A Muslim who was saved after seeing Jesus

I was just introduced to our brother this morning I had heard about him last night through our sister Sophia which many of you know gave her testimony a while back and her husband David there and so and matter of fact what they do in evangelizing among the Muslims and this brother and I don't know a whole lot about it but I know enough number one I prayed about it number two met him this morning there was you know just you automatic to try the spirits I mean you just know in the spirit gobble witness and then as we were sitting in the Badgers now also talking a bit I see a future so we're we're pleased about what God is doing but I want to bring our sister Sophia up and she will introduce you to our brother and to his testimony and then I'll be back after that so thank you thank you Pastor Carrie Blake he has graciously opened the opportunity this morning for me to introduce you to a wonderful speaker let me tell you what happened this weekend actually are you first of all aware that Muslims are having dreams and visions around the world I'm sure you've heard of that by now and it's even abundant in America okay so the Lord is doing amazing things and we had a conference this weekend at the Hope Center with the partnership of III partners ministry I am second and as well as manifold hope they both came together and we put on a conference and I helped facilitate the conference and so we met a brother there and he's going to share this morning let me introduce you to his name as has him Haslam was born into the Palestinian American family and he is nine of 13 children grab ahold of that ladies and so handsome currently is the host of a TV show called reflections on TBN and on other networks I'm sure you have seen him I saw him recently in fact which reaches which which reaches in Arabic and English language all over the world and so he speaks he's very well-spoken he speaks around to about 400 million viewers that's how many people view is to me show so he's basically communicates a message of hope and in God's love basically so I want to just give you this is just a brief introduction of brother has him please give a warm welcome to him this morning thank you I do have to say for the sake of not exaggerating it's a potential viewership of 400 million I would be a celebrity if 400 million viewers watched the show so just for my conscious a how are y'all doing can I use you all in Texas if I said that in California they wouldn't understand what I'm saying so I love the South God totally transformed my life in the South excuse me while I put this on Rick test one okay are we on can you hear me okay so as Sophia told you guys my my ethnicity is Palestinian I was born in Brooklyn New York in 1984 and my father as we grew in years or as we grew and got especially my father as he grew in years and got more older he wanted to teach us and to indoctrinate us with the ways of Islam now we were raised up Islamic in America you see it's the Arabic culture is much like the Jewish culture it's almost similar in fact and it's a semi language a semi culture a semi way of life which that means if you're in Holland and you're Arab or Jewish you're not from Holland you're just living in Holland and so that was how we were in America and so the call there was no culture shock when my father decided to move our family to Jerusalem ethnically that I don't know if you most of you probably understand the politics between Israel and the Palestinians well when I was 12 in 1997 my father returned the whole family to Jerusalem and the intention was for all of us to become better Muslims to become better acquainted with our ways our culture our religion and so that's what we did now for me for me it was it was it was a shock to be honest with you see my father wanting to remove us from the Christian American culture took us to where the Christian American culture was born and so I started seeing streets like the street of the Holy Sepulchre and and the Via della Rosa Road and I started seeing signs that said David's tomb and I started seeing signs that said that had all these biblical names and so I began to ask questions now many of you know that the Islamic culture is very deep within the people if you know any Muslims you know if they're if they're true Muslim you know that that's the case so for us it was not even in fact sometimes I have to pinch myself and ask myself am I really preaching and am I really a Christian because it was so far from our radar my father built a five-story building before we got to Jerusalem in 1997 and he wanted it to be used as a means of as a means of income so about a year into my journey in Jerusalem I began to have a what I call a crisis of faith I don't know if you've ever experienced a crisis but a crisis is when you can't run away from the problem wherever you go it's going to follow you and and even more deep than just a crisis externally this was a crisis on the inside suddenly I began to doubt and to question the very thing that made up who we were as a people and as a race you ask any Arab man what is the glory of the Arab society and he'll tell you Islam is the glory of the Arab society and the Quran is the glorious message of that we gave the world in fact there are scriptures in the Islamic doctrine that says the the Muslim people are the the blessing of God to the world so for me to begin to doubt this I was in essence doubting who I was as a person and not only that I was doubting my family I was down in my culture and I was doubting everything I was taught it felt like the ground that I was standing on became sinking sand my question today is have you ever experienced a crisis in your life you can't run from it you just have to wait for it to be over right about that time I began mind you giving my heart to Islam and giving my heart to the culture and given my heart to all of these things I did my checklist I prayed I went to the mosque the beautiful Dome of the rock on on the Temple Mount I've been there many times praying putting my head on the floor with my father and and that's what we did you see when you're seeking God I call it the checklist you do your checklist if you're Jewish whatever religion you are you pray you fast you read your book so I was doing that I was reading the Quran I was memorizing the verses I was going to in fact I had a Islamic class every day six days a week I went to a school that was teaching American English teaching everything that we would have to know to get our diploma and to get our high school education but we had to have it Islamic Lee and so for me at the end of the checklist is where I found myself now can I can I share something with you and I'm not knocking any other religion but but do you know the fact that you feel and since the presence of God is a miracle in and of itself did you know that today 1.6 billion people will pray five times a day most of them will pray five times a day and we'll never sense the presence of God and I found myself in this crisis of faith and about that time remember the five-story building my father brought you know built before we got there there came a really nice sweet looking blonde lady with her husband and she knocks on the door and she had a Southern drawl and she said we heard y'all were looking where we had an apartment we're looking for one deal have one and it turns out these were Rhema Bible graduate missionaries and my father being a good middle Easterner he said absolutely give me your money and move in and so that was one about a year a little over a year into that journey and for the next year and a half I began to meet and get to know the happy people I call them the happy people and I wish I could tell you that I was happy for them being happy but I wasn't because I was taught things like the Jews and the Christians are infidels and I remember it was such a anomaly for me that I say that where is that Amelie I'm glad I didn't say Monopoly right it was such a it was such a curiosity in me and why are these infidels so nice and I got to know them and they would smile and they were they they loved Jesus and I thought they were crazy and so one day I just fell in love with them so much so that I took my Quran upstairs and I began to read to them what the Quran and the Islamic religion teaches about infidels and Jews and you know it was probably an awkward moment for them because I was reading them stuff that you know I just I won't even go there this morning so I was reading to them how they were going to be eternally damned and how God had cursed the Jews and the Christians some verb in fact there is a verse in there that says that the Jews and Christians are descendants of apes and pigs and I know how I'm a jerk aren't I like telling them to their faces but it was what I had I loved them it was from a good place and they said has and we'll have this conversation if you will promise one thing I said what's that they said we will have this conversation if you promise to never tell anybody that we're having this conversation I looked at them being so much when I said trust me no one will ever know I'm not trying to start any trouble you know and so that conversation lasted that year-and-a-half and towards the end I found myself in a church in Jerusalem first time in my life I ever went to church mind you I'm still in this crisis of faith a Muslim never goes to bed Muslim and wakes up Christian it's just we don't go to church and raise our hand every Sunday and you know that's just not how we do it there it really is a sacrificial thing to follow the Lord and so for me for though for that season I would I remember thinking okay if the if my Christian friends really really know God if what they're telling me is true then then what am i doing facing Mecca every to truthfully four times a day and it was that struggle on the inside and remember that checklist I told you about if you're if you're a sincere seeker with your checklist most people will never do the checklist most people in fact are sleeping on this Sunday morning because they're just not interested in the vast majority of humanity is just not worried about eternity and so for me I was real enough and sincere enough with my own life that when I got the end to the end of the checklist I realized something is wrong I really have you ever prayed and when you're praying the heavens seem like brass and your prayers fall right down right before you that's what it felt like and so I started asking difficult questions I started I started asking why are we supposed to dislike a certain group of people and why when they're so nice I found out real quick that I I was asking difficult questions nobody wanted to be asked so I just internalized it finally I'll fast forward to that church in Jerusalem they said hasn't were going to McDonalds would you like to come I said sure I haven't had a Big Mac in two and a half years truthfully there's there was only two big there was only two McDonald's in all of Israel at the time and one was in Jerusalem the other one was in in the North and Galilee or Tel Aviv I think and so I said sure we'll I'll go to to the two McDonald's and they said but we're going to go to church first so do you have a rider I was I was a teenager plus I'm not going to even try to get a ride to go to church vent it just didn't make sense I said oh that's fine I'll just ride with you guys so he said okay we went to church they said you feel free to sit in the car or just meet us back here in about an hour and a half well I said don't be ridiculous I'll go inside this is okay you know so for the first time in my life I went to church and I went to church I put on a big obnoxious coat with a big hoodie so nobody sees me walking in and when I got in I took it off i sat in the back corner and I was amazed I saw more happy people I saw a man in the in the front with his guitar he was smiling looking up and he was singing to Jesus and he he was at the end of his checklist happy and I was not I saw people in the front just like we had today worshiping the Lord I saw people with their hands raised up I saw people weeping tears of dry saw I saw interaction between heaven and earth and it made me so mad just being honest I was what we would call a hater you know someone who's just jealous I wish I could say I felt the convent I was in that and I got so uneasy I said okay I have to I have to get rid of this emotionalism and I need to be a good Muslim so I pulled out my beads praise Allah praise Allah praise Allah praise Allah praise Allah and then there's no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger and I started doing the beads that the what kind of like the Catholics have their beads we had ours and 20 minutes later I'm still watching them love Jesus sing happily and and I'm sitting there with my beads and I thought okay this is not working you know so I said okay first time I ever went to a church that's okay this is not this is not okay I need to pray I I went downstairs found an empty row and I faced towards Mecca and I prayed the darkest prayer I had ever prayed you know Jacob wrestled with the Lord right that was that was the end of my wrestle with the Lord and here's why that prayer was dark it wasn't because God was not there it was because I did not want to see the God that was there and finally at the end of that prayer with this righteous anger I looked up to heaven I said you know what I quit I quit I quit doing your job for three years you see me struggling to hold on to this faith that I'm supposed I pray to heaven that you are who they send you and I pray to heaven that Muhammad is not a false prophet because I know what's before me if I if this is that if this was reality and I said but nonetheless if you are who those happy people are worshiping I choose right now I quit this fight and I'm going to find the truth so whoever you are I'm up for grabs and I went upstairs and they're still happy singing and worshiping the Lord and this time I wasn't angry this time I was actually enjoying that these people who reach the end of their checklist found what they were looking for and it was the next day I went up to the Christians and I said you know what I made this decision I quit doing God's job I'm going to pray and if I have to pray in the name of Jesus I'll just whisper and I'm it'll be a secret you know they said has him we will do this with you and we're thrilled that you have come to this conclusion because they knew my struggle they said but we have to do one thing I saw was that they said you cannot tell a soul I looked at them very macho and very strong and I said trust me it ain't happening I'm not telling anybody and so for the next few years I ended up being an underground believer the war began in the year 2000 and that's when we returned to America in the year 2000 we returned to America and it was such a hard time in my life it was a hard time in my life because here we were we left America to run into at least for me to run into the Jewish Messiah Jesus and now that I actually submitted to the Jewish Messiah now we're coming back to America was so confusing and so I I remember the war had just really confused me the war you know I was as a Palestinian I was being told the things that Israel was doing to the Palestinians and none no doubt the Israeli channels were propagating what the Palestinians were doing it was just a big mess it was war nothing good can come out of war and so I got on my knees and I said God if the Jews are your people why are they killing my people now I understand it was a very biased prayer it was a very prejudiced prayer it was a very ignorant prayer nonetheless it was my prayer at 15 years old it was my prayer and suddenly I fell asleep and out of I remember it was a dark room and out of the darkness came a man and I thought I was I thought I thought I was losing my mind this man looked like Jesus he had a beard like Jesus he had long hair wavy it wasn't straight and by the way he doesn't look like the British guy on the movie we saw with the blue eyes he had a tan he had brown eyes and he was majestic the best thing I can describe him as is that he was the crossover between a priest and a shepherd and he looked at me and said read Isaiah 22 now I didn't have a Bible i Isaiah who was Isaiah I did it he could have been a cartoon cat I had no idea so I I woke up and I know I knew whoever this man was in my dream was a high priest I never heard that term high priest so I went upstairs to the Christians and I said I had this dream I think it was Jesus and this is what he said they say hasn't do you have a you have a Bible where you can see I said I have I couldn't have a Bible it was not safe to have a Bible and they said well we have a prophet named the prophet Isaiah in the Bible he has a book and it's called the Book of Isaiah let's read it and when I when I began to read it in the NIV or the message translation It was as if I was reading a newspaper now not all the verses were for me but some of them were just amazingly precise in a time of war Jesus shows up to me and says read Isaiah 22 and here's me with a broken heart I pray a very biased prayer and he responds to this very biased prayer and he tells me read Isaiah 22 how does Isaiah 22 begin it says this oh city of Jerusalem city of tumult and chaos what is happening in your streets you go to the rooftops to see all your men dying at the time we would go to the rooftops I would go to see the Wars to see the helicopters going back and forth to see the stones being thrown that's we ran in a strategic part of Jerusalem just about a mile or two away was the West Bank so that was a key spot to where I could see it all from the fifth floor and then verse 4 of Isaiah 22 ministered to me like unbelievably verse 4 God says depart from me and do not try to console me let me to weep bitterly for the destruction of my people and suddenly this bias prayer is responded to by a Living God who I remember this is a big contrast to the guy with the checklist who never heard from God before right and all of a sudden God is showing me his emotions sovereignly I know what a high priest is Isaiah 22 verse 22 says I will give to him the keys to the house of David and no man can no man can open the doors that he closes that no man can close the doors that he opens they say has and this is a type of Jesus and they took me to Revelation chapter 3 where it's where Jesus says I am he who holds the keys to the house of David I open doors that no man can close and I close doors no man can open this biased prayer was responded to in a dream is savior who was humble enough to come and answer it and the solution was the man in verse 22 Jesus so we end up coming to America I'm at this time still an underground believer III at the age of 17 I just couldn't handle living a double life so the rubber met the road and I I left home in the name of college my father being the patriarch of the family he he thought he made a mistake by allowing me to leave for college so he demanded I returned home and I said I said I can't come home he said heisting why can't you come home first time I consciously ever disobeyed my father as I can't come home because I can't live the way we've been living and he said if you don't be if you're not at the house in 12 hours don't ever look back and that was about 12 years ago and 12 years ago heap since then he has kept his word but the Lord has brought a whole lot of I mean I see some of your faces trust me it's you don't ever get over stuff like that you get through it and with grace God helps you so I you look at me don't don't pity me because I I wouldn't trade it for the world because of what I've learned walking this out so to make a long story short I ended up for the next six months sleeping my life away I ended up watching literally out I would either listen to the radio or flip through the channels and then I would sleep for 16 17 hours a day I didn't know I was depressed it's when you have no energy to get out of bed I used to think people who said they were depressed were just whiners until I couldn't get out of bed and one day I was flipping through the channels there was a man on television he was dressed in a white outfit and he was praying for people and I thought this guy is kind of weird but he sounds like us and it was Benny Hinn on television all right so he had our accent and I just kept on watching and that voice on the inside said I have called you to this and I remember it was so D it was it was so loud it definitely it was so loud and so true I knew I didn't know it was the Holy Spirit but I knew whatever this voice was it was life-changing and I'm trying to get out of bed every morning and I'm supposed to preach I had no idea what what that meant later and I'll connect the dots for you so I turned the TV off and I did what I knew to do I escaped it I went back to bed but something supernatural happened the next morning that I can't explain at 8:00 in the morning I woke up with a desire to get out of bed and suddenly I wasn't depressed anymore even though in my mind I had rejected the thought my body had responded to the purpose that God had spoken to me and the details are I'll spare you the details but to make a long story short I began to get plugged into the local church I started doing the faithful boring things that we you know the checklist pray fast watch to keep this submitted to the Lord and before no time I started meeting write the curd the right people at the right time favored mixing some favored in there and Here I am after well fast forward to about three years ago three years ago I'm now working for dr. Paul Crouch from TBN and Paul Crouch says to me he goes has a my have this feeling that you should be doing television I said dr. Crouch ah I had this feeling that you are wrong mind you not connecting the dots from when that voice spoke to me and for three months we went back and forth he kept on telling me the Lord I feel the Lord saying you need to do this and because of fear I rejected and one day he said has him I have presented to you an opportunity I pray you have the wisdom to make the right choice and so at that word right there it just struck me because I realized I had gotten to the end of the rope and now I had to make a decision whether to put feet to my faith or to resist the opportunity you know you could pray for 20 years Lord use me Lord use me Lord use me and one day the Lord's gonna say okay I'm ready to use you and we're going to have to decide to get up off of our knees and to actually walk towards whatever God is calling us to do and that's where I was and so from that point on the Lord I surrendered to the Lord I ended up praying about it for two weeks and Lord gave me Isaiah 65 verse one had never never heard this verse in there but it is basically says that he goes I have revealed God says I revealed myself to those who were not even looking for me I have said to those who who were not called by my name I said Here I am Here I am and I had a word from the Lord and I had a promise from God that if you step out in faith and preach the word I will step in and answer their cries so to make a long strike EEP saying that the story is not getting any shorter right I ended up praying for the Lord to tell me what to say and the Lord said give them John 3:16 and I thought how simple is that I want to give them revelation I don't want to give them down 3:16 right and what I found out because of my obedience to following what I felt in my heart the Lord the Lord started coming through and I realized that most of the Arab world had never heard of John 3:17 or 3:16 and so now what the wisdom of the Lord was that he totally is coming through on this thing when he gave me Isaiah 65 1 I can show you stories even as letters I even got a few just recently and here's the thing we sit in church and we're like wow praise the Lord God God connected the dots so I have called you to this remember that word now I'm preaching the gospel on television and I'm kind of like a younger version of that guy I saw on television the dots connected now that's great here in church but on the other side of the world or on the other side of the city there's a there's there's other people who don't believe like us who would get agitated at that story in fact I have a picture I want to show you because of the platform because now reflections airs in two languages 23 times a week on six different channels and it's a it's increasing the favor if I'm on Facebook by the way so you may have seen this picture this picture was about a few months ago when all of the craziness in Egypt started happening they start persecuting the the believers this man right here is burning a Bible and if you see you see the the police right there they're just letting it happen and ever it seems like they're kind of just encouraging this guy to do this so I thought what would I tell that one man what would I tell him because it earthed me on the inside that the police are just standing there now I post it on Facebook I said you can burn our Bible but you can never burn Jesus you can never burn the message you can you can burn that paper but the message will never go away now that's a pretty if you ask me that's a pretty awesome statement right it wasn't meant to be like a anti-islamic thing it was just meant to be this is what we believed and because of that one picture I got an influx of emails and hate mail and I just got and i reaiiy prayed i said lord why something that simple caused such an uproar and I began to honestly I felt intimidated because I'm thinking I'm just preaching the gospel and they're getting angry because he's they're burnt look that man not there they're not all but burning our Bibles but that man was burning our Bible and so the Lord took me to in chapter 20 he's a handsome this is what it's going to take for people like that man to stop burning the Bible and for the sake of time I'm just going to I'm I'm going to I won't read all of the verses I'll tell you where I'm reading early Sunday morning while it was still dark Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away she ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple they have taken away the Lord's body out of the tomb Peter and the other disciple ran to see verse 8 then the other disciple went in he saw and he believed for until then they hadn't realized that the scripture said he would rise from the dead verse 11 Mary was standing outside the tomb crying and as she wept she stooped in and looked and she saw two white robed angels sitting at the head and the foot of the place where Jesus had been lying why are you crying the Angels asked her because they have taken away my Lord she replied and I don't know where they have put him have you ever wondered where Jesus was in your situation have you ever wondered where the Living Messiah is in your life no doubt she was in this place she glanced over her shoulder and saw someone standing there standing behind her and it was Jesus but she did not recognize him the praised him you guys can come up with she did not recognize him why are you crying Jesus read letters and who are you looking for now isn't it amazing that read letters of geez she's looking for Jesus he's speaking right to her red letters and she does not recognize him you see all over the Muslim world they say we recognize Jesus but they don't recognize him one of the one of the most for me one of the most wearisome conversations is when I have to tell them my Muslim friends you don't believe in Jesus you believe in the verb in that you created in your Quran that's who you believe in you don't believe in the Sun you believe in a man it's intriguing to me why are you crying she's looking for Jesus and he's talking to have you ever have you ever been looking for Jesus and not recognize that he was right there with you in your situation she thought he was the gardener she said sir if if you have taken him away tell me where you have put him and I will go and get him and jesus said to her one word one word one word he didn't preach to her he didn't give her the sermon of the mount he didn't give her the the the the doctrine no he didn't give her a TV show he didn't give her a Bible he gave her one word so what does it take for the Muslim people to know that Jesus Christ is the Lord it's one word and that one word is this Jesus looks at her and he says Mary he calls her by her name and immediately it says she turned towards him and she exclaimed teacher capital T and Jesus said I have not yet ascended but go and tell everybody that I'm ascending to my father and to your father to my god and to your God what does it take for the Muslim world to recognize Jesus it takes the Muslim world to hear the living Savior call out their name because Allah never called out their name Mohammed net that's a difference don't and listen to what she says next verse 18 Mary Magdalene found the disciples and she told them I I have seen the Lord and I found I found it really amazing in my wall in my experience with reflections and the program and ministering to the two two worlds I found that he's so kind to reveal himself like he said in Isaiah 65 1 I have revealed myself to people who were not even looking for me I can take you to the place where I met an underground Bible study in Jerusalem and I look to the brother on my right and I said how did you come to know the Lord and mind you I'm supposed to be telling them how missionaries intercepted me in a crisis of faith in Yali and I look at him and I say I say how did you come to the Lord he said oh well Jesus came to me what does that mean Jesus came to you I didn't want to put him on the spot you know what I'm saying like I don't want him to feel I said can you explain to me what that means Jesus came to to you and he said just like you're sitting there I saw him I could touch and I could feel him and Jesus took me to the to Jerusalem to the southern steps and said he pulled out about the book from the stone he said he said preach my word he said at that moment I knew he was the son of God me being utterly humbled I missionaries intercepted me Jesus came to him I said praise God I looked over trying to run from that I I said and the sister on my left says she goes all high because she recognized my utter shock and she says Oh hasn't most of us have come to the Lord through dreams and visions and I said well how did you come she said for a year I would have the dream of the man dressed in white and there was so much light around him I couldn't see him but I knew there was one man in light she said for that for that year I didn't know what who this was I called him the light Jesus said I am the way the truth right and the life no man comes to the Father but through me you want you want to see what God is doing in the Muslim world turn off the news and start praying and seeing it by the spirit because what we are seeing is a whole different situation than what the news is saying I determine I'm not going to let the news tell me what's happening in the middle I'm going to let the Holy Ghost tell me right so I encourage you today if you are bored with your faith in Jesus I I implore you he could be speaking right to you and you not recognize him today what are you going to do to recognize Jesus I'm almost sure I'm 100% sure that if you would listen just a little bit you can hear him not calling my name not calling your neighbor's name but calling your name god bless you guys hey men just as he said there especially even at the end talking about the turnoff to the news and quit listen to what they tell you it is in the News's interest to have conflict why because if it bleeds it leads if there is fighting if there's bloodshed it'll make the first story in the news and the more they can generate that then the more news they have when it's a quiet day it's a bad day for news and yet that's exactly what we're told to pray for for the Peace of Jerusalem it doesn't just say that proof so that Jerusalem would be quiet and there'd be no fighting in Jerusalem but it means it literally at the very heart that they read peace on earth goodwill toward men this some as he was her brother was speaking I was went back to Isaiah chapter 9 and it it stood out to me of what the scripture says that the people that walked in darkness saw a great light and that they walked in the in the shadow of death and yet their yoke had been broken and all of these things that God had done for them so there's people here today and that been watching by internet right now around the world and so even right now this is kind of twofold you know too often we're so set in ok now we're going to give this call then we're going to get this call and just as he said it's in the heart it's it's we make our checklist and that's for our end that's not on his end and we might go through our checklist and you can go through your checklist and just as he said still end up in empty but if you just turn your heart toward God if you just pour your heart out toward him there's no set sinner's prayer it's a sinners heart that is turned toward God that says I'd want to be like this anymore I want you in control of my life I want to give myself to you and when you do that no matter what words you use God hears and answers I really have a problem at times what people will say well God doesn't hear this and he doesn't hear that and it says and and there there there is some truth at times but what keeps God from hearing if anything is the hardness of your heart not that he has standing back saying I'm not going to listen to you but it's your hardness of heart toward him and that can be unfortunately even in the lives of Christians that they've hardened a heart to only see Jesus the way their group says to see him religions religion and it's all geared toward keeping you away from God and when we talk about religious groups and things like that just as we have said before in the garden with Adam there was no temple no altar no sacrifice no services it was just God walking with man in relationship speaking face to face talking heart to heart and as Christians we've got to reach the world and in every aspect Christianity was supernatural from the beginning it's supernatural all the way through it should always be supernatural if we're going to feed the hungry it should be supernatural it shouldn't be just what we can gather we ought to be able to we do everything we can but then we expect God to meet the needs of the people if that means multiply foods so--but if it means whatever it means so be it so as we finish here today and when asked off you go ahead and stand now there's some people here that I don't recognize I've never seen you before I'm not going to assume just because I don't know you that you're not that you know that you're lost okay because I don't know everybody but on the other hand I don't want to just automatically assume that you are where you need to be with God and just let that opportunity bypass now this is not about getting the altar for you know the front area for or you know count a number of hands arrays that ain't got nothing to do with this this is about you being in contact with the Living God not an idea not a concept not an icon but literally in contacting connection with the Living God and the only way that happens is we've just heard from our brother is through his son Jesus there's a lot of people that pray in all kinds of different names but the only name under heaven whereby men must be saved is the name of Jesus and so we are thankful to mourn that we we know this truth but just as lunar Ravenhill used to say nobody has a right to hear the gospel twice until everybody's hurting once we cannot be satisfied to be a local body we have to realize what's going on is even before service this morning I was looking at the voice of the martyrs I I get their updates and what's going on and you know there's just so much that I want to do that I know God has put in my heart to do to reach the world I know it's him that you know that he put it there it's not me because anything in me that's any good is of him and so I know that what he wants us to do is so amazing that if we looked at it probably all of us would just scatter and run because we'd say no way that's too big is too much how can we ever do that but our job is not to ask how it's just to ask what what would you have us do and then as we step our foot toward it he'll bring about the how asking how is one of the fastest ways to have nothing done because you're lawyers judge it according to what you've got or what you think you can do and you'll limit what God can do so right now I'm going to do a couple of things I'm going to pray I'm going to there many of you that are maybe sick and body that's not God's will we're going to pray we're going to break these things we're going to get this stuff off you can get you healed we're going to pray and whenever I say we're going to pray I mean I want you to pray to God and I want you to make the connection with him that you need to make maybe your title of God maybe you're walking with him I mean you hadn't missed a step maybe everything's great maybe you're more spiritual today than you've ever been in your life then you should be overjoyed that you get a chance to pray maybe you've been away from him a little bit maybe you've not walked away from him but you've just been too busy too caught up in the affairs of life which chokes out the word and kind of it doesn't necessarily break your fellowship with him but you're just not as in close fellowship as you should be and so I'm going to give everybody a chance that maybe you don't know him at all maybe you've never bowed your knee to Jesus maybe you've never made him your Lord not just Savior Lord he say he's your Savior he died and provided salvation right but you need to make him your Lord that's whenever you decide I will do whatever you want me to do my life is yours and when you do that see when we say that many times if you're if you don't know him you'll think well that means he's going to make me do this or make me do that now you have no idea the adventure that your life can become because I guarantee if he can take my life where it was and turn it around where I was just some kid here in Texas at that time and turned my life around to work we are literally impacting the world and he's actually taken my life and made something out of it he can do that with anybody because you have no idea where I came from okay and yet he has done so much with it and it has nothing to do with talent or anything else it's just we just keep walking I've quit a thousand times I just keep showing up so if you just give him your life he will turn your life into an adventure and so I'll just want to give you that opportunity so right now is yo-yo couldn't play a little bit just a minute but let's just pray first off let's just pray this out loud with me just say it out loud god I recognize you I recognize that your son Jesus came and died for me he bore my sin he bore my sickness he bore the iniquities and right now god I totally accept him because he accepted me I bow my knee to him and I make Jesus my Lord I will go where he says to go I will do what he says to do he is my Lord and Master and right now I am born again his spirit right now changes my spirit and I'm no longer dead but I am Alive because the living Savior lives in me so now god I call you Father Jesus is my brother and together we will accomplish your will father and right now I recognize that what I can do at this moment to accomplish your will is simply draw closer to you in Seoul in thoughts in the heart and in Jesus name I thank you Heavenly Father for being a God that answers prayer that agrees to come to us and reveal yourself to us so in Jesus name right now I pray and I say with my mouth let there be peace in Jerusalem let the son of Peace dwell there and father we thank you and we give you great play great praise and honor that you are revealing your son Jesus to the people who walk in darkness through visions through dreams through encounters with missionaries through encounters with friends but you are revealing Jesus to people who need him and we say let it increase let your spirit flow through every people every nation every tribe everywhere throughout this world and father we thank you that you will use us to cause us to happen so in Jesus name we give you honor and we say that the knowledge of the glory of the Lord will flood this earth and your kingdom will be established and advanced and every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord so right now in Jesus name I say you bore my sickness so I must be healed and I thank you for it so be it I'm in right now I just speak to you whether you're here locally or by internet the Spirit of God the Word of God is not bound by location it's not bound by distance and I say right now in the name of Jesus I set you free by the name of Jesus by those stripes that was born for you you're healed delivered set free born again filled with the Spirit of God and I say right now sickness and disease you will hear and obey the voice of the word of God you will set these captives free you will leave them now sickness and disease go and never return you have no place here you did not purchase these bodies they belong to Jesus and we evict you and command you to go and now in the name of Jesus shame fear guilt depression all of these things you're a liar you cannot stay in these people by the Spirit of God we set them free and we say now in Jesus name be free now so be it I'm in now begin to do what you could not do before if you had a problem breathing breathe if you had a problem moving around begin to move whatever was you could not do before matter of fact right now in the name of Jesus migraine headaches I commend you to cease you will go now I don't care the reason you have no place here so go in Jesus name right now right now complete freedom in Jesus name Amen amen amen after service we will be doing the feeding Jesus outreach we'll be going downtown so we will need some help putting the food together and getting everything together so if you can stay around a bit afterwards and help us prepare these things and then we'll pray over them all so then we would encourage you to do so we definitely want to think my brother has him and brother David and sister Sophia for coming our way this morning and thank y'all for bringing them our way and letting us know it was it was God okay so we appreciate that we look forward to anything we can do he has a couple of books one now one coming out soon that will be carrying on the book table if you want to know more about that he gave me a cup of copy you can't have that one that's mine but when we get some more we should ask more in the day or so so you can get those and we want to help in this and there's things you know we can talk about these things for gifted honestly you just have to keep things in front of you and so that you remember these things and that you remember that this this is not it it is out there it's not about what we do in here it's good to come together in fellowship it's good to come together and be able to as a researcher sing and be happy that's great but we have to remember that there are people out there that are not happy people that are walking in darkness people are walking in pain and the light of Jesus has to shine through us and he gave a perfect example of what Jesus said that by your love people will know that you're my disciple and that's exactly what he saw anything they were happy they were showing love they were communicating with each other that's that's being a Christian and so we need to make sure that we let our light shine and then not just in here we don't need your light in here and then it needs to be shining out there in the darkness and so we want to always make sure we are first and foremost of people who just share the heart of God right we don't to be a healing Church we don't to be a deliverance Church we don't know we want to be a Church of Jesus amen we want to be his church want to be his body and show his light his life his love to a world that doesn't have it amen so other than that now if you do need ministry need to come down front then come on down front but I will say in Jesus thing be blessed you are dismissed you you

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Published: Tue Sep 17 2013