Rico Sharp Christian Leadership- Giving Birth to Greatness.

Now put your hands together for Jesus, if you don't mind, because he's our all in all. Woo! Woo! Amen. And give yourself a big round of applause because you're blessed people, you're great people, you're powerful people, you're holy people, you're peculiar people, and your best is yet to come. Amen. Amen. You may be seated. I call you blessed today. I call your families blessed. I call your children blessed, your grandchildren blessed, your businesses blessed, your academic pursuits blessed, your career blessed. Blessed is the fruit of your body. Blessed are the thoughts of your mind. Blessed is the works of your hands. I'm so glad to have my wife here with me, my wife of 35 years. 35 years. Amen. Amen. It takes an anointing To put up with me for 35 years, you need an anointing. You need grace. You need a miracle. You need favor. You need nerves. You need patience. I don't have enough time to talk about what all you need to put up with me for 35 years, but she got everything and some more. So I thank God for her. Amen. I want to focus today on a message. that has really become a transition in my life. It's called Bringing Out the Best in You. And today I want to provide a topic called Giving Birth to the Greater You. How many of you believe that your best is yet to come? Yes! How many of you believe that you have more in store? And how many of you know that you haven't seen your best days yet? Amen. Amen. I do want to say to you, point number 1, that you have greatness in your life. You have greatness in your life. The Bible tells us in the book of 2 Corinthians chapter number 4, verse number 7, that we have this treasure in earthen vessels. You know, a treasure represents something that is precious, something that has great value. We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. And as you all know, that some of the most precious commodities, or some of our most precious assets, are found in places that are hidden deep within the earth, like gold, if you will, diamonds, silver, oil, pearls. You don't find that stuff on the top of the surface. You have to be willing to dig deep. You have to be willing to sacrifice. You have to be willing to go to places that others won't go in order to come up with something that others won't come up with. And yet God said he did the same exact thing. He didn't just hide gold and, and silver and diamonds and oil and and pearls deep within the earth, but he also hid within us greatness deep within our earthen vessels. Anointings and gifts and power and grace and skills and all that we possess that separates us from the rest of the world, that not only makes us outstanding but makes us stand out. Amen. He hid it deep within us. Put your hand right here and say, "I have greatness within me." And so the Bible says that we have this treasure in our earthen vessels. We have the Holy Spirit in our earthen vessels. We have all that God wants to do through us, in us. And the fact that it is in you means He put it in a place. where thieves can't steal it. Amen. He put it in a place where even though haters may not agree that you are powerful and anointed and gifted and talented and skillful, there's nothing they can do about it. He put it within your earthen vessel. And the Bible says in that the excellency of the power is of God and not of us. Which means when people see you flowing and operating within your greatness, within your calling, within your gifts, within what God has placed inside of you, when they look at you, they don't see how you're able to do what you do. It's kind of like when they looked at Samson. Samson did not look like Lou Ferrigno. He did not look like the Incredible Hulk. He did not look like The Rock. In fact, he looked more like a Pee-wee Herman, a Steve Urkel. And the reason that is factual is because if he had triceps, biceps, and quadriceps bulging on him, they would not have to try to figure out what was the source of his strength, what was his secret. They would have looked at him and said, man, you're bench pressing 2,000 pounds. No wonder you can do what you do. No, he didn't look like that. So when people saw what he did, the excellency of the power, the glory of what he did goes to God. And when people look at you and what you're able to do and how gifted and how creative and how powerful and how anointed and how authoritative you are, they don't give you the credit because they don't see how you're able to do what you're doing. But all you can do is just raise your hand and say, well, I give God the glory, baby. Huh? I know where my help come from. Yeah, had it not been for the Lord that was on my side. So we have this treasure in earthen vessels, but the treasure is oftentimes buried within us. And the reason it's buried is because we leave it there and allow for it to lie dormant. When God placed it in us, although he— place it in our earthen vessels. He didn't bury it in us. He sowed it in us. He planted it in us as a seed. And the Bible says in Luke 12:24 that except the corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone. But if it dies, if, if it is cultivated, if, if you work it, if you allow for it to germinate and reproduce after its own kind, it it will bring forth much fruit. So you have treasure on the inside of you, and I'm afraid that many of you are allowing for your treasure to be buried instead of cultivating it. And so I say to you today that there's some stuff on the inside of you that you've not yet tapped into. There's, there's some gifts and talents and creativity uniqueness that you have, that when you do what you do, you do it like no one else can. But I'm afraid that you're not doing it like God wanted you to do it. Amen. And there are reasons why we allow for our treasure to be buried instead of allowing for it to come forth. And we're going to focus on some of that. Point number 2, The Bible says in Matthew chapter 12, verse number 35, that a good man and a good woman from the good treasures of their heart brings forth good things. Say this with me, I have good treasure. I have good treasure. Within me. Within me. We've gone through life and we've brought out the bad stuff. Now it's time to bring out the good stuff. We brought out our weaknesses. Now it's time to bring out our strengths. We brought out our fears. Now it's time to bring out our faith. We brought out our low self-esteem, low self-value, low self-worth. Now it's time to bring out the mind and the attitude and the personality and the characteristics of Jesus, whereby we realize where our help comes from. Amen. Amen. We brought out our lust. Now it's time to bring out our love. We brought out our anger and our lack of discipline. Now it's time to bring out that which God will be glorified by. And so we have this treasure, but God says it's not there just to stay there. I placed it there so that you can bring it out, so that you can bring it out and extrapolate it so that it can be applied to your families, to this ministry, to the kingdom, to your workplace, to your communities, to the society, and ultimately to the human race. Say this with me, I have more in store. I have more in store. See, the tragedy in life is not dying. The tragedy in life is dying full of what God planted in you without you having used it and brought it out. Again, you take all of that to the grave. And I say to you that the cemetery is the most wealthiest place in the earth. Not in terms of gold and diamonds and silver and money, because I know some boys from the hood that will follow you to the cemetery and dig that up when it get dark. But I'm talking about the kind of stuff that refers to the level of creativity that you have. Your brilliance, your intellect, businesses, your ingenuity, stuff that you have on the inside that you've not yet tapped into. And if you have tapped into it, you've not yet brought it forth because you're allowing for certain things and certain people and certain levels of mentality to keep you from giving birth to the greater you. And so people are born with greatness, and people are born with talent and born with skills and born with ideas. but yet never bring them out. So the tragedy in life is not dying, but it's dying full. It's dying before you empty yourself and pour out of yourself all that God has placed within you. Amen. It's dying knowing that you had dreams that you never saw come to fruition, visions that never got manifested, books that you never written, poems that you never written, songs that never got sang, ideas and businesses that never got a jump start. and you're taking all that to the grave. Selah. Selah. You're sitting in here right now and you're loaded, and some of you, you've been, you've been frustrated because you know that you can do better than what you're doing and that you deserve better than what you have, and you can give more than what you're giving, and you can live better than what you're living, but you're stuck right now. And it's like a woman when she gets pregnant, She's expecting. She's not just pregnant, she's expecting. She's not just carrying, she's expecting. And God says in Jeremiah 29:11 that I would give you an expected end. I'll meet you at the level of your expectation. If you are carrying greatness and you know you have greatness within you, you have to expect that one day I'm going to push this thing out of me. One day I'm going to give birth. One day I'm going to give birth to twins. I'm going to give birth to triplets. I'm going to give birth to quadruplets. I'm going to give birth to septuplets. I'm going to give birth. Somebody shout, I'm going to give birth! See, the Bible says in 1 John 4:4, you are of God, little children, which means you have God's Spirit, you have God's DNA. And if you know anything about God, God is a birther. He's, he's a creator. He don't need a whole lot to work with. All you need is an idea. All you need is a vision, a thought. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, let there be light, and there was. And God saw the light, that it was good, and he separated light from the darkness. And the light he called day, and the darkness he called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Amen. He didn't need a whole lot. He knew that he was pregnant with some something that he wanted to produce, and he starts speaking to the thing that would produce what he wanted to have. And what you got to do is stop sitting there with all that power and sitting on all your greatness and sitting on all your gifts and all your anointings and all your talent and on all that grace and rise up and start speaking and decreeing and proclaiming and prophesying. Look at your neighbor and say, I'm going to do something in his house today. God help me, I'm going to do something. Hallelujah. You're of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. Now we know from a surface level that that scripture is referring to the fact that God is saying, my Spirit in you is greater than the spirit of Satan, greater than the Antichrist, greater than the fallen angels, greater than principalities and powers and rulers of the darkness of this world. We understand that we have the Greater One on the inside of us, but can we go a little deeper? Can we dig for some oil today? Yes! Can we dig for some pearls and some diamonds and silver and gold? Let's, let's go a little deeper. Let's say that who you are right now as a husband, a father, a mother, a wife, an entrepreneur, a visionary, who you are right now as a Preacher and evangelist, apostle, pastor, teacher—whoever you are right now—is a minister. You're good. You're great. You're who the world can see. You're who your family can see. You're who everyone knows. They see you. They know what you have to offer. They know what you can do. They know what you can produce. But the Bible says, "But greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world," which means there is a greater you. Within you, let me go here to this side. There there is a greater you within you, which means that though you are a wife right now, there's a greater wife within you. Though you are a mother right now, there's a greater mother within you. Though you are a father right now, there's a greater father within you. Though you are an evangelist right now, there's a greater evangelist within you. Though you are entrepreneur right now, there's a greater entrepreneur within you. Though you are a prophet right now, there's a greater prophet, greater prophet is within you. Though you are a visionary right now, there's a greater visionary within you. Put your hand right here and say, the greater one is on the inside. The greater one is on the inside. Paul said in Philippians 1:6, to be confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you shall perform it. What does that mean? Something on the inside working on the outside. Bringing about a change in my life. Can you look at somebody and tell me, you don't know me like you think you know me? Yeah, you, you've seen my goodness, but you haven't seen my greatness. You, you— what you've seen, you've seen the broke me, you haven't seen the rich me. You, you've seen the weak me, you haven't seen the strong me. You've met the depressed me, you haven't met the collect— calm, cool, and collective me. You, you've met the struggling me, you haven't met the anointed me. Is there anybody that realized that they have the greater one on the inside. Something great is getting ready to come out of your life. Whoo! Put your hand right here, man and woman. Say, I'm pregnant with greatness. No, you didn't say it like you feel it. Shout, I'm pregnant with greatness! I'm pregnant with greatness! One more time, tell somebody, you don't know me. Thank you. I'm gonna preach in a minute. Point number 3. So there's a process to bringing forth the greatness that is within you. There's a process to bringing forth the best within you. And point number 3 is you got to reset your mindset. Understand this right here, that you are enough. God chose you. And the fact that God chose you means that you're qualified. The fact that God chose you means that you have all that you need to do what God has called you to do. I was interviewed one time before by some people who wanted me to come speak and do some leadership training for their organization. And after I met with 4 or 5 of their team members and they laid out for me the qualifications and all these things, they asked me, they said, Mr. Sharp, do you believe you have what it takes? I said, no, no, no, I don't, but I am who it takes to get the job done. One of the representatives replied to me and said, you're the man we're looking for. See, there's a time in your life when you realize who you are in God and you stop allowing for people and temptation and Satan and sin and, and, and lust and anger and violence and cardinality and folk who don't agree with you, folk who don't support you, folk who don't like you, folk who try to size you up and measure you up, folk who try to disqualify you. You stop letting them pull you down to their level, and you demand that they come up to your level because you realize who you are. Come on, shout, I'm a bad mama jama! I'm a bad mama jama! I say, shout, I'm a bad mama jama. You got greatness within you. At some point, you got to get over your hangups and get over your struggle and get over being stuck like Chuck. Can I say to you that mediocrity is your enemy? Trying to fit in and trying to keep from rocking the boat, that's your enemy. Being ordinary is your enemy. Being common, being casual, it's your enemy. There's nothing ordinary about your God. You serve an extraordinary God, and his spirit, his DNA, his chromosomes, and his genes flows through your blood cells. You're not an average person. Stop trying to fit in with average people. Stop trying to let people who don't want to rise to their next level keep you stuck in the shadows of what you can be. You were not created to eat crumbs that falls from the master table. I don't care what you've gone through in your past. God has pulled the chair up at the table for you. The feast is going on. The dinner can't start until you show up, and can't nobody sit in your chair but you. You have greatness within you. Say it again, I have greatness within me. I have greatness within me. Here now, point 4, you need personal confidence. You got to hold your head up and know who you are. People who does not understand the confidence that we operate with in God and look at it from a carnal perspective or through carnal lenses trying to rationalize our posture. They misjudge our confidence as arrogance. But you don't have to operate with the arrogance of the world when you know not just who you are but whose you are. Paul said, I am who I am by the grace of God. And there are scriptures in the Bible that simply informs you that God is not intimidated by you having Personal confidence. Philippians 1:6, be confident in this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it. Philippians 4:13, another confidence scripture, I can do all things. The word I is a personal pronoun, meaning that it's referring to whoever dare to take ownership of it. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. It doesn't mean I'm operating independently of Christ. It means I'm operating independently of man, but interdependent of God. I know where my help comes from. I know who my source is. David said in Psalms 121:1, I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help. My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. See, there are some people that won't give you the outslice of a loaf of bread. you and would rather pour a glass of water in the dirt before they watch you drink it. Come on. But yet God says, I'll open the windows of heaven. If a man won't open the windows of his heart and the windows of his house and let you in, I'll open the windows of heaven. If a man won't give you a crumb, I'll open the windows of heaven. If people won't celebrate you, I'll open the windows of heaven. If folk won't stand by you and support you, I'll open the windows of heaven. If nobody believes in you, I'll open the windows of heaven. If nobody give you a loan, I'll open the windows of heaven. If nobody will co-sign for you, I'll open the windows of heaven. If nobody will go before you, I'll open the windows of heaven. If nobody will vouch for you, I will open the window of heaven and pour you out a blessing. That's right. And watch God while he's pouring you out a blessing. He says, and I'll prepare that table before you in the presence of your tight-lipped enemies. Woo! Thank you, Jesus. Shall I have greatness in my life? Ephesians 3:20. Another confident scripture that denotes the fact that God is saying, "It's in you. You have it. You need to walk in this. You need to flow in this." Now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think, not according to the power that works in other folk, but according to the power that works in you. Jesus would never. contingent your breakthrough and your blessing and your greatness on the participation and the cooperation of others. Be it unto you according to your faith. Point number 5, the next step to this process, you got to reposition yourself. The Bible says in Proverbs 27:17, one of my old, uh, new— one of my favorite scriptures in the Old Testament: as iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. See, see, I got to keep a Pastor Joe Moe cousin in my life. Got to, because he's a piece of iron. Iron sharpens iron. I'm a piece of iron. In fact, I'm a sharp piece of iron. My name, Rico Sharp. You'll get it when you get in the parking lot and drive home. Some of you, your, your, your struggle is that you're trying to hold on to people that doesn't sharpen you. In fact, if the truth be told, and the truth should be told, You hold on to people that dull you, that drains you, that depletes you, that that pulls you down. That every time you pour into them, they're leaking vessel. Every time you pour into them, they run off and they leave your your substance on the ground, in your presence, at your feet. And then they come right back, wanting you to pour back into them. And you and you should always minister to people. But there's a time where you have to recognize that your association and the people that you've allowed to become your friends and your confidants that you have within your inner circle. I'm not talking about your Facebook friends. Those folk aren't really— they're not real friends. They're really not. I'm talking about the kind of people that you let in your car, that you let in your house, that you meet out for dinner, that you go to the gym with. Not all of them are supporting what God is doing in your life. Some of them don't believe in your greatness. Some of them can't even see your greatness. Some of them, when you talk about the dreams and the ideas and the things you want to do, they tell you, child, I don't know if I'd do that if I were you. Yes. Child, you don't have what it takes. You, you just— you, you're not old enough. You haven't lived long enough yet. You don't have enough money. You don't have enough education. You don't have enough this. You don't have enough that. You're too black. You're too white. You've been to jail. You've been on drugs. You've been messed up. Sit down somewhere and just be, be content with such as you have. And although they may not mean it in a way to intercept what God is doing in your life. But the truth is, they're on an assignment from the enemy. And you can be on an assignment from the enemy and not know it. Peter— Peter's walking with Jesus. He's one of Jesus' boys. Jesus says, I got to go to the cross. Peter said, that ain't happening. Jesus stopped. Looked at Peter, walked up to Peter and said, I rebuke you, Satan. It wasn't Satan's body. It wasn't even Satan's voice. It was Peter's body, Peter's voice, but Satan's word. Sometimes you can have people around you that love you, but through ignorance they open their mouth and say things that tries to abort your God-given purpose. And you have to have enough discernment to differentiate between who spoke, whose word they were. You have to reposition yourself and get around people who have your answer and not your question, who have your strengths and not your weaknesses, who have your vision and not your blindness. People who knows how to make it through difficult time. You got to get around people that can help you to go to where you're going. That's why it is according to divine assignment that you are planted and sown here at this great ministry of the kingdom, Love First. Because God knows that He's putting you around people that can become wind beneath your wings, that will help you to run and not get weary, walk and not faint, so that you can mount up with wings of an eagle. Whoo! I'm gonna preach in a minute. Point number 6. Develop what God deposited. Anytime God gives you something, you can't just let it lie dormant. You have to put it to work. You have to work it. The Bible says in Ephesians 2:10 that we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works. The Bible gives us in Matthew a parable about the talent. God calls these 3 guys, give them 5, 3, and 1 talent. The one with the 5 put his to work. The one with the 3 put his to work. But the one with the 1 just went and dug a hole and buried it. And then when God calls them to give an account for what they've done with what he gave them, the one with 5 says, I have 10. The one with 3 says, I have 6. But the one with 1 says, I did nothing with it. I just hid it. I dug it. I dug a hole in the ground. I put it in. I buried it. I did nothing with it. And God says, it's this man who did nothing with what I gave him is a wicked servant, and he takes the one from that one and he gives it to the other. Can I say to you, God has given you greatness and talent and gifts and skills and creativity and originality and authenticity, and you can't just bury it. You have to do something with it. Yes. You have to develop it. You have to cultivate it. You have to plant it. You have to sow it into the lives of others. Ephesians 4 says that when Jesus got ready to descend, or to ascend into heaven, that he called the body and he gave gifts unto men. And the Bible says, for the working of the saints, for the working of the ministry, for the perfecting of the saints, and for the edifying of the body of Christ. What are you doing with what God has given you? That's right. I'm not talking about holding a job and being a good mom, good dad, a good husband, a good wife. What are you doing? with your skills, with your greatness, with your talent. Some of you, you hate your job because you know that in the place that you work, you're not operating and flowing in the level of creativity that you have. And you're probably overworked and underpaid, and they pay you just enough to keep you from quitting, and you work just enough to keep from getting fired. That's good. But that job doesn't make your baby jump. No. And you know that you have more within you. And your greatest frustration in life to this day is knowing that you have more on the inside than what you're actually flowing in right now in your life. You're frustrated because you have greatness in you and your 9 months of labor has expired. And you're still carrying that baby, and at some point, if you don't give birth to it, it will become a stillborn. You have to develop. Put your hand right here and say, "I have greatness within me." Say, "I'm pregnant with power." You got to develop what God has given you. Second Timothy. 1:6 says to stir up the gift that is in you. Luke 2:52 tells us Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man. A gift undeveloped benefits no one. God gives you potential and he gives you greatness, but it's your job to bring it to full fruition. Even Romans 12:3 tells us that God has dealt to every man the measure, the seed of faith, and you have to develop and cultivate that. Point number 7, pursue your purpose. Isaiah 43:7 says, everyone that is called by my name, God says, I have created him for my glory. I have formed him. Yes, I have made him. I love what God said to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:5. He says, boy, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Yes. And before you came forth, I already ordained you to be a prophet. Yes. Which means, uh, let me just, let me just drop this on you right quick, which means that if you can believe in life after death where we go to heaven and that God created that for us, then he's the same God that created life before birth. Yes. Which means that before you were an embryo, before you were born, God said, I knew you. You existed in God before you existed in your mother's womb. That's why God could say to Jeremiah, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, which means greatness was on your life before you were even created in the womb. God had a plan for you before you were created in the womb. May I say to you that you are not an accident? No! May I say to you that it is not the great, wonderful idea of your mother and father that decided to have children that actually ushered you into this world? Can I suggest to you that it was the plan of God to bring you in this world? For in him we live, move, and have our being. And he appointed before time the times of our habitation. God brought you here because he had a purpose and a plan for your life. Look at your neighbor and tell them, greatness is on your life. Greatness is on my life. You were born to impact the kingdom. You were born to impact humanity. Next point, make a promise to God and to yourself. Make a promise to your family. Make a promise to those that God has connected you to. Make a promise to this ministry that you will give all that you have to give. Joshua 24:15 says, if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day. Make a decision today that you're going to go all in and that you're not going to hold back, that you're going to start using all that God has given you. Again, The tragedy in life is not dying. It's dying being full of what God gave you because you didn't do anything with it with the time that you have. Yes. We have in scripture where we see Elijah passing on the mantle to Elisha and then going on to heaven, but Elisha not passing it on to anyone else. And when he died, his strength, his grace, his mantle, his anointing died with him. How do we know this? Because a dead man who was injured in war was thrown accidentally into the grave of Elisha, and when he fell down into the grave and touched Elisha's bones, he revived. This man's greatness died and was buried with him. Do not let it be the case that your greatness dies with you. That's right. Do not let it be the case that your gifts and your creativity die with you. Don't let your dream die with you. Dr. King says, I have a dream. And he says, I may not get to the promised land, but I've been able to see it. In other words, I may not go there myself, but I'm taking what God has given me and I'm passing it on to the next generation. Point number nine: Give it all you've got. Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiastes nine, ten, ten and eleven. Whatever thy hand finds to do, whatever you determine your purpose is in life, whatever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might. Put all your heart into what you do, right? Verse number eleven says: I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not given to the swift. Nor the battle to the strong, nor yet riches to men of skill, nor yet bread to men of wisdom. But time and chance happens to them all. Which means when a man win a race, win a battle, when a hand is raised victorious, when someone becomes successful, it's not that they had the edge or the advantage over someone else. What determines who win and who doesn't is the one that says, this is my time, this is my moment in life. God has placed me in this world, and I have to do something great with what I have before my time expires. And I will not let this time, this moment, this window, this door pass me by. This is my opportunity that Heaven created for me, and I'm going to give it all I've got to give. And my last point. Say, I have greatness in my life. I have greatness in my life. Point number 10, bring out the best in you. John 7:38, he that believes in me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Ephesians 3:20, God says, I'll do exceedingly abundantly above all you ask or think according to the power that is at work within you. Matthew 9:29 tells us that Jesus touched this man's eyes and said, be it unto you according to your faith. Say it again, I have greatness within me. I have greatness within me. Now I want you to do something for me. I want you to stand to your feet. Stand to your feet. Look at your neighbor and say, neighbor, get one good look at me because this is the last time you're gonna see me struggle. This is the last time you're gonna see me weak. This is the last time you're gonna see me depressed. Because after today, I made up my mind that I'm going to bring out the best in me. Now give yourself a round of applause. Is there anybody that means what they just said? Is there anybody that's ready to go into the enemy's camp and take back what the enemy stole? Yes! I dare you to determine in your heart That from this moment on, I'm going to operate in my greatness. I'm going to flow in the power of the Holy Spirit, and I will not go home the way I came out. In fact, I'm not walking out of these doors the way I walked in these doors. I'm going to walk out full of power. I'm going to walk out full of grace. I'm going to walk out full of confidence. I'm going to walk out full of anointing. I'm going to going walk out full of favor. to I'm going to walk walk out full of faith. out full of authority. Throw your hands up and say, help me, Jesus, to bring out my best, to live in my greatness, and to give life all I got to give. I dare you to high-five somebody and say, I got to get out of here, but I'm glad I came to church today because something great is about to happen in my life. Oh, oh, oh. I got to get out of here, but one more time, high-five your neighbor and say, neighbor, get one good look at me because I'm getting ready now to turn my whole life around. I'm getting ready now to do what I never done, to live like I never lived, to have what I never had. And I hear the Holy Spirit saying that if you'll You can walk by faith and not by sight. I do exceedingly abundantly above all you ask or think. I wish I had a witness here. Won't he do it? Won't he bring you out? Won't he open a door that no man can close? Won't he pick you up and turn you around and place your feet on solid ground? Yes! Say yes! He'll put shoes on your feet. Money in your pocket, gas in your tank, a roof over your head. He'll make your enemies drop their weapons and flee. He'll rebuke every devil. He'll break every curse. He'll open every door. He said, I'll go before you and make the crooked places straight. I'll break in pieces the gates of brass and cut in asunder the bars of iron. You ought to tell the devil, you better get out of town, devil! Get out of town, devil! Because I'm getting ready to open up and let my greatness out. I'm getting ready to open up and let my power out. Put your hand on your stomach and say, "I got power in the name of Jesus. I got authority in the name of Jesus. I got greatness in the name of Jesus. I got gifts in the name of Jesus." Shout it again. I got power. I got greatness. I got gifts, and I got authority, and I'm out of here. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Say, neighbor, I got it. I got it. Say, neighbor, I got it. I got it.