Sermon Title “I was thinking the same thing” 

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  (Uncut, Unedited personal sermon notes taken by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas)

  
  

• Song selection: “Come on and bless the Lord with me!!!!” Sang Men!!!!! #alright now!!!!

•  Scripture Reading: Mark 2:1-5 King James Version (KJV): ” And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.

  And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.

  And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.

  And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.

  When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.”

Sermon Title “I was thinking the same thing” Pastor Jamal H. Bryant Empowerment Temple 7:30 A.M. Worship Experience.. 8/26/2012

I was thinking the same thing… Say to your neighbor, ” I was thinking the same exact thing…” Larry, the co founder of Oracle says when your beliefs are different than what everybody else believe is exuberant and make yourself open to attack… Disney world has a paid staff that carry the title Imagineers.. Their jobs is just to think to come up with ideas.. Being paid to think outside the box.. Being compensated to think outside the box.. God has the capacity to bless even your imagination… Po is a word that generate movement while expecting word about the movement… It’s to destabilize the mind.. He confuses the mind by confusing the muscles because they are not traveling the normal route.. There has to be something in our head to make you think different…Martin Luther King says taking the first step is the beginning… Provocation themselves are always unreasonable… If you think easy, it can be achieved.. There are ideals that have never been tried or unheard of.. .Provocation operation goes outside of the bounds and safety… It has to be from safe thinking and impossible thinking… When God gives you it, it should cause your nerves to become so jittery and make you reevaluate your faith… The red cross is flustered because they have been trying to immobilize the transition from Hurricane Issac.. Why are you staying in this place when we have been telling you that the storm is coming… If we have lived through an earthquake, we can live through a storm… When a little rain comes, you can withstand.. They don’t understand how you keep your calm… I’ve lived through some worse things then this… If I have survived some storms it changes the way you think about some situations… People’s opinions don’t understand… I can laugh when people don’t understand.. .My thinking is different than what it use to be… Dr. Frank Ziggleer said most people have self limiting disorder where it is the self and it is the disease… Greckon influence was not written in english, it was written in the Greek.. Heart and mind is not in the new testament.. It is written as imagination… It says: You should love the Lord with all of heart, soul and mind… Then in the new testament, it says I should love him with my heart soul and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself God is blessing your imagination.. I don’t have no people that are thinking out-landing adn unnerving.. I Peter Chapter 1 verse 3 Therefore gurd up the loins of of your mind… You have to protect your imagination… What is in your mind is about to produce something.. You have fresh ideas in the mind of people that don’t know how to think… Since I have impregnated your imagination, I have to guard off people who don’t understand your imagingation…God says I change the way you dream, but I dream about innovation, concepts, etc… People don’t understand my imagination because I think higher… The enemy want to through off your focus so you won’t have time to dream… I’m getting the enemy off of your mind so you can dream and think at another level… Your imagination is fertile ground… Mark 1: Jesus does a provacative operation… Watch what Jesus does… It’s going to mess up the apprach to demonic warfare.. He is exercising a demon and he does not lay hands.. He does not ask for a vial of oil or ask it to lift up it’s hands.. He just says shut up… You can expose demons because they talk to much.. Sometimes you have to get people to stop talking and start thinking about what you are saying.. All you need to say is stop talking negative about my family… Just tell them demons to SHUT UP!!!! Can you imagine how the church would be different if we were not hovering over people and throwing sheets on people.. God has never told you to put no sheet on anyone… Speak those things as though they were… Provacative operation is absolutely mind blowing.. He heals the people weather they are sick in the mind or body… He heals the city by not allowing demons to speak.. You have a lot of demons in pulpits that are contaminating people with eroneous doctrines adn they are bringing a curse to the city.. Provacative thinking can from being under the same person too long.. If I could just get the demons to shut up and get the real saint to stand up and demons shut up… When you open up your voice, demons will have to shut up… In Mark Chapter1, something very crazy and unseamingly happens… He says: Lets go somewhere else where I can preach.. He has just saved the entire city, but he wanted to go somewhere else… God wants to move you into in area where you have never been before.. The anointing is not in the place but it’s in the person-hood… Wherever I am, I’m in success… Even if I loose this job and house, I will get better because the anointing is on me… We have the Levitical law where you should not sit in a chair where leopards have sat because the disease can get on you… Jesus said I’m going to do what they said I should not do… When you are anoininted, you are anointed to break traditional rules… They told you not to love the people, and don’t get to close to them because they have not been touched.. .If I can’t get touched in churrch, I don’t want to go home and die in loneliness… How can folks go to church and be scared of being touched… The fiery moment is when you touch somebody broken… SOmetimes when you just hold somebody’s hand… Just let someone know that I am going to stand with you until my change comes… Mark Chapter 2, Jesus finally went home, but his ministry had just started and the word had already gone out what happen in Jezbel… The place they put God in was too small because they did not understand the reach of his impact… I wonder how many of you have put God in place that is too small.. You don’t know what God is capable of… They put him in a small place and a record number of people showed up… The correct thing to do is to wait for JEsus to come out.. .Follow appropriate protocol just like the woman with the issue of blood and follow you way through the crowd… It was something different about these 4 people, they could not wait for the benedication…. They went to the roof and broke it down hoping that their friend be healed.. Can you consider that these are 4 grown men that is carrying a 5th man…. The average Palestinian is around 5 feet tall… The roof could have crashed by the weight with all of them on it because they were not scared of falling… If I perish, let me perish because I tried to make it to the top.. In 12 years of Pastoring you I want to give you a quote: There is no limit for what man can do if he does not mind who will get the c redit… ~ President Ronald Regan… God is getting ready to confirm some stuff… You know you are flowing with the right group that their thinking is as outlandish as you think… If you have people that can’t think outside the box, then get rid of them…. I wonder how the body of Christ wlll resttle with the next level of provacative thinking.. The next great ideal that comes to you will not be for you.. It’s going to bless someone else so they can help somebody else… They wanted to see someone else walk again…God is getting ready to break the spirit of selflessness… He is geting ready to help you be a blessing ot somenoe else.. Everytime someone encounteres the master, it’s one on one faith… When the roof breaks open, he is not speaking to the man on the map, but he is speaking to the man that’s on the floor.. Can you imagine this week that God is getting ready to do something for my friend… I need you to give God glory that God will give my friend an idea that will help them find a job… Hallelujah… I need you to lift up your hands right where you are… Your next ideal won’t even be for your goal, but it will give someone you know the help to give them the push that they need… ON this roof, they say to themselves, I’m not going to fall!!! They are on the roof, but they say I’m not going to break and it’s not going to fail… I want to speak over your life the same spirit as the men that were on the roof.. You will not fail, break or fall down.. God has given you too much to loose yourself in this season… Whatever is provocative is doable… Believe that God is going to bless you and bless your neighbors ideals… Whatever my neighbor has been thinking about and dreaming about, I want you to bless their idea.. You are an anointed aimagineer.. God is getting ready to anoint your idea.. Your ideas is going to change your economy.. I want you to believe that God is going to do something by faith for my incredible ideal.. This is no run of the mill skeem… The only way you know its going to move forward is if God line you up with the right kind of people… God in this season, God is going to send to you 4 people to help you carry your ideal so you don’t have to do this by yourself… Believe that God is going to move your ideal to the roof….

The greatest ideal God ever came up with was SALVATION.. It’s better than the air you breathe… Let me know who is thankful for salvation and grace? Thank God for radical ideas!!!! Give God some praise for the provocative thoughts that are on your mind! ~. Pastor Jamal Bryant – You have to be careful who you give authority too.. You are assassinating your position when you are not participating” Dr. Jamal H. Bryant…

( Uncut, Unedited sermon notes taken by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas) for your encouragement and study.. # Give him the glory!!!!!