Keion Henderson - The Trajectory Test

All right, we’re going to continue our series on the Year of Elevation. How many of y’all feel like you’re going higher this year? Now we’re going to keep it right here because some of y’all have been in church so long that you feel like there 's supposed to be a song right before the sermon. Your spirit is off because we haven 't sung, and you don’t feel comfortable because you’re used to crying at this point about nothing. Then I come up here to preach, and it’s supposed to fit in between. But we’re going to start just like this: I’ve even told my wife that one day I’m going to come in here, and I’m going to preach first and let them sing second so that you can get out of this routine where church has to go song, offering, and then you can feel like you’re in the spirit. If you’re in the spirit, it ain’t about feeling; it’s a decision. If you really have the Holy Ghost, you could work yourself up into a frenzy right now just thinking about everything that God has done for you. So one day, I’m going to start preaching at 9:00, be done by 9:45, and then take the offering and sing and do all of that. Some of y’all feel the glare, «I just didn’t feel it today.» And brother, I was going for the whole team. I was talking about the Rockets, and what’s the baseball team here? The Astros. I did that first! Then the Texans-I’m working on it, y’all, pray for me. And these Dallas Cowboy fans in here; this is when the word of God is needed. Second Kings chapter 2. Cowboy fans, ha! Let me… well, you know, New Orleans Saints fans… what you got? So it’s more y’all. Patriot fans-there’s enough air in two balls a day! Second Kings chapter 2. Some people are like, «Reverend, I don’t care about no sports.» What are you talking about? Where the Saints played? Louisiana or St. Louis? Some of y’all don’t know anything about it. How many of y’all don’t care enough about sports? Let me see your hands. Heather Roy told me to tell you this yesterday. She said, «Women, if you don’t like football, and if your man does, you better learn to like it and stop talking to us during the game.» Why is it that you haven 't said anything all day, then when the game comes on, you want to start talking and blame me for not listening? Fellas, it’s a setup. She knows you don’t want to hear, so she sets you up and starts talking at a time when she knows you’re not paying attention so she can tell you about all the other things you do that get on her nerves. I’m putting you up on game, homeboy; you better listen.

These words come just before the Lord took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm. Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal. Elijah told Elisha, «Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.» But Elisha said, «As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.» So they went down to Bethel. Some members of the prophetic guild in Bethel came to Elisha and said, «Do you know today that the Lord is going to take your master from you?» He answered, «Yes, I know, but be quiet.» That 's what the Word of God says. Elijah said to him, «Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.» But he replied, «As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.» So they went to Jericho. Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, «Do you know that the Lord is going to take your master away from you?» He said, «Yes, I know. Be quiet.» Elijah said to him, «Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jordan.» But he replied, «As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.» So they traveled together, and 50 of the members of the prophetic house went and stood opposite them at a distance while Elijah and Elisha stood at the Jordan. Elijah took his cloak, folded it up, struck the waters, and the waters divided, and the two men crossed on dry ground. When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, «What can I do for you before I am taken away from you?» Elisha answered, «May I receive a double portion of your spirit?» Elijah said, «You have asked for a hard thing. If you see me taken from you, may it be so; but if not, it will not happen.» And as they were walking along, talking, suddenly, a fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses appeared and went between Elijah and Elisha, and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm. Last verse-while Elijah was watching, he cried out, «My father, my father, the chariot of the horsemen of Israel!» Then he could not see him anymore. He grasped his clothes and tore them in two.

Do you notice how repetitively Elijah is on his way to being caught up in the whirlwind, and Elijah says, «Don 't leave me»? He says, «I don’t care what’s going on; as long as the Lord lives, I will not leave you.» Four times he goes to four different places, and Elijah tells him to stay. Elijah says, «I don’t care what happens in your life; I am NOT going to leave you.» In this year of elevation, as God gets ready to take you to the next level, you need to be paying attention to who leaves you. I want to preach for the next few moments on this subject: «Let 's Reject a Retest.»