Keion Henderson - Grace

The phrase in this place today: come on, you can do better than that! Stand on your feet and give God some praise. Just do me a favor: turn to two people and say, «There is nothing my God cannot do. There is nothing!» Whatever you’re going through right now, God can handle it. As a matter of fact, the solution will come because you have a problem; God already has a solution for you. Y’all remember that, right? He has a solution for anything you may be going through. God doesn’t just answer prayers when you pray; He has already answered them, and when you pray, He releases them. Come on, somebody! So you need to open up your mouth so He can release it.

Touch your neighbor and say, «God is about to release something in your life!» He will only open up the windows of heaven if you’re standing underneath the window. He will not pour it on the ground; you’ve got to be ready. Slap somebody and tell them, «I’m ready for my overflow! I’m ready for my increase!» God, come into this place today. We thank You; we’re grateful that there is nothing You cannot do. We thank You, God, that You have chosen to use us, and we pray that before we leave this place, we will leave better than we came in. In the name of Jesus, everybody who loves the Lord shout, «Amen!» Plug your neighbor on your way down to your seat and say, «Nothing but the grace of God! Nothing but the grace of God!» You may be seated in the presence of God! Come on, let’s give our worship ministry a hand! God bless you!

So we got Pastor Rhema. Can you hear me back here? What else did he preach on Sunday? Come on, give it up for Pastor Rhema! We met, oh my God, maybe five or six years ago. He and I were on a cruise ship, and we preached in Mexico. We ran into each other on a cruise ship; he preached before me, and I got a chance to preach after him. I thought, «Who in the world would put me up after a preacher like that? They must not like me.» He preached so well, and we’ve been in contact for the last five years. He has just become a good friend and brother, and I thank him for being with us. Mauryan and I have been all over the place — we’ve been to Boston, Washington, North Carolina, and back to Houston all since Thursday. So we’re back here, and thank y’all for praying.

I was on the elevator, Lord have mercy! Y’all saw how smooth I was, though! Truthfully, I was panicking; I just knew how to act in front of the camera. You know the door wouldn’t open, and I was sitting there, calling him on the phone and texting him. I was pushing the button and the emergency bell, you know. They had me on the phone, and I called their people. I was in that elevator for 20 minutes, and I just thanked God that I was on the first floor, not the 20th. Then I started looking around, and I started thinking, like on TV: «What if I climb out the top?» Y’all have seen the movie before; none of that works! I didn’t hear any of that, so don’t even try that when you get stuck in an elevator. But we got off, and then I got out, and I said, «Reverend, you didn 't hear me calling and texting?» He said, «Reverend, you know your phone don’t work in the elevator.» I looked at my phone and realized none of the messages sent to him! Lord Jesus, but I’m out! Thank God that we’re here together, amen!

Listen, today is going to be like last Tuesday. Over the next three or four weeks, I want you here with me every Sunday and Tuesday because I’m going to talk about grace. I’m really going to work on this grace for the next three or four weeks. So for all of y’all who are wondering if you should come based on if I’m here, I just told you! For the next three or four weeks, we’ll be here, and I want to focus on grace because I think that we have a concept of grace, but how many of you would be honest and say last week you saw grace in a whole different way? Okay, so what I’m going to do today is pick right up from there. As a matter of fact, y’all can stop playing because I’m not going to read those scriptures or anything. This is going to be like a real Bible study, right? So you’re going to need your Bible the whole way!

We 're going to start right where we left off because I think a good teacher always reviews before teaching a new lesson, right? So let’s start with these statements that we finished off with last week. Again, all of us have been taught in our lives that we don’t get anything unless we work for it. Okay? So I had these statements: «If it sounds too good to be true…» How many of y’all remember that? «There 's no such thing as a free lunch.» «God helps those who help themselves.» You get what you pay for. Now, how in the world is it possible for all of us to be raised in different cities, different states, different area codes, different mamas, different daddies? How can we all finish those sentences with that kind of accuracy?