Luke chapter 5 and it came to pass and it came to pass can you just nudge your neighbor say say this say it didn't come to stay it came to pass that might be the best thing you hear all day that's good news my God today that it didn't come to stay whatever the problem is whatever the situation is whatever the diagnosis is whatever the devil said about it it did not come to stay it came to pay this is good news for somebody I wish two or three people would just give God praise right there to say it came to pass I've been through some things I've had some I've had some good days

I've had some here okay I shouldn't be singing it I won't complain all right all right it came to pass it's gone okay all right all right

I'll play too much all right Luke chapter 5 okay it came it came to pass that as the people pressed upon him to hear the Word of God he stood at the lake of Gennesaret he saw two ships standing by the lake but the fishermen were gone out of them they were washing their nets let's keep going verse 4

okay I'll go over here then now when he had left speaking he said unto Simon launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a drought okay for a drought excuse me it's not a drought it's a drought okay it's not a drought it's a drought I know it feels like a drought it feels like you don't have enough it feels like it's not enough it feels like you don't have enough strength but it's because you're about to pull in a blessing my God today that you weren't built to carry by yourself this is good news it's not a drought somebody just yell out it's not a drought it's a draught and Simon Peter answered him and said master we have toiled all night and we have taken nothing

nevertheless at thy word I will put down my net and when they had done this they enclosed a great multitude of fishes and their nets begin to break and they beckoned unto their partners which were in the other ship that they should come and help them my God today and they came and filled both of them somebody say both of them they filled both the ships so much so that they began to sink father in the name of Jesus Lord I pray for a boat sinking blessing for each and every person under the sound of my boat fill us up Lord fill us till we won't no more God fill us up Lord we came here for a filling God we came here for an indwelling God we came here

so you can work on the inside of us now God we trust you to fill us up even all the more God we trust you God to fill up our lives to fill up our houses to fill up our family to fill up our church God we trust you God in places my God that I feel weak I'm so glad that you came to make me strong fill us up God till we won't no more we trust you we give you the glory in Jesus name amen and amen now can you just shout to your neighbor say I'm praying this for you I'm praying this for you a boat sinking blessing my God today look at the other neighbor that was weird look at somebody else say a boat sinking blessing I'm

praying for you in Jesus name amen and amen and you can have your seat amen amen amen all right amen amen I'm so grateful you guys are here today have y all enjoyed this series so far has this series blessed anybody so far come on can we celebrate God we've been in a series called go fish and this is why this series is important okay it's important to us that when we get rescued those who have been rescued are responsible to what right so I have been rescued so I'm responsible to rescue and oftentimes what happens with us is that we get

rescued but we don't rescue nobody else we talked about this before that salvation is a boat it's a ship that you get rescued onto it that somebody reached down into the water and found me when I was drowning my God today I looked okay but I was drowning I was dressed up but I was drowning and a lot of times my God today the modern day church is a whole bunch of folks dressed up drowning dancing drowning shouting drowning you got a whole little it's cute you could do it in your heels but you're still drowning and what we want to do is pull people out of the water now I told y all one of my favorite I'm not a good fisherman so my

only context for fishing is not fishing at all it's being on the Carnival Cruise amen and this is what I want you to get this because our churches oftentimes are like cruise liners you find the cruise you like you get on the cruise I want to help you right here the best church is the one you will go to let me just help you right I want you to go to a good Bible reading Bible believing church but I want you to go to the one you'll go to so you could be fed so you could be fed amen amen again I said this earlier I'll say it again hey if you're watching online are you listening to you here today you go to a church where you're not getting fed run I

know nobody's supposed to say that I'm gonna say it you don't got to go here go somewhere where you could get fed well you you mad at the pastor either forgive him or move on oh I'm spitting real nobody want to hear this I'm spit forgive the first lady or move on move on why are you sitting there mad on the front row you matter you've been mad for 15 years and you you're not just mad you malnourished

because you haven't been fed that's why again that's why you can't be on this some of y all on the Atkins program at this church you only eat a little bit and we don't see you for a few weeks I'm not trying to get I just want to help you today I'm a blessing I'm getting there I'm sorry but I'm your pastor not your

therapist amen I need to go to church so we can be fed I go to church so I can be fed so I can be fed the Word of God so that I know exactly what to do so I'm not worried as much because I know that God is with me amen and that his rod and his staff they come for me and goodness and mercy are following me all the days of my life and I go to church so I can be fed amen I go to church so I can be fed and some of us again you you watch church online you ain't been to church but you I venture to say that you're not nourished you can't be watching online and not being excuse me and being fed the appropriate way we got to get you out of the water and get you up onto the ship amen amen

all right so again one of my favorite things one of my favorite things is going on the cruise and I think churches are like cruise ships everything's going on the music is loud it's bumping boom boom boom boom everything you know depending on what cruise line you go to talked about this before you know certain churches are different amen amen but either way I want you to be able to get out of the water and get onto the ship and I want you as a parishioner of a church to be able to look down in the water and see somebody who needs to be rescued and reach down and rescue them I don't want you to be in a place where you're so enjoying your cruise line you so enjoy and I want you to enjoy the ship you should enjoy the ship

you you worked hard enough in the water amen some of y all just need to thank God I'm not in the water no more my God today I'm so grateful for God I girl you don't know me back then you don't know I'm so grateful that God has pulled reach down and pull me out but I'm grateful enough that I know that there's others who need that same healing does that make sense and so this is the context of our particular message and we've been using

we've been using my boy Peter to talk about this and the Bible says in this particular context and I want to go back to this just for a second that Peter had been fishing all night long he had been toiling all night long I love that it says he had been toiling he had been toiling all night long because a lot of what we're doing is just toiling we call it work but it's just toiling we call it being in a relationship but y all not y all not for real you came here you came here to hear me preach why you at the surprise that I said this you listened on YouTube a bunch of times before you came here you knew what you was in for

Y all not doing nothing for real Y all just toiling Toiling Toiling Y all been dating for six years Toiling You're waiting for the blessing of the Lord to appear and God keeps saying I want to I want to do it in your life but y all haven't made any real commitment or any real connection You just toiling

You frustrated at the job because you're just toiling You just go I just got this good job and I just go to work and come home and go to work and come home Then I watch six episodes of The Chi Somebody said The Chi was on season eight My lamb

That's like 80 episodes You watched 80 episodes of The Chi Okay let me get off this Okay somebody's here mad They like see I like The Chi You could like The Chi I want you I want you to live a life that's purposeful and sometimes you're frustrated because your life doesn't have purpose because you're toiling

Can I go deeper Some of y all have just started washing your nets You just gave up You just said I'm done I'm done with church I'm done with church people I'm done with everything I'm just giving up and I look like I'm fishing and I'm really toiling but in my mind in my heart I'm just washing my nets I'm washing my nets I'm done with this relationship I'm done with this friendship I'm done with these people I ain't talking to my mama No more

I ain't talking to my mama No more You mad at your mama Get over yourself You ain't going Oh I'm in trouble Pass the time Start the car I feel tension I'm gonna stay right here You think you hurt her feelings because you're the call of others day

That's just No you're just toiling You're just toiling No you're just toiling I don't say nothing about her I say something about you Just toiling You know what I mean At some point I want to be the person that I am on

Instagram and on Facebook I want to be that person in real life okay So that means I can't I don't have time to hold these grudges and hold these people hostage No no no I gotta get I gotta get back to living amen I gotta get back to living cuz God has something else for me and I can't be living if I'm still holding the grudge and holding the rope of whatever I'm mad at you about

Toiling Toiling You said I'm never gonna be blessed I'm never gonna have it I'm never gonna do it I'm never gonna get to the next level and God says no Why have you washed your nets There's still more for you Jesus is on the beach He's got the boat He's looking at you and saying there's a something else for you to do There's something else that I have for you but you have given up on it and this is what I want to talk to you about just for a little bit today Before you give up on your blessing know that God still has more use for your boat He still has a thing that he wants to do with you Before you start washing your net some of you you're too young to have given up so quickly You're only 32 or 33 or 35 and you've given up on

your life but God said there is so much more I want to do for you but you have to surrender your boat to me So he says okay I'm gonna surrender my boat I'm gonna surrender my boat to Jesus and then God says this yeah I need you to understand this I need you to understand what That God feels what you reveal

Okay Pastor Dante what do you mean Okay okay y all bring my boat Let's go It's boat time God can only fill what you reveal I'll give you another one He can only heal what you reveal You keep trying to act like everything's all right but it's not all right You keep they got it they good What y all doing over here Look like y all toiling

We okay No I need my notes I need my notes for praying They trying to take my notes Not today Okay I want you to get this God can only feel what you reveal if you don't let him have it My God today we're going this way If you don't let him have it no let's go the other way

They looked at me like that's not what you said You're right Okay you're going a long way I need my I need my okay you can take that One of my little stands though because I don't want to fall over

This sounds dangerous what y all doing over here Okay God can only feel what you reveal If I don't give him my boat he can't feel it You keep wanting God to do the miracle sans you You want him to do the miracle sans you but it's a miracle of participation What does that mean If I'm not involved God can't do it So what he says is hey I need you to get involved I need you to be a part of the filling process Thank you Deacon Dale Hey can y all give it up for my armor bearers man these are my deacons man God says God says I need you to be a part of it I'm going to do it but I need you to be a part of it And a lot of times what we want to do is we want God to just do a miracle and then give it to us

And God says no no no I need to grow you into the miracle I need to grow you into the miracle So Jesus says I'm gonna get in your boat April I made it I made it Y all should clap every time I get in there It's not meant to be on land

Dante come help me right here Push that in Deacon Dale tried to set me up I feel it I feel it All the way Okay you said it's sliding It wasn't sliding last week I need my iPad though Okay

I do this for y all I do this for y all Somebody said don't rock the boat It's not the rocking it's the tilting the boat over That's the part I'm worried about He can only feel what you reveal So this is what he does He steps into your boat He steps into your boat but you have to be able to give it over Right We talked about this already So I surrender my boat What is my boat My life What is my boat My job What is my boat My career What is my boat My relationship I surrender it unto the Lord so that he can feel it I'm gonna get in trouble again

That's why I can't keep it a secret Can I help y all Private's not secret Private is good Secret is bad Does that make sense Okay let's keep going Okay so I reveal it so that he can fill it I reveal it so that he can heal it I reveal it so that he can use it So I'm giving God access to my boat Somebody say I'm giving God access to my boat Even whatever the burden is I gotta give God access to my burden so that he knows how to fix it Because if I keep it all to myself then I'm just sitting here sinking and not allowing anybody to help me or anything to help me to get to where I'm supposed to be Now most of us this is our problem because

the enemy and Facebook have taught you that you're to be isolated that you're supposed to be all by yourself But my God today God wants you to reveal these things so that he can get you out of isolation so that he can partner you with the right people because the right people are gonna help you get to the next level Does that make sense

I'm trying to help you right here but I need you to understand this You need partners You need partners to get to the next level but you can't get partners if everything that you're trying to do is quiet private You might have to talk to somebody God might be sending you a partner

Maybe people are not trying to get in your business but sometimes you need partners Somebody say partners So I need partners to allow me to help me to get what God has for me because I want you to understand how God works Can I help you with this really quickly God is too big to bless a person so he doesn't bless a person He blesses partners

Does that make sense He doesn't just bless a person He's too big to bless a man so he blesses a house Pastor Dante what does that look like Well he told Abraham He said but I'm going to bless you children ever since Abraham said okay I believe you but one problem God kept talking no now I'm gonna bless your children's children Abraham okay that's great one issue no I'm gonna bless your children's children children even to the fourth generation and everybody at all the music is playing everybody's shouting and clapping and Abraham said yeah I hear you but one issue I ain't got no kids and I'm too old to

have kids and a lot of times we talk ourself out of the blessing that God is trying to move us into and so we talk ourselves out of the blessing we talk ourselves out of the thing that God wants to do in our lives and we keep telling God why he can't why he why it won't work and God keep telling us trust me trust me trust in the Lord with all your heart lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge me and I will direct your path the problem with most of us is that you keep trying to be your own God and God said no no no it's enough little G gods but it's only one big G God and you need to trust me to be the big G God in your life can you trust God to be the big G God in your life will you allow

him to be the big G God in your life I need two or three people to say I tried him and I know I let him be the big G God in my life so so Abraham's looking at God he said no I don't have any kids and God keeps it normal bless you your kids and your kids kids and your kids kids kids let me help somebody in here I know you feel frustrated I know you feel upset with your own kids but can I help you with this oh if God say he gonna bless you he gonna bless you if God say he gonna bless them stop worrying about them babies God got a plan for their life my God today the truth is they going through stuff cuz you went through stuff I want to get out this boat and walk around cuz they hardhead cuz you are there

they say they did all the stuff that you did and you mad at them cuz they cuz you wish you wouldn't have you did it and that ain't doing it but God said no the same plan that I have for you I have for those my God I just helped a single mother today there's the same plan the same plan that I walked out in your life how I turned everything around in your life I'm gonna turn it around in your children's life how I helped you my God today how I helped your mother how I helped your grandmother I'm the same guy I'm the big G God I helped your mother I helped your grandmother now my help your children I have not

forgotten about you he says you are blessed but I'm too big to bless a person he says so I bless the entire house does that make sense this is good news cuz you can some of y all could just walk in your house today and say my house is blessed my God my cup my cars are blessed my pantry is blessed my plants are blessed my God today everybody who live in here is blessed and if anybody who don't want to live blessed they could go ahead and get on out of here oh my god today because my everything in this house

everything in my house is blessed my God everything in my house is blessed so God's too big to bless a person so he blesses a house but this is important because that means he's too big to just bless you and your boat he's too big to just bless you on your boat so whatever he whatever you reveal he feels y all got that point number one but point number two he always gives you what you can't handle by yourself he always gives you what you can't handle the blessing of the Lord make his one rich and added no sorrow he will always bless you in a way that you can't handle it by yourself that you need help some my God today you

I'm trying to help you today let me help you listen sometimes God will bless you in a way that you have to ask for help he'll bless you in a way you don't know nothing about keeping no books you don't know nothing about having a board you need somebody that's gonna help you you say oh I'm gonna be an entrepreneur I'm gonna start a business I'm gonna do a new thing and God says okay I'm gonna put you around entrepreneurs and what we do oftentimes oh this is the part I didn't want to say is that you jealous of the person that wants that's supposed to help you you can't get help from them because you you mad that they got it and you don't but the truth is the only difference between copying

okay I'm gonna get in trouble today I'm gonna get an email for this one the only difference between copying and tracing is proximity okay what's that mean pastor Dante I don't have to copy you if I'm close enough to ask you how you did it I don't have to try to be an imitation of you I just want to be the best version of me but I might have to get close enough for you to show me to put your hand down on the paper and show me how you did it so that I can do it there are some of you that have dreams hopes aspirations God said I'm about to bless it but I put you in the proximity of somebody that's supposed to help you to do it I'm about to bring something into your boat I'm about to bring a blessing into your boat

but first I have to put you in proximity of people who knew how to do it so God always gives you what you can't handle alone he's about to bless you with something but whatever he blesses you with it's gonna be too big for you it's gonna be too big for you so he puts you in a situation he says hey I need you to partner up with some people so he put Peter in the situation where he started to reach down into the water with his net and pull up the boat and pull up the blessing that God had for him and and they started to pull it down and the blessing that they that God has for him started to sink his boat some of you the blessing becomes a burden because you don't have brothers the

blessing becomes a burden because you don't have partners I really wish I could just be perfectly honest here and some of y all don't have to get this later it's gonna have to melt like snow but the hardest things in your life are hard because you're doing them alone the most difficult things in your life are difficult because you're doing them

alone the burden is not the thing the burden is the fact that you don't have brothers you don't have to I'm saying brothers just to keep my bees y all the solution y all with me okay you need people in your life that's supposed to help you because you could have a blessing in your hands but it'll feel like a burden because you don't have the right information education or infrastructure to help you pull it on to them oh are y all with me that's why God tells you to go fishing because listen he got it's not an incident

or accident he puts you around the right people to help you pull up your blessing we so scared to talk to him God said no no no it's your neighbor it's the person across the street it's the person that's just supposed to speak into your life and change your life it's just it's just a simple person that's supposed to tell you about the next thing and you got to be able to open yourself up to reveal yourself enough to let God feel what you reveal does that make sense that's why we encourage y all here to be in tribes to be a part of a serving team to do something we're not doing that because we just need you to do this we're doing that so that you can build a community there's somebody for everybody

for every person here my god today for every person here there's somebody else who's trying to do the same thing trying to get over the same trying to be trying to get over the same huh I'll say it like this for every person in here who's in during a storm there's somebody who has been in is currently in or is about to go into what you're facing right now and the Bible says we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony so I got to get around the right people I got to get around the right people but this is the problem and I want to be clear about this and I'm almost done I want to be clear about this you you got hurt you got hurt and you're in

church and you're frustrated and you're mad some of y all at least you never stop coming I'm proud of you just for keeping coming my god today I'm gonna get some God chasers church that I want a shirt the West Juana I need a shirt that just say keep coming keep coming I don't have to have it all right I don't have to have it all together I just kept coming I just kept chasing after the Lord I just have to keep going after the Lord And there's somebody in here that said hey I didn't feel like I was making progress I didn't feel like I was breaking through but here's what I did I kept going forward I kept coming after it and I kept going forward in such a way where I looked back my God and my burden my issue my problem was way behind me I

had made it so far past it because I never gave up on trusting in the Lord I kept going I kept going Some of us are frustrated because you've been toiling Somebody did hurt you The church didn't hurt you A person hurt you Buildings don't hurt people People hurt people

And hurt people hurt people There's some person who did something to you God didn't hurt you but we mad at God because of something some person did Frustrated and you're hurt and you've given up on what God has for you And if you're here today I'm here to tell you that God is not done with you yet He is not finished with you yet He is not done writing your story There is so much more that God has for you In fact if you're here in this room my God today and you know that there's more for somebody can you just give God a praise right now Because it was me It was me at one time I thought it was over for me but I didn't quit I

kept coming after the Lord So he filled what I revealed He gave me too much for me to handle by myself And then listen to this He gave me partners He gave me people so that I can survive the next issue or the next iteration because the storm's coming back Storms are cyclical but he puts people in your place in their place to help you to help you walk out the storm Listen the only reason I'm here is because I'm a person that's supposed to help you walk something out The only reason my wife is here because she's a person that's supposed to help you walk something out But listen you're sitting right next to you think you need access to the pastor

but you don't you just need a partner You're sitting right next to somebody who could pray for you right next to somebody who could help you right next to somebody who maybe they didn't go through it but their mama went through it Maybe they didn't go through it but their auntie went through it There is a diagnosis that you receive that you're frustrated about but somebody sitting right next to you went through the same thing got all the treatments and came out cancer free My God they came out blessed came out as a survivor

And God puts us in these relationships with people so that we can partner with them so that the blessing of the Lord that's supposed to make you rich doesn't end up making you drown He gave you a thought an idea He gave you something that he put in your heart but it's too heavy for you

It's too heavy for you So the Bible said that Peter had the common sense to call over some other people to help them To help him so that he can carry what God gave him to carry The blessing of the Lord that God gave for you that he put in your hands it's too big for you

It's too much for you to carry The blessing of the Lord that God is trying to put into your boat it's too much for you to carry But the Bible says it like this It says two are better than one This is Ecclesiastes Don't make a joke keep going

This is Ecclesiastes chapter four He said two are better than one because they get a better return They get a better return In the book of Psalms it said two are better than one because if one of them falls asleep and they don't have a blanket the other one could share their blanket with them You need to understand the power of partnership Okay the power of partnership If I can give you anything for the end of this sermon let me give you this Pastor Ravon come here

So an ox okay I'm gonna get out of the water because I need to talk about an ox real quick An ox can carry can pull can pull by itself An ox can pull by itself two to 3 000 pounds By itself an ox can pull two to 3 000 pounds An ox is a very powerful animal It can pull two to 3 000 pounds by itself You can literally tie it to or tether it to two to 3 000 pounds and it can drag two to 3 000 pounds

If you hook it up with another ox though both of those oxes together can drag 12 000 pounds Wait the math don't math Say this low again by myself Listen let me help you right here Some of y all by yourself you've done amazing things Hey you've done better than

shoo some people bet against you You did good by yourself You put that 3 000 pounds on your back and you pulled it and you made something happen by yourself And God said that was wonderful But I want to teach you the power of partnership For some reason when you put two ox together

they can pull three to four times their own weight just because they work together And what you need is some people who you can link up with So when it's time for you to step my God they step when you step And when it's time for you to go forward they step when you go forward Now this is what I need you Don't fall off the stage

We don't have no insurance My wife don't like when I say that We definitely have insurance But it's funny You scare me Now this is the important part We can pull much more together

But if something happens to the one ox if I'm not able to pull what I need to pull I can lean on the other ox Does that make sense And the problem with most of us is that you don't have nobody to lean on You're frustrated because you don't have nobody to lean on You're washing your nets because you don't have anybody to lean on

And God said no this is the season where I gave you the right people I'm partnering you up with the right people so that y all can pull what I call for you to pull because I'm too big to just bless you I gotta bless everything in your proximity but that's good news Thank you sir That's good news Can y all give it up for Pastor Thank you

God says he's about to bless everything in your proximity But that's why he's hooking you up with the right people You need somebody you need a prayer partner You need somebody to pray with you You need somebody to pray for you You need somebody who's connected with you Some of y all some of the best partners you ever had the devil tried to destroy the relationship It might be the season to call them and say hey I'm sorry

They don't take no sweat off of me to say I'm sorry Take no sweat off of my back to say I apologize But I might be rebuilding or reconnecting in a partnership that will bring a boat sinking blessing to me Does that make sense Okay I wanna say one more thing though For those of you who said bro I don't have anybody I love that we have this Jesus who said take my yoke upon me and learn of me He said for my yoke is easy and my burden is light

This is what he's talking about partnership He said if you don't got nobody partner with me And let me help you right here When I didn't have nobody I had Jesus my God today When I didn't have nobody when I couldn't find nobody to help me when I couldn't find nobody to pray with me when I couldn't find nobody to encourage me I'm so grateful that I still had Jesus I woke up in the morning and read my Bible and I heard the Lord say keep going boy you got this Keep going don't give up So if you can't find nobody if you haven't had nobody if God haven't put anybody in your life then reach over to Jesus He said I will be your partner I will be your rear guard That means I got your back my God today And I wanna encourage you today I wanna encourage you

today If you've been far from God you've been far from Jesus let's return back This is the day you can return This is the day this is the day We did all the singing and everything just to get to this point Cause you might've been sitting here today and say Pastor Dante I don't know anything about what you've been talking about today

but I've been far from God I've been far from Jesus If that's you today we're gonna all say a prayer prayer Everybody's gonna say it so nobody feels alone but if that's you today I believe today can be the day when you come back to God when you get closer to him It's a real simple prayer We're gonna say it with every head bowed and every eye closed Just say Lord Jesus

please forgive me for all my sins Come into my heart Change my heart Come into my life Change my life Father today I accept you as my Lord and Savior I want to be different I want to be new I want to be like you Will you partner with me for my future In Jesus name

amen and amen Now the Bible says it like this It says if you believe it if you accept God if you believe it and you confess it with your mouth today you can be saved We believe that if you said that prayer for the first time or you meant it for the first time today you are saved in the pardon of your sins So what we're gonna do is celebrate that So when we count to three I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand Just slip it up in the air to say today I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior One it doesn't matter how you got here It doesn't matter what your situation is It only matters that Jesus loves you Two we love you too We just want to celebrate you If that's you on today if you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior three raise your hand as you can raise it all over the building We want to celebrate you Come on Come on Come on We see two

back here We see two back here Come on We're celebrating God We're celebrating God Come on If that's you slip your hand up in the air Come on Come on God chasers We're clapping all over the building because three people there we go three people came back home Three people came back home My God Now really quickly really quickly let's say Pastor Dante you said I'm saved I know I'm saved

I know I'm saved but today I want to partner with this church Listen I want to be your pastor I want to be your pastor I do not know everything but I will pray with you through anything I've prayed with some people in this room through the hardest seasons of their life If that's you today you say I know I've been flirting with this church maybe three to six months you've been coming here on and off or maybe just this is your first day but you know that you know that you know that today you want to join this church I'm gonna ask you to do something very significant I'm gonna ask you to stand up on your feet come up here and shake my hand and become a part of one of the most amazing church experiences in San Antonio And if you hear those people clapping they're clapping for you If that's you come on come on come on come

on Come on I'll wait on you I'll wait on you I'll wait on you Come on If that's you come on come on If that's you cool If that's you come on come be a part of the family Come be a part of the family Come on If you could be a part of the family come on