Dan Mohler @ FREEDOM Christian Center - 1 - Friday night

hey guys whoo I'm way up here I asked if I could come down here but I think it's very stay up here so I'm not gonna rock the boat too much just feel far away that's all you guys doing good man I'm glad you all came tonight I was coming anyway had a plane ticket I was coming but I actually thought some of you guys would be here man so who enjoys that reckless love song it's pretty awesome I want to talk about something a little bit right out of the gate okay when I was young growing up in church mom made me come I'm glad you're here I don't know how you got here I don't know if you're just hungry curious or somebody said come or else I'm not sure why you got here I'm glad you're here period is this always an honor - so the gospel so seed the kingdom of God is if a man what scatter seed so that's all I'm gonna do tonight I got a whole bag whether you see it or not I'm just gonna scatter seed all night well and but when I was growing up I didn't understand the love of God like I heard the Gospel message as far as the cross and my sin and getting forgiven and going to heaven and I had all that down pretty good I knew I was a sinner I knew I had terrible things in my heart and I knew I had done some terrible things at a young age that I knew I shouldn't have done you just kind of knew that even though nobody told you who knew you did wrong so when I heard this message I thought yeah that's me and but I didn't know how to change and I didn't understand why he would do that just to forgive me I I didn't understand the way the gospel was always shared with me it it left me the same but forgiving are you with me so I had this provision to be forgiven but I was the same and I was thankful that He shed his blood because I'm gonna be this way so I guess they'll keep forgiving me and one day I'll make it to him this is what I was taught always so make sure you stay at church cuz you don't want to not be in church when he comes and I was young and I used to hear this stuff now used to think wonder if he comes when they ain't heaven servus look like it's really important to make the gospel clear and a lot of people were doing the best they understood but nobody ever told me what Holy Spirit revealed to me 23 years ago that changed my life forever like this song I get it now like I would never understand why do you want to die for me why would he come as a man that's a radical thought get real with me if Jesus if he really came and he was really born of a virgin and he was really God and came that's radical that he wouldn't that Holy Spirit put him inside a girl and he's God and he's going to sit in there and full-term nine months crock-pot for nine months in that woman and she's going to give birth to the Son of God / son of man that's a radical thought and he's doing that to forgive me and take me to heaven someday when I die that's all I was ever taught but that's not what he was doing he was coming to redeem truth he was coming to restore man back to what he was created to be he was coming to make things right and set the record straight he was coming to get the lie off of me and get the truth on me he was coming to get the sin off of me and rode me in righteousness yeah see nobody ever taught me that there was a higher plan than just the forgiveness of sin so left me a forgiving sinner so I had all kind of questions about God's love I didn't have revelation I had questions well that's a problem if you don't have revelation because nobody loves God first you got to see his first love and I never saw his first love of my whole life so I got saved when I was 33 at work then I saw his first love I couldn't be changed till then I couldn't love I saw my need for him who saw their need for him who knew that what they were doing was wrong when it was wrong who had that conviction whether you were after God or not after God you still had that idea and that understanding right so so after a while you feel indebted to him if you believe the the cross if you watch the crucifixion movie and you're 12 years old you got things in your heart that you know shouldn't be there and you're watching that movie and they're whipping him and they're jacking him on the tree and he's all bloody and you're 12 years old you believe what you see on that movie and you feel you feel like bad about that is it when I only want or did anybody else go through that growing up and if you don't understand this truth then you start feeling indebted to him you don't really pursue in relationship cause you don't really understand that you just feel like you owe him something and if you come to God from that angle you always think you're failing him you're not doing good enough you're not measuring up and there's a lot of works talk we talk out there legalism works mentality a lot of stuff like religion there's a lot of phrases really it's just you trying to get to God and be pleasing it's a zero it's not gonna happen he came to us through his son to restore us through one act called the cross which is absolutely amazing and I just want to talk to you about it just for a sec and then we'll go wherever we go but this is what changed my personal life so I feel like I just want to shout it from the rooftop well from the stage top I'll shout it from the stage top see if I don't see his first love I'll probably just feel indebted to him I feel like I owe him and I'll get reduced to serving him instead of knowing him and then I'll go to church but I may never be her are you with me and I listened to all the messages and I got all the right phrases and I know when to raise my hands and know when to bow my head and I know how to do all this stuff but my being hasn't changed I haven't had relationship and intimacy like he desires because I really don't understand so if I don't pursue relationship I'll get reduced to serving him you with me you're not a servant your friend I read John 15 I found it let's just read in this book called the Bible it's amazing I've changed your life he said I no longer call you servants why'd he call his friends because a servant doesn't know what his masters doing which means we're supposed to we're supposed to know what he's up to we're supposed to know why he sent the Sun we're supposed to know what he's doing through his shed blood through his resurrected power through his blood speaking better things from the mercy seat who's supposed to death that and what we get about that is transforming but I'm not putting anybody down and I didn't know pastor Tim back then but nobody ever told me why he really came the only thing I ever heard and three four different churches growing up was he died on the cross cuz I'm a sinner he died on the cross cuz I'm a sinner he died on the cross cuz I'm a sinner that's all I ever heard and I'm supposed to receive him and pray that prayer called the sinner's prayer so I could be saved all they were saying when they used the word save was forgiven of your sins so when you die you go to heaven that's the only gospel that was ever taught me that's sometimes the only gospel you still hear in this country and the whole goal is getting your name in a book called life instead of getting new life on the inside of you see there's something that happens through the cross you put off the old man and you put on the new man the old man and his deeds die the new man and who he is starts coming alive all of a sudden Christ gets formed in you and the Christ in you is the hope of glory well said you realize there's this relationship there's this oneness called Christ in you are you with me see here's what I understood when I got saved within 12 hours of being saved I understood this within 12 hours and didn't talk to a human being I got saved at work just me and the Lord and I all I were I was so freaked out I look like I needed a sedative in a straitjacket I was crying I was talking to the air I was crying talking some more to the air and then I was laughing shouting probably pulling my hair spinning and talking to the air I'm still a little in between all that I calm down just so I could communicate but he changed my life what he taught me that night was he didn't save me just to take me to heaven he wanted to transform me and the first thing that I saw in my Bible within 12 hours I didn't read anything I just had it open I was crying and praying and I was gonna attempt to read my Bible because I thought it was a good thing and I had to find it I think it was in my underwear drawer in the back berry under the fruit of the looms or something because I'm a spongebob guy I wear the whitey tighties things I guess boxers are free to loom too but I'm not I'm not cool enough to wear boxers I like prophetic people turn it off I have whitey tighties on you sure what are we doing right now so I hope my Bible would slaying on me on my lap and I had it a hug I clutched it I clutched it and I cried I cried and here's what I said I remember this it stands out to me because it was a turning point in my life Jesus was real to me for the first time in my life God was really real he wasn't a theology a doctrine Sunday wasn't a day I should go to church and church wasn't a place I should go all of a sudden God was real it changes everything God is real that changes everything that's how he came to me that night he he confronted my heart and spoke this thought and said you don't even know if God's really real why'd he say that because I didn't know but I thought Christianity was something else I didn't understand Christianity was Christ's likeness through knowing him I thought Christianity was being a member of a church and declaring a doctrinal belief I didn't understand Christianity little literally means little Christ like one nobody ever taught me that they just said you better go to church and you better pray that prayer cuz you never know when your time is coming and you go what do I say and you don't even have to be a believer to pray that prayer you're just covering your bases I mean when a preacher says if you leave here tonight and hit a tree where are you going do you know and you go no we'll pray and you can be sure and that's the best gospel presentation we give and Holy Spirit seems to work with it in some occasions but why do we force him to have to work with it that's just preached the message you can pray the prayer in case you hit the tree still be mad at your spouse still hate your boss and your job and still complain all week long but hey you're going to heaven if you die snowdog going to heaven if you die it's about heaven coming back into you it's about you walking in the light as he's in the light it's about making peace and showing mercy and walking in love it's not about going to heaven when you die you read your Bible you can't even find that as the motive the motive is the transformation of life the motive his new life not life then we've made the motive heaven because it serves us there's a selfish twist to that motive and all of a sudden I'm coming to God for what I can get out of him and from him instead of what I can become because of him all of a sudden their motive for going to a special services to see what God might do for me instead of how he can make me more like him the main emphasis in a lot of our church gatherings are God blessing us in doing something for us that's why there's a lot of discouraged people that go to church because I wonder when they're gonna get theirs read your Bible discouragement isn't even in Christianity there the Bible teaches a Christian doesn't even understand discouragement because his life's not his own he seeks first the kingdom of God he doesn't consider himself and if we're not careful we've made the gospel to serve us and all of a sudden it's a survival kid and a way to make it till the end instead of a way to become what he paid for are you all okay you sure cuz we're just getting started come on this gospel is life-changing I don't want attitudes that are detrimental I don't want things that aren't light and life and goodness if I can't find it in him I don't want it in me if I couldn't put it in his mouth and make it fit I don't ever want it in mind I'm not here to do ministry I'm here to follow him to live by the Spirit of God you know how many people do ministry and aren't even following him generally people are getting hurt in ministry it proves they're not following him cuz he ain't hurt if you don't think for yourself you can't be heartbroken you can't be offended if you don't think for yourself you can't have issues and attitudes and hang-ups if it's all about him hello come on somebody's got to talk about this because I was 23 years ago holding my Bible and I looked down after I prayed I said God I know you're real now this is amazing you're real and I was just well I'm just gonna say it pastor Tim I woke up in the morning didn't sleep very long I don't Stoff late wee hours of the morning and woke up a couple hours later I was so revved and I you can tell I'm still excited I'm just a lot calmer cuz I'm up here because I have to communicate it doesn't do you any good if I'm honest I bet that that wouldn't help you I'm here to help hopefully not manifest so even though we're borderline but I'm making sense see your heart here's what I'm saying I said God you're really real oh my goodness I was flipping out his crying I was praying in tongues when I woke up and didn't even know what was going on so well how you gonna take that from me presence of God all over me you see well that was a demonic encounter you better be careful snapping that stuff out of your mouth calling God the devil and the devil God didn't it all mixed up you be careful with that stuff and I said there's so many people so many people saying so many things about you but I don't really know who you are but I know you're real you got to show me who you are I need to know you I didn't know that John 17:3 said this is eternal life that you might know him it didn't say that you might pray a prayer before you leave the service in case you hit the tree it said this is eternal life that you might know him the only true God and His Son Jesus Christ whom he sent I didn't know the Bible said that but I had this urge and this yearning to know him and I was crying and I said I'm gonna read this book cuz I believe you're in this book I believe who you are is in here and I'm trusting you'll help me to understand it that you'll make sense to me out of this book and that you'll show me who you are and when I laid it down I was praying I was raw was rant and I was crying I was emotional I was praying in tongues in between it was a really amazing experience I glanced down at my Bible it's the first thing I saw out of the Word of God from the time I had the encounter at work till that morning it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't even 12 hours it was probably 10 hours I looked down and here's what was it looked like it's all I could see I've honestly never had an experience like that since I never just opened my Bible to see where it lands I'm not that kind of guy I asked Holy Spirit I believe he instructs me and I open I never just Bible I'm not saying it's wrong I just don't I didn't try to do that that morning I just had it opened us hug in praying talking crying I open my Bible or he laid it flat to look down at it and think about where I was supposed to read what I was supposed to do I didn't have a clue I looked down and all I could see if you have not love you have nothing it's all I could see that's all I could see that is so amazing if you have not love you have nothing you know what he began to teach me right out of the gate it wasn't about going to heaven and get my sins forgiven and going to heaven was about becoming something that he paid for me to become something not get something to become and that if I didn't become this thing called love I've missed the whole point and got nothing in reality why because love doesn't seek its own love takes no account of the wrong done to it and love never fails and all the sudden you're describing the one that saved me and he's telling me if I don't have that I'm still that you can go to church you can pastor you can lead worship you can go on ten mission trips a year if you don't have love you sit down that's a little intense no no that's not even close to what the Bible says the Bible says you can have all knowledge of all mysteries and faith to move every single mountain well folks that's the spiritual icon to us that's the keynote speaker at the world conference and we're all pushing through to get impartation that's the closest thing to Jesus in the flesh we've ever seen all knowledge of all mysteries not some all it's in the first Corinthians 13 it's in your Bible faith to move every mountain and if you don't have love you've missed the whole point and you've got nothing you give your body to be burned you can give all your goods to the poor and your body to be burned if you don't have love you've got nothing why would you give your whole body to be burned in and y'all you're good to the poor not have love because you're doing it for you for a name for yourself for prestige for somebody to say you're good or awesome or whatever but if it isn't love it can't bring him glory and it's going to amount to nothing you can get familiar with your gift and mrs. Hart you can find your identity through minister you can pursue miracles all you want and they're a part of the kingdom and healing is for real but that is not your goal your goal is transformation and becoming loved and everything that he does flows out of who he is it's not even cool to sooo healings and miracles and not have your attitude and character designed and refined and formed by his spirit through love not even cool it'll get you in trouble and then people see your life in this place and they'll say how she there and gods using him like this and either did you ever see that unfold and then we say well yeah well the flesh is evil the flesh is wicked nobody knows harder man stop he gave you a new heart that's people that get trapped riding they're gifting they find their identity for what they're doing instead of who he is and what they've become in him no sudden all their momentum all their esteem and all their encouragement is through how God is using them instead of how he's transforming them no sudden you can have all knowledge of all mysteries because you're walking in that Grace and anointing and gifting without repentance and now you're drawing your identity through God using you instead of changing you know a sudden you have issues at home and you're saying things you should never say to your spouse but you just delivered the word of the Lord and then we try to talk around that and call that normal and well God uses broken dirty vessels he spoke through a donkey to reach a prophet there's no boasting in men people no man has a thing unless it's been given you wouldn't see a thing unless he lets you see there's no such thing as a super Christian for believers and we've received grace and he gets all the glory you wouldn't have discernment if they didn't let you have it nobody be healed if he wasn't faithful and true through his word nobody be healed just cuz you spoke the right thing they're healed because he did the right thing let's not mix this thing up let's not get high-minded in ministry and wear a badge and think this and that and ride the wave of your ministry please I don't know why I'm so strong on that right now but please don't find your identity through how God's using you it's the biggest trap in your life you find your identity through what he's done and how he sees you through his unfailing love and all the sudden you get so touched by his love and you don't love him first he first loved you and now you love him and why do you obey Him because you're supposed to you obey Him because you love him all the sudden your face is unveiled and now you have intimacy through the person of Holy Spirit with God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ and all of a sudden you're in relationship with the Living God that doesn't sound like issues and attitude and people trouble where he said well I wonder how come they were out on it I've only been saved 23 years I've actually been at the full-time ministry level for 21 of those 23 it's kind of amazing story that way never asked for any of this never asked to be here I didn't call you I never asked to go travel and speak I never asked to be a pastor I was just in love with him they asked me to be a pastor I said I'm just a warehouse worker in love with Jesus they said but God look how he's using you your pastor I said he uses believers I was seeing people healed I was having the time of my life I wasn't even a year old and the Lord I had so many testimonies I went to a spiritual school a supernatural spirit school somebody said you want to go check out that class help you understand some things away here growing a sat in the class and realized at 9 months old in the Lord God had moved through me and every spiritual all nine gifts that are listed I had experienced and one what even a year saved I couldn't even teach on the gifts I couldn't quote the list but the list flowed through my life why it's the excellent way it all works through love I didn't have to know the list and then try to do it I became something in the list became automatic it's really good when you give your heart to what he really paid for and then all the fruit and blessing again people used to say well you ain't supposed to chase after signs and wonders brother and I'm like they I don't chase after him they follow me it's scriptural these signs shall follow I never chased a sign in my lives but they do follow faith and I promise you they follow love because faith works through love Paul said earnestly desire the best gifts and right when he wrote it you could see what Holy Spirit did why he had the pen in hand so earnestly desire the best kiss mm-hmm yet still I'll show you a more excellent way he didn't want people in zeal just going after the gifting he wanted people's hearts formed in Christ and the gifting to flow through laughs so he said let me show you more excellent way than you just designed to be used by God let me show you a more excellent way he talked about love and he talked about you having all this knowledge and all these mysteries unveiled veiled and all this faith to move every single mountain but if you miss love you've missed the point you've got nothing and in the end he says so pursue love and desire spiritual gifts you hear the order do you ever say do you ever meet somebody that knows the word like before you quote a scripture they're finished in it and they know the word like but they're mean the knowledge you puff you up it's love that edifies knowing the word doesn't equate to relationship knowing him relationship you can let all these things take the place of knowing him and yet knowing him is the goal you let your church attendants take the place of knowing him you can let your daily devotion take the place of knowing him you can let your service within the church you're a part of take the place of knowing him and you can let all those things mark you as Christian and Christian is a little christ-like one it's not negative it's sobering it's like whoa yeah why because you want to be sharp you want to be wet you want water coming out of your life you want to make dry things wet right or-or-or see I don't believe this is the case I'm not challenging you on this or do we just want to get by I don't think anybody's set out to just get by man I want to be a cup running over no matter who does what who says what he's already spoken listen I've seen this in 23 years of Christianity so much I've seen as I'm a pastor guy so I've counseled enough to who how many pastors the leaders do I have here how many people that have ever counseled or poured into somebody's life correct me if I'm wrong 99% of counseling 90 high 90% of counseling it's people struggling usually with people things working through stuff involving others leaders am i exaggerating or am i on I've got a lot of good head shakes okay now I'm not being smart just stay with me hang in there don't run out on me or you're it's a dead giveaway stay with me so leave her here exposed we're in here too deep now you can't run out it'll be a giveaway if people are constantly having trouble with people it's an indictment against us that we really don't understand why he came and why he's in us individually we think it's normal to have fallouts heaven doesn't even understand like Paul was saying when you have schisms and these things among you it means you living carnal you're in the flesh how can I deny myself for his namesake in your sake and and take issue with you and Harbor things and let you decide how I'm doing and Who I am be real with me how can I deny myself and have all these rights that you can violate how can I seek you first the kingdom of God have all these hang-ups in the natural it's important to talk this way because I'm not talking to a room of hypocrites you're not here because you're a hypocrite you're here mainly because we see him in some level we love him in some way and we want to know him more we're here for all the right reasons I am NOT talking to a room of hypocrites I'm talking to his kids so there's no correction in this there's cheering on and encouragement there's there's no spanking here this is like a sobering yay talk like come on that's it all are getting kid understanding and let's not let the little foxes creep in and keep eating off the precious fruit that wants to hang on the vine of our lives I don't want to sing in tongues and interpret it and and then have issues with my spouse and animosity in my relationships because in time you'll just lean your spiritual identity on singing in tongues and interpretation and you'll lose your conviction on your character and your expression see you're the light of the world it's why I'm so passionate hee hee hee show me in the word I see this thing you are the light of the world you are you are the light of the world so if you have a faith in you a belief in you something in you whether it's God or not a faith can be on any side you have a belief in you that quenches the light that's deception you are the light of the world let your light so so if something keeps the light from shining that's deception you're supposed to be lit up your sign and nobody lights a lamp and puts a bushel over it wonderful all understanding wrong believing is the bushel windows taking account of a suffered wrong is the bushel no sudden you're going to work but you have no influence because you're hurt over here now you have a 24/7 pretty much life to live you got a 40-hour job maybe using mind sixty okay great twenty more hours of influence hello see your life's not your own yeah but you don't work with a boss I work with if God saw you that way you'd have no hope see God doesn't see what you're seeing reckless love God doesn't see what you're seeing God sees potential and purpose and value and destiny God hears Jesus father forgive them they know not what they do he's the only thing he knows I think he does it on purpose and then you find a way to justify your attitude but your attitude is not Jesus so why do you need a reason to not be like him when you sing you follow him are you all are you sure you're okay see it's too late to get up now if you get up now you're done we're more apt to pray for a new job because we're frustrated that the one we work and don't like the people then become loved and see him through his eyes so then when you get the new job you have the same problems there because you're I didn't change and you take the problem with you wrong view next thing you know you're self-righteous everybody's a mess and you wish they'd all change you know why you're all like oh I'm gonna you know as long as he keeps me miked up we're bringing it when he's had enough and they shut me off I'll be done but come on we want to be effective or do we want to just do church what do we want to be church I don't think any pastor team any ministers are just just sincerely openly knowingly just trying to pull off a better service and just do Church in the moment I think most pastors sincerely want to empower people in and mold and shape and etch and sharpen and stern and courage for loving good works and if that's not what we're doing we got a real value a water we're here for because if you're just here for a good time and then you're going to leave here well that's a charade that's such that's this if you're just going to come here to meet the Lord and you just go later and live your life come on we all know when I say that without going into detail that's just that's just not the Lord in fact the reason we gather is to stir one another in love and good work so that when we leave we look a little more like him than when we came so if all you come for is what he might do for you you're going to start letting life speak louder than truth and that's a problem because truths what makes you free then all sudden you're only doing as good as it's going and instead of as good as he is inside of you and why he's in you to shine I promise you and if you let discussable teach you that you can wake up every day no and nobody owes you a thing why because you're completing him secure in him now you have purpose in him your life is settled in him you're fulfilled in him he's given you the kingdom it's his good pleasure yeah come on and all sudden you wake up with purpose not need no sudden nobody owes you a thing Oh wouldn't that be amazing to live just one day believe in that and it's so freeing living one day you'll live too and after about a week you'll be convinced it's possible and all of a sudden that's just - you've become no sudden you wake up every day and you understand why God sent his son you sent his son to pay the price to put his life back inside of me so I can shine and walk in the light as he's in the light so I have intimacy and fellowship with God and manifest God through my life and walk in the light and let my light so shine before men oh my goodness Jesus didn't die on the cross to send me to heaven he wanted heaven back into me so I could shine so the likeness is image of God could be revealed again through his people like it was in the beginning the words called Redemption it means brought back bought back to original value what God created me to be he paid to restore that life got lost through sin Jesus took care of the sin Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world brings me back to original value in the beginning he says as he is so are we in this world as the father sent me so I send you if you believe in me the things I do you'll do also predestined to be conformed to the image of a son let's first John that's Romans that's Matthew it's all there yay I'm not gonna sell cheap I'm not for sale he said you're not your own you've been bought with a price my attitudes matter my life to him is worth paying a really high price for he spent the blood of his son he had to become a man to fulfill what man failed fulfilled the law to fulfill righteousness for all men he didn't come to remove it he came to fulfill it he fulfilled it now a man's blood is on the mercy seat in heaven not made with hands speaking better things over my life and now through him in his blood I have access to the Father through the son the salvation of the Lord oh you think I believe that and I'm gonna be stuck with people issues today well vation this said that that really heard the only reason it hurt is because you don't know who you are it's not because what they said was wrong it's you don't know who you are I'm not saying they should have said what they said but they don't know who they are either and you're missing that so you're letting what they said matter more than seeing the truth forgive them father they know not look if people knew who they were they wouldn't say what they're saying he said but you don't know what I had to go through growing up stop stop stop I'm sorry but we all have those stories and I'm sorry and some are way worse than others and I'm sorry it's just sin trying to wipe us all out and get our hearts are angry and mad when you finally hear the truth you're talking around it why do we all need to exchange our horror stories and then sing it's all about heaven well brother you need to be more sensitive because you don't know what it was like when I was growing well you don't know what it was like when I was growing up why should we go through the room and see who's been through the moe tell be real with me what's the matter if I was touch strong around age four what's the matter if my dad was alcoholic he never said he loved me what what does doesn't that's the same so many people have the same story and some is worse than something quite as bad what's any of that have to do with anything now that he's come cuz you're I just can't receive the love of God because I didn't have a loving father how many of us didn't that is not a prerequisite to believe in God that you had a loving father why are you trying to find a father through your natural father you find the father through the son don't even let it make sense don't even let a preacher tell you it makes sense I do not need to compare the two nothing about my alcoholic dad just because I call him father has anything to do with Heavenly Father jesus said in matthew 23:9 called no man on earth your father what's he saying he's not saying don't send him a Father's Day card or your sinning what he's saying is to limit identify and regulate your life through human means for Rhetta Terry or biological stuff you have one father you came forth from him and he's in heaven that's your father and he said he said I love you I mean how much louder the kidness get I love you I know who you are from the beginning I haven't changed my mind about you you need about where you are and where you win it's about where I am and who I am and I'm gonna bring you back to me I'm gonna bring you to the Father I know the truth about you you're worthless to me we make it all about our sin I think it's all about Redemption and righteousness and restoration the Bible tells me to reckon myself dead to sin Romans 6 alive under God in Christ Jesus so if I wake up every day and try not to sin I'm probably gonna be sin it's a silly man I'm not taking a test every day I'm grading it at night before bed I'm waking up in the Lord reckon myself dead to what I used to be and alive to what he paid for come on if I live in sonship and believe I'm a son guess what my life starts looking like sonship if I put on the robe of righteousness guess what that produces holiness without me trying to be holy all of a sudden that ain't works it's His grace on a sudden he gets all the glory and I'm humbled and loving more yeah I think we got a thing going on right now yeah you think I believe this I'm gonna have people issues today not a chance to Maureen a good day either whoever read the scripture Jesus just sitting on the Mount of Olives in the morning early did you ever see it in your Bible or he's just bummed out little sad you ain't never read that Jack or Jesus was just sitting bummed out and looking up and Peter comes and wraps his arm around Lord what's the matter well Peter you know I just same feeling it today but I mean it's the Lord he gives me all these perceptions and discernments like the people really aren't for me you know they only want is what I can do for him you know I fed him the other day the only reason they traveled that far to come and find me is because they wanted another meal they didn't want to hear what I had to say remember come purnam all people all them healings and yeah oh I know it was awesome but really it didn't change anything like they didn't change they don't want me anymore they don't see the father trying to figure out what demons doing it like I'm just bombs Manny they've been longing me I've had a lot on my plate I mean I just and then when they're not for me and they're actually against me it just I don't know I'm just not feeling it Peter I don't think I'm going out today I think I'm just gonna hang back and just chill yeah hey John hey John yeah good morning no you're not laying on me today I'm laying on you you ain't never read that chapter where Jesus got analytical and got caught up feeling sorry for himself you ain't never read that chapter you ain't never read where he was heading up to Golgotha and halfway through just dawned on him duh what am i doing they could care less about me god I ain't doing this I ain't finishing look what they've done to me enough is enough God if they didn't change for now they ain't gonna change Barabbas are you kidding me he kills the man I raised the dead he's gone sons conspiracy I'm trying to make peace here these people are idiots I'm not dying she never read that chapter either well why couldn't he do that why can't those chapters be in your Bible you say because he's Jesus cuz he's love don't make him a special man without seeing why special he didn't do it cuz he's Jesus he did it cuz he's loved here's what love does love comes or it didn't even have to come right where God sitting is where love is it sees you you friend I'm talking to you love sees you for what you're here for no matter what you understand about that love understands that and on your darkest day love doesn't change its mind about your destiny purpose and value because love never fails and God knows why he put people on the earth to be found in his image and his likeness to live by the spirit not fulfill the lust of the flesh are these all scriptures got it pretty tied in huh I've read the book over and over and over and I've never seen anything but what I'm preaching he did not I too bless you he died to transform you the transformation is the blessing because when you get free from living for you you understand what free really is because you were never made to live for yourself you were always made to live for His image so jesus said in matthew 16 if anyone that's a good invite anyone if anyone come after me let him first deny why you were never made for you you were made for his image in his glory so we got to get rid of the problem and it's not your neighbor or your spouse the problem is you because you wouldn't hurt because of your spouse if you understood that you'd hurt for your spouse no matter what the offense because the worse the offense the more you'd hurt for them because it means how lost they are and when you understand eternal things you'll think that way and you'll be done thinking for yourself and living for the moment you'll live for his great name and you won't let what one person's doing or not doing decide who you are unless their name is Jesus be honest pastors and leaders how many of us that we've counseled have been tricked into letting our disposition be decided by the actions of another at what point is Jesus actually Lord and does his actions govern our life why would I let what somebody doesn't see decide what I do see if he's the light of the world well brother you don't know what I'm going through see you're not even listening you're still caught up with your thing what about what he went through are you even considering what he went through to give you a different perspective he said in the world you'll have tribulation but in me you have peace so be of good cheer I've overcome the world well if you've overcome the world why do I have tribulation he's not talking about your circumstances he's talking about a new and living way he's talk about changing your I he has overcome the world because he brought the truth to the earth and the truth is what makes you free and when you get better really the biggest problem in your life you live in for you you finally go free you know why people think life's a grind you know why people call life or this or that I believe a blank life so this life so that life's a grind I said you know why they feel that way because they're living life outside of why they're here and there's no grace on their life because God's not empowering something that he didn't life's a gift and you get this little window one little window here today gone tomorrow one little window called life my wife just turned 61 yesterday I was hugging her late at night I picked up the airport at almost 12:00 at night we got home it was 2:30 in the morning and I was go ready to go to bed I said well I'm going to bed she's more of a night our III go to bed before midnight and I'm up by 5 this was 2:30 so I'm already already almost ready to get up so I said I got to go to bed cuz no matter when I go to bed I get up really early so I said I'm going to bed she so I'm gonna sit up a little go through some things I said okay so I was just holding her I just hit me I said you're 61 I wasn't being mean or anything I was just like we've been married 37 years it wasn't long ago I was holding you girl and you were 24 you're 61 and it was just hitting me she's 61 and I'm like it's a wisp in a vapor man you can't even you don't even know you remember and you have memories you guys reminiscing today and all the fun in the wild stuff and we all got that in her lives but man it was yesterday it's a gift it's a gift you get this one little window called life to live for his glory and bring glory to his name for eternity or get caught up in self-centered things and have issues and reasons and justifications to live in the flesh do you think you're going to stand before God on that day and say well Lord answer my prayer why'd you let him do that to me and if it wasn't for my spell so you think that's gonna fly do you think you're even gonna be able to think that in the light of truth well if it ain't gonna work then don't let it work now don't buy time you don't have you live and redeem the time because the days are evil and don't you get caught up in the evil redeem the time don't you let the evil thing be one reason for not redeeming the time that's what carry your cross means carry your cross means don't ever let sin against you give the right to produce sin in you don't you ever repay evil for evil you overcome evil with good don't you throw a log on the fire you've been praying to go out it's called carry your cross you know what's before carry your cross deny yourself you'll never carry your cross if you're not denied you know what's after carry your cross follow him if you're not denied and carrying your cross you're not following him you're singing to him and you're praying to him but you're not following him and I can't find one scripture that says sing to me and pray to me when you're overwhelmed it says follow me the command isn't the sing to him and pray to him when you're in trouble the command is to follow me and John 20 says and as the father sent me he's not talking about miracles in power for God so as the father sent me so I send you and if you forgive men's sins they'll see the way to me and see forgiveness if you love them the way I've loved you that's what he's saying if you love them the way I've just loved you coz how he loved them in John 20 he come back from the dead and they're assembled for fear of the Jews they all said they died for him and they all ran for their lives not one did one thing right and we'd all done the same because they had the fear death lording over them so he crushed death hell and the grave rose from the dead walked in the room made peace through the the blood with the father came and said peace to you I he made peace through his blood we had now have peace with the Father through Jesus Christ right he said peace to you Lily did you imagine he's dead he walks in the room peace to you they touch his hands aside it says they were glad he says peace to you the second time why because now they're conscious that they all ran away and they all didn't do what they said they do he said I'd be struck and you'll scatter and they all murmured behind the back of Jesus right will die for him we're in this for keeps man yeah right everybody says one man ran through the trees naked he tried so hard to get away they had a hold of his clothes he ran right out of his clothes now you ain't trying to not run if you run out of your clothes I'm the brightest man that ever lived but if you run out of your clothes you are trying to get away guilty as charged right there were you running naked through them olive trees you skew-t of running for your life Jesus come walking in the room when he rose from the dead in John 20 and he revealed himself to Mary and she thought he was the garden and crying thought somebody stole the body of the Lord remember she said if you if you've taken him show me where you've taken him and I'll go get him and he said Mary and her eyes were open she said rabboni can you imagine that moment oh it's a real lady this is just a Bible story this is a lady that loved him was delivered by him that was there and never ran away and wasn't ashamed and he's dead and she's still there she doesn't know he's alive he says Mary rabboni he said go tell my brother in he didn't say go tell my backstabbin to faith know for good for nothing that they didn't do one thing they said they do and I'm mad at them and they'd eat some more rehab and discipleship in fact I'm not even sure I heard God's voice when I called their names come on come on we all laughing because we've all been hurt by stuff way less than that you put a pastor in Jesus's shoes on the night of the betrayal he can't even get up and past her again if he doesn't understand what we're preaching he's taking the people personal not the gospel also you can't trust nobody you can't nobody fool you people stab you in the back and all of a sudden you're defending your own life and you're gonna be overcome yeah jesus said go tell my brother in its covenant term it's family to him you know what he was saying he was telling Mary you go let them boys know I haven't changed my mind about him one day they ain't done nothin right but I see what they're called for and created for and now my Bloods on the mercy seat we're gonna send Holy Spirit in a minute empower them to be a witness this thing is on a roll I got the right group of boys they're my brother you go tell him I'm going to my father and your father I looked up the word father there it means come forth from I'm going to the one I came forth from I'm going to the one you came forth from that's why we're brother I'm going to my god and your God the word God there means source of life that means we came forth from the source of life yeah and then what he do and then he then he said as the father sent me the guys that still haven't done one thing right they haven't done one thing right to this moment when he walked in the room they were assembled for fear they weren't interceding though they weren't in there with leuh fear thinking that what happened to Jesus was about to happen to them and they were scared to death for their lives and Jesus walked right into that fear fest and said peace to you my brother and right in that moment he said as the father sent me why this was the greatest expression of his love to them that was actually manifested in the light of them having conscious awareness of their direct failure and he didn't change a thing and now the goodness of God is leading them to change and it's not that they love him they see he first loves them because in any situation in life you be honest with me people are changed by that scenario before it all went down it says in 1st Corinthians 11 on the night that Jesus was betrayed he took bread and broke it that's impressive because you got to make sure right there on the night you're betrayed you're not crying calling a friend telling them all about the betrayal and then asking for prayer and spiritualizing it in God bringing comfort because if you're really listening God he's gonna say why are you feeling so betrayed this isn't about you it's about my great name they did what to you that's not right you must be sort o let's just pray God would you come in peace because and we're missing the whole point now we're praying for a surface feeling a feeling better because such a right to be broken and we call it ministry all the time and we're allowing people to stay the same so ministers travel this is some of you had very trying weeks some of you were disrespected on your job even though you did your best some of you have to live with spouses that just don't want a thing to do with Jesus and after a while things take its toll and beat you down another day and right now God he's gonna build it up and restore you come if your hearts been broken he's come if you've been hurt people are running oh yeah we think it's a move of God they're crying because they're so aware of how hurt they are I'm saying why aren't we teaching people why they don't have to be broken instead of always acting like we're fixing things come on if you don't teach someone they don't have to be broken they're always going to believe they have to be broken and you'll have to do this the rest your life some call it ministry that's ministry security for sure but you ain't changing nothing hello he heals the brokenhearted when's the brokenhearted healed when they get a new perspective they're not healed when people stop doing wrong they're healed when they're I changes and when they wake up in the morning and know that they're awake for one reason one more day to be more like him that nobody owes me a thing I'm a peacemaker blessed are the peacemakers for they are the sons of God yeah he came and said you say love your neighbor and hate your enemy but I say love your enemy what'd he say you say but I say he did it six times in Matthew 5 what's he saying you ain't saying what I'm saying six times you say but I say you what's he saying you grew up with a language I'm not speaking you were homeschooled in the wrong home you were trained by the wisdom of the world the way that seemeth right to a man has become your wisdom but I say unto you that no man be your teacher right you have and he's the Christ so if you didn't learn it from him you didn't learn it at all so if he ain't saying it we didn't learn it you love your enemy pray for those who persecute you give to those who would spiteful use you why would I high in the world would I do that so you may be sons of your father in heaven who causes the rain and the Sun both to fall and shine on the righteous and the unrighteous for what credit is it to you if you love those who are only loving you the tax collectors do as much it's all Scripture love your enemy doesn't say call a prayer meeting and pray that God cut them down read all the David's Psalms gouge out their eyes cut off their legs break their ankles cause [Laughter] your war isn't flesh and blood your war is you living for you you thinking for you you feeling sorry for you that's your biggest battle you thinking for you all in his name it's a muddy picture let me say something really plain and straight with a nice gentle smile not being me if you're a Christian for you and your sake you're in big trouble that's why it's tough being a Christian that's why your life is like this it's not because God is unfaithful it's not because God has an answered prayer it's not cuz you opened the door and the devil and women some of those things can be true at times most the time it's a lack of understanding we're destroyed for the lack of knowledge if you get the knowledge you can stop destruction if you're a Christian for your sake it's going to be very difficult to live Christianity because that's not why you're a Christian if you're Christian for his name's sake this thing is on if you're a Christian for the sake of others it it's real easy but if somebody owes you something there's going to be a debt somewhere along the way and now you want to be forgiven of everything you've ever done and you can't forgive he calls out an evil and wicked servant who's bound and tormented living in darkness come on I've been a Christian for 23 years I've seen way too much hurt way too much offense and way too many sad stories among us and we're not hypocrites we've been deceived and we haven't heard the whole truth of this thing you are not a Christian for blessing you're a Christian to carry the honor of his life his ways his nature his love and if we fail to become loved we missed the whole point of why he came the finished work of Christ is not paid in full when a man prays a prayer to go to heaven and gets his name written in a book called life that's the very beginning of this thing the cross is paid in full when his nature's transformed and restored back to love as first Timothy 1:5 says the goal of our instruction the purpose of the commandment is love and if you have not loved you got nothing first John 2 if he love 3 if he loved us this way ought we not love one another first John 2 if a man loves and is perfected and loved his brother has no cause for stumbling because of him our offense be in him like in other words he has no cause to be offended because of his brother first John four talks about God being loved being loved being loved oh seven beloved let us love one another why because God is love and everyone who everyone who loveth who everyone who loveth is born of God and knoweth God watch he who loveth not just doesn't know God doesn't say you don't go to church doesn't say you don't see your need for a savior doesn't say you weren't sincere about the confession of your sins didn't say you don't feed the poor it doesn't say you don't go on a mission trip but it does say this if you don't love because you don't know him and the goal of our instruction is and if I don't love it's because I don't know him like I could which means I can't know him and not be more like him because he's influential whoa and this is eternal life that you might know him so if I don't love there's one reason not to 1 not 2 1 I don't know him like I could but if I get to know him more who he is will start to form in my life and I'll be getting to love more and the evidence of me knowing God is my love not my confession so my love is the barometer of my relationship with him so there's no way I can really have this vitally have this I'm not talking have it here I'm not talking about a knowledge of forgiveness salvation in the sense of heaven versus hell I'm talking about having this there's no way scripturally I can have this and not have this because the whole reason for this is this so there's no one on an island by themself well I don't need people I just got the Lord I don't care what people think I got Jesus he loves me know you've long cared about what people think and now you're hiding behind a confession that isn't real to your life so he says if you don't love it's because you don't know God for god is love and then talks about how he loved us and if you love this this we not love one another and it says he's loved like two more times and then down in verse 17 it says this is how we know love is perfected love is perfected in this people that we have boldness in that day when he comes the day of judgement done the Bible say it's the day of darkness and gloom fear and dread and terror the terror the coming of the Lord is a day of Terror done your Bible say that that people will cry out for the rocks and trees to consume them least they have to face the glory of who he is it's a day of darkness and terror and the Bible says you have boldness in that day why because as he is his love he is love he is love he's as he is so are we here right now in this life I'm not a Christian to go to church I am her I'm not gonna get so good at doing Church and fail to be her where the lights of the world let your light so shine anything that quenches the light is deception arise shine Church your light has come and the glory of the lord has risen upon you darkness will cover the earth deep darkness the people but the light it's on you yeah I think I've gotta live the gospel I'm cheering you on to live it with me you gotta guard your own heart not somebody else is yours cuz out of your heart flows the issues of life you want to clean why you want a clean motive you want to pure why because the pure in heart shower you can't do things cuz you're hurt you can't do things to find significance you can't do things for attention you do things cuz you're fulfilled and complete in him and your motive is clean and nobody owes you a thing there ain't no payback and there ain't no way to fail me or let me down cuz I didn't start with you oh and me nothin it's scriptural it's Romans twelve and thirteen you go no man anything but to love and nobody owes you anything in those scriptures ain't it amazing he tells me to never put my trust in flesh but he calls me to live trustworthy but yet I'm not to put my trust in you but here to live trustworthy why so I never let who you are and where you're at and where you're not decide who I am cuz he already settled that so I'd never get to know pastor Tim and then find something out of things don't the way I thought and then I say well you know I mean yeah but I just well you don't know my situation and I mean the more I get to know some people and stuff and they're just I'm a hard a little and yeah and all sudden I'm referring to something without even talking about it but I'm letting something matter more than what matters most and justifying my life less than Christ whoever whoever finally just gave in and you said you know I run in no more Lord you've been tracking me down you come running crying to God and God just show up right in front of you down there sob and you're so sincere huh you come in now huh I wish you to come six months ago when you had the best chance of your life you had the clearest vision six months ago you were convicted like never know yeah well it would have been nice of you to come six months ago you caused a lot of Hell in pain in the last six months that you could have avoided you hurt a lot of people that didn't have to be hurt I mean I don't even know if I gave you such a clear conviction six months ago and now you want to wait six months and come on in to me I mean I know I know all things but how do I know you don't just have your back against the wall and you just come to me cuz you just back against the wall and I mean I don't even know if I can trust you now anyway you couldn't come then you just come now you just might be selfish you might be crying for yourself those tears might be self-centered look I don't even know where we stand anymore I'm gonna have a meeting with the 24 elders I'll call you tomorrow you know I use those illustrations why we laugh so hard because we know we've all lived there but when you put that in the mouth of God it sounds foolish and crazy and like no way right so if he made us for his image and as he is so are we in this world it should be foolish and crazy in our mouth too come on if it don't fit in his mouth why is it OK in ours if we represent him and we're his body let's make sure we don't let the wisdom of the world be our wisdom let's make sure that the spirit of this age and the wisdom of the world what we live by he gave us a new life through Jesus Christ Christ Jesus is the wisdom of God for us and if you can't find it in him don't you ever want to find it in you and if you see it and you don't get condemned run from it and run to him and say this is not what I'm here for and I'm not gonna be for sale because I've been bought with a price and I'm not my own come on it's the freest you'll ever be when you learn what it means to deny yourself it's the freest you'll ever be when you wake up in the morning and nobody owes you a thing you already got it made you're in a place of amazing humble power because nobody can sell you cheap because you ain't for sale nobody can sneak up on you catch you trip you by surprise nobody can break your heart and hurt your feelings why you've settled in prayer your life's not your own you're alive for one reason to shine and look like Jesus in the moment nobody owes me a thing I said that a thousand times in my life over father I thank you nobody owes me a thing so nobody can ever break my heart I have no unspoken expectations on anyone there ain't a chip on my shoulder there ain't a line you can cross my life is not my own thanks for empower me to walk in love lets sure beats no trespassing signs and people knocking them over you see how relaxed I am right now still preaching the truth Oh see see that's pretty sharp sword tonight I did it with a smile they nobody felt hurt by what I said it's challenged and courage stirred I didn't come to tell you what you're not I came to tell you who you are I didn't fly all the way down here to correct you I flew down here to cheer you on say he paid for this cuz this is who we are in him as the father sent me so I send you you know what he did right after he said that in John 20 he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit why do you breathe on him why didn't he just say he holds all things together by the word of his power why didn't you just say be filled with Holy Spirit why do you breathe on because he's the redemption of man he brings men back to the how did God make man in the garden what got lost through sin everything in that breath what his blood just take care of sin time to breathe again he went right back to Genesis 1 let us make man in our image in her own likeness he made a male and female watch as the father sent me so I send you does that sound the same John 20 is Genesis 1 through the blood he takes them back to the beginning priests life back into man as if sin never happened the tree of the knowledge of good and evil still there and the voice is still whispering but we have a decree follow me all the sudden the blood of Jesus is speaking better things and the law of the spirit of life in Christ has made me free from the law of sin and death sin shall have no dominion over me so my focus ain't on sin my focus is on him I didn't wake up for you to love me today yay I didn't even wake up for you to like me but I ain't picking no fight I woke up to be more like him that takes the power out of your hand to decide who I am and he gives me the power to see you through him so now we're finally ready to just love all of a sudden I got the best view of you I've ever had in my life cuz I didn't wake up for you to owe me a thing I woke up to love you all of a sudden I see your value through the gospel the way he loved me is way you love your neighbor as yourself I'm receiving this I see you the same love your neighbor as yourself some of us aren't ready for that some of your neighbors are saying wait get a revelation first you're gonna love God with all your heart your soul your strength and love your neighbor yourself what about the people that don't like themselves what about the people that are nitpicky and fault-finding self-condemned that's what they're seeing then all the time they're just seeing what's wrong in somebody so they're not the only egg in the basket but when you see yourself through him and you start to get the best look at you you've ever had you get the best look at people you've ever had well sudden you look in the mirror and you see how he sees you and it ain't vanity and ain't the world's way and has nothing to do with am sommore beautiful all of a sudden you look through those eyes and you see everywhere you look the same thing you just saw in the mirror people with the blood of the Son of God forgive them father they know not what they do if we miss love mr. Kevin we missed the whole reason why he came and we did a lot of good church and failed to become her in the process the biggest trap of a pastor today is just trying to do better church instead empowering people to live when they leave the service the biggest trap of any local pastor today's Christian world because people are Church shopping and they're trying to stay current and provide a better product and put all the emphasis on a service instead of empowerment the biggest trap to every local pastor is not marrying coming and going it's a marriage you come to be empowered to go if you just come to find connectivity if you just come to find community all those things are important but they're not the priority all of a sudden that's just your safe haven and you hide here for 25 years and your hearts super-hard to anybody outside your little box and all the sudden we've done a detriment to why he came and we've been bound and religion and didn't even realize it come on it's good somebody come everyone so our fresh face and not somebody you're familiar with and just go it didn't feel like that tonight did it it kind of felt like that to me I just got afraid to just started coming but you're good you know what the best thing is of all this isn't out of our reach we can live this by grace you just got to give yourself to it it's up to you every day to just count yourself dead wonder if you just learned one thing this weekend that you take with you that every day you wake up because of the gospel nobody owes you a thing wonder if you bring that simplicity right there into your marriage nobody owes me a thing you know what my wedding vow was to my wife you owe me nothing in this marriage but to receive the love of God from me and as long as I draw breath from this earth I will serve you in his unfailing love so when she went through eight years of identity crisis believe in a lie as a pastor's wife and after a while wouldn't even come to church and was living like a shell and didn't even want to live because the lie and I couldn't even reach her and she'd look at me blank and say we just supposed to tell me that cuz it's the right answer but it doesn't mean it's true and you feel like you have no ability to reach or even though you love her you got to make sure that you don't let where she's not decide where you are you can't be harsh with her you can't try to snap her out and say when you're putting pressure on me you got to stop being selfish I got a lot on my plate - I got a calling I've got people and here you are and just think how I feel and coming to church without you and there's pressure and people are asking them where why don't you why I steer as my wife is to my life and the reason she's so dearest cuz I love her with my life she has no power to decide my life she's not Jesus she's my wife my wife can't decide how I'm doing Jesus already took care of that it's one of the reasons we're not a statistic today because I understood that very well there's no condemnation in what I just said just keep learning and growing and if you didn't pass a test somewhere along the line make sure you get that message now and don't let life decide who you are and how you are let the giver of it already settle it and you be sincere when you wake up in the morning your wife doesn't owe you a thing because you woke up to be more like him period that would end our counseling pastors in fact my counseling doesn't last very long oh it doesn't I don't have much time for that I actually asked the spouse you seem like you're really hurt by that I am are you kidding me don't you be in denial that hurts we all hurt we have emotions God gave us emotions that's what people will tell you when you counsel I'll say honey or sir God didn't give you the emotions you grew up with Adam gave you those and they're all hinged on self-centeredness and I'm not even so caught up with what your spouse did right now I'm wondering why you're reacting this way why you're letting one person decide your whole world and they're not Jesus that's how I counsel it's short and it's effective because you either get mad at me and that rarely happens I've had a few people get mad but they I've never had anybody stay mad that I know of they break and come back and repent because the Spirit of God convicts them in time but most of the time they break in cry because they realize they're being self-centered and deceived and they're letting their spouse decide who they are and how they are and they're singing Jesus is Lord at church and they got all these harbored issues and unresolved conflicts and we've been fashioned by the world's way it's time to live his way that should bring peace into your marriage right there so if you elbowed your spouse when I was saying all that I was talking to you and if you understood that you didn't ever elbowed them and if you elbowed them back you're both involved here's what I've learned a long time ago it takes two to tango takes one to pursue peace when my wife was in that struggle watch this is convicting you watch with me she's in the most desperate place of her life she needs Jesus in that place probably more than she's ever needed Jesus right now in reality are you with me it's tight she needs Jesus she needs Jesus guess where he lives inside of me so now's not the time to be a frustrated husband because of facts she needs Jesus and he's in me she doesn't need a pastor to set her straight and do her part and carry her weight and come up under and serve the husband and fit the missing pieces because I ain't got missing pieces you say well the wife makes the man complete yeah she's an avenue for love if I didn't have her it couldn't multiply man I'm preaching good in your house right now come on the man's fulfilled in Christ the man's fulfilled in God in Genesis the man is complete in the Lord you think he's lacking anything you think he made man woman cuz man's lonely and missing something he makes woman because man is chock full of everything God is and there's nowhere to go with this there's no Avenue of expression there's no way to multiply it so that the glory of the Lord could cover the earth so he makes a woman not cuz man's in need cuz he's chock full of love Eve gets deceived and Adam follows her instead of God and it all changes now a flesh of his flesh and bone of a bone is it was the woman you gave me she gave me to eat if you're one that gave me the woman probably will need to tree itself came on the earth and man did you see any took on the nature of God's enemy and every man from that day in Romans 5 says was born into Adam and you must be born again and somehow we turned that into a bless me prayer that takes me to heaven instead of a brand new life restoring me back to what was from the beginning don't you buy into that American thing you buy into the Word of God and give your life to this and don't let a preacher tell you it'll cost you everything all it costs you is what you never were in the first place all he's asking you to give him is what you never were in the first place just give back you yourself and you politics is not the issue on the earth it's not racial conflict it's not Isis the issue on the earth I said every day men wake up and live for themselves even Christians and they're made for God's image that's the problem make sure that's not you make sure you're all can I pray over you guys you get something out of this I just realize how late it was that clock I didn't even see it the whole time I just ignored it the whole time I lost a couple people while going I thought I know it ain't my preaching it's way too good they're not leaving because of my preaching huh it was a joke don't get nervous I felt you get nervous like is that proud no it was flat-out good preaching I knew they weren't leaving because of my preaching but uh see y'all still trying to figure that out is that fried no I walk in truth knowing his truth it was good preaching you just say it I'm gonna pray something over you then we're gonna do something real quick okay are we okay are we too late I'm not blowing anything up you guys are all right you're out enough to stay ain't let me pray you guys want this life right this is what I found in a room this size this room isn't that big there's not a ton of people here but I'll tell you what if we get this message it'll make a difference here's I do know this I know this jack we can fill every seat in every church all across the nation tomorrow or Sunday two days from now because that's the day most people me we fill every seat in every church all across the nation and it probably won't change the thing but if we become loved it has to if we become loved it has to change something I'm so convinced of this I flew down here for this I believe if half of you get half of what I said tonight it'll make a difference just if half of you get half of what I said it's got to start somewhere make a difference if this if this just creates a new attitude in you a new perspective a new motive in you to where you actually start living consistent for months on end so where your heart actually believes this and there's points of no return in your life and now you're just living this because you see it Wow and then the people around you see the consistency and all of a sudden you don't just go to church you're living something they haven't seen all of a sudden they find out you've just been through this but they didn't know you've been through this they found out you were but they didn't know cuz you didn't show it all sudden they wonder how could you be okay and now you have answers because you're living in a truth no sudden they're impressed not with your church attendance but with your life left let your light so shine before men so they see your life and give glory to God that's in your Bible here's what I've learned about a room this size there's always a whole handful of people that don't want to become loved when it comes right down to it they just don't want to they're holding onto the rights they've received their sin through Adam the rights they were born into instead of born again and they they hold onto the right to be hurt the right to be offended the right to have an opinion that doesn't produce life just the right to have a right can be bad enough how do you deny yourself and have so many rights that don't look like him come on is serious see I don't know that we've preached the gospel right I think we've tried to get names in a book called life I don't think we've purposed to put his life inside of those names I think positionally we've done that well Spirit of God comes in sealed for the day of redemption it sounds good it's scriptural but if they can't see him in your life why do they want what you say we say the Christianity is the great confession wonder if it's the great expression one of its lives transformed because of him not words spoken lives lived that can be you that can be every one of us and one day this isn't a ploy this isn't I'm not playing emotional cards truly one day we'll all stand before him and answer for why we handled that and the just shall live by faith you did it that's a clear gospel and head see I did for each good dinner thank you she said you did she meant it - I'm sticking by her we're gonna pray can I pray over you guys what'd you do with this Gospels between you Jesus and your conscience you're not condemned by this message hopefully inspired by this message you're not judged by it hopefully convicted by it it's not about failing it's not about leaving here and messing up it's about becoming you never run from him you always run to him you never live naked and ashamed that's when you know you're on the wrong side you always run to Liam so if you heard this message and you catch yourself midweek tomorrow mid-day tonight and go ah man Wow father you're convicting me here man I wouldn't even saw this if it wasn't yeah you're teaching me Wow God that is so not who you created me to be Wow I call that dead in my life thank you for growing me and mature me make me wiser and sharper I love what you're doing in my life you say you would pray like that if you caught yourself in weakness what would you do cry for three days and lose your identity you run to him not from him you keep the veil lifted stay joined him that's why father I thank you for this night I thank you for every person in this house I just thank you for a grace that would abound to walk out these words I thank you for a grace that would need a willingness tonight that you stir the heart to say yes that a grace that would meet the willingness to do what you paid for in our lives and father I believe it with all my heart we could fill every church every church and it doesn't mean there's a revival we can fill every church it doesn't mean the world will change but man if we become loved something has to shift so father I asked for the grace to stay fixed and focused on why you really sent your son while you're in us and why we're here and I thank you for that revelation staying fresh and alive in us in Jesus name right now I pray for marriages Lord I'll tell you if you're hearing you're married and your spouse is sitting right with you and you say a man I haven't pursued this I haven't man I've fuelled a fire I've wished well now I've been on both ends of this thing I want a man I listen to this guy I want to live this way you want to just find the hand of your spouse and squeeze a little and don't pull your hand away spouse don't don't please don't let them take your hand and if you take their hand here's what you're saying you're saying you know honey I'm hearing this man and I'm not hearing it for you I'm hearing it for me I want you to know I'm sorry and I want to live this way and I want to pursue this would you give me the honor of loving you this way I'll tell you if you're really hearing me spouse and they took your hand you ought to just squeeze their hand back because what you're saying is you know what I'm in nothing matters before this moment now that we got this revelation let's go for it I'm in it with you honey I feel the same way we're calling this thing even and let's go after him father I pray for restoration in every home I pray that you rekindle hearts I pray that you wash away animosity unresolved conflicts and words that should have never been spoken I pray that you move in a supernatural way and restore the homes that are represented here god I thank you for it yeah I thank you for it I'm telling you that's powerful for you'll respond God meets you right where you're willing His grace is sufficient Jesus name Amen amen yeah 9:30 how bad are we are we good because I want I won't pray for the sick I just didn't know if we have time to do what I want to do we good come on I need more than five zealots okay good good so that's pray for the sick and let's just do it the way that the Lord instructed me a long time ago I mean we could do other things and God can still move but this is all about empowerment and you guys aren't strangers to praying for the sick I spent the afternoon with your pastor so you guys aren't strangers to the move of the Spirit you're not strangers but there's visitors there's guests here there's people we don't even know we're gonna keep this thing clean it's gonna be empowering it's gonna be awesome it'll be fun you know why it's gonna be fun cuz of who he is and you know why I'm not under pressure cuz he's the Lord so I can't do anything but believe on him right so she's really funny get that get that in your heart big okay the number one reason Christians don't pray for people that are people that are Christians especially if you're not in ministry the number one reason Christians don't pray for people is because they're afraid nothing will happen so because they're afraid nothing will happen they don't pray for people so guess what they always have the very thing they're afraid of ain't that something so if we love not our own lives unto death and we've denied ourselves and picked up our cross I guess it's not about how we feel or how we're gonna look it's about what we sincerely believe in what we're pursuing right so we got to learn some things faith isn't a point-in-time faith isn't maybe he will maybe he won't faith is the position of your heart to believe we accomplished through his cross and what he paid for through his son so you got settled in your heart without fighting over this thing for the rest of time go settle in us in our heart that God wills to heal God wants to heal we're growing in the truth we're getting rid of fear we're getting rid of all the fleshy things that have hindered a lot of us sentiments emotions striving works who's ever prayed for the sick in the room now be honest with me I need class participation put your hands down who when you prayed for the sick ever caught yourself trying to pray right hard powerful and get self-conscious right when you're ready to pray for the sick uh-huh I've caught myself in that place I'm like Fatah what am i doing because somehow we still think it's what we do instead of what he did so when there's a revelation be healed in Jesus name's probably plenty but be honest haven't we tried to pray powerful haven't we tried to say the right things haven't we even said in the name of Jesus haven't we changed the colours of our flags and the size of our circles with our ribbons so we're not gonna do any of that tonight there's two there's two things we'll do this first one really really quick so I don't lose everybody because it's getting late a lot of times when you pray for the sick they'll know if they were healed because of their condition there's a lot of times people won't know right now other than just simple faith in their heart or they say oh I feel heat in my body or I just know God touched me you know that's awesome when faith says yay but some people they have conditions that come and go they need a test they have something internal you might a woman might have had her on annual checkup check or female stuff and they say whoa you got this or that you say really yeah it's right here on the picture so you wouldn't know if you were healed other than they take another picture you might get migraines but you might not get one every 14 days and you just had one four days ago and the pattern is in the next eight to ten days you're probably gonna have one but you don't have one now you see what I'm saying there's a lot of things like that so the first thing we want to do and we're just going to do this real quick but it won't be ineffective it'll be full of heart and Jesus is she just does good things I'm seeing so much good things happen when we do things this way and especially when we get class participation he likes that Jesus likes when you get involved it's one thing if I line everybody up and pray and look for my giftings in flow and then somebody says wow I think he's anointed it's another thing if you get involved last week I saw a young man go over and pray for a guy in this little thing we're doing about here now he prayed for a guy who was 31 years injured by a military accident for 31 years that's a Bible story you got 38 years by the pool you got 40 years by the gate you got 18 years about oh and this guy was 31 years military injury none down the side of his leg in 24/7 sciatic pain and an injury up in this area for 31 years this young guy comes over steps out in faith and prays for him I only gave them six seconds to pray why because I knew in six seconds they can't get in trouble or self-conscious in six seconds you can't even get into works if you try because I gave a little illustration of what we're doing for six seconds and then I I watched my watch and I stop everybody from praying at six seconds it's for your sake it's not rude Holy Spirit doesn't mind he wants faith in the room he doesn't want your extra effort these signs follow those who try really hard these find signs follow those who believe what his will through his finished work this guy just prayed simple six seconds for this guy in 31 years of injury completely gone completely not one trace of numbness not one pain completely going 31 years in six seconds he was prayed for hundreds of times in his life why that night simple sometimes the longer it is it's more deep your stereotype it you're trying extra hard the person is praying those they were prayed for a hundred times so they're already under pressure because they're 101 be real with me we don't think about this stuff it gets slowly going to get struggling and all the sudden we're not walking in a revelation so when you keep it really simple and just give six seconds nobody can get in trouble we didn't share the history sometimes natural knowledge can mess you up you don't need every detail of everybody's situation you don't need to know it's terminal sometimes you just need to know Jesus is Lord sometimes when we hear it's terminal we get nervous and we pray harder because we think that's tougher it's the same sacrifice not being facetious same sacrifice I'm just trying to make sense because we are sincere and we try hard and it hurts us when we see people hurting and I get it I've been in it enough man we're learning but it blesses me when a man was pray 400 times and then somebody goes over and prays for six seconds and it changes completely that's exciting to me in the last couple months I can't tell you how many things 20 years 25 years 27 years 15 years Jesus you got a condition in your body if you were healed tonight there's no way you'd be able to tell we just have to be faith because you wouldn't know because it's time or a test or an x-ray something that comes and goes its internal or it's just not happening right now because it's just not that moment I need to see your hands and only your hands first if you have a condition in your body that if you were healed there'd be no way to really check and testify other than simple faith in your heart makes sense why am i splitting it into because I want you to know they're both the same faith just keep your hands up for a sec if somebody's sitting near you with your hand up just grab them and I mean it's easier for your spouse but if you're sitting behind them or in front them just say hey I'm going to take your hand we're gonna pray here in a sec okay just grab their hand just grab their hand real quick you don't even have to ask him anything we're just gonna pray I'm gonna pray with you on this one I'm gonna leave you alone with the Holy Ghost on the next one this one out Freight with you y'all ready okay now here's what we're gonna do the people who raised their hands and have faith to say hey that's me here's what I want you to do I want you to simply believe God loves you or he did never send his son don't ever let what you're going through threaten or challenge or question God's love God's love is settled God's love should be settled we're rooted and grounded in love and faith works through love don't ever question God's love because of circumstance God's love is settled because he sent his son while we were yet sinners period the measuring stick of God loving me as Christ crucified not my well-being or lack thereof are you with me so believe he loves you the people pray and all I want you to do is just pray something very simple and direct like be healed be made whole all sickness leave whatever fits in your heart like that just simple decrees simple declares I'm gonna pray with you right now and this believes that together right now in Jesus name that's it be healed be completely made whole in Jesus name father thank you no more sickness no more symptoms no more reoccurrence amen guys no more returning you be gone and you never come back yep condition you leave infirmity go and never come back just to Clare them and thank God he loves you if you're being prayed for father it's because you love me in Jesus name thank you Father for change all over this room thank you yeah Jesus name okay amen now I know to a skeptical person that seems too simple you asked Jesus if that's simple he had to pay a very serious price to make possible what we're doing tonight it's not simple it cost him it's not simple okay so if the first group was people that didn't know what's the second group people that would know so if you have any condition that you would know and and if you were healed we want to pray for you it doesn't matter how long it's been it doesn't matter how minor you think it is if it's less than wholeness if it's hindering you in any way if it's a pain you feel if it's a medicine you're taking to get rid of a pain you feel whatever it is even if it's arthritis don't just learn to live with stuff you always have to learn to live with the right attitude you never let the condition become your disposition my mother had MS my whole life but she was a Christian woman she's one that made me go to church when I was little but she was smart enough in the Lord to understand she was never an Ms patient before she was a daughter of the king she her goal in life was to shine and she never let MS keep her from shining even though she never saw a healing in her body she shined like I've never seen anybody shine especially in a condition like she had for 15 years she didn't get out of bed she had tubes doing everything for her and you'd walk in the room and she would just smile shine and be sweet and her funeral there were several doctors and several nursing staffs that's unheard of they were there because she was so special and I got to do my mom's funeral and I told him that I knew why they were there and I had all the girls are crying in five minutes they were so easy they would I just had him bawling in minutes and then I said this is why she was the lady she was and I talked about complaining I talked about situations we go through and high priority know and why you're here and not letting anything cross so for that purpose and that's why you saw my mother in the consistent way she lived because she was never an Ms patient in her heart she was always a daughter of God and her highest goal was to shine in the face of it all she never let MS rise above her god-given goal of shining never saw my mother complain about her sickness or disease never saw a complaint about inconvenience she taught me a lot the way she handled what she went through not that we embrace the theology God did it Dobbs using it and God of course he works all things together for good God had nothing to do with her MS let's just get that straight I don't believe he sovereignly ordered it but she a purpose above sickness yeah yeah so who here if you were healed you would know it tonight you have a condition in your body if you were healed you would know it you need prayer you won't prayer don't be afraid to say you need prayer the Bible says there's any among you sick let them ask so you're not cleaning it you're not putting it on yourself when you raise your hand it's okay to say hey I got something going on in my body that I know ain't God and I believe you paid a price to heal and I want somebody to stand with me and pray you're not claiming sickness when you ask for prayer some churches I get to the way they're taught they do you say anybody need prayer who's going through some sickness and nobody moves out of sight looking over at their pastor we ain't claiming this you're not claiming anything what you're saying is say I got something in my body that's contrary to wholeness I believe you paid a price to make me whole and I want somebody to stand with me and agree Monsieur in fact if you can stand up stand up to your feet if you want prayer to not and we'll just locate you keep your hand real high there's a reason I need everybody standing that needs prayer I don't want you sitting if you if you if you if you're in this thing if you got all Fridays stuff if you got if you got pains down in your necks and shoulders I feel like somebody's bound up in their shoulders and you're still sitting you need to stand did I get you is that yeah God she didn't come or what now watch why would I hear that why would I hear that why would I be listening if I didn't think this was real and why would I hear that if God wasn't about to show up and do stuff you think he's just trying to get you on your feet right now cuz I see it I got two girls over there and they just leaped up they got me I was in the service months ago I said I'm still waiting on a lady you didn't stand up yet no my glory it was like he was I had who knows we got plenty of people to pray for who sees we got plenty of people to pray for and yet God's waiting for one more lady in the service sunlight and I said okay I said here's you I said this was you I said this week you were trying to open something in the kitchen and something you've opened your whole life and you couldn't open it and you said in your heart what's coming of me I'm losing my strength something's wrong lady burst out in tears in the center on stood up just burst out in tears I said oh you're gonna be the first to receive your strength she was like she don't forget what they brought her but she was cranking things and open things she she took our chair was listing it's wrong I'm not playing she was like she was going home to her cupboard she was gonna work over some seals baby we all up everybody up okay good I shouldn't have to go fishing you just stand up keep your hand high there's a reason now don't pray for anybody yet but the people sitting I know you didn't ask for this but I'm hiring you and there's no pay involved except for the joy of believing the people sitting I want you to please be my prayer team you can't go wrong you can't fail and if you're uncomfortable I really encourage you to participate cuz you're the one I want on my team because it won't be no self confidence in that so if you're nervous I want you on my team you say well I've never prayed for the sick that's even better so people sitting get up go to somebody one-on-one so we cover everybody when they cover you just go have fun with it have an icebreaker say hey I'm gonna pray with you and I've never done this before as soon as they don't pray yet just claim them just say hey you're mine hey I'm claiming you hey I'm nervous but I'm claiming you as soon as they claim you put your hand down put your hand down if you have somebody waiting to pray for you only have your hand up if nobody got you yet look around and help me people can you get around so they can I have a couple of takers one on one till we cover everybody I got a lady right in the front the one that said I'm preaching really good she's gonna have to get healed for saving that no I'm scared yeah that would be work so in it can I have a young lady or somebody to come and stand with her that's not that's available you comment good you got somebody come she's got Jesus in her too I got this man right here second row he's standing right here do I have anybody that can help me stand with this man and pray I think we got pretty much everybody else covered we still need somebody back there are you who all needs prayer right there just you okay did you are you honey are you praying for him that excites me did we get did you get you covered is there anybody not covered we got everybody okay good now here's what we're gonna do now did you notice I didn't even bring up the worship team who knows that would be cool cuz they're good who knows that they could set atmosphere we are snow notorious for atmosphere but you ain't got atmosphere in Walmart parking lot sometime you got your own nerves to deal with and a person that thinks you're half goofy and you ain't God so my goal tonight is to make this room as dry as I know how Oh it'll be so good for us if we learn to just make the room as dry as we can because the wet is in us you're the one that's wet you might not even known it but here's what Jesus is he's excited that you stood up and he's excited that you went stood with the ones that stood up I promise you this this picture that I'm looking at excites King Jesus he likes this I promise so here's what's going to take three seconds not six take three and ask the person why they stood give them the three-second version don't tell him well when I was and then just three seconds just say I got arthritis pains all through my body or I got a herniated disc or I got this growth that's sticking out of the side of my shoulder whatever three seconds you should know y'all good you're good everybody no okay all your attention when we're done everybody ready we're gonna do this as a family willing to do this together so everybody knows here's why I had you ask Matthew 17 says faith will say to the mountain so if they said I have arthritic pains all in my body or I'm the one that has it in my neck and down through my shoulders you say arthritis you leave pain you go in Jesus name something real simple who knows you can do that in less than six seconds watch mobility be restored no more pain Jesus name who knows you can do that in six seconds and not get into works and actually be sincere and believe I think this simple I wonder if they told you they had a herniated disc in the back back you be completely healed disc you be completely restored not one trace of pain because God loves you in Jesus name who knows you can do that in six seconds and not get into works are you ready aren't you excited now I'm excited because I know he's excited now you watch and see what happens in this room now here's what we're gonna do we're gonna pray for six seconds and when we're done I'm gonna say okay wrap it up and when I say wrap it up you just closed out in the name of Jesus I usually acknowledge God's love for people because I think that's something we need to receive more believe he loves us so I'll pray something like this arthritis you leave pain you go further thank you for your great love in Jesus name behold boom you're done I'll say okay wrap it up you wrap it up name of Jesus right and then I want you to thank God that He loves you if you're being prayed for by either praying just thank God he loves you and then take your time I don't want any exaggeration in the room exaggeration is lying I don't want hype we have no music we're not jamming your favorite song I just want you to genuinely sincerely do whatever it takes to genuinely sincerely test your body and when you know your body's changed and healed you let me know okay fair enough watch this is a negative I'm a teacher if your body doesn't change its own beliefs no if your body doesn't change don't disconnect stay engaged thank you me loves you listen to a few testimonies thank god he's a healer and keep checking your body don't disengage don't say see I knew I shouldn't stood up because every time I stand up people get healed now I don't never get you there has to be something blocking my healing and I don't know what I'm doing wrong I don't know and the person in spring for me well I don't know I think I'm just half a river I don't think I'm a fool River I think we need to get when that got prayed they got here we need to get him over in our circle because he's a river flowing Baja that's the stuff we do know throw all that away tonight because a Christian has one response when they're prayed for thank you for loving me and thank you for what you're doing in my life in my body thank you I see in rooms like this like popcorn when people don't disengage when people stay connected they'll listen to two-three testimonies and all of a sudden the four hands turn into ten hands I'll send the ten hands is 15 hands why because people are saying WOW god you're a healer I so appreciate what you're doing in this room yeah thank you God your love for me is so good thank you God and all sudden Bing Bing Bing and yours a see people go ah because things keep changing why because faith isn't a point in time it's not a hit miss win lose it's the position very hard to believe period yeah already you didn't forget what you're praying for okay look at that person to make them uncomfortable quick and just look at them with lovey eyes like this look at them like they're special like jesus paid a price okay okay you ready you ready you got six seconds and I know you don't believe this but I'm not gonna make a sound for six seconds I know you don't believe that but I will six seconds I can do it you ready pray the kingdom over them right now six seconds go thank you Father okay begin to wrap that up right now that's plenty just wrap that up in Jesus name because he loves them Thank You father if you're being prayed for thank God he loves you right now just wrap it up Jesus name this should be done praying everybody done praying now thank you now you loves you and begin to sincerely without exaggeration do a full test check your body some people know instantly when they're healed they just know let me know when you know go like this when you know you know for sure you were the one I called out to see see he didn't want you're sittin girl I knew that was coming good deal so did it just change right away I just left explain your situation is it something you always feel is it something that's always there you could just feel from because I kept you sitting all night yeah yeah I hear what you're saying to me sister but it's something you could check on and find if you look for you can't find it completely going who prayed for you yeah just put your hand and grab her hand just grab her hand and let's just pray this father we just thank you that will never ever ever ever ever come back and we just thank you for holding us in her life every day of her life because you love her in Jesus name Amen amen who else you know your body changed when we prayed I just want another testimony or two and then we're gonna do one more quick thing check your bodies let me know if your body's changed yeah back there what happened what are you what's going on same thing but you check-in it's going would you always be able to find it if it was there oh yeah how long has it been like that okay it's gone you can't find no trace of it right now beautiful good thank you Jesus if that's you being prayed for and you didn't feel completely changed just thank God he's a healer and check your body completely change back there yeah what happened months and months and months and months look at that completely whole isn't that awesome yeah you're good I love when people tell about their stuff cuz you know it's their body and they understand cuz it's their shoulder it's just cute so anybody else you changed yeah hurt you felt it actually pop and now you got freedom and movement you haven't been able to move like that all week you couldn't make a fist and when she prayed you felt a pop and you can move it's just fascinating chiropractor Jesus that's awesome who else I saw another hand somewhere right around here whoo yeah what he's bringing a mic it's just you don't get to preach to the house no just tell us what's going on you have no pain no more no did you have a lot of pain yes all the time yes you have none no stretch your hands to her guys somebody wrap around her just put your arm around her in a loving way of one of you ladies father we just thank you for what you do and we thank you no infirmity no affliction ever touch her again in Jesus name father we thank you not one more chase of pain nope day or night god I thank you pain-free not one more trace sleep at night undistracted in whatever position god I thank you I see sleep for you in the night undistracted and I declare it over you and thank you God for it in Jesus name Amen hey man anybody else who knows you were healed when we prayed you were what happened okay tell everybody I was walking with a cane and my leg hurts so bad tonight and I don't feel any pain now and I feel like I could dance on my leg really what'd you do to your leg what happened to your leg I had a torn meniscus a torn meniscus you believe it's like healed you don't have the same pains limits in my answers I felt like I twist you've been moving around and walking and really checking it huh wow that's awesome that's awesome let me ask you this question who didn't raise their hand because you're not all the way healed but you're definitely better than you were you noticed it changed you just didn't raise your hand because it wasn't a hundred percent raise your hands I look at all these people this is just God moving and doing stuff you want to do something fun you guys have time for this you wanna do something fun don't ever get familiar with this raise your hands if you felt something changed it's just not all the way raise your hands is your person still nearby don't grab a new person because this is already working this your person's to grab your person if they're if that's their hand raised you say hey that's my person so thank God go go grab your person now watch just thank God that he's doing a work no matter what percent it's better and went and thank him watch thank him he's a finished work and that he paid for full restoration and just say completely healed in Jesus name come on pray that sincerely for about six seconds over him right now pray it right now Jesus name yep thank him for what he did he's a finished work completely whole complete 100% in Jesus name yeah that's it that's good amen now check your bodies I want check your bodies and don't exaggerate and don't try to make the person pray him for you feel good that would be lying that would be terrible your body changed all the way that time out of my group who changed all the way out of my group there you changed all the way all the way better you and you anybody else all the way better that time check you it changed completely first time how much did you have about 60 how much percent better were you the first time about fifty okay fifty and the second time the other fifty boo you completely healed you have no trace of whatever you were prayed for for what was it what was your situation okay so you feel like the things that were noticeable and that were evident you're like this is really good right that's awesome she got 50% the first time what does that mean the person to pray for her is only walking in half an anointing not at all but don't we say stuff like that listen if you want something hard to break you guys if you had a rock sticking up out of your yard that was up high and you didn't want to fill dirt around because it would have made a mound and you thought I'm just gonna bust the top of this big rock and you had it surveyed and that rock was as big as your car but it was sticking up out of your yard out high and you thought man people are tripping over that I don't want to knuckle smash it down so you wouldn't bought the heaviest weight sledge hammer you could and you thought I'm just gonna bust this rock down even with the ground throw it off the third plant grass over nobody don't know it's there and my yard will be level I don't have to do nothing creative I'm just I know us guys you swing that thing and you hit that rock with that big heavyweight sledge and it just sits there looks at you what are you gonna do oh well mustn't be the will of God to break the rock in my yard I guess I have to live with the rock in my yard for the rest of my life you guys are swinging the hammer again after the third swing it's personal now your wife's calling you to eat you lost 5 pounds of sweat weight and your swinging hammer honey I'll be in in a minute boom and you are swinging right sometime all we're doing is just speaking what we believe and we're not changing up we're not grabbing for straws because we believe what we believe I've seen countless people where we're not saying please God heal or saying be healed arthritis you leave pain you go in Jesus name I've prayed that way over people sometimes a dozen times because I didn't feel like I was striving and they were okay with it if I feel like I'm striving I back out wrap faith around it and the leaves because I don't like leaving people the same it's bothers us tone it and sometimes though you feel like you're striving you're getting caught up too emotional in it right who's ever felt that when you're praying for the sick at some point I got to establish what faith is and I got to back out or if they're good and I'm good we'll just pray and we'll just see things change if it doesn't change what do we do the same thing father thank you for what you're doing thank you for your will to heal and thank you for your grace in their life god I so appreciate your goodness thanks for healing and you believe what's the person do god thank you you're so good to me you get what I'm saying this is the last thing we're going to do does anybody else that needed to tell me they changed in that last round of prayer because I had a bunch yeah she oh yeah she raised her hand right away no I've seen her hand I was just wondering if I had any others that I didn't see let me ask you this last question that we usually don't talk about who did we pray for up until now with all the testimonies in the second round for who do we pray for that your situation seems exactly the same and nothing has changed from the first time we pray let me see your hand anybody yeah yeah keep them up this is an important question to ask because whether you're healed instantly somewhat healed or didn't experience any change does the truth change this is finished work changed your scriptures change then why do we change okay keep your hands up we're gonna have fun with this is your person still there don't say get me a new person don't say I want the guy that prayed for that lady over there no no get your person your person are you there okay here's what I want you to do now this is very important do not change your prayer at all the best you understand just pray the same heart of what you prayed the very first time don't grab for straws that's a sign of works when you change your prayer you're trying too hard so I want you to pray the same thing you prayed the first time and let's just see what happens in the room this is only the people that had experienced zero change okay not afraid to do this because it's not about Willie or won't even hit and missing it's not it's about releasing the kingdom these signs shall follow those who they will lay their hands on the sick and the sick shall recover watch if we keep letting results dictate what we believe we're going to be stuck with whatever we have I'm done with that I've prayed for people in my hometown in a Walmart and they didn't see any change bump into him a month later and they say hey and they tell me some story and I'm like wow and the whole time if I'm not careful I'm thinking they didn't get healed you with me I can tell you a lot of stories like that especially in the beginning where it was more of an oops thing for me cuz I was like me you ready your person you got him six seconds same prayer believe God with all sincerity go for it right now believe he loves you Jesus name thank you okay that's good that's good because you love us Father receive his love thank you Jesus take 10 seconds or so and really inventory your body check your body right now please just check your body don't make anything up don't exaggerate check your body who's receiving some change is there anybody got completely healed that time out of my people that we pray for anybody completely changed that time in that group anybody anybody somewhat changed in that group yeah whoa yeah yeah I want you to now watch these are people that nothing changed up until now in that last round did some definitely change let me see your hands if something definitely changed 1 2 3 4 5 6 we had about 12 we were praying for half of them something definitely changed now the other half has to make sure or no what's wrong with me not be real that's the first way people rationally think well something's got to be hindering my healing if these people in here I understand stop stop oh don't get analytical don't do that watch watch father I so thank you for your unstoppable love for me if you didn't love me you'd have never sent your son thank you for the life you give thank you for the healing you bring thanks for what you're doing in my body I so appreciate your love for me that's called faith you crawl in bed and the hip bites you just like it did the night before you were prayed for you don't go oh here I go again god I don't know what I'm doing wrong because my yep no soon as it bites you in the bed father I just thank you for the work you're doing in me god I so appreciate your grace in my life and I just thank you for restoration and you fall asleep thankful not in a quandary thankful that's how your hip changes by continuing in the faith and not letting your situation change your heart are you with me so father I thank you for tonight I thank you for all the people that manifested healing received healing testified of healing all the people humble enough to stand up and be prayed for you are truly doing a work in us a thank you for empowering people inspiring people I thank you that some of these people that prayed for people will be more inclined to pray for people at their workplace or wherever there in life they would be convicted by tonight and say you know what I can step out in this more a thank you for doing it I thank you for who you are would you do something with me if you understand what it means to just lift your hands to him just humble yourself and thank him and just yield to him and lift your hands to him Father we just thank you for fathering us we thank you for teaching us and most of all we thank you for loving us with unfailing love in Jesus name Amen hey man love you guys pastor you

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Length: 134min 21sec (8061 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 06 2019