you cannot be given to the world until you’ve been taken by the master blessed by God broken by life and then given to the world and the more he takes you and blesses you and breaks you the more he multiplies you so that you can meet the needs you couldn’t meet before because the multiplication is in the breaking it’s not in the blessing it’s in the breaking and if God didn’t break you he couldn’t give you to them God was saying to a young man before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee or I ordained thee and I Sanctified thee to
be a prophet to the Nations and when I woke that morning I just took my Bible with with childlike faith and just let it fall open and it fell open on Jeremiah and he said before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and I ordained thee and I Sanctified thee to be a prophet unto the Nations and all of a sudden I remembered all the stories my mother told me about when I was born I was born with a veil over my face and the one of the neighbors came down and said look the Lord has given you a prophet and mama said a prophet she said
yeah he has a veil over his face thin membrane born over some baby faces I was one of them that membrane the old folks said was a sign you were a prophet but I didn’t know I was a prophet so I was a w crazy foolish ignorant rambunctious kid who got into everything and anything all the time driving people crazy and I was having a good time doing my own thing until God came along and messed it all up by bringing this stuff up here about me being a preacher and I ran from my calling I purposely got drunk went wild
and got high and partied and did everything I could to convince him to go away get one of them people with the little does on their head and the long skirts on and the no makeup who pray all day and talk in tongues all the time and leave me alone because I am not one of them I’m crazy I’m ignorant I’m W I’m UNC I will embarrass you I will disgrace you please don’t call me this is not going to be good for you and it’s not going to be good for me and we should not do this together but God didn’t ask me to vote he asked me to
obey and after several years of running and and after several years of going in clubs and sitting on bar stools where one drunk would lean over to me and said funny man I had the craziest dream about you I I dreamed you was preaching in this church and and I got up and ran out of the club and I felt like David if I make my bed in hell thou there and if I take the wings of the morning and Ascend to the uttermost parts of the Earth are there and I’m not going to be able to outrun this and I couldn’t understand that God
