Participants: Carlton P. Byrd
Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000019
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00:01 (Theme Song) ♪ Jesus is worthy ♪
00:12 ♪ oh yes, he's worthy ♪ ♪ worthy of all... ♪ 00:19 (Music) PB: My best worship 00:26 is before I even get to church. 00:30 Because see, some of you all are too quick up in here. 00:32 You've got other stuff to do. 00:34 You want church to hurry up, get this over here, get that 00:36 over there. 00:37 But when I've got real issues, I have to lay in a state of 00:43 worship and sometimes when I'm driving down the road and I'm 00:48 not finished with my worship yet, sometimes when I've got 00:52 tears in the corners of my eyes I'm not through yet, and 00:54 sometimes I'll be in the shower and I'll be calling on 00:59 the name of the Lord. 01:00 And I'm still worshipping God because I need God more today 01:06 than I've ever needed him before in my life. 01:08 Do I have a witness in this place? 01:11 Somebody knows what I'm talking about. 01:15 Sometimes you've got to call him on your job. 01:19 Your coworkers wonder where you're going. 01:22 You slip into a room by yourself. 01:24 You slip into an office, slip into a closet, maybe slip into 01:27 the bathroom, hey, and say, Lord, I'm going in this stall 01:31 because I need to make contact with you today. 01:34 Not tomorrow, not next week, but today. 01:36 I don't need drums, I don't need an organ, I don't need a 01:40 praise team, I don't need choirs, I don't need preaching 01:42 in order for me to worship God, I don't even have to 01:45 carry a tune, not in my certain place. 01:50 Not in my sanctuary, my inner sanctuary. 01:53 I don't need the latest gospel song. 01:56 You all don't know, I'm a song writer in and of myself. 01:59 I'll make up a song. 02:01 I'll be walking through Berean making up songs. 02:04 ♪ (sings) You healed me before, ♪ you healed me again. ♪ 02:08 ♪ When I think about what you ♪ ♪ did for me way back then. ♪ 02:12 You all hear what I'm saying. 02:15 I'll even wrap it up, ♪ (sings) praise the Lord. ♪ 02:18 For goodness sake, ♪ ♪ we're all going to take a ♪ 02:20 ♪ Bible break. ♪ You all hear what I'm saying. 02:22 I'll whoop it up when I think of the goodness of Jesus and 02:27 all he's done for me. 02:34 Because there's this certain place. 02:39 You have this place of sanctity. 02:42 You don't let your weakness get in the way of your 02:44 sanctity. 02:46 You don't let carnality get in the way of your sanctity. 02:50 You don't let addictions or habits or drugs get in the way 02:55 of your spot. 02:56 Devil yes, I've got issues, but the issues don't have me. 03:00 I'm not going to let that thing get inside of me, 03:04 because this place, this temple belongs to God. 03:08 It is a place of sanctity, a place of holiness where you go 03:13 to God alone and you don't mind being alone with God. 03:17 I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the 03:21 roses because sometimes you don't want everybody else 03:25 around you, because it's you and God at your place. 03:30 Maybe you're in your back yard walking around and you're 03:36 walking around in circles, the neighbor's looking at you like 03:39 you've lost your mind. 03:40 If they saw you they would think you were crazy because 03:42 they can't see anybody in the back yard but you. 03:45 But you're in the back yard, releasing all of your cares, 03:50 all of your burdens, all of your issues for that specific 03:54 time, specific situation, that specific place, because it's 03:58 your place, your place with God. 04:01 I'll be honest. 04:02 I don't see much of that today. 04:04 I see a lot of people come to church trying to benefit from 04:07 people who have a place. 04:09 They go to church to hear somebody preach who's been 04:15 with Jesus. 04:16 They go to hear somebody else sing who's been with Jesus. 04:19 But it used to be that you'd been with Jesus for yourself 04:23 and if nobody's sang, if nobody preaches, you could 04:28 still get blessed because you enter into his gates with 04:32 thanksgiving, you came into his court with praise, you 04:36 were thankful unto him and you blessed his name. 04:42 I'm going to be real with you all. 04:44 I praise God for the large fellowship and the growing 04:45 fellowship we have, but let me be honest, I don't have to 04:48 have anybody in here to have church. 04:52 Not one of you. 04:54 Everyone can leave. 04:55 Me and the Lord. 04:56 I can get happy all by myself. 04:58 Jump up and down. 05:00 Don't have to worry about you all being critical. 05:02 I can dance on God's pulpit. 05:05 I can start crying, start shouting, start saying Amen, 05:07 start clapping my hands, start singing, start praising, all 05:10 by myself. 05:13 You'll walk in church going, what's wrong with Pastor Byrd? 05:15 Oh, he's just praising God. 05:16 In an insane world you need a place, an inner place, a 05:23 sanctity. 05:24 It can't be bought. 05:27 And praise and worship and this place of sanctity is not 05:30 for sale. 05:32 A place that has nothing to do with money. 05:34 It's exclusively God's and you must learn to 05:37 protect that place. 05:38 You don't let anybody sweet talk you into that spot, 05:42 because, guess what, they're going to leave you, they're 05:45 going to disappoint you, but Jesus said, I will never leave 05:48 nor forsake you. 05:49 I know you don't think somebody, they're going to 05:51 leave you, but keep on living. 05:53 You'll find out, they will leave. 05:56 Johnny will leave. 05:57 Mary will leave. 05:59 You have to have a place of sanctity. 06:01 Say sanctity, everybody. 06:03 You don't let anybody or anything in that spot. 06:05 No bills, no worries, no stress, no mess, no kids, 06:07 no job, nothing. 06:09 That is God's place. 06:11 Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary, pure and holy, 06:19 tried and true, with thanksgiving. 06:26 I'll be a living sanctuary, Lord, just for you. 06:34 Number two, you need a place of sacrifice. 06:39 Everybody say sacrifice. 06:41 Now, I know it's not popular to talk about 06:43 sacrifice anymore. 06:44 It's more popular to talk about success. 06:46 Nobody wants to talk about sacrifice but you can't have 06:48 success without sacrifice. 06:51 Preach, Pastor Byrd, I'm doing the best I can. 06:55 That's what's wrong with people today. 06:56 Do you understand? 06:57 Ms. Palmer, Mr. Womack, they didn't get where they are just 07:01 by success, there was some sacrifice. 07:04 That's what's wrong with people today, they want 07:06 success without sacrifice. 07:09 They want to hobo in on what somebody else has got. 07:11 Their name is Jimmy and they want you to gimme. 07:14 I wish I had a witness in this place. 07:16 But it doesn't work that way. 07:19 You've got to have some sacrifice along 07:24 with your success. 07:26 You have to give up something. 07:29 You can't snatch what God has for you while you're sitting 07:33 holding on to what you did for yourself. 07:36 You've got to let go a few things so you can lay hold on 07:38 some more things. 07:41 If there's anything in your life that you're holding onto 07:42 that's greater than God, you've got to get rid of it. 07:45 Cast down everything you're holding onto, pull it off, 07:47 take it off, get rid of it, because God is getting ready 07:49 to pour you out a blessing, that you won't have room 07:52 enough to receive it, so you have to let go of something so 07:54 you can lay hold on something. 07:56 Friends of mine, it's called a sacrifice. 08:00 But we've raised a generation of people, a generation of 08:04 young people who don't know anything about sacrifice. 08:08 And that's why we're failing, because no sacrifice 08:12 means no success. 08:14 I loved it when the president of our country, President and 08:16 Mrs. Obama said, even after Sasha and Malia get in the 08:19 White House they will still make their beds. 08:23 Sacrifice. 08:25 Guess what? 08:26 Sometimes little Johnny needs to go to school. 08:30 Mama, but I still have my cold. 08:32 Get a band-aid, put it on, now go to school. 08:35 See you at three o'clock. 08:35 I wish I had a witness in this place. 08:37 I'm contemporary but I'm still a little old school. 08:39 Back in the days they raised you. 08:41 My daddy raised my brother and I with a strong work ethic and 08:44 he raised us to be tough. 08:46 You don't wimp out on everything. 08:50 Just because something doesn't go your way, you don't 08:52 give up and give out. 08:54 But now we're raising people and especially our 08:57 young men to fail. 08:59 Oh, you all hear what I'm saying. 09:01 It's Valentine's weekend. 09:02 Before the man got married in the Garden of Eden, God gave 09:04 him a job. 09:05 I wish I had a witness in this place. 09:09 Before Adam married Eve, God gave him a job. 09:12 He was caretaker of the Garden. 09:13 Are you hearing what I'm saying. 09:14 We've got to raise our young men to be tough. 09:18 Pants sagging off here thinking you tough. 09:22 That ain't tough, go get a job, that's tough. 09:27 Mommy, I don't feel good. 09:28 Something's on my mind. 09:30 Well, baby, just stay home until you get over it. 09:32 No, get up and get yourself to school. 09:35 Goodbye. 09:37 Here's some oatmeal, take a cookie. 09:39 Get a piece of fruit and there's a water fountain at 09:41 the school. 09:41 Goodbye. 09:43 Sometimes you have to sacrifice. 09:46 In life there are good days and there are bad days, and 09:51 sometimes you have to endure some things, some tough things 09:55 and sacrifice. 09:57 Talk about learning how to sacrifice. 10:00 Well, you have to have a certain place. 10:03 You have to have a praying place. 10:06 You have to be tough. 10:07 Instead of telling everything to everybody, you have to go 10:08 into your secret closet and you have to say, Lord, I know 10:12 you didn't bring me this far to leave me. 10:15 Lord, I know that I know that I know that you've got 10:18 something with my name written all over it, but while I'm 10:22 waiting, help me to renew my strength. 10:27 Because one day the wicked will cease from troubling and 10:30 the weary will be at rest. 10:32 A place of sacrifice. 10:35 You give up something to get something, but some folk don't 10:36 want to make any sacrifices. 10:40 We're going to the home now. 10:41 Momma and Daddy can't compromise about anything. 10:45 I left her because she can't cook. 10:49 I left her because her hair is coming out. 10:51 Go get her some weave and keep on going. 10:53 Do I have a witness in this place? 10:55 I left him because his hair is coming out. 10:57 Buy him some Rogaine and keep it moving. 10:59 Do I have a witness in this place? 11:01 No sacrifice. 11:05 We've compromised on anything. 11:06 But you'll have success. 11:10 People looking around, seeing who, without sacrifice. 11:16 I'm leaving him because he lost his job. 11:17 Well, you know what, quit talking about him losing his 11:19 job. 11:20 Take him on a job search. 11:21 But come on, baby, I know you've been knocked down but 11:24 we're going to get up again. 11:26 I've got your back. 11:27 I believe in God for you. 11:29 I pressed your shirt, here's a tie, let's get up out of here. 11:32 We're not going to wallow in this. 11:34 I anoint you with oil in the name of Jesus. 11:37 We're going to get a job in the name of Jesus. 11:40 Sacrifice. 11:44 You need somebody. 11:45 Listen to me. 11:46 All these folk getting married. 11:47 You need somebody who is going to be with you in the good and 11:49 the bad. 11:50 The ups and the downs, the right and the wrong. 11:53 Sacrifice. 11:54 How can you have sacrifice? 11:55 You've got to have a certain place. 11:59 A place where you can take it to God in prayer. 12:02 Parents, you've got to pray your kids off those crazy 12:04 drugs. 12:06 Pray them out of the streets. 12:08 Pray them out, don't fuss them out, don't cuss them out, pray 12:10 them out. 12:12 And do a hardness of the good godly soldier. 12:14 The way you sacrifice is you have to have a place of 12:17 prayer. 12:19 People don't want to sacrifice. 12:20 Run up to me. 12:21 Pastor Byrd, you've got it going on. 12:23 I want your anointing. 12:25 Lay hands on me. 12:26 (laughter) I need a job. 12:33 God blessing you. 12:34 Some folk I can lay my hands on them until my handprints 12:41 were in their forehead and you still wouldn't get anything 12:45 until you're willing to sacrifice. 12:51 Until you go through what I go through. 12:54 Suffer, like I suffered. 12:57 Did without when I did without. 13:00 Cried like I cried. 13:02 Endured when I endured like I endured. 13:05 The Bible says, after you're suffered a while, then will I 13:08 establish you, I will settle you, I will make you perfect. 13:12 I can't give you something it took me 20 years of crawling 13:16 across the floor to get and you want it in two minutes. 13:20 The devil is lie. 13:23 You've got to sacrifice. 13:25 I've learned in my walk with God. 13:27 I've come to almost 17 years now I'm pastoring. 13:29 I've learned, you still have to preach even when your 13:33 feelings are hurt. 13:35 You've go to preach when your heart is broken. 13:40 You've got to still preach even when you feel you have 13:43 not a friend in the world. 13:44 You've got to preach when you're grief stricken. 13:47 After you've proven yourself to be faithful, then the 13:51 anointing of the Holy Ghost will fall on you. 13:54 Do I have a witness in this place? 13:56 Let me tell you all something. 13:57 All this light, camera and action, I went through 13:59 something to get all this. 14:03 That's how somebody else, you got that house. 14:04 You sacrificed. 14:06 You're driving that car now because you sacrificed. 14:08 Somebody in here bought a house you couldn't pay to put 14:10 any furniture in it. 14:11 You sacrificed. 14:12 You slept on a cot in the back room until you could do 14:15 better. 14:16 Help me, Holy Ghost. 14:17 Give me some folk who don't mind sacrifices. 14:20 I am sick of all these cutie-pie, Johnny-come-lately 14:24 folk who need somebody who can take something. 14:28 We need, however, somebody who can take a licking but keep on 14:31 ticking. 14:32 Am I preaching to anybody up in this place today? 14:35 The symbol of Christianity is not a crown it's a cross. 14:41 Doesn't that give you a clue? 14:43 Doesn't that give you a hint? 14:44 Christ is saying, you must sacrifice. 14:48 Guess what? 14:50 You don't get to be happy every day, and remember, 14:52 there's a difference between happiness and joy. 14:55 Happiness is when somebody gives you flowers. 14:57 If nobody gives me flowers, I've still got joy because 14:59 I've got Jesus. 15:01 There are some things I'm learning in my life. 15:04 There are some things you learn by being miserable. 15:10 That's heavy. 15:12 You can't learn it all the time being happy. 15:14 I think I've got a witness in this place. 15:16 You've got to learn it while folk are lying on you, talking 15:19 about you, stabbing you in your back. 15:24 That's how you learn. 15:25 That is God before you. 15:28 He's more than the world against you. 15:32 Sacrifice. 15:35 Work here six months, work over there six months, 15:42 work over there six months. 15:43 Something's wrong with everybody else. 15:44 No, something's wrong with you. 15:47 You don't have a place. 15:50 You don't have a place of sacrifice. 15:53 Somebody's saying, no I don't like, 15:54 Making these hamburgers. 15:56 I don't like making these hamburgers. 15:59 And I give respect to somebody's who got a J-O-B 16:01 even if they're making hamburgers. 16:03 I don't like making these hamburgers, but somebody 16:04 understands, I've got to make these hamburgers right now. 16:08 No, I don't like bagging groceries, but I've got to bag 16:11 these groceries right now. 16:14 Until I can finish these classes. 16:17 Until I can maneuver over here. 16:20 So I'm going to go on and flip them with a smile. 16:23 They all understand what we talking about. 16:25 I'm going to flip them with a smile, I'm going to bag those 16:28 groceries with a smile because he that has the God of good 16:34 work in you, shall continue it even if until the day of 16:37 Jesus' return. 16:39 So, welcome to McDonald's. 16:42 I love to see you smile. 16:45 Welcome to Burger King, have it your way. 16:47 Welcome to Publics, paper or plastic. 16:50 I'm trying to help somebody but it won't be like that 16:53 always. 16:55 Troubles don't last always. 16:58 There's a bright side somewhere. 17:04 There are people in this church right now, you're on a 17:08 job you don't like right now, but you're on it, praise God 17:11 to have a job. 17:12 You're on a job right now because you have a plan. 17:17 You've got a strategy and if you suffer with Him, you one 17:23 day will reign with him. 17:25 It's sacrifice. 17:27 Is there anybody here who got what you got through 17:30 sacrifice? 17:31 Do I have a witness in this place? 17:33 You pray and you cry and you suffered and you did without, 17:38 but God blessed you. 17:41 Can I be real? 17:42 That's why I ain't worrying about folk who are jealous of 17:44 me. 17:45 I ain't studying folk who hate on me. 17:47 My haters are my elevators. 17:48 I wish I had a witness in this place. 17:50 You don't know what I went through to get what I've got. 17:54 You all don't hear what I'm saying. 17:56 The devil is a lie. 17:58 Work 14 hours in that back office, no vacations, preach 18:03 for years with two suits, a black suit, a blue suit, just 18:07 change the shirt and tie, hallelujah, somebody. 18:10 You don't know me, you better ask somebody. 18:15 Anybody ever been through sacrifice? 18:19 (music) Prejudiced against just because I was a 18:25 preacher's child. 18:27 Talked about just because I had good morals and ethics. 18:30 Criticized just because I had a vision and was passionate 18:33 about that vision. 18:34 Lost a daughter in a car accident, but look at me now. 18:42 If you suffer with Him, I declare that God will open up 18:47 the windows of Heaven, pour you out a blessing that there 18:52 shall not be room to receive it. 18:55 Hallelujah. 19:01 (music) Finally, finally, number three. 19:07 A certain place. 19:10 Number three. 19:11 Oh, I feel like preaching here today. 19:13 A certain place. 19:16 At that certain place, a place of sanctity, a place of 19:21 sacrifice, number three, finally, at that certain 19:24 place, God is revealed. 19:28 The companion text says in Matthew 6:6, 19:30 "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy 19:36 closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy 19:41 Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in 19:49 secret shall reward," not maybe, not perhaps, shall. 19:51 You all don't hear what I'm saying? 19:55 "Shall reward you openly." 19:59 There is the place where God shows you and God shows 20:05 everybody else who God is. 20:07 At this place, God says, I am God Almighty and there is none 20:13 like me. 20:16 At this place, Jehovah Jireh provides. 20:19 At this place, Jehovah Rapha heals. 20:22 At this place, Jehovah Shalom gives you peace. 20:26 At this place, Jehovah Nissi is your banner. 20:29 At this place, Jehovah Shammah is there. 20:33 At this place, this is the place where you come back from 20:40 the doctor's office crying because there was a lump in 20:43 your breast and the enemy said, you're going to die, 20:47 you're going to die, you're going to die. 20:50 You begin to ask, who's going to keep the kids? 20:52 Who's going to feed the dog? 20:54 And you're walking down the road just crying and crying. 20:57 But then God all of a sudden, God all of a sudden speaketh 21:02 and says, I'm God over cancer, I'm God over affliction, I'm 21:07 God over sickness. 21:10 I am God Almighty. 21:12 But, Preacher, I just got laid off, but God says, I can keep 21:16 you with no job. 21:20 I can feed you with no job. 21:22 I can supply all your needs. 21:24 I am God Almighty. 21:28 I wish I had a witness in this place. 21:31 I wish I had somebody who's been through hell and high 21:32 water. 21:33 I wish I had somebody who had God bless you when you had no 21:37 job, had no house, had no car, made a way out of no way. 21:42 I wish I had a witness in this place. 21:45 He is God Almighty. 21:47 God over your problems. 21:48 God over sickness. 21:50 God over affliction. 21:51 God over crack. 21:53 God will pick you up, turn you around. 21:57 (music) Let me tell you something. 22:03 Anybody been through what you all been through, they lost 22:13 their mind. 22:16 Your friends are dead, you've got classmates in jail. 22:20 But God brought you out. 22:27 You ought to praise him. 22:28 I don't need drums all the time, I don't need organ, I 22:30 don't need praise teams, I praise him for what he's done. 22:36 Can I get real, we're like talking about this in church, 22:37 but let me say it. 22:39 Somebody in this church, somebody watching this 22:41 broadcast, some of you who are HIV negative, you ought to 22:45 praise God for his grace. 22:48 And some of you who are HIV positive, you ought to praise 22:51 him because you ought to thank God you don't have full-blown 22:53 AIDS. 22:54 Do I have a witness in this place? 22:56 Where are the real people today? 22:57 Who are the thankful folk? 22:59 The real blessed folk who have an inner place? 23:03 An inner sanctuary? 23:05 Lord, I thank you. 23:05 Lord, I bless you. 23:07 Lord, I worship you. 23:09 To God be the glory. 23:12 It is no secret what God can do, what he's done for others, 23:16 he'll do for you, you ought to see the miracles in this room. 23:19 You should see the folk that should have been dead, could 23:22 have been dead. 23:23 They're not going to tell you, but there are some folk in 23:25 this room right now that should have been dead. 23:31 But God made a way out of no way. 23:40 It's time to praise God. 23:43 It's time to thank God. 23:45 I'm ready. 23:46 Time to worship God. 23:47 God is revealed. 23:47 Prayer time is high time. 23:53 The hymn said, I'm pressing on the upward way, new heights, 23:58 I'm gaining every day. 24:00 Still praying I'm onward bound, Lord, plant my feet. 24:09 Ask, it shall be given you. 24:13 Seek, ye shall find. 24:17 Knock and the door shall be opened unto you. 24:22 Let me tell you all something. 24:23 I am who God said I am. 24:25 I can do what God says I can do. 24:29 I can be who God says I can be. 24:32 I can have what God says I can have. 24:34 I'm more than a conquerer, I'm the head not the tail. 24:37 I'm above not beneath. 24:38 The devil is trembling right now. 24:45 The devil is nervous right now. 24:49 It's a place of sanctity. 24:59 A place of sanctity, a place of sacrifice. 25:13 The secret closet is where God reveals himself. 25:22 So, you don't know my story, the pain that I've been 25:27 through. 25:29 You don't even know the pain of what I just had to do to 25:31 get here today. 25:33 You'll never understand my worship. 25:37 You'll never understand my praise. 25:41 But know this, my worship, this thing is for real. 25:49 This thing ain't no show. 25:52 This thing is for real. 25:56 PB: Be sure to join us again next week as we continue to 26:01 explore God's word. 26:04 Remember, God has a word just for you from the holy Bible. 26:09 Also, I'd like to invite you to become a partner of the 26:13 Breath of Life ministry. 26:14 If you would like to join us as we seek to share the gospel 26:17 of Jesus Christ with others, feel free to give us a call at 26:20 877-BOL-OFFER. 26:27 Again, that's 877-BOL-OFFER. 26:36 Or feel free to write us at the address shown on your 26:38 screen. 26:39 Finally, you can reach us by logging on to our web site at 26:43 www.breathoflife.tv. 26:51 Thank you for tuning in, thank you for joining us and may God 26:54 continue to bless you. 26:57 >: Two thousand years ago Jesus did something 27:02 especially for you. 27:03 He died on the cross of Calvary. 27:06 That day you were on His mind. 27:09 Our offer this week is Max Lucado's, "He Did This Just 27:11 for You." This easy to read, inspiring book 27:15 reveals what God did to win your heart. 27:18 Let Max Lucado, as only he can, beautifully lay out the 27:21 way home to our heavenly Father through Jesus Christ, 27:23 our Lord and Savior. 27:25 Call today and ask for "He Did This Just for You. "It's yours 27:28 for a gift of $5 or more. 27:31 The toll free number is 877-BOL-OFFER. 27:35 That's 877-265-6333. 27:38 Or you may write to Breath of Life, Box 340, Newbury Park, 27:42 CA 91319. 27:47 Remember to include your gift of $5 or more. 27:50 Get up close and personal with the passion 27:51 and promise of God almighty in "He Did 27:54 This Just For You" (Music) PB: Devil yes. 28:01 I've got issues, but the issues don't have me. 28:06 Because this place, this temple belongs to God. 28:10 It is a place of sanctity, a place of holiness where you go 28:15 to God alone. 28:17 Find a place to pray. 28:24 God will pick you up, turn you around. |
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