Hey, Hey, I'm back with something for you to think about. Sometime
God shake you to wake you. Oh I know that hits someone. Let
me say it again. Sometimes God shake you to wake you. Some of
you need a good shaking up. There is so much going on in this
world, and let me make you understand something. Things are not just going
on. They're not just happening. They're not just occurring. People are making
them happen. So much is going on in this world. All around the
globe. People are doing the most outlandish things, you know, and God
every day gives you a chance to get your lives together. But people are
not taking that chance. People are taking living for granted. Some people act
as if they're never gonna die. Some people are old, I mean,
in their seventies and eighties and sealed during the same crap that they did in
their earlier years. Just no kind of change, no desire to change.
And I chalk it all up to the fact that people don't believe God is
real. But sometimes God shake you up like he did Job. And I'm
not saying Joe did anything, but sometime God just got to show you by
breaking you all the way down. No matter what you go through. I
still am God, I still am the Great. I am. I still
am who I say that I am. I don't care what you're going through.
I don't care how you feel. I don't care what the devil try
to put in your head. You sticking, stay with God, You sticking
to stay with Jesus. Jesus already paid the price. And I know sometimes
we go through things and we're like lords. I thought Jesus paid the price.
Why am I going through this? Why am I suffering like this?
Why do travesty after travesty happened in my life, tragedy after tragedy. If
Jesus paid the price, I'm here to tell you Jesus did pay the price.
But if you know the word of God, you know we gotta go
through sooner or later. No one of us are exempt. We're gonna go
through some things in life. And sometimes it's like a snowball effect. And
when I say a snowball effect, I mean once to start rolling, it
gets momentum and every time you look around it's something, something, something.
But I tell you, stay with Jesus. Sometimes God's trying to shake you
up because his desire is for none of us to perish. So sometimes he
gotta shake us in order to wake us. Unfortunately, sometimes even with the
shaking, people don't wake up and they die in their mess. They die
the very same. I know. Sometimes it is seems brutal, the things
you go through, it is heartbreaking. But God sometimes shake you to wake
you because he wishes for none of us to perish. He wishes for none
of us to die, lose our soul and go to Hell. That's not
his desire for none of us. Hell wasn't even made for us. That
was made for the devil. None of us have to go to Hell.
We go by choice. So when you're going through, yes, sometimes God
shake you because he's trying to wake you up. He don't want to turn
you over to that reprobate mind. He don't want you to die in your
sin. He don't want you to gain the world to lose your soul.
You know, for years and years and years, I was on the bandwagon
of saying people sold their souls. On people selling their souls. I was
on their band wagon too, because I didn't know better. I didn't understand
until recently God gave it to me. Don't say that again, because these
are my souls, all of them. They're all my souls. They belonged
to me. I created them, not the devil. I created the devil.
The devil cannot gain your souls. People lose their souls to the world,
to Satan, but they can't sell them because they're not theirs to sell.
Number one, no one has the authority or the power to purchase anyone's
soul. But they can lose their soul by their lifestyles, by their choices.
So sometimes God shake you. He's not trying to force you, but
he wants you to wake up before it's too late. Oh my God,
when I think about, oh hallelujah, when I think about where he brought
me from, what he brought me out of, He brought me out of
mess. You hear me. I'm not saying I was into some craziness.
I wasn't. But still I was doing things that was against the Lord.
And I thank him for keeping me. I thank him for keeping me through
all of my trauma. He brought me out in my right mind still with
a loving heart, with forgiveness, strength, power. He wishes for none
of us to die and lose our souls to hell. So yes, some
of us. He shake us in many different ways. You know, some
people just own thickness, just oh I have this, I have that.
No, because he said he wishes us to be in good health. He
wants us to prosper, be in good health as our soul prospers. So
don't go around claiming illnesses, stop labeling yourselves. Give it all to the
lords. Yes, he comes to shake you sometime because he's trying to wake
you up before it's too late. He's given you a choice. He don't
even have to shake you. He could just let it be. He could
just let you keep going the way you've been going. But he loves you
so much. Sometime he shake you. But you think, oh, how
can he do this if he's real? So many people ask that question.
So many people become angry with God. They become angry. But you must
know the word for yourself. You will know why you go through anything.
Yes, we go through things. We lose our loved ones, we lose
our friends, we lose our significant others, our children, our parents,
ourselves, blings. But let me tell you that's a part of life.
Sometimes people lose multiple family members. We've lost multiple family members several times when
I say multiple. I'm to about two and three, not weeks and days.
A part of them come out together. It happens. I've told you
about a cousin that I have who lost all of her immediate family. That's
just how it is. Sometimes it don't seem like it should be, but
it does happen, and it makes me think about the story of Joe.
Joe, I mean, he went through leotro see on his skin, lost
everything, all his family, his children, everything he had, but he
still staying with the Lord. He did not turn his back even when his
wife said, you are the purse God and die. Joe said, woman,
you sound foolish. You don't sound like my wife. And he stood
where he always stood, and that's with the Lords. So sometimes God shake
you. Sometimes he shake you so you can see where you're at. Some
people have all of this talk. Oh, I love the Lord, I
love the Lord. I'll live and die for the Lord, and this and
that, and something comes in your life and there you falter. Sometime God
want to show you who you really are to your self, because you fool
people for so long, you fooled yourself for so long. He want to
show you who you really are. You're not my child, You're not living
what you profess. Sometimes people fool themselves. So he shake you so you
can see you're now who you say you are. Sometimes he shake you so
you can see He is still who he saves, who we say he was
back then. He's still that same God to day. Sometimes he shake you
so you can understand he still is a healer. He's a mind regulator,
a heart fixer. But you have to believe. You have to have faith
and believe that he is he say he is. You gotta believe that you
have power that you have not activated within you. Sometimes he shake you up
so you can activate that power. Sometimes he shake you up so you can
really truly rely on him and not just talk it, but walk it.
He shakes us up sometimes for many of reasons I've gone through. I'm like,
Lord, have mercy, Jesus. There was a time in my life
I was like, God, where are you? Do you hear me?
Why am I going through this? I don't understand. I'm faithful, I
love you, But Oh, through it all, through it all, he
strengthened me and he kept me. My faith got stronger and stronger. That's
what he wants for us. He wants true saints of God. He wants
warriors. He don't want people who say one thing and do another. He
have no interest in hypocrites. He have no interest in prideful people. He
have no interest in vain people. He wants truthful people who serve him and
understand with truth with every fiber of their being. He wants people to trust
him through the darkness, through all the tribes and tribulations, through all your
storms. He wants you to trust them, even when it looked bleak,
when you just can't see your weight. That's what faith comes in, because
faith is the substance of things hoped for. Ever then the things not seeing
you have to believe it so as if it's already done. That's who he's
looking for. And I just say thank you, Jesus, thank you,
because I know I've been on that side too. Lord, I don't understand,
but everything is not meant for us to understand. We just gotta have
faith. We have to keep the faith. We must hold on and keep
the faith no matter what it is, no matter what to look like feel
like. We must keep the faith. That's what he wants. He wants
us to believe, and he want us to live our lives as if we
believe. He don't want us to be those people that just give that good
sounding hip service. He wants us to be true saints. True because many
people call themselves Christians, many people call themselves saints of God, but their
lifestyles tell the truth. They're in the poor pits. They're everywhere calling themselves
Christians and saints of God, but they're doing terrible things. They're living their
lives against God. They are those who are doing all of the lip service,
but they're not living it. Their hearts are far from the Lord.
Their lips speak of them of Him, but their hearts are far from him.
But it's all in the world. So sometimes God shake us to wake
us. Now, he can get your intil your attention when he wants to
at any given second, but he's not trying to do that. He's not
trying to force you. When he shake you, he's not trying to force
you. He just nudging you, trying to get you to open your eyes
before it's too late. But he's not forcing you, because if he wanted
to, he could, But he don't want to be that type of God.
He wants you to come to him on your own, on your very
own, not because someone else is influencing you, but because you want to.
You want to serve him. So sometimes did he shake us to try
to wake us before it's too late, because he loves us just that much.
When he puts you through some things, it don't feel like he loves
you. It does not feel he loves you, But he loves you.
If he didn't, he wouldn't do it. So count it all joy through
the midst of your storms. Count it all joy. Stop complaining, Oh
Lord, why me? Why am I going through this? Why am I
going through that? And believe that he is who he says, yet servants
through it all, keeps a faith. The devil just wants you. He's
licking his chops. He wants you so bad. He wants you confused in
your mind. If you're confused in your mind, you can't focus on the
Lord. He wants you confused in your mind. He wants you focused on
the world. He wants you focus on things. He wants you focus on
sex. He wants you to focus on drugs and alcohol. When I look
at the things people put themselves in, Oh my goodness, I was watching
TV, and I'm telling you, I cried for the people. I cried
for the people because the states that some people are in the states of mind.
If you don't believe me, you go and you google YouTube. You
google for the streets of Kenningston, Philadelphia, Google Dallas, Texas, Washington
State, almost anywhere, Detroit, Michigan, almost anywhere. You look at
how affected people are by drugs and alcohol. I mean, it is horrifying.
It is beyond horrifying how drugged out people are. I mean, I
cried for the people because it makes no sense. No one has to live
like that. It is horrific. People look like zombies. They are so
drugged out. They look like living zombies. They're living in the natural,
but they're dead, completely dead spiritually, and they're possessed. People don't know.
When you are drugs addicted, you are possessed. Demons can enter your
body, entities can enter your body. When I look at those shows,
I mean, it is breathtaking, seriously, that people give their lives to
that mess. That people don't feel that they have no hope at all.
But that's exactly the mindset the devil wants you to have. And if that's
what you choose. God is gonna let you choose it. See, people
get it all wrong. People get angry at God. Why you allowed us?
No youth allowed it? You open yourself up to it. Not one
time, that's the devil. Say hey, it's me or God. You
chose the devil. You chose that drug you. I don't care if the
devil stood before you and said this or that, you still made the choice.
But people get angry at God, Why you allow us in my life?
Yeah? Sure, He allows things to happen. Something's happened that we
have no control over. But still God wants us to have faith. He
wants us to believe, He wants us to trust and through it all.
Yes, sometimes he shakes us to wake us. It don't work for everybody,
because no matter what, some people don't want to serve the Lord,
no matter what, and they won't even the word tell us when God returned,
there's still gonna be people who will not serve them, who do not
want to. They won't change. But I'm telling you, those who are
listening, if you are on the fence, I want to tell you there
is no fence. There is no offense that is a lie, Oh I
believe that too long time ago. But there is no fence. It's either
for the Lord or against him. Period. There's no in between you.
So some of you are like, oh, I don't know, I don't
m No, either you're for him or against him. Some people blame other
people. I'm not going to church because they do this and they do that
in church. Well, if they're doing this and that in church, that's
not a church of God. Duh. Come on, stop making excuses.
Don't let somebody else cause you to go to hell because you're making excuses.
Oh well, I saw them do this in church. I saw them do
that in church. That's not a church of God. Simple, it's not
a church of God. So stop making excuses for why you don't go to
church, why you don't serve the Lord, because, first of all,
the churches within you. When Jesus say he's coming back for the church without
spot or regal, he's not talking about the what's in between those four walls.
He's talking about for the people, the hearts of minds that's stayed on
him. So stop making excuses for why you don't serve the Lord. You
don't serve them because that's your choice. Man has no heaven nor Hell to
put you in, So why are you giving them the powers to keep you
from church when technically it's inside of you. So yes, God sometimes shake
you to wake you because he loves you just that much. He loves you
just that much, So please get it together before it's too late. When
it's over, it's over on this side. What you get on the other
side is what you've chose while you were on the side. That's the type
of living you're gonna live in the hereafter. That's why God give you so
many chances. Every day you wake up as a new chance. But so
many people that just live it like they live the day before, don't try
to change at all. And it's disappointing. It's heartbreaking to the Lord.
I wanted to give, give to you what God gave to me, give
to you, and I hope it touched someone. He loves you despite of
it all. He loves you. He loved me, wretched soul like myself.
He loved me. And I'm grateful and I'm thankful. And for the
past fifteen sixteen years I've been solid, solid rocket with Jesus, and I
intend to go all the way to the end, so what you do is
your choice. I'm just giving you the information. Thank you so much for
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