10:30AM (11:30AM EST) Sunday Service | March 6

[Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] hello people's church family my name is tiffany cooper and i'm one of the pastors here at people's church and we are so excited that you have decided to join us service is going to start here in just a minute but before we start i wanted to talk directly to you our online church family if this is your first sunday with us we're so glad you're here here at people's church we're family no matter your age ethnicity background or status we believe you're going to find home at people's church we exist to help people know god grow in god discover their purpose and make a difference the best way we've seen for people to grow in god is by being a part of a small group people actually grow best not just by attending church but by meeting together and doing life with other believers and yes we have online small groups and i believe one is just right for you joining a small group of people's church is easy just text pc groups to 9400 or go to 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reach more people for christ we want to partner with other churches in their city that are getting it done but they don't have enough boats to cover it all so we're going to go and throw in another boat and say come we're gonna reach some more people because it's about more changed lives that's what people's church is all about welcome to people's church everybody we're so glad that you're here today and for those of you joining us online and around the world wherever you may be today whether you're in your car in your home hey it's time for worship so push aside everything that you have push aside your worries your fears your doubts cause god's gonna do something incredible if you're right here in the building come on we stand to your feet let's put those hands together let's celebrate it wasn't for nothing that you shed your blood i'm gonna live like the shame is gone i won't be shackled to the way i was oh i'm gonna leave it like my chains are gone [Applause] [Music] hallelujah he [Music] is a weapon that will overcome [Music] [Music] storm is gone [Music] [Music] is [Music] i am the righteousness of god the power of the blood [Music] the righteousness of god [Music] [Applause] [Music] sin is dead and gone and i sing hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] come on church put those hands together let's continue to worship the lord [Applause] [Music] and now the darkness fades into new beginnings as we lift our eyes to the hope beyond all creation waits with an expectation to declare the reign of the lord our god is [Music] and now the silence prays [Music] in the name of jesus as a heavens cry let the earth respond all creation out with the voice [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah come on we sing this with us say he shall reign forever strongholds now surrender for the lord our god is overcome who can be against us jesus our defender he is lord and he has over come let your voices sign he who can't be against when the and for every fear there's an empty grace [Applause] for the reason [Music] yes so you've overcome god we praise your name jesus yes hallelujah [Music] come on give god i just wanna sit here at your feet i'm caught up in this holy moment i never [Music] [Music] jesus you don't owe me anything more than anything that you can do i just want you come on if you want more of him will you just take this out i just want you nothing else come on church and nothing else nothing else will do i just want you and nothing else [Music] [Music] nothing else [Music] [Applause] nothing else i just want you oh we just [Music] we just want you to [Music] like we do there is power in your name we've heard that there is no way through [Music] they haven't seen what you can do there is power break the unbreakable god we believe god we believe for it from the impossible we'll see a miracle can't we believe you can't we believe for it [Music] [Applause] we know that hope is never lost hollywood for there is still an empty grave yeah god we believe no matter what there is from you are the way when there seems to [Music] we trusted [Applause] break the unbreakable [Music] we'll see a miracle can we believe can we [Music] you said [Music] [Applause] your word is true [Music] i am forgiven you can we believe how many you believe god can do a miracle right in this place today yeah if you have a need we're in a perfect space for god to move will you just lift your hand maybe by the lifting of your hand you may be praying for your family we're just gonna agree you may have sickness in your body we're just gonna agree with you today that god will work a miracle on your behalf lord we come to you lord knowing god that you are able god to move in every situation father for students that are dealing with school challenges god for those of us that are sick and need healing god will you provide healing lord for those of us that find ourselves in need god you are a provider lord would you provide today lord for those of us that are struggling in relationships maybe in our marriages god will you restore right now god we're reaching our hand in faith believing god that you are able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we could ever ask you said it so we believe it you said it and it is time we pray these things in jesus mighty name we say amen amen come on we can just seal this in this moment come on your son [Applause] you said [Music] i believe god's already working it out do you believe that today man thank you so much for deciding to take a little bit of your weekend to tune in online or to come to service today man it is just going to be an incredible incredible day today and i just want to welcome you to people's church if you'll take a few moments just before you're seated come on waving somebody and tell them welcome to people's church amen amen well welcome welcome welcome everyone so good to have you in the house today welcome to everyone on us joining us online as well so glad that you're tuning in my name is rob champion i'm the campus pastor here at the oklahoma city campus i want to welcome everybody here today so glad man god's moving already in our time together we are a church that really believes in the power of prayer and we would love to be praying for you and so if you have a prayer request would you go ahead download the people's church app click on the button that says pray with us type in your prayer request our staff and our prayer team will be praying over your prayer request this week i want to take a moment to welcome all of our first-time guests so people church come on let's put our hands together let's welcome all of our guests today welcome so glad that you're here we really do love having the opportunity to connect with all of our guests we're so glad that you're joining us we'd love to know how we could better minister to you help you and your family on your faith journey we would love to be praying for you would you text pc guest to 9400 again text pc guest to 9400 and let us know how we can be praying for you let us know how we could serve you and your family well people church we believe in planting life-giving churches all around the united states and around the world we believe that jesus is building his church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it and so you are starting a brand new church in the city of atlanta this fall and we have an update video we want to show you right now so i want you to take a look at this video what's up people's church man i'm so excited to meet you i know we haven't met in person yet but my name is mayo so i'm right here in the great city of atlanta georgia and we are playing the church because of you yes kai and i are called to atlanta and we will not be able to do it without your generosity your pastors pastor herbert and pastor timothy they're phenomenal and i know you know that but they're overseers at our church and they cover us spiritually and you help us financially thank you so much for your generosity and again i can't wait to meet you in person but thank you thank you thank you so much on behalf of the great people of the city of atlanta georgia thank you so much for your investment and live atlanta amen amen well church family i want you to know that your giving is planting another life-giving church and it's already making a difference in the city of atlanta we believe that marriages are going to be healed we believe that addictions are going to be broken we believe that people are going to find jesus and experience eternal life because of your generosity church because you give and because you're such a generous church and because you're passionate about starting life-giving churches people will find jesus thank you so much if you'd like to give today the best and easiest way to give is through our people's church app we also have a qr code that makes digital giving a little bit easier for you as well if you're on site today at this campus or at any of our campuses you can give physically as well there are offering envelopes located in a seat back pocket right in front of you or right around you can grab that envelope in just a moment ushers are going to pass a bucket down your row and you can drop your offering in one of those buckets but would you join me right now let's pray for live church in atlanta and all the pastors and leaders there father god we thank you lord for the work that you're doing that you are building your church god and we thank you lord for the pastors and leaders that are going to be launching live church in atlanta georgia god we pray that you would bless them you would bless their efforts may that church be effective in proclaiming the good news of jesus christ to that community may we see lives changed in jesus name amen [Music] yes [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] uh um [Music] [Music] [Applause] well hello people's church is everybody doing good today come on it's a good day today success starts on sundays worshiping jesus hearing the preaching of god's word there's no better way to start your week off and you're starting it off right today and just welcome all of our locations midwest city northwest oklahoma city the lovely ladies at mabel bassett correctional facility our location there in indianapolis indiana and all of you joining us online around the world welcome to people's church today and i want to encourage everybody who lives nearby one of our locations that's watching online get to church next sunday there's nothing like worshiping in the room there's nothing like that's that corporate anointing and being together so i want to encourage you to give back to church as soon as possible and tonight we look forward to celebrating all of our dream team it's going to be a great great great night of celebration and vision casting and popcorn and soda and comedy we look forward to celebrating all of you and if you're not registered yet would you please do so so we'll just know how much popcorn and soda to have for all of our dream team tonight and i also want to invite every person who says pastor i'm not on the dream team but i will get on the dream team by easter we want to get ready for a great easter of ministering to a lot of people and so if that's you you come to the dream team a rally tonight the celebration tonight it'll begin at 6 p.m sharp all of our locations in oklahoma you're meeting right here at the oklahoma city campus at 800 east britain road indianapolis we'll have it there also at the indianapolis location we look forward to celebrating tonight well i want you to know that i'm excited for this seven week series that we're starting now through all the way up to easter can you believe easter's right around the corner and we're in preparation for easter and you just want to mark your calendars april the 10th uh in this series we're going to take communion together it's going to be a special time together for our church family as we remember the sacrifice jesus paid on the cross of calvary and then on april 16th and 17th we will have saturday and sunday services all weekend long for easter weekend at all of our locations so we just thank you for preparing your hearts inviting people praying serving to make a difference that we can well i'm excited for this series we're going to jump in i'm going to lay some groundwork uh today just kind of the direction of this series as we talk about bounce back bounce back good advice for a bad day and i do want to thank pastor rick warren and chris hodges and jack hayford for some great material as i have been studying for this series how many of you would agree with me that we all have bad days okay for the 22 of you that are with me already i said how many of you agree with me that we all have bad days come on they are unavoidable i've had a lot of bad days in my life uh when i was sexually abused as a teenager it was it's bad days for those months that that transpired my sophomore year of high school when i snuck out the house to stay out late on prom night and as i was driving back by the house my ride was dropping me off at the house and we pulled up and every light in the house was on and i got caught it was a bad day it's a really bad day when i broke up with my college girlfriend it was a bad day the day i got a call from my sister that let me know that my mother has suddenly passed away and died it was a it was a bad day when my son lost 20 pounds and we didn't know why he was so sick it was a bad day when i got a phone call that my older brother who i shared a room with all of my growing up life scotty had had suddenly died it was a bad day the day i found out that a close friend betrayed me and lied to me it was a bad day the trip to boston massachusetts with tiffany when we spent a night almost arguing all night long me and my wife it was a bad day we all have bad days bad days are unavoidable and i wonder have you recently had a bad day maybe you got diagnosed with a disease or you wrecked your car or you found out some painful or devastating news it's been a bad day or one of your children is struggling with friendship or struggling in school or one of your children is spiraling out of control bad days you you got laid off from work or you're having challenges in your business or your employer or employees are very difficult to work with or perhaps a loved one has recently passed away and it's been a lot of bad days maybe you made a stupid decision that you regret or you were recently served divorce papers or maybe you have lost thousands of dollars in the stock market or or you made a bad business deal you invested in something and lost thousands of dollars or or just filed bankruptcy the truth is we all have bad days understand this no matter how much you love god no matter how much you pray how much you read your bible how much you worship you will have bad days and i've seen a lot of christ followers struggle with their faith in god when they go through bad days and a lot of people struggle because they believe that bad days must mean that god's not real or bad days must mean god's not god doesn't love me or bad days must mean god's not with me he's not for me and none of those things are true let me say something to you when you go through a bad day or a bad season can i tell you god is still good and god is still for you even on your worst day ever you see bad days are a part of living in a fallen world and what i want to help you with throughout this series and i want you to understand is that you can bounce back from bad days if you know how to respond to bad days you see wrong responses to a bad day can turn into a bad week can turn into a bad month can turn into a bad year wrong responses to a bad day can turn into a bad decade even to a bad life we've got to learn the right responses to a bad day and what's the major struggle for most people is when we grow up and go to school some of you are still in school we we learn in school we learn a lot they teach us mathematics they teach us science they teach us english growing up as a little kid maybe you learned t-ball they they taught you softball or they taught you baseball or you learned basketball they taught you how to play the piano and we learned a lot of different skills growing up in life but a lot of people go all the way through their growing up years and never learn how to respond to a bad day and a lot of us learn by just watching our parents watching our grandparents watching family members watching friends and we watched how they responded to a bad day we saw them scream and cuss and fuss and argue and anxiety turned to the bottle turned to the pills turned to the drug turned to the food turned to being severely depressed we watched how they respond and they suffered physically and mentally and emotionally when they suffered bad days and so our model what we learned is watching everybody else and how they respond to bad days and throughout this series here's my goal i want to say it right up front here's my goal is i want all of us to learn the right ways to respond to bad days because if we respond the right way we can bounce back no matter how bad the day has been and we're gonna teach you some tools to help you bounce back from bad days and i think the best person to learn from when it comes to bad days is our lord and savior jesus christ can i tell you he had one of the worst days ever recorded in human history it was about a 12-hour period and jesus experienced horrible things he went through some horrific situations jesus is more than qualified to help us on our bad days can i tell you that jesus christ in that 12-hour period leading up to him dying on the cross of calvary that 12-hour period jesus experienced betrayal you see when jesus started his public ministry he hand-picked 12 disciples and judas iscariot one of his disciples betrayed him he he sold jesus out he helped jesus get arrested in mark chapter number 14 and in the other gospels if you're new to church you're new to being a christ follower you're checking out the claims of christ when i say the gospels i'm talking about matthew mark luke and john and and and the bible says in matthew 14 and the other gospels it talks about how judas betrayed jesus to the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver he sold out his friend he sold out the man who had given three and a half years of his life mentoring him pouring into him having relationship with him judas traveled with jesus he lived with jesus and for 30 pieces of silver he betrayed his own friend some of you have experienced this you were close to someone you loved them you spent time with them and they betrayed you and how many of you would agree with me that betrayal it hurts yes it's painful and jesus knows this firsthand jesus not only did he experience betrayal he experienced false accusations and in mark chapter number 14 and in the other gospels we read how people falsely accused jesus for things he never did and for things he never said matter of fact it's so interesting as you study the gospels matthew mark luke and john that jesus went on three different trials in that 12-hour period in front of two different kings and people lined up to lie on jesus they literally paid people to lie about jesus they made up accusations because they wanted to find jesus guilty of something so they could crucify him and i think all of us know what it is to be falsely accused come on anybody ever been lied on before we all know it is to be lied on or talked about you live long enough somebody's going to talk about you somebody's going to put something on social media about you that's not true somebody's going to spread rumors about you going to spread half truths about you and the old saying sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me it's not true you can be deeply hurt by false accusations and things people say about you that you never did and you never said jesus he also experienced rejection and in mark chapter 14 verse 50 verse 50 it says everyone deserted jesus wow all of jesus's followers left him even his 12 disciples scripture says 11 of them left him during that 12-hour period and the one disciple that followed jesus peter he followed jesus from a distance the bible says he denied jesus three times rejection is painful especially when it's somebody that you deeply love somebody you deeply care about a close friend and maybe you have experienced rejection you've been abandoned by a parent a spouse a friend and it's a horrible feeling when you have been rejected and abandoned and jesus knows that feeling jesus also experienced abuse and in mark chapter 15 and chapter 5 chapter 14 and chapter 15 and also in the other gospels it talks about how jesus was severely abused and i want you to get this picture in your mind i want it to be vivid in your mind jesus was beaten he he was sinless he done nothing wrong to anybody but yet he was beaten he was a whipped he was flogged but he wasn't just physically abused he was also mocked they spit in jesus's face they blindfolded him they jabbed him they knocked him inside of his head with sticks saying if you're the son of god will prosper prophesy and tell us which one hit you upside your head they abused jesus so badly that the book of isaiah says he was beyond recognition not even his own mama could recognize him because his head and his face was so swollen his body was torn into pieces being abused physically mentally spiritually or emotionally is is horrible it's painful it can leave you wounded and some of you find yourself there today you find yourself wounded and angry confused mad bitter because of abuse and jesus also experienced humiliation they did all of these things to jesus and one of the reasons was to humiliate him they stripped him off his clothes and and not only did they strip them as close the bible says they ended up selling his clothes and you study history oftentimes when they crucify crucified somebody on the cross that they did it while the person was naked to shame them jesus was probably naked at times during this 12-hour period and crucifying him i mean jesus was they were trying to humiliate him they mocked him they spit in his face here's what i want you to understand today jesus understands what you're going through no matter what you pray to jesus jesus understands what you're experiencing jesus understands the pain he understands what it is to be rejected he's under he the feelings of hurt and abandonment he understands what it is to be betrayed and abused and rejected and humiliated and not only all of that then they took jesus and they nailed him on the cross and they crucified our lord and savior and somebody needs to understand this today jesus went through his worst day so he could help you overcome your worst day i say it again jesus went through his worst day so he could help you overcome your worst day and i want you to notice the first words that jesus said on the cross he he teaches us how to respond to bad days and throughout this series we're we're going to study jesus had this 12-hour period of horrific abuse and humiliation and rejection and abandonment and then he gets on the cross and and they're going to crucify jesus and after a horrible bad day jesus says seven statements on the cross on his worst day ever and from these seven statements we're going to learn some good advice on a bad day and how we need to respond on our worst day ever because if we respond the wrong way a bad day can turn into a bad week lead to a bad month a bad year a bad decade and even a bad life and today i want you to notice the very first words jesus says when they hung him on that cross on that very bad day luke 23 and verse 34 jesus said father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing don't miss this church the first thing jesus did was to pray a prayer of forgiveness to bounce back from a bad day the first thing you have to do right out the gate on a bad day the first thing you have to do is to forgive all those who hurt you and i know what some of you are thinking pastor you got to be kidding me you have no clue what they did to me you have no idea how they hurt me there's no way i can forgive them and so many people don't forgive those who hurt them because they have a wrong understanding of forgiveness you see there's a lot of things that people think forgiveness is that it's not and i meet a lot of people who don't forgive because they don't understand what forgiveness really is let me just quickly give you four things forgiveness is not four things forgiveness is not it's this is holding some of you back from forgiving others here's the first one forgiveness is not minimizing the seriousness of what they did here's what people think they think well if i forgive the person then what i'm saying is what they did is okay or what i'm saying is is what they did is not that big of a deal that's not true you won't find in the bible nor god nor forgiveness that says you have to pretend like what the person did to you wasn't that big of a deal no no no no what happened to some of you was a big deal not all of you because there are some people that i'm preaching to you make everything a big deal but for some of you what they did to you it was a big deal it was huge it was massive it was it was painful and forgiveness is not excusing the other person's behavior or making light of their behavior that's not what it is let me give you a second thing forgiveness is not forgiveness is not reconciliation forgiveness doesn't mean you have to go to the other person and begin a relationship again you see there will be a different set of messages i would have to teach you on how to reconcile or how to restore a relationship that's not my assignment today that's for another sunday about how do you restore how do you reconcile a relationship but forgiveness doesn't mean reconciliation reconciliation is a two-player game you have to have the other person's cooperation to be able to reconcile a relationship and there's not all that's not always a possibility that both people involved want to reconcile a relationship understand something about forgiveness forgiveness is a one player game it's between you and god not between you and them it's what you decide regardless of what the other person does you see you don't have to wait for the other person to tell you they're sorry to forgive you don't have to wait for the other person to acknowledge let me tell you all that i did to you no you don't have to do that to be able to forgive the other person because that may never happen they may never say they're sorry they may never acknowledge what they did jesus said father forgive he's on the cross he's being crucified he's being flogged but he prayed jesus jesus said father forgive them for the for they do not know what they are doing see you have to forgive even while the other person is acting like a fool god i release them to you they actually like like a fool but i forgive them i'm going to let this go it's not about reconciliation forgiveness is not about restoring trust forgiveness is is not resuming the relationship without changes forgiveness is between you and god for four things forgiveness is not number three is this forgiveness is not about doing what's fair there are some people that go i just i just cannot forgive because because it you know if if i forgive them then i'm saying that what they did is this is fair you know i'm just i'm doing what's fair and it's this is not fair what they did to me if i forgive them i'm just basically i'm basically making it look like what happened was fair and i just want you to understand that's just the wrong thinking about forgiveness people think i can't forgive because it's just not fair and forgiveness is not about giving a person what they deserve it's giving a person what they need and most importantly is giving you what you need and none of us come on church let's be honest none of us want what's fair come on we none of us want what's fair if we got what's fair then we all have to pay the penalty for our own sins suffer the consequences of our own sin in a place called hell i thank god that that god doesn't equate forgiveness with fairness i thank god for his grace and his mercy and his forgiveness come on can we take 10 seconds and give god praise that he doesn't play fair but he forgives us can you thank god for grace can you thank god for mercy can you thank god that he throws our sin as far as the east is from the west come on you can do better than that would you thank god for grace and for mercy and i just want us to understand forgiveness is not about fairness and here's the fourth and that is forgiveness is not impossible people believe that forgiveness is not impossible and and that sneaky devil has told some of you you can't forgive that person right right now the devil's whispering in your ear he's convinced him of you oh yeah this is a good message but it's not for you because what they did to you i mean if the pastor really knew he would he you would be excluded from this message because and the devil he'll convince you you can't forgive the offense is is way too big the pain they caused you was so horrific it's impossible for you to forgive them and i want you just to listen to this scripture and god's word in philippians chapter 4 and verse 13. it's a very famous scripture it says i can do all this through him who gives me strength in our own strength we can't do a whole lot in our own strength we can't forgive but with god's strength we can forgive no matter what the person has done to us we really need the strength of god we need the help of the holy spirit because there are some people throughout my life i did not want to forgive i did not like them i hated them i was bitter but can i tell you by the power of the holy spirit by the strength of god we can forgive every single person who hurt us we need the strength of god and this is so important this subject of forgiveness it was the first thing the first step that jesus took on the cross was father forgive them and when you and i are facing a bad day when somebody has hurt us the first step the first thing to do is to pray a prayer of forgiveness and release it to god to forgive this is so important to jesus that he includes it in the lord's prayer it's in the everyday prayer it's in the model prayer in matthew 6 verse 12 jesus said forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us every day and especially on bad days we've got to pray a prayer of forgiveness we have to release all the hurt and release all the pain to our heavenly father every person who hurt us every person who offended us every person who has bothered us we have to give it to our heavenly father in church i don't think we can hear a message like this enough i think i could preach a message like this every other week because how many of you would agree we live in a world where people are constantly hurt constantly offended constantly bothered big things but even small things some of you were bothered today driving to church just just just mad took the person's license plate down like i'm just just mad come on some of you is mad getting called for your church you cut me i know you cut me you you knew i was trying to just just constantly hurt constantly offended constantly bothered by others and if you don't practice forgiveness for everyone who hurt you a bad day will turn into bad weeks months years decades we have to forgive those who hurt us and the question is how do we do this how do we forgive those who hurt us i want us to look at four forgiveness lessons from jesus and i want us to really learn how to forgive because it's not always easy and we're going to look at the gospels again today matthew mark luke and john and we're going to really learn these lessons from the words of jesus on how to forgive someone who deeply hurt us number one is this pray for them just let's look in the gospels luke chapter 6 28 bless those who curse you pray for those who mistreat you matthew chapter 5 verse 44. but i tell you love your enemies and pray pray for those who persecute you pray for the person who hurt you and some of you like oh good i got this one covered pastor i've been praying for them lord burn their house down i've been praying i've been praying lord i pray all for their tires go flat at the same time i've been praying lord i pray they get cockroaches big ones all up in their nose lord just let it crawl all on their face while they're sleeping lord no no not those kind of prayers listen jesus wants to help us if you're going to live a life of forgiveness you have to learn how to pray for those who hurt you you got to learn just to pray lord i ask that you would touch them today i ask that you would change their heart and their life god i pray that you would do a work on the inside of them and you may never see them change but if you pray prayers like this you will see you change it's impossible to keep hating somebody you keep praying for and if you just you got to pray you got to pray for them you got to pray you got you got to pray for them you got to pray you will never know the power of this until you do it you'll never know the power until you start praying until you start praying until you start praying for them jesus didn't stop there he took it up another notch and he teaches us how to live a life of forgiveness first he says pray for them number two he says bless them i promise i don't have a trick bible it's in yours as well i want you to show it to you luke chapter 6 and verse 28 bless those who curse you romans 12 14 bless those who persecute you bless and do not curse one of the meeting meanings of the word bless is to speak well love that means i will not let a curse come out of my mouth about the person who hurt me both privately and publicly i will not speak a curse over their life instead i will speak well of my enemy i will bless those who persecute me i will bless and not curse church here's what i've learned here's personally here's what i've learned about forgiveness it takes an act of your mind before it's an act of your emotions your emotions will not feel like praying for them your emotions will not feel like blessing them your emotions will tell you to retaliate your emotions will tell you to curse them and i just want to help you really learn how to forgive and move on don't let your feelings keep you from forgiving even when you don't feel like it pray for them and speak blessings instead of curses if you do this eventually if you will do this eventually it will go from your mind and get into your emotions i know this personally i have been hurt abused betrayed i've experienced deep deep pain and i'm just being honest i was bitter at times angry hostile speaking evil you know what i really learned this when i did not feel like it because my feelings were saying just keep talking bad about them and i had to learn to pray and give it to god i had to quit cursing and start speaking blessings even when i didn't feel like it just speaking life and speaking blessings and you know what happened as i began to follow this in my own life it wasn't a day it wasn't even two it wasn't even a week or two i just had to keep practicing it but as i kept praying as i kept speaking blessings can i tell you it went from my head to my heart and the next thing you know the bitterness stopped and and and the hatred stopped and i just things started to shift in my life as i can just truly begin to give it to the lord you got to pray for them you got to bless them let me give you what jesus says because he just takes it up another notch this is what your bible says number three is this do good to them do good to them it's quiet in this church today let me just read you what your bible says in luke chapter 6 verse 27 the words of jesus but to you who are listening i say love your enemies do good to those who hate you luke 6 35 and 36 but love your enemies do good to them and lend to them without expecting to get anything back then your reward will be great and you will be children of the most high because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked be merciful just as your father is merciful paul apostle paul says in romans 12 17 through 21 do not repay anyone evil for evil be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone if it is possible as far depends on you live at peace with everyone do not take revenge my dear friends but leave room for god's wrath for it is written it is mine to avenge i will repay says the lord on the contrary if your enemy is hungry feet hill if he is thirsty give him something to drink in doing this you will keep burning coals on his head verse 21 do not overcome be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good joyce meyers many of you will be familiar with her name and her ministry she shared her testimony and she said when i grew up as a little girl i was raped over 200 times by my dad and she remembers it vividly and of course she grew up as an adult and started a very powerful worldwide ministry and as she was ministering her father was not serving the lord never acknowledged that he had raped his own daughter but god spoke to joyce and said i want you to start doing good to your parents their relationship was exchanged and it was struggling and she decided i'm gonna i'm gonna do good to them so she start providing for them monetarily and she started paying house payments and and paying for insurance buying groceries taking care of them and then the holy spirit spoke to her and said joyce i want you to build a home for your parents right next door to you her father still has not it's not serving the lord he's he's never acknowledged what he's done he's never said he was sorry but she obeyed god and built that house next to her and she took care of her parents and never once did he say he was sorry or acknowledge raping her over 200 times and on his death bed joyce says her father looked at him when at her when she when he was about to die and he said honey i'm sorry for what i did to you i'm sorry for what i did to you and on his deathbed he gave his heart and his life to jesus christ [Music] that's what it looks like to do good to those who hurt you i don't know how that applies to your life but i want you to see what forgiveness looks like number four is this number four is this this is huge you ought to write this one down really big start and circle it do good to you do good to you we said do good to them do good to you do good to you how do you overcome forgiveness how do you forgive do good to you matthew chapter 6 back in the gospel verse 14 and verse 15 for if you forgive other people when they sin against you your heavenly father will also forgive you but if you do not forgive others their sins your father will not forgive your sins when you don't forgive others you only hurt yourself so people's church do good to you and forgive others forgiveness is not a gift you give others forgiveness is a gift you give yourself when you forgive you will receive god's forgiveness when you forgive you will have the weight and the burden of unforgiveness and bitterness and hate lifted off your shoulders when you forgive you will be able to move forward in life and quit living in the rearview mirror when you forgive you'll be able to live out god's plan and purposes for your life you can't face what's happening today if you don't settle what happened yesterday you have to settle the pain of yesterday so you don't miss the promises of today don't let the pain of the past rob you of god's promises for today forgiveness will not change the past but forgiveness will change your future do good to you do good to you i wonder where my life would be today if i would have held on to the bitterness and the hate and the unforgiveness i wonder what my marriage would be like if i didn't let it go because i was bitter i was angry i was abused i was done wrong it was not right [Music] i wonder if i'd be pastoring people's church today if i was drinking the poison of bitterness i wonder if i would be experiencing the promises of god the blessings of god if i didn't forgive it wasn't easy but i forgave every person who hurt me do good to you and forgive heavenly father thanks for your word thanks for your presence thanks for speaking at every location online mabel bassett thank you for touching the hearts of people right now thank you for ministering deep tears are coming down faces right now people are hurting they're in pain what happened to them is real it's tragic and god i thank you for helping them by your spirit his eyes are closed and heads are bowed i'm talking to some people right now that you're not living your life for jesus and i've met people in various categories of while they're not living for jesus some of you are not living for jesus because you were hurt by a person and you equate a person to god you are hurt by church people you are hurt by a church leader and i'm telling you god is totally different than that person that hurt you they may even claim the name of christ they may be a christian but i'm telling you god is holy he's pure he's perfect he's righteous he's a loving god and he wants to forgive you of all of your sins he wants to heal your broken heart today some of you are just living for yourself you're living for the devil you're living you're living your own way you got hidden sin in your life you're just living for yourself living for the devil living for the world living for yourself living for the devil living for the world and today the holy spirit's speaking to you would you come home would you give your life to jesus will you experience god's forgiveness in his grace today if that's you on that count of three would you raise your hand hide every location i want to lead you in a prayer to experience god's forgiveness his grace i want you to be made right with god today if that you would you raise your hand at every location online you can click the raise your hand button all right that's me that's me that's me one two three just lift your hand high right now thank you so much others today thank you so much others thank you thank you midwest city that's it come on let's lift your hand high at northwest indianapolis online mabel bassett that's it all across the room thank you thank you others today thank you thank you i'm gonna ask every hand that's raised to pray this prayer with me confess it with your mouth believe it in your heart god's gonna wash away your sins pray with me now heavenly father i turn from my life of sin and i turn my life over to jesus christ and i confess today that jesus christ is the son of the living god he died on the cross and he rose again and i commit to live my life for jesus thank you for forgiving me of all of my sins in jesus name i pray his eyes are still closed and heads are still bound i turn it over to all of the other campuses right now and if you pray that prayer here's what i want you to do right now i want to send you a next step book in the mail absolutely free but i need you to do me a very quick favor so we can mail it to you would you text the information on your screen just text that number text pcs to 9400 fill out that little short form and let me be able to send that book to you to help you take next steps in following jesus also if you prayed that prayer today or months ago or you're brand new to the church or you've been to people's church for years but you've never been to growth track good news today is week one of growth track week one it's the four weeks and this is week one would you today following this service go out in the main lobbies just straight back out hang a left and you'll see the growth track room the red arched wall there would you go to growth track we're going to help you learn your spiritual gifts learn more about the church learn more about the lord learn more about who we are our vision and our values would you get to growth track today give me four weeks of your life you're gonna discover your purpose grow in your faith and get plugged in to people's church would you do that today you could also do it online we have it online for this next service people's church would you stand with me all around this building would you please not leave that i'm getting ready to close but don't leave yet don't leave yet would you lock eyes with your pastor would you lock eyes with me right now people's church there's some of you right now that are hurting that are bitter angry caring unforgiveness and for good reasons you've been deeply hurt but do good to you today i want you to give it to the lord all around this building there are hurting people and i'm asking you to do me a favor right i want to pray for you today every person that's hurting right now you're carrying bitterness and unforgiveness anger in your heart would you step out of your seat right now and just come stand across the front of this building so we can have the opportunity to pray for you would you just step out your seat now as we begin to sing this song and we want to minister to you we want to pray for you that's it just keep coming just come stand across the front maybe in the very back of the room just come on come on let us pray for you let us minister to you can i get some of our staff to come spouses to come come on would you come and lay hands prayer team would you come let's pray for these come on keep coming bring your bitterness bring anger just lift your hands to god right now come on church with you stretch your hand towards these right now would you be gonna pray for them right now that the lord would touch that the lord would help them [Music] come on give your bitterness to god give your pain to god give your heart to god give it to the lord today [Music] nothing else come on give it to him give it to him give it to him give him the pain give him the hearts give him the abuse give him the betrayal give him the disappointment give him the bitterness right now give it to the lord give it to the lord [Music] nothing else [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] nothing else [Music] heavenly father i pray right now yes god as tears are swimming down faces these people are giving you the weight of unforgiveness bitterness what happened is so real we're not minimizing it lord but we're giving it to you we're giving it to you we're giving it to you i thank you for healing i thank you for help i thank you for strength i thank you for your presence i i thank you lord we're not going to let the pain of the past rob us from the promises of tomorrow i thank you right now we're letting it go we're letting it go we're giving it to god we're giving it to god i thank you right now for the heavy burden to be released to you right now and i thank you for touching your people in the mighty name of jesus continue to pray continue to pray across the front here continue to pray we're family around here we're family around here i can't wait for the dream team celebration just keep praying just keep praying just keep praying our worship team is going to keep singing come on would you ride with family online come up before this mission come up with your shot with me with your shout you guys can continue to pray across the front come on with your shot who are we we're family god bless you people's church let's keep praying [Music] [Music] figures [Music] do [Music] so [Music] you

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