10AM Service

[Music] i was walking the way on a lonely road i was chasing the highlight trying to satisfy my soul [Music] then i saw lightning from heaven and i've never been the same i'm gonna climb a mountain i'm gonna shout about it i am a child of love i am a child [Music] i felt the sting of the fire but i saw you in the place [Music] just when i thought it was over you broke me out of the grave i'm gonna climb [Music] i am the child of love i am [Music] you can change the way you love me nothing can change the way oh i belong to you yes i do and nothing can separate nothing can change the way you love me nothing can change [Music] [Applause] i'm gonna climb a mountain [Music] oh i found a world of freedom i am a child of love yeah [Music] i am a child of love come on [Music] [Applause] [Music] hi i am [Music] hello my name is pastor amber and i wanted to take some time to tell you about a piece of next-gen ministries that you may not even know about it's called comfort zone comfort zone is a ministry we offer during the 10 a.m services on sunday for children with special needs our goal is for them to have an amazing church experience while meeting their specific needs it has been amazing for us to watch these kids encounter god in their own way if you would like more information please sign your child up at lonestar.tv and we will reach out to discuss your child's specific needs with you we are currently building a team of people that are passionate about making this ministry happen so if this sounds like something that you would like to be a part of we would love to visit with you we can't wait to continue to watch this generation grow all right let's stand together and bow our heads lord it's a brand new day the one thing we can be assured of is that you're in charge do you have all authority all glory belongs to you lord today we lift you up we celebrate as children of the most high god saying there is no one like jesus who saves we're gonna celebrate we're gonna make a joyful noise lord be blessed be honored be glorified in jesus name we pray amen come on let's put our hands together out there make a joyful noise in this place in the presence of my enemies [Music] i'm raising hallelujah [Music] louder than the unbelief i raised a hallelujah [Music] my weapon is a melody it's person come on i'm a razor hallelujah [Music] cause i know heaven comes to fight for me [Music] in the middle of the storm louder and louder you're gonna hear my praises roaring [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] inside of me [Music] music [Music] come on speak to it i'll fear you've lost [Music] [Music] come on no matter what your circumstance is today you raise a hallelujah gonna worship and [Music] pray a little louder [Music] sing a little louder i'll sing a little louder sing a little louder i'm gonna sing a little louder i'm gonna sing a little louder come on i sing a little louder than the unbelief is [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] the king is alive [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] is it all too much to carry let me tell you about my jesus do you feel that empty feeling cause shames don't know it's stealing and you're desperate for some healing but let me tell you about my jesus he makes a way where there ain't no way rises up from an empty grave ain't no sinner that he can't save let me tell you about my [Music] and his jesus is free and the good news is oh i know that he can truly feel what he's done for me let me tell you about my jesus and let my jesus change your life hallelujah [Music] and all the wrong terms [Music] [Music] let me tell you about my jesus and his love is strong and his grace is free and the good news is [Music] let me tell you about my jesus change hallelujah [Music] to calvary pay the price for all my guilty who would care that much about me let me tell you about my jesus oh he makes a way where there ain't no way he rises up from an empty grave there ain't no sinner that he can't save let me tell you about my jesus his love is strong and his grace is free and the good news [Music] your is hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] my heart oh lord and fill it with your word take my life [Music] and let it glorify your name each and every day my love for you is like a blazing fire you're all i want lord you're my desire i worship you with everything i [Music] hear your am and my heart starts beating to see your face lord i won't stop seeking i worship you with [Music] you are the one i love [Music] and make it be as yours come on speak take the words [Music] every day my love for you [Music] my is i worship you with everything i am [Music] [Music] lord you are the one [Music] so [Music] my love for you is like a blazing fire you're all i want lord you're my desire i'll worship you with everything [Music] i hear your voice in my heart to see your face lord i won't stop seeking i'm worshiping you with everything i [Music] yes [Music] the lord laid this thought on my heart as we get ready to go into a moment of prayer i thought let me tell you about my jesus see i think we come into church sometimes and we think because things aren't going the way we wanted them to jesus isn't around but see jesus didn't show up when life was perfect he showed up when life was messed up and he stepped up into the messed up moments with people when the when the storm was raging when life was broken when people were hurt when people were sick that's when jesus showed up and that's the jesus that that we need to recognize in this place today that let me tell you about my jesus who can heal whatever is broken inside of you they can heal whatever disease is struggling that can put the pieces of your life back together when you think you've messed up so much that he that you can't when things feel dead to you he's the one who brings things back to life that's the jesus we serve and so if that's you today man can we just take a moment man if you said i got something that's on my heart and i'm just struggling and i need to see jesus come move in my life if you're watching online slip your hand up if you're here in this place let's slip our hand up and let's just take that need to jesus here this morning man jesus i thank you for for the fact that you overcome everything that we face that there is nothing that we come up against that you came back from the dead that you rose up out of that grave that you healed sick people that you raised dead people that you multiplied in in moments where everything felt like it was empty you multiplied and created a miracle of much out of nothing you spoke life into existence when there was nothing but a black void and you can speak into the black void of our lives right now and create spiritual life and i pray that you would just do that jesus that you would change our hearts that you would change our minds that you would give us peace that passes all understanding that you would step into these moments with us because it was what you promised to us in matthew you said i will be with you always even to the very end may we experience that presence right now that in this room through the hands that are raised through the people that surround us that we would experience your presence and know that you're here jesus in this moment with us walking with us step by step our hand in your hand trusting for you to do work that only you can do jesus we commit this service to you today jesus we commit our lives to you today we ask you to do what only you can do so that we can give you the glory for it jesus we ask it all in your name and everybody said amen can we give the lord a big hand clapping praise this morning amen amen you can be seated this morning listen my name is jason i get the privilege of being the executive pastor here at lone star cowboy church and i just want to welcome all of you for being here this morning i want to welcome those of you that are joining us online man we've got people from everywhere uh that are watching us in fact our tennessee group sent me a picture this morning because fiona the pig you'd have to know them was literally watching digging deep in the barn this morning in tennessee and so that sanctified bacon right there that's redeeming uh something amazing right there um there's so many opportunities where god is ministering to so many people through this service so thank you if you're joining us online listen if you're here for the very first time maybe you already got the gift that we had for you on the front porch as you were coming in but if you didn't and you're a first time guest we would love an opportunity to give you a gift and just recognize you here this morning and if you'd slip your hand up our ushers are going to make their way to you lone star can we welcome our guests this morning i see some hands back over there there we go keep them up keep waving them we got some right over here too they're coming they're coming to you keep them up until they 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give to those of you that are here today listen every now and then we have these window decals that have the lone star tv logo on them and so if you would like one of those for your vehicle and you want to just slip your hand up now or ushers are going to come around we're going to get those hand out to you as you're coming through the service but it's just your opportunity to let people know where you go to church and i see those things around everywhere and it's just a great opportunity because people can find out where you go to church hear about us and come be a part of what god is doing here just remember if you stick one of those in your window jesus is watching you though he's watching the way you drive all right and have you guys ever heard of secret shoppers we have secret window sticker people um and i'm just saying if you put that in there and it disappears one day somebody's watching you that's all i'm saying so drive well honor jesus well if you're gonna stick that sticker uh in the back of your window and keep your hand up they're gonna make their way around but would you give me a big lone star cowboy church welcome to pastor randy this morning so i just want to make something clear whether you have a sticker or not jesus is still watching i'm just saying and it's saying sticker or no sticker don't you love jesus this morning y'all looking great out there what a privilege don't you think it's a privilege to come together and worship the lord in spirit and in truth and to have the peace of god and i this morning i'm just uh i made up with gratitude i made up with gratitude for you i'm thankful that god sends his holy spirit to us this morning to meet each and every one of our needs no matter where we're at no matter what we're doing we all have different needs amen and we all have different lives and lifestyles and but god can meet us exactly where we're at and i thank god that he created us for a reason and for a purpose one of the uh the title of my message this morning is above all else above all else in other words above everything else there's something that is more important than anything else and so the time my message is above or else how many knows that in today's world the world is the really the world really wants your attention billions and billions of dollars are spent just to get your attention the world will spend no telling how much money just so that you can use their cosmetics women they'll spend money on planet fitness spend a lot of money so that you can buy a membership that you never use they spend a lot of money so that you can dodge drive a dodge ram truck and all the dodge people said isn't it true though that social media they they've gone off the deep end on advertising it's not really social media anymore it's more about what we want you to spend your money on and it's always interesting to me that they think that the church wants your money everybody wants your money everybody wants my money and it's just kind of the way of the world but above all else above all else there's something that is more important than anything else i want to pray holy spirit we felt your presence today and for that we could actually just dismiss some prayer and say that it's been so good to be in the presence of god so we don't take that lightly we do believe today lord that you have a word for each and every one of us that you do have a plan for us for our lives i thank you lord for your peace i thank you lord for your word i thank you holy spirit that you are patient with us and that your love never fails that it never runs out that you are for us not against us that you are a friend that sticks closer than a brother that you are a holy god that's made room for us in your holy world in jesus name we love you amen when i was a little kid we used to sing a song it would be be careful little eyes what you see be careful little hands what you do for the father up above is looking down in love be careful little hands what you do be careful little feet where you go be careful little ears what you hear for the father up above is looking down in love be careful little ears what you hear what you allow what you personally allow to come into your life will affect you and become a part of your character one of the gifts of the holy spirit is the gift of discernment we all need discernment do we not who doesn't need more discernment to discern what is from god and what is from the world what is good for us and what is not good for us what is healthy spiritually physically emotionally financially everything that is healthy for us we need that and the good things the scripture says are from god the good and perfect things that we all need are from god so be careful what we let come into our mind and so i made up a new one be careful little brain what you think i wrote steers and when i rope steers i put protective boots on my horses on their front legs and their back legs because when they're performing sometimes they'll interfere with themselves and they'll hit each other hit their hip their leg and they'll bruise their bone or bruise their leg or cause a tendon to be bad so i put protective boots on them to protect them from themselves we're gonna put some boots on today above all else the book of proverbs i'm gonna go back i i i may have talked about this a few weeks back but i i didn't even look back because sometimes it's not healthy to look back i didn't look back to see what i preached about because i didn't want to be influenced by not preaching about it if that's what god wanted me to preach about so if you heard this part of this sermon before you need it again proverbs chapter 4 verse 23 above all else guard your heart for everything you do flows from it another another translation that says guard your mind because what you allow to come into your mind it comes down into your heart and the heart has the issues of life without a heart we all die right so with spiritually speaking we have to have a pure and contrite heart before god and above all else the most important thing for you to take care of is your heart proverbs chapter 4 verse 1 i don't ever really when i was preaching i don't ever really remember reading the entire chapter to the church my my reason for that is because you have it already and i feel like i need to preach other things that you don't have but i don't feel that way today i feel like i need to read this to you because it's life to us and sometimes many times when we just really get into the word of god it changes us tremendously how many knows that's true romans or proverbs chapter 4 verse 1 listen everybody say listen i just want to pause there for a minute listen my sons to the father's instructions so we know the solomon king solomon wrote this wrote wrote the proverbs so he says listen my son's to a father's instruction pay attention my daddy always told that to me anybody your daddy ever told you to pay attention i mean like all the time apparently i didn't pay very close attention because seems like he was always saying pay attention and then after that in verse one it says and gain understanding in other words we won't ever gain understanding until we oh y'all so smart verse 2 i give you sound learning so do not forsake my teaching for i too was a son to my father who was solomon's father david king david still tender and cherished by my mother bathsheba yeah verse 4 then he taught me and he said to me take hold of my words with some of your heart oh oh it's good it's a good thing y'all brought your bibles over here in this section over here it doesn't say pay attention with some of your heart it says pay attention with all right all your heart so just check and see if you all brought your bibles this morning keep my commands and you will live that's good wisdom then it says verse 5 get wisdom get understanding do not forget my words or turn away from them because when we get wisdom then we understand verse 6 do not forsake wisdom and she will protect you do not forsake wisdom she isn't it funny how in the bible it's a female pronoun when it's talking about wisdom oh you women know what i'm talking about i i don't i don't get it but it's just i'm just saying do not forsake wisdom and she will protect you in other words this culture in this world that we live in is full of fear and we need protection from someone and excuse me we need to have we need to have peace about information that we don't have we need to have peace about information that we don't have you know what that's that's called faith you don't need faith if you already have what you prayed for but faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen that's kind of like we we talk about that that little saying that says if the tree falls in the forest and nobody's around does it make any noise my response to that is who cares faith is the substance of the only reason it's a substance because we have faith in it it's something that's hopeful so we have faith in hope and there's the evidence the evidence is god's word but we haven't seen it yet but we believe it why because god said it when we believe god and we trust god and when god speaks somebody help me here when god speaks we are going to respond with yes because he is always right he's always right wisdom and get understanding i just don't understand we need more wisdom can you say amen to that so do not forsake wisdom and she will protect you love her and she will watch over you the beginning of wisdom is this get wisdom though listen to me though it cost all you have oh though it costs all you have get wisdom oh well i don't know if i'm willing to give up everything you know who's talking here right the richest man in the world he's got more money than you all y'all put together this guy named solomon right here and he grew up in a world where his daddy had all here he was his daddy david king david had everything he wanted and then king david he says my son and solomon remembers that it is in all you're getting get wisdom he said don't put so much emphasis on getting all this stuff that wears out that you gotta buy a a guaranteed policy for and and then they're gonna call you back and see if you can renew that guaranteed policy listen wisdom is something that will stay with you if you value wisdom because when you get wisdom you get understanding now let me say this knowledge is is a little bit different knowledge is a little bit different we have a lot of smart people in our world today but there's not much wisdom in them we have a lot of knowledge spitting out everywhere but there's no wisdom because there's no understanding i had a a guy that come to church a long time ago and he he was bragging to me he said he read the bible through two times that year i saw that's good how much of it did you really understand because it's not so much about bragging how much we accomplish it's about how much comes into our heart and into our mind where we can understand and navigate through life in a healthy way and have peace in the process and peace in the creator because he knows everything and listen to me when we know the one that knows everything we have all we need don't cross verse eight cherries her and she will exalt you embrace her and she will honor you she will give you a garland to grace your head and present you with glorious crown listen my son accept what i say have you ever been talking to your kids and you knew that they really needed to hear what you were saying but the light wasn't on one of the greatest gifts kids that you can give to your parents or to your grandparents is to accept what they say when they're speaking the word of god listen my son accept what i say in other words please don't doubt what i say when i'm speaking wisdom to you about life it says what i say and the years of your life will be many instruct you in the way i instruct you in the way of wisdom and lead you along the straight path when you walk your steps will not be hampered when you run you will not stumble hold on to instruction do not let it go guard it well for it is your life hang on to instruction now i know we got a lot of men here and uh us men i don't know it's a dna thing but we don't really like to read instructions we can let we got it and then we while we go we just use those words here hey i got this and then after we can't get it put together then we go back and read the instructions we need instructions can all the men said all the men said hold on to instructions do not let it go guard it well for it is your life do not set foot on the path of the wicked or the way in the way of the evil doer avoid it do not travel on it turn from it and go on your way for they cannot rest until they do evil i don't know if anybody has any friends like that they can't rest until they do evil listen to this next part they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble your friends and my friends if i give in to them and they cause me to stumble they're not really my friends and i don't really need them as friends if i'm influencing them toward christ then that's a good thing but if they're influencing me away from christ i'm not strong enough to be in their presence and i need to amen because they're not going to stumble till they get you drunk they're not going to stumble they get you doing the drug till they get you doing the things that they're they're not going to quit until they get you where they want you it's called peer pressure and everybody has it young people and old people alike but we need to be careful don't we we need to pay pay attention pay attention guard our guard our heart do not turn to the right of the left and keep your foot from evil verse 9 understanding will be a guard of grace to your head guard your heart you see what begins as gratitude appreciation for grace many times arrives in an attitude of self admiration and arrogance isn't it funny how god gives us grace and then he elevates us because he said if i be lifted up i'll draw i'll mend it to you and then he said that he would he would raise us up as leaders in the community but then after we get raised up we forgot we forget how we got there and it's important for us not to allow the the pride and arrogance that of of god's gift to us how many know god's given you a big gift and he's put a lot of trust in he's put a lot of confidence in you and he knows that that your your abilities and and the gifts that he's put in you are tremendous we always have to remember where we came from and who gave us what we have because if god created us and god made us then he is the one that is responsible for us and then we are responsible to him for our actions so the victories god lifted up saul the very first king you remember that very first king lifted him up and then after a while after saul was king for a while then he was like look what i've done and then when he went against the commandments of the lord he said but i have but i have done the command he had bought into his own deception that he didn't even know that he'd been deceived so when we buy into deception uh the the challenge that we have with deception is when we're deceived we don't even know that we're deceived because we're deceived and if we're deceived we don't even know it that's why we need jesus when we need the holy spirit to convict us and for us to have a humble teachable spirit and say god i don't have all this figured out can somebody say amen to that i just don't have it all figured out but i know you have the answer for everything that i'm going through and if there's something in me that is separating me from you the thing that you call sin and you have given me a specific word and i'm not adhered to that word i really do want to know it only humble people will pray that prayer only humble people will pray the prayer of saying god is there any deception in my life i would just like as your preacher today i just challenge you double dog dare you to pray the prayer god what deception have i bought into it's a good prayer i recommend it so what happens is the victories of our past can never be the security of our future the victories of our past can never be the security of our future because we don't ever really arrive until we get to heaven first corinthians 10 12 apostle paul said this he said if you think you stand take heed lest you fall there's no song we used to sing i can't even walk without you holding my hand i thought that number one would surely be me and i forgot the rest of it says something like that that i could be all i want to be and then i built my life on i don't know life sinking sand and i found out that i can't even walk without you holding my hand something like that can't walk through life you see the least likely thing in our lives can bring the greatest danger to our lives the the least likely things in our life can sometimes bring the greatest danger to our lives did you know that everything you do most everything you put your hand to can either be good for you or good to you or it can be tremendously bad or evil in your life computers they can be really good it can be really bad that that pickup you drove it can be a blessing to you it could kill you what else phones i'm telling you what i got i got a uh an account on this is one of those social media wasn't tick-tock but it's the other one them things are nasty there's a lot of nasty stuff on there i i had to get it off my phone because i'm not that strong parents man got a big job you see almost anything in life can be used to glorify god or it can be used for evil there is something in you remember peter the apostle peter he the guy that jesus told him uh he said he was gonna he wanted to walk on water and so jesus told him to come come to him and peter walked on water and the scripture says he took his eyes off of jesus and went down and jesus picked him up and uh and people criticized peter for for uh going down because he took his eyes off of jesus but you think about he's really the only guy that got out of the boat he's the only guy that walked away i mean he walked on water you can't i had a friend of mine he was a real holy guy he thought he wanted to walk on water and so he he'd been praying about it and everything and he got a bunch of people out there and and he was one of the faith preachers and he told me he's all going to walk they have faith and so he they're all there and they pray and everything and he steps in the swimming pool true story i'm true story he steps into the swimming pool and just sinks like a like an anchor and then he realizes that he didn't have much faith because he didn't have his good boots on and his good hat and everything so he goes back up in the hotel room puts his good hat on his good boots on and he comes out and they pray again and he steps off sinks like an anchor and this is a true story things happen in cowboy world that you can't understand really so he said he said while he was standing there while he was in the water holding onto the side he said god spoke to you he said he said i told peter to walk on water not you [Applause] matthew chapter 26 verse 31 then jesus told him told peter this very night you will fall away on account of me he told peter you're going to fall away on account of me and then for it is written and he quoted i think it was in isaiah where he said i will strike the shepherd and the shepherd of the flock will be scattered jesus quoted that scripture and then verse 32 it says but after i have risen jesus said this after i have risen i will go ahead of you to galilee he said you're going to mess up big time anybody relate don't raise your hand he said you're gonna mess up big time but he said uh listen after i have risen i will go ahead of you to galilee he didn't say when you mess up you're out of here he's not like some of our friends or family this this is this is jesus talk and this is this is the one that we sing about off oh we sang about him all morning let me tell you about my jesus he's never going to leave you and never forsake you take care of you and then verse 33 and peter replied here's peter talking even if all fall away on account of you i never will what he was saying when jesus quoted the old testament he was saying that part of the bible jesus doesn't apply to me now jesus i know your god and i know i know all this but he said i don't know what's all what all going on but i'm not ever going to mess up and i'm going to follow you and and by the way when you quoted that last part that's not for me even if all fall away on account of you i never will verse 34 truly i tell you jesus answered this very night before the rooster crows you will disown me three times not one time but three times and peter declared even if i have to die with you i will never disown you and all the other disciples said the same anybody ever argue with god that he doesn't really know your situation or what's going to happen let me tell you something our faith and this is this is part above all else faith will take you where you need to go but fear and pride will keep you from your destiny and we are all human so we all have to fight that there's nobody here that's exempt don't don't don't don't please don't feel like i'm just zeroing you out because everybody in this room needs to hear this we all need to understand that many times when god says something we're like um thomas i doubt it even if i have to die with you i'll never disown you and all the other disciples said the same in other words jesus you're right most of the time so one of the things that peter was right about he said i will never i would just submit to you this morning that peter was completely unaware of himself peter had not been honest with himself i think we're real good at beating ourselves up and tearing ourselves down i think sometimes we're real good at being arrogant about who we are but i don't know that we're ever really good about finding that middle ground about understanding who we really are and not getting overboard with our arrogance or underboard with ripping ourselves up the challenge that i have for you today is that jesus had a place for peter but in order for peter to get where peter needed to be peter had to understand himself a few years back i was roping with a guy and i was trying to get to be a better healer rope rope the feet want to be like jesus i want to rope the feet be a healer and and this guy was going to help me and he said this he said if you'll do what i say you won't miss again so i'm like i'm like when he said that i knew i was at the wrong place because i had seen him miss and he even missed while i was there but he thought his words were you're not ever going to miss again if you do what i say it's just not reality have you ever been around people that thought they they were a lot better people than they really were that they're really good at something like like like team ropers there's a lot of team rovers think they rope a lot better than they really rope but to be honest with ourselves and say this is this is where i'm at right now the only way that you can actually get better is to understand where you are now and it's the same way with living for god a lot of times if we're not careful and i say this in the most humble way i know how i don't really want to offend anybody but if we're if we're not careful we'll lie to ourselves about our level of maturity with christ because we really don't want to be immature but it's challenging on the other side of the spectrum to be who god's called us to be and to step out by faith knowing that we have that gifting inside of us to do exceedingly abundantly above anything that anybody could ask or think that god would do something in me that is better than than than i could have ever imagined it's hard for me to buy into that but if we're not careful we'll either be on one side of the pendulum where we rip ourselves down or we'll be on the other side of the pendulum where we build ourselves so much we've got so much arrogance in us that nobody can talk to us nobody can teach us anything but to be in the middle of the road and say god i am going to depend on you above all else i need your heart i need your wisdom i need to take every thought captive i need to pay attention to what you're saying to me and then respond with what you've called me to do there's a big challenge for the church today it's a big challenge so peter he was unaware of himself and what peter said he said i would never i don't know if you've ever said that or not made that declaration well i'd never do that i never and then he winds up doing it oh and then you beat yourself up so luke chapter 22 verse 31 simon simon simon peter this is what jesus said he said satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat and jesus said this but i have prayed for you he says satan has asked this this is y'all stay with me please stay with me here he says satan has asked to sift you like wheat and then he said jesus said i have prayed for you who does jesus pray to god the father god the holy spirit so we got jesus the holy spirit god the father the triune godhead one who is all on earth they want us to be all that we can be but he says satan has asked to sift you is there anybody here feel like you've been through some sifting lately and my question if we're not careful we'll ask that question well why would jesus let satan sift me that just doesn't seem right i don't think that's right i don't want to be shifted i don't like sifting jesus said but i pray for you simon that your faith listen to me that your faith that your faith may not fail and when you have turned back strengthen your brothers in other words that your faith would be strong but not just so your faith would be strong but you could help strengthen the other people that you live around but he replied lord i am ready to go with you to prison and to death he still doesn't get the picture jesus answered i tell you peter before the rooster crows today you'll deny me three times that you know me verse 54 then seizing him they led him away jesus and took him into the house to the high priest and peter followed at a distance that was part of the problem and when some there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together peter sat down with them a servant girl saw him seated there in the fire light and she looked closely at him and said this man was with him but he denied it and he said woman i do not know him there it is there it is truer words y'all stay with me here truer words were never spoken when peter said i do not know him he spent all that time three years with him still didn't know him peter needed sifting and i believe it's just me the preacher talking but i believe that we and i'm gonna put myself in this i believe we all need a little sifting this morning sifting weed it refers to after wheat has been harvested one of the steps in preparing it for use is to sift or to thresh it this is also known as separating the wheat from the chaff the separating that which is good and un and usable from that which is useless i want to be filled with what is useful and i want everything that is useless to be sifted so was it a bad thing that jesus allowed satan to sift peter because there was a sifting that needed to take place when jesus always has our best interest in her and first of all we've all got to understand that god always wants what's good for us that he is good he has our best interest at heart everything he has is he is trustworthy and faithful and everything he has is for us but then he said i just want to say this to you if we need sifting we should embrace the sifting and too many times we let fear take a hold of us we lit we we bad mouth ourselves because because we messed up and we don't learn the lessons so we have to go back through the lesson again and then it's like i just don't have any peace in my life just accept the sifting and let the things that are useless in you leave so that the things that are useful when a when a fruit tree is pruned of the useless branches the useful branches are much more healthy so jesus said that after the resurrection some good things are going to happen and you remember peter on the day of pentecost when he was filled with the holy spirit after he'd gone through everybody say gone through when he'd gone through the sifting on the day of pentecost he preached to 5 thousand people no five thousand of them got saved didn't they three thousand well give or take three thousand give their heart to the lord when he's preaching five thousand this was a this was the peter that was so wishy-washy before but because he embraced the sifting and he accepted the holy spirit and he was filled with the spirit because you know you've heard heard me said before if you're not full of the spirit you're probably full of something else right so let's be full of the spirit so i want to say this victory generally follows the day of your greatest defeat a couple years ago we we dawn and i went on a on a cruise and it was and we uh stopped at different places and we stopped it different uh and toured a lot of different churches in europe beautiful churches i mean me gorgeous buildings i love stained glass i think it's just pretty when the light's shining through it's just i mean i'm kind of romantic anyway you might not guess that but kind of a romantic and they would charge us to get into the churches a lot of times and it was interesting to me that the place that was designed to for the presence of god to live and for people to enjoy the presence of god that the presence of god really wasn't there it was just an old cold building jesus said this he said all authority everybody say all authority all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth you know what that really means it means that no matter what's happening in our world today jesus has authority over it and when we know the one who has authority then we can navigate in faith and confidence and guard our heart and guard our mind and guard our thinking knowing by faith everything is going to be all right in the long run it's going to be all right but if we're not careful we will allow the influence of the world the billions of dollars that are spent to manipulate your mind in my mind will allow the world to manipulate us where we buy into a partial gospel and anytime we buy into a partial gospel it is not about the full gospel of jesus so we have to be careful to guard our hearts and what we allow to come into our thinking and to be willing to make adjustments and to be truthful with ourselves as to who we are and then take it from there and grow in christ jesus above all else above all else guard your heart let's pray thank you lord for your word thank you for your love lord this morning i pray to god that everything that you've put in and so god would sink down deep into our hearts so we might understand that after we have understanding that that understanding will be translated to wisdom and that that we will translate it and translate that into a lifestyle of obedience and love for you give us a give us a passion for your word and for the truth of god to where we seek after you and with all of our hearts help us for god to understand that the valuable things are not things at all but they're our personal relationship with you that you have that wisdom and when we tap into your wisdom then our heart is filled with purpose and love i thank you lord for everybody i pray oh god that you just help everybody in this room on god holy spirit uh begin to to to translate this message of god into our hearts that as we walk through this week oh god that we would take these words and that they would elevate into our heart and our minds oh god so we could follow you closely lord and if we need sifting on god that you would please sift us bring discipline into our lives because we understand being human that there many times we we we do lack discipline and so we pray for that everybody here help us to be better disciplined people when it comes to following you and we thank you for it in jesus name i'd like for you to keep your heads bowed and your eyes closed for just a second this morning if you've never accepted christ as your personal savior maybe if you have you just haven't been living for him the first step to wisdom is knowing god and knowing jesus jesus said that he came that we might have life and have it more abundantly but the the point is is that it's a personal relationship that's where that authority comes in he has the authority over death the church doesn't have that authority only jesus has that that's why we worship jesus we don't worship the church so this morning if you've never accepted him as your personal savior maybe if you have you just haven't been living for him simply by raising your hand say preacher i need jesus in my heart i need to make him the lord of my life slip your hand up high i want to put a bible in your hand anybody preacher that's me yeah thank you partner leave your hand up until we get a bible in it please anybody else yep over here thank you right here yep thank you leave your hand up till we get a bible anybody else preacher that's me i need jesus in my heart i need to make him the lord of my life i i just i just don't want to go another day without jesus anybody preacher that's me i need to get my heart right let me get my life right anybody else preacher that's me yeah back there yeah yeah yeah leave your hands up till leave your hands up until we get a bible in them please anybody else slip your hands up give us just a minute here yeah thank you anybody else preacher that's me it's the greatest decision it's a it's it's not a trick question it's like it's the greatest gift of god this is this is for your benefit not for anybody else's benefit but you god's made it all about you anybody else preacher that's me if you raise your hand would you mind looking up at me would you mind coming up and let me pray with you back in the back if you raise your hand come on up and let me pray with you come on baby thank you thank you come on back in the back yeah thank you i'm so proud of y'all yep thank you it's a beautiful day yeah thank you thank you he's a great privilege i'm so proud of you my friend tell me your name again michael blurt michael bless your buddy what's your name name's aaron what is it here aaron bless you what's your name heather bless your heart so listen this this whole day is really about y'all i mean we're just we're just kind of part of the deal but but this is this is a new deal for y'all jesus said you must be born again so you want you've heard this phrase before you must be born again what he's saying is we were born of the flesh when we were born with her mama but born of the spirit is different he said if you want to inherit the kingdom of god you must be born again so today is that day for y'all and so that's why it's so important so i want to what i want to do i want to help you invite christ to come into your heart and your life and just repeat after me can you do that okay let's pray y'all help us just say dear lord jesus thank you for loving me thank you for dying on the cross for my sins lord i am a sinner please forgive me i invite you into my heart i invite you into my life from this day forward i give my life to you help me to read my bible to pray show up for church and get baptized i love you jesus teach me to love you more in jesus name i pray amen let me say this to you from this from this day on you're gonna have the same problems that you had when you came in but you'll be able to deal with them differently and you're not gonna be perfect so don't let the devil lie to you about that but keep keep showing up a lot of people they come down and give the heart to the lord but we don't ever see him again you're going to have to intentionally make effort to stay with jesus okay is that a deal i'm proud of you thank you go visit those guys for a minute thank you thank you i love you buddy i'm so proud of you hey go visit them hold on just say go visit those guys for just a second if you don't mind thank you stand with me please y'all be nice to everybody in the parking lot because i went a little over if god needs to do a little bit of sifting in you would you raise your hand and say i i'm good with it i'm good with god doing some sifting in me so lord you see our hands i pray oh god that you would help us lord to follow you closely lord help us to be honest with ourselves honest with you and more than anything lord not to tear ourselves down or or not to be haughty but to be who you called us to be in jesus name and the church said amen we love you all god bless you god our prayer team you need special prayer we love y'all friends

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