Christ Church Online | Sunday 9am | Power Declared | Rev. Damon Pearson

[Music] hello friends we want to personally welcome you to christ church how where our mission is to change the world by transforming all races and cultures into passionate followers of jesus christ we are a multicultural cross generational church that loves the lord and loves his people evidenced in everything we do here at christ church it's our desire to impart wisdom and biblical truths to encourage and strengthen you through prayer and the word of god and to impact and equip you so that you will not only fulfill your god-given destiny but also be a catalyst for change in the world in which we live we pray as you hear this message that god will speak to your heart and minister to you in ways unimaginable god bless you [Music] know that the battle belongs to the lord hallelujah we're here to just give the lord praise and worship this morning if you're not already standing with me please do so i'd like to welcome you all here to the sanctuary and those who are watching us on live stream we're excited that you're here with us this morning to give the lord praise and give him honor and to give him glory if you're with us for the first time i'm going to invite you to visit our website at christchurchnj.com and there you'll find out more information about the church who we are and why we do things that we do and all the different events that we have going on for example we will be celebrating our 25th church anniversary this summer hallelujah 25 years of giving god glory so starting the week of september 19th we're going to have dynamic worship dynamic word we're going to have zoom events we're going to have live events we're just going to take some time to thank god for all that he has done for 25 years hey then so again on behalf of dr antoinette and apostle brian adamson thank you for coming and visiting with us this morning and it is our prayer that your encounter with god will be an unforgettable one amen so we ready to worship this morning are we ready to give him praise this morning are we ready to exalt him this morning oh praise god i like the rain that the psalmist says it in psalm 100 he says enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise give thanks to him and praise his name for the lord is good and his love endures forever his faithfulness continues through all generations god we give you glory this morning we've come to lift you up in this place we ask that you would come and saturate it with your power and with your glory that we o father in your presence as we lift our hearts and hands that you will be exalted and extolled and we magnify you for all that you're going to do in jesus name we pray amen [Music] hallelujah you ready to enjoy worship ready to put your hands together and praise the god praise our lord praise our [Music] can savior help us [Music] come find his mercy [Music] oh is [Music] [Music] jesus is [Music] is [Applause] forever [Music] praise him praise him for the wonders of his praise god [Music] [Applause] is is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] jesus is waiting god's so low [Music] praise god praise god we're not here for anybody else we're here to worship we're here to praise him we're here to tell him that we love him god thank you for doing it on the cross for us god thank you for saving my soul god thank you for delivering me on something that no one else could help me with god i thank you i cry out to you god hallelujah hallelujah i sought after the lord and he answered my depression god in my difficulties and my challenges i prayed and he answered me he heard my prayer god hears your prayers god hears your prayers praise god praise [Music] is [Music] [Music] the day [Music] i am [Music] put your hands together he is worthy i don't know what you've been through but he's worthy [Music] thank you [Music] never jesus me in all my days [Music] of the goodness of god [Music] voice [Music] [Music] i know [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is 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battle hallelujah hallelujah let's just give him another round of applause in here are we here for him we're here for him we're here for him we're not here for anything else we're here to give him glory we're here to give him praise we're here to lift him up we're here to insult him for the name of the lord is a strong tower and the righteous runeth into it and then say god is our mighty warrior he is the el gabor he's fighting our battles we can give him praise just as in the days of jehoshaphat when they started praising god the enemy started fighting and destroying itself i want to let you know that there's power in our praise today when we give him praise jesus has never lost the battle jesus has never lost the competition come on let's give him some praise come on come on let's just give him praise let's give him praise glory to god hallelujah oh glory to god hallelujah my god i thank god for his presence i can feel the presence of god the assurance of god the confidence of god he is here turn to your neighbor appoint him say he is here oh glory to god hallelujah you may be seated you may be seated praise god i tell you there's nothing like giving him glory because it's not unto us but it's unto his name that we give glory amen amen praise god all right hallelujah want to say good morning to everyone and happy labor day oh praise god okay only a few people happy about that right you know my nine-year-old son was talking to me during the week and he was oh dad i'm so glad labor day is coming and i'm like son you don't work what are you glad about but uh i thank god for his presence and for his spirit and and also for holidays let's just give the lord jesus a round of applause let's just get because we're here for him this it's all about him it's all about jesus right it's all about jesus well you know today uh starts a new month and we're going to be getting a we're going to be beginning a different theme as pastor jackie was sharing this month we're going to be focusing in on empowered and today specifically what we're going to be doing is we're going to be looking in the book of romans the first chapter in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god right so we want to take heed to what the word of god is saying today amen when you have it just say amen praise god romans the first chapter romans is right after the book of acts new testament we're just going to be looking at the first six verses okay all right so here we go paul a bond servant of jesus christ called to be an apostle separated for the gospel of god which he promised before through his prophets in the holy scriptures concerning his son jesus christ our lord who was born of the seed of david according to the flesh and declared to be the son of god with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead verse 5 through him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name among whom you also are the called of jesus christ the verse that we're going to be focusing in on today is actually verse 4 where it says and declared to be the son of god with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead and the title of today's message is power declared power declared let's pray father in the name of your son jesus we thank you lord for the gift the privilege the honor of sitting in your house we thank you lord for those who are here in this sanctuary for those who are joining us through live streaming social media we thank you that your presence is resting on your people and today in the name of your son jesus we're asking and praying that you will speak to us encourage us empower us challenge us but also change us we pray that as we yield to your son jesus you will speak and encourage like never before through these trying and difficult times speak today in jesus name amen amen praise god oh i felt that one you know uh years ago out on the west coast there was a a father who was celebrating mother's day and he had a three-year-old son and also a seven-month-old baby and and his wife uh actually was a nurse full-time so on the day of su on the day of uh mother's day she was working so the father dressed up his children got the gift got the flowers got the card and drove down to the hospital so that way he can give a warm welcome and a happy mother's day to his wife he got there they exchanged pleasantries they couldn't stay long she had to get back to work so he climbed back into his car and his three-year-old child was pulling on his leg and as he was actually going to the car he kept talking to the child talking to the child he put his seven-month-old baby that was inside of the uh child seat he put it on the top of the car and as he was talking to the child he fastened the baby into the three-year-old into the car seat and then hopped in the car and started heading towards the freeway forgetting that he put the seven-year-old child on the roof of the car as he was driving and heading onto the park onto the interstate all of a sudden he heard this scratching on the roof of the car he said what is that and then all of a sudden he looked in the back seat he said oh my god and as he was driving off and getting onto the highway all of a sudden the baby that was sitting on the top of the car slid off of the vehicle and was headed down the back of the highway and there was cars coming he was so afraid and said oh my god what am i going to do and there were cars swipe swerving to the to the right and to the left and all of a sudden this one man who was driving saw what happened and spun his car in between the other cars and the baby in the car seat he jumped out of the car and grabbed the baby and and the husband that was sitting there in tears who just honestly forgot he said thank you he said thank you i can't believe thank you and the news was of uh it became it spread all over the area about what had happened this man's heroics and as they were interviewing him they said some they asked him he said what made you stop and do what you did he said i was on my way from worship service and as i was spending time with god the preacher was talking about how we were appointed for good things so i saw what was happening and i didn't think about all the heroics and i just saw someone that was in trouble and and i turned my car and and at that moment i knew right then and there that what i was doing could mean the difference between life and death for someone else i want to encourage you today because we live in the fast-paced world and sometimes we're surrounded by so many things that are vying for our attention and if we're not careful we will we will spear and we will deviate on the road and we'll see someone whose life and family may be hanging in the balance and we won't stop and we won't realize that we are appointed to make a difference i want to encourage you just as this man this young man who was walking with christ and realized that he was appointed to make a difference you and i whether or not we realize it are appointed to make a difference amen here as we look in the gospel of of romans i love romans one theologian said that romans is the cathedral of the christian faith another poet from the 18th century by the name of samuel coleridge he says he says romans is the most complete work that's ever been written i love the book of romans and as we look at the book of romans just to glean from some of god's truth today we have to allow him to speak to us and never before because god is trying to say something to his church right now paul was writing the book of the the letter unto the roman church and it was a church that was diverse it had jews and gentiles it had it had people of different ethnicities and it had people of different economic backgrounds had people of different social backgrounds had different had all these different similar to christ church when when i look around christ church i see a a diversity of people so i can find our place in the word of god i see differences i see diversity however the diversity is all brought together in unity because of jesus christ amen and as we're looking at here paul who who heard about the church in rome he didn't find that he wasn't the founder of the church in rome however he heard about the church and him being an apostle him being one who was a master teacher who was called by god separated for the gospel he says i want to write them a letter that can instruct them and encourage their faith romans was a letter it looks like a treatise it looks like a like a book on systematic theology however when we look at it god is trying to communicate unto us something that he was also trying to communicate to the church back in those days you know what paul was trying to bring the church to school and instruct them about all of the complexities and the dynamics and the deepness of their faith you know it's interesting that we're going back to school right we're in the back to school season okay some of us say amen right whether you're a child or whether you have children or they're going back to grammar school middle school high school some college children or college kids who are grown up they're going back to college right and some who instructors they're going back to teach so now we're in a season where we are actually learning and preparing for a new semester i want to encourage you right now that although we have the word of god i believe god is calling his church up to a higher level and he wants to put us back in the classroom he wants to be our instructor once again he wants the holy spirit to be for to be our tutor and for us to be underneath his tutelage so that way we may learn something like never before class is in session class is in session i believe now that as we're in the classroom of god god is trying to instruct us about the times that we're in the sovereignty of our god and what he expects of his church yeah so as we dive into romans we see paul who was filled with the spirit of god he before he even gets into the substance of the letter as you can to the first six verses i was completely floored by his greetings you ever read the word of god and it's so heavy and it's so powerful just in a few verses it floors you it knocks you down and i started to look at paul in a different way and he he starts to he starts to tell them that even before even though i was a even though he was an educated man who had multiple degrees in multiple languages he says paul a bond servant of jesus christ before anything else he says i'm a bond servant i'm a slave of jesus and he starts to immediately dive into who jesus is he was born of the seed of david and he was according to the flesh but he was declared to be the son of god with power as i was reading through this you know how sometimes we read through the bible and we're like oh yeah i know what that mean oh yeah that's good i'm really getting some of what he's trying to communicate as i was reading through romans i was looking at this thing and i started seeing what what the holy spirit was trying to do trying to to declare to me that jesus oh yeah i understand that when we when we read the word declare it means to proclaim or to announce it means to proclaim or to announce so i started thinking about how many times throughout the gospel and throughout the bible god was constantly announcing the arrival of his son he did it in the old testament prophets he did it when the angels they announced that jesus was going to be born he did it again with the wise men they bore witness to the announcement he did it again when when jesus was baptized he's always announcing the arrival of his son even the winds in the air have also bore witness we are announcing and we're acknowledging that we're in the presence of the creator of heaven and earth jesus christ the righteous however as i was getting good and started thinking about that all of a sudden the holy spirit stopped me in my tracks i kept looking at this word declare and as i started moving on all of a sudden the lord started speaking and started letting me know that declare is not what you think it is so as i started looking i said i gotta go deeper lord i gotta go deeper what is it that you're trying to say so i looked up that word declare and i i started looking how how every time throughout the old throughout the new testament every word of the word declare every time this was the only time in the book of romans that the word declared did not mean announce or proclaim it made me realize something that sometimes god is trying to get our attention about scripture and sometimes when we think we already understand it we might miss what he's trying to communicate so i started looking at that word declare and it comes from the greek word horizo which means marked out decreed and appointed i said huh declared mark means marked out decreed and appointed i understood that jesus was the son of god before in the beginning was the word the word was with god and the word was god and the word became flesh i understood what that means that before he even came to the world jesus was already we go he's the god man he's not man that became god he's god who became man and he's he's the he's the god man i understood what that mean but then as i started reading more throughout the scripture i started understanding that he was trying to declare something to us just as jesus was declared the son of god with power in the earth realm also us who are connected with him he wants to let you know that there's power that has already been marked out appointed and decreed over your life all right let me slow that thing down that let me know that even before the foundations of the world even before i knew who jesus was even when i was dead in my trespasses and sins that jesus had already set aside some things for the church to perform signs and wonders and miracles in his name he has power that is already marked out set aside and appointed for you and for your life for this house for your family for everything that your foot tried god has already set aside power that he wants to demonstrate into the earth realm oh yeah amen i got two claps right that means that lets us know that when jesus says stay into jerusalem until you'll be endued with power he was saying that i'm going to give you something that i prepared a long time ago it's not just the power and provision it's not just the power and wisdom it's the power to work signs wonders and miracles and to point people to jesus christ to be a living witness a sign and a wonderful jesus god has declared and given unto you and i it has marked out his power glory it has been marked out decreed and appointed as i started sitting back and i was saying i was like lord oh my god this is such a revelation and then he started speaking to me about different scriptures he says in acts 17 when when paul was in in athens and he was on mars hill and he started talking and debating he started telling him about the gospel he says he was talking about god he said he has determined our pre-appointed times and the boundaries of our dwelling that let me know that even though that that we're here in this moment god knows our beginning and our ending and he has set aside power to be demonstrated in your life to bring glory to jesus christ there is power set aside for you to pray for your family there is power for you to change your community there is power for you to oh glory to god there is power that god has already set aside that set aside for you to demonstrate his glory it's not unto us it's unto his name that we give glory solomon said it like this he says what is has already been and what is to be has already been meaning that god has already seen what we're what we're dealing with now there is no emergency in heaven he wants to let you know that i already have power stored up for that thing that you see is impossible [Applause] he wants us to walk into his power as we trust in jesus christ as we surrender to him as he is the potter and we are the clay and as he is as he is the master he wants to communicate to us so he may put us in places that way as we're there he may demonstrate his power through a church that has yielded and surrendered power declared so as i started sitting back looking at this thing i said harizo the word harizo is the word that we also use for the word horizon it's the line in which the earth's surface appears to meet the sky jesus is the one that connects heaven with earth and releases power for those who do not know him he is the one who could ah glory to god he is the one who connects heaven's resources unto his church the glorious bride the ecclesia because he's trying to release for some those of some of those who are around who need to see signs and wonders god wants to use his church to be the catalyst the open door and the vessel to release what he wants to be seen in the earth room why because jesus declared in john 4 that except some see signs and wonders they will not believe amen okay praise god well maybe it just got me excited i was sitting here and i was looking at this thing and i started saying to myself i said wow jesus has freed us so he wants the church to walk in the supernatural power if jesus is the son of god with power then the church is the church of god with power the scriptures declare that a disciple is not above his master nor a servant above his lord but it is fitting for us for a disciple to be like his master and the servant to be like his lord jesus has already released and made available and access to you and i the power he wants to release in these very dark times your prayer makes a difference your witness makes a difference your love and compassion makes a difference it's something that god wants to let you know that he's already marked out he already has some miracles to have your family's name on it he has some things that's already set aside for christ church he has some things that's going to operate and function in the ministry in which you are be in which you are planted in because as you yield to him and as you cry out unto him he's going to release the resources the glory the grace that's already been set aside for that person so that way they may encounter the living god it made me realize as i was reading this i thought about tony morrison who was a writer and also a a prolific she was prolific author and she was also a pulitzer pulitzer prize winner and she said something that was very profound she said the function of wisdom is to free other other people if i've been free there should be a desire in me to represent jesus christ and to see those who are bound in darkness be set free amen oh glory to god amen somebody say amen amen to whom much is given much is required and i want to let you know that there are things that are already set aside in heaven where he wants to operate and function supernatural things for you and i so then i started to realize i said i wanted to myself just as that earlier in the story about the young man who turned his car and and protected the baby from oncoming traffic many of us have been placed in unique situations so that way god may use you to be the sign point and to point people to jesus it made me think about the gospel of john the ninth chapter when jesus was facing the blind man and he started to ask him they said jesus who sinned this blind man was it his parents or was it was it he himself and the and jesus responded he says neither he nor his parents sinned this is shall be done so that way the the work of god shall be revealed there's some scenarios and circumstances even though you're on your job and we may think one thing god is uniquely placing you in your department so that way you may be a sign and a wonder and point people to christ what are some of the reasons why that we may not see this power that he's already set aside for the church perhaps it may be because of three different things the first thing i really believe is because the enemy has upped his standard the enemy i know some of you that may offend your your spiritual sensibilities but guess what jesus talked about an enemy one third of his ministry dealt with the powers of darkness paul talked about it the apostles talked about it it's all throughout the new testament and the bible there's a reality that we are up against spiritual warfare and when we do not think he's involved that's when he's having his freeway oh amen i'm amen myself right there's some things going on that the enemy is constructed you want to know how what the enemy does he creates and he sets up things where we're so enticed where he can distract us with things that are offensive things that involve entertainment things that you take up large blocks of our time and before you know it i'm so involved in these things that i've forgotten to seek god i've forgotten to think about his word i've forgotten about what's what he desires i'm so enamored by what he has enticed me to jesus told his disciples he says when you pray pray lead me not into temptation the enemy is setting snares before us and it's because of that that we're actually bending down and taking them and he's actually stealing from us michael youssef in his book know your real enemy declared that a real thief will come in and take from you and you won't even know that he did it until you go to use it and you find that it's not there you want to know how the enemy is is how you can see the signs of the enemy when there's constant offense bitterness and unforgiveness that means he's done his business oh but what we got to do is tell no say no to the devil i got to resist the enemy i'm not going to let the current events and the things of the culture get me off from what god is trying to call me to now because there's power that's set aside and i have to be seeking him in order for me to be in a place where he desires for me to be just to walk by faith so that way others may encounter the living god so the first thing is tell the devil i said no tell somebody said tell the devil i said no i'm not going to believe the lies of the enemy i'm not going to walk in unforgiveness i'm not going to walk in these other things in which the enemy is hoping that i'll stay distracted with because it'll keep me away from the word of god number two we have to reestablish the threefold chord reestablish the threefold chord ecclesiastes 4 12 says that a threefold chord is not easily broken the threefold chord is studying the word not just reading it studying the word prayer and worship we have to allow the lord to help us to reestablish the threefold chord when we start to dive into the word of god he starts to show us gems and truths and pearls that we've never seen when i read this scripture months ago that thing broke i was on my face repenting because i thought about how many opportunities i could have just simply spoke a word and it could have been a better opportunity for somebody to have an encounter with christ i spent so much time repenting when i got time in his word when i started to get back into his word because his word is a lamp unto our feet and it is a light unto our path his word and then prayer somebody say prayer god speaks to us through prayer he speaks to us he sensitizes our ears to hear him in prayer he helps us to hear so if we have the word we have prayer and that we also have worship i remember one time i was worshiping in my living room where my wife and i lived when my wife and i was uh we were actually in uh living in our new place in titan falls and we were living and also the lord was speaking to my heart about the property that we had in in lakewood it was our very first house and and god was telling us that you know as i was spending time worshiping all of a sudden the holy spirit started whispering to me sell your house this was may 2019 sell your house and i was like huh well conventional wisdom say you must hold on to property because you need the separate steam stream of income you know you need to your family might need that your children might need that you you need to hold on and i just kept hearing it hear it i spoke to my wife and she said you know what let's just do what god is telling us to do in june i met with a good friend of mine who was a realtor and then we put the property up in july and then in august we had a buyer and then we closed by the time almost what was almost november and we had unloaded the property we had unloaded and got rid of it and then immediately that winter in january and february and march was everything that came with the covey if we would have kept that property we would have been joining millions of others who were struggling financially trying to maintain different properties because some of their tenants got laid off due to the covey all these things we hear see when we're spending time alone with him he starts to whisper to us and let us know some of the things that we need to do in order for us to align ourselves up with the will of god so we must reestablish the three-fold cord c.s lewis once said it is during worship that god communicates his presence to us it is during worship it is during worship that he speaks and whispers and then the third thing that we must do also is that we must reveal what is concealed as we allow god to revive our spiritual disciplines as we allow him to revive our studying of the word and our prayer as we allow him to revive our separate and corporate worship times what will happen is god is going to start to place us in circumstances where he wants to reveal what's been concealed yeah see the scripture says we have this we have this this presence this treasure in earthen vessels and jaws of clay that god and not of us it's not about us it's about him however we're walking every day however let me tell you something it comes a time when we're walking by faith god may have you to extend to a co-worker how are you doing as you start talking and listening to that scenario you can actually say you know i'm going to pray for you i'm going to i'm going to intercede for you and god wants us to get to the point where we become more bold in our declaring of christ and as we start to pray we can see god work a sign a wonder and a miracle my wife and i a couple not even a month ago one of her co-workers was diagnosed her family excuse me her family has a history of of cancer breast cancer she has two sisters and both of them had different strains of cancer and then she had a test where something came up on her test and she had talked to my wife about it and she was very afraid and my wife told me about it i said all right you know what i'm going to take this thing into the presence of god and we started praying about it it wasn't even that long we started praying about it and it wasn't long because you know sometimes when you pray it's long but the more you start to grow in god you start to realize that prayer really is more about listening than it is about talking amen right solomon said in ecclesiastes 5 that we ought to walk prudently when we come to the house of god come ready to listen more to not offer up the sacrifice of fools i had to sit back and listen and the lord started to speak to me he was going to perform a miracle he's going to do something so we started praying we started praying we started praying and then we got the report no cancer now what does that do that primes the situation so now as she talks to her about god she can say listen we prayed for you and look at what god happened and now the open door is there for you to share the gospel it's not about me trying to be bold be a bulgar or be belligerent as we uh the spirit of god to lead us he will tell us what we need to do and as we just are gentle and humble as we are obedient god will open up the door and he'll diminish his power declared in the midst of the earth he wants to use his church to do it he wants to use you to do it he wants to use i to do it do you know you are fearfully and wonderfully made gifts that you have nobody has the insight nobody has the understanding nobody has the ability to operate and function and guess what god wants to use you to bring others to christ if we can just walk by faith and stay aligned we can experience power declared power declared in our midst where cancer shrinks power declare where the blind can see power declare where those who are distant and filled with hatred and animosity and racism can be reconciled to jesus christ and to other races we have that power in jesus and god wants us to speak and operate and function and allow what he has marked out what he has set aside and what he has appointed and decreed to be released right here in the earth somebody say amen somebody say amen praise god come on that worship team i want to share with you something when we start to get to the place where we realize that there's nothing covered that shall not be revealed nothing hidden that shall not be made known will start to walk in by faith lord give me an opportunity praying that lord open up the door for me today to share the gospel to share it with someone else because what jesus gives to his church is powerful power to change lives power to operate and function in signs wonders and miracles power to love let me tell you something you know walking in power is not just limited to signs wonders and miracles walking in power is also walking in forgiveness oh come on now [Laughter] paul said when he was speaking to timothy he says listen god hasn't given you a spirit of fear but of power love and of a sound mind before i can actually walk in love god has to break the backbone of sin that keeps me holding on to offense bitterness and anger and racial animosity god needs to break that thing before i can walk in the power of love amen a friend of mine once shared with me a story about a man in the middle east the wise man and he was filled with wisdom and he came across the most priceless gym he had ever found and as he was carrying that gym he was showing it to different people the price of this gym was worth 10 cities that's how valuable it was so one of the one of the men heard him talking about it in the in the public square and and he said i'm going to go east to go visit some family so the man who heard it says i want to get what that man has so he started to befriend the wise man and as he befriended him he started following him every day where he was and as they were sleeping at night you know he was getting up and as the wise men fell asleep the man who wanted that jim was looking for all of his bag and trying to find where was this gym and he was trying to find he couldn't find it this happened it went off for three days he couldn't find it and then all of a sudden he felt convicted and he said you know what i got to tell you i got to talk to the wise man he talked to the wise man he said you know what i really didn't come because i wanted your wisdom i came because i wanted the gym that you had and i couldn't find it i feel bad that i i've been deceiving you all this time and the wise man just smiled at him and he said i want to show you something and he went to the man who was trying to find it he lifted up his jack pocket and took the gem out of his jacket pocket and he said you know what that what you have see with that what you've been seeking i already gave it to you from day one you already possessed oh you and i know that sometimes we're looking externally for something that jesus has already given us he's already empowered us he's already given you that which is needed for power to be declared in your sphere of influence so at this moment and at this time i want to let you know that god has already endued you with power how many of us want to walk in that power that he's given us praise god praise god i want to let you know right now if anybody wants to have a little bit of prayer right now where we can pray you don't need to even stand you could just stay right where you are and you say you know what pastor i hear what you're saying you know what the enemy you know with all these different events going on in the world i was so distracted i've i've reduced some of my study time i haven't been seeking the lord the way i used to i i haven't been worshiping like like i love to do and now i feel like i'm i'm off-centered if that's you we're going to have prayer if you're in a place where where where you kind of feel in your heart that that oh man i want to i reestablish that threefold court sometimes i feel like the enemy is playing games with me we're going to have prayer if you're struggling with being bold in the gospel so that way you can experience power declared we're going to have prayer just close your eyes and lift your hands as we allow the presence of god to speak to us father in the name of jesus we ask and pray today for all of us who who know your word your church for all of us who understand what you are calling us to we pray lord forgive us for being distracted and allowing things to come in and and snatch our time away from you we pray in the name of jesus that you will help us to reestablish the threefold cord we pray god that that we will no longer draw back shrink back or walk back but that we will share your gospel to everyone who asks everyone that you place us around in the name of jesus we ask and pray for the boldness of the holy ghost the boldness of the spirit of god father we ask and pray today in the name of jesus that you'll fill us with the knowledge of your will that you'll lead us and guide us into all truth show us those who are around us in our families and our places of employment and our communities that you want us to share your power that is declared and appointed our ears like never before we thank you today in the name of jesus we pray amen amen praise god so we also yes let's give the lord a round of applause hallelujah [Applause] now just as we talked about his power that is declared we want to pray for the teachers who are going back to school in this season it doesn't matter what kind of teacher you are if you're going you're going to be instructing we want to pray that god not only protects you but that he keeps you and that some of the power that's been stored up and declared over your life that it will be released let's pray father we pray for every teacher we pray for all those who you have called and you have placed in institutions of learning that you may minister to them that you will protect them we thank you lord that he who keeps israel neither slumbers nor sleep we pray that you keep them from the virus keep them from sickness keep them from disease keep them from attack keep them from assaults in the name of jesus we pray oh lord that you'll open up the windows of heaven that you will pour out your anointing pour out your power pour out your spirit that power will be declared that those who are underneath their tutelage and instruction will have an encounter with god we pray oh lord that you'll order the steps and that you'll bless them o lord we pray in the name of jesus that this school year will be won like never before that they may instruct others and bring glory to you as you protect them in this place we thank you lord in jesus name amen amen come on let's give the lord a round of applause let's give the lord a round of applause hallelujah glory to god know this god has power declared for your marriage for your family for your community for this house and also for the region all we have to do is walk by faith stay connected to jesus and give him glory and he will do the miraculous he will release the power that is marked out the power that's already set aside and appointed to be decreed in your situation god bless you god bless you [Applause] oh we could do better than that for the word we could do better than that power declared power declared he just declared that you would walk in power that you would live and move in power i was grateful for the word thank you pastor damon power declared in john 15 verse 16 he makes it clear he says that i have appointed you that you should go forth and bear fruit in other words i have declared that you should move forth in power to bear fruit and that that fruit would remain and that whatever you ask in the father's name he would give it to you he has declared it whatever you speak whenever you touch whenever you say god i declare he says that it it will be how many in agreement with the word today that you would have appointed to walk in power power to change lives and to touch lives power to see lies transformed in the midst of the word he has declared and decreed that we should walk in power another way that we walk in powers when we tell the enemy you will not bind us do not hold us you will not stop our finances when we bring our tithes and our offering we bring our tithes and offering we are declaring that we are walking in power that the power to give back unto god will see lies change lives rearranged and lives touch and there's many ways to demonstrate that power one is by if you walk through the church this morning you walk by information table you can pick up an offering envelope and made your check payable to christ church another way is through mail also paypal and my favorite smart giving it gives us the ability to move and touch people in different regions different areas to declare god's goodness over their lives would you stand with me [Music] and before we bless it i notice you notice that there are two very special people not with us today and that's dr a and past apostle brian they are away today enjoying their 31st anniversary [Applause] they're declaring that they that if you stay together god will move you and touch you and bring you to another level because it's a challenge to stay with someone one day let alone 31 years i've been blessed to be with someone 31 years old so but before we leave let's bless them where they are and thank the lord for them let's lift our hands up to the lord father we thank you for our leadership we thank you for what you're doing in their lives continue to refresh them continue to reinspire them continue to bring them to new heights and new levels let everything they touch increase and let them see a bountiful blessings for everything you do in their lives we thank you for the gift that they are to this house and to the region and to the world continue to anoint them them and their family are fresh and anew in jesus name and father we lift up our tithes and offerings that you would multiply increase it and that it will bring fruit unto your kingdom and that you would seek glory from our hearts of serving you and father as your servants here and online go forth let them go forth in power to love and to serve you are dismissed to love and serve thank you for joining us we pray the message strengthened and encourage you may the lord continue to speak to you and guide you as you seek him for every area of your life if you are ever in the central new jersey area we would love to meet you and pray with you join us for one of our weekly services and allow us to give you a warm welcome in person in the meantime we pray the lord's blessings upon you today and always

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Published: Sun Sep 05 2021