on the count of three, one, two, three, I see your hand, I see your hand, I see your hand, I see your hand, I see your hand, so hands are going up, you can put your hand down. Last prayer calls, I'm gonna pray for the one that's going through the process of living the dream, and you are just about this close to giving up on God because you're frustrated that this looks nothing like what he promised me. I don't know why I'm in Tulsa, it don't even make sense. And every time I try to leave, it seem like every door just keep closing on me.

And you in that pit right now, and you're saying, God, I just need you to talk to me, to walk me through this time in the pit while I'm on my way to the platform of you presenting me. The scripture says, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God so that he may elevate you in due season. That's the word of God. He's gonna elevate you in due season. But if that's your heart's prayer, you feel like you're about to give up, I want you to raise your hand on the count of three. One, two, three. Let's see your hand. Let's see your hand. If you raise your hand for any of those prayer calls, could you raise your hand right there? Everybody. I want you to all lift your head up and look around you and see how not alone you are. Because that's what the enemy wants you to believe. He wants you to believe that you'll never recover. He wants you to believe that you'll never be anything. He wants you to believe that you're in this pit by yourself. But I want you to be reminded that God is with you always. Even when the Sunday service closes, God is with you always. So I want to do one thing. I want us to all stand. If we raised our hands, if we could stand together.

And even if you didn't, let's stand together. We want to pray this prayer of salvation. Nobody prays alone. Can we all lift our hands toward heaven? This is a sign of surrender. This is a sign saying, God, I give up my way for yours. I give up my playing for yours. I was devastated when I thought football wasn't going to be it, because I was like, Lord, there's no other way. I grew up in the hood. There's no other way we can provide for a family unless I play football, unless I'm a rapper, and I'm not going to be a rapper. This is not going to happen. It's just not going to happen. Not going to happen. I'll sing, but I'm not rapping. And God told me, I'll never forget this. He said, remember my house, Roosevelt, and I'll remember you. I didn't know what that meant. I didn't know what that looked like, because you thinking, oh, become a pastor. No, I waited for when God would give me those unctions to help out at the church. And so, whenever there was a need at a church, I just showed up. And so, I remember watching my granddad cut the grass, and I was like, Lord, I know you ain't telling me

to open the lawn service. That cannot, there's no way that my friend's going to watch me thinking I'm going to play football and think I'm going to just open a lawn service. That's not happening. Holy Spirit said, I want you to help him. And I walked to my, my granddad said, God, God told me that I need to help you, son. If you need me to do anything, I'll help. He said, thank you, son. Can you cut this grass for me? And I'm cutting the grass, man. In an unseen place, like a pit. God, this don't look nothing like what you promised. I'm cutting the grass, and there's a man across the street. He works for Pepsi, and he has these case of Faygo's. If you're from the hood, you know what a Faygo is. Oh, glory. And for no reason, anytime he saw me cutting that grass, he'd call me to his house, and he'd give me two cases to walk home to the projects, to my mom. Now, that didn't mean nothing to him, but he didn't know that we didn't have no food. Remember my house? I'll remember you. The drummer is not showing up to church, and so for some reason, we don't have no drummer, and God just keeps whispering, remember my house? I'll remember you. And I started playing drums for the church,

and the keyboard player left, and so God says, I don't know how to play keyboard, God. Remember my house? I'll remember you, and so in three months, I teach myself how to play the keyboard, sitting with God with a keyboard with double nine-volt batteries, with no electricity in the house. I'm telling you what I lived through. I'm telling you what I went through in a hood with no lights, a hood with no water, and all I got is this keyboard with nine-volt batteries only inside, and I'm like, God, I don't even know what I need this for. I don't know what I need this keyboard for. It don't make sense. I need to provide for my family. Remember my house? I'll remember you. I'll never forget the first time I got my first check playing keyboard for the church. It was $50, and they took out the tie. Yeah, yeah, they did, because if you're faithful over the little things. No, because I need you, because y'all think I just showed up on the scene. I need you to know that this has been years of trusting God when it didn't look lucrative, when it didn't make sense, when I didn't have water, when I didn't have lights.

I'm living the dream God promised me. And this dream is so much before me. My mom wasn't supposed to have kids. And then a prophet came to her before she had her first child and say, hey, I see your son. And he's standing in front of thousands of people. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. He says, he's standing in front of thousands of people. I can't tell if he's singing or if he just did a touchdown or if he just, or if he's preaching, but the room is in a riot. And she sat there smiling. He don't know I can't have kids, but she held on to the dream.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. First child is a woman, girl. Had a second child. Second child is a girl. And most people would just be happy that they got a baby. But she said, I know what I saw. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. I don't know who this is for, but don't forget what you saw. December 31st, 1989. On a Sunday, in the middle of a watch night service, my mama water breaks. And she's leading the praise and worship. The waters break. The preacher telling, hey, you need to go, you need to go call the doctor. You need to go ahead, head out. But she won't stop singing and clapping. She said, I'm not going nowhere to the paramedics get here

because I'm going to pray this promise out of me. Yeah. The doctors get me to the hospital and they say, ma'am, we're so sorry because of complications. We don't know if Roosevelt's going to make it. If he does somehow survive, he won't ever be able to grow. He'll never be able to speak and, um, isn't it crazy? But look what God has done. I said, all of that to say, and we're closing. I promise you. Cause I said I was going to get you out, but I want you to know, um, the promise had nothing to do with me. This, this was long before I got here. I had no choice, but to be before you today. And the only way I got here was serving the Lord's house. I remembered the Lord's house and he never forgot me. So I just want to challenge you. Some of you guys calling you to serve in a ministry, serving the conference. I want you to, I want you to make the challenge to say, God, I don't know what it is you need, but whatever it is you need, I will meet that need. And don't make it some drawn out thing. Ask around, Hey, how can I help the church? How can I serve the church? I'm telling you, remember God's house. I am living and standing before you today. And I'm telling you, he remember you. Let's lift our hands.

I know I had your hands up for a long time. I'm sorry. Repeat this prayer after me. Father, I've heard your word. I receive it. Father, I feel your presence. I embrace it. Thank you for Jesus. Thank you for making him who knew no sin. All of mine. I admit I've fallen short. I've made some mistakes. I've sinned. But I believe in my heart that Jesus, the son of a virgin lived a sinless life and died on the cross for me. But when he got up, when he was raised from the dead, strong and victorious because he lives in me. And because I live in him, I'm getting up too. I'm getting up with authority. I'm getting up with promise. I'm getting up with power. Satan, take your hands off my future. What God has spoken cannot be reversed. Holy spirit. Lead me, guide me, change me, transform me. My life is yours. In Jesus' name, somebody shout, amen. Amen. Amen.

Amen. If you know hell lost another one, somebody shout in this house today. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Welcome to the family. If you made that declaration here or online, I wanna challenge you to text SAVE to 828282. And also for those that are making that decision with Jesus, I want you to meet us in the back. As you leave, look for the got saved signs in the lobby and stop by the salvation station. Our team would love to celebrate with you. And if you need prayer, the altar is open. Meet us down here as we pray and worship. Transformation TC Nation, I'm about to meet you in the back. I wanna pray with you. I wanna talk with you. Until next time, I'll see y'all at homecoming. Go out and live a transformed life. We love you. See you next week.