Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church

Dr. Michael W. Wesley Sr.: You are now listening to an inspirational message from Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, where Dr. Michael W. Wesley Senior is the pastor. Please join the service in progress.

Audience/Choir: Jesus told me, everything's going to be all right. Jesus told me everything's going to be all right. I got a feeling. Everything's going to be all right. I got a feeling. Everything's going to be all right. Jesus told me, everything's going to be all right. Jesus told me, everything's going to be all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Guest (Female): I give You praise and glorify Your name. Hallelujah. Lord, I give You praise. I give You praise and glorify Your name. Hallelujah. Lord, I give You praise.

Audience/Choir: I give You praise and glorify Your name. Hallelujah. Lord, I give You praise. I give You praise and glorify Your name. Hallelujah. Lord, I give You praise. I give You praise and glorify Your name. Hallelujah. Lord, I give You praise. I love You, Jesus. I worship and adore You. Just want to tell You, Lord, I love You more than anything. I love You, Jesus. I worship and adore You. Just want to tell You, Lord, I love You more than anything. I love You, Jesus. I worship and adore You. Just want to tell You, Lord, I love You more than anything. I love You, Jesus. I worship and adore You. Just want to tell You, Lord, I love You more than anything. I love You, Jesus. I worship and adore You. Just want to tell You, Lord, I love You more than anything. I love You, Jesus. I worship and adore You. Just want to tell You, Lord, I love You more than anything. I love You, Jesus. I worship and adore You. Just want to tell You, Lord, I love You more than anything. I love You, Jesus. I worship and adore You. Just want to tell You, Lord, I love You more than anything.

Dr. Michael W. Wesley Sr.: And we love Jesus, and we desire to worship Him more than anything. He makes everything all right. I love God, I do. I'm not ashamed of my faith. I'm not ashamed of my religion. I'm not ashamed of my God. If I can cheer for my team, I can cheer for my coach. If I can cheer for my school, I can cheer for my God. And it ought to be all right for us to cheer for Him when we come into His house because He always wins. He always guarantees the victory.

More than anything, that's what I want you to concentrate on. More than anything. Father, we love You more than anything. We do come this morning to worship You, to honor You. It is a travesty of justice to think just locally in our city, hundreds of thousands of people will gather, have fun and a good time, and cheer one another but won't come to the house of prayer and say thank You, Jesus.

Oh God, we came, those of us who are here came to say thank You for blessing us and keeping us, using us for Your glory. Thank You for the privilege of worshiping You, singing to You, praying to You, giving resources to You, now hearing a word from You that we desperately need. So speak, Lord, Your servants are listening. Lift your human out of self. Fill us with the Holy Spirit. Let Your word come forth now. Let none of us escape. Bless us and guide us and direct us in this moment. We thank You in advance for what you're going to share. Keep us by Your power and use us for Your glory in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Man, it just feel like praise, doesn't it? It's all right to give God praise.

I want to direct your attention this morning to an Old Testament passage of scripture. Following the line of thought last week we talked about living on borrowed time. I see something in the passage that I was led to. Second Kings, chapter six. Second Kings, chapter six. I want us to look at verses eight through 17 in your hearing. I want you to read it along on the screen. You can read out loud if you want to, but I'm going to read it, but you read as well.

Then the King of Syria warred against Israel and took counsel with his servants, saying, "In such and such a place shall be my camp." And the man of God sent unto the King of Israel, saying, "Beware that thou pass not such a place, for thither the Syrians are come down." And the King of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there not once, nor twice. Therefore, the heart of the King of Syria was sore troubled for this thing. And he called his servants and said unto them, "Will you not show me which one of us is for the King of Israel?" And one of his servants said, "None, my Lord, oh King, but Elisha the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the King of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bed chamber."

And he said, "Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him." And it was told him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan." Therefore, sent he thither horses and chariots and a great host. And they came by night and compassed the city about. And when the servant of the man of God was risen early and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, "Alas, my master, how shall we do?" And he answered, "Fear not, for they that are with us are more than they that be with them." And Elisha prayed and said, "Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see." And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. This is the word of God for the people of God.

Audience/Choir: Thanks be to God.

Dr. Michael W. Wesley Sr.: I want to preach this morning from the subject, "Seeing the Invisible." Seeing the invisible.

I also want to say, I want to say to James, I want to say to the church, I want to say to to all of us here this morning that I really wish you knew what I know. And I really wish you could see what I see.

I wish you knew what I know and I wish you could see what I see. And therefore I'm praying for you that God will open your eyes that you could see what you can't see right now because it's invisible. But just because it's not invisible, it doesn't mean it's not real.

I tell you, when you learn the value and power of vision, nothing or no one can stop you. You know, you know, I was talking to my little grand the other day and they said, "Oh, oh, Papa, you you've done some things in your life." And I said, "Well, baby," I said, "it's not about what I've done, it's what you're going to do." I said, "If you can see it and if you can believe it, you can achieve it."

Now, that's for every child in here, that's for every person in here. If you can see it and can believe it, you can make it happen. And the seeing is the resources that God already has in store for you. And sometimes we we because we can't see, we end up often in panic.

We live in panic mode. We we we're afraid, we're apprehensive, and we we we we're not trusting, and we're not believing it. So we're living below and living beneath rather than above and beyond. And so this is a word of encouragement this morning. And I I'm just so thankful and grateful that God himself has put this in his word. The actual words actually written in in in the book of Hebrews, in the 11th chapter, where the the writer to the Hebrews said these words. He was talking about Moses and he said, "Moses having committed himself to God and enduring as seeing the invisible."

See, see, see Moses didn't have a Bible. Moses didn't have 2,000 years of New Testament history. But but he was able to endure to handle all of that throng of people from a leadership standpoint. He was able to stand in the face of the most powerful monarch on the face of the earth. He was able to deal with all of the complaints and challenges from every situation because he was able to see who was invisible.

I'm just telling you, man, that's been the the the secret of my life. I've been walking on my knees a long time. Anybody here know what it is to walk on your knees? When you walk on your knees and live close to God, God will God will show you stuff. God God will show you people. He He don't always show you people so you can pick up a stick and say, "Come on, I see you, stick your head up here." No, God will show you people so you'll know how to walk. You'll see them and they won't even know you see them.

He'll tell you by conversations that people are having even about you. Man, I think back when I was I've been I I finished just finished a new book, and so the book of unsung hero I finished it and it's going to be going to the press. And and one of the things I was reflecting on when I was a little boy with my aunt Luell. My aunt Luell was a member of Third Good CME Church. And and her and her little cronies they would be gossiping. And little four-year-old me would be sitting around and I was listening. And they had been talking about the pastor. And I went right up to him that Sunday. I said, "Pastor Brunson, I said, 'We'll be so glad when the Bishop move your black...'"

And and and he just he just burst out and started laughing because he knew exactly where that came from. He knew that didn't come from me. But he knew the people that I had been around were the ones who were saying it. Hello somebody. God, God will show you. God, God will reveal circumstances and situations.