The Key to Being A Strong Man
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Summary
In one line: A strong man is a spiritual man — what God gave you can't be achieved by natural strength; the one born of the Spirit is like the wind.
Key insights
- By human metrics people will laugh at your assignment; once you're spiritual, no wall or measure holds you — "those born of the Spirit are like the wind" (John 3:8).
- He has no church strategy: "I'm like the wind — even I don't know; the wind changes my plans." Bishop Noel Jones, "the most intelligent man I know," says the same: "When it comes to the things of God I have no strategy — I wait for Him to move me."
- "You can't punch the wind" — those who rose against him fell. "Fight the wind and you rob yourself of the oxygen you need."
Transcript
Automatic captions, reflowed into paragraphs. Scripture references are highlighted; passages that sound like read scripture are set apart; people and spiritual beings are in bold.
is a spiritual, man.
hear you.
A strong man is a spiritual man.
One more time.
A strong man is a spiritual man.
Louder and better.
A strong man is a spiritual man.
Look at your neighbor say, "Neighbor,
Neighbor,
I am a spiritual man.
Because the the the strength you need for what God has given you is no longer natural. It's only spiritual. Because by the metric of man, by the measures of men, with what God has given you to do, if you told people, they would laugh at you. Say, "You? Come on."
Yeah, I you will never you will never make it. The oh, you are not going anywhere. With that idea, do you know how many people failed with that? But you're not everybody. But you see, they failed to see that because they have put you on a scale that is human. But when you become spiritual, you are like the wind. No wall can hold you.
[cheering]
No metric can hold you. No wall can be a barrier. You can walk through walls. You can walk There's no boundaries for a spiritual man. A spiritual man goes The Bible says, "Those who are born of the spirit are like the wind. You don't know where they're going. You don't know where they're coming." You see, the thing that confuses people about me a lot is that.
And it goes even far Even I don't know what I'm going to do.
Mhm. I'm like the wind. You never know. Even me, I will have plans, and the wind will change my plan.
I wish I had a strategy, but I don't.
A lot of people who watch from outside, they always think that I have this church strategy that is so phenomenal. The truth is actually I don't. I'm being honest, I don't. If you ask the JTs and them, "Listen, you heard my grandfather yesterday, Bishop Noel Jones. Bishop is the most intelligent man I know. He's the most intelligent man I know.
Amen.
I love Bishop Noel Jones from here to the moon. That is I am so blessed to have him.
Amen.
And Bishop tells me all the time, "Lovvie, I am a very brilliant man and I'm very intelligent, but I will tell you this, you're one of the most intelligent young man I know. I am Listen, I am very bright. I am very sharp, but when it comes to the things of God, I don't have strategy. I wait for him to move me. Because no strategy I have will make me do what God needs me to do.
Yeah.
This is why those who have risen against me, they are the ones who fall. I don't.
True.
Because you can't make the wind fall.
Woo!
Amen.
Good.
You can't punch the wind.
Wow.
You can't fight the wind.
Wow.
You may rob yourself of oxygen that you need to breathe.
Come on.
You can't fight the wind. You need to breathe. You fight the wind, you're fighting your own life. That's who you are becoming.
Amen.
I receive.
Especially those who are clapping.
Let's keep reading. Let's keep reading because we have a lot of praying to do. Verse 13.