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At the Top of a Mountain
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| My first wife passed away seven years ago. | |
| And after from leukemia, we had three children and you know believed the Lord for a miracle and she passed away. | |
| And after her passing, my mother-in-law and my mom showed up and they said, you need to go. | |
| I said, where? | |
| They said, you just need to go away. | |
| You need to chill out. | |
| You just need some time to yourself. | |
| So I took a really crazy trip to Peru and I went up to a city called Machu Picchu. | |
| It's at the top of a mountain. | |
| And again, this is very spontaneous. | |
| For anybody watching the program, you know, Pastor Jim's spontaneous live television. | |
| So I went to this beautiful city in the sky called Machu Picchu. | |
| It's been built with, you know, over 1,600 years ago. | |
| Everything is beautiful up there, pristine. | |
| And then my tour guide took me because I jokingly say I'm nosy. | |
| So I went behind the city. | |
| And behind the city is this pile of, ugly pile of boulders, of rocks. | |
| And I asked the tour guide, I said, what is that? | |
| He said, that's what I call a pile of potential. | |
| Wow. | |
| And I said, what do you mean? | |
| He said, this is where they stopped. | |
| He said, no one knows why they stopped. | |
| No one knows why they died off. | |
| No one knows if it was a civil war, a famine, a pandemic. | |
| We just know this is where it ended. | |
| And he said, and I come up here every day and I stare at those rocks and I wonder what could have been. | |
| And he said, I call it a pile of potential. | |
| Well, at that point in my life, my wife had passed away. | |
| I'm now a single dad. | |
| I don't know what the future of my ministry or my life is. | |
| And I'm staring at a pile of potential. | |
| And I had a vision of my funeral and people walking by my casket looking at me and saying, oh, could you imagine what could have been if he would have kept preaching, if he would have kept traveling? | |
| And I asked the tour guide to leave me alone. | |
| And in front of those rocks, I knelt down and that pile of potential became my altar. | |
| And I made a decision. | |
| I said, Lord, my life isn't going to end in a pile of potential and what could have been, what should have been. | |
| I'm coming off of this mountain and I'm going to keep preaching. | |
| I'm going to keep praying for the sick. | |
| I'm going to keep doing what you called me to do. | |
| And I just really felt in my spirit prompted right now to tell this story. | |
| PTL is not going to end in a pile of potential. | |
| Morningside isn't going to end in a pile of potential. | |
| There's still so much more to do. | |
| And we're not just going to celebrate what God did. | |
| We're celebrating what God is doing and will do. | |
| And someone watching right now, I don't know what life threw at you this year, this month, this week, but you need to come into covenant with me right now in the name of Jesus. | |
| I'm not going to, this sickness isn't going to determine or define who I am. | |
| This trial, this trauma doesn't define who I am. | |
| I'm not going to die as a pile of potential. | |
| I'm a child of promise, and I'm going to walk into that promise. | |
| He said in his word that he that began the good work in you will complete it. | |
| He will perfect it. | |
| God's not going to leave the building half done. | |
| He's not going to leave the marriage halfway at the altar. | |
| No, no, this is the God that finishes the job. | |
| And so I just speak over you. | |
| I prophesy over you today. | |
| You don't end as a pile of potential. | |
| You end as a child of promise. | |