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JERRY: Hello, everyone. I'm Jerry Savelle. Thank you for
joining me today. I pray that this broadcast will be a great
inspiration to your life, and it will be faith building for you
today as you watch and listen to the anointed Word of God. Last
week I shared with you, or began sharing with you, a message that
I preached in our church right here in Crowley, Texas. The
church that I founded many years ago, Heritage of Faith Christian
Center. And I want to take you into that service once again for
the conclusion of that message. I want to read to you this
prophetic word that the Lord gave me regarding 2018. He said,
"These are indeed the days of my greater glory." Sayeth the Lord.
"I will cause it to manifest for all who remain faithful to me,
and faithful to my Word. And I will cause them to flourish and
to abound, even as I have promised in my word." That's
just a portion of this prophetic word. He said, "It will be days
of glory, days of flourishing, and days of abounding." So,
watch now, and get ready to be blessed. And get ready to be
inspired by this powerful message. And then at
the close, I'll have some things to share
with you at that time. Watch now.
JERRY: Hallelujah. 2018, days of glory. The
Psalmist said that God has done this before, and I believe he's
ready to do it again. Psalm 65:11, "Thou crownest the year
with thy goodness. And thy paths drop fatness." You crowned the
year with your goodness. Hallelujah. One of the things
that, as we keep marching toward the appearing of Jesus, we'll
look back at 2018 and say, that was the year. I have testimonies
of something that God has done in my life every year since
1969. And I have a great memory. Satan tried to take that away
from me, but he failed, praise God. I remember the days, and
places, and times when manifestations of God's goodness
took place in my life. And I will look back on 2018 and say,
that was the year that he crowned the year with his
goodness. And his paths dropped fatness. That word fatness means
prosperity and abundance. Hallelujah. God is leaving a
path for us in 2018. And it will lead to prosperity and
abundance. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Somebody give the Lord a
good shout of praise. Amen. Now, the New Living Translation says,
"The pathways overflow with abundance." Is anyone ready for
the overflow? No wonder the Psalmist promises, or proclaims
rather, in Psalm 107 verse 8, "Oh that men would praise the
Lord for his goodness." Notice this sounds like a plead. It's
almost begging men, praise the Lord for his goodness. Praise
the Lord for his goodness. Apparently, praising God for his
goodness is so important that the psalmist repeats this in
verses 15, verses 21, and verse 31, same phrase. "Oh that men
would praise the Lord for his goodness." How could the body of
Christ see a principle at least four times in one chapter, and
don't pay any attention to it? Is God trying to get our
attention? I really truly believe, and I've been more
convinced in the last couple of days that praise and worship are
monument to the greatest breakthroughs we've ever seen.
In 1992, I was in Liberty, Texas and I had a visitation of the
Lord. It was the second time that I had experienced a
supernatural visitation. First one was 1981. Carolyn was in
the room with me when it happened. But, I was in Liberty,
Texas in a little small motel. And I was getting ready to
preach for a pastor friend of mine, and I believe this was
November 1992. And I laid down on the bed there, set my alarm
so I could take a one hour nap before I got ready to go into
that service. And the moment I laid my head down, the Lord
appeared to me. And he said these words, he said, "My people
know me as Savior. Some of them know me as Baptizer in the Holy
Ghost. Some know me as Healer. Some know me as Deliverer. But,
most of them don't know me as the God of the breakthrough." He
said, "If they did, they wouldn't be so quick to give
up." And then he said this to me, he said, "You go over there
and tell those people, and you preach it everywhere you go
until I tell you otherwise. You go tell them the God of the
breakthrough wants to visit their house." And then he said
this, and I'll never forget it, I never forgot that part either,
but he said this, "Tell them that the depth of their praise
will determine the magnitude of their break through." I'd never
heard that phrase before, never heard anything like that. He
said, "The depth of their praise will determine the magnitude of
their breakthrough." So, no wonder the psalmist says four
times in one Psalm, "Oh that men would praise the Lord for his
goodness." So, perhaps, that's what we need to do right now.
Just stop and praise God for his goodness. Can you do that? Just
lift up your hands and praise God for his goodness. That
doesn't sound like a whole lot of praise going on to me. Praise
God for his goodness! Hallelujah! "Oh that men would
praise the Lord for his goodness!" I'm pleading with you
just like the psalmist did. "Oh that men would praise the Lord
for his goodness!" Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord! Thank you,
Lord! Thank you, Lord for your goodness! Hallelujah! Amen! Be
seated if you will. Did you know that praise and thanksgiving is
one of the greatest expressions of faith? We should be praising
him the moment we experience the manifestation of his goodness.
But, also, we should be praising him in anticipation of his
goodness. A few moments ago I asked the question, anybody
experience the goodness of God in the last few days? Number of
hands were lifted. How many of you in here are presently
anticipating the goodness of God? Well, praise him.
Hallelujah. Praise him in anticipation for the goodness of
God! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Thank you, Father! Thank you,
Lord! Hallelujah! Amen. Praise God! David said in Psalm 145
verse 7, "They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy
goodness." "They shall abundantly utter the memory of
thy goodness." Like I said earlier, so many people forget
so quickly when God manifests his goodness. People believe him
for a financial miracle, God does it, and they may thank him
the moment it happened, but they forget. Keeping in your memory
manifestations of the goodness of God is vital to seeing it
again. The reason David was able to slay Goliath is before he
went out to battle, he remembered that this same God
had delivered him from the lion and the bear. And this
uncircumcised Philistine will be no different than them. See, he
kept in his memory the goodness of God. He brought it up from
time to time. He writes about it, he sings about it, he makes
songs about it. When was the last time you wrote a song about
the goodness of God? When was the last time you allowed a new
song to come out of your spirit about the goodness of God? I do
that a lot in my room. And in my room all alone, I sing as good
as Cassie. I got up doing it this
morning singing with her on her CD,-
CONGREGATION: Yeah, thank you Father. JERRY: -praising God
for his goodness, praising God for all the times that he's come
through for me. Dear Lord, in 40, almost 49 years, I couldn't
tell you in a month of services all that God has done for me.
Hallelujah. The least I can do is attempt to express my thanks
fully. Can you say amen? CONGREGATION: Amen. JERRY:
Hallelujah. This is a key to experiencing days of greater
glory. Can you say amen? CONGREGATION: Yes. JERRY: Keep
God's goodness in your memory. Look at your neighbor and say,
"Don't forget the goodness of God." CONGREGATION: Don't forget
the goodness of God. JERRY: Now, David also said in Psalm 27:13,
"I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of
the Lord in the land of the living." Notice in a great trial
he says that, "I would have fainted if I had not believed
that I would see the goodness of God." In other words, he
wouldn't have had the strength, the fortitude, the ability to
keep standing in faith if he hadn't believed that he's going
to see the goodness of God just like he'd seen in days past.
Amen. That's important. Once again we see that the greatest
expression of faith is praise and thanksgiving in anticipation
of what you believe God's going to do. Anybody can praise Him
after it happens. It takes great faith to praise Him while you're
waiting for it to happen and great faith to praise Him when
it looks like it'll never happen
and great faith to praise Him when the
devil screaming at you and it'll never happen. We'll just get up,
jump out of bed, dance a jig before the Lord and say, "Just
hide and watch devil. In the name of Jesus, He's never failed
me. Hallelujah." Can you say amen? CONGREGATION: Amen. JERRY:
Hallelujah. Amen. Now, notice in Psalm 27 where he said, "I
would've fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of
the Lord." What was he doing in the meantime while he's
believing to see the goodness of the Lord? Verse six: "Therefore
I will offer sacrifices of joy. I will sing. Yeah, I will sing
praises to the Lord." What was he doing while he was waiting to
see this goodness manifest? He was praising God before it
happened. He was singing unto the Lord and praising God. I'm
telling you folks, if you want days of greater glory in 2018,
you need to spend more time praising God and rejoicing and
thanking Him and what He's already done and what He's about
to do. Hallelujah. Practice praise. Hallelujah. Amen. Psalm
22, verse 3 says that "He inhabits the praises of his
people." He inhabits the praises of his people. Inhabit means
that He dwells in and He abides in our prayers. In other words,
He comes down and settles in with us right in the midst of
praise. You know what happens when God shows up? The enemy is
stilled. The enemy stopped. Every assignment of the devil
against you is broken. Wouldn't that be a good reason to spend
more time in praise and worship? CONGREGATION: Yeah. JERRY:
Hallelujah. Amen. God shows up in the midst of our praise.
Where He is, His glory is. Where the glory is, His goodness is.
He's like American Express, He never leaves home without it.
Hallelujah. His goodness always shows up where He is celebrated.
I like that. His goodness always shows up where He is
celebrated. Look at your neighbor and tell him, "His
goodness always shows where He is celebrated." CONGREGATION:
His goodness always shows where He is celebrated. JERRY: Psalm
67 verse 5-7: "Let the people praise Thee, O Lord. Let all the
people praise Thee." I want you to go to that Psalm. I want you
to see this, some very important principles here. Psalm 67,
beginning in verse 5: "Let the people praise Thee, O God. Let
all the people praise Thee. Then," next word's then.
Everybody say then. CONGREGATION: Then JERRY: Do you
know what then means? If the people will praise Him, they'll
get a reaction from God. If the people will praise Him, then
something happens. Talking about the power of praise. Then means
for this reason, soon afterwards something will take place.
Hallelujah. Let the people praise You, O Lord, and then
something will take place. Notice what he says will take
place here. He says, "Then shall the earth yield her increase,
and God, even our own God shall bless us. God shall bless us and
all the ends of the earth shall fear Him." Notice, the blessing
came after the praise. The increase came after the praise.
The glory came after the praise. The goodness came after the
praise. Are you getting it this morning? CONGREGATION: Yeah.
JERRY: No wonder most of God's people are not experiencing more
of the goodness of God in their life. It's not God holding out.
They're not participating. We do our part and God never fails to
do His part. CONGREGATION: Right. JERRY: Hallelujah. Look
at somebody and say, "If you just praise Him,-" CONGREGATION:
If you just praise Him,- JERRY: "-then you'll experience
increase," CONGREGATION: -then you'll experience increase.
JERRY: "-then you'll experience goodness,-" CONGREGATION: -then
you'll experience goodness,- JERRY: "-then you'll experience
blessing." Well, why don't you just go ahead and praise Him
right now. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to
God. In this particular verse, the word blessed means to make
happy, to make successful, to prosper, and to cause good
things to come into your life. Hallelujah. If we'll just praise
Him, He'll cause good things to come into our lives. You want to
know why I'm so blessed? I'm a praiser. Hallelujah. I give
thanks to my God. I attribute ever success in my life to the
God I serve. Hallelujah. Without Him, I'm nothing. Without Him, I
can't do anything. Hallelujah. I've got the ... I've got
Jehovah. I've got El Shaddai. Hallelujah. He's on
my side. Glory to God. Glory to God. Somebody shout a little
bit. Praise God. This is one of the greatest desires of our
Father is to bring happiness, success, and prosperity and
causing good things to come into our lives. 3rd John 2, "Beloved,
I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in
health even as thy soul prospers." Once again, perhaps
one of the major reasons why that most Christians are not
enjoying any more of the goodness of God than they are,
they don't thank Him enough. They don't praise Him enough.
They don't rejoice in Him enough. They don't express
gratefulness enough. Can you say amen? CONGREGATION: Amen. JERRY:
Now, before I close today, I'll remind you again that we have
learned that the glory of God is the manifested presence of God,
the manifested goodness of God, and the manifested power of God.
Now, we'll keep talking about those things as time goes by.
We've also learned that praise will not only bring the presence
of God on the scene, but it also brings the goodness of God as
well. However, it doesn't stop there. Praise will also bring
the power of God at work in your life. When His power comes, then
things change, even things that seem impossible. A great example
of this is found in Acts Chapter 16 with Paul and Silas having
been thrown in prison. It says in verse 25 and 26, "And at
midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises." Did you
notice the choir wasn't with them, and the choir director
wasn't saying, "Now, let's all praise God."
They did it on their own. How often do you do it on your
own? The only time you praise God is when you come to church
and Cassie stands up and begins to lead the praise and worship.
That's kind of like the question, how long has it been
since you've had a good bowl of wolf brand chili? Well that's
too long. Do you know I've watched the commercials? I don't
watch TV. I watch the commercials. If you only wait to
praise God, if you only wait to praise God when somebody leads
you, you waited too long. Can you say amen? You remember the
story in Acts. It says the prisoners heard them. When's the
last time somebody heard you praise God? Well
I have a praise in my heart but it doesn't
come out of my mouth. Liar, liar, pants on
fire. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If
you got a praise in your heart, you're not having a problem with
it coming out. You're having a problem shutting up. Amen. The
prisoners heard them and suddenly, how many of you would
like some suddenlys in your life? And suddenly there was a
great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were
shaken and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's
bands were loosed. Notice praise brought the presence of the
power of God, and it changed what seemed to be impossible. It
changed their circumstances and it will change your
circumstances. How many of you want to see more of the glory of
God in your life in 2018? How many of you want this word
coming to pass in your life, hallelujah? Then I encourage you
to spend more time praising God. Praise not only brings the
presence of God, the goodness of God, but it will bring the power
of God and it also disarms the adversary. Amen. Several times,
it's recorded in the Old Testament that God would have
the singers and the praisers to come up to the front lines when
enemy forces where about to attack and God's people were
totally outnumbered. What did God say? Bring those people that
don't have any better sense than to praise me anyway. Bring all
them praisers up front. Bring them singers up front and they'd
go to praising God and it disarmed their enemy. It
confounded the enemy. Satan don't know what to do with you
when you're praising God and he thinks he's got you. He don't
know what to do when you praise God and you're in the worst
trial you've ever experienced. Praise him anyhow. Praise him
anyway. Hallelujah. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. It disarms the
adversary. So if you truly want 2018 to be a year in which you
experience days of glory, then I strongly suggest again, spend
more time praising your God. Jumpstart your battery. Don't
walk around in sadness. Don't walk around without any joy.
Don't walk around all sad and grieved and oppressed. No. God
has given you the tools that will cause his presence, his
power and his goodness to show up in your life. What did David
say? All the days of my life. Every day of your life, can you
say amen? I shouldn't have to say this but I'll go
ahead and kind of help jumpstart you. Jump
to your feet and begin to praise God.
JERRY: I truly hope you were blessed by the message today and
if you were, please write to me and let me know about it. I love
hearing from our friends and partners, how that this ministry
is blessing their lives and how that it's taking you to another
level in your walk with God. Let me encourage you to be sure and
place your order today for the four CDs on this subject, 2018
Days of Glory, Days of Flourishing and Days of
Abounding. This message or these messages rather are so
power-packed and full of the anointing of God and obviously,
as I've said before, I can't cover all of that in a message
on television, but you have the opportunity to listen to each
and every message, all the way through and I believe, praise
God, it's going to take your faith to a higher level and
you're going to position yourself to experience just
that. Days of glory, days of flourishing and days of
abounding. So place your order right now. Don't delay. Place
your order right now. All the ordering information is on your
screen, so if you can call in or write in, however it's most
convenient for you, but do it today. Once again, our special
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information, these resources, and once you get them in your
home and begin listening to them, I believe, praise God,
it's going to position you to experience the greatest
blessings that you've ever experienced. Once again I want
to share some of the testimonies we've received. Here's one from
Sandra. The Lord blessed me with a debt-free car, taxes and
insurance and title paid for. It has full coverage insurance,
paid in full, praise God. That is a great blessing Sandra, and
we appreciate you sharing that with us. You know God's no
respecter of persons. There may be others of you that are
believing for cars, debt free. Well here's a testimony.
Someone's experienced it. God can do it for Sandra. Then he
can also do it for you. Here's one from Heather. I really like
this. She said almost 30 years ago, you spoke at my church in
Perth, Western Australia. You spoke on the four Ds to success,
decision, discipline, dedication and determination. I remember
that sermon well. I have used those four Ds to shape my focus
whenever I embark on a new project. You sowed the seed in
my life when I was just 21 years old and now I'm a mother and
teacher and I still reflect on those words of wisdom. They keep
me focused. Thank you for your ministry. Heather, I remember
that meeting well, and thanks for reminding me of it. Thanks
for reminding me of that message and I rejoice with you at all
the goodness you're experiencing from the Lord. Thank you
Heather, once again. Don't forget next week we're going to
begin a brand new lesson, so be sure and make your plans to join
with me. Don't forget your faith will overcome the world, and
this is your time for days of glory, days of flourishing and
days of abounding. I'll see you again next week.
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