Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne | The Great Awakening Channel – Tampa, Florida

the following broadcast is brought to you by the friends and partners of revival ministries international [Music] I’ve rarely felt to share this with you this morning before we receive the morning times and office go with Benny Psalm 23 and you’ll understand even in the light of the full message this morning in tonight of why I’m going there Psalm 23 Psalm 23 is what we call a now some a today’s song Psalm 22 is talking of Jesus you know that was coming Psalm 23 is Jesus today amen or you can say Psalm 22 is what took place at the cross Psalm 23 Jesus today and Psalm 24 is Jesus which is soon to come the Lord is my shepherd I must say this off they say the Lord is my shepherd I shall not for want now in the amplified it says the Lord is my shepherd to feed guide and shield me which will talk about that a later shield but it says I shall not let when you look at the world and you see how they lack and it’s because many have never met the Good Shepherd there’s something about a shepherd and if you really go study it out a shepherd never drives the sheep and doesn’t beat the Sheep if you see a shepherd drivin the sheep and beating the Sheep is not he’s a hireling because jesus said my sheep know my voice and the voice of a stranger they’ll not follow a true Shepherd is with the Sheep and so when the Shepherd gets up and starts to move he actually goes out of hit and he talks and the Sheep just get up and follow and that’s what Jesus does I go round churches all the time and I see they’re just driving the people all the time I thought me and you you look like you’ve passed things goats their goats you have to drive and you better watch out they come from behind and but you have ever seen there’s video clips of a goat taking people out of it and it’s not good but Jesus never drives us he leads us and part of the Shepherd’s job is to take care of the sheep to make sure they’ve got food it’s not the sheep’s job to worrying about what its gonna get food from you don’t ever see a true Shepherd out in the field and the sheep have got their own little union going on and they’re having a meeting to discuss the Shepherd is prepared he’s never led us to food or whatever and the Sheep at deciding how they’re going to take over control they found a goat in the next field and they’re voting for him because he’s gonna give them all the free stuff I’m sorry I see everything in pictures so help me Jesus but the Shepherd goes ahead that as you a year today to realize that Jesus has gone ahead of you through the length of your days he’s already there he knows the end from the beginning he is actually the beginning and the end he is Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end the first and the last which was and which is and which is to come so there’s absolutely nothing about you that he doesn’t really know there’s nothing that you could inform him about that would be brought to his attention that he would actually be shocked about in the world that slipped me I I did I was so busy doing other stuff Merlin was praying and I was running around taking care Merlin and I didn’t hear pastor Tony was crying out sorry I forgot about that he knows everything he knows everything about you he knows what you like and he knows what you don’t like you know that Jesus knows what you don’t like he even knows what colors you like I like blue if you haven’t noticed it what this the building in this blue away blue love blue I like blue skies I love the shades of blue we went to Bora Bora and on our 25th wedding anniversary my wife and I counted the thinking was 14 shades of blue you get if you could distinctly just at the ocean in the lagoon you could count the different shades one two three four five I mean distinct shades the ocean is great blue but it would be terrible if it was yellow so the Lord knows everything the Bible says he takes care of the birds of the air if God feeds the birds won’t he feed you so our job as his sheep is to listen to his voice every single day to listen his voice we get up in the morning we do exactly what he tells us to do nothing more nothing less nothing else there’ll be many people that will come to you with opinions all you should be doing this and you should be doing that you should be going over here you should be if you did that you would never obey the voice of the Shepherd I remember when we first came to America the Lord said to me and he was talking about concerning the ministry said find out what everybody else is doing and do the opposite will be medium and basically that’s what I still did today you know because people copy each other especially amongst ministers people ministers preachers of the sermons prophecies are the prophecies and do exactly what you know it’s the case of monkey-see monkey-do you know so everybody follows each other the latest fads that come through and fads come and fads go but Jesus is the same the church because it runs around listening to every wind or everything that comes along it’s always it’s always making adjustments and changing and never getting anywhere I mean just suppose we close out a year we finish up December the 31st and we’re going into the first obviously we believe God for word for that year but the Lord still doing what he’s always done when we changed the decade when we changed the century you know but well what’s God saying now same thing he said last year I mean God’s not sitting there by your calendar God’s not even there by your clock don’t God don’t give a rip what time it is he doesn’t even have a watch but he’s never late he’s always on time that’s why the Bible says through faith and patience inherit the promises amen so he knows everything settle down once and fall here today that there’s absolutely nothing about you that he doesn’t know he even knows how many hairs there on your head or the lack of it hey buddy hallelujah everything he knows everything and the devil doesn’t control your destiny God controls you this so the Lord is my shepherd I shall not lack I have to personalize it I shall not lack so there are the rough times are coming yeah well I’m sure they will come for you but the Lord is my shepherd I shall not lack let this be a part of your life in your vocabulary amen hallelujah that means if everything fails tomorrow the Lord still you Shepherd and you shall not die that means if you wake up on a Monday morning and the banks of shut down and the dollar failed but it wouldn’t change one thing because the Lord is your Shepherd and you shall not lack are you with me all this is written way before anything to do with the government that’s why you see how they’re trying to get everybody to be dependent upon the government we not to be dependent upon the government we did and upon Almighty God the Creator of heaven and earth amen so the Shepherd finds the best place for the Sheep he’s got the place prepared for you if you just followed him there’s an old song we used to sing when as a kid the Lord knows the way through the wilderness all have to do is follow you follow him obey Him trust him lean on him rely on him he’s not failed you one time we might have felled him quite a few times but he never failed us one time not one time amen he makes me to lie down in I like the amplified in fresh tender green pastures he leads me Prasad still and restful warrants he refreshes if you need refreshing today he refreshes and restores my life myself and he leads me in the paths of righteousness uprightness and right standing with him not for my earning it in other words you can’t go earn it that’s the thing too about a shepherd the Shepherd can walk out and look at the flock and he can go this something wrong with that sheep over there that one there with that one no the one at the back look at him now walked out on the Sunday I could see the Sheep of doing good there’s something wrong with that one it was now nervous because I said that nobody view if you know you could see it’s you know and you can hide behind sunglasses it doesn’t help you you can sit at the back it doesn’t help you you could put on all the faces you want to a ship it can see something’s wrong you know if you had a chicken farmer you walk in and look at something wrong with that chicken yeah youyou farm talents there’s something wrong with that cow you farm sheep you spend time with them you can see something’s wrong over there get somebody in there find out what’s going on with this sheep yeah yeah again their boys nervous because I think I saw something I didn’t I’m just trying to talk to you about the shipper relax take a chill pill it’s won’t fun so I read faces you know I look at face I could see and anybody works around the business she long enough knows me I walk down through the pasture raciest off him but I know what’s going on you don’t have to say a word I look good yeah I’ll say somebody find out what’s going on with that person well how does pass the note because you can see it in people’s eyes the eyes are the window of the soul are you with me well Jesus knows you better than anybody else he knows when you when you’re sleeping he knows when you’re awake he he knows when you’ve been good so be good for heaven sakes yeah he knows when you’ve been naughty or not he knows everything about you I think that’s why religion is so terrible because people put on a front income carrying a Bible big enough to choke an alligator and sit in the pew in a bad he’s God hallelujah [Music] how you doing brother doing great plays God the Lord’s wonderful this one till immediate past old couple I never asked the husband how things are always lost a wife because she tells the truth you asked the husband how things phenomena the ministry’s doing so great we did this step whatever and I look at the wife the one who sitting they just looked into you and they go come on okay what’s really happy he’s a lying dog he’s a line fool I tell ya the car got repossessed last week but she ain’t puttin up with that you know it’s like my wife she doesn’t put anything on it doesn’t matter what I mean if that’s just the way she is it’s either real or not amen now look at this first for yes though I walk through the deep sunless valley of the shadow of death I will fear or dread no evil we living in perilous times but I don’t believe it’s anything different to what people live in the 1600s or you know they hear one thousand time of the bubonic plague or you know marauding Norwegians coming by kings landing on the shores taking woman and children captive you know think about it everybody thinks their time is the worst time on the on the earth and yet we probably live in the greatest hour to be alive now the greatest opportunity of proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ I’m so glad that I don’t have to get go outside and settle up my horse to head up to my house very happy very happy now this is what I love you prepare a table before me in the presence of mine enemies now you say why is that so important because it’s very hard for you to see the table if you focus on your enemies if you look at your enemies you can’t see the table so then you said how you doing I was just terrible my enemies arrayed against me they’re coming in from every side I’m surrounded by my enemies but he says you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies that means you have a choice to make you can focus on your enemies or you can focus on the table which it’s the choice is yours every day when you get up you can focus on your enemies or focus on the table tomorrow how many think there’ll be a couple of enemies tomorrow but how many know there’s a table they said before choice is yours now as I always say the greatest insult you can give you enemy is to sit down at a banquet table and eat in front of them [Applause] knuck hold up the chicken wing hmm wave it is your enemy just dip it in the sauce and get it on your little run down him throw out a banana peel let them that prepares the table before me in the presence of my enemy hallelujah hallelujah that’s what the Shepherd does even this morning this we are at a banquet table here and you can eat or you can leave starved the choice is yours how many of you ever try to feed – yo you know when they get to play with your food and they’re the one up at the mouth you have to become really creative to get it on the spoon and you have aircraft coming in flying at all animals and I have to do the exact same thing when I feed the Word of God to be people sit there like it so I you can’t imagine what I do just to get a spoon in people’s mouths you say pastor audit no we’re eating that’s why I’m breaking bread Phil I’m feeding proved yeah you put in people’s mouths a meaty spit it up I’ll leave the service covered with food just from people that have spat it out you don’t know what you’re missing Oh taste and see that the Lord is good come and gone the moths are calleth coming down come sit at the table come either they heavenly bread come drink of the living water come drink of the new wine come on have you hidden ordered with oil and your cup overflow submissive no not another service of cup overflows people need to doubt that I’ve been drinking from the bitter cup I would love to drink the new wine but I’m too busy drinking the bitter time [Laughter] besides that I don’t want to look like some crazy person for them [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] you anoint my head with oil that’s what’s happening right now oil is being poured on your head right now on the top of your head oil [Laughter] we pause for these moments of oil being poured upon our head we interrupt this service for this short commercial this service is brought to you by the makers of oil of joy have you been depressed lately have you felt like you couldn’t go another day try a new oil of joy guaranteed to transform your life and set you free have you felt like you had no strength you had no energy you couldn’t get out of bed in the morning time and even now he’ll give you beauty for Ashes and the oil of joy for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness has to come on you can’t mean that this is literally lit like literally like really seriously literally well it’s not a literally let’s release it you prepare a table in the presence of my enemies you anoint my head with oil and my brimming cup runs over that’s what the eerie here is the sound of cups running over no I’m not I’m not change it one thing I don’t care who likes or not I know what the Bible said I’m gonna go with this I’m going with this over everything else I’ve seen what other people drink I’ve seen what other people are eating I’m gonna choose the banquet table the Lord I’ll choose this every single day of my life if if they say I’m a excessive if they say you are into excess then may we be the more excess that we’ve ever been before [Applause] [Laughter] come on this is gonna be a week of the supernatural he has prepared a table before you in the presence of your enemies [Music] [Applause] when you leave this place today and you drop down the road everywhere you go the oil will be still running over your head [Applause] people are gonna say your hair your head shining your head is shining why is your head so shiny [Applause] it’s oil of heaven it’s the oil of joy it’s the oil of gladness [Music] [Applause] come on people are being set free right now depression is going off of people right now oppression is going heaviness is going to be lifted right now bondage isn’t going right now [Applause] even if you feel you’re too old for that just kind of lift your hands and just do this with your hands in the air [Applause] put your hands in the air [Applause] and they can say what they want to all that’s that crazy river church those people are just happy there will they eat at the banquet table of heaven the cups are running over oil has been poured upon their heads [Applause] you have to make a decision this is where I’m gonna live I’m gonna live in the middle of Psalm 23 Psalm 23 in the front of me Psalm 23 in me Psalm 23 behind me i’ma live in the middle of this hallelujah Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday product everywhere I go imma be looking at the banquet table the banquet table the banquet table [Applause] [Applause] I know for those watching by way of television that this might be too loud for some people but that’s what happens when people get joyful Joey actually has a voice he would never walk into room with but it’s quiet and safe they’re really happy in that room normally because there’s a sound of joy joy has a sound surely only goodness and mercy and then failing love will follow me I’m not following it it will follow me all the days of my life and through the length of my days the house of the Lord and His presence shall be my dwelling place ojala dude Oh hallelujah hallelujah thank you Lord Jesus so say the sound now with all assurance say the Lord is my shepherd I shall not lack the remaining days of this month shall be days of provision for my life for my home for my family for my friends wherever I go you leave me in the paths of righteousness and thank you for the banquet table and I will eat and eaten each other Divya they come on and give him prey come on and give him play come on a given prey come on and give him praise come on take your money take a moment appraiser take him home in a given prey take him home and give him look take a moment and give him breath take a praise break take a moment and lift your hands lift a voice [Applause] and so father we just thank you indeed for your goodness for your grace and your mercy and your loving kindness to us cause this week to be a supernatural week of provision in every realm personally individually for businesses represented here for ministries represented here we call in the provision from the north the South the East and the West and thank you this morning that we have the ability to come and to give freely of that which you’ve been trusted to us thank you your word says given shall be given as your good measure pressed down shaken together and running over and I think you caused that to happen give Monday miracles Tuesday miracles Wednesday miracles Thursday miracles Friday miracles Saturday miracles mountains moved out of the way and we thank you we’ll give you praise in Jesus name and never once says part of it Oh over to gone come on just give the load the biggest shot right now [Applause] how many are believing for big things this week how would you react if the thing we believe in God was meant right now [Applause] [Applause] save counts have done without any proof in the net so paid cash had done [Applause] father the Amen thank you for watching today on YouTube please press the subscribe button and also the notification button and like and get the word out so others can watch