Bishop David G Evans Live Stream

good morning Bethany family we are excited to be out here one more time just to lift up the name of Jesus and I know that this may seem strange to everyone because you're sitting in your homes but guess what this Sunday we are bringing Church to you and we're excited about what we have planned for you on this morning believing God that even through this pandemic situation God is still on the throne he is still in control of all things I know you've been hearing like people on the line and they're singing he's got the whole world in his hand and guess what he does have the whole world in his hand he has me and you in his hand and guess what while we're in God's hands guess what he's protecting us he's leading us he's guiding us and he is directing us so we're excited to have you with us and what we want you to do this morning we want you to make sure that you share let somebody know that definite is streaming live yes Church is here in this church is coming to you in your homes in your car is no matter where you might be at some of you might even be outside on your cell phones God is with you on today and your Bethany family is gonna bring you a worship and we're praying that you worship right along with us you know the church didn't start out in a building but the church started out in the homes the church started out inside each and every one of us so we want you to lift up your hands praise Him allow the Spirit of God to come where you are meet you where you're at as there is nothing that God can't do and there's no place that God cannot be wherever you are he is there with you so we're about to begin this morning's worship experience make sure you get on the iChat let pastor Jonathan Vaughters know that you are streaming in let us know where you're streaming in from not only that make sure you share on all your social media accounts to let somebody know that Bethany is streaming live god bless you come on let's get into this morning's worship experience lifting up our hands knowing that God is able to do all things praise the Lord everybody act like we have never done this before we're so glad that you guys have joined us today for our worship encounter we're back again live here at Bethany again continue to practice social distancing so we praise God for those of you who are watching us online right now do us a favor and please hit that share button whatever platform you're on let people know that join us for the worship and counselor today here at Bethany Baptist Church the transformation Church we're believing God that he's going to continue to transform lives one at a time we're so excited that we can present a fuller presentation to you this week and again please share subscribe let people know that we're on as you worship God as we praise Him as we show you one of the best of our dance presentations and we hear the word of God if there's nothing we need more than now is God's presence his word and to trust him we're believing God today for healing deliverance breakthrough right now as we're getting ready to go into prayer I don't want you to focus on praying for yourself I want you to focus on praying for someone else the Bible lets us know something that Jesus goes into the temple one day he cleans up shop and he reminds everybody that my father's house is a house of prayer for all people God is reminding us in this season that his house is a house of prayer a house of intercession it is time for the church to get back at large to get back to prayer to praying more and more trusting God believing in him and understanding that more I prayed the closer I get to him this is a house of prayer a house of intercession so do us a favor as we pray you want you to pray for other people we want to pray for those who are sick right now those who know someone that is sick and pray for those we know some people who have passed away from this virus and we're going to pray for those families we're going to be able to hold on to God trust him on Christ a lot solid rock we stand all other ground is sinking sand God's presence makes up the difference his presence is a consuming fire and we're going to pray like the woman with the issue of blood that his virtue would burn up the illness but keep people alive we're gonna pray that the plague will be consumed by the consuming fire of the Holy Spirit every want to pray that the Lord will come with fire come with victory come with deliverance and take this time to pray for somebody else father we thank you again for this moment we appreciate you for this time this is the day that you have made we will rejoice and we will be glad in it we will understand that we can't control what every day looks like but it's still the day that you have made it is still the day that we can worship you still the day that we can rejoice it is a day where we can choose to be glad it is another opportunity for us to worship you another opportunity for us to praise you this is the day and we thank you for it we give you praise today because we can celebrate over what's going on some people are dealing with stress anxiety cabin fever or worry but Lord we can worship through those things we can get closer to you during these times and father help us to be like Israel to dress like this season is getting ready to end to prepare ourselves to come out of it because of the blood of Jesus that is covering us we give you praise today and I pray Lord for everybody that's sick right now I pray for your divine healing show the world that you are the God that heals show the world that you're the God that delivers you are our banner you are our righteousness and you are our peace when there's confusion all around us remind us Lord that you are our stable foundation that Lord if we keep our minds on you you will keep us in perfect peace we pray for all of those who are struggling right now we pray for our healthcare workers we pray for the assistance of your spirit only you can fix this only you can do it be blessed by our praise be honored in our worship we glorify you today and Lord we connect with each other well we may not be together physically our faiths connect together because we know faith transcends time and space just like the man that said send the word and heal we believe the same thing we can't be together physically but send your word and heal in Jesus name send your word and deliver in the name of Jesus let the worship transcend the building space because after all we are the church we are the body of Christ and we connect together in our faith believing you that you'll do the exceedingly and the abundantly bless all worship today bless our Bishop with the word bless the dance presentation save somebody today I feel your presence in this place now save somebody today reclaim a backslider in Jesus name we pray amen and amen we just want to sing these words into your spirit power life and death are in the tongue and we speak protection over everybody watching right now you have the power right now to speak it into existence Lord be a fist all around me come on baptized believers wherever you are come on step up on your feet [Music] [Music] we stay there one more time Jesus [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] Jesus be a penalty that be [Music] be your spits right now as a comment [Music] [Music] she's up [Music] [Music] come on it'd be a other Antigua [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] love beat up it's all around me [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] [Music] [Music] make me a house make me a house a house make me a house made me a house [Music] made me a house made me a house [Music] Oh [Music] with a fire of my own 10 never burn out the fire on my own term never burned out near the fire of my turn make me a house [Music] with me the fire on my turn [Music] [Music] I want to see cure fakes seek your face [Music] [Music] who made me I wanna see your face see your face with me there's a fire there's a fine me a house it's a sign of my the saga of my [Music] how I want to seek your face seek your face along [Music] how's your food we desire sent me the fire of my own I want to save your Thanks I'll suffer shoot me the fire [Applause] the fire day and I'm not a date night day maybe an algebra [Music] may we pray they seek a face man [Music] [Music] [Music] sorry my my doctor never burned up the solder robot turned up a burger bread near the fire on my altar never burned up the fire my turn never burn up with the spider on my altar never [Music] Lord we bless your name right now we thank you that you have allowed us the privilege of housing your presence we thank you now for this time that you have carved out in history for us to spend together we bless your name no longer are we without you but you're with us every moment of the day your spirit now dwells in us and it's transformed our hearts from merely organs that function in the natural but it is now the altar on which we must intentionally keep the fire burning so we pray right now we communicate with you right now we talk to you that the fire might stay bright and intense we give you worship and we give you praise that fire would stay intense that the fire of relationship the anointing would burn hot in our lives we would be constantly aware of your increasing grace and mercy understand the preciousness of the ointment the oil that you have invested in us we thank you for this time you've set aside for us that we might praise and worship together that we might extend our faith and receive your word together I thank you right now for these moments you're about to reveal to us your word says in the fullness of time you send your word and your promises and your blessings in a wagon called time and I thank you because your son came not one word of your word should fail in the name of Jesus I pray for everyone who is watching us around the world I pray those that need to hear what you say today would join us as soon as they can then you would allow the fire of your spirit to begin to incinerate every condition that's not like you pray in the name of Jesus that in the midst of what we're going through in this voluntary confinement I ask you lord you would do what only you can do I thank you this challenge has come at the time of Passover and I believe you're asking for your church and your people to be obviously staying with your blood it is in the name of Jesus and by the power of your blood that I pray for all of those that are hospitalized those that may be restricted at home sick should send the wind of your healing spirit across this land begin to send this virus back to the pit from which it came I thank you right now for the delivering power of your spirit and your word and I declare now healing over this nation if my people who are called by my name the collective church will begin to call on the name of Jesus collective church would turn away from their wicked ways and turn to you O God you guarantee a hearing from heaven in the name of Jesus we lovingly and we sacrificially give you our praise because we believe you're still God and you do everything you said you can do you cannot lie so we release your word right now and we release faith in the name of Jesus that by the power of your spirit every sick body would be healed that hears my voice every individual it's fear is trying to dominate and rule your mind in your heart I rebuke that fear in Jesus name and I release faith I declare faith in your life over your life in your spirit in your mind defeat the enemy of fear Lord give us wisdom help us to work with what you've taught us now God I pray for everyone that does not know you save them this afternoon save them this morning I pray for those that know you but have walked away from you but in the time of crisis feel like it's wrong to come back it's the right time to come back to the Lord in your distress he hears you whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered in the name of Jesus I speak Liberty now Liberty to come back Liberty to return Liberty to confess that Jesus is Lord father bless your name now as I feel your healing spirit sweeping across this land I feel the virtue of the Holy Spirit being released right now in the name of Jesus about the power of his blood [Music] caused this thing to pass over us send it to that place where you send all defeated tools of the enemy all the devices Lord send it to that place now God I pray for rosemary I pray for Angela I pray for John I pray for Jason I pray for Michael I pray for Olivia I pray for Micah in the name of Jesus I pray for Alice [Music] halleluyah pray I pray for Ronald in the name of Jesus whatever they need Lord send it right now I hear recovery in the atmosphere I hear new strength in the atmosphere I thank you in advance for what you're doing right now for what you're going to do bless the time we spend together bless this conversation I give you all the praise honor and glory use me now for your glory speak through me and for me it Jesus name and everybody said amen well welcome so glad you could join us today we're so glad you could join us here at Bethany the transformation church and Linda Wald New Jersey when honor it is for me to have this opportunity to share this atmosphere to share this word with you that you might see a new horizon that you might see a new future for you we have been in this incredible series simply entitled your heart will beat again some of you are grieving and mourning over the loss of a loved one some of your grieving mourning over the loss of an opportunity some lost to death some lost opportunity some breaking of relationship something has happened that it's caused you to be in a state that has become a norm which is supposed to be a process grief is that process that God is designed don't explain it to you today and we mourn like everybody else mourns but we want a little differently the Bible says because we mourn with one element that someone that does not know Christ doesn't have and that is hope it is the hope of God that makes the seasons that we must navigate manageable Jesus is the hope of glory so today I want to draw your attention to just a few scriptures we want to start this conversation and I believe that your heart will beat again go to First Samuel chapter 16 just as a little background and it says and the Lord said unto Samuel how long will you mourn for soul seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel fill your horn with oil and go I will send you to Jesse the the Bethlem 8 for I have provided me a king among his sons let's jump over to Luke chapter 17 I'll show you this real quickly and then we can start our conversation today on your heart will beat again Luke chapter 17 go down to verse five and six and this is where our thought begins today and the Apostles said unto the Lord increase our faith and those who were elevated through the ranks and promotion from mere believer from unsaved to believer to disciple to apostle those apostolic ly given authority those learners those followers who were given gifts of the Spirit healing breakthrough and faith in most cases they say increase our and not my brother's fate but all of us need you we've had a conversation we need you to increase our faith and just like the Lord Jesus he starts to teach to answer the question if you had faith if you already had it as a grain of mustard seed you might say unto this sycamore tree be thou plucked up by the root and be thou planted in the sea and it should obey you watch the words now watch what Jesus says he begins to teach now they already have been dealing with the problem they've been having difficulty with and the Lord says to them if you had faith just a little bit you could speak watch this this problem that I'm calling a sycamore tree and you could tell it to be plucked up by the root the thing that's supporting it the thing that keeps it in place so long and go somewhere else and be planted in another place where you can no longer bother anyone and the Bible says it should obey when talk to you about talking about new possibilities new possibilities so Jesus makes this breakthrough declaration speaking of the possibilities that are available to his disciples said if you say this to this obstacle be plucked up by the roots and it should Oh BAE you new possibilities there's a conversation in mark chapter 9 that centers around a spiritual condition with a natural manifestation let's go there for a second just to give you a little context mark chapter 9 and it's a very familiar story but I want to draw some specific analogies to in mark chapter 9 and when you get there we'll get started mark chapter 9 now watch what happens verse 14 now the story the background is this there's this father who brings his son who cannot speak to the disciples because he discerned that there was a spirit dealing with his son a negative spirit negative influence the demonic that which is opposite of the angelic or the divine of God that spirit has taken control of his son and one of the manifestations of that spirit is the boy can no longer speak now they bring this this young man to the disciples who are gifted by God for this for everything but they cannot help the individual so the conversation picks up and the concept is this there is a spiritual issue which is revealing itself in something natural so this spirit or dumb spirit as the Bible calls it is causing a physical issue in the young man now watch what happens I need you to remember something invisible is causing something visible now we get down to verse 17 and then a conversation picks up speed he says I'm one of the multitude answered and said master I have brought the my son which hath a dumb spirit I've discerned that there is a spiritual context to this physical problem that my son has not all problems are spiritual now hear me really quickly those of you that are a little spooky I need to help you with something right now some problems are argh organic and some are spiritual some have a spiritual origin some are merely an evolution of a condition in the body so you'll notice when Jesus is healing something organic we'll call it he lays hands on the person but when he is delivering somebody spiritually he talks to the spirit he does not lay hands on them so the way you can tell what's organic and what's spiritual in your Bible is ask yourself did Jesus lay hands on those people that he touched them at all were they allowed to touch him but does he touch them that's the qualifier because he never lays his hands on someone demonic he speaks to that that deliverance and he lays his hand on something that I call an organic illness something that has developed over time now watch what happens he says and wheresoever he takes him wherever the spirit influences him to go he tears him he foams at the mouth he grinds his teeth gnashes teeth and Pines away that simply gives you the sense of he seems to be withering away before my eyes he appears as though over time the Spirit is occupying but wearing him out he said I went and talked to your followers and they couldn't cast him out they couldn't help me and he answered Jesus answers in another unusual way he says old faithless generation how long shall I be with you how long shall I suffer you bring him unto me amazing dialogue happens so so the man says his son has a dumb spirit a spirit that prevents him from speaking that's a very important note I want you to keep in your in your thinking cat this spirit this influence seizes the boy takes control of him from time to time so sometime he's okay and sometime he's not it manifests itself in convulsions a lack of control over himself he foams at the mouth he grinds his teeth and he seems to wither before my eyes I talked to your followers who say they believe in you but they could not help us Jesus asked a very pointed question how long have you been dealing with this how long has this thing been going on now I wondered why the Lord did not say something that deals with its condition but Jesus begins to ask a question of time now this is very significant for us to understand because in the lives of his father and the boy time has become an adversary time has become a point of anxiety not only how long has it been going on but it gives the impression that is permanent and it's going to stay so time is now perceived as an obstacle not an opportunity Jesus comes along and changes the perspective how long has it been going on they begin to answer him they tell him since he was a child so Jesus understands the permanence that they feel at the same time recognizing the greatness of the opportunity and the testimony that he's about to release how long is this thing been going on how long have you been feeling this way how long have you been dealing with this condition how long have you been displeased with how you react to things how long have you been this way first thing he says bring him to me but the first stage of deliverance is revealed in the text something that has discouraged you and I from time to time something that has caused you and I to have anxiety and at times our faith to suffer it appears that at the appearance of Jesus the boy's condition worsens when in my natural eye I think when Jesus shows up it ought to immediately start to getting better but if watch what happens that which is taking a hold of the boy there's want to give up its place that's why it could not be addressed in any fashion it had to be addressed specifically and Jesus comes to show how it can be done so they ask him can you help me the demon demonstrates one more time that he's present now I believe it was a tantrum because the demonic knew it was about to be evicted from its place of residence and was showing off one more time time has made this miracle seem virtually impossible it's become this great source of pain and frustration but time is now offering the Lord and new opportunity there's some time that's being afforded us now as we're in what I'm humorously calling voluntary confinement and depending on how you see this time isolated whether you see it as a point of anxiety or as great opportunity will depend upon if you get the most out of this season that God desires you to obtain so instead of time being an adversary Jesus comes along and time is now a moment of power and time is now a moment of praise it's time a moment of faith Jesus can you help what kind of words are these can you help so what the man does is not appeal to power he appeals to compassion because he realized and appeal to compassion or to appropriately have a response called action so compassion without action is dead if I love you and I don't treat you like I do that love is not quite right just like faith without action is dead so he asked Jesus can you help me and of course Jesus says all right bring him to me because it appears to me that the Lord could not resist an appeal to his compassion so he asked he says bring to me he says I can help you but I can help you under one condition watch the word of God now he gets down to verse 21 he says how long is a go since this started he says it was a child 22 often times it has cast him into the fire this thing is tried to destroy him cast him in the water trying to drown him but if you can do anything have compassion on us compassion on us and help us I'm now being affected by the condition of the person I love it's not just him anymore my life has changed too can you help us jesus said unto Him watch this now watch the goodness if you can believe all things are possible to him that believeth if you can believe get it started with faith all things are possible to him that believeth so it's not enough for you and I to pray to get the miracle started we have to pray through the process of the miracle being completed because I've got to not only believe but my faith has to continue to support what I say I believe the Bible says in a straight way the father of the child cried out now this is amazing to me I I got faith Lord but I'm going to admit something to you I need you to help me with my doubts I believe but there are some areas where my faith is not nearly as strong as it should be now we know we're in the right text because the Apostles have already said we've got the same condition increase our faith hmm remove some of our doubts and to remove the doubt they have to be taught into an increased faith so watch what happens he says I believe Lord but I need you to help me with my doubts because the time and the severity of the problem has diminished faith for this problem he's got faith in some other areas but for this personal issue he's got a problem it's been less than so long Lord I'm starting to have my doubts now I don't indict him don't get upset with him because you and I both know that time sometimes can make faith pick up a doubt or two along the way come on help me with this now he says I need some help but the only way I can give you some help is if you have faith so the father's frustration the father's emotion why says he's grieving over his son and his son is still alive he's mourning his son and his son is still breathing he has begun to start accepting the fact that he has not only lost the boy but he's losing the boy he's lost the relationship with him and now it looks like time is going to take his presence away from him so the father comes to the son in desperation comes to Jesus in desperation says I need your help I've gone to other believers I've gone to your lieutenants they can't help me can you help me Lord Jesus said I bring him over here but Lord I told you already I've got some doubts because turning has caused doubt to creep into my spirit I don't know if I got any honest people watching me around the world today but I know in my own life when something lasts longer than I think it should and I don't consult God as a relation to time let me segue a little bit part of a problem for us said the Bible never said you did not know how to pray that's never been in the world it said you didn't know how to pray as you ought to it says we get infirmities in our faith because we don't know how to pray as we ought to and what help you for the rest of your life so watch this now so so I know how to pray if I want a job I know how to pray for a job want a car not to pray for a car in one of the house not a pray for house so I know what to pray for I just don't know how to are you splitting a hair bishop no I'm not splitting a hair listen to me closely we pray for results but we don't ask God for the process and when the process is taking more time than we thought because when I pray for a result I'm expecting what I call a Bugs Bunny answer which is immediate after I say amen but God is a God of process so when I pray I need to ask God what and also ask God how so that doubts don't begin to creep in because God has a schedule or a timetable for when he's going to answer the prayer so I know what to pray for but I say amen long before I ask God how are you going to do it I know we were told in the old church that how was in our business but I have a right to ask the Lord based upon the relationship how are you going to do it all right give me give you an example so bartimaeus has been sitting by the road begging forever it is not until Jesus comes the bottom ass has if you will perfected his petition to where he simply says one setting lord have mercy on me so what God does is while we're waiting you pray for a job God says yes you don't ask him how many interviews are gonna have to go on so God has a 10 interview process waiting for you and and you and you you get frustrated at number three not knowing that there's six more interviews you're gonna have to take till you get to the tenth one that the job rests in so your faith starts getting sick along the way because you heard God say yes but you didn't listen for when God how God was going to do it so while I'm waiting for him to do it one of the steps are being manifested my faith gets some doubts because it's not showing up well my faith wouldn't get doubts if I ask God to questions not only what but how so I can't just pray for the thing I've had to ask God I have to ask God for the process by which he's going to deliver it I hope somebody's getting this so we make our faith vulnerable by only praying for what we want and not asking God how he's going to deliver it hmm okay so the father's frustrated emotions all crazy just just he's going through with his son and and as he's going through something happens to his faith and and he's not unfamiliar with Jesus he seems to be having this very normal casual conversation with the Lord about a very intense subject and in the context of this we find he says he says it makes some admissions that we don't make I've got faith but I've got some doubt sewn into it too I'm grieving over my son I'm mourning him while he's still alive because my doubts are starting to convince me that he's not going to get better let's turn that inward for a moment he correctly assess the influence that's happening to a son that's also influencing him he realizes that give up has crept into his spirit concerning his son Jesus comes along and correctly identifies the problem he says you this boy that just have a dumb spirit he's got a deaf and dumb spirit he can't hear or speak the words of faith have you gone through a period in your life where when people tried to encourage you you could not be encouraged and when you tried to encourage yourself you could not find the words have you gone through a season in life where where it has been hard to hear the word and equally hard for you to speak it this boy is in a position the enemy has positioned him that unless there's an intercession he can't help deliver himself because the faith cometh by hearing he can't hear it and a manifestation comes by declaration he can't speak it so the enemy has come in basically watch this not to shut down his body but to shut down his faith oh my god can't hear the word can't speak the word how many times especially those of us that have gone through grieving and mourning sadness or depression and those conditions was so strong that we couldn't hear faith and could not speak faith so Jesus watch this speaks to the spirit now this is what blue intricacy subtlety in the text but it makes sense the spirit can hear Authority but is his his effect on the boy is the boy can hear authority jesus takes authority because the battle is a fight for territory there's a fight for the boy's future and for the boy's father's future but the spirit has to obey the Lord now the boy gets delivered and the Bible says after the boy gets delivered he looks dead so I'm free but the whole process appears to have slain me so I've been going through so long the energy is gone for doing anything next I get delivered but now because I don't have this fight I don't know what to do next oh my goodness the text says Jesus lifts him up now here we go with the disciples again they want to know how in the world did you do this how did this happen watch this now Jesus says it's your lifestyle that makes a difference where you can react appropriately when these types of things face you he says prayer and fasting as a lifestyle moves what appears to be immovable so some of you are grieving I've been grieving for so long and morning but morning without hope and that thing needs to be moved you've been praying but it hasn't moved but prayer and fasting must be a lifestyle why Jesus does not have to go on a fast he does not have to excuse himself from the problem go on a fast and then come back and deliver the boy he's ready to deliver him when he meets the problem I'm trying to help you with something so if fasting is not a part of our lifestyle there are some things in the spirit we're not ready for right now I'm trying to help somebody so Samuel is mourning over Saul Saul is a major disappointment samuel has not come to the end of his grief yet his morning doesn't appear as though he's been delivered to the point where he accepts the will of God because grief is designed by God to get you from shock to acceptance he's not mourning consistent with the anointing on his life so God asked Samuel the same question how long has this been going on it sounds like a whole a note song yeah that one how long has this been going on with something that I've rejected out of your life we mourn over good people and amazingly we mourn over less than desirable people let me help you with that one we're mourning for purpose realized the other one mourning for purpose never achieved what could have been what should have been so we mourn because of what he is and we mourn sometimes for what could have been and amazingly God tells Samuel go get your oil there's an answer in your anointing because I have prepared say to yourself at home another possibility there is a future on your horizon although right now is difficult to see there's a future on your horizon grief is a gift from God hmm it's a gift that God gives us to by process shift us from shock and denial into reconstruction and acceptance and an upward move it is God's Way of moving us from shock to acceptance with the help of God we move from shock and denial to pain guilt and regret land in a field of bargaining and sometimes anger only to find that some depressed days are there but it gives you a new sense of how loneliness fields followed by some reflection you have to focus on something different the focus must shift from the cause of the loss to the way the person lived like with me I can still see my mother on her bed in the hospital passing away and I stayed stuck there for about a month and then I had to force myself to start thinking about the way she had lived and not mark her whole life by the moments in which she passed away so it'd have been easy for me to remember her only because of the two years that she suffered and horribly with cancer and missed the other 70 some years that I had enjoyed with her so my deliverance was not focused on focusing on how she left my deliverance was focusing on how she lived now watch this down I hear some of you saying but pastor but focus on how my loved one lived I still won't get any relief so if they lived in a certain way and that won't help you get to acceptance then you've got to look for the few breakthrough moments in that relationship timespan you didn't hear what I see it you've got to think about the one or two good times that you can remember and that will push it to acceptance I've got to get to acceptance or I'll never ever get delivered into a morning with hope there's an upward turn as the next move of God there's an upward turn that comes on the heels of this now this is going to be this is going to be I'm talking to your emotions right now sometimes feeling better can feel like a betrayal regarding the one that you're mourning over because you may think that because I feel better I don't care as much so you could God can start to deliver you you get to acceptance you start reconstructing your life and you start feeling as though I'm betraying the memory because I don't feel as torn up inside as I did before Rick Marie is not a betrayal man did I say that the Sun has begun to shine on your emotions again it is rising on your life and this is why your horizon is getting brighter while you're still mourning the individual that you loved oh my goodness now what's all rise on horizon is a skyline you've seen it before it's where you is where you see the the heavenly and the earthly come together stand on a beach look far enough out it looks like the water and the sky come together in a line that's the horizon it not only represents the present and but it represents the future so horizon is where the heavens and the earth meet where the present and the future are revealed at the same time so the horizon always divides watch this what you're seeing in the two and two categories it divides the present from the past it divides those things which touch earth and those things which are limited to heaven or restricted to heaven Sun Moon stars it's where you look from the ocean and see the two very clearly like a physical horizon our personal horizons depend on what we know what we've experienced and what our interests are the word horizon actually means a limiting circle I don't know if you've ever been in a situation where you're able to look around and see the horizon I remember being on Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands and I looked in as far as I could see I could see that line the connection between heaven and earth going all the way around me and I understood immediately what I saw in the horizon was the limit of my ability to see and then I realized studying this message for you that I can't live a life of faith with ignorance as a strategy got to get new knowledge cuz new knowledge opens my horizons I've got to meet new people because new people good people increase my horizon I've got to understand what's going on in my life and see the differences in cultures and and learn some new things and stop saying I don't like a thing before I've been exposed to it because of ignorance is your strategy your horizon or your future will stay limited you know what you want what you desire what you're interested in is a limit or expand your horizons what do you want to do what are you interested in doing can expand your horizon life can shift to its next chapter when your horizons expand that's my salvation is so critical because salvation and the kingdom mindset and the Word of God and faith expand your possibilities therefore expand your horizons why because the limits are taking off your possibilities now you can't close your eyes to new horizons you can decide not to participate them but you cannot close your eyes to them watch what happens so the Word of God opens up a life of future that you never saw before and the only reason you can't walk in that is you refuse to believe it but not only believe it but act on it so your vision and your communication is directly related to the horizons you think you had I don't speak any greater than the future I think I've been promised I don't say words to myself or can I see things in the spirit or by faith that I don't think are appropriate for me if my horizons if my vision of my own future is limited this is an amazing thing to me so God saves me tells me he has a more abundant life for me but I don't begin to pursue that abundant life so it's there for me but I won't pursue it in the horizon this is making sense to you all all right so that I communicate and I see based upon the horizon that I that I imagine what by what you see by faith you have to speak now when a pilot is flying his plane his airplane there was an aeronautical term term called attitude not altitude attitude flying the pilot controls the plane based on the nose of the plane and its relationship to the horizon so the pilot would know he's going here her is going in the right direction by the relationship of the nose to the horizon so they know where they're going left to right not based on instruments but the attitude flying based on how their nose is in relation to the horizon in front of them how does that work my grand mom used to tell me keep your head on straight she'd also they keep your nose out of other people's business but we don't even go there we keep your head on straight as it relates to what you're looking at and experiencing around you so you'll be clear in your direction pilots do the same thing it's called attitude flying nose in the right direction so the Lord has sent me just how long is your nose going to be pointed in the wrong direction you're limiting your horizon now God is God is very clear with something something's going to be missing in your horizon called soul but I've already put something in your horizon called Davey Samuel like David is about to experience an upward turn their horizons are about to shift your heart is about to beat again alright go to second Samuel Chapter twelve I want to show you something I got to get this in your spirit today somebody you know needs to hear this I need you to start tweeting texting in boxing folk because the the mic drop is getting ready to happen now here comes second Samuel Chapter twelve you let me know when you get there I'm so excited I've went to the wrong chapter second Samuel Chapter 12 we want to start reading at about verse 17 and I'm almost done now I'm not one of those preachers say I'm closing when I got for closing I'm really almost done all right I hate it when him guys say I'm closing in 15 minutes later I'm closing 20 minutes later I'm closing hour later I'm still closed no I'm actually coming to the end second time to 12 verse 17 listen to what it says and the elders of the house of his house arose talking about David and went to him to raise him up from the earth but he would not so David is in this grieving stage he's not mourning like he has hope he's down on the ground on his face would not let anybody lift him up don't beat don't indict him cuz all of us have been in a place at one time another where you either felt or said I don't want anybody bother me don't touch me don't try to lift me up don't try to encourage me you know I just want to lay here I don't want all of us have been in that situation and if you have not you need to praise God right now because you haven't had your major problems yet so they go to encourage him come on man get up off the ground he does not want to get up and the Bible says he did not want to eat bread with them they invited him to eat with him come on man let's have a little lunch no come on let us lift you up no I like being flat on my face watch what happened seven 18 and it came to pass on the seventh day so it lasted a week that the child died and the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead now why because he been acting so despondent they didn't know what one more piece of bad news would do you get you need the kind of people around you this is what this gonna make sense to all of you there are some people that wait until you're down to give you some more bad news because they enjoy you want to make sure you have some people around you that are sensitive about the timing of releasing bad news to you I need to say this again you need to be careful about people around you who secretly envy you who secretly are jealous of you who like telling you bad news when you're down in other words they like kicking you while you're down people who you're saved and Lord loves you and you're blessed and you got favored and something negative happens to you and they say something crazy like about time something bad happen to you the Bible is clear you may have some punches pilots around you punches pilots testimony of I could find no fault in him means he spent his time looking for something wrong with Jesus you're not hearing me that that he spent all his time not what says purposely ignoring the righteousness of Jesus the goodness of him was spend all his time trying to find something wrong with Jesus careful of people like that around so it came to pass on the seventh day that the child did die in the service of David feared to tell him they were concerned about him but they said Behold while the child was yet alive we speak with him and he would not hear our voice they saying what if he didn't listen to us then what is he going to do now they said how watch this watch the words how will he then vex himself not how will the devil attack him but what's he going to do to himself how's he going to make himself more miserable lord have mercy because when I don't want people to talk to me the only person left to talk to me is me and if I'm in a place where I'm grieving unrighteous ly morning unrighteously I'm not going to say things that will get me up off my face so so so so here comes watch how it works now he said he'll vex himself if we time that the child is dead but when David saw that his servants whispered David perceived that the child was dead therefore David said unto his servants is the childhood they said yeah watch this upward turn reconstruction then David arose from the earth washed anointed himself changed his clothes came into the house of the Lord and worship then went to his own house and said y'all bring me something to eat upward turn reconstruction now instead of laying in it he's working through it he has come to a place of acceptance and now watch the hope be revealed they 21 then said his servants unto him what thing is this he said what the heck is going on you fast and wet while the child was alive but when the child was dead that this rise up and he bred and he said while the child was alive yet alive I fasted and wept I did both of those for I said watch the bargain who can tell whether God will be gracious to me that the child may live now he knew what God said but he still was going to bargain with with the child even though in the mind of God the child's life was done and that is what's amazing but now he is there 23 wherefore should I fast why should I go into a fast now can I bring him back I shall go to him that's hope but he shall not to me that's acceptance do y'all see this so he's taking him through the grief process from shock to pain to guilt to bargaining to an upward turn to reconstruction and back to hope again I need you to remember that him feeling better is not a betrayal of the child it's an acceptance pain is part of your process pain is not your companion and we said again pain is a part of your process pain is not your companion pain is something you know not your best friend your heart will beat again Luke 17 tells us apostles come to Jesus look we need to help with our faith increase our faith he begins to teach on something that appears to be immovable called a sycamore tree now what's amazing about the roots of a sycamore tree they're very intricate and they are they're virtually impossible to uproot through storm through other environmental or challenges but Jesus begins to tell them just like this emotion that you have just like this response that you have this dominating negative emotion this grief this morning that you have that has not brought you assured you into acceptance this this pain that you have based upon the loss this pain upon the failure of the business or the rejection from the job this pain because someone that you love decided they didn't want you again the all any of that is grief and mourning what you need right now is an increase of faith that will get you through the process of that divine gift called grief and get you to a place where you can accept the will of God when you're looking to your horizon once again and see yes this one thing is lost but there's another thing God has placed in my future then I've got a life that I have to live they promise in favor are ahead of me now I want you to give yourself permission told you the story a couple weeks ago you may not have been so I'm going to repeat his worth repeating there was this phenomenal heart surgeon one of the top two or three heart surgeons in the world and he was working on this woman's heart and if you know anything about open heart surgery he'd gone in cut up when her chest pulled the heart out put it up on top of her chest did what they had to do put the heart back in the chest did the appropriate things to get the heart beating in the beat the heart would not beat this surgeon is one of those surgeons that when they went in the operating theater people came they had one those tears where people could watch it was always full always packed one of the best heart surgeons in the in the entire world and he he watches this heart go back and he does everything he's supposed to do he's the head of the department in this hospital he's on boards all over the world he's a goddess consultant he does everything he knows to be right puts the heart back into the woman's chest and does everything but the heart does not speak in front of all his peers this guy kneels down on his knees in the operating theater so now the people immediately thinking you know this guy's getting ready to pray this must be a desperate situation leans over into the woman's until the woman's ear says mrs. Smith this is your physician speaking and I'm giving you I'm telling you to tell your heart to beat again screen start to erupt because she was given authority by the chief physician to tell her heart to beat again I'm telling you today that no matter what the source of your grief and your mourning has been that your chief physician is telling you right now to tell your heart to beat again speak the words of faith speak the words of power tell your heart to beat again there are those of you right now who I prayed for you earlier today it's time for you to release your faith at this moment I learned a long time ago that when I hear a word the proper response in faith is something tangible it's a work faith without works is dead I learned that when I saw a seed into a word that means that word will become a reality into my life there thousands of you watching us today thousands that will see this that need to know right now is a time when faith and worship come together that you and I are in a position right now where the strength of this word the understanding of this word the wisdom of this word can start to bear fruit in our lives I need for you to join me and thousands around the world right now as we get ready to give God a gift to sow a seed for God now I don't know you know what your tithe is I don't know what your you're offering is but I do know this that God says bring me that seed called a tie than the offering for those of us that are Bethenny members the transformation church for those of us that are Bethenny members it's time for us to release our faith time for us to sew our faith and show our faith we need the Lord to speak to our hearts right now that we might do what's appropriate and what's biblical for him at this very moment this is a critical moment in our lives we don't want God to see us in this season a voluntary confinement and we not be biblical we not being what we need to be there there's there's there's there's there's a strength of this ministry that we need to maintain during the season we're not certain when this season's going to end so you need your faith you need you're Church strong and the way your church can maintain a strength is by us giving by faith because we want to be able to minister to you several times a day that means our staff is making sacrifices and we're making sacrifices to make sure that you get quality content stuff that ministers to your spirit to your life I'm believing there thousands of you who every Mother's Day and Father's Day you just you go through emotionally so because you don't understand that this gift you have called grief is designed to get you to a place of acceptance not forgetting not getting over but getting through so right now join me as we give to God go to the icon on the screen the instructions on the screen for those of you who don't have electronic giving the address of the church is on the screen 1115 gibbsboro Road Lyndon wall New Jersey you can mail yours in well for those of you to give electronically the instructions are on your screen I want you to take that seed called the tithe and an offering and release it right now by faith I want you to show God you love him show God that you need your ministry to stay strong so we can continue to minister to you during this time I want you not only to give God that seed call to tithe and offering but give him a sacrifice the one is commanded the other comes from the heart the love that you have for the Lord so why don't you go to the icon right now so that great gift I'm getting ready to pray for your deliverance and for your healing so don't you dare turn away we're going to pray for you in just a second but I need you to move by faith and release that seed in the name of Jesus you know how good god has been to you but you also know you've come to understand I believe our appreciation for the ministry God has given us has increased during this time it's like a lifeline it's like a cup of cool water in a desert it's like bread when I'm hungry old folk you say water when I'm thirsty why don't you help us maintain the strength of this house of this ministry so that we can continue to be strong for you and provide you with that what you need in this period where God is asking his people a question will you choose me see we tend to look outside when things like this happen when crisis like this happen flus and Ebola and all that we look at unsaved the church looks outside itself but the first question is to the believer are you going to choose me during the season I hope your answer is yes he's looking for an obviously blood-stained child of God so why don't you go to the icon so that gift today be biblical be generous be loving and watch God move now while you're doing that I want you to remember we have a prayer conference all week long 12 o'clock noon numbers five one five six oh four nine three seven four five one five six oh four nine three seven four one more time five one five six oh four nine three seven four that's our prayer conference Monday through Friday at 12 noon every day Monday through Friday your access number is six eight zero four four four now you want to make sure you follow us on Facebook I hear somebody saying what was that access number six eight zero four four four you want to follow us on Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube for updates for inspiration and more we got some foolishness on there too so you're going to really like it we've got the bishop dancing got all kind of stuff so you're gonna love it we got this thing about Solomon splitting the baby that's gonna just drive you crazy and we got an empty Church series gonna really bless you I work around some creative people amen you can follow us at at BBC of NJ that's Bethany Baptist Church or you can follow me at David G Evans the number one and you'll see that's Bishop David G Evans at David G Evans one or at BBC of NJ you can get to us either way now go to the icon give your gift return to God that which he has required of us keep the ministry strong so we can keep you strong during this time of challenge change shifting would also break through I want you to stay strong and stay save and remember this faith acts like a thing is so even when it's not so that it might be so god bless you and I'll see you Wednesday night for our midweek encounter the word impact gathering here at Bethany Church the transformation church I'll see you real soon good [Music] [Music] thank y'all

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Published: Sun Mar 29 2020